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- Powell, William S. and Jay Mazzocchi, eds. Encyclopedia of North Carolina (2006) 1320pp; 2000 articles by 550 experts on all topics; ISBN 0807830712. The best starting point for most research.
- Clay, James, and Douglas Orr, eds., North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State U. of North Carolina Press, 1971
- Crow; Jeffrey J. and Larry E. Tise; Writing North Carolina History U. of North Carolina Press, (1979) online
- Fleer; Jack D. North Carolina Government & Politics University of Nebraska Press, (1994) online political science textbook
- Hawks; Francis L. History of North Carolina 2 vol 1857
- Kersey, Marianne M., and Ran Coble, eds., North Carolina Focus: An Anthology on State Government, Politics, and Policy, 2d ed., (Raleigh: North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, 1989).
- Lefler; Hugh Talmage. A Guide to the Study and Reading of North Carolina History University of North Carolina Press, (1963) online
- Lefler, Hugh Talmage, and Albert Ray Newsome, North Carolina: The History of a Southern State University of North Carolina Press (1954, 1963, 1973), standard textbook
- Luebke, Paul. Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities (University of North Carolina Press, 1990).
- Powell William S. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Vol. 1, A-C; vol. 2, D-G; vol. 3, H-K. UNC Press, 1979-88.
- Powell, William S. Encyclopedia of North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0807830710.
- Powell, William S. North Carolina Fiction, 1734-1957: An Annotated Bibliography UNC Press 1958
- Powell, William S. North Carolina through Four Centuries University of North Carolina Press (1989), standard textbook
- Ready, Milton. The Tar Heel State: A History of North Carolina (2005) excerpt and text search
- WPA Federal Writers' Project. North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State. 1939. famous WPA guide to every town
- Boyd William Kenneth. The Story of Durham. Duke University Press, 1925.
- Lally, Kelly A. Historic Architecture of Wake County, North Carolina. Raleigh: Wake County Government, 1994. ISBN 0-9639198-0-6.
- Payne, Roger L. Place Names of the Outer Banks. Washington, North Carolina: Thomas A. Williams, 1985. ISBN0-932707-01-4.
- Morland John Kenneth. Millways of Kent. UNC 1958.
- Powell, William S. The First State University. 3rd ed. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1992.
- Powell, William S. North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1968. Available as an electronic book with ISBN 0807867039 from NetLibrary.
- Vickers, James. Chapel Hill: An Illustrated History. Chapel Hill: Barclay, 1985. ISBN 0-9614429-0-5.
Special topics
- Bishir, Catherine. North Carolina Architecture. Chapel Hill: UNC, 1990.
- North Carolina China Council [a regional affiliate of the China Council of the Asia Society.] North Carolina's "China Connection," 1840-1949: A Record. N.P.: North Carolina China Council, 1981. No ISBN. Catalog of a photographic exhibit shown at the North Carolina Museum of History and elsewhere, 1980-1981.
Pre 1920
- Eric Anderson, Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901 (Louisiana State University Press, 1981).
- Beatty Bess. "Lowells of the South: Northern Influence on the Nineteenth-Century North Carolina Textile Industry, 1830-1890". Journal of Southern History 53 (Feb 1987): 37-62. online at JSTOR
- Billings Dwight. Planters and the Making of a "New South": Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865-1900. UNC Press, 1979.
- Bolton; Charles C. Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi Duke University Press, 1994 online edition
- Cathey, Cornelius O. Agricultural Developments in North Carolina, 1783-1860. UNC Press, 1956.
- Clayton Thomas H. Close to the Land. The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1820-1870. UNC Press, 1983.
- A. Roger Ekirch, "Poor Carolina": Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776 (University of North Carolina Press, 1981)
- Escott Paul D., and Jeffrey J. Crow. "The Social Order and Violent Disorder: An Analysis of North Carolina in the Revolution and the Civil War". Journal of Southern History 52 (August 1986): 373-402. in JSTOR
- Escott; Paul D. Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900 University of North Carolina Press, (1985) online
- Fenn, Elizabeth A. and Peter H. Wood. Natives and Newcomers: The Way We Lived in North Carolina Before 1770 University of North Carolina Press 1983
- Gilpatrick; Delbert Harold. Jeffersonian Democracy in North Carolina, 1789-1816 Columbia University Press. (1931) online edition
- Gilmore; Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 U of North Carolina Press, 1996 online edition
- Griffin Richard W. "Reconstruction of the North Carolina Textile Industry, 1865-1885". North Carolina Historical Review 41 (January 1964): 34-53.
- Harris, William C. "William Woods Holden: in Search of Vindication." North Carolina Historical Review 1982 59(4): 354-372. ISSN 0029-2494 Governor during Reconstruction
- Harris, William C. William Woods Holden, Firebrand of North Carolina Politics. Louisiana State U. Press, 1987. 332 pp.
- Johnson, Charles A. "The Camp Meeting in Ante-Bellum North Carolina". North Carolina Historical Review 10 (April 1933): 95-110.
- Johnson Guion Griffis. Antebellum North Carolina: A Social History. UNC Press, 1937
- Kars, Marjoleine. Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina UNC Press, 2002 online edition
- Kruman Marc W. Parties and Politics in North Carolina, 1836-1865. Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
- Leloudis, James L. Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920 University of North Carolina Press, 1996 online edition
- McDonald Forrest, and Grady McWhiney. "The South from Self-Sufficiency to Peonage: An Interpretation". American Historical Review 85 (December 1980): 1095-1118. in JSTOR
- McDonald Forrest, and Grady McWhiney. "The Antebellum Southern Herdsmen: A Reinterpretation". Journal of Southern History 41 (May 1975): 147-66. in JSTOR
- Morrill, James R. The Practice and Politics of Fiat Finance: North Carolina in the Confederation, 1783-1789. UNC Press, 1969 online edition
- Mabel Newcomer; Economic and Social History of Chowan County, North Carolina, 1880-1915 Columbia UP, 1917 online edition
- Nathans Sydney. The Quest for Progress: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1870-1920. UNC Press, 1983.
- O'Brien Gail Williams. The Legal Fraternity and the Making of a New South Community, 1848-1882. U. of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Opper Peter Kent. "North Carolina Quakers: Reluctant Slaveholders". North Carolina Historical Review 52 (January 1975): 37-58.
- Perdue Theda. Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina. Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1985.
- Ramsey Robert W. Carolina Cradle. Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762. UNC Press, 1964.
- Risjord, Chesapeake politics
- Joseph Carlyle Sitterson. The Secession Movement in North Carolina (1939) 285 pages
- Louise Irby Trenholme; The Ratification of the Federal Constitution in North Carolina Columbia U. Press, 1932 online edition
- Watson Harry L. An Independent People: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1770-1820. UNC Press 1983.
- Woodward C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. Louisiana State U. Press, 1951
Since 1920
- Abrams; Douglas Carl; Conservative Constraints: North Carolina and the New Deal U. Press of Mississippi, 1992 online edition
- Badger; Anthony J. Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina U. of North Carolina Press, (1980) [online edition
- Bell John L., Jr. Hard Times: Beginnings of the Great Depression in North Carolina, 1929-1933. North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1982.
- Clancy, Paul R. Just a Country Lawyer: A Biography of Senator Sam Ervin. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1974. A biography of the U.S. Senator from North Carolina who helped to bring down Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, and who defended civil liberties in many cases but also opposed the Civil Rights movement and the Equal Rights Amendment.
- Ehle, John. The Free Men. Harper & Row, 1965. Reprinted with a new afterword by Press 53 (Lewisville, N.C.), 2007, with ISBN 0979304911.
- Willard B. Gatewood; Preachers, Pedagogues & Politicians: The Evolution Controversy in North Carolina, 1920-1927 UNC Press, 1966 online edition
- Gilmore; Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 U of North Carolina Press, 1996
- Grundy; Pamela. Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina U of North Carolina Press, 2001 online edition
- Hagood, Margaret Jarman. Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman 1939
- Key, V. O. Southern Politics in State and Nation (1951)
- Odum, Howard W. Folk, Region, and Society: Selected Papers of Howard W. Odum, UNC Press, 1964.
- Parramore Thomas C. Express Lanes and Country Roads: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1920-1970. UNC Press, 1983.
- Pope, Liston. Millhands and Preachers. New Haven: Yale, 1976 (reprint of 1942 edition). A history of the 1929 Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, N.C., especially the role of the church.
- Puryear, Elmer L. Democratic Party Dissension in North Carolina, 1928-1936 (University of North Carolina Press, 1962).
- Seymour, Robert E. "Whites Only". Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson, 1991. An account of the Civil Rights movement in North Carolina, and churches' involvement in it (on both sides) in particular, by a white Baptist pastor who was a supporter of the movement. ISBN 0-8170-1178-1.
- Taylor, Elizabeth A. "The Women's Suffrage Movement in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review, (January 1961):
45-62, and ibid. (April 1961): 173-89;
- Tilley Nannie May. The Bright Tobacco Industry, 1860-1929. UNC 1948.
- Tilley Nannie May. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. UNC Press, 1985.
- Tullos, Allen. Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont. UNC Press. 1989. online edition, based on interviews
- Weare; Walter B. Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company U. of Illinois Press, 1993 online edition
- Wood; Phillip J. Southern Capitalism: The Political Economy of North Carolina, 1880-1980 Duke University Press, 1986 online edition
Primary sources
- Lindley S. Butler and Alan D. Watson, eds., The North Carolina Experience: An Interpretive and Documentary History UNC Press, 1984, essays by historians and selected related primary sources.
- John L. Cheney, Jr., ed., North Carolina Government, 1585-1979: A Narrative and Statistical History (Raleigh: Department of the Secretary of State, 1981)
- Jack Claiborne and William Price, eds. Discovering North Carolina: A Tar Heel Reader (University of North Carolina Press, 1991).
- Hugh Lefler, North Carolina History Told by Contemporaries (University of North Carolina Press, numerous editions since 1934)
- H. G. Jones, North Carolina Illustrated, 1524-1984 (University of North Carolina Press, 1984)
- Alexander S. Salley, ed. Narratives of Early Carolina, 1650-1708 (1911) online edition
- Woodmason Charles. The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution. UNC Press, 1953.
- Yearns, W. Buck and John G. Barret; North Carolina Civil War Documentary (University of North Carolina Press, 1980)
- North Carolina Manual, published biennially by the Department of the Secretary of State since 1941.
Primary sources: governors and political leaders
- Luther H. Hodges; Businessman in the Statehouse: Six Years as Governor of North Carolina UNC Press 1962 online edition
- Memoirs of W. W. Holden (1911) complete text
- Holden, William Woods. The Papers of William Woods Holden. Vol. 1: 1841-1868. Horace Raper and Thornton W. Mitchell, ed. Raleigh, Division of Archives and History, Dept. of Cultural Resources, 2000. 457 pp.


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Address: 4519 Vincennes Blvd., Cape Coral, FL 33904
Year Built: 1964**
Now at 79.12%* capacity,
the school is using 0* portables
The half-cent sales tax would directly impact the way students learn and develop. If it is passed by voters on Nov. 6, it will help address capacity by adding six new schools, and it will fund the following capital improvements and projects planned for Cape Elementary over the next 10 years (2019-2029):
*Numbers are from August, 2018. Potential improvements and projects are subject to modification as needs and priorities change.
**Some renovations/additions have taken place since the build year

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It has been a harrowing few years for the Spanish banking system, but now, some experts believe that it is on a positive course for the future.
"There's no doubt that the large-scale restructuring undertaken [by Spanish banks] through 2012 and that was required for the system to get back on its feet is now more or less complete," said Carmen Munoz, a senior director in the financial institutions group at Fitch Ratings in Barcelona. "Those banks that were the most vulnerable have been recapitalized, and all banks are complying with regulation for provisions against real estate loans."
Today, the stronger banks in Spain have recurring income generation capacity and have reached a position from which they can start to go back to relying on a "business-as-usual mode," through which they can generate revenues from retail franchises, Munoz said. "Together with cost-control measures, this will strengthen them further and support their bottom line. The restructured banks, meanwhile, are concentrating on downsizing."
One important factor that experts point to is the resurgence of the covered bond market in Spain. Prior to the crisis, Spanish banks relied on covered bonds for their funding purposes, and in January, more than 6 billion euros of European covered bond issuance came from Spain.
That's the same volume that was issued in Q1 2012, according to Ralf Grossmann, head of covered bond origination at Société Générale in London. However, while in 2012 Spanish covered bond issuance ebbed and flowed as a reflection of the concerns investors had over the banking sector, many investors now are far more optimistic about the health of Spanish banks, and that increased confidence is likely to lead to a more sustained and stable flow of new deals, he said.
"We do expect issuance windows this year to be larger and more sustained given that the situation has fundamentally improved and as investors shift their focus away from the banking sector and toward the Spanish economy in general," Grossmann said.
Investors are also looking for yield, and the pickup of 270 basis points over swaps that January's Spanish covered bonds offered made for an attractive investment, according to Grossmann.
"We had a good pick up from the domestic investor base, of course, but compared to last year, when domestic investors made up more than 50% of the buyers, this year we saw that decrease to 30%, with more buyers from other European countries participating," Grossmann said. "Last year, too, deal maturities were on the short end, typically between two and five years, whereas this year, the deals are longer-dated. We even had a 10-year deal from BBVA."
More importantly, some Spanish banks have also been able to issue equity. Banco Popular, for instance, sold 2.5 billion euros in shares in December, and others have been able to successfully issue senior debt, a testament to increasing investor confidence, Munoz said.
But even if the health of the Spanish banking sector is quite transparent now, it's clear that banks, both strong and weak, will have to contend with all the challenges that the weaker Spanish economy will bring, including low interest rates, high unemployment and others, Munoz said. Those challenges aside, many Spanish banks are still sunk in the property morass, according to Bill Blain, a strategist at Mint Partners in London. Although the Sociedad de Gestión de Activos Procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (SAREB), an institution that was created to buy and sell banks' bad real estate assets, is beginning to sell property, the process is attracting some domestic backlash.
"There is still lots of pain to come in Spain, and that makes people nervous about Spanish banks," Blain said.


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What do Estonia, Mauritius, Canada and Australia have in common? They are the top four countries in the World for air quality. They rank even better than Bhutan.
From the Vancouversun:
A new World Health Organization database on air quality places Canada as one of the world's top nations when it comes to clean air […]. The international public health authority on Monday launched its first Air Quality database, which covers almost 1,100 cities in 91 countries, revealing the world's hot spots for air pollution as well as regions with the highest health burden due to poor air quality[…].
Includes the year of the last sample, followed by the number of micrograms of particulate matter at least 10 micrometres in size, per cubic metre of air.
Estonia 2008 11
Mauritius 2009 12
Canada 2008 13
Australia 2009 13
Ireland 2008 15
Bhutan 2006 18
Luxembourg 2008 18
Monaco 2008 18
United States 2008 18
Finland 2008 19


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Canberra Day Tours
From AUD $180.00
- Duration: 13 Hours (approx.)
- Product code: L011
- Berrima
- Mt. Ainslie
- Australian War Memorial
- Parliament House
- Carillion Bell Tower
- Experienced Driver Guides
- Detailed and informative commentary
- Travel in an air-conditioned coach
ItineraryVisit the historic township of Berrima for morning tea (own expense)
• Tour through the Southern Highlands and Goulburn sheep district
• See mysterious Lake George
• Enter the Australian Capital Territory and the nation's capital - Canberra
• Panoramic views from the summit of Mt Ainslie
• Visit the Australian War Memorial on a guided tour
• Take a guided tour of the new hands-on, state-of-the-art National Museum or the National Gallery of Australia (subject to current exhibitions)
• Visit the spectacular billion dollar New Parliament House for a guided inspection
• Observe Parliament if in session
• See the Senate, the House of Representative chambers and the Great Hall
• See sweeping views of Canberra from the Queens Terrace
• Tour Canberra and see Lake Burley Griffin
• High Court of Australia
• National Library
• National Science and Technology Centre
• "The Lodge" - residence of the Prime Minister
• Embassies and Diplomatic residences including Thailand, USA, France, Malaysia, Great Britain, Indonesia and more
• Captain Cook Memorial Fountain and the Carillon
• An evening meal stop will be made on our return to Sydney (own expense).
Other Important Information:This tour is run by an air-conditioned coach. In some cases, we may use air-conditioned minibus.
Departs: Sydney on Monday & Friday. Departs at Sharp 8:00AM from Sydney departure point Returns: at Around 9:00PM Duration: 13:00
Hours Hotel Pick Up: Please call our office for pick up details or mention a convenient location for Online Booking Hotel Drop off: On request.
Group Tour: Please book direct. Please check 'Specials' and receive discounts on our regular tours or we need at least a group of 12 or more people to run a private tour with 2 week's notice and they are picked up from any Sydney Metro area.
What to bring: An open mind to enjoy with a smiling face. Please dress according to the weather. In summer, you must bring your hat, sunscreen and sunglasses. Always wear comfortable shoes, umbrella and raincoats are handy if it rains.


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Following is a breakdown of which players will most likely make the team (listed in depth order). I'm posting this today but tonight's game could change some things around. (These aren't necessarily the players I'd keep, but rather the players I think the team will keep).
- QBs (3) – Rodgers, Brohm, Flynn. Unfortunately, because Brohm continues to suck it up, the team may need to keep all 3 active for game days.
- RBs (4) – Grant, Jackson, Lumpkin, Herron. Hard to part ways with Morency but my guess is that the team likely views Herron as the safe guy and Lumpkin as having way more upside. (I'd keep Morency over Herron). Lumpkin may even push to be the #2 back before long.
- FBs (2) – Hall, Kuhn. Obvious choices. Powdrell looked OK during his time here, but has already been cut.
- WRs (5) – Driver, Jennings, Jones, Martin, Nelson.They'll hope to sign Jake Allen and maybe Johnny Quinn to the practice squad.
- TEs (3) – Lee, Finley, Humphrey. (Haynos to practice squad – though he may get picked up by another team). Humphrey will make the team despite not impressing like coaches had hoped. He is a huge guy and would likely be serviceable should Lee get hurt or something. Though I wouldn't rule out a last minute acquisition of a veteran TE who gets cut by another team.
- O-Line (9) – Tauscher, Spitz, Wells, Moll, Clifton, Colledge, Babre, Sitton, Orrin Thompson (Breno Giacomini stands a chance to make the team if they feel due to Wells injury etc, that they ought to keep 10 O-Line guys. If this happens, Joe Porter likely would make the team or maybe David Muir).
- D-Line (10) – Kampman, Pickett, Jolly, Jenkins, Montgomery, Hunter, Cole, Muir, Thompson, KGB. KGB will make the team only because the team is desperate for back-up D-Line help. TT does have it on his mind though to release KGB if the knee doesn't get better soon, freeing up $7.7 million.
- LBs (7) – Hawk, Barnett, Poppinga, Chillar, Hodge, Bishop, White. No surprises here.
- Safeties (5) – Collins, Bigby, Rouse, Culver, Peprah. No surprises here. Bush may continue to get some looks at safety. He has made some nice plays at safety in the preseason.
- DBs (7) – Harris, Woodson, Williams, Blackmon, Bush, Lee, Porter. Porter is the surprise here. He's played quite well (and apparently well in practice too). He will be kept primarily though, for special teams, though he may often be left off the
- Special Teams (3) – Crosby, Ryan, Jenssen.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: jwestphal pointed out that I failed to add my cut numbers correctly. I could have sworn I narrowed the team down to 53, but I didn't – there are 58 players listed here. So, the additional 5 cuts would be: Joe Porter, David Muir, Tyrone Culver (depending on the severity of Charlie Peprah's injury – they seem to like Peprah more), Tory Humphrey and gulp…KGB.


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Feng Shui is all about the way we feel and act, and how that is affected by the environment that surrounds us. By learning how to organize the elements in our personal space, Feng Shui practitioners aspire to improve their lives through achieving balance with nature.
In this engaging portrait of two cranes, Feng Shui art is more about the mystical belief in cosmic harmony. This pair of nourishing cranes is the ideal portrait of undying love, since cranes are known to mate for life. In addition to their longevity, Japanese culture also celebrates cranes as a symbol of honor and good fortune. Here, the artist uses a red background, representative of harmony and graceful calligraphy strokes to spell the word "Love". Feng Shui art that includes such iconic symbolism is believed to create stronger, more fulfilling relationships, making this the perfect piece of art for the bedroom.
In Japan, the crane is said to live for 1,000 years; hence the use of two red-crowned cranes on the design for the 1,000 yen note. Often used in the Japanese art of origami, it is said that a person who folds 1,000 paper cranes will be granted his or her most fervent wish.
Chinese culture also features the red-crowned crane in many myths and legends. For example, in Taoism, a red-crowned crane is the symbol for immortality. This is evident in Chinese art and literature, where a mortal who achieves immortality is often shown riding off on the back of a crane. Also a symbol of Chinese nobility, the red-crowned crane is found on the tombs of the Shang Dynasty and on the Zhou Dynasty's ceremonial bronze statues.
Bestow this everlasting love on your home environment, or give this lovely print to a newly married couple, and find inspiration from the elegance and nobility of this pair of nourishing cranes. This black-framed Feng Shui classic, "Nourishing Partnership" is trimmed in gold and measures 9 ¾" x 12" under glass.
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Kristen Stewart Covers 'British Vogue' October 2012
Kristen Stewart graces the cover of British Vogue's October 2012 issue in a Gucci dress.
Here is what the 22-year-old Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 actress had to share with the mag:
On struggling to play it cool in this industry: "I know if you haven't thought about how you want to present a very packaged idea of yourself then it can seem like you lack ambition. But, dude, honestly? I can't. People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I'm really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' I wouldn't know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can't."
On going blonde for On the Road: "I feel like my whole body rejects it, but it was really important for the character. It was like learning an accent!"
On having empathy for the Beat generation: "There is always going to be that seam of people who want things differently to the standardized version. It's not necessarily a rebellious thing, it's just who they are. That world back then, it just seems freer to me than anything I could ever touch and I'm fully nostalgic for it, even though I wasn't even alive then. It's the loyalty aspect of it all. I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive."
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US website regrets 'confusion' over Sonia Gandhi's name in richest list
An American news website has regretted the "confusion" caused by the inclusion of the name of Congress president Sonia Gandhi from the list of richest leaders of the world and deleted it.
The removal of the name occurred shortly after the Congress derided the website for the "absurd and ridiculous" item.
"Our editors have been unable to verify the amount, removed the link, and regret any confusion," the Huffington post said, four days after it listed Gandhi as the 12th richest world leader putting her asset to USD 2 billion.
"Sonia Gandhi and the former emir of Qatar Hamid bin Khalifa al-Thani have been removed from this list," the editor of Huffington Post wrote on its website last evening after the list of the world's richest leader was updated.
"Gandhi was originally included based on a listing on a third party site which was subsequently called into question," said the editor without giving name of the third-party site.
The Congress Party had questioned the authenticity of such a figure by Huffington Post. "If Huffington Post would stick to huffing puffing, then I think they would do a much better job for themselves. Because If you do put out these absurd and ridiculous things out in print, then you only open yourself to be made a laughing stock. I would not even like to dignify with a response," Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari yesterday said in New Delhi after the list was released.
While putting Gandhi's wealth at USD 2 billion, Huffington Post had not given details of how it arrived at such a figure.
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The Good Seed 2021 - Book
The Good Seed is a very popular daily (tear-off/book) calendar with a text and gospel message. First published over 25 years ago, its current world-wide circulation is more than a million. It is a highly prized evangelistic tool that presents both the challenge and the consolations of the gospel. It also provides simple encouragement for the Christian pathway. Available in many languages. E. g. Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Kurdish, Moldavian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish/German. 'In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand' (Ecclesiastes 11:6)
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The author pluged the PC soundCard to an oscilloscope .
The author provides the wav file played to do it :
http://mirror.kapsi.fi/koodaa.mine.nu/t ... e-wave.wav
The author says :
if a PC can do that, an Oric can do it too...I programmed a C program to generate it and yes, i have also thought about making some game. Something like asteroids would be a good idea.


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Former Wylfa nuclear power station
Former Wylfa nuclear power station
This power station generated 232 billion kW hours of electricity from 1971 to December 2015, when its last working reactor was shut down.
This location on the north coast of Anglesey was chosen for a nuclear power station because of its geological stability and easy access from the sea for construction materials. The proximity of seawater was important for cooling the twin nuclear reactors, the last and largest of the Magnox type. Construction began in 1963 and the station fed its first electricity into the supply grid in 1971. A high-voltage power line was built across Anglesey to transport the electricity.
The reactors were due to cease generation in 2010, but arrangements were made to extend the operating life of both reactors. The final shipment of Magnox fuel was delivered from Springfields Fuels Ltd in December 2011. Wylfa's Reactor 2 was shutdown in April 2012 after 41 years of safe generation. The other reactor is due to close in September 2014. The defuelling phase (removing spent fuel rods from the reactors) will take place from 2015 to 2017. Following this, a decommissioning programme of work will take place, to prepare the site for long-term care and maintenance.
The reactors were due to cease generation in 2010, but arrangements were made to extend the operating life of both reactors. The final shipment of Magnox fuel was delivered from Springfields Fuels Limited in December 2011. Wylfa's Reactor 2 closed in April 2012. The station ceased electricity production on 30 December 2015 and a decommissioning programme began to prepare the site for long-term maintenance. The site covers 207,900 square metres (20.79 hectares).
An information centre for visitors and school groups is provided just outside the site. A separate company, Horizon Nuclear Power, has proposed building a new nuclear power station nearby.
From 1965 to 1989 Wylfa power station was owned by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). It then transferred to Nuclear Electric plc, with the CEGB's partial privatisation. From 1994 to 1998 it was operated by Magnox Electric plc, then for six years by British Nuclear Fuels plc, and from 2004 by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
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CENTURY + DECADE: There are many fine and impressive and lofty terms that mark a bigger anniversary. "Centennial" is pretty common, as is "bicentennial," and even "quasquicentennial" gets some play now and then. (That's a 125 years, but then you knew that.) But what of an anniversary that a century plus a decade? That seems worthy of celebration, given the fact that a place or thing has pushed onwards and upwards even past its century mark. Would it be a "decacentennial"? Hmm, not so much. "Centurydecade"? That sounds a bit like the name of a highbrow rock album. Perhaps just saying that something is marking its 110th birthday is enough. That's what the Mission Inn in Riverside is doing, but the castle-like spot isn't just holding a back-of-the-house event for staffers. Guests will be a part of the celebration, courtesy of three anniversary packages set to run through the end of 2013.
PACKAGE ONE: The emphasis is on glamour -- it's in the name, actually -- with the "110 Years of Glamour" stay-over deal (actually, "110 Years" is a theme throughoutt). A box of cupcakes and a Hollywood Oxygen Glow spa treatment are part of the all-inclusive $319 price, in addition to an overnight's stay and a few other hotel-y goodies.
PACKAGE TWO: A couple's kind of dinner at Duane's Prime Steaks & Seafood is at the forefront of the "110 Years of Romance," as is a half dozen Casey's Cupcakes. (Perhaps it is just us, but a cupcake enjoyed while sitting in a hotel bathtub pretty much defines whimsical decadence.) A spa massage for two is also part of the $479 price.
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AND PACKAGE THREE: Few properties in our state look as historic as the Mission Inn, and this third deal explores that. "110 Years of History" is replete with cocktails, a docent-led tour, and an overnight in the Alhambra Suite, where the Reagans honeymooned. The price? $559.


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We don't repair any dive lamps. Repairs are carried out by our partners t-tec and akkuman.de. If you are looking for the "Special", a dive light "to fit your needs", please contact t-tec. Standard lamps are part of the akkuman.de sales program.
Various designs are available (round or rectangular) for different light sources (halogen, LED or HLX) for different battery types (NiCd, NiMH and Li-ion) and different numbers of cells. You will find a list with prices and available models in the pulldown menu "Diving -> Available versions". If the type you require is not listed, please use the request form "Diving --> general inquiry".
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Everyone loves crunchy, gooey chocolate chunk cookies. This version, from award-winning pastry chef and bestselling cookbook author Nick Malgieri uses a combination of bittersweet and milk chocolate, and plenty of butter and brown sugar to impart a strong butterscotch flavor. Pass the milk.
- Yield:about 48 cookies
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, cut into 1/4 inch pieces
- 6 ounces milk chocolate, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
- 2 cookie sheets or jelly roll pans lined with parchment or foil
Set racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350ºF.
Stir the flour, baking soda, and salt together and set aside.
Combine the butter, brown sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat with the paddle on medium speed until just mixed, then beat in the egg. (Overbeating this type of cookie dough will make the cookies rise, then flatten out during baking, instead of remaining risen and moist.)
Remove the bowl from the mixer and use a large rubber spatula to stir in the flour mixture, then the chocolate.
Drop teaspoons of the dough 2 to 3 inches apart on the prepared pans to allow for spreading. Bake the cookies until they are spread, well risen, and golden, about 15 minutes. About halfway through the baking, place the pan from the lower rack on the upper one and vice versa, turning the pans back to front at the same time. If you know that your oven gives off strong bottom heat, place the pan on the lower rack stacked on top of a second one for insulation.
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How does the way war is thought relate to how it is fought?
As the Afghan war unfolds, it produces vast quantities of information that are encoded into database entries and can, in turn, be analyzed by software looking for repeated patterns of events, spatial information, kinds of actors, timings, and other factors. These analyses go on to inform military decision-making and alter the course of events in the air and on the ground.
On July 25, 2010, WikiLeaks released a large amount of this normally classified information as the Afghan War Diary, comprising over 91,000 (15,000 withheld) reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports were written by soldiers and intelligence officers and calculated by clocks, computers, and satellites. The primary source of the Afghan War Diary is the Combined Information Data Network Exchange (CIDNE), a database created by the US Department of Defense (DoD).


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IMPORTANT NOTE: This page has been superceded by the Energy Commission's e-filing and e-commenting database and is no longer updated. To access documents for this proceeding, use the "Documents for this Proceeding (Docket Log)" and other e-filing links on this proceeding's home page.
Roseville Energy Park Power Project
Compliance Proceeding
Docket Number: 03-AFC-1
Compliance Notices
Notice of Determination for the Petition to Modify. Posted: April 26, 2011. (PDF file, 3 pages, 41 kb).
Notice of Receipt of petition to Operate the project at the Higher Permitted NOx Emissions Limit. Posted: January 28, 2008, (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 3 pages, 87.7 kilobytes.)
NOTICE OF INSIGNIFICANT PROJECT CHANGE TO MODIFY THE PROJECT DESCRIPTION Posted June 21, 2006
ORDER APPROVING a Petition to Modify the Amount of Habitat Compensation Required for Mitigation of Vernal Pool Ecosystem. Posted: August 31, 2005, (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 3 pages, 40 kilobytes.)
June 24, 2005 - Establishment of Post- Certification Mailing List. Posted: June 24, 2005
June 24, 2005 - Petition to Amend the Energy Commission Decision. Posted: June 24, 2005
Compliance Documents
Approval of Requested Modification to Remove Remedial Action Scheme from Service. Posted: May 11, 2011. (PDF file, 2 pages, 44 kb).
Petition to Amend. Posted: March 30, 2011. (PDF file, 24 pages, 1.6 megabytes). The City of Roseville Electric Department proposes to remove the Remedial Action Scheme from service, as it is no longer needed.
Order Approving Amendments of Air Quality Conditions. Posted: April 28, 2008. (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 6 pages, 128 kb).
Petition To Amend NOx Offsets - Air Quality Staff Analysis. Posted: March 5, 2008. (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 8 pages, 144 kb).
Petition To Amend Air Quality Conditions Related to NOx Emission Reduction Credits for the Project. Posted: January 28, 2008. (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 14 pages, 250 kb).
Petition to Amend License to Add New Telecomuncation Facilities Related to the Gas Metering Station. Posted: June 05, 2006. (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 24 pages, 1.72 megabytes.)
Staff Analysis of Proposed Modifications To Habitat Compensation. Posted: August 4, 2005. (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 3 pages, 32 kilobytes.)
Formal Endangered Species Consultation on the proposed Roseville Energy Park Project. Posted: June 24, 2005. (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 19 pages, 844 kilobytes.)
Petition For Amendment to Licenses Condition of Certification BIO-13, Posted: June 24, 2005. (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 5 pages, 116 kilobytes.)


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The EU issued a Commission Notice in July 2013 stipulating that European grant money could not go to any Israeli institutions operating over the Green Line in the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, or East Jerusalem, reported +972 Magazine at the time. The Commission guidelines are scheduled to take effect in January 2014.
Noam Sheizaf wrote in the +972 article that "this step caught the Israeli public, media and government by surprise." Israel's alarm stemmed largely from the impact of the new guidelines on possible funding for Israeli institutions from the EU's Horizon 2020 project, a 70 billion Euro "programme [sic] for research and innovation" scheduled to be implemented between 2014 and 2020, according to the project's website.
On 26 November, however, a deal was reached between Israel and the EU dramatically weakening the effect of these guidelines. The new compromise ensured that Israeli institutions could receive grants and prize money from Horizon 2020 and placed the burden of proof for denying funding to a project on the EU.
If the guidelines were maintained as written, any Israeli organization with projects across the Green Line would be rendered ineligible for grant money or loans from the lucrative research and development program. Speaking with the Jerusalem Post, Professor Ruth Arnon, president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the Humanities, called the Horizon 2020 program "absolutely essential to the future of science in Israel."
However, the guidelines left a loophole in the language of the grant funding articles. Instead of applying to "Israeli entities... [which] operate in the territories," as the article regarding loans and financial instruments states, grants and prizes are forbidden only to "the activities of Israeli entities carried out... in the territories."
In other words, the Commission left open the availability to Israeli institutions and companies of grants and prize money – which constitute "the vast majority of the funds coming to Israel through various EU programs," notes the Jerusalem Post – as long as the specific activities funded through the grants were not located within the bounds of the territory seized by Israel in 1967.
Taking advantage of this language, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni reached a compromise with the European Union on 26 November allowing Israel to join the Horizon 2020 project, ensuring that the proposed 300 million Euros of Horizon 2020 funding planned for Israel will be delivered. Under the terms of the compromise, an appendix will be added stating that Israel rejects the guidelines, and Israeli institutions will be allowed to receive Horizon 2020 grants as long as it is demonstrated that the money is not going to projects over the Green Line.
The terms of the oversight structure that will determine whether Israeli projects meet this requirement are vague, although a different article in +972 Magazine, citing a Hebrew publication in the Israeli newspaper Maariv, says that the responsibility for ensuring that funds are not crossing the Green Line will fall to the EU. "It will be the EU that will need to monitor and find proof that an institution is operating in the occupied territories," states +972.
This means that almost all Israeli institutions and companies will be able to receive funds from the Horizon 2020 project, despite the EU's insistence in the text of the guidelines that the Commission aims to "ensure the respect of EU positions and commitments in conformity with international law on the non-recognition by the EU of Israel's sovereignty over the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967." The only institutions that won't be eligible are those whose physical address lies in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, or the Golan.
Days before this deal was reached, 114 members of the European Parliament declared in an open letter to Catherine Ashton, EU Foreign Policy Chief, that "the EU must respect its own positions and commitments in conformity with international law... In all cases, no EU-funded support of any kind may be provided to Israeli entities established in Israeli settlements or to settlement-based activities."
On Monday, 25 November, the day before the compromise was reached making Horizon 2020 funds available to all Israeli institutions except the few headquartered across the Green Line, Ma'an News Agency reported the announcement of 829 new Israeli settlement homes to be constructed in the West Bank. As noted in an October 2013 report from the Israeli NGO Peace Now, settlement construction rose 70% during January-June 2013 in comparison to the same period in 2012.
As +972 quotes one anonymous Israeli official speaking with Maariv, the compromise on the EU guidelines "will allow Israeli institutions 'to march with [the guidelines] but not feel them.'" While the impact of the Commission Notice and the strength of the EU's anti-settlement position are curbed by this compromise, the construction of the 829 settlement homes reported on 25 November will move forward unhindered.
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| 10.9°C Belfast
The settled Easter weather is set to come to an abrupt end today as heavy showers and thunder are expected to greet many Britons over the long weekend.
Easter Sunday is expected to be the wettest day of the Bank Holiday period as a band of rain spreads in from the south east of England across central and southern areas.
The south and south west of England will see the wettest conditions with up to an inch of rain falling within a few hours this afternoon, according to the Met Office.
Thunder, lightning and even hail could greet some parts, said Met Office forecaster Charles Powell.
"Most places will see rain across southern counties, including the south-west, Somerset and Wiltshire," said Mr Powell.
"The rainfall will reach 20-30mm in some places, falling in a short period of time of around three to four hours. People in these parts will experience a cold, cloudy and wet afternoon."
It could mean a washout for many people planning outdoor Easter Sunday celebrations after most of the UK has enjoyed a recent spell of warm weather.
Scotland and the northern half of England will see the best of today's weather, remaining dry and hitting temperatures of 17C (62.6F). Northern Ireland is also expected to reach 15C (59F).
Temperatures across the rest of the country are expected to range from 12 to 14C (50-54F) but will feel cooler due to winds today.
Showery unsettled conditions will continue into Bank Holiday Monday and the rest of the week, with wet weather forecast for Tuesday and Thursday, added Mr Powell.
"We've had a dry few weeks, so any rain will be quite noticeable. Last year Easter was very early, around late March when there was snow on the ground and it was cold. Previous Easters were in early April, but there's nothing unusual about this time of year," he said.
Many Easter travellers planning their return journeys home later tonight and tomorrow can expect busy roads, according to the Highways Agency.
An estimated 3.4 million people are taking a holiday in Britain this Easter, with the road networks reaching their busiest period on Friday and Easter Monday.
Jennifer Hart, from the Highways Agency said: "We are predicting that Easter Monday afternoon will be busier than usual as people head back on the main holiday routes home."
"Saturday and Sunday have been relatively quiet and we've seen no incidents. Seven out of ten road works have been lifted to leave 98% of the road network free."
As well as those having trips involving at least an overnight stay, an estimated 6.5 million Britons are likely to take day trips over the holiday.
Travellers will hope to avoid the chaos that greeted Eurostar passengers on Thursday when 10 trains from London to the continent were cancelled following a broken down Eurotunnel passenger shuttle in the Channel Tunnel.


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Staff Picks: The Best Drinks We Had in May
Best of Drinks
The best stuff we've sipped lately.
As the weather gets warmer, it seems that we've been looking for more refreshing drinks—cocktails with soda and citrus, crisp (and sometimes tart) beers, anything to beat the heat. As we look back on the month of May, a few special sips really stood out. These are the best drinks we tasted at bars, restaurants, festivals, and in our own backyards this month.
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You are invited to join the faculty and staff of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library for the Priscilla M. Mayden Lecture on Wednesday, February 22 at 1:00 p.m. in the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium. This year's Mayden lecturer is Bart Ragon, Associate Director for Library Technology Services and Development. Mr. Ragon's lecture focuses on eScience and the Evolution of Library Services. Not just for librarians, eScience / eResearch potentially impacts faculty, staff and student access to the data, tools and resources needed to collaborate, share and move science forward.
Mr. Ragon's topic description: 'Science is changing and changing fast. Concepts like the data life cycle, data curation, translational science, high performance computing, and data sharing are having an impact on how science is conducted. At the same time, libraries are adjusting services to meet the needs of highly networked and technically savvy patron groups. eScience is a term that describes the dynamic re-shaping of collaboration and workflows in science and creating unique and important opportunities for librarianship. This presentation explores potential roles for librarians in eScience, how new collaborations might form, and the role of the libraries in the data life cycle."
A conversation break with light refreshments is scheduled from 2:00-2:30 in the EIHG atrium. At 2:30 at Meet the Experts panel convenes to further define and discuss issues related to eScience and eResearch. Panelists include: Bill Barnett, Ph.D., Steve Corbató, Ph.D., Donald McClain, M.D., Ph.D., Daureen Nesdill, M.L.I.S. and Ellie Phillipo; Bart Ragon moderates.
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Small Island Developing States agree to reduce dependence on fossil fuelsMay 8, 2012
Bridgetown — The Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Small Island Developing States Conference concluded today with the adoption of the "Barbados Declaration" calling for universal access to modern and affordable renewable energy services, while protecting environment, ending poverty and creating new opportunities for economic growth.
The declaration, adopted just weeks before the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 'Rio+20', includes an annex with voluntary commitments of 20 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take actions toward providing universal access to energy, switching to renewable energy and reducing dependence on fossil fuels.
The host country announced their plan to increase the share of renewable energy in Barbados to 29 percent of all electricity consumption by 2029.
"By 2029 we expect that total electricity costs would have been cut by US$283.5 million and CO2 emissions would have been reduced by 4.5 million tons," said Prime Minister Freundel Stuart of Barbados. "We also envisage an overall 22 percent reduction in projected electricity consumption based on the use of energy efficiency measures."
The commitments of other small developing island states include:
- Maldives committed to achieve carbon neutrality in the energy sector by year 2020
- Marshall Island aim to electrify all urban households and 95 percent of rural outer atoll households by 2015
- Mauritius committed to increasing the share of renewable energy - including solar power, wind energy, hydroelectric power, bagasse and landfill gas - to 35 percent or more by 2025
- Seychelles committed to produce 15 percent of energy supply from renewable energy by 2030
The declaration recognizes the importance of the UN Secretary General's Sustainable Energy for All initiative and that today's energy issues cannot be resolved unilaterally but rather through open dialogue and cooperation.
The declaration states that the delegates "Remain deeply concerned that most SIDS are highly dependent on imported oil and other fossil fuels for transport and electricity generation and this is a major source of economic vulnerability for SIDS. This leaves SIDS highly exposed to oil-price volatility."
The Barbados Declaration emphasizes that there are commercially feasible options in many small island states for providing energy such as wind, solar, geothermal, and oceans energy.
"However, these technologies must be made accessible, affordable and adaptable to the needs and particular circumstances of SIDS communities," states the declaration. "In this regard, we strongly urge the international community, particularly developed countries, to ensure the provision of financial resources, technology transfer and capacity building to SIDS,"
The two-day conference brought together more than 100 heads of state, ministers, leading development experts, civil society activists, business executives and UN officials from 39 countries from the Caribbean, the Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Africa, that belong to the SIDS group.
"Our global presence, expertise in capacity building, and extensive development finance experience allow us to help small island development states in their transformation toward sustainable energy for all, by supporting them to develop capacities to attract investments," said Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.
The Declaration reiterates "that the outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference must be ambitious and convey the urgency of fully embracing the sustainable development agenda including the fulfillment of all commitments related to SIDS."
About the conference:
The Barbados Conference is organized jointly by the Government of Barbados and UNDP with support from Australia, Norway, UN Foundation, the British High Commission in Barbados, the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas at the Organisation of American States, SIDS DOCK and Archers Hall Design Centre.
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The Houston Dynamo are continuing to expand their youth development foothold thorughout the country and are excited to announce that two Florida clubs, with long-standing soccer histories, have recently signed on become Dynamo Juniors affiliates. Valrico Soccer Club and Florida Revolution Soccer Club, based in Tampa, Fla., will now be known as Houston Dynamo of Tampa. These clubs will continue to provide a competitive youth soccer program for the Tampa area and surrounding communities.
"The affiliation with Revolution and Valrico to form one competitive club brings great energy to our program and we're looking forward to a successful venture with them in joining our other club affiliations" says Kevin Mooney, Director of the Dynamo Juniors program. "Their experienced coaching staff of former professional players and coaches fits in very well with our program goals and club expectations."
As part of the agreement, the Dynamo Juniors program will provide organization, guidance and assistance with Houston Dynamo Tampa's training, methodology and curriculum. Both coaches and players will have access to Dynamo Juniors resources and exclusive educational events. Other benefits include:
- College Showcase Camp led by the Houston Dynamo staff and regional college coaches.
- Opportunity to host an MLS exhibition game
- Other community-based events such as MLS player appearances, fundraisers and tournaments
- Travel to Houston to watch an MLS match with professional player meet-and-greets
"We are thrilled to have been selected into the Dynamo Juniors program. We now have the ability to leverage the proven success of the Houston Dynamo and Major League Soccer's youth development program," said Jim Lyons, President of Houston Dynamo Tampa. "Giving our kids the chance to be trained by professionals and exposed to higher levels of play will improve their chances to play soccer at the next level … including youth national teams, colleges and within the Houston Dynamo system."
"The Tampa area is a traditional hot bed of talent and we look forward to offering all the members some amazing opportunities with the Dynamo Juniors program and MLS affiliation," said James Clarkson, Dynamo Director of Youth Development.
"Ultimately, this becomes a big step in growing and developing the next level players in our area," said John Clare, Director of Houston Dynamo Tampa. "We aim to grow our relationship with the Dynamo and offer many opportunities for our players and our soccer community."
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tidbits from san franciscoJune 23, 2011
What a whirlwind of a trip my Mom and I had on Tuesday! I felt like the entire trip was one comedic event after the next. It started with waking up at 4:30 am…
We were not very happy campers.
But we made it to the airport on time and got pumped up about spending the day shopping and eating yummy food and having some much-needed girl time!
We even got over the fact that the Starbucks barista at the airport yelled at my mom and dumped a bunch of coffee grinds in her coffee.
We made it up to San Francisco and to our point of interest: the Indian visa office. My family may or may not be going to India at some point in the next six months, so it was us girls' job to secure our visas! And who would've guessed it was SO much work! I had no idea that India was so picky when it came to giving out tourist visas.
After dropping off our papers, we headed over to Tartine, one of the best bakeries in San Fran! We could tell the second we walked in. There was not a table to be found in the 100 degree, packed restaurant!
Just look at the dessert case.
I wanted to try this cake/meringue/unidentifiable treat so badly! But opted for a double chocolate cookie with walnuts instead.
We poked around the Mission District, Fillmore Street, and ultimately ended up at Union Square (we made it back 5 minutes before the taxi strike began!) and spent the rest of the day shopping. This fox was one of our finds on Fillmore Street. We weren't quite sure why, but something about a little fox wearing plaid pants like this was too cute to pass up.
I just had to take pictures of these flowers outside Tartine. They were too pretty!
And this pooch parking spot…too cute!
I can't forget to mention the two-story Williams-Sonoma.
Here's a picture of me at Anthropologie. My feet hurt! Yes, I'm a wimp…
We shopped until we literally dropped into the plush couches in the Bloomingdale's women's lounge where we promptly fell asleep. If you are ever in San Francisco and need a quiet, comfy hangout spot, check the women's lounge! My mom and I clearly don't do too well on four hours of sleep.
We got our visas and made it back home late that night. I slept like a rock!
Thank you so, so much for all of your sweet suggestions!!! I wish we could have done all of them – maybe I'll have to do a longer trip in the future! 🙂
35 Responses to tidbits from san francisco
Sounds like a lot of fun Star! I felt your pain with getting up early and having those 'problems' to deal with. Might've been easier to handle if you'd had more sleep. Don't get me started on bad service especially with the price you pay for a cup of coffee these days! LOL
Glad you got your visas and a good night's sleep! Love the little fox too.
so glad it was a success! what a cute pic of u! I love that Anthropolgie store
What a ruuuude barista!! EW. I am so glad you guys had a good time! LOVE all your pictures.."Pooch Parking" haha too funny!
Awww. San Francisco………… I love it. One of the greatest cities. You can find a little of just about everything there.
Haha! This is such a great day trip summary! I love thinking of the two of you zonked out in the women's lounge, drooling on each other's shoulders! And you hardly look old enough to be out of high school, much less working on a MBA and headed to law school. The world better watch out for your baby face! 🙂
I can't tell how much your sweet comments on my posts make me smile 🙂
ok, the barista poured the grounds in your mom's coffee?? this is just crazy.
and those desserts look amazing!
Oh! San Francisco has my heart… I would love to live there.
Glad you had fun shopping, and Tartine is delish. I always make sure I walk a lot when I am in the city so I can indulge as much as I want.
I loooove San Francisco! Your photos make me want to visit again very soon!
Despite the travel headaches, it sounds like you had a fun trip! I've always wanted to go to San Francisco. And oh my –those desserts!
Awww I want that pooch parking sign! That is just adorable and so unique.. I've never seen anything like that before.
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san francisco is so fun! and i loooove visiting the williams sonoma up there! such an awesome place 🙂
new follower!!!! i love the picture of all the desserts! yummy 🙂
oh, anthropologie, my fav. even if I can only afford the sales! thx for the tip on where to sleep — can't believe you were able to fall asleep there.
Wow, what a day/trip! No doubt you were tired. 🙂 I love San Fran!
yuuum, those desserts look amazine! glad to hear you had a great time with you mom! xo
Aww makes me miss home already!
You have to visit SF during Christmas cause that Williams-Sonoma ALWAYS gives out free samples of peppermint bark & apple cider. Once in a while they give out fresh brownies too 🙂
Wow, that was quite the trip, I've been to that Anthropologie before. You look too cute in that chair. Glad you had fun making memories with your mom.
Ooooh looks like such a fun trip! Those cakes look absolutely amazing. I'm v envious, San Fransisco is one of the places in the US I'd most like to visit 🙂
I have to say that that pastry counter had me at Hello! I LOVEEE cakes and sweets. So cute and so yummy in my tummy!
As always Thank you for the sweet blog visit you have the sweetest comments! Happy Friday!
Yay! You got your visa! Sound like you have fun in spite of the snags.
I've heard of Tartine – aren't they the famous bread people? How fun- that dessert looks beyond delicious! All of your stops look pretty cool – hello WS mecca! Loving that you slept in Bloomingdales 🙂
What a fun day!! I had a one-day trip to San Fran once and LOVED it! I only wish I had gone to the two-story Williams Sonoma. I could LIVE in that store!
shopping all day in SF is exhausting!!! great tihng you hit up tartine and i cant wait to hear about this trip to india!!
tartine is amazing, isn't it? the line is always a bit long, but so worth it! sounds like you had a whirlwind of a trip!
2-story Williams-Sonoma = heaven!
My mom & sister took a weekend trip to San Francisco a couple months ago & got The Munchkin a giraffe at the same place you got your fox!
Looks like such a lovely trip!! Sorry about the trouble at the start but the dessert selection seemed to make up for it! :d
Your trip sounds like so much fun. Nothing like hitting the ground running and shopping/eating your heart out… especially in San Francisco. Lovin' it!
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Realllly cute blog girl. And YOU are adorable. 🙂
Looks like a fabulous and successful trip 🙂
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July 30, 2010 Issue
School of Nursing receives million dollar grant
The Loyola University New Orleans School of Nursing received a major boost this month, receiving over $1 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration for the implementation of the Doctor of Nursing Practice online program through 2013.
Maroon adviser making news in the ring
Maroon adviser and journalism instructor Michael Giusti is spending his final days of the summer throwing punches and receiving a few in return in the boxing ring.
Loyola students awarded Albert Schweitzer Fellowships
Loyola University New Orleans students Sareeca Hoskins and Jenipher R. Jones will receive 2010 Schweitzer Fellowships, according to the New Orleans chapter of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and its partner, the Louisiana Public Health Institute.
St. Iggy's Feast Day Celebration is Saturday
The Loyola University New Orleans Young Alumni Pack invites all alumni and friends to attend a mass in celebration of feast day of St. Ignatius Loyola.
Dining Services partners with local company for Gulf Relief
Loyola University New Orleans Dining Services embarks on the new school year with new deals, meals and a philanthropic partnership.
Loyola celebrates White Linen Night
Loyola joins the city as they celebrate art, music and a love for New Orleans through a White Linen Night after party for Loyola alumni and friends.
Eastern Europeans dominate piano competition
Russian pianist Eduard Kunz walked away with a gold medal Sunday evening after winning the 22nd annual New Orleans International Piano Competition, hosted by Loyola University New Orleans.
Vienna Calling: Loyola grad teaches law in Austria
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Following in the footsteps of Baudelaire—and paving the way for the Surrealists and the French New Wave—early 20th-century artist Guillaume Apollinaire cultivated a cerebral taste for the most sensational elements of modern life. A poet by calling and a publicist by trade, Apollinaire seized on the outrageous whether he found it in the avant-garde (he coined the term "Cubism" in praise of early paintings by Braque and Picasso) or mass culture (he called the serialized tales of fictional super-villain Fantômas "one of the richest works that exist.") Apollinaire's poetry fed on the chaos of Paris in the early 1900s. Take this representative passage from 1909's "Zone":


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States that use cost-benefit analyses tend to make better investments of public dollars by identifying programs and policies that deliver high returns, a new study has found.
The majority of states, however, have yet to consistently use this approach when making critical decisions, according to a report released Monday by the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative, a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundations.
Today, states struggle under continuing pressure to direct limited dollars toward the most cost-effective programs and policies while curbing spending on those that fail to deliver.
The study found that 10 states–Florida, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin–were in the vanguard using cost-benefit analyses to generate answers about programs' return on investment and to drive policy decisions, particularly in their largest budget areas.
Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia were using cost-benefit analyses, but less effectively or consistently. Eleven states trailed: Arizona, Idaho, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming.
"Many policymakers are looking for information that would allow them to target cuts more strategically, rather than make across-the-board reductions that treat effective and ineffective programs alike," Gary VanLandingham, director of the Results First Initiative, said in a statement.
"Policy and spending choices should be based on evidence about what works and what does not. The bottom line is while the use of cost-benefit analysis is growing, states should be making wider and better use of this approach."
Researchers evaluated states' use of cost-benefit analysis on the number of cost-benefit studies released per year during the 2008–2011 study period, whether these studies had assessed multiple program options to compare policy solutions and whether and the extent to which study findings had influenced budget and policy decisions.
All 50 states and the District of Columbia conducted at least one study between 2008 and 2011, a total of some 350 cost-benefit analyses, with the majority concentrated in 12 states. Most of these reports focused on major budget priorities.
Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia conducted at least some studies that evaluated multiple policy options for making smarter investments of public dollars.
And 36 states reported that at least one of their cost-benefit analyses had either directly influenced budget and policy actions or, more generally, initiated and informed public and political discourse about issues.


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Keith Olbermann has signed off MSNBC after nearly eight years with the cable network.
"MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended our contract," network president Phil Griffin said Friday, MSNBC.com reported.
Olbermann, the veteran commentator and "Countdown" host, said at the end of his regular Friday broadcast it would be his last.
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He did not explain why he was leaving, and NBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said only that Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal this week had "nothing to do" with the decision, MSNBC.com reported.
Olbermann, MSNBC's top-rated prime-time host, said he was tempted to indulge in a broadcast newsman's fantasy based on the movie "Network" where "you go off on an existential, other worldly, verbal journey of unutterable profundity and vision."
Instead he began his goodbye by reminiscing on his move to MSNBC from ESPN.
"I was supposed to fill in for the late Jerry Nachman for exactly three days," Olbermann recalled. "Forty-nine days later there was a four-year contract for me to return to this nightly 8 p.m. time-slot which I had fled four years earlier."
Olbermann then referenced his show's "anti-establishment" coverage of the Bush-era wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina.
In addressing viewers, Olbermann said: "The program grew thanks entirely to your support with great rewards for me and I hope for you."
"There were many occasions particularly in the last two and a half years where all that surrounded the show — but never the show itself — was just too much for me," he added. "But your support and loyalty and if I may use the word insistence ultimately required that I keep going."
In November, Olbermann was suspended for two days after Politico reported he had donated to three Democratic candidates running for federal office.
NBC policy mandates employees of the news organization get prior permission before engaging in political activities or making donations to candidates because of potential conflicts of interest.
Olbermann maintained he did not know about the policy and that it was unevenly applied. When he returned to MSNBC he apologized to his viewers but not the network.
On Monday, "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" will move to 8 p.m. ET and "The Ed Show," will move to 10 p.m. ET on msnbc, MSNBC.com reported.
MSNBC contributor Cenk Uygur will fill in as host at 6 p.m.
In signing off, Olbermann read from a James Thurber novel as he usually does on Fridays and gave a special thank you to the late "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, whom he called his "greatest protector" and "cheerleader."
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A 2010 Supreme Court decision was supposed to herald a new era of special interests' influence in elections, giving rise to shadowy outside spending groups -- "super PACs" -- that could take advantage of unlimited corporate campaign spending.
President Barack Obama and other Democrats openly fretted that the court's 2010 "Citizens United" ruling, which struck down limits on corporate political spending, would allow big business to marshal their resources to bend the law to suit their own purposes.
But with just less than two weeks until the election, super PACs have hardly been the overt bogeyman many political observers had feared. They're plenty influential -- but they've become part of the DNA of American politics by operating like para-campaigns for Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, American Bridge's Rodell Mollineau and The Huffington Post's Jon Ward join Luke Russert to talk about the state of the race with less than two weeks to election day.
Super PACs' influence over campaigns hasn't been quite as Obama and other Democrats first warned.
"Corporate lobbyists will be able to tell members of Congress if they don't vote the right way, they will face an onslaught of negative ads in their next campaign," Obama said in 2010 comments pushing for Congress to adopt the DISCLOSE Act, which would have required more disclosure for donations to these organizations.
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Rather, super PACs -- and the seasoned political professionals who run such groups -- have stepped forward to assume and bolster some of the traditional functions that might otherwise fall to candidates themselves. Super PACs have hardly been able to dictate the terms of the election, but their absence might have otherwise meant dire straits for candidates who benefited from their spending, primarily on television ads.
"The outside group can serve the purpose of providing cover to the challenger while the incumbent attempts to define the challenger with dramatically lopsided resources," said Jonathan Collegio, the communications director for American Crossroads, one of the largest and most influential Republican super PACs.
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American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic Super PAC devoted solely to opposition research. Opposition researchers find the dirt on presidential candidates that turns into the mud that is slung throughout the campaign season.
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In the presidential campaign and a slew of House and Senate races across the country, super PACs have served varying purposes. They have helped prop up candidates whose own bank accounts are lacking, or have done the dirty work against an opponent that a candidate's campaign might not be able to execute.
"Between Crossroads and the Chamber and all of those groups, they've done a lot in a lot of our states," said one Democrat familiar with the party's Senate campaign efforts. "They've probably kept their Republican candidates afloat in a couple of instances."
Super PACs and the battle for the White House
In a similar manner, Romney was the beneficiary of super PAC support at crucial points in his campaign for president. During the Republican primary, a super PAC founded by former aides -- Restore Our Future -- was able to overwhelm Romney's opposition with millions' worth of television ads pillorying Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
And after Romney emerged from that primary, bloodied from the process and with relatively depleted bank accounts, Restore Our Future and Crossroads were able to offer him support on the airwaves -- stepping forth as a kind of surrogate for the GOP nominee in the absence of a more robust campaign effort.
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In essence, no action or advertisement made by Romney or Obama has gone unanswered. That means no super PAC has been able to dominate the general election, though the countervailing advertising has contributed to a kind of Cold War in politics; each side keeps accelerating its spending, partly for fear of falling behind the other side.
That sentiment motivated Obama's own flip-flop toward super PACs earlier this year, when his campaign dropped its objections toward the groups and embraced Priorities USA, a supportive super PAC founded by former Obama aides.
"With so much at stake, we can't allow for two sets of rules in this election whereby the Republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and Democrats unilaterally disarm," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina wrote in his Feb. 6 missive to Democrats explaining the reversal.
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To that end, the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA has spent $52.7 million on the general election, according to NBC News ad-tracking sources, $35.7 million of which has been spent following the Democratic National Convention. Restore Our Future, by contrast, has spent $73 million on the general election, $34.8 of which came after the Republican convention, when Romney got access to the pool of general election funds he had built, but had been unable to access.
A series of other super PACs have stepped forward to spend millions more on both candidates' behalf.
Super PACs and downballot races
It might be that super PACs' effect are more pronounced in races downballot, where finances and organization can be more uneven between House and Senate candidates.
House Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC dedicated to electing members of the House, was able to coordinate with other progressive groups and pool resources and research in a targeted way.
"One of the ways we've been effective is helping to coordinate efforts from a whole host of progressive groups that have traditionally been involved in electoral politics," said Andy Stone, the group's communications director. "House Majority PAC has worked to efficiently and effectively use the resources that we have to make a difference in House races, and make sure what happened in 2010 doesn't happen again -- where House Democrats were just overwhelmed by the last minute by outside money."
But there are also limits to what super PACs can accomplish.
Paul Lindsay, the communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the NRCC appreciates its outside supporters but has tried to lead the way with its own spending.
"We've always worked under the premise that we can only control what is in our organization and capacity," he said.
"Candidates matter," said the Senate Democratic operative, echoing that sentiment. "Super PACs can only do so much."
Related: Ohio tops all states in ad spending
That principle extends to the presidential election, as well. Collegio of American Crossroads argued that it's up to candidates -- not their supportive super PACs -- to close the deal with voters.
"Ultimately, outside groups that can't coordinate are far more effective at making the case against candidates than at making the case for candidates," he said. "A candidate must push himself or herself over the finish line with their own message and identity."


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The (Always) Underrated Torii Hunter
fantasy baseball, we're always looking for the player who can provide
all-around value. To most people, this means a guy with both power and
speed. Every year, we'll see about a dozen guys crack 20/20. Last year,
there were 14 of them.
projecting Hunter's 2010 season, there's another consideration
to make. Besides having the rare ability to provide speed and the
opportunity to knock in runs, Hunter is one of only about 20 players in
baseball with 25-HR power and the ability to make contact with the ball
in at least 80 percent of his at-bats. Combined with the ability to run
quickly to first base after the ball is hit into play, this typically
translates to a pretty solid average. Last year, Hunter finished at
.299. Bloomberg Sports projects .289 for the upcoming season.
ranked 46th on the B-Rank scale, yet is being drafted well below his
projections. That's nothing new. Hunter has a pretty long history of
being underrated in drafts year after year, and at age 34, few see him
as having the kind of statistical upside offered by many youngsters.
But is that assessment accurate? A player who provides power, speed,
RBI production, and average? Those kinds of players are a very rare
breed. Just ask Pujols, Hanley, and Braun.
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Torii iis great, but gettiing a liitle creaky. But worth having– iits niice to fiield guys you can root for instead of miisanthrope red ***** like Jason Kendall, Eriik Bedard and Jeff Reardon.


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We all know how much the auto industry is struggling today. The industry is also facing some of its toughest engineering challenges yet. The demand for highly fuel-efficient vehicles will certainly continue to increase but our hunger for speed, safety, creature comforts and an affordable price is not likely to subside.
The oil crisis of the 1970s forced a wave of innovation on automakers to produce more sensible cars. Over time, with diligence and creativity, we produced remarkably dependable, agile, safe, efficient and profitable vehicles.
This current crisis feels a lot different, though. The engineering solutions for the last crisis were better executions of things we already knew how to do - make something smaller, look for lighter material, etc. This time, people are seriously looking at entirely new fuel systems, in addition to more effective versions of traditional vehicle fuels such as gas, diesel and electrical.
We're also squeezing out every drop of efficiency and effectiveness through more computing technology with "by wire" functionality increasing with each model year. Indeed, the computing power needed to control these new systems would have filled a large room a few decades ago. The magnitude of the engineering challenge is staggering and the global community of automotive engineers is getting understandably nervous.
Recently, at the Physical Modeling Consortium meeting (an industry think tank started by Toyota and Maplesoft) held at IAV's headquarters in Berlin, senior engineers from the industry echoed this growing concern. The main question was whether the current modeling and design toolchain is flexible or smart enough to tackle the new engineering challenges. The reality is, people are still designing excellent cars with the tools they have today and it is only when you start factoring in tomorrow's engineering needs that you start seeing the limitations of the aging toolchain.
Fortunately, some very pragmatic thinking is starting to emerge. In fact, the PMC itself is a clear example of this. The meetings are bringing together competitors who are collaborating to refine engineering technique.
The bet is that these complex new techniques can mature faster with the combined talents of the auto industry. The reality is that the technical challenges are daunting even for mighty Toyota to tackle alone in a timely way.
One of the most intriguing is an emerging technique called the Conserved Quantities' approach to modeling. This is a methodology where a modeling tool forces engineers to deal with fundamental energy (and other) balances as they develop models - a framework by which we can more easily comply with the fundamental laws of physics. Unfortunately, with traditional modeling software, it is quite easy to miss some very important physically relevant factors - like heat loss in mechanical components. With the right software implementation, the CQ approach gives us a fighting chance at deploying more advanced scientific concepts in a timely manner - do a bit more math and science up front, and you may be able to overcome the analytical hurdles.
Will this be enough? Only time will tell, but the good news in all of this is that a global crisis is once again bringing out some of the best thinking we've seen in the engineering world for some time. We are certainly headed for some interesting times.


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KT Tatara's logic-based comedy provides unique insight into timeless topics such as gender roles and race. He lives in Los Angeles where he is a regular performer at The Laugh Factory and The Comedy Store in Hollywood.
In 2006, KT was featured as one of the top "New Faces of Comedy" at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, Canada. Following his stellar performance there, KT has been invited back to the festival several times. At the 2008 JFL Festival in Toronto, he starred in the stand-up comedy special "The Colour Of Funny" on the CBC network.
As a comedian, KT has made television appearances on NBC's Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham," Showtime's "Live Nude Comedy," and the nationally syndicated show, "Comics Unleashed." As an actor, KT has co-starred on CBS's "How I Met Your Mother" and ABC Family's "Greek."
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