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MIAMI — Brett Anderson is in a hurry. He doesn't walk. He strides. He doesn't listen to music. He nods his head to it, the lightning guitar and rapid-fire drums of Metallica ringing in his ears before starts.
He is the anti-Jorge De La Rosa, pitching like he's parked in a loading zone. Catch it. Step back. Fire.
His outs are crisp. Even his misses are efficient. However, a failed quick stab at a groundball spilled grape juice on his debut, leaving the Rockies winless two games into the season after a 4-3 loss to the Marlins on Tuesday night.
"I didn't miss it by much. It was kind of the difference in the game," Anderson said. "I gave us a chance to win with what I had tonight. But my velocity wasn't very good at all, and I made a couple of terrible pitches."
PHOTOS: Colorado Rockies vs. Miami Marlins
Anderson worked with purpose but experienced what many Rockies pitchers have before him. In a visiting park, there is no marginalizing any mistake, even when it's played before a crowd suiting a company picnic.
The outcome hinged on a single throw and an arm's length. After the Rockies tied the score at 2-all against Nathan Eovaldi, Anderson encountered trouble in the sixth. He leaned on his experience, displaying remarkable confidence in trying to tip-toe over the shards of glass. With Reed Johnson on third as the go-ahead run, Anderson walked Jeff Baker to set up a double play for Giancarlo Stanton.
He almost pulled it off. Stanton chopped a high-hopper to third baseman Nolan Arenado. He had no play at home, electing to fire to second baseman DJ LeMahieu. Stanton was hustling on contact as an off-balance LeMahieu threw the ball into the first-base dugout, preventing the third out.
TOUT VIDEO: Walt Weiss on Rockies' decisive inning.
TOUT VIDEO: Brett Anderson said Marlins sat on his slider.
"Normally you don't want Stanton to hit the ball harder," Anderson said. "A game of inches."
Stanton stole third base, creating an at-bat that swelled in significance as the game wore on. Casey McGehee stepped in against Anderson. If McGehee sounds familiar, it's probably because you pay attention to Japanese baseball. He was a teammate of Masahiro Tanaka's on the Rakuten Golden Eagles. He helped lead the team to a title, a game won by the New York Yankees' Tanaka, by swatting 28 home runs.
After falling behind 0-2, McGehee hit a 2-2 sinker sharply back at Anderson. He reached to his right, narrowly missing the ball as it wandered into center field, spoiling the left-hander's outing. He allowed three earned runs in six innings on 82 pitches. He was facing tough odds when he fell behind.
The Rockies struggle to score on the road and are an easy mark when they don't. They are 3-40 in visiting marks when the opponents strike first dating to last season.
Colorado threatened to rewrite that statistic against reliever Mike Dunn in the eighth. Michael Cuddyer and Carlos Gonzalez belted back-to-back doubles, shaving the deficit to a run. Troy Tulowitzki, who turned in one of the best defensive plays of his career earlier in the game with a sidearm jump throw, couldn't advance Gonzalez. After Wilin Rosario worked a walk from reliever A.J. Ramos, refusing to be tempted by five straight sliders, Arenado struck out after swinging through a ripe fastball on strike two.
"I had two pitches to hit, and I missed them," Arenado said. "I can't be doing that. I have to take advantage of those."
Rally doused. Game over.
It was quick — 2 hours, 24 minutes — but no less painful.
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On the List (OTL) Seat Filler Club Members receive Free Show Tickets to Music, Theater, Comedy & more when Shows have some unsold open seats they would like to fill.
If you like to find new "Things to Do", being an OTL Seat Filler Member is for you! Read on...
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OTL is a Live Events Membership Club – an area "Seat Filler Membership Club" that supports the Arts & Entertainment Community. OTL Members receive Free Theater Tickets, Comedy Tickets, Music Tickets and other Show Tickets as they privately fill those unsold seats for the shows and events.
On the List (OTL) is a unique and fairly new concept to communities outside of Los Angeles and NYC. If you're not an OTL Seat Filler club member yet, we encourage you to watch our explainer video and read this page to make sure that membership is right for you. It's an incredible way to stretch an entertainment budget and get out more, but it's not for you if you're looking for one type of show or event. The Fun of OTL is not only receiving free tickets and enjoying amazing local shows, but seeing what pops up throughout the month and being introduced to new theaters, shows and events right in your own city.
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In this, our latest newsletter, I want to first thank those
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on July 8, and share the encouraging comments we've received:
"You have taken all the transportation costs and arbitration issues totally out of the picture. Amazing"
"I can retail my aged front line units right up to the last minute and not feel captive by a fixed site auction if it doesn't sell."
"I can preview 100 cars in 15 minutes. I'm just blown away!"
"This system depicts everything. You could probably appraise a diamond off it!"
For those of you who weren't able to attend our preview and are thinking "Yeah, I've bought/sold cars online with Ebay, competitive fixed site auctions, etc. There were always surprises or problems and I've got the scars to prove it." Think again!!
20+ years ago, Dealer Auctions set the pace for the auto auction industry and as a result, quickly became the nation's largest totally mobile auto auction company. Those of you in the business that long, think back to when we reinvented the industry with mobile auctions and how many different folks are now "trying" to copy what we do. Well, after over 10,000 auctions conducted, we've raised the bar again and are bringing the auto auction business into the 21st century.
With an in-house designed proprietary video system using up to 23 computers per location and specially designed laser projectors, you will be seeing images at 10x virtual eyesight, beyond anything else you've seen today. If you've been to a Walmart or BestBuy lately and witnessed the stunning images of digital TV being broadcast with true 4k technology, you've probably marveled, like me, at the amazing detail versus anything else on the market. Now, imagine detail 20X that and this is what you have with our "Ultra-Vision" system. A system so advanced that the current internet structure doesn't have the capability of transmitting pictures this clear. Hence, the need for us to begin building our own infrastructure consisting of a nationwide string of "Ultra-Vision Auction Centers" , beginning here in North Carolina, until internet technology catches up to us.
Sellers for the first time can wholesale aged cars without the expense of transportation, detailing, or removing it from that slot while it is still for retail sale. All they need to do is allow us to come in using our special ultra-definition cameras and take pictures of their cars which are then uploaded to our system. That's the total involvement with the seller. We take over from there.
The cars will be held in our data bank and periodically re-run until sold. Additional benefits are that the cars won't be subject to the problems typically associated with fixed site auctions; lost keys, transportation damage, damage at the auction, loss of potential retail sale, no serious buyers in the lane when the car runs, etc. All this at a minimal cost, much less than associated with fixed site auctions.
In full climate controlled comfort with complementary food and beverages, our unique "Ultra-Vision" touch screen monitors will allow buyers to search through thousands of cars quickly, pick the ones they want, zoom in to view them in almost microscopic detail, and bid with confidence, knowing what you see is exactly what you get. No surprises! Buyers will also be able to do phone and proxy bids.
Our capabilities are endless with this system. We literally can have 60,000 acres of cars and sell them in a 6500 square-foot facility.
Since I can't possibly cover everything here in this newsletter, watch our website, dlrauctions.com, for upcoming announcements and more amazing developments. While there, be sure to check out our existing and new mobile auctions as well. From this point forward, sellers and buyers will have a choice of which venue works best for them.
Just as important, I want to give a special "thank you" to our friend Corey Glass along with the entire staff at the Charlotte Motor Speedway for going above and beyond any of our expectations to give us whatever was needed to insure the success of our collector car auctions at the Speedway. What an amazing and talented group of people! A class act all the way!
I'm a firm believer in the adage "You can't do everything well" and would be remiss in thinking we could give the collector car auction and the folks at the Speedway the full attention and quality they deserve, given the intense workload required with our new projects throughout the country. After a long and wonderful relationship, with great sadness, we have withdrawn as the host auction for the collector cars at the Speedway. I wish them continued future success and we stand ready to assist them in any way possible in the transition.
Lastly, thanks to all our clients and customers, past, present, and future for taking the time to read this newsletter.
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I'm always drawn to star blocks, so it seemed natural to design a star for Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 5. While doodling on graph paper, I played with the idea of different sized stars in the same block and decided on a design where the stars got progressively smaller (or larger depending on how you look at it!).
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Blue and yellow are favorite colors of mine, and these fabrics from the Midnight Blue collection by Karen Combs for Troy Riverwoods Collection were perfect. They made each star stand out on its own.
I drew my block in EQ7 by The Electric Quilt Company and played with different quilt layouts. One of the things I love about EQ is the ability to easily use blocks to create different quilt designs. Here are a few of the layouts I came up with.
I wanted to design a border for this quilt. I decided to break the block down into the 3 different stars.
Using 2 of the different individual stars, I designed these simple borders:
There's one border using 4 stars and one using 8 stars (with a different colored background). I think it would be fun to use these individual stars in different combinations for borders as well.
For these designs I used the same colors as my original block, but I can see lots of different coloring possibilities for these quilts.
I enjoy analyzing blocks and designing borders and settings to showcase the blocks. That's also one of the classes I'll be teaching at Quiltmaker's Block Party in Williamsburg, VA August 24.
I'd love to have you join me and the other great teachers we have lined up (Debbie Caffrey, Nancy Mahoney, Monique Dillard, Lynda Howell, Carolyn McCormick, Bonnie Hunter and QM Interactive Editor Diane Harris) for a wonderful time in historic Williamsburg. Along with classes from these great teachers, 2 dinners are included with keynote speakers Bonnie Hunter and NY Times best-selling author, Jennifer Chiaverini, author of the popular Elm Creek Quilts novels.
Leave a comment by 12 noon MST on Tuesday, 5/1 telling me what color combinations you would use for a chance to win a copy of 100 Blocks Volume 5 and prizes from FreeSpirit and Timeless Treasures.
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Inspired by Scraps All Around from quilt collectors Mary Elizabeth Kinch and Biz Storms
Quilt tester: Laura Boehnke
2 yards total assorted prints in white, gray, yellow, and black (blocks)
1-1⁄4 yards yellow batik (center unit, blocks, inner border, binding)
2⁄3 yard black-and-gold stripe (middle border)
7⁄8 yard gray-and-yellow print (outer border)
3-1⁄2 yards backing fabric
62" square batting
Finished quilt: 54" square
Finished blocks: Pinwheel, 4-1⁄4" square; Broken Dishes, 8-1⁄2" square
Yardages and cutting instructions are based on 42" of usable fabric width.
Measurements include 1⁄4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.


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Last season the Knicks went 0-2 against the Houston Rockets. The first loss, a 104-98 loss at Madison Square Garden resulted in the infamous "I'm sick of losing" Amar'e Stoudemire post game and helped turn the Knicks season around. Tonight the Knicks, having lost 8 of 9, look to turn their season around against the Rockets.
Here's what to watch for:
- The Knicks bench vs the Houston bench. While the Knicks have a weak and mostly ineffective bench, the Rockets bench is one of the deepest and most talented in the league. Chase Budinger, Goran Dragic, Courtney Lee, Patrick Patterson, Terrence Williams, Jonny Flynn and ex-Knick Jordan Hill give the Rockets bench a huge advantage over the Knicks. In an attempt to try and even the bench scoring, Mike D'Antoni has decided that Billy Walker will start and Iman Shumpert will come off the bench tonight. Shumpert is better suited off the bench in that he will give the Knicks some much needed scoring. In order for the Knicks to succeed tonight, their bench will have to shoot well and put some points in. This is a winnable game for the Knicks but that will change if the Rockets 2nd unit grossly outscores the Knicks tonight.
- Is this the night Amar'e Stoudemire gets going? I seem to write about this before every game but with Melo out it is imperative that Amar'e dominates offensively tonight. In last season's match ups with Houston, Chuck Hayes was able to get underneath Stoudemire and throw off his offensive game. Houston no longer has Hayes on their roster and does not boast another post defender that historically gives Stoudemire problems. Luis Scola is a good player but he plays a bit soft. Ditto for Samuel Dalembert. If Amar'e really is focused and aggressive tonight, he can dominate against Houston's front court.
- If the Knicks are trailing in the 4th, will they go to "Toney Douglas" offense? Whenever the Knicks trail in the 4th, they revert to this wildly ineffective Toney Douglas high pick and roll offense that either results in 3's banging off the side of the backboard or horrid turnovers. I truly hope that the Knicks will get their damn max-salary player the ball in the 4th quarter instead of putting the ball in the hands of a rattled shooting guard from Florida State. In the heat of the crucible, Douglas' head begins to spin and the game moves far too quickly for the 3rd year guard.
- Landry Fields > Rockets shooting guards. With Kevin Martin out (yes I said Wade was out yesterday and he ended up playing but Martin WILL be out) with plantar fasciitis, Fields should have his 6th consecutive double digit scoring game. Last night, Fields knocked down a couple 3 pointers which was a great sign given that he has been horrible from beyond the arc (22.9%) this season. Tonight, against either Chase Budinger or Courtney Lee, Fields should have an advantage. Both players are good players but I believe Fields is more athletic and should get to the rim tonight.
- The desperate Knicks will be in dire straits tonight against a deep and athletic team. A loss will drop them to a horrid 7-13 on the season. Look on the bright side Knick fans, at least this guy doesn't play for Houston anymore:


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Call it two scenes from the new media revolution.
Scene 1: Room 233, the TV lounge on the second floor of American University's Anderson Hall dormitory, isn't exactly state-of-the-art home theater, but you could do a lot worse. There are dining tables, upholstered chairs, and a love seat all in front of a 42-inch Toshiba flat screen – and plenty of room.
At 6:30 on a pleasant April evening, as the opening bars of network evening news music play in living rooms elsewhere, the lounge is ... empty, except for one student having an in-depth cellphone conversation about his grade-point average. The TV is black. And as the minutes pass, the conversation rolls on: proof that if you want a quiet place to talk in a modern American college dorm, there may be no better place than your nearest TV lounge at the dinner news hour.
And it's not just the TV news that is largely forgotten here. There are no discarded sections of folded newsprint on the tables, either. Students at American get free copies of The New York Times and The Washington Post, but most don't bother – or they do so for different sorts of reasons. "I like the comics [in the Post]" says Susan Stine, a junior.
Scene 2: At the same hour, two miles away at the Sunrise Senior Living center, eight residents gather around their own big flat screen in a finely appointed, oak-paneled TV lounge: They watch C-SPAN quietly and intently. It is the very definition of single-task TV-viewing. Out in front of Sunrise, a man sits quietly in one of the rocking chairs that line the face of the building, studying The Washington Post. Cars whiz by on Connecticut Avenue as he slowly thumbs through the A section.
And up in their rooms, others tune into Katie Couric or Brian Williams or Diane Sawyer or Jim Lehrer to get a summary of the day's events. "I like to watch MacNeil/Lehrer," says Rhoda Alexander, a transplanted New Yorker, who calls the PBS NewsHour by the names of its previous co-anchors. "I watch Brian Williams, too. He's from my hometown."
There has been a flurry of reports about where Katie Couric will go when she leaves the "CBS Evening News" anchor position this month: A TV talk show? Maybe back to morning TV? But aside from the media's "Where will Katie go?" speculation, there is a more poignant question: How much do people really care?
There were, on average, 21.6 million people watching one of the three network evening newscasts in 2010, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. That's a good number, but it's 28.9 million fewer than watched in 1980. That drop is bad enough on its own, but consider the larger pool: There were 80 million more people in the United States in 2010 than in 1980. And though evening news viewership certainly isn't limited to the nation's senior centers, Katie, Brian, Diane, and Jim are well-known visitors in them. The median age of the nightly TV news viewer stands at over 62. So, in response to declining ratings at CBS, here we go again: another anchor shift aimed at bringing in younger viewers and bringing up ratings.
But regardless of who is in the anchor chair for any of the networks, they are bound to seem smaller in 21st-century America than they once did. The changes cascading through the news media have made the old models of news delivery – like, say, an anchor reading the news at an appointed time – seem archaic. And it is about more than just TV – newspapers, magazines, radio, all the "legacy" media are feeling the earth move beneath them. Journalists look out and see thousands of empty campus TV lounges and newsprint-less recycling bins and millions of iPads and smart phones and they wonder what's coming next.
For the public, the questions are deeper. What is the changing media landscape doing to the way the public gets news? What is it doing to the news itself? And what is it doing to the public as people?
The new day
In many ways Ms. Stine is the kind of young person news organizations dream about. She grew up in a house where The Philadelphia Inquirer was delivered daily, The New York Times came on the weekend, and the coffee table always featured the latest issues of The Economist and The New Yorker. And as an international relations student, she feels the need to keep up on the news. On her list of trusted, favorite news outlets – The New York Times, BBC, Huffington Post, and KYW (a Philadelphia radio station).
But all of those outlets – a traditional newspaper and TV network, a blog, and a radio station – are consumed on one device: her MacBook laptop computer, which is always at her side or in her backpack, wherever she goes.
"I get an e-mail every day from The New York Times. That's my first look at the site," Stine says. "Why would I get the paper? It's free [here], but it's big and bulky and there are no links – nothing to click on if I want more."
Walk across the campus or into a campus hangout like the Davenport Coffee Lounge and you will see faces lit by the dull glow of electronic screens, everything from laptops to smart phones, and not a sheet of newsprint in sight. The students click through Facebook, but also through news sites – The New York Times, The Washington Post – as they lounge and converse and sip. This is the modern news hub for your standard-issue 21st-century college student.
Stine says a normal day for her is rolling out of bed to catch an 8:30 class or go to work with little time to read the day's news. She catches up in an ad hoc fashion at odd moments. Her first check-in with headlines often happens in class, if things get dull, or immediately afterward between classes. She figures that over the course of the day, she opens her laptop 10 times and cycles through a list of outlets reading about Libya after her early class or about fashion after lunch. And, like other online news consumers, she has essentially created her own digital newspaper based on her quirks and interests.
The Susan Stine Daily? The "legacy media" are well represented in The New York Times, BBC, and radio station site KYW. But Huffington Post is there to offer some pointed opinion. There is also Project Rungay, a fashion blog. And for her fill of trashy celebrity pseudonews there is Oh No They Didn't – a website with the motto "The celebrities are disposable. The gossip is priceless." All in all, a nice smattering of most everything.
"And I always check in with Twitter and Facebook," she adds.
Water cooler or wire service? All news is social.
Twitter, 200 million users, and Facebook, 500 million, have become the new behemoths of the news media environment, particularly among younger users.
These sites, and other social-media sites like them, are more than ways to find out where friends are eating or hanging out, they are catalogs of news links. So along with her daily online "newspaper," Stine dips into the daily "newspapers" of other friends and their news of the day – stories they've read, blogs they've scanned, videos they've watched, which, combined, are the equivalent of personal news services.
Social media is a growing force in news consumption across the age spectrum, but it is particularly prominent among younger news consumer like the students at American University (AU). Almost 60 percent of those ages 18 to 29, according to a Pew Research Center survey, said it was important to be able to share "news content with others through e-mails or posting to other websites, like Facebook." That was much higher than any other age group.
And for some critics that raises real questions. Assuming our friends are a lot like us – or at least similar in outlook or background – what does this world of "friend approved news" mean for democracy? Are we, particularly the young, just talking to yes men to confirm our beliefs? In the age of customized news consumption, how does one reach outside one's intellectual garden for a broader perspective, much less get a complete picture of what's actually happening in the world?
But, all is not lost, says Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, far from it: "Young people get their news from friends through e-mail and social media, but the [news] links are usually to more mainstream outlets. It's stories from Yahoo, MSNBC, AOL, Google, and The New York Times."
So younger media consumers are not just trading links from Huffington Post on the left or Michelle Malkin on the right. They are going to the same sources their parents went to, just digitally – much like Stine. And, contrary to what other "older, wiser" news consumers might believe, they are actually fairly up to speed on the news.
"In 2008, the knowledge level of younger news consumers was even with the older folks," Mr. Rosenstiel says. "They are still interested in news, not just opinion. That's what the Web has shown us. It was the medium they weren't interested in, not the message."
And younger people may be the vanguard, but the shift toward digital news reaches across age groups and across the entirety of the news media. In 2010, the only medium that saw audience growth was online. Everything else, from local TV news to cable to newspapers saw declines, some of them fairly steep. Cable TV audiences were down by more than 13 percent.
For older audiences, the technology itself is the draw. Young people may love their news online, but they probably find it harder to drop $500 on an iPad (and that's the cheapest model). The audience measurement firm comScore recently reported that 50 percent of iPad owners made more than $100,000 a year – not exactly student wages.
Two of the words most frequently applied to the iPad are "game changer." The slim relatively lightweight gadget makes the online reading experience much more like reading a newspaper of old – without the inky hands. And it has spawned a rush to the "computer tablet" market for computermakers. This year alone there will be dozens of tablets released by a range of makers – HTC, Acer, BlackBerry, Samsung. Many will be cheaper. Some are already under $200. And as the number of tablets in people's hands grows, the digital news revolution will take its next step.
There are real advantages to getting one's news on a tablet. Links are clickable. If you suddenly find yourself interested in a film review you can simply type a few words and watch its trailer. If you're unclear about events leading to, say, the conflict in Libya, help is a Google search away.
Add all that together and you understand the change will almost certainly be permanent.
What's lost, what's gained
But beyond all the chips and technology and social media, how different exactly is the new media world we have already half entered? Maybe not as much as you think.
Despite the media focus on blogs and the far left and right, top news sites on the Web in the new media world look a lot like the old media world. In March they were, according to The Nielsen Company rankings for most popular current events and global news sites, in order: Yahoo News websites, CNN digital network, MSNBC, AOL News, NYTimes.com, Fox News digital network, Tribune Newspapers, Huffington Post, ABCNews digital network, and Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division. Yahoo and AOL may be new-media names, but they have some deep old-media roots. Yahoo has some original content (its own set of blogs) and some real editors deciding what is news on its site, but much of what is there also comes from the legacy world. And while AOL has waded into local journalism with dozens of small "hyperlocal" newsrooms spread across 18 states that it calls "Patch," underneath are a lot of stories drawn from the Associated Press and Huffington Post. It could be argued that the only true "new media" entry on the list is Huffington Post, which wants to put more money into Patch and act more like a legacy outlet. The next 10 top sites, by the way, look much the same with the Los Angeles Times, CBS News, and the BBC in the fold. (The Monitor was 47th in March Nielsen rankings.)
So the places where people get news are not astonishingly different.
What about the dangers of social media?
"I think it makes intuitive sense that the new media world, particularly social media, can create problems and change the way we learn about the world: the idea that you make your own echo chamber. But in a sense it has always been that way," says Michael Tippett, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based founder of the website NowPublic. "How much do you think Fox News carefully selects its stories? And we have always talked to friends about news."
Mr. Tippett is not exactly your average news consumer or a disinterested party. NowPublic is part of the new media environment, "a crowd-sourced, participatory news network that mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world" is how it describes itself. But he raises an important point.
Now, instead of meeting your friend for coffee to talk about what he or she has been reading, watching, or listening to, you can just go by their Facebook wall or look at their Twitter feed. You can get straight into their heads without all that small talk.
"Oftentimes I go through my Twitter feeds and I am amazed by the diversity of what is there," says Tippett. "And I think, 'Wow, maybe my friends are more interesting than I think.' "
And there are other benefits to the new media consumption habits.
"Twitter has become a real-time link exchange, a short-form [freelance journalist] network," Tippett says. "Sometimes when my cable goes out at home I go to Twitter and search 'my city' and 'cable' to see what's there." If there are a bunch of entries saying that the cable is out, he knows that the outage is for the city or neighborhood; if not, he knows he needs to call the cable company.
It's also a zeitgeist detector, Tippett says, albeit one for the most wired news consumers. On April 24, the top trending items on Twitter in the US included "Savior," "Praise God" and "Felices Pascuas" (Spanish for Happy Easter). Certainly a reading of some kind of sentiment on a quiet Easter Sunday. This is the impact of social media on news, Tippett argues. It's really just old media-plus, and who could be against that?
In fact, when you look at all of it – people turning to reliable news outlets with constantly updated headlines supplemented by crowd-sourced news and links from friends to stories you might have missed – you might wonder what exactly there is to be afraid of in the new media culture. Could it be we are walking into a new news utopia – anchor chairs and newsprint nonwithstanding?
Not completely. There are some serious growing pains coming out of the way we increasingly get our news.
Who'll do the reporting?
One of the biggest and potentially most troubling aspects of the new-media culture is the cuts that have come to news organizations of all forms around the country due to lost revenues. The rise of the digital outlets through laptops and tablets and smart phones has left a gaping hole in revenues for news outlets.
The Web, in the form of Craigslist and similar sites, has destroyed classified advertising for newspapers while falling circulation hurts commercial print ads. The disappearing and aging audiences from the evening news have meant reductions there as well. The ads heavily weighted toward ailments of all sorts and their medications can make the viewer feel like a pharmaceutical convention is taking place on their televisions.
In the past four years, newspaper revenue has dropped 48 percent. Network TV saw a better 2010, but the trend since 2000 is unmistakably down – or up only because of staff cuts.
And that's one of the most serious challenges of the new media world. There is money spent in advertising online, but much of it is spent on search advertising, and that money does not flow into newsrooms, but rather to the Googles and Yahoos of the world. Online revenues for the legacy media have not been able to keep pace with the loss of revenues that have come with shrinking audiences. The result: smaller staffs.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism estimates that newspaper newsrooms, on the whole, are 30 percent smaller than they were in 2000. ABC News cut its staff by 25 percent last year. CBS News slashed its personnel by 75 people. And cuts for both those news divisions came after cuts earlier in the decade.
What's more, all those cuts come as we enter this age of round-the-clock news updates – which actually requires more staff. So staffs are pushed to do more with less year after year. Eventually, maybe even now, those cuts will have an impact on the constant headlines on phones and iPads. It's hard to know the stories you are missing until a news event blows up and you think, "Why have I not heard of this before?" Maybe it's because your friends on Facebook didn't link to stories about it in the past, but it also may be that there simply weren't any stories about it.
Until the news media can solve the online revenue problem, it's hard to imagine how they will have the money to invest in more reporting.
That's why The New York Times's experiment in charging users for online content is being watched so closely by other newsrooms. The system is complicated – the first 20 articles a month are free of charge, then users can pay $15 every four weeks for access to the website and a mobile phone app, $20 for website access and an iPad app, or $35 for an all-access plan. And of course, all that digital access is free of charge with a subscription to the paper version. But it is important because it flies directly in the face of the Web ethos that everything should be free of charge.
Should the Times succeed, it might pave the way for other outlets to find a way to regain years of losses. That's critical, because if the news media can't find a way to fill the revenue hole the Web has created, all the tablets in the world won't save news. And all the customized news consuming may actually offer more in terms of convenience, but less in terms of content than in those good old-media days.
Who will we be?
But on top of the questions of revenue there is this: Who are we becoming in the new media world? We have news at our fingertips on smart phones we can scan at a lunch counter. We can watch the news when we want instead of making an appointment to sit down with a network anchor in our living rooms. We have what we want, when we want it.
And that's good, right?
What is really lost in the new media-consumption world is setting aside time for news. The people at Sunrise Senior Living treat news as a meal. They sit down and take their time and take it in. The students at AU are news grazers, taking in a bit of this and a bit of that as they can – and they offer a glimpse of the future.
As Americans have grown busier, new technologies have found ways to fit the news into tightening schedules and, in the process, they are blurring the lines between different parts of their lives.
It's similar to the way e-mail on mobile devices has blurred the lines. You are always in the loop. With news today, the most important events of the day don't arrive neatly bundled in the paper at breakfast or neatly packaged on TV over dinner. News is a never-ending torrent of information: It's up to you when you want to sample it.
And that can be wonderfully liberating ... or an affliction. We've come to discount having time for things in America. As our lives have sped up, most things, it seems, are sandwiched between other things. Lunch is something between meetings; and while we are waiting for our friends to show up at the restaurant, we scan our e-mail and catch up on correspondence we missed on the five-minute walk over. News is just another item on an overpacked personal agenda – as if every scan of the headlines is a box to check off. We're all individual local news radio stations now: "Give us five minutes with our iPhones and we'll give you the world."
What's lost is reflection: Headlines pass in front of our eyes and they are gone as we leap to the next story.. Education experts tell us, increasingly, that making it in the world is about contextualizing and analysis, and we increasingly don't give ourselves time to do it.
Is that really where the digital news revolution is leading us – a few Google headlines on a coffee break, a few Facebook links before work, and maybe a few YouTube videos before bed?
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed," chuckles Tippett, quoting science-fiction writer William Gibson.
Does that mean soon everyone will be constantly checking their Twitter feeds and visiting their favorite news sites to get an understanding of the world?
"No. This is still all new to us, and we're in a manic phase right now," says Tippett. "We're in the 'I want it all, I want it now' phase. But eventually we'll come out of it. It'll settle down."
In other words, it's probably going to be up to us to apply the brakes. For his part, Tippett, who loves the new media world, says the key is self-control, and he has placed some controls on himself. He uses his tablet to read more books than ever, he says. He rarely watches TV, and he allows himself to check his e-mail only twice a day – regardless of what story links it may hold.


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By ODU Athletics
Nov. 22, 2010
ST. THOMAS, VI-- Old Dominion (4-1) defeated Xavier (4-1), 67-58 to win the Paradise Jam Championship Monday night. Hassell led the way for ODU with 16 points and eight rebounds. He along with Ben Finney were named to the All-Tournament team with Finney earning MVP honors.
ODU led most of the game, including 33-25 at halftime, but Xavier stormed back to tie the game at 52-52 with 6:07 left on a three-pointer by Mark Lyons.
ODU then finished the game on a 15-6 run. Junior forward Chris Cooper hit two free throws to put the Monarchs back up for good at 54-52 with 4:50 left. After a Xavier turnover Kent Bazemore scored to put ODU up four at 56-52. Frank Hassell made it 60-54 with 1:31 left, then Bazemore, Trian Iliadis hit a total of seven free throws to close out the game.
Once again, ODU's bench came up big. Senior Darius James picked up three first half fouls, but Iliadis and Marquel DeLancey chipped in. DeLance scored a career high seven points and dished out three assists with only one turnover in 20 minutes of playing time. Iliadis scored 12 points with three-for-four shooting from the floor, including two treys.
ODU shot .462 (24-52) from the floor and outrebounded Xavier, 36-25. Besides Hassell's eight boards, Kent Bazemore hauled down nine rebounds to go with his nine points.
Xavier was led in scoring by Tu Holloway with 14 and Mark Lyons with 14. Holloway came into the game with a 27 per game scoring average.
The Monarchs return to action on Dec. 1 when they host the Spiders of Richmond at the Ted Constant Convocation Center.
FINNEY NAMED CAA CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK Finney averaged 13.3 points and 4.3 4.3 assists in helping ODU to wins over High Point, St. Peter's and Clameson. He scored double figures in all three contests, including 13 in the win over Clemson that sent the Monarchs to the Paradise Jam Finals.
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Life Time Fitness showed continued growth as it released its third quarter 2011 financials today.
The Chanhassen, MN-based company grew revenue by 11.4 percent to $265.4 million in third quarter 2011 compared to $238.3 million in third quarter 2010. Net income for the quarter grew 15.4 percent to $27 million compared to $23.4 million in the corresponding period last year.
For the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2011, Life Time has grown its revenue 10.7 percent to $762.8 million from $689.2 million during the first nine months of 2010. Net income for the first nine months of 2011 grew 15.4 percent to $72.8 million compared to $63.1 million for the first nine months of last year.
"We had a very solid third quarter," Life Time CEO Bahram Akradi told analysts during today's conference call. "Revenue growth remains strong, continuing the steady pace we have seen over the last several quarters. I am very pleased with these results. I'm proud of our team. We remain on track to accomplish our stated objectives for the year."
Memberships grew 4.9 percent to 653,300 on Sept. 30, 2011, from 622,698 on Sept. 30, 2010. Attrition levels fell to 9 percent in third quarter 2011 compared to 9.6 percent in third quarter 2010. The attrition rate for the trailing 12-month period ending Sept. 30, 2011, is 35.3 percent, which is among the lowest attrition levels in the company's history, Akradi told analysts. Attrition for the 12-month trailing period was 37.1 percent on Sept. 30, 2010.
Life Time increased its revenue expectations for the year to $1 billion to $1.005 billion from $985 million to $1 billion. Net income is now expected to increase to $94 million to $95.5 million from $93 million to $95 million, driven by revenue growth and cost efficiencies.
Life Time operates 92 centers with a combined 9.2 million square feet. The company plans to open three centers in 2012. The first center will open during the first quarter in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, the company's first club outside the United States. Life Time has to yet to announce the location of the other two planned clubs.
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A call for artist entries has been announced for the 2nd Annual Red River Art Show & Sale. The art show will be held Saturday, August 24, 2013 at the Ardmore Convention Center. It is open to all artists 18 years and older working in oil, water media, pastel, drawing and sculpture. Artists selected for the show are eligible for $3,500 in art awards.
The art show participants will be juried-in by Anne Morand, Curator of The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The theme for this year's event is "American Art."
The Red River Art Show & Sale is the annual fundraising event held by the Good Shepherd Community Clinic, Inc. The clinic provides quality medical, dental and vision care free of charge to patients who lack options for healthcare in a five county area in South Central Oklahoma.
Last year the event attracted more than 430 "by reservation only" guests and featured 25 juried artists from all over the United States. This year the art show will be open for public viewing from 10 am to 3 pm and the "by reservation only" event featuring an art reception, silent auction, catered dinner, special entertainment by Performing Artist, Richard Hight and followed by dancing to the band, Hook.
The artist entry deadline is Wednesday, July 3, 2013. The entry fee is $40, which entitles each artist to submit up to four works.
For more information about artist entry guidelines and submissions or to purchase event tickets, please contact the Good Shepherd Community Clinic, Inc. at www.gsccardmore.com or 580-223-3411.


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A Wedding with the Sex and the City Vivienne Westwood Dress
Do you remember Carrie Bradshaw's Vivienne Westwood wedding dress from the first Sex and The City movie? Of course you do. Well today we are featuring the fabulous wedding of super cool couple Sashy and Dashy, photographed by Anna Hardy Photography, and Sashy wore the Vivienne Westwood dress.
We love everything about this wedding, from the amazing dress (of course) to the beautiful brooch wedding bouquet, the male 'flower girls' in shorts to the abundance of gold.
We know you'll love this week's fun and quirky real wedding.
"My mum and I have always loved over-the-top gold gilt, so when planning there was an obvious golden finish to almost everything! As our wedding was at the Crab & Lobster, a venue that is already so beautifully decorated, there was a slightly nautical feel throughout. All our stationery had anchors on and the favours were displayed in scallop shells that we'd spray painted gold, to give a more glamorous Louis XV feel.
"The main inspiration for the wedding was the outfits I had picked out. I'm a big collector of Vivienne Westwood clothes so I was excited to dress my bridal party up in them! I actually fell in love with the gown I wore when I was just 17 years old, so the first thing I did, before even proposing to Dashy, was buy the dress! The shape of the hemline on the dress reminded me of a scallop shell, which seemed to work so well with the venue. The print on the bridesmaid dresses is Westwood's iconic Salon Print, a photograph of the opulent interior of a stately home. The print worked as a beautiful colour palette and inspiration for all things gold gilt!"
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Vivienne Westwood 2014 Fall/Winter Collection
Continuing to push the envelope each season with compelling looks, Vivienne Westwood took the runway at Milan Fashion Week recently with her 2014 fall/winter collection. While Westwood's inspirations are often far-flung, her latest range looked to recent protests against oil and gas fracking in the UK, which Westwood describes as an "irresponsible behavior of our governments." To combat this disposition, models were styled with thick, matte colored hair, PVC anoraks nodded to inappropriate toxic waste disposal, while neoprene sweatsuits brought to mind modern crusaders. Elsewhere, patterned dresswear presented bold alternatives to quintessential menswear designs and classic footwear designs were injected with loud bursts of color, while timeless pieces like the double-breasted biker jacket reinforced the label's rebellious motifs in fashion.
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Kraken Opus is a producer of large format luxury books featuring iconic personalities and institutions. Kraken Opus is a publishing division of Kraken Sport and Media Limited, the merger of the two is allowing them to expand their horizons beyond purely sports icons. Their latest development is the Kraken Opus x Vivienne Westwood. "Active Resistance to Propaganda" only 900 copies of the book were made in 9 different cover designs and the first editions (all signed by Westwood) are to be auctioned off for charity. The book is set to break the record for one of the largest fashion books to ever be published. Inside exhibits 198 pages of 97, never before seen, photos taken on one of the world's largest Polaroid cameras. The photos each measure 50cm x 60cm. The literature itself is a manifesto by the woman herself.
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How do you define a legend?
Vivienne Westwood is provocative, awe inspiring, avant garde, unique, rebellious, and a true original. When you own a garment by Vivienne Westwood, you own a piece of art that stands the test of time.
Always a cut above the rest, Vivienne Westwood studied the tailoring techniques of historical garments using time-honored techniques to brand her own interpretation of style. Her self-taught, unique vision brings a passion of living and exciting feminine expression into her garments. Vivienne Westwood's Anglomania women's clothing line is known for its asymmetrical cuts and delightful draping techniques which masterfully transform the body into an eye-catching art form. The Vivienne Westwood Anglomania line includes dramatically desirable dresses, jackets, sweaters, suits, beautiful blouses, tempting tops, and sensational skirts. Vivienne Westwood masterfully accentuates the allure of the feminine figure, through her gorgeous garments. She breathes life into the cloth and masterfully manipulates masterpieces through her draping and cut of the cloth on the feminine figure transforming the wearer into a beautiful creature.
The Vivienne Westwood MAN collection is thrillingly tailored for the handsome hero. The Vivienne Westwood MAN collection surprises us each season with stunning shirts, thrilling trousers, provocative t-shirts, and fascinatingly tailored suits that give a poetic presence to the dramatic dandy.
Vivienne Westwood women's and men's shoes are an iconic image unto themselves. The fascinatingly fabulous footwear that Vivienne Westwood creates are so original and unique that a book has been published featuring images of her collectible footwear. And who could ever forget the platform pumps that Naomi Campbell took a tumble in on the runway during a Vivienne Westwood fashion show? If you want shoes with captivating character, look no further than the elevated excellence of Vivienne Westwood men's and women's footwear!
The Vivienne Westwood RED Label is for the reckless, yet studious woman. The RED Label collection is a cut above the rest with remarkably alluring sweaters, tops, dresses, pants, coats and jackets featuring asymmetrical cuts and divine draping techniques.
Get your thrills with a tempting Vivienne Westwood bag. Women and men can choose from a wonderful wide variety of hedonistically handsome handbags, stunning satchels, terrific totes, and captivating clutches to store all your notorious necessities and scandalous secrets in style!
Discover a treasure of delights with the opulent obsession of the Vivienne Westwood jewelry collection. Vivienne Westwood's jewelry collection contains unique rings, breathtaking bracelets and necklaces, cufflinks, key chains, exciting earrings, pins, and beautiful brooches for both men and women.
You never know where life may take you, so accent your eyes elegantly with stylish Vivienne Westwood sunglasses!
Vivienne Westwood is one of most fabulous and influential designers of all time. She was born on April 8, 1941 as Vivienne Isabel Swire. She taught primary school in North London. Vivienne's first husband was Derek Westwood. She had one son with Derek, named Ben, who later became a photographer.
Vivienne met Malcolm McLaren who was a friend of her brother. Malcolm and Vivienne became friends and Malcolm faked being sick for awhile to get Vivienne to take care of him and to be near her. Malcolm McLaren was the manager for the Sex Pistols and Vivienne designed the clothing for the band. Vivienne Westwood also designed clothing for the New York Dolls and other bands. Vivienne was one of the first original designers when the punk movement started. Many of her garments are now collectibles. The V&A museum in London had an exhibition of Vivienne Westwood styles from 2004-2005.
In 1970, Malcolm and Vivienne opened a shop on 430 King's Road in London called Let It Rock. They sold clothing targeted at the London Teddy Boy scene. Vivienne designed clothing for the store. The shop eventually went through a few incarnations. In 1972, the store became Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die and featured t-shirts with provocative slogans, leather clothing, and garments with zippers and chains. In 1974, the shop transformed again. It was called Sex and featured S&M clothing. Sex became synonymous with the punk scene. Then the shop became Seditionaries. Today, Vivienne Westwood's World's End iconic boutique carries her limited edition special clothing, shoes, and accessories.
Vivienne and Malcolm's son is Joseph Corre. Joseph Corre founded the women's lingerie company Agent Provocateur and now designs his own menswear line along with Simon "Branzley" Armitage named, A Child of the Jago.
Controversy surrounds the style of Vivienne Westwood. Supermodel Naomi Campbell famously took a tumble modeling nine inch platform shoes at a 1993 Vivienne Westwood Anglomania fashion show. The incident made these shoes famous. Always pushing the envelope, Vivienne Westwood excitingly experiments with the extremes of fashion.
In 1992, Vivienne Westwood married her current husband and creative partner, Andreas Kronthaler. In the same year, Vivienne caused another controversy when she received the OBE award. She twirled in her skirt and was knicker-less! She repeated the incident again in 2006 when she met the Prince of Wales.
Vivienne has always been a caring and political person. In 2005, she teamed up with British civil rights group Liberty to launch exclusive limited design t-shirts. One reads, "I AM NOT A TERRORIST, please don't arrest me!" The other shirt reads, "Liberty - Throw Away the Key."
Vivienne Westwood collections include four women's lines: Gold Label, Red Carpet, Red Label, and Anglomania. She has a men's line appropriately titled MAN. She also has a World's End line that features her classic pieces from the Vivienne Westwood archive. Vivienne Westwood also designs a collection of bags, shoes, sunglasses, eight perfume lines, and has multitude of stores all over the world!
"You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes." - Vivienne Westwood.


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You can find answers to your crop production questions on Farm Journal's "Ask an Agronomist" blog. A team of Farm Journal agronomists and experts responds to questions sent to email@example.com based on their independent experience and in-the-field insight. Here are four questions and answers from the blog:
Q This year we had spots in the corn field that were black and dead early, with no ears on them. What would have caused these?
A There could have been multiple issues leading to no-ear stalks. One that we look for first is corn nematodes. They could have put enough stress on the plants, in conjunction with the drought, that the plants died early. You can confirm a problem with a soil sample. Evaluate corn nematodes in particular if you're in a cornon-corn rotation.
Some of the problem could be related to soil type. What is your ground's water-holding capacity? Some soils are able to hold more water than others. Did you notice whether you had any pockets of ground (from the size of a pickup to a house) that had barren stalks?
We saw this problem in three places and excavated the pockets of ground. There was a noticeable difference in the soil moisture at 18" to 20" deep in those pockets. When we got to a depth of 4' to 5' under the dead areas, we were finding bands of sand or gravel in the soil. Those bands of sand and gravel restrict water from moving up to where corn roots can access it, causing a perched water table.
In years with normal rainfall, the water table is high enough, but when it's pulled below a certain level, as it was this year, the corn burns up. That was our preliminary finding this year.
Q Many of the farmers in North Dakota have forgone wheat plantings in their traditional rotation and are going to soybeans after soybeans for multiple years. What should they consider for soil health, disease prevention, etc., to maintain viable plants and yield?
A I would encourage farmers to entertain planting a cover crop such as rye. That will give them some diversity and complement soil health as far as soil structure and aggregate ability.
Q I didn't have much of a corn crop this year, and the weeds turned some of my fields into a jungle. Would it be OK to moldboard plow those fields, just to get rid of the weeds?
A That's a pretty radical option, but it might help bury weed seed that's present so it doesn't sprout and interfere with next year's crop.
For plowing to be effective, you must understand each weed species that's out there because some weed seeds need to be buried longer than others. I'd avoid plowing if you can, but if your weed seed bank is completely out of control, then that mightbe a good option.
Q I have been 100% no-till in my farming operation for 26 years. I am wondering if spreading wheat and using shallow vertical tillage to incorporate it will lessen organic matter, which, in return, over a period of time will reduce crop yields. My thinking is that anytime you bring soil to the surface, enabling contact with the sun, you are destroying a percentage of the organic matter in the soil.
If you believe my thoughts are correct, can you please give me your opinion on how much damage to soil structure you feel would be occurring from shallow vertical tillage?
A I'm not sure what region you farm in, and that will have a big impact on the relevance of my response.
Twenty years ago, many growers were broadcasting wheat with spinner trucks and working it in with a disk or field cultivator. The standards of emergence, uniformity and plant populations across their fields were entirely too variable for maximum yields.
Buying new or well-maintained used drills turned out to be a good strategy, as their stands improved and yields quickly climbed.
Based upon these and other experiences across the U.S., and depending on the number of acres you expect to plant on a regular basis, I would strongly encourage you to buy or rent a well-maintained no-till drill.
The operating costs per acre will be similar to running a vertical tillage tool, but I think your stands will be more consistent and soil disturbance will be reduced. I also believe that with the improved seed placement provided by the drill, you could lower your seeding rates between 10% to 20%, compared with broadcasting seed, and save money.
I don't have any data to suggest how much damage you're doing to organic matter by cultivating the soil with vertical tillage, but I can tell you that most wheat growers are making about twice the yields they were 20 years ago by using no-till practices. Their soil quality and organic matter are slowly increasing as well.
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African Burial Ground National Monument Hosts Special Programs for Black History Month
The African Burial Ground National Monument has announced its Special Programs for Black History Month 2013. Details below!
February 1-28, 2013 Public Flower Laying: Honoring the Ancestors
9-4PM Members of the public are invited to lay flowers on the burial mounds at the memorial throughout Black History Month.
Thursday, February 7, 2013: Special Tour of Commemorative Art
Noon Reflections of Honor and Glory - Join a park ranger for a breathtaking tour of artwork that depicts and celebrates the lives of Africans and African descendants buried in the African Burial Ground.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013: African Burial Ground National Monument Film Series
11AM Freedom's Sisters (21 minutes, Courtesy of Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services) - Learn the stories of 20 extraordinary women like Harriet Tubman, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Shabazz, and Coretta Scott King who helped to pave the way for civil rights in America.
2PM Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy (31.30 minutes) - Born enslaved, Booker T. Washington would become an educator and great orator. He founded Tuskegee Institute which was established to educate newly freed people after the American Civil War.
Thursday, February 14, 2013: Frederick Douglass Birthday Celebration
10-4PM Quotes made by Frederick Douglass will be read by staff throughout the day.
11AM Underground Railroad (30 minutes) - This movie demonstrates how a network of secretive routes and abolitionists assisted runaways to gain their freedom from bondage.
Noon Nana Kimati Dinizulu featuring his Grits and Cornbread Ensemble - Internationally renown African percussionist Nana Kimati Dinizulu and his ensemble will perform a musical tribute to Frederick Douglass. Visitors will hear traditional instruments from Africa and its diaspora along with contemporary western instruments; and, the performance will feature some African American endangered musical instruments such as the diddley bow, one string jitterbug, and the jug which are rare instruments found in black culture in the United States of America.
2PM Frederick Douglass: An American Life (32.50 minutes) - Enjoy this documentary film that explores the life and times of a fugitive slave who became a spokesman against slavery and first black to receive a major government appointment in the United States.
Saturday, February 16, 2013: Family and Friends Day
Noon Treasuring Your Family's Keepsakes - Join a park ranger for a workshop that teaches visitors how to preserve their family's photographs, memorabilia, jewelry, and heirlooms in a specially crafted and designed African memory box. Attendees are encouraged to bring personal items to help decorate their own boxes.
2PM Female Leadership: Triumphs of African Women Throughout History - Women have contributed significantly to the growth of this country and to the advancement of humanity throughout the world. Learn their exciting stories!
Saturday, February 23, 2013: Roots of Inspiration
1PM Roots of Inspiration: A Tribute to Female Pioneers in Music - This program explores how African traditions and techniques have become a part of African American musical tradition.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013: Happy Founder's Day
9-4PM Pouring of Libation - The public is invited to pour libations on the burial mounds in honor of the establishment of the African Burial Ground as a National Monument by Presidential Proclamation on February 27, 2006.
11AM Gallery Talk: "African Burial Practices and Customs" - Learn how African burials provided opportunities to celebrate the lives of loved ones, continue rituals and ceremonies, and to pass down traditions and customs. Attendees can share information about burial practices that are observed throughout the world.
Noon The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery (Part 1 The Search) - Explore the search and discovery of the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. This narrated documentary examines the archeological dig that resulted in unearthing The Remains of 419 African men, women and children.
1PM Tour of the Visitor Center - Celebrate the three year anniversary of the African Burial Ground National Monument Visitor Center by learning about its unique African architectural features and design concepts that earned the visitor center several national awards.
2PM Get Up, Stand Up, Don't Give Up the Fight - Follow the paths which led to the passage of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that prohibited each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Reservations are required and are accepted by dialing 212-637-2019. All events are free to the public.


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Video shows girl, 15, battered in Florida juvenile prison
A guard at a juvenile prison found herself behind bars this week after she was caught on tape battering a teenage detainee.
Although the encounter got Shannon Linn Abbott arrested, it didn't get her fired. The 33-year-old bailed out and was back on the job right afterward and supervising children, to the extreme dismay of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
On Tuesday, a DJJ administrator formally asked the privately managed youth prison's director to remove the guard from all access to children.
"It is our expectation, at the very least, that this staff member will have no contact with youth in any of our programs," wrote Laura K. Moneyham, a DJJ assistant secretary.
The incident marks the third time in recent years that workers at a Florida juvenile justice lockup have been videotaped while abusing or neglecting a child in state custody.
Abbott, who works at the Milton Girls Juvenile Residential Facility in Northwest Florida, was charged by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office with battery causing great bodily harm.
The facility remains under investigation in the incident. Jeff Kaplan, who heads the private company that runs Milton under a state contract, could not be reached for comment.
"We are deeply concerned that the incident, as depicted in the video . . . contradicts its description to us by officials representing the facility," Wansley Walters, DJJ secretary, said of the Aug. 9 incident. "We are also troubled that the facility did not officially report the incident to DJJ until two days after it occurred, and only when the victim called the [Department of Children & Families] abuse hotline. This lapse is inexplicable."
According to a police report, the 15-year-old detainee, who is not identified, was being escorted by Abbott, who was holding the girl's elbows as they walked. Most of what occurred during the alleged assault was captured by DJJ surveillance cameras, which are installed in most youth facilities.
The tape shows the guard slamming the 15-year-old face-first against a concrete wall, then throwing her on the floor, face down, and sitting on top of her for several minutes.
A second woman assists, sitting on the teenager's legs for several minutes.
"The victim is not showing any signs of resisting. The victim is observed not pulling her arms away from the defendant; the victim is not attempting to strike the defendant in any manner and is compliant throughout the entire event," the police report says.
The video indicates Abbott remained on top of the girl for more than 10 minutes.
During the time the girl is pinned to the floor, other women walk in and out of the picture. One sits in a chair and does work. One stands, clutching a pink purse, and appears to have a lengthy conversation with the two guards.
"The victim stated she did get an ice pack after this occurred," police wrote, adding the girl's eye was nearly swollen shut.
Walters said the lack of any action by the other women in the room as Abbott and the other guard restrained the girl for minutes on end disturbs her greatly.
"It makes me sick," the DJJ secretary said.
"No one seems to be alarmed by what's happening there. Definitely, there are issues that we need to have a serious conversation about."
The girl told police Abbott was angry at her for being "disruptive in the classroom." The girl called the DCF abuse hotline the next day. DCF closed its investigation with a verified finding that Abbott had physically abused the girl.
"This is why we are working so hard to change this juvenile justice system and to create avenues in the community so that children do not end up in facilities," Walters said.
The video of Abbott is the third that documents the abuse or neglect of a delinquent child.
In 2006, 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson died following a violent restraint at the Bay County Boot Camp, a Panama City lockup for juvenile delinquents. The 30-minute restraint was captured on video, and fueled a nationwide scandal over the treatment of delinquent youth. Seven guards and a nurse were charged in the case; all were acquitted.
In July 2011, the final hours of 18-year-old Eric Perez were also captured on video. Records show Eric was dropped on his head by guards during "horse play," and he died hours later when guards, supervisors and the Palm Beach County lockup superintendent refused to call 911 to get him medical care. One guard walked over Eric's limp body as he lay dying in a cellblock, videos show.


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It's February. And you know what that means. No, not appreciation of one another and romantic indulgences! We have a much more important holiday to celebrate: President's Day! Because you totally knew that was coming up and most certainly did not just treat it as an excuse from work.
While the names of Lincoln, Washington and Roosevelt were no doubt cheered and praised, the names of sucky presidents were whispered in hushed tones and evil hisses. Garfield. Cleveland. That one guy who died after 32 days in office. But let us not be ashamed of these fine men. Misery loves company, so let us celebrate the bad and give them company. Let us observe the six worst leaders in videogame history.
Arcturus Mengsk is basically what would have happened if Luke Skywalker had, at the end of Return of the Jedi, thought, "You know what? That whole Empire thing wasn't actually so bad. I mean, I could totally rule the universe and not be a dick about it." Only then he would be a dick about it, and would grow a sweet beard and develop a southern accent. Oh, and he wouldn't have Force powers anymore, or a lightsaber.
Okay, so maybe Luke Skywalker was a bad allegory. Point remains, Mengsk was a rebel fighter that led numerous attacks against the Terran Confederacy due to their oppressive regime, frequently praised by his comrades-in-arms for his single-minded determination. To pretty much everyone's surprise, Mengsk actually succeeded in tearing down the Confederacy, only to install his own dictatorial government, the Terran Dominion. The man clearly has no sense of irony either, as he embraces his new position by giving himself the title "Emperor." Now if only he could shoot lightning like that other Emperor
Okay okay, I'll stop with the Star Wars stuff. Let's jump back from sci-fi then and instead observe some medieval fantasy leaders, like Mr. Hellscream here. And since we're doing that, let's start with a little family history. Garrosh's father bound the orcs to demons as slaves thanks to an insatiable desire for power and a hot-blooded attitude. Okay? Eternal damnation and slavery in exchange for a bigger war peen. Clearly a family with values in the right place.
Garrosh, having all but dissolved truces with the Forsaken and the Darkspear trolls while expelling most non-orc inhabitants from Orgimmar, isn't faring much better. The guy even attacked Thrall in attempt to show dominance during the Horde's invasion of Northrend. This isn't like Obama vs. McCain or Bush vs. Gore. This is Clinton stepping away and putting Randy "Macho Man" Savage in his place. He's a-gonna git'cha! OH YEAHHH!!
As a general under Emperor Gestahl, Kefka was a man with a screw loose. As a man imbued with the powers of a god, he became total ruler, dictator, and all-around prick extraordinaire. See, halfway through Final Fantasy VI, Kefka betrays his Emperor and steals magic from three deities known as the Warring Triad. In doing so, he un-makes the world and proclaims himself appointed ruler. Those who refuse to bow down are instantly incinerated. You know, like any rational leader would do.
Only Kefka isn't rational. Remember how I described him as having "a screw loose?" Yeah, try a dozen screws. And the dry-wall. And the support beams. And the
you know what, just everything about this guy is off. If there is one person you do not want the almighty god-power going to, it's the one wearing a rainbow jester outfit who constantly screams about how much he wants to destroy everything.


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The GET method retrieves whatever information (in the form of an entity) is identified by the Request-URI. If the Request-URI refers to a data-producing process, it is the produced data which shall be returned as the entity in the response and not the source text of the process, unless that text happens to be the output of the process.
The semantics of the GET method change to a "conditional GET" if the request message includes an If-ModifiedSince, If-Unmodified-Since, If-Match, If-None-Match, or If-Range header field. A conditional GET method requests that the entity be transferred only under the circumstances described by the conditional header field(s). This reduces unnecessary network usage by allowing cached entities to be refreshed without requiring multiple requests or transferring data already held by the client.
If a Range header field is included, the request is for only the part of the entity specified by the range header. This allows partially retrieved entities to be completed without transferring previously received data.
Typically the get method is used to download a document from a web server. This can be achieved with the method, getResponseBody, getResponseBodyAsStream or getResponseBodyAsString. Of these methods, getResponseBodyAsStream is generally the best choice as it avoids unnessecary buffering of all data into memory before processing.
See the tutorial for a full example of using the GET method. There are also a number of examples in the sample code.
GetMethod get = new GetMethod("http://httpcomponents.apache.org"); // execute method and handle any error responses. ... InputStream in = get.getResponseBodyAsStream(); // Process the data from the input stream. get.releaseConnection();
The most common mistake when using the GET method is failing to read the entire response body even if an error code, redirect or any other response status is received. As with all methods, one must also be sure to call method.releaseConnection(), regardless of the response code received.


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Lifetime 8' x 5' Resin Storage Shed
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- Durable and low maintenance
- Constructed from high density, double-walled polyethylene with steel reinforcements
- Windows and skylights provide great lighting
- Site prep and foundation are required but not included: see details below
Keep all your garden supplies and tools at your fingertips with the Lifetime® 8' x 5' Resin Storage Shed. With a Lifetime shed, you can keep your outdoor equipment right where you need it—in the yard.
No painting. No rusting. You'll appreciate the low maintenance of a Lifetime® storage shed. Constructed from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic with steel reinforcements, this sturdy shed is weather resistant and stain resistant. It looks good in the yard and will look as good as new for years to come!
Please check your local HOA, zoning laws and site dimensions for shed use and installation requirements. Site prep and foundation are required but not included. See link below for more details.
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- High-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic
- Powder-coated steel
- Two small skylights
- Two screened vents
- Doors: one double door, 56" W × 76" H
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Exterior Dimensions: 92.75" W x 55.5" L x 96" H
Roof Dimensions: 96" W x 60" L
Interior Dimensions: 90" W x 54" L x 70" to 94" H
Total Square Feet: 33.8