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BERLIN—An American teacher who resisted Adolf Hitler and was executed by the Nazis has been honored in a ceremony attended by U.S. diplomats and German officials.
At an event Friday in Berlin, an artist placed small commemorative paving stones in front of the last home of Mildred Fish-Harnack, who grew up in Milwaukee, and her German husband Arvid Harnack.
The couple was part of a German group known as the "Red Orchestra" that tried to encourage resistance against the Nazis and fed information to the Soviets.
They were arrested Sept. 7, 1942, and sentenced to death. Fish-Harnack was executed by guillotine on Feb. 16, 1943.
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Northbrook, Ill.-based DiGiorno, a Nestlé USA brand, rolls out DiGiorno Pizza Dipping Strips, and DiGiorno Italian Style Favorites pizza. Dipping Strips are a great-tasting shareable take on the celebrated pizza experience. They feature a combination of a DiGiorno thick crust pizza in12 easy pull-apart strips plus two dipping sauces to enjoy whether you like to dunk, dip or scoop.
Crowd pleasing varieties include: Pepperoni Pizza Dipping Strips, Three Meat Pizza Dipping Strips (combining sausage, pepperoni and beef toppings) and Four Cheese Pizza Dipping Strips (made with mozzarella, parmesan, romano and asiago cheeses). All varieties include Zesty Marinara and Creamy Garlic dipping sauces.
Italian flavors that have always been mealtime hits and crowd pleasers are now perfected on a traditional-style pizza with DiGiorno Italian Style Favorites, three Italian-inspired, premium varieties with a touch of olive oil and herbs and on a rising crust. Varieties include: Italian Style Favorites Meatball Marinara pizza, Italian Style Favorites Chicken Parmesan pizza and Italian Style Favorites Meat Trio pizza (including Italian sausage, Genoa salami and pepperoni combined with mozzarella cheese flavors).
"We've translated our fresh-baked taste into even more unique new forms to excite your taste buds," says Tom Moe, marketing director for DiGiorno pizza. "We know consumers want variety, and these two new offerings push frozen pizza to deliver taste in exciting new ways for consumers."
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Watch this amputee duck walk for the first time with a 3D-printed foot
"My name is Buttercup and when I hatched my left foot was turned backwards.'' And so begins the story of Buttercup, the boy duck with a brand-new 3D printed foot.
Shortly after birth in November of last year, Buttercup's backwards foot was amputated: His caretaker told CNET that leaving it backwards would likely result in a lifetime of complications, including infections.
But Feathered Angels Waterfowl Sanctuary in Arlington, TN, reasoned that a 3D-printed foot would work better than a ducky peg leg, and found volunteers to help make that dream a reality. And so now, still shy of his first birthday but quite the handsome plucky fellow, Buttercup is now able to walk like a duck:
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Intel Pro Wireless
The Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG (ipw3945) chip can be found inside many laptops. This page will help you install, setup and troubleshoot the IPW module (ipw3945), daemon (ipw3945d) and firmware (ipw3945-ucode) for ArchLinux.
First, let us verify that you indeed do have the ipw3945 chip installed in your laptop. We will install the package 'pciutils' which can be found online in the pacman repository, or on the ArchLinux CD. In most cases, you already have this package installed.
Installing pciutils
To install pciutils from CDROM: create the mount point /mnt/cdrom, mount the cdrom to /mnt/cdrom, browse over to /mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg, and locate the 'pciutils-*.pkg.tar.gz' file, then install it using pacman.
# mkdir /mnt/cdrom # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom # cd /mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg # ls pciutils* pciutils-2.2.4-2.pkg.tar.gz # pacman -U pciutils-2.2.4-2.pkg.tar.gz
To install pciutils from internet: use pacman to install it.
# pacman -S pciutils
Using lspci to verify
To verify if you have the ipw3945 chip installed, run this command:
# lspci | grep 3945 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) #
As long as you see the network controller, you are good to go. The output will vary depending on your system configuration. If you don't see any output, then there is a hardware issue. Now that we are sure you have the ipw3945 wireless chip in your laptop, let's proceed to installation.
.. using stock kernel (default)
We will start by installing the ipw3945 package, which contains the module, daemon and firmware pre-compiled for ArchLinux Stock Kernel
# pacman -S ipw3945
Make sure that you TURN ON YOUR WIRELESS SWITCH! At this point, you should be able to load the module, and start the daemon, like so:
# modprobe ipw3945 # ipw3945d
And now, the daemon will run and start logging it's activities. We need to view these activities with 'dmesg', like so:
# dmesg | grep ipw ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.2d ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (11 802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)
If you do not see the 'detected geography' line within 30 seconds of running the daemon, you will most likely need to compile a custom kernel (see below). If you do see the 'detected geography' line, skip the next chapter.
.. using custom kernel (troubleshoot)
So far, you've tried everything, but no luck. Well, the good news is that there is very little that can break the ipw3945 daemon. The problem is most likely the kernel not having what you need. Please note for the following part that you will need either the internet or a way to transfer files onto your laptop. When it is said that you need to install a package (e.g. wget), you need to either use pacman -S package, or download the .pkg.tar.gz file, and do pacman -U package.pkg.tar.gz. Let's get started on compiling our own kernel:
Install wget
# pacman -S wget
Download the latest kernel from http://www.kernel.org/ by browsing over and located the 'latest stable version of the linux kernel'. You will be presented with a few options (F, V, Vi, C, Changelog), copy the 'F' link, download the file, and extract it:
# mkdir /usr/src # cd /usr/src # wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-184.108.40.206.tar.bz2 # tar xjf linux-22.214.171.124.tar.bz2
We will then browse into the extracted directory, and start the configuration process.
# cd linux-188.8.131.52 # make oldconfig # make menuconfig
You will now be presented with a list of settings that you can enable/disable for your kernel compilation. Most importantly, you need to select your IDE/SATA chipset (also located in lspci) and for the ipw3945, you will need the following configurations:
Once you have completed setting up your configuration, simply keep hitting exit until the program asks you to save your configuration, at which point you should select 'Yes'. You are now returned to the shell. Now, we will start the compiling of the kernel, modules, and installation of the modules.
# make bzImage # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-188.8.131.52 # make modules # make modules_install
After these, you simply need to reconfigure grub to load the new kernel
# nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
and add the following to the end of the file:
# Arch Linux Custom Kernel v220.127.116.11 title Arch Linux [kernel-126.96.36.199] root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-220.127.116.11 root=/dev/sda1 ro
For the root (hd0,1) line, please copy it from the existing kernel in menu.lst. For 'root=/dev/sda2', please copy it from the existing kernel in menu.lst. Note you do not need the initrd line for custom kernels.
Once you have edited menu.lst, save it with CTRL-X, then Y to save and exit.
Every module in linux needs to be built against the kernel sources of the running kernel in order to function properly (modules include nvidia and ipw3945). So what we will do is compile ipw3945 for our new kernel, but first, we must download it! Browser over to http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/#downloads and download the latest version of ipw3945 module.
# cd /usr/src # wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ipw3945/ipw3945-1.2.2.tgz
Now browse over to http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ and download the latest version of the firmware and daemon.
# cd /usr/src # wget http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ucode/ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz # wget http://bughost.org/ipw3945/daemon/ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz
Now we will extract, compile and install the ipw3945 module, firmware and daemon. Please, before proceeding, make sure you have the 'ipw3945' package uninstalled from your system for it will conflict with the latest version:
# pacman -Rsc ipw3945 # cd /usr/src # tar xzf ipw3945-1.2.2.tgz # tar xzf ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz # tar xzf ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz # cd ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2 # mkdir /lib/firmware # cp ipw3945.ucode /lib/firmware # cd /usr/src # cd ipw3945d-1.7.22 # cd x86 # cp ipw3945d /sbin/ # cd /usr/src # cd ipw3945-1.2.2 # make # make install
At this point, the module, firmware and daemon have been setup. You can now attempt to load the module, then start the daemon:
# modprobe ipw3945 # ipw3945d # dmesg | grep ipw ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.2d ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (11 802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)
Voila! Everything works fine! Every time you need to use the wireless, simply load the module, and start the daemon. This process can be automated on every bootup (see below).
In this section, we will setup the module and daemon to automatically load on boot up.
# nano /etc/rc.conf
Simple add 'ipw3945' to the modules=() list, an add 'ipw3945d' to the daemons=() list. Note that you MUST add the ipw3945d daemon BEFORE the 'network' daemon.
Congratulations! You should now have a fully functional Intel Wireless Pro card in your laptop! You will find that there is a new interface (eth#, or wlan#) located in ifconfig. You can double check everything worked by doing this:
# iwconfig eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:A834-3CF5-EC85-EB2A-17E4-17A4-AD Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality=84/100 Signal level=-49 dBm Noise level=-50 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1844 Missed beacon:0
For more information on setting it up, please see <insert link to network setup here>. Enjoy!


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A close friend of mine recently qualified for the 2008 Olympics in the decathlon as a member of the US Track and Field team.
While his qualifying wasn't a huge shock (his friends knew how good he was).....his ego (or lack thereof) meant he never had a strong web presence prior to making the big time.
I'm helping him pull together a web site ahead of the start of the games next month. I'm looking for a header image to go on his site at treyhardee.com.
- A clean but powerful header image that uses the name 'Trey Hardee' and 'Decathlete' (Web 2.0 is fine by me)
- Subtle uses of red white and blue
- Images can be either 440px wide or 920 px wide. I have yet to decide on a final width but those are the two width dimensions I'm working with in the site template.
- Height is fluid but needs to be between 110px and 160px
- Use of Trey's likeness can go either way. Use it or don't use it. It's your choice. I'm working on pulling together images of Trey for use on the site. If you need to see them right now head over to trey.gannonmedia.net
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The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York is the new owner of the former Federal Aviation Administration training facility in Palm Coast.
PALM COAST — The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York has purchased the former Federal Aviation Administration training facility in Palm Coast.
The sale of the property for $7.025 million was finalized Friday, said Rodney Cruise, vice president for administration at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. Embry-Riddle owned the resort-like complex and had leased it to the FAA since 1987.
"We're excited about Watchtower's plans," Cruise said Wednesday. "They're going to put in place what will continue to be an economic engine for the city of Palm Coast."
Messages left with Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York Inc., a corporation used by Jehovah's Witnesses, were not returned Wednesday.
Cruise said Embry-Riddle had received other offers for the property, but wanted a buyer who could guarantee to contribute to the local economy and "protect the natural beauty of Palm Coast Parkway."
"I can't express how important it was to Embry-Riddle to find a buyer that we felt would provide the same type of stewardship to that property that Embry-Riddle did," Cruise said.
The facility, which has been vacant since January 2013, includes several buildings that house some 200 dormitory rooms, eight classrooms and an indoor swimming pool.
Embry-Riddle sold it, Cruise said, because it had no use for the property after the FAA contract ended. Officials took several months to determine whether they could use the building for their own benefit but decided the university was better off selling the property, he said.
"I could never express what a pleasure it was to do business with them," Cruise said of the Watchtower people he worked with during the sale.
"They felt the facility was perfect for their needs," he said. "It's going to be a training facility, very much like the FAA used."
Cruise said communication between the two sides began after a member of the organization who lives in Palm Coast spotted the real estate listing and brought it to the attention of Watchtower.
The 2014 appraised value of the property is $8,831,305, according to the Flagler County Property Appraiser's Office.
The property was under tax-exempt status while the FAA used it and there is a good chance the same will go for the Watchtower group because it is a religious organization. Flagler County Property Appraiser James E. Gardner Jr. said he would wait and see what the application looks like.
"It all depends on what they plan to do with (the building), but it's possible it will be off the tax roll," Gardner said.
Palm Coast Senior Planner Beau Falgout said he first learned there was an interested buyer in May when he started looking for temporary locations for the city's administrative offices. He asked specifically about the FAA building and was told there was an "interested party" that was ready to close on it quickly.
"We have someone who is investing multiple millions in Palm Coast and that's a good thing," Falgout said of the Watchtower deal.
In February 2013, Embry-Riddle officials thought they had a potential buyer when a representatives from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs visited the property.
Both university and Flagler County officials said the VA was interested in relocating its law enforcement training facility there, but no deal was ever reached.
Agency officials later said they were interested only in the computer hardware that was left behind by the FAA and not the property itself.


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VIDEO: Allen Iverson's jersey jersey retirement ceremony
PHILADELPHIA — The motto for the Philadelphia 76ers this season has been "Together We Build," a not-so-subtle nod to the aggressive rebuilding campaign the Sixers embarked upon starting on Draft night. Unable to live in the present, at least for this season, the Philadelphia 76ers have largely lived with their eyes on the future. But at least for one night, they pivoted toward the past and spent an evening celebrating the legacy of Allen Iverson.
Before a sold-out crowd of 20,856, with new NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on hand along with Sixers legends from Dr. J to Moses Malone to former team president Pat Croce, the 76ers retired Allen Iverson's No. 3 jersey in an emotional halftime ceremony. ("I'm proud of myself for not losing it, the way I felt like I was," Iverson said later.)
When the buzzer sounded signaling the end of the first half, no fans headed toward the exits. After a video tribute, Iverson strolled onto the court to thunderous cheers as well as chants of "MVP! MVP!" Dressed all in black, his braids peeking out the back of a black hat, AI made his way down a row of friends and family, stopping to give each person a hug.
After a taped video message from former coach Larry Brown and a presentation of a personalized boat from the current Sixers ownership, Iverson stepped to the microphone. While swaying back and forth, Iverson ran down a list of people he wanted to thank, from various members of his family, to former teammates, to even Michael Jordan, "for inspiring me and giving me a vision. I was one of those kids who wanted to be like Mike."
He ended by thanking the Philly fans that had given him such love throughout his career. "Y'all gonna have to show me the fool who says dreams don't come true. Because they do."
"I love y'all," Iverson said. "And now it's time to party."
Iverson, who ended his career playing 25 games for the Sixers at the end of the 2009-10 season, officially retired in October, and received a standing ovation from fans between quarters back then at the Sixers' home opener. But Saturday night was the first chance Sixers fans have had to fully revel in the AI experience. Throughout the night, an endless Iverson highlight reel rolled on the scoreboard, as well as tributes from the NBA's current stars, from Chris Paul to LeBron James. In true Philly fashion, James drew the most vociferous boos of the night. But the brotherly love for Iverson felt endless. The hashtag in use throughout the night, "#AI3Forever," seemed as much a wish as a statement.
A few moments later, Iverson held a press conference in the Sixers' press room. As he took one large step from the floor up onto the elevated stage, the 38-year-old Iverson muttered, "I'm too old for this." Sitting alongside three of his children, Iverson seemed circumspect. He termed his feelings from the evening as "bittersweet," noting the finality of the ceremony: "Some part of my heart hurts because I realize that it's over."
While Iverson said he loves spending time with his kids and watching NBA basketball, he admitted that he couldn't watch Sixers games with the way they're struggling now. "It's hard to watch because I want to help," he said. "But it will turn around. it will happen."
Iverson said he would pass on becoming a commentator only because he does not want to be "that guy on camera criticizing other guys." Would he go into coaching? "Maybe rec league, high school."
Although Iverson never won a championship, his impact on the league was undeniable. No player of his generation left as large of a mark on the culture of basketball. Braids, tattoos, arm sleeves, the comically large shorts — the recent proliferation of all of those things can be traced directly to AI. While Iverson was frequently decried for being "just" a volume shooter/scorer, it speaks to the singularity of his talent that no player of similar stature has been able to replicate his production since.
More than anything, Iverson always felt genuine — to his fans, certainly, but more importantly, he seemed to be true to himself. That authenticity endeared him to fans around the world with a ferocity seldom seen. People weren't just casual fans of AI, they LOVED Allen Iverson. Maybe it was his size, the way he was a literal giant-slayer on the floor. Perhaps it was his heart, the way no obstacle could slow him down. Or maybe it was his fearlessness, like when a rookie Iverson put Michael Jordan on skates with a crossover dribble. That was a moment of coronation, not so much a passing of the torch but an instance of the torch being yanked away from one generation by the group on deck. Whatever it was, it all came together into a package that was larger than life.
These days the only AI in Philadelphia is After Iverson. The Sixers' 122-103 loss to the Wizards on Saturday hardly registered. Until the Sixers are able to build a foundation that allows them to contend, they will still be building, together. And on this evening, it was special to have Allen Iverson be part of that process. During his portion of the presentation, earlier in the evening, Commissioner Silver had said that Iverson "defined the city of Philadelphia, more than any other athlete."
Iverson made clear that he understood this. And that the feeling was mutual. "I was their own," he said of Philadelphia and the Philly fans. "I am Philly. It's going to always be like that."
VIDEO: Lang Whitaker discusses Allen Iverson's impact


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Long before there was Saturday Night Live, there was the Brave New Workshop.
Former circus clown and founder Dudley Riggs started the theater in New York City in the mid-1950s, and toured with it until he found a home in a coffee shop in Minneapolis.
"We were running this little espresso shop over on University Ave. and we were evicted. We went around the corner and opened another place and eventually were evicted from that," recalls Riggs. "The espresso was really only kind of a front for having a subversive theater."
The Brave New Workshop eventually settled down in its current home on Hennepin Ave., where it became a forum for social satire.
It produced the show "The Future Lies Ahead" in the wake of President Nixon's re-election, just months before the Watergate scandal broke. It challenged the Vietnam War, and got a brick thrown through the front window.
Its bread and butter was, and continues to be, comedy built around the things we don't like to talk about at a dinner party -- sex, religion, politics, race and class.
Over the years, the workshop has spawned a few big names in comic talent -- Al Franken, Louie Anderson, and "Naked Gun" writer Pat Proft, among others.
In 1997, Dudley Riggs retired and sold the theater to husband-and-wife team Jenni Lilledahl and John Sweeney. Lilledahl says while the Brave New Workshop may seem small compared to other Twin Cities theaters, its reputation is quite large.
"In the comedy industry we're sort of seen as the Guthrie of comedy in a way," says Lilledahl, "so I think the perspective depends on who you ask."
Like the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Brave New Workshop lives in what's popularly called "flyover land."
Kelly Leonard, vice president of Second City comedy theater in Chicago, says a comedy theater is often only considered as good as the comedians who have left it, which ignores the ongoing value of satirical theater in a healthy democracy.
"Dudley left behind a really rich legacy of political satire, and of saying sometimes things that people don't want to hear," says Leonard. "And that couldn't be more important. If you don't have that, you don't have anything."
The Brave New Workshop does its best to have a show on the stage every weekend of the year, and has managed to stay afloat for half a century without applying for grants or other major funding.
Under Jenni Lilledahl and her husband's direction, the improv theater runs side businesses, offering classes and corporate seminars as another means of balancing the budget.
That's become harder to do over the years. While Lilledahl credits TV shows like Who's Line Is It Anyway? with creating a bigger audience for improvisational theater, at the same time cable programming like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are now offering witty social satire that doesn't require hiring a babysitter or paying for parking.
Lilledahl says the competition just pushes the Brave New Workshop to work harder and be funnier.
"I would put our actors up against anyone on the planet as not only just quality performers, but quality people. I think it goes back to what Dudley started with his circus background of 'The show must go on,'" says Lilledahl. "And I think that kind of spirit, in the sense of, 'Hey, no matter what happens we're still going to put on a show,' and the fact that we're still doing that 50 years later, that's the thing that I'm most proud of."
The Brave New Workshop's 50th anniversary show, subtitled Old Enough to Know Better, runs through May 17.


text: Brand MarketingWhere Brands Go to be Born AgainCiti, AmEx, AT&T and others are tapping into the entrepreneurial talent in Palo Alto, Calif.By Joan Voight|February 4, 2013ShareBy Joan Voight|February 4, 2013Share Orange, apparently, is the real color of money. In the Silicon Valley town of Palo Alto, Calif., within blocks of where Facebook and Google grew up, Citi's chief innovation officer Deborah Hopkins sits in a work space that looks nothing like the typical bank office—a single, impossible-to-miss, bright orange wall, absolutely no one wearing a suit—and describes her goals for the brand. Hopkins—who loves to talk shop—says her plan essentially is to invest millions of dollars in young startups offering digital capabilities to win over the bank's target consumers and revitalize the Citi brand for a new age. "We want to find client-focused innovations that will transform our company culture and identity," she explains. "The innovations will make financial services simpler for customers; they will show people that we are a friend that wants to help them. I'd like our brand to prompt people to tell their friends, 'Oh my god—Citi gets me.'" To make that brand rebirth a reality, Hopkins set up shop in Palo Alto in 2010, enlisting an eclectic team of 15 nonbankers. When we visited the Citi offices in early January, news broke just two days earlier that 10 big banks, including Citigroup, would have to reimburse customers $8.5 billion for using defective or fraudulent documents to pursue faulty mortgages, reminding a weary public that the mortgage mess was far from over. On that particular week, Hopkins' vision of remaking the Citi brand would appear to be a long way off. Silicon Valley is the busy hub of digital innovation, invention and talent, and Palo Alto, a city of 66,000 attached at the hip to Stanford University, is its heart. On the thriving, mile-long University Avenue, one comes across packs of young people from around the world walking, talking and texting their way from one ethnic eatery and coffeehouse to the next. Much of the chatter revolves around who is creating, joining or leaving a given startup, and how much money they just raised. Among the older, gray-specked investor types enjoying pricey wine in sidewalk bistros, conversation centers around how the batch of current startups doesn't have a clue about basic business principles. Citi is one of the first of several large U.S. brands to tap into the entrepreneurial talent, culture and complex personal network that thrives here. In Palo Alto, one can also find the investment and research offices of Ford, AT&T and American Express. Walmart Labs is a just few miles away, in San Bruno. "Across industries, we are seeing disruption that goes beyond just technology—it is a disruption in our business models," says Hopkins. "We don't want to wait until it hits us. Citi is here to see the waves when they are ripples, so we can synthesize the changes." Deloitte Consulting confirms what Citi is facing. In this "postdigital" era, brands must confront "a new normal and a new basis of competition, with digitalization at its core," says Mark White, Deloitte principal and CTO. Forward-thinking organizations have to figure out how to bake in the digital forces of mobile, analytics, social and the cloud, he adds. Citi's highest-profile investment is Square, a mobile payments company started by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. In September 2012, Square closed its round of Series D funding, totaling $200 million. Investors included Citi Ventures and Starbucks Coffee Co. Another Citi-backed startup is ReadyForZero, a site that links consumers' financial accounts and uses analytics to advise them how to pare down their debt. About three months ago, Citi began sending some customers to the site, and the bank will expand referrals this year. Citi has also invested in Linkable Networks, a Groupon-like service that links discounted offers directly to a customer's Citi card. It is slated to go live this year. In most cases, Citi Ventures makes a small minority investment in a startup (generally less than $10 million, per sources). But unlike VCs who seek a large return on their investments when a startup is acquired or goes public, the main goal of Citi and other companies is to commercialize or adapt the offering of the startup into products and services within their umbrella brands. "Our role is to be a partner, not owner. We aren't looking for a financial return," confirms Arvind Purushotham, managing director at Citi Ventures. Yet surprisingly, giving away money is not always so easy. Hopkins says Citigroup execs in New York "think anybody out here will take our meetings. But actually, not. We have to show entrepreneurs that a big company can be a good partner. We must demonstrate our value to them." In 2012, Citi Ventures met with about 800 entrepreneurs and VCs. Are all those meetings worth it? Yes, say brand experts. "The financial services brand that can commercialize consumer-facing tech investments the fastest will win," says Andy Pierce, U.S. president of the brand consultancy Prophet. "Plus, if your brand is weighted with ill will due to the mortgage meltdown, as Citigroup is, a good way to turn that around is to surprise me with services that show you are working on my behalf." But besides simply handing out money, Citi Ventures' work in Palo Alto is about getting into the flow of the community, says Purushotham. For instance, Citi, according to an insider, is building a relationship with AT&T's Foundry, conveniently located across the hall. The Foundry invites indie developers to use its space to work on projects tied to telecommunications and regularly hosts networking events. Like Citi, it is on the lookout for entrepreneurs in which to invest. Just a few blocks away, American Express is also trying to invest its way into a brand transformation. In late 2011, AmEx opened the Palo Alto office of its Enterprise Growth Group in, as it happens, Facebook's former offices where the open floor plan is outfitted with the requisite glass, metal and, yes, bright orange dividers. Managing director Harshul Sanghi calls Palo Alto "the Disneyland of innovation. We have to be engaged in this local ecosystem. We can't helicopter it in." The AmEx team works with a fund of $100 million and generally makes investments of $9 million or less in a startup as part of a funding round of about $15 million, says Sanghi. Ness Computing is one of the startups that counts AmEx among its investors. Ness offers a dining guide app that uses data from one's social networks combined with a search engine to make personalized restaurant recommendations. The relationship is young, and AmEx won't elaborate on its plans with Ness. As an example of what to expect from its investments, Sanghi points to the four-month-old AmEx and Walmart-branded Bluebird card, which grew out of AmEx's 2010 acquisition of startup Revolution Money. Bluebird, designed to broaden AmEx's customer base, is a low-fee, prepaid debit card that can be reloaded either in stores or via a smartphone. Digital services spawned here are intended to make AmEx more inclusive, says an insider. The brand that built its identity on a "members only" concept now wants to become relevant to anyone, including those who don't even want a credit card. "We don't want the brand to represent a walled garden," says the insider. "We think everyone deserves our level of customer service." However, as brand strategist Pierce points out, AmEx makes most of its profit from its affluent customer base. "For it to become the brand for everyman would be a challenge," he says. A better bet would be if its digital investments "built on the brand's customer service and ability to hyperpersonalize its offerings. In those areas, it is already a step ahead." Sanghi, a VC veteran in Silicon Valley, and his team of 15 met with more than 400 startups in 2012. Every month, they also play matchmaker, hosting a dozen or so from AmEx's offices in New York and introducing them to about 50 area startups. When Sanghi opened the office 18 months ago, he says, Silicon Valley viewed AmEx as a bank card and travel company, but now the brand is viewed more as "a leader in the digital space." For the handful of startups he's identified as serious prospects, "we offer ways for them to leverage their technology for our company, and we help them become successful," Sanghi says, sounding more like a salesman than a patron. Strolling around the offices, Sanghi shows off the communal meeting space, a ridiculously high-tech coffeemaker (expensive coffeemakers are a Palo Alto status symbol) and a rather plain-looking counter, the only remnant from the Facebook days. "We like to rub it for good luck," Sanghi says. Sharehttp://adweek.it/2k7rrHX copy Adweek Adweek


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I can understand how a couple who are complete poison to each other, with one spouse keeping a hatchet beneath their pillow in case they wake up in the middle of the night to see their significant other gripping a butcher knife, can still love each other in their own psychotic way.
But I actually know diddly squat about love. I know about family love and I know about love for close friends but I DO NOT UNDERSTAND the relationship between husband and wife. It's a little too much like algebra: it makes no sense to me, I don't really want to learn, and the idea of it makes me want to cry angry tears. So, not surprisingly, I don't read a whole lot of books where marriage figures prominently unless it's about a totally screwed up marriage where all sorts of bad stuff lurks around the corner.
Gillian Flynn's latest novel Gone Girl gives the reader a look into what seems to be an uncomplicated marriage between Nick and Amy Dunne. It's not an easy marriage by far, but it is a marriage where they both put in an effort in order to stay together. Amy comes from a wealthy family. Her parents are authors of a popular series of books called Amazing Amy that follow the character of Amazing Amy from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone loves Amazing Amy except for Amy herself. She's always felt that her parents wrote the books to showcase how her life should have been, while pointing out the many ways she's disappointed them.
Nick and Amy live in New York until Nick's mother becomes ill and they move to Missouri to care for her. They've both lost their jobs, making the move easier. Amy uses a chunk of her trust fund to help Nick open a bar in town while she stays at home keeping a (seemingly boring) diary of everyday life. But slowly the diary entries become darker and unflattering parts of her marriage start to surface.
Each chapter shows a different character's point of view. For awhile when I read Amy's journal entries I wanted to push her down a flight of stairs. I absolutely hated her. And then further in I started to hate Nick. And that's when I knew Gillian Flynn was a genius. It takes A LOT of skill to write characters the reader loves one minute and the next minute wants to suffocate with a pillow.
Amy disappears on their fifth wedding anniversary. This is where it gets crazy. The living room is in shambles, an obvious struggle having taken place. Nick is horrified to think of what has happened to Amy and is desperate to find her. The hours begin to pass; the police are doing what they can. Who's the first person that gets the hairy eyeball when a wife goes missing? The husband.
The police clear him (kind of…they keep tabs on him) and start looking at other suspects. One is a girl Amy went to high school with who latched onto Amy, dyeing her hair the same color as Amy and dressing like her. The other suspect is a high school boyfriend who was beyond clingy. He went to her dorm room one day, undressed and tried to take an overdose of pills.
It seems like one of these two psychos may have had a hand in her disappearance, huh? I'm not telling you anything. Read the book.
This novel went in so many different directions and had so many unusual twists and turns. It ended so abruptly that I almost had to take a sedative to calm down. I even went back and reread a few pages just to reassure myself that yes, that was the ending.
Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl is a novel that will keep you up long into the night. It will also have you looking at your sleeping spouse and wondering where the butcher knife is hiding.


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In 1929, the school was upgraded to a college and was named as "City College". It became a constituent college of Osmania University. Consequent to the abolition of the Intermediate course (F.A) in Osmania University in the year 1956, the Pre-University Course (P.U.C) was introduced. The B.Sc courses were introduced in 1962 and the institution was named as "City Science College". City College was taken over by the Government from Osmania University in 1965 and was renamed as "Government City Science College".
In 1967, B.A and B.Com courses were added and the college became "Government City College". In the year 1986, Electronics subject was introduced in B.Sc. In 1997, Industrial Microbiology, a vocational course sponsored by UGC was introduced. In 1998, it took the lead in introducing socially relevant restructured courses such as Biotechnology, Biochemistry, B.Sc (Computer Science), B.Com (Computer Applications), B.A Tourism and Travel Management, B.A Office Management. Post Graduate courses, M.Sc Biotechnology (2001) and M.Sc Mathematics (2003), are introduced.
The academic ambience of the institution is enhanced by the exemplary achievements of its outstanding Alumni. Union Cabinet Ministers like Sri Shivaraj Patil, Sri P. Siva Shanker, Chief Ministers like Sri S.B. Chavan, Sri Veerendra Patil and Marri. Chenna Reddy and several Vice-Chancellors, Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Lawyers, Defence Personnel, Olympians, Arjuna Awardees, Padmashree recipients have been students of this august institution, continuously inspiring the succeeding generations to follow in their path and achieve greater laurels.
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The free agent tailback market got deeper — and clearer — with the Broncos' release of Willis McGahee on Thursday.
When Ahmad Bradshaw signed with Indianapolis on Tuesday, it took a potential featured back off the market.
McGahee, the newest member of PFT's All-Unemployed Team, is capable of playing that role on his best, too.
In his two seasons with Denver, the 31-year-old McGahee proved he could still handle a heavy workload after the Ravens used him in a part-time role in his final three seasons in Baltimore. McGahee exceeded 1,000 yards rushing in 2011, and he was on his way to eclipse that mark in 2012 before suffering a knee injury.
As it was with Bradshaw, health is the major concern with McGahee. According to the Denver Post, McGahee indicated earlier this week that he was healthy enough to practice.
Now it will be up to teams to do their due diligence on McGahee, who's had a long, productive, remarkable career — and who has played like a starter-caliber back the last two seasons.
In one other All-Unemployed move, we added one former LSU receiver (Early Doucet, formerly of Arizona) to replace another (Devery Henderson, now with Washington).


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This year the Messianic Jewish Shavuot Ingathering experienced a welcome and unexpected blessing. As the dawn broke on the early morning hours of the day of festival the heavens opened up and poured down abundant "latter rains" over the entire country. Accompanied by roaring thunder and hair-raising lighting, Israel experienced one of the best spring storms in her modern history, adding even more waters to the rising Sea of Galilee.
Groups from Beersheva in the Negev and the northern Galilee called organizers earlier to find out if the annual Messianic Festival in the Judean Mountains had been cancelled. "No way," they were told. "If ever there was a joyful time to go up to Jerusalem it is right now." Over 2,000 believers made their way up to the yearly festival and the blessings of abundant rains over the nation added an extra portion of joy to all.
With perfectly choreographed timing, as worshippers began the ascent into the Judean steppes, the ever present Middle East sun broke through and presented one of the most brilliant and refreshing days of the year for all to enjoy.
For thousands of years Israelis have made this annual journey up to Jerusalem for Shavuot. It has always been and continues to be a unique and special time of bonding for the whole family. Mom and dad, uncles and aunts, children and cousins all proudly carry the golden sheaves of the annual wheat harvest on the long trek up the rocky hills to offer their First Fruits unto the Lord. In similar fashion, the Messianic Jews of Israel also came bearing a wide variety of gifts to honor their Lord and Messiah Yeshua.
Walking through the hills of the pine tree forests participants were greeted to the sounds of vibrant Hebrew music. Messianic worship teams from around the country set the tone throughout the day offering praise and thanksgiving to the Lord. A special treat was the children's choir made up of some 20 young vocalists together with violins, flute and cello. Proud parents together with the entire assembly were deeply moved listening to the pure and simple voices of these 5-12 year olds singing popular Hebrew songs such as, "You are so wonderful Lord Yeshua. We give you thanks and we love you so much."
Activities for children included a Bible guessing game, face painting and tables of children's books, music, videos and popcorn. Popular with all the children and adults was a large table with hundreds of brightly colored seasonal flowers open for all to make the traditional Shavuot bouquet garland. These traditional headdresses added beauty, fun and smiles to the whole celebration.
The annual gathering organized by the Messianic Jewish Alliance of Israel (www.mjai.co.il) includes an open-air fair of local Messianic ministries, arts and crafts. Throughout the day folks walked among the many stalls to learn about recent activities and offerings from the local believers. Here are a few samples:
Hachotam: a local publishing house printing Messianic materials in Hebrew for children, youth and adults.
Netivah: a national youth center with activities, camps and conferences.
Lech L'cha: equipping young Israeli believers for life and ministry including a 3-month discipleship school and a unique program for Messianic high school graduates to prepare them for their compulsory army service.
Medallion: offering a wealth of materials in Hebrew for the local congregations' Shabbat School teachers and children.
The Bible Society in Israel: offering new editions of Hebrew Bibles and study materials.
Yuval: a Messianic school for the arts.
Most of the ministries, materials and programs offered were designed to encourage and train young Messianic believers. The emphasis on youth and youth ministries is an encouraging sign within the Messianic movement in Israel.
As with all Israeli holiday celebrations there was plenty of food to go around as people spread out blankets filled with traditional cheese cakes and dairy products. But perhaps the most delightful and significant part of these gatherings is the rich fellowship. Grandparents proudly showing off their new grandchildren, parents hoisting little ones up on shoulders to see over the crowds and Messianic brothers and sisters greeting one another with hugs and smiles make this yearly event feel like a family reunion. For many this is the only opportunity they have to renew friendships and pray for one another until next year in Jerusalem.
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Taiwan needs to resolve the issue of its divided national identity to become a full-fledged democracy, and that requires civic awareness and engagement from the public, as well as a humble national leader who is strongly committed to democracy, former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) said yesterday.
Lee made the remarks in a speech at a forum hosted by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, the first of a series of lectures to celebrate a 10th anniversary of the government-affiliated organization headed by Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平).
Dubbed "Mr Democracy" by Newsweek magazine in 1996, Lee said he followed two paths to political reform when he served as vice president in the late 1980s under then-president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國).
Lee said that Chiang said on two separate occasions that "I am Taiwanese" and that "the president of the Republic of China is not required to be a member of the Chiang family," which struck Lee as important because that was a marked departure from China's 5,000-year history of imperial rule.
"Though I did not say anything at the time, I was of exactly the same mind as [Chiang] and that put me on the course of political reform" during his 12-year presidency, Lee said.
As influential political scientist Samuel Huntington wrote regarding challenges to democratic consolidation in third-wave democracies, Taiwan was involved in the "dissolution and reconstruction of national identity," he said.
On the road to building a full-fledged democracy, the problem of a divided national identity that continues to haunt Taiwan needs to be resolved thoroughly, Lee said.
Lee said the idea of "new-era Taiwanese" that he put forward in 2005, when political infighting followed Taiwan's first handover of power in 2000 and China began to use a united front strategy to divide Taiwanese, aimed to boost national identification with Taiwan.
"There was no distinction between 'new' Taiwanese or 'old' Taiwanese. Regardless of ethnicity, all 23 million people in Taiwan are 'new-era Taiwanese,'" he said.
Many people in Taiwan who had considered themselves Chinese because that was how they were educated have now come to the realization that this was "a fictitious notion inconsistent with history and reality," Lee said.
"Over 400 years of Taiwan's history, Taiwan was ruled by [China's] Qing Dynasty, Japan, the Netherlands and Spain. If China's claim that Taiwan is part of its territory made sense, why couldn't the other regimes make the same claim? British people would never say that the US is part of the UK," he said.
Taiwan is a society of immigrants, and people in such a society have the right to establish their own government and country, Lee said.
Taiwanese need to develop civic awareness and exert their free will to break out of ethnic boxes, to get rid of the "fictitious notion" that they are Chinese and break away from imperial mindsets so that they can build up identification with Taiwan to ward off anti-democracy elements and Chinese authoritarianism, he said.
Lee said the future of democratic consolidation in Taiwan would also be closely related to whether the country has a capable leader.
Taiwan needs a leader who insists on defending Taiwanese, who has strong convictions about democracy and who is impartial and not concerned with the interests of any particular individual, party or minority, Lee said.


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Thursday, 27 January 2011
Handmade HEART Swap
13 comments:
- JaN's ArTy JouRneY said...
Gorgeous hearts Sherry!!
Lovely goodies that you received from your swap partner.
...and WOW, Vicky is one lucky gal!! to get all those amazing creations!!
Jan x
- 27 January 2011 at 14:51
- Meggymay said...
I'm sure your partner will love all her goodies. The one you received is gorgeous as well. xx
- 27 January 2011 at 15:15
- MARY PERNULA said...
How darn cute is that......I just love being involved in these swaps. Have a great weekend. Hugs Mary
- 27 January 2011 at 15:24
- Ira said...
We all LOVE hearts! Great diversity here! TFS, Ira
- 27 January 2011 at 15:33
- Shelley said...
Sherry that green heart is beautiful and the bead work in the middle really sets it off. I have never seen plaster cloth used before and I'm delighted! The domino is lovely, I'm off to research plaster cloth, lol.
- 27 January 2011 at 15:58
- MARGARET FIELD said...
wow some beautiful goodies there Sherry xx
- 27 January 2011 at 18:50
- Jenxo said...
Hi Sherry love your hearts...the bag from the tissue pattern paper ias absolutely adorable, love that olivy color with it too...doesnt it have nice feel and texture ?
The altered domino is pretty spesh too :)
- 27 January 2011 at 21:27
- Jan said...
WOW...what a swap and beautiful pieces!
- 27 January 2011 at 22:20
- Terry said...
Nope, Netty got there first! Ha!Ha! The heart you received is just lovely. Vicky is going to just love, love, love the heart and little bag. Just beautiful!!!
- 27 January 2011 at 22:26
- Cindy Is Crafty said...
I love what you made and what you received. Lucky you!
- 28 January 2011 at 02:13
- purplecat said...
So glad you liked your heart and the card and magnet :) I enjoyed making it for you .
- 5 February 2011 at 17:23
- Ali said...
So many beautiful creations - just wish I had the talent to take part in all of these swaps.
Ali x
- 6 February 2011 at 07:59
- NoodleBubble said...
Thanks for taking part and for linking up
Kisses and Love
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Congratulations Sasha!!
OK. So here is just a not-so-quick explanation on why I was so excited about the 'Sasha Challenge' and queened out in front of all of America on Wednesday night! In my household Figure Skating has been on the required viewing list for the past 14 years. In fact, David just returned from spending a week (yes, you heard me, a week) in St. Louis, MO where he and his friends spent each and every waking day watching the practices, attending every event no matter how important or unimportant they were. To put it mildly, they are obsessed with the sport and I have been mocking them for the last 14 years.
Cut to the show and this challenge. Along with the other designers I show up to an Ice Skating rink and realize what is about to occur: That I am to design a Figure Skating costume for one of the sports biggest icons. This is what I call Karma. My excitement and giddyness was more about projecting what David and his friends were going to say the minute they saw this episode on air, and that I, someone who has been mocking their obsession with Figure Skating, ended up having to design a costume for the sport.
Ironically, their obsession with the sport turned out to be a plus for me. I realized that I did have some knowledge of Figure Skating since I had been an unwilling viewer for so long. I knew that Sasha Cohen was a classic skater who had a European aesthetic to her style. Following this European aesthetic I also thought of her skating to famous Ballet's such as Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake' and Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet'.
I was thrilled with how my costume turned out and thought it reflected the look of a Ballerina on the Ice. In fact, when I watched her win the Championship on Saturday I was happy to see that she chose colors and draping that were so similar to my design.
Congrats again Sasha, and thanks for the autographs for my boys!


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Did you know that elementary and middle school students in the Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) may enroll in Capistrano Home School or Capistrano Virtual School? Parents may homeschool their students utilizing CUSD textbooks and materials or parents may enroll their students in CUSD's online/virtual elementary and middle school. CUSD credentialed teachers provide support to students and parents in both programs. In addition, elementary students may participate in music at their neighborhood CUSD elementary school and middle school students have the opportunity to enroll in up to two classes at their resident CUSD middle school.
Please join us for one of our Parent/Student Information meetings for fall 2017 enrollment (please see the attached flyer for dates and times.) We look forward to meeting you!