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Spotsylvania County officials have approved plans for Dominion Raceway in Thornburg.
The Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commission held two joint public hearings, then voted Tuesday night to approve a rezoning and a special use permit for the raceway.
Only Planning Commission member Richard Sorrell cast a dissenting vote. Sorrell, who represents the Berkeley District where the raceway will be located, had concerns about noise and traffic.
The raceway still has one significant hurdle: approval from the state Department of Transportation for an entrance on Mudd Tavern Road. The entrance would be closer to Interstate 95 ramps than state guidelines normally allow.
State officials raised a number of objections earlier this year, but the department is expected to make a decision in coming months now that county officials have approved the raceway.
Developers of the speedway have agreed to pay for several highway upgrades, including a traffic light at the I-95 northbound ramps, right and left turn lanes at the raceway entrance, and turn lane improvements at the I-95 southbound ramp.
The raceway will be built on a 160-acre site at the northeastern corner of the Thornburg exit off I-95; it will cost an estimated $10-13 million to build.
The raceway would operate from mid-February until October, offering stock car racing, drag strip racing, a road course, and kart racing. A three-story entertainment complex with a large screen could be used year-round for concerts, festivals, drive-in movies, and other events. The concerts potentially would be the biggest draw, attracting up to 9,000 people.
The vote by the supervisors rezoned the site from agricultural to commercial. The special use permit will allow the drive-in movies and concerts.
Steve Britt, the raceway owner, previously owned Old Dominion Speedway in Prince William County, which closed in 2012 after operating for 60 years. He hopes to have the raceway built in time for the spring 2014 season.
The public hearing on the rezoning request drew about 50 speakers, the majority in favor of the raceway.
Raceway supporters argued the project would be an economic boon. However, critics – many of whom live nearby – expressed concerns about traffic and noise.
According to application documents, the speedway would draw an estimated 160,000-170,000 annual visitors, mostly from outside Spotsylvania, and employ up to 10 full-time workers and 40 part-time with an annual payroll of $1.5 million. The raceway complex would have an annual economic impact of $10.1 million.
The raceway site borders a tract of land – partly in Spotsylvania and partly in Caroline – that is covered by a Virginia Outdoors Foundation conservation easement.
About 10 people who own land or live in nearby Caroline were active in an opposition coalition, according to its leader, Joyce Ackerman of Thornburg.


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- DeRidder, Jody L. "Providing Access to Digitized Content Via the Finding Aid: A Usability Study" [Powerpoint], at the SAA Research Forum of Archives 360°: 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, in Chicago, IL, 23 August, 2011.
- DeRidder, Jody L. "Just Enough Light to See: Minimal Metadata for Access" [Powerpoint], at the Metadata and Digital Objects Round Table Meeting during the SAA Research Forum of Archives 360°: 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, in Chicago, IL, 22-27 August, 2011.
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- The University of Alabama Libraries Academic Year 2010-2011 Highlights ( July 2011, p. 7)
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- Dialog Faculty/Staff Newsletter (April 5, 2010)
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Monday, October 3, 2011
The Blame Game
I place the majority of the blame for this loss on Tony Romo. Like I said when he made the throw on 3rd and 21 last week against the Redskins, Romo does things that a quarterback isn't absolutely not supposed to do. Sometimes it pays off like last week and sometimes it loses the game like yesterday.
The first interception just looked like Romo didn't see Carpenter covering out in the flat. A boneheaded mistake but at least understandable. The second interception is probably more on Laurent Robinson than on Romo because the receiver has to get inside the defender on a slant.
The third interception is the one that really makes me mad. The Cowboys were still clinging to a 6 point lead. The game was still in the hands of the offense. A few first downs and the game is over. The worst part of the play was the fact that Romo threw the ball late off his back foot and forced it into coverage when all he had to do was throw the ball away. It was just a flat out stupid play by Romo.
But we can't forget Jason Garrett's role in this disaster. He is the one who was calling high risk passes with the game on the line. All the Cowboys needed to do was run a ball control offense for a 4 minutes and the game was over. But instead he went for the jugular. The smart move would have been to be safe and milk the clock. It was just horrible on Garrett's part to even allow Romo to have the option to screw up again in the game.
And as much as I don't want to put blame on the defense they had a lot of chances to make a play to stop the Lions as the collapse slowly occurred. Sure, Romo and Robinson handed the Lions 14 points. But the pass rush disappeared for the Cowboys in the second half. All it would have taken was a sack or two or even just one turnover in the 4th quarter and the game would have been won even with the mistakes by the offense. It seemed like Rob Ryan went conservative in the second half when the aggressive, attacking style was what helped shut down the Lions for the first quarter and a half.
So where does this loss leave the Cowboys? They have won two games they should have lost and lost two games they should have won. So 2-2 feels about right considering the inconsistency that the team has shown. All is not lost. But at some point this team needs to put it all together or we are looking at an 8-8 team who can beat any team in the league or lose to any team in the league.
I'm giving Jason Garrett until midseason to clean up this mess. It seems like a lot of the mistakes that plagued the team last season are still popping up. I realize Garrett didn't get an offseason to fully implement his system and that is why I am cutting him just a little slack. But the slack is starting to run out. Either he gets the team to pull it together or I have to start questioning whether he is ever going to change the culture of the team. I believe he has improved the team's practice habits but he needs to get them playing smarter. The clock is ticking.
If there is a bright side to the mess we saw it is that we got a glimpse of how good the Cowboys can be if they can play good football for four quarters. It will just be a question of whether the players on the team are capable of playing smart, fundamentally sound football. There are 12 games to go. Hopefully the Cowboys will find a way to fix the mistakes that are costing them games.
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I agree with you about 50%. Not on the last int. though. The only thing wrong with the throw is that it was slightly under-thrown. Witten was behind everyone, and if romo makes that throw, which 9 times out of 10 he does when healthy that seals the game with a go ahead score with the score 37-27. My question is, why does it always have to be romo who carries the team, when "big ben" makes mistakes, who cleaned them up for him, his defense, when eli manning makes mistakes who cleans them up for him, his defense, even when rex grossman has made mistakes this year, his defense won it for him. Nobody is romo's supporting cast, he has to win every game or there is little chance. After what romo did the last 2 games of the season and the 1st loss not totally his fault (special teams gave up the lead) I will cut him some slack. Without him we are 0-4 and a lot of people forget that. I am not disagreeing with you on what you are saying, or trying to say that you are wrong, but plenty of blame is there to go around. The Defense in the second half made Matthew Staffords line, one of the worst in the league look like tom bradys, they have to take some blame too. There is a lot of blame to go around.ReplyDelete
IMO...we HAVE to be able to run the ball, at the goal line and throughout the game. When we were up 27-3, we need to be running the ball, running little drop passes, just whatever to keep the clock moving and avoid throwing interceptions..they better get it figured out quick, New Englands high powered offense is next..i sure hope they lay out pretty boy Brady A LOT...time to make a STATEMENT!! GO COWBOYS!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you're spreading the blame around. No one is taking this loss harder than Romo. I'm also pleased that you're not one of the idiot "fans" calling for Romo to be replaced. He IS a great QB, has great numbers, and just needs to fine tune his game. No one questions his work ethic or leadership. We'll be fine. Go ROMO and GO Cowboys!!!ReplyDelete
I don't agree with a lot of this piece. This loss was Romo's fault. Period. I can not believe how many people I'm hearing say "we should have run the ball and controlled the clock." That's not what those people were saying last week. Last week, I was reading that Garrett's playcalling got too conservative at the end of the game, that the Cowboys should go for blood. Everybody wants the Cowboys to be the 2007 Patriots and blow everybody out, show how dominant they are.ReplyDelete
No, the reason the Cowboys lost was because of Romo. That's it, that's all of it. If he doesn't make those three horrendous throws no one is questioning Garrett's playcalling, we're RAVING about the defense, we're noting that for most of the game the offensive line played well and we're ecstatic.
Romo played great for the first two and a half quarters and then all of a sudden it was a nightmare. That throw to Carpenter was sloppy. That interception to Witten was thrown off his back foot and he was turning away. Nah, I am NOT a Romo-hater but he killed them. He single-handedly wiped out all of the good work by his team, even his own good play. Very, very frustrating.
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2011 at 11:47 AM
first of all, im a cowboys fan since drew P. was a wide reciever. second of all you can blame the defense all you want but Tony Romo was the one that lost this game and thats it.Jason garret sends the play in with Tony Romo and if you really pay attention to the fourth quarter, Tony gets to the line to run a running play and automatically yells "kill kill kill!" that means hes killing the run play and "HE" desides to change to a pass play. and yes Rob Ryan did play conservative, but why, because the defense played football all afternoon and he knew that his defense has been on the field holding their own for 3 quarters. The offensive line protected TONY ROMO all day and he repays them by making sloppy and non football plays. Yes, Tony is a GOOD QB but until he can prove to the organization and the fans that he can win a superbowl, then all he is,is a record setter and just a QB that play every sunday.ReplyDelete
I hope we beat the Pats!! i will be there and hope dware puts pretty boy on the groundReplyDelete


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Israel Srebrenik and Saul Berenthal met in 1949 in kindergarten at a school in the tight-knit Jewish community of Havana, a place Americans at the time associated with casinos, nightclubs and Ernest Hemingway.
In May, Srebrenik and Berenthal will lead a cultural exchange trip from Raleigh to a very different Cuba, the one impoverished by more than 50 years of communist rule and a U.S. trade embargo that makes it illegal for Americans to buy so much as a Cuban cigar.
Srebrenik and Berenthal, now both 69, hope in a small way to foster greater understanding between the people of their adopted country and their homeland, which is slowly emerging from its Soviet-era social and economic constraints.
"Who's a better ambassador for the United States than typical Americans from Raleigh, North Carolina?" asks Berenthal, who has lived in Raleigh since 1979.
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Berenthal has been back twice. For Srebrenik, who lives in Smithfield, it will be the first trip to his home country since his father bought an illegal visa for him and put him on a plane for Jamaica in 1961, two years after Fidel Castro came to power.
The story of these old friends returning to the country they left on the run as teenage boys is remarkable enough.
But even more extraordinary is the reunion that made the trip possible. For while Srebrenik and Berenthal met in kindergarten, their paths diverged after third grade, six years before the Cuban revolution.
They didn't see each other again until 2007 at a North Raleigh synagogue, after both had become college graduates, husbands, fathers, businessmen, grandfathers and Americans.
And it took a photograph from that school in Havana to make the connection.
A parting of ways
Jews emigrated from Europe to Cuba for the same reasons they came to the United States – to escape persecution or economic hardship and make a new life. There were about 15,000 Jews living in Cuba in the 1950s, most professionals and merchants in Havana.
Srebrenik and Berenthal met at the Autonomous Hebrew School of the Israeli Center of Cuba. They remember each other as being troublemakers, in a boys-will-be-boys way. They each spent their share of time standing in the hallway outside the classroom, a standard punishment at the school.
But at the start of fourth grade, Berenthal's parents sent him to a military school to give him some discipline. Srebrenik puts it like this: "We parted our ways in fourth grade, because my friend Saul here was a little too rambunctious." The two friends lost touch.
Berenthal and Srebrenik's parents had emigrated to Cuba from Eastern Europe in the 1930s. Both of their mothers were Polish. Srebrenik's father was Russian; Berenthal's was Romanian.
Their parents did well in Cuba. Srebrenik's owned a factory that made women's underwear, which he sold in a family store and to other retailers across the country.
Berenthal's father became the sole importer of General Motors cars, though on paper he was one of the country's biggest importers of meat, Berenthal says. It could take months for paperwork on imported cars to clear, but with the right payment to a government bureaucrat, those shipments could be reclassified as perishable meat and brought in right away.
Both families lost their businesses after the revolution. Srebrenik recalls militia men arriving at the family's shop with guns to take it over. Berenthal's father turned over the importing business – including the cars, the parts and the giant warehouse in central Havana – in exchange for permission to leave the country.
"We were merchants," Berenthal says. "Communism doesn't need merchants."
Both sets of parents were eventually able to leave Cuba, but not before each put their sons on airplanes alone, unsure of whether they'd see them again.
Different paths in U.S.
Srebrenik and Berenthal were both 16 when their parents got them out of the country – Srebrenik on the fake visa to Jamaica and Berenthal as a student via a program in the United States from which he never intended to return. He brought with him 20 boxes of Cuban cigars and sold them in Miami within a week.
"That's what got me started," he says.
Srebrenik got a green card from the U.S. embassy in Jamaica and a plane ticket from an aunt in the United States and landed in New York. He worked as a messenger for a freight company by day and attended high school in Brooklyn at night. He eventually studied business at Rutgers University, went to work for a textile company, then founded his own and moved it to Smithfield in 2009.
Berenthal moved to New York, too, studied math and physics at Long Island University and went to work for IBM. His career with the company brought him to Raleigh, where he started his own software business, which he sold in 1993.
Berenthal was a member at Raleigh's Beth Meyer Synagogue when he took his son and daughter to Havana as part of a religious mission in 2007. They had just returned when Srebrenik, in Raleigh to see his son, was visiting Beth Meyer and Rabbi Eric Solomon introduced him to Berenthal as a fellow Cuban. They did not recognize each other.
During another visit, Srebrenik was attending services at Beth Meyer during the High Holy Days and was wearing a yarmulke with American and Cuban flags that caught Berenthal's attention.
"He taps me on the shoulder and says 'Are you Cuban?' " Srebrenik says. "And the rabbi had to say 'Shhh' to him," ending the conversation.
Again, they didn't recognize each other.
There are a couple of reasons for that. In Cuba, Srebrenik had gone by his given name, Israel, but shed that in favor of Izzy after he moved to the United States. His last name was pronounced slightly differently in the United States too. And then there was the fact that the men did not look much like themselves as boys.
"Whatever weight he lost, I gained," Srebrenik says.
When Srebrenik moved to Smithfield and joined Beth Meyer, Berenthal and his wife and another couple took Srebrenik and his wife out to dinner. The two men established that they were the same age and attended the same elementary school.
Later that evening, Srebrenik came to Berenthal's house and brought along two copies of class photos from the school in Havana, from the second and third grades. Srebrenik pointed to himself in second grade, sitting in the second row. Berenthal then pointed to himself sitting just in front of him.
Not only did they finally recognize each other, but the other young faces in the photographs brought up names and memories of people they had not thought of in years. It was the beginning of a rekindled friendship that has grown stronger between two men who share similar life stories.
"It's been a beautiful relationship," said Solomon, the rabbi. "They've been there for each other. They act like brothers. They speak each other's language. It's very special."
'Help my people'
Solomon is going on the trip to Cuba with Berenthal and Srebrenik. Cuba loosened its restrictions on religion after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the Jewish community has grown, albeit slowly. There are only about 1,500 Jews left in the country, Berenthal says. There are no rabbis, and the synagogues are largely used as community centers.
"Jewbans," as Cubans in America call themselves, have enormous pride in their religion and their culture, Solomon says, but theirs remains one of the few Jewish communities in the world that is not totally free.
"We have a long Jewish tradition that when our people are in need, the Talmud says we're all responsible for one another," he said. "I want to see what I can do, a small piece, to help my people in need."
The Raleigh group will visit a couple of synagogues, but also churches, health centers, museums and Hemingway's house. They'll hear lectures on the Cuban economy, the arts, the health care system and marine biology.
Berenthal hopes to eventually arrange to bring some Cubans back to Raleigh, perhaps a young person to a Jewish summer camp, or another to learn the rites of bar mitzvah, the coming-of-age ceremony for boys.
"The intent is to bring some Cubans to our community, so it's a real people-to-people exchange, not just one way," he says.
For Berenthal and Srebrenik, the trip will also be personal. They'll see streets, neighborhoods and houses they remember from their childhood, as well as the school where many of their earliest memories were formed.
Srebrenik tells a story about staying after school one day to recite Jewish history in Yiddish for the principal (for practice, not as punishment) and becoming frustrated by the principal's interruptions to correct him. He stormed out of the room, left the building and climbed a mango tree just outside. He grabbed a mango and threw it through the open window, hoping to hit the desk or something else, "to get even with him."
Instead, the mango hit the principal in the head.
When Srebrenik finishes the story, Berenthal says, "That tree is still there." The old friends will see it together in May.


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During the past twenty years or so, the Republican establishment and the conservative base have operated pursuant to an unwritten accommodation. The Party nominates an establishment candidate who receives the base's support; the establishment nominee embraces all major positions of the conservative base.
Mitt Romney, for example, ran as a down-the-line conservative in 2012. Before he began seriously contemplating a run for the presidency, however, Romney was a moderate on key social issues. And it's unlikely that the real Romney held all of the hard-line views on illegal immigration that he articulated during the primary season. But having made himself into a down-the-line conservative, Romney received solid support from the base in the general election (and a decent amount of its support during the primaries).
Before the 2008 election season, John McCain had clashed with the conservative base on the Bush tax cuts and, most famously, immigration. Both were core issues for conservatives.
But during the campaign, McCain ran as an unabashed tax cutter. In addition, he backed away from comprehensive immigration reform, insisting that we "build the damn fence" before anything else happens.
The conservative base, though never fully buying into McCain, backed him in the general election (and never rallied solidly around an alternative during the primaries).
In 2000, George W. Bush ran as a traditional Reaganite conservative — solid on economic issues, national security, and social issues. Consequently, he received strong backing from conservatives in both the primaries and the general election.
To be sure, Bush grafted "compassionate conservatism" onto Reagan's three-legged stool. But during the campaign, he made conservatives understand his compassion to be embodied in things like "faith-based initiative" that didn't clash with the more straight forward conservatism. Only after Bush was elected did we come to understand that compassionate conservatism also meant new spending programs and amnesty for illegal aliens.
Flash forward to 2013, and we find that the defeat of McCain and Romney has made large chunks of the GOP establishment unhappy with the accommodation described above. They want a new arrangement in which the base continues to back establishment candidates, but these candidates are no longer required to take conservative positions across-the-board.
Different establishment types have different preferences as to which conservative stances shall be thrown overboard. Most seem to favor eliminating opposition to amnesty for illegal aliens. Many favor eliminating opposition to gay marriage. Some, having seen the Party accused of a war on women, would like to see a moderation regarding the issue of abortion.
We also hear calls for a less interventionist foreign policy and a more libertarian posture regarding the war on terror. They come mainly from outside the establishment, but so far the establishment as a whole hasn't pushed back very hard. Meanwhile, some establishment thinkers believe that conservatives are too obsessed with lowering tax rates for high-earners which, after all, pale in comparison to the ones Ronald Reagan attacked.
Naturally, the conservative base is no happier than the establishment about back-to-back defeats in presidential races to Barack Obama They too grumble about the accommodation. Many in the base would like to nominate non-establishment candidates — or at least candidates that don't resemble McCain or Romney — to uphold traditionally conservative positions.
The base may have the better of this argument, as long as it doesn't abandon common sense in its preference for presidential nominees. McCain and Romney indisputably were sub-optimal candidates. And in terms of issues, nearly all positions taken by Romney on the major ones in 2012 enjoyed, at a minimum, roughly plurality support among the electorate. This includes opposition to amnesty and to gay marriage (though this may not be true for long, or even as I write this). And I can't think of any position Romney took that was as unpopular as Obamacare.
Accordingly, there's a pretty good case that our main problem has been our candidates, not our issues.
Moreover, political parties are supposed to stand for something. They should always be quicker to think about nominating better candidates than about abandoning the principles for which they have long stood.
In the end, however, it doesn't make much different who has the better grievance — the establishment or the base. What matters is that each is thinking seriously about firing the other.
The result could be quite ugly. But maybe there's a candidate waiting in the wings who can bridge the gap.


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Kennedy confident Sox will start new sellout streak
HARTFORD, Conn. -- With or without a healthy David Ortiz, the Red Sox have 17 home games in a 21-day stretch in April. For the Red Sox's business chief, chief operating officer Sam Kennedy, those dates loom large.
"We need to get off to a good start," Kennedy said.
HARTFORD, Conn. -- With or without a healthy David Ortiz, the Red Sox have 17 home games in a 21-day stretch in April. For the Red Sox's business chief, chief operating officer Sam Kennedy, those dates loom large.
"We need to get off to a good start," Kennedy said.
Kennedy reaffirmed what Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said a month ago, that the streak of sold-out games at Fenway Park, which stands at 793, is expected to end in April -- perhaps as soon as the second home game of the season. That hasn't changed.
The team has characterized the run, which started on May 15, 2003, as "the longest regular-season sellout streak in the history of major league sports."
"Yeah, I think the likelihood is at some point in April, maybe as early as the second game of the season given that we're pacing behind season tickets. The renewals ... we're pacing about 10 percent behind," Kennedy said. "And given the disastrous 2011 and then the even more disastrous 2012, it's understandable and so we're realistic about it. We have always believed that the sellout streak was something that the fans set, it was their record. I know there was kind of a beef over definitions over the last couple years. And I understand that; when you see empty seats, how could the game be sold out?"
The Red Sox could theoretically distribute free tickets to boost attendance figures, but Kennedy said that's not something they would consider.
"Theoretically, you could if you had only 25,000 tickets sold for a game, you could distribute or comp another 12,000 tickets to get to the roughly 37,000 tickets to qualify [for a sellout]," Kennedy said. "But that's not something that we would do. We have actually the lowest complimentary ticket number, 600-700 a game, in all of baseball. So it's not something that we did or would do."
The streak's end is not something to be celebrated, Kennedy said, but he knows the product on the field drives ticket sales.
"We'll move on, we'll start a new one," Kennedy said. "The way to cure that is entertaining, winning, competitive baseball with a team that sort of proves it's worthy of fan support. I think people are in a wait-and-see mode right now."
The Red Sox's home opener is scheduled for 2:05 p.m. ET on April 8 against the Orioles. The second game of the series is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. on April 10.
"I actually think that having a full house, whether you agree with that definition of a sellout or not, a full house is so important to winning baseball," Kennedy said,. "And the players, I've worked in different markets -- New York, San Diego, Boston -- players know when the place is packed and it is a competitive advantage for our players. ... We need people to come to Fenway to support the team, not just for the revenues that it generates, that's obvious, but for the competitive advantage. Making it a loud, raucous atmosphere is what we want. So, no, I don't want to see the streak come to an end and see it go, but we're realistic and we just recognize that given our pace of sales it likely will come to an end."
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Basic math question... How to change the hydration in a starter?
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If I start with 150 grams of 100% starter, how do I build this to 450 grams of 70% hydration starter? The math escapes me. The problem is that the 70% figure isn't 70% of 450, but 70% of the total flour weight. However, how do I arrive at the total flour weight? It would seem a simple problem, but none of the figures I am coming up with work.
I know that 100% hydration starter is 50% flour and 50% water. A 70% hydration starter should be 42.8571% water (100/70). This doesn't work, however. Obviously, I am miscalculating.
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Generations of sailors have had their first ocean adventures launched at the Leeway Sailing Center.
The 1948 structure is a fixture on the peninsula, 5427 E. Ocean Blvd., facing Alamitos Bay, and it's the home base for training sessions.
In the near future, however, the city could get back on track in replacing the center with a new training facility.
The proposed plans include about 5,300 square feet of office space, classrooms, boat storage and restrooms, along with 3,200 square feet of decking.
The reason for the pending upgrades, according to planning officials, is that the Leeway Sailing Center has become "functionally obsolete and insufficient" to accommodate sailing rookies.
"The current storage space exposes boats and equipment to damaging sunlight and weather, and the classroom space is inadequate for current activities and class sizes," said Derek Burnham, Development Services planning administrator, in a recent staff report.
"In addition, the pier and decking are dilapidated … and do not meet seismic code requirements and are in need of renovation."
Officials in Public Works and Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine plan to demolish the Leeway Sailing Center, which they do not consider a historically significant structure.
The new structure is being tailored as a certified Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) Silver building, Burnham wrote.
Eric Lopez, Tidelands capital projects program manager, said the project will be submitted in the next couple of months. A projected price, he said, is about $3.2 million.
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When Bill Lorbeer speaks, people generally listen along Belmont Shore's Second Street retail and restaurant row.
As the veteran chairman of the Belmont Shore Parking and Business Improvement Area Advisory Commission – known simply as the Parking Commission – his views can have an impact on the smooth operations along Second.
At a recent meeting of the commission, Lorbeer shared some personal views about wanting to restore the firefighter services on Second.
The Fire Department took a Belmont Shore fire engine out of service on Jan. 2 due to budget reductions. Mike DuRee, chief of the Long Beach Fire Department, said removing a fifth engine to save another $2 million would not have been considered in a better fiscal environment.
"I don't want to minimize that, but this is going to have the least impact on the system," DuRee said.
Shuttering the engine will have a minimal effect on response times in the district's southeast area, including Naples Island, Alamitos Bay and Second Street and Pacific Coast Highway, DuRee said.
Station 8 will not close under the plan. A paramedic rescue ambulance will be relocated there from Station 14 near Colorado Lagoon.
Lorbeer shared some personal views on the situation, saying at a recent commission meeting that he would want DuRee's decision to be reconsidered.
He said that he owns lots of buildings in the area, adding that two fires during the past 15 years involved his property, including Legend's. The bar-grill was badly damaged in a June 2005 fire.
The quick response kept the fire from spreading to adjacent buildings, Lorbeer said Thursday.
"That short response time was very helpful," he said, adding that Legend's brick wall also kept the blaze contained.
Lorbeer said he understands the city's budget woes and has no plan to attempt to reverse City Hall decision.
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Just As Valve Shows That You Can Compete With Piracy In Russia, Russia Starts Cracking Down On Piracy
from the so-that's-how-it-works deptBill Bliss was the first of a whole bunch of you to write in with a version on the story of how Valve has continued to show how to compete with free. This alone, isn't new. We've been covering these kinds of stories concerning Valve and its CEO, Gabe Newell, for years. There's a lot in this latest talk by Newell that repeats what he's said for years, but there are also some new experiments in there as well. Such as the following:
Newell: The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates. For example, Russia. You say, oh, we're going to enter Russia, people say, you're doomed, they'll pirate everything in Russia. Russia now outside of Germany is our largest continental European market.Now that's doubly interesting, because at the same time as we got this story, we also got another submission (anonymously) about how Russia has finally started cracking down on infringement by arresting a Russian couple who was caught distributing movies online. Assuming they're guilty, they certainly don't deserve any sympathy, but it does seem intriguing to see these two stories juxtaposed.
Ed Fries: That's incredible. That's in dollars?
Newell: That's in dollars, yes. Whenever I talk about how much money we make it's always dollar-denominated. All of our products are sold in local currency. But the point was, the people who are telling you that Russians pirate everything are the people who wait six months to localize their product into Russia. … So that, as far as we're concerned, is asked and answered. It doesn't take much in terms of providing a better service to make pirates a non-issue.
The entertainment industry has been pushing hard for Russia to crack down on infringement, insisting that there's no way they can make money in the Russian market. And yet, Valve is proving that's false. It's just that these other companies are incompetent, don't know how to adapt, and don't know how to provide a good service. If you do that, you can make a ton of money even if the products are available in unauthorized ways.
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Francis M. Maaz, 94, died June 15, 2012. He was the husband of the late Marguerite (Glidden) Maaz.
Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, a son of the late Francis H. and Annie T. (Moran) Maaz, he had been a resident of Warwick since 1953. Mr. Maaz was employed by Aetna Insurance for 28 years and retired as a Claims Examiner in 1980. A World War II Army Air Corps veteran, he served in the Asiatic Pacific Theater. He received his undergraduate degree from Holy Cross in 1940, and his Juris Doctor from Boston University Law School. Prior to World War II, he held a private pilot's license. He was active with Babe Ruth Baseball and the Boy Scouts of America for many years.
He leaves two sons, Francis G. Maaz and Stephen C. Maaz, both of Warwick. He was the grandfather of Geoffrey, Joshua, Jonathan Maaz and Jamie-Lyn Maaz-Ricci; great grandfather of Alexia Maaz.
His funeral will be held Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at 8 a.m. from the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Home, 2435 Warwick Ave. with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9 a.m. in St. Clement Church, Long St. Burial with military honors in the Rhode Island Veterans' Cemetery, Exeter. Visiting hours Monday 5-8 p.m.
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Walking for Food – geopoetics
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Over the last month, while ima Meg recuperates from long nights of breast feeding, Woody, Zero, (sometimes Zeph) and I, dada, have gone out walking every morning noting all the free public food in our local commons.
We and our thrown together clipboard have seen cold, windy, dry, warm and joyous mornings this spring and today, adding a few last finds, we finally got rain. Ah, the joys of being car free!
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Yes, the map is not the territory but it has been a useful project to see just how much food is available that is autonomous and not reliant on agriculture's heavy-footed resources and processes.
Over the past several years we have kept a mental note of certain trees and plants, but carrying out this exercise has made us even more aware of the autonomous floras – indigenous and newly naturalised – that are building mutual relations. It is common, for example, to see elderberries parking themselves under blackwood wattles on the fringes of town.
Blackwoods are themselves companion plants to eucalypts. Hawthorns, which are now habitat for ring-tail possums and their berries are a preferred food for gang gangs, proliferate in these new ecologies alongside blackberries and oaks and a host of other plants, longtime or newly naturalised.
I wonder if we, newly arrived creatures, are making or looking for such mutualistic relationships. It seems while we are still dependent on conventional farming practices we are still aliens of place, extractors and miners, not those that engage in the generative and relational.


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Man, where does the time go. I can't believe it's already been another week. Frequent visitors to my blog will have noticed it's been unusually quiet this week, will probably be a little concerned about my health. Have no fear, I'm as healthy as an ox, in roughly the same shape, and probably nearly as rational. I've just been making my noise and mess on some other blogs. That and working two jobs. I know, I know, the world's smallest violin is playing just for me.
Here's what I've been up to. Earlier this week, I reviewed the Joya De Nicaragua Celebracion Consul for my buddy Stinkie on CigarBeat. I don't wanna spoil it for you, but a nearly impervious draw kinda spoiled it for me. And then on the Stogie Review, I continued my video boycott with a text and photo-heavy review of the pre-release CAO America Potomac. Judging by the overwhelmingly positive response to the review, it's definitely one you want to check out. But be sure to come back here, because you're gonna want in what's coming up a bit later in this post. And of course, these reviews will be added to my cigar review index to make sure they're always easy to track down.
If you're in the Atlanta area (or anywhere in the south with the desire for a cigar and a road trip), you should join me and a bunch of the guys from the area and the CigarLive forum for the herf at Blue Havana II in Alpharetta, GA. (
It looks like his site might be down at the moment, but it's there! [UPDATE: Link updated!]) It's happening this Saturday starting at 6:00pm and going until Jim gets tired of all of us and kicks us out of his shop! For more information, check out the official thread on CigarLive. I'll be there, and if you're really nice (we're talking serious brown-nosing, here) I might let you have one of my Gran Habano Corojo #5's. Trust me, it's worth that dirty feeling you'll have inside. 😉
To get things humming again on this blog, I'm starting up another giveaway contest! The last one was so much fun (and generated so much traffic, I won't kid ya), that I've decided to do it again. But this time, I'm giving away two (2, count 'em, 2) pre-release CAO America Potomacs!
Why do I keep mentioning "pre-release", you ask? The reason is that it's been pointed out to me by one of my CAO friends that these won't be available for around 2 months! That doesn't mean they're still rollin' 'em like mad (though they might be), it means that the supply is sitting in a warehouse getting some age, which is generally a good thing.
The CAO America Potomac Giveaway rules:
- You are allowed two entries to this giveaway. Please note you must be 18 or older to enter. (Sorry, I don't make the laws, I just try to follow them!)
- Your first entry is commenting on this post. Please include the text in your comment "I am 18 or older."
- You may enter a second time by posting a link to this contest on your blog that pingback/trackbacks to this post.
- The winner will be drawn on September 2nd, 2007. (Or shortly after. Or whenever entries slow down enough that making everyone wait becomes a pointless exercise. Totally my discretion here.)
Oh but wait, I'm not finished yet. Well, I am, but Stinkie over at CigarBeat isn't! He's got two (again, count 'em, 2) giveaways running on his cigar blog and forum. So this week, you've got an excellent chance to really cash in on the generosity of the Brothers of the Leaf (BOTL for short).
Stinkie's Giveaways
- A subscription to cigar aficionado.
- An Oliva Serie V double robusto. (If you missed it before, you have another shot!)
[UPDATE: And now Cigar Jack is in the action, and he's giving away not one, not two, but six (6!) Arganese cigars to some undisclosed number of lucky commenters! Head over now, and enter, the odds are great!]
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MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - One of the largest contemporary art fairs in the world kicked off on Thursday, with the 11th annual Art Basel Miami Beach drawing celebrities, art-gawkers and some of the world's top galleries.
The four-day fair is credited with helping transform Miami's image from one of weekend beach frivolity to an emerging mecca for the performing and visual arts.
An estimated 50,000 visitors flocked to the fair in 2011, according to the city's tourism promotion agency, and more are expected this year with hotels 90 percent sold out and rooms going for more than $1,000 a night.
"Prior to Art Basel we had eight galleries. We now have over 140 in Miami-Dade County," said Norman Braman, a billionaire car dealership mogul and chair of the local committee that works with the fair's organizers.
Art Basel Miami Beach was launched in 2002 to expand the reach of a proven North American art market and seize on Miami's position as a gateway to the emerging market in Latin America, said Marc Spiegler, director of MCH Swiss Exhibition Ltd, which owns and operates Art Basel fairs in Miami, Switzerland and Hong Kong.
"Everyone assumed Latin America was going to develop and everyone felt it was opening up toward international art in the same way we now see the Asian collector base," he said.
Since 2002 the fair has expanded to include a host of satellite art fairs, spilling over into other, less fashionable areas of greater Miami.
"What Art Basel has promoted is a whole series of other fairs ... and those fairs have actually served as meeting points for artist, dealers, galleries and collectors," said Axel Stein, head of Sotheby's Latin American art department.
"Art Basel has been that magnet that has put together all of these people in the same room."
Civic leaders point to Art Basel as a sign of how the area has sought to cast off its reputation as a cultural wasteland, led by a growing philanthropic community, including some major art collectors.
In the early 2000s a public-private partnership built the half-billion dollar Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, lauded as the start of downtown Miami's cultural renaissance. Today work is underway on a more than $200 million bay front art museum designed by the Swiss firm of Herzog & de Meuron, which will open next year.
On Miami Beach, a state-of-the-art hall for Miami's New World Symphony, designed by California architect Frank Gehry, opened to national acclaim in 2011.
During the rest of the year when Art Basel isn't in town, a growing movement of artists, restaurateurs and nightlife impresarios has transformed Wynwood, once a blighted neighborhood, into a vibrant scene, decorated with murals by celebrated graffiti artists Shepard Fairey and Banksy.
This year more than 1,000 galleries applied to be at Art Basel and 260 were selected, organizers say. Those that are not accepted, vie for space in the satellite fairs, such as the New Art Dealer's Alliance, which Spiegler said serves as "proving ground" for emerging galleries and artists from around the world.
At the exhibiting galleries, prices range from a few hundred dollars at smaller fairs to the tens of millions at the main event, Art Basel Miami Beach, where it's not uncommon to find works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. The fair never releases total sales, but estimates last year put the total value of work on display at Art Basel between $2 billion and $3 billion.
Galleries reported busy early sales this year with prices varying from $80,000 up to $4 million for one work by German abstract artist Gerhard Richter, according to The Miami Herald. The Galerie Thomas from Germany sold a painting, "Les deux femmes a l'oiseau" (Two women with a bird) by French artist Fernand Léger for $1.6 million.
The fair is also a forum for banks and other companies to court high-net worth individuals and families. Swiss bank UBS AG has been the main sponsor since the fair was launched.
Others include NetJets, a private jet-sharing company owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, luxury automaker BMW and cigar maker Davidoff.
New York gallery Wallspace has shown work at the fair for the past five years. Director Jane Hait said it's a chance to see far flung colleagues and collectors, and develop relationships with potential clients.
Wallspace had to scale back its plans for big client dinners at Art Basel this year as it was one of the galleries in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood that sustained massive damage from Hurricane Sandy in October.
"All of the galleries on our block have basement storage space which was completely submerged," Hait said. "We had about six-and-a-half feet of water in our basement that came through the building."
She estimated nearly $1 million of damage, yet the disaster and recovery effort didn't derail plans to show in Miami.
"If we go to a fair and meet a couple of interesting smart new clients who we don't already know, that's a success," Hait added.
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Each month Panoramio hosts a contest for the members of our photo community. The aim of the contest is to have fun with the proposed categories and to get a challenge in your photo excursions.
The contest had historically 4 categories, and starting this year we changed the process to offer new categories each month. We have also made some changes in the Site, like the new Landing page, that allow us to sponsor the best photos of the contest directly in Panoramio.
This month we have changed the prizes so the contest is even more attractive. The contest will have 5 runner-up that will have their photos sponsored in the landing page, and a first and a second prize that can win (conditions apply) the following prizes:
First Prize: Sony NEX-7 Interchangeable lens digital camera
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Contest Winners page so the best photos from the contest are very nicely displayed!
Check out this month's categories and try your best. You may also want to join the community to decide which photo gets more votes. In that case, visit the voting page and choose the ones you like the most.
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By his count, Memphis federal court Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays is on his fourth third-party motion in a year-and-a-half-old court case involving the reformation of public education in Shelby County.
It began as a lawsuit filed by Shelby County Schools in February 2011 to stop the next month's citywide referendum on a schools merger and plans by the Shelby County Commission to appoint a new countywide school board. The case is now about the reaction to that coming merger – the establishment of municipal school districts in the six suburban towns and cities in Shelby County.
Mays will have six population maps from Carroll and Gibson counties by Thursday, Oct. 4, that will give him all of the material all sides in the case believe he needs to decide one part of the municipal school districts question.
That is a claim by the Shelby County Commission that the Tennessee laws enacted by the Tennessee Legislature in 2011 and 2012 on municipal school districts violate the Tennessee Constitution. The County Commission claims the laws on municipal school districts were written to apply only to Shelby County and violate standards in the state constitution for general laws.
Attorneys for the suburbs argued in the most detailed and complex chapter of the case so far that the laws could "reasonably" be applied to other counties and their school systems.
Mays heard all of the proof in that part of the case over three days last month.
The second part of the federal court case on municipal school districts will go to trial Jan. 3, according to a new roadmap for the other part of the case Mays and the attorneys worked out Thursday, Sept. 27, in his courtroom.
That part deals with claims by the Shelby County Commission that the establishment of the municipal school districts is a violation of the U.S. Constitution because the suburban school districts would, in part, promote racial segregation of the county's school-age population.
Suburban leaders have vocally denied the claim in court and out of court.
The non-jury trial was originally to go to trial Nov. 6. But when arguments and motions on the Tennessee constitutional issues went long earlier in September, Mays quickly realized the November trial date on the federal issues wasn't possible.
"It's like a family reunion," Mays said last week as he took the bench. "Who brought the turkey?"
Later he said the coming Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays aren't a barrier to hearing the case as far as he is concerned.
"Bring the kids and really celebrate," he said. "It doesn't bother me to try it Christmas week. I've actually tried one on Christmas day."
But the trial date ultimately got pushed into January as attorneys contemplated the pre-trial preparations needed in advance of a trial that Mays has said several times is the equivalent in complexity to a 1960s- and 1970s-era schools desegregation case.
The claim of racial segregation comes with numerous expert witnesses to be deposed and who might also testify during a hearing both sides estimate will take eight to 10 days.
Mays has given no indication when he might rule on the first or the second parts of the case.
Shelby County's two public school systems merge in August 2013. At the start of the same school year, suburban leaders plan to open their municipal school districts.
As the attorneys on all sides are filing motions, briefs and responses, and getting discovery material, voters in the six suburban communities will be electing municipal school boards on the Nov. 6 ballot. And the boards will then move to appoint superintendents for each of the school districts by the end of 2012.
Meanwhile, the countywide school board is about to start debating and voting on 172 recommendations from the consolidation planning commission on the transition to the merger and the structure of the school system and its operations from the merger date moving forward.
Those directly involved in the separate planning efforts are moving ahead assuming they are working toward an August 2013 opening. But leaders of both efforts are acutely aware that Mays' ruling on both parts of the current third-party motions will figure prominently in what actually happens at the start of the next school year.
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Ford F-150 5-inch Lifts
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by Ken Horner
It takes less than 10 seconds for a woman walking by the small aisles of cough syrup, Tylenol and multivitamins to hear a man call out from behind the counter.
"How're you doing today, Vivian? Your prescription's all ready."
As Vivian gets ready to pay for her medicine, she adds a bag of Swedish fish to her purchase. Fred Weissberger, Chestnut Hill Pharmacy's newest employee, jokes that she better hide the candied red fish from her husband, and both share a laugh before saying their goodbyes.
Although Weissberger, 67, only began his job at the Chestnut Hill Pharmacy, 8030 Germantown Ave., on July 25, he is no stranger to life and business on the Hill.
"I really haven't left the block," the bespectacled Weissberger, who boasts 42 years of pharmacy experience, said. "The only difference is now I have to cross the street."
Weissberger, a registered pharmacist and resident of nearby Flourtown, has been a prominent figure in local, independent pharmacies in Chestnut Hill since his days at the now defunct C. N. Reese Pharmacist and Reese Pharmacy, both of which stood on the opposite side of Germantown Avenue from Chestnut Hill Pharmacy's current location.
Following a recent two-year stint, working at an independent pharmacy in King of Prussia that has since closed, Weissberger decided to return to the roots of his pharmacy career.
And by the sound of it, the transition back to the Hill hasn't required any headache medicine.
"I've only been here four days, but I know 50 percent of the people who walk in, which makes life a whole lot easier," Weissberger said.
Although the pharmacist might be older now, joking that his loss of hair could easily give that fact away, you can't tell by his youthful enthusiasm when he stresses the importance of local pharmacies and independent businesses, especially those in Chestnut Hill.
"We're here," Weissberger said. "We're local. Our help is local, and we're active in the community."
He made it known that local establishments like Chestnut Hill Pharmacy are just as competitive as chain stores, claiming that customers can receive their prescriptions at exactly the same price if they are insured and can get a comparable and competitive price if paying without it.
For Weissberger, it comes down to a few factors and a simple question: "What's your time worth?"
"That's what is great about Chestnut Hill," Weissberger said. "When you don't have to get into your car, that's great. You can walk or hop on a bike to come here, and while you might spend a little more, you need to think about what it would cost to drive a car somewhere else."
He said the strongest principle powering local pharmacies was "the personal touch."
"Customers can get good personal service," he said. "You're a part of the neighborhood. You know most of the people after a while. You have name recognition with the people. If the customer needs counseling, you offer it."
Weissberger even admitted to giving his home phone number to customers in case of emergencies or situations where they need his advice – grinning as he reported that the privilege, thankfully, has never been abused by those who call.
Although it isn't difficult to see that Weissberger is extremely knowledgeable in dealing with a specific and local clientele, it has been a long road for him to get to this point.
Weissberger began his career as a 20-something at C. N. Reese Pharmacist, where he spent six years – one as a student and the next five as a registered pharmacist. He then transferred his skills up the Avenue to Reese Pharmacy where he split 36 years as owner, part-owner and staff pharmacist.
After 16 years as owner of Reese Pharmacy, Weissberger sold the pharmacy to two men who in his eyes never could grasp what it takes to maintain a local business.
"The new owners never got active in the community," Weissberger said. "They had no concept of the area and never realized that each area is different and should be treated that way. When you don't cater to people, you lose them."
If you catch Weissberger peering across the street at 8039 Germantown Ave., the former home of Reese Pharmacy where now stands the two-story office of Elfant Wissahickon Realtors, it is easy to sense in him a tinge of annoyance – not exactly at what happened during his final days at Reese, but at what he knew the residents of Chestnut Hill would be missing when the local pharmacy closed.
While he is modest about his role as a community figure, chalking it up mostly to duty, it was clear that he had been missed by residents when he left in 2008.
In a letter to the Local published in May 2008, Dr. Chester E. Smith summed up the sentiments of the Hill community: "Fred is the finest example of human compassion and kindness. He is the epitome of what a pharmacist should be. What we as a community will miss along with his pharmaceutical expertise is his caring spirit, honesty and consistent humor."
The pharmacist may have been offering his services in a different ZIP code, but he claims to never really have been away.
"I kept in touch with the people in the area," said Weissberger, who remained active in the surrounding community, continuing to serve as a member of Chestnut Hill Hospital's Patient Safety Committee and to run a Special Olympics swimming program at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School.
When Chestnut Hill Pharmacy opened its doors this past November, Weissberger made it a point to keep in contact with owner Mark Lawson, R.Ph., in case a need or opportunity presented itself for his return, which it eventually did.
Now, Weissberger, who lives with his wife, Myra, and son Brett, appears as happy and content as ever to be back in Chestnut Hill – with no clue about a possible retirement at any point in the future showing through his smile.
"As long as I feel capable and I can contribute to what I'm doing, and I'm still able to work for an independent, I'll still keep working."


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- Release Date of film : 2013-10-18
- Original title : 12 Years a Slave
- Tagline : The extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup
- Movie Genre : Drama, History,
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- Vote Count : 210
- Duration of movie : 134
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The first cut might be the deepest, but the second, third, fourth and fifth cuts on the semifinal elimination show of "The Voice," narrowing down the field from nine singers to four ahead of next week's finale, were brutal.
The hour-long results show got a format shakeup on Tuesday night as three singers were immediately sent to the finals, three performed for the Instant Save and three were immediately eliminated. While the show also featured performances from former Team Blake winner Cassadee Pope and guest mentor/full-time legend Dolly Parton, the three singers who performed for the Instant Save and in the finals were the real focus of the show.
The three singers who were sent immediately to safety were Team Adam's Jordan Smith and Team Blake's Emily Ann Roberts and Barrett Baber. The three singing for a spot in the finals were Team Gwen's Jeffery Austin, Team Pharrell's Madi Davis and Team Blake's Zach Sebaugh, while Team Gwen's Braiden Sunshine and Team Adam's Shelby Brown and Amy Vachal got the boot right away.
Sebaugh took on Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying," Davis sang Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over," and Austin crooned Ed Sheeran's "Make It Rain."
But ultimately, it was Austin who won over the viewers on Twitter, sending Gwen Stefani's Chicago native to compete against Blake Shelton and Adam Levine's frontronners in the last week of competition and knocking coach Pharrell Williams out of the competition completely.
That means four singers are left:
Team Adam
Jordan Smith
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Emily Ann Roberts
Barrett Baber
Team Gwen
Jeffery Austin
Smith had another reason to celebrate. His version of the Queen classic, "Somebody to Love," was so popular with fans that he knocked Adele out of the number one spot on the iTunes Charts, claiming the top spot for himself.
"The Voice" season nine winner will be crowned on Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.
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Apple just had the most profitable year of any company ever.
And yet, after record earnings in Q4, investors are displeased.
The reason: Apple's growth has slowed down as it reached this summit, and stock prices are a prediction of where things are going, not where they are.
It helps to visualize Apple's predicament to understand it.
Every time Apple posts its earnings, Dan Frommer of Splat-F always makes awesome charts about them.
Here are those charts, annotated to show how Apple's growth is stalling and therefore why investors are feeling negatively about the stock.


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A winner was selected from 133 designs submitted by 42 freelance designers.
We have a logo designed by ourselves, but it doesn't look as professional as we like. We love the concept and colors, but wish it looked polished. We're aiming for it to portray fun and stylish.
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We want an updated, grown up version of our current logo, which can be seen at our web home cirasphotography.com We are a husband and wife photography pairing who want to portray a fun, high-end, unique product to our clients. Our clients are primarily women, and we're mid-range in price. We'd like the logo to help us reach our goal of booking more high-end weddings and project a fun and stylish image.
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Order in the Senate! Single-Payer Advocates Disrupt Hearing - Health Blog - WSJ
Advocates of single-payer health care are getting feisty!You know, I'm sympathetic to these guys, I really am. And I think they represent a useful voice on the left to keep the politicians from hewing completely to the center-right. But this is just dumb, and not helpful.
Eight of them caused a scene at the start of a health-care hearing of the Senate Finance Committee today, getting up one by one and complaining that nobody who shared their view was getting a voice, as Dow Jones Newswires describes it. They were able to continue their interruptions because they were staggered throughout the room. Just as one was escorted out by the police, another would chime in.
This goes back to my earlier post today about irrelevance, and being able and willing to make compromises. Inflexible zealotry and dogmatism don't get much accomplished. A superficial surveillance of the political landscape today shows that if Single Payer is your thing, then you've already lost. There's no support for it, and even active antipathy towards it from your ideological allies, never mind your enemies. Being louder and more obnoxious does not advance your cause, and if anything, it further marginalizes you as an unserious participant in the negotiations.
A better strategy would be for PNHP to pivot to full-throated advocacy for a robust public option plan with built-in advantages over private insurance. Not my preference, BTW, but an achievable political goal in line with their ideological principles. But these idiots squander their standing and their political muscle, such as it is, by insisting on the impossible.


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Color me disgusted. I thought I lost all respect for Kirk Cameron back when the newly born-again sitcom star had a big moral hissy fit about his co-star Julie McCullough's past as a Playboy centerfold and got her fired from Growing Pains. But after the incredibly offensive, self-righteous comments Cameron made to Piers Morgan last night, I somehow lost even more respect for him. His respect account is overdrawn, let's put it that way.
Look, it's not like I was surprised to hear the former Mike Seaver say he doesn't support gay marriage. Not after the whole Playboy thing. But what he said about homosexuality in general was shockingly intolerant, even for him. Cameron told Morgan:
"I think that it's ... unnatural. I think that it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization."
Yeah. He really said that. Out loud and everything.
Honestly, there are so many things wrong with Cameron's statement I don't even know where to start. Like, I'm starting to wonder if maybe there was some sort of accident at some point, like a serious head trauma kind of thing, that made him go completely frickin' insane. Tell you the truth, I almost hope that's the case, because if he's not brain damaged, then there's no excuse.
The folks at GLAAD were predictably horrified by Cameron's words (they said he "sounds even more dated than his 1980's TV character," HA!) and plan on making sure the news/entertainment industries are made very aware of his homophobic views.
With any luck, their efforts will completely destroy the pathetic remains of Cameron's once-booming career.
After watching this clip, how do you feel about Kirk Cameron?
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