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Are Poorly Performing Applications Hurting Your Business?
As enterprises boost performance by employing different technologies, technology performance management initiatives become more complex — and more critical to an organization's success.
Best Practices for Better Security: Protecting Your Data and Eliminating Vulnerabilities
The Web and email are integral parts of your business, yet the open nature of the Internet makes your business more vulnerable to security issues, including viruses, spyware and phishing schemes. New risks arise daily, but you can protect your business by implementing these best practices for better data security.
Best Practices for Proactive Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
How to plan, implement and execute a quick recovery strategy for local accidents and natural disasters
Today's unpredictable world puts pressure on IT departments to maintain business continuity in the face of many challenges. Natural disasters, network outages, cybercrime and security breaches can bring business to a halt if a company lacks a sound disaster recovery plan. However, with the right people, processes and technologies in place, companies can withstand and recover from even the biggest threats. In this paper, Dusty Williams, CIO of restaurant conglomerate OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC, and Mike Cybyske, CBCP, Manager for CenturyLink Disaster Preparedness, review their experience with implementing disaster recovery plans in their organizations and best practices for maintaining business continuity in the face of natural or man-made disasters.
Boost Your Profits While Being Green
Green business practices have practical benefits for companies above and beyond environmental sustainability.
Building a Disaster-Ready Infrastructure
Prevent downtime, protect data and ensure continuous business operations.
CenturyLink Cloud-based Services: On-demand Access to IT Resources
How can a business expect to expand, explore and compete without a solid IT infrastructure standing behind it?
Choosing the Right Supplier Partner to Transform Your Solutions Provider Business
Take a look at the ways Solutions Providers are transforming their businesses and how a strategic supplier partner can accelerate that transformation.
Closing the Technology Chasm Between Doctors and IT Staff
Expensive clinical IT implementations can go awry if there are miscommunications or missteps between doctors and IT professionals.
Cloud Security: CIOs Have More Pressing Things to Worry About
According to a recent online poll of IT and business leaders conducted by IDG Research Services, virtually all enterprises are using or plan to use at least one application and/or a portion of their computing infrastructure via a hybrid cloud model.
Connecting to Better Customer Service
To excel in today's business environment, executives must understand the opportunities and challenges of customer service.
Critical Connections: Leveraging Technology to Improve Healthcare
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding creates opportunities for physicians and hospitals to acquire mission-critical technologies to improve healthcare delivery.
Current Analysis Intelligence Report
CenturyLink Launches Fiber Infrastructure, Portfolio to Get a Jump on Broadband Competitors.
Do More with Less
How Service Providers Can Help Consolidate IT Expenses
CTOs know that today, when it comes to IT, more is no longer better. IT departments in every industry are faced with static or shrinking budgets and the mounting pressure to do more with less. To reduce operating expenses and network spending, they must find ways to maximize their current investments rather than make new ones. Opportunities for outsourcing infrastructure and applications management, WAN optimization, cloud hosting and software as a service (SaaS) are now available and can help IT departments meet their budgetary requirements for 2009.
Don't Let Data and Business Assets Slip Out the Back Door: An Interview with CenturyLink Security Expert Bob Schroeder
Businesses of all sizes must be vigilant about data protection, but what threats are of most concern? How can you give employees access to information without giving it to criminals? And how much security is enough? CenturyLink Director of Product Management Bob Schroeder has the answers.
[EBOOK] Business Technology 2020
What technology experts foresee for the not-so-distant, it-will-be-here-before-we-know-it future.
Electronic Health Records: Helping Healthcare Practitioners
Understand the Benefits of Implementing a System
A provision in the federal stimulus act is expected to transform the healthcare industry because of financial incentives for practices to improve the way medical records are stored. Here's how Electronic Health Records will help make your operations stronger and improve patient care.
Electronic Health Records: Protecting Your Assets with a Solid Security Plan
Securing the data for your healthcare organization or practice makes good business sense, especially if you use or are transitioning to an Electronic Health Record solution.
Ethernet for Financial Services
Metro Ethernet provides technical expertise, responsive account management and world-class services that exceed customer expectations for quality, value and reliability.
Ethernet for Healthcare Providers
Metro Ethernet offers a highly-scalable, secure and cost effective solution to meet the connectivity demands of healthcare organizations between multiple locations and across metro areas.
Ethernet for Manufacturing
The data collected by manufacturing execution systems, used to automate processes within a plant, can now be shared across the company, along with the process applications to easily shift production from one plant to another.
Ethernet for the Public Sector
Metro Ethernet delivers greater service flexibility by organizations to obtain the exact amount of bandwidth required or upgrade their networks and increase capacity quickly.
The Extended Enterprise: Manage Complexity, Cost, and Compliance
An IDC Executive Brief
Today's business operating environment across all industries has become a challenging and competitive arena. As organizations strive to grow and capture market share, they use a variety of business models and solutions to successfully achieve their business objectives.
Frost & Sullivan: Improving Enterprise Security by Relocating Into the Carrier's Network
As the Internet threat landscape continues to evolve, so too must security technologies.
Finding the Right Cloud Solution for Your Needs
A well-thought-out cloud computing strategy can give you the resources you need to streamline operations and scale your organization.
Five Essentials to Prepare for (Relatively) Easy Disaster Recovery
Many businesses are unprepared to maintain access to critical data and applications in the event of a disaster. Results from a recent Coleman Parkes Research study published by CA Technologies showed that "small companies suffer the most during periods of downtime, showing the least ability to generate revenue." You can't eliminate threats to business continuity, but you can implement a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) plan that will keep your company productive. Start with these 5 essential best practices for BC/DR.
Five Network Security Threats and How to Protect Your Business
A layered approach to security may be your best defense
Threats abound in today's corporate networks. There's no getting around it. Keeping your enterprise and its data and corporate assets secure necessitates a proactive security posture. Being proactive involves understanding the assets that require risk mitigation and the proper controls to support your risk management strategy. This paper uncovers the five most costly network security threats that enterprises battle today and how you can protect your business by implementing key layers of control and taking advantage of managed security services to do more with less.
Five Steps for Protecting Patient Data: A Security Checklist for Electronic Health Records
Are you ready for the new HITECH Act's requirements for privacy and security? Do you know what safeguards are required to protect patient data? Get the answers you need in this simple checklist with links to the latest regulatory standards for electronic health records.
Healthcare IT Security Necessity
Leveraging technology to serve patients requires an investment in IT security and risk management. CenturyLink's security solutions help protect you from dangerous viruses, spam and other threats reaching your business with state-of-the-art firewalls, disaster prevention, recovery products and on-demand audit reports.
How can SMBs effectively invest in technology during a downturn?
Solving business problems with technology creates competitive growth opportunities
A recent business news story on the recessionary environment reported that "fear" is now running the show in this country. That fear-factor sentiment is pervasive in "doom and gloom" stories that dominate daily U.S. news. Everyone is fearful, and challenges abound for all businesses, including many of the nation's Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs). But with history as a guide, it's important for businesses to attempt to transcend the anxiety and uncertainty, and view a downturn as an opportunity to invest in future success.
How to Achieve a Worry-Free Network
Today's companies have fewer resources at their disposal, even as maintaining complex IT infrastructures becomes more difficult than ever.
How to Get Your Organization Closer to the Cloud
You're facing the challenges of Big Data. You have bigger storage demands, and you're trying to deal with them before they become an unmanageable problem.
[INFOGRAPHIC] Hybrid IT Cloud Solution
Lighten the load on your overtaxed internal resources. Innovate across all your business processes in a cost-effective, automated way with comprehensive infrastructure and resources.
[INFOGRAPHIC] Managed Services: Perception vs. Reality
Even though managed services have a multi-year, proven track record, some business managers still hold on to the same old perceptions.
The Innovation Quotient
Why investing now in data, voice, and networking services makes sense
In a 2009 survey conducted for CenturyLink by Fortune Custom Publishing and IDG Research Services, a majority of IT and business managers believe that spending on voice, data, and network services in difficult times can help companies meet their business objectives and gain an edge for future competition. Half expect such investments to leave them better prepared to compete when the economy recovers.
The IPv6 Future Is Now: Are You Ready?
When IPv4 was introduced in 1981, it was believed that the approximately 4.3 billion addresses would last for the foreseeable future. Just 30 years later, there are more people on earth than total IPv4 addresses—and the last of them will be issued in mid-2011.
IPv6 Technical White Paper
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the successor to the current IPv4 Network layer protocol in use today as the foundation for almost all Internet communication.
Is Cloud Computing Right for You?
Cloud-based sourcing represents the next stage in the continuing evolution of IT service delivery.
Is Cloud Computing Right for Your Business?
Cloud-based computing is one of the hottest topics in IT circles, as businesses of all sizes look for more innovative, efficient ways to do business while reducing the high cost of infrastructure. But what exactly do we mean when we talk about the cloud? What's real and what's hype? And what does it mean for your business?
Make Big Data a Problem of the Past
You're facing the challenges of Big Data. You have bigger storage demands, and you're trying to deal with them before they become an unmanageable problem.
Making a Pain-free Migration to Unified Communications
Creating the foundation for a collaborative environment
A converged voice and data network is the foundation for Unified Communications (UC), which fosters productivity through mobility and collaboration. This paper examines the value of UC applications, tools and technologies to provide guidance for pain-free migration to a more efficient and high-performance business environment.
Managed Security for a Not-So-Secure World
CIOs must manage security risks while addressing business needs and focusing on revenue-generating activities. This paper offers a strategy for providing data security and protection that addresses the rising data threat landscape, the need for compliance, and today's lean IT staffs.
Managed Security Services for Financial Services Firms
Leveraging IT Infrastructure as a Service Enables Agile Responses to Constantly Changing Threats.
MPLS: Future Proofing Enterprise Networks for Long-Term Success
Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) is a converged data network technique that facilitates the most efficient platform for transporting a diverse array of different types of traffic. MPLS provides a simplified network infrastructure for the simultaneous transport of multiple applications such as voice, video, and data.
Network Management Services: A Cost-Effective Approach to Complexity
Inside the networked enterprise, data streams are purchase orders, invoices, design specifications, online transactions, and customer service interactions that must flow across the network reliably, securely, and in real time. To support these mission-critical enterprise networks, enterprises are looking at alternative delivery models. Network management services can help companies reduce the overall cost of network operations and acquire the expertise needed to manage network complexity.
Optimizing Your Communications in a Recession
How to drive operational efficiencies with communications solutions and technologies
As companies struggle to be profitable, the right communications technologies and strategy can be a big factor in achieving their budget goals. This paper takes a look at how to best optimize communications during a recession by using IP telephony, wireless technology and conferencing solutions to drive greater business value and productivity on a minimal budget.
Plan for Success
Tips to help you achieve your goals in the new year
As the calendar changes, renewed optimism grows around the possibilities the new year may bring. And with some planning now, you can set yourself up to make those possibilities probable.
Planning for Disaster and Everyday Threats
From downtime costs to regulatory compliance, the need for strategic business continuity and disaster recovery planning is clear, but what does that mean for your organization?
Protecting Customer Data: An Essential Part of Doing Business
It's not just retailers who need to be aware of the risks around credit card data. Anyone who transmits, processes or stores payment card data is at risk-from stores and restaurants to doctor's offices and auto repair shops. Learn what's required to prevent breaches.
Protecting Payment Card Data
Businesses managing payment card data face tremendous security challenges. The cost of a security breach can be devastating in terms of lost revenue, legal costs and damaged reputation. In fact, the payment card brands may even stop a business from processing credit card and debit card payments from customers.
Reaching for the Cloud
IT cites benefits, downplay security as they move applications to the cloud
Will security worries be the undoing of cloud adoption? Not likely, given other, more pressing threats like device theft, mobility and IT consumerization. And with new technologies able to mitigate the real and perceived risks inherent in hybrid clouds— the combination of internal and external services—IT leaders say they see opportunities to up the ante on security for greater end-to-end protection.
Remove Boundaries to Evolve Business
Staying competitive in today's constantly changing business environment is an ongoing challenge. And these challenges expand as it becomes harder to engage in real-time interactions with colleagues and project teams who are likely spread across disparate locations. Focusing your IT staff on projects that enhance your core business expertise, while bringing external value-added services inside, makes removing the boundaries that hinder doing business anytime, anywhere a reality—instead of a want-to-have capability.
SIP Trunk Services - The Cornerstone of Unified Communications
The benefits of Unified Communications
In these challenging economic times, many organizations have reduced budgets and furloughed employees. One of the important consequences of downsizing is that the remaining workforce must work both efficiently and cost-effectively. This is especially important to mid-sized companies. But organizations can't do more with less by doing business as usual. Thus it's especially important that available personnel have the tools on hand to maximize their productivity. These are precisely the benefits cited by early adopters of Unified Communications.
Six Basic Steps for Better Security
Like business insurance and disaster planning, data security is all about reducing risk.Learn what basic security steps you should take to protect against viruses, worms, spyware and other hazards-and keep your business up and running.
The Three P's of Evaluating Managed Network Services
Companies which are considering using third parties to design, provision support and repair network-related IT assets and services face a wide range of potential sourcing strategies.
9 Top Security Breaches and How to Prevent Them from Happening to Your Business
Here's a look at some of the biggtest data breaches to date and how you can prepare your business.
Unified Communications and Your Business
An overview of the potential benefits of UC and key considerations you should keep in mind when mapping out your UC strategy.
Unified Communications for the Midsized Enterprise
Best practices for developing a sound UC strategy
Unified Communications has been the buzzword du jour since 2007, but what does it really mean? More importantly, what does it mean for small to medium sized businesses, and how can a business with limited resources and budget deploy UC effectively to capitalize on its many benefits—namely, enhanced productivity, cost savings and flexibility in the work environment? This paper takes a look at UC and its components, and examines how midsized companies can execute a cost-effective, viable UC strategy across their organizations.
Unleashing the Power of Customer Data
Most companies are swamped by feedback from their clients.
The real challenge is making good use of what they're trying to tell you. Building a customer-centric company requires a determination to collect customer feedback, analyze it rigorously, and, most importantly, change the way you do business in response to what customers tell you.
Volatile Market Conditions Call for New Tech Strategies
Financial services firms explore new network technologies and partnerships to address governance, risk and compliance, improve customer service and increase revenue.
When It Comes to Data Loss, What's Your Backup Plan?
An enterprise's data is its most valuable asset, so backing it up and recovering it in case of disaster are critical.
Why Hosted? Go Beyond the Traditional Contact Center
The contact center today is characterized by a conflict between its history and its current capabilities.
Worry-free Network
IT professionals need the capability to simplify their infrastructure in order to facilitate better ways of delivering services to their end users, and the level of proficiency needed to keep up with network technology has escalated. To ensure your IT resources stay focused on the critical, strategic projects that promote competitive advantages, consider the benefits of managed service providers.
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The Boss Doesn't Want to Hear Your Ideas
Workers don't see things that way.
Instead, employees today see themselves as "idea people" -- as entrepreneurs in the workplace, ready to step up and handle project initiatives from start to finish (especially on projects stemming from their own ideas and input.)
But those cubicle creators believe corporate America doesn't want to hear their ideas and doesn't see workforce members as entrepreneurs.
New York-based Accenture did a study called Corporate Innovation Is Within Reach: Nurturing and Enabling An Entrepreneurial Culture in which it reports that 52% of U.S. employees say they have brought a good idea to the table inside their companies, but only 20% said there was enough support from management to develop that idea.
In reality, it's a Catch-22 for entrepreneurial-minded staffers, with 77% of employees saying the only way they can get an in idea executed is to prove it works -- but management won't let ideas proceed until they work.
That conundrum keeps a lot of good initiatives in the lockbox, workers believe, with few incentives to fight the system and get good ideas off the ground.
There are other roadblocks, as well, as 36% of U.S. workers say there is a built-in obstacle to staff-generated projects: Management keeps them "too busy" to take the thought time needed to develop a really great idea.
Yet by keeping employee ideas away from the light of day, companies are only holding themselves back.
"Small startups are crucial to our economy, but so is corporate America, and our large companies risk losing their global entrepreneurial lead if they fail to nurture new ideas within their organizations," says Matt Reilly, a managing director at Accenture. "Rewarding only successful ideas developed by an elite group is no longer sufficient. Employees are better connected and more in tune with customers than ever before, so companies must encourage innovation throughout their entire workforces by incentivizing risk taking and rewarding efforts rather than just outcomes."
Maybe a big part of the problem is where those employee-generated ideas are directed.
Accenture says that 85% of all employee-created initiatives are targeted toward internal improvements. That may be too many ideas for management to handle, or the influx of ideas may be perceived as a slap in the face by management, but the reality is that few of those initiatives make it out of the pipeline.

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Ok... so I've read a number of guides for setting up Rails on my machine (aluminum macbook, OS X 10.5). I've updated the Rails install that came with OS X and installed X Code. But I have a couple questions:
- I have Coda, and love it. But I hear it's lacking in Rails support... would you guys advise against Coda? I also have Textmate and Transmit that I could use, I guess. I also have Dreamweaver.
- For a newbie who would like as much hand-holding as possible... is BitNami's RubyStack a good idea for deploying a dev environment on my machine?
Are there any other tools or newb-specific advice you can point a new user too? I'm not a coder... I've always been a designer, so I'm kinda overwhelmed by the amount of options available in setting up my environment/workspace.
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A Billy Strayhorn melody is so very nice to hear on solo piano. A Billy Strayhorn medley is even better when there are two pianos. In 1983, at the Jazz Forum in New York, the lyrical master John Hicks and the underrated Albert Dailey put Strayhorn's music on display for more than twenty-three minutes. 'Star-Crossed Lovers' (aka "Pretty Girl") and 'Chelsea Bridge' were songs that I always believed Strayhorn had tailor-made for their respective soloists, Johnny Hodges and Ben Webster. However, these are such tremendous songs, all they require are the hands of any master musician. On this particular evening in September, they received four master hands, and 176 piano keys.
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Micron Technology on Wednesday introduced the highest-density serial peripheral interface (SPI) NOR memory 256Mb, 512Mb and 1Gb availability. These new devices join a complete line of SPI NOR flash memory that provides the advantage of increased performance with reduced pin count compared to parallel memory.
Employing 65nm process technology, the N25Q product family offers the highest-speed quad I/O (108MHz, 54MB/s) in the industry and a full set of advanced features and small packages that improve overall system performance and time-to-market in networking, set-top boxes, automotive and a wide range of industrial, computing and consumer applications.
"In addition to providing the world's highest-density, high-performance SPI NOR memory, the N25Q family provides package and software compatibility across densities, from 32Mb to 1Gb. When combined with industrial temperature range, 1.8V and 3.0V power supply options, and the longevity of Micron's PLP program, this product family provides an ideal solution for the SPI NOR needs of the embedded market," said Tom Eby, vice president and general manager of Micron's embedded solutions group.
Micron's new SPI NOR product line balances customers' needs for cost-effective solutions at higher densities while ensuring compatibility among future chipsets. Micron's long-term commitment to customers in the embedded markets is reinforced by Micron's product longevity program (PLP) – a 10-year commitment. The new N25Q products will be offered as part of this program to provide design assurance for its PLP customers.
Sampling now, Micron's 1Gb, 512Mb and 256Mb devices are available through Micron's sales channels.
"The NOR market continues to trend toward SPI devices, with analysts estimating that more than half of NOR revenue will be SPI by 2013. Micron's high-density N25Q products further solidify our commitment to the NOR market and position us well to continue capturing increased share in the SPI segment," added Mr. Eby.
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Oracle Corp. on Thursday filed a copyright and patent infringement claim against Google over its Android operating system, reports the Financial Times. The patents relate to the widely-used Java software, which was firstly developed by Sun Microsystems as a cross-platform environment that enabled different platforms to run the same software.
"In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement," said Karen Tillman, a spokeswoman for Oracle, reports Bloomberg news-agency.
The complaint targets Google's Dalvik virtual machine, one of the operating system services used to run applications on the smartphones. Oracle says the software was created using the Java platform as Google hired former Sun developers, who knew of the Java technology. It is noteworthy that while Java was originally designed as a proprietary language that needed to be licensed from Sun, the latter eventually initiated making open-source flavours of Java products available, which means that the code can be used freely by third-party programmers.
One of the things that is not clear in the situation is that Oracle at present does not seem to have ambitions to enter the market of operating systems for mobile phones. Typically, companies sue either direct rivals or other firms with huge market potential or shares. It is unlikely that Oracle has plans to enter the market of consumer cell phones; moreover, with the acquisition of Sun Microelectronics the company is more than interested in development of demanding mobile applications that would require strong back-end provided by Oracle and Sun. It is definitely not in Oracle's interest to slowdown development of Android. Nonetheless, Oracle still decided to sue Google for infringements of patents that it got with the takeover of Sun.
"We are disappointed Oracle has chosen to attack both Google and the open-source Java community with this baseless lawsuit. The open- source Java community goes beyond any one corporation and works every day to make the Web a better place. We will strongly defend open-source standards and will continue to work with the industry to develop the Android platform," said Aaron Zamost, a Google spokesman, reports Bloomberg.
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DVD of the Week: Kiss Me Deadly: Criterion Collection
The film begins with a barefooted woman (Cloris Leachman) running breathlessly along a stretch of highway road at night. Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) nearly runs her over. He picks her up and it's a decision he will regret later. Even though Hammer gives her a hard time he lies for her at a police roadblock when he finds out she's escaped from a mental hospital. However, they are run off the road by three unidentified men and over the soundtrack we hear the woman's terrified screams which carry over to the next scene where she's being tortured but all we see are her dangling feet, leaving the rest to our imagination.
The men attempt to get rid of Hammer and the woman by staging a car accident that he somehow survives. Once he gets out of the hospital, government officials unsuccessfully grill him. Why? And who was the mysterious woman and why was she killed? Intrigued and understandably pissed off at almost being killed, Hammer decides to get some answers – ones that lead to something bigger than he could have possible imagined.
Kiss Me Deadly is saturated with a paranoia vibe, like when Hammer comes home from the hospital and carefully checks out his apartment for intruders. Later on, his secretary, Velda (Maxine Cooper), warns him to stay away from the windows because "somebody might blow you a kiss," which implies that someone is trying to kill him. Aldrich employs shots of Hammer talking to people as if he's being spied on by someone and this keeps the viewer on edge. Later on, things get serious when Hammer finds dynamite and a bomb rigged to blow up his car. Aldrich also doesn't skimp on the violence, which must've been shocking for its time. Hammer viciously beats a man who tries to kill him with a switchblade by punching him down a flight of steps. In another scene, Hammer disables a henchman so quickly and efficiently that he scares off his cohort.
Ralph Meeker anchors the film with his uncompromising performance. Hammer is a crude, sexist man with a deep distrust of authority, anticipating Dirty Harry by several years as a righteous avenger with his own brand of justice. Meeker is a good-looking tough guy that does a fantastic job of portraying Spillane's protagonist.
Kiss Me Deadly features a smart, cynical screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides who tweaked the book's setting and removed the first person voiceover, but retained the hardboiled attitude. Aldrich's film takes us on a journey through the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles culminating in an explosive finale that would influence the likes of Repo Man (1984) and Pulp Fiction (1994). It came out around the time that other grim, bleak noirs, like Pickup on the South Street (1953), were starting to appear, and anticipated films like Touch of Evil (1958) Don Siegel's The Killers (1964).
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There is an audio commentary by film noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini. They talk about how Kiss Me Deadly is a commentary on the 1950's. They point out innovative things for the time, like how it begins in the middle of the action before any opening credits, which play over the film backwards like a road sign. They point out that Aldrich wanted to turn the source novel on its head and use the female characters to comment on and critique Hammer. In addition to the excellent analysis, Silver and Ursini provide biographical and production information on this solid track.
"Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane" is a condensed cut of a 1998 documentary about the author's life and career in which he also agreed to participate. Fellow writers and admirers speak highly of the man and the innovations he pioneered in crime fiction. Fascinatingly, Spillane wrote for comic books in their early days along with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. This is a fantastic primer on Spillane and his work.
"The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides" features excerpts from this 2007 documentary where writers Barry Gifford, George Belecanos, Spillane and Bezzerides talk about the film version of Kiss Me Deadly. Spillane criticizes the script as "lousy," while Gifford calls the film a classic. Bezzerides says that he changed what he didn't like about the novel and wrote his own version, "fixing" it.
"Bunker Hill, Los Angeles" features writer and L.A. film buff Jim Dawson talking about some of the film's locations. We learn about the rise and decline of the Bunker Hill neighborhood. Dawson points out where in the city key scenes were shot in this fascinating tour.
"Altered Ending" shows the truncated ending which offers a much different fate for Hammer. A minute of footage was cut out from the film and finally restored in 1997, which is the version of the film that is on this DVD.
Finally, there is a theatrical trailer.
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Something tells me I NEED to upgrade my old MGM Vintage Classic disc. I have friends who either love or hate this film, there's no in-between. And it all hinges upon their take of Ralph Meeker's Mike Hammer. If you buy what many (like me) believe is Meeker's best performance, then it works for them. If they consider him a Grade-A prick, many don't enjoy Robert Aldrich's take of the classic Spillane character. This is one of the best and stellar films by this director, IMO. Man, it's loaded with extra, too! I'm not going to miss this one. Great review, J.D. Thanks.ReplyDelete
Great review. I've been eschewing purchasing DVDs but this one is deserving, an overlooked gritty noir up there with Dassin and Fuller.ReplyDelete
Great pick! This one is always in my top five noirs. Meeker is fantastic as Hammer and really lives up to "hard boiled." Such a tense film too. Wonderful write up as well!ReplyDelete
You certainly need to upgrade! This one is worth the double dip.
And yeah, I can see the love or hate angle on this film. I haven't read the original novel but from the extras it sounds like the film is very, very different. I thought the casting of Meeker as Hammer was genius and he is so good in this film. How Hammer seems to delight in threatening and exacting violence on people who get in his way is something else...
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Agreed. This film is right up their with the gritty gonzo noir of Fuller and also Siegel!
It is a very tense film, I agree! And the paranoia vibe that is sustained throughtout is incredible. Such a fantastic film.


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Ambassador Susan Jacobs, Special Advisor for International Children's Issues, will hold a conversation with Ernie Allen, President and CEO, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, on international parental child abductions. The conversation will highlight how the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of Children's Issues and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children work to prevent international abductions and to assist families after an abduction or wrongful retention has occurred. The discussion will be moderated by Cheryl Benton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, and will be available for on demand viewing soon on DipNote, the Department of State's official blog.
You are invited to participate by submitting questions, some of which will be selected for response during the broadcast. Submit your questions below on DipNote and join the ongoing discussion via Twitter using the hashtag #childabduction. Please submit questions via DipNote and Twitter as soon as possible for consideration.
Through Conversations With America, leaders of national non-governmental organizations have the opportunity to discuss foreign policy and global issues with senior State Department officials. These conversations aim to provide candid views of the ways in which leaders from the foreign affairs community are engaging the Department on pressing foreign policy issues.
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Patrick B. in California writes:
I think we all appreciate this opportunity to converse in a public forum. And I am so glad to see both Susan and Ernie here. Can you tell me how the Dept of State defines the word 'abduction'?
George D. in Brazil writes:
Why has the U.S. Government not implemented the policy of Exit Immigration Controls like the majority of other nations have? This would make it almost impossible for International Abduction cases to take place, yet you do not take the basic steps required to hinder it from happening! It would also give the government the needed date on WHO is here illegally, so that they can be found, deported and not allowed to enter OUR country again!
Randy C. in the U.S.A. writes:
If a Japanese man comes to the US and has sex with a 13 year old child, then returns to Japan, will the US seek extradition for statutory rape?
If the answer is YES, where is the "Comity" to seek extradition? It is not illegal to have sex with a 13 year old in Japan. And if the answer is YES, why will the US seek extradition for statutory rape but not international parental abduction when the abductor violated US laws and preexisting court orders which explicitly stated the child was not to be removed for the county, state, and country?
Bruce G. in Japan writes:
What do you plan to do about the thousands of American children abducted to and within Japan and denied all access to their left behind parent? Specifically, do you support HR 1940 and sanctions against Japan until they return our abducted children?
Patrick M. in the U.S.A. writes:
Question 1> How come the Department of State keeps repeating the mantra, "Abduction is not illegal in Japan"?
Japan ratified the UNCRC (this is a HUMAN RIGHTS treaty, not a treaty of reciprocation) in 1994. The UNCRC clearly states in article 11 that child abduction is illegal. The Japanese constitution clearly states in Article 98 that all treaties are to be "faithfully observed".
***article 11 ALSO provides a LEGAL REQUIREMENT for signatory countries to negotiate MOUs for dealing with the return and access of children.
DoS seems to be allowing Japan to ignore it's own laws, and it's international treaty agreements without protest-- at the expense of US children.
Japan's statement of convenience, neither changes the legal realities, nor removes the ability for you to make an issue of their violation of human rights treaties (either directly, or through surrogates who are also signatories).
Question 2> How come in the July, 2011 Congressional Hearing both Amb. Jacobs and Amb. Campbell claimed that there where "no recent cases"?
My case was a new case filed within the time period under discussion; and I know of several others ass well.
Question 3> Why is DoS not loudly and publicly condemning and shaming Japan for these human rights abuses and violations of US sovereignty?
Over the years ranking members of the Department of State and the Executive branch have loudly and publicly condemned N. Korea for the abduction of approximately 30 Japanese nationals over a quarter century ago - even publicly meeting with Japanese parents. However, there has never been anywhere near a similar level of public condemnation of Japan for the continual abduction of hundreds of documented case of abducted US children - in many cases in direct violation of US court orders and therefore a baltant a front to US sovereignty.
March 1, 2011 Secretary of State Clinton told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that "This is at the HIGHEST PRIORITY LEVEL in the administration".
However, as stated, there has never been a single public condemnation of Japan for human rights violations against US citizens by the Department of State.
Question 4> What is Japan providing our country, that makes the Department of State constantly prioritize Japanese sovereignty before US sovereignty -- as this is commonly the reasoning provided by OCI for lack of action on the part of DoS, and for DoS preventing even the attempt of extradition of abductors by DoJ under the 1978 treaty with Japan.
Question 5> Why does the Department the State still "advise" parents to concede jurisdiction by entering the Japanese court system, when everyone understands that in practice the Japanese legal system is a farce and undeserving of comity with our US legal system.
Question 6> What is going to take for the US Department of State to start honoring their oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and "faithfully discharge the duties of the office" to which they have been assigned, by placing the rights of US citizens ahead of the desire to "not embarrass" the Government of Japan. You're continued weakness has allowed this issue to drag out for over 2 decades - the Department of State has never managed to arrange for Japan to return a single US child.
I've lost my US born children and haven't seen, nor been allowed to speak with, them in over a year - I don't know if they have been hurt, seriously injured, or even if they are alive - I do know that wherever they are, this adduction a direct action of abuse being committed against them. So, while I'm reasonable, I'm way beyond worrying about offending anyone by speaking the blunt truth about the utter policy failure, incompetence and, frankly, deceit, occurring at the Department of State.
Earlier this year Egypt took dozens of hostages, including 19 Americans (one of whom was the son a US Cabinet member) , and the Department of State loudly condemned Egypt, pulled out all the stops, and used all measures are their disposal to achieve the release and return of these individuals. Why are our US children held to lower standard? Merely because Japan is an "ally"?
Amy S. in Tennessee writes:
For years, several organizations, including the American Bar Association and the U.S. Department of Justice, have maintained that parents with narcissistic personality disorder and/or sociopathic personality traits are more likely to kidnap their children than those who are emotionally "healthyâ€. Children who have been parentally kidnapped are often raised in an emotionally abnormal environment without the benefit of a healthy parent to counter-balance the abductor's erratic or destructive behavior. Several researchers have examined the emotional fallout experienced by children who have been raised with parents who suffer from narcissistic or borderline personality disorder, and they have found that the impact of this damage is both deep and long-lasting.
Several publications have described that narcissism is a personality trait that increases the risk of parental abduction. Narcissists often rationalize their violation of court orders and feel no remorse if they bend the rules to benefit themselves.(1) A child of a narcissist can suffer severely because narcissists have "limited or no ability†to recognize their children as separate individuals with free will and needs of their own.(2) Children who are raised by a narcissistic parent often feel extremely lonely and isolated because the parent can, to the outside world, appear to be self-confident and self-controlled, but in private can unleash a battery of constant criticisms and have difficulty controlling their anger.(3) Eleanor Payson, a licensed family therapist, describes this nightmare as "a private one that can only be stopped by outside validationâ€.(4) A child raised by a narcissistic parent must grow up quickly, repressing his or her true feelings in order to serve the narcissist's needs.(5)
Bill Eddy is an expert in child custody issues that arise when someone divorces a spouse with narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder. He explains that parents with borderline personality disorder often "desire the elimination of the other parent as much as possibleâ€.(6) Researchers have found that a borderline parent will often use "I'll never speak to you again†as a primary method of solving interpersonal conflict, and the child will thereafter feel forced to agree with his parent's opinion, even if his opinion or recollection is not the same.(7) These parents "enmesh†themselves with their children (8) and rather than being allowed to feel, the borderline parent convinces the children how they are supposed to feel.(9) Parents who kidnap their children are unwilling to share parenting with the other parent and "decide they were above the lawâ€.(10) The risk of abduction is exacerbated by a borderline's impulsivity and the fact that they feel superior to a court's orders.(11)
Borderline parents hold their children captive to onslaughts of verbal abuse followed by the silent treatment. They criticize and belittle their children, causing the children to suffer great confusion, pain and silent anger.(12) Life with a borderline parent can bring "constant chaos†and is typified by the borderline's verbal abuse, unpredictability, denying the child's perception of events, the need to dominate, threatening to get her own way, making abusive comments and setting unrealistic expectations.(13) Denying the feelings and needs of others and trying to get the child to engage in illogical arguments only exacerbates the pain, loneliness and confusion.(14) While it is impossible to discover exactly how many international abductions have been committed by narcissistic or borderline personality disordered individuals, this research cannot and should not be ignored.
The Justice Department has acknowledged that parental abduction is damaging and that "the worst damage is imperceptible to the eye, occurring deep within the child, leaving traces that last a lifetimeâ€.(15)
Amy J. S., Ph.D.
1 Payson, Eleanor D., M.S.W. 2002. The Wizard of Oz and other Narcissists., p. 19.
2 Payson, p. 30.
3 Payson, pp. 16, 30.
4 Payson, p. 16.
5 Payson, p. 66.
6 Eddy, Bill, LCSW, JD and Randi Kreger. 2011. Splitting: Protecting Yourself while Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder., p. 263.
7 Roth, Kimberlee and Freda B. Friedman, PhD, LCSW. 2003. Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds & Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem., p. 120.
8 Eddy, p. 249.
9 Roth, p. 121.
10 Eddy, p. 248.
11 Eddy, p. 249.
12 Lawson, Christine Ann. 2000. Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping
Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship., p. 207.
13 Mason, Paul, and Randi Kreger. 2010. Stop Walking on Eggshells, 2nd
Edition., p. 61.
14 Mason, p. 109.
15 The U.S. Department of Justice, The Crime of Family Abduction, a Child's and Parent's Perspective. May 2010.
Denise C. in New Jersey writes:
1. Ambassador Jacobs, please explain why return rates for abducted children from Hague countries back to the US are not meaningfully higher than with non-Hague countries (36% vs. 33% over the last 10 years, according to OCI data). By return rates, I'm looking at the number of returned children as a percentage of the abducted children over that same time period. While it is admirable to recruit new countries to join the Hague Convention, wouldn't it make more sense to spend time ensuring compliance with what, statistically at least, appears to be an ineffective treaty? If the US does have a policy of requiring stricter compliance with the Hague, please share with us the methods and tools the USG uses to effectuate improved compliance.
2. Amb Jacobs, has the DOS done any studies to compare return rates of abducted children for countries prior to and after becoming Hague Convention partners? If not why not, and if so, what does the data show? Presumably a country which joins the Hague will return abducted children at a higher rate than before their ascension to the Hague.
3. The 2012 annual Hague Compliance report has been released this week and for the second straight year, without the statistical data that accompanied prior reports. Amb Jacobs, why is this and will there be a supplement released at some point? Why can't all the data be included in one report as in years past?
4. Amb Jacobs, when a country is designated as "non-compliant†or "demonstrating patterns of non-compliance†with the Convention, does this trigger any specific action on the part of the USG? More specifically, are there any diplomatic, economic, or other consequences for poor records of compliance with the Hague? According to these reports, Mexico and Brazil, to name just two of the flagrant violators, demonstrate consistently poor track records with the Hague yet nothing seems to change from year to year. Is there any incentive for these countries to improve their performance or any penalty for failing to do so?
5. Amb Jacobs, on May 19, 2011 you tweeted that you would be traveling to Brazil to conduct meetings and establish a working group to cooperate on child abduction cases. Can you give us an update on the progress of this working group one year later? Have more abducted American children been returned since this group was formed?
6. Amb Jacobs and Mr. Allen, why is there no real "advocacy†on the part of the USG for abducted American children? Parents who've filed cases with NCMEC and OCI consistently recount stories of frustration and exasperation in dealing with your agencies – OCI in particular. What is the stated policy of the USG with regard to these abduction cases? Is your role simply to help facilitate the left-behind parent's day in court in the country where their child(ren) are taken, or is it something more? Can you address the impression many parents and advocates have that these abduction cases are little more than a diplomatic irritant in the scheme of the overall foreign policy objectives of the US?
Patrick M. in the U.S.A. writes:
Question: Why is the Japanese media reporting that Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, just told the Japanese government that during the upcoming meeting between PM Noda and Pres Obama, that the Obama administration would table several issues, including the issue of the of hundreds+ US children that have been abducted to and held in Japan, if Japan would agree to a joint statement which committed Japan to raising their contribution on the US base in Okinawa from $2.8B to $3.1B ???
Carlos B. in the U.S.A. writes:
Why was the compliance status of Mexico w/ regard to the Hague Abduction Convention modified in the 2012 Compliance Report?
Carlos B. in the U.S.A. writes:
Is the NCMEC useful for anything in cases of international child abduction?
Tony D. in Japan writes:
Thank you, Ambassador Jacobs, for your interest and continued efforts to resolve this troubling problem, specifically for your work engaging with Japan. As you are aware, there are a great many American parents like me whose children were "legally abducted" as a result of decisions made by the Japanese courts. In my case, I haven't been able to see my daughter in nearly eight years due to the fact that Japan does not have in place a system of joint custody or enforceable visitation following a divorce. Please advise how the State Department views this aspect of the abduction issue and the status of any negotiations with Japan in this regard.
Sonia T. in Michigan writes:
Mexico accounts for some 45% of the total number of cases of international abductions of children from the United States, and has been listed as non-compliant with the relevant human rights treaties on international child abduction for the past 12 years. Can you name a single instance where this issue has been publicly or privately raised with Mexico by a high level official in the current administration?
Michael David C. in the United Kingdom writes:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Whilst currently in the legal throws through help of The Hague Convention, Reunite, The Official Solicitors office, US Central Authorities, to not only have my 4 year battle in regards to true outset of the now holding parent heard within understanding. But now also find myself, within the realm of bettering my continued education to the matter of Parental Child Abduction in general.
With over 200,000 cases and full knowledge that my ex wife and her family, where not only planning, but fabricated statement and also from abusive child hoods brought forth by their father.
My question is:
Is this common when full light of situation comes to pass.
I.E. Is there a general mind set to both holding parent and immediate family circle that issues such action(s)
Many Thanks
Velda P. in Washington writes:
If the state Department is so concerned about abduction why have they failed to assist us when we informed them of people trying to abduct a child already living in Mexico as and parental abducted child. The child and mother are still in Mexico. Her daughter was recovered by the father with the Help of the FBI and A.R.C. when she held the child for ransom. They were not aware of the other child at that point. But they are now investigating the people that befriended us and claim they were going to help but there were too many suspicious things going on and demands for our legal documents made us more suspicious. A.R.C. will be handing it over to the FBI but WHY is it we were ignored?


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Attributing cholera to environmental influences undermines efforts to prevent the disease, some scientists worry.others have discovered the bacteria in water bodies untouched by human waste, its abundance and distribution fluctuating not with levels of contamination, but with sea surface temperature, ocean currents, and weather changes. After several centuries during which cholera's spread has been attributed solely to human activity, it has been paradigm-shifting research. "Thirty years ago, we were ridiculed to even say that the bacterium existed in the environment," Colwell says. "But now it is in textbooks. The evidence is so overwhelming, it is understood."
In Bangladesh, cholera risk increases two to four times following a 5-degree C spike in the water temperature.temperatures of estuaries along the Adriatic coast. In Mexico, the abundance of cholera vibrios in lagoon oysters rise as seas warm. In the Chesapeake Bay, Vibrio cholerae levels increase during the summer, as water temperatures spike. In Bangladesh, cholera risk increases by two to four times in the six weeks following a 5-degree C (9-degree F) spike in the water temperature. Likewise, in Ghana, an analysis of 20 years of data revealed a correlation between cholera incidence and rainfall and land surface temperatures. In Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Tanzania, cholera epidemics have been correlated with flooding as well as sea surface temperatures.
'We could again see epidemics of cholera in the U.S. and Europe that we haven't seen in 100 years,' says one expert.which suffered major cholera outbreaks after heavy rains in 1997 — may face more cholera epidemics as the climate changes.
'Cholera cannot be defeated by medicine alone — we need a new approach,' one scientist says.next," Waldor says. "That goes back hundreds of years in the history of cholera. Ships from one part of Asia brought it elsewhere... It was spread by humans."
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4572 Poplar Ave.
Memphis, TN 38117
Permit Amount: $1.5 million
Project Cost: $25.2 million
Application Date: December 2016
Malone Distribution Park
Memphis, TN 38118
Sale Amount: $9.6 million
Sale Date: Sept. 8
495 N. Watkins St.Memphis, TN 38104Details: Crosstown Concourse has signed another tenant. Memphis-based nexAir, one of the largest distributors of atmospheric gases and welding supplies in the U.S., will lease 33,000 square feet at the mixed-use tower.
495 N. Watkins St.Memphis, TN 38104
Permit Amount: $15.6 million
Application Date: January 2016
The Church Health Center is the first Crosstown Concourse founding partner to begin its build-out.
On behalf of the Church Health Center, contractor Grinder, Taber & Grinder has applied for a $15.6 million building permit for new construction in the mixed-used development at 495 N. Watkins St.
The Wolf River Conservancy will hold a series of five public forums starting Tuesday, Oct. 20, on the Wolf River Greenway project, the $40 million pedestrian and bicycle trail system that will follow the Wolf River through Shelby County.
6093 N Patriot Lake Blvd.415 E. Patriot Lake Blvd.Memphis, TN 38118Permit Amount: $7.2 million
The Crosstown development team has secured an $80.5 million loan on the property.
Crosstown Building Owner LLC filed the loan with SunTrust Bank, according to a Dec. 30 deed of trust. McLean Wilson, the Crosstown development team's co-leader, signed the trust deed.
7991 Capilano DriveMemphis, TN 38125Sale Amount: $28 million
Sale Date: Dec. 22, 2014Buyer: Southwind Apartments LPSeller: G&I VII Preserve at Southwind Apartments LPLoan Amount: $18 millionLoan Date: Dec. 18, 2014Maturity Date: Oct. 31, 2020Lender: Jackson National Life Insurance Co.Details: A team that includes Memphis-based Foegelman Venture Partners has sold The Preserve at Southwind apartment community for $28 million.
The general contractor for the Crosstown redevelopment project recently applied for three building permits totaling $115.3 million as the development team approaches a key period for financing the ambitious project.
The general contractor on the Crosstown renovation project has applied for three building permits totaling $115.3 million, according to The Daily News Online.
Grinder, Taber & Grinder Inc. applied for an $82.1 million building permit for restoration and upgrades of the existing building shell of the Crosstown building at 495 N. Watkins St. and another permit for $27.1 million at the same address for residential infill on the seventh through 10th floors of the building, which was once a regional Sears store and distribution center.
National Civil Rights Museum will host a community day and grand reopening Saturday, April 5. The event includes a 9:30 a.m. Freedom Forward Parade from Cook Convention Center to the museum, 450 Mulberry St. Visit civilrightsmuseum.org.
National Civil Rights Museum will host a candlelight vigil honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Friday, April 4, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the museum courtyard, 450 Mulberry St. Cost is free. Visit civilrightsmuseum.org.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. and Memphis Medical Center partners will host Spring at the Park Thursday, April 3, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Health Sciences Park, at the corner of Madison Avenue and Dunlap Street. The event will include arts performances, food trucks and vendors. Cost is free. Call 576-7185.
Internationally acclaimed installation and social practice artist Theaster Gates will be in Memphis this week to share some of the beliefs and perspectives that fuel his creative vision.
Gates' free, public lecture, "A Way of Working," will be Saturday, Nov. 16, at Sears Crosstown, 495 N. Watkins St.
The Memphis City Council approved $24.8 million in funding Tuesday, Nov. 5, to rehabilitate the city's wastewater collection system to meet terms of a consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Memphis City Council members voted Tuesday, Nov. 5, to start over again in plans to find a legal use for city funds in renovating the Southbrook Mall in Whitehaven.
And the administration of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. gave a qualified endorsement through what amounts to a new feasibility study on the mall due before the council in a month.
Developers of the old Sears Crosstown building will seek a 20-year, $41.8 million tax break on the $180 million project from the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. on Thursday, Oct. 10.
Developers of the former Sears Crosstown building will seek a 20-year, $41.8 million tax break on the $180 million project from the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. on Thursday, Oct. 10.
Ballet Memphis will present "Wizard of Oz" Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21, at The Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St. Visit balletmemphis.org for tickets.
The Circuit Playhouse will present "Time Stands Still" Friday, April 19, through May 12 at Circuit, 51 S. Cooper St. Visit playhouseonthesquare.org for times and tickets.
By the time Crosstown Arts occupies space in the 1.5 million-square-foot Sears Crosstown building, it will have completed a solid test run of promoting arts-based community and economic development in Midtown.
Video artist Chris Miner says one way to explain the redevelopment of the Sears Crosstown building is likening it to the process of creating art.
"You get into it with a general idea of what you want to do, but then you kind of let it take you wherever you are going to go or wherever the piece wants to go," he said.
Todd Richardson gave some schemes – albeit changing ones – of the redeveloped Sears Crosstown building in Midtown Friday, Oct. 5, at Universal Commercial Real Estate's Regional Minority Business Entrepreneur Power Breakfast.
To say the team behind the redevelopment of the nearly 20-year-vacant Sears, Roebuck & Co. Retail and Catalog distribution facility in Midtown's Crosstown neighborhood has their work cut out for them would be an understatement at best.
The health care partners who've committed to having a physical presence in the soon-to-be-redeveloped Sears Crosstown Tower say they're excited about the opportunities to join forces in promoting health and wellness in the Memphis community.
The historic Sears Crosstown building in Midtown Memphis is being redeveloped as a mixed-used vertical urban village, with nine "founding partners" in local health care, education and arts organizations that have signed on to occupy 600,000 square feet of the total 1.4 million square feet of space.
The Sterick Building at 8 N. Third St. and Madison Avenue is getting some much-needed renovations from its owner.
When best-selling author Richard Florida visited Memphis recently, he spelled out to a room full of artists the formula for building a city's creative class – attract, retain and engage talent.
Towering 29 stories above the intersection of Madison Avenue and Third Street, the Gothic-style Sterick Building was the city's premier office building for years after it opened in 1930.
Today, it's among an updated list recently drawn up by the Center City Commission showing the top 10 historically significant Downtown buildings most in need of redevelopment.
1700, 1800 and 1820 N. Germantown ParkwayAnd 8110 Dexter RoadSale Amount: $7 million
Sale Date: July 31, 2007
The 29-story Sterick Building at 8 S. Third St. was once the city's premier office building - and was the tallest structure in the region for several decades.
Today, the 350,883-square-foot building is vacant and faces the same plight of inactivity as nine other historic Downtown properties identified by the Center City Commission.
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DescriptionBox Elder, Cache, Rich and Weber counties—Boundary begins at I-15 and the Utah-Idaho state line; south on I-15 to US-91; east on US-91 to US-89/91; north on US-89/91 to SR-101; east on SR-101 to Hardware Ranch and USFS Road 054 (Ant Flat road); south on USFS Road 054 to SR-39; east on SR-39 to SR-16 in Woodruff; southeast on SR-16 to the Utah-Wyoming state line; north along this state line to the Utah-Idaho state line; west along this state line to I-15. Excludes all CWMUs. USGS 1:100,000 Maps: Tremonton, Logan, Ogden. Boundary questions? Call the Ogden office, 801-476-2740. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (222 votes).
In short: Great, and constantly improving race. Well reccomended.In full: The organisers are not blessed with the best facilities. Little car parking and poor facilities at race HQ. Yet what they achieve despite this is amazing. The logistics of parking in lots of different places, in some cases over a mile away and having shuttle buses is pretty remarkable.Clearly lessons learnt from previous years have led to constant improvements and it gets better with age.The marshalling is top notch. Good traffic control with good amounts of encouragement.T shirt is a good quality one.This one has become a regular feature on my racing calendar and based on this year, it will continue to.Date of review: January 20, 2008
In short: good hilly challenge brilliantly marshalledDate of review: January 20, 2008
In short: Good challenging course and fine organisation and atmosphereDate of review: January 20, 2008
In short: An Excellent challenge - So glad I enteredIn full: Was extremley nervous before the race as most people had running club vests on and I was beginning to think that I was out of my depth. This is my first attempt at this distance and throughly enjoyed the race, especially when the wind was behind us. The organisation of the race was excellent, well done to all the helpers and marshalls. Date of review: January 20, 2008
In short: Well organised enjoyable raceIn full: Realy enjoyed it today. The weather kept fine & the organisation was brilliant. Well done Yaxley Runners.Date of review: January 20, 2008
In short: great race, good spirit well organisedIn full: I really enjoyed this race today, I struggled in the last 2.5 miles, but not because of the inclines, more to to lack of distance over 10miles. The car parking was well organised, two seperate changing areas, bag security, refreshments, good L/S shirt for all runners and goodie bags for all finishers. The event was well marshalled by helpful and enthusiastic people. It is easy to get to (just off the A1)....and the hills are not too bad either. Thanks to Yaxley RCDate of review: January 20, 2008
In short: Challenging 2 lap race. Excellent organisation.Date of review: January 20, 2008
In short: Excellent race for a marathon build up. Hills are tough but not suicidal! Very well organised.Date of review: January 20, 2008
In short: Enjoyable In full: I parked furthest away but this meant a nice slow recovery run back to mile 14 and down that last hill!!! Always a good tester before FLM Date of review: January 20, 2008
In short: A well organised event. A big well done and thank you to the organisers and Marshalls. Can you cut some of the hills down for next year? :-).Date of review: January 20, 2008
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