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Next CEO's Job: Fixing Microsoft's Culture
How hard is the job Steve Ballmer will soon leave? WSJ's Shira Ovide joins digits with a look at the tasks ahead for Microsoft's next CEO. Photo: AP.
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... I ... welcome to Digits I'm Paul vignette how hard is the jobs the wall were will soon leave behind over Micra soft ... Wall Street Journal reporter Shira over day joins us from sentences go ... with a look at the tasks ahead for Microsoft's ... next CEO ... cheer up I ... you know yes ... Steve always there for a long time almost fourteen years ... yes he certainly left behind a culture ... bought at the end yes ... Microsoft is an extremely profitable company but that culture doesn't necessarily ... heard provide a lot of growth doesn't ... yet mean that ... aren't the problem that lacks Optus had over the last ten or fifteen years ... is while other companies like Apple and Amazon and who will have basically created new areas of computing from scratch and things like the I pod and the Kindle in the I phone and so on ... Mike soft is mostly miss the boat on a lot of those he knew transformative trends in computing ... and or storage they basically points to ... Micra soft cold sure that very thing that its successful being disciplined and kind of putting ... fewer of ... putting their own fury arrows that's the wrong expression ... basically be more disciplined about the number of projects that works on ... that's worked against the UN in areas where you really need to roll the dice on giant be outlandish ideas for a market run a new look ... do you make a lot of money with windows that make a lot of money with office we all know this ... and it is hard I would imagine it is hard I would know personally ... imagine starting your big-time executive or you know this kind of money coming in ... and you know your bonuses is set ... in solid ... to take a chance ... that's exactly right I mean it's a classic kind of business to land the train at the very quality is ... that all are put in place that made the company in a mixed seventy eight billion dollars in revenue is one of the most profitable companies in the world right they have no multiple of ... products that serve a billion people or more ... once you get to that scale it becomes really hard to make bets on things ... that don't seem like they're going to be a ... problem is that those kinds of bets that built the next billion dollar plus Ikea straight ... and what are the stats for a ticket to backstop the much talked to said ... if your doctor suggests the idea that could be a billion dollar idea forget ... how is we don't know in advance all the time whether idea is going to be going I didn't ... cry while you can ... you hear is the real thing you get to this in your post Henri enough ... it is that called for that were talking about ... is that ... leave with Steve Ballmer or is that the culture really deeply ingrained in the people below him ... write culture is very hard to change and that's why there are some ... outside observers who are saying basically ... this ... cupcake alternates be blown up ... the only way to do that is to bring in ... a true outsider CEO somebody who doesn't have that that report Micra soft for a long time ... ALM ... so ... but of course envelope over there people who have grown up in that culture and that is ... going to be very hard to change certain risk averse culture and I like to ... share them so that they're going to take up to twelve months to find a new CEO ... I can imagine the really have that much time ... are people talking about how soon they wanna get somebody in there ... yes I I think that's a very fair question that twelve months is a very long time for somebody like Steve Ballmer to be a lame duck Jamie and technology which is a fast changing if you ... we are out for for a weaker for six months it could be too late ... so their deftly are some folks inside the company who were urging the board to move more quickly than that he bolivars successor ... seem to come up with ... an ... eye health center people the CC Steve Palmer go ... I mean there certainly are some people who are feeling upset about it but ... those people feel like they're few and far between yet one of our colleagues talked over the weekend to ... a Mike SUP employee iam headquarters there and ... the employee basically said ... they're a lot people who said look at the stock price which were not pre significantly when Baldor announced he was stepping down ... and that was all they cared a great bet ... on Steve Palmer is going to our stock prices going up at spring ... yet ... RIAA can see right there thirty four dollars now I mean ... it's ... basically do and nowhere for decades Audi has the hoping for something you can come in in really move that thing ... there let people thought this decision was long overdue ... yet I fear think you're a much good stuff as always see soon ... thanks Paul ... I ... read more on Des beest dot com ...


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For my friend's birthday party a couple of weekends ago, I wanted to take a special cocktail. One that I've been wanting to try at home is the Ward 8–which is rye, lemon and orange juices, and grenadine–but Jen's allergic to orange juice, so I've never mixed it up here. However, I thought it might go over well at a party.
Rather than trucking oranges and lemons, though, I decided to premix the juices and grenadine the morning of the party, mix, and bottle them. For the grenadine, I used Paul Clarke's recipe from Imbibe magazine. I used equal parts Pom and superfine sugar (half a cup each), which I shook together in bottle. I added an ounce of pomegranate molasses (which we found at Whole Foods) and shook it some more. (Paul, by the way, has a couple of other variants on grenadine recipes on his blog, if you want other ideas.)
Ward 8 recipes come in varying proportions depending on the taste of the mixer. I looked at a number of recipes and decided on these proportions:
Ward 8
- 2 oz. rye whiskey
- 1 oz. fresh lemon juice
- ¾ oz. fresh orange juice
- ¼ oz. grenadine
Technique: Shake over ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
To scale this up to party measurements, I had to do a little math. Since I was planning to add the rye and ice at the party and then shake, I didn't add any water to the mix. (If you're fully premixing a cocktail to prechill and then serve later–that is, if you're mixing up the base spirit and all the modifiers and you're not planning to shake it over ice just before serving–it's good to add water since you won't have the water you'd get from the ice.)
A 750-ml bottle of spirit equals just over 25 ounces, and I was using an 8-4-3-1 ratio of rye-lemon-orange-grenadine. I ignored an ounce from the rye and came up with these proportions:
Ward 8, party style
- 24 oz. rye
- 12 oz. lemon juice
- 9 oz. orange juice
- 3 oz. grenadine
Technique: Shake the last three ingredients in a 24-oz. bottle.
When ready to serve, pour equal parts rye and juice-grenadine mix into a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a glass.


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The owner of the Park Cosmorama retail center at 5043 Park Ave. in East Memphis has filed a $2.2 million loan on the property.
Park Avenue LLC filed the Tennessee deed of trust, assignment of rents and leases and security agreement July 31through Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Co.
Built in 1954, the Class A, 30,800-square-foot strip center has two-buildings that sit on 2.4 acres on the south side of Park Avenue between White Station and Mendenhall roads. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $2.6 million.
Park Avenue LLC, whose chief manager and member Marlin Graber signed the trust deed, bought the property in 1998 for $3.2 million.
Cosmorama tenants include Memphis Pizza Cafe, Supercuts, GameStop, SAS Shoes, Honeybaked Ham and Tan-N-Go.
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The Shelby County Real Estate Road Show starts its second year Aug. 28 with an event that will provide information on the county's tax sale and land bank.
The free event will be held at the Hickory Hill Community Center, 3910 Ridgeway Road. Registration will begin at 5:30 p.m., with the 90-minute program starting at 6 p.m.
Real estate information company Chandler Reports is sponsoring the show. La Prensa Latina is participating as a media sponsor, and the event will be presented in English and Spanish.
Representatives from the Shelby County Chancery Court Clerk and Master's office, as well as a title attorney from the Shelby County Trustee's office, will be on hand to answer questions.
Since August 2012, county trustee David Lenoir has held road shows around the county for a number of groups, including real estate agents, real estate attorneys, nonprofit groups and neighborhood redevelopment organizations.
The show was created to promote the county tax sale and Shelby County Land Bank, and to solicit comments from the public to help improve the process of divesting county-owned properties, Lenoir said.
The county conducts four tax sales a year, with the next one scheduled for Sept. 13.
To register for the event, go to shelbycountytrustee.com and click on the "Real Estate Road Show" item under "Events."
– Amos Maki
The Memphis City Council approved a change Tuesday, Aug. 6, in the current fiscal year's budget that would take $469,040 in city funding for the Economic Development Growth Engine organization and instead allocate it to the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
The transit authority board was scheduled to vote Wednesday on service cuts that council members Janis Fullilove and Lee Harris wanted the funding shift to pay for keeping.
Meanwhile, in Tuesday committee sessions, Harris withdrew a proposal that would have required the city to give a month's notice before closing any police or fire stations and would have reappropriated $5.2 million specifically to keep Fire Station No. 6 from closing.
Last month, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s administration tentatively proposed closing the North Memphis firehouse. Wharton has since said there will be no closing of that firehouse or any other firehouse or police precinct in the current fiscal year. With that assurance, Harris withdrew both of his proposals.
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Larry Pennington is the new interim CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, effective immediately.
Pennington replaces Vincent Borello, who resigned Wednesday, Aug. 7, as president and CEO of the nonprofit organization.
Pennington was chief financial officer before his appointment by the board of the organization, which serves 4,000 children and offers a range of afterschool programs that now focus on tutoring and tracking students' grades outside of their schools.
The value of the pension fund that pays benefits to Shelby County retirees took a small step backward from May to June, new figures show.
The fund's value dropped from about $1.03 billion in May to about $1 billion in June. Still, the last time the fund was higher than that during June was in 2007, when the fund's value was $1.04 billion.
Driven in part by a roaring stock market, the size of the county's retirement defined benefit plan portfolio has topped $1 billion every month from January to June except for February, when its value stood at $999.6 million.
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Start Co., formerly LaunchYourCity Inc., has essentially expanded its footprint to the West Coast, the organization announced this week.
It has opened an office in San Francisco to serve as a launch pad from which to "encourage technology talent and startup investors to look into Memphis to grow and prosper."
The office will be led by serial entrepreneur Mara Lewis.
Meanwhile, Start Co. also has added three employees to support the enterprise in Memphis. Hillary Quirk and Rachel Wilhite will serve as community manager and relationship manager, respectively. Al Pickett will serve as mentorship director.
Start Co. also has announced a partnership with JumpStart Inc., a nationally recognized nonprofit venture development organization.
The partnership will attempt to capture data related to creating and developing high-growth ventures, among other things. Mike Mozenter, president of JumpStart's regional consulting arm, said the group chose to work with Start Co. because of its track record supporting high-growth tech startups in Memphis.
Hospital operator Tenet Healthcare Corp. reported this week it took a larger loss in the second quarter on lower admissions and a series of costs related to early debt repayment and other items.
During the quarter Tenet took a charge of $171 million related to the early retirement of debt, its second such charge this year. Tenet also reported greater depreciation and amortization expenses and impairment, restructuring, and acquisition costs. Tenet said its adjusted admissions fell 0.7 percent because of reduced inpatient admissions. Those admissions were weaker than expected for the first half of 2013.
Tenet reported a loss of $50 million, or 49 cents per share, after taking a loss of $6 million, or 6 cents per share, a year ago. Excluding one-time items, the company said it earned 66 cents per share, up from 41 cents per share in the second quarter of 2012. Its revenue increased 7 percent, to $2.42 billion from $2.27 billion.
Analysts expected income of 70 cents per share and $2.42 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
Tenet said outpatient visits grew 2.5 percent and inpatient admissions fell 3.5 percent, with emergency department visits and surgeries both rising. Adjusted admissions combines both inpatient admissions and outpatient procedures.
The company said bad debt costs, or bills the company does not expect to be paid, increased 9 percent to $207 million.
– The Associated Press
Southwest Airlines Co. said on Wednesday that a key measure of revenue rose as much as 5 percent in July, even though its flights weren't quite as full as a year ago.
Southwest estimated that its passenger revenue for each seat carried one mile was up 4 percent to 5 percent for the month.
Traffic fell 0.7 percent. Southwest boosted its flying capacity by 0.6 percent by adding longer flights. Because it added capacity as traffic fell, occupancy on its planes fell 1.1 percentage points, to 83.5 percent.
The overall number of flights declined 4.7 percent, and the number of people Southwest carried fell 3.2 percent for the month.
For the first seven months of the year, traffic has risen 1.2 percent. Flying capacity is up 1.6 percent. Occupancy has fallen 0.4 percentage points, to 80.1 percent.
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Jack Kelly argues that to succeed in Iraq we must take out Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi army. Kelly notes that, following our failure to take Sadr out in 2004 (apparently on the theory that he wasn't a major player), he has become "the most powerful figure in Iraq, eclipsing the more-or-less moderate Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani" and one with ties to Iran.
I agree that we made a major mistake by not finishing off Sadr in 2004. And it may be that we should correct that mistake, although the cost of doing so would be much greater now. But I wonder whether bringing down a given milita and/or its leader would make much difference at this point. My understanding is that the Shia militias exist mainly to inflict harm upon, and do battle with, the Sunnis. Given the "demand" for such units, it's questionable whether we can cut off the supply.
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text: Robert G. Brown wrote: > a) It lists identical hardware configurations as many times as they > are submitted. Thus "Geotrace" lists positions 109 through 114 with > identical hardware. If one ran uniq on the list, it would probably end > up being the top 200. At most. Arguably 100, since some clusters > differ at most by the number of processors. What's the point, if the > site's purpose is to encourage and display alternative engineering? > None at all. The list is provided in XML for just this purpose. However, the list is designed to show the list of the 500 "fastest" computers - and if many systems of the same type are among these 500, it is valid information, too, isn't it? Concerning Geotrace: they propably operate 6 of these clusters independendly for some reason - why shouldn't they be allowed to list them? > c) It totally neglects the cost of the clusters. If you have to ask, [...] First, you'd need to define 'cost'. I.e., how would you take into account the fact that some of the computers are built by volunteers w/o any effective pay? Does this actually make the computer more cost-effective? Or the typically much higher maintenance cost for clusters opposed to "big irons" that many sites experience? [...] > sponsoring institutions are listed). If they want to do us a real > public service, they could do some actual computer science and see if > they couldn't come up with some measure a bit richer than just R_max and > R_peak.... Do you know Jack Dongarra's 'HPC Challenge' benchmark, and you track the discussions on this i.e. on the SC04 panel? My proposal is to make inclusion of the HPCC results mandatory for new entries in the TOP500, but keep the list ranked by Linpack for consistency with the results over time. Concerning scaling, R_half gives you some impression already (if provided - not all sites do so, probably with a reason). Apart from this, everyone is free to actually introduce a new kind of list. > Now, with that said (and it needed to be said, it did it did) the only > thing most real cluster computer buyers care about is price/performance. [...] I know that at least *some* customers also care for things like reliability, features like job migratrion, low maintenance overhead and so on, and include this in their discussion. This is reflected by the fact that not everything in the TOP500 is about beowulf-style clustering (with the lowest $/linpack-FLOPS ratio). Thus, it might actually give a fair view of the $/"user value" - if you also, in some way, could filter out the usual political bias towards or against certain systems (like, for example, institutions in the U.S. that are not "allowed" to buy the sort of computer that solves their problems most efficiently). > SO I'd have to say that I doubt that the authors of the article were > particularly well informed, and that AMD is likely to be around and > kicking for a few years yet. Look, even the Power series hasn't > disappeared and it has almost no top 500 presence at all, if you > discount BG itself as IBM showing its marketing clout and finding a use > for 700 MHz CPUs in Very Large Quantities... IBM SP (Power Architecture) has 52 Entries - 10% of the list is just a little bit different from "almost no top500 presence at all"!? Or did you mean PowerPC? Joachim -- Joachim Worringen - NEC C&C research lab St.Augustin fon +49-2241-9252.20 - fax .99 - http://www.ccrl-nece.de


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Six century-old eucalyptus trees at Palo Alto's Eleanor Pardee Park that several residents and an arborist have deemed hazardous would stay standing -- for now -- under a plan that will be reviewed by the City Council Monday night (Jan. 10).
The Community Services Department is requesting $37,348 to remove four of the 10 eucalyptus (six others have already been removed) and replace them by mid-March with 12 fast-growing trees of another species that pose less of a danger.
One year ago, a massive eucalyptus branch broke off and nearly clobbered a visually impaired man who was out for a stroll.
The trees line the corner of the Center Drive and Channing Avenue park, where many residents stroll and a children's playground is located.
A consultant hired by the Public Works department found that the trees slated for removal were diseased or were improperly pruned and could topple or drop large limbs.
Several Crescent Park residents say they are not satisfied that the phased tree removal is adequate, and they point to a rebuttal letter written by Dave Muffly, arborist for the Palo Alto nonprofit urban-forest group Canopy, opposing the phased-tree removal.
"It is my professional opinion that it will be a mistake to keep these trees," he said, noting they are located in an area where many people could be hurt.
"At least one of the other trees along Channing shows clear signs of infection by sulfur fungus," he wrote in a seven-page rebuttal after a Dec. 1 community meeting with city staff regarding the tree plans.
But Greg Betts, director of community services, said the most dangerous trees are being removed on Center, where cars park. The species of eucalyptus on Channing are different from those on Center and are not as likely to have trunk rot and diseases, he said. In addition, no parking is allowed on Channing, so the potential for damage from falling branches is far less.
Betts said consultant Torrey Young, who prepared a 30-page report for the city in August, would be hired to annually monitor the remaining six trees clustered at the corner along Channing Avenue.
Young concluded in his report that none of the trees could be retained indefinitely, since many children, pedestrians and traffic frequent the area. But the trees could be monitored and phased out over time, he noted.
City officials at the Dec. 1 meeting estimated that removing all of the trees at once would cost about $20,000 and a phased plan would eventually cost $65,000. Those figures did not include the additional costs of adding fencing and an additional path residents requested, according to Betts.
Betts said the phased tree removal, while costing more, preserves the aesthetic look of the area while allowing the new trees to grow in height and mature. The Channing trees also provide shade for the playground, which figured into the decision not to do a wholesale removal, he said.
Betts said the current $37,348 cost includes removal of the four additional trees, grinding out 10 stumps, planting the new trees, installing irrigation, adding new concrete-and-decomposed granite pathways and additional costs that are incurred when planning and sending out bids. Young would receive $4,400 annually for his consulting services, Betts said.
The money would come from the city's Capital Improvements Program general fund.
Trees of various heights that produce minimal pollen and won't produce hazardous aboveground roots or excessive debris, such as seedpods, would replace the eucalyptus, Young said. Earth berms along the edges of the playground area on the street side will help keep maintenance-vehicle traffic out of the tree area.
The 24-inch-box trees would be planted about 25 feet apart and are expected to grow 20 to 45 feet tall in about eight to 10 years, he said.
The council meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto.


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(Reuters) - At the very moment William Bryan Jennings should have been climbing into bed at his sumptuous Connecticut mansion, the high-ranking executive at Morgan Stanley was sprinting through back roads a mile away. He was exhausted, scared and - detectives would later allege - had just stabbed a taxi driver in a dispute over a fare.
The day, December 21, 2011, had started out normally as he left the kind of home - sweeping curved staircase, perfectly plumped chintz pillows, backyard swimming pool and a Ferrari in the garage - that makes many New Yorkers deeply jealous, and headed to the steel-and-glass tower in midtown Manhattan where he directed the firm's bond business.
In the afternoon, he hosted a charity auction in the city to benefit sick children. That night, he attended a Morgan Stanley holiday party at the swanky rooftop bar at Ink48 Hotel. When he left the party, he looked for the black town car that was supposed to take him to his $2.7 million mansion in the wealthy enclave of Darien. He couldn't find the car, so he hailed a yellow cab.
In less than two hours, what allegedly began as a tussle over a cab fare, which the taxi driver said was $204, led to a struggle that could cost Jennings his career.
On March 9, Jennings walked quietly into a Stamford courtroom and pleaded not guilty to charges of assault, larceny for not paying the fare and intimidation with racial slurs against Mohamed Helmy Ammar, an American citizen who was born in Egypt. The proceedings took just a few seconds. Jennings, dressed in a navy blazer, white shirt and royal blue patterned tie, left swiftly afterwards with his lawyer, Eugene Riccio, followed by a noisy throng of reporters and photographers.
If convicted of all three charges, Jennings, Morgan Stanley's head of fixed income for North America, could face up to 11 years in prison. First-time offenders rarely face such stiff sentences but the charges are serious, and both Jennings' job and reputation are at stake.
Morgan Stanley has already placed him on leave. The firm's spokesman declined to comment, other than to say no decision has been made regarding Jennings' longer-term status at the firm. One top-ranking Morgan Stanley executive, though, said he "does not stand a chance of getting his job back."
Jennings may also face a civil suit for damages from the taxi driver. Ammar's attorney, Hassan Ahmad, says no settlement discussions are taking place, but his client is talking about such a suit.
"Our client wants justice,'' Ahmad said. "He wants Mr. Jennings to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
A pre-trial hearing is set for April 12.
There are some parallels between this story and Tom Wolfe's 1987 fictional bestseller, "The Bonfire of the Vanities," in which bond trader Sherman McCoy and his mistress hit a Bronx high schooler with his Mercedes, then flee the scene. He is eventually tracked down by the police and is arrested after a campaign by a newspaper.
At first glance, Jennings seems an incarnation of Wolfe's "Master of the Universe" stereotype. He is in the bond business. His two children attend one of the best private schools around. His home is a set piece for the good life, with sisal carpets, marble floors and state-of-the-art appliances. The backyard boasts a children's paradise of playthings as well as a fire pit and posh entertainment center.
Ammar and his family, in contrast, live in a ground-floor apartment in Astoria, Queens, in the shadow of the Triborough Bridge, a home where Amtrak Acela trains rumble constantly overhead. The most striking thing about their yard is the mass of thick black cables snaking out the windows to satellite dishes on the roof. Rust bleeds from the lime-green vinyl siding. The communal garbage cans are penned within a rusty, two-foot fence beneath his living room window. But while Wall Street's Masters of the Universe certainly still do exist, Jennings apparently wasn't one of them, according to several colleagues. And though at first Ammar was something of a tabloid celebrity, garnering publicity like supporters of Wolfe's hit-and-run character, he's no longer talking to the press, and is telling friends and family not to tell his story either. It's hardly the media-fueled firestorm that erupts in Wolfe's novel.
Ammar agreed to be interviewed for this article. Jennings did not and his motive for the alleged stabbing remains unclear. His attorney, Eugene Riccio, declined to comment, though he has said elsewhere that his client views the incident as an "abduction" and that Jennings denies using racial slurs.
Based on interviews, police reports, media accounts, court filings and affidavits, here is what we know about the two men and the incident that, in a few minutes, changed both of their lives.
William Bryan Jennings was born on December 19, 1966, the son of Judith and William C. Jennings of New Canaan, Conn. BJ, as he is sometimes called, went to New Canaan High School, and majored in political economy at Williams College, where classmates say he didn't stand out much. In a cliquey school, he hung "with the hockey guys," says a friend who asked not to be named. When they saw newspaper pictures of him after his arrest, some say they were surprised. He looked 55, not 45. It was the product, they surmised, of his workaholic ways and a job that demanded rising at 4 or 5 a.m. weekdays and clocking in on weekends and holidays.
Jennings got an MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, then joined Morgan Stanley's investment banking division in 1993, and climbed steadily. In 2001, he married Barnard College grad Lee McGill.
In the world capital of ego-driven alphas, Jennings didn't come off as one. He was polite and well-liked, according to Morgan Stanley colleagues. He also was a "Morgan monk," utterly devoted to the firm and his job, with little personal life outside work. He was one of those guys, colleagues say, who bled Morgan Stanley.
A senior employee who worked directly with Jennings said he is "very mild-mannered and very professional." The employee said Jennings is "more stuffy than me" and has dealt with a lot with treasurers and chief financial officers. "He's not some kind of lunatic."
Mohamed Ammar has little time for life outside of his family, his cab and his prayers five times a day. Like Jennings, he toils away - working six days a week.
Ammar was born a world away in Egypt, on January 15, 1968. His father taught Arabic in high school and Mohamed, who had four sisters, grew up in a middle class neighborhood in Sadat City, about 60 miles northwest of Cairo. He graduated in 1990 with a degree in accounting from Minufiya University, one of the largest public universities in the country. But Ammar was restless to see the world.
He set out for Amsterdam, lived with a friend and learned to speak Dutch "almost perfectly," he says. When he arrived in New York, in 1994, he had no real plans. He simply enjoyed being on the move. His first job was manning a flower stand on 1st Avenue and East 7th Street in Manhattan. He was terribly homesick, but his friends urged him to stick around. "The future is here!" Ammar says they told him. So he toughed it out.
One day, a woman wandered up to his stand, looking for flowers for her son's summer camp teacher. The two chatted. She gave him her number, because he didn't have a phone. He called her. That weekend they had dinner at an Egyptian restaurant in the Village, and again the following weekend. She was his first girlfriend. They were married in an Islamic ceremony at a Brooklyn mosque in 1996, and later that year got a marriage license at City Hall. He moved in with her in a three-bedroom apartment on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
Ammar took a job working in the deli section of a Trade Fair supermarket in Queens. After a year, the low pay and a long commute wore him down. His friend from the flower stand had some advice: "Get a limo license. You don't even need to buy a car." He began driving for Tel-Aviv Car & Limousine Service in 1998. His grueling hours strained the marriage. By 2001, he was divorced. After 9/11, the limo business tanked as corporate accounts dried up. Drivers were laid off. Ammar, having a hard time making ends meet, returned to Egypt, where he met his second wife, Raina, through family. They were married in Sadat City in 2002, and over the next few years had three sons.
To make money, Ammar returned to New York without his wife and got a taxi license. He traveled between the two countries for several years. Working nights driving a cab, he pulled in $800 to $1000 a week. In 2007, Ammar obtained U.S. citizenship and brought his young family to the two-bedroom first-floor apartment in Queens where the trains roar overhead.
Ammar began December 21 like any other working day. He rose around 2 p.m. to prepare for his regular 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. shift. He made coffee, prayed as usual and gathered three bottles of water from a case he keeps cold on the windowsill of his apartment.
As Ammar began his shift, Jennings had just kicked off the auction for the Manhattan children's hospital. The event, at a venue near 48th street on the west side of Manhattan, was rich with items to bid on: pro sports tickets, weekends at five-star hideaways, dinners with the rich and fabulous. It would eventually raise $50,000. As the room hummed and buzzed, Jennings drank two or three Coors Lights, according to his statements to police.
Shortly after 6 p.m., as the bash wound down, Jennings walked across the street to the Morgan Stanley holiday party. The party was at the rooftop bar of the Ink48 Hotel, known for its leggy waitresses, bed-like rattan sofas and the panoramic views of Manhattan. Jennings said he had several more beers.
It was around 10:30 when Jennings left the party. After searching for ten to fifteen minutes, he couldn't find the black town car ordered to take him home.
So he flagged a yellow cab. Mohamed Ammar pulled over.
Ammar said he thought Jennings, who was wearing a white shirt and olive coat, was drunk, according to the police report. The taxi driver said he and Jennings agreed at the outset that the fare would be $204, the amount dictated by the Taxi & Limousine Commission for the 43-mile journey to Darien. Jennings claims they never agreed on a specific fare amount. Almost immediately, Jennings asked to pull over because he was hungry. Ammar stopped at the G&G Deli off 10th Ave in Manhattan, where Jennings bought a 20 oz. bottle of Aquafina water, a sandwich and some Burger King cheesy fries. When they resumed the trip, Jennings asked Ammar to wake him up at the Darien exit, then slept for 30 minutes. When Ammar woke him, Jennings gave directions to his house instead of supplying a street address.
Accounts differ on what happened when the cab pulled into Jennings' driveway shortly after midnight. Ammar says he asked for the $204, and that Jennings balked and said he'd give him $50. Ammar says he tried to call 911 from Jennings' driveway, as the TLC advises when there's a fare dispute, but that there was no cell phone service.
Jennings says Ammar demanded $300 and that Jennings offered $160 instead. "I believed that he was trying to take advantage of me," said Jennings in a written report he submitted to police nearly a month later, on January 20.
Both men agree about what happened next: Ammar backed out of the driveway and headed through town. Ammar says he told Jennings he was going to find the police. He alleges Jennings sneered that the police wouldn't do anything, because I pay "$10,000 in taxes."
As the minivan sped through Darien, the tension escalated. By now, Jennings alleges, Ammar was driving through blinking red lights and stop signs. Jennings says the cab doors were initially locked and he couldn't get out, though he says he later managed to get the door open and Ammar continued driving the cab with an open door.
He also claims Ammar was threatening. "If you don't pay me, I'm going to take you back to New York."
Jennings says he rooted around in his black briefcase for his cell phone and found a pen knife that he says he kept for opening the Christmas packages that had been arriving recently. He says he showed it to Ammar, and that Ammar grabbed it and then said, "you cut me."
Darien detectives would later discredit Jennings' claim, saying it would have been impossible for Ammar to grab the knife from Jennings through the narrow cab partition.
Ammar told police that after Jennings took out the pen knife, he began stabbing towards Ammar's neck and cut the taxi driver's hand, which later required six stitches. According to Ammar, Jennings cursed at him and then shouted "I'm going to kill you. You should go back to your country!"
The incident lasted only a few minutes. After the alleged stabbing, Ammar pulled over in front of the Darien Sports Shop, about a mile and half from Jennings' home.
Jennings bolted, racing home on foot, and later claimed in a statement to police that he was afraid the driver was going to come after him. Ammar yelled for help and dialed the police on his cell phone. By the time police arrived a few minutes later, Ammar's hand was "bleeding profusely," the police report said.
Sometime later, Jennings and his family apparently left for Florida for the holidays. At that point the police had no idea who had been in Ammar's cab. Ammar didn't have his name or address. And when police drove around Darien, Ammar couldn't remember where Jennings' house was. It was just too dark, he said. The roads were too narrow and unfamiliar. Darien detectives visited the G&G Deli and looked at video of Jennings buying food. But the image was murky and unclear.
The mystery began to unravel a few days after the incident, when a Darien newspaper ran a small item from a police report. Jennings had confided in a friend, telling him about the incident, he later told police. This person, who has not been identified, told Jennings when he saw the news story.
Jennings called a lawyer. On January 4, his lawyer called Darien police. Several conversations followed, and on February 29, Jennings turned himself in at Darien police headquarters. He posted $9,500 bail in cash.
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We worked our way through various BIOS flashes, and have them running as stably as possible (for us) now. They don't generally crash under no load, they don't generally crash under MY application, but certain applications that run like a charm on P4's or 2466's crash the essentially IDENTICALLY configured 2460's as described. Tyan refused to own the riser problem OR the card problem. It was just plain the fault of the card manufacturer, not theirs. Damn those incompetent folks at 3com, anyway. Strange how they opted to use their onboard chipset for the same device on the 2466. > WOW. Thats amazing. We can run them without keyboards fine. Occasionally > the BIOS is reset by as power flux or something like that, and yes > you have to get out the video card and stuff, but thats a minor deal. > It happens infrequently enough - when there's a power fail and subsequent > very unfriendly repowering (where it flickers and comes back on and > just stresses ALL the gear as much as possible..) we find only 2-3% of > machines have a problem. [ dont ask why there's no ups. its political > at the customer end. ] Well, there is the reboot issue. Hard to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del reboot through the serial line. But the killer turned out to be entering the PXE bios of the onboard 3com on the 2466's. To do this you have to enter Ctrl-B or some such as the appropriate line flashes by in the boot process. You NEED to do this to reset e.g. whether PXE times out or waits forever for a keystroke if you put PXE boots first. The horror is that only Ctrl-B from an attached keyboard will do. We could never get that to work from a serial port. Ditto escaping out of the INFINITELY long POST memory test -- only from a keyboard. I got to the point where I stick my laptop on the serial port and plug a real keyboard into the keyboard port, and ignore the laptop keyboard when working with the BIOS. > > If you can get Tyan to replace them for free, please let us know. God > > We got RMAs on dead boards pretty easily through our supplier. Not > sure what your deal is. extra 10% for 3 year warranty on CPUs and boards > was worth it. Not too many boards died, alas, they just crash a lot. I don't know if I can still RMA them if I smash them with a hammer into little pieces first. D'ya think? ;-) > We use alot of athlon gear around here and have built two clusters of > them, so far, no complaints. They blow around the same speed as all > our intel gear, in the long run. We're happy enough with 2466 clusters ditto, and >>I<< can even use the 2460's. It seems that only certain kinds of tasks destabilize them. The worst kind of YMMV -- it can vary from run to run on a single task, but not show up at all on somebody else's code. We haven't tried to figure out what, precisely, the program that kills them is doing when they die. It could be something really horrible, like a particular subroutine that heats up one little part of the CPU past some dissipation threshold so they drop bits and die, as their stability is also very visibly heat dependent. However, they have high quality fans, the room itself is cold, the CPUs don't register as particularly hot overall... so who knows? That would explain a Tbird difference, as I'm sure they are different masks. Not so easy to see why 2466's run stably with CPUs moved from unstable 2460's, though... (an experiment we've done and in fact are still doing). > Again, however, if you buy inexpensive gear, just set up so its most > cost effective to throw it away! You and I have come to this conclusion > before actually. :) Im sure it makes environmentalists (including the Well, they aren't THAT inexpensive when you by 23 dual processor units for order of $50K with "all" the money in a grant... Eventually we'll do just that, but it still costs you productivity in the short run while we still have to live with it. > tiny one inside me) cringe. As long as you experience regular fail > rates, like perhaps a board a month, then yer set. If you have > problems across the whole cluster, where 30-60% of your gear is affected > you have a different problem. A goodly chunk of a cluster, or all of one or two groups' part of a cluster, depending on how you view it. > Im just waiting to see what happens at 18-24 months -- see if the 246x's > get bit by the exploding capacitor problem, yay! > > Anyone else experiencing that? Not experiencing, but what an "interesting" problem! In the sense of the chinese curse... rgb Robert G. 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CENTERVILLE, MA - Commissioner of the ECAC Rudy Keeling announced today the ECAC Women's East All-Academic team for the 2009-10 season. This marks the ninth year that the conference has named an All-Academic team. A total of 69 student-athletes representing 10 of the 12 ECAC East teams earned this honor based on outstanding performance in the classroom.
To be named to the All-Academic team, the student-athlete must have completed at least one academic year, have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.00 on a 4.00 scale, and have competed in at least one-half of her team's contests during the current season (a goaltender must have played at least 33 percent of her team's minutes). The following were named to the team from UMass Boston.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green Bay Packers will definitely retire Brett Favre's No. 4.
It just won't happen during the upcoming 2013 season.
Speaking Tuesday after his annual meeting with reporters to discuss the team's finances, Packers president/CEO Mark Murphy made it clear that retiring Favre's number and reconciling with the future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback is important to the franchise.
But when asked if Favre could have his number retired this season, Murphy replied, "I don't anticipate that, no."
Murphy did not rule out the quarterback making an appearance at Lambeau Field in another capacity, however, perhaps as an honorary captain or as part of the alumni weekend festivities
"We'll see," Murphy said.
A cornerstone of the Packers renaissance in the 1990s, Favre was revered in the state after he led Green Bay to the Super Bowl title following the 1996 season. But he tested the patience of fans and franchise alike with his annual retirement watch late in his career, and his decision to retire and then unretire in 2008 prompted perhaps the messiest divorce in state history. The Packers had already made Aaron Rodgers the starter, and wound up trading Favre to the Jets during training camp.
After a year with the Jets, Favre infuriated fans further by signing with NFC North rival Minnesota.
But Rodgers helped smooth the way for a reconciliation between Favre and the Packers, sharing the stage with his predecessor at the NFL Honors awards ceremony in New Orleans in February. Murphy, who has been in contact with Favre since then, said again Tuesday that the appearance was a "first step."
Murphy recently said the team wants to make sure Favre's number is retired before he would enter the Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2016, assuming he is a first-ballot selections.
"We're definitely going to retire his number. I really feel strongly that he deserves it," Murphy said. "(But) the timing has to be right."
Asked what the holdup is if both sides are talking, and what would constitute the timing being right, Murphy was vague.
"I can't tell you exactly what time might be right," he said. "But I am optimistic that you will see it.
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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
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1A set of circumstances in which one finds oneself; a state of affairs.'the situation between her and Jake had come to a head''the political situation in Russia'
circumstances, set of circumstances, state of affairs, affairs, state, condition, caseView synonyms
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Two female volunteers from the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue died Sunday in a boating accident during training exercises near Sechelt on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast.
Two vessels from RCMSAR Station 12 based in Halfmoon Bay were out on maneuvers when one flipped over, hurling the occupants into the water and trapping the victims under its rigid hull.
"Four people had been on the boat," said Capt. Justin Olsen of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria. "Two were recovered by a [Good Samaritan] that arrived on the scene first."
According to Olsen, the two male passengers did not suffer any injuries and were taken to Egmont.
Sgt. Dan Bodden, a spokesman for JRCC, said the boat involved is similar to a Zodiac 733. The accident occurred in the Skookumchuck Narrows, an area known for its hazardous tidal rapids and popularity with thrill-seekers.
Olsen said the distress call went out at 11:30 a.m. and prompted an immediate rescue dispatch. One Cormorant helicopter and a CC-115 Buffalo plane from Comox joined the ship Cape Caution from the Canadian Coast Guard's Powell River station in rescue operations. A RCMSAR team from Pender Harbour was also on hand to help.
"We were very fortunate that the Cormorant crew were getting ready for a fly-by," said Olsen. "They were still in the hanger when I called."
Details about are scant on what triggered the accident, but the Skookumchuck Narrows's dangerous rapid currents have caused accidents before. In 2009, a tugboat pulling a barge capsized in the narrows and trapped a man underneath for 10 minutes before rescuers could reach him.
"The Skookumchuck Narrows are rough," Olsen said. "For now we can only guess at what happened."
Olsen added that the investigation has been handed over to the RCMP.
News of the accident quickly broke online through Twitter. The Royal Canadian Marine Search & Rescue station on Vancouver Island posted a message of sympathy on its Facebook page.
"Deeply saddened," wrote the volunteer members of Station 36 Saanich. "Our hearts go out to members and families of Station 12."
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Keith Ashfield also expressed condolences for the lives lost in the accident and praised the work done by the RCMSAR.
"The volunteers in the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue team and the Coast Guard Auxiliary make up a crucial part of the marine search and rescue network in Canada," Ashfield said in a statement. "I want to pause to recognize every member of these teams in British Columbia and Coast Guard Auxiliary members across the country."
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I wrote a piece for The Systematist newsletter last year which has now been published & disseminated to members. The official version won't be freely accessible from the website until next year (instant access is currently a perk of Systematics Association membership only) so in the meantime I'll re-blog it here:
Is this the first mention of #icanhazpdf in scholarly literature?
I'd like once again (I already have by email) to thank the new editor Jane Droop for taking care to provide many many clickable linkouts in the PDF to all the different resources I mention – there's a *lot* of links!
Here's the full reference for the original version:
Mounce, R 2012 Twitter for systematists. The Systematist, vol. 34, pages 14-15
Twitter for systematists
Despite or perhaps because of being limited to just 140 character messages at a time, Twitter is an excellent medium for the near instantaneous dissemination of information over the Internet. It's been successfully used to remotely sense earthquakes [1] and flu outbreaks [2], and to predict the outcomes of elections [3] and box office success [4]. It's also a very hand tool for academics, with ever-increasing usage amongst the population.
Here's my top tips for using twitter for science (a far from exhaustive list):
Remotely following conferences you can't attend.
There are too many interesting conferences these days. No one has the time or money to attend them all. Furthermore some may occur simultaneously and one cannot be at two places at the same time! But with Twitter one can often get a reasonable description of what's going on at a conference by following the official conference hashtag e.g. #evol2012 #ievobio (Evolution, Ottawa), and #HennigXXXI (Hennig, Riverside). At some conferences remote participation via Twitter is possible, to ask questions from afar at panel discussions and such.
Expand the impact of your conference talks
Extending upon the above, if you're giving a talk at a conference – put your twitter handle on your conference name badge and on the title slide of your talk so tweeters in the audience can link to you on Twitter when describing your talk. This is particularly useful if you have a common name – John Smith could be anyone online but @JSmith69 exactly identifies who (and is shorter). If you can, put your slides online before your talk using a service like Slideshare or Prezi and use a URL shorterner to provide an easily tweetable link to that online slidedeck. Put this short-link on your first and last slides, so tweeters can disseminate this link to everyone following the conference hashtag from afar to also view your slides. This can dramatically increase the number of people seeing your talk (albeit, a slide-only version of it). For example, my talk this year at #HennigXXXI once tweeted out by @rdmpage and others (thanks!) was seen by over 200 people online after just a couple of days. At the conference itself there were less than 100 people in attendance, so it really helped maximise the impact of the talk.
Discuss, promote and critique papers on Twitter
Like a paper? Tweet about it including a link to the paper (attribution and links are key on Twitter) and maybe start a discussion with fellow academics. Don't just tweet-promote your own papers or those of your close colleagues – this is bad netiquette. Some groups even have journal clubs conducted in the open on Twitter e.g. http://www.twitjc.com/
Get help or canvass the opinion of your research community
Got a problem you can't solve yourself, but might easily & quickly be solved by someone else? One can't abuse twitter for this all the time, but the occasional well-put question on twitter often elicits good responses if you have enough followers. The key here is reciprocity – if you're always asking for help you'll soon be ignored. But if you can give as well as receive help you'll generate a healthy respect. Twitter convention has it that questions are often marked with the #lazyweb hashtag – use this to indicate you have a question that you want answered. Similarly if you need a PDF you don't have subscription access to, try supplying the URL link to the paper + your email address + #icanhazpdf in a tweet. @BoraZ created this convention and it's now rather popular with many requests *every* day appearing on Twitter for PDFs. This facilitates quick and easy access to the literature, enabling thorough scholarship, by-passing the often tedious and slow inter-library loans procedure.
The Systematics Association, like other societies e.g. @SVP_vertpaleo, @GeolSoc, @LinneanSociety and journals e.g @systbiol @MethodsEcolEvol, @BiolJLinnSoc , @ecologyletters have had a presence on Twitter since 2011: @SystAssn.
Want to talk about systematics? Tweet us at @SystAssn . Happy tweeting tweeps :)
1. Sakaki, T., Okazaki, M., and Matsuo, Y. 2010. Earthquake shakes twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors. In Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web, WWW '10, pp. 851-860, New York, NY, USA. ACM. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1772690.1772777
2. Culotta, A. 2010. Towards detecting influenza epidemics by analyzing Twitter messages. KDD Workshop on Social Media Analytics http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4748
3. Tumasjan, A., Sprenger, T. O., Sandner, P. G., and Welpe, I. M. 2010. Predicting elections with twitter: What 140 characters reveal about political sentiment. In Proceedings of the Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, pp. 178-185. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM10/paper/viewFile/1441/1852
4. http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/socialmedia/socialmedia.pdf
A list of some relevant accounts on Twitter to follow:
@David_Hillis (University of Texas)
@kcranstn Karen Cranston (Open Tree of Life)
@rdmpage (Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University)
@cydparr (EOL)
@phylofoundation (updates from The Phyloinformatics Research Foundation)
@phylogenomics (Prof. Jonathan Eisen, UC Davis)
@Dr_Bik (marine genomics, UC Davis)
@JChrisPires (plant genomics)
@k8hert (Kate Hertweck, NESCent)
@TRyanGregory (University of Guelph)
@pedrobeltrao (bioinformatics, UCSF)
@ewanbirney (assoicate director at the EBI)
@caseybergman (University of Manchester)
@ianholmes (compuational biologist)
@lukejharmon (University of Idaho)
@cboettig (theoretical ecology & evolution)
@tomezard (University of Surrey)
@eperlste (evolutionary pharmacologist, Princeton University)
@RosieRedfield (UBC)
@NYCuratrix (Susan Perkins, AMNH)
@theleechguy (Mark Siddall, AMNH)
@AndyFarke (vertebrate paleontologist)
@TomHoltzPaleo (paleobiologist)
@Bill_Sutherland (conservationist)
and at the Natural History Museum London:
@nhm_london (official NHM London account)
@edwbaker (biodiversity informatics)
@DavidMyWilliams (diatomist)
@vsmithuk (cybertaxonomist)
@Coleopterist (Max Barclay)
@SandyKnapp (Solanaceae taxonomist)
@NHMdinolab (updates from Paul Barrett's lab)
@gna-phylo (updates from Thomas Richards' lab)


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There will be no further fallout connected to Mike Tomlin's infamous sideline incident last Thanksgiving in Baltimore.
Steelers president Art Rooney III said Thursday that the team has been informed it will not be docked a pick in the 2014 NFL Draft because of Tomlin's actions.
Tomlin was fined $100,000 for standing too close to the field during a long return by Ravens kickoff man Jacoby Jones in Baltimore's 22-20 win. Jones contended that Tomlin's positioning on the edge of the sideline caused him to hesitate and eventually be tackled from behind. Tomlin was not penalized on the play.
In addition to the six-figure fine, the NFL announced at the time it would consider modification or forfeiture of the team's 2014 draft choices.
Tomlin maintained his actions were not intentional. He called the incident "embarrassing, inexcusable, illegal (and) a blunder," while acknowledging that he would "take his medicine" for the aftermath of the play.
Fortunately for Tomlin and the Steelers, said medicine goes no further than the coach's wallet.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" breaks down DeSean Jackson trade rumors and tries to figure out who will be next year's Michael Bennett (or Brent Grimes).


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Woman Faces Additional Charges in Death of Child
GANN VALLEY - A South Dakota woman accused of beating a 4-year-old child to death because he wet his pants is facing additional charges in the case.
The Daily Republic of Mitchell reports that 22-year-old Donika Gonzales, of Gann Valley, appeared in court Tuesday on one count of second-degree murder, two alternative counts of first-degree manslaughter, and one count of aggravated assault.
Gonzalez was originally charged with felony child abuse after arrest on Feb. 22.
Gann Valley is about an hour west of Mitchell in central South Dakota.
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Yep ,that's the best you can manage EP , a near fifty yr old comedy sketch .
A total failure to respond to multiple examples showing that you got it wrong ,and the hilarious ."by the way, the Thom's hypothesis about the henges is now established doctrine".
The joke is that Wittry was getting his terminology and astronomy wrong in roughly the same period ,as the sketch .
The problem is ,is that you are stuck in that period never having learnt the lessons from these errors .


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The Kotaku readers have spoken. Or, er, drawn? Gathered in the gallery above are your best Draw Something artworks. (Don't forget to click expand to see the drawings in their full glory!)
Two days ago I asked you guys to submit your best Draw Something drawings to compete with some of the best that developers OMGPOP posted on their Facebook page. You did not disappoint.
But the crown jewel of the bunch goes to Kotaku reader Fobwashed for his amazingly detailed and accurate drawings of some of pop culture's best characters. Frodo is ridiculously meticulous, but my favourite has to be the Walking Dead zombie.
Some of Fobwashed's bests are included above, as well as submissions from other readers. Take a look and be prepared to get impressed. Not everyone will be able to reproduce these awesome drawings, but you should take heed to ensure you've got the basic tips down.
Fobwashed draws Frodo.
Fobwashed draws The Lord of the Rings.
Fobwashed draws the Terminator.
Fobwashed draws the Titanic.
Donka draws Bowser.
Crazylegsmurphy draws a very happy chef.
Moesh draws Ironman.
monnaro13 draws a Porsche.
Moesh goes through the trouble of drawing Ryu just for the headband.
monnaro13 draws Skrillex.
Moesh draws what looks to be a very short Darth Vader.


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Dunkin Donuts starts doing delivery, Subway's Jared Fogle goes to prison, and Air Jordans creep into the world of food and drink.
NYC Cantonese restaurant August Gatherings gives their diners a hammer to 'crack' open this dish with an interesting backstory.
NYC's Roman-style pizza joint DIA is using trendy squid ink in their dough to create a black pizza topped with cuttlefish and cherry tomatoes.
Dina Deleasa-Gonsar from 'Dish It Girl' shows us how to make this meaty, cheesy lasagna with spinach for a colorful twist.
Learn how to make authentic Cajun gumbo from the pros at Gumbo Bros. in Brooklyn, New York.
The "frozie" is the world's first frozen rosé selfie - it prints your selfie right onto the drink! Watch how it's made.
This uber-popular dish has been on The Cheesecake Factory's menu for years!
Impress your brunch guests by mastering this essential French technique!
Mole is a Mexican sauce made with chiles, chocolate and various other ingredients. NYC's Gitano Jungle Room adds a unique twist by using black garlic.
Lisa Mansour of NY Cake gives helpful tips and techniques to make your cupcakes look professional.
Eataly's classic spaghetti with tomato sauce, Lo Spaghetto al Pomodoro, contains only five ingredients and is so simple that anybody can whip it up in no time.
Sommelier Joe Robitaille of NYC's Bar Boulud explains the benefits and reasonings behind those ridiculously huge bottles of wine.
At NYC's Bessou, chef Emily Yuen makes a Japanese version of French onion soup, and the crazy amount of cheese makes it the perfect comfort food.


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NEW YORK (CNN) -- An assistant principal who died after being hospitalized with the H1N1 virus did have an underlying condition, the New York City's health commissioner said Monday.
Mitchell Wiener, 55, who died Sunday, was listed in critical condition when he was admitted to the hospital.
But Dr. Thomas Frieden would not discuss the nature of the condition.
Mitchell Wiener, assistant principal of Intermediate School 238 in Queens, died Sunday evening of complications of the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, hospital and state officials said.
A Flushing Hospital spokesman earlier had declined to say whether Wiener had any pre-existing medical conditions.
If confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the death would be the sixth linked to swine flu in the United States. The CDC has confirmed three in Texas, one in Arizona and one in Washington state.
Wiener's school is among eight in New York City temporarily closed at the recommendation of the city's Health Department. Learn more about the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus »
Another school -- St. David's, an all-boys private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan -- is closed for at least a day. Headmaster David O'Halloran said the school opted on its own to close after 10 to 12 percent of the school's 400 students reported experiencing flu-like symptoms.
The symptoms were not severe, and most of the boys were improving, he said.
Frieden said Sunday that "with the virus spreading widely," closing affected schools "will make little difference in transmission throughout New York City, but we hope will help slow transmission within the individual school communities." Listen as NYC officials announce Mitchell Wiener's death »
The flu strain, which originated in Mexico, killed dozens of people there, causing U.S. officials to worry that it could take a similar toll after spreading across the border. So far, it has acted similar to typical seasonal influenza, which usually can be treated successfully but can be deadly among the very old, very young and people with pre-existing health problems.
At a news conference Monday in which he discussed Wiener's death, Mayor Michael Bloomberg also announced the appointment of Dr. Thomas A. Farley to replace Frieden as the city's health commissioner. Frieden was recently tapped by the Obama administration to head the Atlanta, Georgia-based CDC.
Farley was most recently the head of the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Prevention Research Center at Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in Louisiana. He will step into his new post in early June.
CNN Radio's Patty Lane and CNN NY's Kristen Hamill contributed to this report.
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