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Editor's note: Paul Goldman is a guest columnist for DecisionVirginia.com. The views expressed below are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of NBC12.
"The verdict today completely exonerating the defendants finally exposes what should have been self-evident, namely the Obama Administration's abuse of power through United States Attorney General Eric Holder to destroy Bob McDonnell, the most popular GOP chief executive in any swing state and likely 2016 presidential contender."
This is going to be a key storyline in news reports, especially in the Republican leaning media and the political line coming from ever single GOP political "spin doctor," if the jury returns a not guilty verdict on all 14 indictment counts.
Most in the media have been writing former governor McDonnell's political obituary. That's understandable given the situation, but no one has been willing to consider this possibility: Attorney General Eric Holder's weak public image may not withstand such a not guilty verdict.
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mike Savage, Laura Ingram and posse on conservative talk radio will turn former governor McDonnell into the poster boy/victim for everything they have been saying about the president and his party. It wouldn't surprise me if the Republican National Committee flew McDonnell around the country during the upcoming 2014 midterm elections to speak at key party rallies.
An incumbent president's party historically faces an uphill electoral fight in the sixth year of his term. A key reason is out-party loyalists tend to be significantly more motivated to vote. Therefore party strategists look for every issue to stir the "send them a message" emotion.
Before the story broke about the federal investigation, McDonnell's name appeared on every 2016 presidential year contender's list. The conservative governor had record high approval ratings for a Virginia Republican, the best of any GOP chief executive in a key swing state.
Then, boom. As the GOP political consultants will spin the story, the Obama Administration leaked their false accusations to the "liberal Washington Post," literally a curse word on conservative talk radio. It will be great political theatre. It will help in November when turnout among registered voters will be barely half of the 2012 voting participation.
If, the jury returns a not guilty verdict on all 14 counts.
McDonnell's fate - financially ruined, politically toxic, personally destroyed, yet legally exonerated -- will resonate with many independents and most Republicans almost certain to view the former first couple as political martyrs. Neither the DOJ, Mr. Holder, much less the White House, are permitted to question the acquittal. This makes perfect legal and common sense: the accused at all times entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Could the McDonnells sue for damages claiming they were politically targeted for persecution, not prosecution? Anyone can sue anybody, but they aren't going to win. Accordingly, they might find a high-profile GOP law firm willing to take their case and threaten to sue, but that's where it will stop, although the tabloids will run with it.
The aftermath of any acquittal will thus be fought in the political arena, not in a courtroom. If there is a full not guilty on everything verdict.
Since this is a purely circumstantial case, such a verdict is possible, especially if jurors react badly to what they regard as the government's questionable tactic of making a deal with Jonnie Williams. The prosecution's key witness conceded to be a cunning "criminal" by U.S. Attorney Michael Dry. The charmingly cagey conman is the key wild card among the 67 witnesses. The "not guilty by reason of marriage meltdown" defense theory is the key strategy wild card.
Jurors are human. We humans can have unpredictable reactions in these kinds of high pressure legal proceedings. As Sherlock Holmes said, circumstantial cases can produce widely different reactions depending on a small shift in how one views the evidence.
Bottom line: Attorney General Eric Holder may be a dead man walking, at least politically. Should the Republicans win back control of the Senate, they will surely use such an acquittal to threaten an investigation into the DOJ over the situation. Holder would realize this could only hurt him and the President. Why let the GOP do it?
This is all a big "if" right now, but Mr. Holder will be anxiously checking his smart phone all week.


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University of Maryland Dance Ensemble
"Spectator Sport," "You Go When You Can No Longer Stay," "New Girl" and "How Long Brethren"
by Carmel Morgan
December 3, 2007 -- Millennium Stage, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
The Maryland Dance Ensemble, resident company of the University of Maryland's dance department, presented a mixed program on December 3, 2007, at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage. The works were as diverse as the composition of the company itself. The talent of the dancers and the strength of the pieces presented varied greatly.
Most ambitious was "How Long Brethren?", a reconstruction of a piece that debuted on Broadway in 1937 as part of the WPA Federal Theater and Dance Project. The work, by modern dance pioneer Helen Tamiris, was recreated by visiting artist Diane McIntyre at the University of Maryland. "How Long Brethren?" demanded that the students explore an emotional range completely unlike other dances on the program. It is a sober work, connected to the era in which it was made. Somewhat surprisingly, the young dancers successfully captured the strong message of "How Long." Clothed in gray leotards, long skirts and aprons, the company moved in deep knee bends and slow dirge-like steps to songs of unknown Negro laborers in the American South. From images of picking cotton to hanging from nooses, the dancers moved us with them into a world far removed in time but still close enough in spirit that the dance resonated powerfully.
In sharp contrast was Joseph Poulson's "New Girl." Poulson's work didn't approach a great social statement, but instead seemed a base parody of today's younger generation. Unfortunately, the intricate and clever costumes were more interesting than the movement. The dancers wore an explosion of bold clashing colors and patterns matched by mussed hair. They looked like feminine versions of the mad hatter with hats replaced by hoodies and pantaloons. The dancers were sassy and a tad angry. Between stomps, seemingly pointless running in circles and head tilts, they stood with hands on jutted hips and announced to the audience: "You!", or "Oh, you!", or "You're still here!", or simply, "Oh." The intended vacuity of the vocal and physical dialogue was perhaps undermined by its simplicity, which brought on less insight and more boredom.
Monica Bill Barnes' work, "Spectator Sport," began with a crowd of dancers in boxing stances. The music of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, entertainers who at one time dueled against one another for popularity, provided the score. In work-out wear and taped hands the dancers rocked, dodged and sparred with invisible partners. Later, in photo perfect poses, they became couples mugging with exhausted, slightly pained smiles. "Specatator Sport" ended with high kicks and skippity jumps, the dancers' arms raised in victory before stumbling backwards. More than a physical challenge, "Spectator" was clearly a theatrical hurdle for the company.
Joseph Poulson, a guest artist at the University of Maryland for the current semester, performed "You Go When You Can No Longer Stay," a solo choreographed by Terry Creach, who is on the faculty of Bennington College and who directs New York City-based Creach/Company. Poulson, clad in white, became a screen for a projected video by Sue Rees. A virtual dancer in white emanated from Poulson's core, dancing right atop his stomach as he stood still. The virtual dancer spinning within the live dancer was a bit disorienting. "You Go" was full of visual surprises, primarily coming from the incorporation of video, and yet it was ultimately uninspiring. While the piece strove to understand the nature of missing a partner, it was hard to join in the mourning.
The Maryland Dance Ensemble's show did not carry the voltage of a professional show, but it certainly highlighted important features in the University's development of the professional dancers of tomorrow. The company's deliberate reflection on the past, present and future of modern dance is laudable.
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Chatsworth is the magnificent Derbyshire home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. It is a place of great beauty and history set amid breath-taking scenery. This special weekend break takes us to see the house all dressed up for the Christmas season. Decorated with foliage, lights and candles, as well as scenes to evoke the spirit of Christmas, the house is a superb Peak District gem.
3 DAYS Tour Link included 2 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast
We depart and make our way to South
Yorkshire arriving at our hotel for the next 2
nights stay with dinner, bed and breakfast.
This morning we make the short
journey to Bakewell where there is time to
explore the town and enjoy a coffee break,
perhaps with a slice of Bakewell Tart from the
Original Pudding Shop. We leave around midday
for Chatsworth House, delightfully decorated for
Christmas, where we can obtain lunch before
exploring the house, with the opportunity to visit
the shop which will be well stocked with seasonal
gifts. You may wish to end the day with a
well-deserved cuppa in the café before we return
to the hotel.
After breakfast we leave and begin
our journey home.
Your Hotel
Carlton Park Hotel The Carlton Park Hotel
is situated just a short drive from Hodsock
and is an ideal base for our tour. The hotel
has an indoor swimming pool and all bedrooms
are en suite with television, hairdryer
and tea/coffee making facilities.
The hotel has a lift.
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| Chippenham The Bridge
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Market Place
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GL4 3RT South East bound Bus Stop
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Pennycomequick Hill/ Saltash Road
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Bayliss Centre
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Merrywalks Bus Station
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Herons Gate by Halfords Superstore.
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Aldi Lay-by
| Torquay Coach Station
| Trowbridge
Town Hall
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Princes Road Car Park
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Haynes Road bus stop
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This was the Future, Vol.34typed for your pleasure on 27 July 2007, at 12.23 pm
Sdtrk: 'Ceremony' by Joy division
One of the reasons I prefer architecture — and by some extension, city planning — from the very late Fifties to the very early Seventies, is that there was still a sense of general optimism. Especially during the Sixties, when new technological innovations were popping up on a regular basis, man was setting foot on the Moon, and space travel was a new and fantastic thing. (Although there'll be something to be said when space travel is no more unusual than taking a trip from one country to another.) It was this exact sort of well-meaning thinking that inspired the subject of this instalment: Brasília, the futuristic capital of Brazil, designed by the architects Oscar Niemeyer and the urban planner Lúcio Costa.
Teatro Nacional (National theatre) 'Cláudio Santoro'
Photo © by Augusto Areal
In 1956, Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira is elected President and creates the Company of Urbanization of the New Capital (NOVACAP). Kubitschek invites a young architect, Oscar Niemeyer, to command the project. In the same year of 1956, the work on site starts. In 1957, a public contest is won by urbanist Lúcio Costa, who presented the inovative ideas for the design of the new capital, in his work which became known as Plano Piloto (Pilot Plan).
Juscelino Kubitschek, or JK, had the motto "fifty years in five"; his plan was to make Brazil grow during his five year term as much as the previous fifty years; JK invited car makers (like Ford, GM and Volkswagen) to come to Brazil, and opened several highways (in detriment of railways) to stimulate cars selling. However, JK's darling was Brasília; to have the city finished still during his term, he didn't hesitate in allocating financial and human resources into the works; several Boeings were rented to fly cement, sand and other supriments into the sites.
Juscelino was so obsessed with the idea of being founder of Brasília, that he officially opened the city on April 22 1960, before it was finished.
taken from this site
Considering that only five years before the city existed, it was a barren wasteland, that makes this urban accomplishment all the more impressive. Apart, of course, from the fact that all the main structures of the city, such as the Presidential Palace, the Federal Chamber, the residential sectors, the Supreme Federal Court, and the Brasília Cathedral, among many others, are all disparate, yet uniform. Kinda like the Bauhaus School, but filtered through 20th century Modern aesthetics… entirely lovely stuff.
The dichotomy of Brasília is that it's classified by the United Nations agecy UNESCO with the status of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Humanity, due to its uniqueness. As I recall reading somewhere, this effectively means that the city is trapped in an architectural timecapsule — changing or updating the overall aesthetics of the city would be the equivalent of placing an enormous flat-screen monitor behind Lincoln's head in the Lincoln Memorial. Some say that this handicaps the city's ability to compete with the modernity of more contemporary cities across the globe, but I'm certain I echo many peoples' sentiments when I say, 'so what?' Just because something is new or modern doesn't necessarily mean that it's good. Besides, we need cities like Brasília to show future architects and city planners how things can be more effectively managed.
But seriously, a citywide monument to Sixities architectural design? Fantastic
Random similar posts, for more timewasting:
Behind the scenes of 'This was the Future' on May 11th, 2005
This was the Future, Vol.37 on May 5th, 2009


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text: Transitioning to Electric Vehicles David L. Greene, Sangsoo Park, and Changzheng Liu discuss the logistics and implications of utilizing electric cars in this White Paper Transitioning to Electric Vehicles: Public Policy Implications of Uncertainty, Network Externalities, Tipping Points and Imperfect Markets Building on a previous Baker Center White Paper that estimated the costs and benefits of transition to electric drive vehicles in the US, this study investigates the effects of the timing and intensity of policies. We also explored the effects of technological and market uncertainties on the likelihood of a successful transition and its benefits and costs. Such large-scale energy transitions pose new challenges for public policy. For more information, contact David Greene at email@example.com


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NEW YORK — Financier Carl C. Icahn, who has been waging a battle to take over Trans World Airlines, warned Thursday that he might withdraw his offer of $18 per share for the 73.8% of the company that he and investor groups led by him do not already control.
Icahn also reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission that he and his allies had increased their stake to 26.2% from 25%, buying 758,400 shares for $13.7 million. TWA's shares closed at $18.625, down 25 cents, with a total of 2.45 million shares changing hands--746,500 of that in six large block trades at $18.50 a share.
TWA, which has been fighting Icahn in the courts and with petitions to the Department of Transportation, said earlier this week that it was seeking a friendly buyer to outbid Icahn. It said that it sought bids for more than $18 a share. But it also said that, if it did not receive a better offer than Icahn's within 60 days, it will let shareholders vote on his proposal.
"What they are expecting is an absurdity," Icahn complained in a telephone interview. "They are saying 'You stand there with an $18 bid and in 60 days you be the backstop.' They are saying that 'If in 60 days nobody else wants the company, we'll take your $18.' . . . I made them a bid now. I am not guaranteeing that I will be around with that bid in 60 days."


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A Lake District landscape photo from a recent visit to one of my favourite locations, The River Brathay, near Skelwith Bridge.
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The next fictional character on our appreciation list is Allison Argent, played by the lovely Crystal Reed. Allison started out as the love interest for newly turned werewolf Scott McCall on MTV's Teen Wolf. Over the course of the series, Allison has grown into her own, individual person. These are the reasons why we love her oh-so much:
A is for Arrows
As the daughter of werewolf hunters, Allison is still learning the ropes about what it all means. But her signature weapon of choice is her bow and arrows.
She's managed to take down several werewolves with those arrows, including the Alpha pack werewolf team as seen in "Frayed," the fifth episode of season 3. It's not just the arrows that make Allison such a fledgling badass, however. It's her conviction to do whatever it takes to protect her friends and it's that resolve that ultimately led her to save Scott & co. in the episode I just mentioned.
L is for Love
Allison has a lot of loved ones in her life – among them is Scott, her boyfriend and love interest for most of the series. The duo's romance has been continuing since season 1 and they've certainly had their ups and down, breakups and un-breakups.
For most of season 2, Scott and Allison had to keep their romantic relationship a secret from her parents because The Argents, coming from werewolf hunter ancestry, disapproved of their only child dating a werewolf. The two had an amicable breakup in the season 2 finale after Allison went a little cray-cray.
Despite this, the pair are inexplicably drawn to each other. But it's the kind of teen relationship angst I can get on board with.
L is for Loss
Yes, Allison has a lot of loved ones, but she's also gone through major periods of loss. Two of her loved ones are dead – her sadistic and seemingly put-together aunt, Kate, and her "will-scare-you-shitless" mother, Victoria.
In season 2, after Kate had died, Allison had to contend with the fact that she was grieving for someone who was essentially a murdering psychopath. Kate had set fire to Derek's childhood home, killing almost all of his family members. After her mother died, Allison went on the warpath – thanks to lots of manipulation from her grandfather, Gerard – and a lot of fans turned against Allison.
Eventually, Allison came to her senses but then – in season 3 – she found out that her mother had tried to kill Scott and that's how Derek ended up giving her that fatal scratch that would lead Victoria to killing herself due to the werewolf hunter "code of honor."
I is for Imperfect
Allison might be a badass but she's also a teenage girl whose dealt with too much heartache and death in the family – the biggest one being her mother. Allison's mom has appeared postmortem at least twice now as a figment of Allison's imagination. In "Frayed," there's a great scene with Allison as she attempts to save Scott's life and imagines her mother standing over her shoulder, criticizing her and then guiding her.
Allison doesn't always do the right thing and she doesn't always come barreling in on her white horse to save the day. She makes mistakes and tries to make up for them and those imperfections is what makes Allison such a relatable character.
S is for Style
We've talked about Allison's sense of style before. This season, Allison is sporting a new hairdo. It's much shorter than her hair in seasons 1 and 2, and while I wasn't a fan of it at the start, it's definitely starting to grow on me.
O is for Outspoken
Allison isn't afraid to speak her mind and she's certainly not afraid to call Derek out on his bullshit. After she set a rabid Boyd and Cora free in order to save Scott's life, she was met with some harsh words from Derek. She threw it back at him, though. "I am not the one turning teenagers into killers!"
N is for "Normal"
Allison is a human, meaning she's not endowed with supernatural strength, senses, or healing. Therefore, she has to rely on her skills and training more than ever when up against a werewolf. Without her bow and arrows, she's pretty vulnerable (like the time she was stuck in a closet with a wolfed out Isaac) and this puts her at a disadvantage compared to Scott and the other Beacon Hills werewolves.
Nevertheless, Allison is shrewd and intelligent, and she's certainly not going to abandon Scott and her friends in their time of need, so she asserts herself in the fight in "Frayed" the best way she knows how – by staying off to the side until the time is right and then giving Scott & co. the leverage they need to continue fighting the Alpha pack.
This most recent episode of Teen Wolf – "Motel California" – showed that when Allison works with the other two main humans in Scott's crew – Stiles and Lydia – the trio can still get shit done without Scott and the other werewolves.
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I have been a fan of Google since it began, especially in its early days. I was excited about their vision and the way they seem to intuitively understand people.
It was not a great surprise to me that it has grown to become a giant that it is today. Now the challenges it faces are a little different from when it began. The question looming over its head is: Will it become an evil empire? It's motto being " Do no evil." Can it stay on the straight and narrow path with the enormous power it wields.
Hence this interview by BusinessWeek with Manber, vice-president of technology, caught my eye. I have put it down in its entirety because I'd like to think there are insights to be gleaned – the most important one being that Google's success lies in recognizing that "Search is about people," and hence there are no formulas. It's as much art as pure science and speed. The heart of it is something that relies more on intuition than sheer number crunching. It's a good reminder that all successful business begins with understanding the business of people.
Google's Udi Manber: Search Is About People, Not Just Data
Posted by: Rob Hof on October 01, http://www.businessweek.com
Udi Manber, Google's vice-president of technology for core search, joined the company almost four years ago after stints running Amazon.com's A9 search project and serving as chief scientist at Yahoo. He, like some other leaders on the search quality team, has 20 years of experience in search going back into academia—meaning before the World Wide Web, when it was known as information retrieval.
I talked with Manber on two occasions in recent weeks for my story on Google's search operation, which appears in the latest issue of BusinessWeek. Customarily stingy with details about Google's inner workings, to thwart competitors, Manber nonetheless provided a lot of insight into how Google's core search quality team does its magic. And while he sounds quite confident about Google's prospects—at first, I wondered, maybe too confident?—it's also clear that he realizes the threat always looming for any technology company in the form of some unexpected breakthrough from an upstart. After all, Google was one of those upstarts not so very long ago.
This transcript, like the others to come over the next several days, is fairly long. I opted to leave in as much as possible to provide more details for people who are really interested in the inner workings.
Q: How does Google approach the process of improving search?
A: We want to improve search, but unlike networks or disks or some operating system, it's not easy to measure. If you want to improve a network, you make it faster and bigger and more robust. For search, it's much more complicated.
You also want to be faster, bigger, more robust. But that's not the main measure. The main measure is whether we help our users and give people what they need. And that now has to do with people, not necessarily some mathematical measurements. You really have to understand and kind of feel it all the time.
In some sense, it's against the grain for a computer scientist. As a computer scientist, you learn to deal with science and how you improve particular parameters. A lot of computer science now is directly about helping people.
Q: As you said at Google's Searchology event in May, the 21st century will be about understanding people.
A: Exactly. But that means that we need to build our systems that not only understand that …but that (allow us to) actually measure things. So we built a measurement system to really understand what people need. That means for us to improve search, we have to figure out what is missing and why it is not perfect for people.
When we suggest an improvement, we need to know whether it's really an improvement. We have hundreds of engineers and they have great ideas, but a lot of this is kind of intuitive. You may have a great idea and you implement it and it looks good, but it turns out it might hurt more cases than it helps.
Q: How do you determine that a change actually improves a set of results?
A: We ran over 5,000 experiments last year. Probably 10 experiments for every successful launch. We launch on the order of 100 to 120 a quarter. We have dozens of people working just on the measurement part. We have statisticians who know how to analyze data, we have engineers to build the tools. We have at least five or 10 tools where I can go and see here are five bad things that happened. Like this particular query got bad results because it didn't find something or the pages were slow or we didn't get some spell correction.
Q: But can those tools really determine what must often be a subjective assessment of whether results were good for a particular query?
A: You have to have really good intuition because you can't do one query at a time. If you look at all the unique queries we get in a particular day, about a third of them we've never seen before. One-third of them every day are unique. If you normalize for traffic in any random query … still about one-sixth of the total traffic is completely new every given day.
I wish there was a formula. But this formula would have to simulate a person. We don't know how to simulate a person. Yet. Maybe someday somebody will.
Q: What are some of the measures you use?
A: There are obvious things we can do. If somebody did a search for something and didn't click on anything, that's a sign that maybe the results are not good. It's not a good enough sign. All these signs are just an approximation.
Here's a very good example: You want to try to improve spell-checking, right? So what you expect is that if the spell-checking is correct, people will click on it. That's not the case. People use us as a spell-checker—they get the right answer and go away. So even though we didn't get any click, we got the perfect result. So you want to have no clicks.
There are other cases where the results are in the snippet. You don't have to click on it. It was the perfect result. So you have to be careful. Sometimes when you improve search, you actually get less clicks. And that's fine.
Q: Microsoft recently said its studies showed people weren't getting the results they wanted the vast majority of times they search.
A: I don't know how they computed that. But the numbers they had, I can tell you, were way too high. Maybe that's true for them. But I shouldn't say that because I don't know what they mean by that.
Q: Can you give me a sense of the types of methods you use to improve search?
A: Humans are involved, formulas are involved, experiments are involved. We often do A/B tests, give one set of people an algorithm, give another set of people another set of algorithms and see how they behave. We measure lots of things, not just clicks.
Q: I can imagine that one change that's good for particular results can have unintended effects on other results. I'm thinking of the butterfly flapping its wings in South America ultimately causing a storm in the North Atlantic.
A: Oh, we absolutely get that. We improve spell-checking somewhere, and suddenly, something completely unrelated changes.
The way you rank is, you score. So every result has a quality score, which is a result of hundreds of different things, and then you sort the results in order. So you change one thing, and one score goes from, say, 5,000 to 5,001. It's a small change. But it turns out that the three top results were all (scored) 5,000 and suddenly the 5,001 goes to result No. 1. These things happen all the time.
Q: You've been in search 20 years, almost four years at Google. Have you changed the process of how you try to improve search in that time?
A: The processes are much more smooth now. Especially the evaluation process and the decision process is much more smooth. We're very comfortable with that. To do a ranking improvement, you have all the infrastructure in the world to try your idea quickly, sometimes in a day, and get enough data to know whether it's good enough. Then you have more infrastructure to do a more thorough analysis and we give you all the support.
It's not like you need to get approval for anything. Any engineer can come up with any idea, can test his idea very, very well, and then analysis and all the work to evaluate an idea, and then they just have to come to a meeting. We know what numbers to look for. And we can make a decision in five minutes. All that allows people to innovate.
Q: You have a weekly meeting of search quality team leaders. What happens there?
A: The crux of those meetings is usually: what's wrong, how can we fix it, how can we use this insight to do other things. It's 20 people that are top in their area. We consult and advise them on what else to do.
In general, this is just an overview of certain areas. But what people try to achieve from those talks is to try to discover some things that may not work well and try to use what they've done in other areas. Sometimes we bring other groups and grill them. And sometimes we bring our own groups and grill them. But it's all productive. We're not saying "you're bad." It's all technical.
Q: Are people searching for different things or in a different way than five years ago that you need to address today?
A: Yes, it has changed quite a bit. For one thing, we're much better at search. We're better at the evaluation part. And there are more people who understand the search engine much better. Five years ago, there were maybe three or four people who knew it, and today there are probably 50. That's probably than all the rest outside of Google. It takes a very, very good engineer about two years to really understand search.
Q: So what's important today specifically—real-time? Social?
A: All those things are important. We look at all those things. Our job is to give people what they need in terms of search. So if want to follow somebody on Twitter, you should go to Twitter and follow somebody. But if you want to know what happened on that particular topic right now, that's real-time search. So we need to bring tools. We already have quite a bit, and will have more.
If something is written on the Web that is important, we should bring it back to you in seconds. Right now we're in minutes. Five years ago, it was once a month. We'll try to make it faster and faster. Clearly we have the ability to do this. It's getting possible. Now it's five minutes, and everybody goes, "Five whole minutes? It should be five seconds."
Q: But you can't index everything or even a good number of Web sites that fast.
A: Sure, but not that many things change that fast.
Q: So you have to determine what does change and focus on indexing that?
A: We have to determine from the query whether it can benefit from something in real-time. Like "history of the Renaissance." It's possible that somebody on Twitter just mentioned that. But a) it's not that likely and b) it's probably not what you want. You want the best article on the Renaissance. So time is not as important on that kind of query.
But search for "earthquake" and time is much more important. Or a particular celebrity that had news in the last five minutes. So we have to change the algorithm based on the query. We do that now.
Q: Aren't a lot of queries going to be ambiguous in intent?
A: Of course. That's why we can't be perfect. But a lot of it is not.
I have a really good example: "New York Times address." You think, what can be more clear than that query? In fact, the first snippet had the actual address. And all the other links had things like the address and the headquarters. Turns out that's not what the user wanted. And I can tell because I can see what they clicked on. We inserted somewhere a very new result, a fresh result, that talked about an address given by a New York Times reporter the day before. That's what the query was about. We got it in the top 10. It's possible the next day that result will go down.
Q: At some point, does there need to be an interface change that lets you say, "I want results in the last five minutes"?
A: We have that right now. We have (in Search Options the choice to choose) the last 24 hours. We can add "five minutes." That would be one very clear way to do this.
But that's not going to be the main thing that we'll do, because most people don't want to go in and understand what are the features. We'll have to understand what you need and bring it to you, and guess as much as we can. It can't be 100%, so we should give you all those options. But most people just want the right result.
Q: How much of Google's ability to provide real-time and social search will depend on access to the data, which is limited in the case of both Twitter and Facebook?
A: There are lots of different ways to allow us to get that data.
Q: What about social search, that is searching either your friends' posts or using their posts or links to inform searches?
A: Sometimes you want to get information your friends recommend. It's not necessarily the best information. If you want to go to a restaurant or a movie, you can argue that if I give you 7,000 reviews all over the Web, that may have the best information, but you really want to know what the three people that you trust say. For you, that's better information than everybody.
It's tricky. We actually experiment with this quite a bit. The question is how often do you really want to be influenced by your friends and how often do you prefer to be influenced by more, by the total knowledge out there?
The way we do it is through personalized search, based on your previous queries if you allow us to do that. I have a feeling for restaurant reviews and movie reviews, these are very specific areas. We're probably not doing as good a job as specific sites dedicated to that can do. But I think we do pretty well even for that.
I'm of two minds. Maybe I just don't have enough friends. I find it's about average. Sometimes I get good things, sometimes not so good.
Q: We're seeing a lot of companies offering specific kinds of search. Will search become more splintered among many services, or will most people continue to rely on one search engine for most of their needs?
A: Google is central. There will always be cases where very focused, very specialized content will be better for them. That's absolutely fine. If you're a researcher and you want medical information, you're going to go to Medline. It has a much better interface than we have, there's no question about it. The best we can do is to point you there. We can give you a lot of financial information, but but if you're a trader, you probably want to have data within microseconds.
Q: Will one size fits all be good enough in the future?
A: Aggregation of so many different things (on Google) gives you more chances of finding what you want. If you know ahead of time that what you need is in a particular niche, that's fine. But if you can go to one place and there's a good chance you'll find it there, why not?
I don't see it as a failure on our part if somebody does a search somewhere else. It doesn't even bother me. I think that's good. It's good to have a lot of diversity. It's good to have a lot of competition. In some sense, it'll drive us to improve if it turns out to be something a lot of people need.
Q: Might not it affect Google's business if people in larger numbers go to more specialized search engines?
A: Sure. (It's just that) we cannot be one size fits everything. That's impossible. If it turns that somebody offers a better service than we do, that's a concern. If it turns out that we don't satisfy needs, that's a problem. What happens now is we satisfy more and more needs.
Q: How do you know that?
A: I see more diverse queries, I see more hard queries, and our market share is going up.
Q: How important is the user interface for search today vs. a few years ago?
A: More and more people are more comfortable with search, and they want more power tools. So we want to provide it to them, even if only 1% or 2% of the population will use it. Maybe in five years, more people will need it.
One conflict I run against is that people want simplicity. But to have really powerful interfaces, you have to have some complexity. So how do you introduce complexity in such a way that you don't keep people out of that? It has to be optional. And it has to be something you run into slowly or can get it intuitively.
If you search for Harry Potter, it's going to be very hard to find that person. I bet most of the results are for Harry Potter the book. At some point, we'd like people to be able to say "I want the Harry Potter that's not in the book."
Q: A lot of this is what you might call sustaining innovations. Do you have ways to encourage more disruptive kinds of things? Or is that not such a good thing to try to do given Google's leadership position?
A: Yes, we do. We want to be disruptive. Hill climbing makes it easier for you step on top of some hill and think you're on top of the world. But you're not. We're very cognizant of that.
So yes, we do it in several ways. One of them is an annual, sometimes semiannual event where we take groups and ask them to take a week or two weeks and build something weird. They take off work and for two weeks they don't do anything else and build this.
We did it with user interface things, called it Demo Days. People came and spent a whole week building a demo, a working demo. We met once a day to track progress. Thirty-five teams built amazing things. We try to pick some things to move forward. We did it also for ranking, though we gave them more time. That was actually more teams—300 people, mostly in teams of two.
You may see some poster (around the Google headquarters), I call it CSI—it stood for Crazy Search Ideas. We encouraged people to do things that are actually crazy. Something that's obvious, and everybody agrees it's a good thing, it will be rejected.
Q: What kind of things do you mean?
A: It's things that you might find it hard to be approved because they are too small or they're too controversial or they're too left-field, but we want people to do them anyway, because they could be disruptive.
Q: Can you give me an example?
A: One thing launched that was technical, and it had to do with how we do ranking in Chinese. There's something that should launch soon. [Note: Manber corrected himself later; that particular one, which he wouldn't describe, is still being explored.] It's something that probably would not have happened otherwise. There were 118 ideas, and we highlighted four.
In this field, there's so many things you can do that if you just go in one proven, easy path—which you (also) have to do—that's not good, you have to do all kinds of things.
Q: Some people, even former Googlers, raise the possibility that Google is too much in a groove in search.
A: There's definitely a risk. We're aware of that. My main job is to make sure it doesn't happen. Sometimes it's not a groove, it's a hill. My worry is that we're stuck on top of a hill, but it's not the right hill. We're not in a rut. We're on some kind of a ridge. But that's not good enough.
Q: How are you feeling about Microsoft's Bing search engine and the marketing they're doing vs. Google?
A: I think competition is great. We can use more competition. It's good for other people, but it's also good for us. It triggers more innovation. It's all good. People like (Bing) for some reason, for good reasons. It gives us more motivation to work harder.


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John Douglas White charged with open murder, first degree pre-meditated murder in death of Rebekah Jane Gay
John Douglas White, 55, was arraigned in Isabella County District Court Thursday afternoon and charged with open murder and first degree pre-meditated murder in the death of Rebekah Jane Gay, 24.
The alleged murder occurred in Gay's mobile home, 3303 S. Coldwater Road, in Broomfield Valley Mobile Home Park, about 10 miles west of Mount Pleasant. White lived several houses away from Gay, police said.
Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said White beat Gay's head several times with a rubber mallet and then slipped a plastic zip-tie around her neck and strangled her.
Gay's body was found near a stand of pine trees off of Coldwater Road. White drove Gay's car behind The Barn Door, 3029 S. Coldwater Road, after the murder, police said.
Gay was last seen at 6:50 a.m. Tuesday and reported missing Wednesday.
Mioduszewski said the sheriff's department received a report about a missing person at noon on Wednesday. He said the murder happened Wednesday between 2 and 4 a.m.
"There was no forced entry," Mioduszewski said. "The initial assault happened in the hallway. He did go back to try to clean up the blood."
White was a non-intimate acquaintance of Gay's who also spent time with her son, Mioduszewski said. White had fantasized about Gay during the past two or three weeks, he said.
Mioduszewski said Gay's 3-year-old son was in the home at the time of the murder but was unharmed. It was unknown if the son was asleep or witnessed anything, he said.
White became a person of interest after interviews with Gay's friends and family. He became a suspect after police discovered traces of blood in White's home and pickup truck. Police found White in his home early Thursday morning. They brought him in for questioning around 8 a.m. Thursday.
"I do remember him saying he was a pastor," Mioduszewski said. "He was very ashamed of himself."
The arrest came at the end of a 27-hour investigation. Mioduszewski said detectives from the sheriff's department and Michigan State Police worked through the entire investigation.
Blood spatter was found in both Gay's and White's mobile home. Mioduszewski said a bloodied piece of jewelry worn by Gay was found in the bed of White's pickup truck. The mallet and bloody towels were found off Pickard Road near Woodruff Road. Gay's cell phone was found in a dumpster in the mobile home park.
"(White) got her phone, turned it off and threw it in the dumpster," Mioduszewski said.
As of Thursday afternoon, White's son was with his father in Midland. Mioduszewski said White often took care of Gay's son while she was at work at Goodwill, 1313 South Mission St. He also took him to meet with his father at the Mount Pleasant Meijer, 1015 West Pickard St., after murdering Gay.
"The suspect ended up putting (Gay's son's) Halloween costume on him before taking him to his father," Mioduszewski said.
Mioduszewski said a motive has not yet been determined. A preliminary examination is scheduled for Nov. 8 at 8:15 a.m. Judge William Rush will hear the preceding.


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11:25PM EST: Roy Jones on the way to the ring, very stoic and serious to Snoop's "I Wanna Rock." Cracks a small smile as he hears it from his fans.
11:32PM: Hopkins comes to the ring in his trademark Executioner hood. Trainer Nazim Richardson is behind him looking unconcerned and relaxed popping gum. Bernard has a lounge singer performing are remixed version of Sinatra's "I Did It My Way." Complete with old school female backup singers in the ring. Next update will be round 1!
Round 1
Hopkins looking for the overhand right early. Feint taunts by both men. Roy jabbing early. Hooks to the body from Bernard. Hopkins mauling inside, Roy covering up well. Hopkins now making Roy chase him. Hopkins jab to the pit of the stomach. Roy returns the favor. Roy with a quick straight right to end the round. Tactical, but I liked Bernard's body shots as the difference.
Hopkins 10-9
Round 2
Hopkins retreating, Roy looking for the right hand. Hopkins catches Jones with a right behind the jab. Roy has to clinch against the ropes. Roy hesitate to attack, Hopkins looking to counter. Roy misses wild left hook,Hopkins with short hooks to the body. Left hook wobbles Roy. Jones covers up on the ropes and blocks some followup hooks. Jones ok, just briefly stunned. Jones cut above the left eye.
Hopkins 10-9
Round 3
Clinching early. Jones waiting on Hopkins. Jab lands for BHop, still looking for that overhand right. Hard left hook to the body from Hopkins. Jones lands a left hook but BHop walks through and bullies him to the ropes with body shots. Roy not punching enough, Hopkins getting loose. Roy keeping his hands out front trying to catch Hopkins' jab.
Hopkins 10-9
Round 4
Jones' cut not fight-threatening. Jones jabbing more early. Hopkins left hook drives Jones to the ropes, clinching. Left hook to teh body from BHop. Hopkins missed a left hook and Jones's reflexes were too slow to counter. Hopkins working shots to the hop and kidneys. Leaping left hook from Roy partially blocked. Roy tries to taunt with Hopkins lands again to the body to close out the round.
Hopkins 10-9
Round 5
Same pattern early. Jones lands well with corkscrew right hand. Hopkins ups the pressure with hooks. Roy bullied into the ropes again. Both guys workign in the clinches. Lets of feints, Jones talking to Bernard in the clinches. Sneaky low blow by Bernard with the ref out of position. Hopkins gives another. Jones retaliates to the body. Close round, Roy doing better.
Jones 10-9
Round 6
Right hook to the body from BHop. Crowd restless now, not much action in the first minute. Hopkins opens up with hooks on Jones, who is forced to clinch. Jones protecting his head but catching the hooks to the body. Jones still wary about letting go in ring center. Hopkins falls out from a rabbit punch. Jones smiles and feels Bernard is faking. Ringside physician comes in to check on Hopkins. BHop still down on his knees.
Hopkins finally gets up. Replay shows Jones clubbed him with a left hook behind the head. Jones loses a point for the foul. Hopkins looks to have 5 minutes to recover, and lets the ref know he will continue. Hopkins now furious.
Hopkins unloads on Roy to conclude the round. Both men keep throwing around the referee. Mini-riot breaks out!. Ordered restored by security after about 30 seconds. Hilarious.
Hopkins 10-8 with point deduction
Round 7
Hopkins looking for the KO. Both guys with the taunts. Hopkins lands to hard jabs. Jones complains to the ref and Hopkins smashes him on a break. Jones can't land his jab. Glancing overhand right from Hopkins to finish out the round. Jones in a big hole and needs a KO.
Hopkins 10-9
Round 8
Left hook lands from Jones. Hopkins with his own left hand counter to the head. Hopkins jabs drive Jones back to the ropes, more clinching. In the clinch, both guys exchange rabbit punches, and Hopkins falls out again. Roy now risking disqualification. Ref gives them both a warning for fouls. Hopkins flurries Jones against the ropes to conclude the round.
Hopkins 10-9
Round 9
Roy lands a strong right to the head. Hopkins forcing Jones to the ropes at will. Hopkins falls asleep and eats a right to the head. BHop tries to fire back. Clinch-filled round with lots of standing around, but Jones landed the most telling shots.
Nazim urges Hopkins to press him.
Jones 10-9
Round 10
Hopkins falls out again! This time froma low blow. However, Hopkins landed good shots to the body with hooks, and a straight right through Jones' guard.
Hopkins 10-9
Round 11
Jones cut again on the left eye, this time from accidental headbutt. Hopkins continuing to land the right hand more. Hopkins with a left hook to the body. No sense of urgency from either fighter and crowd boos with dissatisfaction.
Hopkins 10-9
Round 12
Jones moves foward and lands a lead right and left hook. More clinching. Boos rain down. Jones chases briefly and a glancing counter right from Hopkins. No big finish but Bernard is happy. Meh....
Hopkins 10-9
Official Scorecards: 117-110, 117-110, 118-109 Bernard Hopkins by Unanimous Decision
There was no beating like people expected, but the fight was abysmal. Even if you are a big Jones or Hopkins fan, it was a tough one to sit through. The sad thing is because Jones survived, he'll probably fight again. Hopkins said in the post-fight interview that he wants David Haye, who battered John Ruiz earlier today in a TKO win. Based on what I've seen today Haye knocks him out, but most wouldn't mind seeing that fight.
Sugar Ray Leonard summed up this night the best.
"They didn't do this for the fans, they did it for themselves."
If the promoters want to continue getting the fans' money, they better heed the wants of their audience. And from the low attendance, something tells me the PPV numbers for this fight will make that statement.
We are just days away from the long-awaited rematch between future Hall of Famers Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins. Earlier this week, Hopkins gave me an in-depth interview on the fight, his legacy, and future heavyweight plans. Both fighters have concluded their final preparations, and are supremely confident in their chances. But which man will have his hand raised at the end of the night?
Roy Jones Keys for Success
Camp with Roy is going very well. He's training just as hard for this fight as he did any other fight that he's had in the past. He's mentally and physically focused for the fight. He knows Bernard is going to be ready for the fighting, and know Bernard is really working hard for it.
-Roy Jones trainer Alton Merkerson
Anyone whos even taken a casual interest in boxing the last 15 years knows who Roy Jones, Jr is. The Pensacola native ruled for years as the top pound for pound fighter in the sport. But after experiencing a 1st round TKO in his last fight, the fighter viewed as Superman in his prime is now clearly in the twilight of his career.
Joness recent wins against lesser opponents like Jeff Lacy and Omar Sheika have shown flashes of the pugilists former glory. Roys hands are still blazing fast, and he mixed up his combinations well to the head and boxing, alternating between hard and pity pat shots to confuse his foes. Because his stamina has waned, Jones has taken to the ropes much more, but against someone limited like Lacy, Roy was able to roll with the punches and control the pacing with well-timed clinches.
Hopkins lives to abuse opponents on the inside (with legal and illegal tactics). Jones must attempt to keep the fight in the center of the ring for as long as possible, preferably at least 1:45-2:00 minutes every round. In the first fight in 1993, a 28-year old Hopkins was befuddled with Jones hand speed and repeatedly fell victim to potshots from the outside. By the time the Executioner was in position to retaliate, Jones was already out of range. Roy must seek to replicate that. Remain active and keep Bernard focused on defense. When Roy lets his hands go like that with power, Hopkins likely will not trade with him, giving the latter the chance to rack up crucial points.
Hopkins at 45 has a considerably slower first step, and usually barrels in head first to drive opponents into clinches where he can wear them down with short hooks. Jones must be cognizant of that at all times; whenever his back touches the ropes, he needs to spin off and take the fight back to ring center.
If Jones can keep this up for at least 9 out of 12 rounds (barring any knockdowns), he has a strong chance to take a decision win.
Bernard Hopkins Keys to Success
We take nothing for granted with Roy Jones because, in my opinion, and this is my personal opinion, I feel as though the man has gone desperate now, and the desperate man is dangerous, and he's an exceptional talent, and we look forward to this match up, as many have over the years. I was teasing Bernard. I said, some of these young guys on the under card weren't old enough to spell boxing the last time these two guys fought. But it should be a great match up, and we feel confident going into this fight.
-Hopkins trainer Nazim Richardson
At 45 years old, Bernard Hopkins still manages to be a force in the boxing world. The self-proclaimed modern Archie Moore of boxing fought a pedestrian outing against Enrique Ornelas in December 2009, but was too cagey for the younger opponent.
Against Jones, Hopkins will contend with a speed fighter. The last two fighters hes faced with fast hands were Jermain Taylor and Joe Calzaghe, losing all three bouts by disputed decisions. With the former, Bernard struggled to find a rhythm and came on too late for the judges. Against the latter, Hopkins mostly nullified Calzaghes speed but couldnt neutralize the Welshman coming forward and his activity, no matter how sloppy it was.
Jones fights like neither man, but Hopkins must prevent Roy from getting comfortable in there and showing off with the potshots and shoeshine combinations. Like always, Hopkins will want to make it a rough, inside fight by getting Roy in a lot a clinches and working him over. Hopkins has never cared if hes made a fight ugly to watch, as witnessed with Winky Wright in 2007, but you also see how effective he was in that bout at sapping all of Wright energy by the latter rounds with all that clinching and roughhousing. Hopkins is great at timing right hand counters over jabs, but that would still be difficult to do at times because of Roys speed. So to lower Jones opportunities, Hopkins should remain close to him as much as possible.
Jones cant fight full 3 minutes rounds anymore, so inevitably he will go to the ropes to take breathers. This is where the Executioner should do his best work. Prime Roy Jones defense was mostly centered in his legs, so with those gone he has to rely on parrying, and punch rolling techniques against the ropes (see Ali-Foreman for a good example). Hopkins is clearly the better inside fighter, and should relish the opportunities hell get there to beat Jones up.
Fight Prediction
For most experts and hardcore fans Roy Jones career as an elite fighter came to end in 2004 when Glen Johnson knocked him cold for over 10 minutes. But here we are astonishingly 6 years later.
Bernard Hopkins may be 45 years old, but he has considerably less wear and tear and has not suffered bad KO losses like Jones had last December against Danny Green, or prolonged beatings like Roy received in 2008 in the Calzaghe fight. In fact, every time Jones has faced an elite fighter (no, a blown up light-heavyweight version of Felix Trinidad is not elite) since 2004, hes been thoroughly dominated. On the other hand, Hopkins has either beaten elites hes faced, or suffered highly disputable losses, all against fighters much younger than him.
If this was a 4 or 5 round fight, Roy Jones could possibly win. I see Bernard struggling with his speed early, and Jones looking good catching him with outside and mid-range potshots.
But after that, Jones will slow down and not be able to avoid Hopkins rushes and get pushed consistently to ropes. Hopkins isnt a big puncher, so Jones takes prolonged punishment that becomes uncomfortable to watch going into the later rounds. Because of their history Jones wont quit, and unfortunately takes a sustained beating like he did against Joe Calzaghe.
The prediction is Bernard Hopkins via 11th round TKO, likely from a corner stoppage.
Your thoughts?
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Note: This article will be updated on fight night (April 3) with Knockout Nation columnist Ismael AbduSalaam providing round by round coverage of the main event.


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Acme Boots was founded in 1929, during the Great Depression. Two Chicago shoe manufacturers, Jessel Cohn and his son, Sidney, decided to move their children's and infants' shoemaking plant from Chicago, Illinois to Clarksville, Tennessee.
They set up their business in a two-story brick building on Crossland Avenue and called it the Acme Shoe Manufacturing Company. They hired 100 employees and began producing sandal-like footwear for children and infants under the name Just-Kids. The shoes sold for 40 to 50 cents a pair. The Cohns continued their children's business until 1935, when the senior Cohn returned home from a business trip to Texas. While there, Cohn saw a pair of western boots that cost $65.00, well beyond the reach of the average shoe buyer at the time.
Cohn took a pair of boots back to Clarksville to see how they were made. He studied the boots carefully, noting every detail of their construction. After his inspection, he and his son decided they could produce the same boots on an assembly line, allowing them to sell the boots for a better price.
A short time later, the Cohns dropped their children's footwear line in favor of the boots and renamed the company Acme Boots. In the 1940s, Acme Boots became the largest maker of cowboy boots and remained the world's largest until the mid-1980s.
Acme Boots has since been held by various corporations, including Arena Brands of Dallas, Texas, which licensed the Acme Brand to the Texas Boot Company of Lebanon, Tennessee in 2000.
In 2002, Texas Boot put the Acme Boot brand up for sale, where it was purchased by H.H. Brown, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, and placed under the Double-H Boots brand label, where it remains today. Acme was purchased to create a price point product story to complement the Double-H brand of western boots and footwear.[clarification needed]


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Bowser in the Sky is the final Bowser level from Super Mario 64 and its DS remake, Super Mario 64 DS, accessible from the second floor star door in the room with the entrances to Tick Tock Clock and Rainbow Ride once Mario has seventy Power Stars. Similar to the other Bowser levels, Bowser in the Sky requires Mario to fight his way through a variety of platforms and enemies to reach the Warp Pipe leading to the final battle against Bowser, who must be defeated in order to restore the power of the Stars to Princess Peach's Castle, alongside saving both Princess Peach and the Toads.
Unlike the other Bowser levels in the DS remake where Mario is only required to unlock the Star Doors leading to them, the Star Door for Bowser in the Sky will only permit Mario to enter it without triggering the endless staircase. Like the other Bowser levels, Mario can hunt for red coins scattered throughout the course in order to obtain a secret Star, and in the DS remake, stand on a Star Switch found on one of the lower floors and shatter the Star Sphere that contains the Star before time runs out.
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Salvation Army Canadian Personnel Lend a Helping Hand Following Hurricane Irma
Seven days after Hurricane Irma made a powerful and catastrophic landfall in South Florida, John and Candace Freeman returned to their forever home. "It's a struggle now, but thanks to organizations such as The Salvation Army, we are going to make it," says John.
On September 13, The Salvation Army in Canada deployed 10 members of its emergency disaster personnel to lead an incident command team in Florida. The team provided assistance with food and hydration services, emotional and spiritual care, and crisis intervention.
"We were blessed," says John. "After the hurricane our home was still a structure. We had 11 inches of water throughout our house. The neighbour had 22 inches. We lost $500 worth of food. Others lost much more."
Two days before Irma's expected severe damage, John, Candace, their 19-year-old daughter, cat and three birds, piled into their truck, loaded with personal items, and fled for safety.
"The day we left the breeze had started to pick up and our community was becoming a ghost-town," says Candace. "Gas stations and grocery stores were closed. On the highway there were no tourists heading south. It was eerie."
With the darkest days of the storm behind them, the Freeman's are now worried about more than removing water, drying everything and clearing out spoiled food.
"Cleaning supplies and replacing food are costs we weren't expecting," says John. "We have enough resources for a period of time, but these are starting to run out. Cleanup will take weeks but our recovery could take months."


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CHANDLER, AZ. -- If Seahawks fans and others around the country weren't taking Deflate-gate seriously, they will now.
PHOENIX -- Less than a month ago, one of the key participants in the Seahawks' crucial goal-line stands in the NFC Championship against Green Bay was in Spartanburg, S.C., working his valet parking business.
"Guys get out of their cars, they don't have their suit jacket on yet, so I take it off the hanger and put it on them," Landon Cohen said last week in the Seahawks locker room. "Then they find out, 'Oh my gosh, this guy plays football too.'
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Sunday morning arrived a little cloudy, a little cool, no precip, no wind -- a benign, Seattle-like start to what will be the longest day in the sports lives of the Seahawks and Denver Broncos. The wait before kickoff is agonizing, said a man who should know -- Mike Holmgren.
NEW YORK CITY -- Sure, there is plenty of excitement among the Seahawks. But from the time they won the NFC Championship, a current of calmness runs beneath the surface among players and coaches. It's as if they know something. Since no one dares speak of it directly, we are left to guess until Sunday night.
NEW YORK CITY -- Competitively, the Seahawks were nearly dead. Coach Mike Holmgren's final year of 2008 was a 4-12 dud. General manager Tim Ruskell was fired after a 4-7 start to the 2009 season, which ended 5-11 after losses in the final four games by a combined score of 123-37. Hometown favorite Jim Mora was fired after a single season as head coach.
NEWARK, N.J. -- The awkward comedy of the Super Bowl's annual clown-car event -- how many media types can you cram into America's consciousness? -- was in full Beast Mode Tuesday afternoon when Marshawn Lynch showed up and made it into Least Mode.
The Seahawks running back, elusive professionally and personally, ambled into and out of the American sports spotlight in about six minutes. Unharmed.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- After four neck surgeries two years ago that left him temporarily unable to throw a football, Denver quarterback Peyton Manning's appreciation for possibly winning his second Super Bowl will be close to unchallenged. But depth of feeling will be no greater than that of Seahawks fullback Michael Robinson, should he win his first.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Sunday morning, they waved and honked from Seattle freeways. Entering the Sea-Tac airport area, they clogged the road and pounded on the team buses. By evening, after crossing the country, the Seahawks were cheered at Newark Liberty airport. Arrival at their Jersey City hotel inspired several dozen to show up with 12th Man flags and scream.
As reporters-turned-kids squeezed into the press box elevator on the way to speak to history, the bald guy jammed in late into the giggle-fest.
"So," I said, "do we credit Jack Zduriencik for not trading Felix Hernandez?"
Not missing a beat, Zduriencik put his cell phone to his ear and shouted to a make-believe general manager, "No! We will not trade Felix!"
Hard to say where it will end up in the litany of his baseball accomplishments, but Ichiro did the Mariners a big, fat, final, tuna-roll-flavored favor Monday: He asked out.
He asked out, before the Mariners surely would have asked him back.
Despite the fact that Ichiro, in his contract year, is on a fade nearly as fast as newspapers, the Mariners were trying to get him to sign an extension. Club president Chuck Armstrong reported Monday the most recent effort was in June.
One of the reasons Mark Emmert left the University of Washington presidency to head the NCAA was that he wanted a job with national impact.
I always thought that was funny. Being president of the NCAA is like being a department-store Santa Claus: Just because a lot of people come talk to him doesn't mean the guy runs the store.
Aside from the fact that numerous arena advocates brought their bellicose ballgame manners to a civic discussion, the informal town hall meeting Tuesday night at North Seattle Community College to talk about Chris Hansen's arena proposal was pleasantly illuminating.
Most illuminating was, judging by the questions asked and the hecklers shushed, how passionate and confused many attendees were, in relatively equal amounts, about the project. But that probably isn't surprising, given how confused was the region's leading editorial voice, the Seattle Times, in denouncing the project Sunday, well ahead of the delivery of all facts and the completion of hearings and negotiations.
As the longtime chairman of the Seattle City Councils land use committee, Richard Conlin knows a few things about dirt and what goes on top of it.
At the moment, however he finds himself under a fair amount of real estate after basketball fans heard about a letter he sent constituents that said of the new basketball/hockey arena: It is unlikely that this proposal will be approved.
Since we're early in a process of several years that it will take to build and populate a basketball/hockey arena, I'd like to offer up some naive ideas to the involved parties to streamline the process and make it a tad less unpleasant.
I say this having sat through two King County hearings Tuesday and one City Council hearing Wednesday, so I may be a little agitated and loopy. Nevertheless:
While the sports world fixates on LeBron James vs. Kevin Durant, the match between Seattle's arena proponents and opponents became a whole lot grittier and more compelling Tuesday.
Back-to-back hearings in King County Council chambers produced a charge from an expert that the site in SoDo for the $490 million project is not big enough, and also would violate land-use laws, which brought a counter-charge from the mayor that the expert is a house honk for (ahem) Bellevue. And arena developer Chris Hansen was challenged: If your deal is so swell, why not put up the project for a county-wide vote?
When sports hyperventilation is so audible that it begins to drown out jet engines in this town, we need to have a talk.
Oklahoma City's arrival in the NBA Finals is producing in Seattle some industrial-grade retching, as well as a counter-current of dismissal, the argument being that contempt for the Thunder's success is a waste of emotion.
For every Seattle sports fan pulling mightily against the success of the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals, take a break. For a few minutes, try pulling FOR something.
If you don't feel better after pulling for Brian Banks, something's wrong. You must be Howard Schultz.
You don't even have to know the cruel backstory to appreciate a top-tier athlete who says, "I'm more appreciative of this chance than deserving of it."
In case you wonder why a smart guy like Chris Hansen would invest $290 million in a project that supports a money-losing industry like the NBA, David Stern offered over the weekend a partial explanation.
The commissioner thinks that, thanks to the new collective bargaining agreement that was signed in December after a lockout, every NBA team can be profitable by around 2014-15, about the time Hansen's proposed Seattle arena could be near completion.
Longtime Sonics fan and Seattle native Chris Hansen surprised the local sports and civic scene in February with his offer of $290 million in private capital to help fund a $500 million arena in the SoDo district. He sat down for lunch with Sportspress Northwest columnist Art Thiel Thursday for an exclusive, extensive interview.
Part One of the question-and-answer session was published Friday at Sportspress Northwest and can can be found here. In Part Two, Hansen talks about what he's looking for in partners, his "wrestling" with being the lead investor, the "under-appreciated" virtues of the proposed funding, and the arena's size. As has been his custom, he declined to answer specific questions about potential team re-locations, nor identify potential local partners.
Q. Please clear up some public confusion about the potential timing of simultaneous pursuits of re-locations from the NBA and NHL.
Chris Hansen describes himself as a patient guy who takes a long term view of everything in his charge.
Which is good, because he's beginning to feel just a bit annoyed at the process of getting his proposed arena project off the ground.


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Arabic is the language of the Islamic world, where all Islamic religious teachings use Arabic, such as the Qur'an, the Hadith and the books of the Salafist scholars. If we want to understand properly with the teachings of Islamic religion, it would be nice if we menguasahi Arabic language. But the Arabic language is not that easy to understand but not too difficult too, essentially if we have the determination and willingness to learn, as hard as anything we can surely master it. Meanwhile, you can also learn arabic online if you want to get the better and faster result in learning this language.
But all we have to ask ourselves is "do we have a strong determination to learn Arabic?" But I'm sure we have that determination, because it is not possible you will write a keyword how to learn arab Arabic in google, yahoo or bing or else to stop by this blog if you do not want or do not have the determination to understand Arabic, right?
Well, therefore, I will try to present you an article on how to learn Arabic language effectively and efficiently. Already know. If you do not know please refer to the following; but this is based on my personal experience during learning Arabic in pesantren, and I think it is quite satisfying. But what you need to cultivate is determination and kemaun and practice. Intelligence can not guarantee if we have no determination, will and practice.


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Classic Deviled Eggs
- Recipe created by Eggland's Best on Jul 15, 2011
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- Prep: 20 min
- Cook Time: 30 min
- Total: 50 min
- Serving: 24
For your next get-together, fix a batch of classic deviled eggs. This recipe is so simple yet delicious.
- 12 Eggland's Best hard cooked eggs
- 2/3 cup low-fat mayonnaise
- 1 tsp mustard
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp paprika, for garnish
- Cut eggs in half lengthwise, and remove the yolks. Mash yolks with a fork and add mayonnaise, mustard and salt.
- Put the yolk mixture into a plastic bag and snip the end off one corner.
- Pipe the mixture into the whites. Sprinkle with paprika, if desired.
- Cover and chill for at least one hour.
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Gloria Estefan's daughter Emily steps into the limelight with her stellar debut album Take Whatever You Want.
Get Your Aural Stimulation on with the Hidden Figures Soundtrack
What would Hidden Figures week be without me talking about the soundtrack? If you haven't checked it out as yet, get on that.
Hidden Figures Week Begins with a Contest!
I am declaring this week to be Hidden Figures week on Soulafrodisiac! I'm giving away 3 pairs of tickets to see the movie this weekend. Get on it!
Denial – my Georgios is gone. (1963-2016)
I'm still trying to pick up the pieces over here, but here's my word about my musical journey with George Micheal. #RIP
Merry Christmas and all that good stuff!
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Songwriter and Artist Gordon Chambers will "Surrender" on 01/16/17
Gordon Chambers' new album Surrender will be released on January 16th, 2017. Check out the backstory of the album and more from the singer/songwriter.
Singing the blues with Jackie Venson Live
Guitarist Jackie Venson brings her self-entitled blues live album to the masses, and I likes! Check it out…
The One Luv Benefit Concert supports the LGBTQ community during the holiday season
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