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CBS will make a big push in comedy this fall. The No. 1 network unveiled its mostly stable fall schedule Wednesday, with four new comedies and a drama, plus a midseason drama. The network (which is most-watched with and without the Super Bowl) made no apologies for being "smug." (Actually Jimmy Kimmel called CBS "smug motherf—ers" at the ABC presentation. CBS doesn't argue.) "We like to win," network Entertainment President Nina Tassler said in a conference call with reporters.
The three most-watched dramas on TV, "NCIS," "NCIS: Los Angeles," and "Person of Interest," will all air on Tuesdays. "Hawaii Five-O" moves to Fridays. New highly serialized suspense thriller "Hostages" (from Jerry Bruckheimer, based on an Israeli format) will air on Mondays. The new comedies come with big names: Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Will Arnett, Margo Martindale (yes, doing a comedic turn), Anna Faris, Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub.
How successful is CBS? The network cancelled two dramas, "CSI: NY" and "Vegas," which each drew around 10 million viewers. Those numbers would be the envy of most any other media company.
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WE ARE MEN– a single-camera comedy about four single guys living in a short-term apartment complex who unexpectedly find camaraderie over their many missteps in love. Chris Smith, Tony Shalhoub, Kal Penn and Jerry O'Connell.
MOM– a Chuck Lorre comedy starring Anna Faris as a newly sober single mom raising two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls, and multiple Emmy Award winner Allison Janney as her critical, estranged mother.
THE MILLERS– Will Arnett as Nathan Miller, a recently divorced local roving news reporter looking forward to living the singles' life until his parents' marital problems unexpectedly derail his plans. After Nathan finally breaks the news of his divorce to his parents, Carol (Emmy Award winner Margo Martindale) and Tom (Emmy Award winner Beau Bridges), his father is inspired to follow suit and stuns the family when he leaves his wife of 43 years…From Greg Garcia ("Raising Hope" and "My Name is Earl").
THE CRAZY ONES– Robin Williams in a single-camera comedy about a larger-than-life advertising genius whose unorthodox methods and unpredictable behavior would get him fired… if he weren't the boss. Sarah Michelle Gellar plays his daughter, his opposite. From David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal" and "The Practice").
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I was browsing the aisle of my least hated computer hardware retailer when I saw it: Sleek. Black. Chrome. It was…an HP Envy printer.
Did my eyes deceive me? They did not. As I walked closer, I saw that the Envy signage on the boxes below the printer matched that on the printer itself. It was true. HP had developed an Envy printer and put it out to the public.
That's the exact moment I knew the Envy sub-brand had jumped the shark.
The fairy tale
Once upon a time there lived a powerful king known as Hewlett-Packard. He was successful, but he had a problem. Everything he produced was generic and dull – his every action seemed plodding and mundane. People praised him for his practically, but he was boring. His brilliance faded as his opponents gained popularity.
The king consulted his advisors and devised a plan. He would court a stylish, intelligent princess who could reinvigorate the king's passion. One of his peers, Baron Dell, already had done the same. So the king went a-courting and soon married the popular and passionate Princess Voodoo.
For a time, life was good. Their partnership produced style and quality. Along came the Voodoo Envy, one of the first PC competitors to the MacBook Air, and a line of awesome gaming desktops sold under the Blackbird and Firebird names. For all appearances, King Hewlett-Packard had renewed his interest in excellence.
But before long, the king's cynicism began to chip away at Princess Voodoo's luster. She agreed to cast aside her name after several years of marriage, and the fruits of her labor became increasingly generic. Although she still enjoyed quality, the princess's love for flair faded, and she acquiesced to the king's concerns about cost and mass appeal.
And so, eventually, Voodoo's light was snuffed out. Most people entirely forgot her. Rumor says she still wanders the halls of the king's castle, trying to inspire the flame of passion here or there, but her visits are more infrequent with each passing year.
The true story
Absurd as it may sound, the basics of this fairy tale mesh with reality. HP bought Voodoo with the intention of using its design brilliance to re-invigorate the company's premium products.
Then HP slowly dismantled everything that made Voodoo unique. HP completely stopped including Voodoo as part of its product names in 2009 and instead began to refer to its Envy line as having "Voodoo DNA," a term the company previously had used to describe HP gaming desktops. HP even dropped that nod sometime in 2010 or 2011. I can no longer find any reference to Voodoo on HP's website.
It's not just about a printer
The skeptics among you might now be thinking, Boy, that seems like a lot of huff and puff over a printer. Who cares?
The issue is not a printer. The name has lost its luster all over the HP line. Recently we received two products with Envy branding that appear completely unrelated to the sub-brand's premium focus: the Envy 6 laptop and the Envy 23 all-in-one.
The Envy 6 is a cheap, thin-and-light that, in both specifications and build quality, is nearly identical to every Ultrabook available for under a grand. HP tries to make the Envy 6 laptop stand out with brushed aluminum. Just one problem: Virtually everyone else uses that material today. It's no longer unique.
The HP Envy 23 is even more damaging to HP's reputation. The all-in-one is identical to HP's Omni and Touchsmart products. The Envy 23 uses the exact same design language. Sure, you can equip the Envy 23 with good hardware, but it's no longer a product worthy of its own brand. It's just a trim level.
And then we have the Envy printer. It is indeed slim and compact. But it's a printer. Printers are a necessary appliance that most of us own, but few of us care about. Has anyone felt "Envy" over a consumer desktop printer lately? I doubt it.
Why it matters
My personal disappointment with the newest Envy products is substantial. The problem is not that they're bad products. The problem is that they're not Envy. They don't live up to the high standards their more expensive brethren set. My review of the HP Envy 15 (2012) concluded that "the HP Envy 15 finally provides Windows users with a product that can go toe-to-toe with what Apple offers." If I were given the choice between that Envy 15 and a MacBook Pro 15-inch, and I could have either for free, I would pick the Envy 15. In fact, I would pick the Envy 15 over any laptop I've tested up to this point.
Unfortunately, Envy's focus on quality and design is uncommon in the PC space. Few companies are willing to push the limits of PC laptop design. Asus, Dell and Lenovo consistently attempt to craft premium products, but none of them have a sub-brand dedicated only to cutting-edge products.
HP hasn't been consistently successful with Envy, but the company was moving in the right direction. Its products were consistently expensive, and that was a good thing. The world's largest computer manufacturer appeared to be positioning itself to deliver hardware that was second to none. This would have given the PC industry a powerful and influential leader that could promote strong design, something the industry desperately needs.
Instead, HP is letting Envy succumb to cynicism and mediocrity. No one else seems willing and able to pick up the standard of quality that HP is casting aside.
It's not over, but it's over
HP could reverse course. An HP executive could read this article and say, "By golly, that guy is right! We shouldn't be de-valuing the Envy brand by attaching it to inexpensive or mundane products!"
But that's unlikely to happen. Corporations reach decisions because the people within them support those decisions. A change of heart at HP is unlikely unless the people working there change. The people did change when Voodoo's founder left HP back in 2010 – and apparently not for the better.
Although someone rattling around in HP might have the smarts to save Envy, more likely that name will fade into HP's common nomenclature, transformed from a strong sub-brand to a product line similar to Pavilion or TouchSmart. Envy's relevance will diminish, and eventually, during some product shake-up years down the road, the axe will fall.
Goodbye, Envy. You put on a good show.
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The digital home industry saw three major events in September 2013: Toshiba unveiled plans to reorganize its LCD TV business, Netflix entered the pay-TV service sector and the HDMI 2.0 was released.
Toshiba is restructuring its LCD TV business that has suffered serious losses. The Japan-based vendor will close down two factories outside the country and put more emphasis on markets with potentials. The company will also simplify its product lines to avoid overinvestment.
Digitimes Research believes that after Toshiba closes down its oversea factories, the company will expand its outsourcing. As a result, Toshiba's LCD TV orders to Taiwan makers may grow significantly in 2014. However since the vendor also announced plans to simplify its existing ODM partnerships, some of its existing suppliers in Taiwan may lose orders.
Netflix's over-the-top (OTT) service will join the cable TV platform in the UK. UK Pay-TV service providers are changing their conventional business operation which has focused only on in-house VOD services. Now pay-TV service providers have started trying to increase their competitiveness by offering OTT content.
The HDMI 2.0 has a bandwidth of 18Gps, allowing the transmission of ultra HD-quality images under 60Hz frequencies. The new technology is expected to stimulate related service providers' interest in providing ultra HD content. In 2014, ultra HD LCD TVs will gradually adopt the HDMI 2.0 as a standard specification, Digitimes Research believes.


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First up the news from today about the signing of ILB Nick Greisen, who if you remember was with the team last year but got injured before the season started. He did disappear off the team at some point, but he has been resigned. At 30 it is unlikely he will get a starting job, but you never know, but he is an excellent special teamer. Maybe he can take some reps on ST so Larsen can start at ILB?
Next up is the issue of Ryan Clady, dude what were you thinking! Clady could be out for at least three months after partially tearing his patellar tendon over the weekend while playing basketball. But this sort of thing is a freak accident so not much can be done to prevent it, just hope he can recover quickly and get back onto the field. Hopefully before the season starts, because we don't have much depth behind him. Tyler Polumbus? I hope not, we could see the Broncos go after Flozell Adams formerly of the Cowboys, or could possibly trade for Jammal Brown of the Saints to help fill the void.
Check out the video "Its unfortunate" on NFL.com, McD talks about Clady and Tebow, also note at the end the little joke that McD throws it. Brought a smile to my face.
Another addition to the Broncos team was Akin Ayodele who we added during the end of the draft. Akin is a ILB for the Miami dolphins, he had 70 tackles last year and rotates in with the starters. Expect him to share time with Haggan at the other ILB spot next to DJ. Something cool to note "Akin" is a short name for "Akinola", which in Yoruba language means 'undefeated warrior'.
The next bit of news of course is the draft it's self. Now for those of you who missed it, it was a very busy few days for the Broncos. Trading picks a number of times and moving around to make 9 selections in the draft. They did give up a 5th and 6th round pick in next years draft to get it done. But these are the players that they ended up with:
Demaryius Thomas WR
Tim Tebow QB
Zane Beadles T-G
J.D Walton C
Eric Decker WR
Perrish Cox CB
Eric Oslen C
Syd'quan Thompson CB
Jammie Kirlew OLB/DE
Check out Draft Pick analysis to get a bit more information on each pick.
The Broncos also signed a number of undrafted rookies, 19 in total. They are:
Kevin Alexander ... OLB/DE ... 6-4 ... 265 ... Clemson
Alric Arnett ... WR ... 6-2 ... 189 ... West Virginia
Toney Baker ... RB ... 5-10 ... 225 ... North Carolina State
Jaron Baston ... DL ... 6-1 ... 305 ... Missouri
Devin Bishop ... ILB ... 6-1 ... 239 ... California
Korey Bosworth ... OLB/DE ... 6-1 ... 242 ... UCLA
Marcellus Bowman ... S ... 6-2 ... 225 ... Boston College
Chris Brown ... RB ... 5-10 ... 200 ... Oklahoma
Paul Duncan ... T ... 6-7 ... 315 ... Notre Dame
Ben Garland ... DL ... 6-5 ... 275 ... Air Force
Riar Geer ... TE ... 6-4 ... 250 ... Colorado
Patrick Honeycutt ... WR ... 5-9 ... 172 ... Middle Tennessee State
Chris Marinelli ... T ... 6-7 ... 300 ... Stanford
Kyle McCarthy ... S ... 6-1 ... 210 ... Notre Dame
Nathan Overbay ... TE ... 6-5 ... 270 ... Eastern Washington
Michael Shumard ... G ... 6-5 ... 301 ... Texas A&M
Jeff Stehle ... DL ... 6-6 ... 310 ... Wisconsin
Cassius Vaughn ... CB ... 5-11 ... 195 ... Mississippi
Landis Williams ... WR ... 5-10 ... 174 ... Maine
Because of these new players there will be a number of changes to players numbers and new ones will be assigned to the rookies. The new numbers are below:
2010 NFL Draft Picks:
Demaryius Thomas: 88
Tim Tebow: 15
Zane Beadles: 68
J.D. Walton: 50
Eric Decker: 87
Perrish Cox: 32
Eric Olsen: 69
Syd'Quan Thompson: 43
Jammie Kirlew: 53
New Numbers:
J.J. Arrington: 26
Akin Ayodele: 51
Justin Bannan: 99
D'Anthony Batiste: 67
Bruce Hall: 29
Tyler Polumbus: 77
A.J. Trapasso: 2
Jamal Williams: 76
Notes about the numbers: Tim Tebow's jersey has been the hottest jersey at the moment, it has broken all previous jersey sale records for a rookie. Also Eric Decker picked 87 the same number as Eddie McCaffrey, some believe Decker could be the second coming of McCaffrey, only time will tell. Check out the Q&A Decker did for Bronocs Zone.
And finally onto the news for today and going ahead. All the rookies are in or heading to Dove Valley for rookie training camp. All 28 rookies will be in attendance to start their NFL careers. Check out this video about Training Tebow on NFL.com. The training dates are as follows:
Today-Sunday: Mandatory, rookies-only minicamp
Voluntary full-squad minicamps: May 17-19; May 24-27; June 2-4; June 7-9
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With technology, social media usage has also only gone up. Therefore, the best marketing strategy should use social media cohesively with your other marketing efforts.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Ten athletes and coaches with Harvard ties will represent five countries at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England, with competition beginning Friday, July 27 and continuing through Sunday, Aug. 16.
From the group, nine athletes are comprised of six rowers, one swimmer, one women's basketball player and one track & field athlete.
Additionally, Tim Murphy, the Ulen-Brooks Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Swimming and Diving, serves as the head coach of the United State open water swim team.
Harvard has one current student-athlete in the Games as Temi Fagbenle will represent the host nation in women's basketball.
Among former student-athletes, Caryn Davis '05, Will Newell '10 and Henrik Rummel '09 will all row for Team USA while Brodie Buckland '06 rows for Australia and Malcolm Howard '05 for Canada. Samyr Laine '06 will represent Haiti in the triple jump and Alex Meyer '10, the first American to qualify for this summer's Games in any sport, will compete in the open water swimming event.
Harvard has been represented at every modern Olympic Games. This year's contingent is the most since the 2004 Athens Games when Harvard had 13 participants.
All told, Harvard has had 223 Olympians (athletes, coaches and administrators) representing 14 countries and an astounding 344 different events.
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We had two presentations yesterday; we talked about language in Joyce as a tool of re-appropriation. The result of re-appropriating the English language, through deconstruction (and taking quotes out of context as Michelle mentioned) is to create an artist's ownership of it. Most importantly, this ownership (as painted/achieved by the artist) belongs to the artist alone. Joyce therefore posits the existence of Irish Nationalism (perhaps as a means of dealing with the discourse of colonization) through the assertion of individuality ("a" portrait, not an objective, all-consuming "the" portrait), identity and creation.
However, the class had a bit of a debate over the idea of Stephen's desire to "fly by these nets". These nets are identified as nationality, language, religion. The fact that Stephan says "fly by" and not "fly from" strike many as significant, because it undermines the idea of totally escape and denial. During the second presentation, the exploration of myth as a motif in the text supports this idea. Even thought Stephan adamantly declares "non serviam", he proves himself unable to disentangle his identity from the history of his own existence. If Stephen can be considered both the figures of Daedalus and Icarus, then as Daedalus, he has created art (as the second presentation mentioned, "the fabulous artificer"), but as Icarus, he is unable to escape the prison (ie, the "nets").
Lastly, we talked about art in terms of modernity and Modernism (the aesthetic movement). Stephen's search for transcendence has been undermined constantly in the text. His diary entries actually hint at a degeneration of sorts, and as Rebekah mentioned, there are many incidents that undermine other momentary "epiphanies".
I don't know how relevant this may be to the module, but interestingly enough, these "little epiphanies" can also be seen in Virginia Woolf's texts- most specifically, in To the Lighthouse. In the dinner scene at Mrs. Ramsay's house, she finds a moment of "stability" (Woolf 142), yet she knows that "this [moment] cannot last" (141). There is also an artist figure in the text- Lily Briscoe, who manages to complete her painting, just as Stephen is able to complete his own portrait. Yet, as the class mentioned, with so many instances of irony in Joyce's text, how transcendental or "successful" is his attempt at transcendental art?
Very interestingly, Rebekah also mentioned that the act of pinning down truth is one that is fixed, ordered and stable. While grabbing at coherence, the act of truth-finding is reductive. This can be seen in A Passage to India, where the image of India can never really be understood or described. There is too much ambivalence, and in trying to "discover the real essence of the land", the characters find themselves thwarted (they will never know the "real" India), violated (Adela), or dead (Mrs. Moore).


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The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is a block-sorting data compression algorithm that acts as a preconditioner to dramatically improve the compression ratios of subsequent compression phases in many cases. This algorithm is the core of the bzip2 data compression utility that is ubiquitous on Unix and, in particular, is often much more effective than zip and gzip.
The core of the BWT algorithm is easily written in F#:
let cmp (str: _ array) i j =
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let bwt (str: byte array) =
let n = str.Length
let a = Array.init n (fun i -> i)
Array.sortInPlaceWith (cmp str) a
Array.init n (fun i -> str.[(a.[i] + n - 1) % n])
However, this implementation is very slow and, in particular, is many times slower than the extremely heavily optimized C implementation found in the bzip2 program. The main cause of this performance degradation is the use of a higher-order sortInPlaceWith function that compares array elements using a closure derived from the cmp function. Closure invocation is substantially more expensive than ordinary function invocation.
Fortunately, this is easily solved by writing a generic higher-order sort function in F# and marking it inline to ensure that it will be inlined, resulting in specialization over both the array element type and the comparison function. Incredibly, this simple change creates an F# program that runs at a similar speed to the industrial-strength bzip2 program:
open System.Threading let inline sort cmp (a: _ array) = let inline swap i j = let t = a.[i] a.[i] <- a.[j] a.[j] <- t let rec qsort l u = if l < u then swap l ((l + u) / 2) let mutable m = l for i=l+1 to u do if cmp a.[i] a.[l] < 0 then m <- m + 1 swap m i swap l m if u-l > 1000 then let m = m let f = Tasks.Future.Create(fun () -> qsort l (m-1)) qsort (m+1) u f.Value else qsort l (m-1) qsort (m+1) u qsort 0 (a.Length-1) let inline cmp (str: _ array) i j = let rec cmp i j = if i=str.Length then 1 else if j=str.Length then -1 else let c = compare str.[i] str.[j] in if c<>0 then c else cmp (i+1) (j+1) cmp i j let bwt (str: byte array) = let n = str.Length let a = Array.init n (fun i -> i) sort (fun i j -> cmp str i j) a Array.init n (fun i -> str.[(a.[i] + n - 1) % n])
The ability to inline higher-order functions in this way, to perform partial specialization, is one of the main advantages of the F# programming language over the previous generations of languages including OCaml. In fact, a direct port of this program to OCaml is 150× slower and, even after considerable effort, we were only able to make the OCaml 2.8× slower than F# and C. This is our best attempt so far:
open Bigarray type int_array = (int, int_elt, c_layout) Array1.t type byte_array = (int, int8_unsigned_elt, c_layout) Array1.t exception Cmp of int let cmp (str: byte_array) i j = let n = Array1.dim str in let i = ref i and j = ref j in try while true do if !i = n then raise(Cmp 1) else if !j = n then raise(Cmp(-1)) else let si = str.{!i} and sj = str.{!j} in if si < sj then raise(Cmp(-1)) else if si > sj then raise(Cmp 1) else begin incr i; incr j end done; 0 with Cmp c -> c let swap (a: int_array) i j = let t = a.{i} in a.{i} <- a.{j}; a.{j} <- t let invoke (f : 'a -> 'b) x : unit -> 'b = let input, output = Unix.pipe() in match Unix.fork() with | -1 -> (let v = f x in fun () -> v) | 0 -> Unix.close input; let output = Unix.out_channel_of_descr output in Marshal.to_channel output (try `Res(f x) with e -> `Exn e) []; close_out output; exit 0 | pid -> Unix.close output; let input = Unix.in_channel_of_descr input in fun () -> let v = Marshal.from_channel input in ignore (Unix.waitpid [] pid); close_in input; match v with | `Res x -> x | `Exn e -> raise e;; let sort str (a: int_array) = let rec qsort l u = if l < u then begin swap a l ((l + u) / 2); let m = ref l in for i=l+1 to u do if cmp str a.{i} a.{l} < 0 then begin incr m; swap a !m i end done; swap a l !m; if u - l > 30000 then begin let f () = qsort l (!m - 1); Array1.sub a l (!m-l-1) in let a' = invoke f () in qsort (!m + 1) u; let a' = a'() in for i=l to !m-2 do a.{i} <- a'.{i - l} done end else begin qsort l (!m - 1); qsort (!m + 1) u end end in ignore(qsort 0 (Array1.dim a - 1)) let () = let file = try Sys.argv.(1) with _ -> "input.txt" in let desc = Unix.openfile file [] 777 in let str = Array1.map_file desc int8_unsigned c_layout false (-1) in let n = Array1.dim str in let a = Array1.create int c_layout n in for i=0 to n-1 do a.{i} <- i done; sort str a; for i=0 to n-1 do print_char(Char.chr str.{(a.{i} + n - 1) mod n}) done; Unix.close desc


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Arlington Hts. woman charged in $597,000 Allstate theft
An Arlington Heights woman charged with taking nearly $600,000 from her former employer, Allstate Insurance Co., is accused of spending the money on credit card payments, tattoos, bail for a family friend and child care for her grandchild, according to court records.
Cook County Sheriff's police arrested Lisa Sterner, 51, on Tuesday at her home on a $500,000 cash bond warrant for charges of theft over $500,000 and money laundering, according to the release.
Sterner appeared in a Chicago court Wednesday, where a judge set her bail at $25,000 cash.
The sheriff's Financial Crimes Unit was contacted in March by Allstate Insurance in Northbrook, which reported that Sterner, a former payment annuity specialist who worked for the company for more than 30 years, had taken money from the company for personal use.
The investigation found that from October 2007 to March 2013, Sterner diverted returned annuity checks electronically into an account under the name of Nicole Sterner, the news release said. The total taken during that period was $597,038.22.
The investigation also showed the funds were transferred using an Allstate computer system ID and password that belonged to Sterner. The returned payments were supposed to be deposited to an Allstate fund. Instead, court records show that Sterner used the majority of the missing money -- $315,000 -- to pay off her monthly credit card bills, with additional money spent at a tattoo parlor, used as bail money to the Cook County jail for a family friend, and to pay for child care for her grandchild.
Sterner was terminated in March. Between January 2007 and March 2013, she legitimately earned $307,000 from the company, the court documents state as a point of comparison.
Allstate discovered the discrepancy earlier this year when a beneficiary contacted the company looking for a payment. The company learned that the payment had been deposited into another account instead.
Sterner is expected back in court at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3.


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It was the role of a lifetime in the show of the decade, and starving actor James Gandolfini dug into it like a big, juicy calzone.
As existential mobster Tony Soprano, Gandolfini was the cigar-chomping, expletive-spewing engine that made HBO's "The Sopranos" a roaring TV success. In return, "The Sopranos" made Gandolfini a three-time Emmy winner and pop-culture icon. No matter what he did before or after, Gandolfini would always be Tony Soprano, and his sudden death Wednesday at the age of 51 reminds us what an indelible achievement that really was.
"I cannot even process this Gandolfini news," Huffington Post TV critic Maureen Ryan tweeted, after news of his death of a possible heart attack spread. "RIP doesn't do the man and his talent justice."
A burly guy with a gangster-ready accent and a serious lack of Hollywood hair, the New Jersey-born Gandolfini tended bar and drove trucks before catching the acting bug at 25. Small roles in films ("True Romance" and "The Juror") followed, most of them variations on the charismatic wiseguy theme.
By the time creator David Chase cast him in "The Sopranos" in 1999, Gandolfini had the mob vibe wired. But somewhere behind those powder-keg eyes and Cagney-esque vowels lurked a new kind of leading man, and when James Gandolfini met Tony Soprano, the stereotype blew up like a cherry bomb.
"I thought it was a wonderful script," Gandolfini told Newsweek in 2001 as he remembered his audition. "I thought, 'I can do this.' But I thought they would hire someone a little more debonair, shall we say. A little more appealing to the eye."
Gandolfini was not your average TV star, which was perfect, because Tony Soprano was not your average Mafioso. He was in therapy, for God's sake. He had mommy issues and panic attacks. He was not always down with the whole whacking thing, except when he was a little too down with it. He was the head of two dysfunctional families, and the stress was getting to him.
But in addition to being a conflicted mobster who ordered hits he would feel guilty about later, Tony Soprano was a modern husband and father trying — in his own bad-example way — to do right by the wife and kids. To be the provider and the protector, even as his headstrong wife was going her own way and the kids were chafing under his guiding thumb.
Gandolfini got that, and his blend of swagger and vulnerability made Tony a monster whose humanity made him even more dangerous. Whether Tony was taking a break from a father-daughter road trip to strangle an informant, or snuffing out his troublesome nephew like he was pinching a candle wick,
Gandolfini made Tony's crimes feel personal. And because he and Chase also made this ice-cream bingeing, History Channel watching, animal-loving guy so weirdly likable, his many bad deeds seemed that much worse.
Tony Soprano was the role of an actor's dreams, and Gandolfini turned it into one of TV's greatest gifts. In the controversial last scene of "The Sopranos" 2007 finale, Chase cut to black, leaving fans in the dark. But in the big screens in our heads, James Gandolfini will always loom large. Bigger than life and just as human as the rest of us.


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Two bodies recovered from Mount Rainier's Paradise Glacier late Friday afternoon are likely members of a group of four climbers that were lost in January, park officials say. The body of a third climber was found nearby in August. Search efforts are continuing.
Park officials said on Thursday, while conducting routine resupply operations to Camp Muir by helicopter, a body was spotted hanging over the edge of a large crevasse on the Paradise Glacier southeast of Anvil Rock. In addition, camping and climbing gear could be seen strewn across the bottom of the crevasse.
The body was partially buried under about 5 feet of snow and clearly had been in place for some time. The site is about a quarter mile east of the standard climbing route and on the other side of a ridge, at about 8,200-foot elevation.
On Friday, climbing rangers retrieved the body of a woman from the crevasse. A man's body was then recovered from under the snow nearby.
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Both individuals were transported by ambulance to the Pierce County Medical Examiner, who will determine their identities and causes of death.
Four climbers in two separate parties were lost in this vicinity during January storms. On Aug. 6, the body of Mark Vucich was found near the climbing route on the Muir Snowfield, about half a mile above Pebble Creek at about 8,000 feet elevation. The bodies recovered Friday are believed to be of those lost in January.
Rangers will return to the site, both on foot and by helicopter, to further investigate what appears to be a large campsite buried under the snow on the edge of the crevasse, in hopes of finding clues to explain what happened and, ultimately, lead to the fourth missing climber.
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The race for the Premier League title was blown wide open when leaders Chelsea had two players sent off in a 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa on Saturday, and Manchester City overcame a red card to win 2-0 at Hull City.
Chelsea also had manager Jose Mourinho sent to the stands in stoppage time as the match exploded into life in the last few minutes, but the normally loquacious Portuguese bit his tongue after the game.
"I prefer not to talk," he told Sky Sports television. "If I talk I will bring the game into disrepute and I don't want to be in big trouble."
Mourinho was clearly unhappy Brazil midfielder Willian was sent off by referee Chris Foy for a minor shoving offense, his second caution, in the 68th minute — a decision that played a key role in deciding the match's outcome.
Second-placed Manchester City, who had skipper Vincent Kompany dismissed for hauling back Hull striker Nikica Jelavic after 10 minutes, won with goals from David Silva and Edin Dzeko.
City had started the day nine points behind Chelsea with three matches in hand, but cut the gap to six points after Fabian Delph back-heeled a clever winner for Villa in the 82nd minute.
Chelsea have 66 points with eight matches to play, while City are on 60 with 11 games remaining.
Liverpool, third on 59 points, and Arsenal, fourth on the same total, have 10 games to go.
Chelsea's second red card was handed to Brazil midfielder Ramires in stoppage time for a two-footed stamp on Karim El Ahmadi that Villa manager Paul Lambert described as "a leg-breaker."
Manchester City went to Hull after a bad week during which they were knocked out of the FA Cup by Wigan Athletic and eliminated from the Champions League by Barcelona, but they may now have the upper hand in the Premier League title race.
"It was a very difficult week," City manager Manuel Pellegrini said. "We needed to win today and playing with one player less for 80 minutes was very difficult."
Midfielder Nemanja Matic forced the ball home at the far post just before half-time, but the goal was ruled out because he handled.
"It was a good solid performance against a good team," Mourinho said. "Defensively we were really strong. "We had no problems with the danger from Aston Villa, but apart from that I don't want to comment."
Villa manager Lambert was delighted with his team's display, but condemned Ramires.
After describing Delph's goal as "world class," he said: "I have just seen the Ramires dismissal again and that was a shocker."
"That was a leg-breaker... The first sending-off was debatable, but the second one was a no-brainer," Lambert added.
The other results on Saturday had more of an impact at the wrong end of the table and left the bottom nine clubs separated by seven points, from West Ham United in 12th place on 31 points to basement side Fulham on 24.
West Ham lost 3-1 at Stoke City, while Fulham beat Newcastle United, without suspended manager Alan Pardew, 1-0 at Craven Cottage with a second-half winner from Ashkan Dejagah.
Crystal Palace are 17th after drawing 0-0 at Sunderland, who are third from bottom in 18th.
West Bromwich Albion snapped a seven-match losing streak with a 2-1 come-from-behind victory at Swansea City.
Goals from Stephane Sessegnon and Youssouf Mulumbu helped West Brom climb to 16th.
Cardiff City lost 2-1 at Everton, where Seamus Coleman scored the winner with almost the last kick of the game, and are 19th with an immediate return to the Championship looking increasingly likely.


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RICHMOND — A Richmond man attacked an 11-year-old special education student on a school bus Thursday because he believed the boy was bullying his son, police said.
It all began when a 9-year-old special education student told his father, later identified as 44-year-old Burnis Hurd, that the older student was picking on him, Sgt. Nicole Abetkov said. Around 9:11 a.m., Hurd confronted the boy and allegedly assaulted him when the bus arrived to pick up his son in the 900 block of Carlson Boulevard, she added.
Police did not elaborate on the attack, but said the 11-year-old boy had a small cut on his neck that did not require medical attention. After the attack the bus driver continued on to Wilson Elementary School, where the students attend a special education program, police said.
Officers arrested Hurd on suspicion of felony battery later Thursday after the victim reported the attack to school employees, police said. The driver did not report the incident to district officials, Abetkov said.
Hurd was booked into County Jail in Martinez.
A Santa Rosa mother was arrested after she was accused of choking a child who she believed had bullied her daughter earlier this month, but has not been charged with any crime. An attorney for Delia Garcia-Bratcher released a report this week that said a witness reported that Garcia-Bratcher verbally confronted the 12-year-old, but that the child put his own hands on his neck, leaving marks which police later found.
David DeBolt covers breaking news. Contact him in Richmond at 510-262-2728. Follow him at Twitter.com/daviddebolt.


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© Christopher Gunning / Discovery Music Ltd.
Great news for any fans of the series' soundtrack! Christopher Gunning is releasing a new album with some of his scores for the series. I've written about the music of the series before (see this blog post), and as you may know, a substantial amount of Gunning's Poirot music was released on CD over 20 years ago. However, this CD had gone out of production and become a rare collector's item. With this new release, some of the best scores from that album are re-issued - in addition to three never-previously-released tracks from the adaptations of Death on the Nile and Five Little Pigs.I, for one, am delighted.
Read more on Gunning's website, watch a trailer for the album on YouTube or pre-order from Amazon.
Here's the track listing:
- The Belgian Detective 2.30
- A Country Retreat 4.53
- The ABC Murders 4.34
- Grey Cells 4.21
- To the Lakes! 2.18
- The Double Clue 5.09
- War 2.29
- The Innocence of Caroline Crale 5.30
- Amyas's Last Painting 4.22
- How Does Your Garden Grow? 9.05
- The Death of Mrs Inglethorpe 2.27
- The Height of Fashion 2.08
- One-two, buckle-my-shoe 1.58
- The Victory Ball 4.55
- Death on the Nile 13:45


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Andrei Costin
Born and grown-up in Moldova, Andrei is a Computer Science graduate of the Politechnic University of Bucharest where he did his thesis work in Biometrics and Image Processing. While starting out his IT-career in the Computer Games industry, he has worked in the Telecom field and also was a senior developer at a specialized firm programming various GSM/UMTS/GPS sub-systems. He is the author of the MiFare Classic Universal toolKit (MFCUK), the first publically available (FOSS) card-only key cracking tool for the MiFare Classic RFID card family and is known as the "printer guy" for his "Hacking MFPs" and "Hacking PostScript" series of hacks & talks at various international conferences. He is passionate about security in a holistic fashion. Currently he is a PhD candidate with EURECOM in field of "Security of embedded devices".
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Keepin Kids Out Of Jail: RZA Teaches Kids To Play Chess & Holding Tournaments!
Hip-hop stars use chess to teach kids the importance of patience and consequences.
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Within an entry of the outline tree, hand-formatted lists can provide additional structure. They also provide a way to create lists of checkboxes (see Checkboxes). Org supports editing such lists, and every exporter (see Exporting) can parse and format them.
Org knows ordered lists, unordered lists, and description lists.
[@20]4. Those constructs can
be used in any item of the list in order to enforce a particular numbering.
Items belonging to the same list must have the same indentation on the first line. In particular, if an ordered list reaches number '10.', then the 2–digit numbers must be written left-aligned with the other numbers in the list. An item ends before the next line that is less or equally indented than its bullet/number.
A list ends whenever every item has ended, which means before any line less or equally indented than items at top level. It also ends before two blank lines. In that case, all items are closed. Here is an example:
** Lord of the Rings My favorite scenes are (in this order) 1. The attack of the Rohirrim 2. Eowyn's fight with the witch king + this was already my favorite scene in the book + I really like Miranda Otto. 3. Peter Jackson being shot by Legolas - on DVD only He makes a really funny face when it happens. But in the end, no individual scenes matter but the film as a whole. Important actors in this film are: - Elijah Wood :: He plays Frodo - Sean Astin :: He plays Sam, Frodo's friend. I still remember him very well from his role as Mikey Walsh in The Goonies.
Org supports these lists by tuning filling and wrapping commands to deal with
them correctly, and by exporting them properly (see Exporting). Since
indentation is what governs the structure of these lists, many structural
constructs like
#+BEGIN_... blocks can be indented to signal that they
belong to a particular item.
If you find that using a different bullet for a sub-list (than that used for
the current list-level) improves readability, customize the variable
org-list-demote-modify-bullet. To get a greater difference of
indentation between items and their sub-items, customize
The following commands act on items when the cursor is in the first line of
an item (the line with the bullet or number). Some of them imply the
application of automatic rules to keep list structure intact. If some of
these actions get in your way, configure
to disable them individually.
org-cycle-include-plain-lists. If this variable is set to
integrate, plain list items will be treated like low-level
headlines. The level of an item is then given by the indentation of the
bullet/number. Items are always subordinate to real headlines, however; the
hierarchies remain completely separated. In a new item with no text yet, the
first <TAB> demotes the item to become a child of the previous
one. Subsequent <TAB>s move the item to meaningful levels in the list
and eventually get it back to its initial position.
org-support-shift-select is off. If not, you can still use paragraph
jumping commands like C-<UP> and C-<DOWN> to quite
similar effect.
As a special case, using this command on the very first item of a list will
move the whole list. This behavior can be disabled by configuring
org-list-automatic-rules. The global indentation of a list has no
influence on the text after the list.
org-plain-list-ordered-item-terminator, the type of list,
and its indentation. With a numeric prefix argument N, select the Nth bullet
from this list. If there is an active region when calling this, all selected
lines are converted to list items. With a prefix argument, selected text is
changed into a single item. If the first line already was a list item, any
item marker will be removed from the list. Finally, even without an active
region, a normal line will be converted into a list item.
[1] When using '*' as a bullet, lines must be indented or they will be seen as top-level headlines. Also, when you are hiding leading stars to get a clean outline view, plain list items starting with a star may be hard to distinguish from true headlines. In short: even though '*' is supported, it may be better to not use it for plain list items.
[2] You can filter out any of them by configuring
[3] You can also get 'a.', 'A.', 'a)' and
'A)' by configuring
org-list-allow-alphabetical. To minimize
confusion with normal text, those are limited to one character only. Beyond
that limit, bullets will automatically fallback to numbers.
[4] If there's a checkbox in the item, the cookie
must be put before the checkbox. If you have activated alphabetical
lists, you can also use counters like
[5] If you do not want the item to be split, customize the
[6] If you want to
cycle around items that way, you may customize
[7] See
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"Joe Gump, 1927-2014" by Joan Giangrasse Kates, Chicago Tribune, March 16, 2014
Longtime peace activist was convicted of damaging missile silo in 1987
It was while sitting in a Missouri federal courtroom watching his
peace activist wife refusing to pay $424.47 in restitution to reduce
an 11-year sentence for damaging a nuclear missile silo that Joe Gump
decided that he, too, would take what he liked to refer to as a
"retirement" in prison.
Mr. Gump ramped up his own antiwar efforts. In August 1987, 16 months
after his wife was arrested at the silo in Holden, Mo., Mr. Gump and
Jerry Ebner, broke into a K-9 missile silo near Butler, Mo. The two
men poured blood in the shape of a cross on the concrete silo, snipped
the cables to the alarm system, smashed the electrical outlets and
took a sledgehammer to the geared tracks
"That day, while many others supported our action, what it dwindled
down to was just him and me," said Ebner, who received a 40-month
prison sentence, while Mr. Gump received 30 months. "Joe was married
with children and much older than me, but was still determined to go
through with it even though he had so much at stake."
Mr. Gump, 86, died of congestive heart failure on Saturday, March 8,
at his home in Bloomingdale, Mich. An active member and treasurer of
KNOW, the Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents of War, he was also a
volunteer tax preparer for the elderly for the past 20 years.
He was living in Morton Grove at the time of his wife's arrest in the
1980s. He started a chapter of the Plowshares Action Group, a
nationwide movement of Christian anti-nuclear war protesters who broke
into nuclear silos and did damage to nuclear weaponry. The group took
its name from the Bible verse "beating their swords into plowshares."
"Simply put, Joe was someone who not only talked the talk, he walked
the walk," said Ebner, who lives in Omaha and remains involved in
antiwar efforts. "He sacrificed a lot, risking everything, to stand up
for what he believed in."
Jean Gump was released from prison in 1990, after 4½ years of
incarceration. They had instructed their children to sell their Morton
Grove home while they were both serving time.
In the 24 years since, Mr. Gump and his wife took part in antiwar
protests at places including the Oak Ridge Nuclear Enrichment Facility
in Tennessee. They traveled to Iraq in the early 1990s after the first
Gulf War to bring medical supplies to the children affected by the
war. The couple were profiled in Studs Terkel's 1988 book "Great
"They never stopped fighting for their causes, even if it meant
traveling to far off places," said Mr. Gump's daughter Liz. "It had
become a way of life for them."
Born and raised on Chicago's South Side, Mr. Gump graduated from Leo
High School and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology for two
years, before joining the Army in 1946. He was in Korea for several
years before the Korean War broke out. He married his wife, Jean, in
1949. The two met on a blind date in high school in 1944.
After his military service, Mr. Gump attended the University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign on the GI Bill, receiving a bachelor's
degree in chemical engineering. He received a master's degree in
business administration from the University of Chicago in the 1970s.
While raising their rapidly growing family, the couple moved to Morton
Grove in 1954, and Mr. Gump worked for a Skokie company that
manufactured instrument panels.
He and his wife shared a belief in social activism, though his wife
was far more fervent. They marched for civil rights and in the 1960s
and joined the Christian Family Movement, which urged Catholics to get
involved in social justice. They delivered food into the slums and
alienated some neighbors when they supported fair housing for
minorities in their own town.
As Mr. Gump rose through the ranks at work, eventually becoming plant
manager, he had less time for activism. But his wife remained active,
joining nearly a million people in New York in 1992 for an
anti-nuclear war rally. She was arrested numerous times. She blocked
the entrance to Motorola in Schaumburg and handed out leaflets and
prayed in front Morton Thiokol in Chicago. In 1985 she was arrested
with her sisters at Strategic Air Command base in Nebraska during a
peace retreat.
Her arrest and imprisonment in 1986 spurred her husband to greater
action. In December of that year, Mr. Gump was arrested for the first
time when he and about 100 other people in front of Water Tower Place
were singing Christmas carols with lyrics changed to reflect their
opposition to American involvement in Central America.
"You begin to assign a different scale of values to things than you
had before," Mr. Gump told the Chicago Reader in 1987. "My job, for
one; earning an income has absolutely no interest to me anymore. I
think I've become much more involved in resistance to those things
which need to be resisted."
Four months after that profile ran, Mr. Gump and Ebner, calling
themselves "Transfiguration Plowshares," because August marked the
feast of the Transfiguration, when Jesus' divinity was revealed to his
disciples, cut the chain-link fence at the K-9 silo and made their
"In the end, it was Joe's sheer conviction that saw us through that
day," Ebner said.
Mr. Gump, who defended himself at trial, asked U.S. Judge Howard Sachs
for the longest sentence possible.
"I have little doubt," Sachs said during sentencing, according to a
1987 story in the Chicago Tribune, "that Mr. Gump is here because he
wants to share the punishment imposed on his wife."
Mr. Gump also is survived by his wife; three sons, William, Andrew and
Joseph Gump; six other daughters, Katherine Lage, Christine Perlin
Gump, Holly Gump, Marthe Murray, Margaret Gump and Nancy Charlesworth;
a brother, Raymond; a sister, Kathleen Johnson; 15 grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. May 24 in St. Martha
Catholic Church, 8523 Georgiana Ave., Morton Grove.
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Walker OKs Morneau wearing No. 33 with Rockies
New first baseman hopes to make fellow British Columbia native proud
DENVER -- With the permission of boyhood idol Larry Walker, new Rockies first baseman Justin Morneau will bring No. 33 back to the field this year.
Walker, the 1997 National League Most Valuable Player and a star outfielder who has been deemed worthy of remaining on the Hall of Fame ballot, wore the number from 1995 to 2004. No one has worn it in a regular-season game since.
But Morneau, who like Walker is a native of British Columbia and who grew up playing on a field named after Walker, will wear it this year. Morneau, who was the American League MVP in 2006, called Walker and requested the number.
Morneau wore 27 briefly with the Twins, but was No. 33 for most of his 11 seasons in Minnesota. He doubled it and wore 66 when the Pirates acquired him late last season for their playoff run. Pittsburgh retired 33 for Hall of Famer Honus Wagner.
"I actually called him and asked if it was OK if I wore 33 here," Morneau said during Rockies Fest on Saturday. "I know it hasn't been worn since he was here and I know what he meant to this team and this organization and everything he accomplished here.
"It wasn't one of those things I took lightly. It was something out of respect for him and what he's done. For him to give it the thumbs-up, to let me wear it, hopefully I'll make him proud."
This marks the second time 33 was issued since Walker retired. It was assigned to right-handed pitcher John Maine in 2012 and he wore it during Spring Training, but he never appeared in a Rockies regular-season game. Before Walker arrived, outfielder Chris Jones wore 33 in 1993 and 1994.
Here are the number assignments for other newly acquired players:
30 -- Left-handed pitcher Brett Anderson
1 -- Outfielder Brandon Barnes
13 -- Outfielder Drew Stubbs
24 -- Right-handed pitcher Jordan Lyles
32 -- Right-handed pitcher LaTroy Hawkins
48 -- Left-handed pitcher Boone Logan
56 -- Left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales
Hawkins and Morales are wearing the same numbers they had in their previous stints with the club, Hawkins in 2007 and Morales 2007-11.


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Northeast Regional Barista Championship: Meet the NY Competitors
Whether you linger and learn about coffee, or take what you want on the run, your local baristas are your ambassadors to the flavors and pleasures of coffee. This weekend, some of New York City's most passionate baristas will join leagues of others in the Northeastern US for the Northeast Regional Barista Championship, the first ever hosted within the five boroughs. The winner must excel in presentation and preparation of espresso, cappuccino, and signature drinks of their own creation. Whoever wins will go on to compete at the national level in Houston, Texas later this month; the United States Champion will compete in the World Barista Championship in Bogota, Colombia, this summer.
We took a little time to chat with some of the baristas you may already see on the front lines day to day, and asked them about the coffees that drove them to take their trade to the competition stage.
Mike Jones
Where do you work? I work at Third Rail Coffee, it's been open for two years now, and I started almost exactly a year ago. I especially enjoy being able to serve both Stumptown and Intelligentsia coffees and see how they're both doing.
Have you competed as a barista before? I did the Northeast Cup Tasters competition last year, where I got second out of 16 people, and there was no fanfare whatsoever! I helped [reigning Northeast Regional Barista Champion] Danielle Glasky last year. So I thought I knew what went into it, but... you can't get inside someone's head and realize the kind of stress they're actually going through.
Why did you decide to compete? This year I made it a goal to take advantage of pretty much any coffee opportunity that came up. I'm turning 25 this week, which is young, but...I love coffee, and I'm trying to see how far it can take me. And a lot of that involves meeting people and trying to do anything that can better where I'm at right now. Competition's kind of perfect for that—you meet a lot of people. One thing I didn't realize is how much better as a barista it's made me just from preparation time. And I'm getting better at presenting my coffee in a more coherent manner, because you have to learn how to say and do all that stuff in 15 minutes in front of a bunch of people.
What coffee are you using, and how did you select it? I'm using a 2-bean blend from Stumptown, it's an Ethiopian Adado and Indonesian Sulawesi Toarco. I decided on it because I had espressos that I like the most, they're sweet with a really lush mouthfeel, and then really nice red fruit. Stumptown agreed to work on it with me, and I tried a bunch of single origins and blends, and email them what I was tasting and what I wanted it to taste like. So then they would adjust the roast, and we built this blend sort of based on what I wanted it to taste like.
What do you love most about working in coffee in NYC? My entire friend base, or 90% of it, is as a result of coffee. And the community of people who GO to coffee shops. The spotlight on coffee here in NY is great. Stuff I was doing with coffee in Michigan, even if it was really progressive, wouldn't make a difference and get noticed.
Can you give us any hints as to what you're doing for your signature drink? It is a deconstructed taste experience [laughs]. I make pourovers of each of the coffees that are in the drink, and I have a couple special ingredients—like a foam made from coffee honey. The goal is to demonstrate why there are flavors in espresso and how they got there, and how they work paired with other flavors.
Sam Lewontin
Where do you work? I work for World Bean at LaGuardia Airport, which is a project to put awesome coffee shops in airport terminals.
It's kind of an unusual coffee shop! Yes. It's been really really interesting—it's a very different environment than any other shop I ever worked at, it's incredibly busy in a way that is totally separate from what usually drives business in a coffee shop. And it's a really MUCH broader cross section of customers than I've ever seen in any other coffee shop that I've worked in. People who have really different expectations on what they want from a cup of coffee.
Is this your first barista competition? It is, yeah! It's been something that I've wanted to do for a few years now, and have only just now had the time and resources to make it happen.
Why did you decide to compete? A couple of different reasons—one, it's sort of the next level of challenge. I'm in a position where I'm training a lot of baristas but that means that my own training sometimes has to wait. This gives me a really great reason to focus my energy on improving my own craft. But my original love was theatre, and this is a very theatrical sort of enterprise, and that's really appealing to me, sharing coffee with people in a very performative sense.
What coffee are you using, and how did you select it? I'm using the Papua New Guinea Baroida, roasted by Counter Culture Coffee. I had a general sort of range of ideas of what kinds of flavors I was looking for, and I was looking for something a little bit more challenging and outside my own box of coffee flavor preconceptions.
Can you give us any hints as to what you're doing for your signature drink? I'm looking for some unorthodox approaches to texture and flavor balance. I'm looking to create a beverage with a set of flavors that really deviates from what we think of when we think signature beverage. I'm definitely staying savory and getting into some herb and spice flavors.
Park Brannen
Where do you work? I work at Cafe Grumpy, and I enjoy serving coffee there because it's our own coffee that we roast, and because of that I have a really good connection with it.
What coffee are you using, and how did you select it? I'm using a coffee from Colombia, it's from the Desarrollo Co-op. My green buyer went down there for a trip and brought back several samples, which I was able to cup and try, and this is the one that I found that I liked. It's really balanced, and it has equal amounts of fruit and chocolate flavors and also a pleasant acidity.
What do you love most about working in coffee in NYC? I enjoy getting to serve a LOT of people every day, and getting to talk to people that are actually interested in what we're doing. There are a lot of people here who really enjoy food and beverage, and this is something that a lot of those people can really enjoy.
Can you give us any hints as to what you're doing for your signature drink? My signature drink is going to taste like an angel, if it landed on your mouth.
Jessica Roff
Where do you work? I'm opening a green coffee house called Cafe Verde, specializing in local products and products from indigenous peoples, because I have a background in Indian law. So I'm going to be offering food and small retail including crafts, and coffee, teas, chocolates, crafts from native growers around the world. It'll be in Brooklyn.
Is this your first barista competition? Yes. I've been training for five weeks.
Why did you decide to compete? Well, I obviously am doing everything I can to be more involved in the coffee community, which is a big part of it. The training and preparation is huge—refining my craft, developing it. And I'm hoping to be able to meet people who can be involved in my coffee house, and get the word out for what I'm doing. This is a whole new world for me.
What coffee are you using, and how did you select it? I'm using an Arabica coffee from Papua New Guinea, and Byron Holcomb at Dallis Bros. helped me source it. It's been something that's sort of been plaguing me for the last year—I'm only planning on using coffee from indigenous growers, and it is a challenge finding an espresso that isn't a blend where it is more difficult to ensure each bean is from an indigenous grower. I had to find a single origin coffee that would work well as an espresso. Byron knew what I was looking for, and got on the phone and got this one, which is from a native cooperative, the Highlands Organic Agricultural Cooperative in Papua New Guinea.
What do you love most about working in coffee in NYC? I've been having a great time with it. It seems to be a really welcoming community. And for me this was a way to combine my passions about indigenous people and foods, and to be able to highlight products from indigenous people in a way that puts money back into their communities. I'm looking for the ideals of fair trade—I'm not somebody that's a big label person—but I'm buying only products that fit the model of good working conditions, a good wage, above-market pricing. And people here have been super supportive, which is great.
Can you give us any hints as to what you're doing for your signature drink? I'm going to be featuring Kallari chocolate, which is a Kichwa indigenous cooperative from Ecuador, which I quit my lawyer job to go volunteer with a couple of years ago.
Want to check out the competition?
You can attend the Northeast Regional Barista Competition free this weekend, April 9 to 11, at Milk Studios, 450 West 15th Street—8th Floor, Studio D, in Manhattan. Events, including the Brewer's Cup competition, kick off around noon each day.
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Inspired by the open kitchens at our favorite restaurants, we created this high-quality and hard-working cookware to use every single day. The lightweight pieces combine the exceptional durability and heat conduction of hard-anodized aluminum with the convenience of dishwasher-safe cleaning. Aluminum distributes heat uniformly across the cooking surface, guaranteeing superb results. For healthy, low-fat cooking and easy cleanup, all pots and pans have nonstick interiors. We've configured this essential set to include the pieces you'll use most often for both everyday cooking and entertaining.
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This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.
The U.S. Air Force is prioritizing continued improvements in its ability to surveil activities in space and keeping up production of existing satellites over developing new spacecraft in its fiscal 2014 budget request, which was sent last week to Congress.
The service's unclassified request is $6.5 billion in fiscal 2014, reflecting its quandary of continuing with programs despite a flat topline and cuts owing to sequestration. The Air Force's space program is at a crossroads. After a decade of tumultuous developments – including billions of dollars of cost overruns and repeated in-service delays – the missile warning and military satellite communications projects are starting to deliver capability. "You are seeing a turning around from the environment where, year after year, the question was how much was the cost growth going to be on the space programs," says acting Air Force Under Secretary Jamie Morin. "Just as that ground is firming under our feet, we are grappling with that sequestration challenge, which is obviously producing massive turmoil."
Air Force Gen. William Shelton is prioritizing improvements in space situational awareness (SSA), a subject he emphasized heavily at last week's 29th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
But the service is once again foregoing plans to begin developing a replacement for the Boeing/Ball Aerospace Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite. This gimbaled, electro-optical system was launched in 2010 and is collecting intelligence on objects in geosynchronous orbit. The follow-on has been "deferred" beyond fiscal 2018, says Jamie Morin, acting Air Force under secretary. The mission duration of the existing SBSS satellite has been "revised upwards," he says, noting that gives the service more time to plan for a new spacecraft.
Meanwhile, the Air Force has requested about $400 million in unclassified budget authority for various other space situational awareness (SSA) programs, including efforts to improve the Space Fence and upgrade the Joint Space Operations Center.
"The Space Fence is as solid as any program can be," Morin told reporters during an April 15 briefing on the Air Force space budget. The first increment, or sensor, is being placed on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific. Funding, however, for a second site has not been planned; it was passed over in favor of other service priorities.
Service request
Service officials are requesting $300 million over the next five years – between $50 million - $68 million annually – for the Jspoc Mission System upgrade. The program is designed to refurbish aging computers and displays used for tracking objects – satellites and debris – in space. Today's consoles had a life expectancy that expired in 2002 and are thus long overdue for an overhaul, says Morin.
The Air Force re-examined the requirements for the JMS and assumed the role as integrator, avoiding roughly $500 million in costs originally set aside for the program. Now, the Air Force is planning to use commercially procured software and hardware and use some practices for managing the project that were spearheaded by the Navy's Spawar command. Initial operational capability has been moved up three years to fiscal 2016, Morin says.
Morin boasts $1 billion in cost avoidance by purchasing two Lockheed Martin Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellites in one "bulk" buy. The Air Force and Lockheed Martin are negotiating a definitized price for the purchase of AEHFs 5 and 6, but a letter contract issued in December is not to exceed $2.42 billion. AEHF is the first program applied to the efficient space procurement (ESP) program, which calls for contracting for multiple satellites in one deal to take advantage of economic order quantities and stability in the industry. The Air Force is requesting $652.5 million in fiscal 2014 for AEHF, including $272.9 million in development costs. This covers a portion of the two-satellite buy over the course of several years.
Contract negotiations
Next up for contract negotiations is Lockheed Martin's Space-Based Infrared System (Sbirs). Both Sbirs and AEHF were troubled development programs that cost billions more dollars than planned and delivered years late. By applying ESP practices to Sbirs and planning for a bulk buy of space vehicles 5 and 6 together, Morin said he hopes to save $500 million compared to buying the missile warning spacecraft singly. "There is a potential for significantly more than that" in the future for Sbirs, Morin says.
The service is asking for $964 million for Sbirs in fiscal 2014, including $352.5 million in development funding.
The Air Force's $698.9 million request for Lockheed Martin's GPS III program covers the buy of space vehicles 7 and 8 as well as long-lead parts for satellites 9 and 10. The Air Force is devising a procurement strategy for GPS III vehicles 9 and beyond; they are slated to include an improvement to the search-and-rescue payload as well as the ability to "dual-launch" two GPS IIIs on a single Atlas V booster.
Negotiations between the Air Force and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) are ongoing for the next buy of 36-50 Atlas V and Delta IV rocket cores. The Air Force is requesting $1.881 billion in fiscal 2014, including funding for the first five cores of this multi-rocket buy. This account also includes a conversion to the RL10C universal upper stage for the Atlas V and Delta IV as well as activities to support requests to certify competitors to ULA, including Space Explorations Technologies and Orbital Sciences.
Though Air Force officials are conducting preliminary studies to craft a next-generation weather satellite constellation, no funds are in the fiscal 2014 budget to begin work on it soon. Air Force Space Command chief Gen. William Shelton is pushing for an improved Space Fence and Jspoc first.


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Atlanta "Management Reporting" was the subject of the speech by Carey M. Yelton, Jr., before the faculty and students of the Graduate School of Industrial Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Yelton is serving as special instructor of a course on Principles of Management to undergraduates in the Industrial Management School at Georgia Tech. Mr. Yelton attended the Southern Paper Trade Association's 7th annual Management Seminar (February 19-22) at Florida State University. He also attended the National Association of Bank Auditors and Controllers Southeastern Regional convention here in Atlanta April 9-12. JUNE 1961 Marvin Zion appeared on a television panel discussion sponsored by the Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia Society of CPAs on February 18. This was a public service program designed to answer elementary questions about individual tax returns. Mr. Zion was guest speaker at the February 15 meeting of the Atlanta Chapter of The Institute of Internal Auditors. After his talk on "Current Tax Topics" there was a lively question and answer session. Boston Donald Wiese, our tax supervisor, recently became a member of the Boston Life Insurance and Trust Council, an 51


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Rep. John Lewis Joins with House Leaders For Voter Empowerment, Not Disenfranchisement
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. John Lewis (GA-5), along with House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD-5), Democratic Assistant Leader James Clyburn (SC-6), Rep. John Conyers (MI-14), and Rep. Robert Brady (PA-1), unveiled comprehensive voting rights legislation. The Voter Empowerment Act will modernize voter registration, ensure equal access to the ballot box for all Americans, and prohibit deceptive practices and voter fraud that keep people from exercising their constitutional right to vote. Less than six months away from a presidential election, Democrats will not sit idly by as states across the country attempt to pass unprecedented laws that would erect barriers to voting for military, disabled, minority, young, elderly and low-income Americans.
Rep. Lewis stated, "The ability to vote should be easy, accessible and simple. Yet there are practices and laws in place that make it harder to vote today than it was even one year ago. The sponsors of this act believe we need to take action or risk losing the liberties we have enjoyed. We should be moving toward a more inclusive democracy, not one that locks people out."
Democratic Whip Hoyer stated, "I am proud to be an original cosponsor of the Voter Empowerment Act. Just six months from a presidential election and amid an unprecedented drive to impose new restrictions on who can vote in states across the country, Democrats will fight for the right to vote and for the integrity of our electoral system. This bill is a major step towards greater accountability and broader access. Moving forward, we will continue to shine a light on efforts to deter eligible voters from the exercising their rights."
Assistant Leader Clyburn stated, "Everywhere I go, people are expressing great concern and are asking whether or not their access to the ballot and ballot box are going to remain unfettered. The Voter Empowerment Act contains three main parts: improving access, protecting integrity and ensuring accountability. If adopted, it will go a long ways towards making our nation a more perfect Union."
Rep. Conyers stated, "There is no more important right in our society than the right to vote – it is the foundation of all of our other rights enshrined in the Constitution. Unfortunately the right to vote is under attack in too many states and today we stand together to protect that precious right. Our legislation will help protect the right to vote for veterans, senior citizens, students, and minorities who are vulnerable to disenfranchisement. This should not be a partisan issue, but a legal and moral imperative for both parties."
Rep. Brady stated, "This bill ensures that everyone – seniors, the disabled, working families, students and our military can register to vote. It makes registering to vote simpler, faster, and more secure for each and every American. The Voter Empowerment Act reaffirms the basic principle our democracy: one person, one vote"
A fact sheet on the bill can be found here.
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Feeding on Cue
Nursing is comforting to your baby; more than just obtaining food! Babies feed frequently be
cause they are growing a lot, their food is rapidly digested, and they need the closeness for comfort.
What is "feeding on cue"?
- Feeding on cue simply means feeding your baby whenever he shows feeding cues.
- Feeding cues are signs of hunger.
- Feeding cues are: mouthing movements, tongue protruding, rooting, hand to mouth movements, hand-sucking.
- Crying is a late hunger sign.
- Feed baby whenever he wants for as long as he wants.
What are the advantages of feeding on cue?
- Since sucking and emptying the breasts determines milk supply, feeding the baby as often and as long as he wants means you will make as much milk as he needs.
- Frequent feeding in the first couple of weeks builds up milk-making tissue in your breasts, assuring a good milk supply for months to come.
- Baby latches and feeds better when you catch his early feeding cues such as tongue movements and rooting. If you wait until he is crying, it may take more time to calm him before feeding.
- You bring comfort and pain relief to your baby when you feed on cue. Nursing is for comfort as well as food. Babies cannot be held "too much" or "spoiled."
- Babies are used to constant closeness and feeding. Frequent feeding gives them that connection.
- Babies gain weight better.
- Babies have less jaundice.
- Mothers have less engorgement.
- Longer overall duration of breastfeeding.
Your baby prefers you. Avoiding pacifiers and bottles will help your baby breastfeed better.
- The sucking action on a pacifier or bottle is very different to how the baby latches the breast.
- When a baby sucks a pacifier or a bottle, the breast may not get enough stimulation to make lots of milk.
- Formula is more difficult for babies to digest.