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Q. If dogs wrote their own history, when would they say the epoch of dog-bondage ended? R. Tin Tin
A. Not until the invention of mechanical and electrical motors, say psychologist Stanley Coren and Janet Walker in What Do Dogs Know? Many dogs had been specifically bred as a compact source of cheap power, like the long-bodied, short-legged "turnspits"– kept in enclosed wheels where their walking turned meats roasting over a fire. "A house might have several turnspits, and each might be required to work the wheel for a number of hours."
The dogs also churned butter, ground grains, pumped water. There was even a patent for a dog-driven sewing machine. On Sundays, turnspits were taken to church and used as foot-warmers. One time, note Coren and Walker, a bishop was quoting from the Book of Ezekiel: "It was then that Ezekiel saw the wheel." At the mention of the word "wheel," the dogs reportedly "clapt their tails between their legs and ran out of the church."
Q. Your brainy girlfriend challenges: "Lover, I'll consider your marriage proposal if you pitch it to me at exactly 12am or 12pm New Year's Day, you choose which one. But I'll accept only if you pick correctly from these two times." Is this going to be your lucky year? E. Taylor
A. Better smart than lucky because proposing at 12am is not possible since there is no such thing as 12am, as explained by the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
"A.m." and "p.m." are abbreviations for "ante meridiem" and "post meridiem," meaning "before noon" and "after noon." Noon is neither before noon nor after noon, it is just noon; likewise, midnight is just midnight. So neither the "12am" nor the "12pm" designation is technically correct.
You could, however, get away with using either 12am or 12pm for midnight because midnight is both 12 hours before noon and 12 hours after noon, though both would be ambiguous as to the date intended. To avoid ambiguity, railroads, airlines, and insurance companies use 12:01am for an event beginning the day, 11:59pm for ending it.
Better still is the 24-hour clock's 0000 for the moment beginning the day, 2400 for the moment ending it. Note that the same moment both ends one day and begins the next.
So the brainy lady knows you'll pitch at midnight her bewitching hour– first moment of the first day of the New Year, and is eager to give you her nod. Smartly done!
Q. What is the smallest measurable unit of time? Nanoseconds– thousandths of a microsecond– are small, used often in discussions of computers, but things can get smaller still. How small? S. Hawking
A. Basically, no one knows if there is a smallest unit of time, says Thomas O'Brian of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. By some theories, time is endlessly divisible, units getting as small as one wishes, though measuring them would be another matter. Other theories suggest that time and space are both "quantized," with fundamentally indivisible units at the base.
Below the nanosecond (10^-9, or 0.000000001 second) are the picosecond (10^-12) and femtosecond (10^-15), the current limit to our most accurate measurement of time, or about one second out of 30 million years. Then the attosecond (10^-18): Some present-day lasers can be pulsed at about the 100 attosecond level, and researchers keep making the pulses shorter, says O'Brian.
Smaller yet are the zeptosecond (10^-21) and yoctosecond (10^-24, currently the second shortest interval with an official, internationally agreed-upon name). The Planck time, or about 10^-43 second, is the shortest, which may be the briefest possible unit of time.
At this temporal scale, says Scientific American magazine, the whole notion of time as we know it may lose its meaning.
Q. Long after the human race is gone, what legacy of ours will remain? W. Durant
A. Footprints on the airless (liquid), waterless, erosionless moon, answers Bob Berman in Secrets of the Night Sky. Tiny meteors apparently pounded the moon's surface through the ages, creating the talcum-fine soil astronauts eventually walked on.
"The Egyptian pyramids could turn to dust, be rebuilt, and turn to dust again ten thousand times over before these footprints vanish.... They will survive the human race."
Several gold-plated plaques endure alongside, placed there by Apollo crews. Should aliens ever stumble onto the scene, the prints and the plaques will greet them. And if the extraterrestrials somehow decipher the recurring letters, they will read the names of astronaut visitors and the expression, "We came in peace."
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Take a look at this story by Jeremy Herb from The Hill yesterday and be prepared to stifle a huge scream.
As Herb wrote, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen complained at a program hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies about "Washington's inability to grapple with the budget and debt problems facing the country."
But shortly thereafter, Gates and Mullen make it clear that something that would do what they said they wanted by reducing the deficit and resulting in less federal debt — the sequester — is unacceptable because the sequestration Pentagon cuts "would be devastating (to the Pentagon) and lead to a hollow force."
The logical next step for someone interested in reducing the deficit and debt but cutting military spending the right way should be to provide an outline, a guide path or even just a subtle indication of what that should look like. But like everyone else involved in the stop-the-military-sequester campaign, Gates and Mullen are completely silent on how it should be done if a sequester is the wrong way to do it. They want the deficit reduced but they don't want military spending to suffer in the process.
I'm on the record with the notion that the sequester spending cuts for both domestic and military appropriations scheduled to happen in January are (1) the wrong fiscal policy, (2) the wrong way to cut appropriations and (3) the wrong programs to be cutting. (See below for what I'm suggesting as an alternative.)
But my problem with what Gates and Mullen said, and what many of the Pentagon contractors keep saying is that their position is significantly less credible because they so far have refused to provide an alternative that in their view would be the right way. Should it be done over a longer period of time? Involve different parts of the budget? Include a reduction in personnel?
That refusal makes Gates, Mullen and the rest of the military spending community no different from those who say that the budget can be reduced by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse without being willing to identify anything in the budget that is wasteful, fraudulent, or abusive. Or it makes them part of the make-someone-else-suffer-because-my-spending-can't-be-touched-ever wing of American politics.
In other words, by saying that the sequester is the worst way to cut the budget without providing even a hint of an alternative, Gates and Mullen et al have to be seen for what they really are — defenders of the status quo who are as much a part of the problem as the politicians about which they're complaining.
(Note…For those of you asking to hear my alternative to this January's sequester…as I said here, along with the rest of the fiscal cliff policies, the sequester spending cuts are the wrong fiscal policy at the wrong time and my preference is that they just be canceled. The spending caps for fiscal 2014 and beyond should be kept in place until we get a clearer picture of how the economy will be performing at that time.)


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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Most dubious distinction: The Charlottesville area has the highest gas prices in the Old Dominion, an average of $2.77 a gallon compared to a statewide average of $2.59 a gallon for regular, according to AAA.
Lowest life expectancy: A Harvard study ranks Richmond and Petersburg in the bottom 20 for longevity in the U.S. at 71.1 and 69.6 years respectively.
Most surprising statistic: Charlottesville's per capita personal income of $36,213 ranks it in the top 20 percent– 53rd among 361 metropolitan statistical areas, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Progress editor McGregor McCance reports.
Best news for fresh shoppers: Charlottesville's City Market will stay in its same, prime-for-development parking lot between Water and South streets for at least another year.
Biggest dig: "What we have here is a garden variety misconduct and insubordination case, and they are trying to elevate it to a constitutional claim," UVA's Richard Kast tells Judge Norman K. Moon in the opening arguments of former UVA staffer Dena Bowers' $1 million lawsuit against UVA September 6. Aaron Kessler has the story in the DP.
Newest addition to the Albemarle Planning Commission: Supervisor David Wyant names Crozet resident Duane Zobrist to finish the term of Jo Higgins, who moved.
Most disrupted by a big-wig's visit: The funeral procession for long-time Darden staffer Anneliese Tew is split, and half the mourners are prevented from leaving Teague Funeral Home September 7 while former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's high-security entourage passes, according to an attendee.
Worst firsts: Fourth-year UVA student Jennifer Leigh Wells dies September 10 from bacterial meningitis, and a fourth-year male is shot in the gut and robbed early that same day while sitting on his Wertland Avenue front porch.
Hottest water: The Cavalier Daily draws the ire of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights for three cartoons the organization says are offensive to Catholics, Carlos Santos reports in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Catholic League demands an apology; CD editor Michael Slaven declines.
Ickiest swim for non-dog lovers: At September 9's Festival of the Dog at Meade Park, pooches are allowed to swim in the city pool with their owners.
Worst hits to future Christmas trees: A hail storm earlier this summer in Augusta County decimates Virginia's entire white pine tree seedling crop, according to a Virginia Department of Forestry release. And a mold is causing root rot in Fraser firs in the New River Valley that ruins the soil for up to 20 years, according to the AP.
Most divine website grant: The National Endowment for the Humanities bestows a $186,000 grant on UVA prof Deborah Parker for her Dante Alighieri website that's a teaching resource for Inferno, part one of the Divine Comedy. Next up: Purgatorio and Paradiso.
Coolest philanthropy: Fortune magazine touts Robin Hood, a "venture philanthropy" founded by John Paul Jones Arena benefactor Paul Tudor Jones that boasts Diane Sawyer, Harvey Weinstein, and Gwyneth Paltrow on its board and has the Rolling Stones perform for its fundraiser.
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Who Started The Benghazi "Real-Time" Video Falsehood?
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Washington Post media writer Erik Wemple has been working doggedly to correct one of Sean Hannity's favorite false claims about the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi: that State Department officials watched "real-time" video of the assault from an office in Washington, DC. Wemple's efforts got an assist from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on January 23: "There was no monitor, there was no real time." As Wemple's debunking of the falsehood makes clear, Hannity has been the primary driver of this claim by repeating on a near-daily basis. But the "real-time" video falsehood did not start with the Fox News host. In fact, one of the first mentions -- perhaps the first -- of the spurious Benghazi video was on Jennifer Rubin's Washington Post blog.
The whole story starts with an October 10, 2012, hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. At that hearing, Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary of state for international programs, had this exchange with Rep. James Lankford (R-OK), describing how she followed via telephone the developments in the Benghazi attack as they were happening:
LANKFORD: Mrs. Lamb, can you clarify for me, where -- where were you working September 11? Were you in the Washington area -- were -- in the main facility there?
LAMB: Yes sir. I was in the D.S. Command center on the evening of the event.
LANKFORD: You -- you -- you note that in your testimony that you were in the Diplomatic Security Command Center and then you make this statement, "I could follow what was happening almost in real time."
LAMB: That's correct.
LANKFORD: So once they hit the button in Benghazi, you're alerted, it says you could have. Did you follow what was happening in real time at that point?
LAMB: Sir, what was happening is they were making multiple phone calls and it was very important that they communicate with the annex in Tripoli because this is where additional resources were coming from. So they would hang up on us and then call back.
LANKFORD: But you're -- but you're tracking it back and forth what's going on.
LAMB: Yes absolutely. [Transcript via Nexis, emphasis added]
That night on Fox News' Hannity, Liz Cheney seized on Lamb's testimony, but characterized it correctly:
CHENEY: Today, we learned from Charlene Lamb under oath that she followed, you know, the diplomatic security official, that she followed what was going on, minute by minute. She was following it in real time. So the administration knew in real time, there wasn't a mob, they knew in real time that this was a well-coordinated attack. They knew in real time that it involved heavy weaponry, this was clearly a terrorist attack and the American people have clearly, as you've said, been lied to.
The following morning, October 11, Jennifer Rubin posted a video of Cheney's Hannity appearance in a post headlined "Real-time Libya: Who knew what, when?" In that post, Rubin claimed (citing no other sources) that Lamb had watched a "real-time video" of the attack -- something neither Lamb nor Cheney had said:
Seriously, something doesn't make sense. Do we think no one else ever got the benefit of that information that mid-level bureaucrat Charlene Lamb had? This was the most urgent issue of the moment in which everyone (the White House, the public, the media) wanted to know what happened in Benghazi. So why not look at the real-time video? Why not ask Lamb what she saw and heard?
That next day, October 12, CNBC host Lawrence Kudlow wrote in his syndicated column that "State Department officials saw the Benghazi attack in real time." [emphasis in original] Later that night on Fox News, Hannity made his first reference to "real time video" of the attack: "The president knew within 24 hours what the truth was, and what I am told, they actually saw this in real-time. There is a video, real-time, of everything that went down in Benghazi."
From that point forward, Hannity flogged away at the State Department for "watching" the attack unfold "real time," repeating it almost every day as it spread to other corners of the conservative media. Wemple debunked the allegation in November, citing a State Department official's denial that anyone at State "had the ability to watch either of the attacks in real time." According to an administration official quoted in Wemple's report, the Benghazi compound had closed-circuit video surveillance that could not be monitored from outside the facility.
From the October 15 edition of Hannity (via Nexis):
HANNITY: Also, this is the problem they have with their story. It's falling apart because they said that this was spontaneous, a mob uprising, but we had somebody at the State Department watching in real time.
October 16 (via Nexis):
FORMER NEW HAMPSHIRE GOV. JOHN SUNUNU: The White House has to hear their embassy had a breech in security. I don't know this it was a separate report to the president or just in his president's daily brief. But I cannot imagine that that was not sent to the president.
HANNITY: Governor, they were watching this from the State Department in real time.
SUNUNU: Yes.
HANNITY: Yes. They knew that night. Libyan president told us the next day.
October 18 (via Nexis):
FOX NEWS HOST DANA PERINO: Not only that, but an American citizen for a probation violation about a video. They blamed him for deaths of four Americans. They blamed a video-maker that turns out not to be true, and turns out they knew it wasn't true.
HANNITY: Wait a minute. There's a 50-minute tape of this -- what happened this night. It's available. The State Department watched it in real time. I've confirmed tonight, I can say 100 percent that tape exists and a transcript of them is available.
As Wemple documented, Hannity is still repeating this false claim despite receiving "definitive, on-the-record refutation" from Secretary Clinton.
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Let's figure out this coupon thing.
If you have been following the whole 'April Learns How to Use a Coupon' adventure, then you will appreciate that I'm actually putting forth some effort.
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I've finally got in the swing of looking at the sale's fliers for my local grocery store and yes, I look at them online and I figured out they come out every Tuesday...... I know, I'm a genius! I also learned that I can load coupons onto my grocery card. Yes, it's true, so I loaded some coupons onto my card last night and when I buy that item the coupon will automatically ring up when the cashier swipes my card, plus I can use a manufacturer's coupon along with it and save even more! I sound like a pro don't I?!!!
I'm also in the process of figuring out CVS and Walgreens. I found a great sight that has tutorials for both stores and has links to great coupon places. Go here to learn all about it.
Okay, so let's go back to the question; Are coupons worth it? I'm going to vote YES! The first time I used a bunch of coupons on items that I buy on a regular basis and watched my bill decrease by $40, well, that was all the proof I needed.
I have to admit I still have a lot to learn, but by golly it's a bit of a rush to see just how much I can save.
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A new print ad for the soft drink Dr. Pepper is making waves on Twitter this week.
The ad shows three different angles of a can of the beverage. The top, bottom, and front. Under each angle, the text reads, "top," "bottom," and "vers." Of course, these are terms often associated with gay sex.
The ad quickly spread across Twitter with many users reacting to the wild ad. While some found it hilarious, others found the ad problematic. Find the best responses below.


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Attorney claims Clinton ordered Stevens to Libya facility
Ambassador Christopher Stevens was in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, the day he died in a terrorist attack, because Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered him there, according to an exclusive statement given to WND by the attorney representing Gregory Hicks, the former State Department deputy chief of mission and chargé d'affairs who was in Libya at the time of the attack.
Victoria Toensing, legal counsel to Hicks, told WND that Hillary Clinton had given Stevens direct instructions to prepare the CIA compound in Benghazi to be upgraded to the status of a U.S. diplomatic mission and Stevens, in complying with Clinton's wishes, was in Benghazi the first time he had the opportunity to do so, cognizant of the need to visit the site before the end of the fiscal year, on Sept. 30, 2012.
"Stevens was in Benghazi because Clinton told him to go there," Toensing explained.
Hicks' attorney also charged the Accountability Review Board, or ARB, headed by Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Michael Mullen, was a cover-up designed to contain blame for the Benghazi terror attack at a level below Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the State Department.
On page 34 of its unclassified final report, the ARB stated: "The Ambassador chose to travel to Benghazi that week, independent of Washington, as per standard practice."
This, Toensing charged, is a complete misrepresentation of the truth despite the attempt of her client, Gregory Hicks, to explain in his testimony to the ARB that Stevens went to Benghazi on Clinton's specific and go to Benghazi before Sept. 30, 2012, to establish Benghazi as a permanent State Department facility.
Why was Stevens in Benghazi?
The sworn testimony Hicks gave the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 8, 2012, supports Toensing's contention that Stevens was in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, because Clinton had ordered him to go there and he was running out of time to comply with her request.
Under questioning from Rep. Lankford, R-Okla., Hicks explained: "According to [Ambassador] Chris [Stevens], Secretary Clinton wanted Benghazi converted into a permanent constituent post. Timing for this decision was important. Chris needed to report before Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, on the physical and the political and security environment in Benghazi to support an action memo to convert Benghazi from a temporary facility to a permanent facility."
Hicks explained the directive came from the State Department Office of Near Eastern Affairs, headed by Acting Assistant Secretary Beth Jones, that funds were available to be transferred to Benghazi from a State Department fund set aside for Iraq available, provided the funds transfer had been obligated by September 30.
He further testified that in May 2012, during his exit with Secretary Clinton following his being sworn in as U.S. Ambassador for Libya, Stevens promised he would give a priority to making sure the U.S. facility at Benghazi was transformed into a permanent constituent post.
Under further questioning directed by Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., Hicks explained Stevens further delayed his trip to Benghazi because of security concerns expressed by State Department Regional Security Officer John Martinek.
"The two planning meetings we had with the ambassador about his trip to Benghazi, the RSO John Martinek raised serious concerns about his travel," Hicks explained. "Because of those concerns, the ambassador adjusted his plans for that trip."
Hicks detailed in response to Martinek's concerns, Stevens mad three modifications to his plan to visit Benghazi in September 2012.
"First, he agreed he would go in a low-profile way and his trip would not be announced in advance," Hicks continued. "We would not do any planning of meetings until right before he went. And second, he eventually decided to shorten his trip. He had initially planned to go on October 8, he went on the 10th instead to narrow the time frame he would be in Benghazi. The third step he took was the one public event that he planned would take place at the very end of his trip, just before he left."
Hicks also explained Stevens wanted to make a symbolic gesture to the people of Benghazi that the United States "stood behind their dream of establishing a new democracy."
Additionally, he wanted to have the Benghazi complex upgraded to a permanent constituent post, so Secretary Clinton could make this announcement in her planned visit to Libya before the end of 2012.
Hicks told the committee Stevens did listen to advice, but he was very determined and committed to doing his job.
"He went there [to Benghazi] to do his job," Hicks testified. "He felt he had a political imperative to go to Benghazi to represent the United States there in order to move the project to make the Benghazi consulate a permanent constituent post."
Toward the end of the hearing, the chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked Hicks to summarize his testimony on why Stevens went to Benghazi.
"At least one of the reasons Ambassador Stevens was in Benghazi was to further the Secretary's wish that that post become a permanent constituent post and that he was also there because we understood the Secretary intended to visit Tripoli later in the year," Hicks reiterated. "We hoped that she would be able to announce to the Libyan people the establishment of a permanent constituent post in Benghazi at that time."
Hicks emphasized that the State Department was aware of increased risks posed by Islamic extremists in eastern Libya and that Stevens was aware the Benghazi compound did not meet State Department security requirements.
Still, despite the security risk, Stevens was determined to comply with Clinton's wishes to visit Benghazi prior to her planned visit to Libya.
The ARB report a 'cover-up,' attorney charges
The unclassified ARB final report on page 18 states: "Ambassador Stevens was scheduled to remain in Benghazi until September 14, and his visit was timed in part to fill the staffing gaps between TDY [Temporary Duty Assignment] principal officers as well as to open an American Corner at a local school and to reconnect with local contacts."
Hicks testified to the House oversight committee that in direct contrast to this ARB claim, the State Department in Washington was fully aware of the plans Stevens made to go to Benghazi, the reasons he was going there, and his planned activity while there.
"The ARB unclassified final report was incomplete in that the reason for Stevens being in Benghazi was known to Hicks, but the ARB ignored the testimony Hicks gave on this point," Toensing further explained to WND.
Hicks elaborated on this point by commenting to the House oversight committee that when he told the ARB the reason Stevens went to Benghazi, Ambassador Pickering looked visibly upset and asked, "Does the 7th Floor [where the office of Secretary of State Clinton is located] know about this?"
Toensing also explained to WND no stenographer was present at the ARB to record the testimony of witnesses, so no verbatim transcript could be made of each witness testimony; instead, the ARB took merely took notes of witness testimony.
She further objected the ARB never permitted Hicks to review the notes regarding his testimony so he could suggest corrections and point out any omissions; nor did the ARB allow Hicks to review the notes taken of his testimony and sign off on their accuracy.
"Everybody is missing that the ARB is a big story here," Toensing said, explaining she was turned down or canceled on more than one network television interview, including ABC and CNN, when producers learned she wanted to expose ARB deficiencies. "The ARB not only omitted the reason Stevens went to Benghazi, when my client had explained to the ARB the reasons, the ARB actually put in a false statement regarding why Stevens was there the night of the attack."
Toward the conclusion of the House hearing on May 8, Hicks and Eric Nordsrtom, the State Department regional security officer in Libya during the attack, both argued the ARB had assigned blame for the Benghazi tragedy to lower-level State Department officers when they realized Secretary Clinton was fully involved in the decision to send Stevens to Benghazi despite the security concerns.
"The most obvious deficiency in the ARB report was Secretary Clinton was never interviewed for the investigation," Toensing said.
In an editorial Toensing wrote that was published by the Weekly Standard on May 12, she elaborated on this point: "She [Clinton] is mentioned only once in the [ARB] report, as the person who convened the Board. If, as Clinton herself has said, she took full responsibility for what happened in Benghazi, her decisions and decision-making process are materially relevant for investigating what happened before and during the night of September 11, 2012, and preventing what went wrong from ever happening again."


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Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change is a television special produced by Sesame Workshop as part of the Talk, Listen, Connect initiative. The special premiered on PBS on April 1, 2009.
The special, hosted by Queen Latifah and John Mayer, is a follow-up to the 2006 television special "When Parents Are Deployed", hosted by Cuba Gooding, Jr. The special was designed to educate adults about the issues and effects of military parents homecomings and associated changes.
In the special, Mayer sings a variation of his song "Say (What You Need to Say)" with the Muppets of Sesame Street.
Sesame Workshop produced the half-hour special in association with David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Inc. and Lookalike Productions.
- Kevin Clash as Elmo
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- Additional Performers: John Kennedy, Matt Vogel
- Executive Producers: Lisa Lax, Nancy Stern, Christina Delfico, Rob Burnett, David Letterman
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Onward California: UC and Cisco celebrate a long-standing collaboration
Whether you know it or not, the University of California has probably played a part in your day — from the batteries developed for the hybrid car you drive, research that helped grow the fruits and vegetables you eat, or friends and family members that may have attended or work at one of the world-class UC campuses, national labs, or life-saving medical centers.
And Cisco's connections with UC run deep. According to LinkedIn, nearly 5,100 Cisco employees have a UC degree.
The UC system has launched the Onward California tour to encourage thousands of passionate supporters to share why they think UC makes California better. The tour celebrates some great UC people and innovations, many of which may surprise you, and has some fun, interactive ways you can share your UC connections.
As a California-based company, we're proud to host a stop and encourage our employees, regardless of where you went to college, to join UC staff in celebrating the collaboration.
UC's Onward California Mobile Tour will be coming to Cisco's San Jose Campus on September 17, 2012 in the parking lot between bldgs. 4 & 5 from 11 am – 2 pm. Come show your support for UC and for higher education in California, and get a free ice cream treat. We look forward to seeing you there!
Learn more about the campaign, and some of the groundbreaking research conducted through the UC system at www.onwardcalifornia.com.
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Life's CRAZY busy again. Here is how my days have been going lately:
1. Wake up, get dressed, get out of the house.
2. Run to client's homes for consultations and/or run to stores to source products.
3. Go to my full-time job for 8 hours.
4. Make dinner from scratch because I can't do take-out anymore with my new diet.
5. Tackle at-home design work including sourcing products, placing orders, answer emails, etc. etc.
6. Cuddle with my husband and/or puppy before turning in for the night.
Holy. Cow.
Does anyone know where I can buy some extra hours for my day?
I'm not complaining, it's good to keep busy.
Especially when I get to create chic rooms and use fabulous products, like this beauty:
It's a pretty table overall but look at the detail on the top:
Yup. It's just a little herringbone action for ya. HERRINGBONE.
I. Die.
Anyone out there have any time management tips??
I could use some right about now...
{Oly Studio's Bovary Dining Table via Layla Grace}


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Plans to demolish a former pub to make way for a convenience store and two smaller units have been approved.
Shahid Patel submitted an application to Kirklees Council to redevelop the Swan Inn site in Huddersfield Road, Mirfield, after failing to attract a retailer to take on the existing building.
The development will consist of a small-scale convenience store and two other units, which could potentially be used for retail, a cafe or restaurant, or a hot food takeaway.
Mr Patel secured permission to change the use of the site from pub to retail units in February 2012.
But two years on, there had been little interest from potential tenants.
The application also includes 38 off-street parking spaces with four disabled spaces.
Kirklees Council's Heavy Woollen planning sub-committee backed the plans at Dewsbury Town Hall on Thursday.
Coun Karen Rowling (Lab, Dews West) said the site was desperately in need of redevelopment.


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Despite the fact that no one really knows what it means to have CTE, the effort — intentional or not — to create mass hysteria regarding the consequences of a potential CTE diagnosis is working.
According to ESPN's Outside The Lines, more former football players want to be tested for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in the wake of recent news that the condition has been discovered in multiple former NFL players, including Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett.
The article states that researchers from UCLA and a company known as TauMark, which has developed a brain scan that supposedly spots CTE in living persons, have been "inundated" with inquiries. (Two paragraphs later, William Weinbaum of ESPN.com writes that "well over 100 former players" have contacted the program, which makes the use of the term "inundated" seem a little strong given the total number of former NFL and college football players in America.)
Regardless of the characterization, folks understandably are curious about whether they have CTE, even though no one yet knows what it actually means to have CTE.
As Dr. Matt McCarthy wrote last month for Deadspin, a potential for panic currently exists among current and former players who fear that a time bomb softly ticks inside their skulls. For those who don't have symptoms, what will it mean to be diagnosed with CTE?
No one currently knows.
Meanwhile, the folks from TauMark (including well-respected and incredibly relentless and successful lawyer Bob Fitzsimmons, who represented Mike Webster in his effort to get disability benefits from the league for head injuries) have established — intentionally or not — the kind of scarcity mentality that will get people to line up to purchase that which they can't.
"We're not advertising and not commercially open for business," Fitzsimmons told ESPN.com regarding TauMark. "We're still in the study phase."
Translation? Folks will be digging deep to be the first on the block to get a CTE scan, and it's inevitable that the search for microscopic protein buildups of undetermined consequence in the brains of football players will spread to folks who have played other sports involving repeated contact with the head, like boxing and mixed martial arts and soccer and hockey.
Yes, someone finally has found a way to cash in on the CTE craze, and it's far more sustainable than a book that barely tries to mask the agenda of making its authors into a modern-day Woodward and Bernstein who bring down Richard Nixon's favorite sport.


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- What is a Writer in Residence and are you interested. This is in association with Poetry Ireland
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This week's Formidable Female Protagonists contain one of my favorite protagonists, Nimisha. Its fun researching the list; I pick up new books to read all the time. I got 47 more protagonists to go, got six more last week. The females are carefully selected by me, their names written on paper, folded and put in one of two bowls, one for new-to-me and one for read-by-me. I then select four read and one new-to-me and write about them. I am open to suggestions for more females to include.
- Margaret Bain – Seven of One (Sheri S. Tepper)
- Jenny Casey – Cyborg Pilot (Elizabeth Bear)
- Nimisha Boynton-Rondymnse – First Family Castaway (Anne McCaffrey)
- Freya Nakamachi-47 – Soulful Machine (Charles Stross)
- Nausicaä – Ecological Princess (Hayao Miyazaki)
Margaret Bain – Seven of One
Books: The Margarets (2007)
Author: Sheri S. Tepper
Publisher: Eos (Harper Collins) 2007
Genre: Science Fiction | Fantasy | Space Opera
Margaret Bain grows up a lonely child on Martian moon Phobos and as many such kids she has make-believe friends. The friends include a healer, a telepath, a warrior, a linguist, a queen and a spy who had different names and lived on different worlds. The difference is that her friends come alive as extensions of her personality at different times in her life.
- When Margaret is nine Wilvia is the first to split off when she meets her future husband Prince Jozire.
- At twelve, she is on earth and is granted a water ration while another one of her imaginary splits off is not granted a water ration. She becomes the foster daughter of the being known as the Gardener on another planet.
- At twenty-two another split occurs and one Margaret is sold as a bond slave.
- Another Margaret marries the man who loves her and goes to the colony world Bright.
- One Margaret is a shaman
- The lone male of the split becomes a warrior.
Full of fascinating characters and beautifully detailed settings, Tepper's complex and multifaceted far-future SF novel follows the many selves of Mars colonist Margaret Bain on a mission to save the human race from annihilation.
Humanity got the eternal hatred of tha foul-tempered Quaatar a long time ago when some pre-humans stowed away on one of their survey ship. Now humankind is at the brink of self-destruction through overpopulation and ecological collapse. The farsighted Gentherans have taken up the human cause within the Interstellar Trade Organization, but as Earthgov struggles to conform to ISTO's enforced sterilization laws while trading excess children for offworld water, the Quaatar continue plotting to destroy humanity.
Only Margaret, a secret organization called the Third Order of the Siblinghood and the truth behind an old Gentheran folktale can stop the genocide and give humanity a future.
Jenny Casey – Cyborg Pilot
Books: Hammered (2004), Scaredown (2004), Worldwired (2005)
Series: Jenny Casey Trilogy
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Publisher: Random House
Genre: Military Science Fiction | First Contact | Space Opera
Jenny Casey used to be a former retired Canadian special forces living in the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut. Earth is in shambles from environmental disasters. Jenny becomes a pawn in game of world dominance between Canada and China over being the first to reach the stars. In Hammered Jenny tries to survive, in Scardown she has to fly and in Worldwired she has to teach the aliens to talk with each other. The world is a bit noir and gritty as Elizabeth Bear likes to write.
Jenny Casey is hiding from herself and the Canadian authorities in former USA. She is half metal since a war accident, now her metal half is acting up. And now her former handler wants her back so he sends her whacked out sister. Mix in an escaped AI and new technologies derived from alien space ships found on Mars and you have a very down to earth Space Opera. Jenny might be the only one that has the reaction time and the wiring to handle the new tech. But she will have to work for people she hates again and suffer another set of operations to replace her failing prophesies.
For being about the world's first FTL ship it's a lot about earth and staying in orbit. More about the interesting alien tech is revealed in this novel. International tension rises as Canada and China race to be the first to fly faster than light. There are many aspects to this book. I like the ecological aspect and the aliens that comes to visit. I would hate to live in the world she paints, but it is very realistic.
The second book in the Jenny Casey Trilogy, Scaredown left the world on the brink of war just as the aliens arrived. World ecology is in scrambles after centuries of misuse and the PanChinese dropped a meteorite on Montreal, center of the Commonwealth since England sunk under the sea, causing further damage to an already fragile system. The world face a few years of darkness and cold before global warming kicks in with a vengeance. As a last resort Casey and company crashes one of the starships into the sea infecting the world with hacked alien nanites under the command of Richard, the AI.
Elizabeth Bear has an annoying habit of building up to a decisive point and then spending twenty pages talking about other stuff until you get any resolution. Otherwise it is good. It's all good, it's just frustrating sometimes. I think she does it just to tease us readers.
Wordwired is the final book in the Jenny Casey Trilogy, but I hope she will write more books in this universe and the people in it. The contact team tries to establish communication with the birdcage aliens and the shiptree aliens. Elizabeth has made up some really original aliens; I haven't heard anything like the birdcage people before.
The AI's Richard and his alter ego Andre try to save the planet from catastrophe while the sleazy political intrigue continues unabated. PanChina is responsible for the meteor hit on Canada and the Commonwealth wants them to pay. At the same time both countries are suffering from internal political conflicts. The Unitek Corporation play commonwealth against PanChina and uses the opposition in both countries to help. Unitek wants control of the alien nanotechnology.
Exellent series. Pity it's over. Hmm, I need more books
Nimisha Boynton-Rondymnse – First Family Castaway
Book: Nimsha's Ship (1998)
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Publishers: Del Ray | Corgi Adult| Bantam Pres | Random Houses (UK) | Ballantine
Genre: Science Fiction | First Contact
This is one of my favorite Anne McCaffre books, mainly because of Nimisha's charming personality, her competence and the emphasis on friendship and romance. The first contact situation and how it is resolved is also quite attractive. If you are new to Anne and into gritty fast paced adventure you should maybe start with her Pern stories.
On Vega III, Lady Nimisha Boynton-Rondymense loves the challenging world of her father, Lord Tionel, owner and principal starship designer of the famous Rondymense Ship Yards. Precociously gifted, Nimisha becomes his secret assistant–and, in the aftermath of a shocking tragedy, his chosen successor at the helm of the Ship Yards.
When Nimisha takes an experimental ship on a solo test flight, something goes horribly awry, marooning her light-years from home on a planet as deadly as it is beautiful. Now the ruthless members of a rival branch of the Rondymense family are given the chance they've been waiting for: to reclaim the Ship Yards by any means necessary.
Only Nimisha's ingenious child, Cuiva, stands in their way. But for how long? For just when her daughter needs her most, Nimisha is in a precarious situation herself–and unable to help. But Nimisha has never given up in her life–and she's not about to start now . . .
Freya Nakamachi-47 – Soulful Machine
Book: Saturn's Children
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
Genre: Science Fiction | Space Opera | Post human
Drunk on battery acid Freya consider jumping from the balcony of the pleasure palace floating in the stratosphere of Venus. It is the 200th anniversary of the extinction of her One True Love, the human race. Some bored Aristos stumbles on her there and take enough interest to start a fight. Annoyed and drunk Freya ripes the head off one of them. That particular Aristo take offence and promise to pay her back. Aristos is the name of the cruel slave owning class. Most of the robots are slaves and called arbeiters.
Freya is of a line of pleasure robots, the Rhea line that help each other out, they buy out indentured siblings and they also share memories of each other's lives with memory chips. Freya has just put in Juliett's chip and now she has to get off Venus before the aristo or his henchmen can find her. She is offered a job on Mercury that includes the travel there, she jumps on the opportunity.
After she lands on Venus and make the acquaintance of the sentient hotel she has a run in with some siblings of the offended aristo. Her new job turn out to be to work for the Jeeves Corporation as a courier carrying some organic matter in her womb, avoid the pink police (nice name), and deliver it to the recipient on Mars.
This is when it starts to heat up for her. She learns more about Julietta during her trip. There are enemy operators on the ship but she succeeds in avoiding them and the pink police. She is also more or less force-seduced by Aristo Granita Ford who turns out to be in league with the police.
The rest you have to read yourself.
This is another story about Freedom and self governance. It is thought provoking, action packed, seedy (at least some) and in an imaginative original world. I love it!
Nausicaä – Ecological Princess
Comics: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 1-7 (2004)
Author: Hayao Miyazaki
Publisher: VIZ Media
Genre: Manga
Manga isn't exactly new to me but it's not something I usually reads, Nausicaä comes well recommended so I think I can include one as a teaser.
Nausicaä (ナウシカ Naushika?, pronounced [na.uɕika]) is a fictional character from the science fiction manga and anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind created by Hayao Miyazaki. Nausicaä is the princess of the Valley of the Wind, a very small nation with fewer than 500 inhabitants (and steadily declining in population). She is the eleventh child of King Jihl, and the only one to live to maturity. She is rarely seen without her Mehve or her companion, Teto the fox-squirrel. In the legends of Dorok, she is also called "The Blue Clad One".
Nausicaa is the gifted teenaged princess of a small valley on a devastated far-future Earth, where a growing poisonous forest is threatening the last human settlements. As an excellent gunship pilot, she is drawn by an old alliance into a war between neighboring kingdoms. But the pacifistic Nausicaa is much more interested in exploring the secrets of the forest. This complex ecological adventure epic – a true comics classic – is the only extended manga work by renowned anime director Miyazaki (Spirited Away). His lush, detailed art, reproduced here in sepia ink, is more reminiscent of European artists such as Moebius than of most manga, but manga fans will be drawn into the story nonetheless. Highly recommended for teens and adults alike, this tremendous series belongs in every library.
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Prisoner Supplied License plates baby.
A friend of mine received his tickets yesterday, and said there were two License Plate frames in with his Jets tickets.
He didn't tell me if they were white with Green or Green with White, but then again I didn't ask
Woody got a deal on Kenrick Ellis' work output while he was in jail.
Prisoner Supplied License plates baby.
Mine are going straight to eBay. What's next, Woody, rims?
Would rather have something for the house or something to wear.
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Lol if it covers up "new jersey" or "garden state" on a jersey license plate you'll get a ticket
way to go jets
Anyway, I speed a ton. Cops either go to pull out or get behind me as if they're about to pull me over, then don't. As if they're either a Jet fan, or just feel bad for me.
Regardless, this frame is the perfect compliment to the plates...
See, I have the Jets plates as well and for some reason I think the STH frame is going a bit too far.
It's an arbitrary line I'm drawing with my football fanaticism and I can't justify it, but there it is.
I live in Connecticut and a couple of years ago I went out for a buddy's stag at a local bar. I am not much of a drinker but will have a beer or two when I go out. I am very cognizant of drinking and driving and all that stuff so I am extremely careful. Well this one night I was at the bar for about 4 or five hours with the guys and left near closing time. I had two maybe three beers over the course of that time and finished my last one well before I left.
Anyways I leave the bar and I get about half way home and come to a light. The light turns green and as I am about to go police lights in back of me go on with the spotlight shining right at my car. I pull over and am not much concerned. The cop comes up to my car and asks why he pulled me over. I of course had no idea. He proceeds to tell me that I have an illegal license plate frame on my car. Then of course he asks if I had been drinking. I was honest and said I did have a couple but it was much earlier in the night. Sure enough the prick cop checks my eyes, has me get out of the car walk the line, stand on one foot for 30 seconds. I have never concentrated on something so much in my life and much to his disappointment I passed the all the tests because I was not impaired. (When I was walking the line I noticed that THREE cop cars were lined up to nab me!!!) But those test can be difficult when sober! Anyways he gave me my keys back and told me to do something with the license plate. I remember when I went to turn the car back on my hands were shaking so hard.
In case you were wondering yes it was a Jets frame and no I didn't ask him if he was a Pats fan...I think we all know the answer to that. I did ask a cop friend of mine if frames were illegal and he said technically nothing is supposed to be touching the plate but that it is rarely enforced!
cops dont enforce most laws. usually they are at the local DD for the free jelly donuts.


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MIAMI (AP) — A former Miami Beach police officer was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison after striking and seriously injuring two people while joy-riding with a woman on the beach using a police all-terrain vehicle.
The judge said Derick Kuilan's actions showed wanton disregard for other's safety. Kuilan was convicted last month of reckless driving with serious bodily injury but acquitted of driving under the influence.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez said the defense's request to sentence under the minimum standard of 90 days was too lenient and that her sentence would still take into account evidence that Kuilan was drinking and driving even though the jury did not find him guilty of that charge.
Trial evidence showed that Kuilan, while on duty and in uniform, had a blood-alcohol level above Florida's 0.08 legal limit to drive when he took a woman at a South Beach nightclub bachelorette party out on the high-speed beach ATV ride. But the defense also showed there was a second blood test that put Kulian's alcohol level below the limit, some five hours after the crash.
"We actually as a society punish individuals more if they bring harm to a police officer while on duty, so shouldn't the opposite hold true particularly when someone is held to that higher standard? Because nobody is above the law," said Mendez.
Kuilan, who did not testify during trial, expressed deep remorse during sentencing, saying he thinks of the victims daily.
"There's mistakes that were made, poor judgment. I agree but I'm not a criminal," said Kuilan, a father of two young children.
Some of the women at the bachelorette party testified they initially thought Kuilan and his then-partner may have been part of the club's entertainment, perhaps even male strippers. They got the officers to pose for a party cellphone photo that was published around the world after Kuilan was charged by prosecutors.
Victims Kitzie Nicanor and Luis Almonte testified during trial that they had gone to ocean's edge to watch the sunrise when the ATV slammed into them. Almonte suffered a shattered leg and Nicanor had numerous injuries, including a brain injury she said has left her unable to work. Her spleen was removed, leaving a large scar.
"He was a sworn officer, sworn to protect not to harm," Nicanor said in a statement read by her attorney.
She said she lives in constant pain, is isolated from friends and family, struggles to care for her child and is traumatized by small thing like taking her son to the park.
"I feel like a 13-year-old in a 32-year-old body," she said in the statement.
Kuilan's pastor, fellow officers, friends and wife asked the judge for leniency in her sentencing noting the former officer has turned his life around since the accident, working with the church to help others.
The judge also suspended Kuilan's driver's license for three years his release from custody and ordered him to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution to the victims, starting with at least $100 per month per victim, who are also suing him in civil court.
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Kobe Bryant to Lionel Messi: 'You're the Best'
With a few casual words, spaced between bites of his lunch, Kobe Bryant chalked up an assist in helping modern soccer's greatest player achieve his full potential.
It was the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Bryant, just a few days short of leading basketball's Team USA to the gold medal, spotted some members of the Argentina men's soccer team huddled around a table in an athletes village food court.
"Where's Messi?" Bryant demanded. "I want to see Lionel Messi."
Soon enough, the Los Angeles Lakers star was locked in conversation with Messi, then 21 and with the soccer world at his feet, in Spanish.
Bryant was 29 and had long since established himself as a man of the world. Messi, already a superstar in his own sport with both his national team and Spanish club Barcelona, was more shy back then than he is today, even with millions in the bank and the chance to lead Argentina to an Olympic gold medal.
The American did most of the talking. And as he left with a handshake and a wave, Bryant turned over his shoulder and uttered words Messi has carried with him since.
"You're the man, Messi," Bryant said. "You're the best. You're not just good, you're the best."
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: It seems Kobe Bryant, the world's greatest basketball player, is a pretty fair judge of talent when it comes to soccer.
After all, Lionel Messi is 'the best'. The jitter-bug forward has emerged as the superstar of the 2010 World Cup, dominating for his native Argentina. Before dazzling in South Africa, he led Barcelona to glory in the Champions League tournament in 2009.
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Garment racks provide fashionable way to expand closet space
In 2010, J.Crew's creative director, Jenna Lyons, gave Oprah a tour of her envy-inspiring closet.
Spiny antlers hung above the fireplace (yes, fireplace), which was flanked by floor-to-ceiling shoe shelves.
In the center of the space next to a mini Oriental rug, a linen sofette was draped with sequined dresses.
And along three of the walls were metal garment racks that carried coats, dresses and blouses in every color of the rainbow.
The idea was simple: Stores like J.Crew display clothes in plain sight, so why hide them in a closet the minute you get home?
Lyons sold her Brooklyn town house last year for $4 million, but she left her mark on closet design. Garment racks sprang up on design blogs and in major retailers such as Restoration Hardware and The Container Store as an easy solution for homes with limited closet space.
Ondine Karady, an interior designer with offices in Washington and New York, uses garment racks as a way to make use of awkward nooks or alcoves in clients' homes.
"Quite often, there's a small space that you just don't know what to do with. And quite often, there's not enough closet space in the home," she said. "Garment racks kill two birds with one stone. They're a lot cheaper than installing a drywall closet, so it's really a win-win-win."
The trick to making them look as stylish as Lyons'? Matching hangers.
"Splurge on all-wood, all-matching hangers," Karady said. "That will make the difference."
Garment racks have other benefits, too. Instead of stuffing clothes into the back corners of your closet, racks allow you to actually see your options.
"I believe that a big reason people don't wear a lot of their clothes is because they can't see them," said Holly Thomas, Washington editor of the fashion website Refinery29 and partner in the vintage collection Butler and Claypool (and a former Washington Post writer). "Rolling racks put your wardrobe right in front of you. I couldn't live without them."
Thomas lives in a 600-square-foot apartment on Capitol Hill with hardly any closet space. She said her predicament is common in Washington, where many apartments and older homes come with tiny closets and low ceilings.
"Nowhere in Washington has enough storage space; you have to get creative," she said.
Olescia Hanson, a spokeswoman for The Container Store, said garment racks are especially handy during the holidays because they provide temporary extra storage.
Most racks can be collapsed and stowed away when company leaves town.
"They're perfect for entertaining because you have a place to hang guests' coats," she said. "Or, if you're outfitting a guest room and the closets are already being used for storage, a garment rack is an easy solution. Plus, it's chic."


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The residence, which includes 200 feet along the Gulf of Mexico, originally was listed for $3.2 million. It was on the market for 71 days.
The Manasota Key home of the late disco queen Donna Summer just sold for $2.85 million.
The residence, which includes 200 feet along the Gulf of Mexico, originally was listed for $3.2 million. It was on the market for 71 days before going under contract in February.
Summer, a multimillion-selling singer and songwriter who rose to fame in the 1970s disco era, had owned the property as her second home since September 2007. She died of lung cancer at age 63 last May in Naples.
The buyers are Detlev von Platen, the president and chief executive officer of Porsche Cars North America Inc., based in Atlanta, and his wife.
They were unaware the estate had belonged to Summer, said Maryann Casey, an agent with the Englewood office of Michael Saunders & Co., who represented them.
They saw the home on the Saunders website while waiting in Atlanta for a flight to Sarasota, Casey said.
"This was the couple's first visit to Manasota Key, and they immediately fell in love with both the home and the key, and bought the property in less than 24 hours," she said.
Once owned by country singer Mel Tillis, the four-bedroom, four-bath Old Florida home was built in 1950. The 1.1-acre property is in a private, gated enclave on North Manasota Beach Road with both Gulf and bay access.
The 3,786-square-foot house, which has undergone numerous updates, includes exposed-beam ceilings, a covered veranda across the east side, and an open patio overlooking a pool. A boat house and dock also are on the east side.
Nelda Thompson & Associates in Englewood listed the property.
Summer -- whose hits included "Love to Love You, Baby," "Bad Girls," "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance" -- will be posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Thursday.


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