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Sigh. Just as Sean Lowe's season of The Bachelor was starting to look a little bit promising (as far as drama goes), he had to go ahead and spill the beans about his sex life and ruin things for us.
No, he didn't slip and accidentally reveal the name of the girl he chose during the final rose ceremony. And no, he didn't give us any juicy details about what did or did not happen during his fantasy suite dates. (Damn.)
Sadly, Sean revealed a sex confession that's much worse than both of those things combined.
Apparently Sean is still a virgin, or at least that's what it sounds like from a statement he made about his feelings on the subject of sex. He said, "I do think sex is something special and should be shared with the one you're going to spend the rest of your life with. The physical stuff will always come later."
Ok, what's the deal? If Sean's sentiments reflect how he truly feels, then he must not have done the dirty yet, right? But back in November, he supposedly claimed to be a "born-again virgin," which means he's not really a virgin at all, he just likes to think that he is. (What gives?)
Seriously, it's kind of impossible to be both.
But whatever kind of virgin Sean is, he basically killed any hope of his season getting steamier and more interesting from here on out, because it's highly obvious that he doesn't plan on engaging in any sort of hanky panky with the ladies. Or at least that's what we can probably assume based on his "the physical stuff will always come later" bit.
Unfortunately in Sean's case, it sounds like he means much later, because if he doesn't plan on getting it on with anyone until he's married, then there's no way we're going to have the pleasure of seeing it on national television. (Total bummer.)
(OMG. Who else wishes Arie was The Bachelor? Whew! We'd all need a cold shower after each episode.)
What's your take on Sean's virginity? Do you think it's sweet, or super-boring?
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Well it's been nearly a year since I posted on here! How time flies when you're having fun!
I am now about to start on another period of maternity leave with the arrival of no 3 - another addition to our family tree - and this means I may have some more time for a bit of genealogy.
I haven't completely ignored my hobby in the last 10 months - I've been thinking more and more about some sort of one name study into TILLIN/TILLING and to this end I've been doing some analysis of census returns. I also had an interesting trip to Ireland and I think I've found a few more of my northern irish ancestors.
I'll leave it short but sweet now and hopefully put together a proper post soon.
Thanks for your patience!

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So you want to impress your friends with your singing skill, but they only like to listen to those boring old top-40 songs, and that brand new Karaoke machine you just bought is broken.
What can you do? Is everything lost? NO! Don't do anything drastic! There's still hope - Introducing AnalogX Vocal Remover!
AnalogX Vocal Remover works on the same principles that the hardware removers do - that in most instances vocals are equally mixed in both channels, and can be identified and therefore removed by simply changing the phase on one channel by 180 degrees. While this won't remove vocals in all instances, it does work in many cases, and can sometimes be used to remove bass or breakbeat sections as well, which I find to be GREAT for sampling! Depending on the effects used on the vocals, sometimes the reverb or ambience of the vocals is left.


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In celebration of the Earth's impending Mayan-mandated apocalypse, the good folks of the Reuters news agency decided to take a look at some Mayan temples, including the one seen in the background of the original Star Wars movie (on Yavin-4, to be specific). Tucked inside this little article was a bit of a thermal detonator:
Yavin 4 and the rebel base return to the Star Wars plot in the forthcoming Episode VII, announced in October by the Walt Disney Co, in which Skywalker comes back to the planet to build a Jedi Knight academy. However, fans said that Disney will likely film those scenes in a studio rather than return to Tikal.
UhWHAAAH? Episode VII is going to be about the Jedi Academy? Will it be based on the long-running young adult books at all? Is it something new? More importantly, does this statement have any basis in fact?
I'm guessing not. I find it hard to believe that if Reuters had the first confirmation of
Episode VII's story, it would bury it in 2/3rds of the way down in a piece on Mayan temples. In fact, I'd guess reporter Mike McDonald saw someone referring to the Jedi Academy as the future of the Star Wars universe, almost certainly online somewhere, and believed they were referring to the movies, instead of of the expanded universe books. It's a pretty reasonable mistake to make for a non-Star Wars fan.
But who knows? Maybe the reporter knows a guy who knows a guy. Maybe he's dating new Lucasfilm exec Kathleen Kennedy, and she revealed the plot during a steamy, late-night love-making session. Or maybe he's guessing, but it'll turn out he's right. Who knows?


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If you're looking to restore your spirit while taking in panoramic views of lakes, mountains and landscapes you will recognize from a classic feature film, a European vacation to Austria might be just what you need.
Snow-capped mountains, intricate cave systems and thundering waterfalls make Austria one of the premier family adventure vacations. Show your kids castles that they thought only existed in fairytales. Take in the spectacular landscape where The Sound of Music was filmed. Visit the house that Mozart spent years of his life in. Ride along the waterside to a backdrop of glacier-carved gorges that have been around for thousands of years. Watch the assorted vegetation and fauna blossom to life in the summer in the Austrian Alps. For a unique sort of experience, take a ride down a wooden slide in a 7,000 year old underground salt mine.
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Located adjacent to the landmark World Trade Centre (WTC), the WTC Residence features 378 luxury residences including a two-story penthouse in the higher tower. The design includes several notable amenities such as a landscaped rooftop and terrace, temperature-controlled pool with poolside café, business suites and a fitness centre, as well as several levels of private balconies and garden rooms. Many of the residences are two-storey duplex units with dramatic full-height views.
Using modern construction methods and materials, including an innovative glass curtain wall system, the 1,400,000 sq ft apartment complex, which stands 31 storeys along the shorter leg and 41 storeys at the tall end, is topped off with a large, angled shading device. Additionally, there is covered and underground parking to accommodate more than 650 cars. The entry drive features cascading waterfalls and lush landscaping leading to a circular porte-cochere. The lobby is a grand, double-height space with 24-hour concierge and valet services.
The public spaces and units are contemporary in design with an abundance of glass and marble, and stainless steel kitchen appliances. Units are available in 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-bedroom layouts with electronic shades, mood lighting, central air conditioning controlled by room, high-tech security systems, and floor to ceiling, double-height windows giving spectacular views of downtown Dubai. Additionally, there is a private rooftop club and restaurant open exclusively to residents and their guests.


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Initiative will save 6,200 tons of CO2
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(Chicago) The glass-fronted Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership is now powered by 100% renewable energy, a transition that will save 6,200 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere over the next three years and adding to the Institute's already significant list of sustainable practices.
Designed by Chicago-based Krueck & Sexton Architects, the unique Spertus Institute building opened at 610 S. Michigan Avenue in 2007. It has since won numerous architectural awards including honors from the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, and has become an admired addition to the innovative architecture for which Chicago is renowned.
From the outset, environmental sustainability has been an important component of the building's design and operation, and is reflected in Spertus meeting the Silver Level of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Rating System®.
"Spertus Institute's commitment to environmental sustainability goes well beyond our desire to do the right thing by being a good corporate citizen," said Spertus President and CEO Dr. Hal M. Lewis. "Conservation and environmentalism are Jewish imperatives, woven into the fiber of our sacred teachings of tikkun olam (partnering with God to repair the world) and ba'al taschit (prohibitions against wasting). As an institute for Jewish learning and leadership, we are proud to take the lead in this regard. We go to great lengths to live the wisdom of these treasured precepts in everything we do at Spertus, from including them in the curriculum in our graduate and professional programs to their integration into the architecture of our building to our recycling policies and utility contracts."
To realize the move to 100% renewable energy, Spertus signed a three-year contract with Direct Energy to receive renewable energy certificates (RECs) that match its energy consumption. RECs represent purchases of power from renewable sources like wind and solar. "We wanted to enhance our commitment to sustainability," said Spertus Director of Operations Mark Akgulian. "And we were able to do so in a way that also reduces our overall energy costs. I hope by doing so, we serve as an example to other organizations."
The Spertus Institute building features many examples of sustainable design and energy-efficient operations, including:
- The windows in the building's glass façade are fritted (ceramic dots called frits are bonded onto the glass) to control heat gain and glare.
- A 6,700-square-foot green roof (planted with special vegetation) allows rainwater to evaporate rather than enter the sewer system. The green roof also absorbs air pollution and keeps the building cool in the summer, helping mitigate the urban heat effect, a phenomenon that causes the city to be 2 to 10 degrees warmer than nearby rural areas.
- The cleaning products used within the facility are Green Seal certified. Paints and other building materials are low- or no-VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds).
- Spertus separates recyclables and compostables from its trash, saving approximately 40 tons of waste from entering landfills each year.
Spertus Institute staff members recommend the following websites and organizations for those wishing to learn more about sustainability, both in general and within Judaism:
- Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, coejl.org
- Big Green Jewish, a UK-based resource about Judaism and the environment, biggreenjewish.org
- Chicago's Green Roof Initiative, artic.edu/webspaces/greeninitiatives/greenroofs
- The Go Green Initiative, an environmental resource for educators, gogreeninitiative.org
- The Environmental Working Group, ewg.org
- Hazon, an organization working for healthier, more sustainable communities in the Jewish world and beyond, hazon.org
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership offers dynamic learning opportunities, rooted in Jewish wisdom and culture and open to all. Graduate programs and workshops train future leaders and engage individuals in exploration of Jewish life. Public programs — including films, speakers, seminars, and concerts — take place at the Institute's Michigan Avenue facility, in the Chicago suburbs, and online. For more information, please visit spertus.edu.
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership is a partner in serving our community, supported by the JUF/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.


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FAQ: Why Aren't My Service Manager (SCSM) Objects Showing Up in Orchestrator When I Use the Get Object Activity?
I've seen this situation twice now in the last week so it's probably worth a blog post on it. Here's the situation. You are logged into the System Center – Service Manager (SCSM) console and you can see a bunch of objects like for example 200 computers. Then you create a runbook in Orchestrator using… Read more


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Swedish Prosecutor Claims Registrar Of .se Domains An 'Accomplice' In Infringement Because Of Pirate Bay Domain
from the how-many-degrees-of-separation? deptThe concepts of secondary liability seem to go right out the window (along with basic rationality) when it comes to certain people freaking out about copyright infringement. The latest is that Swedish prosecutors are apparently threatening the registrar that manages the .se domain with some form of charges because the Pirate Bay (briefly) ran on an .se domain.
"The legal system has not been able to shut down the service after the previous guilty verdict against TPB," IIS Chief of Communications Maria Ekelund told TorrentFreak.That seems fairly ridiculous when you begin to think about the implications of it. This is so far removed from any actual infringement, it's incredible. This is the scorched earth approach to dealing with copyright infringement, with no care at all for any possible collateral damage in holding totally unrelated parties, who happened to be used by a service provider who, in turn, happened to be used by some people to possibly infringe, as liable for that infringement.
"Therefore the prosecutor has opened a new case against both the domain holders and .SE. The prosecutor is accusing .SE of assisting TPB who are assisting others to commit copyright infringement."
[....] "In the eyes of the prosecutor, .SE's catalogue function has become some form of accomplice to criminal activity, a perspective that is unique in Europe as far as I know," says IIS CEO Danny Aerts.
Filed Under: .se, copyright, domain registrar, hosting, secondary liability, sweden
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Temple Club, Ho Chi Minh
10 comments:
- Colin Woon said...
Very nice restaurant! I will definitely like it there! Too bad the food is only so so.
I'm pretty amazed by the fact that you can snap those shots under such low light condition. Good job!
- July 28, 2009 at 10:43 AM
- Beachlover's Kitchen said...
enjoy your wonderful photos! I never been to Viet*sigh* ;looking forward for your more great adventure!
- July 28, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- Sonia said...
Colin, spring rolls was good, but the rest of the foods were just normal, maybe I ordered the wrong dishes, but you will enjoy in this restaurant as they have nice atmoshpere. Actually those photos I took were very dark, I use Picasa to lighten it.
Beachlover's kitchen, left few photos to be publihed.
- July 28, 2009 at 5:01 PM
- mimid3vils said...
Special decor but the dim light is not suitable for photography :(
- July 28, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- ~Rachel~ said...
The classical look of the restaurant just like it's name: Temple.. ^_^
- July 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM
- 米亚 said...
Atmosphere is classic and awesome! I am normally quite fussy about room decor but this restaurant shows me otherwise!
- July 28, 2009 at 8:41 PM
- nyonya pendek melaka said...
i've been to hanoi but not HCM yet. i like the french influence on many of the buildings there. this restaurant has a really nice ambience.
- July 28, 2009 at 9:57 PM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
I like the design too, very nice.
- July 29, 2009 at 1:29 AM
- Nancy said...
- July 29, 2009 at 8:39 AM
- Sonia said...
mimid3vils,yes, very low light condition.
Rachel, really look classical.
Mia, I'm sure you will like this place.
Nyonya pendek melaka, I like the french type of building in HCM too.
LCOM, yes, it was very nice
Nancy, actually not that romance, my husband's friend was there too, hehehe..
- July 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM


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The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. (LEEDCo), a regional public-private partnership based in Cleveland, has literally taken to the streets to drum up support for its 18 MW Icebreaker offshore wind demonstration project.
The developer began its grassroots program, Power Pledge, by going door-to-door beginning in June to collect signatures of customers willing to pay a small premium on monthly utility bills in exchange to have their electricity powered by offshore wind.
'It's a commitment saying that the person who signs the pledge would be willing to pay a little bit more on their electricity bill to get a portion of their electricity from our project,' explains Lorry Wagner, LEEDCo president, adding that customer pledges ranged from $1 to $100 per month in some cases.
After collecting more than 7,000 pledges from three counties, LEEDCo says the average consumer is willing to pay approximately $13.24 per month.
Considering that 80% of Ohio is powered by coal-fired generation, the odds are stacked against the developer. However, Wagner says the grassroots efforts are a crucial step in bringing about change. He draws a parallel to the deregulation of telecommunications in the 1980s.
'Prior to 1984, you either had phone service or you did not,' Wagner explains. 'There was no product differentiation or choice. Today, consumers have a wide variety of choices, and they get what they want. It is not a price-driven market for what was once considered a commodity. In a sense, we are taking the telephone analogy and applying it to Icebreaker and offshore wind.
'We see the utility industry in a state of flux very similar to the 1980s," he continues. "It started to change when the consumer was given a choice of providers. Now, it is morphing into all kinds of ways where consumers want locally generated, clean, renewable, good corporate citizen utility, etc. We do not know if it will parallel the phone industry, but we do know it will change from the way it is today."
The idea is to show the 88 independent power companies licensed to sell electricity in Ohio that there is a consumer demand for offshore wind power. Although LEEDCo has not yet signed with a provider, it has begun reaching to each of the providers to gauge interest.
As of yet, there have been no takers. However, the results are example enough of the general public's appetite for the project.
'We've found that when people give us a chance to tell our story, we can convert many of them,' he says, citing the company's better than 60% success rate. 'Many consumers have shown a preference toward locally grown projects.'
LEEDCo signed a power purchase agreement with Cleveland-based municipal utility Cleveland Public Power, which agreed to purchase 25% of the project's output.
Project update
Like other demonstration projects, such as Deepwater Wind's Block Island project and Fishermen's Energy Atlantic City Wind Farm, Icebreaker is located in state waters. However, while Deepwater and Fishermen's have designs for larger projects in federal waters, Icebreaker will remain in its current location. Therefore, Wagner theorizes, 'The process we develop for the demonstration project will carry through to all future projects.'
Additionally, LEEDCo is busy satisfying the requirements of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) $4.1 million loan to study the feasibility of monopile foundations that are designed to reduce ice loading. The developer was one of seven industry recipients to receive an award.
Next year, the DOE will begin evaluating the seven projects for the next round of funding. By May 2014, the DOE will select three winners that will each receive an additional $46.7 million award.
LEEDCo expects fabrication, construction and installation of its offshore wind project to begin in Spring 2017, with commissioning of the freshwater offshore wind project in fall 2017.


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First, I tuned up the Outlook last night and took it for a spin around the parking lot. After dealing with RapidFires on the Sorrento, and Tiagra STIs on the Trek, Grip shifters took a while to appreciate again, but I do still like them. The front derailleur is a lot less finicky when you have a non-indexed ratcheting shifter.
Today, I rode it 7 miles. I met Jim, a member of my bicycle club for the first time at The Daily Dose to help him troubleshoot the club's site as he migrates it to a different web host. Of course, I started at JCCC, went to The Dose, and rode back to JCCC.
You know what? I give my Outlook a lot of smack-talk that's not always deserved. Sure, the bottom bracket is cheap and unreliable in the wet, but this bike is still great! I'd almost say for short distances, it's better than the Trek. If I sprung for a real cargo rack (it has braze-ons) I might actually use it more often.
Going up hills, I think it actually climbs better. It still has "mountain" gears for the most part, which helps. Going downhill, I can cadence-out, but I'm going more than 40 MPH by the time that happens. I can get my Trek up faster than that, and I've never been able to wring my legs out all the way on the Trek, but for practical purposes, the Outlook is about the same speed as the Trek going downhill. In the flats and up slight hills, the Trek shows its true colors. The problem is that there really isn't that much flat land on my commute. So, while the Trek is hands-down the most efficient bike I own, the Outlook is perhaps the best bang for the buck.
Once I move to Lenexa, I think I'll be doing some round-trip bike commute experiments with these two bikes. I have a feeling the Outlook might not fare too poorly against the Trek 1200 in terms of speed. Build quality and fun factor will probably skew the overall results toward the Trek 1200 though.
When I got back to JCCC, it was after 10:00, and the bike shop was open. I took the wheel, tire, and ruptured tubes off my Trek to the shop.
Somewhere along the line, my brand new Bontrager Select tire got a slice in the sidewall, again, right near the rim. This wasn't anywhere near the flatspot, but Kevin at Bike America pointed out the slice, and when I told him that I'd mounted the tire the same way both times (with the stem pointing right at the Bonti logo) he knew it was probably the sidewall, and started pressing his finger around the inside of the tire. It didn't take him long to find a minuscule slice. He said it looked like the kind of slice caused by chunks of glass or metal in the road. It wasn't very big at all.
So, I bought my new wheel, had them put YET ANOTHER new tire and tube on the new wheel, and swap the cassette off my OEM wheel. Yes, Bike America gave me the uber-hookup yet again, and I appreciate it. I haven't had a chance to give the Trek a proper shakedown run yet. It'll happen soon enough, though.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Update on the bike situation
First, I tuned up the Outlook last night and took it for a spin around the parking lot. After dealing with RapidFires on the Sorrento, and Tiagra STIs on the Trek, Grip shifters took a while to appreciate again, but I do still like them. The front derailleur is a lot less finicky when you have a non-indexed ratcheting shifter.
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Hey, I got back from BAK yesterday....quite an experience!! More as I put a blog together on it.
Which Monday night ride you going on?
- June 17, 2007 3:28 PM
- Noah said...
Can't do Monday night this week. Packing the Explorer up to move starting on Tuesday.
- June 17, 2007 5:00 PM
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0.97 • 10 Mar 2009
Web browser dedicated to Gmail, Google calendar.
Developer website: Ben Willmore
Gmail Browser is a Web browser that is dedicated to running Gmail and Google calendar. Why? Well, for me, reading email is usually a work activity, while Web browsing is mostly play. And so, when I check my email, I easily get distracted by other Web sites. Separating Gmail from the rest of the Internet helps me concentrate.
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Installing Archlinux requires no special tricks; follow [[Installation Guide]]install grub-and you should be good to go! Since you will be installing on the [[Solid_State_Drives]], use parted and created aligned partitions. I use this scheme:
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Apple uses a Wikipedia:RAID alternative called CoreStorage to merge the ssd and hdd into a single logical volume (sold as Fusion). We need to remove this volume, so we can reinstall OSx to the hdd without using the ssd.
Boot into recovery
The iMacs that come with Fusion also come with a Rescue partition that runs itself from RAM (a virtual disk2). This will allow you to play with the hdd and sdd without problems caused by mounted disks. Power on your iMac, holding down apple+R to enter the recovery environment.
When the Recovery has started, start a Terminal (under menu 'Utilities).
Destroy CoreStorage and prepare new volumes
Find the CoreStorage 'Logical volume group' ID, and take note of the ssd and larger disk (disk0 & 1)
diskutil cs list
Remove the CoreStorage volume
diskutil cs delete <VOLUMEID>
Sometimes you need to unmount a volume or try the above command twice for OSX to 'understand' and actually run it successful.
Zero the ssd (if you specify the correct disk this takes ~ 5 minutes) This will remove everything including the partition table so OSX doesn't 'see' the disk and won't try to use it during installation.
diskutil zeroDisk disk1
Erase the hdd (this is faster then zeroDisk plus it creates a new HFS+ volume for OSx)
diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Macintosh disk0
Install OSX on hdd
Quit the terminal and start the OSX installer. Do not use the GUI based Disk Utility at this point, it will show your disks as errored (red) and will want to fix them for you. This will actually screw things up as it will recreate the CoreStorage volume (even if you choose not to 'fix' anything). The OSX installer should show you 1 disk; which is the created JHFS+ volume on the hdd.
Proceed by installing a fresh OSX version on the hdd. You can play around in OSX, for example use the 'Disk Utility' to resize the OSX partition so you can allocate some space for Linux to use besides the ssd. Now boot the Archlinux usb-stick by holding the left-ALT key while booting your iMac (you might need to use an apple keyboard for this to work). This will show you a bootmenu where you can select the USB drive for booting.
Proceed installing Archlinux
Installing Archlinux requires no special tricks; follow the Installation Guide; mount /dev/sda1 (the first partition of the hdd is the EFI partition) on /boot/efi; install grub-efi-x86_64 and you should be good to go! Since you will be installing on the Solid_State_Drives, use parted and created aligned partitions. I use this scheme:
Model: ATA APPLE SSD SM128E (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 121332826112B Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1048576B 16383999999B 16382951424B linux-swap(v1) 2 16384000000B 121331777535B 104947777536B ext4
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Nipsey Hussle release the first street single off his debut album "South Central State of Mind", Video shot in the hood of South Central, LA. Cameo appearances by Terry Kennedy and Snoop Dogg.
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Hello Lovelies,
It's one day past hump day. The weekend is just over the horizon. Although my weekend will be busy with makeup and hair, I'm still looking forward to it. It might be because Im looking forward to putting another couple more outfits together and getting dolled up.
Till then I have this outfit post. You might have seen a lot of people styling this outfit. I couldn't let it slip by without myself trying it. I love how its very casual yet chic, sexy and just dope. The tank, plaid top and pants are from Charlotte Russe and the heels are from Forever21.


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Gunmen kill 11, wound 18 in poor Guatemala town
SAN JOSE NACAHUIL, Guatemala (AP) — A group of men in a stolen car shot 29 people on the main street of a poor indigenous town in the mountains outside Guatemala City, killing 11 in an incident that some residents blamed on corrupt police officers.
Officials blamed the attack on gang violence but that was greeted with skepticism by some residents of San Jose Nacahuil. Residents expelled the national police six years ago and set up a community police force that patrols with sticks and machetes, and officials said the community had low crime rates in recent years.
Eight of the dead were shot in a just-opened cantina, a one-story cinderblock building where men were drinking beer and liquor around plastic tables. The majority of the wounded were shot in the street between the cantina and a second, older bar owned by the same local businessman. Two of those shot in the street died, along with a man shot in the second cantina.
Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said the National Civil Police sent a patrol car to the town Saturday night after receiving an anonymous call reporting fears of an imminent attack. Officers "determined that everything was OK and the patrol car left," he said. "One hour later, the attack happened."
A relative of the cantina owner, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of official retaliation, said the owner reported that the police arrived without warning, said they were checking the permits for the new cantina and demanded a $60 bribe to approve them. When the man refused, the police told him to get all minors out of the bar and left, the relative said.
"He came home, said the police had come to ask for the papers and asked him for 500 quetzales. Then when he didn't give it to them, they told him not to sell liquor to minors and get them out of the bar," the relative said. "Soon afterward I heard the shots. It seems like he hid in the bathroom and they killed him there."
Regional police spokesman Jorge Aguilar suggested the attackers may have been gang members who tried to buy liquor in the bars but were refused. Many townspeople said they didn't believe that.
"We think the patrol car had something to do with it, because they showed up and 20 minutes after they left there was the attack," said Santos Peinado, a 28-year-old constructions worker whose cousin, Santos Suret, was killed. "Why didn't they stay and why didn't they arrest the attackers?"
The Kaqchikel Maya town of about 7,500 people sits 11 miles (18 kilometers) northeast of Guatemala City, but takes more than an hour to reach because it is accessible by a single dirt road. Many of its men work temporary constructions jobs in the city, and the town has virtually no running water or indoor plumbing.
Lopez Bonilla noted the town has had a troubled history with police, with none stationed there because villagers burned down the police station several years ago. Residents said the incident erupted after the police falsely accused local men of kidnapping.
Lopez Bonilla called the town "a very well organized community" with a very low crime rate, despite the violence that plagues Guatemala City and the drug-gang clashes that have led to mass murders in some other parts of the country.
Mexico's Zetas drug gang has seized control of large swaths of territory along Guatemala's northern border, where it is blamed for large-scale violence including the massacre of 27 farm workers in 2011. Drug cartels have far less presence in the area of Saturday's shooting, though residents said there is also some gang presence in nearby towns, mostly of small local groups that engage in robbery and extortion.
The National Police still operate in those towns along the same dirt road. Across the country, the police force has been frequently accused of corruption, extortion and links to local gangs.


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MILWAUKEE – Derrick Rose's second season-ending injury was a gut punch to the entire Chicago Bulls' Nation. Among the players, though, no one seemed to be hit harder or stay doubled-over longer than Joakim Noah, the emotional center of that team in both senses of the term.
"I want to win with Derrick Rose," Noah had said not long after "Pooh," his point guard and pal, went down with a medial meniscus tear in his right knee. "…Him going down was just, it was really hard for me, hard for us. But we have to move on, and it's not easy."
It wasn't easy for Noah and the Bulls to snatch back a game from the Bucks Friday night in Milwaukee, but they got it done. And Noah's performance was the brightest thing about it, a sign that finally, he was back from the darkness of Rose's sad absence.
The frenetic 28-year-old big man whose game is as intense as his face is expressive played his best game of the season, scoring 21 points with 18 rebounds, five assists, three steals and three blocks to help Chicago to its one-point victory at the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
Noah saved his best for last, with 10 points, seven boards, two steals and all three swats in the fourth quarter, a period in which the Bucks shot 6-for-15, the other Bulls shot 6-for-15 and Noah hit five of six.
And when he was done scoring he really got busy: Swarming Milwaukee's Gary Neal in a two-man trap with Mike Dunleavy and 19.2 seconds left, their team down 90-88 and most definitely not trying to foul. Noah got the tie-up, then won the jump ball over the seven-inches-shorter Neal, setting up Dunleavy's extra-oomph 3-pointer – off the glass – to win it.
The Bucks inbounded with 5.8 seconds to go and O.J. Mayo raced upcourt, hero ball in mind. Jimmy Butler chased, funneling him just enough so Noah could step in from Mayo's right to block that final attempt. The late loss, former Buck Dunleavy, the Milwaukee arena inverting cheers and boos with all the Bulls fans in the house – it was too much for some of the rankled Bucks to take afterward.
But it was fine, and high time, for Noah and his coach, Tom Thibodeau.
"We've been through a lot," Noah said. "When you're playing shorthanded, every game is a battle. It's never easy. Just got to keep fighting. Stay strong. Tonight the basketball gods were on our side. We feel like they haven't been. In a while."
They had been 6-4, with Rose finally returned from his 17-month layoff (left knee ACL surgery), his rust flaking off, and Noah playing his way back after an October lost to a groin strain. Then disaster struck again, relatively speaking anyway, in Portland on Nov. 22.
The Bulls had lost eight of their 10 games since then, till Friday, and even if Noah was getting back physically, he suddenly was reeling emotionally. In the first five games after Rose went down, Noah – an All-Star last season – averaged just 8.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.0 assists. Chicago's offense, obviously, got turned inside out – Luol Deng and Butler got or already were hurt, too, and Noah had a minor knee setback – but so did their spirits.
"I just think we're all human," Noah said late in the visitors' dressing room Friday. "We've been through a lot this year. I was talking about it with Dunleavy. It's crazy how level-headed he is every day. Comes with the same mindset, same mentality. Whether you win or lose, he's the same. Derrick's like that.
"I'm the complete opposite. I'm an emotional roller-coaster. You know what I'm saying? I've got to try to do a better job of dealing with my highs and my lows and try to be more consistent with the next play, moving on, things like that."
Noah said there was no epiphany for him, no self-directed pep talk to get him over the hump in dealing with Rose's loss. "Just got to find a way," he said. "The games keep coming and people really don't care about your well-being and how you feel mentally, things like that. So you've just got to go out there and get it done."
Seeing the hated – for him, anyway – Miami Heat on Dec. 5 at United Center seemed to help, the electrodes of that East rival zapping some life back into Noah's game (17 points, 15 rebounds) in the Bulls' blowout victory. Otherwise, it's just been time and Noah adjusting to the stark reality facing them all. They face it again Saturday night, wrapping up their back-to-back at home against Toronto (8 ET, League Pass).
"We've been through it for three years, and Jo is an emotional guy," Thibodeau said. "But we talk about, there's three parts of getting ready: The mental, the physical and the emotional. What you think and how you think really controls the emotional part of it.
"With his energy right now, it unites our team. It inspires our team. You make tough plays like that [tie-up], that gets the whole team going. So we were all disappointed, y'know, Derrick with the injury. But I think the belief and the challenge, moving forward with this team, we're all excited about it."
Players, teammates, friends, they've been getting there on different schedules. Noah looked Friday like he finally arrived.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- They've been waiting since October to pick
up their hardware and on Tuesday night in Nashville, Tennessee Tech
football coach Watson Brown and his senior players accepted the
coveted Sgt. York Trophy.
Tech won the award for the first time in 2009 after sweeping to a perfect 3-0 record against its Ohio Valley Conference in-state foes Austin Peay, Tennessee State and UT Martin.
The Sgt. York Trophy, sponsored by the OVC and the Nashville Sports Council, was given to the Golden Eagles at the O'Charley's Dinner of Champions at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville.
"It was worth the wait," said Brown. "Winning the York Trophy was one of the major goals of our team and we are extremely proud to have accomplished it. It's something that these seniors will always remember, and hopefully its the first of many.
"We'd like to keep this trophy in Cookeville for many years to come," Brown said.
Joining Brown on the stage to accept the award were most of the team's 2009 seniors, including offensive guard Taylor Askew, who drew the task of carrying the 150-pound wood-and-bronze trophy to the team's bus for the ride back to Cookeville.
"The coaches and players talked about winning the York Trophy throughout Spring drills and from the first day of fall camp," Askew said. "Every player on the team is aware of Sgt. York's accomplishments and contributions as a Soldier, and every player took it upon himself to do all he could to win this trophy and bring it back to the Cookeville. We think this trophy belongs here, and winning it is something we are all extremely proud of."
In addition to Brown and the players, Tech's contingent at the Dinner of Champions included three members of Sgt. Alvin C. York's family (center in photo at left), his oldest son George Edward York, his only surviving daughter Betsy Ross Lowery, and his grand-daughter, Angie York. Tech history professors Michael Birdwell, Calvin Dickinson and Jeff Roberts were also at the dinner. It was Birdwell who did much of the research on York when the trophy was established in 2007.
Retired Cookeville surgeon Sam Barnes sculpted the bust, while Birdwell and former OVC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher designed the base.
The conference also had a large contingent on hand for the presentation, including first-year Commissioner Beth DeBauche.
Kelvin Quarles (left) and Derek Dickerson with the Sgt. York Trophy


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Police: Iraq president's guard kills journalist
BAGHDAD (AP) — An officer in the Iraqi president's guard shot dead a well-known radio journalist during a quarrel Saturday near the leader's east Baghdad residence, police said.
The shooting of Radio Free Iraq's Baghdad bureau chief Mohammed Bdaiwi drew condemnation from Iraqi politicians and highlights the resentment many residents of the capital feel toward the often aggressive bodyguards of Iraq's VIPs.
Elsewhere in Iraq, a series of attacks killed 16 members of the security forces and civilians, officials said.
Bdaiwi was allegedly shot by a junior officer working for Iraqi President Jalal Talabani at a checkpoint near his residence, police said. Talabani is an ethnic Kurd and his bodyguards are also Kurdish.
After the shooting, Iraqi security forces besieged the residency compound and the alleged killer was handed over to them, police and state TV said.
Talabani suffered a stroke last year and is being treated in Germany. Few details have been released about his health since then.
His office issued a statement expressing deep sorry of the "murder" of Bdaiwi. "This act runs against all the values of the Presidential Brigade ... We stress that the perpetrator will stand trial and receive his fair punishment," it said.
State-run TV showed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arriving at the crime scene near the presidential palace. "All the people behind this should stand trial. Blood for blood and this is a violation of the law," he said
Meanwhile a series of blasts struck across the country. Police officials said the wave began with a roadside bomb in a commercial street in the northern city of Tikrit. Minutes later, a car bomb struck policemen who had arrived to inspect the site of the first blast.
The officials say five policemen and two civilians were killed and 18 people were wounded in the bombings. Tikrit is 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad.
Hours later, police said a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a security checkpoint near the town of Adeim about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. Three civilians and three police were killed.
Also, a roadside bomb hit a military checkpoint near the northern city of Mosul, killing two soldiers and wounding three others, according to the police.
The Iraqi security forces are a favorite target for Sunni insurgents who attempt to undermine the Shiite-led government.
Violence has spiked in Iraq since last April, a surge unseen since 2008. The relentless attacks have become the government's most serious challenge.
In the southern city of Basra, gunmen shot dead police Col. Madhi Ashour, the head of the crime investigation department in the city as he was walking near his house, said police.
Violence is less common in the Shiite-dominated south, although Shiite militias and criminal gangs operate there.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures from all attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.
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I have a feeling you might, too.
This Saturday and Sunday at the State Fairgrounds, watch (and taste) live cooking demonstrations by top local chefs on the Warners' Stellian Celebrity Chefs stage in the 4-H building, part of the Local Chefs, Local Food experience.
Chefs like Scott Pampuch of Corner Table and other favorites like Birchwood Cafe, Common Roots and Chef Shack will be cooking on stage while talking about what local food means to their cooking.
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Will the Obamas do any church visiting when they're in town for the convention?
If they do, we at the Dish are betting they show up at Friendship Missionary Baptist.
Hear us out: Among the many prominent members of this African-American megachurch on Beatties Ford Road are Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx and former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt -- both in the forefront of bringing the convention to CLT.
And if that's not reason enough to merit an appearance by the First Family, consider the quilts.
Let us explain: The ladies in the quilting ministry at Friendship stitched five quilts -- one each for the president, the First Lady, their two daughters and the First Mother-in-Law.
"They were all very different," reports Mayor Foxx, who hand-delivered them to the White House. "The one we gave the president actually (featured) a history of Charlotte - different patches reflected different moments in the city's history."
So, any chance that the Obamas will include a stop at Friendship on their itinerary? To share the pulpit with Pastor Clifford Jones, Sr.?
The schedules are yet to be worked out, Foxx told us. But he added: "Of course, I'm always hopeful that they will come by the church and spend time there."
If they do come, the quilting ladies should get seats in a front pew. Says Foxx: "They did not see this project as work. They saw it as a cause and it was just so incredible to see them take it on the way they did."
-Tim Funk
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Will there be an Obama sighting at a Charlotte church?
Will the Obamas do any church visiting when they're in town for the convention?
10 comments:
- Will Graham said...
Heaven forbid he show up in a "white" church, that would not be appropriate, even though Mr. Obama is 50% caucasian
- June 17, 2012 at 2:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
Why wouldn't it be appropriate if the president chose to appear at a white church? You are just race baiting to start a cyber argument!
You did NOT make similar comments when previous presidents attended the church of their choice. Looks like YOU are the one with the problem and not the POTUS.
- June 17, 2012 at 6:33 AM
- Anonymous said...
It's such a shame this church has thrown away the Bible simply because President Obama is a black man. There are so many things he believes in that simply aren't Godly, why praise him like he was God himself. This historic black church should be speaking out against these beliefs, but sadly it's more about race than it is about honoring God.
- June 17, 2012 at 10:15 AM
- Anonymous said...
He will if it will get him a vote.
- June 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
Isn't this the Church were County manager Harry Jones goes? Isn't this the same Church from whose members he chose to give the top jobs (and six figure salaries with no experience) at DSS to? One Mary Wilson and the other the Mayor's wife. Yep, pretty sure this is that church.
- June 17, 2012 at 12:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
Please let this convention come and leave. I hope it rains all week during the convention
- June 17, 2012 at 5:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
He doesn't attend church in Washington, why would he attend here?
- June 18, 2012 at 5:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
I'll laugh so hard if he shows up at Elevation.
- June 18, 2012 at 11:04 AM
- Anonymous said...
in momentul in care presedintele
articol, gresit si ilegal.
- June 19, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- Anonymous said...
Obama thought about attending a local fake mosque but the real muslims might be waiting for him with their knives since homos are all beheaded and he has homo'ed up America. Muslims in America are a joke version led by lib scum and Farrakhan.
Thats why downlow pimp Malcom X was killed by his own Chicago fakes after he went to Mecca and was lucky to get out with his head intact promptly quitting and threatening to expose Elijah Mohammed as fake.
Real muslims will cut off heads with their 100% homo to hetro conversion success rate.
Romney needs to hire real muslims executioners to take care of all the faggot stench Obama will leave behind once he is defeated in Nov.
- June 22, 2012 at 7:43 AM


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Modern tanks are tracked vehicles used primarily for line-of-sight combat, armed with cannons and machine guns. The first tanks were built during the Great War by the British as a means of overcoming German trench lines. While they did have some success, they were slow, cumbersome, temperamental, difficult to produce, and inefficiently used. Proper design and strategy for using tanks would not develop until World War II. Several subclasses of tanks have been employed, including light tanks, amphibious tanks, and main battle tanks (MBTs). Several defunct classes have been used but are no longer in service, including Tankettes, Cruiser Tanks, Infantry Tanks, and Heavy Tanks.
Tanks got their name from a ploy to avoid German intelligence discovering their first deployment; the British described them as "mobile water tanks" when shipping them to the front. The name stuck everywhere (with some local corruptions) except Germany (were they are refered to as panzers) and France (where they are known as char de combat).
List of Real Life Tanks
- British Mark V tank (United Kingdom)
- T-34 (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
- Panzer-V Panther (Nazi Germany)
- Leopard-II (Federal Republic of Germany)
- Type 99 (People's Republic of China)
- M1 Abrams (United States of America)
Tanks in Science Fiction
In addition to conventional tanks that move along on caterpillar tracks, science fiction often includes hover-tanks: tanks that levitate above the ground to better traverse terrain. In other instances in science fiction, tanks are completely automated robots. Tanks larger than real life armored fighting vehicles also appear in science fiction, some rivalling battleships in their scale.
- AAT (Star Wars)
- Leman Russ Tank (WH40K)
- Baneblade (WH40K)
- Terran Siege Tanks (Starcraft)
- Fire Nation tanks in Avatar: The Last Airbender


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Your daily dose of humor, courtesy of the Mercer Report . (Think something like Jon Stewart but with more u and eh.) It's easy to point out that Apple lost more money last week then several RIMs put together, but it's also undeniable that if you bought RIMM stock a while back, you'd be better off today than if you bought APPL stock.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Anthony Saris and the Beautiful Contradiction
Which brings us to Anthony Saris.
Last week we looked at Fletcher Martin and learned that he had some deeply held beliefs about how one should make pictures. Martin hardly fit the mold of "illustrator", but during his career he did a lot of commercial art for both editorial and advertising clients. Similarly Anthony Saris (who was a younger man but worked during the same mid-century period) drew mostly for commercial clients, but abhorred the term "commercial artist". Saris believed there was no distinction between what he called "applied art" and gallery painting. Like Martin, he believed the artist should have unrestricted creative freedom to devise as original and imaginative a solution to his assignment as possible.
Fletcher Martin didn't really plan his pictures in advance - he let them evolve on the canvas. "When I approach the painting," Martin explained, "I never begin with a fixed idea of how the painting will look. I find the painting while doing it."
Similarly, Anthony Saris would begin a picture without what he described as "the common practice of making small pencil layouts to try out the composition. With a fresh paper before me," he said, "I begin drawing, in ink, that which I have decided is to be the principle feature of the design."
Saris would then add surrounding elements until he was satisfied with the results. He would often discard a picture part way through if it began to show signs of an unsatisfactory conclusion. "In my mental background," said Saris, "I retain an image of the shape I must fill, and the illustration gradually approximates it, though the size of the drawing develops as it will, depending on whether I decide the design is complete. The finished drawing may turn out to be from two to four times the size of the reproduction-to-be."
Isn't it remarkable that two artist with such similar philosophies would produce such dramatically different results. That's because in one area these two had opposing points of view: Martin saw no merit in using photo reference for his work. "If you can draw it on the spot you can draw it later," was how he put it. "The tyranny of the model, " said Fletcher Martin, "is a terrible thing."
Anthony Saris, meanwhile, was adamant about the value of his photo reference: "I do not believe in drawing figures from memory," he said, "for thus I would miss those many subtleties and unique arrangements that often present themselves in actuality but which can never be imagined."
This, my friends, is the beautiful contradiction of art. Its why everything I tell you is the truth...
... and everything I tell you is a lie.
* My Anthony Saris Flickr set.
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It's hard to imagine an art director letting an illustrator complete the job without direction or approval of roughs. I guess Fletcher Martin was a proven talent before he started commercial work.ReplyDelete
Fletcher Martin actually did present roughs of a sort. He said he would take on an assignment in the vaguest sense, that is, without being art directed with a layout... more like, "we want to do something about San Francisco Bay". He would then go on location and do drawings... sometimes as many as 200 (!) and not always "on topic" - present them to the client, allow them to choose one to be taken to finished painting, then go off and paint it.
What's more amazing is Anthony Saris similarly getting an assignment and being allowed to do whatever he pleased without showing a rough... as he says, he never did any roughs - he went straight to ink at full size on his illustration board - and just began with the central theme or subject, then looked at whatever remaining space was left, with a vague sense of the shape he was going to have to fill, and then added supporting elements. Using that process, it would be impossible for the AD to see anything preliminary! I was absolutely astonished to discover Saris worked that way, and that ADs allowed it. Its absolutely unprecedented.
I was once told by a teacher "everything I say is true until it's not." I think artists enjoy being duplicitous.ReplyDelete
Most directors I've worked with prefer not to see prelims, but might want to see states of progress. I consider that a vote of confidence and some people aren't "hands on" types.
For my own work I'm not big on thumbnails, but sometimes do studies of specific elements, or a painting might come from a sketch. I always want to know where I'm going before I leave, but still manage to make a few changes along the way. I also share Saris' appreciation of reference material when accuracy is important.


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We have an almost 3 year old that we adopted from China last year. I have been studying Mandarin for many years although I am more than a bit frustrated that my Mandarin isn't better than it is. Despite that, she does know and speak quite a few Chinese words. And I have quite a few children's shows in Chinese that we watch together, but I really don't yet know how much of it she understands. And she is still learning English - she's only been exposed to English for less than a year now. I don't think her English expressive language skills are quite yet up to the level that a child hearing English from birth would be, and neither is her Chinese. Although I think her English is a bit better than her Chinese at this point, but there are some things that she seems to always prefer the Chinese word for and some things that she prefers English for.
I would love for her to learn Spanish also, which I also know a little bit of but haven't had time to work on, since whatever free time I have now for languages gets used for improving my Chinese. And I would like her English and Chinese to be a bit better before I start introducing Spanish to her.
Ana - I only had a chance to glance through your site, I will have to look more closely at it when I have the time. I have managed to find quite a few places to buy Chinese learning material, books, games, etc. But I haven't found as much yet for Spanish.
A book that I've found to be very informative - and have no affiliation with is 'Raising a Bilingual Child' by Barbara Zurer Pearson. Is seems the bottom line is that for a child to grow up with a language and become fluent in it is that they need to be exposed to the language at least 20% of the time, and that means to be talked to and interacted with in the language. I don't think I am quite up to 20% yet with Chinese, but I am working on it.
Well, I've gone on for long enough, I'm probably boring people but I love talking about languages!


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andrew Breitbart used the Internet relentlessly to ignite political scandal and expose what he saw as media bias, even if he sometimes had to edit the facts to do it.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andrew Breitbart used the Internet relentlessly to ignite political scandal and expose what he saw as media bias, even if he sometimes had to edit the facts to do it.
The fiery online publisher and blogger who collapsed and died Thursday at 43 relished public combat with liberals — a YouTube clip last month shows him bellowing at Occupy Wall Street protesters, "Stop raping people, you freaks!" Yet the conservatives and tea party activists who loved him said he exposed corrupt leaders and what he called the hopelessly liberal "old media guard."
The converted Hollywood lefty who partied his way through Tulane University was also a soft-spoken father of four. The conservative warrior chose to live on enemy turf, Brentwood, the tony Los Angeles enclave favored by the Hollywood elite he so often mocked.
Breitbart used his website to promote a hidden-camera video with actors posing as customers that led the downfall of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. He posted explicit photos of former Rep. Anthony Weiner that caused the New York congressman to resign in a sexting scandal, and an edited video that caused former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod to resign over since-reversed perceptions she was a racist.
In a new media age, Breitbart argued that anyone with a laptop could reshape public discourse. He used his skills at sites like Big Journalism and Big Government and his takedown of Weiner established him as a conservative media star.
He was filled with contradictions. A self-avowed enemy of the mainstream media, he loved to eyeball photos from afar from the venerable Associated Press, to which he subscribed. "It's a love-hate relationship," he confided at a quiet moment. He pleaded with conservatives to drive relentlessly forward — walk into the line of fire, he would say — yet the final sentence from his prolific and often caustic voice on Twitter was, ironically, an apology for calling a follower a "putz," just in case he misunderstood a message to him.
His business partner and lifelong friend, Larry Solov, once said Breitbart had two speeds: lighthearted jokester and fiery culture warrior. "They flip back and forth," Solov said. "And there is not that much in between."
Breitbart died after collapsing shortly after midnight during a walk near his home. He was rushed to the emergency room at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Breitbart suffered heart problems a year earlier, but his father-in-law, actor Orson Bean, said he could not pinpoint what happened. Larry Dietz, watch commander at the Los Angeles County coroner's office, said an autopsy was likely.
"It's devastating," Bean told the AP.
Breitbart leaves behind his showcase, a family of websites that waged daily war with what he considered liberal bias in the media, on college campuses and in the entertainment industry. Joel Pollak, an editor, said Breitbart was planning to launch a retooled version, and those plans would go forward.
"The core of what Andrew did was bring new citizen journalists into the new media," Pollak said. It "was, and still is, what we do."
It wasn't immediately clear who would take over the company, which once ran out of Breitbart's basement and now employs about a dozen people.
His anchor site, Breitbart.com, was visited by 1.7 million people in January, according to website tracker comScore Inc. Though other political sites are far larger — his mentor, Matt Drudge, attracted more than 4 million visits that month — his profile was elevated by public appearances and relentless speechmaking, particularly at tea party rallies, where he was a favorite.
Republican candidates for president were quick to offer praise and condolences after learning of his death. Newt Gingrich tweeted: "Andrew Breitbart was the most innovative pioneer in conservative activist social media in America. He had great courage and creativity."
He played by his own standards. He faulted what he called the mainstream media for all manner of shoddy work and bias, but his aim could go off course, too.
Sherrod, who is black, was ousted from her job as the USDA's state rural development director for Georgia in July 2010 after an edited video surfaced of her making what appeared to be a racist remark. She is seen telling an NAACP group that she was initially reluctant to help a white farmer save his farm more than two decades ago, long before she worked for USDA.
Missing from the clip was the rest of the speech, which was meant as a lesson in racial healing. Sherrod told the crowd she eventually realized her mistake and helped the farmer save his farm.
Once the entire video surfaced, Sherrod received numerous apologies from the administration — including President Barack Obama — and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asked her to return to the department to work on civil rights issues.
She declined Vilsack's offer but later sued Breitbart, his employee, Larry O'Connor, and an unnamed "John Doe" defendant for defamation. A lawyer for O'Connor said Thursday it's not clear whether the case will proceed against the other two defendants, who were seeking to dismiss the case in federal court.
In a statement Thursday, Sherrod said she was surprised to hear of Breitbart's death. "My prayers go out to Mr. Breitbart's family as they cope during this very difficult time. I do not intend to make any further comments."
Breitbart was skilled at finding issues that pushed conservative buttons while pulling Internet traffic to his websites.
"I do what I do because the mainstream media chooses not to do it," Breitbart said in a 2010 interview. "The game of the left controlling the narrative … is ending."
Condolences also came from liberal critics.
"We've disagreed more than we've found common ground, but there was never any question of Andrew's passion for and commitment to what he believed," said Ari Rabin-Havt of Media Matters, a liberal watchdog group and frequent Breitbart nemesis.
The 2009 hidden-camera video that eventually brought down ACORN showed staffers offering advice on taxes and other issues to actors posing as a prostitute and pimp — a technique that would be frowned on in journalism schools. Some employees appeared willing to support illegal schemes involving tax advice, misuse of public funds and illegal trafficking in children. A Government Accountability Office report cleared ACORN of criminal activities.
Even so, public pressure led Congress to block previously approved funds from going to ACORN and to stop future payments. Roughly 10 percent of ACORN's funds came from federal grants and the group eventually disbanded.
Weiner's downfall began on May 28 when Breitbart's website posted a lewd photograph of an underwear-clad crotch and said it had been sent from Weiner's Twitter account to a Seattle woman.
Initially, Weiner lied, saying his account had been hacked. But he pointedly did not report the incident to law enforcement — a step that could have led to charges of wrongdoing far more serious than mere sexting. At one point, he told an interviewer that he could not "say with certitude" that he wasn't the man in the underwear photo.
Weiner's spokesman said the photo was just a distraction and that the congressman doesn't know the person named by the hacker.
The congressman denied sending the photo and said he had retained an attorney and hired a private security company to figure out how someone could pull off such a prank.
But Weiner dropped that story line on June 6, offering a lengthy public confession at a Manhattan news conference, acknowledging to online activity involving at least six women.
One of two adopted children, and the son of a Santa Monica restaurateur, he traced his conservative conversion partly to the 1991 Senate hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court, which he considered unfair. Before rising to prominence, he was a long-serving underling at the Drudge Report, and was also there during the formative days of the Huffington Post.
Breitbart seldom showed restraint with critics and seemed to relish the negative attention his antics earned him. He once told reporters from the stage at a tea party convention, "It's not your business model that sucks, it's you that sucks."
After Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts died in 2009, Breitbart tweeted, "Rest in Chappaquiddick" and called him "a special pile of human excrement." When critics questioned his tone, he tweeted they "missed my best ones!"
Breitbart is survived by his wife, Susannah Bean Breitbart, and four children.
Associated Press writers Philip Elliott, Mary Clare Jalonick, Jack Gillum and Brett Blackledge in Washington, Sue Manning and Jeff Wilson in Los Angeles, and Ray Henry in Dalton. Ga., contributed to this report.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)


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At the risk of sounding like a broken record, although most reading this part of the forum don't get too offended, right???
Get ready for a windy day on Tue. It will be the post storm winds: chilly, puffy and strong. It will blow everywhere: coast, crissy, 3d, alameda, Berk and SI.
Pick your spot, bring your small stuff and get some.


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2013-06-10 • Burwell Lanier
Start: 12:08:16
alt: Hey Seventies, what's up?
Seventies: hi alt how are you? hello daviss
daviss: Hi alt and Seventies! How was your week-end?
Seventies: good and yours? Let's talk about probate records.
daviss: it was good, saw old friends even though one event was a repast
alt: Hi Daviss, I'm doing fine ladies & I hope the same is true for y'all
Seventies: Here is one that I was looking over this weekend. This guys name keeps coming up... Clem(ent) G. Lanier of Autauga Co. AL
daviss: good alt
Seventies: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23161-11258-87?cc=1978117&wc=M93Q-S38:1514503847
daviss: Ok so what is it that you want to know...Did you read the entire file?
alt: which image do you want us to look at?
Seventies: So to give you all a short-ish story. I from time to time look for Laniers in Autauga Co. AL where my grandfather was from. When I do look, the name C.G., Clem Lanier comes up. I've also seen his presumed brothers, Issac, William and Burwell (same name as my gg grandfather who was black). You can just glance. but is this the normal size for a probate record? Nearly 50 pages long? the only thing about this man is that he died after the CW in 1876...
alt: not sure about "normal size", but 50 pages isn't unusual
Seventies: There were lots of tax issues and someone else stepped in to be the executor of his estate. Some Mary Lanier.
alt: stepped in, or was named ???
Seventies: Petitioned and then approved by the court.
alt: okay
Seventies: She, Mary Lanier, petitioned the court. Then spent all of the estate money... at least that's what it looks like.
alt: She petitioned the court or was she petitioned BY the court?
Seventies: She petitioned the court.
alt: and her relationship to the deceased?
daviss: she petitioned then they granted
Seventies: yep. I think sis in law.
daviss: It should say for sure who she was you say she spent all the money, was it for taxes and monies owed for people
Seventies: I'll have to look again. I was checking out the other names from the county that I'd seen in the past.
daviss: owed to people rather OIC
Seventies: These people continue to pop up when I am looking for my Laniers... could it be a sign? :}
daviss: so there may or may not be a connect to your Lanier's could be Seventies
alt: looking at some of the later #'d pages looks like some were of property inventory & to pay debts of the deceased
Seventies: Yeah I was hoping that this man would've died before 1860 perhaps to get some sort of inventory. I believe that these Laniers are also connected to the Huntsville, Madison Co., AL Laniers... if so that would be great!
alt: his personal estate and property would still have to be "inventoried" regardless of death date.
Seventies: hi vkn
alt: just would not be any "slave property", if there ever was any.
Seventies: right, that's what I was looking for alt.
daviss: hello vkn!!
vkn: Y'all be lookin' good
Seventies: thank ya!
alt: you too !!!!!! LOL
vkn: lol thankee
alt: Seventies, have you looked at this person in the 1870 & early census records for possible slave ownership?
Seventies: Well I will go over that will with a fine tooth comb. I'll also see if I can find probates on the brothers, William, Isaac and Burwell. Yes, he does have slaves in 1860...
vkn: Burwell is a good southern name
daviss: good idea seventies
Seventies: it is?? lol
vkn: yessum
Seventies: Well all I want to know is if those Laniers are connected to my Black Laniers..
alt: then you have an idea of the # of slaves he may of had prior to the end of the CW 1860 & 1870 slaves schedule & then the regular census records for those years giving personal property values along with real estate values.
Seventies: For my Burwell Lanier to be named after the 'father' of these men... interesting. alt, I'll do that. thanks.
alt: how old was your Burwell Lanier in 1870.. 1880 etc.?
Seventies: in 1870 about 30
vkn: Y'all be good I be running ~~~~~~
alt: then he could be a male slave about 20 y/o in 1860
Seventies: yes. I don't even know if they had FPOC in Autauga, Co. AL
alt: and maybe even 10 y/o in the 1850 slave schedule
Seventies: I'll take a look. Y'all know I don't do much research in Alabama.
alt: I think there were FPOC Wicker's in Autauga Co ca the 1850's
Seventies: So I feel kind of 'wobbly' when looking at those records.
alt: don't be ... records are records...
Seventies: Ok this is the Lanier household in 1900.. any names familiar? lol Head Berwell Lanier M 61 Alabama Wife Charity Lanier F 58 Alabama Son Thomas L Lanier M 28 Alabama Daughter Bettie Lanier F 20 Alabama Daughter Laura Lanier F 18 Alabama Daughter Liana Lanier F 15 Alabama Daughter Luela Lanier F 13 Alabama Son William H Lanier M 10 Alabama She and I are exactly 90 years apart in birthdays... lol Hi HistoryBuff.
alt: not to me.. except William Lanier as in the linebacker for the KC Chiefs football team Willie Lanier LOL
daviss: hello HistoryBuff
HistoryBuff: Hey all
alt: oh, and of course Laura
daviss: Hi Selma
Seventies: LOL alt. Aren't you FB friends with L.T. Lanier.. lol Hi Selma
alt: Hello Selma
Selma: Afternoon alt, daviss, history and seventies
HistoryBuff: Hey Selma.
Seventies: oh alt, how can I get into the Forks of the Road FB group. I definitely have some docs to share.
alt: they had a 'thing' for the letter "L" for the femalle Lanier's, huh?
Seventies: That's right up my alley. So glad that page has been started. Yes.. my mother's very same logic for naming me Laura.. lol Maybe it was in the divine plan.. What's new with you HistoryBuff? Selma? Any CW USCT events going on in your locales? what about you alt?
Selma: I spent 2 1/2 hours at Chuckie Cheese this weekend..my brain is still fried
daviss: seventies Forks on FB is open group
alt: big time Seventies Ohio CW150 events all over the place LOL LOL
Seventies: I know, but you still have to be approved to get in... Sorry Selma about Chuckie Cheese lol
daviss: Boxley is your friend so I am sure yoy will
Selma: Kids..loved it
Seventies: I hope so. :}
alt: shoot a message to Bennie or Boxley Seventies
HistoryBuff: Just plugging. along 70s.
Seventies: ok I will, just wanted to give them a chance to update me. I am really looking for other folks to connect with who have family in that area. I saw a lady from Natchez who is friends with some of my extended family members... Thought that was interesting. She's also on Forks of the Road group.
HistoryBuff: Nice
Seventies: Natchez is a small city. Most of the people there are descendants of the formerly enslaved population.
Selma: Was there a FB office there?
Seventies: yes Before the FB, they were hq'd there.... covered LA, Southern MS and even all the way up to Arkansas.
Selma: So it was probably an area with "contraband" from other areas flocked to
Seventies: Yes...
alt: Selma, I'm with you today.. had a visit by a granddaughter and her 4 kids yesterday afternoon.... ages 11 y/o down to 3 mos.... Happy to see'em
Seventies: From Wilkinson Co. I see a lot who came from that area that joined the 58th USCT... Linda Rudd has seen many from her ancestral area of research. lol alt!
Selma: Have one more coming in tonight
Seventies: Yea 4 little balls of energy is a lot.. lol
alt: that probate record should keep you busy for a moment or two Seventies
Seventies: yeah. It will At least it confirmed the relationship of the other white Laniers I'd seen in Autauga Co. AL a relationship
alt: that's a start... where did they come from prior to Alabama?
Seventies: I don't know, probably the Carolinas
alt: okay
daviss: The will may state
Seventies: Lots of Carolina people, at least in what I've seen, went to that area of Alabama
alt: and isn't Mobile in that county, or at least near that county?
Seventies: No.. Autauga Co. AL is central AL, near the Black Belt region Mobile is on the Gulf Coast
alt: okay why do I have Autauga connected to Mobile in my mind?????
Seventies: Not sure. They had some FPOCs in Mobile. Maybe that's why. A community of FPOCs
Selma: Good folks..gotta run..
daviss: ok sel
Seventies: ok have a good day Selma
Selma: Have a great day
alt: seems like there is a French Huguenot (sp) connections between those 2 counties
Seventies: Perhaps.
alt: I know the Wickers connect to both counties
Seventies: okay... I figured that they would be in Mobile.
daviss: The Chastain's also
Seventies: Ok. Someone asked me about the Ladniers also who are from the Mobile area.
alt: right daviss and the are definetly French Huguenot
Seventies: And they would've come from Virginia, at least some of them, right?
daviss: yes
Seventies: dang digety dang, its already 1:00 pm lol
daviss: 10 for me seventies
alt: right Seventies, there were Chatains that came to America with the LaFroce family in the late 1600's that settled first in the Goochland/Henrico county areas of Virginia
Seventies: I thought so alt. Ok I just got my answer on the Laniers.. lol
alt: I have copies of some LaForce documents where the Chastains were signatories (sp).
Seventies: Here are the white Laniers in 1870. Looks like William and Isaac are brothers. Clem may be another relation to them Burwell C Lanier M 49y Tennessee Laura P E Lanier F 35y Alabama Burwell C Lanier M 16y Alabama John F Lanier M 13y Alabama Isaac A Lanier M 10y Alabama Virginia H Lanier F 6y Alabama Fulton C Lanier M 3y Alabama Mary L Lanier F 5m Alabama George M Harris M 50y Alabama Mary A Harris F 46y Alabama Arthur L Harris M 13y Alabama Julia Kibbill F 14y Alabama Ok I will have to explore this much deeper. I don't even know why I'm looking at these people.. lol
alt: cause you're a "researcher" LOL
Seventies: I guess.. lol researcher = nosy... lol
alt: okay, but I say ... curious
Seventies: Well yes I am curious.
alt: kind of weird too LOl LOL LOL LOL
Seventies: ha ha haha :} maybe I'm supposed to find them to find my Lanier ancestors...
alt: you bet Seventies
daviss: btw Seventies, I enjoyed your Reunion blog
Seventies: Thanks daviss. I appreciate that
alt: I'm outta here y'all take care
daviss: bye alt, take care
Seventies: ok have a good one alt Thanks for reading it daviss.
daviss: always a pleasure Seventies
Seventies: So I got two invites... one to do transcription and the other to talk about the CW 150 regarding the USCTs
daviss: both would be good for you
Seventies: Thanks...
daviss: where would the talk take place?
Seventies: By phone a pre-recorded conversation with the people who did the Memphis tours. I've known them since 2007.
daviss: oic
Seventies: So gotta get some stuff together... :} Ok dearie daviss, I have to run. Its monday and lots ofwork to do.
daviss: ok later take care
Seventies: you too


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- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's good to see University of California scientists pursuing rare bumble bees.
The latest news on the bumble bee front: UC Riverside scientists recently rediscovered "Cockerell's Bumble Bee" (Bombus cockerelli Franklin), considered "the rarest of the rare" species of bumble bee in the United States.
It hadn't been seen since 1956. Then, on Aug. 31, 2011 UC Riverside scientists collected the species on weeds along a highway north of Cloudcroft in the White Mountains of south-central New Mexico.
In a Dec. 5th press release, UC Riverside senior museum scientist Douglas Yanega told senior public information officer Iqbal Pittalwala: "Most bumble bees in the U.S. are known from dozens to thousands of specimens, but not this species. The area it occurs in is infrequently visited by entomologists, and the species has long been ignored because it was thought that it was not actually a genuine species, but only a regional color variant of another well-known species."
Fast-forward to UC Davis Department of Entomology where native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology, is pursuing the critically imperiled--and maybe extinct--Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini Frison).
Thorp hasn't seen Franklin's bumble bee since 2006. Its range is a 13,300-square-mile area in Siskiyou and Trinity counties in California, and Jackson, Douglas and Josephine counties in Oregon. Up until now, its habitat was thought to be the smallest of any other bumble bee in the world.
Yanega believes that the range of the Cockerell's bumble bee is the smallest in the world. It's less than 300 square miles, he says.
Davis bumble bee enthusiast Gary Zamzow (he studies and photographs bumble bees and is a volunteer in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis), says the latest find is "an exciting discovery and encouraging news. Gives one hope in finding lost bumble bees."
And an interesting note: Henry James Franklin (1883-1958), who monographed the bumble bees of North and South America in 1912-13, named both of them. Franklin named Cockerell's bumble bee for Theodore Dru Allison Cockerell (1866-1948).


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