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The low murmur of approximately 200 voices stilled as someone whistled for attention, and a palpable wave of admiration, respect, and awe swept through the crowd of teachers and students Tuesday morning. All eyes were on Larry Cushenbery, retired Wichita Fire Department Honor Guard bugler as he marched crisply into place near the half-mast U.S. flag in front of the Hillsboro High School. With precise movements, Cushenbery brought a gleaming bronze trombone to his lips.
It was a moment in time, a time to remember, a ceremony to memorialize the day 11 years ago that thousands of American citizens lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In the silence, Cushenbery took several deep breaths and began to play the somber melodious notes that sent shivers deep into the souls of those listening.
Cushenbery, of Tampa, played three such ceremonies Tuesday in Hillsboro, starting at the elementary school at 8:03 a.m., the high school at 8:37 a.m., and finishing at city hall at 9:03 a.m. The times were significant, coinciding with the times that two airplanes flew into New York City's twin towers and one which crashed into the Pentagon that fateful day.
Dan Perry of Hillsboro, a veteran of the United States Army Special Forces, organized the event.
"I feel like the American public has a short memory," Perry said. "I believe we need to keep the memory of what happened on 9/11 fresh in the minds of our people, especially our youth. Most of those at the elementary were not even alive when this happened. We need to remember so we don't ever have to go through anything like it again."
Perry said he was concerned about people missing an opportunity to remember 9-11 because it fell on a weekday and not a weekend. He consulted with friends who knew about Bugles Across America and learned that they were planning Taps remembrance ceremonies in Lindsborg.
"I knew Cushenbery was in Bugles Across America and asked him if he would come to play in Hillsboro," Perry said. "He said he would as long as he could play his trombone."
Cushenbery said the choice of trombone for the taps ceremony was no accident.
"I've been a bugler for 15 to 20 years," he said. "I can play the bugle, trumpet, cornet, and trombone. When I had my honor guard listen from around a corner so they couldn't see which instrument I played, they picked the trombone. It has a much more somber, melodious tone."
Cushenbery is a retired EMS worker in Tampa, often staffs an ambulance crew at local football games, and starts work next week as a jailer at the new Marion County jail.
After the Taps ceremony at the Hillsboro schools, teachers visited with their students about the events of 9/11 and the safety of citizens in the U.S.


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The movies the world watches, the television shows they tune into, and the music
they listen to are, for the most part, produced in the United States. For
instance, the U.S. exports more than 25 times the number of movies and television
shows than it consumes from abroad, a fact that causes Ben Wattenberg to observe
quite correctly that America is "the most culturally potent nation in the world."
Even the virulent America-hater Saddam Hussein reportedly spent a good portion of
his time watching American-made movies such as The Godfather and Enemy of the
9. Immigration
During the hundred years ending in the 1920s, a majority of the world's immigrants
came to one lone country: the United States. Today, the U.S. takes in more
immigrants than at any point in its history. Yet, the Left portrays America as a
bastion of xenophobia and bigotry. Alexander Hamilton (the first Secretary of the
Treasury), John Jacob Astor (America's first multimillionaire), Alexander Graham
Bell (invented the telephone), Louis B. Mayer (Hollywood pioneer), Selman Waksman
(cured tuberculosis), and Ralph Baer (invented the video game) are among the
immigrants to America whose lives belie the Left's premise. Just as those who
complain about "oppression" in the U.S. would never entertain the idea of living
anywhere else, the people around the world we allegedly oppress flock to come
here. This contradiction between leftist theory and real-world practice
illustrates just how delusional the central tenets of leftist thought really are.
8. Technology
Nothing disproves the Leftist mantra that "all cultures are equal" more than
technology does. Americans have given the world motion pictures, the telephone,
the television, the computer, the Internet, the airplane, the VCR, and a host of
other machines and devices that have vastly improved the quality of life on the
planet. Ironically, the terrorists who hate the U.S. give America a tacit
endorsement every time they turn on a light, escape the heat through air
conditioning, monitor their exploits on television or the internet, or communicate
via telephone.
7. Creating Wealth
America is the sun around which the world economy revolves. The typical creator of
wealth in the world is an American. Foreigners benefit from buying better products
from American companies and working better jobs manufacturing such products. Take
America's $9 trillion dollar economy out of the picture, and the economic well
being of the rest of the world nose-dives.
6. Generosity
With great wealth comes great generosity. In 2000, Americans gave more than $200
billion in charity, dwarfing the amount donated elsewhere. Since World War II, the
U.S. government has given well in excess of $500 billion (not adjusted for
inflation) in foreign aid. Last year, our government distributed more than $20
billion to 130 countries. While American taxpayers have a right to gripe, what are
we to make of foreign beneficiaries who return our favor by burning U.S. flags and
chanting "death to America"?
5. Human Achievement
Americans have stretched the bounds of the possible. The first transatlantic
flight, putting a man on the moon, breaking the speed of sound, constructing the
Hoover Dam, and building the Panama Canal serve as testimony to American courage
and ingenuity. It wasn't Danes or Bolivians or Iranians or Koreans who achieved
these feats. It was Americans. This is significant.
4. Enlightened Power
The Soviet Empire ruled over Eastern Europe. The Ottoman Empire claimed dominion
over vast stretches of the Islamic world. The Empire of the Sun sought dominion
over the Orient. The American Empire rules...only Americans. America is an
historical curiosity. It is the most powerful country in the world, yet it eschews
imperialism. Instead, it has used its military might to liberate. Nazi Germany,
North Korea, Soviet Russia, Hussein's Iraq, and Communist Vietnam are among the
nefarious states we sought to prevent from increasing their totalitarian control
over others. The world is a better place because America, and not some other
country, is the sole superpower.
3. Medicine
Will Nigerian doctors make the blind see? Will Cambodians cure AIDS? Will
Pakistanis eradicate cancer? The answer is probably not. Why? The reason is that
non-Westerners have had no discernable impact on modern medicine. This year, like
45 of the last 60, an American won a share of the Nobel Prize in the field of
medicine. Americans cured polio and tuberculosis, developed vaccines for hepatitis
B and yellow fever, pioneered modern chemotherapy, and produced the CAT scan and
MRI. What's there to hate about that?
2. Democracy
Leftists harp that American democracy is tainted because not everyone possessed
the right to vote at the Founding. Denial of the vote in the 18th century,
however, was universal. What made America unique was not that some people could
not vote, but that anybody could. More than 215 years after the Constitutional
Convention, most people on the planet still do not have a right to vote. Every
Arab country, more than three-fourths of African nations, and many of the most
populous nations in the Orient still deny their citizens the right to choose their
own leaders. Despite the continued rejection by many foreign leaders, the ideals
of the American Founding became contagious. Our example served to topple regimes
far from our shores. Pro-democracy activists don't quote the founding documents of
Saudi Arabia or appropriate the cultural symbols of China. They cite passages from
the Declaration of Independence and hoist replicas of the Statue of Liberty.
1. Freedom
America has shined as a beacon of freedom in an unfree world for more than two
centuries. To this day, for instance, most people living outside our borders
reside in countries where the private practice of broadcast journalism is illegal
and where the state is the dominant banker. Americans can say anything they want,
worship any god they choose, and associate with any motley crew around. Our legacy
is not slave chains, Wounded Knee, and the murder of James Byrd, but American GIs
liberating a Nazi death camp, an immigrant's first glance of lady liberty's torch,
and Ronald Reagan exhorting the Soviet's to tear down the Berlin Wall. If nothing
else, America means freedom.


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Fhotoroom is a popular Windows Phone photo editing app that is also available over on the Windows 8/RT platform. That version was recently updated to version 1.4 that offers a few new editing tools and RAW image file support.
For those not familiar, RAW image files are basically unprocessed .JPEG files. Many prefer to shoot in RAW format to do the image processing themselves (exposure, contrast, saturation, color temperature, etc.) before converting the image to .JPEG as opposed to allow the in-camera processing to handle the task. Each camera manufacturer crates it's own RAW format specific to each camera model. Think of a RAW file as a digital negative that needs to be developed.
Version 1.4 of Fhotoroom supports over 150 RAW file formats from camera manufacturers such as Canon, Olympus, Nikon, Kodak, Pentax, Sony and Panasonic. While this is a huge feature, the downside is that Fhotoroom automatically processes the RAW file, eliminating the appeal in using the format.
Along with the RAW support, the updated version adds a few bug fixes and the following features to the mix.
- ColorSplash Threshold option added
- Highlight and Shadows option added
- 5x7 and 7x5 crop sizes added
- Undo, Redo and Original controls added
The update adds some nice functionality and features to Fhotoroom. I would have liked to have seen more control in the RAW file conversion but until we see something along the lines of Adobe Photoshop coming to the Windows RT arena, Fhotoroom will come in handy for processing RAW files while on the go.
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Instant coffee sachets, little packets of cookies, tiny shower gel containers, overpriced washing machines, towels on the racks or in the bath tub, slow wireless, WIN and PRIME and never enough pillows. Yes it's life on the road. The road to glory for some, for me it's just the boring old road to Traralgon and beyond in the Tour of Gippsland.
Day one is down with two short road stages now under my belt. The first stage was flat and windy and the bunch split a few times with various crashes. Kane Walker won the uphill kick impressively, me, I was in the bunch and felt good, job done.
The next stage we raced two loops around Traralgon south up a vicious 1k berg then went straight out of town and up Mt Tassie. The climb went for about 30-40 minutes, it's all a blur I just remember attacking once at the bottom, attacking a second time, and we were away! We had a solid group with some dam strong climber, Tim Roe and Jai Crawford were pushing it for Savings and Loans and Adam Semple was keeping the pace up for the AIS team.
To say the descent was sketchy would be understatement of the century. It was nuts! Mudd, moss, rocks, dirt, rain, ferns, branches, and four, yes, 1,2,3,4 pick a plank tyre swallowing bridges! Somehow I am still alive to write this story, somehow.
As we neared the finish the attacks started, I did a big bridge up to one attack then went straight over the top. In the end it was Leigh Howard, David Kemp, Tim Roe and myself away with about 2k to go. The sprint for me was not great, I was planning an attack before the sprint but then kinda ended up on the front into the corner at 300 to go basically leading the others out. Hmmm, not good Jono, not good. So 4th it was.
A good start and I was happy to show some climbing legs on the first day. I can't wait for some more of the hilly road races to have a crack.
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Turn out dough onto a clean work surface, and knead until smooth and elastic, about 4 minutes. Coat a large bowl with cooking spray. Place dough in bowl; cover with plastic wrap. Set bowl in a warm place; let dough rise until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
Place a pizza stone in oven; heat to 400 degrees. Dust a pizza peel or a baking sheet with 1 teaspoon cornmeal. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out one half of dough into a 12-inch circle. Transfer dough to peel, cover with plastic wrap, and let rest 15 minutes. Roll out second piece of dough; transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and dusted with remaining teaspoon cornmeal. Cover with plastic, and let dough rest 15 minutes.
Place currants and raisins in a small bowl. Cover with 1/4 cup warm water; set aside. Coat a wide 6-quart saucepan with cooking spray; set over medium-high heat. When hot, add onion; cook until translucent, about 2 minutes. Add escarole and vinegar; cook until escarole has wilted, 2 to 3 minutes. Drain currants and raisins; add to escarole mixture. Remove pan from heat; set aside.
Remove plastic from the dough on peel. Sprinkle half of Gruyere over the dough, leaving a 1-inch border. Sprinkle nutmeg over cheese, and cover with half of escarole mixture. Top with 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan and 1 tablespoon sliced almonds. Transfer pizza to stone in oven; cook until crust is golden and crisp, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool slightly.
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Doctors recommend that all pre-teens ages 11 and 12 get important shots (also called vaccines or immunizations) to protect against serious diseases.
All pre-teens need to get the following shots.
This shot protects against types of meningococcal disease, including meningitis. Meningitis is a very serious infection of the tissue around the brain and spinal cord. Learn more about the meningococcal shot.
These shots protect against HPV (human papillomavirus), which can cause several types of cancer. The HPV vaccine is given as a series of shots over several months, starting at age 11 or 12. Learn more about HPV shots.
This shot protects against tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough (pertussis). It's a single shot that's given to pre-teens ages 11 or 12. Learn more about the Tdap shot.
Getting the flu vaccine every year is the best way to protect against the flu.
Shots protect your child from serious – and even deadly – diseases. For example:
Some serious diseases can spread easily from person to person, like meningitis and whooping cough.
As kids grow older, some of their childhood vaccines begin to wear off. That's why it's important to get the Tdap booster shot. Also, pre-teens and teens are at increased risk for some diseases as they get older, like meningococcal disease.
Thanks to shots, many serious childhood diseases that used to be common are now rare. But the bacteria and viruses (germs) that cause these diseases are still around. Each person who isn't vaccinated can spread those germs to other people.
Learn more about some of the recommended shots for pre-teens:
Watch this short video on pneumococcal ("noo-muh-KOK-uhl") vaccines.
Side effects from shots are usually mild and only last a short time. The most common side effect is pain or redness where the shot was given. Many children have no side effects at all.
Vaccines are tested for years before doctors start giving them to people. Also, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) check vaccines every year to make sure they're safe. The chance that a vaccine will cause a serious problem is very small.
You can protect your child's health by making sure your pre-teen gets all the recommended shots.
The meningococcal, HPV, and Tdap vaccines are given during your child's yearly checkup at age 11 or 12. If your child is older but didn't get these shots, it's not too late. Make an appointment with the doctor to get them now.
Many states require the meningococcal and Tdap shots for pre-teens before they start school.
You may not even need to make an appointment to get your child the yearly flu shot. You can get a flu shot at a health clinic, pharmacy, or your local health department. Use this vaccine locator to find out where you can get the flu vaccine near you.
Serious side effects after getting a vaccine – like a severe allergic reaction – are very rare. If your child or another family member has ever had a bad reaction to a vaccine in the past, tell the doctor before your child gets a shot.
Pay extra attention to your child for a few days after she gets a shot. If you see something that worries you, call your child's doctor.
Under the Affordable Care Act, insurance plans must cover recommended shots for kids. This means you may be able to get your pre-teen's shots at no cost to you.
Check with your insurance provider to find out what's included in your plan. For information about other services for children that are covered by the Affordable Care Act, visit HealthCare.gov.
If you don't have insurance, your pre-teen can still get shots.
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Albemarle Health adopts Sentara name
Just months after finalizing a deal with Sentara as the long-term operator of Albemarle Hospital, officials unveiled that the hospital, its medical group and related facilities have adopted the naming structure of Sentara Healthcare.
Effective May 1, the hospital became Sentara Albemarle Medical Center to signify a commitment to bolstering and strengthening quality services. In addition, the medical group practices will adopt the Sentara naming structure, becoming Albemarle Physicians Services – Sentara. Outpatient campuses will also reflect Sentara in their names.
Staff, hospital and Sentara leaders gathered for a brief announcement ceremony and unveiling to reveal the Sentara Albemarle Medical Center signage last week.
At Sentara, the term 'Medical Center' speaks to bolstering and strengthening quality and services. Previous name changes in Virginia have resulted in Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center, Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge and Sentara RMH Medical Center in Harrisonburg, all of which have become stronger institutions.
Most Sentara facilities and services begin with the Sentara name. Sentara branding is consistent, but flexible enough to reflect local identity and geography when appropriate and helpful to patients.


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Blue Waters: Changing the way science is done
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Thom Dunning, Director, NCSA
Rob Pennington, Deputy Director, NCSA
Until about the middle of the last century, science was really founded on two major premises. One was work in the laboratory, referred to as experiment; the other was work on discovering the underlying principles, theory. With the development of electronic computers in the 1950s, scientists began to realize there was actually a third mode of investigating the world around us: computational modeling.
Computational modeling means taking the mathematical equations that describe the phenomena we're interested in and then using the computer to solve those mathematical equations because there is no other way to solve them. But as models became more accurate they became more sophisticated and more computationally intense. To address this problem, some University of Illinois professors sent an unsolicited proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) regarding the need for supercomputer power; NSF responded in 1985 by establishing five supercomputer centers, of which NCSA was one.
As the world has changed in the last two decades, so has science and engineering. The fidelity of the models researchers use is increasing, which means they're able to predict what is going to happen in the real world with greater accuracy and greater precision. But this requires yet more computing resources. Blue Waters, the sustained petascale computing system to be built and deployed in 2011 by the University of Illinois, its National Center for Supercomputing Applications, IBM, and our partners in the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation, will provide those resources.
Through the years we've learned that scientists and engineers are more interested in the sustained performance of a system, the performance level that the machine will achieve when running their codes, than the peak performance number, which tells the theoretical maximum performance of the machine. With Blue Waters, scientists and engineers will have sustained petascale performance – the capability to process one quadrillion calculations per second – affording them additional accuracy to describe the phenomena in which they're interested. Thus Blue Waters is going to make it possible to do science on scales not seen before as researchers solve problems that couldn't be solved previously.
What type of problems?
Blue Waters ultimately is going to lead to far more accurate predictions in severe weather events such as tornadoes and hurricanes. Other uses for Blue Waters could be designing new materials with specific properties, plastics for example. Pharmaceutical design is another use, as are better predictions with many other aspects of health and medicine. Astrophysics questions like what happens inside a star at the end of its life may be answered. We also expect Blue Waters to be used by several of our industrial partners to tackle problems they consider to be critical to their competitiveness in this age of globalization, such as designing more lightweight, safer airplanes or improving communication technologies.
Blue Waters will be the type of system that researchers go to when they have a problem that doesn't fit anywhere else. It will be the system for problems that require solutions in a very short period of time, or can't ever be solved on a researcher's computing system in the lab or even on a regional computing environment.
Blue Waters is going to be one of the leading research instruments of the coming decade, opening ever more phenomena to researchers' interest and exploration.
Blue Waters is supported by the National Science Foundation through awards OCI-0725070 and ACI-1238993.


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This program blends the highly-effective instructional methodology of self-study and classroom instruction for an excellent learning experience. For each of the six modules, candidates will receive a CFP Board-required textbook, approximately 100 pages of pre-reading materials, Drill and Practice Question QBank, access to InstructorLink materials, and will attend live classroom instruction.
It is comprised of the following six modules:
Required Pre-study
Each module requires approximately six weeks of pre-study before each class. We recommend at least 60 hours of pre-study for the first course (Module 101) and 80 hours of pre-study for the subsequent courses (Module 102-106) prior to attending each classroom session. Students are expected to come to class prepared.
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We offer the classroom portion of the program in several major cities; the class for each module spans four consecutive days. At the completion of each module, an in-class final examination will be given. Students must achieve a passing score of 70% or greater before proceeding to the next module.
The total price for each module includes tuition, required textbooks, and pre-study materials. Transfer credit is available, subject to approval.
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This course provides an introduction to gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes at both the state and federal levels, and to the many planning techniques used to minimize the impact of these taxes on transfers of wealth. Topics in the course include:
This course can be taken independently for professional development, or in conjunction with other courses in the Accelerated Certificate In Financial Planning program to earn the prestigious CFP or RFC designations.


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Doubleday, Jan 13, 1987 - Science - 214 pages
A collection of pieces mostly on astronomy and chemistry by the prolific writer.
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Pin Code Prompt
You can enable the pin code prompt in your app settings so that when multitasking back to the LastPass app, you're prompted to enter your 4-digit code. This provides an extra layer of security that's more manageable on your Windows Phone 7, since you won't have to re-enter your master password each time you reopen the app.
To enable the pin code prompt, login to the LastPass app to view your LastPass vault. Tap the ellipses (three dots) at the bottom of the screen to expand the menu options. Tap the "set pin code" option, and enter a 4-digit pin code. The next time you multitask away from and back to the LastPass app, you'll enter this pin code to regain access.
Grouping of Sites in the Vault
Previously, the Windows Phone 7 app displayed all of your stored data as a list in alphabetical order. With the latest update, your sites will now be organized by groups, the same way they are organized in the vault via your desktop browser addon.
Grouping allows you to better organize your data and more quickly sort through your sites for the logins you need.
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Support for Fast App Switching allows you to easily switch between LastPass and other apps, helping to improve your workflow. To use Fast App Switching, hold down the back button and you will see all apps that are currently running. You can tap another app's icon to quickly switch to that app.
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We made several improvements and bug fixes. For example, if you've enabled Google Authentication and are using it to login to the LastPass mobile app, we've improved support for switching apps when entering the Google Auth login code. We're working hard to bring more updates and improvements to our mobile apps and browser addons - stay tuned!
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I have been waiting to write this post for months! But I couldn't share it with you until after the wedding, because I didn't want to spoil the surprise for anyone. The wedding has come and gone, we're married now! And I can finally share the beautiful story behind my beautiful wedding dress.
Some of you regular blog readers out there may have recognized my wedding dress from another recently married knit-blogger's wedding. Julie, from the fabulous Knittedbliss blog married the love of her life last March 2009, and she wore The Dress on her amazing day. Not long after I got engaged, I went out wedding dress shopping with my mom. I tried on tons of dresses, most of which were immediately rejected, and then I tried on one that I absolutely loved! I was ready to commit right then and there! I loved it! Mom convinced me to take the weekend to think about it; we were in no rush. When I got home I remembered that Julie had done this amazing post about her $5000 wedding, and that she had bought her dress second hand online. As I was scanning her post looking for the link to the second hand bridal dress website my jaw hit the floor... she got married in the dress that I had fallen in love with earlier that day!
I thought that it was just such a neat coincidence. Julie and I had communicated through our blogs a little bit before because, well, she's just got such great style and everything she knits looks amazing! I sent her an e-mail telling her the story of how I had fallen in love with the very same dress that she had, and that I was probably going to buy it for my own wedding. Then, thats when I got totally floored... Julie responded with the sweetest, most enthusiastic e-mail. She didn't know me or my then fiancé (now husband!) Chris, but she was obviously so in love with her husband and such a romantic, kind, generous person that she offered to lend me her dress for my wedding. I was a stranger, but to her, I think that I was a stranger in love and that was all that she needed to know.
We e-mailed back and forth, and in October in Toronto I met up with Julie and tried on the dress. It fit, I loved it more than ever, and I took it home with me.
Julie adamantly refused to accept a renter's fee or any kind of payment - she just wanted me to take the dress and enjoy it. I was so overwhelmed by her generosity and her faith that I would be good to the dress and treat it with care. When I picked up the dress I brought with me a small offering of yarn, including a sweaters worth of aran weight in Grape.
Which brings us to this week's TFA Tuesday inspirational knit! Knittedbliss' November Fitted Pullover. (blog post, ravelry project page.)
This sweater is beautiful, and of course its special to me since looking at it makes me think of the wedding dress and all that it means to me. I will definitely knit one for myself soon, and I know that it will carry with it the same reminder, because it will be a knit inspired by a beautiful story, I'm very sentimental like that!
On my wedding day I felt like the luckiest, happiest girl in the world to be marrying the love of my life. I also felt beautiful and fabulous in my dress, and that's all thanks to Julie. I love that I was wearing a dress that had such amazing karma; I saw Julie and Guy together just for a few moments, but they are so obviously head over heels in love, and I really believe that the dress carries that love with it.
Julie, thank you, thank you, thank you. I love this dress, and I love it even more because it has such a beautiful story behind it.
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Earlier Haaretz reported that air raid sirens have warned Tel Aviv residents and rockets have hit the city of Holon to the south.
The Associated Press now reports that Israel is amassing ground troops near the Gaza border, suggesting an escalation to the air raids in the area.
The development follows a report that the Israel activated 30,000 reserve troops to aid in a possible Gaza invasion.
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) says it has refitted the rules of engagement for Gaza and escalated its bombing campaign which is reportedly targeting 70 sites in Gaza. Palestinians report three killed and at least 20 wounded.
From Times of Israel:
The Israeli Air Force has launched a number of airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip. Sources in Gaza report via Twitter as many as eight or nine large explosions...
Darkness engulfs the Gaza Strip as power outages are reported, particularly in Gaza City, in the wake of the IAF airstrikes. Video images from Israel's Channel 2 show the Strip blanketed in black, interrupted by occasional explosions.
Israeli police confirmed that two missiles fired at Tel Aviv area landed in open areas, which marks the northernmost point struck by a rocket since Israel's Gaza offensive began on Wednesday. The BBC tweeted this map detailing the range of Hamas rockets.
A strike on Tel Aviv would be the first time Gaza rocket squads have reached the city, which would mark a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict, The Telegraph notes.
Haaretz reports that Jay Carney, White House press secretary, says President Obama condemns the rockets fired at Israel; "there is no justification for these cowardly acts." Netanyahu's twitter feed thanked President Obama but then deleted the tweet. The IDF has attacked 340 strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip since the start of Operation Pillar of Cloud on Wednsday while 274 rockets fired from Gaza have struck Israel and the Iron Dome has intercepted 105.
Hamas reports that 16 Gazans have been killed and more than 151 wounded in the offensive while 527 rockets have been rockets by Hamas, including 138 by Islamic Jihad.
Tel Aviv residents reported explosions, but the IDF said no rockets have struck the city, but also says that residents of central Israel "won't be calm" throughout the night.
Tel Aviv, Israel's second most populous city and financial epicenter, has not heard warning sirens since the Persian Gulf War in 1991 when missiles fired by Saddam Hussein's Iraq landed in the city.
The Jerusalem Post reports "Islamic Jihad" is taking responsibility for the strikes.
To give you an idea of where this conflict is going, here is a tweet from Haaret's reporter Barak Ravid:
Senior Israeli official: Cease fire is not on the table. We will not stop the operation until Hamas will beg us to — Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) November 15, 2012
A top Hamas official reportedly agrees that there is no room for a ceasefire. Nevertheless, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will head to Jerusalem, Ramallah and Cairo on Tuesday in an attempt to ease tensions.
We'll report on this story as it unfolds.


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There's just something about a big event that really makes stars and celebs shine a little brighter, don't you think? Because look at all the performers and presenters who walked the red carpet on their way into Wednesday night's (June 5) CMT Music Awards .
Taylor Swift was simply stunning in her Elie Saab dress. She complemented her dazzling ensemble with Jimmy Choo shoes, along with jewelry by Neil Lane and a clutch from Christian Louboutin.
Swift and her fellow country stars looked better than ever, thanks to glam squads and some tres chic trends from a long list of fashion designers. Carrie Underwood chose Edition by Georges Chakra for her appealing, geometric-inspired ensemble. Ashley Monroe's look on the red carpet was driven by a Haute Hippie dress, Enzo Angiolini shoes, Kimberly McDonald jewelry and an Edie Parker bag.
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The Broncos cruised to the Super Bowl last season with an average defense. They should be a lot better this time. Their best player, Von Miller, is back from a torn ACL. Alongside free-agent pickup DeMarcus Ware, who has looked like his old self in August, the Broncos could have the best pass rushing duo in the league.
The secondary also looks much better. Underrated safety Rahim Moore is healthy again. Aqib Talib is an upgrade from departed free agent Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, and the team has enviable cornerback depth with underrated Chris Harris and first-round pick Bradley Roby in the mix. This team will miss Champ Bailey's leadership, not his play from last year. Free-agent addition T.J. Ward adds more toughness to the secondary.
Broncos head honcho John Elway knows the Super Bowl window with Peyton Manning is relatively short. He's going all out for a title without sacrificing the team's future. They should be able to win games this year without always getting into shootouts.
Biggest concern
The Broncos were an effective running team last year, even with All-Pro left tackle Ryan Clady out for the year. Clady is back, but there is uncertainty at running back after Montee Ball was promoted to starter following Knowshon Moreno's departure in free agency. Ball could miss the entire preseason after an appendectomy, with Ronnie Hillman and C.J. Anderson next in line.
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2. Von Miller - 98
3. Demaryius Thomas - 93
4. Aqib Talib - 90
You know the Broncos are stacked on paper when this is their biggest issue. Ball should at least be as solid as former Manning tag team partners like Joseph Addai or Dominic Rhodes. Manning ultimately creates great running games on his own. According to the Football Outsiders Almanac, Broncos runners saw only 6.07 defenders in the box-per-snap last year, the second lowest total in the league. Denver was by far the best offense on play action passes. That had nothing to do with Moreno.
Training camp surprise
Danny Trevathan was the unsung hero of last year's Broncos defense, so his fractured left tibia in camp comes as a big disappointment. Trevathan had the range to cover tight ends and the toughness to make big run stops. Few players that are so unheralded nationally made more big plays last season.
"The other" Brandon Marshall will be given the first crack at starting for Trevathan. Linebacker is one of the few positions on the roster where the Broncos aren't deep; Nate Irving is also shaky in the middle.
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Being the best team in the AFC still won't be good enough. We have the Broncos making it back to the Super Bowl, but falling short again.Predicted finish: AFC West champion, No. 1 seed in AFC, No. 4 in Around The NFL's Power Index.
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In journalism, they're called "Hey Martha" stories, news items so amazing that when you hear them, you just want to shout across the room: "Hey Martha, listen to this!" Here are a few recent examples, culled from countless "WND Scoops" – stories first reported by WorldNetDaily.com:
- Friends of Barack: In an interview that made world headlines and became a major theme in the 2008 presidential campaign, a top adviser to the terror group Hamas told WND, during a live broadcast, he "hopes" Barack Obama becomes president and compared the Illinois senator to John F. Kennedy
- Wicked-pedia: The mega-website Wikipedia was found to have hundreds of graphic homosexual images, and the FBI launched an investigation into child pornography on the ubiquitous online encyclopedia
- Who's czar-y now?: WND was the news agency that broke the first major story on Obama's "green-jobs" czar Van Jones and it was the dogged reporting of WND's Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein that helped bring down the first high-ranking member of the Obama administration.
- Big Brother Barack: WND was the first news organization to blow the whistle on Barack Obama's now much-ballyhooed "civilian national security force," which the then-presidential candidate asserted in a speech would be "just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the half-trillion dollar Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force.
- Get those drunk illegals back on the road: A Bakersfield, Calif., drug treatment facility helps illegal aliens with multiple DUIs – many of them unable to read – to get their driving privileges reinstated
- Brainwashing 101: A new plan by a California legislator proposes allowing schools to promote the overthrow of the U.S. government and to let teachers "inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism.
- Armed and dangerous: A Colorado family was stunned when nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team punched a hole in their front door and invaded their home with guns drawn, demanding their son go to the hospital after suffering an accidental fall the day before. The boy was fine
- Money madness: With America plunging into recession and many citizens suspicious of the Federal Reserve, it turns out current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke himself explicitly admits the Federal Reserve caused the worst financial disaster in U.S. history – the Great Depression.
The press has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last generation. A field once dominated by the Washington Post, the New York Times and the "big three" broadcast networks today offers a multitude of choices – thanks largely to groundbreaking communications technologies like the Internet. Thus, today many of the hottest stories you hear on cable TV news or talk radio or even the Old Media establishment originate not in corporate mega-newsrooms, but in the revolutionary online world of the "New Media," where WND has long been the leader.
So for the sake of new readers who may not be familiar with the decade-plus track record of WorldNetDaily.com, we present this ongoing feature: "WND Scoops: You read it here first!"
Although by no means an exhaustive listing of original stories, "Scoops" features some of the high-profile stories that have had the greatest impact on Americans over the last 17 years.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. rallied Friday, leading energy stocks higher after the company reported increased production and quarterly results that beat market expectations.
Shares of Cabot COG, +1.70% advanced 11%, landing among Friday's top gainers in the S&P 500 index SPX, +1.21%. Read: U.S. stocks rebound to trim weekly losses. Cabot was the week's fourth largest gainer on the index.
The company late Thursday reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 27 cents a share, compared with expectations of 22 cents a share.
Profits reached $40.9 million, from $26.4 million a year earlier. Production in the quarter was higher than expected and reserves expanded, paced by strong drilling results in the key Marcellus shale formation.
Cabot also unveiled a $1 billion capital expenditure program for this year, foretelling "aggressive production growth in 2013," analysts at GHS Research said in a note.
Shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM, +1.68% turned higher, up 0.7% at the end of the session. Shares of ConocoPhillips COP, +4.80% rose 0.2% and Chevron Corp. CVX, +1.30% rose 0.8% after a listless start to the session.
U.S.-listed shares of Royal Dutch Shell PLC RDS.A, +0.90% rose 1.3%. Shell said late Thursday it is reassessing its development plan for the Fram oil and gas field in the U.K. sector of the North Sea after initial drilling showed "unexpected well results." The company did not elaborate on the results, but said it is considering alternative plans for the field and has terminated several key contracts associated with its development.
The company had planned an average of 35,000 barrels of oil equivalent out of Fram, with production to start up expected within three years. Exxon's U.K. unit is a partner at the field.
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Shares of refiner PBF Energy Inc. PBF, +2.35% rose 5.2%. Analysts at Simmons & Co. upgraded PBF Energy to overweight, on "early signs of success" from the company's crude procurement strategy.
"PBF recently increased its expectations for crude deliveries by rail and has shown success procuring crudes at substantial discounts to Brent," the analysts said.
"PBF is the high reward/risk stock in the refining universe in our view," with the cheapest valuation and most upside potential, the analysts added.
PBF debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in December, and recently reported adjusted earnings of $1.70 a share compared with expectations of $1.63 a share.
Phillips 66 PSX, +0.85% was up 2.9%, while shares of Tesoro Corp. US:TSO and Valero Energy Corp. VLO, +2.02% rose 2.5% and 1.2%, respectively.
The SPDR Energy Select Sector XLE, +2.21% exchange-traded fund rose 1%. Crude futures were off 0.3%, with April crude CLJ23, -50.89% at $93.13 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.


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Looking for lots of time to just lay back and read? A wicked bout of pneumonia is probably not the first method you would ask for, but it sure worked for me. My wife handed me a couple novels written 40 years ago by an author named Laurens Van der Post. Born in Africa, Van der Post wrote a total of 40 books and in 1981 he was made a Knight of the British Empire. If he were alive today, December 13th, he would be celebrating his 106th birthday. Sad to say, he only made his 90th.
Van der Post was raised on the family farm in South Africa where he spent more time in the family library than raising cane and feeding livestock. His father died when he was only 8 years old and by age 12 he was learned enough to be sent off to continue studying at Grey College. It was there that he discovered he was "being educated into something which destroyed the sense of common humanity I shared with the black people."
Many of his writings centered on the effects of racism and apartheid in colonial Africa. He was especially interested in Africa's Bushmen, their world view and their special relationship with nature which drastically contrasted with the view of white settlers. Many of the large farms and ranches of that era were settled by British, French and Portuguese colonists who "hired" the local natives, but in actual fact treated them as slave labor.
Van der Post's family was the exception to this rule. Those they hired were essentially granted part ownership in the farm operation. The more valuable the employee, whether ranch hand or cook, the larger their piece of the pie. It goes without saying that most of the local neighbors resented this special treatment and went as far as ostracizing the Van der Posts.
In the early 1970s Van der Post wrote "A Story Like the Wind" followed by the sequel "A Far Off Place." These fascinating novels introduce one to the stunning beauty of Africa replete with its lions, jackals, and elephants that compete for life alongside poachers, modern day slave traders, and unscrupulous colonists.
An unsavory element is brought into the novels in the form of a ruthless Chinese leader seeking the wealth and natural resources of this rich area. He forms rogue armies from various jungle tribes, convincing them that "this land is yours" and the white settlers should be removed sparing no expense, which translates into "take no prisoners."
As stunning as the extraordinary Bushman's relationship with the land is the horrific brutality portrayed by colonists, exploiters and atrocious tribal warfare. The novels follow the destruction of the family farm and the eventual fleeing by the young survivors across the African bush to begin a new life with their Bushmen companions. The books offer not only sheer entertainment value, but more than that, they offer a look into a piece of early Africa in the 20th century.
The condensed version goes like this:
Survivor boy meets survivor girl who meet Bushman boy and girl who together flee a marauding army led by a lone deranged Chinaman who wants to kill all the white colonialists now in order to avoid killing them later. This is his version of a compassionate war. By listening to the various plants, animals and insects that guide the survivors to safety while fleeing through the bush, they are forced into a new way of living that turns out to be far superior to the burned out one they left behind — great reading.


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November 8, 2012
Jamie Roberts will join the growing number of Wales internationals playing in France next season © Getty Images
Cardiff Blues have confirmed that Wales international Jamie Roberts will leave the region at the end of the season with French giants Racing Metro poised to confirm his signing.
Roberts, who turned 26 today, has put an end to long-running speculation regarding his playing future by turning down a new and improved contract from the Blues and as a result is set to join a growing number of Wales internationals including prop Gethin Jenkins, scrum-half Mike Phillips, lock Luke Charteris and playmaker James Hooker in plying his trade in France's Top 14 next season.
It is a significant blow for the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) who have stressed their desire to keep their leading players in Wales and therefore control their availability for international duty. Caretaker coach Rob Howley revealed earlier this week that the selection of Wales-based scrum-half Tavis Knoyle ahead of No.9 rival Phillips was partly due to his availability.
The Welsh regions - Cardiff Blues, Scarlets, Ospreys and Newport Gwent Dragons - are currently in discussion with the WRU in the hope of finding an answer to the player drain with a disappointed Blues chief executive Richard Holland stressing the long-held view that they do not have the financial muscle to compete with their Top 14 rivals.
"The offer that we made to Jamie was an extremely attractive one and would have seen him become certainly the highest paid player in the Blues squad, and arguably in the UK," said Holland. "As a business we simply don't have the resource to compete with the offers that Jamie has received.
"Naturally we are disappointed that Jamie has decided to leave the region but we wish him the best of luck with his career. Given news of Jamie's departure we will begin the search to find a suitable marquee player who will be eligible to play for us throughout the entire season."
Blues chairman Peter Thomas has demanded the WRU act to prevent more of Wales' leading players being lured overseas with Dragons flanker Dan Lydiate and Blues winger Alex Cuthbert also reportedly targets for French clubs.
"We have invested a lot of time, money and effort developing Jamie as a rugby player from an early age after identifying him as a star of the future.
"We have stuck by him through thick and thin and supported him during last season when he only completed two matches for the Blues because of his knee injury and international duties, playing 15 matches for Wales.
"It is impossible for the Welsh regions to compete with the kind of money that is on offer from other clubs in other countries. The time has come that the Welsh benefactors should not be responsible for funding the professional game."
"The chairman of the regions can guide companies but if we want to keep Jamie Roberts and other international players in Wales then the governing body has to intervene.
"The player drain out of Wales, which has a negative impact on the Welsh regions and the national team, will only continue without increased funding from the governing body.
"As an example with our recent game against Leinster, the IRFU pay for fourteen of their players and additionally fund the province for the remaining players in excess of 4 million euros. Compared to the cost of the Cardiff Blues squad that's almost double.
"You'll never win the Heineken Cup with that margin to compete with. The governing body has to take far more responsibility."
Roberts, who is set to complete his medical studies during next year's Six Nations, missed Wales' recent tour of Australia after undergoing a knee reconstruction but he will return to the Test match stage on Saturday when his side tackle Argentina at the Millennium Stadium.
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Throughout history, children have been exploited by terrible people because they could be used as figurative armies of slaves in factories and mines. They've been cheap labor and easily replaceable, as the storks that deliver them were once plentiful in numbers. Alas, those storks have flown on and laws have been created to protect these little whiny jerks from losing limbs and lives creating awesome Chuck Taylors for yours truly.
However, as child services took little laborers out of our coal mines and put them back into schools, we've been able to exploit them in other ways, namely entertainment. Ever since Shirley Temple created a stir in every pedophile with a picture tube, generation after generation has locked on to iconic children as the faces of their time. These faces include Justin Bieber, Willow Smith, Lil Bow Wow, Gary Coleman, Lindsay Lohan, Macaulay Culkin, Michael Jackson, and Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, among others. But mainly these were the faces of a buttload (metric term) of Benjamins that came pouring in for the parents of those kids. Because, after all, as the Bible says* – the parents giveth life and they can taketh it away if your spoiled little ass keeps growing.
Many people are quick to protest the life of a child star, saying that they're deprived of educations and therefore don't have the skills to fall back on once their fame inevitably runs out, or the crazy hours of travel, interviews and performing are forms of child abuse, or that we're simply stopping these kids from being kids. Well f-ck all that noise, because daddy's gotta get paid, AM I RIGHT? Parents, take it from me, a former child star** – these are the kids that your precious little ones should be looking up to in 2011…
*It might not say that.
** I'm technically a child star, if you count not ever being famous.
Everyone just blindly assumes that Willow Smith – daughter of actor Will Smith and his ball possessor, Jada Pinkett Smith – is the Queen-in-Waiting of female pop music. Her debut single, "Whip My Hair", is a smash hit among children, so she rightfully deserves some of that praise. But what of the children who can't benefit from having ridiculously wealthy celebrity parents to give them careers? They turn to YouTube like Lyrikkal here. Lyrikkal's "Purple and Brown" is a remake of the Chet Haze classic "White and Purple" but… wait, what? Wiz Khalifa's "Black and Yellow" you say? I guess you learn something new every day. Regardless, Lyrikkal has the talent to be the Foxy Brown to Willow Smith's Lil Kim. Be proud, parents.
Timmy here is your classic grassroots child star, showing his singing chops from his very own kitchen. This is how some of the biggest singers of the past few generations got their starts. George Michael, Elton John, Clay Aiken – they all started with bananas and worked their way to becoming the tops in their respective games. Timmy shows us that you don't need big production value or high-priced choreographers to make a name for yourself, so long as you have will, ambition and the unfortunate access to a Ke$ha album.
Speaking of Ke$ha, her song "We R Who We R" teaches us that we don't need to learn the alphabet anymore in this Twitter world, but it also teaches us to embrace the person that we've become. In the case of 8-year old rapper Matty B, it's about embracing the person that he – not his parents – wants to become. Matty B wants to be the greatest rapper this game has ever seen, and he clearly shows off his rapping chops in this rewrite of Ke$ha's hit song. Matty B has a huge head start on kids like Timmy, as his YouTube catalog is extensive. He even remade the Geico little piggy commercial. Because we all love that commercial.
In fairness, this little guy has been an Internet star for a few years now. But since this rendition of "Hey Jude" hit the Interwebs, I haven't heard so much as a peep from this kid. Watching this performance, you know that he is destined for great things, so we need to use kids like this as an example. We can't let amazing talents just pass us by. What if this boy takes the idle nature of his young career as rejection? That could scar him for life. We need to instead encourage his parents to take him out of school and put him to work now. He'll thank us for it.
Now, I know that some of you are saying, "Yo Burnsy-B, this child star game ain't all about the singers and the rappers, it's about the dancers with the mad feet flavas, feel me?" Easy, Channing Tatum, I know how this business works. Dancing is a huge genre, as evidenced by shows like "So You Think You Can Dance" and "Crossfire" so these kids are already making names for themselves in show business. Unfortunately, I don't know what their names are. But still, they're probably great names and they'll look even greater when they're in big bright lights at places where people are paid to dance.
This next guy was recommended to me by some people who spend the majority of their days on the Internet, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about his game. Keenan Cahill is what some people are calling a "viral star" and not in the Charlie Sheen sense. Apparently Keenan has quite a few videos like this floating around, and in each he is singing his own renditions of popular songs. Here's the problem – I don't think he's actually singing these songs. I'm afraid he's doing something called "lip synching" and that is quite frowned upon in pop music circles. Especially at live appearances.
This young lady already has a huge head start on the other kids in the entertainment industry. This appearance on "The Talk" has opened the eyes of millions of music fans and these people are all asking the same question – "Who or what is a Cutie Patootie?" I'll tell you what she or it is, she or it is a freaking star. I, for one, have been following this new musical influence – I believe it's called Babble Mumble Slur – since it was in its underground phase. This girl is taking it mainstream and she looks like she's in for a long career of success, respect and unquestionable adoration from both her peers and critics.
A lot of children need encouragement to command their talents. I find that disappointing because I think that a true child star is born with outstanding charisma, but if you find that your child's talent is hiding behind a wall of emotion then you need to help him break it down. In the case of Marshall here, he clearly has a passion for rapping and the talent with which to break through as a star. What he's lacking is a voice. He needs to dominate that playground and throw down a fiery burst of street raps. I'm not suggesting that he use violence as a means of success, but some imagery wouldn't hurt. I mean, it worked for Tupac and Joey Lawrence.
I strongly believe that the best way to encourage a young artist – other than investing millions of dollars into an artificial image, or the easy way, as I like to call it – is through instruments. Many kids are fortunate enough to take guitar or piano lessons at early ages and that helps to develop their creativity. Zaris, on the other hand, is already showing incredible promise on the drums. She's like a young Phil Collins, except I don't want to punch her for breaking up Genesis. DAMN YOU, PHIL! HOW COULD YOU TAKE AWAY THE GREATEST BAND OF THE LAST 10,000 YEARS???
I don't really get the appeal of Ke$ha, but then again I've never been much for pouring glitter on a wildebeest and giving it a recording contract. However, she seems to be a huge influence for so many kids these days (as we've already seen) but especially for aspiring teenage artists. Now, when it comes to teenagers, I think they're already too old. I mean, pre-pubescent years are when the voice is at its peak. Anything after that is a fossil. But these girls seem to understand that as they're bringing their own Ke$ha-inspired style to the people who might appreciate it the most – the elderly. Don't worry, old people. You may not have much left, but give them some time. They'll grow on you.
While America is the undisputed home to the greatest talents in every genre ever known, there have been a few success stories from overseas markets. Charice, for instance, is from the Philippines and she showcased her talents on a Filipina version of "American Idol" or "America's Got Talent" or the upcoming TLC show, "Those Midget Nontuplets Can Sing". Wait a second, I just got an urgent, incoming message… Charice Pempengco is actually already a worldwide star and will appear on at least five upcoming episodes of the hit show "Glee". Damn, I'm better than I thought.
There was a point in time that I would have fought you to the death with my bare knuckles if you had said there could ever be a greater female rapper than MC Lyte. It's just blasphemy to suggest anything else. But then I watched this video of a young girl rapping "My Adidas". It's breathtaking, really. It's like watching a tiny Queen Latifa but without knowing that she ever willingly agreed to make the movie Taxi.
I believe it was Lyndon Johnson, or perhaps Wilt Chamberlain, who once said: "There will never be another music group in this or any other lifetime that will rival the talents of All 4 One." It appears that Vicus, who hails from South Africa, took that famous quote as a challenge, and boy did he prove the entire world wrong. Somewhere the members of All 4 One are watching this video, knowing that they have been bested by a child, and they are hanging their heads in shame. But they need to snap out of it because that Big Mac ain't gonna cook itself.
Somebody tried to tell me that this incredibly fast rapper, known as Watsky based on his last name Watsky, is 1) Not a child and B) Already well known as a slam poet. Well, excuse me, know-it-alls, but some people actually thought that Emmanuel Lewis was an adult with a growth condition. Hell, people thought that Andy Milonakis was 34-years old when he first discovered fame. He was clearly a teenager at best. My professional opinion is that Watsky is actually 8 months old. If I'm wrong then I will retire from the child star scouting profession for good.
A big problem that many parents deal with is the fact that their children have no talent. So I'm going to let you all in on a little secret… only 12% of people who sign record contracts actually have talent. And of those people, only 4% are actually from planet Earth. How, then, do you promote your talentless children? Turn them into Juggalo rappers. Seriously, these people have no talent but kids eat their music up. Just stock up on face paint and check your pride and dignity at the door.
If I'm being exclusive by only concentrating on people with children and that offends you as a person who was rendered impotent or barren by years of paint huffing addictions, then I offer my apologies. You still have an opportunity at achieving vicarious stardom. You'll just need a pet, Drowning Pool lyrics and some patience. You'll be a parent to a star in no time!


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Hi everyone!! This week Emma wants us to use Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge and it is an animal theme. I didn't realize how many cute carts they had on this cart! I used the little parrot and stand. We can't have a parrot without feathers so I added some cute white fuzzy to his head. I used Papertrey ink paper and the pattern paper is from DCWV Animal Crakers stack. I used some twine and I embossed the little stand using my cuttlebug!! Hope everyone enjoys there Sunday evening.
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Santos to offer Neymar a new contract and deny Barcelona rumours
Santos vice-president Odilio Rodrigues has confirmed the club have opened talks over a new contract for striker Neymar.
By Paulo Freitas
Last Updated: 27/02/13 1:48pm
The Brazilian superstar is one of football's hottest properties and has been linked with a move to some of Europe's biggest clubs in recent months.
Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid have all been credited with an interest in the 21-year-old in the past, while rumours suggested Barcelona had come to an agreement to take him to the Nou Camp.
Earlier this month Barca full-back Dani Alves, an international team-mate of Neymar, urged the striker to make the move to the Catalan giants.
Santos have always insisted the forward will remain at the club until at least after the 2014 World Cup, due to be held in Brazil.
The club have now revealed they have opened negotiations over a new extended deal for the forward, playing down the earlier comments by Alves.
"The club's managing committee has already decided, we intend to extend his [Neymar's] contract beyond 2014, we are working to make that happen," Rodrigues told UOL.
"We have already opened talks with Neymar's father, who denies there is any kind of agreement [with Barcelona] and we believe him. He said Neymar will be where he is happy.
"The news from Daniel Alves isn't anything new, Neymar is being sold every day, there is always news that he has been sold.
"They even say that Santos has received some money. It's very common, but there is no negotiation between Santos and any other club."
Brazilian legend Pele has also spoken out about Neymar's future, saying he should ignore any offers from England or Germany.
The three-time World Cup winner believes Neymar's game would be better suited to a move to Spain, with Barcelona his preferred destination.
"The problem is not the city that he goes to, it is where the best conditions for him will be,"said the 72-year-old.
"In England, Germany or Italy the game is harder. The referees are more accustomed to letting the play go on. Barcelona would be ideal for him.
"Santos do need him and for that reason I do not think he should push to leave, but when the time comes for both parties he should only join Barca."


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In the first year, we saw ticket revenue increase around 50 percent. Over the last three years – for that period, we've seen it grow maybe 75 percent. It's had a huge impact.
The magic behind the Magic
Instant access to information helps the Orlando Magic up their game and the fan's experience
From ticket sales to starting lineups
The Orlando Magic have come a long way since their inaugural season in 1989. There weren't many wins in those early years, but the franchise has weathered the ups and downs to compete at the highest levels of the NBA.
Professional sports teams in smaller markets often struggle to build a big enough revenue base to compete against their larger market rivals. By using SAS® Analytics and SAS® Data Management, the Orlando Magic are among the top revenue earners in the NBA, despite being in the 20th-largest market.
The Magic accomplish this feat by studying the resale ticket market to price tickets better, to predict season ticket holders at risk of defection (and lure them back), and to analyze concession and product merchandise sales to make sure the organization has what the fans want every time they enter the arena. The club has even used SAS to help coaches put together the best lineup.
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Professional sports teams in smaller markets often struggle to build a big enough revenue base to compete against their larger market rivals. By using SAS® Analytics, the Orlando Magic are among the top revenue earners in the NBA, despite being in the 20th-largest market.
The Magic accomplish this feat by studying the resale ticket market to price tickets better, to predict season ticket holders at risk of defection (and lure them back), and to analyze concession and product merchandise sales to make sure the organization has what the fans want every time they enter the arena. The club has even used SAS to help coaches put together the best lineup.
"Our biggest challenge is to customize the fan experience, and SAS helps us manage all that in a robust way," says Alex Martins, CEO of the Orlando Magic. Having been with the Magic since the beginning (working his way up from PR Director to President to CEO), Martins has seen it all and knows the value that analytics adds. Under Martins' leadership, the season-ticket base has grown as large as 14,200, and the corporate sales department has seen tremendous growth.1
The challenge: Filling every seat
But like all professional sports teams, the Magic are constantly looking for new strategies that will keep the seats filled at each of the 41 yearly home games. "Generating new revenue streams in this day of escalating player salaries and escalating expenses is important," says Anthony Perez, Vice President of Business Strategy. But with the advent of a robust online secondary market for tickets, reaching the industry benchmark of 90 percent renewal of season tickets has become more difficult.
Perez's group takes a holistic approach by combining data from all revenue streams (concession, merchandise and ticket sales) with outside data (secondary ticket market) to develop models that benefit the whole enterprise. "We're like an in-house consulting group," explains Perez.
In the case of season ticket-holders, the team uses historical purchasing data and renewal patterns to build decision tree models that place subscribers into three categories: most likely to renew, least likely to renew, and fence sitters. The fence sitters then get the customer service department's attention come renewal time.
"SAS has helped us grow our business. It is probably one of the greatest investments that we've made as an organization over the last half-dozen years because we can point to top-line revenue growth that SAS has helped us create through the specific messaging that we're able to direct to each one of our client groups."
Ease of use helps spread analytics message
Perez likes how easy it is to use SAS – it was a factor in opting to do the work in-house rather than outsourcing it. Perez's team has set up recurring processes and automated them. Data manipulation is minimal, "allowing us more time to interpret rather than just manually crunching the numbers." Business users throughout the organization, including executives, have instant access to information through SAS® Visual Analytics. "It's not just that we're using the tools daily; we are using them throughout the day to make decisions," Perez says.
Being data driven
"We adopted an analytics approach years ago, and we're seeing it transform our entire organization," says Martins. "Analytics helps us understand customers better, helps in business planning (ticket pricing, etc.), and provides game-to-game and year-to-year data on demand by game and even by seat.
"And analytics has helped transform the game. GMs and analytics teams look at every aspect of the game, including movements of players on the court, to transform data to predict defense against certain teams. We can now ask ourselves, 'What are the most efficient lineups in a game? Which team can produce more points vs. another lineup? Which team is better defensively than another?'
"We used to produce a series of reports manually, but now we can do it with five clicks of a mouse (instead of five hours overnight in anticipation of tomorrow's game). We can have dozens of reports available to staff in minutes. Analytics has made us smarter," says Martins.
What's next?
"Getting real-time data is the next step for us in our analytical growth process," says Martins. "On a game day, getting real-time data to track what tickets are available and how to maximize yield of those tickets is critical. Additionally, you're going to see major technological changes and acceptance of the technology on the bench to see how the games are played moving forward. Maybe as soon as next season you'll see our assistant coaches with iPad® tablets getting real-time data, learning what the opponent is doing and what plays are working. It'll be necessary in the future.
"We're setting ourselves up to be successful moving forward. And in the very near future, we'll be in a position again to compete for a conference championship and an NBA championship," says Martins. "All of the moves made this year and the ones to come in the future will be done in order to build success on [and off] the court.''2
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SAS has helped us grow our business. It is probably one of the greatest investments that we've made as an organization over the last half-dozen years.
Alex Martins, CEO, Orlando Magic
How do they predict season ticket renewals?
When analytics showed the team that 80 percent of revenue was from season ticket holders, it decided to take a proactive approach to renewals and at-risk accounts. The Magic don't have a crystal ball, but they do have SAS® Enterprise Miner™, which allowed them to better understand their data and develop analytic models that combine three pillars for predicting season ticket holder renewals:
- Tenure (how long had the customer been a ticket holder?).
- Ticket use (did the customer actually attend the games?).
- Secondary market activity (were the unused tickets successfully sold on secondary sites?).
The data mining tools allowed the team to accomplish more accurate scoring that led to a difference – and marked improvement – in the way it approached customer retention and marketing.
The solutions behind the challenge
Business users across the Orlando Magic organization, including executives, have instant access to information. The Magic can:
- Visually explore the freshest data, right down to the game and seat.
- Get the picture instantly – no coding required.
- Create meaningful visuals from any data source.
SAS Enterprise Miner showed the team that 80 percent of revenue was from season ticket holders. The software provides:
- Predictive and descriptive modeling.
- Sophisticated data preparation, summarization and exploration.
- Model validation and comparisons.
- Automated scoring.
SAS Data Management is at the heart of the data warehouse process and was used to pull data from all revenue streams. With SAS Data Management you can:
- Extract, transform and load data from multiple sources with ease.
- Push processing down to the database to minimize data movement and improve performance.
- Apply data governance and data quality to improve analytical processes.
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Paul Smith, Chief Information Officer, Followmont Transport
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The development of global guidelines ensuring the appropriate use of evidence represents one of the core functions of WHO. Recommendations that can impact upon health policies or clinical interventions are considered guidelines for WHO purposes. Below are some of the most recent guidelines.


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SOHM 2-Year Anniversary July-August 2014:
Dear Readers:
Here we are. Year number two!
It's been exciting and revealing and more than I could have ever imagined. The outpouring of love and support from everyone has been overwhelming.
This last year was bursting with amazing stories of struggles and triumphs from successful artists in many disciplines. We had the amazing story of World-renowned artist Cao Young who overcame soul crushing adversity and has become one of the most sought-after artists of our time. His cover photo even appeared on the NASDAQ building in world-famous Times Square, NYC.
Another example of someone who overcame huge challenges as a child with nowhere to go and no one to look after him is Rocky Gathercole. His rise to the top of the fashion world is a stellar achievement to say the least.
June's issue featured the work of Yoshiki, an amazing, award-winning musician, writer, producer and manager who has taken the world by storm. The tragic death of his father when he was just ten years old changed his path as he continued to learn all aspects of the music business. His trajectory has been nothing but stellar and is the most popular artist in Asia and soon, all corners of the globe.
It's amazing how many successful artists come from troubled childhoods. Our goal is to highlight their successes to encourage the rest of us to triumph over adversity and help the up and coming entertainment professionals find their way.
Our reach is global, from shore to shore. Just like what is represented in the beautiful painting of the Santa Monica Pier by Angelo Garcia on the front cover, our shores welcome all creative artists from around the globe.
We have featured 42 industry professionals in the past year and have done our best to showcase celebrities you will easily recognize along with lesser know, yet equally successful entertainment personalities. They are all doing the good work and giving back to their communities. People like producer, Bobby DeLeon who works behind the scenes with some very powerful people. He is one of the unsung heroes for those less fortunate.
Then, there is the very visible and highly regarded, Dr. Aida Takla-O'Reilly. Growing up in Egypt and proving herself over and over again, she has become one of the true voices of the entertainment business with two times at the helm of the Hollywood Foreign Press-the people who put on the Golden Globes. She embodies the true meaning of our mission statement:
We are dedicated to providing a positive, meaningful and educational experience and to inspire our readers with knowledge and information from creative, qualified industry professionals.
We have so many exciting additions to the magazine ahead. We are working on a live webcast which will be highlighting all the good in the entertainment industry just like the magazine does. The show will feature guests in the spotlight and those who work tirelessly behind the scenes to make the magic happen. They will be sharing their journeys as well as advice about how you can start or continue your journey in the entertainment field. These will include all the disciplines we include in our magazine: Film, TV, music, art, Fashion, Ethnic diversity and anything else we feel will help our readers. This will help all of our viewers learn how they can excel in the business and give back to their community where it is most needed.
It has always been and will always continue to be my goal to use a variety of formats to spread the word about all the good that is happening in the entertainment industry. Not just in Hollywood, but around the world as well. We, at SOHM, feel like our readers are ready for the good news about celebrities and successful entertainment professionals and are ready to discard all the gossip and politics and negative stories that flood the world today. That is why we are growing at such an unbelievable rate across the globe.
We will be having some fun and exciting contests to enter to win some great prizes. Stay tuned to find out more about that!
Also, we are working on a weekly blog for our subscribers. Are you a subscriber? The magazine will continue to be a free publication, but subscribers will have access to additional material and information. Sign up today so you can get the monthly issues emailed directly to you.
We continue to present our Share Your Shine, Tell Your Story segment. If you or anyone you know is giving back to the Arts or Pop Culture Community or any great cause and would like to share your or their story with our readers, please do not hesitate to send us these important stories so we can share your shine with our readers and viewers.
One of these stories we are featuring this month is the great work being done for at-risk youth with the Nicholas Walters Youth Foundation, NWYF. Headed up by Nicholas Silvio Walters and Elie Cane who work with youth in mentoring programs to guide these kids who don't have the support at home every young person needs. Look for their stories inside and for donation information.
Don't forget that you can go back through these last two years and read any of the archived issues, see the stories and gain that much more insight into the entertainment and philanthropic businesses.
Lastly, I would like to take a moment to thank my staff. Their tireless efforts to bring the stories to you, the readers, make this magazine and all its parts what it is today. The interviews, entertainment reviews and all the other pieces that make up Shine On Hollywood Magazine are due to a group effort where we support, encourage and heap praise on each other for continued jobs that are exceedingly well done.
I am excited about our third year and all that is in store for our readers and, soon, our viewers.
Next month, we will be featuring Music professionals where, as always, we feature players from major studios right alongside the important work and creative projects by independent, or "Indi" production companies.
Stay tuned and let us know how you think we are doing.
Enjoy reading!
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COLUMBUS -- The Crew got the work it needed to shake off the rust from the World Cup break as it defeated the Dayton Dutch Lions of the USL Premier Development League 3-0 on Saturday.
Steven Lenhart scored in the first half, Eddie Gaven tallied in the 55th minute and Jason Garey in the 84th in a match played in 90-degree heat at Baujan Sports Field on the campus of the University of Dayton.
"It's good for all the guys to get some minutes," said head coach Robert Warzycha, who employed 22 players. "For the guys who play a lot, because of the break, it gives them some minutes they need. For the guys who haven't played much it gives them a chance to show what they can do."
Lenhart's goal came via a header from 6 yards in the 14th minute as he took a cross off the foot of Leandre Griffit and beat goalkeeper Oscar Moens, who couldn't hold onto the shot.
Griffit, the French midfielder signed May 13 after being released in the preseason by the Houston Dynamo, also sent an entry to Sergio Herrera for an 18-yard strike that Moens knocked away in the 38th minute.
The starting 11 for the Crew featured a bevy of players with limited or no playing time in MLS this season. Goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum was inactive the first six games while recovering from hip surgery and, along with rookie defenders Othaniel Yanez and Shaun Francis has yet to see league action.
Other players who saw action were Herrera and unsigned draft pick Kwaku Nyamekye. Herrera had only one minute to his credit this season, while Nyamekye was allowed to finish school at Harvard before coming to Columbus this month.
For the second half, Warzycha inserted a whole new lineup, using some of the big guns as well as 2010 MLS Superdraft pick Dilly Duka, who has yet to make an appearance in MLS. The young midfielder was given a chance to align with normal starters Robbie Rogers, Danny O'Rourke and Eddie Gaven in the middle of the field and helped set up Garey's goal.
Frankie Hejduk and O'Rourke also played in the complementary period, testing injuries that had kept them out of several matches heading into the break. Hejduk assisted on Gaven's goal with a streak down the right side and O'Rourke, who has never scored since entering MLS in 2005, was denied once by Moens and had another shot go wide.
The Crew returns to MLS play June 26 when it hosts D.C. United.

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