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Craigworld1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 193 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
Coastal Security Group
We are having an identity crisis! (for obvious reasons) We are known as Coastal Security Group, Coastal Solutions Group and Superior Security LLC. We are now pulling all the companies together under one name Coastal Security Group. We are in the residential and commercial security business. We have a 25 year+ history in the business. We are taking our company national due to our success. We are leaders in the industry based on our commitment to new technology. We compete with companies such as ADT and Brinks.
Home owners, business owners, manufacturing plants, schools, churches and hospitals. Any one in need of intrusion alarms, smoke and fire alarms, as well as, access control i.e. keyless entry.
A new corporate identity that starts with a logo, that is your job. Later we will ask you to provide a business card and letterhead layout. We are updating an old out dated logo. We are looking for a identity that reads: Security! Established! as well as Hip, Current and technology. We are a company who leads the industry because we invest in the latest technology. So think technology. We compete with ADT and Brinks and are now taking our company national.
It needs to be a quick read, think security yard signs or window stickers that you see on someone's front lawn or on in the window of a store front. Additionally, imagine the quick read on an embroider shirt of one our service tech crew.
There are some in our company that believe we should carry the continuity of the "lighthouse" from our old logo into our new corporate identity. We are looking for fresh ideas and concepts first and then you should probably include some with the lighthouse and we would see that as a definite plus... but not required. I guess you could say we would like to look at both. If you bring the lighthouse into our new identity please give the lighthouse and updated look.
Your work will be seen in print, web and broadcast! This project would be a nice addition to your portfolio... Good Luck!
UPDATE!!!! After seeing several entries we are starting to think that maybe the three initials of the company are holding some of you back. So think about this: you could create an icon with just the "C" and the "G" and then read under it Coastal Security Group" ! Just trying to give you more ways to be creative. Hope this helps
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Kidz Go New Zealand
Family guide to New Zealand. What to do, where to eat, family friendly accommodation, rainy days, skiing with kids and more, all with children friendly focus.
Kidz Go New Zealand is a guide to your holiday for and with kids. If you're travelling as a family this provides all you need to know...child friendly restaurants, at a glance activity age guide, childminding services, family accommodation, special events, skiing and kids' ski lessons, gear hire, shops, family walks etc. Also packed with local information, birthday parties,nanny services and more. Magazine for the Southern Lakes also available free via kidzgo.co.nz or throughout Queenstown, Wanaka and Fiordland.
Adresse postale
Kidz Go New Zealand, PO Box 668, Queenstown, Central Queenstown, Queenstown, New Zealand.

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Liberty News
Students, alumni invited to CPAC in Washington, D.C.
A large number of Liberty University students took a stand for their conservative beliefs during election season — and now LU is encouraging everyone to stay involved by attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
CPAC is the largest annual gathering of conservative students, activists and policymakers in the United States. Slated for Feb. 26-28, this year's conference is expected to draw numerous high-profile conservatives, such as recent vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Past events have attracted leaders such as John McCain, George W. Bush, Mike Huckabee and Dick Cheney.
"Now more than ever, it's important with having a shift in the country's leadership, to be involved in the conservative movement and aware of how changes can be made," said Melissa Small, LU's director of marketing and alumni relations. "The students will have the opportunity to hear from conservative political figures."
Liberty University is rolling out the welcome mat at CPAC by hosting its own reception for LU students, alumni and friends during the conference. Even if you're not attending CPAC, you're welcome to stop by the Empire Ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel on Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. to reunite with the LU family and enjoy light refreshments.
In addition, LU is hosting CPAC information meetings for students prior to the event. Check out the first meeting on Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. in DeMoss 1113 and learn more about making CPAC an affordable, high-impact trip.
Small said the university is organizing a caravan and excusing students from their classes to attend CPAC.
In the past few years, LU has been noted for its high number of student attendees. Last year 141 students and 26 faculty and staff attended, but countless more individuals came as interns or stopped by the LU reception. On a broader scale, CPAC 2008 had a total attendance of 7,000 — and 3,500 of those faces were college students from across the nation.
Alumni who are interested in attending the LU reception at CPAC may RSVP or forward any questions to Senior Alumni Relations Officer Mark Watkins at firstname.lastname@example.com. Students seeking more information about CPAC may email the Student Alumni Association at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Howard and Janet Stubbins' Orange Pearl
Howard Stubbins relationship with all things four-wheeled started at the tender age of 10 when he went to work with his father at his service station and garage. His first car, a 1938 Chevy coupe, was purchased a few years later when Howard turned 15. It wouldn't be until he married his wife Janet that he'd purchase his first new car, a 1968 Chevy C20 pickup truck. Powered by a 392ci big-block Chevy engine, they eventually handed down the keys to their son Mark.
It wasn't long before Howard and Janet realized they needed a 1968 of their own. Luckily, Howard knew of a truck that had been in a state of constant upgrade and the owner, wanting to expand his business, would probably be motivated to sell. Originally a six-cylinder truck upgraded with a 305ci V-8, Howard had always told the owner that what it really needed was a big-block Chevy. At the time he never thought he'd be the one to make good on his own advice, but before they knew it, the Stubbins were hauling the C10 over to Hot Rods & Hobbies in nearby Signal Hill, California, where it would stay for the entirety of the build.
Scott Bonowski and his crew wasted no time tearing the truck down to the bare frame, while creating a game plan with Howard. Naturally, plans called for big-block Chevy power, along with the necessary suspension modifications to get the truck to handle, stop, and steer better than stock. For that end, the guys decided to retain the stock chassis, boxed, C-notched, and modified with a custom crossmember built to accept the modified trailing arms that locate the Chevy rearend. Packed with 3.73 gears, that Chevy axle hangs by a pair of JRI coilover shocks and provides stopping power via 13-inch Baer disc brakes. Up front, modified stock control arms add extra strength to drop spindles and lowered coil springs, tamed by a pair of 5-inch-travel shocks with roll control governed by a beefy sway bar. Baer 13-inch disc brakes match the stopping power put down out back, powered by a dual piston remote hydroboost master cylinder. Steering duties are handled by a 605 power box mated to a Chevy van tilt column topped by a Billet Specialties steering wheel. The entire chassis was then detailed nose to tail before being sat on a custom-sized set of 18-inch Budnik Famoso wheels wrapped in Bridgestone Potenza tires, 265/40R18s up front and 275/45R18s out back.
True to his word, when it came time to replace the tired V-8, Howard set his sights on one of Chevrolet Performance Parts' biggest and baddest offerings—a Ram Jet ZZ502. With forged internals, a hydraulic roller cam, aluminum heads, and that unmistakable Ram Jet intake manifold, Howard's truck has no problem getting from here to there in a hurry! Scott and his crew gave the motor the true Hot Rods & Hobbies treatment, detailing every square inch of the big-block, massaging the intake and block before bolting on the Vintage Air Front Runner accessory drive system, D.A.H. Works headers, and Clay Cook Custom valve covers. The 500-plus horsepower monster was then mated to a TH-400 trans coupled with a Gear Vendors under/overdrive unit and breathes through a stainless D.A.H. Works 3½-inch exhaust system with Flowmaster mufflers.
Turning his attention to the sheetmetal of the truck, Scott and his crew proceeded to tick off a laundry list of modifications. The driprails around the roof of the cab were removed, along with the seam above the rear window that runs from door to door. The roof skin was also lowered a ½ inch to create a sleeker roofline. One-piece windows from One Piece Products and flush-mounted rear glass also complement the redesigned cab, while the shaved door handles, cowl, and firewall further enhance the truck's smooth lines. Scott also removed and smoothed the void where the side marker lights once sat as well creating a rolled pan, front and rear, in lieu of the stock bumpers. The turn signals in the front grille were also removed, as was the Bowtie emblem and "Chevrolet" lettering across the hood. The tailgate received a similar treatment with the removal of the embossed marque replaced by a smooth panel. Once the myriad of modifications were complete, Scott blocked the truck to perfection and then brought it into his booth where he applied the PPG three-stage Pearl Orange paint. Dennis Rickleffs was then brought in to further enhance the truck with a little beltline pinstriping.
Inside the cab, which was painted to match the cappuccino leather upholstery stitched up by Sid Chavers, Scott modified a spare glovebox door to accept a sextet of Classic Instruments gauges. A Vintage Air climate control system was installed behind the dash, complete with hideaway vents to keep things sanitary. A Pioneer audio system ensures the ride sounds as good as it looks, tied to the rest of the truck via Painless Performance wiring harness. The modified stock bench seat was reworked by Sid Chavers before being wrapped in the aforementioned leather to match the door panels. Wilton Wool carpet and Ultrasuede cover what leather does not.
The long-awaited completion of Howard's truck was perhaps a bittersweet moment, as both he and Scott enjoyed the experience of planning and executing such a build, from start to finish. Staying true to the original plan being one of the most challenging aspects of any build, it was especially so for the Stubbins' build. New products would come on the market and it was difficult to not want to incorporate each and every piece in order to build what they thought would be the ultimate truck. At the end of the day, perseverance paid off with what we think is one incredible C10.


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The state vs. jokes
State Security bans Kifaya leader from holding seminar on jokes:
In a serious precedent that reveals the Egyptian regime's tightening grip on freedom of expression against intellectuals, the security forces canceled a seminar held by Dr. Abdul Wahab Al Meseiri about "the analysis of jokes".Incidentally, al-Messiri is a linguist and his seminar would not have been, in all likelihood, that political. But since he can't talk about jokes in public, I'll reproduce below one I received by email this morning:
Attendants at Saqiet Abdul Moneim el-Sawi [a cultural center], Zamalek, were informed that a seminar on "classifying and analyzing jokes" by the noted intellectual Dr. Abdul Wahab Al Meseiri, the general coordinator of Kifaya Movement, scheduled on Sunday evening, was cancelled.
The Saqiet officials said that the seminar was canceled because Dr. Abdul Wahab Al Meseiri felt ill; however, Dr. Al Meseiri, arrived suddenly and informed them that the state security phoned him on Saturday and told him that it, the state security service, canceled the seminar, but he insisted on coming so that every one knows that the reason for canceling the seminar isn't his ill health but the state security police that controls every thing in Egypt.
Hosni Mubarak goes to a primary school to talk to the kids. After his talk he offers question time.
One little boy puts up his hand and Mubarak asks, "what is your question, Ramy?"
Ramy says, "I have 4 questions:
First: Why have you been a president for 25 years?
Second: Why don't you have a vice-president?
Third: Why are your sons taking over the country economically and politically?
Fourth: Why is Egypt in a miserable economic state and you're not doing anything about it?"
Just at that moment, the bell rings for break. Mubarak informs the kids that they will continue after the break.
When they resume Mubarak says, "OK, where were we? Oh! Thats right...question time. Who has a question?"
A different little boy puts up his hand. Mubarak points him out and asks him what his name is.
"Tamer," the boy says.
"And what is your question, Tamer?"
"I have six questions:
First: Why have you been president for 25 years?
Second: Why don't you have a vice-president?
Third: Why are your sons taking over the country economically and politically?
Fourth: Why is Egypt in a miserable economic state and you're not doing anything about it?
Fifth: Why did the bell ring 20 minutes early?


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Your Care in Our Hands
Caldwell Grange is a superb example of a modern, purpose built care home for older people. Offering a full spectrum of social care this well-appointed 76 bed residence is delighted to provide specialist provision for those living with dementia or with palliative needs - delivering a consistently high standard of professional care tailored to the needs of each individual. The compassionate, attentive staff are fully committed to promoting the wellbeing and happiness of every resident, focusing on offering the best possible care whilst maintaining both privacy and dignity.
Positioned in a quiet cul-de-sac, in the heart of an already established community, Caldwell Grange enjoys the best of all worlds; located in a pleasant, semi-rural part of Nuneaton this residence is placed within easy driving distance of Birmingham, Leicester, Coventry, as well as the rest of the Midlands.
Beautifully decorated, with a bright and airy feel, Caldwell Grange has been designed to offer a completely access friendly environment for residents of all mobility levels, including wheelchair users - allowing individuals the freedom to enjoy the whole building in comfort and safety. The cosy and welcoming atmosphere has been augmented with the use of dementia-friendly colour schemes and signage to ensure all individuals can feel as relaxed and independent as possible.
Accommodation at Caldwell Grange is attractive, comfortable and specifically designed to make our residents lives easier. All our tastefully decorated bedrooms enjoy a pleasing view through large windows as well as flat screen televisions and an ensuite bathroom, featuring movement activated lighting. Residents are encouraged to personalise their rooms to their own tastes to encourage a sense of homeliness.
Caldwell Grange boasts plenty of communal areas for residents to relax and socialise in, including four comfy, well furnished lounge areas - one of which has direct access to the exterior and the shade of wooden gazebo - as well as four pleasant and inviting dining rooms serving professionally prepared meals, using fresh ingredients. To the exterior residents can enjoy the sun or some fresh-air in the shade on one of our two large patio areas. Bowling enthusiasts are always pleased to discover that we enjoy easy access to the neighbouring bowling green! To the rear of the building is a little wood and stream which attracts a range of wild birds - indeed bird watching has become such a popular activity for our residents that we've created a special area equipped with binoculars and bird books on our 1st floor for amateur 'twitchers' to make good use of.
Why Choose Us?
At Caldwell Grange we fully understand that choosing a care home can be daunting - not only for potential residents but for their families too. That's why we not only welcome but encourage visits.
We'll be delighted to provide you with the opportunity to look around, ask questions and discuss your needs, as well as chat to our current residents and staff. If you are unable to visit in person, we'll be equally happy to arrange a convenient time for a staff member to visit you at home.
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Is Your Heartburn Due to GERD or NERD?
Nearly half of the U.S. population has symptoms of GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) at least once a month, and 20% have them weekly. But many of them don't get relief from standard acid-reducing medications, and don't have telltale damage to their esophagus. Melinda Beck explains on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Wanted: Canucks yearbooks
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:05 pm
If anyone has any old Canucks yearbooks/media guides they're willing to sell, particularly from the 1970s, please PM me. I'm starting to slowly collect them and so far have the '76-77 and '78-79 editions. Unfortunately the few available from this era on ebay seem to ship only to the US, so if you have any lying around in the attic, please let me know!


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Welcome to VegWeb's Soft Launch!
Hi all!
I just wanted to thank you all for stopping by the newly redesigned VegWeb! We're so proud of and excited about the site, and we hope you will be too.
There's a new blog section where we'll regularly post site news and have fun guest chef posts and all sorts of great stuff. Find out about the soft launch and about new and coming attractions here: http://vegweb.com/blogs/welcome-vegweb
As always, if you have any questions or comments, shoot me a private message or email me at email@example.com.
Again, so excited, and stay tuned for even more delicious happenings!
Yabbitgirl, I think all the threads are still here, but since they are sorted by thread creation date instead of last post date, it can be hard to find the ones that were recently active. External search engines might be helpful, though they seem to be much slower than I expected in reflecting changes to the site. Your browser's history might also list the threads if you've opened them recently. (Or, my browser's history might, if you'd like me to try to find particular threads.) Unfortunately, even if you find the right thread, posting in it wouldn't bump it to the top, so it would be hard for anyone to know you had posted :\
(Well, the very last post would be listed on the forums overview page, but that doesn't help much if more than one thread within a forum has new posts...)
Oh, yeah, I know they're still here, I just can't find anything. Sigh.
I imagine no one else can either, which would explain why it's so quiet around here.
It'll sort itself out, I guess. Eventually.
All but 1 of the recipes that I saved over the years are gone as well. Has this been resolved yet? Please advice. This is so frustrating!
Where did all the recipes I've been adding to my recipe box since 2001 go? :(
Where did all the recipes I've been adding to my recipe box since 2001 go? :(
I really hope the recipe box comes back soon.
I just came across the old site and I can't believe you got rid of stars ratings! There is a great post by Canis_Major up the chain that calls out the problems with this. I'm not sure I can use this website as I used to without stars. Stars built trust, a 3 star recipe is not something I would choose to make, but I would make a 5 star. Likes are meaningless, it's a different scale. I went through my "liked recipes" and there are some listed I know I didn't like. They were "OK" and I would never make them again. I'm sure others had similar ratings, so I can't really trust the likes. Please bring it back, obviously many people believe it is important.
Veganamanda, I completely agree with you. The lack of a star rating is silly. There isn't even a way to dislike recipes!
I feel the new site is very shiny and pretty but it has sacrificed content and is incredibly difficult to navigate.
I feel like everything that was ever rated is counted as a like now. So if you gave a recipe one star, I bet it's in your likes. Not sure but I feel like it may be like that.
Vegweb is poop and I still don't have a working computer and I think I'm just done.
There are only four recipes in the "recipes I like" tab - I had nearly 100 recipes saved in my Recipe Box. Where have those gone?
Thanks Laura!
I haven't been to visit in about a month and when I just visited Vegweb I noticed that the recipe box wasn't online so I thought maybe you'd changed your mind about bringing that back. I'm very excited to know that it will be coming back, and I am willing to wait patiently. I'm also excited to here that the stars ratings will also be coming back.
Thanks for all your hard work, after all this was a soft launch and there are always going to be kinks to work out, but the new site looks great, has great potential, and with a few changes it will be stellar!
I have checked back a couple of times but haven't yet seen a response to my first question, so I'm guessing that you're still working on it--that is, I still have many missing recipe photos from before the launch of the new website, and I wanted to know if they're gone for good or if that's on the list of things to be restored when you all get around to it.
Also, I always stay logged in to the site so I don't have to sign in each time, and today when I opened it up I was already signed in, but I was signed in as some random other account that I've never heard of ("headmistress" followed by some digits, I believe). It's not possible that anyone else used my computer in the meantime. So I wondered if anyone else has experienced this. Thanks for all your hard work, as always!
It happens, today I turned up as "you", LLV, and I have no idea whether this post will appear under my own name or not!
Strange... I show up as "yabbitgirl" now! :D But if I go to my account, it shows my own.
I know...these days I never know who I'm going to be when I come in here...and yet my posts are mine.
Okay, it's good to know I'm not going crazy, because today I'm apparently "mxpixie." (O.o)
@ Laura Did you guys know some of the pictures of recipies are missing? Here is an example: http://vegweb.com/recipes/my-husbands-deviled-egg-solution-potato-angels
People in the comments even talk about all the pictures, but when you go to look at it, there is only one. I have noticed to that sometimes the pictures on the front page dont even show on the recpie page itself.
Also, do you have an updated ETA on our recipes box coming back? (all the things i marked before the site change?) .. i know originally you said a few weeks.. its been a few weeks (not trying to be b*tch* just wanted an updated ETA).. just wondering where that stands....
Awesome, i am so glad you will be brining back the star system. I cant wait!
I am unable to upload pics from my iPad? Is it just me or something that can be fixed? I'm in love and already spending way to much time on the site!!
Thanks SOSOSO much!


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Griffin's memory card reader works with MacBook Pro's as an adaptor that slots into the Mac laptop's ExpressCard port. It will dock five of the most common cards used on cameras, but there is no Compact Flash support.
The card types it supports are Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, SD cards, xD-Picture cards and MM cards, and the connection is high-speed USB 2.0.
Read more: Caldigit TS3 Plus Thunderbolt 3 docking station
It doesn't require any batteries or driver installation. In our MacBook Pro it worked as advertised and fitted the ExpressCard/34 slot well.
It's a handy device for quick access to photos on memory card. For transferring files to your Mac you can get away without one of course; you can simply run a USB lead from your camera to your Mac.
In the absence of either a printer or a cable, or for quicker access then this has real value. A CF option would have broadened its appeal, though.


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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP file
First lady Michelle Obama, center, flexes her arms for PBS Sesame Street's characters during an event to help promote fresh fruit and vegetable consumption in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington in October 2013. She has put healthy eating habits at the top of her agenda while she's been first lady.
Michelle Obama, who turns 50 on Friday, is only just starting to build her legacy.
Presidential historians expect her commitment to fighting childhood obesity, supporting military families and encouraging good education and volunteer work to deepen in the next couple of years, and anticipate she will fully devote herself to those issues after she and her family leave the White House.
"I will be in my early 50s when I leave here, and I have so much more that I should do," Obama recently said in an interview with People magazine. "I don't have the right to just sit on my talents or blessings. I've got to keep figuring out ways to have an impact — whether as a mother or as a professional or as a mentor to other kids."
The first lady has turned 50, joining her husband (who is 52) in the 50-plus club.
The first lady is likely to continue promoting Let's Move, her fitness and wellness program, and Join Forces, which assists military families, plus return to the philanthropy work that she did before she became first lady. But she's unlikely to make a run for public office, experts say.
Robert Watson, a presidential historian and professor at Lynn University in Florida, expects the final year of President Obama's second term to be a big year for Michelle Obama.
"If history holds, I expect Mrs. Obama will enlarge in her role," he said, pointing to the fact that she already is making more of an effort to promote a good education than she did in the president's first term.
"She's going to assert herself. We're going to see more of the Ivy League-educated lawyer and former CEO," he said, adding that while presidents often have difficult second terms marred by sagging approval ratings or scandals, as was the case with Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, first ladies "tend to spread their wings" during second terms.
As the first lady prepares to celebrate a milestone birthday, NBC's Kristen Welker reports on Mrs. Obama's growing influence as an icon for fitness and personal style.
This term and beyond, she could also continue to be the go-to public figure for health and fitness awareness, said Tom Hubbard, vice president for policy at the non-profit health policy institute NEHI.
Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP
The first lady looks as sophisticated in designer dresses as she does in outfits from J. Crew.
"There's unquestionably been higher awareness of these issues amongst policymakers at the local level," he said. "Mrs. Obama has been the public face of that, and that's what may be the lasting legacy."
Obama has done a particularly good job emphasizing the need for more physical activity for communities who need it using scientific evidence.
"She's elevated health and wellness and specifically good nutrition and the need for daily physical activity higher on the radar screen of America, particularly in regards to kids, lower-income kids, minority kids and making this a leadership issues in the African-American community, which has disparate rates of chronic disease that can be tracked back to nutrition and physical activity needs," he said.
When the Obama family moves out of the White House in 2016, Michelle Obama is likely to set up a foundation for her causes, Watson said.
"I think she'll always be active in her community," said Myra Gutin, a professor at Rider University in New Jersey who has written two books on first ladies.
Obama, who hails from Chicago's South Side, has a rich history in her hometown: In the 1990s, she was assistant commissioner of planning and development in Chicago's City Hall before becoming the founding executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, a program that prepares youth for public service. Later, she developed the first community service program at University of Chicago and as vice president of community and external affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center, she brought in an influx of volunteers.
"It's been suggested that she might run for the Senate from Illinois. I really don't see her doing that," Gutin said. "She could go back to the University of Chicago hospitals, if that was her want. I just don't see her running for elective office."
Watson agrees.
"I don't see Mrs. Obama getting into politics because she was a reluctant campaigner initially," he said. Instead, he said, it would make sense for the woman who planted the White House's largest vegetable garden as part of her push for healthy eating to continue embracing issues like wellness.
"I would imagine her playing a very strong and leading role in the Obama presidential library. I can see it having a heck of a garden," he said.
She may also steer clear of serving on boards because of the scrutiny that comes along with that — but fundraising is a safe bet.
"I couldn't imagine her practicing law, but you could see her going back and fundraising or supporting the University of Chicago and the medical center, things she was doing before," he said.
Obama did have one slip before becoming first lady: a February 2008 speech in Wisconsin in which she said, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country," prompting critics to call her unpatriotic for months afterwards. But she learned from the mistake, Watson said, ultimately making her "one of the best" first ladies.
"She has not been a liability since the '08 campaign. She's been a huge asset," he said. "I think she's been effective with her mothering. In a way, I think she's been effective with everything. She's sort of that superwoman. She has the husband, the good marriage, the perfect kids. She had a good career. She's done it all, and she looks darn good for 50."
Related content:
- At 50, Michelle Obama's next act could be raising her voice
- Michelle Obama's best pop culture moments: From mom dancing to Muppets


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Grizzlies forward James Johnson has a huge neck tattoo dedicated to his prematurely born son, Naymin. He's also been a superb role player appreciated by Memphis fans, so what better way to celebrate Johnson than with a (temporary) neck tattoo giveaway?
The team will hand out free "GRIZZLIES" neck tattoos—which are really just stickers intended to go on fans' necks—to the first 5,000 fans for the Feb. 21 game against the Clippers. This is a copout, though. If Grizzlies fans really liked Johnson, they'd get actual ink on their necks. Trust me, having "GRIZZLIES" right under your face for all to see is a flawless decision.


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Microsoft's decision to push out Steven Sinofsky is a really big mistake, says Farhad Manjoo at Slate:
With Sinofsky's departure, Microsoft is rudderless at a time of intense competition. He was the firm's most thoughtful executive, certainly more perceptive about technology than Ballmer. Sinofsky had a firm vision about where the PC industry should go.
The problem with this idea is that Sinofsky isn't really a visionary. Here's a take from our big profile of Sinofsky:
The only trouble with [a comparison to Steve Jobs], according to detractors, is that Sinofsky lacks the vision of Steve Jobs. His products keep the business going, but they don't inspire.
One person who left recently puts it like this: "His delivery track record is exceptional. But the excitement level is not. There hasn't been a lot of excitement around his products."
A former exec explains, "He's not a creative guy, he's not going to inspire creativity in others."
A different former exec says Sinofsky's strengths are elsewhere. "Steven is much, much stronger at fixing and refining and tuning and improving."
For all the scorn directed at Steve Ballmer for missing the rise of the iPhone and iPad, an equal amount of scorn should be aimed at Sinofsky. He was at Microsoft the whole time Apple and Google upended the computing markets with their mobile operating systems.
Windows 7, Sinofsky's biggest claim to fame at Microsoft, came out in July 2009. Six months later Apple released the iPad, which ultimately sent Microsoft scrambling to catch up, producing the Surface.
If Sinofsky had his hand on the tiller, and knew what was happening in the PC market, why didn't he make Windows 7 more touch-friendly? Why didn't he get Microsoft to make the Surface in 2009?
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat who describes himself as a centrist, has announced on Facebook that he now supports gay marriage.
Warner's disclosure Monday comes as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on two cases involving gay marriage this week. It marks an evolution for Warner on the subject.
Warner previously supported civil unions that confer some rights that married couples enjoy on same-gender couples. In the waning days of his term as governor, Warner was the first governor to ban discrimination in hiring and workplace protection for gay state employees.
In 2010, he backed ending the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays in the military.
On Facebook, Warner says he supports marriage equality "because it is the fair and right thing to do."


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Just when things seemed the same, and the whole scene is lame
I come and reign with the unexplained for the brains 'til things change
They strain to sling slang, I'm trained to bring game
History that I arranged been regained by King James
Go to practice, with tactics, when the track hits, theatrics
Women that look like actress the status of Cleopatra's
Stacks of mathematics to feed yo-asiatics
As I find out, what the facts is, for geographic
No time to sip Mo's with hostess, never mind what the total gross is
I rip shows, stay focused, and split cheese, with soldiers
While you hit trees and coast I spit flows that be ferocious
And with these explosives, I split seas for Moses
Shine permanently only my mind's concernin me
Fire burns in me eternally time's eternity
Followers turn on me they'll be in a mental infirmary
Determinedly advance technology better than Germany
Since the first days you know of, till the last days is over
I was always the flow-er, I made waves for Noah
From a compound, to the anatomy, to the breakdown of a atom
Some of my rap patterns, still surround Saturn
From the ancient hieroglyphics, to graffiti painted pictures
I study I know the scriptures but nowaday ain't it vicious
Date back I go beyond, check the holy Qu'ran
To speeches at the Audobon, now we get our party on
So being benificent, I bless em with dialogue
They expectin the next testament, by the God
I roam through battlezones with chrome for chaperone
Blast beat with saxophones one of the baddest rappers known
Every country city and borough, sidestreet and ghetto
Isle and alley and meadow, theories thorough enough to echo
When it was one mass of land, with one nash' of man
And the whole mass was ran under one master plan
Since the world's metamorphis, and the plan is kept in orbit
Turntables we spin awkward but needles never skip off it
Rhythms we expressin similar to our ancestors
It'll answer your questions if you understand the message
From the days of the slave choppers, to the new age of prophets
As heavy as hip-hop is I'm always ready to drop it
From the mind which is one of Allah's best designs
And mines'll stand the test of time, when I rhyme
The 18th Letter, the prophecy professor
I stay clever, long as the planet stay together
Bring up praise from Mecca, make a phrase for the better
In new days to remember, always and forever
The R baby
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Google ay be on its way out as the dominant player in search, according to one analyst — and could even "disappear" in as little as five to eight years if the competitive pressures that ultimately claimed other search giants start to take root.
In the wake of a surprisingly weak earnings report, Eric Jackson, Ironfire capital founder and managing member, said Google Google could easily find itself fending off the woes that eventually took hold at embattled Yahoo!.
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I'm trying to develop an intuition for Cech cohomology geometrically, but am currently failing. A lot of people seem to say that the groups $H^n$ measure obstructions to gluing local sections to get global ones. However I don't see how this works, and I think it's because I don't understand coboundaries.
I see that $H^0$ is the group of global sections. Moreover $B^1\setminus 0$ tells us all the 1-cochains arising from the failure of 0-cochains to glue to give global sections. This suggests to me that we might want to study $B^1$, but instead we quotient by it to get $H^1$. Why?
I know that $Z^1$ tells us all the 1-cochains that agree on overlaps, and obviously $B^1$ is a subset of $Z^1$. But I don't know what $Z^1$ modulo $B^1$ is meant to tell me. I especially don't see how it has anything to do with gluing things. As far as I can tell it just informs me about the consistent 1-cochains which don't have anything to do with the failure to glue 0-cochains together. What am I missing?
Edit: it has just occurred to me that maybe the thing I don't understand is the meaning of gluing here. If I have the wrong idea about that could somebody please explain what is meant by it? Many thanks!


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Yeah, I agree as well. Overt condescension, or worse, insults, divide us further from religious people (and anyone in those groups questioning the existence of God), makes us appear overly defensive, and appears to the religious to lend credence to their arguments that we're not truly basing our beliefs on rationality. (Condescension and insults are most frequently used when logical arguments are unavailable or the person speaking is fueled more by emotion than rationality.)
The religious make fun of us incessantly, which I remember hearing and participating in when I was religious. But that works both ways, I think. Among atheists I have no problem with humor in response to the frankly very humorous beliefs that many religions espouse. I've seen many hilarious images on r/atheism at Reddit related to religion, and I enjoy them very much. But when I speak with anyone religious, I try to be diplomatic and helpful. In most cases -- certainly not all --antagonism only hurts us.
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Could it be that not only Facebook is feeling threatened by Google+?
Video chat software-maker Skype introduced a new updated version of its program for Windows that has a few features that have become familiar to Google+ users.
The new Skype version 5.8 will feature group screen sharing, where users will be able to share photos or parts of the desktop screen with people they are chatting with.
The service will work with up to 10 chatters at once.
The group screen sharing feature will be available to Skype Premium members and it will be integrated with Facebook.


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NISD is seeking public input regarding the selection of instructional materials (textbooks, etc.) being considered for use during the 2015-16 school year.
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One of the items approved by voters in School Bond 2014 was the expansion of bullet-resistant security lobbies at 30 elementary schools at a cost of $2.3 million. The first one was built last summer at Ellison Elementary School as a pilot.
Last night, Trustees discussed and took action on several items: renamed the Northside Excel Academy after its longtime leader, approved the designs for security lobbies at 8 elementary schools, approved legislative priorities for 2015, received a report that 100 percent of NISD teachers are "Highly Qualified," and appointed the Director of Elementary Administration.
Students in the Construction Careers Academy at Warren HS designed and built five 384-square foot micro homes as part of the magnet school's first Parade of Homes building competition.
Northside ISD announces that 100 percent of teachers are classified as "Highly Qualified." In accordance with Section 2141 of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and the Texas State Highly Qualified Teacher Plan, the local education agency (LEA) is required to submit a report annually on whether the academic subject area classes are being taught by Highly Qualified Teachers.
Hundreds of fine arts students will be featured in a variety of holiday concerts and performances at elementary, middle, and high school campuses throughout Northside ISD.
The Northside ISD Board of Trustees is seeking nominations for a name for two of its newest elementary schools scheduled to open in 2016.
Mary Hull Elementary School held its annual Red Ribbon parade and rally with hundreds of students and community members lining the parade route in support of the anti-drug message. WOAI Chief Meteorologist Albert Flores served as Grand Marshal. Click here to watch this year's parade.
What is a Thanksgiving dinner without cranberries? Thanks to students from Northside ISD's Learning Tree After-School program there will be enough cranberries for the 25,000 guests expected at the 35th annual Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner this year.
Aaron Barker's musical career began at the age of six, when his mother gave him his first guitar. He always had music around him, joining a "variety band" at the age of 13. His musical career took him from a rock-n-roll band serving our military to getting his first self-written single on country music radio when "Baby Blue" was recorded by icon George Strait.
Northside ISD is one of only two school districts in San Antonio to be named to the prestigious annual Advanced Placement District Honor Roll by The College Board. Students earn college credit while in the high school Advanced Placement Program.
"Together We Can Change the World." Those words resonated in song as students from 31 countries gathered for a Parade of Nations at their school.
Northside ISD students and staff recognize the importance and significance of the selfless contributions of our veterans. There were Veterans Day celebrations and recognition ceremonies at schools throughout NISD where parents, grandparents, siblings, and employees who are veterans were saluted. These are highlights from the events at some Northside schools and departments.
During the School Board meeting on Nov. 11, CPS Energy presented the NISD Board with a big check – both literally and figuratively. In fact, the almost $1.5 million check is the latest rebate from the energy giant for Northside's energy conservation programs. Northside taxpayers have received a total of $3,656,153.07 in rebates from CPS Energy.
Bonnie Ellison Elementary School is named for a bold, innovative leader who has never been afraid to take risks and wave the flag for education. In fact, she helped create the first and only national Flag of Learning & Liberty. Click here to view the video about this inspiring namesake.
Northside ISD offers two information sessions about the changes in the Home and Community-Based Services (HCS) Medicaid Waiver Program and the Texas Home Living (TxHmL) Medicaid Waiver Program for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Consider this challenge: to advance from fifth grade to eighth grade in 15 months. It's daunting but possible through an accelerated instruction model at Jones Middle School that focuses on incoming sixth graders who have been retained at least once during the elementary grades.
In August of this year, the Executive Director of the Texas Municipal League (a group that represents Texas cities) wrote a letter to state Senator Donna Campbell. Senator Campbell had presided over a hearing that focused on a topic that we hear a lot about from state leadership these days – local debt.
If you are over 65 years old and live in Northside ISD or are a retired NISD employee, you may be eligible to receive the Northside Gold Card.
Thousands of NISD students are seeing red in schools this week as they celebrate Red Ribbon Week (Oct. 27-31) with rallies, parades, and special events to encourage children of all ages to stay drug-free.
If you are over 65 years old and live in Northside ISD or are a retired NISD employee, you may be eligible to receive the Northside Gold Card.
The annual NISD College Night will be held Monday, Nov. 3 from 6-8:30 pm drawing more than 140 colleges and universities from across the nation.
An estimated 120 Carnahan Elementary School students, who are at risk of going hungry on the weekends, have a special weekend backpack. A group of volunteer parents fill the bags every Friday with simple meals to last the child over the weekend. The program is called Blessings in a Backpack. Click here for a firsthand look at how the program is touching lives.
Four Northside schools are semifinalists in the 2014-2015 Silver & Black Give Back Team Up Challenge- Stevens High School, Construction Careers Academy, Briscoe Middle School, and Mead Elementary School.
NISD just received confirmation from the Alamodome regarding the 2015 graduation dates and times. The District will hold 12 graduation ceremonies in June 2015, ten of which are held at the Alamodome.


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Miami Dolphins bill would bring state money to aging stadiums
A bill drafted by the Miami Dolphins would give Florida sports teams $3 million a year in state money to improve older stadiums, provided the owner pays for at least half the cost of a major renovation.
Under the law, the stadium would need to be 20 years old and the team willing to put in at least $125 million for a $250 million renovation. That's less than the $400 million redo of Sun Life Stadium that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross proposed this week, which he hopes will win state approval thanks to his offer to fund at least $200 million of the effort to modernize the 1987 facility.
Miami-Dade and Florida would fund the rest through a mix of county hotel taxes and state general funds set aside for stadiums. Sun Life currently receives $2 million a year through the program, and the Dolphins want to create a new category that would give them an additional $3 million.
While the Miami Marlins and Miami Heat both play in stadiums subsidized by county hotel taxes, the Dolphins receive no local dollars. The bill would change that by allowing Miami-Dade to increase the tax charged at mainland hotels to 7 percent from 6 percent, and eliminate the current rule that limits the money to publicly owned stadiums. Sun Life Stadium, in Miami Gardens, is privately owned but sits on county land.
The bill pits enthusiasm for one of Florida's most popular sports teams against a lean budget climate and lingering backlash against the 2009 deal that had Miami and Miami-Dade borrow about $485 million to build a new ballpark for the Marlins. Ross also must navigate a Republican-led Legislature that has twice rebuffed his requests for public dollars.
"I would be surprised if that bill even got a hearing in committee," said Mike Fasano, a Republican representative from the Tampa area and a critic of tax-funded sports deals. "I'm a big Dolphin fan, and have been for years. But with all due respect, we've got people who are struggling throughout this state right now . .. The last thing we should be doing is giving a professional sports team or facility additional tax dollars."
While the bill would open up the $3 million subsidy to other the teams, the Dolphins see it as unlikely that another owner would be willing to put up as much money for renovations as Ross, a billionaire real estate developer.
If the bill were enacted today, any stadium opened before 1993 would be eligible for the money, provided it could show the proposed renovation would generate an additional $3 million in sales taxes.
Ross and his backers are pitching the renovation as a boon to tourism, with Sun Life a magnet for the Super Bowl, national college football games and other major events. The National Football League is considering South Florida and San Francisco for the 2016 Super Bowl, and the Dolphins say approval of renovation funding is crucial to winning the bid.
Sen. Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens, who sponsored the Senate bill, said the funding makes sense because when Sun Life hosts a Super Bowl, the entire state benefits from both tourism dollars and publicity.
"It's a small price to pay for economic development, and for all the shine we get from major sporting events," said Braynon, whose district includes Sun Life. Rep. Eduardo "Eddy" Gonzalez, R-Hialeah, is the sponsor on the House side.
Braynon said the Marlins deal hurts the Dolphins' chances, even among lawmakers whose districts are far from the baseball team's new, publicly owned field built on the site of the old Orange Bowl in Little Havana. "Even people up here think about the Marlins stadium," he said from Tallahassee. "That's the biggest hurdle, in my opinion."
The Dolphins have launched miamifirst.com, a website, and @miamifirst, a Twitter account, to promote the stadium plan. The team continues rolling out endorsements from some of Miami-Dade's largest hotels, including a thumbs-up from Donald Trump, the new owner of the Doral golf resort.
"At Trump National, we understand the importance of world-class events as economic drivers. Steve Ross' commitment to modernize Sun Life Stadium — while covering most of the construction costs — is the right thing for Miami-Dade," Trump said in a statement released by the team.
And while auto magnate Norman Braman has vowed to fight the Dolphins deal, other crusaders against the Marlins deal have mostly held their fire. Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, who voted against the Marlins plan as a city commissioner, said he endorsed spending hotel taxes on the Dolphins' stadium.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who rode anti-Marlins sentiment into County Hall after the recall ouster of his predecessor, Carlos Alvarez, who backed the baseball plan, demurred. A Gimenez spokeswoman said Tuesday that he wants to see more details.
"Unlike the Marlins stadium deal, any proposal to renovate Sun Life Stadium must serve a public purpose and protect the interests of our residents and taxpayers," Gimenez said in a statement.
Ross and his allies contributed heavily to incumbents in the recent County Commission elections, facing off against challengers funded by Braman, also a billionaire.
Interviews with commissioners suggest Ross will at least get a hearing should the Legislature grant Miami-Dade the authority to raise hotel taxes beyond the 6 percent statewide cap.
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman, one of four "no" votes for the 2009 Marlins deal, said she was willing to consider the Dolphins' proposal.
"I'm open-minded. I assume it would make us competitive to get bowl games, and the Super Bowl," she said. "It's something I'm willing to take a look at."
Commission Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa, who voted for the Marlins deal, said Ross' money and the use of hotel taxes would be key to her support.
"If they give more than 50 percent, I'm willing to listen. As long as we don't use one penny of property tax money," she said.
Xavier Suarez, who joined the commission in 2011, supports the Dolphins' effort but wants to consider a referendum — a step the team opposes.
Using hotel taxes is "totally different from the idea of taxing property owners," he said. But "it has to be approved by the people."
Miami Herald Staff Writer Chuck Rabin contributed to this report.


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Childhood trips to Tijuana inspired Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock's Spring 2013 collection for Vena Cava. The offering was infused with the feeling of Summers spent south of the border: plenty of colorful stripes abounded on everything from jackets to skirts, while a triangle cutout detail decorated the necklines of a number of garments.
There were office-appropriate clothes (a pair of plain yet well-tailored black trousers comes to mind) as well as flirty cocktail frocks in vibrant colors and skirts in interesting prints. A feeling of inclusiveness made it an even richer offering. "The clothes are not just meant to look good on an 18-year-old model," Mayock said. "They are for real women to wear every day."
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some folks who have ponied up and met skippy's challenge to help the victims of katrina:
blogtopus (the first one!); the wanderer at my 2 cents; kathy k at on the third hand; the flesh presser; stephen green at vodka pundit (who dares us to match his $99.99 he already sent on top his match of our challenge); morgan, right of center; karenm of evil mommy (who is donating blood, which will also probably be needed); essarestoall of grownmanstyle; reader kipling (to the mercy corps); n in seattle of peace tree farm (to the united jewish communities); darryl of fuming mucker; g randy primm of reality frame; the lovely angie of ang's weird ideas; the hard-working evan at alternet's peek, and ann salisbury of two tears in a bucket, and prof. reynolds. (oh, yes, and the nominal chtulu gave twice).
skippy needs a million dollars...to go to katrina relief efforts!
perhaps they should mention that this administration is destroying the very government agency people on the gulf are clamouring for. just imagine louisiana, mississippi, florida, alabama and georgia trying to clean up katrina's mess all on their own. beware. it's a reality coming to a disaster area near you.
this year it was announced that fema is to "officially" lose the disaster preparedness function that it has had since its creation. the move is a death blow to an agency that was already on life support. in fact, fema employees have been directed not to become involved in disaster preparedness functions, since a new directorate (yet to be established) will have that mission.one should fear this administration more than osama bin laden. awol and his cronies are doing more to destroy america than al quaeda.
fema will be survived by state and local emergency management offices, which are confused about how they fit into the national picture. that's because the focus of the national effort remains terrorism, even if the department of homeland security still talks about "all-hazards preparedness." those of us in the business of dealing with emergencies find ourselves with no national leadership and no mentors. we are being forced to fend for ourselves, making do with the "homeland security" mission. our "all-hazards" approaches have been decimated by the administration's preoccupation with terrorism. - wapo
the end of august may not be the end of summer officially (that's either labor day, for you working stiffs, or the autumnal equinox, for you astronomers), but we're happy to give you the results of our question to our readership: name your favorite summertime song and/or movie.
the response was large, and varied. several bizarre songs and movies that don't call up feelings of summertime, except for the individuals that nominated them, were submitted. many various artists covering the same songs were named, and a lot of movies, some obvious, some not so, were also given. let's see what you said:
by and far the winner for best song was "summertime." but whether it was a cover of the gershwin number from "porgy and bess" or the jamies' jumpin' harmony-laden tongue twister is a matter of debate.
to be frank, four folks specified the gerswhin number (including mad kane, brian boru, esstoessorall, who nominated the joplin version, and richard dimatteo, who likes nina simone's rendition).
three others mentioned the jamies, including rose (who likes see's candy in the summer), steve b, and curtis e. flush. but several, among them screwy hoolie and sailor, nominate summertime by any one of the artists who covered it.
a close second (and probably, an actual first, if we separate gershwin from the jamies, and you know how difficult that can be!) is summertime blues, by a myriad of performers, including the blue cheer version nominated by maveline and steve audio, the who's rendition suggested by don quixote, and just the song, cited by tom of functional ambivalent and essaresstoall. thanks to redcane for pointing out that eddie cocharan did the original.
other songs mentioned: summer wind by sinatra, in the summertime by mungo jerry, nat king cole's lazy hazy crazy days of summer, hot town summer in the city by lovin' spoonful, and hot fun in the summertime.
here's some songs that evoke the feelings of the season without mentioning its name: under the boardwalk, afternoon delight, up on the roof, myrtle beach days, carolina girls, saturday night fish fry, palisades park, kodachrome, sugarcane and rock lobster, all fine songs.
movies nominated: dazed and confused, the goonies, caddyshack, suddenly last summer, the long hot summer, cat on a hot tin roof, the wicker man (takes place on summer isle, says decorticator), blue crush, and special mention goes to dr. zhivago, nominated by grace nearing, who says it makes her feel cooler.
we have no inclination to find out why some songs evoke summer to those who suggested them. drew likes tori amos' cornflake girl. karenm likes itchy globo blo by the cocteau twins. greg likes impossible love by ub40. and our personal favorite that we can't figure out, gd's choice of stairway to heaven.
kudos to those of you who said our original example of meatballs was impossible to top. and patriside ran their own summertime song survey. and, if you need a authority figure to tell you what songs you should listen to in th esummer, here's the ball state university music department's choices.
finally, in case you were wondering, the linkmeister tells us that summertime blues was recored by:
eddie cochran - 1958
blue cheer- 1968
the who - 1970
jim mundy - 1977
alan jackson - 1994
also recorded by: t-rex; beach boys; ian hunter; bobby fuller; heinz; robert gordon; the crickets; vipers skiffle group; stray cats; ritchie valens; bobby vee; the surfaris; the ventures.
thanks to everyone who participated! we're sorry summer is over, but we're looking forward to the fourth annual skippy christmas carol survey coming up in december!
bob fertik of democrats.com sends a letter to the washpost/abcnews poll:
i'm blogging on the reasons why no polling organizations have followed up on the june poll by zogby which found "42% say they would favor impeachment proceedings if it is found the president misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with iraq."
this follows the final report that there were no wmd's in iraq in 2003. it also follows the revelations in the downing street memos that the "intelligence and facts were fixed around the policy" of invading iraq.
after the lewinsky scandal broke, only 26% of americans favored impeachment of president clinton. yet dozens of polls included this question:
in recent days, conservatives like pat buchanan have also called for bush's impeachment.
can you explain why the post did not ask a question about impeachment in its latest poll?
were you asked not to include such a question, either by senior editors or republican officials?
we would have ended with, "or are you just stupid?"
have guitar, should travel
an easy day's night
this land is my land, this land is my land
but I'll let cheney have the new york island
we'll be the last guys who can even buy land
when this land belongs to dick and me.
ooh, that guitar ... two guitar-playin' bloggers (me and my pal agi t. prop) were talkin' about it just today. sez agi: "as a guitarist i am deeply troubled at the sight of bush touching my favorite instrument..." so I say, i didn't know you were a (etc etc). and seeing as it's a good point at all, I try to reassure my buddy by sayin'
at least kerry took lessons, and dean can actually plunk out a tune. bush isn't even making a real chord on that thing. it's like watching the high school cheerleader guy (wait - he was a high school cheerleader!) try to make the moves on your girlfriend. you don't feel jealous, just sorry for her.
so he sez, yeah but
it looks like he's trying to play a g position higher up the neck but I doubt he knows what the hell he's doing. the only sound he could possibly make is muffled out of tune scratching noises. ... seeing the presidential seal on the guitar really pissed me off. what buffoon put that on the guitar?
he rightfully brings this disturbingly lame-0 quote to my unpleasantly surprised consciousness:
-- white house spokesman scott mcclellan quoted bush as saying, ``it's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground.'' among other things, the president saw an amusement park with the tops of wrecked rides protruding over bridges covered by water.
he thinks it's only doubly devastating? how about 1700 times more devastating!
how typical, sez i - he knows the gestures, just doesn't know how to do the real thing. and I don't put stickers from my job on no damn guitar. so here's another "this land" verse (with hats off to my friend marian, who likes to make up new verses to that particular tune):
the gulf coast people were lost and hurtin'(with apologies to anyone who has read woody guthrie's folksy autobiography or his famous "woody sez" columns for the daily worker or whatever)
but not these jokers behind the curtain,
don't let them sell it to halliburton -
this land was made for you and me!
meet the skippy challenge! "when you give 'em any, add a penny" (and yes, we coined that phrase!) - for our brothers and sisters in the gulf.
and where is the national guard?
playing basketball.
i just watched awol's little "presentation" at the white house....all, what 4 minutes of it. millions of lives destroyed and all he could bare to spare were a few lousy minutes at the podium saying happy, shiny words that are supposed to make people feel all gushy and proud. not a single word of compassion toward americans affected.
as the extent of hurricane katrina's devastation became clearer on tuesday — millions without power, tens of thousands homeless, a death toll unknowable because rescue crews can't reach some regions — president bush carried on with his plans to speak in san diego, as if nothing important had happened the day before.
katrina already is measured as one of the worst storms in american history. and yet, president bush decided that his plans to commemorate the 60th anniversary of vj day with a speech were more pressing than responding to the carnage.
a better leader would have flown straight to the disaster zone and announced the immediate mobilization of every available resource to rescue the stranded, find and bury the dead, and keep the survivors fed, clothed, sheltered and free of disease. - the ultra conservative manchester union
if he really wanted to help people, he wouldn't have cut funding for fema and corps of engineer projects to strenghening the levees.
a couple of comic strips have come on our radar lately. first, we can totally empathize with zipper of doonesbury, whose blog was mentioned on cnn:
and secondly, tho we are not fans of middle american corn, we highly value longevity, which is another way of saying successful perseverance, and we are simply wild about deconstructionism. so it's with great pleasure that we are following blondie and dagwood bumstead prepare for their 75th anniversary this coming sunday, by inviting all the other comic strips to celebrate with them. for instance, bill keene's family circus stopped by yesterday:
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While playing the game, hold L1 + R1 and press Right(2), Left(2), Up, Down, Up, Down. This will unlock levels on the map, but you must travel on the map to go there. Hold L2 or R2 and press Right to display the debug menu. To get to any level, choose the "Level select" option from the debug menu. This allows you to directly jump to any level, even the final ones.Invincibility
While playing the game, hold L1 + R1 and press Right, Left, Right, Left, Up, Down, Up, Down.Full health and mana
While playing the game, hold L1 + R1 and press Left(2), Right(2), Up, Down, Up, Down.Immune to attacks
While playing the game, hold L1 + R1 and press Left, Right, Left, Right, Up, Down, Up, Down.Extra damage
While playing the game, hold L1 + R1 and press Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right.Extra silver and Adderstones
While playing the game, hold L1 + R1 and press Up(2), Down(2), Left, Right, Left, Right.Bonuses
Donate 100 silver to the priests in the towns and wild to unlock various bonuses, such as movies, artwork, and songs. Additionally, use the following trick to unlock the bonuses easier. After getting at least 2,000 silver, save the game. Find a priest and make a 100 silver donation. Keep donating 100 silver until all your silver is gone. Then, pause the game and select the "Exit To Main Menu" option without saving your game. Answer "Yes" when warned that your unsaved chapter progress will be lost. Once at the title screen, enter the "Extras" menu to view the unlocked bonuses. Exit that menu and load your previously saved game. Immediately save the game again. You will still have all your silver and the unlocked bonus options.
There is no easy way to get all the bonuses. You must do a set amount of large donations which are listed as follows. The number indicates the number of large donations that must be made with the corresponding bonus that you will get. Note: If you save and leave the game you must redo every donation to get up to the same amount as when you saved.
- 1: Movie: Introduction
- 2: Song: Beer, Beer, Beer
- 4: Art Gallery 1
- 6: Art Gallery 2
- 10: Movie: Bard's Tale Logo
- 15: Song: Bad Luck - Ogan
- 20: Art: Gallery 3
- 25: Song: Bad Luck - Wolves
- 30: Art Gallery 4
- 35: Song: Bad Luck - Minion
- 40: Movie: InXile Logo
- 45: Art Gallery 5
- 50: Song: Bad Luck - Jail
- 60: Art Gallery 6
- 70: Art Gallery 7
- 80: Song: Tale of the Nukelavee
- 100: Song: Here's to the Bard
- 120: Art Gallery 8
- 140: Art Gallery 9
- 160: Song: You're a Fooling One
- 180: Art Gallery 10
- 200: Song: Bad Luck - Lava: Life
- 220: Song: Bad Luck - Lava: Death
- 220: Song: Bad Luck - Bard
- 260: Art Gallery 11
- 500: Movie: Ending 2
- 600: Movie: Ending 1
- 700: Movie: Ending 3
Early in the game, go talk to the barrel maker that is inside one of the Broch's. This is the Broch that is near the middle of the town, but at the west end; his door is facing north (if you were to be facing his door, you would be facing east). The name of the place at the bottom of the screen when you walk in will read "Boyd's Barrels", at the west side of Houton. After you talk to him, go back outside. Go to the right side of his Broch and start destroying the barrels next to his dwelling (that are under the awning). He will come out and talk to you. Give him nice responses. He will give you the "Barrel Maker - Break lots of Barrels" quest. After that, every time you see a barrel, make sure you do whatever it takes to break it into tiny pieces. Then, go into The Drunken Rat bar and smash all the barrels on the upper floor. This is the floor you are on when you first walk in the front door. There are eight barrels that you can smash with your fists or a sword, and three behind the three singing drunks that you cannot destroy until you have bought a bow at the store. This makes a total of eleven barrels. Then, go down the stairs in the back room of the bar. You will find eleven more barrels to smash. After all those barrels have been smashed, go out the front door of the bar. Then, go back in and smash them all over again. After smashing a large number of barrels (over 100) go to the man who gave you the quest. He is standing next to the awning where you broke his barrels. He will give you 500 Silver. By doing this, you can make as much money as desired early in the game. Note: Try buying the Longbow to shoot the three barrels behind the singing drunks.Easy kills
After you kill the giant rat in the beginning of the game, go through Houton village and find the puppy in the middle part of the village. Respond nicely and the dog will follow you. As you journey on, the dog will distract enemies, thus making easier kills.Alternate storyline
If the puppy joins your party, it will change the story somewhat. For example, when you face The Pet it will crush your dog, killing it. Later when you run into the skull in the dungeon, it says that someone from your past wants to see you again and it brings your undead dog back into your party.Final choice
In the final choice, if you have summons out you can ask their advice, unless they do not talk (then the Bard just says "Right").Cow tipping
While in Huton (the first level), you can go around and find cows. Walk up next to the cow and press X. The Bard will push the cow over, and as soon as you walk off screen the cow will be set up again.Little Red Riding Hood reference
Sometimes when you kill a wolf, you will get a red cloak or a picnic basket.Star Wars reference
If you choose to be snarky to the elder after defeating Silkbeard, he will say "May the queen of the Sith take you."You Got Served references
The Knight summon occasionally says "Thou hast been served". Additionally, in the basement of the Scotsman's castle, a group of zombies will have a breakdance contest with a group of skeletons. When the skeletons win, the head one says "You got served", to which the Bard responds "What the hell?!"


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Dear Miss Snark,
what do you think of wonderful agent Kristin's take on technology:
Example #1: Accepting email queries.
I have many friends who just can't get on board with this because they still love, for various reasons, the paper format. Perhaps it's easier on the eyes to read or perhaps they think writers take more care with the writing of the letter if they will go to the length of paying $0.39 for the stamp or whatever.
I know many of my agent friends will hate me for this but I can't help but think that's just unnecessary old school.
If you're an agent looking to build a client list, then it's a numbers game and the faster you can get to a good project, the more likely you'll be to land it. I know I've taken on many a good client because I was timely in my response via email.
I'm using technology to my advantage.
In fact, I've taken on one client in my career who couldn't use email and wasn't interested in learning.
Never again. My clients also need to be technologically savvy because that's how I operate.
I think Kristin Nelson is very very smart.
I know she sells good stuff for good money.
I know she's going to read this and laugh cause this isn't the first time she's stared down her elegant nose and tsk tsk tsk'd at me for not taking email queries.
Well...she's probably right but I'd use a fountain pen if I could get away with it too.
That said, she's right exactly on the money about technology. I've let go of clients who couldn't get their electronic acts together. Things move too fast now; a client not only has to be on email but must check it regularly and know how to send documents, edited documents, and all that kind of good stuff.
I don't take equeries because I read slowly. I know if I read too fast I tend only to see problems. I read something twice before I ask for a partial. I only ask for one or two a week. I get 100 letters. Takes me about 6 hours a week to go through them all. I turn them around, mostly, in a week. I know for a dead ass certain fact that's not a slow response time even in this electronic world.
I am old school in many respects. I'm ok with that, and my clients are ok with that.


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Gastrohip necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 97 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Gastrohip is a food and beverage consultancy. From concept design to operational analysis, we use culturally informed methods to understand and develop your business. We believe that successfull food and beverage outlets are those who are attuned to both local and global trends. We keep our fingers on the pulse of the latest industry developments and market forces to make your food and beverage concept relevant and profitable.
New and existing owners of Food and Beverage Outlets. People looking for the development of a new restaurant, bar, or quick service concept.
The name of the company came from the word "gastronomy" which is the art and science of good eating and the relationships between food and culture. The other part of the company name "hip" is seen as a group who is familiar with the latest ideas, styles and developments. I am looking for something modern, clean, and crisp and the logo to have the below text.
Intelligent Food & Beverage (smaller size than company name)
The color preferences of personal taste are black, white, grey, blues, navy, silver, gold, red.
Would like to see some eye catching fonts for the company name GASTROHIP, as long as it is readable.
Trendy, sexy, hip, cool just like an NY, LA, and MIA bar scene. It almost needs to have street credibility....
Minimalistic is always good. We wont mind attempts at imagery.
Might be open to Graffiti as long as it is readable. No cursive please...
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Note: Please remember when choosing your sizes that you can always wear a shirt that's a little large but you can't really wear a shirt that is too small! These sweatshirts are not preshrunk, so when you open the package you might think they are way too large but they will shrink quite a bit after the first washing.
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So you think you're having a bad day?
A JetBlue flight attendant on Monday activated an emergency chute, slid down, ran to the terminal, took a shuttle bus to his car in long-term parking and drove home, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The flight attendant apparently had a heated exchange with a passenger who was trying to remove his bag from an overhead compartment before it was deemed safe to do so.
The crew member was later picked up at his home and brought to the Port Authority police station for questioning, the Journal said.
JetBlue confirmed the slide's evacuation in a press release, saying, "At this time, we are working with the FAA and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to investigate the incident."
The carrier said there were no injuries, and all passengers deplaned safely. "At no time was the security or safety of our customers or crewmembers at risk," it added.


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Apolo Ohno's IRONMAN Journey Begins
Even some of the world's best athletes learn from the IRONMAN experience.
Apolo Ohno might be the most accomplished winter Olympian in American history, but he is all too aware that the latest challenge he's taken on—competing at the IRONMAN World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i in October—is going to be far from easy.
"Although I was a very strong and fit athlete, it is a detriment that I am a sprinter," says Ohno, who has teamed up with the Built With Chocolate Milk Campaign as he prepares for the IRONMAN World Championship. "I don't have the vast reservoir of endurance activity. I have to physically change the way that my body responds to training. I really am a newbie [to the sport], but I am taking it all in stride."
He's in good company. Ohno is following in Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward's footsteps on the Built With Chocolate Milk team. IRONMAN fans from around the world followed Ward's journey at gotchocolatemilk.com and watched the football star learn the ropes of endurance training and racing. During his first bike ride with eight-time Kona champion Paula Newby-Fraser Ward crashed trying to unclip his shoes from his pedals.
He persevered, though, and managed to get across the finish line in Kona. Among all his athletic accomplishments, Ward suggests this one was truly a life-changing achievement.
"Completing the IRONMAN and crossing that finish line—I learned so much about myself," Ward says. "The sky's the limit for me now. This winter I tried snowboarding. I've gone white water rafting. All the things that I was too scared of before, I'm crossing them off my bucket list."
Like Ohno, Ward says he had to completely change his concept of training, changing his focus from speed and strength workouts to being able to "go the distance." He hopes that his transformation and journey can help inspire others who might be contemplating taking on a triathlon.
"Here's a guy who knew nothing about becoming an endurance athlete," Ward says. "Be inspired. If I can do it maybe that's inspiration for someone who's on the verge of doing an IRONMAN. Even though we're athletes, we come from a different world. Our training has been nothing but short intervals."
When you hear of Ward's struggles, and speak with Ohno, it quickly becomes apparent that while they might be amongst the greatest athletes in American history, when it comes to IRONMAN training, they're in the same boat as virtually every other age group athlete. Ohno is being joined in the Mission Apolo: Built With Chocolate Milk program by another endurance sports novice, Women's Health Fitness Director Jen Ator.
"I am going to struggle with this thing," Ohno says. "I am four years retired from my sport. Looking at the IRONMAN—I have to put myself out there. You can't hide. The minute you slow down, it shows. I am going completely out of my comfort zone, trying something completely different.
So why is Ohno taking on the challenge? "There are so many endurance athletes who would love to compete in Kona. Here I have an opportunity to compete on the world stage in what I consider the greatest endurance event in the world."
Hines Ward doesn't have a Super Bowl tattoo, but like so many other proud IRONMAN finishers, there's an M-dot on his calf. "It was an experience I will always cherish," he says. "The tattoo I have on my calf, it's a badge of honor. I am humbled that the endurance world would accept me."
You can follow Apolo Ohno's IRONMAN journey right here on ironman.com and gotchocolatemilk.com


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Chris Elsberry: Kids came first with James Williams Penders
For James William Penders, it was always about the kids.
Whether it was coaching high school track in the 1930s or creating a recreational baseball league for boys in the 1940s or setting up summertime checkers tournaments in the 1950s, there was just one thing that mattered -- smiles on the kids' faces.
For more than 35 years, Jim Penders Sr. coached track and baseball at Stratford High School, teaching kids how to be the best they could be. And after he closed the door on his coaching career, Penders directed the Stratford Park and Recreation department, making sure that the kids, no matter what time of year it was, always had something fun to do.
He was a player's coach and a man's man. Irish to his very core, he was quick with a joke and even quicker with a smile or a wink. And for his children and grandchildren, there were always lollipops at the ready, to be pulled from his pocket as a well-deserved treat from the man they called Pop Pop.
"From everyone I've ever spoken with, they all say he was a good man," said James Francis Penders, 40, the grandson of James William and the head baseball coach at the University of Connecticut. "Whenever we go to Stratford, my father is always `Jim's son' and my uncle Tom is always `Jim's second son.' And he's always the guy."
James William Penders passed away in the fall of 1981 at the age of 72, and Monday night at the Fairfield County Sports Commission's eighth annual awards dinner, he will be honored as one of the newest members of the commission's Hall of Fame.
"It's great," said Penders, who has coached baseball at UConn since 2003. "To be recognized by folks in your home ... because Stratford was truly his home. Now that he's passed, it means something extra."
At least to the family, it does. James William probably wouldn't have thought too much about going into any Hall of Fame.
"He was the type of guy ... he probably would have turned it down," said James Edward Penders, the son of James William and the father to James Francis. "It's great that my dad is being honored for his contributions, but like I said, he probably wouldn't have been too excited about all of this."
Because James William was never in it for the glory. All he wanted to do was help kids. And he did. From 1932 to 1945, he coached track at Stratford, losing just two dual meets in those 13 years. And from 1945 to 1968, he coached baseball, winning four state titles, one of those coming with son James Edward on the team in 1959.
"I was fortunate enough to be involved in two state championships," James Edward said. "We won one of them, my junior year; my senior year, we were undefeated and we lost to Naugatuck in the first game. Still, that's a great memory for me."
Today, James Edward is 70 and usually can be found on the UConn campus in Storrs, helping his son James Francis keep the Huskies' baseball field in tip-top shape. As a member of the Huskies baseball team in 1963, James Edward was hit in the head with a pitch during a game at Maryland. At the time, batting helmets were nonexistent. Players wore a simple plastic cap inside their hat. The injury was so severe, doctors thought he wouldn't survive, and James Edward was issued the last rites.
But James Edward not only survived, he came back and played.
"He missed the whole year of school and had to learn to speak all over again," James Francis said. "When he came back, he wore the first double-flap helmet in NCAA baseball and everyone had to wear them because of him."
During his recovery in Stratford, James Edward would often run laps in the high school gym, where James William worked. His secretary was a pretty school girl named Joan. So, James William did what any smart father would do: he set Joan and James Edward up on a date.
"That's true. He did do that," James Edward said, smiling at the memory. "I kind of knew about her anyway because I played with her brother, who was a pitcher. And even then I really didn't wake up to the fact that she'd be interested in me until three years later. It was 1963 when I was injured and I stayed home for four or five months and then went back to play. She wished me well and that was it. We really didn't communicate at all until I came home after graduation."
Luckily for James Edward, Joan was still available, and eventually, they were married. And on Memorial Day in 1971, when the town named the fields at Longbrook Park for James William, Joan announced that she was pregnant -- with James Francis.
In 1965, James Edward captained UConn to the College World Series -- his younger brother, Tom, was also on that team -- and in 1969, he became the head baseball coach at East Catholic. He held the position for 40 years, also winning four state titles and earning the National High School Coach of the Year award in 1996.
You might remember Tom Penders. He briefly coached at Bullard-Havens and at Central High in Bridgeport before heading on to the college basketball ranks, where he coached at Tufts, Columbia, Fordham, Rhode Island, Texas, George Washington and finally Houston. He retired in 2010 with a career record of 648-438.
"He never pushed us into coaching," said Tom Penders, now 67, in an earlier interview with Hearst Connecticut Newspapers. "As a matter of fact, he was a little surprised when I all of a sudden started coaching. But that's the same way he was with sports. He never pushed us. He just exposed us to sports.
"To this day, I'll be coaching somewhere or speaking or making an appearance and some guy who's an Air Force veteran or a retired teacher will say, `You must be Jim's son.' He touched a lot of people."
James Francis tells a similar story. At the 2011 NCAA baseball Super Regionals in Columbia, S.C., a man with an old, weathered Stratford High School yearbook approached him and said that his father had taken gym classes under James William. The best part was the inscription that James William had written in the book.
"He touched a lot of lives but he got that back tenfold," James Francis said.
In September of 1981, James William was celebrating James Edward's 39th birthday, and James Francis remembers his grandfather teaching him how to catch a football.
"He was throwing passes to me. I was 9, my brother was 7, and he was teaching us how to catch the football in our hands and not in our bellies," James Francis said. "He went home that night and died sitting in his easy chair watching Benny Hill. That was it. He was coaching until the day he died."
And while James William has been gone for over 30 years, his memory forever lives on.
"I've been fortunate to have a lot of wins and a lot of championships, but the most cherished thing I have is my name," James Francis said. "We're all proud to have the name because of my grandfather. He was the first to kind of get involved in the `toy department' of life, which is athletics, playing games and coaching kids. It's fun to be involved with the toy department."
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I am a a retired software engineer and a newbie on this site. Please execuse me for the naiveness in my question.
I am using Windows, XP and Vista. Other OS's are not affordable to me for now. I used to have MikTeX 2.8 and was using the packages it came with it to draw automata. The way I used to do, was, write a
.mp file and use
mp.exe to preprocess it to create a graphics file and then TeXnicCenter would take it when I
\usepackage{graphics}. I have a bunch of
.tex files in this way.
Recently, I had to uninstall MikTeX 2.8 and replace it with MikTeX 2.9. Everything was okay when I tried it with
.tex files without any graphics. When I tried to do with those with automata state diagrams, I found out
mp.exe is missing from MikTeX 2.9.
I have two options,
I still have the original protext.exe for MikTeX 2.8 so I can back out MikTeX 2.9 and re-install 2.8.
Use TikZ to draw automata state diagrams.
I personally prefer option 1. However, option 2 seems to be the best, from all I have read on this site. But, option 2 means that I have to spend some time and efforts to learn TikZ. So, I need to know, how bad is option 1? Or, do I have option 3, that is, something compatible with
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Scott Disick's Father Dies Two Months After Mother's Death
Jan 6, 2014 9:15 AM EST
Scott Disick's dad Jeffrey Disick has died, E! reports. He was 63. Disick, a real estate developer, passed away Friday, just two months after his wife, Bonnie, died at 63. No cause of death is known at this time. See th… Read more


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Over-refreshed Prince Harry takes a dip in his clothes
Fresh from his recent split with lingerie model Florence Brudenell-Bruce, Prince Harry was spotted recently whooping it up a Croatian resort.
According to one report, the British royal had no shortage of female companionship for the evening's festivities.
At one point the prince had the full attention of no less than four blonde girls and he didn't seem to mind the company.
Alas, according to the Daily Beast, it appears that the night started to get away from Harry.
On vacation with friends, the 26-year-old reportedly spent his night chatting up a pair of Croatian models and running up a bar tab so high that he ran out of money. (His private security officers had to settle the bill.)
At one point, Harry was dancing on the side of a swimming pool when he loses his footing and takes fully-clothed plunge.
You have to give him credit: He does manage the make the plunge look more like a dive than a slip.
Harry is expected to be at an awards event in London this evening for WellChild. Clarence House put out a Tweet this morning about the event:
After #HarrysArcticHeroes, tonight we have amazing children coping with severe illness at the #wellchildawards http://bit.ly/rmiY35
The Royal Family is no doubt hoping the Prince is not too worse for wear.