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Does an ocean breeze make wine taste better? It doesn't hurt. Guests enjoyed drinks on the terrace when artist Chris Gwaltney opened his Emerald Bay home to 70 supporters of Ryman Arts.
The program, which began in Los Angeles county, recently expanded to Orange County. It grooms local students for creative professions by offering free classes in basics. "We are thrilled to announce that we recently received a matching gift of $500,000 from an anonymous donor in Orange County, as well as a $250,000 gift from DreamWorks Animation Studios," said Diane Brigham, executive director of Ryman Arts.
Ryman Arts hopes to provide classes to 600 students this year. "There are so many talented teens here in Orange County who have the potential to become serious artists, but don't have access to what they need," Brigham said.


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Countries by Population: Colombia (Colombia)
Colombia is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Colombia has the second largest population of any Spanish-speaking country in the world, after Mexico. Colombia is a middle power, and is now the fourth largest economy in Latin America, and the third largest in South America.
Colombia produces coffee, flowers, emeralds, coal, and oil. These products comprise the primary sector of the economy.
The territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca, Quimbaya, and Tairona. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of conquest and colonization ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada (comprising modern-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, north-western Brazil and Panama), with its capital at Bogotá.
Independence from Spain was won in 1819, but by 1830 "Gran Colombia" had collapsed with the secession of Venezuela and Ecuador. What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada. The new nation experimented with federalism as the Granadine Confederation (1858), and then the United States of Colombia (1863), before the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Panama seceded in 1903. Colombia was the first constitutional government in South America, and an important promoter of the Pan American organizations, initially through the Congress of Panama and later as founder of the Organization of American States. The Liberal and Conservative parties, founded in 1848 and 1849, are two of the oldest surviving political parties in the Americas.
Colombia is ethnically diverse. The interaction between descendants of the original native inhabitants, Spanish colonists, Africans brought as slaves and twentieth-century immigrants from Europe and the Middle East has produced a varied cultural heritage. This has also been influenced by Colombia's varied geography. The majority of the urban centres are located in the highlands of the Andes mountains, but Colombian territory also encompasses Amazon rainforest, tropical grassland and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. Ecologically, Colombia is one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries, and is considered the most megadiverse per square kilometer.
Tensions between political parties have frequently erupted into violence, most notably in the Thousand Days War (1899–1902) and La Violencia, beginning in 1948. Since the 1960s, government forces, left-wing insurgents and right-wing paramilitaries have been engaged in the continent's longest-running armed conflict. Fueled by the cocaine trade, this escalated dramatically in the 1980s. Since 2010 the violence has decreased, with some paramilitary groups demobilising as part of a controversial peace process and the guerrillas losing control of much of the territory they once dominated. Meanwhile Colombia's homicide rate almost halved between 2002 and 2006. As of 2011 Colombia remains the world's largest producer of cocaine, although production has been falling.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Freshman pitcher Sean Poppen has been named the Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday afternoon.
In two appearances last week, the 6-3 freshman tossed 10 innings, allowed four hits and one earned run, struck out four and walked three for the Crimson during its annual spring break trip. He shared the award with Penn's Michael Villardo, who was also named player of the week.
The Chesapeake, Va., native tossed one inning of scoreless relief, allowing one hit and striking out one against Houston on March 20. He then turned in the best performance of his collegiate career in the trip finale at Houston Baptist March 24. The 6-3 righty fired a complete game three-hitter, allowing just one earned run while fanning three to earn the first win of his college career and give Harvard a two-game win streak to conclude the trip with a 6-1 triumph.
On the year, Poppen leads the team in appearances (5), innings pitched (20.2), ERA (3.92) and is tied for the team lead in wins with one.
It is the first weekly honor for the Crimson in 2013 and the first for Poppen in his career.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS (December 5, 2012) — If you created content, and it didn't benefit your business, did it even exist? OneSpot, a content advertising company, today opens its platform giving marketers more power and control over distributing and more efficiently monetizing corporate and external content. The company has also secured $1.5 million in funding from RSL Venture Partners, 500 Startups, Ralph Mack, Mike Maples, Sr., and Josh Baer, among others.
OneSpot automates the process of turning content into ads that drive business goals such as customer engagement, lead generation, downloads, and sales. Ads are generated from content, and then OneSpot utilizes a proprietary distribution model and viewer behavior to retarget consumers with the most compelling content, effectively optimizing the content-to-conversion funnel.
OneSpot can use company-generated content, as well as positive external content like social media, reviews, and news articles to create ads. After ads are generated, OneSpot's proprietary algorithm uses big data to determine what ads to display and where to place them across all web traffic sources. OneSpot continuously optimizes to ensure maximum relevance to the target consumer and to the company's content marketing goals.
"Over $16 billion will be spent on digital content in 2012 – blogs, reviews, videos, how-to tips, whitepaper, webinars, and more. For every piece of content your business wants people to see, you should have an associated distribution strategy to drive desired business outcomes: lead generation and nurturing, promoting reviews, or brand awareness," said Matt Cohen (pictured), CEO and Founder of OneSpot. "No distribution channel is as ubiquitous as online advertising. We see a tremendous opportunity to help businesses monetize all their content using the power, data intelligence, and infrastructure of online advertising to deliver it."
OneSpot's content advertising platform makes it easy to manage a variety of content distribution channels and content monetization campaigns in one spot, making creation, distribution, and measurement of native advertising as easy as sending a tweet. The system is live with display ads today, but will shortly support other advertising channels, including social and mobile networks.
Ryan Koechel, director, eCommerce, with Spectrum Brands' Remington Products, used OneSpot as part of their go-to-market launch plans for Remington's new i-LIGHT Pro Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) hair removal device.
"A content strategy is something we always thought we had prior to working with OneSpot. Previously we put out a piece of content through social media, our blog, or on our site and hoped we received some traction, now with OneSpot we can get a piece of content in front of a ton of eyeballs on day one and then use the data to start building audience and re-target with relevant follow-up content," said Koechel. "OneSpot has been able to give us a ROI on display ads that we would have never thought possible and we found OneSpot really enabled us to come full circle with our strategy. They are definitely the missing link in our 360 degree approach to digital marketing and are just as valuable as PPC and complementary to every other marketing channel we use."
Specific OneSpot platform features include:
- Instantly create and promote content ads on demand from your browser.
- Import content from blogs, social networks, or manually by URL.
- Add your own tracking code to measure performance, engagement, and leads for the content in your analytics package.
- Dynamic targeting: Network integration; Retargeting; Geotargeting
- Real time visibility into content marketing campaign success by measuring: Audience development including new readers and repeat visits; Engagement level by site and demographic
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OneSpot marries content marketing with the power, data intelligence, and infrastructure of online advertising. OneSpot's platform turns owned and earned content into native advertising that drives positive business outcomes. Big data machine learning is applied to place native ads with the highest efficacy across all web traffic sources, and then makes use of viewer behavior data for re-targeting sequencing to optimize the content-to-conversion funnel. OneSpot has been running content ad campaigns in private preview since March 2012. Clients have represented B2B, B2C, and CPG companies. The system is now in public beta and live with display ads today, but will shortly support other channels, including: mobile, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and AdWords/AdSense. Learn more at: http://onespot.com.


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The progression of the interactive digital book market is being hampered by varying standards across different tablet operating systems, an industry expert has suggested.
Whilst text heavy fiction eBooks continue to flourish with the rise of eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, latest reports have suggested interactive books for tablets are falling behind with industry insiders claiming a universal format is needed for immersive tablet-based textbooks and interactive titles to take off.
"We're really excited about the multimedia aspects that we can put into our books when developing for the iPad and other tablets," Sam Hancock, Digital Product Manager at Harper Collins said in an exclusive interview with Trusted Reviews. "The ideal position you can get to is having lots of different devices that all support the same features.
"At the moment we are trying to navigate around having to create bespoke file formats for each different device and platform so there is a bit of a way to go until we have a catch-all format for interactive eBooks but that is something we are really trying to push," Hancock added speaking on the current state of the interactive book market.
Expanding on the push to a universal eBook format that would boost the possibilities of developing interactive titles for multiple tablet platforms, Hancock revealed that Harper Collins is championing the move to a standardised platform.
"One of our main strategic focuses is pushing the EPUB format which is sort of becoming the standard for eBooks and seeing how far we can take it in terms of the interactive experiences we can give readers."
Although Apple is pushing digital interactive book through its educational outlets for iPad, iTunes U, Hancock has suggested that cross platform compatibility issues between iOS and Android, as well as the varying screen sizes of many Android tablets, is hampering the possibilities of the fledgling market.
"I don't think the non-fiction and illustrated markets have really proven themselves yet," Hancock said whilst suggesting that fiction titles could see the majority of their sales shift from physical paperbacks to digital units in a matter of years.
"We are getting closer and closer to the point where digital books will start outselling traditional printed books," he said, "for text only books it is pretty conceivable that we will hit that point by 2015."
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Women's Tennis gets commitment from Mary Evelyn CarrollMay 10, 2013BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–Birmingham-Southern women's tennis coach Ann Dielen announced today that Mary Evelyn Carroll will join the squad next season, as she has completed her intent to enroll in the college and matriculate this fall.
BSC names Larry D. Striplin Athletes of the Year at annual Athletic Awards BanquetMay 06, 2013BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–Birmingham-Southern held its annual Athletic Awards Banquet Monday evening in Bruno Great Hall and named the 2013 Newcomers, Athletes, Teams, and Man and Woman of the Year, as well as the Johnny Johnson Most Inspirational Senior Student Athletes.
Voges, Cohen, Hire named to All-Conference Tennis TeamsMay 02, 2013BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–Three members of the Birmingham-Southern tennis teams were voted to the All-Southern Athletic Association Teams this week, in exclusive voting by the league's head coaches.
Women's Tennis falls to Sewanee in SAA Championship playApril 27, 2013SEWANEE, Tenn.--The Birmingham-Southern women's tennis team fell to top-seeded Sewanee, 5-0, in the semifinals of the Southern Athletic Association Championship Saturday afternoon in Sewanee, Tenn.
Women's Tennis defeats Millsaps in SAA Quarterfinals, 5-4April 26, 2013MURFREESBORO, Tenn.--With two doubles wins and three singles victories, the Birmingham-Southern women's tennis team defeated Millsaps, 5-4, in the first round of the Southern Athletic Association Championship, Friday afternoon in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Women's Tennis downs Centre, 6-3; Men lose to ColonelsApril 13, 2013BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--The Birmingham-Southern tennis teams hosted conference foe Centre College today at the BSC Tennis Complex, with the women prevailing 6-3 and the men dropping the contest by the same score.
Women's Tennis defeats Oglethorpe, 8-1; Men lose 5-2April 07, 2013ATLANTA, Ga.--The Birmingham-Southern tennis teams took on conference rival Oglethorpe today in Atlanta, with the women winning 8-1 and the men falling 5-2.
Men's Tennis defeats Berry on the road, 8-1; Women fall to Vikings, 6-3April 06, 2013ROME, Ga.--The Birmingham-Southern tennis teams traveled to Berry College today, where the men's team defeated the Vikings 8-1 but the women lost 6-3.
Men's & Women's Tennis sweep Hendrix on the roadMarch 28, 2013NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--The Birmingham-Southern men's and women's tennis teams both swept Hendrix College, 9-0, today in North Little Rock, Ark.
BSC's Moya Moore Earns SAA Weekly Tennis HonorsMarch 12, 2013BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Birmingham-Southern Junior Moya Moore has been named the Southern Athletic Association Women's Tennis Player of the Week announced by league office on Tuesday
BSC Women's Tennis Edges Huntindgon, 5-4March 09, 2013BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Birmingham-Southern overcame an early 2-1 deficit to take a 5-4 win over Huntingdon College (5-1) Saturday at the BSC Tennis Complex.
BSC Women's Tennis Edges Millsaps, 5-4February 24, 2013JACKSON, Miss. -- Birmingham-Southern won four singles matches to edge Southern Athletic Association member Millsaps College on Sunday at the Millsaps Tennis Complex.
BSC Womenâs Tennis Edges Millsaps, 5-4February 24, 2013JACKSON, Miss. -- Birmingham-Southern won four singles matches to edge Southern Athletic Association member Millsaps College on Sunday at the Millsaps Tennis Complex.


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Not only did BART officials capitulate to end last month's four-day strike, they are now deceiving the public by understating the costs and exaggerating the benefits of the deal.
For two weeks, BART officials refused to disclose details. After union members voted to ratify, the district issued a summary interpretation but balked at releasing the contracts until transit directors formally approve them next week. Workers could see the contracts, but riders and taxpayers footing the bill could not.
On Monday, we threatened litigation. That's when BART turned over the documents — and when it became clear that the district's press release spin didn't match the contracts' reality.
Take, for example, what the district calls "perhaps the most significant change agreed to by unions." It amends a decades-old contract provision that required union approval before BART managers could alter past work practices.
That provision has impeded attempts to improve technology, reduce paperwork and increase efficiencies. BART leaders made its elimination a top negotiation priority; they got an alteration instead. Nevertheless, they claim the new language will enable them to improve technology and switch equipment without union approval.
In fact, changes must still be negotiated with the unions. Unresolved disputes will be subjected to binding arbitration. And the arbitrator may provide relief, including "additional compensation."
That means unions will demand, and likely receive, more money in exchange for modernization, thereby eroding cost-savings BART desperately needs.
BART officials cite the contract modification as a key reason for agreeing to the financial terms. But they also misrepresent the monetary aspects.
For starters, they claim employees, already some of the best paid transit workers in the nation, will net a 9.4 percent increase over the four-year contract. That counts salary increases offset by increased contributions to pensions and health care. In fact, the net benefit to workers is 11.7 percent.
Then BART says the deal will increase its costs a net $67 million over four years. It's actually more.
First, officials claim the deal will save $2.7 million due to retiree health care changes. New employees will now be required to work 15 years before vesting in the plan, rather than the current five years.
But most of the savings will materialize decades from now. Nevertheless, BART calculated the savings for 30 years and then credited half of that during just the next four years, thereby grossly inflating the contract savings. It's fictional accounting.
Second, BART claims it will save $5 million by encouraging employees with spouses who have health coverage to opt out of the transit district's insurance. Employees will be offered $350 a month to do so. The question is how many people will take the deal. BART estimates 150 employees will, but they really don't know.
Third, the district left a $16 million retirement item out of its accounting.
The transit system not only provides traditional pensions, it also funds retirement savings accounts similar to 401(k)s. The district currently contributes $1,869 per year. And until 1991 it also kicked in 1.627 percent of salary.
That latter contribution was suspended for 20 years in exchange for increasing workers' traditional pensions. In 2011, employees agreed to defer reinstatement for two more years. It finally began this fiscal year, coinciding with the start of the new contract.
The district maintains that, since employees were entitled to the reinstatement, it should not count as a cost in negotiations. That may be, but it should have been disclosed because it increases worker compensation this fiscal year.
By its logic, BART could claim a savings next time if workers merely agree during negotiations four years from now to continue their new health care contribution levels.
That's because the current deal, while requiring employees to pay $37 a month more, only imposes the increase for the four-year contract. Amazingly, while the new contract's salary increases are permanent, the offsetting health care concession is not.
BART officials neglect to mention that detail when trumpeting that employees will share more of their benefit costs.
It's bad enough that the district's leaders caved, but they should at least be honest about what they did.
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Woman Retires 1964 Mercury After 576,000 Miles
Quick, what's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente with 576,000 miles on it? You probably envisioned it being restored, housed in a glass case a la Cameron's dad's Ferrari in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' right? It's surely not street legal or safe any longer, right? Wrong.
Ninety-three year old Rachel Veitch is finally retiring the functioning vehicle. We know, we're more terrified of the fact that someone that old is still driving, but she's taking the ride out of active service not because it's a POS, but because she has macular degeneration and can't drive any longer.
"I am legally blind, so I can no longer drive my lovely Chariot," Veitch told FOX News about her wheels. "They don't have to take it away, I would not dream of driving that car again." She ran a red light while driving, forcing her to make the decision to hand the keys over, so to speak. She's not giving the car up easily or parting with it; she's just not driving the 48-year-old vehicle. Well, this just got all depressing, so back to the car.
Veitch revealed the car outlasted three marriages, three sets of shocks, eight mufflers and 18 batteries. She plunked down just under $3,300 for it at the time of sale. She was disciplined with maintenance, and that's why it outlasted her hubbies. They died because she never changed their oil.
She might sell the vehicle to noted car collector Jay Leno, on whose show she appeared in 2010, since he'd take care of it. Her four kids, nine grandkids and 11 great-grandkids stand no chance of having the car bequeathed to 'em. "They're not going to get it. They couldn't take care of it like I did," the feisty nonagenarian said.
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[Updated to include PayPal announcement of the closure of WikiLeaks' PayPal account.]
Is Web 3.0 maybe going to be less the utopia we've been envisaging and more like the real, physical world, with all the real-world limitations that follow along with it...?
The latest WikiLeaks ("Cablegate") affair, coming as it does at the very end of the first decade of the 21st Century, comes at an appropriate moment.
An undoubted political and diplomatic hornet's nest, the swirling discussions surrounding the organization's drip-drip release of (so far) 612 of the quarter of a million or so diplomatic cables in its possession are all grist to the mill of an "awakening" that in my view is likely going to mark the difference between the Web of 2000-1010 and that of 2011 onwards.
Viewing the world through the prism of Cloud Computing may seem to many to be a little arcane, but actually it is highly à propos. Because the same people who are failing to suppress the WikiLeaks documents are also in charge of U.S. cybersecurity in general. So one crucial thing we have learned - if for a moment we leave to one side the ethics or unethics of making the cables public - is that, if the rumors/allegations are true, a certain US private Bradley Manning somehow obtained access to far too *much* information for someone of his rank, in one go, before we even go into the question of its potential political and diplomatic sensitivity.
PAUL FREMANTLE has been very outspoken about this. "I place the blame directly on a lack of Governance and poor IT systems," he writes, adding:
"And the measures that have so far been announced - things like removing CD drives from classified systems - are simply the wrong approach. The real problem is why any one person - whatever level of clearance they had - should have access to all 250,000 cables."
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at WSO2, Fremantle chairs the OASIS WS-RX TC that is standardizing WSRM. He knows his way around XACML, too - eXtensible Access Control Markup Language, a declarative access control policy language implemented in XML - and offers this piece of technical advice to the powers that be:
"Without going into the details of XACML and policy-based entitlement models, suffice it to say that the right approach is to base access not only on the person, but the reason they have for accessing the data. Using policy-based entitlement, it is possible to have a well-defined Governance model where a person is given access to just the right data at just the right time for just the right purpose, and that this can be managed in a process-driven, auditable and controlled manner."
But let us move from the question of the original security breach itself to the broader questions that have been snowballing since, as the authorities have sought to shut stable door after stable door, even while the rest of the Net-savvy world was fully aware that the horse would be on its way to a country like Switzerland.
- Door #1 was slammed shut thanks to Amazon Web Services.
- Door #2 was closed by EveryDNS.net.
- Door #3 was shut by Tableau Software - well, more of a skylight really.
- Door #4 was locked, and the key thrown away, by PayPal.
But the very nature of distributed computing is such that "doors" can be closed ad infinitum with very little effect on the flow of information through the system.
As Java expert and Cloud Computing pioneer ALAN WILLIAMSON puts it: "ThePirateBay is a classic example of a site that just won't die - they have even tried jailing the founders, yet it still happily serves up content every day, growing daily."
As Williamson points out:
"They keep moving their content to secure locations, and keep aligning themselves with bandwidth suppliers who believe in net neutrality."
ThePirateBay though is not cloud-related. In the case of WikiLeaks, it is. When Amazon's AWS team pulled the plug on its service to WikiLeaks - citing Terms of Service breaches - WikiLeaks had to scramble fast and suffered an outage.
"I think this highlights how important cloud neutrality is," says Williamson. "Vendor lock-in is now a major issue. How quickly can I move my enterprise to another vendor? Do I have to align myself with the political viewpoints of my cloud vendor in order to ensure a happy co-existence?"
This is merely a hoster-client relationship problem that existed long before the likes of Amazon/Google/Rackspace got into the cloud-hosting game, Williams reminds us. If your ISP didn't like what you published, they could turn you off. They were under the gun of their upstream bandwidth supplier too. So there was always accountability.
But for Williamson there is a bigger consideration:
"The Internet is open, we have to embrace that. I for one, am proud there are secure silos around the world that can host material and get it out to the people. Yes we have to take the rough with the smooth, and while we do not agree with what they publish, if we live in a free society then this is what we have to swallow if I am to be able to stand up to be heard without fear.
The Internet can keep governments honest...or at least more honest than historically allowed. We have to keep things open."
As WS02's Paul Fremantle expresses it:
"Here is a situation where the world's biggest superpower wants to have a website erased from the face of the Web. Who will prevail? Given the distributed nature of the Internet, I know where my money is."
STOWE BOYD, self-declared social philosopher and "webthropologist," takes Williamson's "We have to keep things open" stance to another level.
"What WikiLeaks represents is civil disobedience channeled through an agenda of radical openness," declares Boyd. "The individuals involved on a personal level are deciding that laws that may or may not designate their activities as illegal are illegitimate, that our obedience to the state is coerced, and therefore can be morally opposed and countered."
Boyd goes on to explain this in more detail as follows: "Wikileaks is an example of direct action, like Greenpeace activists attempting to shut down the Knightsnorth power station, claiming that the laws against trespass and destruction of private property were outweighed by the need to counter global warming to prevent far greater property damage around the world. They were acquitted, the first time such a claim was used as a 'lawful excuse' for committing a crime (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace)."
One form of "direct action," Boyd continues, is to expose secrets, especially when governments or large corporations are saying one thing publicly and doing another clandestinely.
"In some cases these exposés might involve criminal wrong-doing, or simply duplicitous behavior," says Boyd.
"Amazon or other hosting providers that opt to decline support for WikiLeaks or other activists may be acting because of alternate moral viewpoints, or through coercion, or fears of future repercussions when governments may decide that the hosts are culpable in some way," he adds.
For Boyd, the world needs WikiLeaks to be widened and strengthened, not abolished or suppressed:
"I think ultimately WikiLeaks should become a global non-profit like Greenpeace, specifically organized to accomplish certain goals for the sake of the world, like exposing who is funding political action when laws allow it to be concealed (as in the US), or exposing the inner workings of unregulated or barely regulated industries.
For example, it would have been great to have known prior to the Deepwater disaster how lax the regulatory agencies were, and how great the risks were. Had some whistle blowers disclosed that information to WikiLeaks, and it had been made public, we might have averted the disaster.
The world needs an omsbudsman, and the UN is not the answer, because it is used a tool of nationalist politics by the member countries. It is theater, not a check on the nations' excesses.
We need WikiLeaks - not necessarily as currently configured, and not necessarily with Julian Assange in control of it - but we need something like it to exist, as a counter to the architects of power."
In a follow-up note to Cloud Computing Journal Boyd pointed out that, since WikiLeaks is already an international non-profit, what he meant was that "it should be organized like Greenpeace, as a federation of non-profits in the various countries, supported by activists in the member countries."
"Wikileaks is not organized in that fashion today, and it should be," Boyd asserts.
If you accept - which many commentators evidently do not! - that someone can support the idea of government transparency outside of the context of the binary view of "conservative" or "liberal," then the Cablegate affair seemingly confirms the contention that the more secretive a government is, the less it serves the people. Because otherwise why are there so many ordinary law-abiding people, and not just Julian Assange's lawyer - whose hackles have been raised by the attempt to apprehend him and shutter his organization once and for all?
No fewer than 511,205 people "like" the WikiLeaks Official Facebook Page, and between 3AM and 11AM eastern time Friday morning, the #WikiLeaks hash tag was used in more than 7,304 new tweets on Twitter.
Let us not forget either that five highly reputable news groups accepted the chance to be the first to republish cables from the WikiLeaks cable-horde - The Guardian, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El Pais. These are not underground radical pamphlets, these are world-class newspapers. It seems unlikely that Joe Lieberman's staffers will be telephoning them all asking them to close down the presses.
I am going to give the last word (for the moment, anyway) to the BBC. Or, rather, to BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellen-Jones. Without taking sides on whether or not AWS had discontinued its service to WikiLeaks because of pressure from American politicians - for the simple reason that "I've tried repeatedly over the last 24 hours to speak to the firm, with no success" - Cellan-Jones wrote a piece published this morning on the BBC's news site on the subject of what he called "the end of web innocence." Here was how he concluded the article:
"The innocent days when young web firms could pretend that they were simply agents of free expression based on neutral technology seem to be coming to an end. They have grown up into giant media empires, so they can expect every lobbyist, every politician and every pressure group to want to shape the way they do business."
On Monday Dec 6, 2010, "Rebooting The News" - a weekly podcast on news and technology with Jay Rosen and Dave Winer - will be covering the latest twists and turns in the WikiLeaks story. Winer needs no introduction to most readers of Cloud Computing Journal - or any other online journal for that matter. Rosen teaches journalism at NYU, directs the Studio 20 program there, critiques the press and tries to grok new media. Their joint take will be fascinating to hear.
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BRADENTON, Fla. -- Rule 5 Draft pick T.J. McFarland will make his first spring start Monday against the Boston Red Sox and joked with reporters -- who reminded him that the game is televised nationally on ESPN -- it should be totally pressure-free.
"I'm extremely excited to get a start under my belt," said McFarland, who is trying to stick with the organization as either a starter or reliever. "It's funny because I was just kind of getting used to coming out of the 'pen, and now I'm going to start, but there is no difference to me in my mind. I'm just going to go out and do exactly what I did the previous outings."
McFarland has turned it around this spring, throwing eight scoreless innings in his past three outings after making a mechanical adjustment to face more toward the plate. His confidence has gone up, as well.
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The Orioles like McFarland and want to keep him, but it could be a numbers crunch. Right now, the Orioles don't have room in the bullpen for three lefties. Troy Patton has a spot, and Brian Matusz could be a second left-hander if he doesn't win the fifth rotation spot, which Jake Arrieta is the frontrunner for.
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That kinda misses the point. Micro-benchmarking is nothing to do with optimization. Its purpose is to avoid premature pessimization due to choosing the wrong technology.
I have a project to replace an existing system where the backing store is by far the biggest bottleneck. The new system needs to be signicantly faster than the existing system and I have a lot of flexibility in choosing the backing store.
The two alternatives that immediately come to mind are.
- create a nice abstraction layer that can easily switch between Perl DBI, Redis, Tokyo Cabinet and a bunch of other alternatives… or
- micro-benchmark them with something similar to my read/write data profile.
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Liberty theater takes audiences 'Into the Woods'
The Liberty University Department of Theatre Arts lifts the curtain on its mainstage season this weekend with the premiere of "Into the Woods" at Tower Theater.
The play — based on the novel by James Lapine with music and lyrics by the legendary Stephen Sondheim — weaves beloved storybook lore, like Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Cinderella, with an original tale of a Baker and his wife.
Linda Nell Cooper, "Into the Woods" director and theater department chair, said the play is unique in that it is a farce, right in between a musical comedy and a tragedy.
She said while much of the story will be familiar to audiences, Lapine's telling poses deeper, more philosophical and spiritual questions.
"What would happen if fairy tales came to life and had to face life's problems, instead of storybook problems? Could they handle it?" Cooper said. "Unfortunately, in going after what they thought they wanted, they (the Baker and his wife) went off the path and couldn't find their way back home."
Cooper added the show was chosen particularly for upperclassmen, as it is very challenging vocally.
"Sondheim for theater students is like taking a calculus class," she said. "It is one that as a junior or senior, you want to be able to put on your résumé and to be able to say that we did it well."
David Hahn, assistant professor of Worship and Music, works as a vocal director for the play. He said the cast's voices rival those on Broadway.
"They draw from a strong technique that brings richness to their expressions in character," he said.
With a 21-member cast, "Into the Woods" is smaller in relation to other large-scale musicals at Liberty, like "Ragtime" with 58, and "Phantom of the Opera" with 44. But Cooper said the vocal quality of the ensemble makes the show seem just as large.
"Into the Woods" stars many faces familiar to the Tower stage, including Carson Burkett as the Baker (known for his Irene Ryan nominated role in "Ragtime"), Rachel Day as the Witch (known for her Irene Ryan nominated role in "Phantom of the Opera").
The stage design for "Into the Woods" is rather unique, Cooper explained.
"We went with the idea that the woods are not literal," she said. "Woods represent life in general, you find the woods everywhere."
The characters will find themselves in what Cooper describes as a "forgotten world, lost in space and time." The set has a grungy, urban feel and the costumes span time periods, fusing Victorian and modern fashion.
This is Liberty's third time presenting "Into the Woods," though it is the first time at Tower Theater. Cooper said this time it is more magnificent than before, fitting for Tower's stage.
She said for those who have seen it before, they will notice a less dark interpretation.
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"Into the Woods" runs through Oct. 7 with 10 performances in all. Visit Tower Theater's website for show times and tickets.


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ANNAPOLIS VALLEY, Nova Scotia — Back in the '80s, Beverly McClare read an article about herb jellies.
"I thought, 'Wow!'" she said. "It created an image in my mind and was a visual thing for me. It just planted a seed."
That seed sprouted, and today McClare and her small staff at the Tangled Garden (902-542-9811, tangledgarden.ns.ca) crank out roughly 100 jars a day of sometimes savory, sometimes hot jellies such as ginger lime thyme, raspberry with lavender, strawberry with tarragon, horseradish and currant thyme. More than 60 varieties, as a matter of fact, along with vinegars and oils, ice creams, honeys, mustards and more.
I visited last summer, and now is a good time to start making plans to catch the fertile Annapolis Valley in high season.
On my visit, McClare had just come in with a pail of currants. Most of the ingredients for her creations come from the 3-acre, herb- and fruit-filled garden that sits out back from the shop, providing a harvest from spring to early winter.
While McClare's business sprouted from an unusual source, the notion of making nature a business partner is a common one in the valley, in the northwestern part of the province.
Drive the length of the valley or wander off the main drag to the coast, and you'll find a wealth of farmers markets, a coffee roaster, a fromagerie and white-tablecloth restaurants. There also are more down-to-earth eats such as at Halls Harbour Lobster Pound (902-679-5299, hallsharbourlobster.com). There you pick out your fresh-caught lobster, if you can bear looking it in the eye, and have it cooked and served to you on an outdoor picnic table where you can see the incredible tides of the Bay of Fundy leave boats sitting on the bottom of the harbor.
And, then there are the wineries. Back about the same time McClare started her herb-infused culinary journey, budding vintners started planting grapes in the valley, whose soil and climate love the fruit of the vine. Today the Annapolis Valley is Nova Scotia's wine country and home to more than a dozen wineries, all using locally grown grapes.
Over a terrific dinner at the Blomidon Inn (800-565-2291, blomidon.ns.ca), Michael Laceby, innkeeper/sommelier and a member of the family that owns the inn, gave me my first lesson in Nova Scotia wines. Many of the wines from the valley are whites, and Laceby served me a very good, slightly dry L'Acadie blanc from Gaspereau Vineyards.
"L'Acadie is the signature grape of Nova Scotia," he said, "and virtually every winery in the province does a L'Acadie Blanc," though naturally each has its own approach.
L'Acadie, by the way, refers to the province's Acadian history. The wrenching deportation of the Acadians by the British in the 1700s is chronicled at the Grand-Pre National Historic Site here. And, though L'Acadie is French, in a bow to the British influence in these parts, it's pronounced as LACK-a-dee.
Laceby followed the L'Acadie blanc with a glass of Tidal Bay from Luckett Vineyards, in production since only 2010 and a venture of Pete Luckett, a Brit who is somewhat of a legend in Nova Scotia for his Pete's Frootique stores. The one in Wolfville might make you think you'd wandered into a Whole Foods.
While L'Acadie is Nova Scotia's signature grape, Tidal Bay, a blend of grapes, is its signature wine. When I visited Luckett Vineyards the next day, retail manager Stephanie Maillet showed me the three-page list of standards set down by the Winery Association of Nova Scotia that wineries must meet to use the Tidal Bay appellation.
While at Luckett (902-542-2600, luckettvineyards.com), which includes a casual restaurant where alfresco diners enjoyed the blue-sky day and terrific views, I sampled a blackberry port and an apple ice cider, along with an Ortega that, despite its Spanish-sounding name, has a German heritage.
Not far away, I visited the smaller Gaspereau Vineyards (902-542-1455, gaspereauwine.com), chosen winery of the year in the 2011 Atlantic Canadian Wine Awards. At Gaspereau's complimentary tasting bar (some wineries, such as Luckett, charge for samples), retail manager Katie Barbour told us the 35 acres of grapes produce about 3,500 12-bottle cases a year.
Seventy-five percent are sold on location, and the remainder are sold through the province's restaurants, wine stores and markets. None of Nova's Scotia's wines is exported, so you have to enjoy them while you're there or take them home.
Farther west, tiny Bear River Vineyards (902-467-4156, wine.travel) has the distinction of being the province's sole winery using only its own grapes. Others supplement their plantings with other locally grown grapes, and Bear River is among those suppliers.
Chris Hawes planted grapes "as a curiosity," said his wife, Peggy, and he's a self-taught vintner. With just 7.3 acres planted in grapes, it's the smallest in Nova Scotia.
"We don't do a Tidal Bay," Peggy said. "We would rather grow varietals and have them assessed on their own merits."
The winery also uses only 500 milliliter bottles, as opposed to the 750s used by many.
In Annapolis Royal, home to Canada's oldest street, Greg Pyle also taps into the local bounty while running the kitchen at his Queen Anne Inn (902-532-7850, queenanneinn.ns.ca). "We do everything in-house," he said. "Bread, ceviche, you name it.
"I use local providers. Twice a week a couple of local women who grow produce drop off the greens and vegetables. ... If I call the fish monger right now, he'll be here in the morning."
After buying the inn 12 years ago, Pyle worked in the kitchen alongside his chef. Honing his skills on cooking classes taken all over the world, he now runs the kitchen alone. "On a busy night, we'll serve 20-22 people, but no more. We'll turn people away," he said at the end of the evening while chatting with the few remaining guests and displaying a wit that showed he can crack a joke as easily as cracking an egg.
Just another example of this area's home-grown bounty.
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Be aware that many places may be closed off-season or have limited hours, so for the best trip, go in warm weather. Check contact information.
Wolfville Farmers' Market (902-697-3344, wolfvillefarmersmarket.ca) offers produce in season, as well as chicken, eggs, pork, beef, pies, cakes and more. Also restaurants ranging from Indian to a schnitzel place offer prepared food popular with the locals for eating on the premises.
Winery Association of Nova Scotia (902-298-1998, winesns.ca) has information on all of the wineries in the province.
Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op (902-542-7474, ext. 221, justuscoffee.com) roasts coffee and makes chocolates, all of which are for sale, and you can browse the Fair Trade Museum and see how the company buys coffee directly from small growers in Mexico.
Fox Hill Cheese House (902-542-3599, foxhillcheesehouse.com) crafts cheeses made from its own Holstein herd, as well as offering yogurt, gelato and milk.
Nova Scotia Tourism (800-565-0000, novascotia.com) can help you map out how to get to Nova Scotia and where to stay in Halifax or the Annapolis Valley.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio State has announced that two players will no longer play for the Buckeyes, one because of injury and another who wishes to play closer to his home in Colorado.
Sophomore linebacker Conner Crowell, from Waldorf, Md., has decided to give up football. He has had two microfracture surgeries while at Ohio State for an injury that occurred while he was in high school. Ohio State medical staff had not cleared him to play.
Freshman offensive lineman Joey O'Connor, from Windsor, Colo., requested a transfer to play closer to home. He was redshirted last fall as the Buckeyes went 12-0 under first-year coach Urban Meyer.


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When I tell people I am an atheist it is extremly hard to bring the words out of my mouth because it comes with so much criticism. In most responses I get "Oh, no" or "thats not right", something along those lines. I feel like I have to have a long drawn out discuss with people when faced with the question of religion because there are so many believers out there. So I'm wondering how does everyone also handle situations like this? Do you have to always defend yourself, your nonbelief? How should I handle, or what should I say the next time someone questions me about this and tries to belittle me for not believing in God? I'm sick of explaining myself to people who are religious!
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1560 N 115th
Suite 209
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Driving Directions to Northwest Medical Center - Medical Office BuildingDriving Directions:
From I-5, take exit 173
Turn west on Northgate WayAt Meridian Avenue North, turn right (north)
Take the first left onto 115th Street
The main hospital entrance is on the right- note the North Entrance is inside campus. The North Entrance is open every day from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
If you need to enter the hospital after regular hours, please use the emergency room entrance.
Bus Directions to Northwest Medical Center - Medical Office Building
For your convenience, Metro Route 345 provides direct campus service, dropping patients and visitors off at the entrance to the main tower on the main hospital campus. For more information about other routes and service to Northwest Hospital & Medical Center, please visit the Metro Transit website.
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- Northwest Hospital & Medical Center (main campus)
1550 N. 115th Street
Seattle, WA 98133-9733
Main Hospital Number: 206.364.0500
Toll Free: 877-NWH-HOSP (877.694.4677)
Northwest Outpatient Medical Center
10330 Meridian Ave. North
Seattle, WA 98133-9733
Parking at Northwest Medical Center - Medical Office BuildingThe parking program at Northwest Hospital & Medical Center was introduced to make parking both faster and more accessible to our patients and visitors. The program helps ensure patients and visitors will find parking on campus that is convenient to their hospital destination.
Parking kiosks at the main entrance make it easy to ask for directions and provide an additional level of security at the hospital.Visitor and patient parking on the Northwest Hospital & Medical Center campuses is inexpensive. There is no charge for visitors who drive on campus to drop off or pick up family and friends (a grace period of 30 minutes or less is allowed). For those who are on campus for scheduled appointments or who will be visiting for longer periods of time, the rates below apply.
Some physician offices and clinics provide validation at no charge. Please check with your physician or clinic directly before arriving on campus to see if they validate parking. The following are the current rates for parking on the main Northwest Hospital & Medical Center campus and the Northwest Outpatient Medical Center.
|Length of Stay
|0 to 30 Minutes
|30 to 60 Minutes
|1 to 2 Hours
|More than 2 Hours
|All-Day Pass
|$10 (includes in-and-out privileges)
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Shoe-lottesville: Über footwear options explode
If the shoe fits, buy it. That's what the owners of two new upscale shoe stores are hoping locals will do. But competition in the shoe market is as stiff as a new Mary-Jane.
Scarpa, a decade-old bastion of fashionable footwear in the Barracks Road Shopping Center, is putting its best foot forward with an expansion, and Richey & Co., also at Barracks Road, has toe-nailed a niche in the market for comfortable imports. Can the newcomers find a way to sell their soles?
"We do have a different niche," says Elizabeth "Binky" Wheeler, owner of new "shoetique" Sweet Beets, which opened August 19 on Garrett Street.
Wheeler says she and business partner Cate McConnell are focusing on shoes that are "like we are– very feminine, flirty, playful."
They chose Garrett Street, an up-and-coming shopping district, for its ample parking and proximity to the Downtown Mall. A year from now, ACAC will open a 35,000-sqare-foot health club nearby.
The two say they their pre-opening market research showed that for women– particularly mothers of young children– shoes and accessories are often the only way to "express individuality." To that end, Sweet Beets also offers handbags, jewelry, and hair accessories.
But expressing individuality does come with a price. A pair of knee-high mohair boots retails for more than $400, while many of the funky pumps and mules can top $200.
For those on a tighter budget, the second new store, Shoos, which opened on Elliewood Avenue on the Corner on August 6, may be a safer bet.
Owned by Jim Norwood, who also owns New Balance and Birkenstock of Virginia on 29 North, Shoos sells classic comfortwear like Birkenstock for men and women, but also carries women's dress shoes by designers such as Via Spiga, Kenneth Cole, and Vanelli. With prices ranging from $100 to $150, the selection may be more within reach for students and less affluent others.
Tapping into that market is one goal of Scarpa's expansion.
In early October, says Scarpa owner Amy Gardner, she'll open the doors to a new store, The Great State Of, in the former London's space adjacent to Scarpa at Barracks Road.
"Scarpa is very boutique, very feminine," she explains. The Great State Of is going to be "a little more utilitarian," she says, with peg board, a concrete floor, basic lighting, and aluminum detailing: "It's designed more with guys and a more casual female in mind."
"We want to separate higher dollar options from the $100 weekend clogs," she says.
Gardner says patrons will be able to pay for purchases at either store, even though the businesses have separate names and entrances (though there'll be an opening between them).
Longtime Scarpa customer Melissa McAllister says that while she's excited about the new options, she'll always be loyal to Scarpa. "Amy's so good at what she does," says McAllister. "There's so much about being in business that's just being really smart and having good customer service and making sure that you're making money."
While Scarpa may have proven itself over the 10 years since it opened, Cindy McClelland, co-owner of the Water Street boutique, Eloise, believes both stores can thrive.
"It's darling, and they're nice," says McClelland of Sweet Beets and its owners. "That they were brave enough to go over where they are makes the town bigger and more expansive and more wonderful."
And as far as McClelland is concerned, new business is good for Charlottesville, whose shoppers have been know to trek to Richmond, Tysons, and Washington. "This gives the customer one more place to go," she says. "The more we can keep shoppers here, the better off we are."
Meeting at a girls' night out led Cate McConnell (above) and Binky Wheeler to open Sweet Beets.


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Chesapeake And Ohio LEGACY 2-6-6-2 Mallet 6-11299 Chesapeake & Ohio LEGACY 2-6-6-2 Mallet (USRA Scheme) #875 6-11299 Commissioned in 1917 by order of President Woodrow Wilson, the United States Railroad Administration (USRA) was charged to organize the efforts of Americas railroads as they provided needed supplies for the war. After World War I, the goals of the USRA were shifted to the following commerce-related endeavors: standardize design for speed of construction, standardize components, reduce part shortages and cut railroad costs. Embracing this concept, the Chesapeake & Ohio and Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroads ordered the USRA 2-6-6-2 Mallet. The first Mallet was delivered to the W&LE in 1919 for the grand price of $71,966.94. Later, Nickel Plate leased Mallets from the W&LE and renumbered them for use on the NPR rails. Featuring the LEGACY Control System and the realistic Whistle Steam smoke effect, all locomotives are on schedule for a December 2011 shipment! The C&O locomotives are available in both original USRA and standard lettering, and an additional locomotive is offered in N&W dress with enhancements to the smokebox. Features LEGACY Control System equipped able to run in Legacy Control mode, in TrainMaster Command Control mode, or in Conventional mode with a standard transformer Realistic Whistle Steam smoke effect Odyssey II Speed Control with On/Off switch LEGACY RailSounds sound system featuring: -CrewTalk dialog and TowerCom announcements, each with different scenarios depending on whether the locomotive is in motion or stopped -Six official railroad speeds with CrewTalk dialog -DynaChuff synchronized chuffing that shifts through 15 levels of intensity as the locomotive gains speed -LEGACY Real-Time 'Quilling Whistle' control with instant response for realistic signature 'quilling' and correctly timed warning signals -Single hit or continuous bell sounds Powerful maintenance-free motor with momentum flywheel Wireless Tether connection between locomotive and tender ElectroCoupler on rear of tender Directional lighting including operating headlight and back-up light on rear of tender Illuminated classification lights on the front of locomotive Traction tire Interior illumination in cab Die-cast metal locomotive body, pilot, and trucks Die-cast metal tender body and trucks High level of separately applied metal details Separately applied builder's plates Fan-driven smoke unit Adjustable smoke output Authentically detailed cab interior Glowing firebox in cab Glowing ashpan Cab window "glass" Engineer/Fireman figures Locomotive Road Number: 875 Gauge: Standard O Dimensions: Length: 26-1/2" RailLine: Chesapeake & Ohio Minimum Curve: O-54
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Despite several new releases in theaters, this weekend's top sales went to last week's number one, Lee Daniels' The Butler. None of the newcomers could break into the second place spot either, leaving that honor to last weekend's number two We're The Millers.
Third place went to The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Adapted from a book series, the movie was clearly expected to be the first of many. But after suffering a disappointing opening of just $9 million, and only $14 million in its first five days, the future looks grim. Whether audiences are tired of the teenagers-caught-up-in-the-supernatural-vampire/demon/werewolf-world genre or just uninterested in this lesser known variation on the theme, the franchise might well be DOA.
The World's End may have only come in fourth place, but the $8 million it banked this weekend is good news. The two previous collaborations between Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, did well enough in their own right, but this third outing has done better than either of those, with the promise to take in a higher gross as well. With an almost cult-like following and just $20 million in budget costs to recover, The World's End is still a win even with the relatively quiet debut.
Despite a major advertising presence over the last few weeks and expectations that it would be the top flick this weekend, horror movie You're Next limped in at seventh place. With just $7 million, it the had the lowest opening weekend for a wide release horror at the box office so far this year.
Woody Allen's new comedy Blue Jasmine expanded to 1,200+ venues, giving it enough presence to sneak into the number nine spot with $4 million. With $14 million in sales so far it's proving to be one of Allen's higher grossing films, but still well behind his biggest financial success, 2011's Midnight in Paris.
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Lois Walker BlalockCALDWELL - Mrs. Blalock was born September 10, 1914 to Wesley and Maggie Latta Walker in the St. Mary's community of Orange County. She attended St. Mary's school and graduated from Hillsborough High School in 1930. She received a teaching certificate from East Carolina and later at Duke University completed her bachelor's degree. She began her teaching career, which spanned 37 years, at Caldwell school in 1934 and later taught at Grady Brown Middle SChool in Hillsborough. While at Caldwell School Mrs. Blalock was principal for many years while also teaching fifth and sixth grades. She had a great love for children which was evident in her teaching.
September 10, 1914 - May 26, 2009
September 10, 1914 - May 26, 2009
One of my favorite ladies in all the world was Mrs. Lois Blalock. She had such a sweet spirit and shared her life with so many. I met her in 1988 when my daughter, Gail, met her only grandson, Troy, and they began a 3-year courtship that we all enjoyed as it progressed toward a life together. When Troy and Gail got married Lois was the first to take her under her wing and treat her like a granddaughter. I'm glad she had old-fashioned traditions and she shared her life with Gail. Indeed, all of the Blalocks helped me leave my precious daughter in North Carolina without worrying about her when Bob and I moved to Texas. We knew she was in good hands. I'll miss Lois.
She was a life-long member of New Sharon United Methodist Church where she played piano, sang in the choir, taught Sunday school, was a charter member of the United Methodist women and served on many committees. In 1992. she was presented The Book of Golden Deeds award by the Exchange Club of Hillsborough. She was very active in the Caldwell Community including the Caldwell Home Demonstration Club, The Caldwell Community Club and also supported the Caldwell volunteer fire department. She was a member of the Orange County Retired Teachers Association.
Mrs. Blalock was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Lewis Blalock and brother, Warren Walker. She is survived by her son, Charles W. Blalock and wife, Brenda, of Caldwell; grandson, Troy Blalock and wife, Gail, and their girls, Gailey and Shelby of Caldwell; granddaughter, Jamie Blalock Borland and husband, Jeff, and their girls, Paige and Payton of Cedar Grove.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in New Sharon United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Walker's Funeral Home of Hillsborough. Online condolences: Walkersfuneralservice.com.
The family will welcome donations to New Sharon United Methodist Church, 1601 New Sharon Church Road, Hillsborough, NC 27278 or Duke Hospice at Meadowlands, 1001 Corporate Drive, Hillsborough, NC 27278.
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The Madrid of Los Austrias
Plaza Mayor square in Madrid
Royal Collegiate Church of San Isidro. Madrid
Tavern in Plaza de Puerta Cerrada square
Plaza de La Villa square in Madrid
Casa y Torre de los Lujanes - Lujanes House and Tower, Madrid
Royal Monastery of La Encarnación in Madrid
- Autonomous region: Madrid Region
- Province/Island: Madrid
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- Urban
Taking a walk in the capital of an empire
In the 16th century the House of Austria decided to move the imperial court to Madrid. King Philip II began the first construction works but it was his son Philip III who promoted urban development fit for the new capital. Despite having changed since then, after so many centuries the historic centre of Madrid still conserves the architectural marks of that time.
The quarter known as the Austrias neighbourhood in the centre of Madrid has a number of sites and monuments dating from the 16th and 17th centuries when the court of the Austrian monarchs was in Spain's capital. The architecture of the houses lining its narrow and irregular streets is sober and austere, in keeping with the character of these monarchs. The best way to discover all the shops and traditional taverns in this part of the city is by walking. The route we suggest can be covered on foot in a morning or an afternoon. We start at the Plaza Mayor square, which in its time has been the venue for all kinds of events: markets, bullfights, popular entertainment, auto-da-fés, and much more. In the centre stands the equestrian statue of Philip III, the king who ordered its construction to remodel the space occupied by the old Plaza del Arrabal square. Its current appearance is the result of the renovation carried out by Juan de Villanueva after a fire in 1790. The Casa de la Panadería survived the fire. Its façade is decorated with fresco paintings featuring mythological and flower motifs, and characters from the history of Madrid. Opposite we see the Casa de la Carnicería, which used to store meat and today houses municipal offices. In the arcade on this same side we can see the Cuchilleros Arch, and the entrances to the square on our route towards the Santa Cruz Palace, the site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Situated in the neighbouring Plaza de la Provincia square, it was built during the reign of Philip IV to be the court's prison. Then we walk down Calle Imperial street to Calle Toledo, which takes us to the Royal Collegiate Church of San Isidro. The construction of this church began in 1622, and it adjoins the prestigious Imperial College built in the early 17th century, and today a secondary school. The street known as Cava Baja runs parallel to Calle Toledo. We can walk up towards the Plaza de Puerta Cerrada square, which leads to Calle Cuchilleros street. This is the site of the popular Restaurante Botín, which according to the Guinness Book of World Records is the oldest restaurant in the world and was founded in 1725. If we go down Calle Maestro Villa street we come to Plaza del Conde de Miranda square. Here we find the convent of Corpus Christi, built in the early 17th century and known popularly as Las Carboneras. The church has hardly changed since then, and you can also buy traditional cakes made by the nuns. The next stop is the Plaza de la Villa square. We can carry on walking up to Calle Mayor street and past the renovated San Miguel market, or we can continue down the winding Calle del Codo street. There we'll be met by the statue of Admiral Álvaro de Bazán, with Mudéjar, Plateresque and Baroque-style buildings around it: the Casa Torre de los Lujanes house and tower (15th century), Casa Cisneros house(16th century) and Casa de la Villa house (17th Century), where the Town Hall was located until 2011. We walk back up Calle Mayor to Calle Bailén street and go towards Plaza de Oriente square, where we see the Almudena cathedral and the Royal Palace, standing on the site of the Alcázar –an imposing royal residence destroyed in a fire in 1737. We turn on to Calle de San Quintín street towards the final destination on our route, the Royal Monastery of La Encarnación, the first Baroque building in the city. Founded in 1611, it contains an important art collection.
- Consult more information about the route: http://www.esmadrid.com/en/madrid-neighbourhoods/austrias
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