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D10 Video: Larry Ellison Full Session
The CEO and founder of the enterprise software giant Oracle is a colorful guy. True to form, his onstage interview with Kara Swisher at D10 was very entertaining, and ranged from Léo Apotheker to the America's Cup.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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I was to get your assessment from a larger point of view where you think Silicom Valley is now ... instead the various things at various points of one point that innovation is mature ... and that was the three years ago ... but on what innovation is slowing down going down ... has that changed really what is the big picture for you right ... no I think um I think the internet was ... cut at the last big change and and and are the Internet is maturing and a lot of things that are to happen ... you know they don't call the internet anymore they called cloud computing ... but ... the internet on the long time ago ... the ... I was talking about this thing called network computers right and the whole idea of the interesting thing about the internet ... on the twenty first came out that the primary ... device attached to the unit was the personal computer ... and that may be in a very different than all of our other networks proceed every network we have the water network the telephone network ... the on ... the order power network has ... enormously complex ... of the ... components ... that are hidden from consumers ... at the beginning and consumers have rather simple devices that can access these enormously complex networks ... the PC network was very different the PC never had this enormously complex device called the personal computer ... that was attached to a very complex network so is there is complex Jimbo slices network ... with the internet ... that ... had the potential to change ... where are we to take all of the complexity or begin to start taking all the all the complexity out of the end user devices ... and move that complexity back into the network ... and then supplying consumers ... with a Beery very simple to bonds ... and you know ... when I finish research and talking about this was which was ... almost twenty years ago ... on call that the network computer sampled the idea that when you're ... and ... and ... which is an interesting idea ... but not so easy to actually pull off that is taking a long long time ... off for the technologies to mature and you know that this offer an artwork of knowledge which were ... on the two were the Internet has become just that ... enormously complex ... on and on one side ... but on the consumer side very very simple smartphones tablets ... of a web browser on your on your personal computer ... so we've we've migrated the complexity of off the desktop away from the PC ... and moved all that complexity back into Internet servers ... and and and I was in remain implemented then that's been recast now as low cloud computing ... and ... all of which are very Woodman was a very interesting brand is rated as a great ... idea ... yes and all you know don't know what are resisting the name you know who told everyone to why she was this man is a certain that you had time to get it you'll get what interests in cloud computing is ... a false the are you the with the ... well when you see on the beaches in cloud computing I started NetSuite ... NetSuite was my idea I called up Evan Goldberg ... and and and you know and said look every Reinado Yorkie on the internet this offers a service for ... six months later Marc Benioff ... you know ... finding out when that she was doing kind of copied it ... and ... the engine is a very narrow island marks here and you can comment and then by making this up ... NetSuite started six months before you know that whatever was doing Evans a different it is is that that's a great idea but rather than doing ... SATS offers the service one idea just return replicates evil just in just a sales force automation ... so those are the too young to go to the two earliest examples of stocks ... so you're really he said your great inspiration to him just in ... the second ... bomb plotter ... to be de aam ... I like Mark I think is in a brilliant ability going job was to force took off my visa done a great job ... I've always believed what what what the network and get right on the on Oracle's Levin was the Internet changes everything what I objected to was suckling said ... this is incredibly new thing is called Compo computer ... and then everyone said ... yet the ten year old company or fifteen year old company like Salesforce dot com said ... yes ... that's us ... and lo that long before the word there was a word of it was called cloud computing it was a Salesforce dot com and there was that ... there was a net sweetener all of these other things ... and they have adopted ... this video this umbrella term cloud computing ... and everyone said that's believe this that's incredibly new ... will I mean how could it ... be incredibly new they've been doing it for decades ... Tillotson branding engine so was it was just that ... people were saying cloud computing is something ... totally new and different when it actually has just been a continuous evolution ... from the internet as the Internet is maturing ... of from having ... the network with complex devices ... to network with simple devices ... were applications use to running your desktop now ... applications run in an app servers instead ... of where you use to be viewed by the application now you can read it or you can buy for ninety nine cents across the that doesn't mean make any difference ... there that are really isn't all began with the internet ... an all began as complexity ... stardom are trading off the desk top and into the network ... it all was easily be easy to predict ... because every network in the world has the same architecture ... the electric network villages in the electrical power grid is enormously complicated ... this is the Sobel plug ... all you plug India's that a new plug in your blender or your television or what have you ... so ... that complexity is hidden from the user ... has as the computer networks maturity inevitable ... they were destined ... to move the complexity off the dust up my said The PC's a ridiculous device ... he should have to back this thing up we should Napa ... below the supplication she should have finals ... that exists on your PCs except if the cash ... that should all be on Internet servers would you would with this thing breaks with a view was that ... there's a much better model ... this is all extremely easy to predict right ... and it wasn't suddenly because the cemetery pointed clandestine adapted to some is that ... oh my ... we just intended cloud computing ... no cloud computing it's been a continuous step by step the pollution said again with nothing isthe and ... distilling the war ... well ... the ... on I'm sure like to work ... I like mortgages ... it I know why it budget objected is in some people saying was new ... I'd like to work because I it's ... the charismatic ran for cover the next generation computing gets people's attention ... and people ... say on cloud computing I really need I need to be doing that ... night you were talking about it ... it seems to be here again it seemed to have to significant benefits I need to understand what this thing is ... R and I need to review rethink my data center strategy of that in a ... car and exploits ... this next generation of technology ... and people do need to simplify their existing data centers ... and on ... and deliver ... services ... in in in in in ... a much simpler way to get to their captive and user base to this the NFL or one particular the second but I was that the psyche of where Silicon Valley is in that sense the oak liking isn't using some new it's a continuation of what's been happening ... I look in a ... nation so the given how long ... you've worked in it where where do you see the cycle right now or is it in a cycle or ... well it ... again on the big thing was the ... and and we're seeing ... the impact of the end of ... that use to be ... made ready argue our of our lives are on the internet ... all or if you prefer on Facebook the social and ... in for a very very long time and we know how much you earn how much of your bank account ... of the you know what closure recently bought because we had all your credit records ... so if we hadn't ... had a credit database for pre much everyone every credit worthy person on the planet earth ... for very long time ... that was the single most important database and worked ... on is on of the credit database if you just just track every qns credit worthy consumer ... on ... our earth and track everything that we do ... know we can track ... what not on what products you're buying what you're saying about this product after you bought the right of the wheel your friends are ... all we know you're saying here for some other when your friends to send and on ... so when we launch a product we can actually look the Twitter feed or a Facebook fee to know you know you're saying about her product ... and of your brand manager we can use on him leading up to take corrective action if it makes a mistake ... on it so ... we suddenly have ... consumers instrument ... body of because there because they're willing to share the de tails was meant to do here is that ... they're there they self insure Makinson consumers just tell us everything about themselves ... before it was only when you use your preference ... now all I every time you make the comment every time you tweet every time ... every time you join a special interest group on Facebook everytime it ... every time you go to website ... all of this stuff ... all of the written researched the everyday research ... you know we never have all of this detail of people's lives online ... which allows us to market loss of those companies Tomari and one-term muttering this ... allows us to the market things in themselves to sell things and service ... the consumers in a much more insightful and warm weather and a saying on Facebook ... the lamb on Facebook he says ... Artemis who want on it that the great old Margaret Zuckerberg on a mattress that mark ever told them that in him ... of about three months was obsessed with Facebook site was on there all the time we do it ... well making friends in ... the ... the meeting meeting people I otherwise would never meet ... and you know telling what I had for breakfast which is extremely interesting ... of my two I would find over they had for breakfast which was not as interesting ... on ... but just in general my breakfast or more to see my friends breakfasts whose ... unique in the not that it's else a big thing ... and I are ... so ... happy about three months after much three months of this lying on find leads I finally stopped ... but I was you know me on my of my ... friends in Serbia Michael Oliver all over the one of the mill the survey ... daughter trends in Belgrade and all over the world and it was great to ... know I'd I'd try to use the social network site reviews all of these technologies ... just so on the we are of what's going on what's being done with our database with our technology and ... and what's happening ... and why ... and we use these things so odd ... you get this gives or degree of insight ... of what is possible today ... that wasn't possible before the start before Facebook search of the D tells the cover ... has a wooden stand ... um ... until the most okay now that that no one was pretty much like on Facebook that you know that that after three months I've I've recovered ... no I thought I'd told him I thought thought it was a brilliant piece of technology an eye on thought it was working in a world changing pieces ... on a piece of technology ... so why was that way when you think you just bought a company with a touch of a second addresses a social marketing company or to get an idea plaintive that are good that ... and you think that's the most import needs the internet was the most important ... you will without it without you know it without getting ... in there is no case you don't Ineos that's being coming or is it isn't over on a Google search this predicament ... the the ... the fact that it is not to be at the end of the result of this to be for Goebel ... but to bowl or more precisely which are figured out how to Mana ties search and ... and ah they begin to ... know how to make money with search ... high and the money they make with search that allows them to you literally index and provide a very high quality very fast service to ... offer searching all aspects of yet what you what they don't make the right ... was for the biggest one ... in one case where they make a fortune and an eight man to ... build all of these other services for ... our ... so you know they know that the other was against an assistant to both very very import companies obviously Facebook is ... arguably potentially an even more important ... than ... on ... U know exactly how the Mana ties all in all of this ... remains to be seen in the clearly Dizik huge effort ought to play that but but up ... but there's more what we were twelve rejoin lower but the true and what Leno Hawaii ... I think of the sales force and above the median except it's the tree was that the what is at ... it you are selling now Salesforce ... is ... a company of its all about ... automating Salesforce's or ... the board is at the height even higher level ... making selling more efficient to him ... and argue with that they get better not that that that that's ... the highest willing to do more to do ... is make selling more efficient ... that's the goal of the circle the unintended Davides value proposition we make we maker Salesforce work or should we be better for you use to sell more ... than companies won a sell more ... the more we know about consumers ... the is so consumers now the company's one to ... advertise on Facebook they wanted in a roll out their products on on on Facebook ... they want to know what people are saying about their products on Facebook so it's ... it's come a sure proactive marketing on Facebook ... and on and also dinner at analyzing ... the the ... the data streams away ... from Facebook and Twitter and ducal plus another of the light of what was this bit ... of the youth capsule ... absolutely absolutely chilling water water marketing modern marketing is where else a mean it we should have survey feast again ... call up and do use time being in the above you would if they can buy Kiwi to ... to to do that anymore right ... instead we just we just ... in use due process and process these thieves and ... other than weaker enemy thrown into an Oracle database and we do ... and and and and process that with this and what companies they have for your ... what it's it's an important on a new way of understanding customer behavior ... did you look of BodyMedia OS ... all we did ... and ... he bought the one we wanted ... to ... write ... at ... obviously ... that ... I went for a fishing searching the door open to dictate that you see any other big innovation coming married you you feel they vowed to protect the interests of the millions of innovations you imagine that ... well you know it's all about creative destruction right the means to some companies on the ... you know for launching a prolonged time ... in ... five understood Youtube Youtube Youtube or move forward in Utah I was a was Woody Allen's great line about relationships ... really sure what the shark believed to move forward or it dies ... and that's that that's true the company if you know if you don't keep your technology current if you're not monitoring what ... is possible today that wasn't possible yesterday because of certain tactical innovations ... then you are ... in the summers can be viewed at the pump someone's getting ahead of you and ... my YouTube enough to keep utility costs ... it into something some competitor ... on it so ... I think we see a lot of companies in Silicon Valley under stress ... on and but for every company it's under stress now ... there's the Facebook world ... us want ... or were from somebody else and it did to me it was a gigantic in a ... once in a decade of that ... of but they're a lot of other companies are ... better than that come along and are doing interesting than at any areas that you think are projecting promising are tight detail either way ... overhyped ... boy unity of the globe ... the promise of Woodrow was hyped recommended it so they get it you can be promising mean cloud computing I thought Coppins reducing hyped ... and very promising Santa ... on as the Ruby is sometimes the most promising technologies are the ones they can get the most attention ... and then there is people ... claim they're even more important to me and there are two very important but not as ... bad dogs importance or assessment ... tools that ignoble PCs can replace them and for ... all I can still this'll be the basis of the PCs are more important in terms of ... but I would argue in short order if not already ... of the ... new on smartphones and tablets would be much more important than PCs ... for the first time in our industry consumers ... the consumer part of the hike industry is bigger ... than the Enterprise Park the can that be to the corporate or ... not that's an amazing event because ... of the corporate continues to grow ... by with the advent of smartphones and ... the incredible rise of Apple ... on a hit some ... we see we receive are consumer information cross the same as the larger this is ... the largest segment of our business ... on and then now than what it what is Oracle now than I mean they run as an astonishing this long run but what do you now that you consume and is this a must think idiocy enterprise ... with no word of the consumer this is the we sell to people in the conservative side ... and Apple's a big customer of ours that I mean in the ... year but we have a lot and we have lots and lots of of ... customers sort of were in the consumer business ... on Sunday on of all the phone companies we are and we are the ... by far the most popular provider ... of automation systems to some of these old one ... with its eighteenth year Verizon is overwhelmingly us that snot IBM ... are but ... our big competitors on in and that's basically the idea ... and ... of ... we're going all ... the grime much faster than they are and ... all the D ... if you look at where we competed with him we were we compete with IBM ... all these never won a database for now Number one in database they use to be number one and middleware were known for one of middleware ... I argue that that the of their number one answer verse written on high-end servers ... and with our new today the machines the next logic machines I reveal the deal the couple years will will pass them ... in the high high and ... the UN ... Supreme high-end servers so what ... what ... did it might be number one I got that that ... what ... the team now all they ask us to ask us to see what is your role at Oracle ... log on above I've run engineering since day one adorable and still ... still run engineering I mean it's it's not like me we have to be boosted by billion dollars in R and D and of the budget ... if there are three people were kind of in togethers interest of run or walk run or color I run engineering of Mark Hurd runs the fields in sales marketing consultant ... and separate accounts run in runs the back office right ... in the account accounting legal and ... and and ... so ... we put you on ... what I do everyday as I look at on product plans and to ... everything from the introduction of the oxidative database machine two ... of the most recent harvest Greece Greece and the new product which is the axle with aches ... all in memory of the other ... I didn't seem to get upright that are on the Brubaker ... and look at the Brisbane T O what is your idea ... is that there was no one was meeting with engineers on in the unit we ... we've made a decision a while ago up to go the harder it is good ... and we were looking at ... it we ... knew ... those of the decision of reading this before but this one before we bought Sun ... of we decided to build this machine in this database machine and we wanted to we thought ... we thought the data centers ... on ... were ... unnecessarily complex therapists are all different ... we thought the Degas of guys are building data centers ... worried ... integrating pieces that were too small in other words they were blind destroys from EMC and network from Cisco ... and servers from IBM what's a ... man rather than Oracle to an Oracle database on running on all IBM EIX old running under hundred pm where ... and we said what's interesting in and into different people were doing different things ... that they're putting all the separate pieces together ... we set off a what ... what what we just will do all of it ... will ... give you that this try this will give you the network will give you the database servers will give you the virtual machine would you be the database would be the offerings can ... and will sell you this one building block ... you can plug into this ... and it did we do all ... we can make it much more reliable much lower cost ... and that this the awful lot ... rather than ... the Apple is the system and rearing and they get the light of the the the hard work they did the software that that that that did the associated online services ... were trying to do the same thing for the data center in that Alcan did you know for the consumer ... which is to build and give them margin building blocks whereby they can build their data center ... so today that includes distort it includes an Internet network and includes ... five database are versatile and also the hardware parts and more difficult top of the integration of sun and ... all but truly funny cuz of the night I've read of Italy's articles which I tend not to comment on ... a new start treaty ... I wish I am employed justice and democracy and so on ... place on the island by far most profitable acquisition are ready before the sun to repeat itself ... thank you ... we make when were making so much money we would reveal the pea pod point five billion dollars for sign that catch and ... time and it is enormously profitable already ... the fumes are obese or hardware business is going down what you know on in the the um awful for that were getting on ... so pieces all of the people's distrust another piano and we stood Web's to bid on contracts ... where we lost money ... our margins in our margins now in our harbor business are being ... referred to the highest margins ... of anyone Mr protests ... now and the businesses has dropped ... um maybe twenty percent and entered the top line ... but it's up by a doctor five in terms of profit ... and next year will go starker it'll start growing and so he ... said and all his hard work harder to the rest of her words so easy ... compared because most of hardware software ... I mean ... if you look in on to ... the heart when it is is beautiful and you can get this beautiful lookout unspeakable ... but ... nineteen the eight percent of the complexity of software ... and and and are to be some some mature technology ... so ... dear to wield difficult pieces of the technology there's Silicom ... you know of the flash and in Samsung making a flash in ... and out of the microprocessor above by our middle all of this ... other some complexity and building dubbed fabricating those chips ... which we don't do we we we design chips which it which is on the spark to so with the Vics the chip design team ... but ... this ... but it's almost all software ... to sun was ninety percents offers a view that ... God you know nothing but never this ... bold ... this is is ninety percent off or ... are we talking about ... but I started I started donated three ... yet well ... of all probably know we're announcing were dancing on dungeon sixty revenue at the end of ... gentle availability of the report filed ... and honesty are inside clearance in ... Bali are in the hour we're here we're we're announcing um ... the platform is a service in on the database servers and ... on the jaw of the jaw the servers and and and a series of allegations ... of all of the fusion obligations or general availability is the ... team in recent human resources ... and Accounting in return and all of those things ... on top of some of our acquisitions tell that a layover talent management drug ... right now the Confucian still refuses sales automation fusion market ... so for the first tell you that the complete ERP and CRM suite available on the clout ... and the technology that is based on ... all ideas are today the next logic machines ... and and and the customers will be running ... in your own Vienna ... which is very interesting advantage because not only is the much more secure if the multi tenancy ... which is a ... twenty year old technology ... of virtualization much for modern technology ... the device thing is that when you don't have to upgrade when you're multi tenant customer ... um ... you get the neighbors saw four when the vendor tells Xi get YouTube you can get my kid they can they control ... with with your in your in your own GM in on your data is not commingled with other customers ... and you upgrade when you want it so it's more secure ... you have more control ... it's a much more money we did a much more modern version of the cloud we have ... we recently of a lot in common that way with Amazon suppose to some of the South ten years so it's it's but the firm as a service ... and the most complete and integrated suite of the obligations ... of any of the then the ... application was your answer the question as Mike Tim Cook storytelling nothing last night about ... their thing next week thank you ... the ... that situation ... recent cases you will get some legal difficulties of HP ... some lists ... the CPI believe I think that's often visited yes yet which one would you like to discuss ... well none of them not as though they're all you know they're all being witty and right now so ... of by the way I would describe this is the path to conceal and it is a girl with a nearly ... every when it's chilly to describe the press that August was really copper cares ... right ... and on and so were really is really focused on on the copper REITs and ... home ... you know they'll this this last decision ... who we knew one on infringements of the jury found that the two would infringe on our copyrights ... song was just offered hearing on talk about ... talk about that ... of the unit I really don't go into Google and a lot of detail but the biggie is the important part of the cases of the copper rights in copper and ability of software ... and um ... again now Opel when the league issues arose over on all the I'll be happy to talk and talk with its ongoing his email ID card it's it's on it's this ongoing ongoing and a name and the jury ... by H H he ... um ... this to the Swami hired Mark Hurd ... and eight remember that stage DC with us ... when we said we are are are not conducive to you know we are not going to support new versions of our software I mean im ... and that of the the the first thing that we will pour it onto Itanium comes out next year ... so on and that's the way to search our database was conducted in December that your gender gender it next year ... and they said the new hit that mark or so ... of working the Mark Hurd and on the beach he says with a country read read read read into it with a contractual obligation ... um deport Itanium ... and um we don't ... know the truth ... so we're going to court and that yet either this on you mentioned that a relationship with a of some ... things about them ... well on time as a better real issue going on I think now that Meg Whitman CEO of like maybe as many others though ... remember the appetite or was it was an HP ... while other with ... the CD what yet on thief ... I never ASAP ... the state he ... pleaded guilty to criminal theft of our software ... let me be clear I'm not accusing us a few pennies ... was it would invest eighty two ... as it he said ... did you engage in criminal behavior and steal lots of Oracle software ... yes ... of ... but does AP ... go was CEO we are doing all this criminal stuff ... we are ... that's way over to a oh well um I think only of the ... meal ... the the the ... so ... we'd all your diabetes ... what the big you hire them ... you know ... so um ... so ... let me get this right now it's true that CUBI ... humidifier Mark Hurd and high during whale ... this is what you do you think is a good idea ... you know I don't think what I said that it on was this was this was the the the best idea since the awful board fired Steve Jobs new ... nose really ... really brilliant him RIL that and and you know and in fact it's funny because because when when the nine months later eleven with them and when HP said whoops ... I think the might of the mistake ... of it I was that the Bible driven told to ... um ... so ... see ... silver in May which is just pronounced may you get along better when ... by the day I'd I was I wish I wish Meg nothing but the best it's the it's a big company ... it's a law to work ... on like each P now I mean HP is the only time I think it's any and I mean ... those of us are raised here in the Valley having her career her belly ... all I think of of bills you that you live David Packard is ... as role models ... you know that you were we knew we would love to be half as good as they were ... in ... R and D ah the HP has lots of great people work in HP ... of but when they brought in lay oh ... we owe ... and and and and and then just to make it making it would mean we subpoenaed and forget CP trial ... and that he was on the Lam ... I ... he was nowhere as well we are ... the they're one of us ... will take ... the airline ... what what ... did I that does the bond ... the dollar ... again ... stealing our software ... our own ... BHP board sent them you know they they they send him to Bolivia ... to talk to customers ... and then they said in a note to Mongolia ... the doctor doesn't ... I did out of reach of the federal subpoena ... you know it's can bother this but to um but again ... be that they should all left together that broke out to the board wanted to get out ... you know she left Leo in Mongolia ... we came to California really got that ... okay I mean you look at the PC business but the via maybe not ... twenty think it seemed to know the the ... what you don't need us and what doesn't think about it ... the ... in Europe ... what do you think they should do ... um ... we really wanted me to get yes they say was why ... I they got him was the radiator ... was little and I think I think I think Meg was a big improvement and again I wish to look at all you don't want focused on running Oracle and I mean ... I didn't identity and take no pleasure ... I don't know I get on really are like you're now on I know she does well for the benefit of ... age these customers and employees and ... never deals ... sale basket for egoism question What ... Dowling ... God ... red Bull might just ... be out ... well I mean how does this sound is really corny ... but you know what's a journey ... and ... I think we're all curious about each other and about ourselves and ... it's a discovery J journey of discovery about our own limits ... and you know I'm really ... fascinated by people I really know him and ... and I'm ... fascinated by technology in which you know what it what can be done with technology ... and into cost legal costly test limits the limit him to performance limits of computers that we build ... all ... the limits of our company our country's ability to grow and compete in the idea ... so I I really enjoy the competition I enjoyed ... the process again of of learning ... three U S we compete learning as we as we ... take to get better just what use technology to solve customer problems ... um ... I just ... but the whole thing is just fascinating I don't know what I would do ponder if I retired him ... one of the sale and that no problem as some had an investment when I go sailing now one of ... a look around ... anyone want to race him and I just I just to legislate competing as opposed to ... the edges going on quietly watching the sunset what is the greatest misconception that deal or something people now ... is this is something people ... quite possible that our ... no one knows how to ... buy I don't I don't know many of these are images out there the image of who you are ... and this ... eight whatnot ... you can image ... yell on it it's ... it's okay ... I'd really should never talk on myself ... of but you're ... very clever ... clever question and level of your clever ... 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Submitted by the Niagara River Region Chamber of Commerce
The Niagara River Region Chamber of Commerce will recognize 10 area individuals and businesses at its annual Chamber Awards Gala, Friday, May 17, at the Niagara Falls Country Club in Lewiston.
In addition to the tributes, the annual event will feature an evening of live music, a silent auction, table wines donated by local wineries and businesses, and hors d'oeuvres followed by a sit-down dinner.
2013 Youngstown Business of the Year
The Youngstown Business & Professional Association has chosen Melloni's Market Place as the 2013 Youngstown Business of the Year. Melloni's is located at 200 Lockport St., and has been a welcome addition to the community in the two years it has been there.
Lou and Diane and their son, Mario Melloni, worked day and night exactly two years ago for weeks on end preparing the store for the grand opening. Since 2011, the store has increased its inventory, undergone renovations, and increased the number of employees and variety to fit customer needs. The store was a food market before the Melloni's took it over, however, it was run with limited inventory and was not run up to the standards that the community wanted. With extensive experience in the food industry running Melloni's Prime Meats and Catering, Lou, Diane and Mario brought the market back to life, and it is a busy place that caters to customers across the River Region.
Lou, Diane and Mario divide their time and always make sure at least one of them is at the Market Place at all times. The store is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and employs a staff of 25. The fresh meat department and deli has a great selection of fresh, hand-cut offerings. The bakery features fresh donuts, bread including Portage Bakery loaves, and rolls that are brought in every day. Future plans include adding a sub shop counter as well as providing outdoor garden nursery items.
Cleanliness and customer service is very important, and the staff will go out of its way to make sure the store is spotless and accommodate customers. The staff likes to get to know their customers. Oftentimes you can find a staff worker carrying out groceries or even delivering items if someone needs it.
Lou mentioned they are in the process of designing a survey for customers to fill out so they can make sure they are meeting the needs and carrying what customers want. One of their customers, a village resident, sent a wonderful letter, which is on display at the front desk of the store. His quote explains much of why the store is so successful: "As a customer I have witnessed the growth of this store and the wonderful old-school, family run attitude. It's perfect to have a nice clean store with a great meat market nearby that has most everything you need."
The visitors often find the store on their way to Old Fort Niagara, after soccer games or coming in from their boats. Ice cream is a big seller during the summer months, especially on concert nights. Local campgrounds often send campers to the store to pick up supplies and items. And Melloni's always makes sure the inventory is there to accommodate what customers are looking for. Besides its weekly promotional flyer, Melloni's also has a strong Web presence, including up-to-date information and special promotions on its Facebook page.
Melloni's Market Place has been involved in village activities since opening in 2011. Participation in the "Here Comes Summer Street Festival," community picnic, food drives and other village events are all activities that Melloni's is involved in. One can sometimes find a troop of Girl Scouts set up outside the store selling cookies.
Melloni's is an active member of the Youngstown Business & Professional Association. It counts on the business association for updates and to help promote the grocery store. The YBPA and Melloni's partnered to create the first official "float" in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.
The YBPA and the Niagara River Region Chamber of Commerce proudly congratulate Melloni's Market Place, the 2013 Youngstown Business of the Year.

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Topic: Maillist external member problem on iRedadmin 1.3.0
We have created a maillist (e.g. firstname.lastname@example.com)
Using moderator mode.
We have put in around 66 external members.
But if we want to delete the external members, we receive the below error and all external members couldn't delete.
Error: Internal (implementation specific) error
If we attempt to delete the whole maillist (firstname.lastname@example.com), we will receive below error message.
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If we create the firstname.lastname@example.com, it got same content as previous (66 external members).
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As I record this commentary, there is a powerful storm approaching the East coast. The last hurricane to hit this area affected a number of people in my office. One of the women who had worked for me lived in Schoharie. Her home and family were OK but she was devastated by what happened to her town. This time, my thoughts are in Brooklyn where my son and his family live – near the water but in the area that serves as a port so we hope more protected.
I'm no meteorologist. So how do you talk about a storm? Read the rest of this entry »


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ABOVE: More cops than protestors at Occupy Darien.
What happens when you throw a protest and nobody comes?
Darien, Conn., a tony residential suburb on Connecticut's "Gold Coast" is the newest site of an Occupy protest — except there's a glitch, only a handful of protesters have shown up.
But Darien is the 1%, so this isn't really surprising in a town which boasts a median income of $227,000 and has one of the highest percentage of residents per capita to work in finance.
Protest organizer Margaret Rague has resorted offering to lure protestors with free train tickets and meals:
Darien News: "It wasn't originally my idea, but the $1,000 will buy train tickets and a meal for the demonstrators. I will lay out more than $1,000 happily if I need to," she said.
She said she offered to give up to $3,000, but fellow protesters said it would be a waste of money. (Read more)
So far, five people have shown up on day two.


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The oft-mentioned nexus between Hollywood and Washington, D.C., usually centers on money. Politicians want entertainment-industry money to help fund their campaigns and politically minded entertainers want to play a role in national politics.
But in the case of actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died on Wednesday, her ties to the city were also personal, and they made a difference in the lives of many Washingtonians who have never been to Capitol Hill.
Elizabeth Taylor knew Washington first-hand in part from her five-year marriage to John Warner, the long-time Republican senator from Virginia. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)
Taylor and soon-to-be first lady Nancy Reagan applaud during a speech by Warner during the 1980 Republican National Convention, when Ronald Reagan was nominated for president. Taylor and Warner separated in 1981 and divorced soon thereafter. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)
A long-time advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, and treatment, Taylor appeared in 1986 before a House subcommittee as chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research to argue for additional AIDS research funding. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AFP/Getty Images)
Taylor's advocacy went beyond official Washington to where most Washingtonians live. Above, Taylor applauds during the 1993 opening ceremonies of the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center at the Whitman-Walker Clinic located near Logan Circle in Washington, a "community health center specializing in HIV/AIDS care and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender care," according to the clinic's website. (Photo by Jennifer Young/AFP/Getty Images)
President Bill Clinton recognized Taylor in 2001 with the Presidential Citizens Medal, which was established by President Nixon in 1969 to honor Americans for exemplary service to the country. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Newsmakers)
In 2002, Taylor was one of the Kennedy Center Honors recipients, along with musician Paul Simon, actor James Earl Jones, actress Chita Rivera, and conductor James Levine. Taylor was recognized as a "humanitarian who is credited with raising more than $100 million in the crusade against AIDS," according to the Kennedy Center website, but also as a "thrilling film actress, the last brilliant star to emerge from the great Hollywood studio system, the heart of nearly 60 motion pictures, the muse of some of the movies' most revered film directors... and the screen's finest interpreter of the works of two giants of the American theater -- Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee." (Photo by Shawn Thew/AFP/Getty Images)
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It cost the British government about 1.8 million dollars. British scientists call it the first artificial stomach ever made. Commercial food companies are looking to it for help. Dr. Marin Wickham holds the patent on this amazing contraption. This new machine is about the size of a five gallon bucket. It is designed to mimic human digestion. Its advanced plastics and metals can withstand the corrosive qualities of the acids and enzymes used in digestion. Once food is placed in the receiving funnel, computer software determines how long the food stays in one place. The model attempts to copy real muscle contractions in the stomach that help humans digest their food. The machine is a technological wonder1.
One very important point needs to be noted about this artificial stomach: it is complex, expensive, and took hundreds or thousands of hours to design and build. But it still cannot accomplish all the processes of a real human stomach. Yet we are to believe that the human stomach evolved over millions of years by random, chance processes with no intelligent agent responsible for any of its construction.
Notice how descriptions of the artificial stomach demand the presence of intelligence. The model has computer software that regulates when the food moves. Such computer programs can be designed and implemented only by intelligent beings. Wickham also noted that "our knowledge of what actually happens in the gut is still very rudimentary but we hope that this model can help fill in some of the blanks" ("Scientists Build....," emp. added). This technologically savvy stomach was created in an attempt to learn more about what actually happens in the stomach, since our most advanced research has only rendered a "rudimentary" knowledge of gut activity. Dr. Stephen Bloom, "head of metabolic medicine at Imperial College in London," was quoted as saying: "The stomach is an extraordinarily complex organ, so you cannot create a model that will undertake all of these functions" ("Scientists Build....," emp. added).
In summary, then, brilliant men and women designed a modern marvel which cost almost two million dollars that attempts to mimic human digestion. But the real human stomach it attempts to model is so complex that no machine humans can build will ever fill in all the blanks of our rudimentary knowledge of the human stomach. The only logical conclusion is that the human stomach must have been designed by an intelligence far superior to that of the humans who possess only a rudimentary knowledge of the stomach. It is no wonder that the psalmist poetically said that humans have been fearfully and wonderfully made (see Psalm 139:14).
The designers of the artificial stomach stated: "It's so realistic that it can even vomit." It is high time the thinking world followed suit and "vomited out" the illogical notion of evolution.
1 "Scientists Build World's First Artificial Stomach" (2006), [On-line], URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15655255/wid/11915773?GT1=8717.


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"If I knew that my daughters were the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis, then I would accept their loss."
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is one of the many residents of the Middle East who have lost loved ones to the conflict there. This medical doctor's house was shelled and in one terrible blow, three of his daughters and a niece were killed. He has suffered and has every reason to hate and seek revenge but he doesn't, believing that will not change anything.
His unique perspective on peace and how to achieve it comes out of his medical profession. Born in a Palestinian refugee camp, people were often surprised or even shocked to learn that for many years he worked in a hospital in Israel, treating Jewish patients, but for him this illustrated his point about peace. In order to keep hate in check, he chose to focus on one person at a time, rather than make sweeping generalizations. If an Israeli checkpoint soldier was rude to him, he would be angry and frustrated at that particular person, not at all border crossing officials. Hate the actions of others, not hate the others.
As a doctor, he was a helper and healer for every person he treated, no matter who they were. People were treated according to their medical condition, not their origin. This bridges a gap. His advice is for people on each side of the divide to get to know one another and gain empathy and respect for the other's situation. When you get to know the enemy and fear each other less and see individuals, it helps fight tribalism and hatred of the other. Don't judge people by the frustrations you may have about their government. He says, "not all Americans are arrogant, not all Palestinians are troublemakers, not all Israelis are occupiers."
Of course the Middle East situation is complex and there are no easy answers. Many have tried and failed to find solutions. But revenge and counter revenge is obviously not working–something must change. He promotes building bridges, not walls and also says empowering women in the peace process would help, suspecting that men are more likely to favour war. Avoid segregation and mix people up so they can get to know each other. This is a simple message of radical love, respect, and equality presented in story, and stories matter. Dr. Abuelaish now lives in Canada and teaches public health at the University of Toronto.


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|Pro Chancellor Lord Liddle of Carlisle, Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark E. Smith, HRH Princess Alexandra, Chancellor Sir Christian Bonington, Lady Liddle and Professor Andrew Atherton Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Photo courtesy Lancaster University
A Royal visitor added a special touch to the official start of celebrations marking Lancaster University's 50th Anniversary.
HRH Princess Alexandra, the University's first Chancellor, was present at the 50th Anniversary Launch Dinner at the LICA building on campus last Thursday (6th February).
Since being appointed as Founding Chancellor in 1964, Princess Alexandra has observed with interest as Lancaster University has evolved from a small but passionate community of academics to an Institution of global significance.
Other guests at the private event included the current Chancellor Sir Christian Bonington, Pro- Chancellor Lord Liddle, former Pro-Chancellor and former diplomat Sir Christopher Audland, and Honorary Graduates actress Patricia Routledge and former England footballer Jimmy Armfield.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark E. Smith said: "Our anniversary is much more than a chance to look back. It is an opportunity to lay the foundations for our vision for the future and to raise our profile regionally, nationally and internationally.
"Our aspiration is to be a world-renowned University of genuine global significance, providing the highest quality research and teaching. We will play our part in changing thinking on big global issues such as climate change, food security, ageing and cyber security."
The anniversary celebrations, to run until March 2015, will encompass a host of exciting events across the globe.
Details of events, including those taking place around the official anniversary weekend of 13th and 14th September 2014, a series of Public Lectures, a Campus in the Community initiative and the traditional Roses contest with York in May, will be available on the University's 50th anniversary website at www.lancaster.ac.uk/50 and will be updated throughout the year.


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Film critics are to filmmakers what Chicago is to New York: a little envious, a lot insecure, secretly fearful of second-class status. Hypersensitive to slights, real or imagined. Important — but not essential. The world would perish without movies; it would, however, manage to rattle along just fine without the people who write about movies. Right?Roger Ebert changed the answer to that question forever. The world's most famous film critic, whose recent death triggered a torrent of sorrow and celebration — sorrow for what we've lost, celebration of what he accomplished — demonstrated the real meaning of the word "critic": It's not just a person who experiences something and then decides, after a period of supercilious chin-stroking, if a movie (or book or TV show or sculpture or concert) warrants the tilting of a thumb up or down, like an emperor whimsically signaling life or death for some luckless supplicant down yonder in the Coliseum.
This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital edition via email. Click here to learn about joining Printers Row.
No. Critics — critics who do the job the way Ebert did — plunge. They dive headlong, immersing themselves in the euphoria of the fall and in the exhilaration of breaking the surface of something new. They risk sounding foolish when they write about what they love. They dare sounding cruel when they write about what they decry. Most important, though, they engage: They put themselves on the line with every line they write.
A lot of people in Chicago knew Ebert well, and many of them contributed beautiful portraits of the man in the wake of death. I didn't know him — not personally, that is. And so my purpose here is different. I want to talk about his writing. About how he went to the movies and then matched up what he saw with his own imagination, and with the imaginations of a great many other people, too. "Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about," he wrote in "Life Itself," his 2011 memoir. "Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may seem."
Critics have a choice. They can be clever and condescending, using their work as a means of showing the world how smart and sensitive they are, how superior to the medium they cover and to their readers as well. Or they can be honest, forthright, unadorned: Here's what I like, here's what I don't like, and here's why. Ebert most assuredly was in the latter camp. I loved reading his reviews not because I always agreed with his assessments, but because he didn't write to impress or to belittle. He wrote to tell you about his reaction to what he'd seen. "I am beneath everything else a fan," he confessed in "Life Itself." That's an astonishing admission for a contemporary critic in this age of runaway sarcasm, an age in which the low persistent hum of irony nearly drowns out all the dialogue. "I was fixed in this mode as a young boy," he added, "and am awed by people who take the risks of performance."
I didn't know, until I read "Life Itself," that Ebert came to Chicago as a doctoral student in English Literature at the University of Chicago. I didn't know that his original goal was to be a novelist, an aspiration that included "a deep old wingback chair pulled up close to the fire in a cottage deep in the woods," as he recalled in his memoir, "where a big dog snored while I sank into a volume of Dickens." The cottage and the dog may never have materialized, but Ebert's literary achievement definitely had a Dickensian element in terms of both quantity and quality, and in terms of how beloved he was to his readers, how indispensable. Among his 17 published books was the 1993 novel "Behind the Phantom's Mask"; along with collections of film reviews, he turned out travel books and a cookbook. Ebert was as eclectic as he was prolific.
He won a Pulitzer Prize, of course, and he won it for film criticism, which helped to distinguish the genre. But for anybody who loves vivid writing, the "p" word that matters here is not "Pulitzer" but "pickles" — as in the ones that garnish a hamburger served at Steak 'n Shake, a place he described rhapsodically: "If you order onion, it will be a perfect slice of sweet Bermuda. If you order pickles, you will get two thin slices, side by side ... toasted bun, crisp patty, onion, pickle, crunch, crunch, crunch." He wrote with equal passion and exactitude about great filmic art — and a simple, succulent hamburger.
Everything that mattered about Roger Ebert happened in the dark. That's not a dirty joke — it's the simple truth. And it has nothing to do with the fact that he spent the majority of his too-few years sitting in movie theaters. The dark I mean is the dark of the imagination, the place where the memories live and the ideas bloom and the sentences are born.
"Sometimes," Ebert wrote about his childhood in his autobiography, "a central Illinois thunderstorm would come ripping out of the sky, loud and violent. All hell broke loose. Afterward the rainwater would be backed up at the corner drains, and we would ride our bikes through it, holding our Keds high to keep them dry." That's the kind of dark I mean: the dark of a sky during a thunderstorm. Then the sky clears and here comes a kid on a bike, pedaling furiously, bound for the most ginormous puddle he can find, determined to make a big splash.
He made a big splash, all right. He made one that faraway day in Urbana and he made one many years later in Chicago, too, when he became the city's most acclaimed critic and one of its best and most famous writers, period. Think of it this way: In a sense, he never stopped pedaling.
Julia Keller was the Tribune's cultural critic from 2000 to 2012. The paperback edition of her novel "A Killing in the Hills" will be published June 11.
On film:
→"Life Itself: A Memoir" (2011)
→"Scorsese by Ebert" (2008)
→"Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert" (2006)
"The Great Movies" (2002): the first of three volumes
→"I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie" (2000): the first of three collections of negative reviews
→"Questions for the Movie Answer Man" (1997)
→"Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook" (1987)
A novel:
"Behind the Phantom's Mask" (1993)
A cookbook:
→"The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker" (2010)


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25 Year Silver Series Limited Edition KoAloha Gloss Koa Tenor
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This is a limited series that will only be made this year to commemorate their 25th year anniversary. Started in 1995, KoAloha has touched the lives of many with their amazing sound and wonderful feel. The silver series soprano has a Hawaiian koa body. It's adorned with abalone and ebony appointments. Beyond the anniversary label, it has special KoAloha branded tuners and an ebony faceplate.
The newly designed KoAloha tenor made them sound more like the Black Label customs they make. This 25 year anniversary model makes it look even closer as well with the ebony faceplate. These also get a very high quality KoAloha branded tuner.
Corey gives us a short review and sound sample.
The KoAloha sound and feel is entirely unique to their line of instruments. Mr. Alvin Okami and his son Paul have developed their own bracing, designs, and at times, completely new instruments. They have approached ukulele making like artists and have given us a wonderful sounding koa ukulele in each size. Here in Hawaii the tenor size is the most popular. Many of KoAloha's endorsed artists play this model, like Herb Ohta Jr., Raiatea Helm and tons of others. We guarantee that you will love the radiant sounds from this splendid Hawaiian Made koa tenor!
If you had your eyes open for a good Hawaiian made instrument, this one sounds great, feels great, and as you can see is a beautiful instrument.
We are selling this model with a canvas-covered hard case and humidifier included! Both are upgradable in the options.
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This ukulele comes with an Ukecrazy canvas-covered Hard Case. You can upgrade to a wooden hard case in the options below. The included canvas covered case as well as the optional Harshell case -- can be seen in our cases category under the Accessories tab at the top of this page.
Setup Options
Most people shop with us because of the extensive quality control and final setup work we provide at no extra cost on all ukuleles we ship out. However, this is time consuming work and creates a delay in shipping. We now offer "Expedited Setup" for those wanting to receive their instrument faster. See details on the Full Setup and Expedited Setup options, along with current turnaround times for each, at the link- HERE.
Extra Options
One of the options for this ukulele is to trade out the Humistat Model 1, included humidifier, for the more expensive Oasis Ukulele Humidifier (OH-18 or OH-5+) at a discount. This is required if you live in a low humidity area (parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, etc.), or also areas with winter seasons, especially if you heat the air in your house. For more info, refer to the Ukulele Care link at the bottom of this page. If you need to humidify the instrument, then you need a hard case for a humidifier to properly work. Maintain the humidifier by refilling it as needed.
After adding this instrument to your cart, create your own package by adding a case or accessories from the website.
Under the Accessories tab, customize this instrument by adding strap button(s) or your choice of pickup for plugging in. We recommend either the MiSi or the LR Baggs pickup for this ukulele.
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Nate Hill, from the series Trophy Scarves (2013).
To the extent that people know his name, Nate Hill is a controversial figure in the internet art world. He gets into bizarre, seemingly one-sided fights with art blogs, sends fake computer viruses to his press contact list, or generally puts people off by relentlessly focusing his web projects on "white women"—the most recent example being Trophy Scarves (2013), a photo series in which Hill, who is biracial, poses wearing a tuxedo while nude white women are slung across his shoulders as if they were recently slain wild animals. Like many, I found myself turned off by some of these projects, but, nonetheless, wanted to know more: the satire was clearly there and he was prolific. I also liked how committed he was to being an artist and how thoroughly he followed his artistic voice, no matter where it took him. In a growing series of conversations with Hill, what impressed me was how consistently every project revolves around the idea of a performative "character" and how committed he is to the idea that his artistic voice is channeled through these different characters. I quickly learned that the majority of these characters aren't even internet-based, but performed in public, on the streets and subway cars of New York. Be it online or in New York City, though, these works share a common motivation to be catalysts for disruption, to interrupt Hill's daily passage through networks of various kinds. While I can't justify everything Hill does, after speaking with him regularly and engrossing myself in the work, I am convinced that he is, in a strange way, a significant artist, as well as an interesting if unacknowledged heir to David Hammons and Andy Kaufman, whose projects Hill cherishes. Because he so frequently invokes the idea of character, I thought that to write about Hill necessitated describing him as a character in a fictional style—a mode of prose that I've been experimenting with recently. What follows is an impressionistic story following a few hours in the life of Nate Hill. It precedes two upcoming projects: a live reenactment of Trophy Scarves and "Lights: Nate Hill and Ann Hirsch," a performance event I am curating at Interstate Projects on November 2nd.


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For the last month I have been spending my spare time porting the awesome Java framework QI4J to .NET.
QI4J is the brain child of Rickard Öberg and Niclas Hedhman and it attempts to enable Composite Oriented Programming for the Java platform.
(For more info regarding Composite Oriented Programming see the QI4J website: http://www.qi4j.org/ )
I'm well aware that others have been doing spikes on COP for .NET, a few of those attempts can be found here:
However, I think it is sad to not reuse all of the effort and brain power that has been put into QI4J, and thus I decided to port it instead.
The code is currently only available from my SVN repository at google code:
Please note that the code will be released under the same license as the Java version (Apache License version 2.0)
And copyright notices for the ported code will also be applied to give credit where credit is due.
The .NET version is largely identical to the Java version as it is pretty much a plain class by class port.
However there are a few exceptions:
The concept of "Property<T>" is not available in the .NET version since C# and most .NET languages does support properties out of the box and it would feel awkward to write things like:
"order.Customer.Set(theCustomer)" rather than "order.Customer = theCustomer"
However, the framework does rely on the Property<T> internally and thus most of the state holding infrastructure is also identical to the Java version.
The Java version relies on its own set of query expressions while my plan is to possibly reuse those internally but rather expose a LINQ API for querying.
(I have not yet started to build that)
Currently supported concepts:
- Transient Composites.
- Prototyping
- Typed and Generic Concerns.
- Typed and Generic Side Effects.
- Typed Mixins, Generic Mixins and Private Mixins.
- Most of the QI4J injection annotations.
Soon to come:
- Value Composites
- Service Composites
- Immutable properties
- Abstract Mixins (which sadly won't be as nice as in Java due to language differences)
And I will ofcourse post a few samples of what you can do with this ASAP, I just wanted to drop a little sneak peek :-)


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Tim Bonney wrote:Thanks for the prayers! If it wasn't for the location of the airport, the mission we are going to also has experienced no ash fall. The airport situation is really the iffy thing right now.
Tim Bonney wrote:The Lord willing, I'll see the airport on the 22nd of June. We are going to San Lucas Toliman. The mission we are visiting is a Roman Catholic Mission that we have a connection with through Simpson College. There is some Methodist work in the Guatemala City area too.
Tim Bonney wrote:I returned yesterday from 10 days in Guatemala. It was a very interesting trip. I learned a lot about the country, their culture, and the poverty in the area. We also had good opportunity to participate in some of the ministry through building projects going on around San Lucas Toliman.
I'm always reminded that US citizens far more rich than we ever realize and that poverty is as much a function of poor political systems as it is economics.
Jim wrote:Carter simply accepted the Cubans, as democrat leaders want Trump to do now regarding the immigrant-influx, no questions asked with respect to whoever makes it through Mexico to the border.
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Description: Neji is another cool character from Naruto that a lot of kids know of and like. As you know I have been drawing a lot of Naruto for some time now, and my goal is to have a lesson on each individual. I have really grown to love the series both in manga and in anime. I have so many favorite ninja from the show, that it is hard for me to pick and choose one to draw next. Now, before I let you move onto this lesson, I will like to talk a little about Neji so that I can familiarize some of you artists on the character that you will be drawing. First off, his full name is Neji Hyuga, and as you fans know he is one of the main protagonists in the series. Along with being a member of Team Guy, Neji also belongs to the Hyuga clan. What makes his character so good is that he is different in a sense of being different from the rest. Not many Naruto characters are considered geniuses, and are born with unmarked foreheads. As for Neji, he was given the seal of the Hyuga Main Family's Juinjutsu. This was done so that his Byakugan skill is sealed in when they die. Neji has a particular personality as well. For one, he is incredibly mature for his young age making him almost a perfect candidate to obtain self control. His appearance is pretty cool too, with long brown colored hair, and his piercing void eyes. He wears his forehead protector in the same spot as almost every other ninja, with the mark of his family's seal on his forehead. Now because Neji possesses the Byakugan, he is able to in a radius of almost 360 degrees. Not only that but, he also specializes in taijutsu combat which makes him incredibly agile during battle. Anyways, when you learn to "how to draw Neji Hyuga, step by step", you will find that drawing Naruto characters can be more fun than you ever imagined. I will be back once again, so try and stay tuned. Peace out and happy drawing!


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SACRAMENTO (AP) — California lawmakers may have passed a budget on time to get paid, but their plan to close a $15.7 billion shortfall carries a big risk on the assumption that voters will approve Gov. Jerry Brown's tax increase this fall.
Democratic lawmakers, who passed the budget on a majority vote without Republicans, are relying on tax increases to bridge more than half of the projected deficit even though the latest poll showed voters divided. The Field Poll earlier this month found that the Democratic governor's proposal is leading with only a 52 percent to 35 percent margin — even before the campaign for it has begun.
The budget could fall apart depending on what happens in November, said Mike Genest, who served as finance director under former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during the height of the recession. Last year, Brown and Democrats used overly optimistic revenue assumptions and projected the state would rake in an extra $4 billion. That money never materialized, forcing the state to confront a bigger deficit now.
"Nobody should hope that if you pass this budget and the voters pass the taxes in November that that's it, California won't have any budget problems in the future," Genest said. "That's certainly not true."
Democrats passed a $92 billion spending plan on Friday largely modeled after Brown's proposal in order to meet their constitutional deadline for getting paid. It was unclear whether Brown would sign it.
"What they're doing is committing fiscal malpractice by assuming that this tax is going to pass," said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers' Association, which joined other business groups last week in launching a campaign against the governor's proposal.
Sen. Lou Correa, a Democrat from Anaheim, said it's good that voters will have the ultimate choice. "That's direct democracy."
Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, a R-Gerber, who is vice-chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee, called the budget unbalanced and irresponsible because it lacked long-term reforms such as a spending cap and pension reform.
"Built into the budget are more gimmicks and tricks than there have been before," Nielsen said.
Brown has projected the state will raise $8.5 billion in the new fiscal year starting July 1 by increasing the statewide sales tax by a quarter cent to 7.5 percent for four years and boosting the income tax on people who make more than $250,000 a year for seven years. Of that, $5.6 billion would provide direct relief to the state's general fund and $2.9 billion would increase funding for schools and community colleges.
The governor has said his proposal is a critical step toward restoring the state's fiscal health and would prevent serious cuts to education and public safety.
If voters reject the tax increases, the budget includes about $6 billion in automatic spending cuts, almost all of which would fall on K-12 schools. The contingency plan would shorten the public school year by as much as three weeks, make deeper college cuts and reduce funding for beach lifeguards and game wardens.
At the same time, the governor is facing competition from another tax measure. Wealthy Los Angeles attorney Molly Munger has proposed raising income taxes on nearly all Californians on a sliding scale to prop up struggling schools.
While Brown's proposal would backfill the state's general fund, support schools and guarantee funding to local governments for public safety, Munger's 12-year tax increase would provide only some relief to the state budget in the first four years and lawmakers would have no control over the school funds.
Neither initiative has yet qualified for the November ballot.
Leading up to Friday's budget vote, Brown found himself at odds with lawmakers in his own party over about $1.2 billion in cuts to welfare, child care, in-home support and college aid. Brown said deeper cuts through restructuring social programs for the poor were necessary to balance the state's finances this year and into the future.
Democratic lawmakers complained that the governor was jeopardizing his tax initiative by refusing to sign off on their version of the budget. They said voters may read a spitting match between the governor and the Legislature as politics as usual rather than elected officials working together.
"He has to choose," Assemblyman Charles Calderon, D-Whittier, said Thursday. "Does he want to look tough, like he's scolding and whipping the Legislature into shape? Or does he want the initiative to pass?"
Brown proposed cutting $880 million in CalWORKS, the state's welfare-to-work program, by cutting off parents after two years instead of four if they do not meet work requirements and cutting grants by 27 percent in families where only the children are eligible for grants.
Democratic lawmakers and advocates fear that would drive families into homelessness. They say a family of three in which only the child qualifies for assistance would see benefits fall from $516 to $375 a month, an amount equal to 24 percent of the federal poverty level.
Democrats are only willing to cut $428 million by extending existing cuts to counties to provide work training and child care.
The two sides disagree on how to distribute money to local governments that once went to community redevelopment agencies. They also disagree on how much the state should have in reserves for emergencies such as fighting wildfires.
Republicans, whose votes are no longer needed as a result voter-approved changes, complained that budget negotiations were being held in secret. They said they had not been given adequate time to review the budget bills, many of which were published one day before the vote, and they refused to vote on any of the budget bills.
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Imagine how world history might have changed if aerial combat had been invented in the early nineteenth century — by troops deployed on the backs of dragons. That's the premise of Naomi Novik's popular Temeraire series, where the Napoleonic Wars are fought in part with dragons and the balance of power is forever changed.
Crucible of Gold is the seventh novel in the series, and it takes us deep into the alternate history of South America. The setting is incredible, and Novik's style has grown even more delightfully anachronistic. And once again the action goes far beyond conflict between the British and the French; ultimately, this novel is as much about political relations between Europe, Africa, and even China as it is a novel of war.
Spoilers ahead...
We begin in Australia, where Laurence and Temeraire have settled after their expulsion from the Aerial Corps. The unctuous diplomat Hammond, whom they first met in China, has come to Australia to offer Laurence his Captaincy back if he'll agree to aid Britain in a desperate mission to Brazil. Their hope is to prevent Napoleon from gaining more allies among the great empires of South America — and to negotiate with the Tswana, an African nation that Napoleon has aided in a quest to bring their enslaved brethren back home from Brazil.
We've got the kind of complex political brew that Novik loves to explore here, and she's in top form when our crew first arrives in Inca-controlled territory. We're treated to an alternate history where Cuzco never fell, and Pizarro met ignominious defeat at the claws of the Inca dragons. Basically this is heroin for alternate history buffs, and you can expect to be awed and amused by turns.
Once the actual battle lines are drawn, however, the novel begins to feel more mechanical than joyful. Crucible of Gold offers little compelling human drama, nor dragon drama, despite several opportunities. There are startling romantic revelations, budding romances between humans (and dragons), but nothing about them feels compelling or vital. The same goes for the characters we'd expect to feel soul-charring wrath for each other. Laurence has become practically an automaton, whose feelings extend to honor and shame but little more.
Though it lacks emotional heft, the novel is still a fun adventure, full of whimsical touches and compelling worldbuilding. If you're already a Temeraire fan, this will be a welcome treat. If you're new to Novik's series, however, you'd do best to start with her first book, His Majesty's Dragon. Crucible of Gold definitely requires readers to know the backstory on a lot of returning characters. Let's hope that in Novik's next book, these characters will be given full-fledged emotional lives again.
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