text:
iPhoto Scripts and Plug-insby Derrick Story
As with many Apple applications, iPhoto has great potential, but insufficient controls for more advanced users. We've covered some workarounds in the article, Inside iPhoto: Image Management for Power Shooters, but sometimes you just need more program functionality.
The good news is that iPhoto does have a plug-in architecture and is scriptable using AppleScript. Here are a few nifty developer tools that let you get more out of iPhoto without having to resort to cumbersome workarounds or waiting for the next release.
BetterHTMLExport 1.1
Simeon Leifer has written an excellent plug-in called BetterHTMLExport, version 1.1 that gives you many more options for creating Web pages directly from iPhoto.
Not only can you control the compression of thumbnails and full-size images, you have some basic tag controls as well. My favorite feature though, is the automatically generated, hyperlinked page index that appears above and below the full image. This is a much more user-friendly way to move from picture to picture, rather than forcing viewers to use the Back button to return to the thumbnail page so they can see the next shot.
BetterHTMLExport 1.1 is way cool, and it's free, although Simeon does encourage donations if you're sufficiently moved by the software.
iPhoto Librarian 1.0
Another piece of handy freeware comes to us from Scott Schroeder who has written a first-rate AppleScriptlet called iPhoto Librarian 1.0. With Librarian you can set up iPhoto's default picture library to an external drive. This is helpful for those who want to dedicate a large FireWire hard drive to storing their digital images.
The script works smoothly, and it's one of Scott's first published efforts under the banner of Scruffy Software, Inc. Nice work, Scott.
iPhoto Toast Export Plug-in 1.0
|If you've discovered a nifty script or plug-in that works with iPhoto, let us know!
So you want to burn picture CDs directly from iPhoto? The Toast Export Plug-in, version 1.0, published by El Gato Software, lets you burn directly from iPhoto using Roxio Toast Titanium. You can share photos, albums, film rolls, or your entire photo library on CDs or DVDs. Very handy and very free.
Related Reading
iPhoto: The Missing Manual
AppleScripts from Apple
Last, but not least, let's not forget about the four AppleScripts published by Apple that automate a number of cool tasks.
My favorite of the bunch is the Show Image File script. You simply drag an image from the iPhoto window onto this droplet to reveal its source file in the Finder. Since iPhoto uses a screwy file-naming system for the pictures, this script helps you quickly locate those hidden images that would otherwise frustrate the heck out of you while you searched for them.
I hope these goodies will help make iPhoto life just a bit more enjoyable. If you stumble across something useful, let us know by posting a TalkBack below.
Derrick Story is the author of The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers, The Digital Photography Companion, and Digital Photography Hacks, and coauthor of iPhoto: The Missing Manual, with David Pogue. You can follow him on Twitter or visit www.thedigitalstory.com.
Read more Mac Dev News Roundup columns.
Return to the Mac DevCenter.
Showing messages 1 through 26 of 26.
iPhoto Diet Droplet
2002-09-24 20:18:02 anonymous2 [View]
iPhoto Diet reduces the size of your iPhoto library by eliminating unnecessary duplicate photos or, if preferred, all backed-up originals. A useful utility for recovering hard drive space or fitting more photos onto a CD-R.
free up space - originals folders
2003-06-23 16:06:24 anonymous2 [View]
after importing pics from a digital cam,i always gotta rotate half o them,it seems that iphoto keeps a copy of the original photo in a folder called originals. what for???
i hope they will add an option about this.
i did a search for originals folder, got the list in finder and just deleted them.
if u ever rotate another pic there,it will recreate the original folder. so as long as you dont need the originals you can free up some valuable disk space.
the rookie
Where is documentation on plugin architecture?
2002-06-25 22:15:57 bravada [View]
Where is the documentation on the IPhoto plugin architecture? I want to try writing my own plugin.
Where is documentation on plugin architecture?
2003-07-03 15:49:49 anonymous2 [View]
even better - Stone went through a great example...
Where is documentation on plugin architecture?
2003-07-03 15:46:53 anonymous2 [View]
Where is documentation on plugin architecture?
2003-05-07 10:58:48 below [View]
I am wondering the same thing... anyone?
New BetterHTMLExport Plugin
2002-02-11 04:13:30 ethanbrand [View]
I saw version 1.2 of this plugin on versiontracker today. It adds a direct link back to the main gallery page (as well as keeping the "click on the picture" feature) as well as the ability (and instructions) to completely customize your template pages. There are a few other minor additions, but since these two directly relate to the discussions we had below, I thought I'd post. This is a fantastic plugin. I love it!
Send iPhoto's via Eudora
2002-02-10 11:02:40 mattchildress [View]
I prefer to use Eudora for my e-mail, so I hacked the default script from Apple to use Eudora for OSX.
Available at:
iPhoto Library Manager
2002-02-09 00:32:59 Derrick Story | [View]
Brain Webster has written a new tool that allows us to manage many iPhoto Libraries at once, iPhoto Library Manager. I've been using it today, and it's really helped me switch on the fly between three different libraries, including one that's on a different drive. This is a free utility. Thanks Brian!
Show Image script file
2002-02-07 13:34:09 lichme5000 [View]
Yes, the show image script file is a nifty little script, but it is (imho) wholly unnecessary if Apple was willing to make a relatively minor improvement to iPhoto (and, for that matter, iTunes). I _really_ want the ability to delete photos from my hard drive for ever and ever from within iPhoto. Since it is supposed to be the best way to organize digital photos, it stands to reason that it is also the BEST way to delete them. It annoys me to no end that it doesn't allow me to do that. I just want a simple check box in my preferences that says "delete file from hard drive when I delete from library". That way, you're not left with countless crappy pictures on your HD that you don't want cluttering your library. This feature is even more necessary in iTunes, since it doesn't tie users to a specific library of mp3 files. Yes, I know it is possible to locate the mp3 file on the hard drive using the get info feature in iTunes, but that's just massively annoying.
I'm evangelizing here. Can I get a witness?
Show Image script file -- I second that
2002-02-08 00:55:17 Derrick Story | [View]
Yeah, you're so right.
Deleting an image in iPhoto only removes its ugly face from the library listing, not from the hard drive itself. Hmmm. So now I have all these creepy dark images living down there with the dragons eating up HD space.
A fix is definitely on my iPhoto wish list.
Show Image script file -- I second that
2002-02-09 15:00:15 Adam Engst | [View]
Umm, have you tested this? Deleting an image from the Photo Library (as opposed to an album) does indeed remove it from the hard disk, at least on my Mac. Try the following:
* Duplicate an image.
* Figure out the duplicate's filename (actually a number. Double-clicking to open it in another application for editing, as set in the Preferences window, is an easy way to do this if you don't have the Show in Finder script).
* Do a Sherlock search for the filename. You should find a couple of items in the iPhoto hierarchy starting with that number (a data file, a thumbnail, and the original, at least).
* Switch back to iPhoto and delete the image from within the Photo Library.
* Switch back to Sherlock and perform the same search. Every time I repeat these steps, all the files found in the previous search are gone.
cheers.... -Adam
Show Image script file -- I second that
2002-02-10 18:01:52 ethanbrand [View]
Agreed. My photo files seem to be deleted as well when I delete from iPhoto. Same goes for iTunes. Command-Delete in iTunes will give you a prompt about moving the file to the trash - answer yes and that mp3 is history.
Show How to really delete the image...
2002-04-04 12:02:04 batesc [View]
How to delete an image and get rid of it from your HDD depends on where you delete it FROM. In iPhoto, if you are in Organize view and are working from the Photo Library list or the Last Import list, and you delete photos, they are completely removed from your system (i.e. they disappear from iPhoto views and the image files are deleted from your hard drive - you get msg "Are you sure you want to permanently remove the selected photo..."). However, if you are working from an album list and delete a photo, all it does is to remove the reference to the picture from the album list (i.e. the image stays on your hard drive and is still in your Photo Library). I think you'l find iTunes works in the same way the respect to deleting tunes from the Library view versus deleting them from within a playlist view.
This explanation makes sense of the conflicting postings in this conversation thread, and suggests that Apple have already provided a decent level of delete functionality.
Show How to really delete the image...
2004-12-22 19:32:18 vprice [View]
I had a strange experience today. I created several new albums, and placed photos in them from my last import. Then I deleted them from my last import, and was left with one more cluster of photos, and higlighted all of those and dragged them to another folder. But in the act of dragging, something happened, and some of the other photos that I had just placed in albums--including the last photo of a friend who just died-- vanished. Those albums were totally empty. No message popped up warning me that they would be totally remove. But I can't find the photos--they are gone from last import and the photo library itself!
Any ideas about retrieving them?
How to Install PlugIns
2002-02-06 13:32:17 Derrick Story | [View]
I've received a couple notes about the "hidden" Content directory that contains the "PlugIns" folder. You're not crazy; it's not easy to find.
First quit iPhoto. Then find its icon in your Applications directory. Right-click (or CTRL-click) on the icon and choose "Show Package Contents" from the dropdown menu. Then open the "Contents" folder that appears. Now you'll see the "PlugIns" folder where you can drag and drop new items.
When you restart iPhoto, the PlugIn will be active.
How to Install PlugIns -- Easier Way
2002-02-06 15:05:33 Derrick Story | [View]
Stuart Smith dropped me the following note for an easier way to manage PlugIns:
"It is actually easier than that.
Do a Get Info in Finder on iPhoto. Choose Plugins from the menu. There's a
large Add... Button in that panel. Use it to navigate to your new plugin. It
will be copied to iPhoto/Contents/Plugins.
The interface (like much of Mac OS X) isn't finished yet. You can pick
absolutely anything (it doesn't have to be a plugin) and it will be copied
to the plugins folder. Also, the list of plugins isn't updated immediately,
you may need to Get Info on a different file and then come back to iPhoto to
see your newly-installed plugin.
If you disable a plugin it is moved to iPhoto/Contents/Plugins (Disabled)."
iPhoto with OS X screen saver
2002-02-06 10:57:35 firstname.lastname@example.com [View]
As soon as I got iPhoto I wanted to use my photos with the OS X screen saver. Trouble is it isn't easy. To make it a bit easier I wrote a script that makes a folder of aliases that the screen saver can use.
Hope people find it useful.
iPhoto with OS X screen saver -- Cool!
2002-02-06 13:26:31 Derrick Story | [View]
I just tried it, and the scriptlet works great. It's a great addition to my script library.
BetterHTMLExport Tip
2002-02-05 20:17:54 Derrick Story | [View]
One of the welcome new features in "BetterHTMLExport" is the ability to generate a navigation bar on the picture pages. It's great for moving from page to page, but there's no link to return back to the thumbnail page, which is a real problem.
However, you're also allowed to include text from iPhoto's "Comments" field to accompany the image on the picture page. If you add a little HTML in the Comments field, such as:

Return to the  Classroom Thumbnails page.
you can generate a text link that appears on the picture page and will take your viewer back to the thumbnails page.
BetterHTMLExport Tip
2002-02-07 14:21:46 lichme5000 [View]
Actually, you link back to the index page by clicking on the photo itself, so while it's not immediately obvious, that functionality is provided.
BetterHTMLExport Tip
2002-02-07 14:49:59 ethanbrand [View]
Exactly! Figures, someone beat me to the punch. So all you'd have to do is include a text instruction, rather than HTML, in the comment field (or edit the template). Now, can anyone figure out how to get the album comments to appear on the page?
BetterHTMLExport Tip
2002-02-07 15:17:37 ethanbrand [View]
In the ..Contents:Resources:English.lproj folder is a file called "imagePages.plist". Change the file type to .txt, open in text editor, scroll to the bottom and add "Click on the picture to return to the gallery." (or whatever you want to say) to the line shown below:
Click on the picture to return to the gallery.
Save the file and change the extension back to ".plist". Voila! Instructions built into every image page.
BetterHTMLExport Tip - quick note
2002-02-07 15:22:30 ethanbrand [View]
Note: the lines of code I displayed in the previous message will look a little different because the "<" and ">" are < and > for those who don't know HTML.
BetterHTMLExport Tip - doh!
2002-02-07 15:26:11 ethanbrand [View]
Argh...........hopefully you understand what I meant by that last post. Grrrr - wrong quotes.......
BetterHTMLExport Tip - Imagine that
2002-02-08 01:04:45 Derrick Story | [View]
Wow, I would have never thought to click on the picture to return to the index page, but it does work as advertised. I should have looked closer at the html. I like the ensuing tip for adding instructions.
I have to say that I'm really getting a lot of use out of this plugin -- it has made iPhoto much more valuable to me ...


text:
Toys"R"Us Express Outlet Store in St. Augustine Premium Outlets (Florida)
Store name:
2700 State Rd 16 St Augustine, FL 32092-0764
Outlet mall:
Contact phone:
(904) 824-8835
Information & Events
This store was removed from the list of stores in St. Augustine Premium Outlets . Please try to look at new list of all stores here
List of all events & discounts in Toys"R"Us Express store.
Map and Directions
Directions to Toys"R"Us Express: I-95 to exit 318; west on S.R.16.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Kings: Johnson's late turnover leads to Staal's winner in OT
Source: ESPN Los Angeles - Feb 10, 2011 at 10:14 PM
Pittsburgh Penguins 2, Kings 1 (OT) Eight keys to the game: THE FACTS: The Kings dominated the overtime period against the Penguins but Pittsburgh center Jordan Staal, who has replaced the injured Evgeni Malkin on the top line, stole the puck from defenseman Jack Johnson and beat goalkeeper Jonathan Quick with 19 seconds left to earn the victory at CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh. THE STAT: The Kings took a season-low two shots in the momentum-changing second period after producing 13 in the first. The Penguins came into the game with the second-best defensive unit in the league but two shots on goal in a period is just plain poor. TURNING POINT: The Penguins took a 1-0 lead just 28 seconds after Pittsburgh defenseman


text:
Multicultural - Film/Video
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Quinsigamond Community College: Hebert Auditorium
670 West Boylston Street
Worcester, MA 01606
Google Maps - MapQuest
2004 Thai musical-drama film. A fictionalized account based on the life story of Thai palace musician Luang Pradit Phairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng), it follows the life of a Thai classical musician from the late 19th century to the 1940s. The film was the winner of several awards in Thailand and was the country's official selection for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This film deals not only with traditional Thai culture and music but also with politics, history, psychological states of the Thai people and many other issues.
Cost: Free!
Sponsored by: QCC English Department/Liberal Arts Steering Committee/National Endowment for the Humanities Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges initiative
Suggested Audiences: Elders, Adult, College, High School
Last Modified: February 6, 2013 at 4:12 PM
Add/Suggest Event | Edit Your Events |
Powered by the Social Web - Bringing people together through Events, Places, & Common Interests


text:
Hope all are well. With Georgia Tech's men's basketball team opening ACC play Saturday against Duke at Philips Arena, I thought it was well past time to dig in. Thursday, Randy Waters of 11 Alive and the inimitable Matt Winkeljohn from Sting Daily and I spoke with coach Brian Gregory before practice. He had some insights and thoughts worth sharing. Mostly, I was struck again by how long the road is in front of him and his team, and also how hard he is hammering consistency of effort – "unbelievable effort," as he puts it – and team-first attitude.
"Those two things are the core of everything that we do," Gregory said. "It's really important in that we never devalue those levels and standards that we talk about."
1. Tech's turnover totals in the past four games (the past three of which were losses to Mercer, Fordham and Alabama): 22,16, 11 and 22.
Gregory said that a lack of focus and impatience have caused many of the turnovers and, in turn, the three-game
Continue reading Gregory wants more consistent effort from Tech »


text:
Tungsten carbide tipped cutters are designed for biscuit jointing with a router. Use on softwood, hardwood, MDF, plywood and chipboard. Includes three bearings to cut slots for biscuit sizes 0, 10 and 20.
*Free delivery over £50 refers to home delivery orders placed on diy.com only. Charges refer to the value of goods being delivered and excludes delivery from stores or services. Excludes bulk delivery.
B&Q accepts the above cards and also offers a range of in-store financial services. Learn more
Buy online, return in store. Terms and conditions apply
Have a question or a problem, chat to our support team now.contact B&Q
© B&Q 2014 - Terms & Conditions


text: I'm 18, intend to study Neuroscience because the brain is the most fascinating thing ever and I could probably talk with you about the universe for hours. I also love body modification, I have 5 tattoos and counting. I strongly believe in the Law of Attraction and I just wish to spread peace&love


text:
Report Sheds Light on Anti-Muslim Bias
By Jon Campbell
Rikers Island Lawsuits Over Diabetic Care
By Albert Samaha
87-Year-Old Inmate Granted Parole
By Albert Samaha
Weird Racist Flyer in South Brooklyn Is Weird
By Anna Merlan
By Anna Merlan
Bridget Everett: Crazy Raunchy Cool
By Julie Seabaugh
New York's Shield Law Notches a Victory
By Jon Campbell
Trial Begins for $240k Bank Robbery in 1993
By Albert Samaha
The evidence: styling gel, a pair of scissors, a page torn from an appointment book, and a single hair clip. On July 1, three undercover investigators from California's Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), posing as state police officers, staged a "sting" operation at a popular braiding salon in West Los Angeles, Braids by Sabrina. Investigator Ayn Lauderdale spent five hours having her hair braided by shop owner Sabrina Reece, then slipped into the bathroom and reappeared in a police jacket. Joined by two more investigators, the three carried guns, says Reece, and rifled through the shop without a warrant, threatening to arrest her. After taking photographs and the social security numbers of everyone present, the investigators left with the so-called evidence sealed in a plastic baggie. A DCA supervisor confirmed the raid had taken place, but refused further comment. The alleged crime: not running drugs or carrying a concealed weapon, but braiding hair. Welcome to the hair police state.
What Sabrina Reece is being charged with, to be exact, is braiding hair without a cosmetology license, in violation of a law whose constitutionality is now being challenged in a federal class action lawsuit, as are similar laws around the country, including New York. The issue on the table is whether hair braiders' 14th amendment rightsin this case, the ability to pursue a livelihoodare being violated by arbitrary and excessive licensing requirements.
Reece and other African-style braiders refuse to be licensed, and say that their profession, which they've practiced for years without state intervention, does not fall under the rubric of traditional cosmetology. (They don't use chemicals, special equipment, or cut hair.) State cosmetology boards, on the other hand, claim jurisdiction over anyone who touches hair.
Braiders in the Los Angeles area have been fined and threatened for several years now, but Sabrina Reece is the first to be subjected to a raid. This isn't Reece's first run-in with the board. The 32-year-old mother of two was fined for the same charge last October. That the sting was authorized while the lawsuit filed on behalf of California braiders is still pending was a heavy-handed show of authority, rather than a case of pressing public concern. Insiders consider the incident a testament to the board's power and the overall clout of the billion-dollar-plus cosmetology industry.
Recent legal victories favoring braiders have led state boards to step up enforcement of licensing laws and engage in what braiders characterize as undue harassment. In the past year, the various investigative arms of the boardscalled the "cosmetology police" by attorney Dana Berliner of the Washington, D.C.based Institute for Justice, which is representing braiders in several of the civil rights caseshave moved from issuing fines to more hardball tactics, like the sting at Braids by Sabrina.
In states such as Texas, California, Ohio, and South Carolina, investigators, often accompanied by police, have threatened to lock up braiders, put them out of business, and penalize their landlords. Some incidents have taken on the timbre of Black Pantherera raids, as in Dallas last October, where seven cops were sent to arrest one braider, who was led away in handcuffs. The majority of those being charged and threatened so far are African American womensome of whom started braiding to make the transition from welfare to work.
Tales of extremism keep piling up: Take Roxsanna Robins. In South Carolina, Robins, owner of For Girls Only Braiding Salon in Columbia, feels she's being made a scapegoat. Robins's shop is the only all-braiding salon in the capital city. The state board issued her a cease and desist order but hasn't gone any furtherofficially, that is. Robins believes the board is reluctant to bar her from braiding hair. But, she says, that's not stopping them from harassing her. David Bagwell, chairman of the South Carolina State Board of Cosmetology, would not comment directly on the case but said the board is obligated to enforce the law.
The salon has been open for only two months, but investigators have cased the place at least seven times. When Robins and her staff leave for the evening, there is often police presence outside of the shop, and her customers have been stopped and questioned. (The county sheriff's office told Robins this was due to a rash of burglaries, but so far, none have taken place in the office park where the salon is located.) Robins's landlord has said he would not renew her lease and says he plans to break it if he can find a way. (The landlord confirmed this, but said it was because Robins has "unsupervised" children in her shop, not because of the nature of her business.)
At the center of the licensing debate are questions of economic opportunity for African Americans, particularly women, and control over what many consider to be a cultural art form. The cosmetology lobby insists that health and safety interests demand braiders be regulated. Braiders say the industry's position has little to do with health and safety and everything to do with economicswanting to control a cottage industry that is now a multimillion-dollar enterprise. In fact, only a small percentage of cosmetology training is devoted to health and safety. California, for instance, requires only 4 percent.


text:
With first pitch just a matter of hours away, the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox have announced their Game 1 lineups for the 2013 World Series.
For St. Louis, they'll see the return of Allen Craig who has missed over a month of action with a foot injury. Craig is still not completely healthy, though has taken multiple rounds of batting practice and will serve as the Cardinals' primary designated hitter for the series. He's likely to be limited if he reaches base however.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox will give the start in left field to Jonny Gomes, who continues to replace the fleet footed Daniel Nava. Red Sox manager John Farrell suggested that Gomes' ability to run the bases smartly along with his defense in left field off the Monster was the reasoning behind the decision. Nava is expected to play at least once when the series switches to St. Louis.
Below are your 2013 World Series Game 1 lineups.
St. Louis Cardinals:
1. Matt Carpenter (L) 2B
2. Carlos Beltran (S) RF
3. Matt Holliday (R) LF
4. Allen Craig (R) DH
5. Yadier Molina (R) C
6. David Freese (R) 3B
7. Matt Adams (L) 1B
8. Shane Robinson (R) CF
9. Pete Kozma (R) SS
Adam Wainwright (R) – SP
Boston Red Sox:
1. Jacoby Ellsbury (L) CF
2. Shane Victorino (S) RF
3. Dustin Pedroia (R) 2B
4. David Ortiz (L) DH
5. Mike Napoli (R) 1B
6. Jonny Gomes (R) LF
7. Xander Bogaerts (R) 3B
8. Stephen Drew (L) SS
9. David Ross (R) C
Jon Lester (L) – SP


text:
Your email has been sent.
Code Pink's Next Battle
Can the women's antiwar group, active in the anti-Israel BDS effort, turn people against drone warfare?
The archetypal summit attendee was Jimmy Johnson, a 34-year-old Midwesterner. Wearing faded blue overalls and standing well over 6 feet tall, with a small paunch, scruffy cheeks, and a buzzed head, Johnson at first has the look of a farmer far from home. But his tattoos give him away: Across one set of knuckles is the word shalom; tzedek decorates the other hand. And in a curved line on his back, just below his neck, are the words "tzedek, tzedek tirdof lemaan tichyeh." (Justice, justice you shall pursue so that you may live, a verse from Deuteronomy.)
Johnson, who is Jewish, is a one-man advocacy organization, operating under the name Neged Neshek, meaning "Against Arms." He researches and tracks Israeli weapons development and the export of these technologies. "In a way you're kind of following the Occupation out into the world," he told me.
Johnson lives in Detroit, where he also grew up. In the 1990s, he served in the Army as part of a fuel-hauling unit working in support of the No-Fly Zone in northern Iraq. "It was planes that were going back and forth and bombing once, twice a week for the whole decade," he said. "That was my role."
After a year-and-a-half, he deserted, earning himself a dishonorable discharge. I asked him why he left: "Maybe I got a little conscious of activism and then I forgot why I was helping to kill Iraqis. It didn't make any sense to me."
A relationship later took him to Israel. He wasn't a Zionist then, he said, and isn't one now. But he remained in Israel for 10 years and became disturbed by the demolition of Palestinian homes.
Two years ago, he moved back to Detroit to take care of his brother, who would soon die of an illness. Johnson is trained as a mechanic, but the city has few jobs, so he's devoted to his work with Neged Neshek, which in turn has brought him into contact with a number of European and Israeli groups concerned with the arms trade and Palestinian rights. He's also active in the Detroit Occupy movement, and he's the author of an unpublished 47-page pamphlet, "Fragments of the Pacification Industry: Exporting the Tools of Inequality Management From Palestine/Israel."
Whatever one might think of his beliefs, Johnson is, like many of those I encountered at the drone summit, deeply versed in the issues. He participated in a panel at the summit ("Ethical/Political Issues of Drone Use & Targeted Killings") and gave a brief presentation about Israeli drones, where he called the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon "a turning point" for the technology.
Johnson is also, like many other attendees, essentially a lone operator while also being a relentless networker. I spotted him speaking with panelists and activists throughout the weekend, often waiting patiently nearby as a scientist or lawyer packed up his presentation materials. In some ways, the structure of this young movement mirrors the drone program itself, which is dispersed among dozens of military bases around the United States and sites abroad and is supplied by military contractors throughout the country. It is a distributed network relying on close communication and sharing of data.
On the second day of the conference, attendance had slipped from the first day, but energy levels were high. That morning, a CIA drone had struck in Miramshah, a frequent target in North Waziristan, a district in Pakistan's FATA region. I sat in on a discussion group of a dozen or so activists, and on a whiteboard someone had written the town's name, underlined it, and drawn an arrow pointing to text that read, "4 girls killed this a.m. by CIA drone strikes / BOO! HISS!!" (News reports said that four unnamed militants were killed. They were apparently holed up in an abandoned girls school.)
One group was focused on domestic drones; another, which included a group of Stanford law students, was discussing legal policy. Mine was tasked with brainstorming direct action, education, and organizational strategies. The conversation was free-flowing and generally cordial but suffused with the antic passions endemic to political meetings. Activists took turns speaking and sometimes fluttered their fingers in the air to show agreement.
There was wide support among the group for the use of dramatic visual aids and of gory imagery. One man proposed distributing stickers with graphic photos after drone strikes. "That way they have to confront it," he said. Another suggested using mural art to depict events in Afghanistan. "We want people to know what it looks like," said a man from Know Drones, the touring educational organization, who identified himself simply as Jeff.
A man with a Veterans for Peace shirt and pin, his thin white hair matched by a white beard, worried that base protests, while a popular idea, weren't that useful. "The thing is you're not educating anybody," he noted.
Another Veterans for Peace man, this one in a Free Bradley Manning shirt, said, "Don't forget economics"—that is, emphasizing the cost of the drone program. (A Reaper drone, for example, costs about $30 million of taxpayer money, and Hellfire missiles go for about $70,000 each.)
The man launched into a short disquisition on his background. He almost became a Catholic monk but now attends a synagogue, he told us, before name-checking Rabbi Michael Lerner, a Bay Area-based rabbi known for his social activism.
A National Day Against Drones was discussed several times before the group agreed that it was one of their most promising ideas. When someone raised the issue of protesting other weapons systems, like cruise missiles and AC-130 gunships, both of which have been used to strike militants in Somalia, a man emphasized the particular visual power of drones: "This is our new image. It's a good image that we can use."
A middle-aged, dreadlocked man, wearing sunglasses and sitting outside the circle, offered a slight critique. "I'm still not focused on what the endgame is," he said. "At the end of the day, what needs to be done so that everybody can go home?"
After a few seconds, someone else spoke up, returning to an old standby: "Right now, I think a really good model is the BDS movement." He emphasized that it has a "specific ask"—i.e., boycott Israel—and that the anti-drone movement should as well.
A woman who identified herself as Barbara Wien, an academic involved in the Peace & Justice Studies Association, added, "Israel is the largest exporter of drones, so that's a connection between our anti-drones [campaign] and BDS work."
"How many people are on Facebook?"
Some hands went up.
"So is the government," a woman said, sourly.
A man in a cutoff T-shirt proposed that Columbia's journalism school "would be a great place to do some street theater, before they all become flunkies for AP and UPI."
The Lockheed Martin union was mentioned as problematic (too in thrall to management), but Lockheed, which manufactures the Hellfire missile and is the country's largest military contractor, was named as an important protest target.
Jeff returned to the notion of reaching out to interfaith groups, before an elderly woman, whose black T-shirt read "We Will Not Be Silent" in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, remarked that she doesn't like the use of the word "terrorism," even in regard to Pakistani Taliban attacks on Pakistani civilians. "We have no business being there or telling people what to do," she said. Another woman had trouble with "acknowledging that there's even a problem with terror," saying it feeds into militarism.
Later, the groups reconvened to share what they'd settled on. The group I observed agreed on distributing educational materials, using public art and street theater, and organizing a National Day Against Drones. A statement was read aloud; some slight amendments were suggested and ratified, including one, put forth by a roboticist, noting that certain nonmilitary uses of drones are acceptable.
Medea Benjamin, standing in front of a blowup of her book cover, raised the possibility of leading a delegation to Pakistan to meet with activists, lawmakers, and victims' families. She asked Shahzad Akbar, a Pakistani lawyer, if they would be welcomed in his country.
"Yes, yes. We have plenty of jail cells," he cracked.
The day after the summit ended, John Brennan, the president's chief counterterrorism adviser, gave a speech defending the drone war. It was a rare on-the-record comment about the secretive program, though it offered no revelations about targeting procedures or other such matters. Speaking at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Brennan was interrupted by a protester, who yelled at him about the deaths of innocent people and the sanctity of the Constitution. Few people in that room likely knew that the woman disrupting Brennan was Medea Benjamin. The woman whose group had been the colorful vanguard of antiwar protest under the Bush Administration went unrecognized. ABC News reported that "a well-dressed blonde woman" had to be carried out of the auditorium.
Like this article? Sign up for our Daily Digest to get Tablet Magazine's new content in your inbox each morning.
Holocaust Agitprop in Berlin
A film of nude people playing in a gas chamber is but one piece aiming to shock at the Berlin Biennale art show


text:
Hilsgen — Brown
Justine Hilsgen and Levi Brown were united in marriage Sept. 21 at St. Mary's Help of Christians Catholic Church in St. Augusta.
Justine is the daughter of Jeffrey and Julie Hilsgen of Kimball. Levi is the son of Micheal and Lori Brown of Willmar.
Are you a newspaper subscriber but you don't have a Digital Access account yet? https://secure.forumcomm.com/?publisher_ID=40&event=subscriber/lookup.
You will need your subscription account number and phone number. Not sure if you have an account? Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we can help you.


text:
Child Abuse Identification Seminar-All individuals applying for certification are required to provide evidence of having completed this seminar.
Register for this seminar using one of the below options.
- On campus: Call the Continuing Education Office at 878-5907, or check their Web site
- Online: www.nysmandatedreporter.org - click on "Training Courses" and select the Self-Directed Online Training (FREE)
Seminar fees are approximately $39 but fees may vary by provider. The seminars are a minimum of two-hours in length. Please note that some providers will be offering training that exceeds the two-hour minimum. You should contact the individual provider for workshop registration dates, fees and times.
Upon completion of the workshop, the service provider will give you a certificate of completion.
You should keep the original certificate for your records, but include a photocopy of this document with your release authorization form.


text: Marc Silverstein has expertly served as a spokesperson for numerous major corporations and products, including Cuisinart, Hershey's, HP, Pillsbury, Pepperidge Farm, Chilean Hass Avocados and many more. An experienced spokesperson able to perfectly deliver your company's messaging, Marc's hosted in-studio media tours and ground tours around the nation. Marc's professional background as a popular cable television host (The Best Of on Food Network and Go Ahead Make My Dinner on Discovery Channel) and as a TV news consumer reporter gives him the rare ability to serve as an expert on multiple topics, such as food, consumer electronics and products, entertaining, entertainment, health, politics, and current events.


text:
To do the cool things, you have to be logged in first.
Posted 03/17/2010 1:38 PM
How have they stayed afloat through it all? Can this
team that everyone was so afraid of last year resurface as a nightmare
playoff match-up come April? The possibility exists. Kevin Pritchard
has put together a very deep team, a compilation of versatile parts
with specific skill-sets that make gameplanning for a healthy Blazers
squad a nightmare. Look at their wings: Batum, Fernandez, Dante
Cunningham and Martell Webster all bring something different to the
table. Though there was some preseason anxiety about how Coach McMillan
could juggle minutes to make sure he got court-time for all these
valuable assets and even some whispers that this great depth might
actually hurt team chemistry, the injuries of the season have made all
such points irrelevant. Without their roster flexibility, the Blazers
playoff dreams would have been buried long ago. A lot of credit needs
to be given to Portland management for finding gems like Cunningham and
Jeff Pendergraph as well as for believing that the last Fab Five member
standing had something left in the tank. Further, don't discount the
contributions of Jerryd Bayless. While he hasn't had the success (or
the opportunity) of some of his draft-mates, Bayless' tantalizing
individual ability has been called on at times this season and he has
delivered. He still has a lot to learn about the League and the nuances
of the PG spot in particular, but having this underexposed dynamo
lurking on the bench has been a major blessing.
Started by
Ricky on 05/19/14 at 12:19 PM
Started by
Andrew Linares on 05/15/14 at 7:30 PM
San Antonio game 2
Started by
buffielea on 05/05/14 at 2:02 PM
Started by
Nate Caraway on 04/20/14 at 6:17 AM
First Game starts tonight. Houston is a tough first round opponent and they play exceptionally well at home. If we can steal a game or two at their place, I feel like we have extremely good chances.
P.S. Would anybody happen to have a...
Started by
cm_flippin on 04/02/14 at 10:49 PM
There are many questions and you don''t have to register, you can continue as a guest. Didn''t know about Sporcle though, thanks.
Started by
NickPitherUK on 02/18/14 at 6:57 AM
Started by
benh7777 on 02/12/14 at 10:22 PM
The Blazers were winning!  That is the key word, were.  Blazers are living proof that you can live and die by the jumper.  Lately it has been dying.
Thank God they are 19 games over 500.  Mayb...
Started by
jamsmashers on 02/13/14 at 1:03 PM
Hawes will be a hot commodity by the trade deadline, I would think the sixers could find a better offer.
However, I do believe Mo Williams could have somewhat of  a high trade value. Olshey needs to make a deal to get a big man while we...
© 2004-2011 by the Portland Trail Blazers. All Rights Reserved.
Feedback / Privacy / Terms of Service / Trail Blazers Privacy / Trail Blazers Terms


text:
TORAH PARSHA - Shelach Lekha / "Send Thou"
Hebrew Date: 16 Sivan 5774
Torah: Be-Midbar / Numbers 13:1-15:41
Haftarah: Yahoshua/Joshua 2:1-24
Brit Chadasha/Renewed Covenant: Qorintyah Alef / 1 Corinthians 4:1-9:27
What is HebrewNation.net?
Hebrew Nation.net is your resource center for understanding everything about the Bible, prophesy, and the roots of the Christian and Jewish faiths from a Hebrew perspective. Discover the richness of the Bible viewed through the lens of the life, culture, and perspective of Jesus/Yeshua and the Old and New Testament writers. You can also find other like-minded believers here, do business together, talk about the living Scriptures and learn about the culture we were really made to be a part of as members of God's, or YHVH's house.
What does that mean? Our culture, no matter where we live, has been designed to keep us from knowing truth. Hebrew Nation opens up an opportunity for us to begin to build and experience community and culture as we were intended to be from the beginning – a society based on the eternal Word of YHVH as it is lived out through the various functions, teachers and services a new emerging nation should expect. This new culture is built first around our Father and His Messiah as revealed to us through Scripture but implemented through seven major influences or for continuity, sticks of the menorah; Education, Commerce, Faith, Family, Arts and Entertainment, Government, Media.
HebrewNation.net is only a part of Abba's (Father's) plan for restoring His people through social media, providing a gateway to the best teachers and instructors from all over the planet, congregation teaching support and congregation locators.
For Hebrew Nation Radio, visit HebrewNationOnline.com, where you will find our archive of podcasts and bookstore.


text:
Girl Talk On: The Web, The Computer as an Instrument & Not Being a DJ
Girl Talk whips his fans into a frenzy when he takes the stage — ripping off his ubiquitous sweatsuit as he mashes together tracks both popular and vintage like a true rock god, a rock god whose axe just happens to be a computer.
The idea of what constitutes music and what constitutes an instrument has continued to evolve over the years — a band no longer contains a bassist, keyboardist, drummer, guitarist, etc. It might include a synth player. It might include a Game Boy-wielder. It might include your PC. Girl Talk (a.k.a Gregg Gillis) stands at the forefront of the modern electronic music movement, which is why he's an O Music Awards nominee for Digital Genius.
Girl Talk took some time away from searching for samples and sweating through his sweats to chat with us about the impact of the web and technology on music today — among other subjects. Check out our Q&A below:
I know you don't like being called a DJ. Does it annoy you that so many people refer to you as such?
I do get that pretty often, definitely on a weekly basis. It's not annoying to me. This whole project kind of really evolved out of such a small subculture that I don't expect people to know it or understand the reference points. So I'm definitely not offended by being labeled a DJ.
The world I came out of, there was a big distinction between live, electronic music and people who were producers and people who were DJing — the act of it. Are you spinning other people's tunes, or are you creating something live in real time that's something of your own? That's really where I came out of, and a lot of the people I looked up to I still to this day don't consider DJs. People like Negativland and Kid606 and Evolution Control Committee.
I understand — when people first see me play or listen to a record — if they describe it as an act of DJing or being a DJ. I'm sure those same people would see Daft Punk live and call that a DJ performance. Even though for me, you can watch that and know that they're doing live, electronic music, and to me it's more of a performance and they're producers doing production live.
I don't think any question's necessarily that annoying. I kind of enjoy explaining it and I really like the history behind what I'm doing and the artists that I look up to, and I do think that it's a scene that's not talked about much.
How did you first start looking at the computer as an instrument?
I had gotten into Nirvana when I was like 10. Nirvana got people excited about finding out about new music. Also the idea of underground music was cool, because it was like, 'What are the T-shirts that Kurt Cobain is wearing and what are these bands that he's playing with and what are these bands that he's always referencing that he loves?'
Nirvana for me led to stuff like Sonic Youth, which then led even further to that kind of experimental musical world and 'Just how far out can music get?' And I would say by the time I was like 13 or 14 I was actively listening to the college radio in Pittsburgh, WRCT, the Carnegie Mellon station. And through there, I discovered a world of music that was straight-up noise. It blew my mind. 'Wow, this is about as extreme as anything I've heard.' And I started actively getting into that and started attending shows to watch music like that and got into that world.
I started going out to shows when I was 15 and watching like some guy from Barcelona playing to 10 people in a warehouse, playing with footpedals and blowing your ears out for 10 minutes and that's the performance. And that's what I got into and that's what my friends and I were into, and we actively went to these noise shows and started taking in a lot of live electronic music and with that, started to look into the history of it a bit more.
I became a huge fan of Kraftwerk and to me they're definitely The Beatles of computer music. People did it before them, but they were the first to bring it to the pop light. Along with that, there was a band from Pittsburgh called Operation Re-information in the late '90s [who] played computer keyboards on guitar straps and triggered samples live. So they were definitely a hybrid between a rock band and live electronic thing, and they were by far my favorite local band. My friends were obsessed with them and we would go out to every show. That was really what I was into as a teenager.
I went out before I even had a laptop or a computer to make my own music. I actively went out and saw other people performing on computers. I was fasicnated by people who used samples and collage and, at the same time, I was a big fan of rap music and modern pop — I liked the dictomy of it. I like the extremes in music. I'd go to a noise show and see the Spice Girls in the same week in high school.
By the time I got a laptop when I was 18, I thought, 'Oh, it would be cool to do a project entirely based on sampling pop music.' I thought this would be a fun way to represent what I'm into and do something I didn't think was necessarily being done. That's where it started, and over the 10 years of doing it, the sound has evolved a lot as my interests have changed.
I wanted to talk a little bit about how your sound has changed. All Day is very different than some of your earlier work, like Secret Diary. Samples have gotten a little longer, songs are more intermeshed.
To me, [Secret Diary] is very connected to what I was doing in high school and that scene. The focus back then was making experimental music out of pop. I wanted to make abrasive music out of pop.
With the shows, the performance aspect was really important since day one, because I like the idea — as a fan of Kraftwerk — of making a pop-style performance or a rock 'n' roll performance out of a man playing samples on a laptop. How that doesn't really make sense in theory was what was exciting to me about it.
With the earliest music, I was making experimental music, and when I would get on stage, I would be yelling at people to loosen up and to dance and have fun, but the music wasn't necessarily meant for that. It wasn't for dancing and having fun. Over the next few years and when I was in college I grew more comfortable with the idea of making something that was a little bit more accessible. And I think simulteanously I kind of got the opportunity to play at a couple of parties. And I started actively going out and dancing more and experiencing more music in the club and at house parties. I think that was highly influential; [I wanted to] make something that could work at a house party as opposed to something that would be annoying to everybody.
There was an evolution out of there that was like: 'I'll make a song where the beat is steady for the entire thing. That's not the end of the world.' Or I'll use some larger, recognizable samples. So I think that's where it started, and as it went on I never wanted to recreate the same record any given time. So when I did one record, I would move on from that.
So you go out dancing as a form of research. How do you figure out which songs go together? How does that work in your mind?
It's just a really drawn-out trial and error process. It's less like traditional songwriting and more like science. Trying out a number of variables in a row. For me, there's two basic parts of the process: one being preparing the tools to try to make something, and then trying to actually use the tools to make something.
So I spend a lot of time where it's like, 'Today, I'm just going to isolate samples and make sure they work in a pattern and do many variations of them.' So I might sit down for days or weeks where I just have a list that I think may be interesting to sample. I'll just go into the songs and isolate all these little loops and catalog them and come up with a system.
Sometimes I might do that without actually trying any combination of material for weeks. Since it is a trial and error process, the more tools I have available, the more loops, the more potential material there is that could be interesting. So I'm always obsessed with finding as many loops as possible and really putting in the time and the effort.
When I have a new vocal piece or a new song that comes out that I really want to use, I will sit down and try that out with a few hundred different songs.
I'm always going through this process, and when I'm making music, I'm not thinking about the next album, I'm just thinking about next week's shows. I'm always trying to keep the show moving and always trying to incorporate new elements into it. When I try something out live, a lot of times, that might be it. I play it once and don't like the way it sounds or the response it gets, and that could be the end of trying that out live. Other times I really need to change where it is in the set. Maybe I like what it did, but it needs different transitions — it needs to follow something different or be at a different speed.
And occasionally I do something that sticks in the set and it becomes a staple and I start playing it every show and I add more elements to it. When that happens, that becomes the material that will make it onto an album. By the time I sit down to do an album — the last one, for instance — it has been about two years of trial and error.
Any samples or songs recently that you're gotten obsessed with?
It's day-to-day. It's hard for me to even isolate one. I've definitely been messing with some of the Tyler, The Creator stuff. A lot of the fans are really excited to hear what I'm going to do with [new material]. I feel like at this point the fans expect it to a certain degree. When they come to the show there's going to be a lot of older music referenced, a lot of stuff from the album referenced, but that's what I hear about on Twitter, on Facebook — that new remix I did of Kreayshawn or something like that.
You've been giving away music for free for a really long time. How did you decide initially to take that step?
There were stages to it. With the first three records I did, it was very important to me to release them in a traditional way. I didn't want them treated as some DJ mix that was released online for free. Giving music away for free now versus five years ago holds different connotations. It was less legitimate back then.
Back then, like with Night Ripper for instance, it was very important to me to press that into CDs and have it be in stores, to be able to send out physical copies to magazines and labels. To have it be treated like a real release. When people were describing it, I wanted it to be described next to all the other albums, not as something different.
By the time the next record came around, the project had grown enough where I didn't feel the need to have to prove that it was legitimate. So with 2008′s Feed the Animals it was like: 'How can we take it further? How can more people hear this? How can more people be excited about it?' That time, we thought the most efficient way to get it out to the most people would be to do the 'pay what you want' thing.
With all these albums, I don't care if I make any money off the record. At this point, I'm making money off of playing shows. Those two are definitely related, but the ulimate goal is to get it out there to as many people as possible. I think the 'pay what you want' model was an effort to make that happen. But along with that in 2008 was this thing where if you actually paid $10, you would get the physical CD. I think we still wanted it to be legitimate in that traditional way.
Going into the new album [All Day], the landscape was a lot different by 2010, and at that point for what the project has become and the way people treat music digitally, I didn't think we needed any physical product. I'm a big fan of CDs and I still go to the store and buy CDs and like listening to music in that old-school way, but I really removed myself from that process and said, 'All right, again, how can we take this further? How can we make a bigger splash?' And I thought again the way to get it out to the most people and to get people excited about it would be to just give it away for free straight up this time.
I thought doing it in that way would be a technique to generate excitement. It worked out for us. That record had a lot more hype than any of the other ones. I made a point leading up to it to not really talk about it. I thought it would be fun for it to just come out of nowhere. And I think now in 2011 it's really exciting that people don't have to go about releasing their music in a traditional way. They don't have to send out their music months in advance to get reviews. They don't have to talk about it — have the lead-up time or the advertising from the label or any of that.
It's all good if you're operating at that level, but I think for a lot of people — like myself — if just feels tired. It feels kind of forced and contrived. So it's like, 'I'm going to tell nobody about this and I'm just going to drop it on the Internet one day, and I'm hoping that in itself will generate the buzz.' That's the way it worked out with the last record.
What do you think of these bands who are following in your footsteps, like The Weeknd, mysteriously dropping free albums on the web?
It's enormous in the rap community, which I love. So many hip-hop artists are releasing so much free music on a regular basis. A lot of the rappers I follow put out videos on a weekly basis, any song they record, they make a video — just keep it going, keep the content flowing.
To me it's not like it's the right way to do it and the old way is the wrong way or anything like that; I think when it's the new way it's exciting. There's a new motivation for making music and new techniques and new attitudes about it, which is going to ultimately result in new ideas. I think the motivation behind making a song and putting it out there is just a little different than it used to be. That change is exciting.
If things were always the way they were and CD sales were always the way they were in 1998, I feel like the music in general might grow stale. If you look at any given moment in the history of music it's attached to an era of change, whether it's political or format. All that change results in different attitudes and different sounds and different music.
I feel like now we're going through such a major change — actually getting out of physical products. It's one of the biggest eras of change we've experienced in music in a long time. I don't think what's happening now is the correct way, or perfect, it's just the fact that people are reacting to this change. It's exciting to see how people can handle it.
Your music isn't on iTunes, but it's on Spotify and some of these music subscription services. When it comes to music ownership, what do you think of streaming services like this?
I think everyone has their own avenues now. I think the exciting thing is even with something like iTunes, you don't necessarily need to be on there to make it happen. It's so independent. There's so many different levels of digital distribution and ways to get it out there that I feel like there's no avenue that you have to take, which is exciting.
As someone who grew up fascinated by the underground music world — the idea of doing it on your own terms and not worrying about the system and all of that — it's just so exciting now. Whether you're doing pop or experimental, the DIY method online is actually really effective right now. Down the road when we take a look back at this era, that will be a common theme: This is like when people started to just take it to the Internet and do their own thing.


text:
Crystal Reports for SAP Business One
SAP Business One & Crystal Reports
Business Intelligence is now available to small and midsized companies
Crystal Reports 2008 for SAP Business One is now fully available to the tens of thousands of companies running SAP Business One worldwide. With built in business intelligence for SAP Business One, small and midsized companies can now get a true 360 degree view of their business with easy to use tools and pre-built reports. Orchestra has been bringing our readers the frontline news on Crystal Reports for SAP Business One, so we thought it fitting to put together this resource.
Crystal Reports for SAP Business One: Overview
Crystal Reports is a "business intelligence" tool. This is a hot new buzzword, but it's meaningful. The old days of "reporting" are over, and we're entering a new model where companies need up-to-date information and they need to massage it to look for opportunities in the business. A static report showing previous days sales is great, but a real time widget on your company dashboard showing up-to-the-hour sales volume is better. SAP is making this possible with Crystal Reports for SAP Business One and the other BusinessObjects product Suite.
With built-in intelligence tools from SAP, small and midsize companies can create, manage, and deliver packaged reports, dashboards, ad-hoc reporting, and what-if analysis to any user at any location. Whether you need to automatically email users a packet of pre-built reports everyday, or build a company dashboard that pulls in financial, inventory and sales data into one screen, SAP Business One provides the resources to do it with Crystal Reports.
Crystal Reports for SAP Business One: Features
With Crystal Reports, small businesses and midsized companies can:
- Leverage professional reporting priced for small and midsize companies
- Crystal is built right into SAP Business One
- Real time on-report data manipulation
- Drill down into source documents inside SAP Business One
- Create company dashboards
- Save valuable report design time with templates and pre-built reports
Crystal Reports for SAP Business One 8.8
SAP Business One 8.8 is the latest version of SAP Business One, and is by far the best version of the solution for small and midsized companies to date. Below is a video of Crystal Reports built right into SAP Business One 8.8.
If you want to see more or watch the full video in HD, click here to view it directly on YouTube.
Crystal Reports for SAP Business One: Videos
Orchestra has created numerous videos on Crystal Reports for SAP Business One, which are available on our YouTube channel.
We're also busy in a top secret black ops project involving Crystal and a fun new tool we got our hands on. Shh...
Lastly, Orchestra is building out all our training into DVDs available for sale on our website and through online retailers. These DVDs will be equivalent to our live courses, with all resources for download and report templates for the course. We believe that having good information is one of the keys to success in business, so we're thrilled to offer this valuable resource to SMBs at an affordable price. Stay tuned for details very soon.
About Orchestra
Orchestra LLC is a Business Technology provider for small and midsize companies in Oregon, Washington, and California. We help small and mid-size businesses solve problems. Whether it be software, hardware, the web, or services, we have it in our tool belt. We understand small business and can help increase revenue or reduce cost through our wide range of products and services.
From the best business software in the world, SAP Business One, to open source websites built on Drupal and Ubercart, Orchestra can help. Ask us How.
Additional Info about SAP Business One 8.8
Orchestra has an entire section of our site dedicated to SAP Business One 8.8 with everything you'll need to get a good idea of the new version. We've reviewed it, blogged it, done videos, and even a podcast.
About SAP Business One
SAP Business One is a single solution that integrates the entire business across financials, sales, customer relationships, inventory and operations. It is best-fit for small businesses that have outgrown their accounting-only systems and are looking to streamline business operations with an integrated, on-premise solution. With SAP Business One, small businesses can streamline end-to-end operations, get instant and complete information and accelerate profitable growth. SAP Business One offers over 550 add-on solutions, many industry-specific, that can extend the core functionalities of SAP Business One to meet specific business processes and fast-changing needs. Since 2007 SAP has doubled its SAP Business One customer base. Available in over 80 countries and in 26 different languages, SAP Business One is sold and supported through the extensive network of authorized SAP channel partners, and is trusted by thousands of customers worldwide.
About SAP
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software, offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 95,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol SAP. For more information, visit www.sap.com.


text:
FAIRBANKS, AK-In high school softball this past weekend the Lathrop Malemutes are still the top dog. Lathrop faced North Pole in a non-conference game and won 9-0.
The Duffield sisters, freshman Kimmi and junior Kacey split the pitching and both had five strikeouts in the five inning game. Kacey went 3-3, 2 homers, and 6 rbis in the win.
The Eielson Ravens won 17-2 over Hutchison.
Denise Zapata had the big bat going 4-4 with 2 rbi. Mikaela Griffith threw a two hitter with three strikeouts for the Ravens.


text:
amateur couple on the
bukkake orgy
nasty ebony slut sucks
lesbians in lingerie
first film on net
my thai girl eats my c
tia cox hardcore
daisy marie latin brun
crazy behaviour at hug
makayla gets facefucke
hacked pool webcamera
loona luxx - barefoot
big cum shot
kevin levrone - dl bla
teen tiffany masturba
pierced black cunt
brunette plays and tea
a beautiful thing with
krystal jordan likes i
a horny slut on the ta
Welcome to the
free porn site. We have collected about 3000
aeab , complete with previews in one simple directory.
Terms and Conditions / contact


text:
Water leads to chemical that gunks up biofuels productionAugust 21, 2014 7:53 am | by Mary Beckman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Videos | Comments
Trying to understand the chemistry that turns plant material into the same energy-rich gasoline and diesel we put in our vehicles, researchers have discovered that water in the conversion process helps form an impurity which, in turn, slows down key chemical reactions. The study, which was reported online at the Journal of the American Chemical Society, can help improve processes that produce biofuels from plants.
Could elastic bands monitor patients' breathing?August 20, 2014 11:39 am | News | Comments
Research published in ACS Nano identifies a new type of sensor that could monitor body movement and advance the future of global health care. Although body motion sensors already exist in different forms, they have not been widely used due to their complexity and cost of production.
Researchers create engineered energy-absorbing materialAugust 20, 2014 9:36 am | by James A Bono, LLNL | News | Comments
Materials like solid gels and porous foams are used for padding and cushioning, but each has its own advantages and limitations. To overcome limitations, a team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has found a way to design and fabricate, at the microscale, new cushioning materials with a broad range of programmable properties and behaviors that exceed the limitations of the material's composition through 3-D printing.
Engineers take step toward photonic circuitsAugust 20, 2014 8:35 am | by Richard Cairney, Univ. of Alberta | News | Comments
The invention of fiber optics revolutionized the way we share information, allowing us to transmit data at volumes and speeds we'd only previously dreamed of. Now, electrical engineering researchers at the Univ. of Alberta are breaking another barrier, designing nano-optical cables small enough to replace the copper wiring on computer chips.
Bubbling down: Discovery suggests surprising uses for common bubblesAugust 20, 2014 8:29 am | by John Sullivan, Office of Engineering Communications, Princeton Univ. | News | Comments
Anyone who has ever had a glass of fizzy soda knows that bubbles can throw tiny particles into the air. But in a finding with wide industrial applications, Princeton Univ. researchers have demonstrated that the bursting bubbles push some particles down into the liquid as well.
Solar energy that doesn't block the viewAugust 20, 2014 8:05 am | by Tom Oswald, Media Communications, Michigan State Univ. | News | Comments
A team of researchers at Michigan State Univ. has developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over a window creates solar energy while allowing people to actually see through the window. It is called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator and can be used on buildings, cell phones and any other device that has a clear surface.
Supermaterials: Five reasons to embrace synthetic diamondAugust 19, 2014 9:48 am | by Element Six | News | Comments
Synthetic diamond's molecular structure makes it the world's most versatile supermaterial. With greater hardness than all other materials, its strength is ideal for cutters used in oil and gas drilling, where it enables longer tool lifetime by minimizing wear, reduces downtime and drives down operating costs and carbon footprints.
Bacterial nanowires not what scientists thought they wereAugust 19, 2014 8:28 am | by Robert Perkins, Univ. of Southern California | Videos | Comments
For the past 10 years, scientists have been fascinated by a type of "electric bacteria" that shoots out long tendrils like electric wires, using them to power themselves and transfer electricity to a variety of solid surfaces. A team led by scientists has now turned the study of these bacterial nanowires on its head, discovering that the key features in question are not pili as previously believed.
Promising ferroelectric materials suffer from unexpected electric polarizationsAugust 18, 2014 9:46 am | by Justin Eure, Brookhaven National Laboratory | News | Comments
Electronic devices with unprecedented efficiency and data storage may someday run on ferroelectrics—remarkable materials that use built-in electric polarizations to read and write digital information, outperforming the magnets inside most popular data-driven technology. But ferroelectrics must first overcome a few key stumbling blocks, including a curious habit of "forgetting" stored data.
Moore quantum materials: Recipe for serendipityAugust 18, 2014 7:44 am | by Mike Williams, Rice Univ. | News | Comments
Thanks to a $1.5 million innovation award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Rice Univ. physicist Emilia Morosan is embarking on a five-year quest to cook up a few unique compounds that have never been synthesized or explored. Morosan is no ordinary cook; her pantry includes metals, oxides and sulfides, and her recipes produce superconductors and exotic magnets.
Molecular engineers record an electron's quantum behaviorAugust 15, 2014 12:09 pm | by Jane Marie Andrew, Univ. of Chicago | News | Comments
A Univ. of Chicago-led team of researchers has developed a technique to record the quantum mechanical behavior of an individual electron contained within a nanoscale defect in diamond. Their technique uses ultrafast pulses of laser light, both to control the defect's entire quantum state and observe how that single electron state changes over time.
Seven tiny grains captured by Stardust likely visitors from intersteller spaceAugust 15, 2014 11:30 am | by Robert Sanders, Univ. of California, Berkeley | News | Comments
Since 2006, when NASA's Stardust spacecraft delivered its aerogel and aluminum foil dust collectors back to Earth, a team of scientists has combed through them. They now report finding seven dust motes that probably came from outside our solar system, perhaps created in a supernova explosion and altered by eons of exposure to the extremes of space. They would be the first confirmed samples of contemporary interstellar dust.
The beetle's white albumAugust 15, 2014 9:31 am | News | Comments
The physical properties of the ultra-white scales on certain species of beetle could be used to make whiter paper, plastics and paints, while using far less material than is used in current manufacturing methods. Current technology is not able to produce a coating as white as these beetles can in such a thin layer, and spectroscopic analyses are revealing how this colorization is achieved through a dense complex network of chitin.
Molecular shuttle speeds up hydrogen productionAugust 14, 2014 10:25 am | News | Comments
A research team in Europe has achieved significantly increase in the yield of hydrogen produced by the photocatalytic splitting of water. Their breakthrough in light-driven generation of hydrogen was achieved by using a novel molecular shuttle to enhance charge-carrier transport with semiconductor nanocrystals.
Chip-based platform could simplify measurements of single moleculesAugust 14, 2014 9:11 am | by Melissae Fellet, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz | News | Comments
Researchers at the Univ. of California, Santa Cruz have developed a new approach for studying single molecules and nanoparticles by combining electrical and optical measurements on an integrated chip-based platform. In a paper published in Nano Letters, the researchers reported using the device to distinguish viruses from similarly-sized nanoparticles with 100% fidelity.
Immune cells get cancer-fighting boost from nanomaterialsAugust 14, 2014 9:00 am | by Rase McCry, Yale Univ. | News | Comments
Scientists at Yale Univ. have developed a novel cancer immunotherapy that rapidly grows and enhances a patient's immune cells outside the body using carbon nanotube-polymer composites; the immune cells can then be injected back into a patient's blood to boost the immune response or fight cancer.
The mummy's face: Solving an ancient mysteryAugust 14, 2014 8:51 am | News | Comments
The "Bearded Man, 170-180 A.D." is a Roman-Egyptian portrait that adorned the sarcophagus sheltering his mummified remains. The details of who he was have been lost to time, but a microscopic sliver of painted wood could hold the keys to unraveling the first part of this centuries-old mystery. Figuring out what kind of pigment was used, and the exact materials used to create it, could help scientists unlock his identity.
Test reveals purity of grapheneAugust 14, 2014 8:02 am | by Mike Williams, Rice Univ. | News | Comments
Graphene may be tough, but those who handle it had better be tender. The environment surrounding the atom-thick carbon material can influence its electronic performance, according to researchers at Rice and Osaka universities who have come up with a simple way to spot contaminants.
Nanotech invention improves effectiveness of the "penicillin of cancer"August 14, 2014 8:01 am | by Jared Sagoff, Argonne National Laboratory | News | Comments
By combining magnetic nanoparticles with one of the most common and effective chemotherapy drugs, Argonne National Laboratory researchers have created a way to deliver anti-cancer drugs directly into the nucleus of cancer cells. They have created nano-sized bubbles, or "micelles," that contain magnetic nanoparticles of iron oxide and cisplatin, a conventional chemotherapy drug also known as "the penicillin of cancer."
New material could enhance fast, accurate DNA sequencingAugust 14, 2014 7:41 am | by Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | News | Comments
Gene-based personalized medicine has many possibilities for diagnosis and targeted therapy, but one big bottleneck: the expensive and time-consuming DNA sequencing process. Now, researchers at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found that nanopores in the material molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) could sequence DNA more accurately, quickly and inexpensively than anything yet available.
"Trojan horse" treatment could beat brain tumorsAugust 13, 2014 12:55 pm | News | Comments
A smart technology which involves smuggling gold nanoparticles into brain cancer cells has proven highly effective in lab-based tests in the U.K. The technique could eventually be used to treat glioblastoma multiforme, which is the most common and aggressive brain tumor in adults, and notoriously difficult to treat.
Custom-made nanotubesAugust 13, 2014 12:39 pm | News | Comments
Researchers in Europe have succeeded for the first time in growing single-walled carbon nanotubes with only a single, prespecified structure. The nanotubes thereby have identical electronic properties. The decisive trick was producing the carbon nanotube from custom-made organic precursor molecules.
New material could be used for energy storage, conversionAugust 13, 2014 11:50 am | by Anne M. Stark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboraotry | News | Comments
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have made a material that is 10 times stronger and stiffer than traditional aerogels of the same density. This ultra-low-density, ultra-high surface area bulk material with an interconnected nanotubular makeup could be used in catalysis, energy storage and conversion, thermal insulation, shock energy absorption and high energy density physics.
Eco-friendly pre-fab nanoparticles could advance nanomanufacturingAugust 13, 2014 11:21 am | by Janet Lathrop, UMass Amherst | News | Comments
A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.
New research to develop next-generation "race track memory" technologyAugust 13, 2014 9:02 am | News | Comments
Inspired by the discovery of "race track memory" by IBM researchers, scientists at the Univ. of California, Davis, with the support of the Semiconductor Research Corp., are investigating complex oxides that could be used to manipulate magnetic domain walls within the wires of semiconductor memory devices at nanoscale dimensions. This research may lead to devices that displace existing magnetic hard disk drive and solid state RAM solutions.


text:
Find commute times to your work, school, gym and more.
exists for this email.
Signed a Lease here?
Contact PropertyCheck Availability
people have contacted since you. 6 people recently contacted.
$100 Rent.com Visa® Reward Card Eligible
Tell the leasing office you used Rent.com. If you sign a lease here, report it to us for your $100 reward card. How it works
Moving Tools
Check Availability
This will create an account with Rent.com. Email addresses are not shared with third-parties. We will give you a heads up on apartment listings via email. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use
Floor Plans (4)
- Floor Plan
- Ashe
$539 - $559Check Availability
- Bed
- 1
- Bath
- 1
- Rent
- $539 - $559
- Sq Ft
- 430
- Deposit
- $300
- Check Availability
- Floor Plan
- Douglas
$650 - $714Check Availability
- Bed
- 1
- Bath
- 1
- Rent
- $650 - $714
- Sq Ft
- 625
- Deposit
- $300
- Check Availability
- Floor Plan
- Barksdale
$668 - $748Check Availability
- Bed
- 2
- Bath
- 1
- Rent
- $668 - $748
- Sq Ft
- 820
- Deposit
- $300
- Check Availability
- Floor Plan
- Hawthorne
$794 - $863Check Availability
- Bed
- 2
- Bath
- 2
- Rent
- $794 - $863
- Sq Ft
- 950
- Deposit
- $300
- Check Availability
Prices, specials, features and availability subject to change.
Property Features
- Convenience
- On Site Maintenance
- Leisure
- Fitness Center
- Laundry
- Laundry Facility
- Utilities Included
- Some Paid Utilities
- Other
- 24hr. Emergency maintenance
- Accepts Credit Card Payments
- Accepts Electronic Payments
- Business center with equipment
- Cabana
- Emergency Maintenance
- Large pool (Olympic size)
- Media Center
- Se Habla Espanol
- Sports Courts
- Wired for high-speed internet
Welcome to Advenir at Casa Bella Apartments
Advenir at Casa Bella Apartments is nestled between Mint Hill and Uptown Charlotte, close to where you work and play. Conveniently located near restaurants and shopping in East Charlotte, North Carolina, which provides an exceptional mix of activities to serve your needs. Our community is also located next to the finest universities such as J&W University, UNC Charlotte, and Central Piedmont Community College, just to name a few. Offering four distinctive floor plans including one and two bedroom apartments to choose from, each apartment home has its own unique characteristics for enhancing comfort, style and design. Work out in our fitness center overlooking the pool or play a vigorous game of tennis. You'll never go back to an ordinary apartment home after experiencing the ultimate convenience and comfort at Advenir at Casa Bella Apartments. Give yourself the opportunity to live better at Advenir at Casa Bella Apartments because you deserve it! Please call for an appointment today.
Leasing Information
Pet policy
Dogs Allowed. Cats Allowed. Pets Accepted. Call for service animal policy.
Our lease terms are: 3 - 12 Months (Please note that lease terms may vary, are subject to change without notice, and are based on availability. Inquire with property staff for complete details)
Pet Policy: Maximum 2 pets per apartment.
For more information, please call (704) 464-4115 (704) 469-4305 or check availability.
Office hours
Managed by
Advenir Real Estate Management
Check Availability
Call or email the property directly:Check Availability
Moving Center
Get Free Moving Quotes
- Here's how it works:
- Enter your move info.
- Receive up to six quotes.
- Choose your favorite.
- Start packing.
Contact Information
Enter your contact information so moving companies can contact you with a free quote.
What's Next?
Qualified movers assess your needs and prepare an estimate. It takes about two business days.
They contact you directly to discuss their services and costs.
You choose the company that works best for you.
By submitting a full service or auto transport moving quote request, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of Moving.com, and that your information may be shared with moving companies in its network to provide your quote.
Your request has been successfully submitted.
You're almost home. Moving companies will reach out to you in the next few days. In the meantime, check out What You Should Know About Working With Movers or from the Rent.com Blog How to Get a Move On.
Similar Apartments in or near Charlotte, NC
Maps & Neighborhood Info
6320 Woodbend Dr, Charlotte NC 28212
My Commute
Edit Address
Save your commutes
Scores are compared to the national average. The higher the bar, the higher the crime risk. The lower the bar, the lower the crime risk.
near Charlotte, 28212Transit


text:
2nd October 2012
Photo with 2 notes
Made dinner for Greg and Ethan tonight. Kale, chick peas and sweet potato steamed in coconut milk with cinnamon, garlic and sriracha. Served over brown rice. Looks like shop, tastes great. #nooil #eattolive (Taken with Instagram)
Tagged: nooileattolive
← Previous post
Next post →


text:
Vocaloid ~ Trick and Treat (English lyrics)These are not my lyrics. I saw video on youtube of a girl's fandub of this song and liked her lyrics. So I decided to post them here. Enjoy. :3
Become a clear hypnotic deadly melody
Draws you in, pulls you closer and closer,
To that edge that darkens every fantasy
Hurry now, hurry now, I call,
Listen my voice will guide you safely through the night
Let's begin, let's begin, fun and games,
Beware that straying only gets you dreams of fright
Delicious sticks with candy strips,
Fill fancy not just appetite
Thinking this is all but a show,
Won't make the syrup stop its flow
Sweetness turns out bitter when you find
Your self slowly starting to drown
Delusion dreams will solve everything,
So close your eyes and sleep now...
Dreams only work if you believe,
The hallucinations are reality
Cheating and peaking through the fold,
I doubted you would ever be so bold!
You have revealed that you hands are tied,
That you wrists are bound and dragging at my heels
There's no escape, it's far too late,
It's already been done, a deal
(Intsrumental break)
Sometimes, I think, I see a bit
Of doubt reflected in the shining blade
Fading in, fading out, never stays
There is no room for pity in this dreamy place
There's a hole in the blindfold you see,
But you'll just wish you never even tried to peek
If you must you can look, but be warned
This world was not made and not meant for the weak
My my! Well what a wicked child
You barely slept a wink at all
If the blindfold keeps falling off,
Then shall I put out an eye ball?
Sweetness turns so bitter when you find,
You're just fattened up for the meal
It's all just a game, what? Don't you like to play?
Why such a frightened face?
Hide and seek...
Over here!
(Sinister laughter)
Closing your eyes won't do a thing
We'll be here waiting when you come out of hiding
You volunteered, so play with me,
Don't lose your mind so easily!
Don't be afraid it's just our game,
Trick and treats the name,
And mischief is our aim
Tasty and sweet,
A tempting treat,
So go on and eat yourself to sleep
Hazy, cool mist surrounds the nights,
And conceals the lies till everything's alright
Fanciful lies, like butterflies
Spread out their wings, take off in flight
Come run away down candy lane,
Full of ginger men and a field of sugar cane
Drenched in a dream,
The sweetest dream
But save me some
Save some for me!
Did you like these lyrics? Write some of your own!


text:
in honor of my Mom and her love for her Dad. Even wearing the bling bling earrings she gave me. Just know that you are loved and that this too shall pass. I love you!
have been difficult, to say the least. Todays run was no different. I feel slow. Correction. I am slow. I could probably walk faster (seriously not being dramatic). My left leg is bothering me and doesn't ease up even after the first mile. And speaking of the first mile, it seems forever long. Thankfully I have Tim, who kept running back to give me smiles and high fives (and probably to check out my backside). Whatever the reason, I was glad to have him as my running partner. But I will not give up. I will not give in to the negative thoughts. I will keep pushing. Because at some point, I will enjoy this again.
I am back to training after too long of a break and more jiggliness than I like has appeared. So, it was time to get to it and run. I have to admit, the thought of training for this half was and has been heavy on my mind. I would much rather be training for a 5k or even a 10k. But I am not. I know I can do the distance. It is just much more of a training commitment. The first mile was rough. I felt like I was running snail slow. And my legs felt like lead. But then we stopped at the park so Charlotte could play. The mile and a half home felt good. And that was when I had this thought. I can do this. I have done this. And I will do this. Because I am a runner. For life.
I ran today. And I plan on running tomorrow. And the day after that too.
Way to go Rob. So very proud of you. Before you know it, you will be encouraging me to keep up. :)
This was our pitstop during my run this morning. I cannot tell you how fun it is to watch her explore with such confidence. I am loving having two weeks off. We have both been sleeping in, which is awesome. This Mom LOVES her sleep. And I have had more time to just play with and enjoy Charlotte.
This was us a year ago today. It is hard to believe that this little girl has grown and developed so much in just a years time. It amazes me how much she has helped me grow as well. Today we will be going to pick up my race packet at the expo. I cannot tell you how excited I am to be running this race. Charlotte has made me so much stronger and it is because of having her that I feel the way I do. She has helped me to push myself in a way I never knew to be possible. And so today I share this excited with her, my little inspiration.
This was me this morning and this afternoon when it was time to run. I was just not into it and did not want to step one foot out the door to run in the chilly wind. But I did. And boy was I not into it. It is no fun running when your body and mind are just not feeling it. But I kept going. And I pushed myself. On a very positive note: I finished even though all I wanted to do was stop. I didn't listen to the negative thoughts that kept popping into my head. Instead I let them slip away, told myself "You are strong" and gave it everything I had. I am so thankful for the ability to run especially on days like today.


text:
By this afternoon, Nationals Manager Davey Johnson felt back to himself. He felt less pain in his back, he replaced the air conditioning at his home in Winter Park, Fla., and he planned to play golf tomorrow. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm fine,ŌĆØ Johnson said.
Johnson, 69, also remained true to his defiant nature. Second-guess him if you want, he said. He couldnŌĆÖt care less. He defended his decisions in the NationalsŌĆÖ Game 5 collapse against the St. Louis Cardinals and also said he wants to come back next season, motivated to complete what he started this season.
ŌĆ£If weŌĆÖd have won a World Series, I might have pulled a LaRussa,ŌĆØ Johnson said, referring to Tony La Russa, the Cardinals manager who retired after winning the title in 2011. ŌĆ£I think IŌĆÖve accomplished what was needed to this point. Is there some unfinished business? Yeah, thereŌĆÖs some unfinished business. But thatŌĆÖll be up to ownership. That ball is in their court. I donŌĆÖt have a bad feeling, and I donŌĆÖt mind waiting until November like last year.ŌĆØ
On Tuesday afternoon, Johnson returned a reporterŌĆÖs phone call. At the end of the conversation, after answering questions about decisions from Game 5, Johnson said, ŌĆ£If I knew you were going to second-guess me, I would have called back sooner.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Let me tell you something,ŌĆØ Johnson said. ŌĆ£Any manager in baseball, they will tell you, if you can get to your closer with a lead, youŌĆÖve done good. I donŌĆÖt give a ratŌĆÖs [butt] what anybody else thinks. If itŌĆÖs a one-run lead, a two-run lead, you did it.
ŌĆ£One thing, in all the years IŌĆÖve been managing, if I think about all the options I have in every minute of that game, I never second-guess myself. Anytime you get to your set-up guy and your closer, you get a lead with your closer in there, youŌĆÖre good to go.ŌĆØ
Two of JohnsonŌĆÖs decisions drew the most debate. In the seventh inning, Johnson chose Game 3 starter Edwin Jackson over reliever Ryan Mattheus, his typical set-up man against right-handed lineups. Jackson had been battered in Game 3, the first inning was his worst this year, and in his career he owned a 5.70 career ERA as a reliever.
But Johnson believed Jackson would have better stuff than Mattheus. He also thought Jackson had a strong history against the top three hitters in the lineup, whom he would be facing. Jon Jay was 2 for 8 against him, Carlos Beltran was 2 for 9 with three walks, and Matt Holliday was 7 for 23 with a walk and a homer.
ŌĆ£I thought that he was good to go through the heart of the lineup, he was the best choice,ŌĆØ Johnson said. ŌĆ£I value startersŌĆÖ stuff over a relieverŌĆÖs stuff. He gave up one run. He struck out two guys. He did the job.
ŌĆ£Of the guys that I think, at the time we had a three-run lead, IŌĆÖve got Jackson on his throw day and heŌĆÖs nasty, him facing [the top of the lineup], thatŌĆÖs what I want. HeŌĆÖs nasty on the middle of the lineup. He did his job. Just like [Jordan Zimmermann the day before]. All things considered, it was the right time for him.ŌĆØ
Johnson also drew second-guesses for not walking shortstop Pete Kozma with two runners on base in the ninth inning and game tied at 7. Because closer Jason Motte stood on deck, Johnson could have at least ensured the Cardinals would get Motte out of the game for extra innings. The Cardinals also had only one position player remaining — backup catcher Tony Cruz, a career .257 hitter in fewer than 200 at-bats.
Johnson said he considered walking Kozma. In the end, he believed his best chance lay with letting Storen — who had allowed two runs in his previous 24 innings — face the CardinalsŌĆÖ No. 8 hitter. Johnson said Storen had simply put the game in question when he walked Yadier Molina and David Freese with two outs.
ŌĆ£But if right-on-right and we canŌĆÖt get out the eight-hole hitter ŌĆ"ŌĆØ Johnson said. ŌĆ£Do I want to put him in a situation where he faces Cruz? I could have done that. But I wanted to give him the opportunity to make pitchersŌĆÖ pitches, which I do all year. But unfortunately, early in the count, he gave up a hit to right. How many guys — hereŌĆÖs my closer, whoŌĆÖs death on right-handers, and heŌĆÖs got a base open. He didnŌĆÖt execute.
ŌĆ£You load the bases, you get their closer out. But you also make him have to make sure he doesnŌĆÖt walk him. The only lack-of-experience thing was being too cautious with the catcher and Freese. ThatŌĆÖs where we lost the game.ŌĆØ
Johnson felt Nationals pitchers all night had walked too many hitters, which in his mind continued a trend down the stretch of the season.
ŌĆ£I donŌĆÖt know why, it seemed like the last two weeks of the season, we started walking more guys,ŌĆØ Johnson said. ŌĆ£I donŌĆÖt know the reason why. I donŌĆÖt know if itŌĆÖs inexperience or what. Do I have any remorse about any of my decisions? No. I wouldnŌĆÖt.ŌĆØ
Despite the bitter finish, Johnson did not want to let the NationalsŌĆÖ accomplishments — a 98-win season and an NL East title — go unnoticed.
ŌĆ£I was not happy with how it finished out,ŌĆØ Johnson said. ŌĆ£I told the guys after the game, I said IŌĆÖm proud of them, period. I talked to Storen: ŌĆśDonŌĆÖt beat yourself up too bad.ŌĆÖ ŌĆØ
Johnson wants to return next season. He and General Manger Mike Rizzo had already talked. The decision will ultimately come down to approval by ownership, he said. Johnson is under contract with the Nationals as an adviser for next year, but his contract would have to be reworked for him to come back as the manager. Rizzo has said he wants Johnson back, and so barring unforeseen intervention from ownership, Johnson should be back.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs really up to the ownership and the general manager,ŌĆØ Johnson said. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm still not under contract [for next year]. WeŌĆÖre not there. So, yeah, I have some unfinished business. IŌĆÖd like to be back. They havenŌĆÖt asked me my opinion. But I have a good relationship with Rizzo, and weŌĆÖve talked about if I come back, weŌĆÖve had some discussion on the coaching staff and players. I donŌĆÖt have a contract. I guess when they get around to it, theyŌĆÖll get around to it.ŌĆØ


text:
From Paula's Home Cooking
5 stars based on 1 Review
Servings: up to 200 servings
Prep Time:
Cook Time: 5 hours
Difficulty: Easy
1 (50 to 60-pound) steamship round, or other cut of round steak
Paula Deen Seasoning salt
Kosher salt
Cracked black pepper
4 carrots, cut into thirds
4 stalks celery, cut into thirds
3 onions, quartered
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
Rub meat with seasoned salt, kosher salt, and pepper. Place meat in a large roasting pan. Add 1-inch of water to the pan. Place carrots, celery, and onions around the meat. Cover meat with foil and place in oven; cook for approximately 4 to 5 hours, or until the internal temperature reaches 140 degrees F when measured on a meat thermometer. Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes. Slice it as it is served.


text:
Chicco Go Baby Carrier Black
Chicco Go Baby Carrier Black A lightweight baby carrier which is as comfortable for the child as it is for the parent!
By buying this product you can collect up to 39 loyalty points. Your cart will total 39 points that can be converted into a voucher of Rs. 20.
Ask a question (0)Write a Review


text:
Beleaguered newspaper publishers will surely hope that 14-year-old Jade Bennett is about to start a trend. She used 700 papers to cover everything in a chip shop in Warwick, from the walls to the deep fat fryers to the salt shakers. It was, evidently, part of her GCSE art project. Oh dear. (Via Metro/The Sun)
Sign up for the Guardian Today
Our editors' picks for the day's top news and commentary delivered to your inbox each morning.Sign up for the daily email


text:
Next, you'll be asked to connect with Twitter. Rest assured, we will never send a tweet from your account
without your permission.
We will send you an email with an invite soon.
How many miles will I ride each day during #AIDSLifeCycle? A common question.
See what's Trending Now for @garrettn
Follow @garrettn on Twitter


text:
Newt Gingrich is an endlessly fascinating character — a man of such outsized ambitions, such glaring flaws, such an interesting intellect and such a raging ego that Shakespeare could have written a series of plays about him.
A recent profile in Esquire captured the miasma of contradictions and hubris that is Newt Gingrich. As a columnist, I've always relied on Newt to provide fresh fodder.
But I've also wondered how his party could continue to take him seriously. He has already crashed and burned as a party leader; his stint as House Speaker during the Clinton years proved that Gingrich is better suited to politics than governance, better at tearing down than building up. After his leadership helped bring about crushing losses in 1998, GOP House members wanted him out as Speaker, and he left public office rather than face the prospect of losing that office.
Still, a party desperate for anything that resembles an intellectual underpinning has dusted Gingrich off and trotted


text:
About this artwork: - art made with digital tools - contact: WERNER HORNUNG
Digital Arts
141 views | Added Aug 7, 2012
Contact Artist
See all Artworks by Werner Hornung (50)
Order a custom work by Werner Hornung! Are you interested by a custom artwork from Werner Hornung ? To enquire about customizing an existing artwork, or create a completely new project based on your requirements, please contact the artist and provide all details about your project. Artist will be back to you within 48h.
Contact Artist
Follow Werner Hornung!


text:
An early morning water main break on Saturday has completely filled a three-story-deep construction site at 17th and M Streets NW, submerging five pieces of heavy earth moving equipment.
Several streets have been shut down as water crews work to repair the broken 20-inch water main.
DC Water says the estimated repair time is 11:30pm Saturday.
Customers may experience a disruption in water service until repairs are complete.
For updates and street closures, go here:
WTTG FOX 5 & myfoxdc
Didn't find what you were looking for?
All content © Copyright 2000 - 2014 Fox Television Stations, Inc. and Worldnow. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy | New Terms of Service What's new | Ad Choices


text:
Filed under: Sedan, Crossover, Subaru
2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT - click above for high-res gallery
Subaru has priced the 2011 versions of two vehicles leading its continuing sales charge, the Legacy and Outback. All of the Legacy models bar the Limited trim version have stood pat on MSRP, from the base 2.5i at $19,995 to the 3.6R at $24,995. The Limited models go up by $300 to cover folding exterior mirrors, harman/kardon audio, and XM satellite radio.
The 2011 Legacy 2.5GT will only be offered in Limited guise, and its price goes up by $405 to $31,395. Replacing its woodgrain with faux carbon-fiber dashboard trim and adding brightwork in the form of aluminum pedals and contrasting seat stitching addresses two of the few gripes we've had with our 2.5GT long term test car.
The Outback gets the smallest hike, just $200, going to $23,195 for the 2.5i, $24,495 for the 2.5i Premium, and $28,495 for the 2.5i Limited with CVT. Opt for the Power Moonroof Package for an additional $450, and you'll get a new rear-view camera with a 3.3-inch display in the auto-dimming mirror with Homelink thrown on Premium and Limited models. Follow the jump for the rest of the details on the 2011 Legacy and Outback - with this kind of pricing restraint, we expect them to keep selling well.
[Source: Subaru]Continue reading Subaru announces pricing and tweaks to 2011 Outback, Legacy models
Subaru announces pricing and tweaks to 2011 Outback, Legacy models originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 14 May 2010 09:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | Comments