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Ryan Seacrest will produce a new music series for the Spanish-speaking Telemundo network that will feature two established artists competing against each other for the audience's vote.
The format for "Superstar Showdown" has been successful in other countries. Emilio Romano, president of Telemundo Media, said he's hoping the "American Idol" host will use his connections and leverage to attract talent. The network hasn't publicly set a start date for the series.
Telemundo announced several of its programming plans for next season on Sunday. The network usually gets less than half of the audience of the dominant Univision. Telemundo had its highest ratings ever during the first three months of 2013.
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"We've been the underdog for so many years and we've been given the mission to fight and fight hard," Romano said.
Telemundo will air five new telenovelas next season. The prime-time soap operas, stuffed with melodrama and romance, are generally the programming backbone for Spanish-speaking networks. One new series, "Camelia la Tejana," is based on a popular song and features a young woman trying to escape from one of Mexico's most powerful drug lords.
Romano said he hopes Telemundo can distinguish itself from its competition by creating telenovelas specifically with the U.S. market in mind, instead of remaking series that originated in other countries. He hopes they will speak more to an American audience concerned about immigration issues and nostalgic for the countries they left behind.
One example he gave was last year's remake of the movie "Maid in Manhattan."
Telemundo also announced the creation of a Los Angeles-based production studio, Fluency, that will produce content for Latinos in the U.S in both Spanish and English.
Telemundo is expanding its sports coverage. The weekly show, "Titulares y Mas," will begin airing all weeknights at 11:35 p.m. The network will also start a daytime game show that pits youngsters against adults.


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Cliff Deal Takes Shape; Has Damage Been Done?
As the fiscal cliff deadline looms, the White House and Senate Republicans are closing in on a budget compromise, but has the damage already been done to the economy? Sudeep Reddy has details.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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I'm still not too late to fix some of this but there is ... going to be some damage ... from a deal like this from both the process because ... it'll look at this and say this to the Fix the debt ceiling debate ... and upbeat two months ... additional fighting to deal with the debt ceiling ... and also that this or any kind of deal they come up with is not going to include an extension of the euro tax code so ... 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Sheehan legislation actually ... regained some have lost confidence in ... and provide a boost ... the prospects for a grand bargain are over that was what we've done that and now it's can be a muddle through ... plenty of ways you can say that it would make it sound odd to say to you this series of steps ... but it's going to be a muddle through to the messy process and is going to be as damaging further back to business confidence and consumer confidence in the coming months and there's really no way ... around that ... that they can you come to the end of its ... when talking about ... not only getting a deal done is that the cement matters but the image of Congress the image of Washington DC ... how much of a hit is that you're going to take and when even the ratings agencies are going to think of what they're seeing down there right now ... this process doesn't look ... all that different from what happened in the summer of two thousand eleven that ... led to the debt ... ceiling ... the debt rating downgrade from Standard Poors ... I'd be the main repurchase suggested that they ... are going to wait until later to see whether they're some kind of a deficit reduction deal ... that comes together ... this year through all of this I'm just going over the fiscal cliff itself ... when actually cut the deficit by substantially so ... I that's not necessarily the issue ... but that this kind of dysfunction ... in Congress doesn't do any good for ... consumers and businesses since Congress already has ... a very very low ratings it doesn't do much to HPQ and again the house ... Washington is going to get a boost to the economy ... and it just adds more risks on the horizon when you think of ... the number of issues the debt ceiling in two months such a government shutdown in three months ... whenever contours of this deal each be dealt with on the spending cuts eighty within the next three to-six months all of these things is can be seen over us ... for the fall of twenty thirteen or ... by a student body than the other gathered tonight to celebrate new years ago Lee Mueller an all night ... we will really get out of their net maybe I will ... what if you are software and ... that they can actually see the ... bright side of the duality that you think clothes off Times

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Sunday, March 25, 2012
9 comments:
- eriko said...
Somebodies got themselves some mil-spec 855 (green tip & annealed cases) for an AR. Have fun.
- March 25, 2012 at 8:33 PM
- davidfe said...
Ummmm -- Is that for the unwelcome guest or the dog of earlier in the week?
Serious strike 3 message there.
- March 25, 2012 at 8:37 PM
- Bob from Athens said...
Now I know chickens sometimes make/leave messes around, but two full clips seems a little over kill .
- March 25, 2012 at 9:02 PM
- Rev.JimmyLeeBob said...
and you thought Floppy was a first
class pain in the ass..I doubt it will take both of those to straighten Carl out......but maybe,
it doesn't appear the mauling slowed him down
- March 25, 2012 at 9:06 PM
- Al said...
Good dirt . . . although some might argue sustainability. (3 bags here this year so far) Add compost in future years and, dare I say, some Osmicote and it will be just as good as new!
- March 25, 2012 at 11:56 PM
- jbfoster said...
The label says "5.56" so it looks like you went the small-caliber/high capacity/lower cost route with your AR. Last year I decided to go the longer range/higher power route and bought a .308/7.62 AR carbine, plus an AR in .243 for my son's deer hunting (the AR's have much lower perceived recoil than bolt actions). Let's all hope we never need these guns for anything other than hunting and target shooting. For basic home defense I like my 12-gauge pump shotgun best.
- March 26, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- ken said...
Looks like Carl found the only moist dirt on the property to lay in, lol.
- March 26, 2012 at 8:57 AM
- ezrablu said...
Carl is sooo cute :o) Maybe you should have named him Wilbur...he seems to be part pig.
- March 26, 2012 at 11:16 AM
- Allen Hare said...
Our little hen likes to dig in the flower beds, too. I have to shoo her away and sweep the mulch back. I know she's just looking for something fresh to eat. I reckon Carl is finding some insects to harvest, even out there in the desert.
The ammo looks cool. The green tips really do it. Would not want to see one of 'em headed my way, though.
- March 26, 2012 at 6:50 PM


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Cancer clinic juggles two tiered storage environments
Karmanos Cancer Institute is using two separate tiered storage systems from EMC and Sun, and says it has yet to find a single storage vendor that can meet all its requirements.
As the healthcare industry starts to catch up with new technologies, one organization said that it has been hard pressed to find a single vendor that can satisfy both the security and long-term archiving aspects of HIPAA to meet all of its requirements.
The Karmanos Cancer Institute, a hospital, treatment center and research facility in Detroit, has been using two systems side by side since it split off from Detroit Medical Center in December 2005 -- one from Sun Microsystems Inc. because of its scalability for long-term archiving, and the other from EMC Corp. because of a more streamlined security authentication process.
"We don't know from month to month how much we might grow," since the newly independent institute is still expanding rapidly, said Richard Doak, technical architecture manager for Karmanos. "Capital dollars are hard to come by, and we [in IT] are often the last to know that we need to expand our capacity."
Because of the clustered NAS interface, Doak said, file servers can continue accessing patient and administrative files if one of the heads needs to be taken offline to add capacity. He also praised the scalability of the Sun infrastructure -- it scales to 224 TB, on a single cluster, and SAM-FS could read across multiple clusters if Karmanos' data grows that far.
However, sitting right next to it is another entirely separate tiered storage infrastructure from EMC consisting of a Clariion CX-300, which archives data from Microsoft Exchange, SQL 2005 databases and Oracle databases using EMC's DiskXtender software to an EMC Centera archive box. After five years, the Centera data is archived to offsite tape.
Right now, Doak said, EMC's relationship with Microsoft means that Karmanos has received better support for critical, high-performance and high-availability Microsoft applications, like Exchange and SQL Server 2005, if they are running on EMC systems. EMC's gear is also integrated with Active Directory on the institute's Windows servers so that there is a single authentication for managing both applications and storage. "I don't get any kind of finger-pointing between EMC and Microsoft," Doak said. (Sun supports Active Directory on Windows and Unix systems only; SAM-FS runs on a Solaris server.)
Meanwhile, however, EMC's system can't use the same software to track and restore data from both disk and tape the way SAM-FS can, Doak said. Furthermore, Karmanos is facing the biggest drawback to going with EMC gear currently: upgrade paths and data migration issues, he said. The institute would like to upgrade to EMC's latest model, the CX3-40, in order to add capacity to the storage area network (SAN), a process that will probably involve downtime and consume the better part of a weekend, Doak said, because it involves swapping out the main Clariion blade.
A similar update or addition of capacity within the Sun 5320 system, he said, could be accomplished without downtime, even if all the NAS heads in the cluster were to be swapped out, because SAM-FS would allow him to send data off to the SATA array, while the primary boxes were changed, and then repopulate the primary heads with simple changes to the software's migration policies.
Technically, he said, he could also use DiskXTender to send data to the Centera box if he wanted to update the Clariion or move to a Symmetrix, but it would be a much more cumbersome process, especially when it came to clearing out data that shouldn't be stored long term on the Centera after the migration was complete.
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"EMC has been very helpful with hands-on support," he said. "But from the sales side, it seems they're always trying to push me toward the highest end product."
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However, Doak pointed out, "we would also save quite a bit if we didn't have two different maintenance and support contracts." Some users keep two vendors in the environment to keep both honest, but Doak said that if he had a choice, he'd consolidate into a single-vendor environment with a single point of contact for purchasing and maintenance. "Having one vendor for everything would still be a dream."


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Jim Antkiewicz | Jim Awtrey | Errie Ball | Jack Barber | Jim Flick | Jim Remy | Guy Wimberly
Inductees speak about honor in PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame ceremony
Faith, family and honor. Those fundamentals of life were oft-repeated Wednesday night as seven celebrated members of the golf industry gave due credit for sustaining them throughout respective careers that culminated with their names etched in granite as the newest inductees into the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame.
PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame welcomes seven members of Class of 2011
Celebrated golf instructor Jim Flick, the timeless Errie Ball, PGA Honorary President Jim Remy and former PGA of America Chief Executive Officer Jim Awtrey, each of whom's service to the game left an impact upon his fellow PGA Professionals, head the class of seven inductees to be enshrined in the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame's Class of 2011.
Also joining the 2011 Hall of Fame class are 2008 PGA Golf Professional of the Year Jim Antkiewicz of Presto, Pa.; 2009 PGA Golf Professional of the Year Jack Barber of Indianapolis; and Guy Wimberly of Elephant Butte, N.M.
The inductees will be honored Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the PGA Museum of Golf at PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, Fla., in conjunction with The PGA of America Fall Conference of Leaders.
Flick, who serves as the ambassador for TaylorMade Golf in Carlsbad, Calif., is one of the most prolific active PGA teaching professionals whose 51 years of PGA membership includes his teaching in 23 nations and a student roster of more than 200 Tour professionals such as Jack Nicklaus and Tom Lehman.
Ball, who at 100 is the last survivor of the inaugural Masters field of 1934, is the second longest-serving PGA Professional and continues to amaze colleagues and students by teaching at Willoughby Golf Club in Stuart, Fla.
Remy, a former professional skier from Ludlow, Vt., became the 36th president of The PGA of America during a weakening global economy and worked for grass roots stability within the membership. In 2009, Remy welcomed to posthumous PGA membership three African-American golf pioneers previously denied entry into The PGA of America.
Awtrey, of Windermere, Fla., the first chief executive officer of The PGA of America, was at the forefront of social change regarding exclusionary membership practices at championship venues and the development of PGA Golf Properties.
"It is with a great deal of pride that The PGA of America welcomes seven individuals to the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame, who by their life's work have made significant and lasting contributions to The PGA and the game of golf," said PGA of America President Allen Wronowski. "These seven PGA Professionals have exhibited the passion for building the game and serving others that extends beyond their job description, and their names will be forever inscribed among the leaders in making golf the greatest game."
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Originated in 1940 at the suggestion of famed sportswriter Grantland Rice, the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame was relocated in 2005 at the PGA Museum of Golf at PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The Hall of Fame recognizes all PGA members who have made significant and lasting contributions to the building of The PGA of America and the game of golf. The inductees include PGA Presidents, PGA Golf Professional of the Year award winners as well as those PGA Professionals who also distinguish themselves as competitors while in service to The PGA of America.
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Two gunmen reportedly made off with $600 in cash after robbing the Chestnut HIll Post office, 8227 Germantown Ave. The robbery occurred just after 2 p.m. in the afternoon. Police said they are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the two suspects.
(Video report from WPVI, ABC)
According to police the two men fled the scene in a white car.
Authorities told ABC news affiliate WPVI that tthe post office did have several cameras and that the footage is being reviewed.
The descriptions by police are as follows:
One black male, between 6'3 to 6'5 tall, with a medium to dark complexion, thin, but athletic build with a goatee, wearing a dark blue hooded sweatshirt, dark grey pants, and a navy blue turtleneck over his mouth.
A second black male, 5'8 to 5'10 tall, with a medium to dark complexion, bald, and a stocky build, wearing a sleeveless puffy blue vest and a similar navy colored turtle neck over his mouth.
U.S. Postal Inspector Reginald Wade told WPVI that the crime, because it is a federal offense is particularly foolish.
"They're looking for money, they're looking for stamps; I can't tell you exactly what they're looking for, but it's stupid. There's nothing worth spending time in federal prison," he told WPVI.


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Aug. 19, 2003
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - When entering a new season, teams must organize and focus on goals that they would like to attain for the year. At a school like Santa Clara where the soccer program is considered to be among the nation's elite, the motivation is always a national championship. As the 2003 season rolls around for second year head coach Cameron Rast, he knows that in order to attain the ultimate goal, the team must first make it into the NCAA Tournament, something the 2002 Broncos fell just short of accomplishing.
"Last year in missing the playoffs, we learned a tough lesson, " said Rast. "A year later I think the players know more about the focus and consistency it takes to be one of the 48 teams in the tournament. The goal of the program is to be in the playoffs every year and while we were close to making the tournament, the motivation for this season is to prove to the ourselves, the committee and other programs across the country that we should be in the playoffs each and every year."
Santa Clara started and ended last season playing very well. It was the middle of their season that cost them a berth in the postseason. After posting a 4-1-0 record to begin the year, the Broncos dropped five of their next eight games, including the first three against West Coast Conference foes. Rast rallied his troops for a four-match win streak to end the season that included a 3-0 blanking of then No. 10 Loyola Marymount. Their 10-6-1 overall record in 2002 placed them just on the outside of the postseason, looking in.
Now, with 19 letterwinners returning from last year's squad and motivation from a year away from the playoffs, the Broncos appear poised to make runs at the WCC title and deep into the NCAA Tournament.
The Strengths
In order to make that deep run into the playoffs, Rast will count on his veteran leaders that consist of nine returning starters, four of which are seniors.
"The strength of the 2003 team will be the fact that we return nine starters and have added some depth to the squad. Gone are three seniors who had great impacts for our team, but we have four seniors and a large junior class who have some great experience and should be ready to take on the tough schedule we have put together."
Seniors Audren Cashman and Matt Upton both return for their fourth years, but have a different title as both were named captains of the 2003 squad. Cashman was a 2002 Second Team All-WCC selection that anchored the team from the center midfield position. His veteran leadership and strength on the ball will be big factors in the team's success.
Upton, who spent a majority of his junior season sidelined with injuries, returns ready and focused for his fourth year in a Bronco uniform. His career two goals and two assists are a bonus for the defender who helps contain the opponents on the outside. His height and ability in the air will be key factors for the team in 2003.
"Both Audren and Matt will provide a great deal of experience and leadership," said Rast. "In tough games they will provide they glue to hold the team together when the pressure is on us and at the same time both have the ability to put our opponents under pressure. They both have great character, are tremendous athletes and do a great job."
Joining the two captains are fellow seniors Kellen Gilmore and Kirk Fonseca. Gilmore enters his senior season as one of the more deft passers on the team. In his first three years he has accumulated nine assists, including three last year. Fonseca is playing in only his third year on the Mission Campus after transferring in before the 2000 season from San Diego State. His three goals and three assists in 2002 placed him fifth on the team in scoring.
The juniors are led by two world class players in Ryan Cochrane and Steve Cronin, both of whom are players on the U.S. U-20 National Team. Cochrane is a two-time All-American who is gaining attention from publications such as Soccer America as one of the best defenders in the country. In addition to his defensive prowess, Cochrane also has a sneaky ability to get into scoring position during set pieces. Cronin is a very tall and athletic goalkeeper who poses a threat on offense with his long and accurate punts from the box. He assisted on a game-winner from the box during his freshman year, but also has the ability to play in the field as evidenced by his game-winning goal in 2001.
Alongside Cochrane and Cronin are fellow two-year letterwinners Zach Knight, Jason Pan and Will Weatherly. Knight has started 11 of the 20 matches he has appeared in thus far in his career and has scored one goal and assisted on three others from the defensive side of the ball. Pan has played both center mid and central defense during the last two years for the Broncos. An imposing player, Pan's strength on the ball will make life easier for Cronin between the pipes.
Weatherly had a breakout year as a sophomore, scoring five goals and assisting on one other. His 11 points were the second highest total on the team in 2002 as were his five goals scored. Rast said that Weatherly had a great spring season and will help the team both in the attacking midfield positions and in the front line.
The other figures that should help the Broncos in 2003 are sophomores Jason Cunliffe, Kelechi Igwe and Jeff Scott.
Cunliffe played 2002 as a redshirt freshman and garnered honorable mention All-WCC honors after scoring four goals and assisting on two others. His quickness and precision shots make him a threat to score at any time on the field.
Igwe had a stellar rookie campaign as he posted four goals and two assists in his 15 starts. Three of his goals in 2002 were the game-winners, including the first two goals of his collegiate career. His size and strength make him hard to throw off the ball, while his quickness and agility make him a threat on breakaways.
Scott, like Cunliffe, also garnered honorable mention All-WCC in his first year in a Bronco uniform. The defender from Granite Bay, Calif., will use his size and strength to deter opponents. He scored two goals and assisted on two others in the 13 games in which he appeared.
Despite the unusually high number of veterans on the 2003 club, Rast knows there are still some areas that the Broncos need to make adjustments in if they are going to reach their goals this season.
The Concerns
In 2002 the Broncos posted a 10-6-1 overall record and a 3-3-0 record in league play. On the surface that seems like a relatively positive year, but after closer analysis, Coach Rast sees plenty of room for improvement.
"An area that will be important for us to improve will be our confidence in playing on the road," said Rast. "While we were 8-1 at home last year our road record was not nearly as favorable. With the first three weeks on the road this year, we will have to mature in this area if we are going to have any early season success."
The 2003 schedule has 19 games on it, of which only seven are played in the friendly confines of Buck Shaw Stadium. SCU will play six matches on the road before returning for the 2003 home opener on September 18 when they take on Cal State Monterey Bay as part of the SCU/adidas Classic. Three of their first six games are against 2002 tournament teams, including perennial powerhouses Creighton and SMU, who the Broncos will both play in the LMU Tournament on September 5 and 7.
Aside from playing better on the road, Rast also had some other areas he wanted to see improvement on.
"In terms of our play, I think the one area we need to focus on the most will be the attack," said the former U.S. Olympic Team captain. "In our late season run to make the playoffs we relied largely on Jamil Walker to score goals and create problems for our opponents. With Jamil graduating and moving onto the MLS (4th round selection of the San Jose Earthquakes), we will be working with the new players to see who emerges as the player who will score goals for us."
Who emerges as that go to player is still to be determined, but luckily for Rast and his staff, the Broncos will have a good chance to find out before the season starts with the team making a 12-day trip to Europe for their preseason.
The Europe Trip
As per NCAA rules, a team may fundraise for an overseas trip once every four years. The 2003 season for the Broncos will begin on August 13 when the team travels to Europe for a 12-day trip that will include four games against European squads. With 33 players on the Europe travel roster, the coaching staff will take that time to evaluate how the current players play with the newcomers. Once the evaluation is done, the roster size will be trimmed by six players for the impending season.
"We are taking the team to England on a twelve day tour for this year's preseason," said Rast. "We will have the opportunity to play four games during the try-out period to select our team and prepare for the start to our season. The first three weeks of the season we are away from Buck Shaw Stadium and play some outstanding teams. It will be important for us, not only to select our final squad in Europe, but also to begin to build the understanding within our team so our performance at the beginning of the season will be at a high level."
Once they return from their trip, the Broncos will have just over a week to acclimate themselves back to life in the States before their regular season begins. The season will start on August 30 when the Broncos take on Alabama A&M in game one of the UC Irvine Tournament. With classes not starting until the fourth week of September, the newcomers will have eight games under their belt before ever setting foot into a SCU classroom, giving them a little time to adjust to college life before classes start.
The Newcomers
Although the roster will not be set until the team comes back from England, Coach Rast has compiled a talented batch of newcomers that should fight for spots on the team. Of these players a few stuck out in the coaches' mind, predominantly because of their club experience.
"We have brought in some very talented players from some of the best clubs in the country," said Rast. "Tannen Wels (Irvine Strikers) and Erik Ustruck (Scott Gallagher) both are talented players who will expect to see time for us this fall. Kris Clark (San Diego Surf) is a transfer we think will have a big impact. Dominic Doty (Westside Metros) is another one we think will be someone who can come in compete for time. It will be interesting to see how they adjust and integrate themselves into the team."
Their adjustment and integration to the team may in fact be the key to the success of the Bronco program. With may talented returnees, the new additions just might be the secret weapons needed to get Santa Clara back into the tournament where it knows it belongs.


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The Wales Coast Path will build on the success of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path and the Anglesey Coastal Path. The Pembrokeshire Coastal Path is part of Britain's only coastal National Park and at 186 miles long, is a substantial hike in itself. The Pembrokeshire path is supported by shuttle buses allowing sections of the path to be walked without having to retrace tracks or make a circular trail. This system works well and has spread to other areas.
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When the site for Indianapolis, Indiana's new state capitol, was selected in 1820, Alexander Ralston was commissioned to design the new city. At its heart was a large circular commons that would include the Governor's mansion, just two blocks to the east of the Indiana Statehouse.
No Indiana governor actually lived at the site and in 1857, the structure was demolished and the area designated Circle Park. A bronze sculpture of Indiana's Civil War Governor Oliver Perry Morton was placed in Circle Park. Following the Civil War, there began to be talk of a monument to honor Hoosier soldiers and sailors that would "in some important way" incorporate the Gov. Morton sculpture. In 1887, the Indiana legislature designated a commission to plan a memorial to Indiana's Civil War veterans. Although the Indiana General Assembly appropriated $200,000 for the monument, news reports from the era, as well as commission reports, indicate that community organizations, particularly the Grand Army of the Republic (a Civil War veterans organization), were instrumental in raising funds for the Monument.
Winner of a competition to design the monument was Bruno Schmitz of Germany. He was well known for his military-themed monuments in Germany, some of them dark, compact and forbidding, but his concept for Circle Park in Indianapolis was uplifting, inspirational and celebratory. Atop the monument, he envisioned the classic sculpture of a winged Nike (Greek goddess of war), representing victory in battle. Since its placement, the sculpture has been called Victory. In 1902 at the monument's dedication, artist T.C. Steele, a member of the Board of Experts that selected artists for the structure's various works of art, obviously preferred the name Victory over the term "Miss Indiana" that was apparently coined by the day's newspapers. Throughout the volumes of the original commission reports, however, the sculpture is called Liberty or simply "crowning figure".
A Vision for the Soldiers and Sailors Monument
A true crowning figure to the monumental masterpiece, the design of the bronze sculpture atop Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a marriage of the classical Greek Victory image (a sense of action and triumph; adorned with flowing drapery) with the American image of Liberty with its torch symbolizing the light of civilization and its sword symbolizing justice. The eagle on the sculpture's brow represents freedom. (For more information about the origins of Indiana's Victory sculpture, see Thoroughly American Victory)
Notice of a sculptural competition for the figure "Liberty" to crown the Soldiers and Sailors Monument went out in late November 1889. Commission reports for the period detail several trips to Cleveland, Ohio by members of the Indianapolis Soldiers and Sailors Monument Commission to view a similar project in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleveland monument was designed and sculpted by native military hero Capt. Levi Scofield, an engineer and architect by training. One of his assistants on the project was George Thomas Brewster, born in Boston and actually a resident of New York.
Brewster, aged 29 at the time, submitted a design for the Indianapolis "crowning figure" that drew praise from Indiana artist T.C. Steele who served on the Committee of Experts that awarded contracts for the monument's various sculptures and adornments: "In the figure we find a simplicity and harmony of outline and a grace of movement, combined with vigor and strength superior to any of the others. …its expression in the simple grandeur and harmonious strength of the figure is a guarantee that the artist is in full sympathy with the object and purpose of the monument."
But the creation of the "crowning figure" was not entirely free of drama; young Brewster's design was subjected to long-distance critics and his mentor, Capt. Levi Scofield, accurately predicted the bronze foundry would be a source of cost overruns and delays. (Read Scofield's letter to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument Commission: "The Whole Country Was Charmed With It") However, when the sculpture was finally placed atop the monument in the week prior to September 4, 1893, Hoosiers developed an immediate affection for the lovely bronze creation.
George Brewster, who also designed two of the astragals for the monument, was a descendant of the leader of the Mayflower expedition William Brewster. He was classically trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France and had won the first prize ever awarded an American by the Paris school. Brewster's naval astragal received this praise from Commission President Langsdale: "so far it is the most marked feature of the monument."


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2010 was a glorious year in food and travel for me. I am very fortunate [and forever indebted to those who made it possible] to have experienced all the delicious journeys I did. Here's a look back:
The tastiest, crispiest-skinned pork chop:
The freshest ikura (with edamame soy beneath):
Best intermezzo (passion fruit custard, XO rum granité, coconut foam):
Joël Robuchon, NYC
The best taste-bud-numbing spicy (lazi ji 辣子):
Chuan Ban川办餐厅, Beijing
Favorite 'cold' dish veggie-seafood medley (dashi jelly with sea bean, bell pepper, zuchini, tako, white fish):
Sugawara, Tokyo
Best shaved-ice, a.k.a. mountain of ice with various bean and gelatinous toppings:
Bellagio鹿港小镇, Shanghai
Best gelato (or in this case, lemon sorbet):
Grom, Paris
Best drinks (my favorites include: 1919, French 75, Old Cuban, Sazerac…just to name a few):
Drink, Boston
The ultimate naan bing (okay this was actually 2009 but I'm still remembering it!):
Tian Shan Mountain 天山, Xinjiang 新疆
The best banh-mi sandwich [aptly hidden inside a convenience store on Larkin Street]. Don't forget the jalapeños!
Saigon Sandwich, San Francisco
El mejor jamón [bellota]. Que rico:
Bar La Cepa, San Sebastián
Crispiest sea-bass [with safffron emulsion]:
The French Laundry, Yountville
The coolest gougère [pillow]:
Meadowood, St. Helena
Best cheese course (chevre, roquette, pain et miel confiture):
Une Table au Sud, Marseille
Favorite dessert [an ode to Alex Stupak] (vanilla-mango ice cream, yuzu, spruce):
Best ma soy (house soy sauce), anago and bonito [an ode to Yasuda-San] :
Sushi Yasuda, NYC
Best pasta (Fresh cut semolina spaghetti, crab, Santa Barbara sea urchin, basil):
Marea, NYC
Tastiest post-dessert treat (Olive oil ganache):
Spring, Paris
Best offal (Tête, langue et cervelle de veau croustillante, pommes vapeur et sauce gribiche aka crispy head, tongue and brain of veal with boiled potatoes and gribiche sauce):
Café Constant, Paris
The juiciest, most tender pork bun ("Chairman Bao" with Berkshire pork, haus relish, Taiwanese red sugar, crushed peanut, cilantro):
BaoHaus, NYC
The tastiest non-standalone-uni dish (Santa Barbara uni with black soy bean yuba in shiitake broth):
Soto, NYC
The ultimate beef [flap meat] roasted over an open pit (Annual Portuguese American festival held in August):
Portuguese American Recreation, Woburn
The best chocolate tart (smooth, velvety, deep):
Les Cocottes, Paris
Stay tuned…


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Environment Waikato finalised its Long-Term Council Community Plan for 2006-2016 today, following extensive public consultation and discussion.
Environment Waikato finalised its Long-Term Council Community Plan for 2006-2016 today, following extensive public consultation and discussion.
Transit's 10-year state highway forecast is very positive news for the Waikato region, says Regional Land Transport Committee chairman, Cr Angus Macdonald.
Regional councillor Barry O'Connor has stepped down as deputy chairman of Environment Waikato.
Environment Waikato is disappointed some beachfront property owners have started to build an additional boulder wall at Mokau in an attempt to protect their properties from coastal erosion.
An Opuatia possum control scheme managed by Environment Waikato has been a huge success, and has seen numbers of the pest plummet.
Bus patronage across the Waikato region continues to climb, with May 2006 passenger numbers a massive 21 per cent higher than May 2005.
Environment Waikato is aware of water supply issues affecting about 40 Te Puru residents and is working to help resolve the problem.
An Environment Waikato Hearing Committee has granted Te Kowhai Sands 2006 Limited resource consents to undertake sand quarrying activities at Te Kowhai, subject to a range of conditions.
Environment Waikato recognises the problems faced by beachfront property owners at Mokau threatened by erosion, but says there is no easy solution to the problem.
Resource consent applications by Ventus Energy Limited to build and operate a 22-turbine wind farm in Waitomo have been granted, subject to an extensive range of conditions.
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Technical Aspects of International Communications and Information Policy or How I Spent my Sabbatical
Elsa Garmire, Sydney E. Junkins 1887 Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
Friday, March 6, 2009, 3:30pm
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This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series
I spent my sabbatical year as Jefferson Science Fellow in the U. S. State Department's Office of International Communications and Information Policy. My role was to offer technical insights into important issues. These issues included: international agreements on allocating different frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum for different applications, especially broadband communications; resolving disagreements over allocated satellite orbits; ensuring the integrity of submarine fiber optic telecommunications cables; supporting the dominant American role in the internet; supporting other concerned parties on internet security and safety. In addition to our negotiating role, we also promoted expanding telecommunications in developing countries, which can offer huge economic, health and educational benefits. This talk will briefly describe the role that our office played and then will focus on spectrum allocation and the importance of mobile telecommunications in developing countries.
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Elsa Garmire is Sydney E. Jenkins 1887 Professor at Thayer. In 2007-2008 she served as Jefferson Science Fellow offering technical consultation on telecommunications to the U.S. Department of State (Bureau of Economics, Energy and Business). In that guise she was U.S. Delegate to the World Radio Conference in Geneva and to the OECD meeting on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in Seoul. She participated in bilateral negotiations in Korea and China and helped organize a conference in Ghana on Broadband Telecommunications in the Developing World. Garmire came to Dartmouth in 1995 as Thayer School Dean. Before that she was Hogue Professor in Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California. Garmire received her A.B. at Harvard and her Ph.D. in Physics at M.I.T. and was a post-doc at Caltech. She has authored over 150 refereed research papers in lasers and optics, in collaboration with her 28 Ph.D. and 12 M.S. students, 12 post-doctoral fellows and 22 visiting scientists. She has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of IEEE, APS, OSA and SWE, as well as an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa. Garmire was President of the OSA in 1993, having served on its board, as well as on the board of APS and the Lasers and Electro-Optics council of IEEE. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Australia and has been invited as visiting scientist to Great Britain, France, Brazil, Japan, China, Taiwan, Germany and South Africa.


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Several club CEOs milled about in and around the IHRSA show last week, and whether it was for a minute or an hour, I was fortunate enough to talk to a few of them.
All of the execs I ran into were positive, enthusiastic and really looking forward to the rest of this year and the future of the industry. Not one CEO came up to me and said, "Gee, Stu, I don't know how we can survive! It doesn't get any bleaker than this!" Nope, didn't hear that.
In one of the more formal settings during the show, I caught up with Jim Snow, president of Gold's Gym. Fittingly, since we were right in the middle of March Madness, Snow shares a Big 12 Conference tie with me. He went to Kansas State, I went to Missouri. He also has family in the Kansas City area, my home base. We met at the Omni Hotel, which is owned and operated by Gold's parent company, TRT Holdings. I'll bet Snow gets at least a 10 percent discount. At least.
Of the recent CEOs/presidents that Gold's has had (and there have been a few in just a few short years), I think Snow is the most enthusiastic about Gold's. He was more than willing to show me renderings of the new Gold's Gyms in Oklahoma City on his iPad and talk about the new Gold's Gym Express model, which we had written about the day before. He also told me his son wants him to change his name to "Gym Snow." Pretty clever.
Now here's an attempt to be clever on my part: I had lunch by myself at Carl Jr.'s one day and lunch with Carl III the next. 24 Hour Fitness CEO Carl Liebert III, along with 24 Hour Chief Marketing Officer Tony Wells, were kind enough to dine with me at Roy's Restaurant, a great Hawaiian place downtown. Liebert spoke on a panel at our show a couple of years ago, but we hadn't met until last week.
We touched on a lot of subjects, from lifetime memberships to commission sales to the things you can buy at Costco, such as a 24 Hour membership or a brand new car. We also talked about the priest who blessed 24 Hour's new club in Hawaii a couple of years ago. I think that priest is in negotiations to bless all new 24 Hour clubs on the mainland, too.
I whiffed on the most important question I should have asked Carl and Tony: What was it like to play with David Robinson? They were both teammates of his at the U.S. Naval Academy. All three were honored this past January on the 25th anniversary of their 1986 basketball team that made it to the Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament. Check out Carl and Tony in this video. Thanks to alphabetical order, poor Tony had to be introduced right after David Robinson. I think Carl, Tony and me, plus a couple of stiffs off the street, could make a run in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Definitely if David Robinson plays with us, too, or even Carl's son, Jacob, who was a freshman on the Navy basketball team this season.
I have to share with you a funny story from that lunch. When the waiter came by to collect the bill, he noticed the 24 Hour logo on Tony's shirt.
"The founder lives in Lafayette," the waiter told Tony, referring to Mark Mastrov, Carl's predecessor, who co-owns New Evolution Ventures in the San Francisco suburb. Sometimes, there's no escaping the past. The good thing is, Mark played some ball back in his day, plus he's tight with Steve Nash. Add them to the mix, and we could really have a team.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) Kamren Belin scored 21 points on an 8-for-15 shooting performance and Youngstown State shot over 50 percent from the field in a 75-72 win over Milwaukee on Saturday night.
Youngstown State (10-8, 2-3 Horizon) took an 8-2 lead to begin the game thanks to two 3-pointers by Blake Allen but the Panthers answered with a 23-10 run to take a 25-18 lead with 10:04 remaining in the first half. The Penguins answered right back however, going on a 23-10 run of its own capped off by another Allen 3-pointer to give Youngstown State a 41-35 lead and the Penguins never looked back.
After Austin Arians tipped in a missed 3-pointer to cut Youngstown State's lead to one, 73-72, Allen hit a pair of free throws with 21 seconds left to seal the deal. Allen ended the night with 16 points.
Arians and J.J. Panoske each scored 15 points for Milwaukee (5-14, 1-4).


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'Hobbit' Star Richard Armitage Takes Fan Questions
In Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," Richard Armitage plays dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield. In an excerpt from a longer interview, Armitage takes questions submitted by "Hobbit" fans via Twitter.
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My cousin had a sneaky theme wedding. He invited everyone to his fiances dress up 30th. It was a 1920s theme. Then when all the guests arrived the celebrant announced that it was actually their wedding. So, whilst I agree as a general rule, guests shouldn't be asked to come in 'fancy' dress, sometimes, just sometimes, it can definitely work. It was a clever way to ensure that the guests were dressed formal and fun. Everyone looked amazing, especially my husband in his original 1920s 3 piece pinstripe suit.
These are such great tips and i love your do's and don't's! In theory themed weddings sound like fun, but if not done properly could become tacky xx
i like a tasteful themed wedding. i once wrote about a star trek themed wedding on my blog... it was amazing and scary at the same time.
beautiful! Loving the lunch sak! How cute!
I LOVE your tips and I agree - your wedding IS NOT a stage. Dressing up in costume might sound fun, but it's not exactly the kind of thing you want to incorporate into your wedding day.
xoxo, Alisha
Such a rich palette ~ love it!
Gorgeous board. Love the 'wild horses - western theme' - love the way you use color. Great tips on themed weddings.
Loving this rustic theme! Love the cowboy boots!
This is really beautiful! I agree, a theme can work if you're subtle and you keep it elegant as well!
Lovely tips! I love this board. Such a great theme. And you make it looks so easy!
Stunning board - great colors. I too adore those cowboy boots.
xoxo, Sadie
I need those boots! love what not to wear :)
Gorgeous darling. I'm loving the rustic touches - great tips too.
~ Brenna
It wasn't until I started researching theme weddings that I actually liked the idea. I always thought they were tacky, too, until I found some really classy, gorgeous themes -- like these!
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This is too pretty. You totally have me in awe over here.
xo, Taylor
Thanks for the info on the pinterest! I started playing around on there last night. I too am a little iffy about themes..ours does not really have one..just kind of classic and spring themed but I started feeling guilty like we should have one!
You seriously create the best inspiration. I'm always inspiring when I stop by. thanks for that.
Appreciate your expertise. PS. I left you a request.
thanks always for your help, Lisa
such a gorgeous inspiration board - I love the colors you chose too. And, I'm a big fan of theme weddings - of course tastefully done and you have to be careful not to overdue the theme too.
This is such a gorgeous board! I love the birdcage veil and her little hat, the boots, the pie, and the horses. Farm and western weddings are one of my favorite themese, brides and bridesmaids in cowboy boots are just so cute! Less is always more I say, another theme that can go overboard is a beach theme, don't overload with the seashells.
Great tips!
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Love this gorgeous board, and your spot on advice about theme weddings!
One of my besties wore cowboy boots with her wedding gown and it was adorbs!
I love your boards!! This is not a theme I would use for myself... but great DO's + DON'Ts thanks!! XOX Nicole
Love this western palette! Reminds me of Az! You are right, themes can actually be amazing now if done well!
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Thank you for visiting and commenting on my blog this morning. It made my day! I love your blog so much! It expands my dreams for my future wedding, and it even helps me put vision to ideas for quilting projects.
I am feeling the love for everything equestrian at the moment and this is such a great board - subtle, but still incorporating the theme. Love it!
Wow what a post..This is such a gorgeous board! I love the birdcage veil and her little hat, the boots,the pie,and the horses...
Well this tips is worth to read..i like a tasteful themed wedding...It was amazing and scary at the same time.
This is gorgeous! Perfect for the fall, or a rustic wedding in general! Great tips as well! xoxo


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