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I decided to write a blog to record details of my family history and my efforts to trace my ancestors. I know not everyone is interested in family history and that includes members of my own family. For some people life is about now and where you are going. I agree with that but for me knowing how I got here and what came before is fascinating.
I don't expect to find that I am related to money, to royalty or that my family made (and lost) a fortune. I have however found some interesting facts and stories about some of the people in my family tree. I want to use my blog to tell 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century stories in a 21st century way.
If you find my blog interesting or even if you don't I welcome your comments and stories about your own family history research. If by some remote chance that you think we might be related you need to know that I am not rich, I am not famous and there are no family heirlooms with your name on.


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In celebration of Mother's Day weekend, we'd like you to meet some spectacular animal moms!
Dolphin moms & calves immediately form a strong bond. They'll synchronize their breathing and swim patterns for the baby's first few weeks of life – to keep as close as possible. These dedicated moms will nurse their young for up to 10 years!
Veteran dolphin moms will also mentor less-experienced females in their colony by allowing them to babysit their young and practice for when they have their own babies.
Giant Pacific Octopuses
Female giant Pacific octopuses have one primary goal: to have one successful brood of eggs in her lifetime.
Females will lay about 200,000 eggs in their lair and defend them at any cost. During the seven months of caring for her eggs, the female octopus is often almost starved to death – she'd ingest a limb before leaving her post for food.
Strawberry Poison Arrow Frogs
After laying her eggs and watching them hatch, strawberry poison arrow frog moms will carry their tadpoles (one by one) from the rain forest floor up trees as high as 100 feet!
Then, she'll find individual pools of water in the tree leaves for each of her tadpoles to grow, keeping them safe from predators.
Alligator moms will go to great lengths to protect their young, including carrying alligator babies in their jaws for protection!
Alligator babies will typically stay close to mom for their first year of life.
Celebrating Ivy's first Mother's Day!
This past year, our Linne's two-toed sloth, Ivy, became a first-time mom to baby, Camden! Making this Mother's Day a special one for our Aquarium family!

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This is a pretty straightforward question – or is it? Who is your favorite relief pitcher on the Phillies?
There are some great choices. Ryan Madson, now the anchor of the bullpen. Jose Contreras, "The Big Truck" who has closed and set-up in his year and a half. Antonio Bastardo, quietly one of the best relievers in baseball. Brad Lidge, the guy who won the Phillies the 2008 title and who still holds a place in many hearts. How about Mike Stutes and the job he has done – he might be the new set up guy.
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As Paul stood before King Agrippa's throne, relating the story of Christ, he declared of the Messiah's life: "This thing was not done in a corner" (Acts 26:26). Those few words have reverberated through centuries of history as one of the hallmarks of the story of Jesus. Never was the life, death, or resurrection of Christ meant to be kept secret—as something might be when it is stored away in a box in an abandoned attic, to be discovered later by accident only by a fortunate few. Rather, the many facets of Christ's earthly ministry were readily available for inspection by anyone, anytime, anywhere.
In fact, centuries before Christ set foot on the Earth in human form, the prophets of old repeatedly had spoken of His impending arrival. Over 300 messianic prophecies fill the pages of the Old Testament. God did not try to "sneak" the Messiah into human affairs under cover of darkness and without warning. Truth be told, He went to considerable effort to announce to the world the news of its heralded Savior.
One such instance can be found in Genesis 49:10, wherein Moses wrote: "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes." The word "Shiloh" has long been recognized by biblical scholars as another name for the Messiah. This verse, then, explains exactly when the Messiah was to arrive—when the scepter had departed from Judah.
So what is the "scepter," and when did it depart from Judah? The scepter was a staff kept in possession of the elders of each of the twelve tribes of Israel and engraved with the name of the tribe. It symbolized the national sovereignty and judicial power of God's people. As long as the scepter was in place, the Jews could govern themselves, excommunicate one of their own, and even administer corporeal punishment (including the death penalty).
Interestingly, the scepter remained in place even while the Jews were in captivity under both the Babylonians and the Medes and Persians. It also remained in place for a time under Roman captivity—until the Emperor instituted procurators. When that occurred, even first-century Jews recognized the departure of the scepter because the Romans (around A.D. 11) took away the Jews' right to administer capital punishment. One Jewish teacher, rabbi Rachmon, put the situation in these terms: "When the members of the Sanhedrin found themselves deprived of their right over life and death, a general consternation took possession of them; they covered their heads with ashes, and their bodies with sackcloth, exclaiming: 'Woe unto us, for the scepter has departed from Judah, and the Messiah has not come' " (as quoted in McDowell, 1999, p. 195).
When the members of the Sanhedrin found that they could not put Jesus to death themselves, but had to request instead that Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator, do so on their behalf (Luke 23:24), they should have known the Messiah was in their midst, for that was the exact prophecy Moses had recorded. The scepter had indeed departed from Judah—and the Messiah had indeed come! Yet the Jews ignored the voice of God and demanded the death sentence for His only begotten Son. Why? Because they were the people who "always resisted the Holy Spirit" (Acts 7:51).
Woe to those individuals in our day and age who ignore the powerful evidence that God has provided as proof of the deity of His precious Son, Jesus Christ! Let us ensure that we today do not become as blind to Christ's Sonship as those first-century Jews.
McDowell, Josh (1999), The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson).


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Item Number: E37
Title: Directoire, original screenprint from WPA Museum Extension Project, Pittsburgh PA
Illustrator: Unsigned
Date: 1930s
Size: 8"x11.5"
Comments: Scarce print published by Works Projects Administration (WPA) Pennsylvania branch during the Great Depression. Part of a larger series of educational images of costume through the ages, produced for use in schools. This is a silkscreen handproduced print, rich color!
Price: Sold
Condition: Excellent condition and color, unmatted and unframed.


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The contest between two competiting ballot initiatives expected to qualify for the fall ballot -- Gov. Jerry Brown's temporary tax on income and sales, and civil rights attorney Molly Munger's temporary income tax for schools and early childhood programs -- has been thoroughly dissected as a contest over tax policy.
But it's also a battle over reform of local governance -- a process that Brown, taking a page from a early '90s move to shift responsibility for mental health and indigent health programs to the counties, has called "realignment."
Indeed, the fight between the initiatives may be more important as a contest over visions of local government. Because the taxes in their measures are temporary -- while the changes in local government could be permanent.
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What's the difference?
Brown's complicated measure extends his realignment -- which consists of giving local governments more authority over certain areas (criminal justice and corrections so far) and sending them some--but not all--of the money they need to do the job. Much of the tax revenues he would raise in his measure go to providing funding to locals for his realignment plans, though the money does pass through the state.
Munger's initiative is simpler and more direct. It raises taxes at the state level -- and sends them directly to school districts (some of the money is siphoned off to fund new programs for early childhood). This is an end run around the current system.
Neither of these plans is particularly bold. Brown's realignment builds in many ways on the current broken budget system. Munger's doesn't fix it -- it just carves a path around it. Either way, the system remains in place, and it's not clear that either approach represents progress for the state. Both also make the mistake of establishing a permanent change in governance -- Brown's includes a new constitutional guarantee for local governments -- with temporary taxes. Such structures can add to the state's troubles long-term.
But Munger's is likely to be more attractive, since the money she raises gets to schools more directly (Brown is foolishly touting his initiative as a school measure, even though the money is likely to end up in the budget maw and in local governments; a comparison on schools will hurt his initiative and boost Munger).
As a matter of policy, both duck what's really needed: restoring the ability of local governments to raise revenues themselves for the programs they measure. Such a change is crucial for accountability and democracy -- because the elected officials responsible for a program should be responsible for raising the money for it.
Instead Munger and Brown both raise money at the state level to send to locals for their programs. It's precisely this way of doing things that has made California's budget process such an undemocratic process.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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THE SPORTS DOCTOR- Good taste: Players and writers all need it
When TV Azteca sports reporter Ines Sainz tweeted from the New York Jets locker room a couple of weeks ago, her comments set off a firestorm.
Tweets that she was "dying of embarrassment" and that she felt uncomfortable with inappropriate player comments led to an investigation by the NFL, a complaint by the Association for Women in Sports Media, and a vehement battle between feminists and sexists, a battle many thought was long ago over and done.
In case you didn't know, I'm a woman– and a lucky one. Aside from not being allowed to play Little League football when I was 10 (it still grates on me), my feminine experience has been pretty typical: being called "sweetheart" and fighting off inappropriate hugs, rebuffing propositions at red lights, and ignoring catcalls outside the grocery store.
It's been only in the past few years that uglier sexism has reared its head: my husband's friends joking about his giving me an "allowance," Lowes employees asking if I need a man to install a ceiling fan, and being turned down by sports editors because "men won't read a female sports columnist, no matter how good she is."
I'm sure you think you know where I would be in the Ines Sainz debate. But you might be wrong.
As a female sports columnist, I have the right to go anywhere male sports columnists go, even into NFL locker rooms. Where Rick Reilly goes, I can follow. The converse is also true: male sports reporters and columnists are allowed in women's locker rooms. It is an attempt at equity that has many people, mostly men, up in arms.
To Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs and those like him who "don't think women should be in the locker room" because "the locker room is the place where us guys, us football players, we dress, we shower, we're naked," I'd like to say: get real.
It's not as if reporters can roam when and where they want. Representatives of the media have access to locker rooms at designated times, and they don't sneak in: their arrival is announced before the doors are opened. So put some pants on, and quit bellyaching.
Besides, Lance Briggs, this is not about you and your nakedness; this in about Ines Sainz and whether she and her tight jeans and see-through shirt deserved what she got. It's tempting to go down that road, to say anyone who dresses like that is asking for sexual attention, and boys will be boys, etc.
If that was your first thought when you heard the story, you're not alone– but you're wrong.
Whether it's pouring salt on slugs or accosting women, the "boys will be boys" argument has long been a convenient excuse for unacceptable behavior. NFL players aren't boys; they're men (albeit some with gun and stripper problems).
They're professional athletes who, in order not to be benched or suspended, have to exhibit self-control every time they take the field, and it's not just about refraining from clothes-lining each other.
If Clinton Portis, the Redskins running back who defended the Jets and attacked Sainz by saying, "You know, somebody got to spark her interest, or she's going to want somebody"– if he or any player harassed an NFL cheerleader, he would be suspended immediately and in major trouble with his organization. Need I remind you that NFL cheerleaders wear a lot less than Ines Sainz?
It's disgusting that people still question whether women are fit to be sports reporters, and it's sickening that a lot of people think the answer is no.
Good taste and common sense forbid my writing what I wish those people to read, but that brings me to my final point: since the courts have answered the questions of female equality and what constitutes sexual harassment, what's really at issue here is good taste and common sense– specifically that neither Sainz nor the Jets possess either. In a situation like this, a couple of player suspensions, a consultation with Tim Gunn, and a visit from Miss Manners are likely to do more good than anything else.
Juanita Giles lives in Keysville with her husband where she raises dogs and children.


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I used to combine one PNG image (with transparent pixels) with another matting image (to blend the image to transparent at the bottom).
This command worked fine with IM 6.x
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convert tmp.png test-gradient.png -channel A -compose Multiply -composite out.png
Maybe also a link to the great collection of IM examples for Version 7 would help me, I cannot find it, only the 6.x edition.
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NBC 5 invites you to enjoy dining from some of the best chefs in the area at "Dining Out in Dallas: Battle of the Chefs" on Wednesday, April 4. Proceeds will help the Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation in their mission to find a cure for neurofibromatosis.
Meet select chefs from the finest Dallas restaurants and sample their house specialties. You will have the opportunity to vote for your favorite dish of the night and help determine which Chef will be the crowd's favorite. There will be featured spirits, wine, beer, and live music to enliven the crowd.
Dining Out in Dallas was first held in 1995 and has grown to become the signature fundraising event for the Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation. For ticket information, visit www.diningoutindallas.com.
Connecting NBC 5 to the community we serve.
Dining Out in Dallas: Battle of the Chefs
Wednesday, April 4
6:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Frontiers of Flight Museum
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Visto has taken rival pushed email vendor Good Technology off Motorola's hands, doubling the size of the company and expanding the offering into the enterprise.
Visto broke even last year, following extensive cost cutting and staff layoffs, and now has aspirations towards the enterprise market into which Good has managed to penetrate, and it seems that Motorola was only too grateful to be rid of the operation.
Motorola paid more than $400m for Good in 2007, absorbing the company into its Enterprise Mobility division that has been happily turning a profit for years while the mobile-handset division drags the company into the ground. Visto won't say how much they've paid Motorola for Good, but it seems likely the agreement isn't as simple as a cash payment - scheduled payments over time, or in response to performance, are equally possible.
Visto already supports a huge range of handsets, more than 400 according to the company, so it's not Good's client technology that it wanted. Good Technology servers are of interest; the application management and VPN capability. Most important would seem to be the brand and the customer base, with CEO Brian Bogosian pointing out that the company is now well equipped to compete for government contracts - always a good place to be during a recession.
No cost cutting is expected - staff at Good are all being retained and the combined company, which now totals around 400 employees, isn't planning to close any offices or even cut duplicated services, at least not yet.


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Read the rules and didnt see anything about not being allowed to post ebay links so I hope this is OK
basically my wife veto'd my getting all my old sets from my childhood so I am selling off what I started to collect. I have a few sets to still list as well as extra minifigs. I am asking less than what I bought them for so all my prices should be cheaper than Bricklink and def the cheapest on ebay. If you do buy any of my stuff just shoot me a msg and mention ur from here and I will ship it for free for you
Here is my list. http://www.ebay.com/sch/b00sted4fun/m.h ... 0735498955


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Girls in front of waterfalls
I took this picture on June 4, 2009. Kishka, Sadie and I went hiking and our destination was the waterfalls. As always, I snapped a bunch of pictures.
I was trying to get one of the girls looking at the camera with the waterfalls in the background. I did not succeed. I did capture this shot and I love it.
When I look at this picture I'm transported back to that day: the sun on my face, the sound of the waterfalls and my two best friends at my side. Simply wonderful.


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ATHENS (Reuters) - A brothel and a funeral home have become the newest benefactors of two cash-strapped Greek football clubs struggling to survive the country's economic crisis.
As Greece endures its worst slump since World War Two, thousands of businesses have closed, one in four is jobless and government funding for anything from health to sports is hard to come by.
So Yiannis Batziolas, chairman of the Voukefalas club that competes in the A1 amateur league, decided to turn to the local brothel owner for help.
"We had a very serious financial problem so I thought, why not?" Batziolas, who has managed the club since 2010, told Reuters from the team's home city of Larissa in central Greece.
Their new sponsor Soula Alevridou, a stocky 67-year-old woman who owns three luxury brothels, agreed to cover all costs and the players now flaunt pink shorts and T-shirts emblazoned with her brothels' logos, including "Villa Erotica".
"The players couldn't believe it at first but now they're happy about it," Batziolas said, estimating the club needs about 10,000 euros a year to survive.
"The first thing they said to me - half-joking, half-serious - was 'What kind of bonuses will we get?'" he added, laughing.
Voukefalas, named after the horse of Alexander the Great, is not the only ailing club to sign a deal with unconventional sponsors.
On Saturday Voukefalas, which is fighting a ban by local league organisers to wear the jerseys at matches, played against Hercules, a team sponsored by the All Day Bar, an escorts bar.
Further north in the city of Trikala, the Palaiopyrgos club - many of whose players still attend school - have signed a deal with a funeral home.
"For us it was a matter of survival," manager Lefteris Vassiliou told Greek radio, saying the team had not been able to secure any sponsorship since Europe's debt crisis erupted here three years ago.
Despite the macabre attire - black jerseys with the undertaker's logo and a large white cross down the middle - Vassiliou said the players had taken it well, and it had even given them an advantage over their opponents.
Recounting a recent match, he said: "The goalkeeper kept crossing himself, our competitors lost every play. It seems they were too scared to come near us."
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Corvettes have always set the standard in terms of American-built high-performance automobiles, with nimble handling, enough power for rapid acceleration, and better brakes than nearly every other car on the road. And while Corvettes of C3 vintage or earlier did possess cutting-edge steering technology for their time, the fact is their factory steering boxes leave a lot to be desired in terms of performance. As tight as the steering was in these early Corvettes, we always felt there was a certain tendency for the cars to dart when on-center or at the initiation of a turn. Moreover, we considered the steering valve in power-steering applications to be an inconvenient, if not unsafe, design. Of course manufacturing costs dictated the use of a steering box, but we've always thought a rack-and-pinion setup would have been a better choice for these performance-oriented cars.
Thankfully, the folks at Speed Direct felt the same way and designed a bolt-in, high-performance rack-and-pinion steering kit for the C3 Corvette. No stranger to the needs of early Corvette owners, Speed Direct offers many upgraded suspension and steering components for early Vettes, all of which can help make these cars into real performers. The company's Steeroids steering system is an all-inclusive kit to convert any C3's steering, by completely replacing the factory steering box, power-steering valve, and tie rods with a high-performance rack-and-pinion and all the related components.
The Steeroids kit is centered on a remanufactured GM rack-and-pinion unit, configured for either manual or power steering. Since Project C3 Triple-Ex will be subjected to a blend of aggressive street driving and frequent track use, we felt the power-steering rack was the way to go. And indeed, Speed Direct suggests going with the power rack if there's any question in your mind.
When our kit arrived, we were impressed to find that all the parts were packaged professionally, and that each part was packaged separately and labeled with a decal stating not only the name of the part, but the part number as well.
Everything needed for the installation comes with the Steeroids kit, including all new hardware, power-steering pressure and return lines, universal joints, steering-support bearings, shafts, and brackets. All of the various brackets and pieces are powdercoated in black, to keep them looking good and corrosion-free for a long time. Since we had everything we needed, we put our car on the lift to begin the installation.
We must admit that when we visited the Speed Direct website and read that the Steeroids kit would fit around our long-tube aftermarket headers, that it required only hand tools to install, and that it would go on in about three hours, we were a bit skeptical. Once we began working, however, we were pleasantly surprised at how well the pieces were engineered, as everything bolted in place precisely as the instructions indicated.
Working at a leisurely pace, we had everything installed in under four hours, with plenty of time to take the car to an alignment shop that same afternoon. Had we stepped it up a bit, we certainly could have installed the system in three hours as advertised. Having a lift in our shop made the job somewhat less difficult, but this installation could be performed with the car on jackstands nearly as easily.
Once the car was aligned to the specs provided in the instructions (and on www.speeddirect.com), we took our Stingray for a drive and were immediately impressed with the new steering. With only 2.5 turns lock-to-lock, the car was far more responsive than with the original steering. The Steeroids power rack gives just enough steering assist to make low-speed driving easy, without reducing road feel at speed like the original recirculating-ball steering box did.
After several weeks of driving our car with the Steeroids power rack, we've come away even more impressed. Though our car's total turning radius has increased slightly with the new rack, the trade-off is well worth it.
Overall we'd say this is one of the most dramatic and noticeable improvements we've made to our '71 Stingray thus far. Eliminating the sloppy, heavy factory steering box, questionable steering valve, and stock tie rods makes the car safer and more reliable. Even better, our Corvette is much more fun to drive now, and though the car's handling is still limited by the factory suspension components, the steering certainly feels like a Corvette of much newer vintage. Follow along and we'll show you how easy Speed Direct's Steeroids rack-and-pinion kit installs.


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Tony Sanneh looked out the window of his St. Paul, Minn., home and said it was snowing. The temperature outside also was minus-9 degrees.
"I don't even want to think about the wind chill," he joked.
The Los Angeles Galaxy defender had no such concerns about bitterly cold weather just over a week ago. He and a group of colleagues from Major League Soccer put on a 3 1/2-day clinic for youths in St. Croix on the U.S. Virgin Islands. Temperatures were in the mid-90's -- "It was hot, hot," Sanneh said -- and, except for one brief rainstorm, conditions generally were ideal for the camp.
Sanneh got the idea after speaking with former Milwaukee Rampage teammate Brian Blasska, who lives on the island, and arrived there Dec. 28 for a joint function involving his Sanneh Foundation and the St. Croix AYSO. It featured just over three days of instruction and interaction with more than 100 island youths ranging in ages from 8-18. Sanneh brought along a number of his friends from MLS, among them Galaxy teammate Jovan Kirovski and assistant coach Cobi Jones, Chivas USA's Jesse Marsch and Zach Thornton and FC Dallas' Jeff Cunningham.
The aim of the camp not only was to help advance the participants' soccer skills but also help with cultural diversity training, which is a big part of the veteran Galaxy defender's foundation, a nonprofit entity established in June of 2003 to support comunity-based organizations that foster positive environments for urban youths.
Sanneh said he and the others didn't really need such an approach when they got to the islands.
"It's already a natural melting pot," he said. "You will not see racism; people interact in every way ... old, young, rich, poor, black and white."
He also was surprised to discover the youths' nonstop energy.
"There's a stereotype of islanders being a little lazy and wanting to chill and hang out," he said. "But these kids were all go, go, go."
Sanneh, players, coaches and camp participants ate lunch together, talked shop and got into each other's personal lives. Sanneh also shared his nickname of "Big Cat" -- not surprising since the 38-year-old stands 6 feet 2 and weighs 195 pounds -- and came away impressed with the youth's enthusiasm. Even heading drills -- another preconceived notion that island soccer players supposedly don't like to use their heads -- were met with appreciation.
"They normally do not have that kind of structure down there," Sanneh said. "How quickly they do get it puts a smile on your face."
A little rain never got in the way, either. Sanneh said one final-day rainstorm, which he equated to more of a monsoon, failed to dampen the festivities.
"One part of the field developed a small lake," Sanneh recalled. "But not one kid wanted to take a break ... it was business as usual. They even asked us if they could slide in the mud to warm up."
Plans are being made to go back and there already is a waiting list for interested coaches. Sanneh said this latest foundation function was particularly rewarding.
"It was totally different," he said. "I was there with 12 of my friends and colleagues and their families, on a different island, away from the soccer field. All of us have a vested interest in coaching at some point and we're all working to do something other than the normal game.
"The interaction with the kids was incredible. We gave out an MVP to an 8-year-old when it was over, and everyone just erupted. Everything was just so positive, and it's always nice to put smiles on kids' faces."


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Step into the enchanted world of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR. Featuring songs from the Academy-Award winning animated feature, this stage version includes music by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, along with new songs by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice.
Your audiences will be transported to the heart of provincial life in a lovely French town. When Maurice becomes lost in the woods on the way to the fair, he seeks shelter in an old castle, but the master of the castle is a horrible beast that takes him captive. Maurice's daughter, Belle, must then give up her freedom to save his life. Belle's taming of the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation back into a handsome prince is a beloved fairy tale about very different people finding strength in one another and learning how to love.
This "tale as old as time" is filled with spectacular costume and set opportunities. Even more simply staged, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR. offers students a great introduction to musical theatre, using familiar songs and characters to guide them through their production.


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MODX Docs
MODX Revolution (Revo) is an easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) and Application Framework rolled into one. Despite the limitless possibilities that MODX affords you, we think you'll find it refreshingly intuitive to work with. At every step, MODX strives to deliver Creative Freedom.
In addition to this documentation site, the MODX Community is vibrant and always willing to help. Go ahead and ask questions there - you'll be pleasantly surprised at the responsiveness of the MODX user base. Additionally, there are trusted, experienced MODX Professionals with whom you can engage to get the job done. MODX also has vendor-backed commercial support options, so no matter your needs and requirements - you're covered.
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This documentation site is a thorough Reference for all things MODX, but there are also Guides and Tutorials to help you get started quickly and easily. Highlights include:
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Early in free agency, several pass rushers who won't be seeing the age of 30 any time soon landed contracts. The older guys, however, have had a harder time finding new homes.
With Elvis Dumervil picking the Ravens, the dominoes will start to fall.
Actually, one of the dominoes already had been teetering, with Osi Umenyiora close to ditching the Giants for the Falcons. (We've reported that will happen on Sunday or Monday.) But Dumervil's decision should spark a reaction that results in contracts for John Abraham, Dwight Freeney, and (eventually) James Harrison and Shaun Phillips.
Abraham or Freeney will likely join the Broncos, soon. The Dolphins and the Patriots likewise have been sniffing around pass rushers, as have the Titans and Saints.
That leaves four veterans for five teams. Which means that one or more of those teams will likely wait until the draft has come and gone before deciding to look for a short-term fix from the ranks of the NFL's old timers.


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Kluge's Albemarle House: Now, 50 percent off
Apparently $100 million was a bit too optimistic a price for Albemarle House, Patricia Kluge's 300-acre southern Albemarle County estate, which– after a weekend price slash– is now on the block for just $48 million.
"We chose a price of 100 million based on some other sales of spectacular properties around the world," says Albemarle House listing agent Michael Rankin of Sotheby's International Realty. "We went out into the market for three months and didn't achieve that price," he concedes, expressing optimism that the new price "reflects where we are in the market."


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Xavier Becerra's new high-profile assignment in Washington should come with a fresh office supply of Tums.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, named the outspoken Becerra Thursday to one of the last slots on the so-called "super committee" that's charged with somehow digging up $1.5 trillion in deficit savings over the course of the next decade.
There'll be plenty of stomach acid involved for Becerra and others on the 12-member panel. It's a largely thankless, if critical task. But that responsibility is entirely in keeping with the tone of the high-stakes political cliffhanger that led to the super committee's birth--the fight earlier this month over raising the nation's debt ceiling.
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Becerra, who is vice-chair of the House Democratic Caucus, worked as a legislative staffer and served a single term in the Assembly at the state Capitol before heading to Washington. He's represented a Los Angeles congressional district since 1993.
Ironically, Becerra was among those Democrats who broke with party leadership to vote against the debt ceiling package, saying it didn't "ask for shared sacrifice."
His appointment is seen as a signal by Pelosi that she wanted more liberal views on the panel, as it attempts to navigate a deep swamp of federal entitlements and obligations, enroute to reducing federal spending.
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Sci-fi epic Avatar has administered a righteous kicking at the Chinese box office to a locally-produced film about the life of Confucius - despite the authorities' reported attempt to ensure the home-grown product's success.
Historical drama Confucius has taken a mere 97 million yuan ($14m) since its release on 22 January, and has so far failed to recoup its 150 million yuan ($22m) cost, Bloomberg reports. Avatar, on the other hand, has already taken an estimated 1 billion yuan ($146m) since it opened in early January.
Wu Xinxin, international business manager of Confucius maker Dadi Entertainment Ltd, said: "Had our film not played at the same time as Avatar, it would have done much better at the box office. We have a good film... but it's a different genre and not as commercial as Avatar. We had expected Confucius to do well."
The disappointing performance of Confucius comes despite the backing of state-run China Film Group, described as "the nation's top movie distributor", which allegedly ordered that Avatar could only be shown in 3-D, effectively limiting its distribution to cinemas equipped to project the format.
All is not yet lost for Confucius, since the "authoritarian political and social theory advocated by the philosopher... is the basis for much of East Asia's philosophical beliefs", and Wu therefore expressed the hope that the movie will earn some cash in "South Korea, Singapore and other Asian countries". ®


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Review: OS X Mavericks
Apple on Tuesday released OS X 10.9 Mavericks, making its latest desktop OS update free for supported Macs. The decision to drop pricing was a generous one that fires back at Microsoft's strategy with its Windows 8.1 upgrade.
Just in name alone, Apple's new OS represents a significant departure from previous versions of the operating system. After 12 years of climbing to the top of the feline food chain, Apple has switched to a naming system based on locations around California. Mavericks is a surfing spot outside of Half Moon Bay known for its enormous waves.
At WWDC in June, Apple SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi highlighted the new California theme as a set of names that will carry OS X for the next 10 years. However, OS X Mavericks itself lacks the kind of groundbreaking changes that would carry the operating system for the next decade, though it does include a number of under-the-hood enhancements that will improve the overall performance of your Mac. According to Federighi, the release is focused on deep technology for extending battery life and improving responsiveness.
Apple has over the years improved stability and reliability in OS X, but the software has also become bloated. With the move to SSD storage on Mac portables, the random quirks in OS X that eat up extra gigabytes of memory often end up bringing the system to a halt. As such, the performance improvements included in OS X Mavericks are welcome ones that should restore your Mac to its snappy origins.
Mavericks doesn't include a dramatic visual overhaul like the transition from iOS 6 to iOS 7, but Apple does follow its pattern of taking a few pages from its mobile OS and bringing them back to the iOS. iBooks, for instance, has finally made its debut on the Mac, and OS X now has a standalone Maps app.
Many of the new Mavericks features are tuned for power users, so you won't notice huge differences at first look. The release is, however, a substantial upgrade that includes plenty of background improvements to power management and memory organization, plus a handful of new consumer-friendly features like iBooks and Maps.
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Home | iBooks | Maps | Safari | Finder | Notifications | iCloud Keychain | Multiple Displays | Advanced Technologies | Wrap-up
It's surprising that Apple took this long to release a desktop version of its iBooks store and reading app, but it's finally here. The app itself works as you'd expect, letting you switch between Library and Store mode. You can set up iBooks for Mac to automatically download purchases from other devices, and parental controls are available if you want to disable purchases or block explicit books.
Apple is hoping that the move to the Mac will result in iBooks becoming more popular among students. iBooks textbooks include trackpad support for pinching to access the table of contents and interactive content. It's also easy to highlight, take notes, create flash cards and share quotes. Copying a quote from the text automatically adds a citation with a link back to the iBooks listing, though the footnote strangely lacks a page number.
One nice advantage over the mobile version is that you can pop out multiple book windows to switch between titles. There's also an option to have your Mac speak text out loud, but the artificial reading voice is painful to listen to, so it's not going to replace your audiobooks anytime soon.
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Home | iBooks | Maps | Safari | Finder | Notifications | iCloud Keychain | Multiple Displays | Advanced Technologies | Wrap-up
After Apple's debacle with the switch to its own Maps app last year, the addition of a dedicated Maps app for OS X will undoubtedly be met with suspicion. The new Mac app certainly looks and feels good, but it still suffers from having worse data than Google Maps.
You can activate Apple's Flyover 3D mode and overlay traffic information. Venues include cards with Yelp reviews and photos.
The best thing about Maps on OS X is the ability to send directions and locations straight to an iOS device with the share button. Once shared, the Maps app on iOS will receive a push notification.
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Home | iBooks | Maps | Safari | Finder | Notifications | iCloud Keychain | Multiple Displays | Advanced Technologies | Wrap-up
Apple claims that, thanks to the Nitro tiered Just-In-Time compiler, the Mavericks version of Safari is significantly faster than Chrome or Firefox. Safari scored 44 percent better than Chrome on the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark and roughly 20 percent better than Firefox in the company's own tests.
The JSBench suite, which is meant to provide a better measure of real-world performance, shows Safari posting a 3.8 times faster score than Firefox and 2.5 times better than Chrome. When I ran the suite on my MacBook Pro, Safari scored 17.16ms and Chrome posted 94.03, a difference of 5.48 times.
Apple also touts better memory and CPU energy usage in Safari. Memory usage in Chrome and Firefox was said to be 28 percent and 30 percent more than Safari, respectively. Energy usage in Chrome was 60 percent higher and Firefox was 190 percent more, according to Apple's tests.
Power saving features in Safari include a plugin monitor that pauses content that's off the margins of your window. It's similar to the click-to-play plugin for Flash content.
Also new to Safari is a Shared Links section that pulls in posts from Twitter and LinkedIn. The Twitter integration is actually pretty handy, and I liked being able to call up the sidebar, which also houses bookmarks and the reading list, and then dismiss it with keyboard shortcuts.
Subjectively, Safari feels snappier in Mavericks, but the extra speed and new features weren't quite enough to convince me to switch back from Chrome.
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Home | iBooks | Maps | Safari | Finder | Notifications | iCloud Keychain | Multiple Displays | Advanced Technologies | Wrap-up
Finder windows have a way of exploding out of control, so it's nice to see the addition of tabs. You can also go full screen with the Finder window, though I can't imagine ever wanting to do so.
Apple has taken its colored labeling system a step further by introducing file tags. When saving a file, there is now a box beneath the file name where you can input tags like "Important" or "To do."
Tag searches in Finder pull results from iCloud storage for individual apps. The solution addresses the issue of tracking groups of files across multiple apps, but it feels like an indirect fix to a problem that doesn't need to exist.
Speaking of fixing unnecessary problems, the prompt for saving a file now remembers your most recent folder instead of just defaulting to iCloud. This alone should save me from the hundreds of annoying clicks I've had to make in Mountain Lion this year because my files defaulted to saving in iCloud.
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Home | iBooks | Maps | Safari | Finder | Notifications | iCloud Keychain | Multiple Displays | Advanced Technologies | Wrap-up
Notifications have gotten some love in Mavericks, with new quick actions. Now you can respond to messages straight from the banner pop-up.
You can also sign up for notifications from websites to find out about breaking news, sports scores and auctions. As publishers begin enabling the feature, you'll see a pop-up when you visit a site in Safari:
Finally, notifications will pile up on your login screen while your Mac is asleep, so you can see them right when it wakes up. System Preferences lets you customize whether you want lock screen notifications for each app and website.
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Home | iBooks | Maps | Safari | Finder | Notifications | iCloud Keychain | Multiple Displays | Advanced Technologies | Wrap-up
iCloud Keychain
With iCloud Keychain, Apple has included the sorts of features you'd find in cross-device password applications like 1Password in OS X Mavericks and iOS 7. iCloud can now suggest randomized passwords when signing up for a service, remember credit card information and automatically fill-in your password on websites. The feature is convenient, but it's a lot of trust to put into iCloud – trust that Apple has yet to earn.
Apple says it wraps your passwords in 256-bit AES encryption, so they should be relatively safe from hacking, but when it comes to iCloud, I'm more worried about reliability than security. iCloud has been plagued with outages and glitches since launch, so I'm hesitant to count on it for all of my passwords.
Allowing Safari to suggest passwords and store them in the cloud would help bolster security for all the different sites you sign up to, but it also puts all of your eggs in an iCloud-shaped basket. A significant amount of our data is tied up in our Apple IDs, so bundling in the passwords to all of our online accounts feels like too much of a risk.
iCloud Keychain is convenient, but I'd advise you to take a wait-and-see approach with the new feature before letting it randomly pick your Google and Amazon account passwords.
Between two-factor authentication and the TouchID fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s, Apple is definitely taking steps to protect users' Apple IDs, but history has shown that online services aren't Apple's strong suit.
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Multiple Displays
Multi-screen support on OS X has long been one of its weakest features, and Apple has taken huge steps to make sure that's not the case with Mavericks. Apple has done away with the primary and secondary display concept, instead making additional displays more discrete. Each screen now has access to the dock and the menu bar. From there, you can manage multiple desktop spaces and fullscreen apps for each display. For instance, I could swipe between a fullscreen instance of Chrome and the Mail app on my desktop on my MacBook Pro display and then move the cursor over to the external monitor and swipe between fullscreen Tweetdeck and a movie.
Conceptually, it's a bit confusing, but the metaphor here seems to be that each display is a cube and desktop spaces and fullscreen apps are faces on the cubes. The newly revamped Mission Control pulls things together by allowing you to drag and drop screens and windows from one desktop to another.
Apple TV owners get a bonus feature with OS X Mavericks. The new OS supports AirPlay Display, which allows to you to turn an Apple TV-connected television into an extended desktop. It's a step up from AirPlay mirroring, which just cloned your main screen onto the TV.
Apple's solution for external displays isn't perfect yet. During our testing, the dock would sometimes refuse to appear on the second screen and some applications would be inconsistent about which screen they opened onto. The mouse cursor struggled to keep up on the AirPlay Display in extended desktop mode, and playing video on the screen was extremely choppy.
The set up does, however, eliminate many of the annoyances that existed in earlier versions of OS X and add some much-needed flexibility. If you're a productivity hound who's very particular about arranging your virtual workspaces, Mavericks is going to make you quite happy.
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Home | iBooks | Maps | Safari | Finder | Notifications | iCloud Keychain | Multiple Displays | Advanced Technologies | Wrap-up
Advanced Technologies
Apple's OS X Mavericks preview includes mention of several "advanced technologies" that should help your machine run more smoothly.
Timer coalescing
OS X Mavericks now groups computing tasks together in order to allow the CPU to have longer idle times. Apple claims activity can be reduced as much as 72 percent.
App Nap
The new App Nap feature detects when an unnecessary task is hidden by other windows and pauses it to conserve power. Safari tabs also benefit from the addition by only keeping the displayed tab active. Apple says App Nap contributes to as much as 23 percent in energy savings.
iTunes HD content
Watching iTunes HD movies and TV shows should take up less power in Mavericks. The OS has been tweaked to make better use of the graphics processor, require less disk access, and play audio more efficiently. Apple claims the CPU uses 35 percent less energy while watching video.
Memory compression
Inactive memory on OS X Mavericks is now compressed to free up more room. Apple claims a 1.4 times improvement in responsiveness under load and 1.5 times faster wake from standby.
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Working off of Apple's pricing last year with Mountain Lion, I'd been debating in my head whether OS X Mavericks would be worth a $20 fee for the average Mac user. Thankfully, Apple has put the question to rest by just making the software free. If your Mac supports Mavericks, you'll want to make the upgrade to take advantage of its new productivity tricks, power management and memory efficiency.
Mavericks lacks a truly marquee feature. Even the arrival of apps like iBooks and Maps feels more like Apple playing catch-up with iOS than a genuine new feature. Still, I can't argue with free, especially when it makes my Mac faster and smoother.
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Boren scholar, 2014 graduate's experience anything but ordinary
Graduating college with one major is hard enough, but imagine graduating with three. James Madison University senior Andrew Reese, an international affairs, political science and history triple major with minors in Africana studies, Middle Eastern communities and migrations, and political communication, was able to combine a rigorous academic experience with an interest in Africa, where he studied abroad on the prestigious Boren Scholarship last year.
Reese began developing leadership skills during his freshman year in 2008, when he was elected treasurer of the Student Government Association. He followed that up by becoming student body president for the 2010-11 academic year. Reese was later the only student representative on the search committee that brought President Jonathan Alger to JMU in 2012. "It was good experience being in these professional settings and, in the end, a lot of those experiences helped portray the idea that I was professional."
It was also during his freshman year that Reese learned about JMU's study abroad program in Kenya. "For some reason, I had this infatuation with going to Africa to study abroad. I went to the director's office and I talked to her about it and asked what she suggested.""For some reason, I had this infatuation with going to Africa to study abroad. I went to the director's office and I talked to her about it and asked what she suggested." Dr. Jennifer Coffman's recommendation was for Reese to begin taking Swahili classes to familiarize himself with the language. Reese continued on the Swahili track, and his studies led to an internship with the U.S. Department of State in Kigali, Rwanda, during the spring of 2012. "Due to my involvement on campus, things just kind of fell into place for me to get the internship."
While in Rwanda, Reese began working closely with Dr. Melinda Adams, JMU's prestigious scholarships coordinator, who helped him earn the Boren Scholarship. The scholarship provides up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world considered critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad. After returning to the United States, participants are required to work for the federal government for one year.
Reese used his Boren Scholarship to study in Africa during the 2012-13 academic year. During the fall semester, he stayed in Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania. For their primary class, students participating in the program were separated according to how fluent they were in Swahili. Reese was placed in the advanced class due to his previous experience with the language. Students also had a choice between two secondary courses. "When it comes to classes, I was quite prepared. The difficulty varied and while Dr. (Brillian) Muhonja put me through the ringer while learning the language, it was definitely invaluable down the line."
In addition to their coursework, students spent a significant amount of time exploring the island and local culture. Each student was paired with a local Zanzibari as a language partner and guide. All conversations took place in Swahili, which allowed U.S. students to use their new language skills in non-classroom settings. Students lived with Zanzibari families who also only spoke Swahili."I felt that actually being involved with the community on such a significant level was really powerful for me to see what the culture was like on the ground and see what life was like."
During his time in Zanzibar, Reese played for a recently formed third-division professional soccer team. "I had no idea that I was being asked to play for an actual team. What was cool was that every time we won, we would get paid, but we only got paid the equivalent of $3.14. I felt that actually being involved with the community on such a significant level was really powerful for me to see what the culture was like on the ground and see what life was like. I definitely want to be involved in financially supporting the team in the future, once I finish up school."
Reese's spring 2013 semester was spent in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania. "We stayed in homestays again but this time with professors and on university grounds, so we had a bit more access. Only one student who had gone to Zanzibar with me also went to Dar es Salaam. It was just a fairly typical study abroad program run by a U.S. company."
Reese returned to JMU in the fall of 2013 to complete his undergraduate degrees. He plans to graduate with honors in May and has received a Critical Language Scholarship through the State Department to study Urdu in Lucknow, India, over the summer. Reese would like to attend graduate school and fulfill his one-year federal government obligation in the State Department, Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, or the intelligence community, with the goal of getting involved in politics.
"The Boren Scholarship offered me a great experience. I would definitely advise people, even if they were unsure, just to apply. I would say definitely try and get out of the Western world. I know a lot of students who go to Europe but at the end of the day, while you're still in a different culture, you're not really experiencing how the rest of the world lives."
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Good sport: Svetz puts it in Parks
As new director of Charlottesville's newly formed Parks and Recreation Department, Mike Svetz faces a juggling act.
Among his diverse goals: to improve the city's recreational programs, to increase the beauty of our entrance corridors, and even to make visible "ambassadors" out of Parks and Rec employees, who currently sport orange shirts.
"Maybe a bright yellow," he muses about a replacement, "something that falls within the safety spectrum first and foremost."
On the Downtown Mall in particular, he says, that bright color would also alert the public of the employees' approachability.
"We want to create a crew of ambassadors," says Svetz, "who are comfortable speaking with the public and answering questions about particular restaurants or stores."
The city's decision to combine three separate city departments– golf, parks, and recreation– under a single umbrella back in February meant that the 80 or so employees of those departments had to adjust to new responsibilities– and to a new boss.
"I spent the first few months getting to know people," explains Svetz, 35, who says he's had to "listen and learn."
Pat Plocek, the city's director of parks who formerly reported to public works director Judy Mueller (and now reports to Svetz), says he thinks combining the departments was a "good move."
But the change has not been without its difficulties.
"No transitions are smooth," says Plocek. "When you take over new duties, there are always bumps in the road."
A Cleveland native who earned a master's in sports administration from Ohio's Miami University, Svetz topped more than two dozen applicants (including one inside City Hall) for the position after going through a grueling interview process that included taking a personality inventory, meeting with city manager Gary O'Connell, and interviewing with the staff he'd be supervising.
His nearly 15 years of experience helped win him the job. Following grad school, Svetz spent five and a half years as head of Parks and Rec in Brunswick, Ohio before moving on the head up the Parks and Rec department in Strongville, Ohio, where he stayed for almost seven years. There, he successfully managed that city's $18 million recreation center, which operated with a $2.5 million annual budget.
"It was like running a business," says Svetz, who left the position because he wanted "to expand his experience in Parks and Recreation." Charlottesville's wide range of recreational opportunities, he says– especially the McIntire Golf Course– was a strong draw.
After several months on the job, Svetz says he's starting to form long-range plans.
"We will have to do a needs assessment," he says, to determine which projects should be tackled first.
But more than altering his employees' attire or focusing on one particular aspect of his job, Svetz says he plans to just keep listening.
"You have to be open to comments and suggestions," he says. "If we're not, there's no way we're going to improve."
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Everybody loves new American tennis sensation Melanie Oudin.
Well, everybody except the Marriott Hotel at Times Square.
That was where Oudin was staying — because if you're 17 and in New York, you want to be in the middle of the action. But because she's never advanced this far in a major and her path was littered with high-ranking players whose last name ended in "ova," Oudin booked her hotel room for one week. She shared the king-sized bed in the room with her mom.
Then down went Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (ranked 36). Then Elena Dementieva (the 4th seed). Then Maria Sharapova (the former world number one). Then Nadia Petrova (the 13th seed).
So Oudin, whose stay in New York had been elongated, needed a play to hang her racket at the end of the night. The Marriott Hotel made Oudin and her mom leave when their reservation was up, sports reports said.
The Marriott said it was shocked to hear the news of an ousted Oudin.
"We had no knowledge Melanie Oudin was staying at the hotel. There were no guests registered under her name. The hotel was absolutely shocked to receive this media inquiry," a hotel spokesperson said.
According to Sports Business Daily, Oudin's agent Sam Duvall and manager John Tobias booked her a room at the Intercontinental after she was evicted from the Marriott. Don't worry, she can afford it now.
Tobias also mentioned that none of his clients, including up-and-coming tennis pro John Isner, will be back at the Marriott any time soon.
Fortunately ,Oudin found a place to stay; otherwise, she might have had to ask Roger Federer if he could spare some room in his $3,075 a night, custom-designed space at the The Carlyle. Of course, then she'd have the crying newborn twins around, and that might not be terribly restful.
Oudin has become America's new tennis sweetheart, and she's captured New York -- so having her stay in any hotel is a nice little bit of promotion. The Marriott apparently doesn't need that, what with the travel industry booming right now and all.
The hotel didn't comment on the incident -- but we can guess that when the endorsements come rolling in for the 17-year-old, the Marriott will not be one of them.
Kurt Helin is a writer based out of Long Beach who has never kicked a tennis player out of his place, and also is the driving force behind the Lakers blog Forum Blue & Gold.


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IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AllDigital (ADGL), recently recognized as one of Streaming Media Magazine's "Streaming Media 100," which honors the most innovative and influential companies in the online video industry, has announced the addition of a new member to its executive team – Brad Eisenstein, Chief Operating Officer (COO). Brad will oversee all aspects of AllDigital's operations and administrative functions.
"Brad brings deep sales, operations, and finance experience to AllDigital, and he has a successful track record of helping companies like ours execute against high growth initiatives," said Paul Summers, Chairman and CEO of AllDigital. "By splitting the roles of CFO and COO, we are well positioned to scale and execute against our strategic initiatives. As a consultant, Brad recently negotiated and closed the largest sales contract in AllDigital's history. I'm excited to work again with Brad, who has a proven track record of success, vision, and a contagious amount of positive energy."
"I'm honored to partner again with Paul Summers and the AllDigital team on another venture at a time when the Company is taking a strong leadership position in the rapidly evolving space of digital broadcasting," said Brad Eisenstein.
Earlier, Brad served as Director of Sales Operations – Enterprise Hosting for XO Communications, and he has served multiple high growth, private equity backed companies as CFO. He started his career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen LLP. Brad earned his B.S. degree in Accounting from University of Southern California, and his M.B.A. degree from the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine.
From a strategic perspective, AllDigital is currently focused on developing a breakthrough content delivery platform that will dramatically decrease latency for data delivery of multiple forms including video, audio, and other forms of "twitch" sensitive media such as push notifications, beacons, and synchronized events among connected devices. If latency is reduced to levels that are faster than cached data transport models, AllDigital anticipates new addressable markets for IP digital media delivery including advertising, interactive television, financial events, medical, government, robotics, and other time critical applications.
"Based on customer requirements for ultra low latency ("AllDigital ULL")™ digital broadcasting solutions, we have put together a team of content delivery experts to solve this exciting technical challenge," said Paul Summers. "We expect that AllDigital ULL will provide our customers with a better than broadcast experience."
AllDigital will be at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 7th – 9th. For more information, please visit www.alldigital.com.
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AllDigital Inc. offers secure digital broadcasting solutions across multiple devices including mobile, desktop and digital television. The Company's proprietary AllDigital Cloud platform provides high-speed data transfer, scalable storage, encoding / transcoding, VoD, linear programming, and real time reporting.
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This is the first blog entry in a series I will be writing on Exalogic Networking. The entries will start with the low level basics and work their way up to architectural strategies for the partitioning and configuration an Exalogic Rack.
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scripting and the dcli command to configure all Exalogic Compute
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Bell-Boeing's Joint Project Office has obtained a $1.4-billion contract extension to supply 17 MV-22 tiltrotors to the U.S. Marine Corps and four CV-22s to the U.S. Air Force. The agreement is an expansion of an existing V-22 Lot 17 contract. The deal also provides funding to purchase components related to the manufacture of 19 Lot 18 MV-22s and three CV-22s in fiscal year 2014. Around 40 percent of the work is scheduled to take place at locations in Texas (Fort Worth, Amarillo and Dallas), while 19 percent will occur in Ridley Park, Pa. and the rest at dozens of sites around the United States. Completion is targeted for September 2016.
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