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The Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. As such, the tools provide you with a single integrated development environment for prototyping, designing, modeling, and testing tools that you can use to build applications. The Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor comes with some new exiting features that promote developer productivity to a great extent.
These features include:
- Zoom in or Zoom out code
- Quick Search
- Generate from Usage feature
- NavigateTo option
- Call Hierarchy of Methods
- Built-in jQuery Intellisense
- Reference Highlighting
Zoom in or Zoom Out Code
Visual Studio 2010 provides improved support for code editing, searching symbols, and navigation. You can now use Visual Studio 2010 IDE to zoom in or zoom out any portion of your application's code for better visibility. To use this feature, you just need to hold the CTRL key and then move the scroll wheel of the mouse.
Quick Search
Quick Search is a new feature in Visual Studio 2010 that can be used to search for specific textual strings across symbols (methods, properties, and class names). This is a nice new search feature that promotes ease-of-use of the code editor.
Generate from Usage
In Visual Studio 2010, you have a new feature called "Generate from Usage". This lets you use classes and members even before you define them. You can use this new feature to generate a stub for any class, method, property, field, or enum that you want to use. Note that you need not even define them before you use.
Navigate To Option
You can invoke the Navigate To option by pressing the Control and comma keys together. This is a smart, incremental search feature that lets you search symbols that match search criteria in situations when you are not exactly sure what you need to search for.
Call Hierarchy of Methods
The Call Hierarchy of Methods feature displays the flow of method calls in your code to help you analyze how calls to a particular method have been propagated. You can invoke the Call Hierarchy feature using the control and "K" keys together or the control and "T" keys together. This is a great new feature that helps you to analyze the code path in your application's code.
Built-in jQuery Intellisense
Reference Highlighting
Reference Highlighting is a nice new feature in Visual Studio 2010 IDE. It lets you highlight all references to a particular symbol as and when you place the blinking caret on a particular symbol. And, you can just use the control, shift and "up" arrow keys or the Ctrl, Shift, and "down" arrow keys to move to the previous or next symbols, respectively.


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11 Things We Learned From Miranda Kerr This Year
Click through to see what we learned from Miranda Kerr this year!
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Take note: Kerr is a thigh-high master. She's pulled off the boot of the season, all season, by pairing it with skinny jeans and sharply tailored overcoats.
On Kerr: Saint Laurent Coat, Shirt and Sunglasses; FRAME Le Skinny de Jeanne Jeans ($200); Givenchy Medium Antigona Duffel Bag ($2,125); Balmain Boots
Balmain Suede Thigh High Boots ($1524)
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Tossing a coat over your shoulders can make anything look cool, even the most feminine of floral dresses.
On Kerr: Stella McCartney Coat ($815); Michael Kors Dress, Belt and Avra Pump ($375); Saint Laurent Sunglasses; Samantha Thavasa Bag
You can take a red-eye in style. A tailored jacket gives instant polish to skinny blue jeans and slip-on flats.
On Kerr: Ellery Blazer; FRAME Le Skinny De Jeanne Jeans ($200); Carven Top; Dior Sunglasses; Miu Miu Flats; Viktor & Rolf Tote
J. Brand Odilie Jacket ($875); Miu Miu Crest Embellished Smoking Slippers ($650)
Stripped down can be dramatically stunning. Here Kerr accessorizes a leopard print shirt dress with nothing but natural leather K. Jacques sandals.
On Kerr: Equipment Shirtdress; K. Jacques St. Tropez Picon Sandal ($255)
Juicy Couture Silk Leopard Shirt Dress ($228)
The key to mixing whites after Labor Day is textures and proportion. Then add a wildcard, such as an oversized quilted satchel.
On Kerr: Chanel Jacket, Sunglasses and Bag; Stella McCartney Dress; Manolo Blahnik Flower BB Pumps ($399)
Rochas Jersey Dress ($818); DKNY Gansevoort Quilted Nappa Satchel ($345); Club Monaco Ophelia Jacket ($249)
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Tie-dye tops don't have to be sloppy. By surrounding this print with a draped black skirt, studded boots, and polished bag, it instantly ups the elegance factor.
On Kerr: Proenza Schouler Tie-Dye T-Shirt ($245); Helmut Lang Asymmetric Skirt ($140); Chloe Susanna Studded Leather Boots ($1345); Givenchy Antigona Medium Duffel ($2125); Stella McCartney Sunglasses
There is a ladylike way to do sheer - stick to long sleeves and a knee-length skirt.
On Kerr: Martin Grant Top and Skirt; Casadei Shoes
J. Brand Romero Blouse ($223); Zero + Maria Cornejo Lola Pencil Skirt ($350)
Mixing shades of gray is truly sexy. A slouchy v-neck pullover, ruffled mini and menswear-inspired overcoat create the perfect storm of daytime bombshell.
On Kerr: Saint Laurent Double Breasted Coat ($2,721); Equipment Asher Sweater ($288); David Szeto Apoline Skirt ($460); Chanel Bag; Hermes Boots; Stella McCartney Sunglasses
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Being clad in all-black isn't mutually exclusive with goth girls and dark clouds. Kerr manages to keep it sunny with cropped leather leggings, a structured bowler tote, and sleek court shoes.
On Kerr: Givenchy Coat and Apoline Medium Duffel ($2,125); The Row Sweater Dress; Helmut Lang Stretch Leather Leggings ($920); Gianvito Rossi Camnero Suede Pumps ($620); Stella McCartney Sunglasses
Mackage Samantha Coat ($675)
Photo:Splash News
There is an art to the model-off-duty look. It's about layer management, mixing stripes and prints, and rocking a pair of Velcro-tab wedge-heel high top sneakers.
On Kerr: T by Alexander Wang Striped Fine-Knit Top ($140); Louis Vuitton Sweater; Hermes Scarf; Saint Laurent Sunglasses; 3.1 Phillip Lim Ryder Satchel ($895)
Isabel Marant Bekett Suede Concealed Wedge Trainers ($695); Tory Burch Reva Color Block Scarf ($165)
Military jackets aren't just for fashion war zones. They create balance when added to a silk blouse and miniskirt combo.
On Kerr: Lily Aldridge for Velvet Ruby Jacket ($150); Josh Goot T-Shirt; Balenciaga Skirt; 3.1 Phillip Lim Ryder Satchel ($895); Miu Miu Glitter Infused Cat's Eye Sunglasses ($395); Isabel Marant Dicker Boots ($650)

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Collaboration is Hot … Mobility and Security
As you know from my previous blog, Cisco IT has just crossed the 50,000 mobile device deployed milestone – a mix of iPhones, Android and Blackberry devices. We are thrilled with our progress and believe there are two factors that have driven our success:
- Using our IT Mobility support services community in Cisco Quad (our internal collaboration platform) to allow employees to use their personal devices at work. Our Mobility Community is a more robust, user-friendly, self-support platform – it is the second most popular community in Quad. This has resulted in a year-over-year increase of 59% of devices deployed, and a 33% increase in employee usage while reducing costs by 24%!
- Deploying mobility within the context of a "trusted device." As we all know, we in IT don't worry so much about the endpoint device, but rather about issues like network operations, compliance operations, network engineering, applications and, of course, security.
So let's talk about security. With the growing popularity of bringing mobile devices (smart phones and tablets) to work – a trend now attractive to both companies and employees – one of the biggest challenges for IT departments is how to ensure these devices are secured.
Cisco – like any other enterprise – has had to grapple with how to enable BYOD yet still keep intellectual property and other content and communication private and secure. The key concern is that IT departments have very little knowledge about these personal devices. For example, we don't know what software is used, what (if any) security the user has on the device, such as whether there is a pass code set or encryption enabled. So, naturally, there is a concern about allowing these devices to connect to a company network. It would be very easy for a lost or stolen device to fall into the wrong hands. Additionally, while mobile devices do not pose a great threat from viruses or malware today, this is also a risk and one that will only escalate over time.
To enable BYOD, Cisco has established a flexible model to support mobile devices. The more network access we enable, the more security we apply to the device.
For mobile access to email, calendar and contact we require the following set of security controls. The user is required to use a device PIN pass code – and if the device hasn't been touched for 10 minutes, the user will have to log in again. We also have a remote wipe capability – if the device has been lost or stolen, we can delete all of the data on the device, removing all confidential information. Finally, if an incorrect PIN is entered more than 10 times, the device will wipe itself. This combination of settings ensures that data on the device is kept private. These policies apply to all devices accessing email – smart phones, our Cisco Cius and other tablets.
For employees who want to connect to the Cisco network, use our Integrated Workforce Experience powered by Cisco Quad (Cisco's collaboration solution), or connect to the Intranet, we require additional security. Employees must register their device and provision Cisco AnyConnect using our Mobile Device Management solution. This process is fully automated and allows us to consider it a "trusted device" – where we know who the user is, what applications are used, whether the pass code is set and if encryption is enabled, and whether the device has been compromised. Today, this is available with iPhones and iPads, and we are currently working to make it available on all Android devices.
Finally, a note about communication: it's important to educate our employees on why we require security settings. Once they understand the risks they are more willing to accept settings that may be seen as interfering with their device. Security must be a balance; if security settings are too restrictive then users will not adopt the service.
Security and mobility can be a tough policy to own – telling your very large workforce that you aren't going to allow them to use and access the company network without security can be a tough message. But it is critical nonetheless.
Happy Collaborating!
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NORTH CAROLINA: Former Baptist Pastor Arrested After Trying To Solicit Sex From Undercover Officer
Written by CBS Charlotte Wednesday, 14 November 2012 08:52
GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — A former Kings Mountain pastor has been arrested for a second time on charges that he tried to solicit sex from an undercover police officer.
Sixty-year-old Clinton Alexander Feemster of Gastonia was arrested after Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say he asked an undercover male officer for sex Oct. 26 at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport overlook.
Police say they were conducting a sting operation at the overlook. Police say another officer in the sting task force recognized Feemster from an arrest last year on the same charges.
A judge found Feemster not guilty on that charge.
Mount Pisgah Baptist Church pastor Charles Turner says Feemster stepped away from leadership roles at the Bessemer City church after he was accused.
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WASHINGTON – The nation's largest airlines posted an on-time arrival rate of 70.7 percent in February, down from the 79.6 percent on-time rate posted in February 2013, but up from the 67.7 percent on-time rate posted in January 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Air Travel Consumer Report released today.
Airlines also reported no tarmac delays of more than three hours on domestic flights and one tarmac delay of more than four hours on an international flight.
The consumer report also includes data on cancellations, chronically delayed flights, and the causes of flight delays filed with the Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the reporting carriers. In addition, the consumer report contains information on mishandled baggage reports filed by consumers with the carriers and airline service complaints received by the Department's Aviation Consumer Protection Division. The consumer report also includes reports of incidents involving the loss, death, or injury of pets traveling by air, as required to be filed by U.S. carriers.
The reporting carriers canceled 5.5 percent of their scheduled domestic flights in February, up from the 2.4 percent cancellation rate posted in February 2013, but down from the 6.5 percent rate posted in January 2014.
Chronically Delayed Flights
At the end of February, there were 22 flights that were chronically delayed – more than 30 minutes late more than 50 percent of the time – for three consecutive months. There were an additional 73 regularly scheduled flights that were chronically delayed for two consecutive months. There were no chronically delayed flights for four consecutive months or more. A list of flights that were chronically delayed for a single month is available from BTS.
Causes of Flight Delays
In February, the carriers filing on-time performance data reported that 6.92 percent of their flights were delayed by aviation system delays, compared to 6.60 percent in January; 9.09 percent by late-arriving aircraft, compared to 9.87 percent in January; 6.78 percent by factors within the airline's control, such as maintenance or crew problems, compared to 7.66 percent in January; 0.74 percent by extreme weather, compared to 1.26 percent in January; and 0.02 percent for security reasons, compared to 0.03 percent in January.
Weather is a factor in both the extreme-weather category and the aviation-system category. This includes delays due to the re-routing of flights by DOT's Federal Aviation Administration in consultation with the carriers involved. Weather is also a factor in delays attributed to late-arriving aircraft, although airlines do not report specific causes in that category.
Data collected by BTS also shows the percentage of late flights delayed by weather, including those reported in either the category of extreme weather or included in National Aviation System delays. In February, 32.73 percent of late flights were delayed by weather, up from 29.14 percent in January and down from 36.96 in February 2013.
Detailed information on flight delays and their causes is available on the BTS website at http://www.bts.gov.
Mishandled Baggage
The U.S. carriers reporting flight delays and mishandled baggage data posted a mishandled baggage rate of 4.21 reports per 1,000 passengers in February, up from the February 2013 rate of 2.99, but down from the January 2014 rate of 5.54.
Incidents Involving Pets
In February, carriers reported no incidents involving the loss, death, or injury of pets while traveling by air, down from both the four reports filed in February 2013 and the two reports filed in January 2014.
Complaints About Airline Service
In February, the Department received 1,171 complaints about airline service from consumers, up 30.0 percent from the 901 complaints filed in February 2013, and down 31.6 percent from the 1,713 received in January 2014.
Complaints About Treatment of Disabled Passengers
The report also contains a tabulation of complaints filed with DOT in February against airlines regarding the treatment of passengers with disabilities. The Department received a total of 33 disability-related complaints in February, down from both the total of 42 complaints filed in February 2013 and the 76 complaints received in January 2014.
Complaints About Discrimination
In February, the Department received five complaints alleging discrimination by airlines due to factors other than disability – such as race, religion, national origin, or sex – equal to the total of five recorded in February 2013, but down from the eight recorded in January 2014.
Consumers may file their complaints in writing with the Aviation Consumer Protection Division, U.S. Department of Transportation, C-75, W96-432, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20590; by voice mail at (202) 366-2220 or by TTY at (202) 366-0511; or on the web at www.dot.gov/airconsumer.
Consumers who want on-time performance data for specific flights should call their airline's reservation number or their travel agent. This information is available on the computerized reservation systems used by these agents. The information is also available on the appropriate carrier's website.
The Air Travel Consumer Report is available in PDF format.
April 2014
Based on Data Filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the 14 Reporting Carriers and Tarmac Data Filed by All Carriers
70.7 percent on-time arrivals
Highest On-Time Arrival Rates
- Hawaiian Airlines – 90.1 percent
- Alaska Airlines – 85.7 percent
- Delta Air Lines – 77.5 percent
Lowest On-Time Arrival Rates
- ExpressJet Airlines – 59.0 percent
- Frontier Airlines – 64.2 percent
- JetBlue Airways – 64.6 percent
Domestic Flights with Longest Tarmac Delays Exceeding Three Hours
*There were no domestic flights in February with tarmac delays exceeding three hours.
International Flights with Longest Tarmac Delays Exceeding Four Hours
- China Eastern Airlines flight 587 from Shanghai to New York JFK, 2/21/14 – delayed on tarmac 250 minutes
Highest Rates of Canceled Flights
- ExpressJet Airlines – 11.7 percent
- American Eagle Airlines – 8.8 percent
- US Airways – 6.6 percent
Lowest Rates of Canceled Flights
- Hawaiian Airlines – 0.1 percent
- Frontier Airlines – 0.5 percent
- Alaska Airlines – 1.2 percent


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WWII veterans on their way to visit WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C.
State Sen. George Maziarz has announced that the day has finally arrived: the WNY Heroes trip flew today. Twenty-five World War II veterans from Western New York were flown to Washington, D.C., to visit the World War II Memorial and other area monuments and memorials. None of them had yet visited the memorial dedicated to the war they helped win.
The World War II Memorial was completed in 2004.
The nearly three-dozen World War II veterans are accompanied by a team of volunteer chaperones as they make their way around the nation's capital. In addition to the World War II Memorial, they will also see the Lincoln Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the Vietnam War Memorial, the "Changing of the Guard" ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, and more. They will have a boxed lunch at the World War II Memorial and a first-rate buffet dinner in Washington, D.C.
"It will be a long but rewarding day for everyone involved," said Maziarz, the trip's coordinator. "These brave veterans in our group served our nation proudly when we needed them the most. We owe a great deal to their generation, and this trip is just one small way of saying 'thank you.'"
The group flew out of the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport after a kick-off ceremony with Congressman Brian Higgins and the Sikora Post Honor Guard in the terminal lobby.
"This trip is completely free for the veterans," Maziarz added. "They have given enough. We want them to have a good time and enjoy this memorable experience. All of them are in their 80s or 90s, and this might be the only chance they have to see the World War II Memorial. We want to make it the opportunity of a lifetime."
Maziarz said that special praise must be given to the Walmart Foundation and Mulvey Construction for their donations to make the trip possible, the Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce for their partnership in this event, to Health Systems Services for loaning wheelchairs, and to the staffs of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Transportation Security Administration and Southwest Airlines for their friendly cooperation.


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ACInvestments necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 110 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
Clean Slate
Clean Slate, LLC ("the Company") has developed a new advertising platform and consumer safety product that will be distributed at grocery stores throughout North America. The Clean Slate Mat is an sanatary paper mat that provides shoppers with a sanitary surface to place their groceries while shopping. The concept was born out of a demonstrated need in the grocery store industry: shopping carts are dirty and, potentially, dangerous for shoppers. The Clean Slate Mat is solution to this problem. It is a one-use, completely recyclable product that prevents the spread of food-borne pathogens while doubling as a unique and completely new space for in-store advertising. The advertising space will be sold to both local and national companies, offering a variety of options aside from the actual cart liner "real estate" such as social media marketing and smartphone apps to virtual coupons.
Stores to be used in:
- Safeway
- Albertson's
- Thriftway
Companies to advertise with:
- Local and National companies that have products sold in said store
- You
Requirements for Logo:
- Keep colors to a minimum (2-4 max)
- The actual clean slate mat itself is in the shape of the bottom of a shopping cart. If you dont know what shape that is, look it up. this would be a good shape or starting point for the logo.
- Keep the logo simple as it will need to be printed on a variety of surfaces, and mostly on an absorbent, coaster like, material.
- Be creative
- Stay in contact ....we will work very hard in communicating any changes, ideas, or new direction in which i want you to go with the logo. The more we can talk, the more likely we are going to like, and pick, your logo.
- This is going to be a nationally seen logo. We are currently negotiating contracts with some very large companies and stores so this logo will undoubtably seen by thousands of people every day.
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GetGlue, the popular check-in app for media and entertainment, has been updated with a much improved upon interface, better personalized guides for movies and tv, added video clips and photos for your favorite shows, and more. The update has also added supper for the iPhone 5, so if you've been waiting on that, you'll definitely want to grab the update.
The premise of GetGlue is simple and if you use Foursquare, you'll be right at home. The main difference is that instead of checking into an actual location, you check into what you're doing. This can be anything from reading a book to watching a movie to playing a video game.
The newly redesigned version takes the focus away from actual checkins are refocuses on creating a completely personalized viewing guide. When it comes to using GetGlue on an ongoing basis, you may find you'll discover a lot more shows and movies that you may not have discovered otherwise. I've found a lot of music artists and books that my friends are reading that I probably never would have found on my own. The newly focused app should just make an already great community even better.
The best part of using GetGlue is the community. You can chat with friends and followers that are watching the same shows and movies that you are as well as collect stickers. Many movies and television shows offer limited time digital stickers that you'll obtain for checking into a premiere or movie opening night. Once you've accumulated so many, you can actually go to the actual GetGlue website and redeem your digital stickers for real ones that will be sent to you, free of charge.
If you haven't checked out GetGlue yet and you are a movie or tv show buff, we highly recommend that you do.
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SupaEZ wrote: "My kite" because it is Sooooo big at 19m2 as been named a monster by a few guys on this thread
Not "his" (the V3).....in any case re read that post...i added more words to make you understand it
No, please don't add anymore words, I understood it the first time. It is quite plainly the saddest thing I have ever read on a kitesurf forum and it made me throw up in my own mouth a little
I can't believe someone on a public forum would be writing Billy Shatner style spoken word poetry about how his kite is better/bigger than someone else's,
whilst referring to his own kite as the "monster" in some kinda weird cock reference.
I wish I had never seen it, but like accidently spying your granny's t!ts, what is seen cannot be unseen...


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Orçamento $10-30 USD
i want an "on demand" app for laundry services, with customer localization and payments from the app.
35 freelancers estão ofertando em média $2564 para esse trabalho
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1965 – 2012
1965 – 2012
Paul Damian Weimholt passed away on Friday August 10, 2012 from sudden cardiac arrest while in Laguna Beach, CA. He was 46.
Paul was born in Ridgecrest to James and Mary Weimholt on August 26, 1965, and attended schools in China Lake and Ridgecrest, graduating from Burroughs High School in 1983.
Paul's artistic talents were evident early and he spent his time studying art and drafting before deciding to join the Navy, where he spent four years and served aboard the USS Texas, CGN-39.
Back in Ridgecrest in 1990, his talents and passion for drawing lead him to acquire some basic screen-printing equipment, allowing him to print small jobs in his garage. He continued to develop his printing skills and acquire a loyal customer base, and in 1992 officially opened what we have all come to recognize as the Outrage'n T-Shirt Co.
Shortly after that he met his future wife, Colette Rae Seaman. Together they enjoyed hiking, camping, river rafting, rock climbing, and most anything outdoors they could do together. They married in 1997 and had their first child, Devon, in 1998. Their second child, Connor, was born in 2001.
Paul was actively involved in his community. As an avid soccer player, he coached several soccer teams, including his son's Scorpion team, the Lady Burroughs Varsity team, and several other youth teams. He also built props for his daughter's dance recitals, and benches for the kid's school. In the past couple years he had become very involved in the Ridgecrest CrossFit Community, instructing several classes a week.
Paul's number one passion in life, however, has always been his wife and children. They spent every available weekend together traveling either down to the beach, up to the mountains, or just hiking up behind the college.
Paul was preceded in death by his mother, Mary Weimholt, and his sister, Andrea.
He is survived by his wife, Colette, and children, Devon and Connor.
Also surviving are his father, James Weimholt, a brother, Brendan, and his sisters, Maria and Susan.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to help the family cover final expenses. Checks may be made to Crossroads Community Church, indicating "Weimholt Family" in the memo line. Leave at the church office or mail to Crossroads Community Church, 235 N. China Lake Blvd., Ridgecrest, CA 93555
A memorial service for Paul will be held at Crossroads Community Church at 2 pm on Saturday, 18 August 2012, with Pastor Bill Corley officiating.


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(CNN) -- Turks have picked prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be the country's first directly elected president.
Erdogan secured 52% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election, narrowly avoiding a runoff, according to Turkish election board.
Turkey is a parliamentary democracy and the prime minister is the head of its government. The president's role is more formal, and represents the country as the head of the state -- similar to the Queen in the UK.
But Erdogan has already indicated he would like to see more powers being transferred to the presidential palace, speaking about a "new era" in his victory speech.
"With the president elected directly by the citizens, all barriers between the people and the presidential palace have been removed," he was reported as saying in his speech by the Turkish media.
Here is what you need to know about the historic election.
Why does Erdogan want to be president if he is more powerful as prime minister?
The former mayor of Istanbul and the leader and co-founder of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2003 and has been serving his third term as prime minister. While the constitution would have allowed Erdogan to run again when his term finishes next year, his own party rules prohibited him from seeking fourth term.
His transition to presidency was seen as a logical step for a politician who wanted to maintain political power. Karabekir Akkoyunlu, researcher at the London School of Economics, said the country's constitution -- drawn up by the military junta in 1982 -- gave the head of state significant authority.
Erdogan, Akkoyunlu said, would likely push those to the limit by " invoking the 'national will' he claims to embody."
What issues will he face next?
The Kurdish peace process is one of the most pressing issues of the coming months. Turkey passed a law in July establishing a legal framework for peace talks with the Kurdish militants to end three decades of insurgency.
"The Kurdish peace process is also linked with regional dynamics and the rise of the Islamic State, which is now threatening the Kurds in northern Iraq and Syria," Akkoyunlu said.
Erdogan will also have to work with the government in trying to tackle Turkey's economic troubles. The IMF and OECD have both warned Turkey's economy remains vulnerable to dangers outside its borders. High inflation, low employment and the country's chronic inequality are putting it at risk.
Who else was running?
The main opposition parties, the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) had nominated Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu as their joint candidate. The former secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was campaigning on the idea of national unity and secured 38% of the vote.
Selahattin Demirtas, a left-wing politician popular with Turkey's Kurdish minority, ran for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and finished third with 10%. Around 25% of people in Turkey identify themselves as Kurdish.
Why does this matter?
Turkey's geographical position and cultural make-up has contributed to the country being seen as a powerful bridge between Asia and Europe. Its membership of NATO and candidacy to join the European Union reflect its importance.
The country's $800 billion economy is among the 20 biggest in the world and attracts $200 billion in foreign direct investment every year.
Turkey also plays a key role in the Middle East, bordering Syria, Iraq and Iran.
Read more: How Turkey turned into economic mess Opinion: Turkey's Teflon politician targets top post John Defterios: Erdogan looks to secure his place in history


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A new study conducted by two Michigan State researchers has found that persons hired through affirmative action programs are as qualified, and in many cases more qualified, than their white male counterparts. Economists Harry Hgolzner and David Neumark studied more than 3,200 randomly-selected employers in Detroit, Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles. The researchers found that, "Black females hired under affirmative action obtain higher performance ratings than white males hired in similar firms." Furthermore, "The evidence for white females, black males, Hispanic females, also indicates that their performance is not lower than that of white males in similar firms." The researchers concluded that, "There is essentially no performance shortfall among most groups of women and minorities hired under affirmative action
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Tracey00 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 188 diseños de 51 diseñadores freelance.
Catch My Friend
Hi & Welcome!
We are about to set up a brand new online dating website in Australia. It is a dating site with a little difference. Instead of people putting on their own profile & trying to promote themselves, in our site, your friend puts up your profile (which of course is approved by ''The Catch") & lets others know why you are a catch.
We are really really excited about this & want a logo to really attract people to our site and to join.
Who are we?
My best friend Kate & I (Tracey) are starting this site. We both own our own businesses plus some businesses together. We are also both business coaches.
So how did we end up starting a dating site?
I'm single & last year Kate threatened me that she was just going to go online & put me on a dating website - if I liked it or not! I said wouldn't it be cool if there was a site where she could do that - without having to pretend to be me! So with a little research & we found similar sites overseas & decided, why not - let's do it. (This pretty much sums us up - willing to give anything a try).
I've used 99 designs before with huge success (love it). We give lots of feedback & check in every day so you will have confidence with us.
We love it when designers think about the overall project & put that into the logo - we love the story & reasons for design elements.
Get creative - we can't wait to see your designs.
So our target audience is a little mixed. We have the people who are coming to the site to find a match, we have those that are coming to put themselves on as a possible match and of course we have the friends of the possible matches.
We are pretty open to ideas, but it needs to work for females and males and of course people of all ages (although, you will probably find it is people between 20 and 40).
Sorry this is so brief........
One last thing - we need to get across a confidence that this is the site for them. I have no idea how you will do this, but probably something to keep in mind. We think there could be a large portion of our target audience that would not normally go on to online dating sites, but they will come onto this one because they are doing it with a friend's help and support.
Also, we believe that everything we do should have an element of fun. So it would be great to somehow get across (again, I have no idea how you will do this) that this is something that friends can do together and have some fun. It is about friends helping friends with online dating. The 'Friend' really wants their friend (the catch) to find their match.
What we need:
A logo that can be used for:
* Website (on banners, headers, on the site)
* Marketing and promotional material
We would also love it if there is portions of the logo we could use for sections on the website. Take a small element of the website and use it somewhere else (eg. there might be an image that we can use for bullet points or buttons on the site).
The successful logo will need to be put into multiple formats for us (simple things like elements seperated out, on a plain white background and also on 'no background' so that we can use on videos, etc)
We are looking for some creativity but at the same time professional.
Remember that the site is all about a friend promoting their friend as a potential 'catch' so use that as a base for the logo. (Obviously as it is called Catch my friend).
We want to play on the 'catch' idea.
We will need the wording Catch My Friend in the logo but also want to have an image that can be used as a stand alone without the wording.
If you have questions, please feel free to add them into your notes. We don't eliminate designs without feedback, so you will be able to 'tweak' your designs.
Thanks and look forwarding to seeing your creative ideas!
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This week I had the opportunity to have dinner with Emily. Even though we have followed each other's blogs and kept in touch by email, we had never met in person. We had a great time talking about the things we enjoy and getting to know each other better. Emily has been so supportive of me and I was thrilled when she emailed to see if we could meet for dinner. I will also add that she is sweeter, funnier, and if you can believe it, prettier in person. Thanks for a great night Emily!
Have a great weekend!


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Mr. Hannah Montana's Achy Broken Heart
These days Billy Ray Cyrus's life is imitating a bad country song: He's headed for a messy divorce, his record company just delayed his latest comeback, and his cherished 18-year-old daughter seems destined to rip bong hits at every party in the U.S.A. No wonder he's muttering about the end times
He has a favorite chair at the circular wooden table in the modest kitchen of his Tennessee mansion where he spends much of his time, and he prefers it here with the lights out. When I first arrive he makes me a cup of tea in the microwave, and we face each other as people generally do, fully illuminated, but after a while he asks me whether I'd mind. He flicks a switch behind him, and sinks into shadow.
The last few months, he's been living here alone. At the end of August he left the Los Angeles house where his family moved four years ago after his daughter Miley was cast in the Disney teen drama Hannah Montana, the show that would launch her as the pop-culture sensation of her day. He returned to the hundreds of acres of prime Tennessee countryside he had bought with cash in the early '90s in the wake of "Achy Breaky Heart," the song that launched him as the pop-culture sensation of his day. In late October he filed for divorce from Miley's mother, Tish. It's been a tough year, and it keeps getting tougher. This is exactly where he was sitting five days earlier when he opened a link on his Mac PowerBook and—alongside millions of voyeurs with far less at stake—watched footage of Miley smoking a bong and talking some kind of crazed nonsense in celebration of her eighteenth birthday.1 This is where he was when he tweeted his response:
Sorry guys. I had no idea. Just saw this stuff for the first time myself. Im so sad. There is much beyond my control right now
"My kids learned to color on this table. There's been a lot that's went around this table. Waylon Jennings sat right there in that chair and showed Miley the chords to 'Good Hearted Woman.' Sitting in that chair. This table's a bit like life. It's a circle. And I believe everything in life is a circle. You come into this world a little teeny wrinkled-up fetus..."
This is how Cyrus begins. The first hour I barely speak. After a long soliloquy about the table, he fetches his guitar and tells me he's written a complete new album in the last three weeks. "Not by choice," he says. "The one I wrote this morning is called 'Feels Like Goodbye.'" It's unexpectedly stark, simple, and beautiful, its opening lines an unacknowledged, desolate, distant echo of the song that paid for this house in the first place:
_Cold wind's blowing
Sat here knowing
My heart's about to break_
When he finishes, he fetches a black-and-white photo of his father's gospel group, the Crownsmen Quartet, and tells me how his father ended up dying of mesothelioma from working in the steel mill, and about his Pentecostal-preacher grandfather and the Sunday-morning church music of his youth, and describes how shameful it felt back in Kentucky in the '60s to have parents who got divorced, to be forced to confess in school that he had a half-brother and half-sisters and stepsisters and no telephone. "There was always that misfit-ness," he says. He points to the picture that sits next to his father's on the dresser, of Geronimo, and reminisces that as a child he used to spend hours running through the woods on his own, pretending he was the legendary Apache leader. Soon he is telling me his whole origin story: how he wanted, and expected, to become the catcher for the Cincinnati Reds until he won a radio competition for concert tickets while he was working in a Kentucky tobacco warehouse, and how Neil Diamond paused during the song "Holly Holy" to say, "I don't care if you're white or black, rich or poor, man or woman, if you believe in your dreams and you live for the light and God's love, you can be anything you want to be in this world," and how at that very moment Cyrus felt as though hands were covering his entire body and he heard a voice he took to be God's telling him that he had to buy a guitar. And how he spent the next decade failing in Nashville and in Los Angeles, unable to fit in either, until on the verge of giving up he talked his way into the record contract that led to the hit single "Achy Breaky Heart" (a song he didn't write) and the accompanying Some Gave All, the best-selling album of 1992 (most of which he did write). I suspect it is a story that has become more mythic in retelling, with all its magical last chances and desperate down-on-one's-knees prayers, and not every minute detail of his account chimes with other, messier contemporary versions of his rise, but there seems little chance of, or point in, stemming his flow.
After a while, he circles back to the subject of circles themselves: of birds' nests, and of tornadoes, and of this table between us, and of himself. "I'm right back where I started—I'm still just sitting here writing bar-band music," he says, and strums me another. These new works will have to wait their turn, however. First Cyrus has an album of patriotic songs, I'm American, an idea directly sparked by a trip to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2009, and for which he has also rerecorded the title track of his first album, the story of the Vietnam veteran who told him, "All gave some, but some gave all."
That is ostensibly why he is giving this interview—though he's just been told the album won't come out until Memorial Day—and for a long time I'm unsure whether the protracted near monologue that has greeted me indicates an unwillingness to engage with recent problems or is his way of getting to them in his own time. More the latter, it turns out. He is talking about money when the conversation swerves.
1. The Miley Cyrus birthday bong scandal of December 2010: in which her representatives quickly let it known that she was smoking the legal high salvia, although it's tempting to suspect that they would say that, wouldn't they?__
"For the record," he abruptly announces, "to set it straight, I want to tell you: I've never made a dime off of Miley. You got a lot of people have made percentages off of her. I'm proud to say to this day I've never made one commissioned dollar, or dime, off of my daughter." He knows that people often assume he is Miley's manager, perhaps because of the dual father-manager role he plays on Hannah Montana, but that is something he has never been. And now that he has raised the subject, it seems there are a few other things he'd like to mention. "See," he begins, "I've not been able to have a voice." He explains how, with each major or minor PR uproar in recent years, he has been expected to sail in and smooth everything over. He clearly has regrets.
"Every time something happened in Miley's career, every time the train went off the track, if you will—Vanity Fair,2 pole-dancing,3 whatever scandal it was—her people, or as they say in today's news, her handlers, every time they'd put me... 'Somebody's shooting at Miley! Put the old man up there!' Well, I took it, because I'm her daddy, and that's what daddies do. 'Okay, nail me to the cross, I'll take it....'" As soon as he begins to talk about all this, anguish builds in his voice; the anguish, say, that any father might feel when he can no longer clearly see the right way to guide a daughter or keep her safe, but the kind that is compounded by a cauldron of celebrity and public humiliation and ambition and avarice and hysteria, so that it's hard for anyone, let alone someone at its center, to maintain any perspective, to be able to distinguish between sensible concern and panic-stricken paranoia, which may be somewhere close to how Billy Ray Cyrus feels right now. "All those people around, they used me every time. It became so obvious that, man, no matter what happens, they're going to put you up there and let you take the bullet."
When he heard about her upcoming eighteenth-birthday party, he decided he wasn't going to play that role anymore.
"You know why I didn't go? Because they were having it in a bar. It was wrong. It was for 21 years old and up. Once again all them people, they all wanted me to fly out so that then when all the bad press came they could say, 'Daddy endorsed this stuff....' I started realizing I'm being used. If I would have went out there I would have been right in the middle of all this stuff that's going on right now with the bong. They'd be hanging it on my ass. I had the common sense... I said, 'This whole thing's falling apart up there and they just want to blame all of this stuff on you again.' I'm staying out of it."
Because you felt you were just expected always to say everything's okay?
"That's right. And it's not okay."
Not long after the party, Cyrus heard that Miley's people were looking for something. That maybe his daughter's phone had been stolen. "And that was on the heels, the week previous, of some pictures from Spain4—a five- or seven-day period of just boom! There's a train wreck happening and my daughter's right in the middle of it." Now he was hearing "stories of the handlers trying to make kids' computers disappear and their phones disappear." That's all he knew. "I didn't know what the footage was."
So he spoke with one of the handlers.
"They told me," he says, his contempt and despair still naked and fresh, "it was none of my business."
None of your business: a sensationally ill-judged thing to tell any father of any 18-year-old girl in any circumstance. "I'm dealing with somebody that had only known my daughter for possibly four years," he says, "and I'm her daddy. I was pretty damn insulted. And I took that as the ultimate alarm. 'It's none of your business'! None of my business that you're out running around L.A. trying to buy kids' computers and phones because there's something about my daughter...?"
"Were it not for David Lynch," Cyrus asserts, "Miley would never have been Hannah Montana."
The most wildly incongruent item in Billy Ray Cyrus's CV is his appearance in David Lynch's 2001 movie Mulholland Dr. Cyrus is smart enough to know that to a certain kind of audience this will count firmly in his favor, and has likewise learned that a sound bite like "were it not for David Lynch..." will always get quoted in an interview like this. (The slightly tenuous reasoning: If not for Lynch's leg up, Cyrus might not have spent four years in Toronto starring in the uplifting, moral TV medical drama Doc, in which his daughter Miley would get early opportunities to guest-star...and so on.)
The Miley Cyrus "naked"-photo scandal of April 2008: in which a photo by Annie Leibovitz in Vanity Fair showed the 15-year-old Cyrus wrapped in a sheet, with enough of her bare back to at least connote toplessness, after which a Miley apology was issued: "I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about."
The Miley Cyrus pole-dancing scandal of August 2009: in which she supposedly scandalized with a performance of her perky hit "Party in the U.S.A." at the Teen Choice Awards, which included a minimal amount of perfunctory pole-dancing atop an ice cream cart, prefiguring a series of mini-scandals with what appeared to be calculatedly sexualized performances and videos of songs from her 2010 album, Can't be Tamed.
The Miley Cyrus underage-drinking scandal of November 2010: in which the 17-year-old Miley was seen out in Spain cradling a Corona.
But although he professes pride in his Mulholland Dr. appearance and a high regard for Lynch ("I love him—he changed my life"), he wasn't completely comfortable with the experience. His part, Gene the Pool Man, was small, but it nonetheless managed to combine adultery and violence. "I did feel a little bit dark," he says. "I remember feeling, 'This might not be what God had in mind.'" In the many less Lynchian roles that followed—the work he's most proud of being the 2009 TV movie Christmas in Canaan, a sentimental fable of early-twentieth-century interracial kindness co-written by Kenny Rogers—the actor he most resembles, in both tone and demeanor, is the late Michael Landon. I'm confident Cyrus would consider that purely a compliment. One of the freedoms you can find away from the nation's coasts is freedom from the curse of trying to be cool, and Cyrus has enjoyed his greatest successes, and seemed most himself, when he has been at his least cool. (Maybe that is one more reason why Miley's recent trajectory, chasing a different kind of approval, might look foolish from here.)
Still, the acting role for which he is now most famous is as a teenage pop star's father, a part he says he only took to support his daughter. "I knew I was working for peanuts. I'm not the smartest man in the world, but I know the difference. I went from $12,000 a week to, after four years and the millions that they make, $15,000 a week. Hell, yeah."
After the first two seasons he felt things changing. "The business was driving a wedge between us," he says. He tells me that he has never been able to discipline his kids and that he now wonders whether that was a mistake. "How many interviews did I give and say, 'You know what's important between me and Miley is I try to be a friend to my kids'? I said it a lot. And sometimes I would even read other parents might say, 'You don't need to be a friend, you need to be a parent.' Well, I'm the first guy to say to them right now: You were right. I should have been a better parent. I should have said, 'Enough is enough—it's getting dangerous and somebody's going to get hurt.' I should have, but I didn't. Honestly, I didn't know the ball was out of bounds until it was way up in the stands somewhere."
In January 2010, shooting for Hannah Montana's final episodes began. "Season four, it was a disaster," he says. "I was going to work every single day knowing that my family had fallen apart, but yet I had to sit in front of that camera. I look back and I go, How did I ever make it through that? I must be a better actor than I thought."
On Hannah Montana, Billy Ray Cyrus sported a kind of floppy hairstyle in which symmetrical curtains of hair fell down the sides of his face. "I swear I didn't realize it until recently," he says, "when I went, 'Holy crap—I've lived the last five years with Geronimo's hairdo.'" Still, that is not the hairdo he is famous for.
The mullet is now an orphan of hair history, a style almost without defenders, a crazy blip, a crime against all good taste and common sense, but Cyrus declines to see it that way. "It started way before me," he points out. "David Bowie rocked a heck of a mullet long before I did." Cyrus's contribution, if that is the word, was to popularize the extreme version where the hair clipped short at the front and the hair cascading past the back of the neck seem to belong to two entirely separate hairstyles. "I read that I have the distinct honor of creating the Kentucky Waterfall," he notes. "I think that's a pretty good name for it. Though I do love the Missouri Compromise."
In 2006 Cyrus recorded a lament for the more innocent, happier times of youth called "I Want My Mullet Back," a song he danced to on Dancing with the Stars (achieving one of the show's lowest-ever scores), but he nonetheless persisted with his Geronimo locks. Until now. A couple of months ago he had most of his hair cut off, in the way that men and women often do when their lives change dramatically, but left whatever hair he had at the back to slink down his neck. "Right now I'm just letting it be whatever it is," he says, but he sounds like a man who has already unlocked the sluices and is ready to let that old waterfall flow free.
He has not spoken to Miley in the week since the bong video appeared. "You know, it seems at this point there's not a lot that I can say she doesn't already know. And of course I've sent her the texts of 'I'm here if you need me,' 'Always still love you,' those kind of things." She's coming to this Tennessee house for Christmas in a few days. "I'll see when she gets here. Hopefully there's something I can do. I don't know. Who knows? Maybe she knows exactly what she's doing."
It's difficult, I say, because to some degree every teenager should be able to do some stupid crap.
"You know what, there's no doubt I did stuff when I was a teenager that I'm sure could have turned out horribly," he agrees. "I've done some stupid crap—I do stupid crap. We all do. But it's different when you sit back and you see it happening to your little girl. I feel like I got to try. It's my daughter. And some of these handlers are perhaps more interested in handling Miley's money than her safety and her career."
I ask what kind of communication he and Miley are able to have at the moment. "Good enough to know that it could be a lot better," he says. "I'm scared for her. She's got a lot of people around her that's putting her in a great deal of danger. I know she's 18, but I still feel like as her daddy I'd like to try to help. Take care of her just a little bit, to at least get her out of danger. I want to get her sheltered from the storm. Stop the insanity just for a minute. When you go through what she's been through, it takes a beating on you. And there comes a point where you just got to step back. That's how I ended up out here." He is talking about when he first bought this house in the early '90s. "I stepped back. I was supposed to go and do another world tour. I said no. I canceled my tour. Kurt Cobain had just died, and that really had an impact on me. He was one of those guys that became a friend to me that I never expected. We met at a venue one night, some big coliseum somewhere—his rig was pulling out and mine was pulling in—and I was standing in the shadows, 1 a.m. in the morning, and he's 'Hey man, congratulations—you pissed the whole world off.' We shook hands, and I said, 'Thanks, man... I love what you all do.'" After that, Cobain congratulated him at an awards ceremony when most of his peers did not. "We crossed paths a couple more times," says Cyrus, "and then I was in St. Louis..."
He asks whether I'd like to see something, and leads me into a dark hallway. Framed on a wall, scribbled on the small pages of the St. Louis Regal Riverfront Hotel stationery, dated April 8, 1994, is the poem that he wrote upon hearing of Cobain's death. "It was about what we do as entertainers," he says, and recites it to me. "It came so fast," he says. The final page:
_But after all was said and done
And the big top now came down
No one could ever doubt the fact
The circus came to town_
When I say they seem like unlikely friends, he points out that they'd both just had baby girls—Frances Bean, Miley—within three months of each other. "That's what we talked about, that we each had a little girl...." Cyrus shows me pictures of Miley on the same wall, when she would run onstage as an infant, collect the roses. "One more thing about Kurt—Kurt was one of those guys. That's why I'm concerned about Miley. I think that his world was just spinning so fast and he had so many people around him that didn't help him. Like Anna Nicole Smith—you could see that train wreck coming. I was actually trying to reach out to Anna Nicole Smith, because I kept telling Tish and everybody around me, going, 'This is a disaster.' Michael Jackson—I was trying to reach out to Michael Jackson. I knew he had kids, and I was going to invite his kids down to a taping of Hannah—I just felt it would be good for Michael. I don't know why. I met Michael one time at the Grammys. He sat in front of me, in the front row, and a dime rolled out from under and hit my boot—this very boot I've got on—and I reached down and picked up this dime, and looked, he was going through his pockets, and I said, 'Are you looking for this?' 'Thank you.' And he took that dime and put it back in his pocket. I looked at my manager, I just said, 'Why did Michael Jackson have a dime?...' Nobody could tell me."
I point out to him that the examples he's just given—Kurt Cobain, Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Jackson—are all pretty terrifying. Does he really think Miley is in that kind of situation?
"I don't know. I'm her daddy so maybe I'm a little sensitive to it, but now's a real good time to make sure everything's okay. An ounce of prevention's worth a pound of cure."
This, I should point out, from a man with a bomb shelter on his property. (Also a man who will wryly refer to the coming End Times.) Before we leave this corridor, he recites the words to his biggest hit of recent years, an ambivalent song he wrote, inspired by the day Miley and the family first headed off from Tennessee to Hollywood, a song about a father battling with himself to release his daughter into the world. A song called "Ready, Set, Don't Go." A song that begins with the words he now half-sings to me: _She's got to do what she's got to do / And I've got to like it or not. _
It's always sobering to look back, long after it stops really mattering, at the venom that a certain kind of success can incite. Billy Ray Cyrus's was of that kind. Some criticisms came from within the Nashville establishment, epitomized by Travis Tritt's disavowal of "all that butt-wigglin' we don't need in country music." There was also the ridicule from the custodians of cool—the late comedian Bill Hicks would draw easy audience roars of approval when he'd share his idea for a TV show called Let's Hunt and Kill Billy Ray Cyrus. And there were the critics themselves—I stumble across a 1992 live review in the Los Angeles Times that characterized Cyrus's stage patter as "far and above the biggest bunch of egotistical drool I've ever heard on the concert stage."
While acclaim and derision were racing his way, his private life was far from uncomplicated. In the spring of 1992, as "Achy Breaky Heart" exploded, two women were pregnant with his children. "Oh, my gosh, it was a mess," he says, "because the truth was I just really knew I loved Tish." The other woman bore him a son, Christopher Cody, that April. Tish bore him a daughter in November, a girl whose name had come to her father during the pregnancy. "I had a vision, a dream. I said, 'My intuition has told me that that little girl, her name should be Destiny Hope Cyrus, because I feel like it's her destiny to bring hope to the world.' " That was what she was christened. Fortunately for her, the name didn't stick. She was an unusually cheerful baby, and her parents instead began to refer to her as "Smiley," a name that, over time, lost its initial letter.
He and Tish married the following year, when she was pregnant with their son, Braison. They would have a third child, their daughter Noah, six years later, and Cyrus would also adopt the two young children, Brandi and Trace, from Tish's previous life. (Cyrus had previously been married in his twenties, but the couple had no children.)
Sometimes Cyrus talks as though he withdrew from success to raise a family, and sometimes he talks as though success withdrew from him because he concentrated on raising a family and not playing the game, and sometimes he talks as though the problem is that he made records that were too true to himself and not cookie-cutter Nashville product. (You may be surprised to hear Billy Ray Cyrus cast himself as an icon of artistic integrity, unbowed by commercial temptations, but there it is. From where he sits, it makes perfect sense.)
Perhaps the important truth is that the comedown was inevitable whatever he did—you rarely enjoy the kind of huge, genre-breaking, critic-baiting success he had without suffering a fairly savage subsequent reversal. Talking about these years, he says all the right things about acceptance and counting one's blessings, but there are plenty of clues—the way he can recite by heart every chart position, for instance, of each new underachieving single—to how much those years must have hurt. There are few things harder to understand in this world than failure to those grown accustomed to the taste of success.
And then there's God.
"Somewhere along this journey," he says, "both mine and Miley's faith has been shaken. That saddens me the most." When they first came to Hollywood for Hannah Montana, the two of them would drive down the freeway together to the studio each morning, and every day Miley would point out the sign that said
Just before moving out to Los Angeles, the whole family had been baptized together by their pastor at the People's Church in Franklin, Tennessee. "It was Tish's idea," he remembers. "She said, 'We're going to be under attack, and we have to be strong in our faith and we're all going to be baptized...'" And there, driving to work each day in the City of Angels, was this sign. "A physical sign. It could have easily said 'You will now be attacked by Satan.' 'Entering this industry, you are now on the highway to darkness...'"
Do you really see it in such clearly spiritual terms—that your family was under attack by Satan?
"I think we are right now. No doubt. There's no doubt about it."
And why is that happening?
"It's the way it is. There has always been a battle between good and evil. Always will be. You think, 'This is a chance to make family entertainment, bring families together...' and look what it's turned into."
Hannah Montana_ probably has brought a lot of families together—just not one..._
"Yeah. I know. I know. I know."
And do you see the show as a big part of what has made things not work in your family?
"Oh, it's huge—it destroyed my family. I'll tell you right now—the damn show destroyed my family. And I sit there and go, 'Yeah, you know what? Some gave all.' It is my motto, and guess what? I have to eat that one. I some-gave-all'd it all right. I some-gave-all'd it while everybody else was going to the bank. It's all sad."
Do you wish Hannah Montana had never happened?
"I hate to say it, but yes, I do. Yeah. I'd take it back in a second. For my family to be here and just be everybody okay, safe and sound and happy and normal, would have been fantastic. Heck, yeah. I'd erase it all in a second if I could."
Cyrus can be confounding. He is covered in tattoos but now wishes he had none of them. One moment he'll mutter some playful comment about one of his entourage having a "smoky wokey." (I don't know why I find this quite so funny. I guess it's the echo of "achy breaky"; for a moment I imagine there really might be an alternative reality in which Billy Ray Cyrus is cursed to communicate every thought, however deep or shallow, in pairs of rhyming adjectives.) The next he'll try to interest me in a charity for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but in a way that seems curiously guileless (he tells me he'd never heard of the disease until recently), and then the press releases I'm later sent mention that Cyrus is "being reimbursed" for his "time and expenses" by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. Likewise, there's an awful childhood tale he shares about waiting outside church with his mother to see whether his father would appear with another woman: "And he did. And it got ugly right there in the church parking lot. My mom jumped on, fought some woman, beat her. I seen it. I seen that happen more than once. I seen my mom pull one woman out of my dad's convertible by the hair of the head and stomp her ass in the ditch. I seen that." But I'm not sure whether he's trying to show me a snapshot of a mother wronged, of a father besieged, or of a boy already accosted by dramas he can't control. And how to weigh that against the declaration Cyrus repeats to me several times about his current life changes: "It's the first time in my life I've ever stood up for myself. I've always let people just run over me. The least likely thing anyone in my family thought I would ever do is stand up for myself." Or to measure it with the moment—remembering the time the 6-year-old Miley helped a blind friend hear God in the sound of the wind through the grass—that Billy Ray stops talking altogether, and when I look over I see that his eyes are full of tears.
"Makes me so sad," he says, "just to think about it."
Before I leave, he takes me upstairs to show me some more photographs he's mentioned. The stairs rise into a large room where nearly every inch of wall space is covered in framed magazine articles, invitations, photographs, and commemorative discs. One wall has numerous Some Gave All platinum awards—the seven discs on the seven-times platinum award are arranged in the shape of the number 7. I am standing here, surrounded by all these framed memories, when I notice the room through the open doorway right next to where I am. It is perhaps the girliest room I have ever seen, all lime greens and oranges and pastel blues. I'm pretty sure Billy Ray doesn't mean to show me Miley's room, and I'm in no way looking for it—I hadn't even thought about the likelihood she'd still have one in his house—but his feet follow my eyes. (His publicist, who has walked upstairs with us, looks aghast at this turn of events: Cyrus still has handlers himself, though I suspect that he's allergic to too much handling these days.)
I remain in the doorway as he holds up a rock Miley found by the creek and made into a face at school using pieces of felt, and points out all her cheerleader trophies high up on the shelf by the door.
"Again, it's a bit sad," he sighs, "because it's just a little girl's room, ain't it?"
With luck, Billy Ray Cyrus's biggest fears—those about his most famous daughter, anyhow—will turn out to be unfounded. If things work out for the best, maybe in time to come he'll just seem like an overanxious, melodramatic worrywart. I suspect he'd happily embrace a future in which that was the worst outcome.
In recent weeks, one more competing version of the Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus melodrama has emerged: Saturday Night Live's mesmerizing spoof The Miley Cyrus Show. In their universe, Miley remains so blindly and unflinchingly buoyant, and so gauchely an overconfident teenage wannabe, that nothing at all—conflicting information, dramatic realism, understanding other people, drug addiction—can derail her irrepressibly wholesome approach to life. Her father is her grinning floppy-haired foil, and perhaps you could just about see him as a sincere man with a trusty guitar who loves his daughter and thinks the best of her in any and all circumstances.
Before I mention these SNL sketches, I can't guess what the real Billy Ray's reaction to them may be. He has plenty of ego and preciousness and oversensitivity, and I don't think his own version of who he is often corresponds with how he is portrayed by the world, but he also has an abundant sweetness of spirit, a willingness to believe in the generosity of others, and a kind of innocence, too. So when he tells me, "I laughed so hard," I try to work out whether he knows this is the smartest thing to say, or whether it's genuinely how he feels.
"Everything's up for interpretation, I guess," he says. "I just choose to see it as funny."
And maybe that's not so foolish after all. For one thing, it is pretty funny. And—as he learns anew week by week—there are worse ways his family life can be served up as entertainment. Here, safe within these sketches, he's with his daughter, they're on grown-up TV, everyone's laughing, and everything's going to be fine. "Actually," he says, "I think it's a little more funny than real life, to be honest."


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"We think we can modify the surface so it will cause just the carbon dioxide to stick," said Dr. Jeffrey Long, a chemist who is studying the crystals at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "It would be a sort of carbon-dioxide selective sponge," he added. Metal-organic frameworks visually resemble table salt, and the there is little mechanical technology behind how they work — they just absorb. They are incredibly lightweight and effective; a single gram when unfolded and flattened could blanket a football field.
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The performance is a fundraiser for the Olde White Church.
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Well, that's exactly what the Studio Theatre Co. and Showbiz Kidz is doing-- putting on their summer performance by transforming Swansea's Olde White Church into Seussland for its rendition of "Seussical the Musical."
Known as the "grandmother of children's theater," co-director Janice Macdonald studied under UMass Dartmouth Theater legend Angus Bailey before branching off to create a number of children's theater production and dance companies on her own. Hundreds of children can thank Macdonald for creating that experience, even back at a time when children's theater was unheard of.
"Back then, no one was doing children's theater. But we gave them an opportunity to understand what theater was all about; to get involved in theater; to do everything that makes theater work," said Macdonald. "Back then, there wasn't many people that wanted to work with children but kids would do anything for you; they bring so much energy to a show. Once you get them under control, you are ready to roll."
And roll they will. Macdonald said a cast of over 25 children will take the stage as part of "Seussical the Musical," set to begin Aug. 22. Macdonald said they are redefining what a family theater company is all about, showing off a half dozen family members — parents included — in the production.
Having different venues over the years including the Firebarn in Fall River, Macdonald is using this performance as a fundraiser for the Olde White Church where they conduct their rehearsals.
"The Church adapts so well for theater. We did 'Godspell' there and it worked like a charm. We like the intimate theater feel of it," said Macdonald. "We do the props, costumes and everything else there with all the proceeds from this performance going to the church. We believe in reciprocity — the church is very good to us."
Going into their fourth year, Studio Theater has already done a number of plays including "White Christmas" and "Oliver," and has plans for "Fiddler on the Roof" for their next play in the spring.
Macdonald said the children come from all over the area — Fall River, Swansea, Somerset and Westport, and of all ages, from Cindy Lou-Who who was no more than five.
"It's a wonderful production. So colorful, so magical, and the cast is fabulous," Macdonald said. "People have to come and see it to believe it."
Co-director Roger Machado-Fournier, who's partnered with Macdonald for the past 16 years — five as director — and takes on a double role in the play as the role of Horton, said the cast has been instrumental in making this "Seussical" so colorful and creative where characters such as the Cat in the Hat, Horton, Jojo, the Whos, Sour Kangaroo and so many of the characters we all grew up with come to life on stage.
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Egypt's army declared a state of emergency in Suez and southern Sinai ahead of protests from the Muslim Brotherhood against the military's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi and the arrests of its leaders. Matt Bradley reports. Photo: AP.
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ay ... ay ay ay ay ay ay ... Egypt's fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood has launched a counter protests today following the ouster of Mohammad Morsi its man who had been elected president ... for an update on what's happening in Egypt after Wednesday's military two were joined by one of the Journal's me reporters in Cairo Matt Bradley mecca morning ... so tell us what you seen on the streets ... will it trade today we're seeing hundred about ... a hundred supporters for ... former President Ahmed more she coming out and protest given that out there in the military role in that than the decision ... so ... were were were added in the first report from the income is to ... support Mathat more she I and we're ... hoping she added ... it was a computer hoping that that that was put into some sort of broader violence between Islam is the man secularist here but so far so far no no significant violence ... we continue to give it a violent protests but there was some violent and by night and some of ... the recent attack on the tube and a budget in the military security forces there and they've declared a state of emergency ... I'm actually from the price of Brent crude ... searching by about a dollar ... but ... that that that that that ... amount not quite clear whether this is connected to take over or is this just the ... sort of background a violent been happening for the last two years ... ok let let's talk a little bit about ... the military takeover and and where we go from here to see the new president ... we've talked about in the military has talked about ... new elections ... now I'm curious the Muslim Brotherhood is still the best organized political party ... in Egypt ... if they have new elections would be just with them again ... the ... question ... of course the opposition to know that it the ended ... the agreement went into an election that they would lose it if you take them and very clear by the tens of millions of people around the street ... but at the same time the brother of it that that they have won every single action a lot to app is very true ... every parliamentary election in the present election and several referendum and to ... all the voters when ... not all of them excuse me but a majority went and voted for petition candidate but the north of the Muslim Brotherhood and their their partners in the fall of the movement ... ball back ... so it's kind of hard right now for the secularist argued that the end of the day is ... that they're not really going to win some sort of election ... coming up parliamentary elections or a referendum ... simply because of the numbers of people mistreat them up with the brother was dead ... they stated that challenging not only legitimate chief Mohammad Morsi of critics but challenging the legitimacy of the democratic process here because now we're setting a precedent that ... any elected official or any elected position can be subject to the whims of the St ... ok Matt before you go we only have about thirty seconds but there's a very interesting backstory here ... we tend to be since the two ... gas lines and power that power supplies though sin bin indeed disrupted ... ahead of ... ahead of the ... the coup but that they come back very significantly or or much better been very very quickly what what's that telling you ... Brookfield is one of the Brotherhood leaders yesterday was talking to to to to to to to the budget target ... for the switch ... and turn the cap back on ... further into the petrol for current ... and ... it's very suspicious half of the blowtorch of course that because of all of a ... turmoil because of the protests that people are driving around and using their cards which is ... of very legitimate ... a very legitimate response ... but the same time it is very coincidental that the rolling blackouts that were frustrating many Egyptian ... rising food prices ... a lot of these things seem to stop ... right when the protesters took to the street on Sunday ... that he was a will that that someone really had to turn the ... switch ... and made everything work again with a range of issues that mean ... the very dubious kind of that ... shift ... yet so maybe that that there were there were some folks that were interested in the ouster of Morsi and ... I were working behind the scenes to ... to to foment some protest as it were ... news that about me I did


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The Oregon Symphony is proud to partner with Lewis & Clark College to provide discounted student tickets to the following performances this season at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
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Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger Named Among EW's Favorite Fictional Lovers
Feb 14, 2008
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Entertainment Weekly has released a list of Pop Culture's Best Couples, a ranking of 26 of our favorite true (fictional) lovers. The fictional pairing of characters Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series are included on the list. Along side such iconic fictional couples as Superman and Lois Lane, from the Superman comics; Ricky and Lucy Ricardo, from the classic TV show 'I Love Lucy;' and Ross and Rachel, from the TV sitcom 'Friends;' Ron and Hermione come in at number 8 with the following description:
The Harry Potter cycle
Jealousy, betrayal…love potions: That's teen wizard romance for ya. Harry Potter's best friends didn't officially become a couple until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but their love/hate relationship turned soap opera in Goblet of Fire. At times they've been controversial (Ron/Hermione fans still have scars from their online wars with the Harry/Hermione faithful), but that's as risqué as this teen duo gets.
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