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Bridget Everett: Mother Warned You About Girls Like Her
She's loud, brash, crude and often foul-mouthed. In her act, she's been known to grope her female audience members and motorboat the men while swigging, spilling and spitting chardonnay. Her canon of original songs includes numerous tunes about body parts, with titles like "Titties," "Canhole" and "What I Gotta Do (To Get This Dick In My Mouth?)." She is the epitome of the kind of girl your mother warned you to stay away from, and the gays can't seem to get enough of her.
Alt-cabaret sensation Bridget Everett has the body of a Rubens nude, the voice of an angel singing the blues and the mouth of a merchant marine. Her ribald audience banter is often accompanied by spontaneous semi-nudity, alarming sexuality and songs with lyrics that could make John Waters blush. So far, this tactic has earned her a loyal audience made up of hip downtowners and A-list celebrities, a new album, steady gigs at Joe's Pub, a recent performance at Carnegie Hall with no less than the legendary Patti LuPone, and appearances on Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer.
"Honestly, the feedback has been pretty positive as far as being a big girl who is sort of sexually aggressive, but I've also been underground for a long time. I consider my audience to be more of a cult following," said Everett in a recent interview with EDGE.
She admits that as a big girl singing at clubs and performing offbeat comedy acts at comedy festivals, some people are unsure of how to peg her. Her strategy has been just to keep doing what she loves and it will all work itself out.
Her larger-than-life, outrageous and shocking stage persona is what initially grabs her audience, but the core of her act is the voice.
Critics have often compared Everett's voice to Janis Joplin and Bette Midler, both of whom she counts among her influences along with Freddy Mercury, Michael Jackson, Prince, Debbie Harry, Steve Perry from Journey, and the late opera diva Maria Callas.
Put 'Em In The Air
EDGE recently caught her singing "Titties" at a show hosted by "the hardest working man in showbiz," drag king Murray Hill. The ditty is a celebratory ode to the varied sizes and shapes of the female appendages. Everett explained the genesis of the song.
"Murray and I and some other performers play ball in McCarren Park with this group called Catch Club; it's just a way for us to chill out and talk showbiz while we play," said Everett. "So I'm out there with my backup band member Adam Horovitz [Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys], and I'm telling him about a song I'm thinking of, singing, 'You've got those little nippy titties, put 'em up.' I said to him, 'I think it's ridiculous,' and he says, 'I think it sounds like a hit.' I was in a place where I needed someone to give me permission to embrace the ridiculous shit in my brain, and he encouraged it."
Everett remembered how her brother used to refer to their mother's breasts as "beavertail titties." After her mom got breast cancer [Everett said she is now fine], the song became a tribute to her.
"It's a celebration for both women and men, for different body types," she said. "Every time I sing it, I go around the audience singing about what kind of titties I think they have, and it's so much fun. It's like a party."
Evolution of an Act
It took Everett a while to figure out her voice as an artist; when she started performing 15 years ago, she just sang songs and acted wild. Eventually, she realized that she wanted to create and sing her own songs. Her act has evolved over time to become less generic bawdiness and more a reflection of her life and experiences.
"I have a lot of different sides, and I'm oversensitive. I find some things funny, but the greatest love of my life is singing and music," said Everett. "I'm a funny girl who likes to drink chardonnay and motorboat people and take off my clothes; but humor comes from pain, and I have to cut the sweet. Music continually saves my life."
Over the years, Everett's presentation has also evolved. When she started, she used to perform in pants and a bustier. As she self-admittedly said, "I have no fashion sense or style."
But one night while performing the song "Canhole," which she wrote with Kenny Mellman of Kiki and Herb fame [the duo, with Justin Vivian Bond, that she considers her ne plus ultra inspiration ever], she unbuttoned her pants and they fell down, leaving her wearing only panties and a vest.
"I just kept going, and I felt 100 percent more powerful and in control than I ever had before," said Everett. "I'd been screaming for people to listen, and I think partial nudity on a big girl is one way to get people's attention. Not that I feel I need to take my clothes off, but when I do, the beast is unleashed. It ignites a fire, and I feel like I'm an alternate-universe, superhero version of myself."
Everett has since taken to wearing flowing, revealing dresses crafted by her friend Larry Krone of House of Larréon, who makes all of his and his sister's costumes.
"He has a total understanding of me as a person and a performer, and we often talk about ideas he comes up with," she explained, saying that Krone always designs her dresses to show her breasts or crotch, but that "most importantly, he dresses me in a way we both think is flattering, a little funny and that echoes the ridiculousness of the show, with pretty fabrics and crazy, off-the-wall shit."
After observing the joyful freedom of big burlesque stars like Dirty Martini, Everett said that although her body wasn't what everyone was used to seeing, that's what she has -- and what her queer audience members love.
Moving Up But Staying Down
Throughout the years, Everett has expanded her following. From a core cult crew of queers, she has attracted a broad range of 20-something girls, he-men in their 40s, and even some teenagers, which she said, "freaks me out a little."
She has culled this variety of fans via a wide range of performances. She went on tour with comedian Amy Schumer, whom she met on a plane to the Montreal Comedy Fest and on whose Comedy Central show she sang "Titties." She performs in New York City with queer artists like Murray Hill and Neal Medlyn, who she calls "giant stars."
And she recently sang with the legendary Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall in November 2013, after her friend Scott Wittman [LuPone's cabaret director] brought the famed singer to one of Everett's shows at La MaMa and La LuPone liked what she saw.
"She came up to me afterwards and was so complimentary," Everett remembers. "I told Scott to tell her I wanted to sing with her sometime, and so a few months later, she sang with me at Joe's Pub. Later, she called me and asked how I'd feel about doing a song with her at Carnegie Hall. 'I'd feel fucking great about it!' I said. So I sang with her, and she brought me out again and said all this nice stuff about me. I adore her, and I am really hoping there is more in store for me and her."
Although Everett can sometimes be found waiting tables at a New York restaurant (she needs the gig for the health insurance, she says), she now makes the lion's share of her earnings from performing. Her new album, Pound It, was released in the fall; she just recorded her first music video for the song "What I Gotta Do"; and her monthly show continues to run at Joe's Pub in New York City's Public Theater.
Everett is currently helping Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman organize a show there in the spring. She confided that she is also working on a TV show with Horovitz and Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, with Medlyn and Hill in the mix.
"My friends represent all different kinds of people that you wouldn't normally see on TV," said Everett. "They are inspiring and funny, unique and totally themselves. They're my best friends, but also my inspiration. With this community of people around me all working together, this is the happiest I've ever been."
For more information, follow Bridget Everett on Facebook at facebook.com/bridget.everett.37


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OAKLAND — A local developer is closing in on a deal to buy the Sears department store downtown and reconfigure the massive structure into a retail hub for the rebounding area.
Alan Dones, who heads the Oakland-based Strategic Urban Development Alliance, said he has assembled an investment team that is negotiating to purchase both the Sears building at 1955 Broadway and an adjacent city-owned parking lot at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Thomas L. Berkley Way.
"I feel we're very close to a deal, but by the same token this is still very fragile," Dones said Friday. He would not disclose the purchase price or his investors. City sources confirmed that negotiations were advancing and that a deal could be in place shortly.
Sears, which last year began selling off several stores, declined to discuss any real estate moves in Oakland. "Sears values its presence in Oakland. We remain committed to serving our members and customers in the Oakland community," company spokesman Howard Riefs wrote in a prepared statement.
Sears is the last of the large department stores that once lined Broadway, but the struggling retailer barely occupies 20 percent of a four-story building that commands more than half a square block.
While the store remains downtown Oakland's biggest retail outlet, the building's huge swath of unused space is seen as a drag on the surrounding neighborhood, which has become the epicenter of Oakland's thriving night life scene. The building's basement, which opens directly to the 19th Street BART station, has long been closed to the public. The top floors, which Dones envisions as office space, also have been empty for years.
"Our objective is to get the building back to the point where it is open and visible and a cornerstone to downtown Oakland," Dones said.
If the sale goes through, Sears would be welcome to remain as an anchor tenant, he added.
Dones has commissioned several renderings of a remodeled Sears building that show several retailers with shops fronting both sides of the structure, on Broadway and Telegraph Avenue. The adjacent parking lot at Telegraph and Thomas L. Berkeley Way, he said, could include a mix of shops, homes and parking spaces.
"We at the city are very much behind Alan and his effort and think what he's doing is right for the corridor, and we're anxious to work with him," Assistant City Manager Fred Blackwell said.
Over the past decade, Dones has developed two condominium projects and an Alameda County Social Services building in Oakland. He said he is partnering with retail and office experts in putting together his bid for the Sears building.
The Broadway store would be the latest casualty of a companywide gutting by Sears CEO Edward Lampert, experts say. He began selling off Sears' most valuable assets about 18 months ago, and the Oakland location is among the company's prime properties. Lampert is asking top dollar for these stores, said Mark Cohen, a retail expert at the Columbia University Business School and the former chairman and CEO of Sears Canada.
"This is the way the businesses get liquidated," he said. "The cream of the crop goes first."
Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435.

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What a difference a half year makes. In January, James Tupper talked up his medical series "Mercy" to PopcornBiz and managed to give some good digs to the medical drama competition "Grey's Anatomy."
Fast forward to last week: "Mercy" is no more while Tupper has joined the cast of "Grey's Anatomy."
In the medical actor version of going to the mighty New York Yankees, EW.com reports that Tupper has checked into the TV hospital institution. He'll play a trauma counselor brought in following last season's hostage crisis for at least two episodes.
In case Tupper forgot some of his playful bon mots against what was then the competition, it's our civic duty to remind him. First up was the syrupy pathos on the show.
"They are so serious," Tupper said of 'Grey's' at the time. "Every single scene there's a sad song in the background."
And then there was the comparison with the gritty "Mercy," which was shot in an actual former hospital in New Jersey. "Grey's" only pretends to be Seattle's Grace-Mercy West Hospital
"They shoot in in Los Angeles at a backlot in Hollywood. It's not Seattle," said Tupper. "The wettest they get is taking a hot shower at the end of the evening or getting into their jacuzzi."
He was on a roll. But he was trying to push a gritty-upstart in the face of "Grey's" dominance. "Mercy" lost out and was canceled earlier this year after it failed to find its audience.
The other bit of irony is that Tupper's big break in "Men In Trees" came along with the initial burst of "Grey's" mania. And while there was a McSteamy and a McDreamy on "Grey's," Tupper was marketed for "Men In Trees" as Mc-Treemy.


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Jenny is in perpetual search for easy, weeknight recipes to attempt to feed her family. When they balk, she just eats more.
Today, we're re-running one of our favorite old Jenny columns while she works on finishing her new book, with a new photo to boot!
Let's start by rejecting, at least in part, the central tenets of weeknight cooking that have been drilled into our collective heads since the day we unwrapped our first Calphalon pan. (I never liked that pan, by the way; it was too heavy and such a pain to wash that cleaning it once involved a bruise, but I was told that married people own Calphalon. You see? Rules can lead to undue harm!)
Weeknight recipes, we have been told, must be extremely easy, produce results in less than 30 minutes and generally speaking be free of garnishes. There is logic there –- a Tuesday night is no time for most working people to reduce a sauce, and children, should they be part of your table, do not react favorably to the words "just another hour" with regard to a roast. True enough, ingredients and pots should be kept to a minimum.
But to me, the best dishes for mid-week are those with which you have become mildly obsessed, and through that obsession have mastered over time, or at least learned to make without squinting at the recipe 20 times.
They are dishes for which opening a can when something is out of season will not cause substantial ruin, and that with an extra this or that can be fancied up when some unexpected guest arrives pretending to be surprised that it is the dinner hour.
The latest addition to my list is fisheri's Down and Dirty Pasta e Ceci. In the spirit of full disclosure I confess that I first looked at this recipe because fisheri is a colleague and friend. While I knew him for years as a take-out burrito guy, he had spent some part of the last decade living in Rome, where he learned to cook, and frankly I wanted to see what he had.
Let me say that English is fisheri's first language, even though his recipes can sometimes sound translated. When he calls for "half a packet" of pasta, he means half a pound. He has been known to list a "glass of wine" in others, an arbitrary measure if there ever was one, its size linked to what sort of day one has had, and whether or not it contained an encounter with Time Warner cable.
But this recipe is a winner, and perfect for a weeknight dinner. Most importantly, it contains ingredients that should almost certainly already be in your larder. One exception may be high-quality anchovies, but that is an omission you should have corrected months ago anyway. Next in importance is its relative ease.
What we are talking about here is pasta and chickpeas cooked in a small amount of liquid, seasoned with rosemary and anchovies, all melted together into a sea of hearty, slightly salty goodness. Thrown into the mix, but in no way intruding on your chickpeas and anchovies -- the Fred and Ginger of this dish -- are some chopped up tomatoes.
As you will see in reading the recipe, you are basically pouring and stirring. Chopping is limited to the tomatoes, anchovies, which put up no resistance, and some garlic, which is better than onions on any night.
Like everything, it benefits from the freshest ingredients you can find, and the best cheese. But I once longed for it on a December evening at 7:00 P.M., and so canned tomatoes had to do. Yeah, my rosemary was from Von's, its lack of freshness made all the more bitter by the fact that it took me 25 seconds to procure it, but then 20 minutes to pay for it, which I thought defeated the whole point of a 15-items-or-less aisle, and plus I was really hungry, but I digress.
The result of that particular effort was a more tomato-y sauce (I probably should have drained them) so I reduced my stock to adjust. Sometimes I think it needs a kick, so red pepper flakes are added. Sometimes I feel the world is against me, so I shave on a lot more cheese.
Like every recipe that becomes part of the weeknight rotation, some nights it turns out better than others, but the more often I make it, the less I have to think about it, the more I am able to email mid-flame. If I want it any easier than that, I've got pumpkin tortellini in the freezer.
Down and Dirty Pasta e Ceci
Serves 4
2 cloves garlic4 filets anchovies3 healthy sprigs rosemary3 tablespoons olive oil1 can chickpeas4 ripe plum tomatoes1/2 packet small pasta, like farfalle4 cups chicken broth (better) or watergrated parmesansalt and pepper
A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
See what other Food52 readers are saying.


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When and why did you start training for fighting? I have been fighting professionally since 2006.
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Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Kyungbuk Science College - MMA Major
Favorite grappling technique: Triangle choke
Favorite striking technique: Right cross
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33rd Degree and KCCH Recipients
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2018 KSA International Gathering
A big thank you to all the Chapters that attended the 2018 Knights of Saint Andrew International...MORE
Announcements for the 3rd week in Oct
Brethren, We have a few announcements this week. -First off thank you to everyone who...MORE
3rd Week of November Update
Waco Scottish Rite Bodies Invite you to attend the December Stated Meeting Monday, December 3...MORE
Monday 11/26/18 Announcements
Brethren, I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and that those who traveled made it...MORE
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Feast of Tishrihttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Waco Scottish Rite Feast of Tishri
Meal and Meeting
Meal at 6:30 PM
Meeting at 7:30 PM
Waco Scottish Rite
2801 W. Waco Dr
Waco, Tx
4th Wednesday Golf Outinghttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
The 4th Wednesday of every month there will be a golf outing. Tee times start at 9:00 AM
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at Cottonwood Creek Golf Course. Locations will be updated prior to the event.
If interested in participating please contact:
M.L. (Mike) Waldrop, 32° KCCH
General Secretary
Waco Scottish Rite Bodies
O: 254-752-1618 x203
E: Mike.Waldrop@
Office Closedhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
The business offices of the Waco Scottish Rite Bodies will be closed from the end of business on Friday, December 16 until the morning of January 2, 2017.
Food For Familieshttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Food for Families is coming up on Nov 11, 2017.
Volunteers are needed for several areas.
For questions or to volunteer please call:
Mike Waldrop 254-640-9500
Stan Parker 254-749-4934
Waco Scottish Rite 254-752-1618
Mid and East Texas Scottish Rite Clubhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Mid Texas Scottish Rite Club
Feed Mill Restaurant
6th and Saunders
Gatesville, Texas
Contact Kenneth Dahl for more info
East Texas Scottish Rite Club
St. Johns Lodge
323 W. Front Street
Tyler, Texas
Contact Richard Gaiser for more info
Come Play Golfhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Golf will be played on the 4th Wed of Each month.
Please contact Mike Waldrop for more info
Mid and East Texas Scottish Rite Clubhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Mid Texas Scottish Rite Club
Feed Mill Restaurant
6th and Saunders
Gatesville, Texas
Contact Kenneth Dahl for more info
East Texas Scottish Rite Club
St. Johns Lodge
323 W. Front Street
Tyler, Texas
Contact Richard Gaiser for more info
Mid & East Texas Scottish Rite Clubhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Mid Texas Scottish Rite Club
Feed Mill Restaurant
6th and Saunders
Gatesville, Texas
Contact Kenneth Dahl for more info
East Texas Scottish Rite Club
St. Johns Lodge
323 W. Front Street
Tyler, Texas
Contact Richard Gaiser for more info
Fort Chadbourne Dinnerhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
On May 10th, 2018 there will be a dinner at Ft. Chadbourne in San Angelo Texas. This dinner is to honor all Medal of Honor winners, and is held on a yearly basis. There will be a Medal of Honor recipient speaker, as well as a mixer at 6:30 pm followed by a Prime Rib dinner at 7:30 pm. Men and Ladies are all welcome.
We have purchased 2 tables with 20 open seats. These seats are first come first serve and are $50 per seat. If there is a high interest we will purchase another table.
On the morning of May 10th, we will leave from Waco and travel to San Angelo. We will be staying the night on the 10th at the Holiday Inn Express, which is $95 a room.
After Check-In we will travel to Ft. Chadbourne and take a tour of the Fort and the surrounding area, with the dinner to follow. The following day we will prepare to return to Waco, but will first make a stop and take a tour of the nearby Fort Concho which is also in San Angelo.
If you have any questions or are interested, please contact
Mike Waldrop at
254-640-9500 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Mid & East Texas Scottish Rite Clubhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Mid & East Texas Scottish Rite Club
Mid Texas Scottish Rite Club
Feed Mill Restaurant
6th and Saunders
Gatesville, Texas
Contact Kenneth Dahl for more info
East Texas Scottish Rite Club
St. Johns Lodge
323 W. Front Street
Tyler, Texas
Contact Richard Gaiser for more info
April Scottish Rite Reunionhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Waco Scottish Rite Bodies
Two-Day Reunion In Memory of TBA
Lee Lockwood Library and Museum
2801 West Waco Drive
Waco, Texas
Friday April 20 & Saturday April 21, 2018
Registration —Friday, April 20, 5:00 P.M.
Dinner Friday April 20, 2018 6:30 P.M.
Friday, April 20, 2018
4° 7:30 P.M. Waco Brethren
6° 8:00 P.M. LFL Brethren
14° 8:40 P.M. Killeen Brethren
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Coffee and Donuts provided starting at 7:00 A.M.
5°-17° 7:30 A.M. Communicated by Waco Education Team
18° 8:45 A.M. Copperas Cove Brethren
19°-28° 10:00 A.M. Communicated by Waco Education Team
29° 11:00 A.M. KOSA Brethren
Lunch 12:30
Recognition of Honor for TBA Family
30° 1:30 P.M. Gatesville Brethren
31° 2:30 P.M. Waco Brethren
32° 3:30 P.M. Waco Brethren
Capping Ceremony
Reunion concludes at approximately 5:00 P.M.
Membership Incentives
In an effort to recognize those, who labor to maintain our membership, the Waco Scottish Rite Valley provides the following rewards for those who support our membership efforts:
1. Each member (non-endowed) who is the top line petition signer for three(3) or more members in a calendar year will have their dues remitted for the following calendar year.
2. Each member (non-endowed) who is a top line signer for twelve(12) or more new members over any period will receive an endowed membership
3. Petitions are non- transferable among top line petition signers
4. Any Scottish Rite member 68 years or older can become an endowed member of Waco Scottish Rite Bodies for $600. If 75 years or older the cost is $400. You will then be contributing to the ideals of Scottish Rite Masonry now and forever.
Scottish Rite Reunionhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
We are having a WSRB Fall Reunion to be held at the Lee Lockwood Scottish Rite Library & Museum, 2801 W Waco Dr., Waco Texas, on September 29 & 30, 2017.
Our Initiation Fee for the degrees will be $250.00, which will include a 2017 & 2018 dues cards and a Scottish Rite cap, 14th degree ring, books on Scottish Rite, and lapel pin.
(Hotel rooms will be provided for candidates who travel more than 100 miles with two candidates per room.) You will note that registration of candidates will begin at 5:00 P.M. on Friday, September 29, 2017. We will have a dinner starting at 6:30 P.M. and the degrees will begin after the dinner. If you are wanting a motel room for Friday, September 29, 2017, please give me a call or send an email (firstname.lastname@example.com)
We look forward with pleasure to your presence at the reunion and to your membership with the Waco Scottish Rite Bodies.
Sincerely and fraternally,
M. L. "Mike" Waldrop, 32°KCCH
General Secretary
Meals on Wheelshttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Volunteers are needed on Thanksgiving Day morning, November 24th, to pack Thanksgiving meals for several hundred clients of Meals on Wheels. Anyone above the age of 16 is eligible to help pack meals. Volunteers will gather at 7:00 a.m. and packing food boxes will begin about 7:30 am. We should be finished about 9:00 am. Times are approximate and you should be home to celebrate your Thanksgiving in plenty of time. Coffee and donuts will be provided for all volunteers. Those planning on volunteering should call the Scottish Rite Office at 254-752-1618.
Night of Recognitionhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Waco Scottish Rite Stated Meeting and Night of Recognition
Meal and Meeting
Meal at 6:30 PM
Meeting at 7:30 PM
Degree Practice Nighthttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
The 3rd Monday of every month is set aside as "Practice night for the Scottish Rite Degrees.
Light dinner at 6:30 and practice starting at 7 PM"
Contact Ed Brown
J.H. Gurley Lodge #337 Stated Meetinghttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
J. H. Gurley Lodge #337
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Lodge Phone: 254-304-9337
Masonic District 61-C
Located in McLennan County
Meetings: Fourth Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m.
Meal: 6:30 PM
Stated Meetinghttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Stated Meetings:
First Mondays of every month (except July and August)
Dinner at 6:30, program and/or Lodge meeting at 7:30
RSVPs for meal head-count appreciated.
Physical Address:
The Lee Lockwood Library and Museum
2801 W. Waco Dr.
Waco, TX 76707
KOSA Stated Meetinghttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
The Waco Knights of St. Andrew, Order of the Thistle, holds its stated meeting on fourth Monday of the month in the Lodge Room of the Lee Lockwood Library and Museum in Waco, Texas. The brethren will gather at 6:30 for a light meal and open Lodge at 7:00 for regular stated business. All Scottish Rite Masons are invited to attend and observe.
At the meeting in December we will be holding officer elections for 2017.
The Knights of St. Andrew is an auxiliary Lodge within the Scottish Rite that exists as a service organization. All 32° "Black Hat" members of the Waco Scottish Rite are invited to join. For more information please see the following link:
Scottish Rite Stated Meetinghttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
You and your lady are invited to attend the regular stated meeting of the Waco Scottish Rite on the evening of December 5, 2016.
6:30 p.m. — Dinner
7:30 p.m. — Tiled Meeting and Election of Officers
Reservations required for dinner. Please RSVP by 12-1-16 so that the proper amount of food may be prepared.
Please contact the Waco Scottish Rite office at:
254-712-1618 or 1-800-880-7208.
Or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Lee Lockwood Scottish Rite Library and Museum
2801 W. Waco Dr.
Waco, Texas
Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinnerhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
The Waco Scottish Rite presents the Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner. Held Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at the Lee Lockwood Library and Museum at 6:30 PM.
With Guest Speaker: The Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton.
Please RSVP by Oct 11th.
All Officers and their Spouse/Guest are invited!!
For more info please call Stan Parker @ 254-749-4934
Bagpipe and Drum Lessonshttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Beginning January 31st Bagpipe and Drum Lessons Begin. Lessons will start at 6:30pm at the Scottish Rite Building each Wednesday. This is open to anyone interested in learning Scottish Pipe Bands whether male or female, young or old.
Greg McEwen or Bill Herridge are the contacts
or message us on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WSRBTX/
Scottish Rite Stated Meetinghttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Stated Meetings held 1st Monday of every month, unless otherwise noted.
Meal at 630
Meeting to follow at 730
Cork and Ash Societyhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Beginning February 8th the Cork and Ash Society will meet at the Scottish Rite at 6:30pm. This is an event that will feature the appreciation of wine, spirits and cigars in a relaxed atmosphere. Experts in these fields will speak on the finer points of these areas each month.
Contact Greg McEwen
Or message us on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WSRBTX/
February Stated Meetinghttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
You and your Lady are invited to attend the
Waco Scottish Rite Bodies' Stated Meeting
on Monday, February 6, 2017
at the Lee Lockwood Library & Museum
(in the Lockwood Library – 29th St Entrance)
2801 W Waco Drive, Waco, Texas
6:30 p.m. for Dinner
and 7:30 TILED Meeting
All Ladies are encouraged to attend.
Meal Provided / $10 Donations Accepted
The dress for the evening will be
Coat & Tie with Scottish Rite Cap / Ladies Sunday Dress
Please contact the WSRB office
(254) 752-1618, 1-800-880-7208 or
e-mail at email@example.com for reservations
so the proper amount of food may be prepared.
Please call or email no later than
Monday, January 30 at 5:00 pm.
Scottish Rite Meeting- Installation of Officershttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
2nd Monday instead of 1st due to New Years
Meal at 6:30
Meeting at 7:00
Installation of Officers
Candidate Forum will be held
Remembrance and Renewal Ceremonyhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Waco Scottish Rite Bodies
The Waco Chapter of Rose Croix
invite you and your guests to join us on
Monday, April 3, 2017
at 6:30 p.m.
for our Remembrance and Renewal Ceremony
Meal Cost is $15.00
RSVP to email@example.com or (254) 752-1618 No Later Than March 30, 2017
– Menu –
Cracker Barrel/Cove Scottish Rite Club
Roast Beef, Meatloaf, Chicken Strips, Chicken & Dumplings, Mashed Potatoes,
Breaded Okra, Green Beans, Mac & Cheese, Cheesecake
Scottish Rite Meeting- Installation of Officershttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
2nd Monday instead of 1st due to New Years
Meal at 6:30
Meeting at 7:00
Installation of Officers
Candidate Forum will be held
Magic Show Benefitting Waco DeMolay Chapterhttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Brethren, A magic show will take place at the Lee Lockwood Library & Museum at 2801 W Waco Dr, Waco, Texas on April 20, 2017. The proceeds go to the Waco DeMolay Chapter. This chapter is the #1 growing chapter in the Texas and is full of young men that are on fire to learn more about DeMolay and Masonry. I ask you to please help support this chapter while having a great time watching Brother Taylor Keen do magic. He really is good. VIP tickets are $10, Adults $8, and Students under 18 are $5. Please call or text Sonny Juarez to purchase your tickets at 254-498-2094 or you can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Scottish Rite Meeting- Election of Officershttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Meal at 6:30
Meeting at 7:00
Friends of KOSA providing meal (asking for a $10 donation)
Election of Officers will take place
Wives are Invited
James H. Lockwood Lodge #1343 Stated Meetinghttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Email: email@example.com
61 Year old Lodge
(Chartered December 02, 1954)
Lodge Address: 2801 W. Waco Dr. Waco, TX 76702
Mailing Address: PO Box 20052 Waco, TX 76702
Meetings: First Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m.
Fidelis Lodge #1127 Stated Meetinghttp://wacoscottishrite.org/event/james-h-lockwood-lodge-1343-stated-meeting/
Lodge Address: 2801 W. Waco Dr. Waco, TX 76702-1923
Mailing Address: PO Box 21923 Waco, TX 76702-1923
Meetings: Second Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Lodge Phone: 254-717-4396
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Norwegian Sea
Norwegian Sea has been retired and is no longer in service
Norwegian Cruise Line's first newbuild in 17 years, this ship entered service as the Seaward in 1988. She was also one of the last ships built by legendary Finnish W�rtsil� shipyard. The Norwegian Sea was completely refurbished in 2003.
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Police: Pedestrian dies from injuries after July 4 DUI crash
UPDATE 4:30 p.m. Monday, July 8: The pedestrian involved in the July 4 collision at Donner Lake has died as a result of his injuries, according to a statement this afternoon from the Truckee Police Department.
The man was identified as 46-year-old Leonard Richard Whitlow of Sparks, Nev, according to Truckee Police.
TRUCKEE, Calif. — A 24-year-old local woman was intoxicated when she struck and critically injured a pedestrian while riding a bicycle minutes before the Donner Lake fireworks Thursday evening, police said.
The Truckee Police Department received a report of a collision between a bicyclist and a pedestrian on Donner Pass Road along Donner Lake at about 9:25 p.m. Thursday, according to a statement.
Officers arrived and found bystanders performing CPR on the adult male pedestrian, who was transported to Tahoe Forest Hospital and later flown to a Reno area hospital.
The man, whose name was not released, remained in critical condition with major head trauma as of Friday afternoon, according to police.
The bicyclist, Petra Bakker-Borhani, 24, of Truckee, was uninjured. Bakker-Borhani was operating the bicycle while under the influence of alcohol and was arrested at the scene, according to police. She was booked into the Nevada County Jail on DUI charges.
Witnesses reported the pedestrian may have been under the influence of alcohol as well, according to police, although that hasn't been confirmed.
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National Grid, whose job it is to balance the UK's electricity network, has proposed the move to counter the increase in payments made to compensate for the shutting down of wind farms during times of low energy demand.
Under the proposals, businesses with a high energy requirements, such as factories, would be paid to operate at night.
National Grid told Process Engineering that the plans are at an early stage, but that the company is working out details of how the service could be rolled out.
The intermittent nature of wind generation, and the tendency of wind to blow stronger at night when demand is lower, means that constraint payments are on the rise.
As more wind farms are connected to the grid, the cost of wind constraint has increased sharply, with payments up from £7.6 million (EUR 9.1 million) in financial year 2012/13 to an expected £27.9 million for 2013/14.
The government is committed to expanding the UK's installed wind capacity from its current 10GW, to 16GW by 2020, which would further increase the payments.
However, National Grid figures show that constraint payments to wind farms only amounted to around 10% of the total constraint payments made to energy generators.
While this is disproportionately high compared with the around 5% of the UK's energy supplied by wind, the vast majority of payments are made to coal and gas plants.
In order to keep its costs as low as possible, National Grid receives bids from generators for how much they want to be paid to ramp up or ramp down generation.
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Doggobone Classic Chicken Meal for Dogs (1kg)
A complete and balanced chicken-based meal from Doggobone, packaged in 500gr chub rolls.
Registered Name: Doggobone Classic
Formulated As: Complete and Balanced Meal for Dogs
Registration Number: V23533 Act 36 / 1947
Packaging: 500gr chub roll, 2 rolls per kilogram
Ingredients: Chicken, Beef or Sheep (Lung, Tripe, Liver), Vegetables, Fruit, Egg, Chicory, Rooibos, Dried Alfalfa Meal, Sun-Dried Kelp, Ground Flax Seed, Rosemary, Garlic, Cayenne Pepper, Curcumin, Cassava Root, Essential Vitamins and Minerals
Please Note: Contains Rosemary
Note: Chicken is finely ground including bone
Note: Tripe used for human consumption has to be scalded or bleached to ensure it is "fit for human consumption". However, this process denatures most of the nutritional benefit of the tripe. All Doggobone Active Raw meals that include tripe make use of green, unbleached tripe, and therefore, these meals cannot claim "fit for human consumption".
|Complete and Balanced
|Base Protein
|Additional Protein
|Beef or Sheep (Lung, Tripe, Liver), Egg
|Chicory, Rooibos, Dried Alfalfa Meal, Sun-Dried Kelp, Ground Flax Seed, Rosemary, Garlic, Cayenne Pepper, Curcumin, Cassava Root
|Yes (Essential Vitamins and Minerals)
|Nutritional Information
|Life Stages
|Moisture (%) (Max)
|75 %
|Protein (Crude) (%) (Min)
|12 %
|Fats and Oils (Crude) (%) (Min)
|6 %
|Fibre (Crude) (%) (Max)
|2 %
|Ash (Crude) (%) (Max)
|5 %
|Data Source
|Nutritional Notes
|All nutritional values state here is based on an "as fed basis". In order to compare natural pet cuisine to other offerings, it is important that, for the purpose of comparison, values are converted to a dry matter basis.
|Dept of Agriculture
|V-Registration (ACT:36/1947)
|V23533 Act 36 / 1947
|Chub Roll (500gr)
|Dimensions (L / W / H) (mm)
|230 x 70 x 55 (per roll)
|Serving Instructions
|Serving Instructions
|Serve Raw; Remove contents from packaging, place in a sealed container and thaw in refrigerator; Raw food will spoil if left unrefrigerated for an extended period of time; Do not thaw at room temperature for more than 60 min; This product may be fed frozen.
|Raw Material Safety Statement
|Raw Material Sourcing
|In accordance with South African regulations for commercial raw food, raw food materials may only be sourced from registered and regulated abattoirs. As such, our suppliers meat plants are subject to, and comply with, the regulations laid down by the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and some are also subject to the regulations of the European Commission.
Classic Chicken Meal for Dogs (1kg) (DB)
- Brand: Doggobone
- Product Code: DB-CN-CLASC-01
- Availability: 417
- Ex Tax: R26.09
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- 60 or more R26.96
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lets pretend (for humor's sake) that god exists, then im going to go with "Yes"
why else would his son turn water into wine? or why else would he create a cloud of alcohol in space 463 billion kilometers long containing enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer? haha LOL
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Any chance I could come over and worship with you? Looks like you robbed the Jesus Blood Bank!
Actually, I only drink to calm my nerves - sometimes I get so calm I can't move --
All devotees of our Lord Ethanol are welcome, :D
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.....
……..Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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have to have this done by tomorrow and I'm having trouble understanding fully what I must do, tried fiddling with some code from a sample sheet and came up with this for a simple selection sort, I'f anyone can help me out in regards to properly answering this question fully I would be hugely gratefulCreate a sortingshowcase class that will demonstrate the use of TWO sorting algorithmsof your choice (from the ones we have covered, namely, selection, bubble andinsertion sort). This class should contain the follow:
· A method for each sortalgorithm being demod that receives an unsorted array and modifies the arrayso that it becomes sorted.
· A method to display the elementof an array
· A main method to test that thesorting algorithms are working correctly, i.e. create some sample arrays, printthem before and after the sorting algorithms were called
class sortingshowcase{
for(int x=0; x<n; x++)
int index_of_min = x;
for(int y=x; y<n; y++)
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I am finally here, it's been a super long day and I am exhausted. For one thing, we woke up really early to do last minute things, and then our flight was delayed, then when we finally were in the air I couldn't sleep because my seat wouldn't recline and I can't sleep sitting upright, so thank goodness JetBlue has tv's or else I would have died from boredom! I ended up watching the Discovery Channel series on how they make everyday things, I watched how they make CD's, bottle caps, molded chocolates, etc. AND even watched "Legally Blonde the Musical" on MTV. I figure I'll learn something educational and then watch something for amusement.
I love airplanes, that's another thing many people don't know about me. It's my favorite form of transportation. Ever since I was 6 years old and the airplane pilot invited me to see the cockpit and different parts of the plane going to Los Angeles from Canada, I was in love with airplanes. My favorite of course is the Boeing 747 which is used mainly for commercial flights, it's a 4 engine airbus that is very roomy. Ok I just sounded like a nerd, but seriously that's how much I love airplanes!
The above pic was taken today immediately after take off. The views from helicopters and airplanes are phenomenal. Definitely something you don't see from a car.
Of course I had to have some coffee running in my system, so picked up my Caramel Macchiato. :)
We ended up eating at the airport and of course I was the last one stuck at security thanks to the metal design on my shirt which I forgot about. I felt bad holding up the line, but oh well. Haha
Traveling is fun and stressful at the same time. I kept feeling I was forgetting something and yet I hated having to bring so much stuff! But I think I have pretty much what I need to last here anyway. My luggages just end up weighing more than me so it's hard to carry it all!
Good thing we traveled with guys to help out!
Can you tell which one is my luggage? haha...
When it was brand new...now it's all dirty.
It's pretty cold here in New York, not as cold as last year, but still face-freezing cold, it's kinda refreshing though compared to the hot weather we have been having in Los Angeles.
This is my actual hotel room, pretty nice huh? It's one of the new rooms at the New York Hilton, very modern and definitely me. The bed which im laying in right now as I type this is ultra comfy!
Pics of me and my co-workers...see how my foundation matches??! Silk Naturals baby!
I got a long day ahead of me tomorrow so I will try and update when I can!
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Arrived in NY!
6 comments
- Alma said...
Hey Nessa, THankfully you all arrived safely to New York!!!! Please take pics I have never been to any other state here in the US. I would love to visit another one , but who knows if i will ever be albe to, there are so many things and places id like to do and see but alas we cant have our cake and eat it too. Take care
- November 4, 2007 at 5:48 PM
- christianadivine said...
oOo! Glad to know you're having fun! :] I have yet to travel to New York but it's something I'm anticipating. :] BTW... your foundation is a PERFECT match. I've never seen a foundation match you so flawlessly, I definitely hope you ordered a large size of that foundation! :]
- November 4, 2007 at 9:49 PM
- karen, makeupandbeautyblog.com said...
your makeup looks great - it ain't easy being cute when there's travel involved.
work hard and have fun!
- November 4, 2007 at 10:49 PM
- AndreaLeigh said...
Hello! I'm a long-time lurker and I had a quick request for you. Could you please do a tutorial of your MMU application? Your face looks so smooth and flawless and I'd love to see your application techiniques.
- November 4, 2007 at 10:55 PM
- nilla cookie said...
Looks like you guys are still having lots of fun despite the work week ahead of you!
Have fun and look forward to seeing and hearing about your fun trip!
- November 5, 2007 at 11:11 AM
- Stephie said...
lol i could totally tell it was your luggage ate :)
what job do you have? it seems to be amazing, jet setting and having posh hotel rooms, i want that kind of a job when i'm done with college :D
i'm glad you got to NY safely and i pray for a safe one back to LA. have fun! :)
- November 6, 2007 at 9:27 PM


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Port Arthur school district in court
Attorneys for the Port Arthur Independent School District (PAISD) had a busy two weeks in court, defending separate litigations accusing the district of wrongful termination and retaliation.
In a case that was described by PAISD attorneys as "settled" on Oct. 23, the school district was defending allegations that it wrongfully terminated former special education teacher Edna Edwards in 2006.
PAISD has argued to the court that Edwards failed to exhaust her administrative remedies under the Texas Education Code, although multiple courts including the 172nd Jefferson County District Court concluded Edwards was not required to exhaust her administrative remedies before bringing her case to trial.
Edwards, who had been an educator for the district for more than 30 years, alleged that she was transferred and ultimately fired after she told a former PAISD teacher who testified in a separate breach of contract and retaliation lawsuit against PAISD that she was ordered by an assistant superintendent not to rehire the whistleblower. Edwards further alleged that she was replaced by a teacher who testified for PAISD in the prior lawsuit, and that prior to her termination, she was "repeatedly and publicly harassed and berated by members of the PAISD administration for her alleged failure to support the PAISD."
After several years of fighting PAISD attorneys in varying courts, Edwards most recently answered PAISD's assertions "that a court lacks jurisdiction to hear the merits of the (case.)" According to PAISD's appeal to the court, Edwards was transferred into an employment contract just before she was terminated and therefore could not sue for wrongful termination regardless of the facts presented.
"PAISD points to a provision in Edwards' 2006 contract which states, 'Employee shall be subject to assignment and reassignment of positions or duties, additional duties, changes in responsibilities or work, transfers, or reclassification at any time during the contract term,"' PAISD asserted.
However, the appellant court in February 2012 held that, "Edwards does not contend that her transfer violated the terms of her 2006 contract with PAISD. Rather, Edwards asserts that she was transferred in retaliation for her opposition to PAISD's discriminatory practices and for helping a teacher in regards to pending litigation against PAISD."
Therefore, the court ruled, PAISD would need to answer Edwards' allegation in a formal setting. Edwards' petition sought an injunction and all equitable relief available to her, and additional equitable relief that might include hiring or reinstating employment with or without back pay. Days before the case was set for a jury trial, an undisclosed settlement was announced.
Roughly a week later, PAISD attorneys would again argue whether a local court could hear claims of wrongful termination and retaliation lodged against the school district.
In the case of Monty Jones versus PAISD, the former computer technician said he was harassed and then fired for failing to follow orders in a scheme to damage computer equipment and collect insurance proceeds. Jones' case made it to court in 2010 but, like Edwards, the alleged harassment had taken place long before litigation was called before a judge, with his last date of employment ending in the summer of 2009.
Jones' case specifically names PAISD Superintendent Johnny Brown and computer technology supervisor Beverly Thornton as the actors responsible for harassment and retaliation alleged in the suit.
In a notarized statement to the court, superintendent Brown defended his position, saying, "I approved the recommendation to terminate Monty Jones in 2009 based on legitimate business reasons related to his misconduct."
Jones' attorney requested to hear Brown's statement in person, but has not been able to do so. According to the case file, PAISD attorneys "have aided in making Dr. Johnny Brown unavailable as a witness." Brown was served with a subpoena to appear at the next court date, but that date has not yet been set, according to 60th District Court coordinator Cathy Dollinger.


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Men have their "Transformer" eye-candy with Megan Fox, now women viewers have a little more of their own -- Patrick Dempsey has joined the crew.
The man forever known as McDreamy has been cast in the third installment of the "Transformers" franchise, according to EW.com.
The plot of the third is being kept a top secret, which is fine, because you frequently don't know the plot even after you've seen the movie. But suffice it to say there will be explosions in this Michael Bay movie.
Dempsey will also play a role "significant to the plot" as Fox's boss. You can also bet Bay will highlight his extra-fine hair just right.
The movie begins filming this month around the U.S., Africa, Moscow and China.


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Tragic news today from the Olympus Rally, where 31-year-old Matthew Marker of Elk Rapids, MI was killed in an accident during the sixth stage of the rally's first day. Jalopnik confidant Michael Power reports from the event. Additional reporting by The Seattle Times.
The accident occurred on the sixth stage of the first day of the event, when Marker lost control on a curve, slid down a 40-foot embankment and struck a tree.
Rally America Managing Director JB Niday and event officials cancelled the second day of the Rally America National Championship event after the tragedy but decided to continue the regional event. Rally America says that this is not an issue of safety measures failing. It was a tragic racing accident.
"It is a very difficult decision to continue after something like this happens but it is better to move forward as a therapy for everyone," Niday said.
Niday described Marker, 31, as "a generous, lovable screwball that wouldn't think twice about offering parts to other drivers. He loved the sport and was a unique character from the first day he showed up with a car that wouldn't pass spec at the Sno*Drift Rally four years ago."
Jake Blattner, co-driver for rally competitor Dillon Van Way, remembers Marker as "a very passionate, energetic hippy gearhead," who "used to turn up with glowing neon lights under his car on the night stages, which the fans loved."
"It's a dangerous sport but that's what sets it apart," Blattner said. "It's you against the wild open road and the clock."
Rally America has not seen a fatality since Mark Lovell and co-driver Roger Freeman were killed during the Oregon Trail Rally in 2003.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Buffalo Wild Wings has reached a sponsorship deal with the NCAA to be the ``official hangout'' of the March Madness men's basketball tournament.
The agreement announced Tuesday also includes various rights for all 89 NCAA championships through 2016.
The Minneapolis-based restaurant chain recently had its first major sports sponsorship, the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. Michigan State beat TCU 17-16 at Dec. 29 game in Tempe, Ariz.
The NCAA sponsorship was sold through CBS Sports and Turner Sports. It includes media rights that will increase Buffalo Wild Wings' game-day broadcast presence over the next four years.
An NCAA representative says the organization does not provide details of contracts.


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Expedia Group is all in on AWS, with plans to migrate 80 percent of its mission-critical apps from its on-premises data centers to the cloud in the next two to three years. By using AWS, Expedia Group has become more resilient. Expedia Group's developers have been able to innovate faster while saving the company millions of dollars. Expedia Group provides travel-booking services across its flagship site Expedia.com and about 200 other travel-booking sites around the world.
AWS re:Invent 2017 - Mark Okerstrom Shares How Expedia Group Has Become More Agile by Going All In on AWS
Expedia Group is a leading online travel company, providing leisure and business travel to customers worldwide. Expedia Group's extensive brand portfolio includes Expedia.com, one of the world's largest full service online travel agency, with sites localized for more than 20 countries; Hotels.com, the hotel specialist with sites in more than 60 countries; Hotwire.com, the hotel specialist with sites in more than 60 countries, and other travel brands.
The company delivers consumer value in leisure and business travel, drives incremental demand and direct bookings to travel suppliers, and provides advertisers the opportunity to reach a highly valuable audience of in-market travel consumers through Expedia Group Media Solutions. Expedia Group also powers bookings for some of the world's leading airlines and hotels, top consumer brands, high traffic websites, and thousands of active affiliates through Expedia Affiliate Network.
Expedia Group is committed to continuous innovation, technology, and platform improvements to create a great experience for its customers. The Expedia Worldwide Engineering (EWE) organization supports all websites under the Expedia Group brand. Expedia Group began using Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2010 to launch Expedia Suggest Service (ESS), a typeahead suggestion service that helps customers enter travel, search, and location information correctly. According to the company's metrics, an error page is the main reason for site abandonment. Expedia Group wanted global users to find what they were looking for quickly and without errors. At the time, Expedia Group operated all its services from data centers in Chandler, AZ. The engineering team realized that they had to run ESS in locations physically close to customers to enable a quick and responsive service with minimal network latency.
Expedia Group considered on-premises virtualization solutions as well as other cloud providers, but ultimately chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) because it was the only solution with the global infrastructure in place to support Asia Pacific customers. "From an architectural perspective, infrastructure, automation, and proximity to the customer were key factors," explains Murari Gopalan, Technology Director. "There was no way for us to solve the problem without AWS."
"Using AWS, we were able to build and deliver the ESS service within three months," says Magesh Chandramouli, Principal Architect. ESS uses algorithms based on customer location and aggregated shopping and booking data from past customers to display suggestions when a customer starts typing. For example, if a customer in Seattle entered "sea" when booking a flight, the service would display Seattle, SeaTac, and other relevant destinations.
Expedia Group launched ESS instances initially in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region and then quickly replicated the service in the US West (Northern California) and EU (Ireland) Regions. Expedia Group engineers initially used Apache Lucene and other open source tools to build the service, but eventually developed powerful tools in-house to store indexes and queries.
By deploying ESS on AWS, Expedia Group was able to improve service to customers in the Asia Pacific region as well as Europe. "Latency was our biggest issue," says Chandramouli. "Using AWS, we decreased average network latency from 700 milliseconds to less than 50 milliseconds." Figure 1 demonstrates the ESS typeahead suggestion service running on AWS.
By 2011, Expedia Group was running several critical, high-volumes applications on AWS, such as the Global Deals Engine (GDE). GDE delivers deals to its online partners and allows them to create custom websites and applications using Expedia Group APIs and product inventory tools.
Expedia Group provisions Hadoop clusters using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (Amazon EMR) to analyze and process streams of data coming from Expedia Group's global network of websites, primarily clickstream, user interaction, and supply data, which is stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Expedia Group processes approximately 240 requests per second. "The advantage of AWS is that we can use Auto Scaling to match load demand instead of having to maintain capacity for peak load in traditional datacenters," comments Gopalan. Expedia Group uses AWS CloudFormation with Chef to deploy its entire front and backend stack into its Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) environment. Expedia Group uses a multi-region, multi-availability zone architecture with a proprietary DNS service to add resiliency to the applications. Figure 2 demonstrates the architecture of the GDE service on AWS.
Expedia Group can add a new cluster to manage GDE and other high volume applications without worrying about the infrastructure. "If we had to host the same applications on our on-premises data center, we wouldn't have the same level of CPU efficiency," says Chandramouli. "If an application processes 3,000 requests per second, we would have to configure our physical servers to run at about 30 percent capacity to avoid boxes running hot. On AWS, we can push CPU consumption close to 70 percent because we can always scale out. Fundamentally, running in AWS enables a 230 percent CPU consumption efficiency in data processing. We run our critical applications on AWS because we can scale and use the infrastructure efficiently."
To simplify the management of GDE, Expedia Group developed an identity federation broker that uses AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) and the AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS). The federation broker allows systems administrators and developers to use their existing Windows Active Directory (AD) accounts to single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Management Console. In doing so, Expedia Group eliminates the need to create IAM users and maintain multiple environments where user identities are stored. Federation broker users sign into their Windows machines with their existing Active Directory credentials, browse to the federation broker, and transparently log into the AWS Management Console. This allows Expedia Group to enforce password and permissions management within their existing directory and to enforce group policies and other governance rules. Additionally, if an employee ever leaves the company or takes a different role, Expedia Group simply make changes to Active Directory to revoke or changes AWS permissions for the user instead of inside of AWS.
The success of the ESS and GDE services sparked interest from other Expedia Group development teams, who began to use AWS for regional initiatives. By 2012, Expedia Group was hosting applications in the US East (Northern Virginia), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and US West (Northern California) Regions. Expedia Group Worldwide Engineering culled best practices from these initiatives to create a standardized deployment setup across all Regions. As Jun-Dai Bates-Kobashigawa, Principal Software Engineer explains, "We're using Chef to automate the configuration of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) servers. We can take any AWS image and use scripts stored in Chef to build a machine and spin up an instance customized for a team in just in a few minutes."
The team consolidated all AWS accounts under one AWS account and provisioned one Amazon VPC network in each Region. This allows each Region to have an isolated infrastructure with a separate firewall, application layer, and database layer. Expedia Group applies Amazon EC2 Security Group firewall settings to safeguard applications and services. Amazon VPC is completely integrated into Expedia Group's lab and production environments. "The Amazon VPC experience for the developer is totally seamless," says Bates-Kobashigawa. "Developers use the same Active Directory service for authentication and may not even know that some of the servers that they log onto are running on AWS. It feels like a physical infrastructure with its own subnets and multiple layers, and it's also easy to connect to our on-premises infrastructure using VPN."
Expedia Group uses a blue-green deployment approach to create parallel production environments on AWS, enabling continuous deployment and faster time-to-market. "One of our metrics for success is the reduction of time to deploy within our teams," says Gopalan. "We use this method to launch applications pretty quickly compared to a traditional deployment. Moreover, reducing the cost of a rollback to zero means we can be fearless with deployments." Figure 3 demonstrates Expedia Group's standard deployment architecture on AWS.
Expedia Group uses AWS to develop applications faster, scale to process large volumes of data, and troubleshoot issues quickly. By using AWS to build a standard deployment model, development teams can quickly create the infrastructure for new initiatives. Critical applications run in multiple Availability Zones in different Regions to ensure data is always available and to enable disaster recovery. Expedia Group Worldwide Engineering is working on building a monitoring infrastructure in all Regions and moving to a single infrastructure.
Generally, teams have more control over development and operations on AWS. When Expedia Group experienced conversion issues for its Client Logging service, engineers were able to track and identify critical issues within two days. Expedia Group estimates that it would have taken six weeks to find the script errors if the service ran in a physical environment.
Previously, Expedia Group had to provision servers for a full-load scenario in its data centers. "To deploy an application using our on-site facility, you have to think about the physical infrastructure," Bates-Kobashigawa explains. "If there are 100 boxes running, you might have to take 20 boxes out to apply new code. Using AWS, we don't have to take capacity out; we just add new capacity and send traffic to it."
Chandramouli comments, "When I was developer, you didn't want to invest in architecture if you didn't know how the application would turn out. I had to plan upfront and build a proof of concept to present to stakeholders. By using AWS, I'm not bound by throughput limitations or CPU capacity. When I think of AWS, freedom is the first word that comes to mind."
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Age of Empires II: The Conquerors - Mulitplayer FAQ
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Also please realize that I am not hiding cheats or any other information, i.e. everything I know about AoE II is in this guide. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Version - 1.0 Everything is new, of course. 1.5 Added some more things. I also deleted a few things. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Table of Contents -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 1. Introduction 2. Finding Players and Gameplay 3. More on Gameplay 4. Troubleshooting 5. Net Links 6. Acknowledgments ,,, (o o) ---------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------------------------------- Introduction -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This FAQ only covers one aspect of Age of Empires II, the Multiplayer games. Meeting and finding AoE players is pretty easy if you know where to look, and I'll tell you all about that sort of thing. I will not be including any Multiplayer GamePlay tips, just so you know. ,,, (o o) ---------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------------------------------- Finding Players and Gameplay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Age of Empires players is quite easy, actually. I was going to make a list of people availavle for MP (MultiPlayer) games, but I've decided not to do so. Most AoE players have ICQ, so you could run a search for that in ICQ. Going to AoE II websites will also allow you to find players. A few of the better sites have started a "community" page, which allows people to send in their ICQ Number and desired game types, for example. I've listed a few of those sites below, so check them out. Once you've found a person, or more than one to play with, you can play a game. You may be wondering where to play a game. Well, I recommend Microsoft's Zone (http://www.zone.com). It's the only place I've played a Multiplayer game, so that's the only place I can suggest, although there are other places to do so. Starting a MP game is easy. If you need any help, the Zone has a short list of Instructions. It's really easy to do, so don't stress it. If you are unable to find someone to play with, just go to the Zone, and enter one of the provided rooms. There are a few things that you must be warned of, if you're a "Newbie" or "Rookie". The main thing is the difference in experience. If a person's Zone name starts with a few letters (2-4), and has an underscore (_), stay away from him/her. Chances are, that person is part of a clan. Clan members are some of the very best AoE II players. Most clans make you go through a series of hard games just to be part of the clan, so they are very experienced for the most part. Another thing you should know is the Computer's AI is WAY different when compared to a human's intelligence. RTS (Real-time Strategy) is the genre for this game, so the faster you can make things go, the better you can be. Well, I guess that's not totally true, but it's a general idea. I mean, not all of the better AoE II players are fast, so speed isn't everything, so keep that in mind. Strategy and planning are all the true concepts to winning. A number of people have asked me who is the best AoE II player. Well, in my opinion, there isn't a "Best" of anything. Everyone has their off-days, so it is a dumb concept. All I have to say, is that if you look at the back of the game manuals (back-inside) cover, you'll see a list of Playtesters and Quality Assurance people. These are usually some of the best AoE II players in the World. Probably the most known AoE II player from the United States is Kevin "The Sheriff" Holme. Is the United States the best country for AoE II players? Not necessarily. In fact, some of the very best PC gamers live in Asia, thus the reason for so many tournaments over there. What's the best AoE II clan? I have no idea. I'm not part of one, and I don't really plan to be part of one. One of the better ones is DBD, which stands for "Death Before Dishonor." ,,, (o o) ---------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------------------------------- More on Gameplay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No one likes a quitter, especially if it's in the first ten minutes of gameplay. You will be added to someone's quitter/loser list fairly quickly. I've even heard that a few of the smaller AoE II sites have lists for that. Do not cheat! Many people will specifically disable cheats, so don't use cheats unless it's a rare game and cheating is the main focus. There are occasionally a few games like this, you'll just have to look for one. Watch your mouth! No one likes being cussed at during a game, and if you do it too much, they will just leave the game. Sure you may claim a victory for that game, but you will NOT make friends that way. Think before you speak...er, type. ,,, (o o) ---------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------------------------------- Troubleshooting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * One thing that may not allow you to connect and play a multiplayer game is the existence of an in-home network. Dan Simpson and I ran into that once, and it was extremely annoying. If you have a network, disable it prior to attempting to join a multiplayer game. * Ping times are still somewhat of a mystery to me. I have no solutions for getting them higher, other than getting a faster modem (cable, DSL, etc). Keldron sent this to me: "The ping is actually depends on how far you live from the person. The lower it is, the closer you are, and the faster the game will be. For example, the ping for someone 1 mile away could be 1, while 2500 miles away could be 248, etc." ,,, (o o) ---------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------------------------------- Net Links -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - http://www.zone.com - Microsoft Gaming Zone - http://throughtheages.com - Through The Ages - http://aoe2.com - AoE 2.com - http://ageofkings.com - Age of Kings.com - http://planetageofempires.com - Planet Age of Empires.com - http://zone.com/conquerers - Microsoft Zone page for The Conquerers - http://zone.com/age2 - Microsoft Zone page for Age of Kings (AoE II) - http://aok.heavengames.com/market/icq - An ICQ List for AoE II players - http://planetageofempires.com/community/zone - Zone Name List - http://aokdb.com/cgi-bin/players.cgi?Game=AOEC - http://aokdb.com/cgi-bin/players.cgi?Game=AOK ,,, (o o) ---------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------------------------------- Acknowledgments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Jeff Veasey and GameFAQs (http://www.gamefaqs.com) for hosting this FAQ. - Al Amaloo and Game Winners (http://www.gamewinners.com) for hosting this FAQ. - Dave Allison and Cheat Code Central (http://www.cheatcc.com) for hosting this FAQ. - Marshmallow for the idea for the header. - Keldron for a submission on Ping times. - WinAmp (http://www.winamp.com) for providing a great program for allowing me to listen to my large sound and music library. Without it, FAQ writing would just be too boring to mess with. - Gateway for providing a quality computer system. Too bad Hewlett Packard couldn't do the same. :( - GameSages (http://sages.ign.com) for any codes and tips that may be in here - XCheater (http://xcheater.com) for any codes and tips that may be in here - Game Winners (http://gamewinners.com) for any codes and tips that may be in here - GameFAQs (http://gamefaqs.com) for any codes and tips that may be in here - Everyone else who may have a site whose codes I may have used in here - I'd also like to thank my stash of notebooks, folder, and misc papers. They make up the collection of my codes, hints, tips, etc, etc. For those of you who are curious, the sources of the codes are unknown. I mean, over the years, I've written and printed lists of codes, hints, etc from all games from the world, so I cann't truthfully say where they came from, other than the fact, that I did write them on paper. 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The Environmental Education Association of New Mexico (EEANM) has been awarded a grant of $150,000 from the US EPA to administer a small grant program throughout EPA Region 6. EEANM is partnering with the Texas Association for Environmental Education, the Louisiana Environmental Education Association, the Arkansas Environmental Education Association, the Oklahoma Association for Environmental Education, and Albert I Pierce Foundation to solicit proposals for projects that meet state association priorities. Projects may include professional development, student projects, or statewide capacity building for delivering environmental education. Each state association will provide a team of reviewers to select projects for awards up to $5,000. At least 19 grants will be funded throughout the five-state region. The deadline for applications is September 20. The projects will be selected by December 2012. The grant period is one year.
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ROME, Ga. - The Georgia Southwestern men's tennis team picked up its first victory of the young 2014 season, an 8-1 decision over Shorter University, on Sunday afternoon at the Walt Attaway Tennis Complex. The GSW women's team lost to Shorter, 9-0.
Both GSW teams now hold 1-3 records this spring. The Shorter men fall to 1-3 overall and the women improve to 3-1.
Jake Koonce, Stephen Moore, Oliver Marshall and Abel Acuna were victorious in both singles and doubles play on Sunday. Joel Landis posted the most lopsided win of the day for the Hurricanes with a 6-0, 6-0 match against John Nichols at No. 6 singles.
The Hurricanes picked up two wins off matches that involved a tiebreaker. Koonce, along with Valentin Demande at No. 1 doubles against Louis Tourtois and Alexis Catillon and Moore at No. 3 singles against Robert Watson.
On the women's side, GSW's closest doubles match came at No. 2 where Kalie Douberly and Ginny Jones suffered an 8-4 setback at the hands of Samya El Hsissen and Aurore Beltrando. Victoria Ondo had the tightest match in singles play with her 6-4, 6-3 contest against El Hsissen.
Both GSW teams host Fort Valley State at 2 p.m. on Friday.
GSW Men 8, Shorter University 1
Singles competition
1. Marc Guerry (SHORTER) def. Valentin Demande (GSW) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
2. Jake Koonce (GSW) def. Louis Tourtois (SHORTER) 6-2, 6-4
3. Stephen Moore (GSW) def. Robert Watson (SHORTER) 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5
4. Oliver Marshall (GSW) def. Alexis Catillon (SHORTER) 6-3, 6-2
5. Abel Acuna (GSW) def. Cody Carr (SHORTER) 6-3, 6-1
6. Joel Landis (GSW) def. John Nichols (SHORTER) 6-0, 6-0
Doubles competition
1. Valentin Demande/Jake Koonce (GSW) def. Louis Tourtois/Alexis Catillon (SHORTER) 9-8 (8-6)
2. Stephen Moore/Oliver Marshall (GSW) def. Dillon Humphries/Marc Guerry (SHORTER) 8-5
3. Abel Acuna/Darren Kenny (GSW) def. Robert Watson/Cody Carr (SHORTER) 8-5
GSW Women 0, Shorter University 9
Singles competition
1. Candice Laurent (SHORTER) def. Kalie Douberly (GSW) 6-2, 6-0
2. Aurelie Gaborit (SHORTER) def. Carly Cangelosi (GSW) 6-1, 6-1
3. Samya El Hsissen (SHORTER) def. Victoria Ondo (GSW) 6-4, 6-3
4. Daniela Chipe (SHORTER) def. Ginny Jones (GSW) 6-1, 6-1
5. Aurore Beltrando (SHORTER) def. Anna Kate Shaw (GSW) 8-1
6. Sicquena Sinclair (SHORTER) def. Jamie Thomas (GSW) 8-2
Doubles competition
1. Candice Laurent/Aurelie Gaborit (SHORTER) def. Carly Cangelosi/Victoria Ondo (GSW) 8-2
2. Samya El Hsissen/Aurore Beltrando (SHORTER) def. Kalie Douberly/Ginny Jones (GSW) 8-4
3. Sicquena Sinclair/Daniela Chipe (SHORTER) def. Anna Kate Shaw/Jamie Thomas (GSW) 8-3