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It looks like Dell was happy with their $199 Mini 9 sale from a few weeks back, because they're repeating it today.
The system is available in white, configured with
Windows XP Ubuntu, a 1.6GHz Atom, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage (just enough to get a Hackintosh netbook running after some fiddling). Yeah, it's a barebones system that you'll want to beef up with more RAM, but it's $199. [Dell via CrunchGear]


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In my recent visit to the federal capital, I was taken in by the majesty, the beauty and the history of the buildings of our government (and corporations, these days there's no clear boundary). If I had not understood the alphabet and was to judge the buildings by their architecture, Bank of America's building would have been a government building.
Without writing an edict or enacting a law, the government and the banking cartel had articulated messages through the architecture. The banks are making themselves out to be indistinct from our government and government buildings frequently utilize architectural styles that mirror the glory of ancient Greece, claiming for themselves the humanist legacy of the land that saw the birth of the earliest form of democracy.
It's interesting to note a land's architecture and the narratives (and identities) that are woven into it. There is much that is implicit in the red of Chinese architecture: a state-sponsored narrative of revolution from the top down. Whether or not we buy into the narrative, the act of displaying it with pomp makes the narrative powerful, relevant, and pervasive in the culture that witnesses the architecture.
A society's architecture shapes the people's identity in many subtle ways: by being ever-present, by lurking high above the people, by serving the ruling classes as a symbol of their power and legitimacy, and by the layers of history that nourish a people's attachment to the sites. Accidents of abuse and rebellion can at times evolve, within the urban setting, into monuments to the people's history. I'm reminded of how the Stonewall Inn, where gays first fought back police brutality in 1969, has become a site of pilgrimage for many LGBT people comparable to the monuments to the founding fathers in DC. Not all architectural narratives happen from the top down.
And then there are the hidden, and Freudian, narratives, the (perhaps?) unintended ones. The phallic symbols that embody power, conquest and fertility. In my visit to DC I noticed that our national obelisk (fashioned after the ancient Egyptian model) was being fixed, curiously during a time in which America's global hegemony is increasingly being questioned, as if old Uncle Sam was in need of viagra.
We all, consciously or not, choose to identify with various types of architecture according to sets of values and aesthetic tendencies that reflect, I believe, much more about ourselves than we may even know. In watching science fiction for many years, I've noticed the curvy and anarchic urban designs found in films like Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, and other futuristic films (whether utopian or dystopian). I've always been intrigued by how so many science fiction storylines imagine (and intuit) the architecture of the future in this way. Notice how, in the Star Wars planet of Tatooine, the inner architecture of homes is almost organically curvy and blends into the ground and the land effortlessly. Like the people of our much-feared overpopulated future, the people of Tatooine live in deserted lands where water must be harvested.
Joseph Campbell, the famous mythographer who mentored George Lucas during his years of incubating the Star Wars narrative, believed that a circular or round form favors wholeness and is a symbol of the Self and of completion.
I say these shapes also promote egalitarian models of relating to each other, whereas a pyramid has obvious classist connotations, and was in fact the most famous symbol of one of the societies that was most loyal to class divisions in antiquity: ancient Egypt. The recent stirrings of the Egyptian revolution could have only happened long after the ruins of its past glory had been overtaken by the sands.
Notice, for contrast, the openness and flatness of the sites of modern revolutions: plazas and squares like Tahrir and Zuccotti Park. Notice also how the idea of Occupying a space, owning it, and giving it a new identity (Zuccotti became Liberty Square) becomes an act of writing history, of weaving new populist narratives, and how these narratives that emerge from horizontal spaces explicitly repudiate classism (the 99% versus the 1%).
The futuristic documentary The 11th Hour, in proposing solutions to the present environmental and spiritual crisis that humanity faces, presents ideas for redefining progress by building our architecture and our machines in the image of how nature makes things efficiently rather than with the mindset of taming or controlling nature, which is admittedly the failed spiritual longing of our predecessors. By embedding our technology into the cycles of nature, we work with her rather than against her and we secure a sustainable future for our descendants in this so-called anthropocene age of our own creation that we are entering.
There is a deeper intuition behind this emerging mindset, which leads me back to my own spiritual and philosophical master, Epicurus, and to the architectural model that he called for.
His schools were Gardens.
Ponder the semantics, the layers of meaning behind the architecture that he meant to favor, the type of covenant with nature that is implicit in the image of the Garden, which served pragmatically as a source of agricultural goods but was also his house and his school.
Gardens, in many of the worlds' mythologies, serve as metaphors for the earliest and future paradise, the green world full of life that all the desert religions dream of, but to us this paradise is not other-worldly. It is the space we are called to occupy. Epicurus wanted his followers to be Gardeners, nature's responsible, happy and awakened care-takers; and also scientists, the types of sages whose wisdom is derived from the study of nature. The space he meant for them to occupy was one of serenity and beauty, of civilized pleasure always in the presence of nature.
The Garden is a metaphor for bringing nature back into the city, for being both natural and civilized, and for Epicurus' dethronement of reason in favor of nature, not to deny or repress reason but to utilize it under the guidance of nature. In Epicurean cosmology, man must engage in the study of nature (science) but is not destined to tame nature or called to govern nature by force.
Epicurus was very ahead of his day, and yet he is ancient and eternal. The Earth will go on, with or without us. She does not need us in the way that we need her. In fact, viewed from space human civilization looks like a cancer, like a giant bacteria that is attacking and overcoming her. We 'tame' nature to our own detriment. In order to be spiritually relevant and useful, our narratives of progress must learn from and imitate nature instead of seeking to overcome and control her.
We can read into the architecture of the Garden how nature is built into the home, into civilization, into the polis, the city, into family and community life, how she is invited to be present there in the midst of it all. She's not exiled. We don't robe her in pavement or cement: we invite her in and she dwells among us.
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The ICEF Berlin Workshop grew again for the tenth consecutive year in 2014. Welcoming 2 343 participants, the event broke the 2013 record by 9%. There is no comparable event in terms of size and opportunity anywhere in the world – ICEF Berlin is the leading international education focussed networking forum and a must attend for all industry professionals.
In total, 1 013 education agents travelled to Berlin for three days of targeted meetings, seminars and networking with 979 international educators, 217 exhibitors, and 40 work and travel professionals. Overall, participants from 103 countries participated in 26 879 pre-scheduled meetings.
The ICEF Berlin Workshop is the best and most efficient way to network across a broad range of industry professionals. Participants may also attend various seminars and presentations each providing valuable insights into the latest trends and research affecting international education.
In addition to business meetings and informative industry presentations, event attendees also benefit from numerous informal networking opportunities including lunches, coffee breaks, a cocktail reception and an official gala dinner. These social events give participants the chance to make further contacts and extend business relationships on a more personal level.
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Women and Love
I know a lot of women and all of them have the same problem, MEN. Women love ass holes and hoes. Well most of them anyway. Women seem to be so intrigued by guys who don't give a shit about them and even more intrigued by guys who fuck a lot of women.
Women often want to see what the big fuss is all about with a hoe so they have lunch with the guy or even fuck the him. Other women want to change the guy into a house wife from a hoe. It's like a challenge. "Girl my pussy so good he will stop having sex with them other bitches and fuck with me only!" I know females who haven't actually said that line out loud but have thought it. Well then they can't turn the guy into a housewife and get heart broken and say all men ain't shit. Be mad for a couple weeks, claim they bout to start "doing them", meet another hoe and do it all over again.
Women don't date new guys. They date the same exact men with different faces. Women are so smart when it comes to other things like school, and their career but are the dumbest creatures when it comes to protecting their hearts and falling in love. Every woman has a sweet guy in their phone that wants to take them out and treat them nice but they will never notice him because their too busy chasing someone who doesn't want them. The classic game of cat and mouse that can't seem to be put to rest.
I don't like that nice guys actually finish last Aka lose but they do. I don't know how to change this or if it will ever change. Ladies just be sure your not looking for a challenge when looking for love cause like challenges, you can't win them all. You fall victim in believing that love happens like it does in the movies. Well it don't and you will become bitter towards love from thinking that.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- CC Sabathia preferred the way he finished off Wednesday's game to the way he started it. And he was perfect for nearly his first five innings.
The Yankees' ace struck out nine and pitched his first complete game of the year to give his busy bullpen a rest and help New York finish off a sweep of the Indians with a 6-4 win over Cleveland.
The Yankees' top two relievers, closer Mariano Rivera and setup man David Robertson had each pitched an inning the last two nights, and the rest of the bullpen had seen a good amount of use, too, with five pitchers getting more than seven innings of work the last two days.
''We really needed it,'' Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. ''I didn't really want to use Mo, but I would have with two outs in the ninth.''
Sabathia made that unnecessary with a 1-2-3 ninth, his first clean inning since the fourth. Travis Hafner and Brett Gardner homered early for Sabathia, who didn't look as if he would need much help at all after retiring his first 14 batters.
''It's just the way we would draw it up,'' Gardner said. ''He looked real good. He had no-hit stuff.''
Sabathia said he didn't even notice he was perfect until he heard fans cheering in appreciation. He was happier to close out the game himself.
''I'm still trying to get a feel for the game,'' in the fifth, Sabathia said. ''Probably (would have noticed in) another inning or two.''
New York swept the Indians in three games to finish a homestand that began with two losses to the Mets and a 1-2 series against Boston. The Indians were swept in their only visit to the Bronx last season, too.
Hafner, who was Sabathia's teammate in Cleveland when the Indians beat the Yankees in the 2007 AL division series, hit a two-run homer in the first inning off Corey Kluber (3-4), and Gardner added a three-run shot in the second following Chris Stewart's RBI single.
It was enough for Sabathia, who threw three straight balls to leadoff hitter Michael Bourn, then looked dialed in. He struck out the side in the third, as well as the leadoff hitter in the fourth.
Sabathia (6-4) did not allow a baserunner until Mike Aviles singled cleanly with two outs in the fifth inning, then he looked more pedestrian.
''He was really spotting it up,'' Cleveland's Nick Swisher said of his former New York teammate. ''I mean, you go into the batter's box and you're used to seeing 94-95 mph, and all of a sudden, you're seeing these back door breaking balls coming at you, just - bam - right on the corner.''
Cleveland put together a couple of runs in the sixth, on three straight singles capped by Jason Kipnis' run-scoring hit off first baseman Mark Teixeira's glove. Nick Swisher added a second run when he reached on a fielder's choice.
Yan Gomes hit a two-run shot off Sabathia in the seventh inning to get the Indians within two runs.
Kluber was rocked early, but gathered himself enough to make it through six innings with seven hits and a walk. He struck out eight, and only was charged with four earned runs because Bourn couldn't handle Robinson Cano's sinking liner in center before Hafner's home run.
He allowed three baserunners with seven strikeouts in his last 5 1-3 innings after Gardner's homer.
''I just left a few balls over the heart of the plate a little too much early on. The difference was, I didn't make those mistakes after that,'' Kluber said. ''At that point, I was just trying to go deep in the game, continuing to get outs and just try to keep them there to give us a chance to come back and win.''
NOTES: Drug agents are investigating a narcotics delivery to the home of Indians closer Chris Perez, authorities said. No charges have been filed. GM Chris Antonetti says the team had talked with Perez and is gathering information. ... Girardi said he had not discussed MLB's drug-clinic investigation with 3B Alex Rodriguez. Yankees teammates said they would support Rodriguez if any derogatory information came to light. ... The Yankees improved to 14-4 against Cleveland at the new Yankee Stadium. The Indians beat them 10-2 in the new ballpark's first game, in 2009. ... Phil Hughes (2-4) is expected to start for New York in Seattle on Thursday against RHP Aaron Harang (2-5). ... The Indians will go to Detroit and send Ubaldo Jimenez (4-3) up against Justin Verlander (7-4).


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Trustees freeze tuition for Plainview campus
PLAINVIEW - Despite rising costs of education nationwide, students at Wayland Baptist University's campus in Plainview can look forward to a break.
Wayland's Board of Trustees approved a proposal during its Thursday meeting to freeze the tuition rate on the Plainview campus for the coming 2003-04 academic year. The rate will remain at $270 per semester hour for undergraduate courses and $275 per hour for graduate courses.
Wayland President Dr. Paul Armes said the decision to forego a tuition increase, which traditional has been around $10 per hour, was based on consideration of the economy and the region.
"It really came from the economic and geographic context of this campus," said Armes. "We live in an area that has faced more than its share of economic struggles in recent years, and our recommendation reflected consideration of that."
Estimated costs for a semester at Wayland - Plainview, including books - based on a student being enrolled in 12 semester hours, living in a median-priced, shared dormitory room and carrying a meal plan with 15 meals per week - is $5,542.20. Those costs include a general fee applicable to students enrolled in more than seven credit hours, which covers admission to athletic events and extracurricular activities, health services, library usage, student newspaper and yearbook, access to the Plainview YMCA and parking permits.
Trustees also approved a $10 per credit hour tuition increase at Wayland's external campuses, the first raise for those sites in three years. The approved increase will bring tuition to $140 per hour for undergraduate work and $165 per hour for graduate courses. Wayland has campuses in Lubbock, Amarillo, Wichita Falls and San Antonio, Texas, as well as in New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, Oklahoma and Hawaii.
In other business, trustees approved a $33.9 million budget for the 2003-04 fiscal year that begins in June. The $33,913,216 budget reflects an 11.7 percent increase ($3.53 million approximately) over last year's budget.
The board also approved promotions for several faculty members, effective June 1. Dr. Kristi Jarman, Scott Franklin and Sherrie King of Plainview will all be promoted to assistant professor status, while Dr. Joan Franklin and Dr. Carol Green - both faculty at the Clovis Campus - will be promoted to associate professor. Dr. Dallas Bivins of Phoenix, Dr. Raymond Blythe of Lubbock and Dr. Candace Keller of Plainview will all be promoted to full professor status. A proposal to provide for faculty sabbaticals, including one long term and one summer session, was also approved by the board.
Finally, trustees elected to accept an amended mission statement for the university, prepared by a special committee appointed by the president. Armes said the revisions come from requirements by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Wayland's accrediting agency, to have "a clearly stated and regularly reviewed mission statement."
"In many ways, this statement also helps form parameters and framework for the energy of strategic planning for the university," Armes explained.
The new mission statement and approach reads as follows:
"Mission: Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an academically challenging and distinctively Christian environment for professional success, lifelong learning and service to God and humankind.
"Approach: The university seeks to educate its students by developing them intellectually, physically, spiritually and socially, preparing them to move into a variety of professions or into further study. Wayland offers a strong liberal arts education in a traditional setting and provides degree programs that serve the needs of an older, highly mobile, employed population. Through the main campus in Plainview and multiple campuses both domestic and international, Wayland offers associate, baccalaureate and masters degrees. The university employs faculty, staff and administrators dedicated to its mission and seeks to attract a student body from diverse socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, religious and geographical backgrounds. Wayland serves its students and other constituencies by providing appropriate academic and technical expertise, spiritual resources, cultural and athletic events and facilities."


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Allayne Sherer
Victory - Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment Continues to Help Medical Marijuana Defendants in Federal Court - Americans for Safe Access
An opinion today issued in the federal 9th Circuit by a three-judge panel has found that federal prosecutions of medical cannabis defendants may not proceed unless there is a violation of state law. In the opinion of U.S. vs. McIntosh, written by 9th Circuit Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, the court held that the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment prohibits the federal prosecution of conduct that is allowed by the state's medical cannabis law.
In the opinion, Judge O'Scannlain wrote:
We therefore conclude that, at a minimum, § 542 prohibits DOJ from spending funds from relevant appropriations acts for the prosecution of individuals who engaged in conduct permitted by the State Medical Marijuana Laws and who fully complied with such laws.
The opinion remanded all of the cases that included in the appellate ruling back to the trial court. If federal prosecutors want to continue pursuing their cases against the defendants, they must prove at an evidentiary hearing that the defendant violated state law.
Don Duncan
California Weekly Roundup: August 15, 2016 - Americans for Safe Access
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Don Duncan
California rejects medical cannabis taxes, for now - Americans for Safe Access
The Senate Appropriations Committee held AB 2243 in its suspense file this week, blocking the bill from being approved this year. The bill by Assembly Member Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa) would have imposed a new tax of up to $9.25 per ounce on licensed medical cannabis distributors. This is the second medical cannabis tax bill to die this year. The Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee killed SB 987 in June. That bill by Senator Mike McGuire (D-San Rafael) would have imposed an additional 15% excise tax on medical cannabis consumption.
ASA opposed both medical cannabis tax bills this year because we believe the imposition of additional taxes is premature and represents an undue burden on legal patients. We rallied our base to email, call and visit lawmakers in opposition to AB 2243 and SB 987. It paid off this year, but tax proposals affecting patients will keep coming up at the state and local level. That is why it is so important for ASA to bring the patients' voices to the table and to empower local advocates.
Elizabeth Collins
DEA Still Denies Cannabis Has Medical Value - Americans for Safe Access
Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released its decision to keep cannabis in its current Schedule 1 status. This decision will have substantial implications for the two million patients that currently have access to medical cannabis and cannabis products under state laws. Schedule I status means that the DEA sees no accepted medical use of cannabis.
The Controlled Substances Act requires an 8-Factor Analysis from the HHS upon which the DEA makes it determination for all scheduling, or rescheduling, decisions. Previous efforts to reschedule cannabis have also been blocked by the DEA, who remain the most steadfast in maintaining their opposition to cannabis reform under the Obama administration.
Pictured: Acting DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg
Elizabeth Collins
You Can Help Pass National Cannabis Legislation - Americans for Safe Access
There is increasing evidence that cannabis is medicinally useful in treating chronic pain which, unlike opioids, has no documented cases of overdose. However, doctors continue to prescribe them for pain, and the abuse of and deaths from opioids have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. So, Americans for Safe Access created the document: Medical Cannabis Access for Pain Treatment: A Viable Strategy to Address the Opioid Crisis to educate and inform legislators of the growing need for an alternate treatment for the millions of patients suffering from pain every day.
Congress has taken notice of the opioid epidemic, and in July President Obama signed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, aimed at curbing abuse of heroin and other drugs. Not only is it significant that Congress has passed comprehensive addiction legislation, but it is also the first time Congress has ever supported long-term addiction recovery. However, the bill did not include medical cannabis as part of its approach.
This current Congressional interest in and discussion around opioids and addiction provides a unique opportunity for us to gain support to pass the Compassionate Access Research Expansion and Respect the States (CARERS) Act. And we need YOU to help leverage this document to help us pass this important piece of legislation!!!
Talana Lattimer
Hey California! We're Coming to a City Near You
With the passage of Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA), California's medical cannabis industry is now moving into a state licensing program. Voters will also be deciding on yet another major regulatory bill, Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) in November. Both laws include robust product safety protocols as well as a new licensing program.
Patient Focused Certification, a project of Americans for Safe Access is hosting an educational tour for the California medical cannabis industry to help demystify the regulations that will come from Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation (BMMR) and give practical advice for business to meet and exceed these requirements.
Our mission is to help companies surpass regulatory compliance. PFC staff have been working with governments for over 14 years to develop laws and regulations for the the medical cannabis industry. As well as with the American Herbal Products Association and the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia to create industry standards. Which have now been adopted in 16 states.
Don Duncan
California Weekly Roundup: July, 25, 2016 - Americans for Safe Access
The California Weekly Roundup will be on summer vacation until Monday, August 15. In the meantime, look for important announcements about upcoming events in California and other news on this list.
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Don Duncan
California Weekly Roundup: July 18, 2016 - Americans for Safe Access
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Allayne Sherer
Senators Grassley and Feinstein Introduce Bill to Exempt Some Medical Cannabis Patients From Federal Prosecution - Americans for Safe Access
Today, the Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act (S. 3269) was introduced in the United States Senate, which would ease research barriers and create exemptions from federal law for certain medical cannabis patients. The bill was introduced by four members of the Senate Judiciary Committee - Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Tom Tillis (R-NC). Much of the bill is focused on allowing for institutions of higher education or manufacturers to register with the federal government in order to conduct research on cannabis (marijuana) or cannabidiol (CBD), but it's the "Safe Harbor" provision that is drawing the attention of medical cannabis patients.
Don Duncan
California Weekly Roundup: July 11, 2016 - Americans for Safe Access
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Seniors play Pinochle
Dec 28, 2018 @ 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
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An event every day that begins at 8:30 am, repeating until Dec 28, 2018
Seniors meet at Santa Cruz Elementary from 8:30 a.m. to noon for pinochle every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Take the third driveway into the school and proceed to the back of the school building where the chain link fence is. Door are at the back of the school rooms.
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All autumn two men have been fighting in public over the spiritual estate of Paavo Haavikko. During Haavikko's last year, his – self-appointed? – spiritual son Mauno Saari worked on his biography of the poet, in close cooperation with the aged giant. After his father's death in October 2008 the fleshly son, Heikki Haavikko, tried to the last to prevent Saari from publishing the book, among other things claiming that as Haavikko's heir he should share the copyright in the text, which is based primarily on Saari's interviews with his father.Hannu Marttila has more here.
In a long article published in Helsingin Sanomat's monthly supplement (October 3), Minna Lindgren describes the febrile attempts of Mauno Saari and his wife, Pirkko Turpeinen, to make themselves indispensable in the care of the increasingly ailing Haavikko... In a detailed interview for the weekly magazine Apu (October 7) Saari for his part tells how the son did his best to isolate his father from his friends Saari and Turpeinen during his final months.
The book, A Man Called Haavikko, appeared in early October, and Saari managed to include much of this autumn's public quarrel between its covers. The result is a sordid soap from the heights of cultural life, and a thrilling combination of high and low. Somewhere in the middle are a couple of hundred pages of the essay-like "conversational biography" the book was once intended to be, with Saari as administrator of Haavikko's spiritual testament and chronicler of a life that contained both greatness and tragedy.
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3) Follow the instructions in the tester script for the calendar version that is installed on the server.
4) Download the calendar files as recommended by the tester script. If the server does not pass the tests, contact your web host provider and tell them that something they have recently changed has broken the ability to run a script that requires Zend Optimizer, Zend Guard, or ionCube loaders. They will need to resolve this issue before continuing this troubleshooting process. Usually, once they fix this issue, the calendar will function once again. If it doesn't, start this troubleshooting process over again.
5) Follow the Upgrade section of the instructions to upload the calendar files to the server. Instructions: Version 6 | Version 7
License Errors:
At this point, the calendar should be functioning. However, if there is a license error while viewing the calendar, click the Help link in the license error message and follow the instructions to update the license key.
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Are plans considered fiscal plans? Or individual projects?
A plan can be used at different levels. There is no general rule to using plans – how you use plans would typically depend on how you work. You might make different plans for different programs, create a separate plan for the next quarter, or make plans for a particular set of projects. The only rule is that plans are logically separated, and should not share any data, such as resource availability. This means whenever you need to balance resources between projects and teams, put the data into one plan.
イニシアチブとリリースの機能面での目的は何ですか? どのように Jira プロジェクトに関連するのでしょうか?
イニシアチブはエピックやストーリーを大規模な作業単位にまとめます。イニシアチブは一般に複数のリリースにわたり、その間に中間的なデリバリが含まれます。ビジネス イニシアチブは一般に、実際のスコープと投資を含み、上位の管理層が承認したり、上位の管理層に報告したりするための粒度を示します。イニシアチブには Jira プロジェクトとの直接的な関係はありません。ほとんどの場合、1 つのイニシアチブにまとめられたエピックやストーリーは複数の Jira プロジェクトに存在します。1 つのイニシアチブのすべての課題が 1 つの専用の Jira プロジェクトに所属する場合もあります。
Is there a separation between dynamic planning and the commitment of changes?
In Portfolio for Jira, you can play with different scenarios before deciding to commit changes back to Jira. The total number of changes made in your scenario is indicated in an orange bubble at the top of your plan.
You can confirm changes by committing them to your Jira application, or discard them by reverting them.
The issue 'x' doesn't appear in my plan
Make sure that:
- the fixVersion field is not hidden for that issue type.
- there are no filters set in the portfolio plan/setup wizard that are excluding it
- the issue is has not been resolved otherwise It won't be visible in the import wizard.
- if you are in plan view, go to More > status > open and completed issues and/or More > status > completion date.
- the issue is not within a release that has been excluded.
- the issue was not manually excluded in the wizard.
Portfolio for Jira doesn't exactly "import" issues, but lets you set projects/boards/filters as an issue source so that any new issue added to those sources from Jira are automatically added to your plan.
Initiatives are still possible to use in Portfolio for Jira. However, due to the new integration functionality, Portfolio for Jira 2.0 requires you to configure new levels of hierarchy, and link the new levels to an issue type in Jira.
Learn more about creating new initiatives
Jira Software のスプリントに課題を追加するにはどうすればよいですか?
You can assign issues to a specific sprint in Portfolio for Jira, but it requires a small amount of configuration and only works for "board" issue sources.
I need to manage a mixture of teams that use Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall. Can I still use Portfolio for Jira?
Yes, it is possible that some teams work in Scrum mode, and others in Kanban or with traditional methodologies. Common to both modes is that the scheduling algorithm always focuses on finishing individual work items completely before starting new ones. This means that in Kanban mode, when design of a story has started, the first the implementation if it will be scheduled before starting design work on another new feature (unless of course there is sufficient capacity to do it in parallel).
Learn more about working with initiatives
Portfolio for Jira で 1 つのストーリーに複数のユーザーを割り当てることはできますか?
Yes, Portfolio for Jira lets you assign multiple users to the same story. The maximum number of people that can be assigned to a single story is configurable in the settings.
Learn more about managing your teams
Can Portfolio for Jira suggest the best teams to assign to initiatives based on the schedule?
If you don't assign a team manually, Portfolio for Jira will make an automatic assignment, and suggest the teams who can deliver the work the fastest.
How do you model a release sprint, regression, or stabilization effort inside a release date being calculated?
There are different options to achieve this goal.
- Put a placeholder epic with an effort estimate to represent the stabilization effort. You could size it in such a way that it fills out the capacity for a full time for a sprint. You might have to work with dependencies or an earliest start date constraint to ensure the capacity is reserved only after the other work is done.
- Another approach is modify the start date of the next release to leave a time buffer in-between for example, the subsequent release starting 2 weeks after the end of the previous release.
Any plans for sprint capacity planning? I'd like to know where my resource bottlenecks are during a two-week iteration. Jira doesn't do that natively, and as a result, I have to create a capacity plan in Excel.
Any plans for sprint capacity planning? I'd like to know where my resource bottlenecks are during a two-week iteration. JIRA doesn't do this natively, and as a result, I have to create a capacity plan in Excel.
Portfolio for Jira should be able to help you with that today. It might be a bit counter-intuitive since you work in sprints, but in order to plan exact capacities on a day to day basis you would have to switch the team to Kanban mode (in the people section, team schedule column). You could use releases to represent sprints instead. This will give you a day-to-day plan within your sprints to see how people are allocated.
Does Portfolio for Jira support exporting for reports?
We currently have CSV exports available for the scope and releases. To download a CSV, go to the particular report, and click the export button located on the right.
Please refer to Scheduling and timeline for more information about this topic.
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VIA's new 'sexy, sleek' Prímo buses get ready to roll on Fredericksburg
On an overcast weekday morning, Rogelio Barrientos held on to his cane and stood at a crowded bus stop on Fredericksburg Road, waiting to catch the number 92 bus.
Like many of the 12,000 people who take public transit along this corridor every day, Barrientos was headed to the Medical Center, this time for one of his regular appointments at the Audie Murphy VA Hospital.
The bus stop, at Mary Louise Drive, looked like it had been visited by many travelers over the years. Two phone booths installed beside it were covered in graffiti. The benches were mismatched and old.
Then a bus zoomed past. It was nothing like the vehicles that make up most of the VIA fleet. This bus was silver, tall and so long that it bends in the middle.
Say hello to VIA Prímo, the big service addition to VIA.
"I like 'em," Barrientos, 74, said after one of the 60-foot-long Prímo training buses drove by, "because they're brand new."
On Dec. 17, VIA launches VIA Prímo, its first bus rapid transit line and arguably the transit agency's most ambitious new service in the past decade.
Sometimes billed as light rail on wheels because of its sleek look, BRT will offer service every 10 minutes during the week, rather than the 15-minute frequency on some current Fredericksburg routes.
There are other perks: free Wifi, level boarding so passengers can get on faster and bicycle racks inside, not outside, the bus.
But the real question for VIA is, will Prímo attract significantly more riders, particularly ones new to public transit?
The question has weighed heavily more recently, with a revived debate over VIA's planned streetcar. Some rail opponents say VIA doesn't need streetcars in addition to buses.
While VIA expects the majority of the Prímo ridership will consist of current passengers like Barrientos, it hopes to attract new riders who choose to use the bus but don't necessarily have to take it, such as people who live downtown but work at the Medical Center, said Arturo Herrera, Jr., VIA's strategic planner overseeing the BRT project.
The Fredericksburg corridor experiences some of the highest ridership in the VIA system. Those numbers could increase by 5 percent to 7 percent after Prímo's initial six to eight months of operation, said VIA Chief Development Officer Brian Buchanan.
BRT advocates, including Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, believe getting more people to ride transit is crucial both to helping revive the inner city but also for long-term reasons, like helping the environment.
"It's a step forward in public transit," Wolff said. "A major step forward."
A Prímo ticket costs $1.10, the same as a regular bus fare, though VIA is considering a fare increase of a dime for all buses.
The frequency will change to 15 minutes in the early evenings, sometime between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m., during the week and most of the day on weekends; at night, Prímo buses will run about every 30 minutes.
The service will also feature new stops, called stations, that are farther apart than most existing bus stops to ensure a faster trip.
One of those stations was under construction across the street from where Barrientos waited for his bus. It was white and covered with a large overhang offering more shelter than most stops.
Prímo will connect downtown to the Medical Center, replacing the 91 and 92 routes. Other routes on the Fredericksburg corridor will continue service, but they won't stop at the new bus stations, which are exclusive to the 16 Prímo buses.
Other differences between Primo and regular bus service include:
• The Prímo fleet also will have traffic signal priority, a wireless technology that allows the buses to pass through traffic lights along the Fredericksburg and Medical Drive corridors faster. While the lights won't automatically change to green when a bus approaches, the system will switch to green as quickly as possible or hold a green light longer.
• A feature that allows wheelchair users to strap themselves into a space on the bus, rather than requiring the bus operator to help (the Prímo bus operators can still assist any wheelchair users if they need it).
• Every third bus will ferry passengers to the main campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio.
• The BRT stations on Fredericksburg and at the Medical Center will be outfitted with real-time messaging signs that tell passengers exactly when the next bus will arrive. TV screens inside Prímo buses will be similar.
• Prímo buses can seat 47 people and comfortably hold 60 to 70 passengers total with standing room. Regular buses seat 37 and can ferry 45 to 50 passengers.
VIA is also aggressively marketing the new service. There are newspaper and television ads, and mailers that include two free bus tickets. One billboard reads: "Prepare to be amazed."
A long time coming
But if the Prímo campaign started in earnest this fall, the service itself has been a long time coming. Rapid bus was in the works, at least conceptually, since shortly after 2000. That year, voters rejected a sales tax increase that would have funded construction of a light-rail system.
Rapid bus, which had grown in popularity across the country starting in the 1990s, became a viable option for VIA after the light-rail election, said Tim Tuggey, VIA board chairman from 2004 to 2008.
"The (2000) vote, I think, reasonably caused VIA to look back at other alternatives," he said.
Prímo and all related amenities cost $66.7 million to get up and running.
Most VIA buses run on diesel fuel, though some in the regular fleet use compressed natural gas. All the Prímo buses will run on CNG, a cheaper fuel, VIA spokeswoman Priscilla Ingle said. However, the purchase price is higher for the 60-foot-long Prímos — $878,000. It's $500,000 for other CNG buses that are the standard 40 feet.
Twelve years after light rail's defeat, VIA is moving forward with another rail plan, a five-mile downtown streetcar system. It never went before voters: VIA, Bexar County and the city cobbled together the money.
Like light rail, streetcars have inspired pushback from rail opponents, who call the project a waste of money. There have been threats of lawsuits and calls for VIA to put it to a vote.
Even in the best-case scenario, streetcars won't come on line until 2016 or 2017.
That makes Prímo the first mobility piece of VIA's fledgling plan to create a system in which riders can access a variety of connected transit options.
BRT and streetcar can work together, Buchanan said. Streetcar is an urban circulator, he said, while rapid bus moves a lot of people through a longer corridor but stops at fewer places.
"Great cities have great transportation choices," he said.
The Prímo buses will stop at VIA's new West Side Multimodal Center, in a former train depot on Medina Street before looping through downtown. VIA hopes that eventually, streetcars also will pick up and drop off passengers at the station.
At first, the center will be just a regular bus stop. In the next three months, it will have some customer services, a new transit police headquarters and restrooms.
The project's second phase, a transit plaza, won't open until 2015. Wolff surmises VIA won't see the true scope of ridership gains on BRT until the entire system opens.
But there will be other on-the-ground changes starting next week.
The day the rapid bus service launches also marks the grand opening of VIA's new South Texas Medical Center Transit Center, at Babcock Road and Medical Drive, replacing the one on Merton Minter, less than a mile away. Unlike the old center, which had no parking, the new one will have 123 parking spaces, Herrera said.
VIA also will begin a shuttle service, called Medlink, which will circulate throughout the Medical Center and cost the same as a regular bus fare.
Previously, only a few of the hospitals provided limited shuttle service, but there was no real circulator for the Medical Center, said Jim Reed, president of the San Antonio Medical Foundation.
The shuttle will circulate every 30 minutes; VIA hopes that eventually will increase to a 20-minute frequency.
There were 5.5 million patient visits in the Medical Center last year. Nearly 50,000 people work there, Reed said. So traffic congestion is a major problem, one he hopes Prímo will address.
"We're hopeful that the dressing up of the buses and the dressing up of the terminal," Reed said, "that we can get rides that aren't riders of last resort."
A new kind of bus
The name of the game in bus rapid transit is convenience.
In addition, VIA officials want the experience of riding the Prímo to feel different than riding the traditional bus.
Jason Gil, 37, regularly rides the 92 before hopping onto the 93 Express to get to class at UTSA. His wife uses their car; he's never had a driver's license.
He plans to buy a bicycle, and he likes the idea of taking it onto Prímo rather than mount it on the front of the bus.
Plus, the Prímos look great — "they have a kind of sexy, sleek design to them," Gil said, compared to the "clunky, boxy, noisy" regular bus which, he adds, are late about half the time.
But he wonders whether Prímo will live up to expectations. He's lived in Seattle and visited Berlin several times. Their transit systems impressed him, so how well can Prímo compete?
"I'm interested to see how efficient the (Prímo) bus system is going to be based on VIA's claim," Gil said.
Buses can carry a "certain stigma," said Jeff Hiott, senior program manager for bus technical services at the American Public Transportation Association. So transit agencies often take the opportunity to rebrand the BRT buses when they launch the service.
Perception "is the big factor in it," Hiott said. Even if the travel time isn't that much faster than normal service, the look and feel of the bus can convince passengers service has improved.
VIA officials eventually plan to expand the service, possibly adding rapid bus on Southwest Military Drive, which could connect to a planned transit center in the Brooks City-Base area. An extension to Leon Valley should launch this time next year.
In the end, the surest sign of Prímo's success will be how many people use it. All the bells and the whistles may not matter more than the bottom line for VIA riders like Enrique Guerra, 35, who occasionally takes the number 91 bus on Fredericksburg to get to his job. He doesn't care which bus he rides.
"My theory is whatever bus is going to get me there quicker," Guerra said, "that's what I'm going to take."


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"Davis straddles bop and swing in his phrasing; if anything, with his swallowed notes, sandpapery tone and sudden shrieks, he's already a genre unto himself. …
was to become one of the most honest, no-nonsense soloist in the music. The
knockout power of Davis '
blowing is thrilling." Davis
- Richard Cook and Brian Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Ed.
"Eddie Davis is what you would call a natural musician for he never took a lesson in his life; not one that he didn't administer himself, anyway. When Eddie decided that he wanted to play the tenor saxophone, he bought one second-hand and with it an instruction book which he studied diligently for eight months. At the end of this period, he played his first job [1942] at Clark Monroe's Uptown House, one of the first bastions of modern Jazz."
Ira Gitler
"He talked the way he played. He was glib, and his silver-tongued, pleasantly confrontational style always elicited a great audience response.
There were players who were better known, more influential, whatever; but they weren't any more confident or fearless than Jaws. He came to play, and if you were smart you didn't mess with him. He brought a street-fighter's instincts to the bandstand."
- Joel Dorn
Okay, no shilly-shallying around: Eddie "Lockjaw"
' tenor saxophone playing just knocks me
out. Davis
"Jaws" constantly delivered a brand of intensity and excitement on the instrument which aptly earned him the reputation for being one, tough, tenor saxophonist.
Whatever the setting – soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra, in Hammond B-3 Organ trios with Shirley Scott or co-leading a quintet with fellow tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin – Eddie barreled through them all with a temerity and a boldness that would characterize his career.
"His sound was, on reflection, a surprisingly complex matter. Unlike many of the players working in the organ-combo format, where Jaws made his biggest impact, his phrasing had an elongated quality that he broke up only with his matter-of-fact brusqueness; as if he was masking emotion with a temperament that told him to get on with it." [- Richard Cook and Brian Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Ed.]
Jaws was a blustery soloist who came to prominence in the world of Jazz at a time when had you had to "make your bones" by engaging in "cutting" sessions with other tenor saxophonists.
Such "duels" might include only another tenor sax player, or perhaps two others or even a stage full of them; some were known to go on all night, ending in the wee small hours of the morning.
The creative sparks flew when tenor saxophones engaged in such battles, and Eddie "Lockjaw"
was often tested, but rarely bested in
these competitions. Davis
Whether he was playing the blues or a ballad, Jaws spun solos of flat-out exuberance and exhilaration. His sound was always inimitable and accomplished.
We found a nice overview of the salient features of Eddie's career in the insert notes that
Michael Cuscuna prepared for Eddie "Lockjaw" David: The Heavy
Hitter [32 Jazz 32057].
"Eddie Lockjaw Davis, more commonly known these days as Jaws, is a thorough master of his instrument and his art. He is a warm, articulate, no-nonsense person who dispatches his business with a flair and a near perfection.
At the beginning of the session that produced this album, I made reference to the second night of recording. Jaws looked at me with surprise and said, "Second night! I'm only supposed to do one album. We'll do that now." As we had had no rehearsals and he had never played with the pianist or drummer before, I was skeptical, to say the very least.
But watching Jaws at work was an education. He was affable and encouraging with his sidemen, yet always in charge. He kept things moving without any trace of hurry or tension. Minutes after the rhythm section arrived, everyone was in his place and ready to go. Jaws would quickly talk out an arrangement, never allow a run through, saying, "Save it for the take. Don't give it away now." And every take was a first take with everyone sounding excellent and Jaws sounding nothing short of brilliant.
It is a testament to these musicians' abilities and professionalism and a miracle to me that such performances could come out of first takes without one sheet of music or one rehearsal. For the second tune of the night, Jaws turned to the rhythm section and said, "Okay 'Old Folks' and then we'll go into 'Out Of Nowhere.' Do you know the changes to these? I'll take a chorus and a half, the piano for the bridge and the last eight bars of that chorus. Then the bass and drums lay out and the piano has four bars to modulate up to C for 'Out Of Nowhere.' We play 'Old Folks' in F. I'll play this phrase. (He plays it.) Got it? Okay, let's take it."
Jaws' tone is big and rich. He is of that generation and school that makes every note meaningful and beautiful in and of itself. He can burn earnestly without working up a sweat, and he can seduce a ballad without resorting to sentimentality. His solos seem to flow casually out of a bottomless reservoir of creativity and feeling.
Although Lockjaw is chronologically in the age of be-bop, his primary influences were Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Herschel Evans. Born in
in 1921, he made his first mark in 1942
and '43 with Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Louis Armstrong and
other band leaders. The be-bop revolution was not one that passed him by as is
evidenced by the lovely Fats Navarro date on New York in which he was featured. But his soul and
spirit was and is firmly entrenched in the style and sound of the swing masters.
During the post war era, he recorded prolifically on a variety of labels. His
first session as a leader was for Haven Records. The originals on the date were
arbitrarily given the names of diseases. One tune, "Lockjaw," was a
hit. It established Savoy and gave him a nickname that remains to this day a part of his
moniker. Davis
In 1952, Lockjaw joined the Count Basie organization for the first time and quickly became an attraction as the band's cooking blues soloist. The excitement that he generated matched Illinois Jacquet's histrionics with Lionel Hampton in the forties, but Eddie was a thoughtful soloist who never relied solely on grandstanding. Lockjaw would slide in and out of Basie's band as tenor saxophonist and road manager through the years, his longest stint lasting from 1966 to 1973.
After that first go-round with Basie, Eddie led his own groups around
, until 1955 when he assembled a permanent
working band with organist Shirley Scott. That group lasted five years and pioneered
the tenor-organ format in jazz. The group's life span is well documented on a
string of soulful, intimate albums on Prestige, many of which included Lockjaw's
longtime associate George Duvivier. New York
In 1960, Eddie joined forces with Johnny Griffin, tenor master with a more modern, bop-oriented bent. For the next two years, they battled it out on many recordings and bandstands in the great tradition of Stitt and Ammons or Dexter and Wardell.
When declining public and economics took their toll on jazz, Griff moved to
Europe, jaws was soon to make the startling
announcement that he was giving up the saxophone and taking a position as a
booking agent with Shaw Artists, one of the heaviest jazz agencies of the
period. Thankfully, although successful in that capacity, Jaws ultimately
found the horn too irresistible and returned to playing. His
"comeback" was in full force by 1966 when he joined the Basie band in
both business and musical capacities.
In 1973, Eddie left Basie again, played with Ella Fitzgerald for a time and then stepped out as a leader and a featured soloist in a variety of settings and circumstances around the planet.
In his later years, Lockjaw often recorded with Harry "Sweets"
Edison and he remained a busy soloist up
until his death in 1986."


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GOOD NEWS: Believe it or not, news that closer B.J. Ryan is out for 4-6 weeks can be considered good news. Toronto GM J.P. Ricciardi sounded like a man prepared to hear the words "Tommy John surgery" after Ryan met with Dr. James Andrews on Monday. Instead, it's being described as a strained ligament in his left elbow — similar to what A.J. Burnett and Gus Chacin dealt with last year.
BAD NEWS: The Blue Jays hoped 3B Troy Glaus would be available to play on Tuesday against the Red Sox. On Monday, though, Toronto placed the slugger on the 15-day DL with a tight hamstring and a bone spur in his left heel. There's no timetable for Glaus' return, but he'll be eligible to be back by April 28 or so. The Jays called up INF Ryan Roberts from Triple-A Syracuse to take Glaus' place on the roster.
EXPECTED NEWS: It seemed like a foregone conclusion that LF Reed Johnson would choose to have surgery to repair the herniated disc in his lower back. Back injuries can be very troublesome and it's best to get it taken care of as soon as possible. Toronto will be without Johnson for at least two months after he goes under the knife on Tuesday.
PROGNOSIS: At least the Jays have a true replacement for Johnson in OF Adam Lind. The same can't be said for the loss of Ryan and Glaus. Jason Frasor will likely be effective as Toronto's closer, but he's not Ryan. As for losing Glaus, that's a big bat that's no longer in the lineup. INFs Jason Smith and John McDonald will probably platoon at third base while Glaus is out. Roberts will likely play sparingly at third and at second base, if Aaron Hill needs a day off.
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Eric Hinske hasn't been playing very much with Boston lately. He would be a huge upgrade over Smith/McDonald/Roberts and would be defensively and offensively superior to Matt Stairs.
JP might have to eat some crow and deal away a D prospect, but an acquisition of Eric Hinske would help this team in strides right now.(Not to mention having the lefty bat around).
Id rather have Smith's left handed bat, and his far superior glove than Hinske. There is probably a reason he isnt playing in Boston.
Not to mention Hinske's huge salary…
Smith is batting .350 and McDonald is batting .500. Smith was hitting like that all through spring training, and while I know McDonald's not going to keep hitting like that, let's wait until his hot streak ends before we worry too much about offensive uppgrades.
"There is probably a reason he isnt playing in Boston."
Well yea. Their names are Drew, Crisp, Ramirez, Ortiz and Lowell.
You'd rather have the inexperienced, unproven bat of Smith versus a fairly reliable .800 OPS vs RHP bat? Can't say I agree with that.
And the huge salary that we are already paying most of.
Hinske would be a platoon player at best with Glaus out as he is useless against lefthanded pitching. Also he is weaker defensively than both McDonald and Smith and with Glaus back would rarely play so why give up prospects for him? Who's to say Boston is willing to give him up?
Relax people. Glaus is only on the 15 day DL. The season is lost just yet.
I would rather shoot myself in the face than have Hinske back on the jays. We finally got ride of him – and you want him back? Did you eat paint chips as a child?
Unfortunately, we don't have the bucks to pay a player like Hinske to sit on the bench, so we won't see him soon. He could be a starter for a lot of teams in the bigs, and it's unfortunate for him that he had to go to Boston.
Hinske would only start for a weaker team. He can't hit lefties and is not reliable defensively to play everyday.
I don't wanna be pessimistic but things are not going right for the bluejays
it's gonna be hard to replace
2nd best closer in the game
lead-off hitter with the highest on-base percentage
a 40 homer guy


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"She, like every little girl – she loves my high heels," Katie told Access Hollywood at the Dizzy Feet Foundation at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.
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Since Suri first was spotted in public in her child-sized kitten heels earlier this fall, a debate was sparked on the Web and in parent's magazines over whether they could present a risk to the child's growth.
But Katie revealed the heels her daughter with Tom Cruise sports are actually supportive.
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"They are actually ballroom dancing shoes for kids," Katie said. "I found them for her and she loves them."
Katie stepped out at the Dizzy Feet event over the weekend in support of the organization she founded alongside "So You Think You Can Dance" judges Nigel Lythgoe and Adam Shankman and "Dancing With the Stars" judge Carrie Ann Inaba, which aims to help underprivileged young people realize their dreams of becoming professional dancers.
"I've been a fan of dancing my whole life," Katie said of her early love of dance. "I met with Nigel and he asked me if I wanted to be a part this… in starting this."
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The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® series continues by remembering a key game from Big Blue's last OVC Championship football season.
On Sept. 18, 1999 the Tigers traveled to Atlanta to take on FAMU in the Georgia Dome. The Tigers were 2-0 at the time, and fresh off of an OVC title the year before. TSU came into the game ranked in the top-25 and defeated the Rattlers 42-25.
The Tigers started quickly, and scored the first 25 points of the game on the backs of two touchdown passes and a pair of fumble recoveries.
The play of quarterback Leon Murray was the story of the day as he threw for 345 yards while completing 62.5 percent of his passes.
Meanwhile, FAMU couldn't find a quarterback that could keep up with Murray. Two quarterbacks attempted a total of 51 passes, but both were credited with an interception.
Finally, FAMU got on the board with a field goal with 3:47 left in the first half. However, TSU marched right down the field and scored another touchdown on a 49-yard bomb from Murray to Julius Hull.
Hull also had a career day for Big Blue. He had five catches for 175 yards and three touchdowns.
Down 32-3 at halftime, Florida A&M showed some fight with 15 points off of two touchdowns, but it wasn't enough.
TSU iced the cake with a 57-yard touchdown with 4:29 left in the game. Murray dropped back to pass, and hit Hull again to make the score 41-25. A point-after-touchdown later gave Tennessee State a 17-point victory.
The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® highlights some of the greatest moments in honor of Tennessee State's centennial celebration. A new moment will be released each weekday for a total of 100. These moments were chosen by the TSU 100 Moments committee, which consists of alums from various departments. TSU has so many great moments, not all can be represented in these 100.
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Earlier this week we featured a quilt with just one circular ring, today the featured quilt has 25 rings! All of this in a 40″ x 40″ quilt! The quilt named Hugs and Hugs was designed by Hannah Talecki as a part of the Jay MacCarroll Habitat Fabric Challenge that Free Spirit Fabrics sponsored through Modern Quilt Guilds across the US. All 25 ring blocks are pieced (not appliqued) using Dale Fleming's popular Six-Minute Circle technique. Hannah quilted this on her home machine with "concentric" V shapes, working outward from the center to form a large X across the whole quilt.
An engineer by schooling, Hannah says that her left-brained, mathematical roots play a large role in her quilting. She describes looking at a quilt design like a puzzle, and loves to figure out how to efficiently construct a quilt without sacrificing design or creativity. Read on as Hannah describes more about creating the Hugs and Hugs Quilt.
Question: What was your inspiration for this quilt?
Hannah: After receiving the fabric for the Habitat challenge, it took me weeks to decide what to do with it. As I sketched and doodled designs, I just couldn't get away from the idea of circles, as much as I dreaded the thought of tackling a quilt full of curves! I played with a variety of circle concepts in Google SketchUp (it's a 3D modeling program that I'm familiar with from my engineering days, but it works just as well to plan out 2D quilting projects, too!), but nothing felt quite right, until I finally had the idea to turn the circles into rings. I knew it would be time consuming, but it was the first idea I was truly excited about, so I knew I just had to jump in and go for it.
Question: What is your favorite part of this quilt?
Hannah: I really love the quilting. It was a bear to do it on my tiny home machine, but I like the juxtaposition of the straight lines with the all the circular curves. Also, I like to think of the X formed by the quilting lines as a big "kiss" on top of 25 little "hugs."
Question: What did you learn making this quilt?
Hannah: One of the obvious things I learned is how to sew a Six-Minute Circle – after doing it 50 times, I'd say I've definitely got the process figured out! More than that, though, I learned that you really can't judge a quilt until it's finished. After a few blocks, I wasn't sure I liked where this one was going, but I decided to stick it out. Even after the top was done, I wasn't fully convinced. It wasn't until I actually pulled the finished quilt from the dryer that it all came together for me, and now I love it!
Hannah created this quilt as a challenge issued to members of the St. Louis Modern Quilt Guild. She doesn't have a blog – yet – but, you can catch some of her other work in her photostream under Flickr name Soft Funny Fat.


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Friday, March 23, 2012
Mercury Rx Back Into Pisces: Mental Hauntings Ahoy!
In a lot of ways, this Mercurial movement back into watery Pisces - where it will be until re-entering Aries April 16 - acts as a necessary, yet potentially confusing and most likely frustrating, reprieve. Mercury was a primary player in the blazingly potent Aries New Moon we're opening out of, and, coming out of its prolonged conjunction to Uranus, our mental circuitry needs some recovery time just floating in the Piscean abyss. This is one placement that lets us know in no uncertain terms that most of it is not in our control.
The thing about that is, it's just not all that relaxing floating in a tail-end Piscean abyss at this point. You really don't know what you're going to find floating around in there, you know? Corexit, tar balls, industrial waste, ghost sharks, old tires, broken records, Slurpee cups, dead bodies, fish with three eyes, old, lingering impressions that bring the creep factor, thoughts that haunt, a mirroring of communication patterns, terrifying blind spots. Oh, and don't forget the odd hot radioactive particle.
It's a mixed bag, that tail-end Pisces, and this mental floating over the next three weeks isn't always going to be comfortable. Often it'll be creepy. Grievous. At times, it'll be almost unbearable.
We've just been infused with a massive amount of Aries "blast off" energy, and blasting off is what we're primed to do. Ants are officially in pants, and the idea that we will now be delayed, confused, thwarted by Mercury retrograde in the sign of its fall is a hard one to swallow.
Uranus is currently closing in on the first of its seven squares to Pluto June 24 as we move from spring equinox to summer solstice, and the unsettling and unsettled energy is increasingly permeating our realities. The Sun in Aries conjuncts Uranus tomorrow at 12:20 p.m. Central, keeping the nerve-jangling New Moon effects up front and centre. The Aries Sun then squares Pluto for a little stomach-dropping horrification and "in light of the current circumstances" personality/ego purging March 29 at 1:56 p.m.
We know we have to go through it. Those Uranus-Pluto squares are right in front of us now. And the Sun in Aries keeps this in our conscious moment this week.
I appeared on a radio show yesterday when the transits were fairly dicey personally because the issues came to me to be spoken about. It was a toss-up, and I knew it, but I decided to talk. I got the information across, but it did come back on me in some unpleasant ways.
It has to be noted that often these days, communication is difficult. Sometimes it's dangerous. Many choose not to speak on certain issues, not to be bothered, not to risk it. But I was woken up at 3 a.m. on March 12 as Mercury stationed retrograde in Aries conjunct Uranus, completely wired, with this post thrumming through me, insisting it be written. So I followed its course. It led me to a letter-to-the-editor in the local paper, a Doonesbury comic strip, and 14 U.S. states bringing forced sonogram laws down on women seeking abortions. You see the connections that occur when fighting the same fights.
Mercury is about to retrograde over my South Node, and to tell the truth, I'm not looking forward to it. I'm tempted to stay silent. It might be easier.
For other people it would be. But for me, the only course to follow is to haul myself out of bed and write it down. Even when it seems it will do no good. Especially then, actually.
And oddly enough, my internet connection, which has been intermittent for three weeks and almost non-existent this past week, is back today. I'm taking that as a sign I can write this post - even though it's kind of all over the map - without any South Node nastiness foaming up on me like backwash.
We'll see.
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- Anonymous said...
Really sorry you are having a rough time. If it helps, you're not alone. And, please, don't stop. We love and need your hot spicy voice.
Love you, girl.
- March 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM
- Willow said...
Aw, thank-you, Lea! I'm A-OK, all things considered. I hope you are doing well in these tumultuous times, also.
- March 23, 2012 at 2:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
Yes, you are right about the 'aries rearing to go' challenged by the retro mercury?
- March 24, 2012 at 4:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
I hear you on writing what needs to be said, as if driven by some inter-galactic trickster. Our voices are begging to be heard. Your piece on Rush, etc was great, and as women, we all need to muster up our courage and SPEAK, loud and clear, even though we may be met by a barrage of arrows.
- March 25, 2012 at 11:03 AM
- Willow said...
Yes, now's the time.
Luckily, the feminine warriors carry big shields and pretty much know every trick in the book at this point!
- March 25, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- Anonymous said...
until reading this post, couldn't get my head around why, with this time of year being my starter gun (libra) and with so much to consider and do .... i just do not feel motivated physically to get on with it. thanks for providing this perspective.
btw: yes, speaking my mind as gently and restrained as i could in finally ending a toxic friendship, has triggered false victimhood and nasty reactions. but so what, that's the consequence of being authentic.
- March 25, 2012 at 4:19 PM
- Liz G said...
Wow! Have finally found an explanation as to why I'm feeling so weirded out. So glad your internet was working ok! Thank you dear Willow. Your description of Mercury retrograding in Pisces is just brilliant! xx
- March 26, 2012 at 2:26 AM
- Willow said...
Thanks very much, Liz G!
Mars finishing its retrograde in Virgo opposite Chiron and Neptune in Pisces is another element of the weirdness/lack of forward-ho.
Mercury re-enters Aries and Mars stations direct mid-April, so our mojo should get going by the end of April.
- March 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM
- Debs said...
Oddly enough, I feel less clogged-up mentally while Merc is RX in Pisces than when it was direct in Pisces. Is that weird?
I'm probably jinxing myself now. Great.
Good luck!!
- March 26, 2012 at 1:13 PM
- Liz G said...
Thanks for the good news dear! Will try and keep my marbles together till then. xx
- March 27, 2012 at 12:09 AM
- HoBad said...
hobad is counting the days till this mercury rx in *pisces* is over. this is worse than the sag one at least that was on the transiting NN.
really bad the last two days with Moon in Gemini and the SN in Gemini.
- March 29, 2012 at 12:48 PM
- Ram Crab, Goat... Fish? said...
OMG...These retrogrades are dragging ass. Thank goodness Im not the only one who felt "aries charged and reaing to go". Im stir crazy and bored just waiting for the pace to pick up and frusterated by the lack of vision and direction. Counting the days...7 more till Mercury direct and 15 days till Mars direct. Hoping to pay for a reading tomorrow (pay day).
- March 29, 2012 at 6:42 PM


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Grey's Anatomy will lighten up a bit when Kevin McKidd steps behind the camera for the fourth time for Thursday's episode.
Following the plane crash — which brought on the deaths of Mark (Eric Dane) and Lexie (Chyler Leigh) and the amputation of Arizona's (Jessica Capshaw) leg — Grey's kicked off its ninth season on a very dark note. But McKidd promises he's about to turn that around with what he calls an "upbeat" episode.
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"I think the writers felt the audience needed a break, so Episode 4 is really fun," McKidd tells TVGuide.com. "All my other episodes have been quite intense, so it's been really fun to break out of that. I think people will be relieved to take a rest and just get to have fun with the show a little bit after the first few episodes."
The storylines that offer comedic relief include a patient with huge testicles, which McKidd says they had trouble shooting around. Plus: Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) returns, which causes a rift between Jackson (Jesse Williams) and Dr. Webber (James Pickens, Jr.). "Jackson and Richard have a big standoff about the ongoing saga of him dating Catherine," McKidd teases. "Bailey [Chandra Wilson] weighs in on that."
Grey's Anatomy is a drama, however, so there will be one very large obstacle for fans of Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Owen's relationship. to get through this week. Spoiler Alert: The promos don't lie! "[Cristina] has a sexual relationship with somebody else in Minnesota," McKidd says. Dun Dun Dunnnn! Also... really? Dr. Parker (Steven Culp)? Really?!
But there is hope on the horizon: McKidd says Cristina's exploits are an "empty experience for her."
"It fulfills a certain need for her, but there's certainly not that same thing that she gets when Cristina and Owen are together," he says. "It's going to be really interesting to see how to get back and whether they're able to. They may still love each other, but there might just be too much hurt going on. There might just be too much baggage to really be able to heal or rebuild. It's a painful truth, but I think Cristina and Owen wish they could be back together, even though they're apart."
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And don't necessarily expect Owen to retaliate against Cristina's indiscretions. "I think he's manning up to what happened," McKidd said. "He's holding out for Cristina. Whether that will be reciprocated, he doesn't know. But until he's explored every avenue to see if it's heal-able and fixable, then he's going to hold out for her because she's the love of his life."
This is exactly why, McKidd believes, executive producer Shonda Rhimes has dubbed this the season of romance. "It's like that old phrase: The darkest hour is always before the dawn." Can the sun rise now, please?
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What would happen if you took the parking ticket you found under your windshield wiper and just shoved it in your glove compartment, never looking at it again?
Jason Swett can tell you what happened to him; he had what he calls a "no pay" policy on parking tickets when he was a student at Western Michigan University. "For some stupid reason I assumed they would never track me down for my tickets," he said.
But when he needed his transcripts in order to transfer to a university in Texas, he couldn't get them until he paid all his outstanding fees, which included the ignored, unpaid parking tickets. The tickets had doubled in price, and he had to pay up. For him, that was about $3,000.
"And the terrible part is that I moved back to Michigan years later, and they had evidently lost any record of payment because in order to get my driver's license, I had to pay for all those tickets AGAIN," he wrote in an email. "So if you have a bunch of parking tickets to pay, maybe hang onto that receipt, like, forever," advises the founder and CEO of Snip Salon Software.
What else can happen? It depends on where you got the ticket. In some municipalities, tickets have to add up to a certain dollar amount before action is taken. Others send the information on money owed — even small amounts — to collection agencies (if you're curious about how old the ticket can be, here are the state statues of limitations). Ignore tickets long enough in some municipalities and you could get your driver's license suspended. Getting your car towed or "booted" and having to pay to have it liberated is not uncommon, and it will cost you far more than just paying the ticket would have. But sometimes you can ignore a parking ticket and nothing will happen — which is why it's so tempting.
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Steven Kramer, an Orlando, Fla., attorney, says parking tickets are pretty much "the Wild West" of law enforcement. There is no uniformity in laws or penalties, but ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Kramer, founder of the Kramer Law Firm, says he doesn't generally see clients who want to hire him to fight a parking ticket — it's simply not worth it.
Here's something that is worth it: talking to a new driver about parking tickets. Kramer said a youngster's parking violation, if it goes unpaid, can end up affecting the credit of the person who is registered as the owner of the vehicle. And that can be a nasty surprise.
Long-forgotten parking tickets become especially maddening when they stand in the way of a major purchase. "Very few people actively monitor their credit," Kramer said. The task ends up getting put at the end of a long list of other things to do… and so people often find out that the ticket was sent to collections or listed as a negative on their credit reports, dropping their scores significantly. In many cases, people first become aware of it when they are planning to buy a car or take out a mortgage and their credit scores are much, much lower than they thought.
Fortunately, checking and monitoring your credit isn't difficult, and you can do it for free on sites like Credit.com. A change in score could alert you to a problem, and taking care of it right away can help you preserve or improve your credit — and prevent nasty surprises in the event that you should want to use your good credit.
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The Central Connecticut men's track and field team finished its first day of the New England Outdoor Track and Field Championships (NEICAAAs) tied for seventh place out of 25 teams, due in large part to junior Matt Walker who took the gold in the 5,000m run.
Walker crossed the finish line in a career-best time of 14:29.09 to claim the win. Freshman Colin Sauter also competed in the race, coming in 12th with a personal-best time of 14:57.17.
Junior Jamal Fruster also performed well. He placed first in a field of 31 in the 400m dash preliminaries. He crossed the line in 48.11 and will compete in tomorrow's finals race.
In the 100m dash, freshman Jevon Elmore was the only other Blue Devil to qualify for tomorrow's finals. He finished the race in 11.03 seconds, good for seventh out of 31 competitors. He was followed in the race by sophomore Kendall Walker, who crossed in 11.04 for 10th.
Kendall Walker also competed in the 200m dash where he finished in 22.32 for 11th out of 29 sprinters.
In the 400m hurdles, junior Ryan Budd finished 11th of 29 in a time of 54.87 seconds.
The only Blue Devil to participate in throwing events Friday was freshman Jeremy Willis. He threw the javelin for 48.58 meters on the day.
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Dorian Green-Beckham may or may not end up at Eastern Illinois when it's all said and done. In the meantime, another former SEC player will look to continue his player career with the FCS program.
The Panthers, it was announced Wednesday, have added former Kentucky quarterback Jalen Whitlow to their roster. As he's dropping down a level, Whitlow will be eligible to play in 2014.
It was announced last month, shortly after Whitlow both lost the quarterback competition and was asked to switched positions, that the player would be transferring from UK.
At Eastern Illinois, Whitlow will get the opportunity to replace Jimmy Garoppolo, who was a second-round selection in the NFL draft earlier this month. It was Garoppolo who broke nearly all of the significant school passing standards previously held by Tony Romo, so Whitlow, who'll bring experience to the competition, would have sizable shoes to fill were he to win the job.
The past two seasons with the Wildcats, Whitlow threw for 1,831 yards and 10 touchdowns as he started 15 games. He also contributed nine touchdowns on the ground.
In addition to Whitlow, Eastern Illinois announced the additions of wide receiver Stephen Bravo-Brown a transfer from South Florida, and defensive back Anthony Standifer, a transfer from Ole Miss. The former caught seven passes in 10 games for the Bulls before graduating and moving on, while Standifer, a three-star member of the Rebels' 2012 recruiting class, was dismissed by the program last October.