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Geithner Pitches Plan Across the Pond
The Washington Post leads with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner meeting with foreign officials in order to build confidence in the Treasury's bank bailout proposal. The Los Angeles Times leads with its analysis of the implications of last week's highly partisan vote on the economic stimulus package. The New York Times leads with the U.S. military conducting a new corruption investigation targeting a pair of high-ranking officers who oversaw the early phases of Iraq's reconstruction.
During a meeting with senior officials from other G7 nations, Treasury Secretary Geithner did his best to reassure his international counterparts that the U.S. is taking steps to address its financial crisis. After being criticized for not being specific enough about the bailout plan during a domestic press conference, Geithner took his time with his international audience. During the six-hour meeting, he told attendees that the U.S. government isn't looking for a one-size-fits-all approach to the banking crisis. Instead, it will tailor its plans to meet the needs of specific institutions. The WP says Geithner did a better job of selling his plan this time around, with many of the meeting's attendees saying they felt reassured. On the domestic front, Geithner says the next major announcement about the administration's financial strategy is likely to come on Wednesday, when the administration will detail its foreclosure prevention plan.
The lopsided vote over the economic stimulus package proves Washington isn't ready for post-partisan politics, and the LAT says the battle is just getting started. The paper argues that by voting against the stimulus measure, Republicans are betting that either the stimulus package will fail or it will have significant drawbacks that will dry up its popular support. The article suggests that the fate of the GOP's 2010 comeback bid may rest entirely on whether the party guessed correctly about the stimulus. The paper says the vote sets up a precedent for similar party-line tactics for all of President Barack Obama's policy initiatives. In a related piece, the NYT fronts a profile on the rising influence of Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor. As the House Republican whip, Canton was responsible for ensuring that no House Republican broke ranks over the stimulus package.
Federal prosecutors have won dozens of Iraq reconstruction corruption cases against contractors and midlevel military personnel, but now they may finally have some big fish on the hook. Using information obtained by a now-deceased arms dealer, prosecutors are taking aim at a pair of colonels who oversaw the early stages of Iraq's reconstruction programs.
The NYT off-leads with a look at a new military recruitment program for immigrants. The recruitment program will target legal immigrants who have lived in the country for at least two years, have temporary work visas and posess certain special skills. The Pentagon hopes the program will help bring in speakers of desirable languages, as well as medial professionals. The article's headline and lead focus on immigrants being able to gain citizenship through military service, but that's not such a new development. The article acknowledges that immigrants who sign up for military service have been able to expedite their citizenship applications since 2002. This new program wouldn't really change the military's path to citizenship, it would just make it easier for immigrants to take advantage of it.
The WP off-leads with a package detailing executive compensation limits included in the stimulus measure. The final bill contained stricter measures than the ones Obama suggested, causing many finance professionals to predict an exodus of top talent to other industries.
Facing the worst economic crisis in decades, the LAT looks back to the 1930s for insight into how people endure hard times. In a front-page feature, survivors of the Great Depression reminisce about the hardships they lived through and the lessons they learned.
Things are tough all over: The NYT fronts a look at how the global economic crisis could destabilize fragile governments. While the U.S. has lost 3.6 million jobs in the current recession, more than 50 million jobs have been lost worldwide. Protests and strikes have begun popping up everywhere work is disappearing, even in countries like China were civil dissent is seldom tolerated. Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair recently said instability from global unemployment has eclipsed terrorism as the greatest threat to U.S. security. The paper says protectionist trade policies are gaining ground, both in the U.S. and abroad, as countries look for ways to prop up their flagging economies.
The WP fronts a profile on disgraced peanut magnate Stewart Parnell. Parnell's company, the Peanut Corporation of America, is believed to be responsible for a salmonella outbreak that triggered the biggest food recall in U.S. history. The paper looks into conditions at Parnell's Texas peanut facility and what they find is just plain disgusting. The plant was leaky, moldy and filled with vermin excrement. Former employees say conditions at the plant were substandard for years. The real question here is why regulators never caught on to the lack of sanitation. The paper says federal and state officials had no idea the plant even existed and so the plant wasn't inspected. Yet at the same time Parnell was selling peanuts to the government for school lunches and advising the Department of Agriculture on peanut standards. TP would be curious to know why government officials involved in either program never asked to see Parnell's plant.
Under the fold, the WP assesses Bolivian President Evo Morales as he enters his third year in office. The paper isn't all that impressed. They find that while Morales has made some big populist pushes—more rights for indigenous peoples, nationalizing oil production and expanding government payments to students and the elderly—his initiatives haven't done much to improve the lot of the average Bolivian.
The NYT fronts and the WP teases the revelation that before Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., was appointed to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat, former governor Rod Blagojevich's brother asked Burris to help Blagojevich raise campaign funds. Burris declined to do any fundraising and no one's charging him with wrong doing on that score. The trouble is that this is now the third distinct version of Burris' recollection of his contacts with the former governor. In fact, Burris' new story pretty plainly contradicts what he told the Illinois House of Representatives impeachment committee while he was under oath. Illinois lawmakers are now calling for a formal investigation.
Times are hard for Detroit automakers and the Big Three have responded by slashing budgets for everything from production to marketing. The WP reports, however, that Ford, General Motors and Chrysler have all kept up their association with NASCAR, as stock car marketing events still have huge potential to convert fans into potential customers.
The paparazzi in South Korea aren't targeting celebrities, according to the LAT. Instead, they go after photos of people committing pretty crimes and use the pictures to collect reward money.
A Nigerian Prince in Every Inbox: Is the Internet too riddled with security problems to survive? The NYT posits that the only way to create a safe, sustainable Web is to start over with a new network that removes some of the anonymity and freedom of the current 'net.


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WAPAKONETA, Ohio (AP) — A toy airplane that belonged to the first man to walk on the moon is going up for sale.
An auction house based in Texas says it's organizing the sale of several items that came from Neil Armstrong's boyhood home in Ohio.
Heritage Auctions says the items have been held onto for almost the last 50 years by a family that bought the Armstrong home in Wapakoneta (wah-puh-kuh-NEHT'-uh) in the mid-1960s.
Among the relics being sold at the auction on April 18 are drawings made by Armstrong when he was a boy and one of his toy planes. There's also a signed photo of Armstrong's home up for sale.
Armstrong died last August at age 82.

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This huntsman is the one most commonly found in houses, where it hunts at night on walls and ceilings. It also occasionally enters the cabins of vehicles, causing much alarm. In the bush Holconia can be found sheltering during the day beneath the loose bark of eucalypts. It is a large species and, when alarmed, is capable of moving very rapidly often in a sideways direction. Food consists of insects and other invertebrates.
The egg sac is flat, oval and constructed of white papery silk. It is most commonly deposited beneath the bark of trees. Lifespan of the species is about two years.
Similar to female.
Brown to grey with several pairs of darker spots on upperside of abdomen, sometimes with dark bands on legs.
Body very flattened with long, rather forwardly directed legs. The first two pairs of legs are longer than the second two pairs.
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This is a timid spider and bites are infrequent. Symptoms are minor, including local pain and swelling.


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By Jenna Galloway
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Nneka Enemkpali chose basketball.
"In my opinion, I was better at volleyball and track than I was at basketball in high school but I wanted to challenge myself to excel in playing Division I basketball," said Enemkpali. "Ultimately I chose basketball over volleyball and track because I liked how aggressive it is and how it challenges me."
Midway through her junior season with the Longhorns, the 6-foot-1 Pflugerville, Texas native has lived up to her own challenge of excelling on the biggest stage by leading the Big 12 in rebounds (9.5 rpg) and leading her team in points (13.4 ppg).
In high school, Enemkpali was highly recruited in three sports -- basketball, track and volleyball. She was named to numerous all-state teams in volleyball and was a district-champion sprinter at the 5A level.
By the time Enemkpali was a senior at Pflugerville High School in 2011, she was the 32nd-ranked basketball prospect in the country by ESPN.com, as well as an honorable mention All-American by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
The athletic Texan's experience as a multi-sport athlete from a young age contributed to her success on the collegiate basketball floor. Enemkpali credits track for her a killer-instinct and accountability for her effort, while volleyball helped her understand her role within the confines of a team.
"I know my role, I know what I'm expected to give, and I know what my team and my coaches expect out of me," said Enemkpali. "I'm an energy player. I'm expected to be a consistent player for the team, as far as energy, rebounding and offensively as well."
The Big 12 has taken notice of her energy, especially those who have been exposed to her rebounding prowess.
"I'll tell you what, she played just as hard as anyone I've seen in the Big 12. She was all over the place," West Virginia head coach Mike Carey said after Enemkpali exploded for a Big 12 Conference-high 21 rebounds and 15 points against the Mountaineers.
"She's a great player, probably one of the best players I've had to guard this year. She's very aggressive, and I knew coming into the game that she was going to be aggressive," said Baylor's Nina Davis after Enemkpali scored 19 points with 15 rebounds against the Lady Bears.
Enemkpali's aggressive and energy-laden play is expected, but it's also something that she's had to work to reign in in order to avoid foul trouble. The team leader in rebounding and scoring has fouled out of five games this season, three of which the Longhorns have lost (against No. 6/5 Stanford Nov. 23, at No. 3/3 Tennessee Dec. 8 and at TCU Jan. 19).
"We all know Nneka understands her importance to our team," said Texas head coach Karen Aston. "She has to deal at times with how to play through the game with the motor and intensity she has without fouling. When she's not in foul trouble and is able to let herself go and play aggressively, that is when she is at her best."
Her best, which was fully illustrated by her 21 rebound, 15 point performance against No. 18/21 West Virginia on Jan. 25 which earned her Big 12 Player of the Week honors, has no doubt contributed to Texas' momentum this season. The Longhorns sit at 14-7 overall and 5-4 in conference play, good for fourth place. Although Enemkpali acknowledges that her consistency has contributed to Texas' successes this season, she credits her team's growth for the turnaround of the program.
"All of my teammates bring something different to the table," said Enemkpali. "At the post, I don't really think it's much different than last season. The difference between this year and last year is that we have perimeter players who are able to knock down open shots and relieve some pressure on the inside game."
For Enemkpali though, it all comes back to things she can control: energy and effort.
"I just try to go in and play with effort, because the ball is not always going to go in the hole," said Enemkpali. "I try to channel that energy and just be an energy-giver and always just do what I know I can do."
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Broadcom is a top-ten semiconductor firm that designs, develops, and sells system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of wired and wireless communications products. Broadcom's diversified catalog of products is used in digital cable, satellite and IP set-top boxes, media servers, high definition televisions and HD-DVD players, cable and DSL modems, wireless local area networks, cell phones, and mobile multimedia devices such as video iPods. One of Broadcom's specialties is chip integration, the placement of multiple functions on one chip, providing end-to-end solutions for its customers. Only a few companies possess the ability to create integrated chips.
Broadcom operates as a fabless semiconductor company. ("Fabless" means the firm designs, develops and supplies semiconductors, but outsources the actual manufacture and packaging of its semiconductors to other companies called semiconductor foundries that specialize in semiconductor production.) Broadcom holds the number two position in the fabless semiconductor industry, behind only Qualcomm.
Broadcom is on the cutting edge of the highly competitive semiconductor industry, facing competition from other fabless firms as well as semiconductor manufacturers like Texas Instruments. Broadcom and the other semiconductor companies often experience difficulties because of the cyclicality of the semiconductor industry. Broadcom's sales are also heavily dependent upon the health of the end-markets in which Broadcom's products are used.
One advantage Broadcom possesses in the semiconductor industry is the breadth of its technological experience and its ability to draw from its extensive tech patent portfolio (ranked fifth most valuable in the entire technology industry). This knowledge allows Broadcom to successfully place multiple functions into single chips in order to offer unique, integrated solutions to its customers; Broadcom's chip integration ability is matched by few competitors. Other important industry trends for Broadcom include the shift towards 3G in cell phone technology and the growing sales of HDTVs and HD-DVD players.
Broadcom is one of the world's leading semiconductor companies. Broadcom also has the fifth most-valuable patent portfolio in the technology industry worldwide, topped only by tech giants Intel (INTC), Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ), International Business Machines (IBM) and Micron Technology (MU). In order to protect itself from changes in individual product markets, Broadcom provides a wide array of semiconductor solutions to a range of customers, as is detailed below.
In 2009, Broadcom generated a net income of $65.3 million on revenues of $4.27 billion. This represents a 69.6% drop in net income on a 4.7% decrease in revenues from 2008, when the company earned $214.8 million on $4.49 billion in revenues.
Broadcom is a fabless semiconductor firm; it designs, develops and sells its semiconductors but outsources the actual production of its semiconductors to manufacturing companies called foundries. Being a fabless company brings several key advantages and disadvantages for Broadcom:
Broadcom has been increasing its emphasis on sales to the mobile phone industry which has become one of the largest industries in the US. The standard technology in mobile phones is changing to third-generation or 3G technology. 3G is a superior type of wireless technology allowing for high-speed data transmission that enables mobile Internet-browsing, downloading, and media usage. Broadcom is one of the leading producers of 3G semiconductor solutions and as 3G technology becomes the new standard, Broadcom has the opportunity to win over new customers in the cell phone manufacturing industry. An example of such activity recently occurred as Verizon Communications (VZ) agreed to use Broadcom's 3G technology in its mobile phones. Broadcom also has deals with Samsung and Motorola. The market opportunity for Broadcom with 3G is huge and more deals with cell phone providers would significantly fatten Broadcom's revenues and profits.
The growing demand for expensive, high-tech products for home entertainment is contributing significantly to sales of semiconductors for Broadcom. Broadcom is one of the companies pushing the envelope in home entertainment by enabling the convergence of digital entertainment with its semiconductors. Broadcom provides key components for high definition televisions and high definition DVD players (for both Blu-Ray players and HD-DVD players), and digital cable, satellite and IP set-top television reception equipment. As more consumers decide to upgrade their home entertainment systems and purchase HDTVs, high-def DVD players, and digital television service, Broadcom's products will rise in demand.
One major risk Broadcom faces is its reliance on the demand for the end-market products that use Broadcom's semiconductors. The demand for products such as HDTVs and wireless LAN equipment drives the demand for Broadcom's products. If the demand for one of Broadcom's major customers' products were to fall significantly, possibly if replaced by a new technology released by a competitor, the demand for Broadcom's semiconductors would fall and substantially affect revenues. As the technology industry is fast-paced and highly competitive, such scenarios could feasibly occur, although they are unlikely to be large enough to seriously harm Broadcom.
Broadcom is the number two ranking fabless semiconductor company in terms of revenue (ranked only behind Qualcomm) and one of the top ten semiconductor companies when compared across fabless and in-house manufacturers. Broadcom has a first or second place in market share for most of its product portfolio, but one of its biggest markets, cell phones, is highly competitive and Broadcom is just beginning to gain ground as a player in the market. It faces heavy competition in the mobile phone market from industry leaders Texas Instruments and Qualcomm. Also, one of Broadcom's main products is television set-top boxes, a market which is becoming more competitive as Conexant has begun encroaching upon Broadcom's past customers in the market. Overall, because Broadcom's product and solutions portfolio is so diverse, it faces various competitors in different markets across the globe:


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Why Tennis Players Can't Dance
Footwork Needed on the Court Doesn't Translate Too Well to the Dance Floor
Tennis, at its essence, is a footwork sport. It rewards small, precise steps and perfect balance. Its icons—Roger Federer, Rod Laver, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe are perhaps the best examples—are often described as graceful performance artists, cut from the same cloth as Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Yet there is a counterintuitive, rather revealing truth about tennis players: They can't dance.
By and large, they are awful dancers. Given the opportunity to shake, swing or salsa, these elite athletes suddenly become klutzes. This is partly because of the different types of coordination that tennis and dancing require. It is also a reflection of the unusual, tennis-obsessed childhoods that professional players have, some inside the sport say.
Monica Seles, a retired nine-time Grand Slam singles champion, appeared on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" show in 2008. She trained for almost a month beforehand. She and partner Jonathan Roberts were dismissed after one round.
"I stepped on Jonathan's toes I don't know how many times," Seles said.
Navratilova, arguably the greatest women's tennis player ever, fared no better last year. She was the first celebrity contestant to be voted off.
"When you watch Martina play, it's artistic, it's beautiful, it's fluid, it's powerful all at the same time," said Tony Dovolani, the dancer who partnered with her. "But when you commit to hitting the ball, you have to be heavy-footed. Every push is forward. In dance, you have to be light-footed, springy."
It isn't that all athletes are bad dancers. Apolo Ohno, the Olympic speed skater, was the show's celebrity winner once. So was Emmitt Smith, the former Dallas Cowboys running back. Boxer Laila Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali, once finished third, exploiting her float-like-a-butterfly genes.
But tennis players continue to embarrass themselves, no matter where the dance floor is. At Wimbledon this summer, Lukasz Kubot, from Poland, surprised the world by reaching the quarterfinals. He danced exuberantly, and badly, after his victories.
"My coaches told me, 'Listen, you are on the big stage, on the big court. When you win, we want to see you do the cancan,'" Kubot said. "Maybe I was just a little bit tired, and that's why the legs didn't go so high."
There are exceptions. Gael Monfils, the Frenchman who calls himself "La Monf," can outdance any tennis player. He learned from friends, the hip-hop dancers Laurent and Larry Bourgeois, known as Les Twins, who have danced for Beyoncé.
"They show me some moves," Monfils said. "Some steps I pick up quick, they say, because I'm a sportsman."
Monfils has noticed, though, that many of his fellow pros have less than fancy footwork off the court. "I know a few players, I won't say the name, but they haven't got the rhythm, you know?" he said. "First, you have to have rhythm."
A chief reason tennis players don't: They often have unusual childhoods. Other athletes compete in multiple sports as children and enroll in local schools. They watch television. They attend school dances. Most tennis players train for a future on the pro tour from early ages and don't have time for much else.
"You do your homework, you play tennis, you sleep," Seles said. "I'm also tone-deaf. Jonathan had to wink at me to tell me when to start on a beat."
Vania King, a 24-year-old American pro from California, is an accomplished singer. She sang the national anthem at a New York Mets game before the Open, where she lost in the first round. "I have rhythm, I can hear the beat and I can follow the beat," she said.
"Dancing is social," she said. Tennis players, "maybe their social ability isn't as high as everybody else." King laughed when asked about her dancing. "I'm not very good."
Monica Puig, a 19-year-old from Puerto Rico who lost in the first round here at the U.S. Open, finds her heavy feet a bit embarrassing. "Puerto Ricans are supposed to know how to dance," she said. "I do not."
Seles, whose two-handed strokes and hunched-over sprints were never called beautiful, said that smiling was the toughest part of her routines. "Everything is about show, how it looks," she said. "Tennis was about the delivery."
In Montreal, Novak Djokovic, the world's top-ranked player, donned a wig after a victory and danced to "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk on the court. He is better than most of his colleagues; he isn't stiff. But so far he hasn't danced at the Open.
"I might do the dancing hopefully if I go all the way here," Djokovic said. "That's my motivation."
Stefan "Redfoo" Gordy, the DJ, rapper and boyfriend of world No. 2 Victoria Azarenka, agreed that tennis players aren't natural dancers. "Not like football players," he said. "Football players are probably the best dancers." He put in a good word for Azarenka. "She can do the Dougie better than me."
Dovolani, the dancer who partnered with Navratilova, said audiences and dancing judges tend to be tougher on muscular, athletic women.
"You have to be overly masculine if you're a man, and overly feminine if you're a woman," he said. "I think John McEnroe would be great; I would love to see Pete Sampras or Andre Agassi."
Redfoo had another contestant in mind. "I bet you Federer has a good salsa, based on his footwork," he said. "You know what I mean?"
Federer, who was upset in the fourth round of the Open on Monday, wasn't available for comment.


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CERF gives $6 million to UN agencies in Syria
20 September 2012: Conditions in Syria continue to deteriorate as the civil unrest spreads and deepens. Some 2.5 million people now need humanitarian assistance, according to United Nations estimates. Civilians, including children and women, bear the brunt of the violence. Nearly 1 million people have fled their homes and are staying with host families or in informal settlements, such as schools, university dormitories and public buildings.
Homes, health clinics, schools and hospitals have been destroyed in the conflict. As the violence continues to spread to new areas, it is becoming increasingly difficult for families to evacuate and find refuge.
Large numbers of rural Syrians have lost their farming businesses and livestock due to the ongoing crisis. Rising food prices, high transportation costs and movement restrictions due to insecurity have negatively affected agricultural production. Migrants from drought-affected areas in the north-east have returned to their places of origin due to the shortage of work opportunities, though their assets and savings have been consumed.
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CERF provides $9.7 million for people affected by violence in Syria
27 July 2012: Instability and conflict in Syria continue to gravely affect hundreds of thousands of people. An estimated 750,000 Syrians have been internally displaced, with some estimates considerably higher. Women and children constitute the majority of the internally displaced and refugees. According to UN reports, some 1.5 million people need humanitarian assistance.
As violence spreads to previously unaffected areas, many Syrians are relocating for the second time. An increasing number of people have found shelter in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in schools, public buildings and mosques. Those who flee their homes typically leave everything behind and cannot meet their daily needs due to access constraints or a lack of resources.
Food insecurity is rising as displaced families are forced to leave their homes and livelihoods. The outlook for food security is grim due to the impact of the crisis on unemployment, agricultural production and livestock. Rainfall has been below average in the country's north-eastern and central regions, and farmers lack sufficient fuel for irrigation systems.
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CERF provides $14 million for people affected by civil unrest in Syria
16 May 2012: Syria's political and security situation has directly resulted in significant humanitarian needs. These include people injured due to civil unrest and families who have left their homes due to insecurity, fear, or as a precaution. People face difficulty meeting their daily needs, and accessing social services.
The crisis is further compounded by underlying poverty and vulnerability; damage to housing, infrastructure, social service facilities and disruption of agricultural production. Shortages of fuel, electricity and water have adversely affected households, and economic productivity.
In response, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has given US$13,813,421 to eight United Nations agencies and the International Organization of Migration (IOM) to support the response to affected people.
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CERF allocates grant of $7 million for Underfunded Emergencies projects in Syria
1 March 2012: According to UNHCR, the 1 million Iraqi refugees residing in Syria form one of the largest urban refugee populations in the world. As a result of nearly one year of civil unrest in Syria, needs have dramatically increased amongst vulnerable refugee populations.
The protracted nature of exile and civil unrest in the country has caused many refugees to lose their livelihoods and many are now dependent on outside assistance. The majority of refugees continue to live in and co-exist with the host community. The hardship affecting a growing number of refugees has led some to cut back on medical expenses, which further aggravates their vulnerabilities and their health status.
In response, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has provided a grant of US$7 million to four UN agencies to support Iraqi refugees living in Syria.


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Since 1992, the annual Poets House Showcase has collected, displayed and promoted virtually every book of poetry published in the United States. This year's harvest promises to be the most bountiful yet, with nearly 2,000 new titles from commercial, university and independent presses. From authoritative anthologies to handmade chapbooks, Poets House is the only place where they are all gathered under one roof.
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The Cleveland Indians have fired pitching coach Scott Radinsky. Triple-A Columbus pitching coach Ruben Niebla will take over as the Indians' pitching coach.
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Cleveland Indians bullpen coach Scott Radinsky has been named as the team's new pitching coach. Dave Miller will take over as the bullpen coach, and Tom Wiedenbauer has been hired as the new first base coach.
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According to Chicago Tribune baseball reporter Phil Rogers, Scott Radinsky will be the new bullpen coach for the Cleveland Indians. He has been a pitching coach for the last six years in the Indians system.
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For the past month, the social community has been a buzz because Facebook has changed their News Feed algorithm, causing decreased reach for brands. There have been blogs lamenting the latest changes, but in a positive attempt to provide a solution have offered a number of suggestions including changing your News Feed settings to "Most Recent" from "Top Stories."
Here's the thing though…Facebook is changing the settings back on you automatically.
I have been testing for a week now and asking other trusted colleagues to do the same, and we all have found that it happens frequently.
While I didn't sit at the computer 24/7, for the past week I have been trying to monitor various time intervals before the switch took place. I found from my trials it can be anywhere from a half-hour to overnight.
Why is Facebook doing this?
Well for one they are clearly moving to a more curated News Feed and I think ideally they want to give both advertisers and users more social relevance to sponsored stories.
Second, they just like to change things. I think we can all agree on that.
Is it annoying? Sure. Would many people want the option to sort completely chronologically? Probably, but the thing to realize is that there are so many pieces of data that can be injected into the News Feed at any point, there has to be some way to keep order.
Things like activity boxes on the Timeline and a clampdown on "frictionless sharing" have helped to clean up the News Feed, but it's a vicious cycle of content creation, curation, and then conversation which keeps so many stories flooding your Facebook.
So is there any solution to the News Feed issue? At this point I don't see one, however one tip that many others have pointed out is to create Facebook Interest Lists. Mari Smith has a great how-to guide on creating interest lists you can read here.
I started a list for brands, you can subscribe to that here.
I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who think they can change the News Feed to "Most Recent" and have everything be ok again, and they probably never checked it again. This post is for you, because I'm sure you have been frustrated like I have.
How to change your Newsfeed to 'Most Recent' on Desktop
1. Find the little arrow in the upper left corner of the home screen next to 'News Feed'
2. Check the option 'Most Recent'
3. Check tomorrow and hope it stays
Here's how to access the Most Recent news feed on Mobile (this is really buried, thanks to Skyler Rogers for the tip)
- Select the "More" button in the lower right-hand corner of the Facebook app.
- Scroll to the Feeds section and tap on the grey "Feeds" header to expand it.
- Most Recent will appear in the expanded list, and you can tap on it to view your news feed.
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Following "Stoker" and last year's "Bernie," "Dead Man Down" marks the second time in two weeks and the third time in 10 months that a movie has featured a dead body in a freezer. Criminals need new storage ideas. Perhaps they'd enjoy a group outing to the Container Store.
Not that familiarity kills "Dead Man Down," which does resemble 100 other revenge sagas while feebly attempting to capture the moody toughness of "Drive." No, "Dead Man Down" simply doesn't make sense. Out to avenge his murdered wife and daughter, Victor (Colin Farrell) methodically leaves clues behind for bad guys to follow, yet he's also worried that they're catching onto him. Meanwhile, Victor's neighbor Beatrice (Noomi Rapace), who saw him kill a man, implausibly blackmails Victor into killing the drunken driver responsible for the accident that led to the arguably mild scars on her face. Certainly an incident like this would be traumatic—particularly for a former beautician, Beatrice suggests—but gutless writer J.H. Wyman ("The Mexican") makes sure Beatrice isn't too damaged to be a safe love interest.
Speaking of which: Recovery is wonderful, but when a movie revolves around a guy seeking vengeance for the death of his family, I prefer you don't introduce a new owner of his heart. Let the guy focus and heal. Instead, Victor procrastinates and mindlessly puts someone he is supposed to care about in danger.
Once again, director Niels Arden Oplev (who directed Rapace in the Swedish "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo") botches the pacing, so a long movie drags even more. WWE Studios can surely do a more boorish film than the persistently bleak "Dead Man Down," but maybe not one that's more outrageously convoluted. Viewers don't care about a complicated, violent game when they can barely identify the players before a gunfight breaks out. The chief baddie, weakly played by Terrence Howard, comes off as too dumb and frustrated to arrive anywhere near intimidating.
Somehow this poor excuse for a genre flick acquired an overqualified supporting cast, including "Amadeus" Best Actor winner F. Murray Abraham and ever-welcome French cinema icon Isabelle Huppert ("Amour"). The villainous, generic Albanians, however, seem to have wandered over from the set of "Taken 2."
I don't know why we keep trying to upset Albania, and here's another question: What would be an example of a dead man up? "Weekend at Bernie's"?
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joe Wright's ambitious, technically dazzling adaptation of "Anna Karenina," set almost entirely within the confines of a decaying 19th-century theater, inspires this week's list: five movies that are so super-stylized, their artifice is part of the art.
Movies by people like Zack Snyder ("300," ''Sucker Punch") and Tarsem Singh ("The Cell," ''Immortals") can be incredibly cool-looking but often that's all they are. These are movies that are cool-looking AND provocative. They may even have something to say, which takes them to a whole other level of cultural significance that makes them groundbreaking:
— "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004): From the fertile mind of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman comes this wildly imaginative and deeply melancholy story of love, loss and longing. Jim Carrey plays against type as an uptight, jilted lover who tries to have flaky ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) erased from his memory. As a decidedly low-tech medical crew (Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood, among the strong supporting cast) enters Joel's brain to hunt down his memories, he realizes too late that he wants to keep them. Individual visual moments are stirring in director Michel Gondry's film as he explores the hazy area between what's real and what's imagined: a flooded house, a frozen pond at night, an empty, snow-covered beach.
— "The Wizard of Oz" (1939): For that moment alone when it shifts from the sepia-toned idyll of a Kansas farmhouse to vibrant color as Dorothy and Toto enter the land of Oz. The transition was so dramatic and so unprecedented. Most films were still being shot in black and white back then so seeing this major transition for the first time must have been extraordinary for viewers. Of course, we've all seen it a million times by now but that first shot, when Dorothy hesitantly opens the door after the tornado, still provides a thrill.
— "Synecdoche, New York" (2008): Another from Charlie Kaufman, only this time he does the directing honors for the first time as well as writing the typically intricate script. I don't love this movie the way a lot of people do — Roger Ebert declared it the best film of the decade — but I can't deny how much I admire the ambition of its structure and its willingness to challenge its audience. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a theater director whose latest production morphs into a theatrical manifestation of his life. Actors stand in for him, his family and his colleagues, with other actors eventually playing those actors. Sets get built and then expand into eternity. A physical rendering of an existential crisis, one that's painfully dreamlike and wistfully surreal.
— "Sin City" (2005): A comic-book adaptation that dares to do more than simply recreate the panels of a comic book; rather, it immerses you in a highly stylized world and makes you feel as if you're living inside of it. Robert Rodriguez took his inspiration from three of Frank Miller's books and even went so far as to share directing credits with the author. Together they've created a vivid dystopia of severe black and white with dramatic splashes of color. Created entirely on green screen, it features 1,800 effects shots, many of which are extremely, cartoonishly violent. But while "Sin City" is dark, it's also darkly funny, and certainly never boring.
— "Zentropa" (1991): The first Lars von Trier film I saw and one that wowed me with its bold visuals. But really, so many of the Danish director's films would fit into this category, from the minimalist "Dogville" and "Manderlay," which resemble plays on film, to the artfully cruel "Melancholia" and "Antichrist." ''Zentropa," about an American working as a sleeping car conductor on a train line in post-World War II Germany, is constantly calling attention to its structure with bold juxtapositions — a mixture of stark German expressionism and flashes of color. An overhead shot reveals a wave of red blood swelling against a black-and-white door, for example. It's both hallucinatory and startling but always strangely beautiful.
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"Judges' Homes" round starts Wednesday, Oct. 10
The 120 contestants who survived the first audition round on "The X Factor" will travel to Miami for "Boot Camp," where they will face the judges during two intense performance phases, including solo performances and duets.
On the first night of "Boot Camp" airing Wednesday, Oct. 3 (8 p.m.), the contestants will perform a solo of their choice. It's survival of the fittest "X Factor"-style, as those who survive the solo round are put into groups of two by the judges. The pairs then have less than 24 hours to prepare for a sing-off against the other duos in hopes of impressing the judges on Thursday, Oct. 4 (8 p.m.). Additionally, the all-star guest mentors appearing in the upcoming "Judges' Homes" round will be revealed at the end of the episode.
"Boot Camp" is the epitome of tough. Friends don't count and it's every man for himself, as contestants are critiqued not only on their singing, but on their choreography and overall performance style and ability. Viewers also will get to witness backstage rivalries between the singers, and even though contestants are staying in one of the swankiest hotels in South Beach, this is not a vacation - at least not for most of them.
On Wednesday, Oct. 10 (8 to 10 p.m.), on FOX, the remaining contestants learn their fate - as the 24 acts that make it through "Boot Camp" are revealed and earn a place in one of four mentored categories, moving on to the "Judges' Homes" round. "The X Factor" producers inform the judges - Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato, L.A. Reid and Britney Spears - with the category that each of them will mentor and they will each begin working with their six acts.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood on Monday rejected pleas from international envoys to "swallow the reality" that Mohamed Mursi will not return as Egypt's president.
The envoys from the United States and the European Union, trying to resolve a political crisis brought on by the army's overthrow of the Islamist Mursi a month ago, visited jailed Brotherhood deputy leader Khairat El-Shater in the early hours of Monday.
But he cut the meeting short, saying they should be talking to Mursi, Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said. People briefed on the meeting described it as long, in some moments intense, but constructive and useful.
From the other side, a senior military source said the army and interim government would offer to free some jailed Muslim Brotherhood members, unfreeze its assets and give it three ministerial posts, in a move to end the crisis.
A source involved in the diplomatic initiative said the releases from prison were expected within hours.
The releases would be a confidence building measure, and the Brotherhood would be expected to make goodwill gestures to show they have good intentions.
The army spokesman, Ahmed Ali, said no deal had been reached between the Brotherhood, the military and the government to end Egypt's political crisis.
Several thousand Islamist supporters marched through downtown Cairo calling for Mursi's reinstatement and denouncing the army general who led his overthrow.
Marchers chanted: "Mursi, Mursi" and "We are not terrorists", and waved pictures of the ousted leader.
The protest showed tensions still running dangerously high in Egypt despite the mediation effort by the United States, the European Union, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
"Things should move soon, otherwise we shall miss this opportunity. This is all still incredibly fragile." said a source involved in the diplomatic initiative.
Mursi became Egypt's first freely-elected president in June 2012, 16 months after the overthrow of U.S.-backed strongman Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled for nearly 30 years.
But fears that he was trying to establish an Islamist autocracy, coupled with a failure to ease economic hardships afflicting most of Egypt's 84 million people, led to huge street demonstrations, triggering the army move.
Speaking about the talks in recent days, Brotherhood spokesman Haddad said the envoys "still carry the position that we should swallow the reality and accept that the military coup has happened and try to recover with minimum damage".
"We refuse to do so," Haddad told Reuters.
There was no agreement on how to start talks, he added.
The state news agency said earlier that diplomats, including U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and European Union envoy Bernardino Leon, had met Shater after midnight at the Tora Prison where he is being held south of Cairo.
Shater is seen as the political strategist of the group that propelled Mursi to office last year, and was arrested on charges of inciting violence after Mursi's downfall.
He told the envoys that only Mursi could "solve the mess" and the only solution was "full restoration of constitutional legitimacy and reversal of the coup", Haddad said.
"They invited him for discussions but he ended it abruptly ... then he walked out of the room," Haddad said.
Mursi is being held at an undisclosed location, facing an investigation into accusations including murder. Most of the rest of the Brotherhood's leadership is also in custody.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Burns had no plans to meet Mursi. She suggested no breakthroughs were imminent.
"There is clearly much more work to do. We have the goal of helping the Egyptians get back to a democratically elected, inclusive government," Harf told reporters.
The diplomatic push has so far helped to hold off further bloodshed between Mursi's backers and the security forces.
An EU source in Brussels said the mediators were still trying to build confidence between the various sides and did not want to raise expectations.
"The real thing at this stage is to bring people together so they can actually meet and discuss these issues and for that you have to build up some trust and that can be done by very concrete measures, releasing people, dropping charges, not pressing charges, not moving into the squares, lowering the tension," the source said.
Thousands of Mursi supporters remain camped out in two Cairo sit-ins, which the government has pledged to disperse. The government said on Sunday it would give mediation a chance but warned that time was limited.
Almost 300 people have been killed in political violence since Mursi's overthrow, including 80 shot dead by security forces in a single incident on July 27.
During Monday's march, protesters sprayed graffiti on walls and statues calling army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led Mursi's overthrow, a murderer and a traitor.
Security forces made no attempt to disperse a crowd estimated by reporters at several thousand strong.
"The military came and stole our country, they stole everything," said Mahmoud Isuafi, a businessman from the Nile Delta city of Mansoura. "I want democracy. Where is my vote? I can no longer elect my leader so I protest instead."
The military has laid out a plan that could see a new head of state elected in roughly nine months. The Brotherhood, which spent decades in the shadows before Mubarak's downfall, says it wants nothing to do with it.
However, diplomats say the Brotherhood knows Mursi will not return as president and wants a face-saving formula for him to step down that guarantees it a stake in the political future.
Two U.S. senators, Republicans Lindsey Graham and John McCain, arrived in Cairo at President Barack Obama's request to meet members of the new government and the opposition.
Before leaving on the mission, Graham said the Egyptian military must back out of politics quickly or risk a cut of the $1.5 billion in aid it receives from Washington each year.
(Additional reporting by Tom Finn, Shaimaa Fayed and Shadia Nasralla in CAIRO and Lesley Wroughton in WASHINGTON; Writing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Michael Georgy and Robin Pomeroy)


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For the third week in a row, US Weekly magazines continues to throw The Bachelor contestant, Vienna Girardi, under the bus.
Vienna, who has been the rumored final pick of Jake Pavelka for weeks now, continues to be on the receiving end of numerous nasty tabloid stories. Us Weekly even went as far as to report last week that Vienna's mother is a former stripper. The latest is now that Vienna had a secret ex-boyfriend whom she was obsessed with during The Bachelor filming. If this story is true, must say Vienna is a very good actress, because she seemed to be really into Jake on the show.
According to US Weekly, Vienna was obsessed with Lee Smith, her ex-boyfriend from back home in Florida, during filming. "She wants to get back together with him," a source says. Not only that, multiple insiders reveal to Us that Vienna, 23, is still head over heels for Lee — to perhaps unhealthy extremes.
The "insiders" reveal that when the show finished filming in November, Vienna rushed home to reunite with her ex at his Florida apartment. Apparently, she wasn't too happy to see her ex with a new woman, local waitress Cassie Chamberlain. "[Vienna] got so angry that she walked right into the house and went to the bedroom," a source reveals.
Another source goes on to claim Vienna physically threatened Lee and Cassie. The couple "woke up to see Vienna standing at the foot of the bed holding a wine bottle, like she was going to hit them with it."
So why did Vienna go on the show if she was still in love with her ex? "She was just on to be famous," a source explains. "She never thought she'd make it so far." Also Vienna apparently told her ex that "she'd be back for him," as she left to do the show.
I'm not sure if I'm really buying this particular Vienna story, as she seemed genuinely into Jake on the show, but then again who knows? I must say, if Vienna really is Jake's final pick as it's been rumored, it would be almost impossible for them to make it with all these stories popping out each day. But then again Jillian stayed with Ed last season, so once again, who knows?


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Moving from Chelsea to the LES, Danziger Gallery Unearths a Striking Photo Series from the 1970s
A pioneer of interdisciplinarity in visual art, Hans Breder has spent his career working across media—and encouraging others to—producing performance-based, conceptual works that combine painting, sculpture, photography, video, sound, technology, and science. Trained classically as a painter in Germany, he moved to New York, where he created Constructivist-inspired sculptures to critical acclaim. In 1968, he founded the Intermedia Program at the University of Iowa, which he directed until 2000, and which was premised upon the unique exploration of what he defines as the "liminal" spaces between the arts, humanities, and sciences. Among Breder's many well-known projects, which have been included in multiple Whitney Biennials, are his early "Body/Sculptures" photographic series (1969-73), featuring nude women (among them Ana Mendieta) holding mirrored plates that fracture their bodies surrealistically.
German, 1935-2017, Herford, Germany
Moving from Chelsea to the LES, Danziger Gallery Unearths a Striking Photo Series from the 1970s


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June 17. 2013 12:49AM
New era begins, but sad to see old one go
Unless you read us at UnionLeader.com or through our electronic edition, you are holding a copy of the last Union Leader issue scheduled to be printed at 100 William Loeb Drive in Manchester.
Tomorrow's newspapers will be printed by Seacoast Media Group at the Dover printing plant it has leased from Foster's Daily Democrat, which is also now being printed by SMG. That company prints other titles, including the Nashua Telegraph and the Laconia Daily Sun, at another facility in Portsmouth.
Differences in the physical newspaper itself will be hard to notice. The width of the page will be a shade narrower, and the offset printing process should provide deeper black headlines. Watch out, though, that you don't read the paper while wearing white gloves. Unlike our water-based ink process here, offset ink can smudge.
Some of our news and other deadlines have also changed, because our statewide distribution system will have some different routes to travel. But in an era of instant communication, a daily newspaper's job is much more one of providing background, context, and "what comes next" in its news coverage.
UnionLeader.com has given us a new playing field for "late-breaking" or "this just in" news that, in days gone by, would have had us waiting until the next day's paper to report.
Newspapers large and small are making decisions similar to ours. You either become a commercial hub, printing many titles, or you become a customer, as we are doing.
Without the costs and time associated with being a printer and packager, our company becomes much more concentrated on the news and information needs of our readers and on assisting businesses with their advertising and information needs.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that the work that has been done for the Union Leader by generations of pressmen and mailers, often by succeeding generations of the same families, is no longer available here.
A few of those people have found work at Dover. Others not near retirement age will find other work.
But even if their pay is good and the atmosphere pleasant elsewhere, it is not going to be the same. These guys (very few gals) have worked together for years, as their fathers did before them. They have taken justifiable pride in their crafts and in helping put out the daily and Sunday newspapers that are trucked to the far corners of New Hampshire to be read in thousands of homes, diners, and at business desks.
They have performed minor miracles with balky equipment and fluctuating electricity and have made up for lost time in the middle of the night so that you would have your paper in the morning.
They have been an important, if unsung, part of the daily life of New Hampshire. I knew several of their dads and uncles and I feel a little like Brooklyn must have felt when the Dodgers moved west.
Write to Joe McQuaid at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @deucecrew.


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Sun readers share their thoughts on hospital trauma centers, Congress and Obama taking a break, a potational site for the Supervisor of Election's Office, and more.
Get back to work
All members of Congress and the president need to get their butts back in Washington and do the job for which they were elected.
They don't need a break; the break they took in August didn't produce a thing. The middle Americans who are suffering from their ineptness are the ones who need a break.
Marjorie Hodge,
Why the call for new trauma centers?
When I arrived in Gainesville in 1982, there was major competition between the then AGH and Shands Hospital for trauma and helicopter transport. This competition dissolved.
One reason is both entities probably realized that the duplicated services were not cost effective. For University Hospital in Jacksonville a trauma center was cost effective, probably because of its payer mix.
Why, all of a sudden, do all of these hospitals want a trauma center? One of the simple answers is that the method of reimbursement by federal and private insurance agencies has changed since 1982.
Hospitals are now reimbursed for patient care by diagnostic related groups (DRGs). Trauma patients, because of the complexity of their injuries, generate a lot of DRGs.
Edward M. Copeland, M.D.,
A suitable site
Alachua County government officials are looking for a suitable space for the Supervisor of Elections Office. Based on the criteria listed in The Gainesville Sun I would recommend that they take a serious look at the soon-to-be vacated Walmart location on Northwest 13th Street.
It has more than enough space, and the extra space could be used by other county offices. It is on a major bus route, within the five-mile radius of downtown, ample parking, has a loading dock and will have large, open space and would not require extensive remodeling expense.
Bill Willis,
Obama's 'mandate'
President Obama has said that he has a mandate from the majority to increase taxes on the millionaires and billionaires (and anyone earning more than $100,000) and to spend $1.6 trillion.
He does not have a mandate. Only 50 percent of the eligible voters did vote. The 50 percent that did not vote did not like either candidate. Only 25 percent of the eligible voters voted for Obama. It's clear that he does not have a mandate.
James M. Raimondi,
Hats off, please
I very much enjoyed the article on small rural towns in Sunday's paper. And the photographs were great, too. I just wish someone would tell that boy in Newberry to remove his hat when he's saying the Pledge of Allegiance!
Celeste Rubanick,


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Monday, September 10, 2012
Counting the Days....
Book. Mine. Soon. Can't complete sentences. Too excited.
For realzzz, here's the front and back cover for my new embroidery book, which will be set to pop in just about a month! So exciting. I am so proud of this collection of works and words and I can't wait for you to see/read it. We have a presell set up at the shop for signed copies. I particularly love to personalize books, so leave us a note on your order page and I will write a mini novel to whomever you like. I'll have more to share about it as it launches, but for now, just one more little detail shot from one of my favorite projects....
Oh, and some of you asked about the "home" pillow from my previous post, that's a book project too. And speaking of home, my Needleworks weekend workshop is only a month away too, and guess what? We had one space open up last minute due to a cancellation, so whadya say? Anyone want to come join me in my HOME town of Nashville and spend the weekend eating, sewing, drinking, laughing, repeating? Word has it a few special friends might be joining us as well.... All the info is in this pdf, so just email email@example.com if you'd like to nab the spot!
Happy Monday, lots of love. Oh and here's a photo review of my past weekend. It's been a while since I chased baklava with beer two days in a row, but really it had been too long. xoxoAM
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I am very excited about the weekend workshop. I squeezed in just in time! CindyReplyDelete
How wonderful! Wish I lived closer to Nashville.ReplyDelete
Can't wait. Have it preordered. Linda gerigReplyDelete
Looks like a gorgeous book- definitely I hope one that will find it's way to my bookshelf! ;) I love needlework, especially yours, but have yet to pick up the craft (too busy loving all the other ones to squeeze it in!).ReplyDelete
I'm pretty sure this book is going to push me over the edge & get me going on the art.
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Bee Craft Inspirations, under the Page 4 post on Sep. 11, 2012. Thanks again.ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I look forward to getting my hands on this treasure. I sure wish I was joining the stitchy weekend; I could use a dose of home right now. To be there AND stitching---heaven. Y'all have fun!ReplyDelete
lanvin Crafted in a signature fabric as elegant as it is durable, and finished with a convenient outside pocket as well as an adjustable crossbody strap, this silhouette is a favorite for weekends, errands and travel. lanvin bag Pockets inside and out keep personal items organized and secure.Inside multifunction pockets. http://www.lanvinbagonline.com/ReplyDelete
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Looks very interesting, I can't wait for buy this book.ReplyDelete
I am so excited for this book, looks very interesting, my wife really want this book, I would like to buy this for her...ReplyDelete
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Am I the first? Don't know, but I received my pre-ordered copy via Amazon yesterday, and spent the evening poring over it.ReplyDelete
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! Anna's first book got me sewing (and getting addicted to her fabric), but this book gives so much insight into her art and creative process. I am looking forward to taking a break from stranded knitting and "rendering" colorful images via grid and freehand needlework.
Thanks for the new inspiration, Anna! Fabulous book!
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I'm very disappointed,ReplyDelete
I have been planning to make the Garden Geometry piece, p118-120. I bought all the Appleton wool thread and now that I'm sitting down to start, I've noticed the colors don't match the book. I double checked and I did get all that were on the list. I have 4 or 5 colors I don't need and 9 or 10 I do need. That means I have to order more and they aren't cheap.
Beware if you plan to make this. The pattern is beautiful, but pick your own colors. : (


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Charles Schwab Corp. is getting nearly $6 million in incentives from Texas to open an El Paso operations center and increase its presence in Austin, creating more than 1,200 jobs.
Gov. Rick Perry announced Thursday that the financial services company's Austin expansion will create 823 jobs and should generate $210 million in capital investment over the next decade.
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The governor's signature Texas Enterprise Fund offered $4.5 million to seal the deal.
San Francisco-based Charles Schwab's El Paso operations should generate 445 jobs and $21.5 million in capital investment over 10 years, in exchange for $1.45 million in state funds.
The fund attracts top job-creators to Texas. Some legislators have worried about a lack of transparency, but Perry says it's invested nearly $560 million and generated 75,000 jobs since 2003.


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Rapper Wiz Khalifa and pregnant model Amber Rose appear to be man and wife after exchanging vows in secret.
The Black and Yellow hitmaker, real name Cameron Thomaz, proposed to Rose early last year, months before they confirmed rumors they are expecting their first child at the MTV Video Music Awards in September.
Khalifa previously admitted the couple was planning to wed in a simple courthouse ceremony before Christmas, and now it appears the nuptials have taken place.
Rose let the happy news slip during a brief chat with TMZ.com in Los Angeles on Tuesday, when a videographer gifted her with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ice cream bar.
Referring to the hip-hop star as her spouse, she said, "My husband loves Ninja Turtles! That's really cute, thank you."
The expectant parents have yet to officially announce they're man and wife.
In December, Khalifa told New York radio station Hot 97 he and Rose were planning to have two ceremonies – a low-key one to make their romance official and a bigger bash for family and friends in 2013, after Rose gives birth – so she can wear her dream wedding dress.
He told DJ Angie Martinez, "We're gonna get, like, licensed marriage, in a couple of weeks we'll have that done.
"When you have the (big) ceremony that's when you can invite the family. She can fit into a dress and then… if we have a daughter one day, she might wanna give the dress to our daughter, but if she's pregnant then she can't do that."
Rapper Wiz Khalifa and pregnant model Amber Rose appear to be man and wife after exchanging vows in secret.


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This Week in The Civil war, for week of Sunday, Nov. 11: Skirmishing in Mississippi.
This week 150 years ago in the Civil War, Union cavalry skirmish with Confederate fighters near Holly Springs, Miss., vying for control of the town. Though not a significant fight itself, the daylong skirmishing comes amid the larger Union quest by Ulysses S. Grant to crush Confederate forces and gain control of key Southern rail supply lines and the lower Mississippi River. Grant's intent was to gain full control of the lower Mississippi and thereby split the South in two while taking away the river as a key commercial corridor for the Confederacy. But the bigger fight for the lower Mississippi River would come months later in the spring of 1863 with a focus on Vicksburg, Miss. At that time, Grant's armies would besiege Vicksburg, trapping Confederate troops with civilians there and forcing its surrender by July 1863 — a military triumph that would help catapult Grant to a position as commander of the Union armies. This week, news reports tell of soldiers in the downtime between large-scale fighting getting into trouble in Tennessee. A news dispatch dated Nov. 16, 1862, reports five murders in Nashville, Tenn., adding "two of the homicides were of saloon keepers, who refused to sell liquor to soldiers." It also said two soldiers were among those killed.
This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Nov. 18: New Confederate secretary of war.
This week 150 years ago in the Civil War, James A. Seddon was appointed war secretary of the Confederacy on Nov. 20, 1862, and would hold the post until January 1865, shortly before the rebellion began to crumble. Seddon was the longest in the position, a successful lawyer praised for his diplomatic tact and for reining in disparate factions within the secessionist states. Though a strong advocate of secession, he was a member of an 1861 peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in a bid to stave off the gathering war clouds. Wartime shortages in the South of foodstuffs that sparked the deadly 1863 bread riot in Richmond prompted Seddon to call on the Virginia press not to publish accounts of the rioting. But word got out about that and other riots in the South despite his concerns the news would embolden the enemy and weaken the home front morale. Seddon would face an immediate challenge. Days before his appointment, the new commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, sent a small fighting force to take up positions east of Fredericksburg, Va. The move would prompt alarm in Fredericksburg and the evacuation of women and children there. The Associated Press reported that the Confederates immediately began to strengthen and extend stout earthen works defending Fredericksburg. In coming weeks, tens of thousands of Union soldiers would stream toward that city as Burnside would open a bloody but ultimately failed offensive in mid-December 1862. Confederate Robert E. Lee vowed, informed of the Union troops near Fredericksburg, vowed in press reports to thwart any enemy incursion deeper into Virginia by fighting to the "last extremity."
This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Nov. 25: Fighting in Arkansas.
This week 150 years ago in the Civil War, Confederate forces battle Union rivals at Cane Hill in the far northwest corner of Arkansas. The fighting on Nov. 28, 1862, began with Union Gen. James Blunt sending out probing forces in a bid to destroy Confederate cavalry units detected in the area. The Union contingent caught up with a Confederate force that fought a delaying action while trying to protect its supply trains. Confederates under Col. Joe Shelby set up defensive positions around the Cane Hill cemetery. During a series of clashes, the Confederates withdrew under a fierce Union onslaught. Finally running short of ammunition, Confederate fighters withdrew and nightfall brought an end to the day's fighting. Blunt's forces thus took control of the Boston Mountains in that extreme corner of Arkansas. It was a small-scale fight. But days later, a far bigger battle would be waged at Prairie Grove, Ark., culminating in Union forces consolidating their grip on the region. This week in Washington, President Abraham Lincoln is preparing to open a new session of Congress, his speech kept tightly under wraps. The Charleston (S.C.) Mercury reports tension is rising around Fredericksburg, Va., amid reports of sporadic shots fired and rumors the Union would try to take that city any day in hopes of eventually reaching Richmond, capital of the Confederacy. A correspondent of The Mercury reports in a late November dispatch: "The general opinion here is that the threats of the enemy about Fredericksburg are feints" to cover a change of base by Union forces. In fact, Union and Confederate forces would be in a bloody fight for Fredericksburg before Christmas of 1862.
This Week in The Civil war, for week of Sunday, Dec. 2: Battle of Prairie Grove, Ark.
This week 150 years ago in the Civil War, Confederate and Union forces continued their fight for supremacy in Arkansas. Confederates led by Maj. Gen. Thomas Hindman moved to put his sizeable force between two Union divisions in hopes of smashing them. But rival Union commanders fought back against the Confederates, who set up defensive lines along a ridge at Prairie Grove. Attacks and counterattacks followed and at one point it looked as if the rebels would triumph. But then sunset brought a halt to the fighting with neither side a winner. Nonetheless, Hindman was forced to withdraw from the region, leaving the Union in control of a large swath of Arkansas. Elsewhere, newspaper reports spread word that Confederate leaders were rejoicing over the discovery a large cache of salt in the earth that can be used for any number of purposes, including preserving food. "The rebels are said to be rejoicing over the discovery of (the) immense bed of rock salt at Obelisk, Ala.," the Daily Illinois state Journal reported on Dec. 2, 1862.


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Hey everyone,
I was wondering if anyone has read the book "Misquoting Jesus," by Bart Ehrman, and what your general thoughts on it are? I know it's related specifically to the Bible, but I imagine a lot of what he refers to regarding textual criticism has relevance to classical texts in general as well. Anyhoo, just thought I'd ask!!