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Ocala Power Plant Director Kevin Reed's sudden departure as head of the Ocala-Marion County Chamber Economic Partnership's business incubator has left some close to the agency perplexed.
Ocala Power Plant Director Kevin Reed's sudden departure as head of the Ocala-Marion County Chamber Economic Partnership's business incubator has left some close to the agency perplexed.
After being offered a presumably better position at the CEP as director of new business and development, a job he initially appeared prepared to accept, Reed abruptly left the organization.
CEP President and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Sheilley said earlier this week that Reed wanted to pursue other opportunities. Sheilley said he was looking to fill two positions at the Power Plant: someone to oversee the building and its leases, which he hoped to fill by the end of May, and someone to work with the businesses. He did not say when he hoped to fill the latter position.
Reed said earlier this week he did not believe the new position was a good fit and said he was not told why he could not continue his work at the Power Plant, a downtown business incubator that encourages entrepreneurs with promising ideas to develop new companies and create much-needed jobs.
Others in the community, who thought the incubator was flourishing, were baffled by Reed's going.
"We're all trying to understand it as well," said former Ocala Mayor Randy Ewers, who sits on the Power Plant Advisory Committee. "I don't know if we all know everything yet."
Ewers said his concern is making sure that the Power Plant and the CEP "happen" and job opportunities grow in the community.
"We want to make sure the commitment hasn't changed," Ewers said, adding that he wants to ensure Reed's position at the Power Plant is filled with someone who provides the skill set to help businesses.
Ewers said the job description that "hit the street" was basically for a person to be a landlord for those businesses renting space at the Power Plant building, which was occupied previously by the city of Ocala's building department and electric generation plant.
"Now I am hearing he (Sheilley) is hiring another person to work with businesses," Ewers said. "That's what Kevin Reed was doing."
Ewers said the committee is concerned that budding entrepreneurs get the help they need to be successful.
Frank Hennessey, who sits on the CEP board and is co-chairman of the Power Plant, said he has been out of town.
"I'm not a source of information on that topic," Hennessey said. "I don't know enough about it."
Ocala City Council President Mary Rich said she will be speaking with Sheilley on Friday.
Both the city and Marion County have invested in the Power Plant. The city owns the building.
"I was shocked because I think Kevin Reed was doing a great job," Rich said. "So I don't know what happened. I don't know what caused it. I think he was doing a good job. He got the place filled in less than a year."
She said 70 jobs were created.
"To me, that's good," Rich said. "I don't know, but I will know Friday."
County Commission Chairwoman Kathy Bryant said she was told the organization was reorganizing and it was decided to move Reed to the CEP.
"The last time we discussed it was at the CEP meeting," Bryant said. "We were told the same thing everyone else was told."
Ocala City Manager Matthew Brower said the city will be looking to ensure the CEP meets the requirements of its lease of the Power Plant with the city. When asked about what is happening at the Power Plant, Brower said, "Kevin Sheilley has decided to go in a different direction."
He said they are looking for a replacement for Reed.
"My understanding is they are changing the scope a little bit and the new hire will assume those new requirements," Brower said. "I haven't seen the scope, so I am not entirely sure."
CEP Chairman Cory Pool said the CEP had a job for Reed. "He decided not to take it," Pool said. "We wanted to bring him along for bigger and better things. At the last minute, he decided he didn't want to."
Pool said he had dinner with Reed to talk about the new position and Reed seemed enthused. Reed also wrote about moving to the new position in the publication called "Innovation."
Pool said he was "disappointed" Reed made comments that the Power Plant was going in a different direction.
"The CEP is fully committed to the Power Plant," Pool said.
Pool said there are plans to bring in a micro-loan company to help smaller companies find financing.
Pool said Reed was accustomed to operating the Power Plant independently and suggested that, now that Sheilley has been hired as CEP's CEO, he may not be comfortable having to "clock in."
Asked why Reed was not permitted to continue running the Power Plant, he said they needed his expertise "in a more global capacity." Pool also said that, as an employer with his own business, when he asks an employee to do something, he expects the employee to comply. He said this was an example of trying to promote from within.
In January, the CEP hired Brett Barnes, who is from Kentucky, as director of business attraction.
When confronted with the suggestion that something seemed to have changed between the time Reed was offered the new position and his leaving that made it appear people at the CEP were disingenuous, Pool said, "I can see how people feel that way. At the end of the day, our plan was to help him grow."
Ken DePasquale, who sits on the Power Plants Advisory Committee, was concerned about Reed's position being filled and went online to look for the posting.
"The only thing I could find was someone to operate the Power Plant as a quasi building manager, collector-of-rent kind of job," DePasquale said.
That job was paying an entry-level salary of about $25,000 to $26,000, he said.
"Something is not right with this presentation that they are making," DePasquale said about Reed's leaving. "But what it is, I can't even tell you because I don't know. If I had to guess, I would guess: Was it a political decision? There's no question in my mind. Something has gone awry somewhere."
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Giving Up The Day Job
The In-A-Nutshell Version I have resigned from Ibuildings. I will complete my notice period here in a couple of weeks and then move on to a wide and interesting variety of well-paying freelance assignments covering development, consultancy, writing and speaking. Hopefully.
The slightly longer version really is this. Two and a half years ago, I left a job at a type of company I usually describe as a yet-another-website company, where literally every new project was another CMS website. Which was fun for about the first 4 months and got old pretty quickly. Two and a half years at Ibuildings and I haven't done yet-another-anything, the projects have been technical, challenging and my colleagues are the best qualified set of people I'll probably ever work with.
Along the way I've also done a wide variety of other things, most of which are achievements beyond my wildest dreams, some within the scope of this job and some on my own time but of course influenced by all that I've learned. I've delivered training, led projects, been published, become a regular conference speaker and travelled internationally doing so, collaborated on an open source project, edited a developer portal and hosted a major international PHP conference. I've even learned to say those things about myself in public without feeling too much of a fraud!
At this point, there are so many things I want to be doing, writing, speaking and so on, as well as some interesting development projects, that holding down my 9-5 as well has become untenable; that's the main motivation for this change. I don't intend to take another full time job, although I don't have a lot of paying work lined up so please bear in mind that I am looking for some ;)
Things I would like to be doing:
- Working with development teams on skills, tools and process (think teach a man to fish, rather than sell him a fish)
- API development
- Technical writing
- Meeting cool and interesting people and embarking on cool and interesting projects together
Advice on achieving any or all of the above is appreciated - if any of you can also think of me when discussing business, write me a linked in recommendation, or retweet my announcement of my news, that would be fabulous!!
If you're still reading, then I'll share a little something with you. I decided that with a career move, I needed a little rebrand, so here is my new angel avatar. I hope you like her :)
Wish me luck in my new (ad)venture, I'll be keeping everyone up to date as always!

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Farrell expresses concern for struggling Bard
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
ST. PETERSBURG -- A perplexing slump that has lasted over a year for former elite Red Sox setup man Daniel Bard seemed to hit rock bottom on Wednesday night, when the right-hander walked five batters in an inning-plus for Double-A Portland.
The Red Sox hope that Bard can find his way back, but things have regressed of late. In Wednesday's game, Bard threw 30 pitches, just eight for strikes.
"Well, in his situation, and really in any pitcher's situation, given what's transpired not just in the last couple of outings, but over a period of time, there's some concern there," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "Any time you go out and you're throwing 25 percent strikes, that's a tough way to go. I know this is something that Daniel's working through. He's fighting through. We're there to give him the best feedback that we can and encourage him along the way. He's going through a pretty tough stretch right now."
Bard's outing on May 11 was similarly tough to watch, as he walked four batters over two-thirds of an inning, throwing just eight of his 29 pitches for strikes in that outing.
After an inconsistent Spring Training, Bard was optioned by the Red Sox to Portland at the end of camp.
When a roster need arose, Bard came back to the Majors for two appearances, which took place April 25 and 27 against the Astros. The first one was a positive step, as Bard pitched a scoreless inning and struck out one. But he took the mound again two days later and walked both batters he faced, throwing eight of his nine pitches for balls.
Bard was sent back to Portland after that second outing, and has struggled mightily in all five outings in his return to Double-A.
"I can't say that's because he made two appearances for us, that it's contributed to this [slide]," said Farrell. "You also point back to Spring Training where there was a stretch of probably four outings in a row where this was making very good strides. It was heading in the right direction, to the point where he had a legitimate shot to make this club.
"And yet you would think that would serve as a reference point and a positive one. And yet we're at the point where we're at now, where there's still got to be some rebuilding done here."
At this point, the plan is for Bard to keep pitching instead of going to extended spring camp or taking a break.
"We haven't gotten to that point yet," said Farrell. "Each outing is discussed internally, but it's more about continuing to address the needs of Daniel and trying to provide him that help as best we can. We haven't gotten to the point of any drastic measures one way or the other."
The Red Sox continue to work all avenues in trying to help Bard get his groove back. Double-A pitching coach Bob Kipper continues to work with Bard on mechanics, while team psychologist Bob Tewksbury helps on the mental side of the game.
Bard has been through this type of situation once before, when he was a Minor Leaguer in 2007. He bounced back that time.
"I'm sure he's as mystified as anyone he's going through this," said Farrell. "Again, that's something we've been working at for quite some time. To say that it's one thing and there would be a magic remedy for it, we would certainly give it to him. Yet it comes from repeating a delivery and what allows that to happen. That's being in a good place mentally and confident that you're going to execute a pitch in a given situation, and that's been elusive for him right now."
Bailey expected to rejoin 'pen Monday in Chicago
ST. PETERSBURG -- Look for Andrew Bailey to be back in the Boston bullpen on Monday night, when the Red Sox open a three-game series in Chicago against the White Sox.
The closer threw a 15-pitch simulated game at Tropicana Field on Thursday. The final step before activation is a one-game Minor League stint for Triple-A Pawtucket on Saturday.
"I felt good. I threw all my pitches," Bailey said. "The next step is to pitch Saturday in Pawtucket and then be back. Everything feels good. It's a baseball thing, just getting acclimated again. Everything feels great."
The Red Sox bullpen looks much better with Bailey pitching the ninth inning, particularly when you consider Joel Hanrahan is out for the rest of the season.
"Watching him out there today, he threw the ball very well," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "Not only in terms of power with his fastball, but action to his secondary stuff. He warmed up without any issue. He came out of it feeling well."
Was there any consideration to activating Bailey without a rehab stint?
"I mean when you see the ball come out of his hand, sure, you think about that," said Farrell. "But the fact is, he's 19 days from his last game. He's a guy that pitches with a lot of adrenaline in that role and I think the next progressive step will be in a game situation against a different uniform and all the other things that we can't produce in a sim game situation, so that's where Saturday takes him."
Bailey was sidelined with a strained right biceps. His last appearance for the Red Sox was on April 28.
Hanrahan has surgeries, including Tommy John
ST. PETERSBURG -- Red Sox reliever Joel Hanrahan underwent surgery on Thursday to repair his flexor tendon and also had Tommy John surgery.
Bone spurs were also removed.
The surgery was performed by Dr. James Andrews in Pensacola, Fla. Hanrahan won't pitch again in 2013 and could miss part of the '14 season.
He is a free agent at the end of this season. The right-hander had a frustrating first season with the Red Sox, posting a 9.82 ERA in nine games.
Victorino wrenches back, hopes to play Friday
ST. PETERSBURG -- Shane Victorino made another fine catch for the Red Sox on Thursday night, running into the wall in right to rob the Rays' Jose Lobaton of extra bases in the bottom of the eighth inning. But there was a price to be paid.
Victorino wrenched his lower back on the play and had to exit the game in the bottom of the ninth of a 4-3 win over Tampa Bay.
Considering the Red Sox would spend the wee hours of the morning flying to Minneapolis, where they open a three-game series against the Twins on Friday night, Victorino's status for that game is probably iffy.
A couple of weeks ago, Victorino missed seven games with back tightness. Then there was a jarring collision with the right-field wall May 12, but somehow Victorino didn't miss any time after that play.
"I don't think it's going to be as bad. It doesn't feel that way," Victorino said. "At least I'm hoping that. There's only one to play. I try to play the game hard, make as many outs as you can. Sometimes in the process you aggravate things, but yeah, I feel OK. I've just got to keep plugging."
Victorino's defense in right field has been a big strength for the Red Sox this season.
"I don't think we can underestimate what it does for us," Boston manager John Farrell said of Victorino's defense. "He's cut some runners down; he's kept some people to singles where it could be sure doubles in other situations. He's done an outstanding job. His routes and reads are spot on."
Drew goes from slump to surge
ST. PETERSBURG -- It's hard to believe Stephen Drew's slump was such a big topic of conversation earlier in the season. These days, he is one of the most productive hitters the Red Sox have.
Fresh off his grand slam on Wednesday, Drew was elevated to the seventh spot in the batting order in Thursday's series finale. It was the third time Drew has batted seventh this season. He has started most games in the eighth or ninth spots.
"If it gets him another at-bat tonight, all the better," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "He's in a three-week run here where he's been swinging the bat well. It wasn't just the matter of the grand slam here [Wednesday] night. It's more a reflection of what's been taking place over time. He's had good at-bats against left-handed pitching, so if they bring in a lefty to turn Daniel [Nava] around and to face [Stephen], I feel like he's equipped to handle that."
Drew headed into Thursday's action leading all American League shortstops with a .609 slugging percentage during May.
And it isn't as if Drew is just an offensive weapon. He has also played strong defense at the vital position of shortstop.
Even if Drew isn't a highlight-reel defender like Red Sox prospect Jose Iglesias, he still manages to get the job done.
"When they see him over a long period of time, they'll recognize how good he is, because he's in many ways a very dependable defender," said Farrell. "Sometimes that doesn't show as flashy, where it might catch the average fan's eye, but when you look up after a hard-hit ball and he's standing right there, he's ranging up the middle to his glove side, he's a very good defender. And he's got a very accurate throwing arm.
"The one play he can make very well is the ball he'll charge to his backhand side and throw the ball back across his body. He's a damn good player."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Using the "Tampa" Name does the Rays No Favors
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I guess no one told the Tampa Bay Rays players the history behind the Tampa Tarpons. How this franchise was one of the charter members of the Florida State League and finished last in 1919,their first season of existence in the new Class-D league. But this proud former farm system stop of the Cincinnati Reds did turn it around the following season and posted a 84-28 season for a .745 winning percentage, still tops in FSL history. Or maybe someone left out the tales of this franchise playing every season from 1919 to 1987, except for the four years that most baseball disbanded during World War II.
That the former home of the Tarpons, Al Lopez Field used to be just to the south of the former Tampa Stadium complex before it was finally razzed and demolished to give way to more parking spaces for the Tampa Sorts Authority. The Tarpons were sold in 1988 after Malcolm F. "Bunny" Mick and his brother Mitchell decided to get out of the baseball business. The team was in a state of hiatus until 2002 and re-emerged as the Jupiter Hammerheads.
And how many Rays players knew that in 1961 a young hustler named Pete Rose got his start up the Cincy food chain in Tampa where he batted .331, set a record of 30 triples ( still a FSL record) and also lead the FSL in errors. All this while also helping the Tarpons to the FSL Championship that season.
Other former Reds players who made a stop with the Tampa Tarpons include Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench, Charlie Liebrandt, Ken Griffey Sr., Tom Browning and Dave Concepcion. The history involved with this storied franchise is amazing, and should have been a huge inspirational push for the Rays to beat the Baltimore Orioles tonight. The Rays did channel a bit of the Tarpon mystic tonight, but not the positive aspects we were hoping for in the end.
The 1970 Tampa Tarpon squad that the Rays honored tonight while wearing their classic uniforms went 64-68 in the 1970 FSL West division. They squad scored a total of 433 runs, but also allowed 452 runs. It was a pretty mediocre team that was led by Manager Richard Kennedy. Most of the players on the 1970 Tarpon squad were between 19 and 23 years of age. It was a Class-A farm team of the Cincinnati Reds organization at that point, and only had a small handful of player who advanced through the Red's system.
Players like Dan Driessen, Nardi Contreras, Rawly Eastwick, Tom Spencer and Joel Youngblood were the only notables from the 1970 Tarpon squad to make their way up the Reds farm system ladder.
Contreras was also the only Tampa, Florida native on the team's roster. The top producer on that season's team was Spencer who hit for a .285 average with 5 HR, 50 RBI and 21 SB in 130 games.
So maybe the Rays were channeling a bit of that 1970's Tarpons team last night. Maybe they can find solace in the fact the Rays front office picked a team that did not reach the .500 mark in their season as their "Turn Back the Clock" brethren last night.
The Rays front office gurus might do the Rays a little favor in 2011 by checking the references and the statistics of the teams they are going to represent before deciding on the city, team and final standings in that season's league. With that in mind, let me make a suggestion for the 2011 Rays "Turn Back the Clock" representative team.
The Rays front office gurus might do the Rays a little favor in 2011 by checking the references and the statistics of the teams they are going to represent before deciding on the city, team and final standings in that season's league. With that in mind, let me make a suggestion for the 2011 Rays "Turn Back the Clock" representative team.
Chris O'Meara/AP
I am thinking it should be either the 1968 St. Petersburg Cardinals who finished 96-43 (.691) and had hitters like Pedro Borbon, Boots Day, Jerry DaVanon and young First Baseman named Jose Cruz. Or maybe we can remember the Rays first team to win a Divisional Championship in their farm system, and honor the 1997 St. Petersburg Devil Rays who won the 1997 FSL Championship in their first year in the league. They were backed by a 81-56 record that season and had a host of future Rays on their squad.
This roster included a 19-year old Jared Sandberg, pitchers Mickey Calloway, and Rolando Arroyo. This team also had local baseball stars Scott Romano (Tampa), John Kaufman (Tampa), John Cafaro (Tampa) and Greg Blosser (Manatee).
Considering the "Tampa" name on the jerseys last night did not produce any sizeable advantage or confidence, maybe the Rays might be wise to again grasp their St. Pete roots and bring home a victory next year when we "Turn Back the Clock".I almost forgot this nifty nugget of 1970 FSL information. During the 1970 FSL season, the Baltimore Orioles Class-A affiliate in the league was the eventual 1970 FSL Champions, the Miami Marlins. How ironic is that.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 11:16 AM
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a resident of Gemello
on Nov 14, 2012 at 3:21 pm
I would really like to see some details on how their monetary donations are spent? I have a very strong feeling that too much monetary donations are spent in lavish compensation. No one is asking these charities to reveal how much their execs make in compensation and perks. I hope people think twice before making monetary donations. I am all for donating food to these organizations. But a $12M goal shows there is some fishy and something is out of whack here.
a resident of Waverly Park
on Nov 14, 2012 at 6:32 pm
I'm sure these greedy execs are padding their coffers with excess turkey. They're asking for food for the needy! Obviously there have been highly publicized excesses across the country but the idea here is to help feed the needy during the holidays. If I've said it once I've said it numerous times-- jupiterk - upit = jerk.
a resident of North Whisman
on Nov 14, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Too bad that neither of these persons did any research before leaping to the usual negative comment.
"Charity Navigator ranks Second Harvest Food Bank among the top 3% of charities nationwide for fiscal responsibility. The Food Bank has received 6 consecutive 4-star evaluations, which demonstrates financial health, accountability, and transparency."
a resident of North Whisman
on Nov 14, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Here is the website for Charity Navigator info on the Second Harvest Food Bank:
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a resident of Waverly Park
on Nov 15, 2012 at 5:40 am
Apparently you didn't pick up the fact I was pointing out how assinine jupiterk's comment was, as they usually are. I'm on your side but maybe I should've connected all the dots for you. Give to the needy during the holidays to Second Harvest.
a resident of another community
on Nov 16, 2012 at 9:49 am
The $12 million goal shows that there are a lot of mouths to feed all year long, but the holidays are the time of year when most people give.
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Library of Congress launches National Jukebox
This week the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC) launched its National Jukebox website, and it is a refreshingly simple, thoughtful design. The home page offers a music player and sample list of songs; with one click the visitor can be listening to music from a century ago. Visitors can browse all songs, or by genre […]
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BUENA PARK – A multimillion-dollar upgrade is coming to one of the country's iconic amusement park rides.
Construction on the Timber Mountain Log Ride at Knott's Berry Farm will begin this month, park officials announced. The attraction, which takes riders on a nearly four-minute journey through a mountain range themed to a 19th-century lumber camp and culminates in a 42-foot drop, opened on July 11, 1969.
The Calico Log Ride, as it was originally called, was built for $3.5 million – equivalent to more than $21.5 million today. It was one of the first flume ride to open in the United States.
The ride was funded and developed by Bud Hurlbut, a theme-park innovator who also designed the park's Calico Mine Ride a decade earlier. Similar flume rides have popped up at amusement parks across the globe since Knott's log ride was unveiled.
"The Timber Mountain Log Ride not only embodies the spirit of Knott's Berry Farm, but it also set the bar for all themed attractions that came after," Raffi Kaprelyan, Knott's general manager who worked for Bud Hurlbut from 1979 to 1983, said in a statement. "Bud Hurlbut made numerous contributions to Knott's Berry Farm, but I think that the Timber Mountain Log Ride remains his crowning achievement."
The ride is housed in an eight-story building and includes 24,000 gallons of water that carries free-floating, pretend logs past a variety of mechanical figures simulating working loggers and taxidermied animals.
Upgrades to the log ride will be overseen by San Bernardino-based Garner Holt Productions, a leading designer and manufacturer of animatronics for theme parks. Work is expected to stretch over five months.
The exact price tag for Timber Mountain's upgrades and details of the renovations have not been unveiled by park officials, although plans call for new scenes and animatronics. The ride will close for the work. The original theme and storyline of the attraction will be maintained, park officials said.
The Timber Mountain Log Ride is in the Ghost Town section of the park and remains the most popular attraction at Knott's.
Renovations to the aging log ride come as Knott's officials prepare to unveil three attractions to the park's Boardwalk area. Scheduled to open during the summer, the rides are Coast Rider, a roller coaster reaching 52 feet high that will whisk riders on a journey through turns, twists and spins; Surfside Glider, where park visitors will board two-man scooters for a ride 28 feet above the park; and Pacific Scrambler, Knott's version of a traditional carnival twist ride.
The new attractions will sit in a section of the park once occupied by Perilous Plunge, which closed in September.
Knott's Berry Farm, opened in 1940 and originally owned by Walter Knott, is now owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Co.
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Jimmy Fallon: "Today, members of the 113th Congress were sworn in at the Capitol. After which, they were like, 'Well, that's enough work for the year.'"
Jay Leno: "This week Congress approved some version of the fiscal tax bill, which raises taxes on rich Americans. President Obama was determined to do this right away –- while there are still some rich Americans left."
David Letterman: "Al-Jazeera has purchased Al Gore's old TV network, Current TV. And listen to this: $500 million. This is a little something Al Gore has come up with called 'global fleecing.'"
Jay Leno: "The National Journal says Joe Biden may be the most influential vice president in history. Is that really a compliment? Isn't that like being the tallest hobbit?"
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As it ends its second decade as an official subspecialty, the field of forensic psychiatry is digesting dramatic changes that are making it more science based and expanding the areas in which it contributes expertise.
"Clinical evaluations have in many settings been supplemented by more systematic data-gathering tools, such as scales for the assessment of symptoms and mental states." In addition, "forensic psychiatry has become much more important in child custody, disability evaluations, and perhaps more significantly for the public, in sickness-for-duty evaluations," said Patricia Recupero, M.D., J.D., a professor of psychiatry at Brown University.
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Microsensor nodes that self-organize into a collaborative network and operate autonomously offer a truly disruptive advantage in intelligent observation. The applications for such "mesh networks" are multiple and multifaceted: monitoring vineyards for climate changes, monitoring the structural integrity of buildings, updating factory floor inventory, collecting home automation data, enhancing human health and ensuring secure public spaces.
All applications have one issue in common: The microsensor nodes must be power-efficient and, preferably, self-powered. Research teams at MIT, the University of Michigan, Purdue and elsewhere reported on their progress in delivering such nodes and networks at the Nanotech 2006 conference in Boston earlier his month.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have come up with what they believe are the most effective techniques and prototype results for an analog-to-digital converter, DSP and radio to enable efficient and energy-scalable sensor nodes. Anantha P. Chandrakasan and his research team are working on an ultralow-power energy-scalable analog-to-digital converter that can be combined with sensors in microsensor nodes
for environmental monitoring. Their work is supported by Texas Instruments Inc. and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Sensor networks consist of hundreds to thousands of energy-autonomous nodes. The fundamental components--an A/D converter, a digital signal processor and a radio--enable ad hoc deployment, self-organization and collaborative sensing/ processing. An additional energy subsystem generates a usable power supply from the output of an energy-harvesting source, enabling indefinite, self-powered operation from ambient sources. Typical sensor operating scenarios are characterized by short bursts of activity between long idle periods.
Research on energy-harvesting mechanisms to date suggests that a reasonable average power budget for a self-powered node is 100 microwatts, Chandrakasan said. "Under these circumstances, duty-cycling, where circuits are powered down between active operations, is invaluable, but the overhead of active-idle state transitions must be minimized," he said.
Whereas A/D micropower implementations have been limited to 8-bit resolutions, Chandrakasan's group has demon- strated a circuit and architecture that raise the efficiency to a precision of 12 bits. Actually, the A/D has two resolution modes: 12 bits and 8 bits. In 12-bit mode, its sampling rate is scalable, from 0 to 100 ksamples/second; in 8-bit mode, the rate is 0 to 200 ksamples/s. At the point of highest performance (i.e., 12 bits, 100 ksamples/s), the entire A/D--including all digital, analog and reference circuitry--consumes 25 µW from a 1-volt supply, making it the most efficient design demonstrated to date.


text: Hi, I'm from Germany and I just signed in here to tell that I'd LOVE to see DS9 as well as Voyager make their way to HD on Blu-ray. A big kiss and "Thank You!!" to all the people working on this wonderful project. And I'd also love to see/hear separated music-only-tracks on selected episodes like f.e. "Best of both worlds", which has such a marvellous score. If it's no big deal I would of course like EVERY episode coming with an audio track. As I know so many of them already by heart, it would be also a funny experience, as I could do the dubbing all by myself then while watching the episodes with the music only, I wish all ST series to come in HD, please _MAKE IT SO_!


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DALY CITY — Police have arrested a 28-year-old Sunnyvale man on suspicion of three counts of homicide in connection with a fatal traffic collision Saturday that killed three people and badly injured a fourth.
Denis Pereirade Macedo was taken into custody Saturday night not long after a violent two-vehicle crash in the 100 block of Eastmoor Avenue, authorities said. The San Mateo County Coroner's Office identified the victims Monday as Daly City residents Josefa Osorio Acevedo, 50; Amado Osorio Acevedo, 23; and Josue Osorio, 15.
Daly City police have released few details about the wreck, which occurred around 8:10 p.m. San Mateo County District AttorneySteve Wagstaffe said Monday that police have yet to refer the case to his office. He said the victims were family members, but he did not know exactly how they were related.
It appears Macedo was driving recklessly, said Wagstaffe, noting that the driver faces a possible misdemeanor hit-and-run charge for striking a parked vehicle sometime before the fatal collision.
"He was driving at excessive speed," Wagstaffe said of Macedo, "and collided with the other vehicle as it was turning."
Wagstaffe declined to say whether Macedo was driving under the influence, adding that the matter remains under investigation.
"By Tuesday we should know more," Wagstaffe said. "With three people dead, this is a remarkably serious event that we will be treating very carefully."
Macedo was not injured in the crash, Daly City police said. Wagstaffe added that the man's air bag deployed.
The fourth victim of the crash remains hospitalized.
Macedo is scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City.
Contact Aaron Kinney at 650-348-4357. Follow him at Twitter.com/kinneytimes.


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Through its ups and down, Glee will come to an end next season. Fans of the once wildly popular FOX show have been wondering how long it would last, amidst declining ratings and tragic setbacks.
Variety reports that, at a Paley Center event last night (October 16), Glee creator Ryan Murphy said the show will not extend its contract past next year's sixth season. The creator also admitted that after the sudden death of Cory Monteith, who played Finn Hudson, he has had to rethink the ending of the show. Monteith died of drug-related causes back in July.
"The final year of the show, which will be next year, was designed around Rachel and Cory/Finn's story," Murphy said. "I always knew that, I always knew how it would end. I knew what the last shot was, he was in it. I knew what the last line was, she said it to him. So when a tragedy like that happens you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do, so we're figuring that out now."
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John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John were sweethearts in the movie version of the musical "Grease". They have reunited for a new musical venture - this time a Christmas song.
"I Think You Might Like It" premiered earlier this week.
The music video for the song has taken the internet by storm. In it 58-year-old Travolta and 64-year-old Newton-John are seen dancing, driving a convertible, flying a plane and more. Even Travolta's wife Kelly Preston makes a guest appearance.
According to OMG.com the entire video cost $12,000 to make and was paid for by Travolta and Newton-John.
The video's director Rav Holly told the website there was never a plan for a music video. "I actually got a hold of John and said, 'Look, you guys haven't done anything together in 35 years. People would love to see you guys together.' They said, 'Do you have the means to shoot a music video. I said, 'Yeah.'"
We want you to watch the video and tell us what you think - Christmassy or creepy
WATCH: "I Think You Might Like It"
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I have to disagree with Boston Rondo healthy + sullinger healthy + Green + Lee They will be a good ball club for a while they have youth on the team already putting pieces together for when Pierce and Garnett retire.
To answer my own question I think without Bargnani we would be a playoff team. The proof is in that pudding.


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BERLIN – Defendants in the civil suit filed in January by the Worcester County Commissioners against a bevy of Internet-based travel booking companies, seeking what could be millions of dollars in unpaid hotel room taxes, filed a motion this week to dismiss the case citing a lack of sufficient grounds to pursue the action.
In January, attorneys for the Worcester County Commissioners filed suit in U.S. District Court naming 14 individual defendants, all Internet-based travel booking companies under the umbrella of four major companies including Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity and Priceline. The complaint alleges the companies have not been paying the entire amount of hotel room taxes owed on rental transactions booked in the county, largely from Ocean City.
According to the complaint, the defendants purchase hotel rooms in the county in bulk at deeply discounted wholesale prices and pay the required room tax to Worcester only on the discounted rate. The Internet companies then turn around and sell the hotel rooms to consumers at normal retail rates and collect the required room tax during the transactions, but do not remit the taxes collected to the county, instead keeping the money as part of their profit.
This week, defense attorney J. Stephen Simms of Simms and Showers in Baltimore filed a motion to dismiss Worcester County's suit against the multiple Internet-based travel booking companies, claiming there are insufficient grounds for the action. Simms' one-page motion to dismiss is rather curt, although he later submitted a 15-page memorandum outlining the reasoning behind the motion to dismiss the case, which has not yet been made public.
"This motion seeks to dismiss the complaint filed by the County Commissioners of Worcester County for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted," the short letter from Simms to the U.S. District Court judge handling the case reads.
With the suit filed in January, Worcester County joined a growing number of other jurisdictions in Maryland and across the country taking similar actions against the ubiquitous Internet travel companies of alleged failure to pay room tax. For example, Baltimore City filed a similar suit in December and Annapolis took its own action late last year. Nationally, several major cities including Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and even Las Vegas have already joined the fray and those cases are in various stages of the legal process.
With more and more travelers booking their vacations online through Internet companies, the potential room tax allegedly lost in the transactions could total millions of dollars. Although the difference in most cases is a couple of dollars per room, per night, the amount of room tax revenue lost in Worcester, should the county prevail in its suit, could be staggering when considering thousands of hotel rooms in the resort area and hundreds of nights. The suit filed by the county in January does not specify an amount sought, stating only "the precise amount of all recoverable damages, penalties and/or interest will be determined at the time of trial."
Typically, the transactions are handled in one of two ways, either the agency model or the merchant model, and the distinction is important. Under the merchant model, which has been the method of choice in recent years, the Internet travel companies purchase rooms from hotels at lower wholesale rates, and the hotels collect and remit the room taxes based on that lower rate.
The companies then turn around and sell the rooms to consumers at higher retail rates. They collect the appropriate room taxes based on the higher rates, but do not remit any of collected taxes to the taxing authority, in this case Worcester County.
"Defendants charge consumers the full hotel rental tax based on the retail rate paid by the consumers, but remit none of that amount to Worcester County," the complaint reads. "In the course of the entire merchant model transaction, Worcester County is paid only that portion of the hotel room tax that the hotels collect and remit based on their sale of the rooms to the Internet travel companies at the lower wholesale rate."
For example, if a vacationer paid Expedia $100 for a hotel room in Ocean City, the company would calculate the room tax it owes to the county based on that amount. However, Expedia might have purchased the room at a bulk wholesale rate of $60, and would pay the county the room tax based on the $60 amount it paid for the room.
In the above example, with Worcester County's current room tax rate at 4.5 percent, the room tax owed on the $100 room rental would be $4.50. If Expedia, for example, paid the county the room tax it was owed for the $60 bulk purchase of the room, it would pay only $2.70 in room tax to Worcester, or 40 percent less than it should have, according to the civil suit filed this week. In essence, the online travel booking company would have pocketed the difference, or about $1.80 in the above example.


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Iraqi president health is "excellent"
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's health is "almost back to normal" and he could leave hospital within days, his personal physician Ayad Jar Hishmat told AFP on Thursday. "Today the president's health is in excellent condition. He is almost back to a normal state," Hishmat said from Amman's King Hussein Medical Centre.
Talabani, 74, was flown to neighbouring Jordan late on Sunday suffering from exhaustion and dehydration.
"All the tests he has had so far have shown that his general condition is back to normal," the doctor conveyed.
He expected Talabani to be able to leave hospital "within days, not weeks" after he completes treatment involving "IV (intravenous) fluids and antibiotics".
"This is the simplest sort of treatment a patient receives," he said.
"The president is now in a period of convalescence. He had a walk this morning, he even had a walk yesterday. He has been receiving guests," the doctor said. "Everthing is normal. We are being transparent," he insisted.


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ludi wrote:SecretSquirrel wrote:I gather your receiver doesn't have the conversion capability?
Yamaha RX-V473. And as near as I can tell it does not convert between video sources, it only switches them.
Nice receiver. But no, it will not upscale an analog video signal to HDMI out. I think this functionality starts at the v673 and up. However, you can still obviously use your receiver as a switch - you just need to run extra audio and video analog RCA (composite video and stereo audio) from the receiver to the TV - which I take it, you'd rather not do, hence the HDMI converter. I just hope you aren't disappointed with the performance of the HDMI converter... I guess you'll find out soon enough.


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Here's a scenario: some scummy high school boy pulls down your 13-year-old daughter's sweatpants in front of other students at a middle school in New Jersey. The combination of harassment and assault is reported to the school. What happens? The school superintendent asks you, the mother, what kind of underwear your daughter wears in order to determine what was revealed, as though the punishment should fit the size of her drawers instead of the crime itself.
You attend a school seminar on bullying where the principal does not discuss this assault. You've had it with the school not taking the case seriously, so you follow him into the hall and curse him out. You then calm down, apologize and go home.
What does the school choose to do? Why, file a complaint against the mother for disorderly conduct! Can you believe the gall of the guys who run this school and school district? I guess "boys will be boys," and if they assault a girl, well, it's all in fun – but if the mother gets mad enough to read you out, well, that's unacceptable.
The name of the school is Hasbrouck Heights Middle School.
The superintendent with the lascivious question about the girl's underwear is Joseph Luongo.
The principal is Edward Bocar.
This incident happened last year, but the judge who had the good sense to dismiss the charges a few weeks ago is Bergen County Judge Roy F. McGeady, the good guy in all of this.
By the way, mom is moving forward with a lawsuit against the school.
I believe the boy in question should be brought up on charges of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
I think the superintendent's mother should smack her son silly.
The principal who can't handle a genuinely and appropriately upset mother should be forced to take sensitivity classes.


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"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."
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During the recent Crew road stretch, Matt Lampson was able to meet with two great families as part of his continued efforts with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. In Kansas City, Matt met with 10-year-old Anna Powers and her family. Through Sporting Kansas City's Victory Project, Anna was able to also meet with Sporting players and watch the match from a special suite. In Houston, Matt worked with LLS to bring 8-year-old Noah Bratsch and his family to BBVA Compass Stadium. Noah, is currently in remission from ALL thanks to his treatment at Texas Children's Hospital.
Looking to continue the Hero program that Lampson started during the 2013 season, the goalkeeper will be working with LLS to invite a child and their family to every home and away match during the 2014 season.


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What Does Joe Biden put on his pasta?
It's finally here, it's what we've all been waiting for (for the past four years)! Ever since the primaries started, I've been excited. I myself am a moderate-liberal, but I do like Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. John McCain is a great guy though, I just don't like Sarah Palin very much. If McCain-Palin ends up getting elected, we'll have some great SNL skits to come in the next four years; plus, perhaps some more prank calls from French-Canadian radio stations!
So I got home from school today, and I was really excited to turn on the news to see how the election was going. I turn on Fox News at 4 (channel 7 or whatever) and some guy is talking about the weather, so I look for CNBC or MSNBC but I can't find it, I think it just disappeared. But, I did find the Colbert Report, which is much more reliable than any of the other stations, in my opinion at least. Mr. Colbert and Mr. Stewart are probably the smartest guys on television. Political satire shows are my favorite.
So, the only big baseball news of the day that I have acquired is that Theo Epstein's contract has been extended. I trust Theo with everything he does, I'd put my life in his hands. I just really hopes that he decided to keep Jason Varitek, and Jacoby Ellsbury. One more thing, I want Pedroia to be MVP, I think that he really deserves it. How cool would it be if he got rookie of the year and then the MVP in back to back seasons. He's insane. I think the top 3 cadidates are Pedroia, Mauer (or maybe it's Hamilton? I'm not sure) and Youkilis. If one of them wins, then they definitely deserve it.
So, the answer to the question (or joke rather)… What does Joe Biden put on his pasta? COMMUNIST MANIPESTO! See? Not only is Steven Colbert smart, he's clever too!


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text: Tracy Peters from Wal-Mart in Berlin recently presented a $1,000 donation to the Worcester County Developmental Center, Inc. (WCDC). This was a Wal-Mart Good Works match for the first annual golf tournament held to support the center's mission to provide opportunities to adults with developmental and physical disabilities. Pictured, from left, are Cecil Tull III, WCDC Foundation Member, Tracy Peters, Wal-Mart Customer Service Manager, Joan Jenkins, WCDC Foundation Member, Tayborie Fisch, WCDC Employee, and June F. Walker, WCDC Executive Director.


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ZASS runs, but I can't click on anything in the main window. If a scan runs in the background, I can no longer stop it. I'd have to shut down Windows, and restart it. I cannot provide you any information about the exact version of ZASS, because I can't get the About box
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I am using Windows XP Pro with SP3. ZASS worked perfectly fine over the past couple months, until this evening. I did not install any software, and my signatures have always been up to date.
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Peter Paige is
not Emmett, and he wants you to know that. Their
differences are worth noting, if only because the contrast
between the actor and the character throws each into
sharp relief. In person, Paige is surprisingly
broad-shouldered and sinewy. He's handsome, his face
wide and frank, and there is a solid middle-American
masculinity underlying his demeanor that stands in
sharp contrast to the willowy confection he plays on
Showtime's Queer as Folk. Paige has
arrived at Café California, a restaurant on the gay
strip of Toronto's Church Street, kinetic and
flushed from a morning workout, dressed in jeans and a
bulky-knit blue sweater. As he takes a window seat,
he's oblivious to the covert attention
he's attracting from the other patrons, gay and
straight, who, with typical Canadian reserve, are far too
polite to officially notice.
Paige quickly makes it clear that whether
he's noticed or not matters very little to him
personally. He does, however, want people to notice
Emmett. "I pray to God that people are relating to
Emmett," Paige says, "and that men who
are effeminate see a champion in Emmett. I love the
fact that he's effeminate and not
self-loathing." He recalls a family photograph
taken of him as a child, arms akimbo and wrists on wide
hips, an awkward, girlish pose that made him wince for
years every time he saw it. "I like to think
I'm a masculine guy," he says, "but I
think that it's when I made my peace with the
part of me that can be feminine—that was girly,
that is sensitive, that cries at romantic comedies and
Hallmark commercials—that I came into my power as a man."
Yet even the best argument that Emmett honors
the feminine side of gay men will not satisfy those
Sunday night armchair sociologists who debate, often
querulously, whether Queer as Folk is "good
for the gays"—whether the show's
portrayal of drug-taking, sex-seeking, flamboyant club
puppies paints an oversimplified and negative picture of
gay life, one that doesn't accurately represent gay
people. The counterargument, that the show tells
secrets about a very real element of urban gay life,
only turns up the controversy to a fever pitch.
Not surprisingly, it's a subject on which
Paige has a passionate response: "What I think
the show portrays is flawed, human, fully sexualized
gay people, which is something we've never seen
before on television. So hell yes, I think it's
good for the community!"
There's back story to that answer,
however. Paige's journey from struggling actor
to flamboyant poster boy has included careful
consideration of what impact Queer as Folk would have
on viewers and on his career. "I read the
script and was alternately thrilled and horrified by
it," he says. "I was totally captivated by the
writing, but there was a part of me that asked,
'Are we really going to tell people this? Are
we really going to tell these stories?' " His
manager, also openly gay, called him before his final
audition with his own reservations. "He said,
'I don't think you should do it. The level of
sexuality in this piece is such that I don't think
I'm going to be able to take you somewhere else
after this.' I said, 'Well, that's a
really valid concern. Let me think about it.'
So I thought about it," says Paige.
Ultimately, the character proved irresistible to
Paige, and the thought of someone else playing Emmett
was more than he could bear. "I don't
think I could have lived with that," he says.
"I knew I had something to offer this project,
and I'd rather risk it. And if the gods of Hollywood
dictate that this is it for me, so be it. I'll move
on to other pastures. I wasn't going to turn
this one down out of fear." He still wrestles with
the specter of future typecasting but says frankly,
"I wasn't willing to go into the closet
or create some bullshit PR smoke screen. I mean, here
I am playing this big queen, and I've never felt more
masculine or empowered. It's ironic."
Ironic, maybe,
but not surprising, once you know something of
Paige's enlightened upbringing. He was born in
Connecticut, and his parents divorced before he was 2.
He lived and traveled with his mother until he was 11.
"My mother worked at a feminist bookstore," he
says. "I don't remember what it was
called. I always called it 'Uterus Rising.' I
used to sleep in a Babe Didrikson T-shirt. I was
surrounded by funky bisexual women who all changed
their names to reflect their African roots. At the age
of 6, I would go out with them and engage in
conversations." That exposure to his
mother's world, Paige says, "gave me a sense
that there was something out there for me."
At 11, already intent on being an actor, he
moved in with his father. He attended an arts high
school in Raleigh, N.C., graduated summa cum laude
from Boston University in theatre arts, then lived in New
York and Portland, Ore., before settling in Los
Angeles—a city he now desperately misses.
Toronto in winter is everything that Los Angeles is not.
Paige misses his boyfriend, and he misses his best
friend. He misses his godchildren, Morgan and
Charlotte. Mostly, though, he misses the California
sun. "I feel like I've been on a submarine for
nine months," he says lightly, looking out the
window at the slate-gray Canadian sky, streaked with
freezing rain. "I'm looking forward to a
little bit of shore leave."
Paige's casual openness about his life
has spared him the endless questions about straight
actors playing gay characters that other cast members
have faced. He has no patience with such questions, in any
case. "I find the idea that straight actors
playing gay roles is somehow exotic offensive in the
same way that I find the notion that I as a gay actor
might not be able to play straight characters after this
show offensive," Paige sighs. "The fuel
to the fire is that the show actually has sexual
energy to it. Not only are these actors playing gay guys,
they're playing gay guys who actually have sex.
They're called upon to invest in the emotional
lives of the characters, and they're called upon to
actually touch bodies."
As for his fellow cast members'
occasionally ill-considered answers to questions about
physical contact, he says, "There is something about
the question 'What's it like to kiss a
guy?' that is innately homophobic. What does it
matter? You'd never in a million years ask an actor
who was doing an interracial relationship what it was
like to kiss a black person."
Paige acknowledges that apart from himself and
fellow out actor Randy Harrison, who plays 18-year-old
Justin, and many of the producers and writers, the
cast and crew members of Queer as Folk are mostly
straight as arrows. Dominated by craftspeople, a film set
can resemble a high-tech construction site at times,
and a blue-collar ethos more often than not carries
the day. Yet Paige says the culture on the set has been
embracing, if occasionally wondering, as any initial
trepidation among the heterosexual crew members
dissolved quickly.
"It comes back to the notion of living
out of the closet," Paige explains. "One
of the grips came up to me one day and said, 'Before
I started to work on the show, I was completely
homophobic. But seeing this every day and getting to
know you as a person has changed that. I was
completely wrong.' And what the fuck else do you
need? That's what I'm after.
That's what I'm about. That's
what's important to me."
Back at Paige's apartment after the lunch
on Church Street, the phone rings several times during
the course of the afternoon, and at least twice
it's Paige's friend and costar Scott Lowell,
who plays Ted, Emmett's emotionally repressed
sidekick. The two actors have formed a close
friendship over the past nine months. Paige has nothing but
praise for Lowell, and Lowell characterizes Paige as
"wonderful to work with" and
"very giving, very alive." He proposes that
Ted and Emmett are unofficially "the new Odd
Couple," referring to the fact that the two
represent opposite yet inseparable ends of the gay spectrum.
Behind the scenes, Lowell says, the actors have more
similarities than differences.
"You need to remember that our offscreen
personalities are quite different from our on-screen
ones," Lowell cautions. "Peter is not as
flamboyant as Emmett, nor am I as conservative as Ted is. We
do share a similar sensibility. Peter has been great
for me in terms of calling me on my shit, and vice
versa. We're both really good at listening. Early
on, those talks were dealing with the show and our roles,
and then we became better friends, and that led into
our personal lives. I don't know what I would
have done up here without him."
Lowell is well aware of the career risks Paige
has taken by playing it the way he has. Yet he
insists, "I really don't worry about Peter
Paige or Randy Harrison. They have the strength to
prove themselves. The amount of bravery it takes in
this day and age to be out in this business is
unfortunate, though."
"I've been a good boy my whole
life," Paige says. "The main thing was
always to be pleasant, to be kind, to make nice. To play by
the rules. Well, one day that stopped serving me. It
took me a long time to realize that I had my own rules
and those were the ones I needed to live by. I needed
to figure out what I valued. When I did, that's when
my career began."
The obligations
of newly minted stardom include photo shoots like the one
the next day in the Toronto studio of photographer Chris
Chapman. In between shots, Paige does handstand
pushups. Feet against the wall, arms extended, palms
flat on the floor, he pumps the muscles of his chest and
shoulders as adeptly as any Calvin Klein model. He is
shirtless, his muscular alabaster torso rising from a
pair of trashy black leather pants selected by a
stylist. The makeup artist has smoothed and buffed the skin
of his face, highlighting the wide planes of his cheekbones.
He looks like a star today, lit by both the studio
lights and the sunlight streaming through the dirty
industrial glass of the studio windows.
"It's very flattering,"
says Paige in response to a question about how he
deals with his new, higher profile. For years he went out
dancing to get cruised, to be noticed. Now the
experience is double-edged. "It's an
incredibly vulnerable feeling as well," he adds.
"They have a lot of information about who I am
and what I do, and I literally have no idea who they
are, so it's a very uneven playing field."
The ninth episode of Queer as Folk opened
with Emmett naked in front of the computer engaging in
cybersex. Paige asked his mother to "tune in
two minutes late" for that episode. He imagines that
her response to his new fame is a complicated one.
Although both of his parents were supportive of him
when he came out, he says, "there are likely
various elements" to his mother's take on the
show: "There is seeing your son's
success, seeing your son get semifamous, seeing your
son become a poster boy for alternative sexuality—and
other things that parents and kids aren't
supposed to feel comfortable talking about. She's
expressed real pride in my candor and in my lack of apology.
For Paige, personally, the as-yet-undefended
border is the line not between who he was then and is
now but between who he is and who—and
what—he is perceived to be. How it will affect his
primary relationship, the one with his boyfriend, is
anybody's guess and likely nobody's
business. Lately the two have spent more time apart than
Paige considers healthy. "Of course it puts
stress on the relationship," he says softly.
"I think the notion that any two people can be apart
for nine months and not have it be a challenge is absurd."
And Paige realizes he won't be returning
to Los Angeles as the anonymous actor he was when he
left in July 2000. "I know [my boyfriend] has
concerns about what it will be like for us to go out and not
have it be what it was. I don't know how he
couldn't. I do. It's not jealousy as
much as it's fear of the unknown."
It's been a new experience for Paige the
actor as well as Paige the person. "I've
never played one role this long," he says.
"I'm ready to get back to the world of
my life. And, yes, I'm a little scared. I hope
my life is essentially the same."
Still, he has no regrets. "I'm
always drawn to edgy, interesting, controversial
stuff," he continues. "I knew this would be
heated. I knew it would be dangerous. I knew it would
piss people off in every direction. I understand
people being uncomfortable with some of it. I get
uncomfortable sometimes. Sometimes I read a script and say,
'Oh, my God, I can't believe I'm
doing this,' or, 'Boy, does this not show this
character in his or her best light.' But I also knew
it was human and true. If I thought for one moment
that this was slanderous or dishonest or denigrating
to the community as a whole, I wouldn't be involved
with it in a million years."


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Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases 2012: Module 1 (Web on Demand)Course Number: WD2065
This training program will provide the most current information in the constantly changing field of immunization. This program is updated annually to provide a comprehensive overview on immunization based on the latest recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Each session includes case studies and a discussion of frequently-asked questions on each topic. The series is divided into nine modules, each 60 to 90 minutes in length. It is available in two formats: nine web-based modules or on DVD. Each module is separately accredited for Continuing Education. More information is provided at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ed/epivac/default.htm or www.cdc.gov/tceonline
Module 1 - Principles of vaccination, immunization schedules and timing and spaces of vaccines.
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TARGET AUDIENCE: Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, DoD paraprofessionals, pharmacists, health educators & their colleagues who either administer vaccines or set policy for their offices, clinics, communicable disease, or infection control programs. Both private & public healthcare providers, including pediatricians, family practice specialists, residents, medical assistants, and medical and nursing students.
MATERIALS: For the web-based format, participants will need a computer with internet access
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PREREQUISITES: Participants should have a basic educational background in science including general knowledge in the subject areas of biology, immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Political Participation and Equality in Seven Nations, 1966-1971 (ICPSR 7768)
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This data collection is composed of seven files: six individual country datasets (Austria, India, Japan, Netherlands, Nigeria, and Yugoslavia) and a comparative cross-national dataset. The study resulted from data collected for the collaborative project "Cross-National Program in Political and Social Change" in seven nations conducted primarily by Sidney Verba, Norman H. Nie, and Jae-On Kim. This survey was designed to deal comprehensively with one aspect of the larger study: to ascertain the ways citizens participate politically in local and national affairs and the processes that lead them to do so. Personal interviews were conducted from 1966 to 1971 in seven nations, including the United States. The United States dataset can be found separately in the collection, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN AMERICA, 1967 [ICPSR 7015], and is included in the Cross-National file (Part 7). Questions were asked to measure respondents' involvement in political organizations at both the local and national levels, participation in formal and informal community groups, the extent of individual contact with public officials, attitudes toward recent political and social changes, and interest in the political process. Demographic items specify age, sex, marital status, occupation, household composition, length of stay in community, size of community, education, home ownership, family income, political party identification, religion, race, union membership, position in union, and reason for joining union.
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Discussion in 'Fan Art' started by TeaKirk, Jul 1, 2010.
I'm thinking about making some more twilight artwork how about that?
Do what you want is all i can say
Thanks (I'm just trying to keep my thread on the first page)
Posting more Trek related arts will help on that as well
cus some reson im the only one here posting it seems....
Guess some people cant enjoy Non-Trek arts
But dont feel bad i enjoy your Non-Trek stuff
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Your Very Welcome
Speaking of artwork!
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n337/lightspeedpurple/Star Trek/FiveYearMission.png
http://s336.photobucket.com/albums/...Star Trek/?action=view¤t=Project7-1.png
first one is good dunno who those peeps are
second one is AWESOME!!!!!!
and I do know them i just wish their eps would come out faster or were on TV
The first one is a star trek themed band called Five Year Mission! AND THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
ahh ok I shall look for there music then
Here's their site
Thank you
Your welcome!
Sorry I didn't post anything today, I just a got new computer! and it took an hour and a half to set it up
Congrats and enjoy your new PC
well it's a laptop and it has a entirelly different editor program I'm still learning to use
Coolies i also use a laptop i gots a Acer Aspire 4730
Mine's an HP
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BYOD and Consumerization: Embracing the Inevitable
See the changing IT landscape where one device fits all no longer holds. See Intel's example of how to prepare for change, and equip your employees with the right devices.
For more information, read the paper "Five Steps to Consumerization of IT: Intel's Guide to Embracing the Inevitable."


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Good read [thumbs up]Ok, two things here:
1. You're 100% correct that the teams that aren't big free agent destinations rely on luck to compete. This is one of those things in pro sports that nobody ever talks about because it doesn't make for a great story, but is completely accurate. From injuries to chemistry to lottery positions, chance plays an enormous part in success. For a perfect example, see how the raps won the lottery with low odds one year and got Bargs, while the Bulls won with low odds another year and got Rose. So much of what happens to a franchise is out of it's control.
But that doesn't mean that things like scouting, good cap management and good coaching and development don't play roles. Luck can land you a player to build around but the GM and the coach then have to bring in the right players, implement the right system and motivate the team to play the right way. See: Carter, Vince.
So yes, luck plays a huge role, but it only gets you so far. And it certainly doesn't mean that you stop trying or simply tank until you land a franchise guy, because the team is still a business and seats still need to be filled. Plus, you never know when a team is going to dump a disgruntled franchise player in your lap because you happen to have the right combination of contracts they're looking for in return. The Raps are doing the best with what they've got, all I'm saying is that unless something breaks right for them, they'll be stuck on that first round playoff exit treadmill.
2. Salary structure matters. A LOT. A perfect example is the Joe Johnson era Hawks, who had most of their money tied up in a core that lacked the talent to take the team deep into the playoffs. They were never able to add those veterans and extra pieces that might have allowed them to make a deep run, and in the end they had to blow it all up. This is exactly where I see the Raps heading; too much money invested in players with too little of an impact. It's not the end of the world though; fielding a competitive team that challenges for the second or even third round of the playoffs for the next 5 years would be a great step in the team's long-term evolution.


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ETA News Release: [03/31/2009]
Contact Name: Peggy Abrahamson or Suzy Bohnert
Phone Number: (202) 693-7909 or x4665
Release Number: 09-0330-KAN
U.S. Department of Labor announces grant exceeding $757,000 to assist workers in Missouri affected by airline layoffs
WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $757,678 grant to assist approximately 160 workers affected by layoffs at American Airlines Overhaul Base Facility located in Kansas City, Mo.
"American Airlines has experienced the effects of the global and national economic downturn that has caused the elimination of routes and an overall reduction in flights," said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. "The services offered by this grant will help the affected workers find and obtain employment in high growth occupations within their region."
The grant will be awarded to the Missouri Division of Workforce Development and administered by the Full Employment Council in Kansas City. The state of Missouri, in cooperation with American Airlines and the Transport Workers Union, will offer peer counseling, job search preparation, training for entrepreneurship, career fairs and referrals to education institutions for those seeking to transition into other careers to all affected workers. In addition, all affected workers will be provided with access to a full array of dislocated worker services including skills assessment, individual career counseling, education and occupations skills training.
American Airlines, in conjunction with the Transport Workers Union Local 53, issued a public announcement on July 18, 2008, stating that layoffs at the American Airlines Overhaul Base Facility would occur on Dec. 31, 2008.
National Emergency Grants are part of the secretary of labor's discretionary fund and are awarded based on a state's ability to meet specific guidelines. For more information, visit www.doleta.gov/NEG/.


text: Greetings. I recently had a trainer write me up a basic program to follow when I'm at the gym 3 times a week. He asked what my goals were to which I answered: Increase stamina on the tennis court. My muscles seem to fatigue sharply after 1.5 hours or so and my strokes get sloppy. Lose ~30lbs (i'm 6'3", 230lbs at the moment) Become more flexible (be able to touch my toes for the first time ever) He's written me up a series of exercises concentrating on arms, chest, back, and legs, which go something like: Exercise A (e.g. lat pull down): 3 sets of 10 reps @ 60% max level*, 2 sets of 8 reps @ 70%, 1 set of 6 reps @ 90%. The other exercises are similar with X sets of Y reps @ 60%, 70%, 80%, and 90% max level (max level being the weight I can do ONE pull down with.) There is also stretching before and after, as well as 10–15 minutes on the treadmill at a speedy but comfortable pace of 7.5–8mph. My question to the people in the know is: is this the right way to go about increasing muscle stamina? I don't know much about gym work so I'm probably wrong, but I feel this sort of workout is aimed at making me 'bigger' vs stronger or stamina-er. Thanks in advance!


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Rachel Alexandra Returns to Stonestreet Farm
- Mar 26, 2013
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Rachel Alexandra was released from Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital and returned home to Stonestreet Farm today.
Photo: Stonestreet Farm
Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, returned to Stonestreet Farm March 26 to begin the next stage of her recuperation following abdominal surgery performed mid-February at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital near Lexington.
The 7-year-old daughter of Medaglia d'Oro was hospitalized one day after the Feb. 12 delivery of her second foal, a filly by Bernardini. The filly is healthy and has bonded well with a nurse mare while her multiple grade I-winning dam continues to recover.
According to a release, Stonestreet employees decorated her stall with cards from fans as they awaited her arrival, and a get-well banner from Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots stretched across the barn to welcome the hard-fighting champion home.
"Having Rachel home is a milestone in her recovery," said owner Barbara Banke. "I am deeply grateful to Drs. (Brett) Woodie (DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS), (Bonnie) Barr (VMD, Dipl. ACVIM), (Steve) Reed (DVM, Dipl. ACVIM), and the entire Rood & Riddle team for the unparalleled care Rachel has received. A special thank you to Alex Riddle for keeping Rachel's fans updated on her progress and to Medicine Technician Brent Comer for his dedication to her care."
Stonestreet and Rood & Riddle medical technicians will join to monitor Rachel Alexandra around the clock while Barr checks her progress with daily visits to the farm.
"This time of transition is a big step, as well as an added stress in her recovery from a very serious, life-threatening condition," said Barr. "We feel, however, that she is ready to take on this challenge, and in doing so, she takes the next step toward getting back to life on the farm."
Rachel Alexandra's first few days at home will focus on ensuring she is comfortable in her surroundings through hand grazing, said the release. She will then transition to a small, temporary round pen the size of her stall.
"As Rachel becomes comfortable and her team feels satisfied with her progress, panels will be inserted to gradually extend that round pen," the release read. "These slow, deliberate, day-to-day steps are designed to evolve into turnout in a regularly sized round pen followed ultimately by transition to a small paddock. While this process could take as little as a couple of weeks, Rachel and her team will set a cautious pace."
Regular updates on Rachel Alexandra are available on the Stonestreet Farm news page.
Originally published on BloodHorse.com.
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