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Italian tourist who forgot to take his wallet to Manhattan steakhouse is JAILED overnight for failing to pay the bill
An Italian tourist has been thrown in jail for a night after claiming he had forgotten his wallet and couldn't pay his bill at a swanky Manhattan steakhouse.
Graziano Graziussi asked workers at the acclaimed Smith & Wollensky restaurant at 49th Street and Third Avenue whether he could leave his iPhone as collateral while he returned to his friend's apartment 30 blocks uptown to grab his wallet, the New York Daily News reported.
But workers turned down that offer and the general manager called the police.
Responding officers were no more accommodating. They reportedly asked whether the 43-year-old lawyer from Naples could arrange for someone to drop off his wallet or to read off his credit-card number so the $208 bill could be charged.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268271/Vacation-rough-start-Italian-tourist-arrested-New-York-pay-tab-forgot-wallet.html#ixzz2J2kIVHgg


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Disclaimer: I don't own freedom fighters.
My Notes: This game is inspired by freedom fighters so it won't follow the story line nor will there be characters from it. This is my first fic so go a little easy on me alright. But any way, I hope you enjoy this and please R&R
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Abraham Lincoln June 16, 1856
January 6, 2017 Outskirts of Detroit Michigan (Post war)
Here in this wasteland of deserted buildings that was once my home town, I revisit a time from my past. A time filled with hardship, misery, death, and destruction. A time felt by this nation only once before. Times have changed, and so have the surroundings.
I remember how my neighborhood used to be. The school just across the street from my parent's house was once busy as could be, and stores were always within walking distance. The neighbors were always nice, 'well, mostly,' and the area flowed with a sense of relative safety and security. There were people, trees, and life everywhere you could see.
Now rubble litters the empty streets, and silence fills the heavy, dust clogged air. My once quaint suburban neighborhood is now leveled. My home, grade school, nothing was spared from destruction, save for the church that still stands albeit for the hole in its western wall. I trod over the fractured concrete that was once a road, and look up into the dark, choking smog that once used to be clear blue skies. The bitter cold wind whistled, stirring up some more dust into the air.
I then took the time to listen as the wind whistled by, then it slowed, bringing a period of utter silence. This silence only reinforced the eerie feeling that the wasteland overwhelmingly produced. I walk these empty streets, the neighborhood now a dull gray. The once lush city park is no more. Only splintered stumps of trees remained, as if they were the grave markers of the dead in a cold and lonely cemetery, A jumbled mass of twisted metal that was once a children's playground, stands as if it were a monument to this desolate city.
I climb to the top of a nearby hill in order to get a better view of the surroundings, buildings were leveled everywhere within ten miles. It seemed that the world had come to an end. My gaze wanders off to the east. What was once a bustling cityscape, was now an immense, empty, glassy smooth bowl in the ground off in the distance.
There was lifelessness everywhere, not even the birds dared to enter here. As if it were a cursed and forsaken land that death himself seemed to rule over. It was cold, desolate, lonely…
Everything used to be so simple at one point in history. It seemed so long ago when there was at least some peace in this world. But now there is nothing but the stench of destruction. As I pass through this deserted city, pocket marked with craters and demolished buildings, my mind wanders…
Three years ago, constant pressure on the nation's economy led to more and more riots and uprisings. Anti political groups were becoming more aggressive, and rumors of a secret coupe against the government were passing through the states. Others, like my uncle, who seemed to always talk about these things, were worried of a greater, more menacing threat that seemed to be looming ever closer to our unsuspecting population. A threat that would bring ruin to us all.
This never really concerned me at first; apart from the coupe there had always been something going on in this country, I just didn't pay much attention, although I probably should have. But that all changed…
I remember how it all came to pass, the war that tore this once magnificent nation apart. A war that began, not from a foreign power, or terrorist group in the shadows. This was a war of feuding states. This was a war within the country itself. And this war succeeded in nothing but the death and destruction of its own people. Blood was shed amongst those once united, and allies turned on each other in a state of panic and chaos, leaving nothing but a shattered union. This was the Civil War anew.
And with it came the loss of homes, families, friends. The death of millions in acts of senseless violence. The destruction of many parts of the country, and the once proud fabric of patriotism that it at one point held so dear.
And when the U.S. was in complete disarray, an enemy lying in wait in the shadows attacked and threatened to conquer the tattered remnants of the once united states.
Three years ago…
More Of My Notes: Yeah that's the end for now. Hope you liked it.


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Suffering in the Heat Wave? An Energy Saving Tip
Blogging is pretty hard tonight with the temperature soaring to 87 degrees – indoors! Seems our trusty air conditioner is not so trusty anymore.
When the friendly a/c repairman came by, we were in for a big shock. If you're prone to allergies, you may have purchased the newly popular "filtrettes" that offer "microparticle reduction." Slightly thicker than regular air conditioner filters, they claim to remove indoor allergens.
Well, Mr. Repairman informed us that these thick filters just put a strain on a/c units, particularly in hot weather. They reduce your air conditioner's energy efficiency.
"Pollen shouldn't get inside anyway," Mr. Fix-It pointed out. "I think it's just marketing."
So stay cool, save money, and reduce your carbon load – buy regular filters and change them every 30 days!
Stay cool, friends!
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Events are escalating in the earth. Here in America brooding clouds of violence and civil war are gathering. The religious, fatalistic mindset says that such things are inevitable and must come to pass. There may be some truth in this, but we don't realize how much can be avoided, and even that which must come to pass, can be cut short in righteousness.
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said things like turn the other cheek, and do not resist him who is evil. "If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two." From these passages, and others like them, many Christians assume a mindset of passivity in all areas of conflict. This is a false concept. Others claim we must defend ourselves against those who would kill us and our families. Such mindsets encourage "arming up and being ready." This too is a false concept. The truth is that when Jesus spoke the related passages, He was revealing the need to move into a higher realm. When Christians attempt to walk in Jesus' commandments in the soul realm, trying to adhere to His exact words, it is a fruitless endeavor. The Scriptures are not a guide book. The Scriptures are a revelation of Jesus Christ. To understand the Scriptures, we must abide in the realm in which they are revealed. We must learn to walk in the realm of spirit. Continue reading


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question of the day friday
To a restaurant? Maybe once every 3 months. Fast food, once every two weeks.
It depends on the month.
And I'd rather not go into how lazy I can be. :)
eh probably 6-7 times a month, just depends on what the hubs and I feel like having, sometimes Ill plan a dinner and he will come home say he doesnt want that tonight and take me out to dinner, he just gets that dinner the next night..lol
This is going to sound bad and we are working on it, but
As a family we order out 1x a week
Me personally...every morning M-Sat. I get breakfast and coffee ( usually about $5 each time )
I also go out for lunch 1-2x a week. :(
Its killing me financially, but its just such a habit I am having a hard time with it. Even the other day I decided not to go for my coffee and sandwich in the mornig on my way to work...and before I realized it I was in the drive thru. :(
way too often for me. but since hubby is the manager at a small restuarant & works about 80 hours a week he hates cooking at home, even hates having the stove/oven on. i also cook for a living though only during the school year, i work in the kitchen at my children's elementary school.
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How often do you go out to eat every month
Quoting Rushn311:
To a restaurant? Maybe once every 3 months. Fast food, once every two weeks.


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Is Mrs. Palin a human life? This is a critical question for me, not to mention this great country of ours.
Dr. James Dobson, a lunatic evangelist, spoke with Mrs. Palin oh his radio show today. It was an orgy of mutual ass-kissing that only a full-fledged Christian Zombie could stomach. It was god this, god that, with a nice emphasis on "special needs children."
Mrs. P was happy to praise herself for giving birth to little Trig, who is god's special way of showing his blessing. She revealed that she had spent much of her pregnancy on her knees, ahem, praying for guidance.
Now of course, she loves those special needs kids so much that she is speaking against a Colorado initiative that was designed to help the state's developmentally disabled population by raising the sales tax by one cent for every ten dollars spent in the next two years.
Also too, Mrs. P cut in half her own great state of Alaska's funding for its Special Olympics program.
Once you've recovered from the interview, if you have been so privileged, you can go to the Pray For Sarah page where there is a cute little graph of the whole Palin family.
Mrs. P is reportedly scheduled to give her first policy speech tomorrow, "highlighting her commitment to families with special needs." If god is out there, couldn't he smite her down with lightning? Couldn't he choose her to suffer for our sins, rather than make us suffer for hers?
I know I speak for Dr. Dobson and everyone else when I say that I appreciate the sanctity of human life. But does Mrs. Palin herself actually qualify? I see no signs of this. All the more reason to get those medical records!
Are you wondering why Little Piper is carrying a $6,000 Louis Vuitton handbag? Oh, you, don't be gettin' all excited and thinkin' that Mrs. P is planning on KEEPING that expensive stuff from Saks and Neiman Marcus! It's all goin' back! You know how Neiman's lets you go around with your purchases and then lets you give 'em back! Some of it is going to charity, of course. Heaven knows, disabled kids love them some Louis Vuitton!


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Hispanic Literature and Culture Courses
Included below are the intermediate and advanced Hispanic literature and culture courses that I teach at Juniata, as well as an interdisciplinary service learning course (IC 229/230) that I designed and taught for the first time in the spring and summer of 2016 with Ursinus College politics professor Dr. Becky Evans and Guatemalan educator Lic. Jorge Chojolán. For more information on them, click on the course titles to review the most recent syllabus. Most of these courses are offered on a once every four semesters basis. At the bottom of the page, I have included some useful and fun links to web resources on Hispanic cultures.
Spanish 250 - Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Spanish 255/355 - Contemporary Hispanic Short Fiction
Spanish 265/365 - Contemporary Spain
Spanish 275/375 - Art & Activism in Latin America
SP/CA 300 - Myth & Magic Realism
SP/CA 301 - Latin American Testimonio
Spanish 400 - Contemporary Latin American Novel
Spanish 405 - Contemporary Spanish Novel
Spanish 420 - The Generation of 1898
IC 229/230 - Spanish and Service Learning in Guatemala
Web Resources for Hispanic Cultures and Literatures (also see the links on my language page for some excellent on-line cultural resources and those at the bottom of my interests page for Hispanic film sites)


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Bloomington Civic Theatre announces its 2013-2014 Season
Mar 8, 2013
Bloomington Civic Theatre (BCT) announced its lineup of nine shows for the upcoming season. This diverse and entertaining collection promises something for everyone, from musicals ranging from classic to quirky on the Schneider main stage, to plays providing uproarious laughter and food for thought in the black box theater.Schneider Theater:Singin' in the RainLes MiserablesThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling BeeGypsyBlack Box Theater:On Golden PondProofStriking 12Agnes of GodThe Odd CoupleOn Golden Pond, July 12 - August 4, 2013, Directed by Jon Ferguson In this tender yet humorous story, meet aging couple Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend each summer on a lake called Golden Pond. During the year the story takes place, they are visited by daughter Chelsea with her fiance and his son in tow. The play explores the often turbulent relationship the young woman shared with her father growing up, and the difficulties faced by a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage.Singin' in the Rain, August 16 - September 15, 2013, Directed by Michael Matthew FerrellThis zany, light-hearted romantic comedy focuses on two movie actors and how they deal with the transition from silent pictures to the early days of sound film. Set in the 1920s, Singin' in the Rain has all the charm, romance, comedy and glamour that Hollywood has to offer, and showers you with soaring dance numbers and a glorious score including "Singin' in the Rain" and "Good Mornin'."Proof, September 13 - October 6, 2013, Directed by Alan Sorenson This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman on the eve of her 25th birthday. After years of caring for her brilliant but unstable father - a famous mathematician - Catherine must deal with her own volatile feelings following his death, as well as the arrival of her estranged sister and the attentions of one of her father's former students who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, mysteries draw Catherine into a most difficult problem: How much of her father's madness - or genius - will she inherit?Les Miserables, October 17 - November 16, 2013, Directed by Karen WeberEpic, grand and uplifting, it is the powerful affirmation of the human spirit that has made Les Miserables a popular masterpiece. In a tale of passion and destruction in 19th century France, Jean Valjean, wrongly imprisoned for 19 years, is released. Finding nothing but mistrust and mistreatment, he breaks parole hoping to begin a new life; instead he begins a life-long struggle for redemption. When his past is exposed, he is forced to abandon everything and run. Nine years later, with revolution tearing Paris apart, all involved must question what they're willing to sacrifice in pursuit of love and justice.~more~Striking 12, December 13 - December 31, 2013, Directed by Christine WeberStriking 12 returns as BCT's annual holiday show weaving a modern-day New Year's Eve into Hans Christian Andersen's classic fable "The Little Match Girl." This unique hybrid of musical theater and live concert tells the story of a grumpy, overworked New Yorker whose resolve to spend New Year's Eve alone crumbles when an unexpected visitor brings some much needed cheer. The show springs to life through an eclectic score of new music with roots in classical, musical theater, jazz, and rock. A special New Year's Eve closing performance will include a post-show reception and ticket revenue will support theater tickets for children and their families from Project Success and Hillcrest Elementary School.The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, January 17 - February 16, 2014, Directed by Joe Chvala From the creator of Striking 12 (regionally premiered by BCT last season), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescents vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award-winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.Agnes of God, February 28 - March 23, 2014, Directed by Robert GoudyCourt-appointed psychiatrist Dr. Martha Livingstone is summoned to a convent and charged with assessing the sanity of a young novice nun accused of murdering her newborn. The Mother Superior determinedly keeps young Agnes from the doctor, arousing suspicions further. The doctor's questions force all three women to re-examine the meaning of faith and the power of love leading to a dramatic, compelling climax.Gypsy, April 25 - May 25, 2014, Directed by Zach Curtis Set in the 1920s when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born, Gypsy is a classic showbiz musical. Loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy tells the story of Mama Rose, the ultimate stage mother, and how her daughter Louise, a child Vaudeville actor, became the famous burlesque stripper. Hear legendary music and lyrics by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, including "Let Me Entertain You" and "Everything's Coming Up Roses."The Odd Couple, May 16 - June 8, 2014, Directed by David MannAn American comedy classic, this Tony Award winner centers on mismatched roommates, Oscar and Felix. When recently failed marriages force slovenly Oscar and fastidious Felix to share an apartment, their relationship begins to resemble the patterns of their own disastrous marriages. The roommates must determine whether their differences are irreconcilable. As the audience enjoys the non-stop hilarity, Oscar and Felix realize they are both better people as a result of their friendship.For more information about Bloomington Civic Theatre's upcoming season, visit www.btacmn.org or call 952-563-8575. Season ticket renewals may be ordered online, by phone, or in person starting the end of March. New Season Tickets may be ordered in the same manner beginning April 1.BCT is a program of the Bloomington Theatre and Art Center (BTAC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed in 2009 from the merger of the Bloomington Civic Theatre and Bloomington Art Center. BTAC offers high quality theater productions, art education for children and adults, and visual arts exhibitions featuring the work of emerging and established artists from Minnesota and surrounding states. BCT is proud to be a participating theater in the Twin Cities Ivey Awards.
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Prolong the working life of your cloud applications
Plan for the future
Posted in Cloud, 4th October 2013 10:19 GMT
Application lifecycle management (ALM) is a critical foundational concept. We haven't always called it this – and no doubt there will be new names as marketing requires them – but the idea has been there all along.
In the past few years we have started to formalise processes around this concept, just in time for the cloud to come along and change everything.
ALM is simple to understand and fiendishly complex to implement. The concept is that all applications have a lifespan: they are conceived, created, maintained and then retired.
Maintenance includes both development and operational issues such as patching, feature additions, versioning and scaling.
From one viewpoint, this is the definition of our industry. People don't buy computers just for the sake of it; they buy them because the applications you can run on them serve a definable need.
It's magic
It is the details that matter. ALM treats many elements as black boxes. This is where the operations or development guys wave their magic wands and something occurs.
With the rapid uptake of cloud computing and the rise of the DevOps movement, the shape of the pretty charts and the responsibility arrows are changing.
Not so long ago, most developers had things pretty easy. They had enormous power to dictate the environments their applications ran in, and they didn't have that many environments to worry about.
If you were writing end-user applications you had a choice of Windows or Apple – and it was considered acceptable simply to ignore Apple.
Server-side stuff was much more difficult. There were a dozen different varieties of Unix and Linux that mattered, and each did things just differently enough to make installing and running your application a bit of a pig.
Masters of the universe
But in this era of developer supremacy, it was also considered acceptable simply to ignore petty details such as ease of installation, and point the finger of blame at operations. Developers defined the environment the application was to run in, and the job of operations was to make it do so.
This generated situations that proved to be painful whenever upgrades or platform changes were called for. As the internet became a tool of business and leisure the problems could only intensify.
The emergence of the web roughly corresponded with some big changes in platforms. Windows became a force within the IT industry. The main Unix platforms started to consolidate while Linux and BSD took off. Apple entered a dark place and virtually every other platform went deeply niche or evaporated altogether.
The web emerged as an application delivery mechanism. Standards were created, abandoned, extended, abused and ignored. Browser development stalled for years while new security bugs threatened everything on the internet – which turned out to be a lot more than should ever have been allowed near it.
Hardware changes hit the industry like a whirlwind. Application developers saw their user base at the beginning of their application's lifespan drinking the internet through a 14.4kbps dial-up straw; by the end they were connected to it 24/7 through a 1.5Mbps broadband link and an 11Mbps Wi-Fi connection.
Operations departments responded by establishing rigid refresh cycles in the hope of providing some form of stability to developers. Management kept cutting back the budgets and developers kept pushing back the refresh cycle dates.
Stop the world
As we entered the new century, something had to give. Developers couldn't possibly address such rapid diversity, and operations teams were stretched to the limit as they tried to find a balance between securing systems, updating them to meet user demand and keeping badly maintained applications running.
In the early 2000s Microsoft merged its consumer and business Windows lines into a single offering. Hardware changes became less radical and more incremental.
The standards wars of the late 90s were mostly a bitter memory. Even the software used for common tasks was being supplied by at most three key players per category. By now even the most bureaucratic management machine was becoming aware of how vital IT was to the successful functioning of a business.
Unfortunately this came about because the preceding 10 years had seen a shocking string of blunders and calamities which meant that the nerds had to be brought to heel.
It is here that ALM started to enter the lexicon of our industry. Bickering operations and development fiefdoms were no longer tolerated. Finger pointing wasn't solving problems and management frameworks emerged to deal with the rapid pace of change in IT.
Peace and harmony
Now we have cloud services. You can roll your own, rent resources from a local service provider or go with one of the heavy-hitter cloud providers.
Developers don't need to fight with operations to get a new environment spun up to work in. They can fill out a form on a web page and have a virtual machine configured to their specifications in minutes.
The operations team does not need to fight with developers to scale applications. New virtual machines can be spun up as demands increase and spun down when they are not needed.
Patches and operating system changes can be tested easily and well in advance of mainstream deployments. Workloads can be moved from on-premises to service provider to public cloud and back again. A nirvana of chaos avoidance is waiting for all, if only we'd embrace it!
Such, at least, is the marketing hullabaloo. Some of it – in fact a lot of it – is actually pretty accurate. If you want to see a bunch of people who can do amazing things with cloud services go to PuppetConf. These people have this stuff in the bag.
Buzzword Bingo
No matter how many layers of abstraction we try to build between the code and the hardware that runs the workload, ALM is still a very real consideration.
That software you are writing has to execute on an operating system. It is going to present an interface to the user somehow, store its data somewhere and probably require third-party libraries and data sources to make it all work.
Migrate a PHP application off an old server onto a brand new one and you will find that short tags have been deprecated and are off by default now. There is nothing wrong with your application, but because you didn't get the memo that short tags were deprecated it won't run unless you tweak a setting.
Cloud computing won't make software dependency problems go away
Migrate from MySQL 5.1 to 5.6 and changes in the optimiser can turn a previously fast application into a slow-motion nightmare, complete with end-user riots, pitchforks and torches.
Cloud computing – or more accurately, the self-service model it stands for – is a machete for a certain type of red tape, but it won't make these sorts of software dependency problems go away. What it does do is change the focus of your ALM.
ALM will become synonymous with change management. The vision of project managers who deal with IT will move from the tactical to the strategic.
Instead of developing with an eye only on the immediate problem, or the budgets and worries or the upcoming quarterly review, design and development will encompass years. What is the useful lifetime of this application? One year? Two years, perhaps, or even 10?
Pick a vendor
Change entails risk. Who do you build on? What underpins your application? That is really the most important question underpinning ALM. Your choices at the beginning of the project determine how it will all play out over time.
Vendor selection is a tricky thing. Many of the applications used by businesses today haven't seen major overhauls in 10 or even 20 years.
If you dedicate yourself to a cloud provider, will it still be there decades from now?
The goliaths probably will be. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are no Nirvanix. They are not going to up and close shop with two weeks notice; if they did, the economies of entire nations would probably implode.
That doesn't prevent a slower, more lingering death. Nor does it prevent one from pulling so far ahead of the others that you are at a significant competitive disadvantage because you chose the lesser weevil.
Amazon's relentless drive to evaporate margins can only work for so long. It is a great tool to drive market share, but you can't achieve growth through market share alone and eventually you have to go back and turn the knobs on your (hopefully) captive audience.
When that day comes, the knob turning will become an addiction – one that many of the businesses that have chosen Amazon won't survive.
Google is currently rudderless. There is a lot of "follow the leader" but very little banner-waving differentiation. Selling spare capacity and monetising in-house developed platforms worked well for Amazon, but what is Google's hook?
If all it has is price – and that's how it seems today – that is worrisome. You can't compete with Amazon on price unless you are heavily subsidising with ad revenues – an issue with a populace recently reawakened to privacy concerns.
There are reservations to be had about Microsoft. With CEO Steve Ballmer on his way out, who takes up the baton? If it is Satya Nadella, vice-president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, then there is a good chance that all the good done by the server and Azure teams over the next few years will continue for a decade or more.
Everybody welcome
Microsoft's server folks have the right approach to things. You use the same infrastructure and management tools – even the same development tools – to run your own on-premise infrastructure, talk to a local service provider or deal with Microsoft's Azure public cloud.
You can move a workload from A to B to C and back again with a minimum of fuss. You can even automate it if you like.
The technology is good and Microsoft right now is really the only player that can offer it in an easy-to-use and tested fashion. The differentiator is that it is not just about the underlying infrastructure, but about deep integration between the infrastructure tools, the operating systems that live on that infrastructure and the infrastructure-like applications (SQL, IIS and so on) that run on top of them.
Ideally Microsoft software should offer similar tight integration with other operating systems and infrastructure-level applications. There is still a lot of ground to cover, but the company is getting there.
Unless something radical happens Microsoft looks set to continue its drive to make outsiders first-class citizens on its infrastructure.
Changed landscape
Like it or not, ALM's strategic thinking is becoming a basic requirement of development. "Buy exactly the same computers our developers use and set up your whole network just like their test lab" simply won't fly, no more so than "IE6 only" is a viable option for websites today.
The tools available to developers are making development easier; along with this comes the ability to kick recalcitrant devs who are still trying to control the end-user environment.
While it this is a concern to those offering packaged software for consumption by the mass market, it is also a real consideration for in-house developers.
The tools today have changed the landscape so thoroughly that it may well be easier for departments to fund a guerrilla IT version of their own skunkworks project rather than try to cut through the red tape of internal IT.
When that starts happening people get fired. Whether you are Dev or Ops, internal IT or a packaged vendor, that makes it worth paying attention to ALM. ®


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All across the web Republicans seem to have hit their limit with this administration. I've been fed up with them for years and threw in the towel months ago.
Now others are fed up as well.
Captain's Quarters has a nice thought out and polite version of dissent.
The lack of conservative values in the basic functions of this Congress and government and the association nonetheless with conservatism has the Right extremely frustrated. They see the result of this situation becoming a discreditation of true conservatism that could set the movement back thirty years, and conservatives have decided to take a stand now in the final midterm of the Bush administration. Too much hangs in the balance, with immigration and federal spending out of control. If the movement is to survive, it has to either take control or establish its own identity again outside of current Republican leadership.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler is not quite so polite
Of course, it also allows Jorge Bullshito's gay boyfriend Vicente's government to dutifully inform their illegal immigrants where not to cross since, you know, they might be caught if they do.
And that would be ever so much against President Limpwrist's Full Amnesty for rapists, drug runners and murderers program.
I can't fucking WAIT to see that traitorous fucknozzle running from impeachments for the last two years of his Benedict Arnold "presidency."
And that would be ever so much against President Limpwrist's Full Amnesty for rapists, drug runners and murderers program.
I can't fucking WAIT to see that traitorous fucknozzle running from impeachments for the last two years of his Benedict Arnold "presidency."
Preston Taylor Holmes concurs with Misha.
Then of course we have La Shawn Barber yesterday calling for President Bush's impeachment.
I believe George Bush's failure to enforce immigration law and stop the foreign invasion, which he has the power and authority to do, warrants impeachment.
I agreed with La Shawn.
RightWingSparkle, the most devout "Bushite" I know and seems to defend everything he does, is now talking about being a "trapped conservative" -- defending Bush while disagreeing with him on a lot.
We conservatives are so busy dispelling the myths and the lies of the left we can't even express our anger over the immigration mess, the spending, the compromises, the lack of the veto pen, and the blank check the government seems to want to give to all those things to do with Katrina.
I suspect we'll see many more coming out as I see the frustration building more and more.
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Posted by Digger on May 11, 2006 08:36 AM (Permalink)
Welcome to the dark side, peoples. :)
Posted by: JimK on May 11, 2006 11:01 AM
The spending is for businesses (you know, those that run this country).
If you're against business you're not a true American.
Even the illegals support america's businesses.
Posted by: Robert on May 12, 2006 02:19 AM
You gave up on bush recently? I did that long ago, when he let saudies off the hook after 9/11. Wasn't that a perfect example of treason?
Posted by: Igor on May 13, 2006 12:56 PM
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As a Coach and Consultant in the Healing Art of Living, Cheryl Stoll, over the past three decades, has taught the Star Wisdom Teaching around the world.
Born in the Caribbean and brought up in the UK, from an early age Cheryl combined a capacity to bring order to her surroundings with one of nurturing others. The eldest child of seven, she acted as second mother to her younger siblings, and became adept at organising and coping with many situations, always having an eye on what was needed by whom and when. The family was brought up to have an interest in learning and accessing their inner resources, rather than relying on external forms of entertainment to amuse them. Cheryl's ability to bring undiluted attention to the matter in hand has led her to go deeply into understanding our human condition.
Following her marriage to Dennis Stoll in 1978, through joining him in his work, she began to develop her many gifts. As an Ancient Egyptian Temple Dancer, she appeared at the Festival of Mind and Body in London and was featured in a front-page photograph in the Sunday Times. Tours of Holland followed; performances by the dancers, workshops, seminars and classes continued in London and other parts of the UK. Together, Cheryl and Dennis led two Nile cruises of self-discovery. The Dance of the Cosmos and the Star Wisdom Teaching were evolved at this time. Settling for several years in Australia, performances, seminars, classes and workshops ensued and led to an appearance on prime-time TV.
They returned to the UK and continued to teach, hold seminars, and workshops, while Cheryl also give private sessions. After Dennis' death in December 1987, Cheryl embarked on a tour of the world and settled in the United States, setting up the New York Sanctuary where she continued her private practice and began the Art of Living Series of classes. Performances, seminars and lectures took place at various venues, including the Open Center.
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It was after a retreat at the Grand Canyon, that Cheryl led in 1993, that her own abilities as a painter began to unfold in an explosion of colour. She found she could best express what she was trying to show other artists, who came to her for guidance, by painting it herself. All the years of teaching, understanding, counselling and healing came together with her innate sense of beauty and harmony to bring about paintings that express the unseen world and its relationship to the visible universe.
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Cheryl has evolved a unique style and technique in her work. In 1993 she had her first art exhibition at the New York Sanctuary. Between 1995 and 1999 annual solo shows of her paintings and poetry took place in London. Her paintings are currently available from her studio in New York; in limited quantities, at certain of her events; and through the online Art Gallery of this website.
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2012 saw her turn her attention to the creation of this website as a means of making the Star Wisdom Teaching widely accessible. In his centenary year, to celebrate the work Dennis had begun and that she continues, she launched the teaching with a world tour.
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What do you think about when you hear the name Amelia Earhart? We usually think that she was a great aviator and that her plane was lost somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
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Amelia was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She learned to fly from another female pilot named Neta Snook in 1921, and went on to set the women's altitude record the following year.
In 1928, Amelia was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and also wrote a book titled 20 hrs. 40 min.
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Amelia Earhart had a lot of "firsts" in 1935. She was the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean; the first person to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City; and the first woman to compete in the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1937, Amelia began her first attempt at an around-the-world flight in Oakland, California, and set a record for east-west (Oakland to Hawaii) travel in 15 hours, 47 minutes. Her second attempt began in Miami, and her plane disappeared somewhere near the Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937.
In honor of the 75th anniversary of her disappearance, a group called The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) is starting a search for the missing plane around the island of Nikumaroro and the western Pacific Ocean. The TIGHAR group will use advanced technology to search underwater for signs of man-made objects. You can follow along with their progress here.
The St. Joseph News-Press paper reported that visitors have been flocking to Atchison, Kansas where there is the birthplace museum of Amelia Earhart.
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The weather here has been a bit weird – it got warm for a while, and then this week it's been cool again. It even rained a couple of times, which is downright bizarre. But the farmer's markets should be looking good, so I can get some fresh, in-season produce because I also want to make our meals with less meat. I've been reading Mark Bittman's blog, and that along with his article in a recent issue of Cooking Light has me convinced that I should at least try to downsize the amount of meat in our diet. There's no better time for such an experiment than when fresh produce is bountiful and delicious.


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Tomorrow would have been Steve Jobs 57th birthday, Estonia's independence day (1991), Wilhelm Grimm's birth anniversary (1786-of Grimm's Fairy Tales fame), Pittsburgh's own Honus Wagner's birth anniversary (1874) and Chester Nimitz's birth anniversary (1885-commander of all forces in the Pacific Theater during World War Two).
OK, OK, OK. I don't hate Catholics, stop being mad at me. I hate organized Muslims, Catholics, Presbyterians, Jews, Hindus all of them and the ones I missed. In my world, things are right and things are wrong. I acknowledge there are degrees, running a stop sign is less wrong than stabbing a man to death. But it's still wrong. Killing a human is wrong, it is one of the most wrongs. To say it's OK to kill the infidels to take back the holy land was wrong. To kill inocent people in the name of Jiah is just as wrong. And that was a church that not only sanctioned those killings, they offered special dispensations to the crusaders. As does the current Muslim Jiadist clerics. Organized churches sanctioned slavery, killing young women accused of being witches, gays and anyone else that didn't fit in their mold of what they wanted.
Here's a novel idea, why not rent your kids toys? Toy sales is a $21.8B industry. Toddlers in particular loose interest in new toys quickly. As kids get older and define their interests, toys have more longevity. Nikki Pope founded Toygaroo that operates a lot like Netflix. You choose a membership level and can receive from four to eight toys at a time. Membership runs from $24.99 to $52.99. There are no due dates or late fees. You keep the toys until you are ready to trade them in. More info at their web site. Locally, thee's the Pittsburgh Toy Lending Library that has a similar program at 5401 Centre Avenue, Shadyside. More info at their web site or by calling 412.682.4430.
The old Pittsburgh Morgue at 542 Fourth Avenue Downtown has been designated to become a county office building by 2013. (If you remember the morgue moved to a county building in the Strip between Penn & Liberty by the 16th Street bridge. After extensive renovations, including adding a floor, it is one of the most modern morgues in the country). The county is expecting to spend about $4.5M to upgrade the mechanicals in the building as a comprehensive approach. They also are going to add a second floor in the space over the old actual morgue. They intend to move the law offices currently in the Fort Pitt Commons to the new facility. There will be no alteration to the exterior or any of the historic interior facilities. I believe the morgue was designed by HH Richardson, he worked all over the country. In Pittsburgh he did our Courthouse and connecting Jail as well as Emanuel Episcopal Church right down the street from me.
There's an interesting art showing at the Box Heart Gallery at 4523 Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield through March 3. Photographer Nadim Sabella is from San Francisco where property values don't allow a property to deteriorate too bad. He became fascinated with abandoned house and has taken photographs of houses in the process of returning to the earth. He's taken these photos from abandoned houses in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and New Orleans after Katrina. Not only has he taken these thought provoking images, he actually created a miniature house complete with decaying rooms. Old abandoned buildings have always been a draw to me. I love going into them and seeing the depressing deterioration while enjoying details you'll never see in modern buildings. I love the uniqueness as opposed to the cookie cutter approach in current building projects.
There's a new web site that seems kind of cool. Nextdoor.com is a site that links neighbors together, like chatting across the fence, but virtually. A neighborhood group starts a site and to join, you need to verify that you live within the boundaries. There is currently 13 registered Pittsburgh neighborhoods with around 600 involved. I think this concept has a lot of potential. Instead of waiting for the monthly neighborhood meeting and then missing it because you were in Florida and having to wait another month, you have instant access. You could pass on relevant information, ask local questions and if your neighborhood association is a part actually have the minutes of the monthly meetings posted. Overall, I prefer face to face interactions, but have no problems with enhancing the world with virtual options as well.
I met Patty Knouse a couple of years ago when I ran the Allegheny West Gift Shop during their holiday tours. Her and daughter Nicole had a booth and were selling teas and tea accompaniments. She was talking about starting a tea house. Well apparently she opened one with a partner and then decided to go off on her own. Her and her daughter (that makes jewelry) started AntiquiTea Tearoom and Gift Shop at 454 Perry Highway in West View. They are open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. and offer the high tea experience as well as regular lunches. They also host larger shower type teas upstairs. They have a gift shop with Nicole's jewelry, tea acrudements, bagged and loose tea. More info at 412.301.0283 or their web site.
Penn Forest Natural Burial Park, in Penn Hills, has been certified by the Green Burial Council. The Green Burial Council out of Santa Fe accredits funeral homes, crematoriums and cemeteries that offer eco-friendly products. Penn Forest, founded last year specifies that no toxic embalming fluids can be used, caskets and shrouds must be biodegradable and grave markers must be made of local wood or stone and be flat to the ground. They only have one grave in the 32 acres cemetery, but have sold 20 plots.
Watch out Betty, Peter Kantorowski, 71 has filed to evict his 98 year old mother. 🙂 Peter became owner of Mary's home several years ago as part of a financial planning move (I assume to avoid inheritance tax). This is not as cold blooded as it first appears. Mary's ability to fend for herself has deteriorated to a point that she's somewhat of a danger to herself. And she doesn't want to leave the house she's lived in for sixty years. We just went through that with Betty two years ago (not evicting her, but convincing her that moving into an independent senior apartment was best for all. It was very hard on her [and us] to give up the old homestead.) I can only imagine trying to convince her in another 10+ years to make the move. My heart goes out to both Peter & Mary and wish them a smooth solution that will ensure her safety and care and his nerves.
Ten month old Sea Monster made her public debute last week at the Pittsburgh Aquarium. She's a Great Pacific Octopus that was caught up in a fisherman's net. She arrived in Pittsburgh last June. This twelve pound little cutie changes the color and texture of her outside "mantle" to blend in with her surroundings to hide from potential predators. Eric Kellar, her keeper, said if Great Pacific Octopus aren't continually stimulated, they will go insane. (When I mentioned this to some guests the other day, that asked how can you tell if an octopus is insane). 🙂 To keep her stimulated, Eric hides tasty morsels in her aquarium to keep her on her toes (actually six foot tenticles). 🙂 She recognizes people by their smell and clothing. When Eric is not working with her, he locks a lid over her enclosure. She's frequently seen probing the lock to see if she can get loose.
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(Welcome all! With the NFL becoming more of a passing league, the "Cover 9" blog will become all of the rage. You can read it here every Wednesday at 9 a.m. throughout the season. We'll try to get to everything about the Atlanta Falcons. Here's my first installment of Cover 9@9. – D. Orlando Ledbetter)
1. Rob Gehring -- @RobGehringNFL on twitter.com -- has worked the last 20 years for the NFL. The supervising producer and director of HBO's Hard Knocks reality show has been walking the grounds at Flowery Branch and likes the landscape. It has an "old school" feel for him.
"That's going to be neat for us," Gehring said. "We haven't shot at a campus or college type of environment since probably the Jets. I think that is going to be fun for us in terms of the chemistry-building, the team-building and everybody in that play-ville space, just kind of always being around each other. I think that will be a neat wrinkle for the show."
HBO's robotic cameras are in place all around the facilities. The 30-member crew for Hard Knocks, the 11-time Emmy winning sports documentary show, has already started shooting. The first episode airs at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 5.
Their first event was coach Mike Smith's staff meeting Tuesday morning. Later in the day, the cameras were rolling as the 29 rookies moved into their rooms.
"In the beginning when Steve (Sabol) wanted to do this show, he wanted to show how hard it was to make an NFL roster," Gehring said. "He always loved the content of these guys at the back end of the roster, the 53rd man. Sometimes it's a seven-round pick. Sometimes it's an undrafted guy. He always really liked that."
Starr, wide receivers Bernard Reedy and Geraldo Boldewijn, a native of Amsterdam, will get some attention.
"Those guys will definitely be characters in the show and I think draft picks in general are always characters in the show," Gehring said.
2. With the cameras in the meeting rooms, the viewers might get to see the "I'm not a nice guy" Coach Smith. Normally, he's composed and scripted for his media briefings and comes off as everybody's Uncle Smitty. I've seen the "not a nice guy" dude!
He also will strive to end the "myth" that he's not tough enough on his players. "Do I have to kick ass more? I think I have to dispel some myths: Mike Smith is not a nice guy," he said.
He's fierce! Smith is firm and very clear when he makes his points. However, I haven't heard him use profanity. So, there probably will not be any "Now, let's go eat a god damn snack!" sound bites.
"I'm just starting to get to know Coach Smith now," Gehring said. "My impression is that he's probably a little bit of both. He's been very good to us. He's been very kind. He's been very helpful. He's been very open minded about the things that we want to try and do on the show. I haven't had a chance to really see him be tough with the players, but they haven't put on any pads yet. He hasn't been a hard ass with us yet, but I'm sure that's coming, too."
3. Smith has become comfortable with the cameras. He expects the team will be at ease after a few days.
"Well, they've been here through our minicamp, so it's nothing new for us," Smith said. "Again, our focus is on putting together the roster. I don't think it's going to affect us one bit. We know what our task is and our task is to get these guys prepared. We have to put the best 53 guys together to open the season. I don't think after a day or two, it's going to affect the players either.
"Once we get into the swing of training camp, it's training camp. We are always under a microscope in this league and I don't think this (exhibition) season is going to be any different."
4. We need to get an update on Arthur Blank's wedding plans. I don't know if a date has been set, but Blank and fiancée Angie Macuga still look so happy when you see them.
What do you get a billionaire for a wedding gift? A gift card from Kohl's is probably is not a enough.
5. I'm certain that Hard Knocks will save some air time for Blank.
Last season, Bengals owner Mike Brown was on a few times. I remember Jets owner Woody Johnson being on the show during the Darrelle Revis holdout.
"I certainly think that Mr. Blank, especially, will be a part of this," Gehring said. "Obviously, he's an owner who on NFL Sundays is around the team. He's down on the sidelines . . . He's a very busy man, so if we have a chance to shoot him we'll be pretty lucky. But, I certainly think he'll be a part of the show. In what capacity, I don't think we've figured that out yet.
"Hard Knocks is a show that documents what happens. We try to be as authentic as we can. So, if Mr. Blank comes to camp, we'll document it."
6. Some folks have checked in with their predictions for the season, including my colleague Mark Bradley. He's expecting the Falcons to bounce back and post a 10-6 mark.
Hub Arkush's Pro Football Now Preview magazine has the Falcons picked to finish 9-7 and in third place in the NFC South behind New Orleans (10-6) and Carolina (9-7). They have the Bucs slated to finish 7-9.
The Sporting News 2014 Football magazine has the Falcons picked to finish third, too.
Athlon Sports' Pro Football magazine has Matt Ryan on the cover. They also predict a third place finish.
Lindy's Sports Pro Football 2014 Preview magazine , which also has Ryan on the cover, has the Falcons predicted to finish fourth.
7. Pat Angerer, who was signed by the Falcons on Tuesday, played all 16 games once in four seasons with the Colts.
He started 11 of 16 games as rookie and all 16 games in 2011. He was slowed by injuries over the last two years and the Colts elected not to re-sign him.
He was not disgruntled when he received the news.
"I understand," Angerer said to the Indianapolis Star in March. "I've been hurt the past two years.
"It's part of the business. It's part of the game. There comes a time when you've got to move on. I wish I could have played better here. I wish I hadn't gotten hurt.''
He underwent right knee surgery in late December and ended last season on injured reserve.
In 2012, he fractured a bone in his right foot that required two surgeries.
Thank you all for the well wishes! Been very fortunate by how things have gone. Excited for the resurgence! pic.twitter.com/nbPzEFmZeJ
— Pat Angerer (@PAngererUSA) July 22, 2014
In 2011, he led the Colts with 146 tackles, which was fourth in the NFL. He was second on the team with 75 tackles as a rookie.
"I wouldn't change anything, other than I wish I hadn't gotten hurt,'' Angerer said. "But like I said, I can still play this game.
"There were games where I had a cortisone shot in my knee and I still had double-digit tackles. I can still do this. It's just a matter of getting healthy and taking care of the things I need to take care of.''
8. Wide receiver Jeremy Ebert is a speedster. He's been timed between 4.38 and 4.44 seconds in the 40-yard dash. He was timed in the 3-cone drill at 6.70 at Northwestern's Pro Day back in 2012. That time would have been the seventh fastest at the 2014 combine.
9. Extra points: The cheerleaders recently unveiled their new uniforms …I asked one of my friends, who's a Georgia alum and football supporter, if the Bulldogs need to do more "character-based" recruiting. I'm waiting for his response to my text. "Character-based/related" scouting seems to have helped the Falcons. There were no arrests over the offseason, while Baltimore had five arrests. . . . Television station CW69 will air Falcons Rise Weekly show on Saturdays at 6 p.m. which will be hosted by former Falcons linebacker Coy Wire and the lovely Rashan Ali, Falcons Inside the Locker Room-After the Game with player interviews by Dave Archer and Wes Durham and in studio analysis from J.P. Peterson, formerly of 790TheZone. Falcons playback will air on Mondays at 6 p.m. and will be hosted by Randy Waters and D.J. Shockley. Jenn Hobby will handle the fan segment.
Excited to be part of the @Atlanta_Falcons organization, time to get to work!— Jeremy Ebert (@Jebes11) July 22, 2014
WR 11 Julio Jones, 13 Darius Johnson, 14 Courtney Roby, 18 Freddie Martino, 89 Bernard Reedy,
LT 72 Sam Baker, 76 Lamar Holmes, 74 Terren Jones
LG 63 Justin Blalock, 68 Gabe Carimi, 67 Adam Replogle
C 61 Joe Hawley, 66 Peter Konz, 62 James Stone
RG 75 Jon Asamoah, 69 Harland Gunn
RT 70 Jake Matthews, 79 Mike Johnson 73 Ryan Schrader
TE 80 Levine Toilolo, 86 Bear Pascoe, 82 Mickey Shuler, 81 Jacob Pedersen, 49 Brian Wozniak
WR 84 Roddy White, 83 Harry Douglas, Jeremy Ebert, 15 Geraldo Boldewijn, 16 Julian Jones, 87 Tramaine Thompson
QB 2 Matt Ryan, 8 T.J. Yates, 12 Sean Renfree, 9 Jeff Mathews
RB 39 Steven Jackson, 32 Jacquizz Rodgers, 35 Antone Smith, 33 Devonta Freeman, 30 Josh Vaughan, 34 Jerome Smith
FB 42 Patrick DiMarco, 45 Maurice Hagens, 43 Roosevelt Nix
4-3 DEFENSE (with an extra line for the nickel back)
RE 95 Jonathan Babineaux, 50 Osi Umenyiora, 96 Jonathan Massaquoi, 90 Stansly Maponga
DT 99 Tyson Jackson, 92 Travian Robertson, *91 Corey Peters,
DT 96 Paul Soliai, 97 Peria Jerry, 98 Cliff Matthews, 65 Donte Rumph
LE 77 Ra'Shede Hageman, 98 Malliciah Goodman, 49 Tyler Starr, 64 Nosa Equae
OLB 71 Kroy Biermann, 48 Brenden Daley, 45 Jacques Smith
MLB 55 Paul Worrilow, Pat Angerer, 53 Prince Shembo, 52 Tim Dobbins, 54 Yawin Smallwood
OLB 59 Joplo Bartu, 53 Prince Shembo, 51 Marquis Spruill, 46 Walker May,
RCB 21 Desmond Trufant, 28 Javier Arenas, 37 Ricardo Allen,
NB 26 Josh Wilson, 27 Robert McClain, 28 Javier Arenas, 41 Dezmen Southward
LCB 23 Robert Alford, 24 Jordan Mabin, 43 Devonta Glover-Wright
SS 25 William Moore, 36 Kemal Ishmael, 40 Kimario McFadden, *22 Zeke Motta
FS 20 Dwight Lowery, 41 Dezmen Southward, 29 Sean Baker
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K 3 Matt Bryant, 6 Sergio Castillo
KO 5 Matt Bosher
P 5 Matt Bosher
KR 17 Devin Hester, 28 Javier Arenas, 14 Courtney Roby
PR 17 Devin Hester, 27 Robert McClain, 28 Javier Arenas
LS 47 Josh Harris
H 5 Matt Bosher
Date Practice Times (public availability)
Tuesday, July 22 Rookies report
Thursday, July 24 Veterans report
Friday, July 25 Practice 3:30 – 5:50 p.m. (open to the public)
Saturday, July 26 Practice 3:30 – 5:50 p.m. (open to the public)
Sunday, July 27 Practice 3:30 – 6:05 p.m. (open to the public)
Monday, July 28 Practice 3:30 – 6:05 p.m. (open to the public)
Tuesday, July 29 Practice 3:30 – 6:05 p.m. (open to the public)
Wednesday, July 30 Players' Day Off (No Media Availability)
Thursday, July 31 Practice 3:30 – 6:05 p.m. (open to the public)
Friday, August 1 "Friday Night Lights" at Archer High School (Lawrenceville)
6:45 – 9:10 p.m. (open to the public)
Saturday, August 2 Practice 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. (open to the public)
Sunday, August 3 Practice 3:30 – 6:05 p.m. (open to the public)
Monday, August 4 Combined Practice w/Tennessee 3-5:30 p.m. (open to the public)
Tuesday, August 5 Players' Day Off (No Media Availability)
Wednesday, August 6 Practice 3:30 – 6:05 p.m. (open to the public)
Thursday, August 7 Pregame Walkthrough (No Media Availability)
Friday, August 8 Falcons vs. Miami Dolphins
Georgia Dome
7:00 p.m. ET – CW69
Saturday, August 9 Practice 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. (open to the public)
Sunday, August 10 Players' Day Off (No Media Availability)
Monday, August 11 Practice 3:30 – 5:50 p.m. (open to the public)
Tuesday, August 12 Practice 10:00 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. (open to the public)
Wednesday, August 13 Combined Practice w/ Houston Texans (Houston, TX)
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Falcons to practice with Titans, Texans in training camp
Falcons coach Mike Smith will try to rebound from first losing season on Hard Knocks
Sam Baker is back to help line re-establish its identity
Falcons WR Roddy White: 'Hard for me to deal with' death of a brother
How much the Falcons rookies will be paid
Rookies getting advice on NFL life
Open competition in training camp will be good for Undrafted Rookies
Sean Weatherspoon suffers season-ending Achilles injury
What's next for Sean Weaatherspoon?
What's next for the Falcons at linebacker?
Javier Arenas gets to watch longtime role model
Falcons minicamp is open to the public
Sean Weatherspoon to miss 2014 season
Matt Ryan on Harry Douglas' contribution to the offense
Falcons defensive line coach Bryan Cox
Falcons tight end Levine Toilolo
Falcons assistant head coach Terry Robiskie on Devin Hester
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In an attempt to cut down on waste, many stores are encouraging the use of reusable shopping totes by charging customers money to acquire a plastic bag. The nice thing about the Shopper-holic is that it was designed with the female consumer in mind, which is why the product design is simple yet fashionable.
This idea could also be translated into a masculine version for men. By offering a product that is visually appealing, it may encourage more people to use reusable bags when shopping.
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Be joyful evangelizers, Pope tells members of Catholic Action
May 05, 2014
Addressing 7,000 members of Catholic Action, Pope Francis said that parishes need the lay association's apostolic dynamism. "So many times we have Jesus closed in parishes with us, and we do not go out and do not let him get out."
The joy of encountering the risen Christ, Pope Francis added, must be internalized so that evangelizing may be efficacious. He advised the members of Catholic Action to "stay with Jesus," "go out," and "rejoice," and to avoid temptations to "quiet," "intimism," and "formal seriousness."
"We ask above all for a great and merciful heart, which desires the good and salvation of all," he added.
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When Jesus was evangelizing, He encountered all sorts of people who liked parts of what he taught, but they didn't like all of it, and therefore they walked away from Him. The same thing is happening today. I'd like to know what Pope Francis thinks should be taught when we evangelize. Everything or just parts of what Jesus taught?


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This is part 2 of my 3 part series where I took the important decision of leaving a high flying corporate life and joined a starup. I mentioned various fear factors in my last article.
Having decided to quit, next task is to prepare for the change. Good management principles teaches how one should plan for his or her exit or growth. Ideally people in the leadership roles should be developing an exit strategy from the time they take a position, its an integral part of career planning.
Plan Your Successor
Nobody is indispensable in a work environment.
First thing to do is delegate responsibilities and become invisible over a period of time. I planned and introduced my team to customer engagements that I've been handling, inter team interactions where I had to take decisions and other organization level activities. Before I communicated my decision to leave, I mentored and ensured that my team can independently handle all the activities that I was responsible for. This is another management principle where one become invisible or irrelavant so that he or she can move to the next level.
Its always a challenge when you have to take up new responsibilities during your notice period. Most times, it will be simple enough where one needs to use the knowledge and experience that he or she amassed over a period of time.
End of the day, you need to leave lasting impressions. Make sure that your work and relationships in the organization are not impacted, instead the respect for you goes up.
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This was easier than I thought. Once your financial status is clear, next set of tasks are:
- Build your network and keep the contacts live
- Update your linked in and let your connections know your plans. This will come handy in future
- Aquire machines and software you need if you are heading to a startup.
- Get cell connections, health insurance and such essentials. It will be difficult to manage these once you become nobody and when you don't have a salary statement to produce.
Overall, my exit and transition to the new phase were uneventful. I just didn't have breathing time as the work started with even more agression on the next day itself. More about that later.


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- Someone asked about balancing time spent on Twitter and other activities. My usual answer is that Twitter can be used to fill the interstices of the day, like time spent on the bus, or waiting for a phone call. But more broadly, don't see it as time-wasting. It's extraordinarily useful for journalists in many ways, including: pushing out your work, finding stories, making contacts, learning about critiques of your pieces, socialising, and...
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Seth Mnookin, for reasons best known only to him, decided to inflict me upon his Science Writing class at MIT. They asked great questions about getting into science writing, and doing it. I rambled. Seth transcribed. Here are the results, with some, er, director's commentary.
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Jesuit and leading scholar named chair of Catholic theology
October 12, 2012
After a two-year search, eminent scholar Edward Vacek, S.J., Ph.D., was named this fall as The Rev. Stephen J. Duffy Chair in Catholic Studies at Loyola University New Orleans.
As the first endowed chair in the humanities at Loyola, Vacek will work to advance scholarship and develop public programs concerned with the unique Catholic culture of Louisiana and the contributions of southern Catholics to American cultural history. Vacek comes to Loyola from the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, D.C., and prior to that, taught at Boston College from 2008 to 2011.
"Edward Vacek is a welcome presence here at Loyola," said Loyola University President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D. "His work will focus on how the Catholic tradition informs culture, institutions and ideas in an ever-changing society. That focus is very special to our roots as a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education."
One of Vacek's key responsibilities as chair is to develop new core and complementary courses, as well as team-taught, interdisciplinary courses in collaboration with faculty from the departments of philosophy, history and English. In addition to teaching courses in systematic theology, particularly in the area of Christian morality, Vacek will also host public lectures. As a Jesuit priest, he will be involved in the Eucharist and prayer at Loyola as well as offering service to the New Orleans Archdiocese.
Vacek spent 33 years in a pontifical seminary researching and writing to help the church's theology evolve. His work reflects his deep interest in social justice topics, including the fight against racism and sexism. Vacek has a license in sacred theology from Loyola University Chicago, a master's degree in philosophy and letters from St. Louis University, a master's of divinity from the Weston School of Theology and a doctorate in philosophy from Northwestern University. He joined the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in 1981, which later became the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
A widely published author, Vacek has contributed more than 60 articles to various popular and scholarly publications and is the author of the book "Love, Human and Divine." His current research explores the connections between emotions and the Christian life. After surviving Hurricane Isaac during the first week of school, Vacek says he is ready for more intellectual and spiritual challenges.
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Cardinal Dolan chosen as Notre Dame commencement speaker
March 06, 2013
The University of Notre Dame has announced that its commencement speaker this year will be Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, the president of the US bishops' conference.
The choice of Cardinal Dolan—who will also receive an honorary doctorate—contrasts sharply with the university's controversial decision to honor President Barack Obama at commencement ceremonies in 2009. Cardinal Dolan and President Obama have been political adversaries in the battle over the contraceptive mandate in the new federal health-care program.
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