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DIORAMA CD BAGCategories:Other Brands
If Chanel has its own flap bags, Dior on the other hand has it's equally and fashionably gorgeous signature Diorama bag for the Dior woman. An haute couture, the newest Diorama CD Bag is all we could ever ask for in a bag.
Contemporaneous in style yet still maintains that feminine touch to it, the Diorama CD Bag is an inventive and novel takes on the Diorama bag. The CD print on a circle pattern creates that beautiful aural effect to this bag.
Looking almost ethereal yet soft to the touch, the Diorama CD Bag is fashionable, luxurious, and classy all rolled into one. Yes, it's that beautiful that we couldn't seem to put it into words.
The golden chain strap also adds an ounce of beauty to it. Take it anywhere you go, and people will actually notice. And hello why not? All those CD patterns scream fashion attention.
The price of this bag is around €2750 euro
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DIOR PINK SATIN EMBROIDERED CD BOX CLUTCH BAGCategories:Other Brands
The new Dior CD Box is going to rock the fashion world. Last time we talked about the single colors in black and pink. Today we're going to present a clutch that's more sophisticated.
READ: Dior CD Box Clutch with Chain
If the evening is too important to fail, you will need a companion that is going to help you stand-out and steal the show. Obviously, your dress and shoes matters, but its always the bag that makes everything perfect – it's the finishing touch.
Covered in the color we love – pink and satin, with sophisticated design, embroidered with sequins, its gorgeous, it's beautiful, it's to-die-for.
Every girl should own at least one of these bags in their wardrobe. These are weapons on standby-mode, always ready for special occasions.
The signature of Dior is put on the side-metal and it comes with a shoulder chain. Measuring 17 x 11.5 x 4.5 cm, price is unknown. Run to the nearest Dior boutique for more information.
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DIOR CD BOX CLUTCH WITH CHAINCategories:Other Brands
I am excited to share with you, a new clutch bag with chain by Dior – The Dior CD Box Clutch Bag. Whether it's a clutch or Wallet on Chain, you will love it anyway because it's a gorgeous mini bag. Sling it around your shoulder on your way to club or diner with friends.
How to describe this bag? Elegant, super-chic, drop-dead-gorgeous? Did I exaggerate the terms? Nah, take a closer look please and let's start with the front.
The craftsmanship is superior, the material is satin – a smooth, glossy fabric that makes everything so luxurious. The front of the clutch appears like a front-flap, you love flaps right? You can see the carefully stitched detailing on the front – everything is so perfect.
Now for more wonders!
When you move to the sides, you will see something magical. It's refined with silver-tone metal and the CD signature (which stands for Christian Dior) is embellished with pink-gold metal. Now, we know how much we love 'pink' gold right?
The sides truly adds the final touch – it reveals itself as a modern shoulder bag while the front is designed with traditional elements from the House of Dior. The interior is attractive as well, as you will find one large compartment to drop all your evening essentials.
The chain is great, but when you one to change the Dior CD Box Bag into a full-time clutch bag, simply remove the chains. It's as easy as that.
Now in two colors – black and pink. At Dior boutique, you might find more shades. Measuring 20 x 13 x 4.5 cm, priced at €1450 euro or £1150 GBP.


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Provide the highest quality of instruction in Fashion Design and
Merchandising in a lively and diverse environment that encourages
interaction with others who share this passion. We offer a structured
and experiential learning process that enables students to discover
the concepts and challenges of today's fashion business and equips
them with the necessary skills to become successful in the Fashion
Design and Merchandising field.
The faculty and students alike are working on the same synergistic wavelength to make the fashion program at City College the most successful of its kind in the country.
FASH 21. Fashion Careers (1)
Lec-1, field trips
An overview of career opportunities within the fashion industry, with specific guidelines to assist students who are looking for ways to direct their interests and talents CSU
FASH 35A. Fashion Illustration I (3)
Lec-2, lab-3
Repeat: max. 6 units
Drawing of the fashion figure including working sketches. The clothed figure in motion with emphasis on textile characteristics, color mediums, and construction details. Development of a personal illustration style and a portfolio. CSU
FASH 36. Fashion Design (3)
Lec-3 P/NP Available
Basic design principles examined as they apply to clothing for women, men, and children. Includes design modifications as required by fabric and figure characteristics. Relates design problems to current aesthetic trends and use of the garment. CSU
FASH 45A. Advanced Image Consulting (3)
Lec-3, field trips P/NP Available
This course prepares students to become image consultants, either working independently or for a retailer. It will incorporate the techniques of color and wardrobe selection, figure analysis, and setting up a business. CSU
FASH 46. Fashion Merchandising (3)
Lec-3, field trips
Basics of how fashion merchandising operates with the retail organization; principles of fashion merchandising are studied, along with career opportunities. CSU
FASH 47. Fashion Coordination (3)
Lec-3, field trips
Analysis of the structure of various fashion offices and the variety of fashion coordination jobs at different levels of the market. Examination of the duties and responsibilities of a coordinator with emphasis on trend research, the production of fashion shows, and projection of a firm's fashion image. CSU
FASH 50. Runway: The Business of Modeling (3)
Lec-3, field trips
Fundamentals of and practices in training for a career in modeling and fashion coordination, with emphasis on developing the ability to identify specific skills requisite to the industry. CSU
FASH 54B. Advanced Fashion Styling (3)
Lec-3, field trips P/NP Available
This hands-on, field-based course teaches the skills required of various types of professional stylists. Students will be guided through the process of developing a professional styling portfolio which they can present to prospective clients. CSU
FASH 55. Icons of Contemporary Fashion (3)
Lec-3, field trips
An overview of the key movements and innovations in fashion through the exploration of the work of the most influential and original contemporary designers. Emphasis will be on crucial shifts in style within their socio-economic, political and cultural contexts. CSU
FASH 57. Fabric Glossary (1)
Lec-1, field trips P/NP Available
Merchandising students will learn how to identify fashion fabrics and to determine the suitability of these fabrics to various styles of clothing. CSU
PREREQ.: Approval of FASH work experience coordinator
On-the-job laboratory training in fashion merchandising with retailers, wholesalers, image and fashion consultants. Placement of students will be determined according to the requirements of the cooperating firms. CSU
FASH 68. Couture Techniques (1)
Repeat: max. 2 units
Students will learn how to analyze the design elements, fabrics, embellishments and construction techniques used in couture garments, and how to integrate them into their own designs. The specialized skills needed to generate a pattern from an existing garment while the garment is still intact will also be covered. CSU
FASH 69. Basic Pant Draft (1)
Lec-.5, lab-1.5 P/NP Available
Repeat: max. 2 units
Students will learn the specialized skills needed to properly measure a figure and draft a well fitting pant pattern. CSU
FASH 70. Copying Ready-to-Wear (1)
Lec.-.1 P/NP Available
Repeat: max. 2 units
The student will learn how to duplicate an existing garment while the garment is still intact. Students will learn the specialized techniques and skills needed to generate a pattern from the garment. CSU
FASH 72. Drafting a Sloper (Moulage) (1)
Lec-1 P/NP Available
Repeat: max. 2 units
Students will learn the specialized skills needed to properly measure the figure and draft a personal sloper/moulage. CS

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The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) today announced that Winnipeg will stage the 2013 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials, which will determine Canada's representatives for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
The Trials will be held December 1-8, 2013 at the 15,000-seat MTS Centre. Similar to the 2009 Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials in Edmonton, eight men's and eight women's teams will compete in a round robin format, with the top three teams qualifying for the playoffs. The first place teams advance directly to the finals, while the second and third place teams meet in semi-finals, with the winners also moving on to their respective finals.
In making the announcement today, Greg Stremlaw, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Curling Association, said, "A few weeks ago, the Canadian Curling Association released the details of the Olympic qualification process for the sport of curling in Canada. The culmination of this process will be the prestigious 2013 Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials.
"Based on the formal Request for Proposal that the CCA has now completed and the comprehensive review of all candidate bid cities, we are very pleased to announce that the City of Winnipeg has been chosen to host this world-class event. There were six excellent formal bids in total, with both Ottawa and Saskatoon joining Winnipeg as the three short-list finalists."
"We believe that Winnipeg will do an outstanding job of hosting this event and act as the final selection of our athletes who will represent Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi."
It was also announced today that Monsanto Canada has extended its agreement with the Canadian Curling Association to continue to be the official presenter of both the Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials and the Pre-Trials.
Six teams from each gender will qualify directly into the Trials, while the final two teams will emerge from a Pre-Trials competition, at a site to be announced in the next couple of months.
The eight teams will be decided as follows:
- Winner of 2011 Canada Cup (November 30-December 4 in Cranbrook, B.C.)
- CTRS (Canadian Team Ranking System) leader for 2011-2012
- Winner of 2012 Canada Cup (date/site to be announced)
- CTRS leader for 2012-2013
- CTRS leader for 2011-2013 (2-year total)
- CTRS leader for 2011-2013 (2-year total)
- Pre-Trials winner
- Pre-Trials winner
"Tim Hortons is proud to be the title sponsor of the 2013 Canadian Curling Trials – the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings," said Bill Moir, Chief Brand and Marketing Officer, Tim Hortons. "The Canadian Curling Trials is a world class event and we look forward to being a part of this prestigious event again in 2013."
This will mark the third time that Tim Hortons has sponsored the Trials, following the 2005 and 2009 editions. The popular Canadian-owned company began its involvement as a Season of Champions title sponsor with the 2005 Brier in Edmonton and recently renewed its contract through 2014.
TSN will provide blanket coverage of the 2013 Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials, presented by Monsanto, with coverage of all draws, including playoffs. TSN will also carry approximately 20 hours of live coverage of the Pre-Trials.
"Monsanto Canada is pleased to once again be the presenting sponsor of this exciting and important event in the curling calendar. The opportunity for the very best men's and women's curling teams in the country to play for the right to represent our country is an experience that is second to none," said Trish Jordan, Public and Industry Affairs Director, Monsanto Canada.
"What makes it even more special is that Winnipeg is home to Monsanto's Canadian head office and we know the passion Winnipeg and Manitoba have for the sport of curling. Hosting this event will be a wonderful opportunity to showcase our city and we look forward to being there with our employees, our customers and other curling fans from across the country to cheer on the teams."
Winnipeg has hosted a number of major curling championships in past, including five Briers, the latest in 2008 when Alberta's Kevin Martin won the Tim Hortons Brier while undefeated, before capturing the world men's title in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Attendance for the nine-day event was 165,075.
It also marks the second time that Manitoba has hosted the Trials. The first time was in 1997 at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, when Saskatchewan's Sandra Schmirler and Ontario's Mike Harris emerged victorious, before going on to win gold and silver, respectively, at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.
The 2013 Pre-Trials, also presented by Monsanto, will be held November 6-10 and will comprise 12 men's and 12 women's teams competing in a triple knockout, leading to a modified Page Playoff, with two men's and two women's teams eventually qualifying for the Trials.
The 12 Pre-Trials teams, per gender, will qualify from the CTRS as follows:
- The top four teams from the 2010-11 season
- The top four teams from the 2011-12 season
- The top two teams from the 2012-13 season
- The final two teams will earn invitations based on their two-year CTRS points (2011-2013).
Teams already qualified for either the Trials or Pre-Trials will be replaced from the CTRS. Details will be posted on the CCA's website (www.curling.ca).
The 2011 Canada Cup in Cranbrook will be the first event to qualify teams directly into the 2013 Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials, presented by Monsanto.
The Canada Cup field, a seven-team round robin leading to a playoff involving the top three, will be composed of the 2010 Canada Cup winners, Glenn Howard and Stefanie Lawton, who won that event last December in Medicine Hat, Amber Holland, winner of the recent Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Charlottetown and this year's Tim Hortons Brier champion, plus the top five teams on the CTRS, as of April 30, 2011, who have not already qualified.
For more information, please contact:
Greg Stremlaw
Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Curling Association
[email protected]
(c) 613.799.9993


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N.Y. community promotes ties to Harriet Tubman legacy
Pauline Johnson found out she was the great grand-niece of the Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman when she was 25.
Harriet Tubman spent 50 years in Auburn, N.Y., after her work as an Underground Railroad conductor and Civil War spy. Now the city hopes to draw visitors by promoting her legacy.
AUBURN, N.Y. -- This small city in Upstate New York is ready to promote the story of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad conductor who led hundreds of slaves to freedom.
Tubman spent the last 50 years of her life in Auburn, settling here with her second husband and running a home for the aged.
Now, city leaders are marking a century since Tubman died here at 93 or so -- historians aren't sure of her age -- on March 10, 1913. There will be a symposium at Cayuga Community College, a wreath-laying at her grave, a pilgrimage to the site where she lived and more.
Local Tubman supporters are hoping they can move people to see her as they do -- strong, fearless, compassionate -- and in the process bring visitors to this Finger Lakes community of 28,000 people about 30 miles southwest of Syracuse. They're also hoping to broaden what the public knows about the escaped slave who also served as a Civil War spy.
"We really want to do things that will really raise people's levels of awareness," says Laurel Ulyette, organizer of the Harriet Tubman Boosters Club, a 60-year-old Auburn group that fell dormant but came back to life a couple of years ago. "I just believe it's the right thing and it's something that has to happen."
The group wants to draw visitors to, among other places, a site with ties to Tubman that is owned by the AME Zion Church.The site includes Tubman's house, the building that was the residence for the aged and a visitors' center. Also in Auburn is a one-room church building where Tubman worshiped after she moved to the city in 1857.
Tubman grew up in slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore; a brutal beating at 12 left her with a permanent seizure disorder. As a young woman, she escaped with the help of a white neighbor who gave her names of people who would hide her during her travels north.
From a base in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, Tubman went back for members of her family and other slaves, making the trip about 20 times to lead more people to freedom. They traveled at night along back roads and waterways, and historians say Tubman would pull a gun on anyone who threatened to back out.
While she was away from Maryland, her first husband took another wife.
She organized a network of Union Army scouts and spies during the Civil War and led troops in the Combahee River expedition in a raid that freed more than 750 slaves.
In 1857, she put down roots in Auburn. Local resident William Seward, President Lincoln's secretary of State, was an admirer who had helped house fugitive slaves. He sold her the property for a small price. She is buried in the city's Fort Hill Cemetery.
"Harriet Tubman is an international inspiration, and she's from here," says William Berry, publisher of Aaduna, a literary magazine. "She's somebody that everybody is willing to embrace."
"She's been largely admired but still a bit overlooked" because her accomplishments after the Underground Railroad are less well-known, says Karen Hill, president and CEO of the Harriet Tubman Home. "We're hoping this 100th anniversary will shine a bright light on Tubman's leadership, her deep abiding faith and her belief in the promise of America."
"Harriet Tubman was an American hero," says Auburn resident Donny Alger, 48.
At a recent meeting of Auburn leaders whose organizations are hosting events to promote the anniversary, Paul Carter, site manager of the Harriet Tubman Home site, said the plans should generate tourism dollars.
"This should be a mecca for tourists," Carter said. "Believe me, we need the economic boost."
Tubman's story is just a piece of a long history of abolitionism and activism in this area. Abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass ran his newspaper, The North Star, in Rochester, where he is buried. The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention launched the women's rights movement.
In modern times, Auburn has been divided over Tubman. Proposals to name streets or public schools after her went nowhere. Alger says some of the divisions come from the dynamics of the Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison that, like many such facilities throughout Upstate New York, houses many African-American men from New York City but is staffed mainly by whites.
"That builds a lot of generational racism at the dinner table," Alger says.
Pauline Copes-Johnson, Tubman's 85-year-old great-grandniece, is a life-long Auburn resident but says she knew nothing of Tubman or their connection until she was 25, when an aunt told her about their ancestor. Copes-Johnson speculates that her parents, deceased by then, had followed a long-standing practice of not discussing older relatives who may have been escaped slaves.
"She says, 'Hasn't your mother ever told you you were related to Aunt Harriet?' I said, 'No,' and she said, 'My heavens,' " Copes-Johnson recalls.
The retired office worker travels the globe speaking about Tubman. She says that after her conversation with her aunt, she began doing research at the library and the Cayuga County Courthouse. She learned that Tubman was a 4-foot-10 spitfire who sold vegetables to operate her home for the aged and struggled to pay Seward the note on her property.
"She was a compassionate person," Copes-Johnson says. "She said it wasn't right for one race to own another. I resent how they treated her. It was like a living hell," she says of Tubman's time in slavery.
Rosemarie Romano, a member of the boosters club and co-chair of the planning committee for the Harriet Tubman Centennial Symposium scheduled for Nov. 8 and 9 at Cayuga Community College, says people should remember, "She never gave up, and she started out with so many obstacles against her."
The recognition in Auburn will be among commemorations around the country. On Sunday in Delaware, the Harriet Tubman Journey will include a relay run and a motorcycle ride tracing a path between known Underground Railroad sites in Delaware.
GirlTrek, a non-profit organization that promotes healthy living for African-American women and girls, plans 100-minute walks to take place across the country Sunday. In Dorchester County, Md., where Tubman was born, ground will be broken Saturday on the 17-acre Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park, a site due to open next year.
Friday, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is scheduled to designate Sunday as Harriet Ross Tubman Day of Remembrance.
Democratic Sens. Benjamin Cardin and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland have introduced legislation to establish national parks at the site of Tubman's home in Auburn and another site in Cambridge, Md., and Reps. Dan Maffei, a New York Democrat, and Andy Harris, a Maryland Republican, have introduced the House version.
Carter, the site manager of the Harriet Tubman Home, said, "She was a woman who knew it was better to live for a cause than just because."


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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The Seasons of Genealogy: It's Okay to Daydream
There is a lot of planning going on right now.
Also known as "daydreaming."
As in: "It would be so nice to take a trip to South Carolina or Texas or Tennessee or Kentucky or Illinois." Or: "It would be so nice to be able to take a week off to spend at the National Archives." Or even: "I wish I had even just a day to spend looking up ancestors on Genealogy Bank."
I daydream research plans. Moving Moores around a chessboard and connecting them with a spiderweb of lines to various associated families is a game I often play in my head. But my favorite daydreams are research trips: where should we go, how much time should we spend, which repositories, museums, and historical societies should we visit, and what information will I be looking for.
I'm in the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer in my research.
During the early season of my research - my "research spring" - I gleefully skipped around from website to website, shot off request letters to various repositories, got in touch with lots of relatives. The results were glorious. Ancestors sprang up all over. I identified where a lot of research had already been done and made some new discoveries of my own. I went from the bare dirt of almost total ignorance of my family history to a lush garden full of ancestors, dates, and places.
But now the season has changed to summer. Hot, sultry summer. A time of big ambitions but slow movement.
I want to do a lot of serious, organized, and sustained research, but things (work, children, house, miscellaneous appointments and obligations) keep me from doing everything I want to do, kind of the same way that the hot weather keeps me from getting my yard in shape.
This is not exactly the same as summer doldrums. My research is moving. And the thing is, besides adding what often seem like minor snippets of information, there have been several significant developments over the past year. To stretch the metaphor a bit (and I love to do that - even to the breaking point), these developments are the fruit of seeds I planted earlier.
I posted information in various places on my Moores, and a distant Moore cousin got in touch with me and provided the impetus I need to take a research trip to Greenville, South Carolina. I'm still working on the filing box full of documents I copied there.
I posted information on my Floyds, and a distant Floyd cousin got in touch with me who provided information on all of my great-great grandfather George Floyd's siblings, as well as copies of letters written to the Vermont branch by my Texas Floyds. This inspired me to get back in touch with my Floyd second cousins in Texas, who dug up lots of interesting court materials on our Texas Floyds from some clues I found in Genealogy Bank.
I kept in touch with some Brinlee cousins, and when our Texas Brinlees got a DNA match with some Tennessee Brinleys, we started working on those Brinleys to try to find a common ancestor and break down our Brinlee brick wall.
I posted information on my Normans, and was contacted by my wonderful cousin Rebecca, who provided me with a goldmine of family information when we met in Orangeburg.
I contacted fellow Fichtelmann researcher Mary Lou, who eventually figured out which Fichtelmann was the father of my husband's great-grandmother and much, much more - all of which she shared with me. I followed her example to find a lot more information on my husband's Koehl family.
But despite all of this activity, it feels as though my own efforts are just moving too slowly. I did almost no research at all this past week; I was too busy trying to get some chores out of the way so that I would actually have a free schedule for research.
So in odd moments here and there I daydream about what I am going to do when I have the time. If we get to take a trip to Dallas, where will I go besides the Dallas Public Library? How am I going to go about finding Elisha Berry Lewis' mystery siblings? What are the next steps I should take to find the parents of my great-grandmother Susan Elizabeth Smith?
I call it planning.
Oh, and for the record: when I daydream of research trips, they are always in the chilly early spring or crisp late fall. Because I have so many ancestors in the South. And the South is hot. And I hate the heat.
Submitted for the 107th Carnival of Genealogy, created by Jasia of Creative Gene and hosted by Bill West of West in New England.
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I so love this that I don't even know where to begin, so, lets go simple:ReplyDelete
Concurring and clapping with Carol.ReplyDelete
You do more with a metaphor than anyone I've known. Bend, stretch, twist away - it is a joy to read and reflect upon your words.
Greta, what fun to read. So right with you as you dance thru spring and wind, and turn and twist thru the lazy hazy days of summer.ReplyDelete
If you want to go somewhere else in Dallas (well it's in Ft. Worth but that's only 30 mins away!) is the Southwest branch of the National Archives! Here you go:ReplyDelete
Carol - You are so sweet - thank you!ReplyDelete
Susan - Definitely mutual - I am a sucker for good writing and NR's definitely got it!
Joan - Thank you - you are so kind!
Patti - Thank you so much for the info - I hadn't even thought of that. I think I want to be really ambitious for the trip to Texas....
Getting here late, so have to say ditto to all of the above. Wonderful postReplyDelete
Hummer - Thank you for your kind words!ReplyDelete
A great post with lots of yearning we can all identify with. I think we all feel there are just so many demands that have to be met besides our research-- I've spent hours this week translating my grandmother's diaries, and often had to just punt for dinner. Poor family! You did a beautiful job expressing all in the metaphor for seasons.ReplyDelete


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Cherish E. Mitchum vs. Matthew L. Druse; hearing on parenting plan continued from May 22 to June 26.
Kate Schroeder vs. Christian L. Czarnowsky; dismissed May 20 at petitioner's request.
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Estate of G. George Ens; status conference for dismissal continued from May 20 to June 17.


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H.J.Res.62 - Stability, Security, and Fairness Resolution of 2013113th Congress (2013-2014)
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|Rep. Graves, Tom [R-GA-14] (Introduced 09/12/2013)
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|House - 09/12/2013 Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (All Actions)
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Introduced in House (09/12/2013)
Stability, Security, and Fairness Resolution of 2013 - Makes continuing appropriations for FY2014.
Appropriates amounts for continuing operations, projects, or activities which were conducted in FY2013 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available in:
- the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A of P.L. 113-6);
- the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division B of P.L. 113-6); and
- The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (division F of P.L. 113-6).
Requires the rate for operations for each account to be calculated to reflect the full amount of any reduction required in FY2013 pursuant to:
- section 3004 of division G of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6), if any; and
- the sequestration order issued to enforce a specified budget goal pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
(The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act was amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011 to revise the discretionary spending limits and reduce the discretionary appropriations and direct spending specified in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act unless a joint committee bill achieving an amount greater than $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction would be enacted by January 15, 2012.)
Provides funding under this joint resolution through FY2014, unless otherwise provided for in this division or in the applicable appropriations Act.
Authorizes continuation of other specified activities (including those for entitlements and other mandatory payments) through such fiscal year.
Enacts the following bills into law:
- H.R. 2216 (Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014), as engrossed by the House of Representatives on June 4, 2013;
- H.R. 2217 (Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2014), as engrossed by the House on June 6, 2013; and
- H.R. 2397 (Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014), as engrossed by the House on July 24, 2013.
Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to reduce the discretionary category in new budget authority for FY2014 from $1.066 trillion to $967.473 million.
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), if for FY2014 the amount of new budget authority provided by this joint resolution exceeds such discretionary spending limits, to increase the applicable percentage of 0% by the amount necessary to eliminate the excess of the limit.
Rescinds the applicable 0%, subject to such requirement, of:
- the budget authority provided (or obligation limit imposed) for FY2014 for any discretionary account in section 101 of this joint resolution,
- the budget authority provided in any advance appropriation for FY2014 for any discretionary account (excluding any account funded under section 111 of this joint resolution) in any prior fiscal year appropriation Act, and
- the contract authority provided in FY2014 for any program subject to limitation incorporated or otherwise contained in section 101 of this joint resolution.
- amounts designated by the Congress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (OCO/GWOT) or for disaster relief; or
- the amount made available by this joint resolution for "Social Security Administration, Limitation on Administrative Expenses" for continuing disability reviews under titles II (Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance [OASDI] Benefits) and XVI (Grants to States for Aid to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled) of the Social Security Act (SSA), and for the cost associated with conducting redeterminations of eligibility under SSA title XVI.
Prohibits, during any fiscal year, the use of federal funds to carryout: (1) the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA); or (2) certain PPACA related requirements in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Rescinds any funds provided by PPACA, its title, or subtitle for FY2014.
- the obligation of any PPACA funds for FY2015 until January 1, 2015; and
- implementation of PPACA, its related requirements in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, or amendments made by either Act until December 31, 2014.


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Terry Chow-Untitled Design Led Parasol
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Interview with Terry Chow : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Terry Chow : Our main principle is to design something that is highly adaptable to different environments based on a classic item that everybody knows. We come up with the idea to design the NI noticing that parasol is only used during daytime. We doubt about that as we are always inspired by the concept that things mean more than what we think. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Terry Chow : To make it all-in-one so that it can be moved to anywhere and easily plugged in. "Simple to use" is what we want to achieve. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Terry Chow : To make it even more outstanding and further develop on its concept. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Terry Chow : It took us almost 4-5 years. We once thought that it would appear in the market but it didn't. That's why we decided to create it on our own. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Terry Chow : Many people asked the same question. At the beginning it was a side project that we first tried on, as it was totally different from what our company has been working on. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Terry Chow : We designed and produced it. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Terry Chow : We noticed what our streets, the surrounding environments are missing. Then we looked at what we have in hands and found that we were ready to do this. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Terry Chow : No. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Terry Chow : It is likely to be taken as a decorative item for the luxury class or high-end customers that are interested in quality of life. But we believe that it also benefits the general public and commercial customers such as hotels, resorts and etc. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Terry Chow : The overall simplicity. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Terry Chow : NI means "not exactly" in Spanish. Things tend to be perceived as what they appear to be, but they are actually more than that. The NI Parasol is a parasol, but it is not all of it. It is also a torch, lighting system and etc… .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Terry Chow : CAD and screwdriver…. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Terry Chow : The 3-channel dimmable LED lighting. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Terry Chow : We worked with a guy in Technology Solutions, who graduated with a B.Sc. from McMaster University and Ph.D from University of Toronto. He provided us a lot of support on lighting and PCB design. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Terry Chow : The dimmable 3-channel lighting. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Terry Chow : The colors of lighting did take us some time to research and test on. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Terry Chow : The challenge is about remembering the truth that when you get something, you always need to give up something. For example, in making the stand strong enough, we need to use heavier material. It means that the parasol may become more difficult to move. We have to consider on things like this and to make right choices. I guess this applies to not only designs but also many other things too. Balance always has to be achieved. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Terry Chow : It is unique and we would like to introduce it to the international audience. In this way, it can be adapted to even more different environments. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Terry Chow : You have to keep trying even when everyone says it is impossible. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Terry Chow : No thanks. .
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Like democracies holding elections, standards-making bodies needto check in every so often with the electorate to find out if theyare headed in the right direction.
Accordingly, the Open Geospatial Consortium, in cooperation withOGC members Blue Marble Geographics and 1Spatial, recently surveyedthousands of geospatial data suppliers and users around the worldto find out what they need to develop a better framework forspatial-data quality standards.
Three-quarters of respondents reported that their data is nowstored in spatial databases, as opposed to flat-file databases orother repositories.
Perhaps the most surprising result was the dispersedresponsibility for the quality of spatial data in respondingorganizations. In 25 percent of organizations, the person enteringthe data is responsible for its quality. In 20 percent oforganizations, the responsibility is given to no individual.That's potentially scary when you consider that at some pointan ambulance might be dispatched to those data coordinates. OGCfound another surprise in mining the survey data. According to SamBacharach, executive director for outreach at OGC, the organizationwas struck by how few respondents were aware of current legislationthat affects the way data should be stored and maintained.
'Data managers have come to understand that what'simportant is having data discoverable online with machinereadablemetadata and accessible through open interfaces, Bacharach said.What's not important any longer is having data available in aparticular vendor's format. The geospatial world is wellalong in the transition from tedious file transfers to directWeb-mediated access.'
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Budget battle nears finish line
House-Senate negotiators are slated to meet Monday in hopes of narrowing their last differences over a $1 trillion-plus omnibus spending bill that attempts to fill in the blanks after December's budget deal and avoid another shutdown next week.
If last month's agreement said how much Congress can spend this year, the giant appropriations measure now spells out where the dollars will go. Hundreds of pages long, it literally touches every corner of the government. But its very scope also invites conflict over everything from Wall Street's banks to Appalachia's coal industry — championed by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.).
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The challenge now is to find balance — and be fast about it.
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Funding levels for President Barack Obama's new health care law remain an open issue, for example. But with the Supreme Court already poised to step into the contentious debate over contraceptive coverage, negotiators would prefer to avoid legislative riders on the same mandate.
The Pentagon's base budget, which is expected to end up near $488 billion, represents its own middle ground: $24 billion less than the House approved in July but $20 billion more than what sequestration once threatened this month.
At the same time, non-defense appropriations will be restored to $492 billion — roughly the same level as before the March automatic cuts but less than what President George W. Bush enjoyed in the last years of his administration.
New investments in science and medical research will be possible. Less glamorous accounts like project-based rental assistance for low-income tenants will come up short by as much as $1 billion.
Looking overseas, compromises are in the works on U.S. assistance to Egypt. Refugee aid is slated to be increased significantly given the continued bloodshed in Syria and Africa. But Treasury faces continued resistance as it tries to make good on past pledges needed to open the door for countries like Brazil, China and India to play a greater role in the International Monetary Fund.
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Working through the holidays, Appropriations clerks have made substantial progress already. But the next few days are pivotal as Rogers and his Senate counterpart, Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) meet face-to-face to sort out the most difficult issues, kicked up to their level for final decisions.
The mood is guarded, the window narrow.
The government remains under a stopgap continuing resolution due to expire Jan. 15 and Congress leaves soon after for its mid-January recess. As a practical matter some extension of the CR will be needed — and should not be controversial if the omnibus is proceeding on course. But the Appropriations leadership wants to keep any extension short so that the pressure is on to complete passage before lawmakers leave on Jan. 17.
For the committees, it's a test of whether powerful members, like Rogers, will suppress their own individual agendas and move ahead together.
For Congress more broadly, it will tell a lot about how much was really learned from the past year — a record of failure that seriously hurt the institution in the eyes of the American public.
Adding to the stakes now is the fact that the House and Senate Agriculture committees are also pressing to complete their own long-delayed farm bill in this same two-week window.
Staff talks continued through the weekend on final legislative language in hopes of having the full farm bill conference meet late this week, perhaps Thursday. If an agreement can be ratified then, the pressure will be on to move quickly onto the House floor before the mid-January recess.
The fact that two such giant pieces of legislation — each with a checkered-past and cause of considerable heartache — should suddenly converge at the Capitol's doorstep is quite extraordinary.
But in both cases the fundamental question for Congress is the same. It is better to move forward after coming this far after so long? Or will lawmakers find it easier to fall back into more fighting?
Failure is not without a big price — both in terms of policy and politics.
If the omnibus collapses, Congress will have to revert to another year-long CR that surrenders its influence over government agencies. If the farm bill stalls again, Republicans will have to explain to their rural constituents why they have been unable to deliver legislation for two Congresses in a row.
But without doubt, the choices now are also more detailed, often more difficult than the budget agreement in December.
That bill passed the House by a better than 3-1 margin, but it seems very unlikely that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) can do better than the 169-62 split he enjoyed then among his Republicans. Democratic support is vital, and the next two weeks will tell a lot about the chances of any cooperation for the remainder of this year.
Having been burned so often in the past, the Appropriations leadership is heading down this trail with abundant caution.
There has been more than the usual secrecy in discussing even non-controversial pieces of the omnibus — really 12 bills in one. But the basic outlines of the giant measure will conform to the targets set in December, and it is possible to glean some details from these numbers.


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Private Freight Operator in Florida Takes a Gamble on a Rail and Property-Development Project, but Obstacles Remain
The large cities that dot Florida's east coast were developed largely thanks to industrialist Henry Flagler, who in the late 19th century built a private railroad from Jacksonville to Miami, then profited by creating hotels and other properties that fed off the pipeline of travelers.
Now, more than a century later, a company that is a descendant of Mr. Flagler's empire is aiming to repeat history.


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BWW Reviews: Rosemary Loar is 'Out of This World' in Her Arlen-Ellington Tribute Show at the Metropolitan Room
Cabaret Review by Stephen Hanks
When I heard that Rosemary Loar's new cabaret show was called When Harry Met The Duke, it immediately made me think about the film When Harry Met Sally, which then made me think about the famous scene in Katz's deli, which then made me ask myself the question, "Have reviewers ever faked it?" (because that's the way my warped and fevered mind works). No, not orgasms, silly. Have they ever faked positive reviews? As in giving a show or a performer a great review even when they really didn't care for either. Given what everyone in the New York cabaret community seems to agree is the incestuous nature of the biz (such as it is), I'm sure it's happened. I just hope an orgasm was involved--at least for someone. (Photo above by John Quilty)
While I'm probably as guilty as the next reviewer of occasionally going a bit too over the top for a good show or performance, I can honestly say I haven't "faked it" (at least not yet), and I don't have to start now when describing the opening night of Rosemary Loar's new show, her third straight excellent effort over the past 18 months (she scored in July 2011 with Rosemary Returns to Her Roots, a collection of her own compositions, and last February with her Sting, Stang, Stung tribute to Sting). With her tribute show to the music of Harold Arlen ("Somewhere Over the Rainbow," et al.) and Duke Ellington ("Take the A Train," et al.), When Harry Met The Duke is Loar's creative foray back into the caressing arms of the Great American Songbook (GAS). If you consider that the contemporary cabaret scene in New York is 30 years on (since the opening of Don't Tell Mama in 1982 and the start of the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs [MAC] in 1983), there have likely been thousands of cabaret shows with GAS themes and the interesting new ideas may be down to a precious few. Loar, who has been performing cabaret shows during that same time frame, has managed to come up with yet another variation, and her erudite and accessibly sophisticated new show featuring wonderful jazz, pop, and Broadway songs from the 1930s-'50s goes down like a delicious vodka martini topped with a skewer of blue cheese-stuffed olives.
With her able Musical Director and arranger Frank Ponzio at the keyboard and a bouquet of flowers on the piano lid, Loar's lean and lithe body looked lovely in a plum-colored, sleeveless, floor-length gown with a plunging neckline; the same dress that is so striking in her show promotions where she is pictured hovering over the New York City skyline as if she is the focus of an urbane version of the poster for the late '50s film, Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.
One of New York cabaret's strongest jazz singers, the 2012 winner of the MAC Hanson Award for "Excellence in Cabaret" (photo right), opened with a jazzy medley of Ellington's (and Bob Russell's) "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me" with Arlen's (and Ted Koehler's) "Let's Fall in Love." She then went into a sultry scat on The Duke's "Caravan" (lyrics by Irving Mills), and followed that with a deeply personal, emotional, and nostalgic rendition of Ellington and Mills' "Prelude to a Kiss." Throughout the show, Loar's patter seemed charmingly stream of consciousness, but here she romantically reminisced about a long ago walk in the park with her dance teacher Robert Atwood (photo next page), and about how the sparks were flying before he finally decided to plant one on her. With Atwood (now her husband and creative collaborator) in the audience, Loar fought against her voice cracking at the end of the lyric: "Oh, how my love song gently cries/For the tenderness within your eyes/My love is a prelude that never dies/A prelude to a kiss." (Please click on Page 2 below to continue.)
Loar's show isn't the first time someone has connected Arlen to Ellington. In fact, in 1965, The Duke and his orchestra played Arlen's "Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" in a 60th Birthday tribute to Arlen on the Bell Telephone Hour TV show hosted by Dinah Shore. In 1990, pianist Andre Previn (with guitarists Mundell Lowe and Joe Pass) produced an album merging Arlen and Ellington classics. And one of the interesting subtexts of Loar's show--which she should flesh out a bit in future dates--once again explores the strong affinity that assimilated Jewish pop songwriters had for the music of African-American jazz musicians. This connection is often explored in popular culture in films like The Jolson Story, which depicts a young Al Jolson becoming a "jazz singer" after experiencing the "new" music he discovers in the bowels of New Orleans, and in The Glenn Miller Story, which shows young, white big band musicians like Miller and drummer Gene Krupa jamming with Louis Armstrong and other black jazz greats at Harlem's famous Cotton Club.
In fact, as Loar points out during her show, the Cotton Club is where, between 1930-34, Arlen and one of his most frequent lyric collaborators Ted Koehler wrote songs for jazz band leaders like Ellington and Cab Calloway, creating enough material (like the classic "Stormy Weather") for two shows per year. Loar, who is a fine songwriter and introduces her own solid material in every show, used this bit of musical history as the inspiration for composing a title song to tie together this immensely enjoyable set. In the jazzy story song about Harry and The Duke trying to write a tune together that wouldn't quite work, Loar's clever lyrics included titles of famous Arlen and Ellington songs and ended with "No one will ever know, why the music didn't flow/Between the A Train and the Rainbow." Rosie's take? "Yes, they're human."
The music and Loar's vocals certainly flowed on the wild "Quando Swing," which has become one of her standards (it was featured on her 2008 CD of the the same name) and is a mashup of an Italian opera aria with Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)." From the Arlen songbook, Loar was poignantly vulnerable on "Ill Wind," sweetly seductive on "Out of This World," and subtly soulful on two Arlen/Truman Capote ballads from the 1954 musical House of Flowers (and that became standards in the Barbra Streisand repertoire) "I Never Has Seen Snow," and her encore "Sleepin' Bee." After Rosemary delivers the last line, "When my one true love, I has found," she definitely isn't faking it when she then breathlessly tells her audience, "I have found my true love . . . and it's singing for you."
I'll have what she's having.
Rosemary Loar will be performing When Harry Met The Duke at the Metropolitan Room on Sunday, January 27, Wednesday, January 30, and Friday, February 22 all at 7pm. The Metropolitan Room is on 34 West 22nd Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues). Call 212-206-0440 for reservations.


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Over the next several days area baseball and softball teams will put aside their races for a conference championship to try and win one tournament style.
Over the next several days area baseball and softball teams will put aside their races for a conference championship to try and win one tournament style.
Five area baseball teams will open their respective Easter tournaments today while several others, including softball teams, will start theirs next week.
Baseball teams from Greene Central, Kinston and North Lenoir will compete in the 30-team Pitt County Classic, while Ayden-Grifton and South Lenoir will once again take part in the 17th-annual Ray Avery Easter Tournament.
South Lenoir�s softball team will head to Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Monday for a three-day event while Parrott Academy�s softball team will host a tournament next Friday.
Here is a breakdown of area baseball teams to this point and a schedule of their games in these tournaments:
Pitt County Classic
Greene Central: The Rams (5-4, 4-2 Eastern Plains 2A) enter the Pitt County Classic today having lost two of their last three games after a 4-2 start, and are currently in second place behind undefeated North Pitt. Greene Central played in this event last year and dropped two of its three games. The Rams will face Riverside Martin (1A) today at 5 p.m. at North Pitt, Washington (3A) at 2:30 p.m. on Monday at North Pitt and Rocky Mount (3A) at 10 a.m. on Tuesday at Guy Smith Stadium in Greenville.
Kinston: The Vikings (2-8, 0-5) return to the field on a three-game losing streak, and are still in search of their first conference win. In the Pitt County Classic a year ago Kinston lost two of three. The Vikings will face Washington (3A) today at noon at North Pitt, Wilson Fike (3A) at 10 a.m. on Monday at Winterville South Central and Amalia County (Va.) at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday at North Pitt.
North Lenoir: The Hawks (3-6, 2-5 Eastern Carolina 3A) enter the Pitt County Classic on somewhat of a hot streak, having won back-to-back games for the first time this season. The road wins at Eastern Wayne and Clayton Cleveland were not only the first two conference games for North Lenoir this season, but also snapped a six-game losing streak. The Hawks, in the Pitt County Classic for the third year in a row, will face Raleigh Sanderson (4A) at 1:15 p.m. today at Guy Smith Stadium, Whiteville (2A) at 5:45 p.m. on Monday at Guy Smith Stadium and Durham Riverside (4A) at 5 p.m. on Tuesday at Guy Smith Stadium.
Ray Avery Easter Tournament
Ayden-Grifton: The Chargers (8-4, 1-1 Carolina 1A) enter the 17th annual Ray Avery Easter Tournament having won four of their last six games. Ayden-Grifton will open its own tournament tonight at 7 against Bear Grass, play South Lenoir at 4 p.m. on Monday then wrap up things up at 1 p.m. on Tuesday against High Point Andrews.
South Lenoir: The Blue Devils (4-5, 2-4 East Central 2A), last season�s Ray Avery Easter Tournament runners-up, enter the event having lost two of their last three conference games and currently stand in the bottom-half of the league standings. South Lenoir opens the tournament at 1 p.m. today at Ayden-Grifton against Pamlico, will face the Chargers at 4 p.m. on Monday then end the tournament with a 7 p.m. game on Tuesday against Farmville Central.
Ryan Herman can be reached at 252-559-1073 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @KFPSports.


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Providing highly secure cloud computing services requires a growing number of employees — and more brick-and-mortar space — for Duo Security Inc.Duo signed a lease Thursday for larger office space in downtown Ann Arbor. It plans to make the move into 14,000 square feet at 123 N. Ashley St., spread over three floors, sometime in the fourth quarter.CEO Dug Song, who co-founded the company in 2009, said he has been hiring steadily and plans to be near 100 employees by year's end.Duo Security provides two-factor authentication — which verifies the identity of an entity trying to access services in a computer or network — to more than 4,000 organizations worldwide.Song was a member of the 2012 class of Crain's 40 Under 40. In 2000, he was one of five self-described geeks and hackers who co-founded Arbor Networks, a University of Michigan spinoff that was later sold to Tektronix Communications.Arbor Networks' security software is used by more than 80 percent of the world's Internet providers.Song co-founded the Tech Brewery, an Ann Arbor tech incubator, and is one of the organizers of a 30,000-square-foot skate park, slated to open June 21, at Veterans Memorial Park in Ann Arbor.
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[Intro - Mystikal]
I'm a political refugee
[Hook - Birdman]
Birds for the summer
Hummers for the runners
Candy on the paint
Nine for the thunder
Throw a couple of hundreds
Fishing on the fishtail
With big money, cash money everywhere
High roller, shot caller, big boss
Original, real nigga from the start
Head hunting, price on a nigga tab
Hit 'em up for playing with a nigga mail
Say I'm better than Beethoven
To the beat that I rap over
Stay outta that medicine cabinet
Yeah, that what they told me
Giving us piss tests, cause we stay rolling
And know a nigga act better than a .45 caliber pistol when they loaded
They penalize us, tryna slow us down
They constantly fucking us up
That's why we're buck wild
Call me porch monkey, call me jigaboo
When you know you wanna fuck my woman and eat my barbecue
How the fuck you wanna watch my house
But don't wanna live on my street
The ape man taught Tarzan -- how the fuck you better than me?
Rap, I run that rock, and got a jump shot
Who we got that black wife up in that White House
I took my lick and didn't sell out
I was in the bing, I didn't bail out
Hoping motherfucker run and fail out
Back to the top from the jail house
Lace 'em up, tie ya shoe
Catch a cut, you know what pressure do
Who out chea fucking with me, huh? Tell me that
I'm bout to drop that shit, where my Pamper at?
Try to answer that, or give me my mantle back
I bury you cockroaches, shoulda left me where I was at
You done made that fucking bed
You done built this fucking castle
Buckwheat and his friend Alfalfa
Couldn't do nothing with this little rascal
I wonder licking retarded
Yeah nigga what the hell
Talking baby business, yeah
Yeah bitch, dumb shit
Don't be fucking with me
Cause you won't get off easy
I feel just like Drew Brees
When they kick off football season
How I cut the ref, you can't stop from bleeding
Rappers betta leave me alone
If they gon' keep on breathing
Now keep on starving and I'mma gonna keep on eating
And you keep on sucking, and I'mma keep on skeeting
Nigga, you gon be the one bussing or be the one fleeing
Nigga better keep on trucking
You don't want no fucking trouble this evening
[Lil Wayne]
Uh, ain't it crazy how shit be
Thats why I flush it
I got the Tommy gun with the drum
Thats percussion
I just popped a couple pain pills, self destruction
I made something out of nothing, thanks for nothing
I pistol whip you pussies, knock her out Robitussin
Ran up in your house, killed everybody, no discussion
Rep, that muthafucking red flag like a Russian
Yeah, look, I told her baby I'm a thrasher
We kissed, I lit her ass up than I ashed her
No hard feelings, no card dealing, but I shuffle my queen
Duffle bag too heavy to carry to the car
My Mary in a jar
I'm food, I let the haters add a little salt
Thats cool, I do it for all the niggas that try
And all the bitches I've fucked, and all my niggas that died
The debut YMCMB single from veteran New Orleans artist Mystikal. The rapper joined the ranks of Young Money artists in December, 2011, overcoming his early 90's beefs with members of the label.


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Spanish National Police have rescued a 19-year-old woman after concluding an investigation into two Madrid prostitution rings operated by Romanian nationals. A pimp who'd been holding the woman captive tattooed a barcode on her wrist after she tried unsuccessfully to escape. According to the CNN report, the barcode is used by one of the rings as a way to denote ownership. The numbers beneath the barcode show how much money how much money the woman supposedly "owed" the ring.
The woman was discovered with multiple lesions and bruises from a beating she suffered as a result of her failed escape (her head and eyebrows had also been shaved). Police say that the ringleaders — an uncle and his nephew, both Romanian nationals who were arrested along with 20 other people — coerced underage girls into prostitution, while other members of the group collected rent money and controlled the rooms the women operated from. But in case you thought such a scenario couldn't possibly get any more horrifying, members of the ring effectively dehumanized the women they held hostage by referring to them as any number of barcode-able items such as "packages," "suitcases," or "bicycles."
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Funny or Die's amusing, if uneven 2013 web flick "iSteve," which marked the first Steve Jobs movie out of the gates (Gates?), proved at its best mocking biopic clichés – most prominently, "It's so crazy, it just might work!"
There's nothing crazy about making movies about the Apple chief, who helped forge the intersection of digital technology and mass media through the iPhone, iPod and iTunes, among other products. But making the movies work is another matter. Ashton Kutcher found as much with "Jobs," an admirable 2013 effort that failed to prove anywhere near as memorable as its subject.
Now, with the fourth anniversary of Jobs' death approaching, his life is fodder for two more films: a documentary that debuts Friday and a Hollywood feature set to land Oct. 9. The works will test whether filmmakers finally can get a firm grip on an elusive figure who put the world in our hands.
Then again, not even Siri could adequately explain Jobs, a man, by multiple accounts, both cruel and generous, both a visionary and shortsighted in his dealings with people, both a victim and perpetrator of ruthless corporate machinations. There's no disputing, though, his genius as a salesman who brought innovations to life through his drive and the ability to drive others.
As noted at the time of his death at age 56, Jobs became an icon of the popular culture he helped us consume in new ways, with greater ease. The upcoming movies suggest the fascination with the thin, but powerful black-clad businessman who preached the gospel of a better life through the digital devices that made him billions, remains strong.
The documentary, "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine," promises, in promotional materials, to pull "no punches." The tag line of the movie, directed by the noted filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief," "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer"), sets the tone: "Bold. Brilliant. Brutal."
Meanwhile, the upcoming film "steve jobs" boasts a team that includes Michael Fassbender, who brings his trademark intensity to the title role, and a strong director, Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting," "Slumdog Millionaire), who comes armed with talent for exploring the nuances of human nature.
The movie also boasts great source material ("Steve Jobs," the 2011 biography by Walter Isaacson) and a script by Aaron Sorkin, whose 2010 film, "The Social Network," offered a compelling, if fictionalized story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. At his best, Sorkin ("The West Wing," "The Newsroom") excels at putting words in the mouths of smart and hyperverbal, if flawed, characters.
The best biography-driven documentaries and Hollywood biopics force audiences to view the subject in new ways – reinventing, in a sense, their public persona. The challenge will be steep with Jobs, a master of both reinvention and image creation – a man, who, as Isaacson wrote, could conjure a "reality distortion field" and bend others to his will.
Then again, the idea of capturing the essence of Steve Jobs in two different kinds of films is so crazy, it just might work. Check out previews for both movies as cinematic Apple-picking season begins.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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GeoDesign from 2010 to the present – Day One
January 9th, 2011 by Susan Smith
The concept of "GeoDesign" was one year old last week when Esri CEO and president Jack Dangermond kicked off the GeoDesign Summit held in Redlands, Calif. His question to the audience: How do you want to interact in the future to make things better?
He spoke about new modalities and how we used to use CAD to generate maps, but now with GIS we can all look at and interact with the map simultaneously.
He said that GIS is going through "another massive shift with real time information, with distributed services and bringing things together dynamically, the whole lifecycle of design and processes is birthing here." The new paradigm is about creating alternative futures, evaluating them quickly and seeing the conseqences of them.
Dangermond sees that as the world is becoming digital, GIS is becoming pervasive and in the future we will be able to measure "nearly everything that moves or changes." On top of those measurements we will be able to sketch design alternatives.
Half of the time of the designer and engineer is spent on collecting data.
Bernie Szukalski of Esri did a brief run through of ArcGIS Online and its base map, which he said is the start of any good map. The ArcGIS Online base map is a world imagery basemap that covers entire world. A map of the entire U.S. (as part of this map) has 1 resolution or better and is comprised of informatin gathered from federal, state and commercial providers and is free for non-commercial use. The base map also includes a World Topographic basemap compiled from authoritative GIS sources, including the USGS, EPA and The National Park Service.
The CommunityMaps program represents the best possible data from authoritative sources brought together in seamless base maps, plus lots of other content, thematic information, demographics, soils, geology, and different layers with which to build maps.
Also included are USGS topo maps, and maps from other providers like Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap (good for areas outside U.S. that are difficult to get). For those who don't know it, ArcGIS Online is built into ArcGIS.
Michael Goodchild of the University of California spoke on GeoDesign accomplishments through 2010.
Geodesign Accomplishments through 2010–
a. A research agenda for this area and development.
b. Personal perspective
c. Needed a definition of the field and now have a Wikipedia page.
New networks have been created such as the Geodesign Consortium spearheaded by Karen Hanna and the SDS Consortium by Naicong Li.
Online resources –
Participatory geodesign network – defining geodesign as it relates to public participation.
GIS and Science bibliography on Esri GIS & Science website
Selected readings –
Jack's talk at TED 2010
GeoDesignWorld.org – Jason Lally and Drew Dara-Abrams
Literature – Regional and Urban GIS: A decision support approach by Esri Press
Goodchild's almost published – "Towards GeoDesign: repurposing cartography and GIS? firstname.lastname@example.com
Goodchild said we need to close what have many have perceived as a growing gap between GIS and design.
"Now more than ever we need a technology to distinguish between small-d and Big-D design," said Goodchild. "Design consists of the formulation of an optimization problem with objectives and constraints, the collection of data, the execution of a search for the optimum solution, and its implementation."
His definition of the two "d"s was as follows: Small-d —In this simplistic view implementation is seen as inevitable. Big-d sees the process complicated by disagreements among stakeholders.
Lightning Talks
The Lightning Talks presented at this event were 10 minutes long rather than the 5 minutes generally devoted to each presenter at Esri UC. A couple of the more enlightening ones are outlined below:
Chris Pyke of the U.S. Green Building Council said at a recent conference that "Green building is not about buildings. It is about this curve – a systematic movement devoted to changing the prevalence of practice – by creating best practices. The curve is not spatial, temporal or data driven. The USGBC put in place a collection of people and practices to move the curve."
One manifestation of green building is buildings, said Pyke. At least 30,000 buildings are in the pipeline, which represent decisions made about water, stormwater, lighting, air space, space, etc.
Over the last decade, people have understood we have a curve, and we try to remove it by adopting best practices, while a building might last 50-200 years. The curve is made up of these decisions over time.
The next 15 years of green building practice is going to be
USGBC has created a portal to understand spatial and temporal dimensions. The portal can expose "augmented reality" information of different actual real projects on the ground. It can capture real information on a real building, so that other projects can be measured by it and come up to its standards. This technology can also be accessed through mobile BGIG Analyst.
Nicholas de Monchaux, assistant professor of Architecture and Urban Design UC Berkeley talked about "creating a robust nervous system for the cities of today." The digital tools of today allow us to contemplate this new paradigm.
Constance Bodurow, Lawrence Technological Unviersity,
Studio [Ci] a design lab in the College of Architecture, presented the topic "Convergence of Intensity: How to Use Geodesign Tools to Shape A City." She said we are urbanists, and interested in the future of urban form, and they believe cities should be the most desirable place for human habitation.
A new urban geography and ecosystem are required which leverage the assets and complex combinations of social economic and environmental factors.
Their Studio (Ci) integrates Esri with Google SketchUp to generate unique outcomes. The Convergence of intensity (CI) is a value based approach which builds on value densification and recommends the new geography of the city. It proposes specific criteria of the revitalizing of the post industrial city. "We create 3D extrusions, the city can see it better and have thousands of datasets," said Bodurow.
Idea Labs
The afternoon was devoted to Idea Labs on special topics. The one I attended was entitled BIM/GIS Integration led by Stu Rich of PenBay Solutions, Ihab Hijazi, Danny Kahler and Fred Abler.
The discussion addressed an ongoing debate about Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs), an object oriented file format for interoperability between CAD and now Building information modeling (BIM) files. Now they are working on an interoperability platform between BIM and BIM, and want to use it to apply to the BIM/GIS conversation.
Participants asked the questions: What are use cases, what are problems we are going to solve, and what are we going to pull out of BIM to put in GIS and vice versa?
The day wrapped up with a talk by Kimon Onuma, architect, evangelist for the integration of BIM and GIS and president of Onuma, Inc. has been using BIM since 1993. His clients include the GSA, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers–to name a few.
Onuma remarked that the economy slump is the best thing that has happened to the industry – the people who didn't have time to look at BIM now are looking at it. On the downside, BIM models have become very heavy and users cannot extract valuable information from them.
Onuma's viewpoint about technology is that it should be simple, "if we don't keep it simple, we can't solve the problem," he said. A solution should be like an online travel website where you book an airline flight. You ask a question, it gives you an answer.
Onuma has created the BIM Model Server which embodies cloud computing, BIM and GIS, facilities management and other data in real time. It is fast and simple, and allows numbers of people to access the information simultaneously.
He took the audience through the virtual design of a building in Hong Kong, where everyone in the room could click on a link on his site and begin adding design elements. This type of brainstorming way of designing and pulling in information is called a BIMStorm. What the audience did with Onuma in one hour is what is generally done with an organization in a day or several days of working together on a real project.
He said the intersection of GIS and BIM is "where it explodes." Multiple servers talk to each other, and with cloud computing you can create mashups. The building is in a city, the city is part of the world and that's how it connects together.
Look for more on GeoDesign in GISWeekly and future blogs.
Tags: BIM, CAD, ESRI, GeoDesign Summit, Onuma


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Pujols helped guide the Cardinals to their fourth NL Central Division crown in six years by leading the Majors in home runs for the first time, with 47. The eight-time Players Choice Award winner finished first among all National Leaguers in runs scored (124), on-base percentage (.443) and slugging percentage (.658), second in doubles (45) and third in batting average (.327), RBI (135) and walks (115). Pujols, 29, hit above .300 with 30-plus home runs and 100-plus RBI for the ninth consecutive season. Pujols has now been honored by his peers with Players Choice Awards as Player of the Year and NL Outstanding Player in 2003, 2008 and 2009, Marvin Miller Man of the Year in 2006 and NL Outstanding Rookie in 2001.
Granderson earned the Marvin Miller Man of the Year award, named for the founding executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association and awarded to the player whose on-field and off -field performance most inspires others to higher levels of achievement, by displaying as much passion to give back to others as he shows between the lines on the baseball diamond . In 2008, he established the Grand Kids Foundation to focus on improving opportunities for inner-city youth in the areas of education and youth baseball. A graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago, Granderson recently released a childrens book, All You Can Be, which encourages children to chase their dreams. He is also an active member of the Action Team national youth volunteer program administered by the Players Trust and Volunteers of America, which is inspiring and training the next generation of volunteers in more than 150 high schools across the United States. Granderson, 28, just completed his fourth full season in the Majors and set a career high in home runs (30), and finished with 157 hits, 91 runs scored, 23 doubles, 8 triples, 20 stolen bases and 71 RBI in 160 games with the Tigers.
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