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Air, Water, Land, & Life: A Global PerspectiveThe lab activity described here was adapted by Erin Bardar and Sarah Hill of TERC for the EarthLabs project.
Summary and Learning Objectives
In Lab 5, students learned about some of the global circulation processes that transport both matter and energy around the planet. In Part A they get a much more specific picture of the Earth system at the global scale as they investigate data collected by NASA satellites. The data is displayed in image form in the NEO (NASA Earth Observations) data visualization tool. How do the four interconnected spheres show up at the global scale in these data representations? Is it possible, from studying this data, to infer some of the same interconnections at the global scale that were identified at the local study site? What can students infer from studying changes across the seasons?
In Part B students play a game that focuses their attention on the global water cycle, but at the particle scale: what might happen to this molecule of water that falls onto the ground, or into a stream? Next they step back to the macroscopic scale as they diagram the ways in which water moves through the four interconnected spheres of the Earth system.
After completing this investigation, students should be able to:
- use images and data about the whole Earth to identify the major components of the Earth system at the global scale;
- describe the pathway of water among the four components of the Earth system, as an example of ways they are interconnected; and
- translate their understanding of that pathway into an abstract diagram.
Activity Overview and Teaching MaterialsIn Part A: Students explore and compare Earth data sets using NASA's data visualization tool, NEO (NASA Earth Observations).
In Part B: Students play the NOAA Water Cycle Game and create an abstract diagram of the global water cycle.
For more information about the NEO visualization tool, the NASA satellites that collect the data, and the water cycle, read the section titled Background Information under Additional Resources below.
Printable MaterialsTo download one of the PDF or Word files below, right-click (control-click on a Mac) the link and choose "Save File As" or "Save Link As."
- Instructions, Game cubes, and Station labels for the NOAA Water Cycle Game (Link will open in a new window.)
- Stop and Think Questions (PDF (Acrobat (PDF) 71kB Sep13 10) and Word (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 19kB Aug7 18))
- You may also decide to print and distribute to students some of the resources in the Background Information section below.
Teaching Notes and Tips
NEO is a hands-on computer activity for students. While students can navigate their way through the interface and discover the options, it could save time if you gave them an orientation. The resource available in the background information (see below) provides a basic overview of the NEO interface. It also includes information about the analysis tool (ICE) that is built into NEO. Students are not asked to use the analysis tool in the Lab, but that's an option you can consider. Even without the analysis tool, there are ample opportunities for students to do non-numerical analysis of the NEO data.
The resource below, The Water Cycle: Reservoirs and Fluxes, is for teacher background information, but you may also decide to distribute copies to your students. You can find similar diagrams for other biogeochemical reservoirs and fluxes on the Web, for example the Global Carbon Cycle from NOAA's Earth System Resource Laboratory.
You can assess student understanding of topics addressed in this Investigation by grading their responses to the Stop and Think questions.
You can also review the diagrams students create showing the ways in which water cycles through the four spheres. Have they missed any significant fluxes? Have they added text to the flux arrows that accurately describes the process?
State and National Science Teaching Standards
(1) Scientific processes. The student conducts laboratory and field investigations for at least 40% of instructional time using safe, environmentally appropriate, and ethical practices. The student is expected to:
(2) Scientific processes. The student uses scientific methods during laboratory and field investigations. The student is expected to:
(A) demonstrate safe practices during laboratory and field investigations.
(E) demonstrate the use of course equipment, techniques, and procedures, including computers and web-based computer applications;
(F) use a wide variety of additional course apparatuses, equipment, techniques, and procedures as appropriate such as satellite imagery and other remote sensing data, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), scientific probes, microscopes, telescopes, modern video and image libraries, weather stations, fossil and rock kits, bar magnets, coiled springs, wave simulators, tectonic plate models, and planetary globes;
(G) organize, analyze, evaluate, make inferences, and predict trends from data;
(I) communicate valid conclusions supported by data using several formats such as technical reports, lab reports, labeled drawings, graphic organizers, journals, presentations, and technical posters.
(3) Scientific processes. The student uses critical thinking, scientific reasoning, and problem solving to make informed decisions within and outside the classroom. The student is expected to:
(A) in all fields of science, analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using empirical evidence, logical reasoning, and experimental and observational testing, including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations, so as to encourage critical thinking by the student;
(B) communicate and apply scientific information extracted from various sources such as current events, news reports, published journal articles, and marketing materials.
(11) Science Concepts. Solid Earth. The student knows that Earth's surface continuously changes over long and short time scales in ways involving dynamic and complex interactions among Earth's subsystems. The student is expected to:
(A) compare the roles of erosion, deposition, and igneous activity by lava, water, wind, ice, and gravity in constantly reshaping Earth's surface;
(C) describe and interpret Earth surface features using a variety of methods including satellite imagery, aerial photography, topographic and geologic maps, and apply appropriate technologies such as Geographic Positioning Satellite (GPS) receivers and Geographic Information Science (GIS) software.
(13) Science concepts. Fluid Earth. The student knows that the Fluid Earth is composed of the hydrosphere and atmosphere subsystems that interact on various time scales with the biosphere and geosphere. The student is expected to:
(14) Science concepts. FluidEarth. The student knows that Earth's global ocean, powered by the Sun, is a major driving force for weather and climate through complex atmospheric interactions. The student is expected to:
(D) discuss mechanisms, such as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, major volcanic eruptions, changes in solar luminance, giant meteorite impacts, and human activities that result in significant changes in Earth's climate.
(15) Fluid Earth. The student knows that interactions among Earth's five subsystems influence climate and resource availability, which affect Earth's habitability. The student is expected to:
(C) explain how thermal energy transfer between the ocean and atmosphere drives surface currents, thermohaline currents, and evaporation that influence climate.
(A) describe how changing surface-ocean conditions, including El Niño-Southern Oscillation, affect global weather and climate patterns.
Lab 5 activities have been correlated to the following National Science Education Standards.
Science as Inquiry (12ASI)
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
12ASI1.3 Use technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications. A variety of technologies, such as hand tools, measuring instruments, and calculators, should be an integral component of scientific investigations. The use of computers for the collection, analysis, and display of data is also a part of this standard. Mathematics plays an essential role in all aspects of an inquiry. For example, measurement is used for posing questions, formulas are used for developing explanations, and charts and graphs are used for communicating results.
12ASI1.6 Communicate and defend a scientific argument. Students in school science programs should develop the abilities associated with accurate and effective communication. These include writing and following procedures, expressing concepts, reviewing information, summarizing data, using language appropriately, developing diagrams and charts, explaining statistical analysis, speaking clearly and logically, constructing a reasoned argument, and responding appropriately to critical comments.
Understandings about scientific inquiry
12ASI2.3 Scientists rely on technology to enhance the gathering and manipulation of data. New techniques and tools provide new evidence to guide inquiry and new methods to gather data, thereby contributing to the advance of science. The accuracy and precision of the data, and therefore the quality of the exploration, depends on the technology used.
Science and Technology (12EST)
Understandings about science and technology
12EST2.2 Science often advances with the introduction of new technologies. Solving technological problems often results in new scientific knowledge. New technologies often extend the current levels of scientific understanding and introduce new areas of research.
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives (12FSPSP)
Environmental quality
12FSPSP4.1 Natural ecosystems provide an array of basic processes that affect humans. Those processes include maintenance of the quality of the atmosphere, generation of soils, control of the hydrologic cycle, disposal of wastes, and recycling of nutrients. Humans are changing many of these basic processes, and the changes may be detrimental to humans.
Additional Resources
Background Information
- NASA Earth Observations (NEO): A Brief Introduction (Acrobat (PDF) 1.4MB Jun28 10) can help you get started with the NASA data visualization tool.
- You'll find information about the NASA satellites that collect the data viewed in NEO (and much more) at the Web site of the NASA Earth Observing System Project Science Office.
- The NASA Earth Observatory Web site includes an extended piece about the Water Cycle and the role that the satellite Aqua plays in helping us better understand that cycle.
- The Water Cycle: Reservoir and Fluxes (Acrobat (PDF) 114kB May15 13) is a diagram that represents the seven reservoirs of water in the Earth system, and provides the rates at which water moves among those reservoirs.


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At the midsized company I work for, we've been using an older network monitoring system for about seven years. It gives our administrators basic up or down information about servers and services, and it sends SMS (text message) and phone alerts to our cell phones in the event of problems. I decided it was time to upgrade or at least add a more current tool that could provide improved performance and detailed status information about our Exchange Server, SQL Server, and Terminal Server systems on the network at an affordable price. I came up with three viable candidates: Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold Premium, ManageEngine's OpManager Professional, and SolarWinds' ipMonitor. All three of these network monitors cost less than $3,000 (for 100 devices) and are available for trial periods so that you can test drive them for yourself. Let's see how they stack up.
The Discovery Process
To prepare for testing, I first needed to enable SNMP on all devices, including our Windows servers. I set up read-only SNMP access by configuring the SNMP settings for each device on the network that I wanted to monitor.
In Windows Server 2003/2000, you install the service from Add/Remove Programs, Windows Components; in Windows Server 2008, you add the SNMP feature from Server Manager. Then, you need to go into the Control Panel Services applet and configure the SNMP service—a quick and easy process. Managed network devices such as firewalls, switches, routers, and printers will also have SNMP management capability and are usually quite easy to configure. For more information about SNMP, see the Microsoft appendix "Simple Network Management Protocol" (technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726987.aspx).
Next, I installed all three monitoring systems on one of two Windows XP SP3 machines at my desk. Once installed, each system consisted of a database and web server. In all three monitoring systems, the system is meant to be used from the web server interface by multiple individuals, and you can configure credentials with full or varying levels of limited access. Each user to either system has the ability to add, remove, and reposition widgets on his or her dashboard. Widgets give insight to a particular aspect, such as processor or memory utilization, across many devices on the network.
Before using each monitoring system to scan the network (called the discovery process), I added credentials that the monitoring system would use to gain access to each device that it discovered on the network. Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold Premium has credential options for SNMP, Windows, Telnet, SSH, ADO, and VMware; ManageEngine's OpManager Professional has options for SNMP, Windows, Telnet, and SSH; and SolarWinds' ipMonitor has options for SNMP and Windows.
After configuring SNMP at the network devices and credentials (Windows and SNMP) for each of the three monitoring systems, I ran the discovery process on a range of IP addresses in my local subnet. All three monitoring systems discovered about 70 devices. Using the default scanning options, all three monitoring systems did a good job identifying each device type, as well as providing a lot of insight into device status. All three included several monitors for what you would expect in a network monitoring system, such as processor, memory, disk usage/utilization, packet loss/latency, Exchange/Lotus, Active Directory, and every Windows service on the system. All three products had the ability to add monitors to each device one at a time or large groups of devices all at once.
Both OpManager and WhatsUp Gold include interfaces for identifying and collecting VMware events on VMware host and guest servers. Also, both OpManager and WhatsUp Gold contain a switch port mapper, which shows you what device is connected to each port on your managed switches. With this information, you'll know which port on each switch contains the link to critical business applications without having to physically trace wires in your server rooms. Then, you can configure alerts on the switch devices for these individual ports. With OpManager, it's easy to get the switch port mapper results by selecting the switch and running the Switch Port Mapper tool; the product returns results within a few seconds. In the case of WhatsUp Gold, the tool is called MAC Address and needs to be run with the Get connectivity option turned on. WhatsUp Gold takes much longer to get the results, as it appears to be scanning and calculating connectivity information for the entire subnet.
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Premium
With both ipMonitor and OpManager, I would occasionally notice strange readings that made me wonder what was going on. With ipMonitor, when processor utilization reached a low percentage, it would sometimes show as a negative value on the dashboard widgets. In another instance of low processor utilization, ipMonitor sent me an alert that a processor was at 11,490 percent utilization! OpManager would sometimes track and send me accurate information about domain controller (DC) disk utilization but not show it in the top 10 disk utilization widgets on the dashboard—but right above that widget was another widget showing me that one of our DCs should be in the top three. No such situations occurred when I used WhatsUp Gold. In fact, WhatsUp Gold tracks processor cores in its processor utilization widgets, and when I compared the WhatsUp Gold processor widget reading with the Windows Performance Monitor results, it always appeared accurate on all individual cores. Likewise, hard disk utilization was accurately reported on all hard disk dashboard widgets.
WhatsUp Gold includes a monitoring library, which lets you create new monitors based on other monitors. Larger organizations might find this feature useful for ensuring a uniform set of monitoring by device type across a large technology environment; this seems the most efficient way to adjust monitors on groups of devices.
WhatsUp Gold doesn't contain vendor-specific monitors (except for an APC UPS monitor)—as OpManager does for Dell, HP, and IBM—but rather contains an option for Active Script monitors, letting you use VBScript or JScript to write your own monitoring routines. There's also an online resource center for Active Script, where the WhatsUp Gold user community can download and share code.
One improvement I'd like to see WhatsUp Gold incorporate would involve the UI—which Figure 1 shows—mainly because it's so linear. For example, after drilling down into the Active Monitor Library, it takes about five Cancel or Close clicks to return to the dashboard. Also, unless scripted, WhatsUp Gold doesn't have a monitor for checking the status of a website, which might be necessary—especially if it's hosted on somebody else's server that you don't have another way of accessing.
For situations in which a device stays down, you can configure WhatsUp Gold to send alerts at 2, 5, or 20 minutes. So, it's possible to escalate the alert in situations when the expected individual doesn't respond within that time frame.
Of the three tools, WhatsUp Gold is the only one with the option to integrate with an LDAP environment, which could be particularly valuable to large deployments.
ManageEngine OpManager
Upon installing OpManager, I noticed that it was simple to navigate and configure a very wide range of features. Along with SMS and email, OpManager has the option for sending a Direct Message to a Twitter account—a nice alternative to email. Using the Twitter account this way gives me an overview of what's happening on the network, but because my phone doesn't ring when a tweet comes in, I still want the text-message alert for anything critical. I can see myself setting low thresholds for a Twitter alert on all server devices, just to get a good running log of what's going on, but not necessarily using it for warning of critical situations.
In addition to its expected monitors, OpManager offers vendor-specific SNMP performance monitoring for Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, and IBM Blade Center devices. OpManager can also integrate with the Google Maps API so that you can add your devices to a Google map. However, you'll need to pay for a Google Maps API Premier account (unless you plan to make your network map publicly available), as this is a licensing requirement for the free version of Google Maps API.
For situations in which an administrator receives an alert but doesn't respond within a certain amount of time, you can configure OpManager to send another alert to a different administrator. For example, for an individual who might be out sick or distracted but would normally respond to a critical event on a particular group of servers, you could have an escalation alert notify another administrator if the original alert isn't acknowledged or cleared within a specified number of hours/minutes.
OpManager was also the only one of the three products to include a section specifically for monitoring the quality of VoIP over the WAN. The VoIP monitoring tools in OpManager require devices at both the source and destination networks to support Cisco IP SLAs. In addition, OpManager—whose UI you can see in Figure 2—includes more monitors and dashboard widgets than either of the other two products.
SolarWinds ipMonitor
When I first installed ipMonitor, I found the UI—which Figure 3 shows—confusing. For some reason, it took me forever to find the setting for how often the product would check individual system monitors (which turned out to be every 300 seconds). However, after using ipMonitor for several weeks, I found it to be extremely easy to use, offering enough monitoring options to keep a good eye on the network. With ipMonitor, you can adjust the default scan so that any service or performance option will always be selected in future scans. In addition to the expected (and previously mentioned) monitors, ipMonitor offers a Windows event log monitor that you can configure to check for events that you want to be alerted about.
On the downside, ipMonitor doesn't contain any type of alert tracking/assignment system. If you have only one network administrator, this should be no big deal, but larger IT departments will probably find that the inability to acknowledge/assign/clear alerts is a problem. Unless the administrators remember to communicate outside the system, multiple administrators could receive the same alert and start working on the same problem. Perhaps devising an agreed-upon way of responding—for example, if you get the alert, it's your responsibility to take care of it, or dividing up the network devices so there's no question about who should respond—would do enough to prevent this situation.
Decision Time
I've just made my decision about which of the three products will best suit my environment. I'm going with ManageEngine OpManager, licensed for 50 devices, for a few reasons. First and foremost, I want to be able to monitor as many aspects of our environment as possible because I realize it's the best way to avoid unexpected outages. OpManager definitely offers the most breadth in this area. The second reason is budget. I'll continue to use our existing up-or-down monitoring tools for our workstations and printers, so I can avoid paying for the additional licensing. Third, I really like the way the people at ManageEngine have designed OpManager to take advantage of new technology, and I feel it's worth paying the annual service and support fee to get the updates as this product develops.
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Premium
Pros: Provides the most accurate information of all three products; lets you create custom monitors; offers comprehensive VMware monitoring tools, integrates with AD
Cons: Not as many built-in monitors as the other products; more expensive than the other two products (until you get up to 500 nodes)
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Price: $7495 for 500 devices, $2,695 for 100 devices; $2,195 for 25 devices
Recommendation: For IT shops that have a large VMware installation or a desire to create their own monitors
Contact: Ipswitch • www.ipswitch.com • 800-793-4825 or 781-676-5700
ManageEngine OpManager Professional
Pros: Best overall UI; more built-in monitors than the other two products; lowest pricing for 50 or fewer nodes
Cons: Didn't monitor all devices accurately in my tests, so it might require some troubleshooting to get it completely functional
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Price: $7194 for 500 devices, $2394 for 100 devices; $1194 for 50 devices; $714 for 25 devices
Recommendation: IT shops looking for the maximum amount of built-in functionality (with the exception of AD integration) will appreciate OpManager Professional. In the 26- to 50-device range, it's about half the price of the other two products.
Contact: ManageEngine • www.manageengine.com • 888-720-9500 or 925-924-9500
SolarWinds ipMonitor
Pros: Unlimited devices at a very low price; easy to use
Cons: No multiple administrator communication mechanism
Rating: 4.0 of 5
Price: $1,995 for unlimited devices (25 monitors free)
Recommendation: If you're on a tight budget and you need to monitor a lot of devices, or if your monitoring needs aren't terribly complex and you're OK using an outside-the-system way of communicating between administrators, SolarWinds is for you.

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We all love driving, but we have to start somewhere. How did you learn to drive?
For me, I think the first car I drove was probably my dad's mid-90s Lexus ES300. The glorified Camry was comfortable, quiet and pretty easy to operate. It provided a good platform for learning how to accelerate, reverse, park, and "thread the needle" as I went through turns, as my old man used to say. (To this day, I still don't know what he was talking about.)
A few years later, the old man got tired of driving the automotive equivalent of a warm glass of milk before bedtime and upgraded to a used C5 Corvette Z06. He was cool enough to let me get behind the wheel, too. It was in this 405-horse snarling beast of a car that I really learned to drive – how to handle a high-power engine, how to properly work a manual gearbox, and how to misbehave on back roads without killing yourself or other people. My theory is that if you learn to drive on a car like that, you can pretty much drive anything.
To this day, I'm an advocate for Corvettes, and the old man's Z06 has become a sort of benchmark by which I judge other performance cars.
How about you guys? Did you learn on some overly abused hand-me-down beater, or were you fortunate enough to have something fun to practice on like I did?
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RIP Ceefax: Digital switchover kills off last teletext service
How are we going to impress Americans now?
Over a decade ago the majority of UK holidays were booked by TV, but today London lost Ceefax – and by the end of the year teletext as we know it will disappear entirely.
Ceefax is the BBC's teletext service, as opposed to the eponymous Teletext Limited, which produced text services for the other channels from 1993 to 2010, and sold so many holidays, but both services came embedded in the analogue TV signal. That signal is vanished from the capital this morning, so anyone wanting badly-rendered text on a TV will have to move to Northern Ireland or use Google TV instead.
Analogue television is transmitted in blocks of lines, but not continuously. The magnets guiding the stream of electrons can't switch instantly, so the signal is paused at the end of each line to give the magnets time to aim the stream at the start of the next line. That gives a Horizontal Blanking Interval (HBI), but it's pretty short, much longer is the Vertical equivalent as the aim has to be shifted up as well as across the screen.
When it was launched, back in 1974, Ceefax used to top few lines of the normal transmission (which aren't generally visible on a CRT), but later it slipped into the VBI pause in line with international standards. The US never really got teletext; Americans did put watermarking and V-Chip information into the same gap, but they lacked the monolithic BBC which could dictate a standard and ensure commercial partners conformed to it.
Back in the late '90s, teletext compared well to the rapidly growing WebTV service: putting the two side-by-side, WebTV was clearly more interactive, but teletext was more legible. And if you wanted to book a holiday than Teletext was the platform of choice. Holidays really took off on Teletext, with its ability to list late bargains, so much so that TeletextHolidays is still a successful business despite the transmission medium having vanished two years ago.
Digital television does support text, complete with picture-in-picture and much better fonts. Digital text is composed in MHEG, sent out on a separate channel as digital pictures leave no pauses in which to insert supplementary data, but the technical improvements can't disguise the lack of character and content.
Ceefax, the last of the UK teletext services, still has a few months to live. Analogue transmissions will continue in Tyne Tees and Northern Ireland until September and October respectively, but as of today, 18 million people clustered around the capital will have to do without – though we suspect not many will be moved to compose a love letter to the disappearing service. ®
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The Orlando prosecutor examining the death of a Chechen man shot to death by an FBI agent during questioning about a Boston Marathon bombing suspect won't complete his review until next year.
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Attorneys from his office have met with representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice, who are conducting their own review of the shooting earlier this year.
Ibragim Todashev was killed in May while FBI agents and police from Massachusetts and Florida questioned him at his Orlando apartment about his friendship with suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Officials originally said the Chechen man lunged at an agent with a knife. They later said it was no longer clear what happened.


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Kasey Edwards takes Weight Watchers to task in the normally fat-phobic SMH:
[…I]f WeightWatchers has just cottoned on to researching "real solutions" for people to lose weight, then what has it been doing with its customers for the past 50 years?
Oh yes, that's right, running a highly successful business – one that profits from repeat business.
This is a company that, by its own admission, trades in failure.[…]
But the Plate of Our Nation campaign is not focused on health. It's focused on WeightWatchers core business – the promise of weight loss. And as any health professional should know, weight loss and health are not necessarily the same thing.
Lydia Jade Turner, the managing director and psychotherapist at BodyMatters Australasia, condemns WeightWatchers for its fat shaming imagery and messages.
"WeightWatchers is morphing itself to appear as a benevolent public health institution when in fact it is grooming customers for profit," Turner says. "The Plate of Our Nation website provides many healthy tips – essentially piggy-backing off already existing public health campaigns – but the problem lies in the ultimate promise of weight loss."
Turner says "WeightWatchers has no research to show that it is any more effective than any other diet on the market over the long term". This makes WeightWatchers' new aim "to reverse this country's obesity epidemic" at best naive and at worst highly cynical.


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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
4th Annual TV News Trust Poll — PPP's annual poll on TV news finds that there's only one source more Americans trust than distrust: PBS. 52% of voters say they trust PBS to only 29% who don't trust it. The other seven outlets we polled on are all distrusted by a plurality of voters.
Discussion: Business Insider, msnbc.com, The Dish, Outside the Beltway and TheBlaze.com
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: Fewer People Than Ever Trust Fox News
Morgan Whitaker / msnbc.com: Fox anchor speculates about Hillary's face-lift
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: Fox Loses Independents
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Media Trust Poll Reveals Deep Polarization
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Fox News drops Dick Morris: Hooray — No more Fox News contributor Dick Morris. His contract to spout republic-damaging nonsense on Fox airwaves has expired, and the network isn't renewing it. — Taken together with the news that Sarah Palin will no longer be contributing …
Discussion: American Prospect and The Daily Caller
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: Why Fox Dumped Dick Morris
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller: Dave Weigel goes easy on Dick Morris
David Weigel / Slate:
Fox News Ends the Dick Morris Era
Fox News Ends the Dick Morris Era
Dylan Byers / Politico: Dick Morris, 'The Worst Pundit of 2012'
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Dick Morris Dropped by Fox News
Dick Morris Dropped by Fox News
Discussion: Washington Monthly, FishbowlDC, The Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars and msnbc.com
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Farewell to Dick Morris?
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: Morning Chatter — "Photo of POTUS mtg w speechwriters Cody Keenan …
Floyd Corkins pleads guilty to Family Research Council shooting — (AP/ABC7) - A man accused of shooting a security guard inside the downtown Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with the shooting.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Bob Owens, NewsBusters and Joe. My. God.
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Domestic Left-Wing Terrorist Pleads Guilty To Attacking Christian Lobbying Group, Says He Planned …
Ken Shepherd / NewsBusters: FRC Shooter Pleads Guilty, Admits He Was Inspired by Left-wing Website; WashPost Ignores That Critical Detail
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
US Attorneys' office links shooting at FRC, high-capacity magazines
US Attorneys' office links shooting at FRC, high-capacity magazines
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Southern Poverty Law Center website triggered FRC shooting
Southern Poverty Law Center website triggered FRC shooting
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools, Washington Free Beacon, NewsBusters and The PJ Tatler
Jammie Wearing Fools: Leftwing Domestic Terrorist Pleads Guilty in Family Research Council Shooting; Update: Corkins Used SPLC 'Hate Map'
Man pleads guilty to Family Research Council shooting
Man pleads guilty to Family Research Council shooting
Discussion: LifeNews.com, Washington Examiner, The Other McCain and Towleroad News #gay
Sean Higgins / Washington Examiner: Guilty plea in Family Research Center shooting
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Hate Kills: Left's Demonization of Conservative Group Inspired Shooter
Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: FRC Shooter Floyd Corkins Pleads Guilty
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Family Research Council shooter pleads guilty to three felonies, including terrorism charge, in federal court
Family Research Council shooter pleads guilty to three felonies, including terrorism charge, in federal court
Discussion: The Daily Caller and nation.foxnews.com
Caroline May / The Daily Caller: Family Research Council shooter pleads guilty
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Hagel Tells Lawmakers He Can't Provide Details On Speaking Engagements, Foreign Funders — "He is basically telling Senators they have no right to know if he has been unduly influenced by foreign governments or foreign agents over the last five years. What is he hiding?" GOP aide says.
Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online: Strange Days in the Senate: Could Ted Cruz Do What He Is Asking of Hagel?
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon: Hagel Vote Postponed
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: Hagel refuses to tell Senate which foreigners have paid him
Jeff Dunetz / "The Lid": Hagel To Senate-It's None of Your Dammed Business!
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Hagel Refuses to Disclose Foreign Funders
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
GOP senators call for delay in Hagel committee vote — Two senior GOP members of the Senate Armed Services Committee told The Cable Tuesday that they won't consent to a committee vote on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be secretary of defense until the former Nebraska senator discloses …
First Read / NBCNews.com: Republicans seek to delay Hagel vote over finances, speeches, sexual harassment claim
Paul Szoldra / Business Insider: Republicans Weigh Possible Filibuster After Chuck Hagel Snubs Senate Request
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: Hagel still hasn't provided information about his recent speeches and who paid for them
Eliana Johnson / National Review: GOP Senators Call for Delay on Hagel Vote
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Chuck should be toast, not just roast
Daniel Larison / The American Conservative: Report: Hagel Confirmation "All But Certain"
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rubio to deliver GOP response to Obama's State of the Union — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will deliver the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address on February 12. — Rubio's response will be delivered in both English and Spanish, according to Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) office.
Marco Rubio / CNN: Rubio to deliver GOP State of the Union response
Seung Min Kim / Politico: Marco Rubio to deliver State of Union GOP response
The Atlantic Wire:
Rove's 'No More Akins' Group Outrages Conservatives
Rove's 'No More Akins' Group Outrages Conservatives
Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Politico, americanthinker.com, Examiner and Washington Examiner
Kevin Cirilli / Politico: Karl Rove defends super PAC, cites Todd Akin
Rick Moran / americanthinker.com: Fox News Dumps Morris, Renews Rove
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Karl Rove Is Not a Conservative
Karl Rove Is Not a Conservative
Discussion: nation.foxnews.com, CNN, The Week, Hot Air, Cold Fury and First Read
Robinson / nation.foxnews.com: Rove Fires Back at Critics of His New Group, Suggests They're Trying to Line Their Pockets
Steve Deace / Politico:
How to beat Karl Rove at his own game
How to beat Karl Rove at his own game
Discussion: Little Green Footballs, The Fix, BREITBART.COM, CNN, The Maddow Blog, Booman Tribune and Conservative Hideout 2.0
Kevin Liptak / CNN: Rove on new group: 'I don't want a fight'
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: Crossroads invites rivals, starts to backpedal
BooMan / Booman Tribune: Go Ahead and Fight Each Other
Ben Shapiro / Townhall.com:
Rove Vs. the Tea Party
Rove Vs. the Tea Party
Smitty / The Other McCain: Karl Rove On Hannity
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Phony War, Phony History
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller: Karl Rove fires back, accuses detractors of lining their own pockets [VIDEO]
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Rove Responds to Conservative Criticism of His New PAC - After His Rollout Bombs (Video)
Brent Bozell / NewsBusters blogs: Bozell Column: Karl Rove vs. the 'Far Right'
Postal Service to Cut Saturday Mail — ABC OTUS News - US Postal Service to End Saturday Mail Delivery (ABC News) — Apparently trying an end-run around an unaccommodating Congress, the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse packages six days a week.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: U.S. Postal Service: Buh Bye Saturday Mail
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Postal austerity: Saturday mail delivery to be cut
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: No More Saturday Mail? Blame Yourself.
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Post Office To Eliminate Most Saturday Mail Delivery
Scott Nance / The Democratic Daily: Prominent Progressive To Fight U.S. Mail Cut
Paul Constant / The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper: Postal Service to Stop Delivering on Saturdays
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Thanks To Congressional Incompetence, Saturday Mail Delivery Is History — The U.S. Postal Service announced on Wednesday that it will discontinue first class Saturday mail delivery, marking another milestone in the decline of the once-ubiquitous government service.
Discussion: Fox News, Wonkblog and The Atlantic Online
CBS News:
USPS to announce Saturday service cuts in effort to slash costs
USPS to announce Saturday service cuts in effort to slash costs
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Debbi Wilgoren / Federal Eye: Postal Service plans to end Saturday mail delivery by August
Daniel Strauss / The Hill: Postal Service to halt Saturday mail delivery in cost-cutting move
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Post Office to end Saturday deliveries
Abby Borovitz / msnbc.com: Goodbye Saturday letter delivery
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Newspapers, magazines will have 'not-great' choices as USPS plans to end Saturday delivery
Scared Monkeys: Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom of Night Stays these Couriers from the Swift Completion …
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: RIP Saturday Postal Delivery
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Except on Saturdays: USPS to Cease Weekend Mail Delivery
New York Times:
With Brennan Pick, a Light on Drone Strikes' Hazards — SANA, Yemen — Late last August, a 40-year-old cleric named Salem Ahmed bin Ali Jaber stood up to deliver a speech denouncing Al Qaeda in a village mosque in far eastern Yemen. — It was a brave gesture by a father of seven …
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal: The Times Was Right to Report — at Last — on a Secret Drone Base
Peter Hart / FAIR: An 'Informal Arrangement' to Not Report the News
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Drones Come Under Scrutiny
Alex Spillius / Telegraph: Saudi drone blackout raises doubts about US media independence
Ed Krayewski / Hit & Run: John Bolton on Obama Drone Policy: Entirely Sensible, Extension of Bush Policies
Adrian Chen / Gawker: The Washington Post, New York Times and a Bunch of Other News Organizations Helped Keep a CIA Drone Base Secret
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: NY Times Broke 'Informal Arrangement' Among News Orgs Not To Disclose Saudi Drone Base
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online: Let's Hope Obama's Secret Drone Base in Saudi Arabia Doesn't Inspire Blowback
Washington Examiner: Morning Examiner: CBO's rosy assumptions can't hide government's spending problems
David Kravets / Wired: Obama's Memo on Targeted Killings Is a Drone Strike on the Law
Chris McGreal / Guardian: John Brennan faces grilling over leaked drone memo as senators demand answers
Stephen Green / The PJ Tatler: NYT Bemoans Lack of Coverage it Won't Provide
Austin Wright / Politico:
GOP to offer sequester counter-plan …
GOP to offer sequester counter-plan …
Discussion: The Plum Line and Business Insider
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: Here's The GOP's First Counteroffer To Delay The Sequester
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Drone Strikes, Waterboarding, and Moral Preening
Drone Strikes, Waterboarding, and Moral Preening
Discussion: Jack Shafer, The Fix and The Mental Recession
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: The American public loves drones
Duncan Black / USA Today:
401Ks are a disaster: Column — Recent and near-retirees, the first major cohort of the 401(k) era, do not have nearly enough in retirement savings to even come close to maintaining their current lifestyles. — We need an across the board increase in Social Security retirement benefits of 20% or more.
Discussion: The Impolitic, Booman Tribune, Eschaton and Philly.com
Libby Spencer / The Impolitic: Tarnished future for golden agers
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
We Had To Tax The Retirement Plan In Order To Save It — Duncan (He can't be Sirius) Black, the econ degree holder formerly known as Atrios, explains in USA Today that baby boomers face a retirement crisis which can only be solved by raising both taxes and Social Security benefits. Really:
Bill requires all Idaho kids to read 'Atlas Shrugged' — BOISE - Coeur d'Alene Sen. John Goedde, chairman of the Idaho Senate's Education Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and pass a test on it to graduate from high school.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Taegan Goddard's …, The Week, Joe. My. God., The Raw Story and Wonkette
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Militant Atheism in the Idaho GOP
David Edwards / The Raw Story: Idaho lawmaker's bill forces students to pass 'Atlas Shrugged' test to graduate
Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
Bob Menendez Spent Up to 87 Percent of Wealth Paying Back Donor — When Robert Menendez arrived in the U.S. Senate in 2006, he was a relative pauper in a chamber often called a millionaires' club. The New Jersey Democrat ranked 97th out of 100 senators in terms of his personal wealth …
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Scott Clement / The Fix: Obama makes immigration comeback
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Sen. Bob Mendendez Says He is Innocent, but He Just Spent Almost All His Personal Wealth Paying …
The Daily Caller:
FBI sources: Menendez investigation moved to Newark, NJ
FBI sources: Menendez investigation moved to Newark, NJ
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Is Senator Menendez Doomed?
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Alleged prostitute detailed allegations that she slept with Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: What we know (and what we don't) about Bob Menendez, Salomon Melgen and the Dominican Republic
Sorourke / nation.foxnews.com:
CHRIS ROCK: 'THE PRESIDENT IS OUR BOSS'... OUR 'DAD' — Comedian Chris Rock showed up on Capitol Hill today to support President Barack Obama's gun control proposals. Here is what he said during the morning press conference: … Apparently the comedian has flip-flopped on his previous gun control position, i.e. "bullet control" ...
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The Lonely Conservative: Chris Rock: If 'Our Dad' Obama Says Pass Gun Control, We Must Pass Gun Control
Patrick Gavin / Politico: Chris Rock to Hill for gun control plan
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Chris Rock stands up for gun control
Chris Rock stands up for gun control
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Containment and Radical Islam — A realist foreign-policy vision that is neither imperialistic nor isolationist. — The following is text of a speech delivered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) at the Heritage Foundation on February 6, 2013. — Foreign policy is uniquely an arena …
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Grace Wyler / Business Insider:
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Here's Rand Paul's Grand Vision For U.S. Foreign Policy
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Jackson Adams / American Spectator: Rand Opts for Realism and Restraint
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Obama to nominate head of REI for Interior secretary — By NBC's Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro — President Obama will nominate the head of the outdoor retail chain REI to head up the Interior Department. — The choice of CEO Sally Jewell is an unconventional one …
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John M. Broder / New York Times: Obama Chooses REI Executive to Lead Interior Dept.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama to nominate CEO of outdoor equipment giant REI to become interior secretary
Obama to nominate CEO of outdoor equipment giant REI to become interior secretary
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS: Obama to Tap REI CEO as Interior Secretary
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Obama picks REI exec Jewell for Interior
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
CNN Host Destroys Supporter Of Boy Scouts Discrimination For Equating Pedophilia With Being Gay — CNN's Soledad O'Brien challenged the conservative opposition to keeping gays scouts and leaders out of the Boy Scouts on Wednesday morning, comparing the organization's ban to past restrictions on African Americans and women.
Discussion: The Raw Story, Good As You and Daily Kos
David Edwards / The Raw Story: Soledad O'Brien shames Perkins for defending gay scout ban with homosexuality-pedophilia link
G-A-Y / Good As You: Yes, Tony Perkins, you are in fact conflating homosexuality and child sexual abuse. Own it.
Bill / Daily Kos: Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday
Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
Poll: Majority of voters back gay Boy Scouts
Poll: Majority of voters back gay Boy Scouts
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press: Boy Scouts delay decision on admitting gays
International Business Times:
Women's Unclean Breasts Cause Diarrhoea, Says Egypt Prime Minister Hisham Qandil — By VASUDEVAN SRIDHARAN: Subscribe to Vasudevan's RSS feed — Egypt's prime minister, Hisham Qandil - Reuters — The inability of women in rural Egypt to clean their breasts is causing a diarrhoea epidemic …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, BuzzFeed, The Jawa Report and This ain't Hell …
Jack Khoury / Haaretz:
Ahmadinejad: Iran already a nuclear state, but has no intention of launching attack on Israel — In interview with Al-Ahram on eve of Islamic Summit Conference in Cairo, Iranian president also says his country opposes outside intervention in Syria. — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh, NBCNews.com, Weasel Zippers, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The PJ Tatler and Althouse
Ayman Mohyeldin / NBCNews.com: 4 arrested in Egypt after shoe thrown at Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Leslie Eastman / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Egypt is now officially full of boobs
Stephen Green / The PJ Tatler: Iran is Already a Nuclear Power
Ann Althouse / Althouse: "Ahmadinejad: Iran already a nuclear state..."
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Graham defends Obama on drones — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will offer a resolution next week commending President Barack Obama's use of drones and the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. — "Every member of Congress needs to get on board," Graham said. "It's not fair to the president to let him …
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: RINO Lindsey Graham To Offer Senate Resolution Supporting Obama's Drone Program Assassinating American Citizens...
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: GOP Sen. Graham Defends Obama's Drones: 'Every Member Of Congress Needs To Get On Board'
Mike Riggs / Hit & Run: Lindsey Graham Urges Colleagues to Support Targeted Killing, Protect Obama From "Libertarians and the Left"
Jonathan H. Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy: Reactions to the Drone Strike "White Paper"
Olympia Meola / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Ruling by House speaker deals blow to Senate redistricting — Speaker of the House William J. Howell, R-Stafford, has ruled that the surprise changes that the Senate made to redistricting legislation are out of order, dealing a blow to GOP hopes to redraw districts.


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Since 2005, KashFlow has been providing intuitive online accounting software for small business owners. Duane Jackson, a former web developer who found himself struggling with existing accounting software packages, founded the company after outgrowing using Word and Excel to do his invoicing and keep track of his accounts.
Duane built a simple program to help him do the books and was soon inundated with requests from other small business owners to share the bit of software he had built. He did so, and produced further iterations based on their feedback. With the help of the Prince's Trust, Duane began to market the software and hasn't looked back since.
As of today, the company has tens of thousands of users, dedicated teams in the UK and India, and has won multiple awards. To think, all that and it was very nearly called Lollymate.
In 2013, KashFlow was acquired by IRIS. With over 50% of UK accountants using IRIS software, the partnership offered us the chance to improve our relationship with accountants. Meanwhile, our history of working with small business owners was attractive to IRIS. It's kind of like we're the Robin to their Batman…or maybe vice versa depending on who you ask!


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Game streaming site Twitch just sold to Amazon for $970 million in cash, and it's a big win for everyone involved, including Twitch's investors.
The company last raised money one year ago at a $100 million valuation, a source tells Business Insider.
Twitch raised $35 million in total from investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners, Thrive Capital, and Draper Associates. That's not counting the few million it raised in its first form, Justin.TV.
Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil served on the startup's board; Bessemer is the largest investor in Twitch.
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Twitch, which allows users to post and watch videos of videogame run-throughs, was a hugely popular segment of Justin.tv's traffic. Twitch amassed 8 million views in its first month, and it became so popular that it eventually took over Justin.tv's business in its entirety, as the company officially changed its name earlier this year. The site now has 55 million viewers.
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Robert Davis Smart, Jonathan Edwards's Apologetic for the Great Awakening, with Particular Attention to Charles Chauncy's Criticisms (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2011).
As I suggest in my endorsement on the back of this book, it offers the wisest, most extensive interpretation of the Edwards-Chauncy debate ever written.
Bob is a friend. He serves as the senior pastor of Christ Church (PCA) in Bloomington (IL) and he teaches and preaches widely as a pastor-theologian. His book began as a dissertation at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology (associated with the University of Wales, Lampeter; now the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David). It includes an insightful foreword written by Kenneth P. Minkema of Yale University (who will be teaching another J-term course at Trinity this year). And as Ken confirms therein, it offers "the first sustained effort devoted to considering the points of debate between Chauncy and Edwards"–the well-known leaders of the "Old Light" and "New Light" parties (respectively) at the height of the Great Awakening–"and to understanding them contextually, hermeneutically, and constructively" (p. ix).
The sum and substance of this book is a treatment of the controversy that swirled around the question whether New England's great revivals were a work of the Holy Spirit. As a work of reception history, it is unparalleled in scope and attention to detail. Employing tools from social science, social history, and theology, Smart explains the terms of debate, shows how Edwards and his critics disagreed with one another, and offers an even-handed assessment of the legacies of their conflict from the 1740s and 50s to the present.
I recommend this learned work to anyone interested in the history of revivals in America—but especially to those with an interest in the pneumatological questions most important to Edwards himself, and to his heirs.
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WORCESTER � The City Council Traffic and Parking Committee has endorsed proposed on-street parking changes in the Union Hill area as part of a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy to help improve and stabilize the quality of life for residents there.
Among the most significant changes is relocating the on-street parking from the east side of Providence Street to the west side. In the process, city officials said two to three parking spaces will be lost on Providence Street � a point that some neighborhood residents feel is important.
Idella Hazard, a resident of the Union Hill area, Wednesday night questioned why city officials want to make changes to on-street parking in that neighborhood. She said residents have never complained about the current parking situation.
"This isn't something that citizens have been asking for," Ms. Hazard said. "It will be a total inconvenience to the residents."
City officials acknowledged that some residents have raised concerns about the parking changes, but most are in favor of other phases of the project, such as street resurfacing, sidewalk repair, street-scape improvements and enhanced pedestrian crosswalks.
Stephen S. Rolle, director of the city's Division of Planning and Regulatory Services, said there is no opposition to the parking changes on the segment of Providence Street south of Aetna Street. He said what opposition does exist is in the northern most block of Providence Street.
One of the concepts of the revitalization and public investment is to create a gateway to the Union Hill neighborhood along the Providence Street and Harrison Street corridors. The Union Hill neighborhood is roughly bounded by Vernon Hill, Winthrop Street, Providence Street, Harrison Street, Interstate 290 and Grafton Street.
Gregory J. Baker, director of the city's Neighborhood Development Division, said improvements planned along those streets are intended to improve "curb appeal" and safety by incorporating new sidewalks, curb extension, enhanced crosswalks and street resurfacing. To facilitate those improvements, Mr. Baker said on-street parking in the neighborhood had to be revisited and changed as well.
The changes are intended to address current deficiencies in existing pedestrian traffic access and circulation.
Because Providence Street is only 32 feet wide from curb-to-curb, city officials said it can only support parking on one side of the street.
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This week I launched a survey designed to help me understand and communicate the challenges faced by other museum technologists.
It's research for a chapter in a forthcoming book on museums on the web and social media in the first instance, but I'd left the terms and conditions fairly open as I wanted to be able to share and/or re-use the data in future - I wasn't sure if this would put people off, but I figured it was better to be upfront than to end up with great data I couldn't share.
Someone wrote to me to ask what the questions were - they didn't feel qualified to take it themselves but couldn't see all the questions without starting the survey. I figure it'll also help with the bounce rate if I share them, so here you go:
1. As a museum technologist, what are the three most frustrating things about your job?
For this survey, I'm defining 'museum technologist' as someone who has expertise and/or significant experience in the museum sector and with the application or development of new technologies.
2. List any solutions for each of the problems you listed above
3. Any comments on this survey or on the issues raised?
4. What's your main job role? (if you don't mind it potentially being quoted)
It's pretty simple - 'what are the three most frustrating things about your job' is the main question, the rest are aimed at providing just enough additional information to provide pointers to the effects of different factors. I didn't want to ask people for so much information that they'd be identifiable as I felt that might make people hold back. I thought about saying 'things other than lack of resources/time/money' as they're pretty much a given and they're not unique to the museum sector, but I figured they're also too important too ignore.
I'm particularly interested in opportunities and problems that arise when (new) technologies meet (old) museums. ... Your answers will help build a body of evidence that could help make a case for improvements in the way museums understand the issues and expertise around using technology to engage audiences, or at least help us understand what the solutions might be. And at the very least you get to vent a bit!
I'm running the survey until August 31 and my initial analysis will be completed by mid-September. If you'd like to take the survey, or know someone who should, the address is http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/348155/Challenges-facing-museum-technologists (or http://bit.ly/95oGtr if shorter is easier).
Finally, thanks to the person who suggested making the text boxes wider - I've done that now.
Finally, thanks to the person who suggested making the text boxes wider - I've done that now.


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After a 30-year military career in which he earned three graduate degrees, rose to the rank of colonel, and served as an aide to Pentagon brass, Robert Freniere can guess what people might say when they learn he's unemployed and lives out of his van:
Why doesn't this guy get a job as a janitor?
Freniere answers his own question: "Well, I've tried that."
Freniere, 59, says that his plea for help, to a janitor he once praised when the man was mopping the floors of his Washington office, went unfulfilled. So have dozens of job applications, he says, the ones he has filled out six hours a day, day after day, on public library computers.
So Freniere, a man who braved multiple combat zones and was hailed as "a leading light" by an admiral, is now fighting a new battle: homelessness.
"You stay calm. That's what we were trained for when I went through survival training," he said recently in King of Prussia, where he had parked his blue minivan, the one crammed with all his possessions and held together with duct tape.
As of January 2012, more than 60,000 veterans were homeless, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Reducing that number has been a priority for the Obama administration - and the number of homeless veterans dropped 24 percent nationwide from 2009 to 2013. In Pennsylvania, however, it jumped 46 percent, to more than 1,400.
Joblessness among returning service members is even more common. Freniere describes a monthly lunch he has attended in Washington, a hushed tradition that he says attracts about 200 veterans. After they eat, the men and women who are unemployed stand up one by one to recite their service records, hoping someone else in the room will hire them.
Many, he says, are highly accomplished.
Like Freniere.
"He's done a lot of things; he's been a lot of places. . . . He's got the gift of gab. Very smart," said Adm. James Hogg, who officiated at Freniere's retirement ceremony in 2006.
Last month, Freniere teared up as he asked Hogg for advice on finding a paycheck. Hogg was stunned.
"That's crazy," Hogg said in an interview. "With all his experience, especially in intelligence, there's got to be a spot for him."
Spots are hard to come by. Freniere, like many of his fellow down-on-their-luck veterans, does not match any hat-in-hand Hollywood image of homelessness. He receives an annual pension from the military of more than $40,000.
His struggle to find a job after retiring from the Air Force collided with the end of his marriage nearly two years ago. Unable to return to the home he shared with his estranged wife, and faced with expenses including bills for two sons in college and debts that mounted when he maintained a nicer lifestyle, he took up a nomadic existence.
Between spells on the couches of friends in multiple states, he sleeps occasionally in motels and other times in the dented blue van.
On Veterans Day, he found himself in King of Prussia. He had paid for a motel room the night before, to be near his younger son, Eric, a student at Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Wayne.
But Freniere could not afford another night, so he was packing his belongings into his minivan.
A motel guest who noticed Freniere's Air Force cap and packed van struck up a conversation, and ended up paying for Freniere to stay another night.
That same week, Freniere agreed to share his story with an Inquirer reporter who had heard about his plight.
Over chips and salsa at a Baja Fresh in King of Prussia, he spent more than four hours engaged in a rambling conversation in which he quoted Dante, Andrew Jackson, and the novelist Leon Uris. He touched on his hobbies, from painting to playing guitar to learning new languages.
Freniere, who said he had been found to have dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, said he earned the nickname "Lightning" in the military for his constant motion and ability to talk anyone's ear off.
"Lightning" mentions the screenplay he wrote about astronauts going to the moon, and the beginning of a romance novel. He describes competing in sailing regattas with friends. He says he once tried to start a business with his wife and mother selling football-themed stuffed ducks.
Some of what he says is not easily or independently verifiable. But the bulk of his story - and one that is confirmed by military records - is a story of service.
It's a story that goes back generations. In one of the many boxes in his van, Freniere holds on to letters written from France during World War I by a great-grandfather who, according to family lore, lied about his age so he could still fight at 60. Freniere's father served in World War II and Korea, then raised his family on Air Force bases all over the world.
Freniere was born in 1954, the third of five children. He says his oldest brother served in Vietnam; his sister is a retired Navy nurse; and two more brothers are retired colonels.
Freniere and his two younger brothers became Eagle Scouts together, then went together to the Citadel, he said. Military records confirm that he joined the Army in 1976. His first post was in Schweinfurt, West Germany, where troops were then on guard against a Soviet attack.
There, Freniere said, he was tapped to lead an investigation into drug trafficking by soldiers on the base.
"All I had ever wanted to do was be in the Army," Freniere said. "The Vietnam War had just ended, and the military really was very down on itself."
In the drug investigation, he found a sense of purpose. "I didn't know anything about drugs, because I'd never used them. I was a goody-two-shoes boy," he said. "I finally felt like I was really doing something for my country, because I was getting rid of these bad guys."
He said that his role in arresting members of his own platoon caused tension with his superiors. He left the Army for the Air Force, where he pursued his newfound interest in investigation as an intelligence officer.
As he moved through the ranks, he served in combat zones in Somalia, Panama, Haiti, and Kuwait, Freniere said. He also married his childhood neighbor, had two sons, and earned master's degrees in political science and criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati and a master's in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.
Records show that Freniere moved to the Pentagon in 2000. He said he was there when it was hit by terrorists Sept. 11, 2001.
Two years later, he became special assistant to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, then the vice director of operations of the Joint Staff.
In 2005, Freniere said, he volunteered to go to Iraq. "Everybody thought I was nuts, especially my sons," who were 15 and 13 at the time, he said. "But I'm a counterterrorism guy. That's what I do."
But as he was preparing to deploy, he said, he felt his legs go numb one day. He had suffered from back pain since he was injured in his 20s, when a soldier he was training to operate a tank fired the gun too soon.
Three days after the numbness began, Freniere underwent back surgery. Instead of flying to Iraq, he spent a year and a half convalescing, he said. In 2006, he retired from the Air Force.
After his retirement, Freniere said, it took him a year to find work. Like many retired servicemen, he turned to jobs with defense contractors. Twice, the work took him to Afghanistan, he said.
When he came home, he had nowhere to go after separating from his second wife. (In an interview, she said that he does not help her pay the mortgage on their home.)
Freniere said he had not been able to find a contracting job since August 2012. He blames the federal sequestration for squeezing contractors of money and of the confidence to hire people. He has not lasted long at other jobs, as a substitute teacher and an executive in a company writing proposals for government grants.
One of his complaints about the latter job was that it took him too far from his sons - Bobby, enrolled at a community college in Virginia, and Eric, at VFMA.
Eric, 21, plans to follow in his father's military footsteps. "My dad's the most motivated person I've ever met in my whole life, and he's living out of his van," Eric said. "A full colonel with three master's degrees? I don't get it at all - it doesn't make sense to me. If he had a job right now, we'd be fine. We're not fine right now."
Freniere says dyslexia makes focusing on a computer screen difficult. Online applications are so hard for him, he said, that tears well in his eyes as he describes his days at public libraries.
"How many applications can you fill out in a day? And it takes you six or seven hours, and then you don't hear from any of them. You start getting hopeless," he said.
But Freniere said that he had not lost hope, that he returns to tropes he learned back in survival training - "stay calm," "get the job done" - when he needs comfort.
"I'm a military guy. I'm mission-oriented. You don't give up," Freniere says. "I've got a lot of good experience. I've got two beautiful sons. I've got a van. I don't know how long it's going to hold up, but I've got it. I've got a lot of things to be thankful for."


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Centsable Momma has the Rite-Aid Deals for us.
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Thanks to Corrie, Lori and Alli for letting me share these deals with my readers!
Were you able to find deals for CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid for this week? Feel free to link them up. Be sure your link is to your deals and not your homepage to make it easier for my readers to find.


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This is a guide giving enjoyable activities to do at level 70. It is a work in progress, and is hoped to provide similar functionality to the "WoW at 60" guide produced back in the day by GameSpy.[1]
The epic flying mount Edit
One need hardly have this pointed out: Get the 5000 required to get riding skill for the epic flying mounts. Once you have the riding skill, the mounts are cheap. Well, most of them are. You may pay a premium for a spiffy engineered or faction mount.
Druids can start the epic flight form quest chain (see below). Don't settle for someone else's wings!
Long quest chains Edit
Completing difficult, long quest chains at the level cap can be enjoyable. A list will be included below.
Note also that there are a lot of not-so-long quest chains that require groups to complete, even at 70. Retrying those is worthwhile too.
The Teron Gorefiend group-quest series can provide a useful rare headpiece for characters just turned 70. Both Horde and Alliance can start the quest from Fantei in Shattrath City.
- For the Horde only, the Quest:Hero of the Mag'har quest chain, available only after completing all major Nagrand quests, unlocks a cool piece of content where Thrall visits his grandmother in Garadar and some additional Orc lore is revealed.
- In addition to getting you a key to Karazhan, the Karazhan Quest Progression is a useful gear check to prepare you for Karazhan, taking you through Shadow Labyrinth, Steamvault, Black Morass in the Caverns of Time (and Old Hillsbrad Foothills if you haven't already completed it).
Dungeons Edit
Regular Difficulty Edit
These dungeons offer good rewards for grinding gold for your epic flyer and reputation for Heroic Dungeons.
Heroic Difficulty Edit
These dungeons require keys (see Heroic mode)
The gear dropped in these dungeons is usually pre-Karazhan level.
Daily quests Edit
Dungeon Dailies Edit
There are daily quests for regular-difficulty dungeons and heroic-difficulty dungeons, giving two Badges of Justice and plenty of money. Every day, the quest's target instances are randomized.
Other Dailies Edit
There are many level 70-only floating islands in the sky with daily quests (Netherwing Ledge, anyone??). Other dailies come from places like Shattrath, PvP, and from reputation people. Dailies are good for getting quick gold, but you can only do 25 dailies a day are also good for getting your Netherwing reputation up to exalted.
Reputation grinds Edit
Azeroth Edit
- The Wintersaber Trainers faction in Winterspring is still an option for Alliance players. Yet another land mount!
- Thorium Brotherhood, Timbermaw Furbolgs, and Argent Dawn still have useful recipes available only at given reputation levels.
Outland Edit
- Grinding ogres in Nagrand, for Kurenai/Mag'har reputation, and possibly Consortium as well. Not to mention the extra Netherweave Cloth.
- Grinding Consortium rep in the Heap near Area 52 by getting Zaxxis Insignia and Ethereum Prison Keys.
- Getting to exalted with all three of Sha'tar, Aldor/Scryers, and Cenarion Expedition gives you access to the secret stashes of Arcanist Xorith or Haldor the Compulsive.
Raiding Edit
Roughly in order of experience:
- Karazhan (10)
- Zul'aman (10)
- Gruul's Lair (25)
- Magtheridon's Lair (25)
- Serpentshrine Cavern (25)
- The Eye (25)
- Mount Hyjal (25)
- Black Temple (25)
- Sunwell Plateau (25)
Karazhan Pre-Raid gear Edit
Karazhan should not be considered as a 10-man "UBRS" run, as this raid is a challenge, with full cooperation required to defeat the boss encounters.
You should do the following if you plan to become a raider:
- Hit level 70
- Get flying mount (regular or epic, it doesn't matter)
- Do the attunement quest (After patch 2.4 only 1 out of the 10 people need the key)
- Respec to a raiding build
- Follow a Pre-Raid gear guide for your class/spec/role
- Join a raiding guild and have some fun!
Zul'Aman and above Edit
After getting through Karazhan and having Sufficient Gear for Zul'Aman, your guild can attempt to conquer this raid instance. This dungeon is not a walk in the park, as even players in T5 gear find it hard.
The rest of the raid instances require no attunements, so all your guild has to do is get the sufficient gear for the next instance and raid!
PvP Edit
Arena Edit
Get some friends together and form an arena team (Arena Charter).
Alterac Valley Edit
Gear up with some good blues and join the fight for Alterac Valley! This battleground is a great place for honor grinding, as most games last around 1–2 hours, with intense tower raids allowing sweet HK's.
Arathi Basin Edit
Gear up with your PvP gear and fight for honor in this fun battleground. Try to get a good team for fighting against the other team, as it is a challenge to get people to cooperate.
Warsong Gulch Edit
Gear up with good enchants and PvP gear. Choose what you would rather do: Defense or Offense, then follow the raid leader's instructions to win the fight!
Eye of the Storm Edit
Gear up for this epic battle. The objective here is to hold towers for victory points (Similar to Arathi Basin), as well as to capture the flag in the center of the battle (Similar to Warsong Gulch).
World PvP Edit
Participate in battles of the Outland zones for great rewards. Some areas are usually dead, but others can have big battles. You can also raid cities of the other faction (ex. Alliance against Crossroads or Camp Taurajo; Horde against Sentinel Hill).
References Edit
- ^ Sal "Sluggo" Accardo. WoW @ 60. GameSpy (UK). Archived from the original on 2012-08-18. Retrieved on 2013-08-20.


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Emile Henry Mortar and Pestle Charcoal
Emile Henry has made the finest ceramic ovenware, gourmet cooking products, and ceramic kitchenware products since 1850; when the company was founded. All Emile Henry products, including ceramic kitchenware, are still manufactured by the Henry family. The products produced by Emile Henry are manufactured with their state of the art Ceradon® manufacturing process. This process helps ensure that all Emile Henry Ceramic Dinner Ware and other products are of the finest quality, as well as durable.
Unlike other ceramic kitchenware and tableware, Emile Henry has extremely high resistance to shocks, temperature changes, and fading colors from washing. Emile Henry Ceramic Kitchenware can go directly from the refrigerator to a pre heated oven (up to 500°F). This allows you to re-heat your leftovers, or even just keep your food warm before serving. All Emile Henry Ceramic Products are dishwasher safe.
Thanks to the rough interior glaze and the ceramic pestle, the Emile Henry Mortar and Pestle - Blue Flame crushes easily your ingredients, does not stain and will not retain any smells.
For thouOaks of years, since the beginning of alchemy, the mortar and pestle has been the perfect tool set for crushing and extracting ingredients. The mortar & pestle from Emile Henry is tailored for maximum extraction of flavors and oils from spices such as cloves and fennel. The mortar bowl was crafted so cooks can easily press and crush spices in the kitchen. The basin for the Emile Henry mortar is 5.5" in diameter giving plenty of surface area for grinding spices, herbs and garlic. The unglazed surface allows for greater friction, perfect for properly grinding spices and extracting the essence of an herb.
- Size: 5.5 inch diameter
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Asian Business Association CEO shares advice for minorities and women in business
Wendy Urushima-Conn was named one of California's 20 Most Powerful and Influential Women this year by the California Diversity Council.
The president and CEO of the San Diego Asian Business Association, who shared the honor with executives from
Urushima-Conn sat down with U-T San Diego recently to share what women and minorities in the business world have going for them, and to offer advice on how they can overcome the roadblocks they still face.
Wendy Urushima-Conn
Title: President and CEO, Asian Business Association
Age: 44
Education: B.A. in communications from
Family: Married with two daughters
Hobbies: Healthy cooking, running and training for half-marathons
Q: What is the biggest challenge for women in business?
A: While women are making progress in the workforce, the numbers are still pretty dismal. In 2012, women still only occupied 14.3 percent of executive officer positions in Fortune 500 companies. That number is up slightly from 2011. There is also still a lot of inequity when it comes to equal pay for women. While men and women are doing a great job of raising children, when women step out of the workforce to raise children, they often lose pay and power–that could be part of the problem. We need to continue to provide opportunities for women through sponsorships, mentorships and continuing to help pave the way for more senior positions and senior pay.
Q: How can women overcome that inequity?
A: Don't be afraid to stand up and ask for help. Let your voice be heard. In many discussions I've had with fellow working women and working moms, we often talk about gender roles where women are taught to "ask permission" and justify. i.e. "Would it be OK if I left 30 minutes early on Friday to take my son to his basketball game, or to get my hair highlighted?" where men are encouraged to take charge. i.e. They'll just leave and say "See you Monday" or "I'm off to the golf course–have a nice weekend!"
And if you're asking for a sponsor or mentor, be a good mentee. Make your mentor proud. No one wants to endorse someone who is less than stellar.
Q: What about women in business for themselves? What's their biggest roadblock?
A: I think being a small-business owner as a woman or man is often very challenging. You spend 10, 12, 14 hours a day running your business, then the next 10 hours marketing your business, bookkeeping, and many times trying to manage your family–whether it's your partner, children, aging parents or the community. Women are often the caretakers, so it creates a challenge on many levels. Challenges, however, are opportunities.
Q: How can women and minorities best empower themselves to meet and overcome those issues?
A: Take advantage of all the certification programs available for minority- and women-owned businesses. There is a wide array of certification programs that help minorities get their foot in the door for business. The programs are available through the Small Business Administration, Department of General Services, Department of Transportation. More locally, organizations such as the Minority Supplier Diversity Council and Greater San Diego Business Association provide small business or minority-owned business certification.
Large entities such as SDG&E, the airport and the convention center look for minority-owned business certification in their procurement opportunities. This is a great benefit for minorities and women to open doors for more opportunities.
I would also highly encourage joining chambers and business organizations in San Diego much like the ABA. It's not always what you know, but who you know.
Q: What do you see as the greatest advantage right now for minorities and women?
A: There is a lot of information out there and even more programs to help assist minorities in business and in other capacities. Again, consider the certification programs, and get involved with organizations that can help you network and make connections.
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The first feature film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's classic novel On the Road is finally slated for release this year, and now a new batch of images from the film has gone online. The studio has been releasing some nifty character posters over the past few weeks, but this group of images gives us a better idea of what to expect from the adaptation. I was quite a fan of the film's trailer, and director Walter Salles' (The Motorcycle Diaries) involvement is encouraging, so hopefully we're in for a faithful iteration of Kerouac's story that celebrates the spirit of the book.
Hit the jump to check out the images. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Tom Sturridge, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Elizabeth Moss, Alice Braga, and Danny Morgan. On the Road is currently without a U.S. release date, but its slated to screen at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in May.
Here's the synopsis for On the Road:
After the death of his father, Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, meets Dean Moriarty, a wild and infectiously charismatic ex-con. They hit it off immediately. Determined to avoid the pitfalls of a narrow, prescribed life, Sal hits the road, joining Dean on what evolves into a life-changing physical and emotional odyssey. Thirsting for freedom, they discover the world, the ecstasy of experience, the connectedness of humanity and ultimately themselves.
The images come courtesy of the film's official website (via The Playlist):


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Electronic Services
The Electronic Services works closely with Bradley's Information Resources & Technology (IRT) and The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) on technical initiatives. It:
- Administers library's electronic resources and systems, such OpenURL link resolver, proxy server, and indexes and databases.
- Provides planning, implementation, and operational support of library automation.
- Administers the library's Integrated Library System (Voyager) and maintains library's online catalog (VuFind).
- Maintains the Library Web site.
- Maintains computer hardware and software in Cullom-Davis Library for all public and faculty/staff functions. This includes all of the public workstations for the online catalog and electronic resources, the Library faculty/staff network, Library Internet functions. Investigates and assesses new information technologies.
Xiaotian Chen, Electronic Services Librarian, firstname.lastname@example.com, 309-677-2839.


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Web Site Development
Web development has come a long way in the last several years. Anyone with access to a computer can build a web page for free... and anyone with access to the Internet can share it to the world for free. The articles about web development on this site range from basic introductions to advice on working on advanced-corporate-level sites. This list will advance as time goes on.
Latest Articles
Filter XML Data Based on Dates in ActionScript
You can filter your XML data based on dates in ActionScript to limit results in a component's data provider to one that is relevant to the given task.
Change HTML Styles with JavaScript
Video and source files on using getElementById, getElementsByTagName and object oriented methods to dynamically change HTML element styles in JavaScript.
Apache Mod Rewrite and PHP
How to check if Apache's mod_rewrite module is installed on your server directly inside your PHP script.
Get a Form Element's Label with JavaScript
This JavaScript finds the label for a form element, which is helpful for dynamically highlighting or changing a label based on user input.
Flash bgcolor and allowFullScreen Parameters Not Working?
I spent half a day trying to figure out why a Flash project suddenly stopped honoring bgcolor and allowFullScreen in IE but not other browsers.
Web Statistics
A brief introduction to understanding website statistics, including a discussion of visits, hits and other topics to be aware of.
MP4 files in Flex VideoDisplay
Here is a solution to your problem if you are building an application in Flex 3 that uses the VideoDisplay component and the results fail to work in Internet Explorer and Chrome but mysteriously work in Firefox.
Dynamically change a form's action with JavaScript
SwfObject JavaScript Error in IE7
IE7 has a JavaScript Error when using the swfobject.js method if you do not give the containing object element an ID.


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Tiffany Haddish Says An Actress Flirted With JAY-Z In Front Of Beyonce
You better believe that Beyoncé knows not let JAY-Z get involved in some of the tempting situations that we heard on her 2013 self-titled LP as well as Lemonade, or at least that's what it sounds like based off Tiffany Haddish's new interview for TVOne's series, UNCENSORED.
According to the on-the-rise comedian, a particular incident went down at an afterparty to the hip-hop titan's concert and she was a witness to it all. In between mingling with Jesse Collins and meeting Beyoncé for the first time, Haddish revealed the details to the awkward moment that unfolded between the power couple and an unidentified actress.
"I was talking to Jay-Z for a little bit, and there was another actress that was there, who was also talking to JAY-Z. She touched JAY-Z's chest and Beyoncé came walking up, like, 'Biiitch,'" the Girls Trip star recalled. "She didn't say that, but her demeanor, her body, the way she walked up on her was like 'Get your hand off my man's chest.' She started talking to that actress and some other stuff happened, but I ain't going to say nothing yet. It's going to be in the streets. You're going to know."
Haddish previously spoke about the first time that she met Bey at a party and explained how the pop pioneer had to hold her back from getting into a fight with someone. "Something had went down with somebody at the party, right?" she told Vulture. "I'm not at liberty to say what had went down at the party, but Beyoncé was just telling me to have a good time, and I was like, 'No, I'm gonna end up fighting this bitch!' She was like, 'No, have fun, Tiffany,' and I said, 'I'm only going to have fun if you take a selfie with me."
TV One's new 10-part docu-series, UNCENSORED, gives some of the scene's most dynamic personalities the opportunity to share personal stories in their own words. Get your DVRs ready because the forthcoming show premieres February 18 at 10 PM.
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Paul Virostek has been travelling worldwide as a field recordist since 1996 to work on projects such as Michael Mann's Ali, Batman Begins, Jerry Bruckheimer's Glory Road and HBO's Generation Kill. He has also collaborated with Microsoft, Apple, Sprint and Adobe.
He's also the owner of airbornesound.com, where you can download from over 26,000 of his professionally mastered sound effects.
You can read about his travels field recording worldwide on his blog at creativefieldrecording.com.
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