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Have I thanked you all for reading lately? If not, thanks. If so, thanks again. If it's unclear or you can't remember whether I've thanked you, either individually or collectively, well, you're probably over-thinking it.
I don't know if it's my hardy constitution or just my accurate reading of the morning's temperatures, but I'm still wearing short sleeves. And shorts. I'm still "rocking" what I would wear to work in the summer and that's working out for me. I suppose I could wear a long-sleeve shirt and still be fine, but it doesn't seem that cold yet. In comparison, I saw a dude wearing ski goggles. It was, like, maybe 60 this morning. Maybe he's one of those Dubai skiers. I'm of the opinion that you should wear whatever allows you to get on the bike (including goggles, parkas, mink stoles, chaps, whatever), but I just don't want to feel like I'm outside the norms of the average bike commuter in my attire.
I also saw a guy with his tie tucked into the front of his shirt, which I don't think I've ever seen before. I don't wear a necktie while riding my bicycle (I opt for an ascot and smoking jacket), so I haven't had to consider the implications of "rocking" this look, but I don't think I've seen anyone elect for this specific strategy before. Maybe it was a frightfully long tie and he was worried it would get caught in his spokes. I suppose if I had to daily wear a tie at work (instead of a blimp captain's uniform), I'd probably just wouldn't put it on until I got to the office or maybe just put it on and wear it untucked, allowing it to flap in the breeze like Old Glory (all of my ties have American flags and/or bald eagles on them) because a necktie really isn't that much of a hindrance to bicycle riding. But then again, see the first clause of last sentence of the previous paragraph.
If you time the lights right, you can ride almost the entirety of Pennsylvania Avenue without stopping. I suppose you could neglect the lights and also ride the entirety of Pennsylvania Avenue without stopping, but in that case, I couldn't guarantee you wouldn't be hit by a turning car. I think it's important to use bicycle infrastructure when it's there, provided it's not too much of a hassle.
You like pictures of tents obscured by cars?
It's like a cross between the LL Bean and Urban Outfitters catalogs. I think that the protesters will remain safe from the park police so long as they don't start occupying pedicabs.
Rare downtown superbiker sighting. He must have been heading home from Hains or some trails because I don't think riding 15th in the morning would be very good training, at least not if you're training to go fast for long intervals. If you're training to avoid turning cars and dodge pedestrians (which, come to think of it, might be a good idea considering how recent TdFs have gone), then I strongly recommend it.
I love when on-street parking takes up enough of a lane that it can't be used by cars, but it's still wide enough (and even wider than a bike lane) to be used by bicyclists. I have very mundane, specific passions.
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What time do you go to work? I was not wearing ski goggles (or even sunglasses) but I had tears streaming down my face as I rode down 19th street at 7:30 am.ReplyDelete
Yeah, it was pretty chilly out here in the hinterlands of eastern Loudoun before 8am yesterday. I've got to pick up some full padded gloves before tomorrow's ride to work.ReplyDelete
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LONDON – As European banks retrench to recover from the global financial meltdown, they are finding ready buyers in Asia for everything from loans to entire insurance and broking operations.
There are other tell-tale signs of a shift in power: this year's two biggest initial public offerings after Facebook were launched not in the United States or Europe, but in Malaysia.
Yet perhaps what is more striking is that, with one or two exceptions, Asian financial firms are not doing more in Europe itself to capitalize on the eurozone's festering debt and banking crisis.
Take China. The economy has more than doubled in size in five years. It has some of the biggest banks in the world. And its appetite for snapping up natural resources is undiminished: witness last month's US$15.1-billion agreement by state oil company CNOOC Ltd to buy Canada's Nexen Inc, the biggest foreign acquisition to date by a Chinese company.
When it comes to the financial sector, however, the glass is half-empty, not half-full, said Andre Loesekrug-Pietri, chairman of A Capital, a China-Europe investment fund.
"There's a front-cover story every other month about China buying up the world, but China is still a very small player in international M&A," he said.
David Marsh, co-founder of a forum in London that connects central banks and sovereign wealth funds with banks and asset managers, said the West no longer had a monopoly on innovation and dynamism in financial services.
But China was playing a long game, biding its time and waiting for bargains. With plenty of bankers and traders being made redundant, Chinese firms have the chance gradually to build up teams and expertise rather than making giant acquisitions.
They'll be much more clever than simply buying moribund banks at high prices: they'll be buying people
"They'll be much more clever than simply buying moribund banks at high prices: they'll be buying people," Marsh said.
"What we're seeing now is just the precursor of a much bigger shift that will take place over the next 10 years, but it won't happen in one fell swoop."
China has not been completely asleep on the acquisitions front.
Two Chinese private equity funds are on the final shortlist of bidders for the asset management arm of Franco-Belgian financial group Dexia, a deal that could be worth 500-million euros or more.
And CITIC Securities has agreed to buy CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, a highly regarded Hong Kong-based brokerage, from its French parent, Credit Agricole SA, in a two-stage transaction worth US$1.25-billion.
The deal is symbolic. Whereas CITIC is China's biggest brokerage, Credit Agricole is battling mounting losses in Greece, the epicenter of the eurozone crisis, where it owns the country's sixth-largest bank, Emporiki.
"Distressed banks selling good assets always happens in a crisis like this. Banks which don't want to raise capital by issuing new equity end up selling their offshore assets, and typically they sell the crown jewels," said Ken Courtis, founding partner of Themes Investment Management and a former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia.
A clutch of other European financial institutions is also beating the retreat in Asia.
Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland has offloaded some of its Asia-Pacific investment banking operations to Malaysia's CIMB Group Holdings Bhd, while ING is selling its US$7-billion Asia insurance business. Both banks had to be bailed out by their governments during the crisis.
Integrating independent-minded CLSA would be one of the biggest challenges for CITIC, Courtis said. Chinese financial institutions in general have a narrow bench of executives with the right linguistic and overseas management expertise – one reason why they are initially beefing up their offshore presence in more-or-less familiar Hong Kong, he said.
"They don't have a lot of people who have experience managing big international pools of capital," Courtis said. "So they will do this step by step. We'll continue to see them move ahead slowly."
Underscoring that cautious approach, Bank of China said last month it was ending a four-year foray into Swiss private banking and transferring under 1-billion Swiss francs in assets to Julius Baer under a pact to refer clients to each other.
One reason why China is treading carefully is that it its sovereign wealth fund made big paper losses when it bought stakes in fund manager Blackstone and investment bank Morgan Stanley before the financial crisis broke.
Ping An Insurance, China's second-largest insurer, lost about US$3-billion on its 2007 investment in Belgian-Dutch Fortis, which foundered during the credit crunch.
Chastened, the authorities in Beijing blocked several other financial deals as too risky, including a proposal by Bank of China to buy 20% of French private bank La Compagnie Financiere Edmond de Rothschild.
"Today we don't have so much support from the government to do financial services M&A," said A Capital's Loesekrug-Pietri.
According to figures compiled by Rhodium Group, a New York consultancy, China invested US$526-million in financial services and insurance in the European Union between 2000 and 2011, just 2.5% of the country's total direct investment in the 27-nation bloc over that period.
But that sum includes only two mergers and acquisitions, valued at US$31-million. The rest of the investment was in the form of "greenfield" projects, such as setting up new offices.
London's ambitions to become a hub for trading the yuan, together with Chinese corporations' growing presence in Europe, should ensure plenty of opportunities for further organic expansion whether takeovers eventually flourish or not.
"We increasingly see Chinese service providers following their domestic clients abroad to provide support with overseas operations. Chinese banks, now present in all major European markets, are an example," Rhodium said in a recent report.
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After the men had gathered for their last supper together, Jesus made a shocking statement to his followers. In the light of who he was–mighty God, the Messiah, the Christ and Savior of the world–Jesus's announcement is a total departure from the relationship mankind had previously experienced with God. He said, "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you" (John 15:13 and 15).
As we contemplate and meditate on this astonishing declaration, our hearts must swell with joy and acceptance of our new exalted position of Friends of God. This friendship must change us, however. We come to understand the depth of the riches of God and the depth of his love for all people, releasing us to love in a new way. Friendship has become a holy endeavor, initiated by God and perfected in His love and sacrifice.
With that in mind, as we approach people, there are some caution signs attached to friendship. Here are nine Don't's of developing a committed friendship.
1. Don't wait for others to reach out to you. Our lives must be an extension of God's heart that is always ready to receive the broken-hearted, the lovely and the ugly alike.
2. Don't share just facts with your friends. Share feelings. Let people know YOUR joys and sorrows. Your hurts and misgivings.
3. Don't expect everyone to like you. I learned that people either love me or hate me. There is no in-between. This became a valuable lesson in maturity. I'm no longer hurt by folks who don't know me but who reject me. It's a fact of my life. And harshly speaking, it is a fact of your life. Not everyone wants to be friends with us.
4. Don't expect your friend's friend to be your friend.
5. Don't be quick to voice your own opinions. Some–perhaps many–things are best left unsaid.
6. Don't harbor unforgiveness or bitterness over offenses. Peel away the hurt of a careless remark. Stomp until dead the pains of neglect that come into every friendship.
7. Don't share negative information about others.
8. Don't expect a friend to be your source for love, significance or security. Only God can give you that.
9. Don't let a friend take the place of the Lord.
In dealing with persons who are mentally challenged, it is vital to understand that they often do not have the cognitive ability to understand the fine nuances of friendship. This means that certain boundaries may be necessary for you to set. In the opposite direction, you may experience that their responses to your friendship overtures may be overlooked. Friendship with a person with special needs is a great privilege and joy. Their friendships are worth taking the time and energy to develop.


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As the year winds down, WitOut collects lists from comedy performers and fans of their favorite moments, comedians, groups, shows, etc. from the last year in Philly comedy. Top 5 of 2012 lists will run throughout December, and slightly beyond, if we deem it necessary–if you'd like to write one, pitch us your list at firstname.lastname@example.com!
Top 5 New-to-Me Bits of 2012
These are things that have been going on for a while here in Philly, but that I just had my first real experiences with this year. And I find myself, my life and my future better as a result.
5. John Kensil's Joke Photos of People that Just Died. Like JUST died.
I don't talk to John often. Actually, I'm not sure we've ever had a conversation. Maybe we'll fix that this year in an episode of the GETTIN CLOSE PODCAST. For now though, we are simply friends on Facebook. It's worth being his friend on Facebook just for the pictures he posts after someone with at least a moderate amount of fame dies. The pictures are usually close enough to be a mistake, but different enough to be on purpose. Most recently for Stormin Norman Schwartzkopf he posted a photo of Jonathan Winters which made me laugh out loud and for some reason feel bad about doing so. The pictures define "too soon" and somehow make me think I've waited too long each time a death report pops up.
4. "Not for Nuthin Podcast" with Tim Butterly and Mike Rainey
I was sitting in the Shubin basement before the theme show. While simultaneously using my script to study lines and swat flies something caught my ear. It was a sound that to me is as at once nails on a chalkboard and sweet mother's milk at the same time: two super thick Delco accents. They were just kind of riffing on the "iggles" and whatnot for a couple minutes. I asked if they would want to do it as an act in an upcoming Sideshow at the Arts Parlor. They did a set where they debuted the "Not for Nuthin" podcast . And they killed. It was the perfect blend of sports talk, topical humor, ignorance of topics and racism. Brilliant.
3. Fastball Pitcher Bob Gutierrez and Bing Supernova
I've heard about these two for a while, but it wasn't until Friday night that I actually got to witness the spectacle of each. The stars aligned to get them in not only the same show, but the same set. It was equal parts hilarious and disturbing. The uniforms of each from beret to knee highs to glasses and grease(?) were enough to make people laugh, but also serve to soften the blow of the foul shit that each would say. These two really are the DEANS of comedy.
2. #Friendship
I'm sure this has been going on for a while with Aaron, but I had my first experiences with the chants this year and it's happened several times since. The first time I remember is at the Friendship Labor Day picnic on the parkway. Each time a tour bus would go by Aaron led the "Friendship! Friendship! Friendship!" chant. It happened all afternoon. At least 6 times with different tour buses, but same tour guides who also came to enjoy it. The funnest time for me though was when the Friendship chant was heard not as a tour bus was passing, but an ambulance. If an ASTEROID! had hit Earth after that moment I'd have gone a happy person.
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3. Camp Woods
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Mike Marbach is the Education Director for Philly Improv Theater, director of PHIT House Team Asteroid!, creator and host of the Gettin' Close podcast and producer of The Sideshow variety showcase at The Arts Parlor.


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Will Smith is not taking the latest rumors that he's splitting from Jada Pinkett Smith lightly.
The actor, who normally stays quiet when these types of stories surface, took to Facebook Monday to clear the air once and for all about the status of his (happy) marriage to the "Magic Mike XXL" actress.[[320606612, C]]
"Under normal circumstances, I don't usually respond to foolishness. (Because it's contagious) But, so many people have extended me their 'deepest condolences' that I figured, What the hell...I can be foolish, too!"
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Will continued, "So, in the interest of redundant, repetitious, over & over-again-ness...Jada and I are...NOT GETTING A DIVORCE!!!!!!!!!!!! I promise you all--ifI ever decide to divorce my Queen--I SWEAR I'll tell you myself. Dumb people should have to wear scarlet D's."
RELATED: Seriously, why can't people leave these two alone?!
Immediately after, Jada posted the following terse message on Twitter: "My king has spoken." Fair enough.
Jada also spoke out about the ongoing speculation of turmoil in her 15-year marriage in her latest interview with American Way magazine.
"Every year there's a new one. And I'm like, 'Here we go. Get ready. Are ya holdin' on tight?'"
She added, "Marriages go through shifts. And relationships go through shifts because in life, things shift. So people are automatically like, 'What's going on? They must be getting a divorce.' Well, no. But when people feel those shifts and there's a mystery, they have to fill it with something."
PHOTOS: Longtime celebrity couples
Of course, this isn't the first time that the 43-year-old has gotten candid about her highly publicized marriage.
She dished some sage advice on Facebook earlier this month, when asked to share some tips on how to keep a long-lasting marriage alive.
"A message to a friend: A wise man shared with me yesterday one word responsible for his 24 years of marriage. You know what that word was...forgiveness. Happy Sunday:) J," she wrote.
[NATL] Celebrity Baby Boom: Christian Slater u0026 Wife Welcome Daughter
PHOTOS: Celeb couples we admire
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There will be a conference on May 28th 2015, at Esztergom, dedicated to medieval history and art of the city, which was Hungary's first capital. Titled "Metropolis Hungariae," the conference will feature a number of internationally known Hungarian scholars, who will speak about recent archaeological research in the town and new art historical work. The focus of the conference will be the Árpád period, perhaps the most important period in the town's history. Art historical lectures will primarily discuss the architecture and sculpture of the medieval cathedral of the town.
The conference presents a good opportunity for visiting Esztergom, where the permanent exhibition in the former royal palace has been reinstalled and the restoration of the palace chapel has been fully completed (I already reported on this last year).
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Monday's inauguration festivities are expected to draw in about 800,000 people as the country's top officials are publicly sworn into office.
But on Sunday President Barack Obama was in no shortage of good company in a room with two of his biggest supporters: daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, who joined their father in a private White House Blue Room ceremony as he placed his hand on his wife's family Bible and officially began his second term as President of the United States.
So how did his leading ladies, including First Lady Michelle Obama, mark the milestone?
"I'm so happy. Yay!" Malia was heard saying.
"我很高兴。耶!" 听到玛利亚说。
When Sasha said, "Good job, Dad," the Commander-in-Chief – who was sworn in shortly before noon by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts – replied, "I did it."
Her response: "You didn't mess up."


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School Board Approves Election for Bonds
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By Lynne Bronstein
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At their meeting Tuesday night, the culver city Board of Education unanimously approved an election set for June 3 to pass bonds that would fund renovations and installation of new equipment for school buildings and campuses in the culver city school district.
The election will decide whether the district can issue and sell bonds in the aggregate amount of $106,000,000 to raise money for the repairs that so many parents, teachers, employees, and community members have been calling for.
The money from the bonds would "improve classrooms, science labs, computers/learning technology, repair leaking roofs, old plumbing, inadequate electrical systems, and aging school buildings/restrooms, improve school safety, remove hazardous asbestos, make needed seismic repairs, and upgrade, construct, and acquire classrooms, school facilities, [and]sites/equipment," according to the language of the proposed ballot measure.
As a local measure, the funds collected by the sale of the bonds can not be taken away by the state. The ballot measure will also call for mandatory taxpayer protections including an independent citizens' oversight committee to ensure that the funds are spent as promised.
A bond for a smaller amount was to have been placed on the November 2013 election ballot but that plan was defeated last summer when then-Board members Karlo Silbiger and Patricia Siever, along with still-seated member Nancy Goldberg, opposed it. Since that time, Siever has left the Board of her own accord and Silbiger met with defeat in the last Board election.
Goldberg took a different position on the new measure, telling culver city news web page TheFrontPageOnline that "there is a world of difference" between the two measures.
Goldberg credited the new measure with more transparency but also cited the fact that the Board had done considerable research this time around and that she did not feel as much pressure as she did last time to "make a rapid decision."
But she was able to joke, moments before the vote came up, that her computer had gone on the blink from the numerous emails she had received from community members.
Support for the ballot measure was evident at the meeting at El Rincon Elementary, where, earlier in the evening, El Rincon principal Reginald Brunson gave a comprehensive presentation about his school.
The presentation included a student who demonstrated the effectiveness of the school's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) program by exhibiting his homemade "atom" (made from candy and toothpicks); a student who spoke of her "random act of kindness" in coordination with a school program on community outreach; and a performance by the "Rocking Rockets" school choir, who sang the Preamble to the United States Constitution and other numbers, with a kindergarten student interpreting the lyrics in sign language.


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Obama releases iPhone recruiting, campaign tool — Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign launched an iPhone application on Thursday that turns the vaunted device into a political recruiting tool. — The most notable feature "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states …
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Darrell Etherington / The Apple Blog: Obama for iPhone — Billed as "your official, comprehensive connection …
Nate Westheimer / innonate: BREAKING: Obama '08 iPhone app now available
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage: Obama Campaign Now Has an iPhone App
Paul Boutin / Valleywag: Obama's iPhone app spots your swing-state contacts
Eric Suesz / Demand Satisfaction!: Neat-O Obama iPhone App
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Google Gets Political With Voting Tools
Scott Goodstein / Barack Obama and Joe Biden:
Introducing the Obama 08 iPhone App — With only 33 days left, it's more important than ever to call your friends and family to make sure they are registered and voting for Barack. We are excited to announce another way to help you organize your personal contacts and ask them to "get out and vote."
Discussion: Today @ PC World, L.A. Times Tech Blog, techPresident, webmonkey and The Apple Core
Michelle Quinn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Barack Obama iPhone software is a political tool
Michael Whitney / techPresident: Obama Releases iPhone App, but Why? [UPDATED]
Adam DuVander / webmonkey: Obama Has An iPhone App
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube released plus first hands-on — Click here to open the post in your browser to see the gallery. — Here are some initial shots of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube aka the first Symbian S60 touchscreen phone. — The Tube is here, folks …
Steve O'Hear / last100: Nokia launches 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen phone (formally known as the "Tube")
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic finally announced
Jon / p2pnet: Nokia launches The Tube
Charlie White / DVICE: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone debuts, falls short
Christian Zibreg / TG Daily: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic: Beating Apple at its own game
Stowe Boyd / /Message: The Tube Debuts — I remember how the Nokia execs …
Stephen Schenck / Obsessable: Nokia launches touchscreen 5800 XpressMusic handset, Comes …
Roland Tanglao / Roland Tanglao's Weblog: It's all about the usability, not the features …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic phone intimately detailed on video
John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic: Hands-on With Nokia's First S60 Touch Phone — The 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube) is the first touchscreen Symbian S60 phone from Nokia—a surprising fact considering how prominent touchscreens have quickly become over the last few years.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Boing Boing Gadgets, Electronista and Engadget
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Nokia Unveils New Touchscreen Phone, Vows To Beat RIM In Mobile Email
John Brownlee / Boing Boing Gadgets: Nokia finally unveils the 'Tube', rechristened the Xpress Music 5880
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic hands-on — She's arrived at last, the 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia's tardy entry into the (modern) touchscreen phone space, and we've gotten some quality face time with the device. Appropriately nicknamed the Tube, the device has a number of Nokia peculiarities …
Discussion: Apple Gazette
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Nokia Reveals iPhone Competitor And Goes to Battle With iTunes (UPDATED)
Nokia Reveals iPhone Competitor And Goes to Battle With iTunes (UPDATED)
Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Gphone Sold Out; More iPhone Killers to Come?
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Royalty rate doesn't change for Apple, music retailers — The Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday froze the rate that digital-music stores, such as iTunes and RealNetworks' Rhapsody, must pay music publishers. — On Thursday, the three-member board that sets statutory copyright licenses e-mailed …
Discussion: VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, Between the Lines, paidContent.org, Portfolio, AppScout, TG Daily, dailywireless.org, Idolator, MacUser and Today @ PC World
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: Music Publishers Keep Same Download Rate, Apple Keeping iTunes Open (AAPL)
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Copyright Royalty Board Holds The Rate; iTunes Lives To See Another Day
Andrea Chalupa / Portfolio: Apple Threatens to Shut Down iTunes Over Royalty Hike
Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: Royalty Board Shuns Rate Hike. iTunes Saved!
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily: Royalty rates frozen, iTunes not shutting down
Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: Nokia's iPhone Killer
Lucas Jensen / Idolator: iTunes Might Become Slightly Less Profitable [Royalties]
Cyrus Farivar / MacUser: Why Apple won't shutter iTunes
Ian Paul / Today @ PC World: Might iTunes Shut Down?
Andy Stadler / Google Mobile Blog:
Google on Android: Search — On September 23, T-Mobile announced the world's first Android-powered phone, the G1. The phone comes preloaded with Search, Maps, Gmail with Contacts, Calendar, Google Talk, and YouTube. The applications are easy to use, fully synchronized with the web …
Discussion: InformationWeek, Search Engine Watch, FierceMobileContent, CrunchGear, Open Source, WebProNews, 9 to 5 Mac and mocoNews.net
Eric Zeman / InformationWeek: Google Demos Search Capabilities Of Android
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch: How Google is Integrating Search into Android and the G1
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear: Video: Predictive search on the T-Mobile G1 works splendidly
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source: Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband room
Chris Crum / WebProNews: A Closer Look at Search on the Google Phone
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac: Google Android's predictive search exposed
Dianne See Morrison / mocoNews.net: G1 Android Phone To Include Predictive Search, Shared App Search
Olga Kharif / Tech Beat:
Google's Andy Rubin on Android Market
Google's Andy Rubin on Android Market
Discussion: Engadget and jkOnTheRun
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Android Marketplace will have free trials, but developers may pay
IPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle — It's official: The iPhone is more popular than Amazon.com's Kindle. And not just in the obvious categories like listening to music, browsing the Web or the other applications where Kindle barely competes. Now, the iPhone is also muscling into Amazon's home turf: reading books.
Discussion: MacNN, Epicenter, Macsimum News and MacDailyNews
Chris Snyder / Epicenter: IPhone Stanza Downloads May Top Kindle Sales
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: iPhone more popular than Amazon's Kindle for reading eBooks
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
So much for that tech stock rebound: Apple, Yahoo, Google killed again — The stock market took a plunge again today. While it wasn't quite as bad as Monday's free-fall, the Dow fell 348.22 points (3.22 percent), the Nasdaq fell 92.68 points (4.48 percent) and the S&P 500 fell 46.78 points (4.03 percent).
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
Google 'Goliath' Microsoft says — The chief executive of Microsoft has admitted that his firm's slowness to grasp the potential of internet search had hit the business. — Steve Ballmer told the BBC that Microsoft had become a "David" in search alongside the "Goliath" of its arch-rival Google.
Discussion: DailyTech, Portfolio, Beyond Search, Silicon Alley Insider, BBC NEWS and Google Android News …
Shane McGlaun / DailyTech: The World According to Ballmer
Jennifer Lai / Portfolio: Ballmer Calls Google a "Goliath"
Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search: Microsoft Sees Google as Goliath
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS: A meek new Microsoft? — For years he has lived in the shadow …
Google Android News Android Forums: Steve Ballmer: "You've got to remember Android is version one. …
Martin Veitch / CIO UK Magazine:
INTERVIEW: Steve Ballmer on the Cloud, Google, data centres and the cult of Apple
INTERVIEW: Steve Ballmer on the Cloud, Google, data centres and the cult of Apple
Discussion: wmpoweruser.com and Engadget Mobile
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Ballmer recommends separating iPhone hardware and software — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has never been shy about voicing his opinions on any given issue. At an interview conducted during a recent Churchill Club event in California, Ballmer chose to weigh in on Apple and the iPhone, and even gave the company some friendly advice.
Discussion: TUAW and The iPhone Blog
Robert Palmer / TUAW: Ballmer channels 1985, suggests Apple split iPhone hardware and OS
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog: Should Apple Break Up the iPhone? Ballmer Says Yes!
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yes, Yahoo Cuts Coming. How Many? (YHOO) — Now that even the most stubbornly optimistic Yahoos have had time to digest Jerry Yang's "shape up" memo, layoff rumors are in full swing. The most pessimistic prediction we've heard so far, from an anonymous tipster: 3,500 heads will roll. Plausible?
Discussion: Portfolio, CNET News, Valleywag and WebProNews
Andrea Chalupa / Portfolio: Big Tech's Big Layoffs
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News: Yahoo to snip, snip its workforce?
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Don't worry Yahoos, 80 percent of you are definitely safe
Chris Crum / WebProNews: Yahoo! May Be Dumping A Lot More People
Fred / A VC:
Hacker News, Techmeme, and Google Blog Search — I just hate the word "killer" in a headline. It means the author is sensationalizing the potential outcome of a new product launch. Friend Feed was going to kill Twitter, Facebook was going to kill MySpace, Google Base was going to kill Craigslist.
Discussion: John Battelle's Searchblog, LiewCF.com, ReadWriteWeb, Global Nerdy, Computerworld and Podcasting News
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Google Blogsearch Already Getting Spammed by PayPerPost
Heather Havenstein / Computerworld: Google launches 'Google News for blogs'
James Lewin / Podcasting News: Google Blog Search No TechMeme-Killer.....Yet
Ian Lamont / Industry Standard:
Is Google Blog Search a Techmeme killer? No way.
Is Google Blog Search a Techmeme killer? No way.
Discussion: Google Watch, Guardian, Search Engine Land and Portfolio
Jack Schofield / Guardian: Google recasts blog search as news
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: Google Blogs & Other "Front Pages" For The Blogosphere
Kevin Maney / Portfolio: Google's Blog Search: Next Iteration of a Good Idea
Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
One Way to Turn a Mac Into a PC Just Got Better — There are two common methods for running Microsoft Windows and Windows programs on an Apple (AAPL) Macintosh, and one of those methods just got better and easier. — The first approach uses a feature called Boot Camp that comes free on every new Mac.
Discussion: The Mac Observer
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple settles class-action suit over faulty notebook adapters — Apple has agreed, without admitting fault, to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that power adapters sold with certain Power PC-based iBook and PowerBook notebooks were defective in that they could dangerously fray, sparks and prematurely fail to work.
Discussion: Infinite Loop, Lockergnome Blog Network, CrunchGear and O'Grady's PowerPage
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop: Faulty iBook/PowerBook power adapter list expanded
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Apple Settles iBook, PowerBook Notebook Adapter Case
Red Hat undercuts Microsoft on high-performance OS pricing — Red Hat on Thursday released a Linux software stack for compute-intensive IT environments that it said costs less than Microsoft's price for its comparable Windows offering. — Red Hat charges a subscription of $249 per node …
Discussion: The Register and LinuxWorld.com
Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Register: Red Hat chases Redmond with HPC play
Elizabeth Montalbano / LinuxWorld.com: Red Hat undercuts Microsoft on high-performance OS pricing
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Rolls Out Post-Roll Video Ads — YouTube, which has never had trouble growing an audience but hasn't yet figured out the trick for monetizing them thar eyeballs, is adding a trick from the old playbook: post-roll advertisements. As we understand it (and this has been confirmed with the company) …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Google's Latest Attempt to Monetize YouTube: Post-Roll Ads
Meghan Keane / Epicenter: YouTube Is Testing New Post-Roll Ads
Michael Masnick / Techdirt: How To Do Advertising On YouTube: Make It Awesome
Eve Bergazyn / Contentinople: Online Advertising: Three Worst Practices
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider: Eric Schmidt's Secret YouTube Plan Unveiled? …
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: YouTube Dips its Toe into Post-Roll Video Advertising
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: YouTube Cries: "For the Love of Pete, Please Click on an Ad!"
Chris Crum / WebProNews: YouTube Putting Commercials in Videos
Josh Silverman / Skype Blogs:
Skype President Addresses Chinese Privacy Breach — You may have seen some reports in the media about a security and privacy breach in the software provided by our Chinese partner, TOM Online. I'm writing to let you know where we stand, and what we're doing to resolve the problem.
Discussion: CircleID, InformationWeek and Threat Level
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek: Skype Calls Get Monitored In China
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
PrintWhatYouLike makes any site printer friendly — There's nothing worse than trying to print a two-page article from the Web and have it print out in a half-inch column across 37 sheets of paper. It happens all the time, and if the site you're on doesn't have a special printer friendly option …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T's Samsung i907 is called Epix — Well, there goes BlackJack III... We just got a hot tip from one of our readers and it clearly shows what we all knew as the Samsung i780 dressed up in AT&T branding as the AT&T Epix. There's also been some physical tweaks to make the device more polished.
Discussion: Unwired View, Mobility Site, Electronista, wmpoweruser.com and Engadget Mobile
David Gonzales / Unwired View: Samsung i907 Epix for AT&T leaked
Chris Leckness / Mobility Site: Ah Man, Just call it the BlackJack III.... Please? Epix?
David Pogue / New York Times:
For Purists, a Cut Above in Movies — So Mrs. Hollywood comes home one day to find her husband bound and gagged, with a hole shot through his foot. "Honey!" she screams, racing to help him. "Who did this to you?" — Mr. Hollywood looks up and says, "I did." — Granted, that joke isn't ha-ha funny.
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee: Vid-Biz: NBC, Vudu, CDN Prices
Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
People can do more to guard against ID theft, says group — As the federal government makes efforts to protect citizens online, it is encouraging people to look out for themselves as well. — To kick off its fifth annual "National Cyber Security Month," the National Cyber Security Alliance …
Discussion: eWeek
Roy Mark / eWeek: Americans Confused As Ever Over Cyber Security
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Where are all the Blu-ray TV show releases? — The vast majority of TV shows produced over the last few years have been filmed in high definition. Even if the channel didn't have a HD station at the time, the show was still probably shot in HD. So where are all the Blu-ray releases of these shows?
Matthew Moskovciak / Crave: Is BD-Live even necessary? — We've never been completely sold …
LG Launches Artistically Inspired Handset, Renoir — Seoul, Korea, October 3, 2008- LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, announced the official launch of its LG-KC910, a slim yet feature-packed full touchscreen 8 megapixel multimedia phone.
Discussion: Crave, Gadgetell, IntoMobile, Boy Genius Report, Phone Scoop and Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
Nicole Lee / Crave: The gadget blog: LG launches the Renoir in Europe
Simon Sage / IntoMobile: LG Renoir officially launches
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report: LG launches the "artistic" KC910 Renoir
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop: LG Launches A Pair of Touch Screen Phones
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
What effect will the financial crisis have on the tech sector? — Expect to see a slowdown in smartphone sales and a concomitant growth in the use of open source, cloud computing and virtualisation technology as consumers cut back on their "discretionary" purchases while businesses …
Discussion: broadstuff
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: THE COMING TECH CRUNCH
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Judge: EMI can sue MP3tunes, not Michael Robertson — A federal judge has dismissed a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by EMI Group against Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3tunes and a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. — The bad news for Robertson is the judge allowed EMI …
Discussion: Electronista and p2pnet
Bill Ray / The Register:
California outlaws RFID tag skimming — You looking at my ID? — California governor Schwarzenegger has signed a law making the illegitimate reading of RFID tags illegal, but blocked a measure making the unauthorised tracking of kids equally so. — RFID Journal reports that anyone skimming …
Discussion: RFID Journal, Ars Technica and PC Pro


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The Supreme Court of South Carolina
I find that clarification is needed regarding the duties and responsibilities imposed upon the clerks of court for the collection of child support or alimony payments through their offices.
NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4, Article V, South Carolina Constitution,
IT IS ORDERED that the clerks of court may not be required to prepare or attend to the service of any documents relating to the collection of incidental items which relate to child support or alimony or the enforcement of support obligations. Such matters include, but are not limited to, attorney's fees, mortgage payments, insurance premiums, medical, and dental bills.
s/Jean Hoefer Toal
Jean Hoefer Toal, Chief Justice
June 23, 2011
Columbia, South Carolina


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Jo Farb Hernández, Professor and Director of Exhibitions and Special Projects for the School of Art and Design at San José State University, has worked in the museum field for over thirty-five years, including service as President of the California Association of Museums. A folklorist by academic training, her professional work explores a range of aesthetic forms and manifestations, straddling aesthetic boundaries in an attempt to free the discussion of artistic production from stultifying theoretical constructs that often have little relevance to the myriad of influences upon each creative act. Her curatorial efforts have been impressive and wide-ranging; she is equally comfortable with modern and contemporary as with "outsider," folk, and ethnic/tribal arts. She balances management and administrative duties and service to the field with singular curatorial projects that are informed by rigorous research, noteworthy design, and original thought, garnering awards for ground-breaking scholarship, creativity, and design. Reviews of her exhibition projects have appeared in such media organs as the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek, ArtNews, Art Journal, Art in America, Museum Anthropology, Folk Art, Folk Art Messenger, Raw Vision, and more.
Hernández concurrently serves as Director of SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments), an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to document and advocate for "outsider" art environments and other self-taught artistic activity www.spacesarchives.org. She has conducted fieldwork on art environments since 1974 across the U.S. and in Western Europe, and on Spanish, South American, and Balkan folk arts and performance events. An award-winning writer, she has authored or co-authored over thirty exhibition books and catalogues on modern, contemporary, and outsider art; one of her most recent, Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain, won the prestigious Chicago Folklore Prize in 2006. Others include A.G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Visions (Harry N. Abrams, 1997), one of Amazon.com's "10 Best: Art and Architecture" books that year. Hernández regularly publishes articles for a variety of international art journals; serves as a panelist for local, regional, and national granting agencies; judges national, statewide, and regional exhibitions; and lectures widely at museums and universities internationally. Since 1994 Hernández has also pursued selected curatorial projects on a freelance basis through Curatorial and Museum Management Services, her consulting firm for nonprofit arts organizations; her clients have included the Archives of American Art as well as numerous museums from San Francisco to New York, Chicago to Atlanta. She is a contributing editor for Raw Vision magazine, and a member of several national and international boards for nonprofit arts organizations. Recognized as one of the primary experts in the field of "outsider art" environments, in 2008 she received a prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholar Research award to study Spanish art environments, the first ever awarded in this field. This fieldwork research forms the basis for her current book project, Where the Vernacular Meets the Eccentric: Spanish Art Environments. Jo Farb Hernández is married to sculptor Sam Hernández, Professor of Art at Santa Clara University.


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Pilar Navío
Detail of the door of the La Imagen Convent (Discalced Carmelites)
Contact details
Calle Imagen
28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (Madrid Region)
- Autonomous region: Madrid Region
- Province/Island: Madrid
Founded in 1563 by the blessed Sister María de Jesús, under the patronage of Doña Leonor de Mascareñas, governess of Felipe II. The design of this Renaissance building's façade is attributed to Alonso de Covarrubias. The façade is decorated with grotesques, dragons and fantastic figures. In the pediment there is a vaulted niche with an image of the Immaculate Virgin, and underneath the shield of the Order of the Carmelites. In the interior we find a staircase and a courtyard, both of which were attributed to Covarrubias.
- Construction: Convent
- Artistic period: Renaissance
- Historic period: 16th century
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Only the exterior of the monument can be visited.


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The much-anticipated Appomattox branch of the Museum of the Confederacy is opening soon, and this occasion offers all of us an opportunity for substantial and sober reflection about a host of important topics, such as the challenge of interpreting complex and emotionally charged subjects through exhibits, the proper stewardship of collections at a multi-facility institution, the place of military history in public history as a whole, and the relationship between scholarship and popular memory.
So naturally, instead of considering any of these issues, we're going to get up in arms over what sort of flags they're flying in front of the building.
Appomattox, VA – A new battle is brewing around the Museum of The Confederacy in Appomattox. Southern Heritage groups are calling on people to boycott the museum because the Confederate Flag will not fly outside.
All of this is surrounding 15 flag poles outside of the building, called the Reunification Promenade.
It will display state flags in order of their secession leading up to the U.S. flag.
Virginia Flaggers says they've offered to pay to add the Confederate Flag to the display, but the museum isn't interested.
The museum's president notes that the outdoor flag display is actually intended to illustrate the relationship of the seceded states to the rest of the country, which accounts for the Confederate flag's otherwise conspicuous absence. Furthermore, the museum will include the biggest exhibit of Confederate flags anywhere in the history of mankind, which suggests that keeping said flag under wraps isn't exactly a priority for the MOC. But this isn't enough to assuage the concern of people who are evidently more concerned about the museum's front porch than they are about the actual content of the exhibits.
If questions about outdoor vexillology aren't enough to convince you that nefarious anti-Southron forces are at work here, then consider the assertion that the facility's location is, and I quote, "evidence that Yankee interests have invested the museum."
Is the first opening in the lovely Shenandoah where Jackson beat three Union armies in one campaign? No. Oh I know, it's off Interstate 95 at Chancellorsville, the site of Lee's greatest victory! NO. OK, maybe up closer to Washington, D.C. on the Manassas battlefield where the Confederacy won two major battles? Nope. So where?
Appomattox, the place where General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. You are kidding! For a Southerner, only Andersonville could be a worse location!
And bear in mind that while these folks are complaining about encroaching Yankeefication at the MOC, another critic is denouncing the institution as a Confederate shrine.
Make up your minds, guys. If I'm supposed to go with a knee-jerk reaction, at least let me know which direction.


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High-Stakes Golf
Former NFL quarterback Steve Bartkowski has just finished a round of golf at the posh Waialae Country Club in Oahu, Hawaii. He's unwinding with a cool drink and paying off a few bets. Glancing up at the TV screen, he sees a PGA match in which one of the pros appears pressured to sink a six-foot putt. A pal of Bartkowski's, watching the action unfold, says, "That's not pressure. If he finishes second, who cares? His money isn't on the line. Pressure is when you have to sink a six-footer to win a $100 Nassau, and it's your $100."
That gets Bartkowski thinking about how cool it would be to have a golf event in which a lot of cash would hang in the balance, and sinking that six-footer (or not) would have real consequences. The idea gestates for several years, a few zeroes are added to the $100, and by 2005 Bartkowski has put together a handful of investors and organizers to run the richest tournament in golf history. Big Stakes Match Play is born.
The idea is simple: 128 teams of two golfers each put up $100,000 and play a four-ball match-play single-elimination tournament (each team counts its best score per hole, and the players compete on holes rather than strokes as in the Ryder Cup). Whichever team wins the majority of 18 holes goes on to the next stage of the event, while the loser is eliminated. Eventually, the last two surviving teams compete for a grand prize of $3 million.
Sounds sweet, but in the end, only 64 teams pony up the $100,000 entry fee (in almost every case it's put up by a sponsor) to play in the May tournament. Nevertheless, Bartkowski and his group keep the first-place prize at $3 million and cut corners on the runner-up awards—doling out a total of $6.4 million, including consolation prizes. The first-prize figure for this six-day event is suitably large enough that it draws several high-rolling team sponsors, including NBA legend Michael Jordan, football pros Barry Stokes and Ross Verba, and professional gambler/former World Series of Poker champ Russ Hamilton, who is representing the online poker site UltimateBet.com (which put up the $100,000 for its team). Not content to angle for a mere $3 million, Hamilton blows into the dusty Nevada town of Mesquite (where the tournament is being held) with a Bellagio shopping bag full of banded Benjamins. "There's $100,000 in the bag," he says flatly. "But if we use that up, I'll bring more. No problem. As long as we can get the best of it, we'll put down lots of money."
Carrying the bag of dough is Hamilton's right-hand man, Jeff Friedman. Slender, curly-haired and slightly wired, Friedman is a world-class golf gambler in his own right. Hamilton charged him with scouring the country to find the best possible twosomes to compete in the event and bring home the millions. A man with deep connections in the 18-hole world, Friedman was initially told to find the four best golfers possible. He did and reported as much to Hamilton. "Now," Hamilton told him, "narrow it down to the top two. I never did want four golfers. I just wanted you to have some options."
Friedman wound up recruiting John Douma and Mikkel Reese, a pair of blond-haired, meaty-faced mini-tour pros from Arizona (they look so much alike, and play so similarly, that opponents take to calling them The Clones). Conforming to Big Stakes rules, Douma and Reese have not been classified as PGA A-3 players for the last three years, are at least 25 years of age, and do not have fully exempt status on any of several major tours. The guys know each other as competitors on the sub-PGA Gateway Tour and clearly respect each other's game.
Hamilton's convinced that he's got the best horses in this particular race, and others agree. One night before the opening tee-off, at the Calcutta (in which bettors bid on the teams they think will win the tournament), Hamilton's guys go for $4,500, more than any other twosome. He views that as a good sign, which is underscored when Friedman tries to spread around some of the banded hundreds and finds no takers. With a shrug that doesn't quite hide his disappointment, Friedman stashes the money in a lockbox at the hotel and figures that nobody wants to bet against a favorite.
The next morning, Hamilton heads to Los Angeles, tending to some gaming business of his own, and Friedman is in charge of overseeing the team and making bets. Once again, he has no takers. Considering the split—25 percent for him, 25 percent for each of the golfers and 25 percent for Hamilton/UltimateBet—he says, "It's a lot of money. Even if you're Russ Hamilton."
That said, Friedman's not sure how well his golfers will handle the pressure of playing for more money than they have ever seen in their lives. On the one hand, he believes that they should be a little more on edge than they appear as they get set for the first tee at the CasaBlanca Golf Club in Mesquite. A par-72 course, CasaBlanca is nationally ranked and outfitted with cascading waterfalls, arroyos and a number of newly installed sand bunkers. On the other hand, Friedman kind of contradicts himself when he tells them to enjoy themselves, stay loose and play their game.
Several holes in, while watching Reese and Douma struggle to stay even, as one of their opponents seems preternaturally incapable of missing 30-foot putts, Friedman reaches a disturbing conclusion: "Either I severely underestimated the field or we've gotten extremely unlucky with the team we've been picked to go up against."
Maybe it turns out to be a little bit of both. While the UltimateBet team shoots a stunning 10 below par—in a round highlighted by impressively precise short games—the killer score is not enough to win. The duo is eliminated in heartbreaking fashion on the final hole.
The next afternoon, I see Jeff Friedman walking around the CasaBlanca Hotel lobby and carrying a leather bag across his shoulder. He does not look the least bit disturbed by the loss; he is, after all, a lifelong gambler and has had stranger things happen. "This is Russ's money," he says, patting the bag. "I've just got to get the [UltimateBet-logoed] golf bags back from the guys and I head to Vegas, so I can return everything. Nobody here wants to gamble, so there's nothing left for me to do." Asked if he's surprised at the dearth of action, Friedman shrugs and acknowledges that it turned out to be a blessing. "Otherwise we'd be out another $100,000."
The dynamos who beat the UltimateBet team happen to be backed by Michael Jordan. No surprise, then, that he'd put his money on a couple of winners. The team's stronger player, the guy who can't miss a long putt, is Donald Wright (who birdied three of the final five holes against Team UltimateBet). A lanky, mini-tour golf pro from Georgia, he takes an awfully long time to set up for every shot, but then mitigates the maddening process by seeming to do the impossible on the course. "I hooked up with Michael through a golfing friend," says Wright, after rolling home a string of miraculous putts to win round two of the Big Stakes event and insure that Jordan will recoup his $100,000 investment (all 16 teams that make it to day three get paid 100K). "Michael played a couple holes with me and decided I'd be the guy to go with."
Good choice until Wright and his teammate, Dave Schreyer, go up against California's John Wilson and Washington state's Mark Worthington, who manage to snag the third-round match on the final hole. But Wright shrugs it off. He's happy to have won back Jordan's investment. On the night he gets knocked out, Wright is spotted sliding into a car with a bevy of sexy women from event sponsor Sportsbook.com. They're all heading to Las Vegas, where they will meet with Jordan and attend a boxing match. For a guy who just lost his shot at seven figures, Wright looks pretty darn happy.
Clearly, it's not a bad consolation prize, but nothing like the dream that's being clung to by team sponsors and players who remain in the running for the $3 million. Besides Wilson and Worthington, the contenders who have survived to day five include Rick Hartmann and Mark Mielke, a pair of country club pros from Long Island who raised their $100,000 via a quartet of wealthy backers; Garth Mulroy and David Ping, two second-tier pros from Arizona, who secured funding from NFL stars Stokes and Verba; and former Major League Baseball pitcher Rick Rhoden and Florida-based club pro Jimmy Gilleon, who are being financed by a syndicate of 20 Atlanta-area country club members. While the lanky and highly competitive Rhoden, who won more than 150 games during his Major League career, would surely be happy to win the money, it won't have the potential to change his life the way it would for Gilleon.
Until recently, Gilleon had been knocking around pro golf's mini-tour circuit, hoping for a shot with the PGA. When that seemed increasingly unlikely (due to encroaching middle age and an injury that kept him from earning money on the Tour), he took a job at a Florida country club, but always harbored what-could've-been dreams. Now, if he were to win the Big Stakes event, a couple things would happen: his confidence would soar and, more importantly, he'd have the wherewithal to mount another run at the PGA if he wanted to, thanks to his share of nearly $750,000 that he'd rake in from the tournament. After the fourth round of golf, during which he and Rhoden managed to scratch and claw their way to victory (and a cumulative total of $400,000 in prize money), Gilleon's trying to focus on the golf game he needs to play the next day.
Out by the CasaBlanca Hotel pool, Big Stakes is throwing a Mexican dinner (complete with mariachi musicians—other nights featured a Sinatra impersonator and a piano player singing Billy Joel's greatest hits), and Gilleon explains that the stakes are particularly gargantuan for him. "It meant leaving something behind to give up on the Tour," admits the bearded, compactly built Gilleon. "When you play golf for a living, you're chasing a dream. I enjoyed it, but I lost sight of what I was trying to do. It went from going after a dream to trying to make a living. I think about it now and realize that going back out there would be tough." Then, chain-smoking like crazy, he gives the possibility a moment of thought, flashing perhaps on what his share of the $3 million would mean. He ominously adds, "But stranger things have been known to happen."
He has one more round of golf to win to put himself in the final. Lose it, and he will walk away with his share of $300,000 (after the investing syndicate has been paid back its $100,000 off the top). More than chump change, but probably not the kind of money that could put him back on the second-tier pro circuit, where the costs are high and the revenue low. But he's a real contender for the grand prize. Beyond Gilleon's own game, one element in his favor is the presence of Rhoden, who's won 49 out of the 150 celebrity golf tournaments he's competed in. As one knowledgeable spectator puts it, when asked to handicap the remaining twosomes, "I like Rhoden and Jimmy. Jimmy can obviously golf, and Rhoden, well, he knows how to win stuff."
In a tournament that has attracted a smattering of retired professional athletes—former NFL quarterback Billy Joe Tolliver among them—Rhoden is the single remaining ex-pro. He carries himself with a stolid, nonemotional demeanor, sucking it up when he misses the green and advising Gilleon to do the same, so as not to give the competition anything to feel good about. This advice comes in handy on the fifth (and penultimate) day, when Gilleon and Rhoden are playing a do-or-die match against Garth Mulroy and David Ping, the two twenty-something pros from Arizona.
By the eighth hole Rhoden and Gilleon are behind by three, and Rhoden is doing all that he can to keep from ramming a golf club into the ground. Considering that Gilleon previously commented on how every Big Stakes match has been a war for him and his partner, it is no surprise that this one, which pits them against the wunderkinds of the tournament, promises to be a battle royal. For several years Ping and Mulroy struggled on the mini-tour circuit, but here in Mesquite, they appear to have come into their own.
Two days earlier, during the third round, South African Mulroy shot his first-ever hole in one. He complemented it with two eagles and six birdies, establishing himself as the most dangerous man in Mesquite. His performances go a long way toward explaining why the dynamic duo has barely lost a single hole and has kept the pressure on its opponents. It's displayed after Gilleon sinks a five-foot putt to win the ninth hole and the Ping/Mulroy team bounces right back to snag the tenth. After the 15th hole, Ping and Mulroy are ahead by four, guaranteeing them the victory and a spot in the final. However, despite what seems like an easy win (Ping and Mulroy combined to shoot 12 under par on the first 15), Ping stunningly (almost cockily) acknowledges, "This has been our worst round of golf all week. But we hammed-and-egged it and managed to get through."
With the much-ballyhooed richest 18 holes in history on the line tomorrow, these young guys with the NFL stars backing them know that they'll be in for a fight. And they seem to fear that their momentum might have been cruelly drained at the worst possible moment. "We've got a bit of work to do today on the driving range," says Mulroy. "If we play tomorrow the way we did today, forget about it."
Meanwhile, still hanging around the 15th green, a victorious Ping hugs his wife, Karen, and says, with no small amount of relief in his voice, "We'll be able to pay off the credit cards"—and then some, as he and Mulroy ham-and-egg their way to a gross payday of at least $675,000. Ping turns away from his wife and says, "I guarantee you, Garth and I have more debt than anyone else around here. We're not making the checks we want [on the golf tours] and endlessly throw out the green to keep playing. Last year, I made $16,000 from golf but had $60,000 in expenses."
While the winners celebrate, Gilleon stands stiffly alongside his golf cart. He stares straight ahead and purses his lips tightly. A couple of reporters press in on him. "It was a good time, a good tournament," he softly says, doing his best to hide his disappointment at not only losing a shot at the championship, but potentially losing a shot at his dream. "I want to do it again next year."
One of the reporters wonders what Gilleon learned about himself through this experience. "Not much," he says, barely moving his lips, choking on the words, seemingly holding back tears. "It just didn't work out the way I hoped it would."
Illustrating the Darwinian brutality of single elimination, the Gilleon/Rhoden team disappears into the tally books while victors Ping and Mulroy eventually make their way to a corner of the Big Stakes media and players tent (located adjacent to the course's clubhouse). Sitting around with a posse of friends and relatives, they sip from cans of Bud, soak in the adulation and psych themselves up for their big day tomorrow.
In an opposite corner sit their $3 million opponents: Hartmann and Mielke, the pair of country club pros from Long Island. Both men are in their 40s and are veterans of various U.S. and British Opens (which, they say, were a lot more nerve-racking than this tournament). Hartmann, who put together the team and raised most of the financing from three of Atlantic Country Club's well-heeled members, explains, "I've been a pro there for 12 years; the members care about me and my wife. This money will not change our backers one way or the other—but my first priority here was to win back their initial outlay. Now, however, we're in a position to do a lot more than that. And people at the club are celebrating, following results on the Internet."
A fourth backer, Andrew Rosen, who's a friend of Hartmann's and the wealthy proprietor of the Manhattan-based Theory fashion house, plans to fly in for the final and watch his guys take a shot at the $3 million. Mulroy and Ping (the son of a sports agent named Doc Ping, who happens to represents Stokes) have brought in their families as well as the two NFL stars who backed them. Less than 24 hours before the golfers will make history by teeing off for the mammoth purse, I can't help but remember what Jeff Friedman told me before the tournament. He said that a major X factor would be how players handle the inevitable pressure of golfing for what will surely be the biggest payday of their lives—his point being that any one of them could focus too intently on the cash at stake and choke.
Now, with the $3 million so clearly in sight, I wonder how Hartmann and Mielke, who is the pro at Mill River Country Club, are keeping those wads of hundreds from clouding their thoughts. "You try not to think about the money, but it's there; and it's impossible to avoid," says Hartmann. "For Mark and I, that money will pay off our mortgages. I'm not planning to go pro again—I hate traveling—but think of how nice it would be to have your house and all your other bills out of the way." In other words, the money's too important to ignore, but it's critical that they do everything in their power to keep it from affecting their decisions on the course.
One day later, by the sixth tee box (which inaugurates an uphill par-5 hole), Hartmann and Mielke have taken baby steps toward winning the whole thing. Following Hartmann's clutch putt on the sand-trap-intensive five, he and his partner are leading by two. But the playing conditions have suddenly worsened. Slate-colored storm clouds hang low in the sky and dry desert winds whip across the course, kicking up dust and making it increasingly difficult to chip with precision.
The windy conditions seem likeliest to hurt Ping, who must pitch out of a sand bunker on the sixth hole. Much to everyone's shock—including his own—he does it brilliantly, getting to within 10 feet of the hole before cutting loose with a stuttery little putt that circles the cup and seems poised to go around it before dropping in. It puts the young guys to within a hole of their competitors, and they tie the score on the par-4 seventh, after Mulroy's second shot hits the pin and lands just a few feet from its destination.
By the time they get to the 16th hole, Ping and Mulroy have taken a two-shot lead. They've placed the pros from Long Island in practically a must-win situation. A series of bad rolls, augmented by wind-related difficulties, leave the two teams tying, thus turning the 17th into a do-or-die situation for Hartmann and Mielke. The gallery of spectators has grown to 100 or so strong, ranging from family members to disinterested locals to media to investors. Andrew Rosen, who heads up the group backing Hartmann and Mielke, looks dapper in a Prada ensemble of shorts, sneakers and T-shirt. He is into the competition but seems more proud than concerned. The football pros (who backed Ping/Mulroy), accompanied by their pretty blonde girlfriends, are already in party mode, delighted that their investment has cinched a six-figure return. And the golfers themselves are so plugged in to the task at hand that they hit their very best tee shots, which all land near one another in the center of the fairway.
From behind the green, spectators spot a ball arcing up and landing within feet of the pin. It could be a tournament-clinching shot. Just one problem: nobody up here knows who hit it. When word comes that it was either Ping or Mulroy, their contingent of fans explodes with applause. Verba and Stokes joyously beat on each other, as if it's the lead-up to a Super Bowl, and Mamas Ping and Mulroy are practically in tears. Meanwhile, Andrew Rosen runs a hand through his bristly salt-and-pepper hair, smiles curiously, and assumes a wait-and-see attitude. Turns out that it was actually Hartmann's shot. Whoops. He and his partner take the hole, leaving themselves with the very real opportunity of tying the event on the 18th and bringing it into sudden death.
Like just about every match of the tournament, this final one is settled on the greens. Miraculous shots from the fairway and sand notwithstanding, the difference between winning and losing invariably comes down to putting and strategizing. It is fitting, then, that the potential to win $3 million ultimately rests on Mielke nailing a medium-length putt for a birdie, which will possibly force a 19th hole. He sets up, connects with the ball and sends it beelining for the cup. Spectators hold their breath, as the ball dips a little to the left but still seems likely to drop in. It kisses the edge of the hole, rolls around, and stops a few inches from its target.
Ping and Mulroy immediately jump into each other's arms. The $3 million is theirs (each will walk away with $975,000 once the sponsors are paid off). Their NFL backers do end-zone dances on the green. Ping insists that the winning sum is so huge he can't even relate to it. Good-sport kudos are offered by Hartmann and Mielke, as their backer gives them bear hugs and tells them they did a great job. "We did better than most of your race horses," Hartmann tells Rosen with a laugh, not seeming too sad about his share of the $675,000 consolation prize.
Stepping toward the outskirts of Big Stakes' post-game action, Andrew Rosen looks pretty pleased as well. Remembering that Hartmann and Mielke flew out on Jet Blue with bargain-basement tickets, I can't help but wonder if they're going to fly home first-class on a tonier airline. "We're heading back on my jet," says Rosen. "Play a round of golf for $3 million, and you deserve to fly home on a private plane." v
Michael Kaplan is Cigar Aficionado's gambling columnist.


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'Flight Behavior,' by Barbara Kingsolver
Flight Behavior
By Barbara Kingsolver
(Harper; 436 pages; $28.99)
Barbara Kingsolver has gained a loyal readership and much critical praise for her emotionally resonant, socially aware novels. "Flight Behavior," her provocative eighth, imagines global warming shifting the traditional winter habitat of monarch butterflies from a mountaintop village in Mexico to an Appalachian valley.
Kingsolver opens "Flight Behavior" in a frenzy, as Dellarobia Turnbow, a one-time rebel girl with two young children and a husband hopelessly browbeaten by his mother, rushes up a mountain hollow to a tryst with a younger man. Dellarobia glories in her long, straight red hair, which her lover-to-be describes as "somewhere between a stop sign and sunset ... between tomatoes and a ladybug." She is determined to have "this one sweet chance," even if it means risking her family and reputation.
At the end of her climb, feet blistering in stylish boots bought secondhand for $6, Dellarobia stops in wonder. She sees millions of migrating monarch butterflies assembled into what appears to be a glowing "lake of fire."
"Unearthly beauty had appeared to her, a vision of glory to stop her in the road." Convinced this "brightness rising" was there to save her from betraying Cub, Dellarobia hurries back down the mountain to her vinyl-sided ranch house and a life "measured in half dollars and clipped coupons and culled hopes flattened between uninsulated walls."
The pace of the novel bogs down as Kingsolver gives us a lengthy exploration of Dellarobia's thwarted energies (pregnant at 17, she marries instead of heading to college, then loses that baby). She resents her mother-in-law, Hester, and her father-in-law, Bear, who is about to sell the forest on the family sheep farm for logging after a record rainy stretch has depleted the local economy. It doesn't help that she and Cub live on her in-laws' property.
Her discovery of the "lake of fire" ushers in change on all fronts. The usually passive Cub stands up in church to say that his wife has had a vision that something major was about to happen on their property, and they shouldn't start logging up there. During the hullabaloo that follows, Dellarobia's image goes viral on the Internet as a mashup "butterfly Venus."
"You're that famous painting, the naked chick standing on the shell," her friend Dovey gushes. Soon everyone in Feathertown is trying to figure out a way to cash in. Hester leads guided tours up the mountain. Tourists appear from all over the world, along with demonstrators carrying signs to "Stop the logging, save the butterflies."
Kingsolver sets up a counterpoint to the initial Bible Belt perception of the butterflies in Ovid Byron, a New Mexico scientist Dellarobia describes as "Bob Marley's cute brother." He has come to track the possible extinction of the monarchs. As the temperature drops over the winter months, millions of butterflies - and the next generation - are at risk. Feathertown's "miracle" may be an alarming natural disaster, signal of an environment out of whack.
Dellarobia becomes Ovid's confidante, then his paid assistant (and yes, she entertains romantic fantasies). Her kindergarten-age son, Preston, develops a fascination with science. Hester's church group joins in the "save the butterflies" movement. And that's just the beginning.
Kingsolver's focus here is one family, one community, one life-altering year. But there's no doubt "Flight Behavior" is as ambitious as her 2009 novel "The Lacuna," which ranged from the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo art scene in Mexico City to the 1950s House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in Washington and won Britain's Orange Prize. She's taking on the climate change controversy, which is writ large in these times of drought, wildfires and monster storms.
The novel is not without flaws. Dellarobia's personality seems to lend itself to overwrought prose. In one passage, she obsesses over her attraction to Ovid Byron: "It felt acute, like tooth pain, like falling. Not again, this losing her mind to a man. ... If she couldn't face him she'd have to quit. The loss hit her like a death."
And her biblical references are sometimes convoluted (she compares herself to Lot's wife when heading toward adultery, Moses after she marches down the mountain, for instance).
More effective are Kingsolver's nuanced descriptions of the cycle of lambing and shearing, scenes that show the distinctive personalities of Dellarobia's toddler daughter, Cordelia, and Preston, and Dellarobia's response to the growing understanding of what is at stake as the world opens up for her.
By the end of "Flight Behavior," it's clear that Kingsolver's passionate voice and her ability to portray the fragility of the natural world, and why we should care about it, are as strong as ever.
Jane Ciabattari is former president of the National Book Critics Circle and author of the short-story collection "Stealing the Fire." Her reviews, interviews and cultural reporting have appeared in Bookforum, the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and other publications. E-mail: email@example.com


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While I was writing my article for Quiltwow on using acrylic paint on fabric, I decided to do a few tests to see which sorts of acrylic paint worked best and also to see how much wash out there was if I used them on poly cotton.
I used Golden thick bodied acrylic, Golden fluid acrylics and some Daler Rowney FW acrylic inks that I had. I painted each one on some thick cotton duck (canvas), some fairly coarse cotton fabric and some not all that thick polycotton. I painted two of each and washed one of the pair to see how much washout there was.
Here are the results. The ones on the left of each photo are the washed versions and the ones on the right, the unwashed.
Heavy acrylic paint on the canvas:
Heavy acrylic paint on the cotton fabric:
Heavy acrylic on polycotton:
Acrylic ink on canvas:
Acrylic ink on cotton:
Acrylic ink on poly cotton:
Fluid acrylic on canvas:
Fluid acrylic on cotton:
And finally, fluid acrylic on poly cotton:
This experiment wasn't at all scientific but it was interesting to me, especially to find that acrylics seem to be fine to use on poly cotton (next time I'll have a go with 100% polyester) and the fluid acrylics are best of all for painting on fabric, predictably because they contain less binder and more pigment.
The little sample book, by the way, is another that I made with the Bind it All.


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I like many senior personnel in SEO organisations have spent a fair amount of time in the last couple of weeks recruiting for a number of SEO positions. Like many recruitment drives its been an interesting process, however its certainly once again reaffirmed my initial thoughts as to the level of highly skilled expertise currently in the UK search market.
My initial thoughts over the last couple of years, having recruited for a number of SEO roles over the years has been that the level of quality SEO expertise within the marketplace is currently fairly limited. One only has to look at social media resources such as Twitter or LinkedIn to see the very 'incestuous' nature of the UK SEO marketplace – and highlight the depth of talent which exists within the current marketplace.
Given the recent upsurge in interest SEO experienced over the last couple of years, one would suggest this is a trend which can only get worse, as more and more organisations become aware of and enter into the organic search marketplace. As many of the these organisations either pool their resources internally or recruit the expertise of an external agency the requirement for skilled SEO expertise can only increase.
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There are moves in the right directions with more and more organisations supporting educational drives to get more skilled SEO's into the marketplace – an example being Verve Search's Lisa Myers involvement in the Reed Learning training courses. Those though only provide entry level places and often good SEO is something learned 'on the job' – something which can only be learned and crafted with time.
As mentioned earlier on there is a concern that much of this new skill, is likely to plug existing gaps in the market, and it remains to be seen whether such opportunities allow for a wider choice of skilled resource in the market. The current marketplace is very much in the favour of existing skilled professionals, allowing many of us to pick and choose from a number of roles. Good SEO's are often snapped up very very quickly if and when they become available, and in turn are often very difficult to replace. Supply and demand economics would also dictate that as demand increases so does renumeration and this means that the financial resource required to recruit is often not in line with very similar channels such as paid search.
Further to that, this is something that seems to be reflected by a number of recruitment agents I have spoken to, who have mentioned that despite the number of roles they have on their books, they don't have the personnel to fill them – with the above scenario being an obvious knock on effect of that. This would suggest that their is not the significant pool of talent on the market for organisations to recruit.
As a result many organisations have to look at other sources to get skilled expertise, in particular looking at bringing new expertise through the ranks. This is something I have to say that many organisations have fostered very well over the years, however as the number of opportunities within both client side and senior agency side opportunities have increased so has the threat to these schemes increased.
However one would suggest this may continue to be a good way for organisations moving forward – particularly as a more digital savvy workforce continue to enter the market – albeit a short term solution. However in my opinion we need to be doing more not only to attract more SEO's to the industry but also keep them there.
As such, this is something that isn't going to be solved in isolation, and is not without its complexities. That said, we are talking about encouraging people to the industry rather than a standard set of SEO definitions across the industy, so potentially this is something that could be looked at as an industry collective.
For those that are willing to put the time into the recruitment drive, there are nuggets still out there but we should be looking at the longer term and who will be there to drive SEO – in whatever guise – forward. Without bringing a new generation of SEO's through, surely we not only limit the potential of SEO but its longevity as well.


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I just scored a vintage Roland MKS-20 Digital Piano Module today from a good friend in Nagoya, Japan. I'm really excited about this because I've been dealing with MKS-20 multi-samples for some time now with just ok results. I can now finally get busy with the real thing and do some sampling of my own if I wish. In Japan, the Roland MKS-20 is pretty hard to find and we all know it can be quite expensive to get one off Ebay. I got a very good price for this one and feel it should serve me well now and into the future. As I mentioned I have tried quite a few MKS-20 Sample sets but they always seem to be lacking to me. I also noticed that those who created the samples have never really gotten rid of their MKS-20 modules at all, so I figured samples would never really beat the real thing. Why would they keep their MKS-20 module then?
Incidentally, I recently passed up a working Roland RD-1000 keyboard for $60 bucks at a local used shop here in Nagano-city. The reason primarily was the thing was HUGE!! I mean I really didn't have the space for this beast of a piano at all and it drove me nuts that I had to pass up such a deal, but oh well. I have acquired a lot of gear but the RD-1000 was just too darn big to have sitting in my room and I really didn't want to put it in storage. So I passed it up and kept waiting for the day I would run into a Roland MKS-20. Sure enough about three weeks later I found one and it's on the way! I did take some pictures of the Roland RD-1000 I found earlier and will post them here shortly for those curious about it. Currently they are on my cell phone which is out in the car.
In any event, I'm finally glad to have found the elusive Roland MKS-20 in full working order here in Japan. I really like the sound and will enjoy working it into my current setup. Samples are good, but I really think the real thing is better in this particular case. I only wish I had saved the money I spent on the samples…laugh.
Here's a quick video demonstration of the Roland MKS-20 Digital Piano Sound Module found on Youtube.


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A girl who can be very nice and very peppy! she has a great personality and mostly has blonde hair.
She is usually not the sporty type, but she will be the cheerleading type!
Guy 1: Man look at that Cheerleader!
Guy 2: Her name must be Mikahl
Guy 2: Her name must be Mikahl