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The guest lists for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address gave an early glimpse of the issues that might dominate his speech Tuesday night — and of the progressive tilt to his second-term agenda.
The parents of a slain Chicago teen, a Mexican DREAM Act student and 102-year-old Desiline Victor, whose commitment to voting became a symbol of American resistance to new Republican-led restrictions, were all set to accompany first lady Michelle Obama to the speech.
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Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton and Nate Pendleton, whose 15-year-old daughter Hadiya Pendleton's shooting death days after she performed at President Obama's inauguration captured national headlines, were attending the speech just after two men were charged with their daughter's killing. Police said her confessed killer had told them she wasn't the intended target; members of a rival gang were.
"It's bittersweet," Cowley-Pendleton said of the invitation from the first lady, who attended her daughter's funeral over the weekend. "Because it's as a result of losing my daughter, but it's also exciting to have an opportunity like this."
Also set to attend with Michelle Obama are two U.S. Marines. One of them, Sgt. Carlos Evans, was wounded in Afghanistan, where Obama will announce Tuesday that the U.S. will halve its troop presence within the year. The other, Sgt. Sheena Adams, headed an elite group of women Marines and participated in active combat — something the Pentagon has just opened to women.
Others in the first lady's box at the speech will be representatives of American business big and small — one a microbrewery entrepreneur, the other Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Despite the broad spectrum of political issues the first lady's guest list suggested her husband would touch upon in his speech, the guest lists of dozens of House Democrats showed a coordinated focus on one of Obama's top second-term goals: stronger gun regulation.
House Minority Nancy Pelosi was bringing with her Tuesday night a fourth-grader from Newtown, Conn., who had written to her in support of gun control, as well as the girl's mother. Pelosi's House colleagues were bringing a teacher who was wounded in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the parents of a first-grader killed there and the brother of a teacher who died protecting her students there.
Two Colorado Democrats were set to bring the parents of a teen victim of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre, and an Arizona congresswoman was bringing the mother of a victim killed in the Tucson shooting that wounded then-Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011. Giffords herself was set to attend the speech as a guest of Rep. Ron Barber, her former chief of staff who now holds her former seat.
On the other side of the issue, Republican Rep. Steve Stockman has invited rocker and steadfast gun control opponent Ted Nugent. The Secret Service investigated Nugent last year after comments he made comparing Democrats to coyotes that should be shot.
House Speaker John Boehner's guest list ignored the brewing Capitol Hill gun control battle entirely. Instead, it highlighted education reform and job opportunities, including as it did two school voucher recipients in the fourth grade at a Washington, D.C., Catholic school, an award-winning woman executive and a disabled former bat boy for the Cincinnati Reds.
But even as he declined to enter the gun control fray with his State of the Union guest list, Boehner made clear in remarks Tuesday that he wouldn't shy away from a fiscal fight with Obama in his second term.
"To do the kind of heavy lifting that needs to be done, I don't think he's got the guts to do it," he told reporters in Washington. He went to clarify that the Obama "doesn't have the courage to take on the liberal side of his own party."


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These crazy-good comfort foods were previously found only in the pages of our best-selling cookbook HUNGRY GIRL TO THE MAX! But we love them (and you!) so much, we're sharing them right here and now... BTW, if you don't have the book, you really should pick up a copy. IT ROCKS!
1/12th of recipe (about 2 1/2 oz. cooked meat with 2/3 cup broth and veggies): 206 calories, 7g total fat (1.5g sat fat), 447mg sodium, 11g carbs, 2g fiber, 4.5g sugars, 25.5g protein -- PointsPlus® value 5* -- SmartPoints® value 5* Rich and tender beef, SO many veggies... This is the way to do pot roast RIGHT. Second helpings are encouraged!
Ingredients: One 3-lb. raw boneless chuck beef roast (trimmed of excess fat) 1 tsp. each salt and black pepper One 14-oz. can fat-free beef broth 4 cups carrots cut into 1/2-inch coins
3 cups roughly chopped onion 2 cups sliced mushrooms
1 cup celery cut into 1/2-inch pieces 2 tbsp. tomato paste
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce 2 sprigs fresh thyme
1 tsp. chopped garlic
2 tbsp. cornstarch Directions: Bring a large skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to high heat. Season roast with 1/4 tsp. each salt and pepper. Cook and rotate until all sides are browned, about 5 minutes. Place in a slow cooker. Add all remaining ingredients except cornstarch to the slow cooker, including the remaining 3/4 tsp. each salt and black pepper. Gently stir. Cook on high for 3 - 4 hours or on low for 7 - 8 hours, until roast is cooked through. Turn off slow cooker. In a small bowl, dissolve cornstarch in 2 tbsp. cold water. Stir into the liquid in the slow cooker. Let sit, uncovered, until slightly thickened, about
5 minutes. Remove and discard thyme sprigs. Slice meat and serve topped with veggies and sauce! MAKES 12 SERVINGS
HG Tip! If the roast breaks into pieces when you trim away the fat, just cook each piece in the skillet until browned -- the smaller pieces will take less time. Tongs are great for rotating the meat when browning.
1/5th of recipe (about 3/4 cup): 133 calories, 0.5g total fat (0g sat fat), 312mg sodium, 28g carbs,
2.5g fiber, 6.5g sugars, 3g protein -- PointsPlus® value 3* -- SmartPoints® value 3* Onions take a little while to caramelize, so this recipe uses shortcuts on the potato side of things. Trust us: No one will care that you cut corners... Ingredients: 1/2 tbsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown) 4 cups chopped sweet onions
2 tsp. Dijon mustard
1 1/3 cups instant mashed potato flakes 1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup fat-free sour cream Optional seasonings: black pepper, additional salt
Directions: Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir onions for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to medium low. Stirring frequently, cook until caramelized, 35 - 40 minutes. Stir in mustard and remove from heat. In a large microwave-safe bowl, thoroughly mix potato flakes, garlic powder, salt, and 2 1/3 cups water. Cover and microwave for
3 minutes, or until hot. Stir in onions and sour cream. Enjoy! MAKES 5 SERVINGS
For comfort food made simple, this Easy Shredders Pie fits the bill. As do these two gems -- mini meatloaves and stuffed baked potatoes! If you're on board with the stew-like nature of pot roast and the potato goodness of the above mashed spuds, here are two other recipes you'll likely enjoy: Hungry Chick 'n Dumpling Surprise and Great Garlic Miracle Mashies! And if today's TO THE MAX! exclusives have you hankering for the book, pick up a copy, and flip to the "Comfortably Yum" chapter for even more comfort-food faves… like the Southwestern Meatloaf in the photo to the left!
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March 5, 1936 - December 9, 2013
Pine Bush, NY
Francis S. Stueber, Jr., age 77, unexpectedly entered into rest on Monday, December 9, 2013. He was born on March 5, 1936 at the family farmhouse in Pine Bush, NY. Francis entered into holy matrimony on June 30, 1962, to Patricia Gagan at Infant Savior Church in Pine Bush. He is the son of the late Francis S. Stueber, Sr and the late Sophie Pirog Stueber.
Although retired as a maintenance technician, he was currently employed at Parvenu Enterprises as a Courier. Francis also was a former employee of the Orange County Airport.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus of Pine Bush, the NRA, Local 17, the Beaverbrook Rod and Gun Club, Communicant, Usher and Greeter at Infant Savior Church, American Legion and lifetime member of the Pine Bush Fire Department. Francis honorably and proudly served on active duty in the United States Air Force from 1954 to 1958.
Survivors include his three children, Patricia Stueber Kelly and her husband, H. Michael Kelly of Olathe, CO, Mary Stueber Grass and her husband, J. Michael of Pine Bush and Francis S. Stueber III and his wife, Cathey of Calabasas, CA; his eight adoring grandchildren, Joshua and his fiance, Jessica, Justin and his fiance, Jacqueline, Chelsea and Shannen Kelly, Megan Grass, Patrick Von, Mason and Dylan Stueber; three great-grandchildren, Rey, Adonis and Teagan; sister, Patricia Davis of Pine Bush; brother, Thomas Stueber and his wife, Carol of Pine Bush; sister-in-law, Noreen Shafer and her husband, Michael of the Villages, FL and Antoinette Gagan of Pine Bush; many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.
Francis was predeceased by his loving wife of 31 years, Patricia; his parents, Francis and Sophie Stueber; mother and father-in-law, Michael and Mary Gagan; one nephew, James Stueber; one niece, Lori Brown; brother and sister-in-law, William M. Gagan and Mary Ann Tapley.
Francis had many accomplishments throughout his life. However, his three children were his greatest. From them came his most prized possessions in way of grandchildren to yet be extended to great-grandchildren which one by one would melt his big "Grumpy" heart.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, December 12, 2013 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the William M. Gagan Funeral Home Inc., 1525 Burlingham Rd., Pine Bush, NY 12566. Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Friday December 13, 2013 at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Infant Saviour with Fr. Kevin Gallagher officiating. Burial will take place in New Prospect Cemetery with full Military Honors.
Memorial Donations can be made to the Wounded Warrior Project http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/ or 4899 Belfort Road, Suite 300, Jacksonville, Florida 32256.
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Obama's health care plan is expected to cost more than $1 trillion. The most likely source of funding: taxes. The Senate Finance Committee recently proposed a three-cent tax on sugary drinks including sodas, energy drinks and sports drinks. Diet sodas would be exempt. Not only would this proposal aid in funding the enormous health care bill; it would also, according to legislators, reduce consumption and therefore decrease obesity.
However, some argue that a tax would not reduce consumption, and that education – not higher taxes – is what is needed to encourage others to live a healthier lifestyle. The debate has made it difficult to pass a soda tax, as New York Governor David Paterson discovered when his proposal for a statewide 18 percent tax on soda failed. He recently revived the effort with the amendment that taxes on bottled water and diet soda would be removed if the soda tax passed. However, even with the removal of a diet soda and bottled water tax, some New York residents are still opposed to the idea as a soda tax would only pay for a tiny portion of the entire health care plan. Moreover, Americans can be picky and would likely be unwilling to make the switch from regular to diet soda or even bottled water, if they don't already drink it. And recent news has revealed that bottled water is not necessarily healthier – for people or the environment.
According to a recent study, a small tax on soda would not likely reduce consumption or prevent childhood obesity, but a larger tax probably would. In a recent post on the bottled water tax, we argued that people who purchase bottled water probably don't care too much about the cost, since they can get the same thing from their faucet at home for a lot less but still choose not to. Soda doesn't run from the faucet, however, so perhaps cost matters more in this case. What do you think? Would you change your drinking habits to save money?.


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SARASOTA — The year is 1960. A rising pitcher in the Chicago White Sox organization pulls up to the player's parking lot at Payne Park. Gary Peters has just driven up from Miami after playing winter ball in Venezuela.
He looks behind him and sees a good friend, teammate Billy Goodman. Then he sees another guy. Ted Williams.
"He gave me a fishing reel and some bass that they had caught for dinner," Peters said recently of a 50-year-old memory. Peters is sitting on a concrete bench in front of a tennis facility on a rainy morning.
The tennis courts, constructed in July 1994, are part of a 29-acre public complex that "ushered in a new phase of Payne Park." That's one way to look it at it. Old-timers who cherish baseball can't help but feel a nostalgic twinge of sadness. There's 65 years of baseball history buried beneath these tennis courts. All that's left is a few pictures in the tennis pro shop, which used to be the clubhouse.
"That was my roommate, Joe Horlen," Peters said, looking at one of the pictures.
Peters has more than a decade's worth of memories here, until he was traded to the Boston Red Sox in 1970. His buddies would catch fish and throw them into the swimming pool of the Sarasota Terrace Hotel, only a couple hundred feet from the ballpark.
Manager Al Lopez made the hotel bar off limits to the players, so he and the coaches could have the place to themselves. Peters could gas up at a local Texaco station owned by Verne Richards, a former catcher with the Red Sox. Players would look out toward the ballpark chain-link fences and see people in lawn chairs watching exhibition games. They all lived in a trailer park, just outside the stadium.
Peters struck up a pretty good friendship with Williams, who trained in Winter Haven with the Red Sox. "He was one of my heroes," Peters said. "He was kind of a gruff guy but he was a sportsman. He liked to fish, but it was no fool-around fishing. It was business fishing."
Peters liked Sarasota, but he was from Western Pennsylvania and wanted to go back that first winter. His wife Jean said, "No let's stay down here this winter and stay out of the snow."
Peters smiles, recalling the conversation. "That's turned into 50 winters now," he said. "We never left."
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UCLA Fires Rick Neuheisel Two Days After Losing 50-0
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZG9nUWMrCHCpvUGgMeSH8_dn8rw?docId=c330a311ae0948ad8c015d60bf335c75LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rick Neuheisel returned to UCLA determined to do everything correctly after a coaching career filled with big successes and equally big trouble.
Even athletic director Dan Guerrero, who fired Neuheisel on Monday after four disappointing seasons, agreed the formerly scandal-plagued coach did most everything the right way at his alma mater.
All except the winning part.
UCLA is 21-28 under Neuheisel, who will be allowed to coach in Friday's Pac-12 title game at Oregon. Offensive coordinator Mike Johnson will be the interim coach if the Bruins (6-6, 5-4 Pac-12) receive a bowl berth.
"Rick was a great representative for our school, and I'll always be grateful for that," Guerrero said. "I believe the sign of a good program is consistency. We just weren't there. We certainly had some losses that were of epic proportions … in the second half of the season, and that simply wasn't good enough."
Neuheisel never built the momentum necessary to challenge mighty Southern California for city supremacy, and Guerrero fired Neuheisel two days after UCLA's 50-0 loss to No. 9 USC, the Bruins' largest loss since 1930 in their crosstown rivalry game. UCLA also lost 48-12 to lowly Arizona after a bye week, along with a 26-point loss at Stanford, a 29-point home blowout by Texas and a 25-point loss at Utah two weeks ago.
"I thanked Dan for the opportunity," Neuheisel said on the Pac-12's promotional teleconference for the title game, less than an hour after his firing was announced. "I don't need reasons and all that kind of stuff. Certainly when you're the UCLA coach, you'd like to play better against USC. I know that. We had our chances, but when you lose in the fashion we did, that's a difficult pill to swallow."
The Bruins will represent the Pac-12 South in the inaugural league title game on Friday despite finishing two games behind postseason-banned USC in the division standings. UCLA is a 30-point underdog against the Ducks with a Rose Bowl berth on the line for the winner.
Neuheisel said he didn't consider stepping down before the title game. He planned to run the Bruins' practice at Spaulding Field late Monday night.
"I hope I'm not a distraction," Neuheisel said. "I hope I'm some sort of help, in respect to the planning and how we go about it. We've been knocked down before this year, and somehow, some way, we've always responded. I hope we'll respond the same way."
If UCLA loses to Oregon, the Pac-12 would have to petition the NCAA for bowl eligibility for a 6-7 team. Guerrero said the Bruins already have filed for a waiver, and they will accept a bowl invitation if they're eligible.
UCLA made it to just one bowl game in Neuheisel's first three seasons, winning the EagleBank Bowl in Washington, D.C., in 2009.
Guerrero said he fired Neuheisel immediately after reaching his decision, not wanting to be disingenuous about the coach's future. Yet the decision allows UCLA to begin courting candidates, and Guerrero said he has "more financial ammunition" to hire an elite coach with the Pac-12's new television contracts and an influx of cash commitments from alumni and donors who want a big name in Westwood.
Guerrero also said he would prefer a coach with prior head coaching experience, even somebody "sitting in that chair" right now in charge of a successful program. Boise State's Chris Petersen is widely rumored to be atop UCLA's wish list, as he is at most West Coast schools with vacancies.
Neuheisel's firing before the title game is an ugly end to the 50-year-old coach's self-described dream job. He was a quarterback at UCLA, leading the Bruins to an unlikely victory in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 2, 1984.
"I'm just thankful for the opportunity," Neuheisel said. "This has always been a place that I wanted to have the chance to help bring it to a place that everybody would be proud. Obviously we've fallen short of that."
Neuheisel had more success during his first two head coaching stops at Colorado and Washington, leading the Buffaloes to 33 wins and three bowl victories over four seasons before taking the Huskies to four straight winning seasons and a Rose Bowl victory after the 2000 campaign.
Neuheisel eventually was dismissed by Washington after a series of problems in Seattle ranging from player discipline to a rift with school leadership to his infamous involvement in an NCAA basketball tournament pool. After two years out of coaching and a stint on the Baltimore Ravens' staff, Neuheisel took over at UCLA.
But the Bruins went 4-8 in his first and third seasons, with a 7-6 finish in 2009. He had high expectations for his current team, but the Bruins have won consecutive games just once all season.
When Neuheisel returned to UCLA, he appeared in newspaper ads created by the school's marketing department and highlighted by a quote: "The football monopoly in Los Angeles is officially over." Although Neuheisel didn't order the ads, the words hung over him with each loss by his Bruins.
Neuheisel ended up with much less success than former teammate Karl Dorrell, who was fired in 2007 after going 35-27 in five seasons that included four bowl berths, a 10-2 campaign in 2005 and a Sun Bowl victory.
Johnson joined Neuheisel's staff this season, replacing Norm Chow after Neuheisel's messy public breakup with the longtime offensive mastermind. Johnson, a Los Angeles native and veteran NFL assistant, was the San Francisco 49ers' offensive coordinator for most of last season, and he has helped Neuheisel to lead a resurgence of UCLA's offense this year.
Neuheisel said he hadn't thought about his future.
"This has kind of hit me between the eyes here a little bit," Neuheisel said. "I've been on one track, which is just to do the best I can with this particular team. That will be the case at least through Friday, and then we'll make any decisions on which course I take."
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Barely three weeks ago, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy took the stage at the Academy Awards and Bret McKenzie took home an Oscar for "Man or Muppet" – capping a great movie comeback for Jim Henson's creations.
Now we're in the midst of an odd Muppet mini-backlash, in which some folks are showing that it's so easy being mean.
Courtney Love, never a paragon of levelheaded restraint, reportedly declared last week that the Kermit and friends "raped" the memory of her late husband Kurt Cobain with their hilarious barbershop quartet version of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in "The Muppets." The recent success of the environment-friendly movie version of Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" revived some Fox News babble that "The Muppets," which features a villainous oil baron, is part of a wave of anti-capitalist family flicks aimed at brainwashing our youth – direct from liberal Hollywood, where, last we checked, they liked money.
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Speaking of capitalism, now-former Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith's poison-pen farewell in The New York Times last week revealed "five different managing directors refer to their own clients as 'muppets,' sometimes over internal e-mail."
As Kermit might say, "Sheesh!"
Jack Black, among the stars who appeared in "The Muppets," told E! that Love's claim is "absurd, absurd, absurd" – which seems the perfect word to describe all the recent Muppet-related silliness.
But the various absurdities speak not only to the impact of the sweet-and-fun movie but also to the enduring spot Kermit and the gang hold in our pop culture psyche. We've seen the Muppets become puppets in the cause of political satire (see "Gitmo" and the Michael Steele puppet on "The Daily Show" and the "Occupy Sesame Street" meme) – and in the cause of political causes (see the online campaign for Bert and Ernie to wed on Sesame Street). They're also part of the language – even among grouches who use the word "muppet" to denigrate those who keep them in business.
Humans may disappoint us – perhaps the most distressing recent Muppet news is word that Jason Segel, human star and co-writer of "The Muppets," won't be returning for a sequel. But as the movie reinforced, we can count on our familiar felt friends for gently irreverent laughs in a sometimes off-kilter world.
The DVD of "The Muppets" lands Tuesday – a great way to relive the film or experience it for the first time. Check out a preview – in the form of a "Hunger Games" spoof – that smells like Muppet spirit:
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, milt-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Women's Non-Typical Long Sleeve T-Shirt
Women's Non-Typical Long Sleeve T-Shirt is rated out of 5 by 373.
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Sale Colors: $11.49 - $12.99
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Classy V-Neck Collar
Legendary® Whitetails Branded Sleeves
High Quality Signature Buck Screen Print
Long Lasting Ribbed
Knit Cuffs
Heavyweight 100% Cotton
Nothing beats the effortless comfort of a long-sleeve t-shirt...especially one built with 100% ringspun jersey cotton. Made to feel and fit RIGHT from day one.
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There's no need to cut the tag off this shirt—it doesn't have one. Like many of our Legendary Whitetails tees, sizing info is printed right on the fabric. It's just one more way our shirts achieve Legendary status.
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100% pure cotton long-sleeve tees for ladies in the season's hottest colors! LEGENDARY® up one sleeve and WHITETAILS down the other with exclusive Signature Buck on the hip. Classy V-neck collar, ribbed cuffs, and comfortable tagless neck label.
- Tagless Label, eliminates scratching
- LEGENDARY® up one sleeve
- WHITETAILS down the left sleev
- Signature Buck imprint on bottom left hip
- V-Neck Collar
- Ribbed cuffs
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100% Cotton
* Athletic Heather color is 90% Cotton and 10% Polyester
WashMachine Wash Cold with like colors, Non-Chlorine Bleach Only, Tumble Dry Low, Low Iron, Do Not Iron on Decoration
Women's Non-Typical Long Sleeve T-Shirt is rated out of 5 by 373.
Rated 2 out of 5 by AQuick from Not very Soft. Itchy. I would not recommend I buy stuff from legendary frequently but I have noticed the women's clothes are much less quality than the men's. I almost only buy men's stuff on here now. This t-shirt is itchy and stiff. I wound not recommend. I would say it is true to size and the sleeves are a good length but as far as the comfort.. I would say it is poor quality.
Date published: 2020-03-17
Rated 5 out of 5 by Tori from Good Fit I bought this as an everyday long sleeve for cooler weather. I bought two- the black and the colonial blue. The blue one is a super pretty, darker blue. The lettering and the deer head on the black seem to have some sparkle to them. They fit well, but I've never dried them (they hang to dry). If you're more busty, I definitely recommend sizing up. For reference, I'm 5'3" and 135 pounds and bought a small.
Date published: 2019-02-16
Rated 5 out of 5 by Wayne from Excellent fit and colors Wife loves the color and fit would buy this again.
Date published: 2019-02-09
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On the athletic heather color it says it's 90% cotton and 10% polyester blend. I know that cotton shrinks, but polyester doesn't. Will this top still shrink since it is 10% poly? And, could I get the actual sleeve measurement on the L and XL, please?
The sleeve length on a Large is 33 1/2" and 34" on an X-Large. There is a chance for shrinkage since it does contain cotton
Date published: 2018-11-30
On the athletic heather can I get the actual chest measurement for the L and XL?
Size Large the chest is 21" Size X-Large the chest is 22 1/2"
Date published: 2018-11-30
What is the length of the sleeves on a xsmall, small and medium?
The sleeve lengths on our Ladies Non-Typical Long Sleeve tee are below. Please note - our measurements are taking from the center-back down to the edge cuff. XS: 31 3/4" / SML: 32" / MED: 32 1/2" / LRG: 33" / XL: 33 1/2" / XXL: 34"
Date published: 2018-01-23
Will these be delivered by christmas
Orders placed by 12/19 will be delivered via Standard shipping, on or before Christmas Eve (12/24).
Date published: 2018-01-23
Some cotton shirts wrinkle (even after being ironed) as soon as you put them on. Is this made from the type of cotton that does that? Thank you for taking the time to answer me!
This shirt will not wrinkle easily! We have a lot of employees here that wear this shirt daily and they are sharp!
Date published: 2018-01-23
I notice most of your products are 100% cotton. Are they pre-shrunk. Is a medium still a medium after washing and drying?
I wash mine in cold and either hang dry or only dry for a few minutes and hang dry the rest of the way. It has stayed true to original size.
Date published: 2016-10-29
Is this shirt fitted or is it more like just a t-shirt fit?
The women's Non-Typical Long Sleeve Tee is not a fitted shirt.
Date published: 2018-01-23
Will this shirt shrink, is it best to buy a size up?
This shirt will shrink if you wash and/or dry it on a higher heat. To counteract that, you would be just fine ordering a size up.
Date published: 2018-11-16
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Liberty News
Chancellor Falwell shares plans for several construction projects
|The Dec. 6 issue of the Liberty Champion featured a Q&A with Chancellor Falwell on the university's growth. View the article online here.
Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. recently conducted an interview with students at 90.9 The Light, the student radio station, about the growth of the university and upcoming construction projects. The interview was adapted and printed in the Dec. 6 edition of the Liberty Champion, the student newspaper.
In the interview, he highlights many construction projects under way at Liberty, including a new pedestrian tunnel to Wards Road and the Hancock Welcome Center. He highlights planned improvements and additions to sports facilities, including an expansion to the Vines Center, and new plans for academic buildings, including Liberty's largest project to date: the new Jerry Falwell Library, "a clear statement of Liberty's committment to academic excellence."
He also addresses many student concerns, including parking and the new gun policy.
View the full interview here.


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As 2012 comes to a close, I thought it would be a good time to look back at some of the changes that have been made to the Trusted Extensions features in Oracle Solaris.
Oracle Solaris was one of the first systems to provide multilevel security, including the first multilevel desktops and thin clients. Security labels first became a bundled feature in Oracle Solaris 10 update 3. This label-based security policy is referred to as Trusted Extensions. Previously that technology was only available via a separate version of the Solaris 8 operating system, called Trusted Solaris. But the Trusted Extensions technology is not simply a port of Trusted Solaris. Instead, it is based on a new architecture, in which labeled zones provide a transparent implementation of multilevel security. The virtualization provided by zones simplifies the deployment of multiple instances of applications at each label, without having to customize their configurations. However, the initial release lacked some of the flexibility and scalability inherent in Trusted Solaris 8.
In Oracle Solaris 11.0, a new virtualized network stack provided greater isolation for the management of labeled networks. For example, each zone could be configured with its own DHCP server, IP routers, and name servers. A new labeled zone brand was introduced to distinguish the label-specific characteristics from the default solaris brand. A new administrative command, tncfg(1M), was provided to simplify the management of labeled zones and networks, including the option to maintain the network labeling policy in an LDAP directory. The txzonemgr GUI was enhanced to provide point and click interfaces for all common administrative functions.
Another major enhancement in Oracle Solaris 11.0 was labeled support for ZFS filesystems. To improve the robustness of the mandatory policy, each ZFS filesystem is now automatically and persistently labeled when it is initially mounted into a labeled zone. Once labeled, the system prevents subsequent attempts to mount the filesystem read-write by a zone with a different label. Read-only mounts require that the zone's label dominates the filesystem's label. The label attributes are preserved by the ZFS send and clone operations.
In addition, each labeled zone can now be configured as an NFS server. Previously, only the global zone could share filesystems, including those belonging to labeled zones. By default, a labeled zone NFS server can only serve clients whose label matches that of the zone. However, each zone can be configured by the global zone administrator to accept read-only requests from clients which dominate the zone's label. This is done by assigning the multilevel port attribute to the NFS service port for the zone.
The multilevel desktop was also enhanced in Oracle Solaris 11.0. The CDE login manager was replaced by the GNOME session manager, including several GNOME dialogs related to labeling. The Device Manager was enhanced to work the Nautilus file manager and the Hardware Abstraction Layer, HAL. As a result, additional media such as DVDs, and filesystems such as UDFS can be mounted via the Trusted Path, and their contents are automatically displayed in labeled instances of Nautilus.
The first update to Oracle Solaris 11 was delivered last autumn. It provides even greater flexibility in the configuration and application of labels.
Previously each labeled zone was required to have a unique label, but this restriction prevented isolating related service tiers, like databases and web services into separate zones. Now such services can be distributed among multiple zones which can share the same label, providing that such zones are configured with the exclusive IP stack option. The multilevel desktop only exposes a single zone for each label, which is referred to as the primary labeled zone. Thus, the end-user need not be aware of these secondary labeled zones.
The policy for associating labels with network clients has been extended, as well. Previously, labels were associated with unlabeled hosts based on the IP address of the client. Since labeled systems are often connected to multiple networks, the previous policy required that all the hosts on these various networks had unique IP addresses. The new extended policy provides the option to derive client labels based on the network interface on which their packets arrive. Therefore, the IP addresses only have to be unique for each network interface. The policy applies to both physical and virtual interfaces, and supports the use of VLAN tags to isolate network traffic on a single wire.
For communication between two labeled systems, labels can be transmitted using the IP option header. For IPv4 packets the labels are transmitted using the Commercial IP Security Option (CIPSO). For IPv6 packets, Trusted Extensions has been using a non-standard variant of CIPSO, which was disabled by default. Now, IPv6 labels are transmitted using a new standard protocol, Common Architecture Label IPv6 Security Option (CALIPSO), which is enabled by default.
Previously all ZFS datasets were treated as single-level filesystems. A new ZFS option, multilevel, can now be specified when creating new filesystems. When this option is specified, each file and directory in the filesystem can be individually and persistently labeled. A mandatory labeling policy is enforced to ensure that users cannot observe portions of the filesystem for which they are not cleared. For example, the label of each directory must not dominate any of its children. Similarly, only empty directories can be relabeled, and their new labels must dominate their parent directory.
Since the labels are maintained as ZFS attributes, upgrading and downgrading of files and directories is instantaneous. However, the system prevents the relabeling of files that are currently in use. In addition, mandatory polices apply to both users and their processes associated with labeled zones. Only processes asserting the appropriate upgrade or downgrade privileges may relabel files or directories, and the specified labels must not conflict with the non-decreasing policy for pathname traversal.
Users must be cleared for both the existing and specified label, and their associated zone must have been configured with the required upgrade and/or downgrade privilege. This can be managed using usermod(1M), by assigning the Object Label Management rights profile to the user and setting the user's clearance.
Multilevel ZFS filesystems must be created and mounted within the global zone, by a user who has assumed the root role. However, such filesystems can be made available to labeled zones via loopback mounts, specified via zonecfg(1M). By default, such mounts are read-write. Additionally the required labeling privileges can also be assigned to zones via zonecfg(1M).
Multilevel filesystems can also be shared via NFS. Multilevel shares must be configured from within the global zone, and the multilevel attribute must be associated with the NFS port in the global zone. Clients connecting to this NFS service can only observe and open files that are dominated by their network label. NFS clients are not permitted to relabel files or directories.
The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS), has been enhanced to display file labels on printed output. These labels appear as headers and footers on each body page. In addition, special banner and trailer pages are generated for each print job to facilitate proper dissemination of labeled material. The format of these pages is identical to what was generated by the LP print system in Oracle Solaris 10.
Multilevel printer servers can be configured in the global zone, and single-level printer servers can be configured in labeled zones. Cascade printing, in which a labeled zone proxies print requests from a remote client to the global zone print service, is also supported.
A new release of the Sun Ray Software will support Oracle Solaris 11.1, and the multilevel desktop features of Trusted Extensions.
Oracle Solaris 11 is in official In Evaluation status under the Canadian Common Criteria Scheme at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4 Augmented by Flaw Remediation. The evaluation is being conducted against the Operating System Protection Profile (OS PP) and includes the following four extended packages. (1) Advanced Management (AM), (2) Extended Identification and Authentication (EIA), (3) Labeled Security (LS), and (4) Virtualization (VIRT).


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Several years ago my Mother was visiting me and we went to see a documentary about the Jewish Refugees in Shanghai. So when I visited Shanghai a year ago I was interested in seeing where the Shanghai Jewish refugees had lived, but the tour that was recommended to me, Tours of Jewish Shanghai offered by Dvir Bar-Gal was not aavailable when I could go. Happily, I had a second chance this year. I found the tour fascinating and in depth, our guide passionate. Dvir Bar-Gal brought his stories to life with enthusiasm and energy. The tour members were made to feel a part of these stories in the way he used questions and humor.
Our tour group met in front of the Peace Hotel at 9:30 am. I took the subway to get there and was impressed by it's efficiency and cleanliness, the extensive shopping below and how helpful people were. I stepped out of the subway and walked toward the hotel and was surprised when I saw a group of women doing Tai Chi as I walked along Nanjing Street. Tours take place rain or shine – in our case, it was rain. In our group there were people from Australia, Canada, USA and Israel who had, for the most part, been referred by friends who had enjoyed the tour previously.
Dvir Bar-Gal was born in Israel and after graduating from Tel-Aviv University in the Film department and the Art-Inter Disciplinary program in 1996 and became a journalist reporting on events in Shanghai for Israeli news outlets. In this capacity he followed up information about Jewish tombstones being sold in antique stores in the Shanghai area looking for a story. He found many stories, exchanged his journalism hat for that of tour guide and went on to write several books, mount photography exhibitions and help individuals looking for information about relatives that lived in Shanghai during WWII.
Dvir tells about the Jews of Shanghai between 1840 and about 1950. He tells about the Jews who came from Bagdad to England and then to Shanghai at the time when the Qing Dynasty (1644 A.D. - 1911 A.D.) China's last dynasty was forced out. A small group of Jews included the wealthy Sassoon family and families who came to work for that family and also became wealthy including the Kaduri and House families. Victor Sassoon built the famous Peace Hotel (once the Cathay Hotel) and others in this group built surrounding buildings and developed Nanjing Road, the center of Shanghai's business area. They were an affluent and relatively small group of about 1000 and they maintained Jewish practices, building two synagogues of which one remains.
Shaghai's Jewish history in the years between 1915 and 1930 was that of the 5000 Russian Jews who found their way to the Hongkou District (via the Trans Siberian Railway), which became known as the Shanghai Ghetto. We were taken to this area by bus and had time to explore it and learn about who had lived here. This group of Jewish immigrants was less affluent than their predecessors, but more focused on arts and culture. The main street in this area was know as Broadway, at one point, and was dotted with tailors, delicatessens, clothing stores, coffee shops, restaurants and so on. Movie theaters were used for live theater, beauty contests, high-holiday worship, and social events. Jewish worship was important and the Ohel Moishe Synagogue was established in 1907 to serve the Russian Jewish community that flourished in Shanghai. Newly renovated and re-opened to the public in 2008, it now serves as the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.
Dvir's ability to bring the group into his stories with questions and personal anecdotes made this tour experience very meaningful. From 1937 through 1941 no other city saved more Jews. Jews came into the open port of Shanghai at the rate of 1,000 per month and crowded into the small dwellings the Russian Jews had occupied. Jews came from Eastern Europe and Vienna and Germany thanks to Feng-Shan Ho, who served as the Chinese consul-general in Vienna and issued visas for Shanghai to thousands. Thousands were also saved by Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara who was the first Japanese diplomat posted to Lithuania and also issued passports for Jews to go to Japan.
After 1937 with Shanghai under Japanese rule there were 100,000 residents confined to a kind of ghetto. It had checkpoints rather than walls but Jews were confined, nevertheless. Soup kitchens with funds from the Joint Distribution Committee provided food. The shops changed and the area was known for a while as "Little Vienna".
We saw the ghetto area, some remnants of when the Jew lived there because by the late 1940s refugees left for the U.S., Australia, Canada and other places. We learned about Fanglian Wang who purchased a unit in this area from one of the Jewish families who left Shanghai in 1947. Unfortunately, this unit lost all of its value when Mao Zedong began ruling China in 1949.
Wang was an amazing man who spoke many languages including Chinese, Japanese, and English . His help was very important in negotiating with the Chinese government to establish the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. He worked there as a volunter guide in the museum from the time it opened and, sadly, passed away recently.
Our final stop was a visit to this unit where his family lived for a while and in which three poor Chinese families currently live. It was very small and sparse. We sat in the "living room" and watched a DVD on the TV in the room. The film told the story of the mysterious tombstones. You can see the DVD here http://www.shanghaijewishmemorial.com/
Four Jewish cemeteries in which there were 4,000 graves are known to have existed in Shanghai. During the period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution these graves were decimated and the markers on the graves removed and scattered to many locations and used in many ways, one being to wash clothes. A few of these stones began to be sold in antique stores and once Dvir understood their significance he attempted to obtain and store as many as he could. He has located 100 and has matched thirty of them family members who were searching for them.
It is Dvir Bar-Gal'a mission to use the grave markers he currently has and any he finds in the future to construct a memorial, hopefully in the park across from the museum and behind the dedication that is currently in place.
Returning home to Chicago, I discovered an article about the Shanghai Jewish Community in the Chicago Tribune from Section 1 on Friday, September 21, 2012 by Barbara Demick. I also learned that my sister and brother-in-law were the first visitors to the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. They wanted to take Dvir's tour but he was in Israel.
I had the chance to talk with Horst Abraham, an individual who was able to leave his home in Berlin, travel to Shanghai on an Italian vessel and with a letter from the American Consulate left for Chicago in 1949 where he lives in an assisted living facility. In 1939 at the age of 21 he arrived in Shanghai with $3.00. He was able to save his parents but he lost his sister and 60 family members in Auschwitz. He has written a book, " Berlin-Shanghai-Chicago, Never Give Up" which he dedicated to his sister. He is a friend of the Kaduri family. He has received letters from Presidents Clinton and Obama, has received many awards, been a singer, an antique dealer and recently appeared in a documentary film. Talking with him in his apartment with photos, awards, letters surrounding him, the impact of his days in Shanghai and beyond come to life. His book can be ordered from amazon.com
Tours of Jewish Shanghai
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Talitha Simeona-Stewart flicked her pen across a student's paper as she stood in the line of people in dark suits.
She didn't look it, but the eighth-grade English teacher from Millersville was nervous because she had never even tried out for a play, much less a TV series starring Kevin Spacey. She was just a Shakespeare lover hoping to show her students the value of reaching for new experiences.
A few feet away, Dude Walker (yes, that's his professional name) cracked jokes about the actor's life. If a director asks whether you can ride a horse, the Lutherville resident said, reply with a yes — even if you can't.
But the truth is that after 34 years of mostly voice-over work, Walker is still seeking his big break, the moment when he might catch the right eye at the right time and land a killer on-camera role.
"There's always that hope," he said.
Different as they could be, Simeona-Stewart and Walker were both among the horde that descended upon Stevenson University's Inscape Theater on Saturday for an open casting call for the Netflix political series "House of Cards." The show is set to begin production in Harford County and other parts of the Baltimore area next month.
Washington-based Central Casting sought anyone who could pass for a D.C. staffer, aide or reporter between the ages of 21 and 34, or for a politician, lobbyist, reporter or "elegant Washington type" between the ages of 40 and 60.
The aspirants sat patiently in auditorium seats and plodded through long lines as they waited for the 30 seconds when they would stand in front of an assistant director and have a few pictures snapped.
There would be no performing, but they seemed perfectly happy to trade a weekend morning for a shot at becoming human scenery in a production fronted by Spacey and directed by David Fincher. Producers expect to use 2,000 extras during 150 days of shooting for the 13-episode first season.
The scale and length of the production, along with the $100 million Netflix committed to the first two seasons, has local actors excited. Maryland's film industry endured a fallow period after "The Wire"ceased production in 2007, but new tax credits have spurred a renaissance, with "House of Cards" following the HBO productions "Game Change" and "VEEP."
"Oh yeah, actors are buzzing about it," Walker said. "Since 'The Wire' left town, people have been looking for the next long-term job that they might be able to put on a resume."
If the Screen Actors Guild members showed up at Stevenson with practical hopes, many others just wanted to check out a real, live casting call.
"I know Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are involved, so what could it hurt?" said Simeona-Stewart. "I'm always encouraging my students to try things they've never done."
Others approached the day with a sense of humor.
"I'm a senior, so I'm just looking for any kind of job," said Edward Sovago-Royal, a student filmmaker at Stevenson.
"I'm doing this because I love the limelight," said his classmate, Mitch Monin, who joked that Fincher might spot him and decide, "That's a beautiful man over there."
The newbies were surprised at the cattle-call feel of the whole enterprise. "It's just herd 'em in, take out the branding iron and stamp 'Extra,'" Sovago-Royal observed. Then he mooed.


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Moviegoers rang in the new year with a lot of blood.
Texas Chainsaw 3D grabbed the top spot at the weekend box office, grossing an estimated $23 million in its opening weekend, Box Office Mojo reports.
Django Unchained took No. 2 with a little over $20 million. In third, The Hobbit grabbed $17.5 million followed by Les Miserables at No. 4 with $16.1 million. Parental Guidance completed the top 5, taking in $10.1 million.
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In sixth place, Jack Reacher drew $9.3 million. This Is 40 attracted $8.5 million to rank seventh.
Rounding out the top 10: Lincoln (No. 8, $5.2 million), The Guilt Trip (No. 9, $4.5 million) and Promised Land (No. 10, $4.3 million).


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In an era with noteworthy economic growth, why does it seem so unsatisfying? Why do numerous broad-based business benchmarks point upward – just as so many people and companies feel so low?
Veteran Orange County banker Brian Horton at First Enterprise Bank lives this dichotomy daily, as he deals with a diverse clientele of small business leaders.
He's blunt about his thought as to why there are such mixed emotions within the local business community about the overall improving economic results: "There are 25 percent of the businesses, and they're top performers. And the other 75 percent? Many are barely treading water."
My Big Orange Index – a collection of three dozen benchmarks for the Orange County economy – shows that as an aggregate, the local economy is picking up steam.
In the third quarter, the overall Big Orange Index posted its 12th consecutive advance and its biggest quarterly upswing in nearly seven years.
On a yearly basis, The Big O tells me the local economy is growing at a 4.2 percent pace – the quickest expansion in a year. This growth puts my marker for local economic oomph back at 2008 levels.
Even by industry, signs point to a broad-based recovery. All six subindexes that comprise the Big O were up for the quarter – third consecutive "all in" from this sector-by-sector review.
That means local store owners come to the holiday shopping season off their ninth consecutive gain. One good reason: The Big O's measure of consumer confidence had its fourth consecutive advance – and 10th gain in the past 11 quarters. Real estate is a big reason for local optimism. Its Big O Index slice rose for the third straight quarter in its biggest advance in The Big O's database dating to 1988.
Now the Big O does hint as to why bosses have frequent angst attacks. The Big O's Boss Index – measuring economic items key to local decision makers – had its 12th straight gain in the summer quarter. Yet this increase was the smallest advance in this winning streak.
Is this a sign of a recovery that's running out of steam? Or do bosses sense other problems ahead?
Well, Horton's niche – banking, an industry supposedly highly sensitive to economic change – is enjoying a renaissance. By Big O calculations, for example, the local bill-paying rate is at its best level since 2008 as the pace of Orange County foreclosures and bankruptcies falls along with unemployment.
"I'm optimistic," Horton says. "I think things are better than what people think they are. I just think some people are just too negative."
Horton, an Orange County native whose family first came here in the 1850s, has been in the local banking business for nearly three decades
He's keenly aware of the local economy's habit of boom then bust. Yet he believes this past cycle was very different, and its resulting uneven recovery makes banking extra challenging. As Horton put it, "In the past, the rising tide lifted all boats. Not this time."
This varied performance, in Horton's eyes, is due to both an economic recovery that has not yet touched all corners of the business spectrum and the reality that not every manager or business owner is capable of tackling today's economic challenges.
Some business leaders didn't see the downturn early enough, Horton says. Their businesses, in many cases, are "still digging out of holes" created by the Great Recession.
Other companies had better strategic plans and were able to make tough, early course corrections to dampen the impact of the business downtown.
"It may sound corny," Horton says. "But the manager who really understands his business, these guys are the successful ones."
First Enterprise, co-founded by Horton in 2006, emerged from the downdraft virtually unscathed. The bank has never had a loan loss – not a track record many Orange County bankers can brag about.
These are relatively good times for local lenders, as businesses start to look for fresh funds for expansion – and bills are getting paid with more regularity.
The Big O found in the third quarter that foreclosures in Orange County, as tracked by Experian, dropped to a rate last seen in 2008. Southern California bankruptcies have fallen to a three-year low. Not so coincidentally, I'm sure, one measure of local enthusiasm for lending – DataQuick's estimate of new Orange County real estate loans – shows the number of mortgages made in the past year at a five-year high.
First Enterprise has grown its lending 50 percent in a year. Though, as Horton notes, a good chunk of that loan growth is added borrowing by existing customers. And one challenge for First Enterprise today – and a sign of a recovering economy – is that it's getting hard to win new business.
"It's very competitive," he says. "It's a good time to be borrowing."
Astro-Tek, an Anaheim maker of parts and support items for the aerospace industry, is the type of nimble company that Horton's bank likes to bet on.
This company started in 2006 when its founder, Gary Goldner, left a firm in a similar metals manufacturing niche to try out his own ideas. Astro-Tek switched to First Enterprise in 2008 when it was the only bank that would lend to Goldner's operation.
Since inception, Astro-Tek has growth fast – from four employees to 60 and from a factory with 2,500 square feet of space to a newly expanded production facility with 43,000 square feet.
"I have a heck of team of employees," says Goldner, deflecting much of the credit for what would be remarkable growth in the best of times – but accomplished in a painful slump for factory work.
Goldner says his growth formula is simple. To better serve his many customers with a cost-cutting mindset, he's willing to trim his price list and aggressively fight for the low bid.
"To be successful, I have to keep work on my floor," Goldner says. At this moment, that strategy has been so successful that his factory is "maxed out" – running two full shifts' worth of production.
"It hasn't been easy," Goldner admits.
The economy hasn't been kind to much of his industry – and looming federal defense cuts don't make the broad outlook brighter.
Plus, it's challenging to run a manufacturing operation competing on price in a high-cost region like Orange County. Factories making so-called "durable goods" – pricier, longer-lasting items – averaged 112,000 workers countywide in the past year. Yes, that's the highest level in three years – but the industry is also one-quarter smaller than it was in 1990.
"It's tough to make money in Orange County," says Goldner, repeating many of the complaints of his factory peers about local hurdles to expanded profitability – costly labor, facilities and regulations. "But, I love Orange County. This is the place to be. Right in the center of my customers and demand."
Ah, another love-hate relationship with the local economy.
But The Big O will tell you, lately the business climate's been too hot to hate for most folks.
Contact the writer: 949-777-6727 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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Thomas U. Walter's plans for the enlargement of the U.S. Capitol were approved by President Millard Fillmore and he was appointed Architect of the Capitol Extension in 1851. While he oversaw the construction of new marble wings, the commissioner of public buildings maintained the existing U.S. Capitol and the surrounding grounds. Walter also designed a new cast-iron dome, which was authorized in 1855.
Walter's office was originally placed under the Department of the Interior. From 1853 until 1862 it was under the War Department and was overseen by two army engineers: Montgomery C. Meigs (1853–1859; 1861–1862) and William B. Franklin (1859–1861). Work was suspended for a year at the outbreak of the Civil War; when it resumed in 1862, Walter's office was again placed under the Department of the Interior.
Born in Philadelphia in 1804, Walter worked for his father as a bricklayer and later studied architecture under William Strickland (a former pupil of Benjamin Henry Latrobe). His design for Girard College for Orphans (1832) was his most important early commission. He was one of the founders and second President of the American Institute of Architects. After his Washington career ended in 1865, Walter retired briefly before financial reversals forced him back to work. He was the Chief Assistant to the Architect of the Philadelphia City Hall from 1873 until his death in 1887.


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Companies that sponsor inner-office sports teams or any local youth leagues should consider distributing custom athletic apparel to create a unified and cohesive look amongst members of the team. Not only will the team look better, but also chances are that they will perform better because of the increased emphasis on teamwork. Another great way to promote a company with custom athletic apparel is to customize the performance apparel with a corporate logo and use it as a practical and elegant corporate gift. This highly valued gift will be sure to impress even the toughest critics and establish your company name with clients and business associates alike.


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Human Capital M-Prize: Leadership Challenge
Challenge Begins
Final Round Deadline
M-Prize Challenge
Today, we're delighted to announce the ten winners of the Innovating Innovation Challenge, the first leg of this year's HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. A huge thank you to all of the challengers with the imagination and daring to take on the status quo—and the generosity to share what they've learned in the process.
The Winners of the Innovating Innovation Challenge (in alphabetical order)
Managing for 21st Century Crime Prevention in Memphis
Story by Toney Armstrong, Memphis Police Department
An inspiring story of transformation from a traditional bureaucracy to a vibrant innovation culture in which the insights and observations of every individual from edge to edge not only matter, but produce immediate impact and make the organization continuously smarter.
Democratizing Entrepreneurship: Village Capital's Peer Selection Model
Story by Ross Baird, Village Capital
An exciting and powerful model for cultivating, evaluating, funding, and growing new ideas—and a detailed recipe for unleashing the power of peer review in any organization.
Case Coelce - Inspiring Innovation for Traditional Work Environments
Story by Luiz De Gonzaga Coelho Junior, co-authored by Odailton Arruda, Coelce
An honest and human account (dead ends and all) of developing a continuous innovation capability in an electricity distributor in the poorest region in Brazil.
Fail Forward
Story by Ashley Good, Engineers Without Borders Canada
The "Failure Report" is a refreshing and bold practice that takes the tired mantra of "embracing failure" and turns it into a way of life for an organization—and a provocative invitation to all of its partners.
Sustainability as Innovation Strategy: How Sustainability and Innovation Drive Each Other and Company Competitiveness at Danone
Story by Monica Kruglianskas, Danone, co-authored by Marc Vilanova, ESADE Business School
This story unpacks Danone's singular approach to embedding sustainability in its innovation agenda and innovation in its approach to sustainability. A case study in how to bring values to life, unleash the spirit of experimentation, and scale new ideas and practices.
Democratize Innovation - for sustained innovation culture
Story by Lalgudi Ramanathan Natarajan, Titan Industries
A multiplex approach to layering in innovation capabilities from the shop floor up in India's largest jewelry and watch retailer. The Titan story is a down-to-earth account of true social innovation—both in terms of the process and the result.
Whirlpool's Innovation Journey: An on-going quest for a rock-solid and inescapable innovation capability
Story by Moises Norena, Whirlpool, co-authored by JD Rapp
The state of the art when it comes to developing innovation as a core competence. Whirlpool changed its organizational DNA to embrace innovation at the deepest level and unpacks the journey in generous detail here.
Unleashing Inclusive Innovation at Cisco
Story by Kate O'Keeffe, co-authored by John Marsland, Carlos Pignataro and Lisa Voss, Cisco
A thorough and instructive account of working every lever and animating an entire organization—from the bottom up and the top down—to embrace innovation.
Project Bushfire - Focusing the might of an entire organization on the Consumer & Customer
Story by Stephen Remedios, The Stephen Remedios Company, co-authored by Aswath Venkataraman, Sandeep Ramesh, Shruti Kashyap and Shashwat Sharma, Hindustan Unilever
A compelling, homegrown practice for jolting a vast organization into tight communion with the marketplace—and a recipe for seeing around corners, energizing every last person in the company, and closing the gaps between "sense" and "respond."
Is managed innovation an oxymoron?
Story by Kumar Sachidanandam, Cognizant
A comprehensive and illuminating story of how one organization tackled the über challenge of building innovation into its management model—with powerful insights on wrestling with the right big questions.
Congratulations to all of the winners and the organizations behind them! We'll be unpacking many of these stories and others from the Innovating Innovation Challenge here in the weeks to come. In the meantime, stay tuned for the launch of the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize here in early March.
The Innovating Innovation Challenge Finalists
Everyday, Everywhere Innovation—24 Bold Ideas and Experiments
As human beings, we are born with a creative impulse—with an innate desire to use our imagination to better the world around us. Yet, all too often, our organizations end up being less innovative than the people within them. The dozens of in-the-trenches innovators who responded to our Innovating Innovation Challenge embody the first assertion—and are working relentlessly and fearlessly to overturn the second.
In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only antidote to margin-crushing competition, the only hope for out-performing a dismal economy, and the only way to truly amaze your customers. Innovation—in operations, products, business models and ecosystems—isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage.
We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization. Yet more often than not, when innovation occurs, it's a "happy accident" rather than the product of a deep-rooted innovation competence. Fact is, most companies aren't very good at game-changing innovation. That's why it's usually the newcomers, rather than the incumbents, who upend industry rules (think of Apple in music, Amazon in web services, or Salesforce in enterprise software). Too many companies are still approaching the innovation challenge in a piecemeal fashion—a web-based suggestions box here, an awards program there, and a corporate incubator over there, somewhere.
As human beings, we are born with a creative impulse—with an innate desire to use our imagination to better the world around us. Yet too often, our organizations end up being less innovative than the people within them. Working together, we can change this.
With the Innovating Innovation Challenge, we're looking for examples and ideas that will help us how build innovation into the woof and warp of our organizations. While there aren't many businesses that have yet made innovation a true core competence, we can, with your help, build a composite picture of how every element of a company's management model can be retooled to make it innovation-friendly. While no one organization has put all the pieces of the innovation puzzle together, we should be able to assemble all of the pieces in one place—via this M-Prize challenge. In doing so, we'll give managers around the world the chance to identify the missing pieces in their own innovation programs, and to learn from companies that may have found a piece they're still looking for.
So . . . over to you! What are you doing to make innovation an everyday, everywhere capability in your organization?
|create "stretch" goals that encourage break-out thinking?
|leverage new social technologies to bring the best ideas to the fore?
|accelerate the innovation process through rapid prototyping, simulation, and other means?
|upgrade the innovation skillsof every individual?
|make experimental capitalrapidly and easily available to anyone with a bright idea?
|de-risk innovation through low-cost experimentation, partnering, and other strategies?
|deploy innovation toolsthroughout the organization?
|carve out space for innovationin the midst of all the "busyness" that chokes out the time for innovation?
|organically grow "communities of passion" around new and promising ideas?
|develop clear definitions andmetrics for innovation?
|create widespread accountability for innovation?
|knock down bureaucratic hurdles that frustrate innovation?
|make innovation an important component in compensation and reward decisions?
|involve customers deeply in the innovation process?
|better manage the tension between short-term operational goals and medium-term innovation goals?
|build a foundation of distinctwidely shared innovation insights that is accessible by all?
|dramatically improve the quality and quantity of innovative ideas?
|ensure innovation efforts take full advantage the organization'sdiversity of experiences, skills, and values?
And if there's something else your company is doing to strengthen its innovation DNA, we'd like to hear about that, too!
Submit a Hack (a disruptive idea, radical fix, or experimental design) or a Story (a real-world case study of a single practice, an initiative, or a broad-based transformation) on the subject of making innovation a systemic and enduring capability--in short, embedding innovation deep into the company's management DNA.
Participation is open to any registered member of the MIX. Join here.
MIXers may (and are encouraged to) team up to co-author submissions.
Submissions may draw on secondary source materials but should be based primarily on first-hand experience or an original idea. In every case, be sure to credit all those who contributed to your story or hack and provide citations to external reference material.
The Innovating Innovation Challenge will unfold in two stages: a preliminary submission phase ending December 31, 2012, and a final round for the finalist teams ending January 27, 2013.
All entries will be judged by our panel of leading management thinkers and progressive practitioners, including:
- Scott Anthony - Managing Director, Innosight Asia-Pacific; author, The Little Black Book of Innovation
- Tim Brown - CEO and President, IDEO
- Henry Chesbrough - Professor, UC Berkely; author, Open Innovation
- Jeff DeGraff - Professor, University of Michigan; author, Innovation You
- Gilberto Garcia - Chief Innovation Officer, CEMEX
- Gary Hamel - Co-founder of the MIX
- John Kao - Chairman of the Institute for Large Scale Innovation; author, Innovation Nation
- Jim Stikeleather - Chief Innovation Officer, Dell Services
Winners will receive significant recognition as management innovators on the MIX, Harvard Business Review and HBR.org, the McKinsey Quarterly and McKinseyQuarterly.com. Winners will also earn the chance to appear at future live events hosted by the MIX and its partners.


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Man sentenced for animal cruelty
Anthony Stevens could spend 5 years in prison
An Omaha man will spend up to five years in prison for kicking a dog so hard it had to be put down.
On Wednesday, a court found Anthony Stevens, 28, guilty of animal cruelty for drop-kicking a dog in July when he was fighting with his girlfriend.
Mark Langan, with the Nebraska Humane Society, said the dog flew through the air and landed on concrete.
"This dog died a violent death, internal injuries, blunt force trauma," Langan said. "It's not just an animal cruelty case, it's an animal cruelty case tied to a domestic violence situation."
In court, Stevens said he was sorry and he wants another chance to be a good husband and a good father to his two kids, but the judge said he is a threat to society.
Judge Kimberly Pankonin said Stevens has been arrested for felony arrests and has served 10 different jail sentences.
Pankonin said Stevens' criminal history is so disturbing, she doesn't believe he is sorry for what he did.
Stevens was sentenced to 20 months to five years in jail. He has already served 120 days, for which he will get credit.
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Office workers return from a lunch break in front of buildings blanketed by haze in Singapore on June 19, 2013. Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index again shot above the "unhealthy
Singapore, a major financial center, will send a delegation to Jakarta on Thursday to discuss the smog that has turned its usually clear skies grey, Environment Minister Vivian Balakrishnan told a news conference.
The outlines of skyscrapers were barely visible in the central core of the bustling city-state and the smell of burnt wood permeated the air.
A resident tries to extinguish fire on the outskirt of Pekanbaru in Indonesia's Riau province June 19, 2013. Riau authorities have deployed two fire brigade teams in Bengkalis district and Dumai to control the peatland fires.
"Things will get worse before getting better," the Today newspaper quoted Balakrishnan as saying on its Twitter feed.
The Pollution Standards Index (PSI) soared to a record high of 321 at 10 p.m., up from 290 just an hour earlier and below 200 earlier in the day. The haze has also shrouded some parts of Malaysia. Continue reading
Edgar Su / Reuters
Shoppers wearing face masks walk to The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands on a hazy day in Singapore June 19, 2013.
Tim Chong / Reuters
Partygoers line up to enter a nightclub at Marina Bay Sands, as the haze shrouded skyline of Singapore is seen in the background, late June 19, 2013.
More in PhotoBlog:
- Relentless smog hangs over parts of China
- Bad air day for Wuhan as yellowish haze covers Chinese city
- US diplomats find Shanghai air less than sweet
The smoky haze from fires burning in Indonesia is spreading to Malaysia and Singapore where the pollution index is the worst in 16 years. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.


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Leonardo DiCaprio has been granted a temporary restraining order against a woman he said claims to be his wife and carrying his baby.
Court records show Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson granted the order Wednesday against Livia Bistriceanu, 41, of Chicago.
"Given this obsessive and harassing behavior, I am frightened of Ms. Bistriceanu and feel that my personal safety, and the personal safety of those around me, is in jeopardy," DiCaprio wrote in a sworn declaration.
An e-mail message sent Friday to Bistriceanu seeking comment was not immediately returned.
U.S. & World
DiCaprio's request included statements from the actor and his security team claiming Bistriceanu had traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles at least twice to try to meet DiCaprio at his home and business office. She refused to leave the properties and acted aggressively, the court filings state.
The Academy Award-nominated actor wrote that she "has evidenced a willingness to make physical contact with me regardless of the consequences."
Bistriceanu has been placed on a psychological hold twice, according to the documents.
DiCaprio said he has never met Bistriceanu, but she has sent him numerous handwritten letters. Some were attached to his request for the restraining order and reviewed by the judge.
One letter included the greeting, "Dear husband Leo," and contained statements that Bistriceanu believed DiCaprio was the father of baby Jesus.
On Thursday, another woman was ordered to stand trial on a charge of slashing DiCaprio's face with a piece of glass during a party in 2005.
Aretha Wilson pleaded not guilty to assault with a deadly weapon after being returned to Los Angeles from her native Canada.
DiCaprio suffered injuries to his face and neck.


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And then, nearly 20 years after she joined the professional tour, Gustafson started talking. During the 2011 Solheim Cup, she taped a three-minute interview with the Golf Channel in which she talked about the tournament and the challenges of her stutter. The interview was a tremendous success: golf fans got to hear--finally--from one of their sport's top athletes, and Gustafson was overwhelmed by a tide of personal responses to the interview praising her courage and her determination to make the interview work.
Earlier this month, Gustafson received the Golf Writers Association of America Ben Hogan Award, honoring golfers playing with a physical handicap or serious illness, and taped an acceptance speech for the event. It's an amazing speech, full of humor, candor, and yes, courage. There's a lot to learn from in this one, but here are a few things that stand out:
- Don't hide who you are. There's plenty of places in this speech where Gustafson jokes about how slowly she speaks--enough of them that I found myself wondering if she should keep drawing attention to the fact. But Gustafson is known on the tour (and Twitter--@sophiegustafson) for her sense of humor, and she seems comfortable delivering all these one-liners. Check out her shoulder shrug and eye roll when she talks about the offer of a radio gig--it's a charming little moment that it clear she's at ease and enjoys being funny.
- Be prepared, not perfect. This speech is six and a half minutes long. It took her eight hours to record it. Just as with her Golf Channel interview, Gustafson knows that she needs practice and lots of editing to speak in a way that she's happy with. After taping the speech, she tweeted, "I can tell u being a stutterer and a perfectionist doesn't mix AT ALL!!" But she also recognizes that even perfectionists have to give themselves a break. As she told the New York Times, "Finally, I had to give up and say, 'It's not going to be exactly the way I want it to be.'"
- Embrace your vulnerability. People who can share their vulnerabilities often have a better chance at connecting with others. It's clear that after years of quiet, Gustafson has come to accept her voice and what it can offer. "I've always stuttered," she says early in the speech. "It's part of who I am."
- Your voice is your power. In the same New York Times interview, Gustafson recalls that her ex-husband often talked for her, and that she now realizes how that kept her from "standing on my own two feet." No one's speaking for Gustafson now. This speech is an incredible reminder that speaking up is a way of taking control, of building confidence and opening up new opportunities.
(Freelance writer Becky Ham contributed this edition of Famous Speech Friday.)
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If the myths around The Warlocks are true - and this record suggests they most probably are - then this octet's life of chemical fuelled debauchery makes people like Pete Doherty look like cast-offs from Channel 4's 'Faking It'. For real? You bet they are.
Two years ago when the mighty 'Phoenix' was unleashed, the rest of the world was engulfed in amphetamine charged Strokes-mania or mogadon based Coldplayisms. The fact that a group of artists had made a record whilst almost exclusively indulging in a diet of class As and celebrating the fact should have ended with disastrous results. That it was quite the opposite wasn't so much an achievement, but more of a testament to the fact that the Warlocks were quite possibly the first band to take Sonic Boom's old adage of "Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to..." and use it as a blueprint so convincingly.
After the excess of 'Phoenix' though, comes the inevitable crash. Throughout the eleven songs on 'Surgery', each one provides a document to the whats, wheres and whys the Warlocks have been up to for the past couple of years and yet despite the obvious personal traumas ('Come Save Us', 'Suicide Note', 'It's Just Like Surgery' to name but three), 'Surgery' isn't the unlistenable, depression-fest it's lyrical content threatens it to be. Instead, it's heartfelt message combined with the monstrous sound behind it make it one of the most curiously uplifting records of the year.
Although they've enlisted the services of Beck and Badly Drawn Boy producer Tom Rothrock on this record, the band's sound is anything but watered down, instead mixing their trademark repetitive drones with a more opulent fervour usually reserved for stadium rock carnivores like Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. This means that the bevelled sub-Mary Chain blitz of 'Angels In Heaven, Angels In Hell' now resembles a maelstrom from the most westernly confines of heaven, while title track 'It's Just Like Surgery' literally begs to explode at least half a dozen times precisely where the chorus ends.
Lyrically, main man Bobby Hecksher appears to have used this record as an almost open apology to all and sundry about their drug-induced lifestyles. "Come save us from ourselves..." is the opening couplet on the record and by the time you've reached 'The Tangent', where Hecksher insists "I got so sick that the nurses have all quit" or the poignant 'Suicide Note', where he pleads "I'm too weak to live, to weak to care...", 'Surgery' really does resemble a public airing of someone's most private moments. Adrian Mole this most definitely isn't.
'Bleed Without You Babe' at first sounds like a straightforward love song for a partner who's upped and left, but on closer inspection it appears that companion may be more substance based than soulmate, while 'Evil Eyes Again' - basically the Ramones on smack rather than speed - is a tale of hallucinatory fear after one too many hits of the brown stuff.
Occasionally the mood rises above self-deprecating regret ('We Need Starpower') but on the whole, 'Surgery' is the best advert to induce "the kids" into saying no than the Carlish/Doherty double act could ever conjure up.
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