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In Cuba it was just called el sandwich it was here in USA that we gave it a country!
The plancha has to be set to 350 F
Slice the bread in half lengthwise, spread the mayo on the bottom bread then place the roast pork then the baked sweet ham then the pickle then the cheese. this way the cheese will melt down and blend with the hams.
Next put the sandwich on la plancha and spread a little melted butter on top of the bread and press down the top part of the plancha. in about 3 minutes raise the top part of the plancha spin your sandwich to the other side and repeat the butter process again
Your bread should be toasted and the cheese melted. this should be done in about 10-to 15 minutes depending on the plancha
Any good ham dish starts with the night before. marinating gives all foods that extra punch of flavour. We accomplish this with sour oranges limes alot of minced garlic, ground cumin dried oregano. This mixture gets spread all over the fresh ham and massage into the meat .Put it the fridge covered with plastic wrap. the next day when u are ready Preheat the oven to 350f place the pork in a roasting pan cover fresh ham in salt skin up, this will keep the ham from drying out, cook for about 4 to 5 hours or until your ham reaches an internal temp of 180f. Remember to take off the salt that by now has become hard. Skin should be toasted and crispy.
Allow the meat to rest and carve when you can't wait any longer!


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I started law school January of this year in a spring start program. I just received my first semester grades and got a 1.93 GPA. I need a 2.0 in order to be in good standing so I am one letter grade away from being able to stay in school. This semester has been very difficult for me as I have had A LOT of family issues and was homeless the first week of finals. I want to write a petition to the law school admissions committee because I really want to be in law school. Has anyone else been through this process and been successful with remaining in school? Do any of you have good advice or dos/do nots for my written petition? Thanks in advance.
Do they not allow you to take the second semester?It seems like you should have a full year. If you are in California I know one girl who was dismissed, but she was reinstated after passing the California Baby Bar. I would not make excuses in your Petition, but come up with ideas to prove that you are capable i.e. you are willing to take the baby bar exam, enroll in additional tutoring etc. Excuses do not go very far in the legal profession, but creative solutions do. Prove to them you are capable, smart and dedicated. Good luck.


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Hey J,
GREAT blog! Just wanted to remind you that Scott stated they had the rights to Samurai, but due to Hasbro owning Cyclotron and Golden Pharaoh that's prolly a dead end.
I love the graphic! Awesome work!!!
Yeah, but the HB characters will still be a hard sell compared to the outright DC ones. It was just easier to group them together than try and explain the complexities of rights issues. ;).
Comic geek nit-pick.
Sadly, Mark Waid no longer writes Brave & the Bold title for DC.
Sadder still, Perez isn't doing the art anymore either.
But, yeah, I get the point you were making. JMS (the Babylon 5 guy) is taking over the book, but focusing first on integrating the recently licensed Archie Superheroes into the DCU.
That image up there is a thing of beauty. I hadn't stopped to think how fast the 4 Horsemen were gaining on the Super Powers completion project. Heck, they're already doing the unproduced figures! I never thought the Adrian Chase Vigilante would make the cut. Greg Saunders, yeah? But Chase? He's been dead for twenty years now.
And if those two Parademons are any indication, I can imagine Tyr and the rest of Darkseid's minions are on the way as well.
Wow. That's just eight more characters. I'm glad they pretty much stuck with the designs from SP. Would've wanted brown-suit Kalibak there too but that's fine. I can't wait for Plastic Man.
I will be thrilled to death when the figures in that awesome graphic are all actually product we can buy!
And I am really pulling for Mattel to get all those figures into our hot little hands!
But…I've been collecting toys too long to count announced toys and guaranteed to be released. (I still lament the Bandai Doom Patrol, Hasbro's lost Raiders of the Lost Ark Wave, etc, etc.)
Not to be a downer, I'll buy every one of those figures. I just hope we all get the chance!
This is very exciting. Like many of us thirty-somethings and forty-somethings, I am a big fan of Super Powers Collection. What a welcome change for those of us who grew up with Mego! And now DCUC is making Super Powers all but obsolete.
There's one small problem with your illustration. Number 33 is Tyr from the Super Powers line. Are you getting him confused with Despero? Pink skin? Mohawk? Or do you know something that we do not yet know about Tyr's inclusion in DCUC?
I just clicked onto the illustration and saw the larger shot. That Tyr is DCUC!!!
I must have missed that announcement! Excellent!!!!
Now I really feel stupid!!!
I didn't read the part in the blog that tells us that Tyr is custom!
I should have known better. You guys are always more detail-oriented than I am!
How about Clark Kent?
We need a new Joker!
I love DC universe. i love the line and want to support it. the only problem is i have only seen series 1. i will give up on it if i can't find it. If your wondering i'am in canada and i haven't seen anything up here. i really want these figures!!!!!!
I feel like the outsider here not collecting this line, but I still find it very exciting and love the image you created, Jason. Thanks!
My reply is that this is awesome, but I also want to address something else: Looking at the leaked walmart line: 12 bucks for the DCUC Figures? 7 Bucks for those tiny Infinite Heroes figures?
If that is the case, I'm done with the IH figures, and I'll continue to get my other figures online at http://www.cornerstorecomics.com as they seem to be cheap. With me having a family, when figures go from 7.99, to 8.99, to 9.99, to almost 12 bucks, us consumers really start to feel it. It's awesome that Mattel is bring us back to our childhoods, but I want my kid to enjoy these figures too. I'm committed to the JLA line, as those prices seem to hold stead, but I can't be spending 100's a month on action figures because Mattel/Walmart/Target think these toys that haven't changed should suddenly be 2-4 dollars more a figure. They'll be taking some people out of the picture.
But Jason, thanks for the kick butt updates, and all the throwback references. I just had to vent/rant
Also…DC/MATTEL IF YOU READ THIS: Give us a build a figure Doomsday and Darkseid. I want those figures a little more to scale, and they would be awesome. We've got Kalibak now, and he'll be huge compared to Darkseid and Doomsday…so give us those guys in the tad bigger scale!
Hey, check it out: a fellow here in Brazil posted all the brazilian Super Powers companions comics for download. It is all in portuguese, but it's very cool to see nonetheless – it even includes the very rare Cyborg comic. A few are missing, like Darkside, and it's worth notice that many figures weren't released over here ( Firestorm, Dr. Fate, Red Tornado, Martian Manhunter and others ).
Go for it: http://revolucaodosquadrinhos.blogspot.com/2008/08/coleo-super-powers.html
How about this to finish the line: A Quadrex collect-and-connect figure!!
Man, I would *love* a Quadrex C&C!!!
C'mon, Horsemen! Give the "Big Q" some love!
Need an update with Green Arrow and Mantis!
YES YES YES! Please update this photo & put a side by side comparison.
This needs updating!
SOON? that was almost 2 years ago… Anyone gonna do this?
I was curious if you ever thought of changing the layout of your site? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having 1 or two images. Maybe you could space it out better?
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text: ... Just to clarify ... they were 1800 XP's and replacing them with 1800MP's made all the problems go away ... These were the first release of the Tyan 2460's which gave us serious memory problems too ( there's a thread on that issue a few months back) as usual "Your Milage May Vary" ... when we run our test calculations we push cpu, network, and hard drive systems very hard for several days, if there is a weakness in the system design we usually find it ... By the way we just tried 16 of the new ASUS dual athlon boards. They work great when they work ... unfortunately 7 of the 16 failed for various reasons within 1 week of usage ... we sent them all back and have the Tyan 2466's coming today. ... the saga continues :-) I have had one problem with the Tyan 2466. I put in 4 512MB "Smart" reg. ecc pc2100 modules and the machine was unstable (usually wouldn't even boot) It worked great with 3 of the 512 modules and 1 256MB crucial module. But please note that these 512MB modules are not approved by Tyan. The chips were Samsung but not the ones on the Tyan approved modules so I'm optimistic that with the correct memory on the board there wont be any problems. (?) [These modules work fine with the ASUS board and they aren't approved by ASUS either] Has anyone run the Tyan 2466 with 4 512MB modules stable? If so, I'd be curious about what modules you used. Best regards to all -Don > ... > > We we're sent (by mistake) 16 Tyan 2460 motherboards with XP's instead of > MP's ... they all installed and booted OK but under load I couldn't get > any 4 board subset of them to complete any of our test suites without at > least one locking up ... after much anguish and, after replacing all 32 > cpu's with MP's everything was fine ... > > So my recommendation is DON'T DO IT! :-) > > -Don >


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JetBlue ponders ways to gently—or with a bit more force—push the boundaries of its model
As you enter JetBlue's old brick office building in between a New York police station and a run-down train station in a not-so-upscale part of Queens, it is difficult to imagine the inside could offer much more than any modern office. But here is where the experience belies the expectation. The office floors resemble an airport, with "runways" (corridors) and "galleys" (break areas). Signage and design look like they could be in use today by Pan Am if New York's former hometown airline was still around.
The facility is not called the company's headquarters, it is known as the "Long Island City Support Center" in the sense that administration is supposed to support those in the field. And there are no "employees" here; "crewmembers" populate the facility, which is a bit like JetBlue itself. In many ways the carrier looks like any other airline, but in its short history it has been extraordinarily innovative, and its influence on the airline industry is huge.
Carriers worldwide are trying to emulate parts of its business model, therefore JetBlue has helped change the way both legacy and low-fare airlines define themselves in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Look at Vueling, Aer Lingus, Virgin Australia or EasyJet. JetBlue invented the hybrid concept. And apart from trying to be "part of the fabric of New York City," as Marketing Director Marty St. George puts it, even the headquarters building resembles the hybrid approach—a mix of old and new.
However an issue could arise, even in the very early stages. JetBlue can continue to grow within the boundaries of its existing business model, gently expanding them at times. But in spite of all these small steps, it may well be that JetBlue is tempted to take one giant step and, yet again, carve out another niche. That step could be to enter the long-haul market using widebody aircraft. JetBlue is not there yet and management might decide not to do it in the end. But, "We have talked about it," St. George says.
It is important to keep these fundamentals in mind when it comes to understanding corporate culture: JetBlue, founded in 1999, is by far the youngest of the big U.S. airlines. Its first flight occurred Feb. 11, 2000 (from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood (Fla.) International). It has been among the most innovative and, unlike the first low-cost role model, Southwest, not risk-averse at all. In fact, JetBlue chose to ignore the low-cost-carrier rulebook many times. It introduced live TV onboard and offered an at least 34-in.-seat pitch for every passenger, added smaller aircraft (the Embraer 190) and entered partnerships.
Of course, JetBlue has also been in crisis mode more than once, including the traumatic departure of founder David Neeleman a few months after the infamous operational meltdown of February 2007, when fully booked aircraft were stranded on the tarmac for up to 11 hr. in the midst of a New York-region snowstorm. And there have been periods of what now must be considered excessive growth that the airline paid for dearly in the form of negative free cash flow and low investor confidence. The likely exit of its biggest investor, Lufthansa, in the coming years—coupled with Embraer 190 reliability issues—round out some of the airline's woes.
Given all the above, President/CEO Dave Barger has a surprising message. JetBlue management "isn't about thinking outside the box," he says. "We happily settle for less glamour." Since the 2007 shake-up, Neeleman leaving after a series of internal clashes and the airline struggling to regain its reputation, JetBlue has changed gears. Gone are the days of hyper growth. Instead, Barger has recalibrated the modus operandi to profitable growth and return on invested capital. Once highly leveraged, "we have had considerable success in improving our balance sheet."
This is being achieved by voluntarily forgoing the lowest-cost options. Barger argues that "people will pay a premium in this geographical region." JetBlue is not concerned that it will be able to survive without participating in the current consolidation trend. "We are only five percent of the domestic landscape, but you can still be a very successful airline," Barger says. JetBlue aims to become more relevant by paying close attention to what customers seek. In Boston it serves 65% of the markets people want to reach, and daily departures are scheduled to rise to 150 from 120 within the next three years.
Barger's goal is to thread the needle by positioning JetBlue between super discounters and large legacy carriers. He calls it being a "tweener." But he acknowledges that some on Wall Street are skeptical. "Investors don't like tweeners." To be one means putting 150 seats on an Airbus A320 that could hold 180, providing passengers with more legroom, all-leather seats, and live television feeds (broadband Wi-Fi is slated for this year). His target is a leisure customer who is willing to pay a bit more for extra comfort. "People will pay more for a Starbucks coffee," he says.
JetBlue not only has been deleveraging the balance sheet, it has lately tackled strategic risk. Business markets in the northern U.S. are potentially more lucrative than leisure routes, however they take around two years to mature. By pushing for growth in leisure flying, too, "we are really using the markets down south to fund the markets up north." In an earlier stage of JetBlue's development most of its markets were dictated by seasonality; because of rapid growth a large part of the network was still unprofitable and there were no partners. Now JetBlue is using connecting traffic from partner carriers to fill off-peak capacity.
In another tweak to the existing model, JetBlue plans to provide premium cabins in its A321s. The aircraft will be used on transcontinental services, where it competes with higher-quality cabins provided by other airlines. The new product will become available next spring to make the long-duration domestic services more attractive. The cabin could also be installed in some of the airline's A320s, Barger said recently. On the other hand, his game plan includes avoiding routes where there is fierce competition. JetBlue's cross-country flights to the Los Angeles basin do not land at Los Angeles International (LAX) but at Long Beach Airport, which is served by an art deco terminal built in 1941. It's not far from Los Angeles—and it is slot-protected, limiting competition. "We don't think anybody is profitable [at LAX] except for Southwest," Barger says.
In spite of the CEO's concerns, most investors seem to like his approach. "JetBlue clearly understands its strengths and weaknesses," Michael Derchin of CRT Capital writes in a note to clients. "It does not want to be all things to all people. It is not going after the high-end global business traveler . . . nor the ultra-price-sensitive leisure customer." He also notes that JetBlue manages to further close the yield gap between it and legacy carriers as it focuses its growth on key locations such as New York, Boston, the Caribbean, parts of Florida and Los Angeles.
Scott Laurence, vice president of network planning, is responsible for network, partnership and fleet planning. Yet his office is so small there is barely enough room for a guest chair. And the walls are so thin that when Laurence is on the phone chances are his neighbors will listen in, whether they want to or not. But he is not perturbed. "We are very interactive, we all get along very well, we tend to punch above our weight and we act as owners." The executive worked for legacy airlines before he sought out JetBlue. In the job interview, Barger asked him why he wanted to join. His answer: "I want to make a difference." In the much larger organizations, that was difficult. But at JetBlue, Laurence quickly sensed that "this is what I was born to do." There are many like Laurence in the "Support Center."
When Barger boarded a flight in New York on a bitter winter morning, he snapped a photo out the window of a groundcrew braving the weather, which he sent out on his Twitter feed. Barger believes valuing and motivating employees is important for JetBlue. "Customer service is off the charts," he asserts. That the employees are not unionized is a measure of his success in building that culture. "I'm not bagging on unions," he said later that morning in an address to the Harvard Business School's Aerospace & Aviation Club in Boston. "But we just think you do not have to pay somebody to talk." As JetBlue continues to grow, one of the biggest challenges will be "scaling the culture of the company." But the truth is also that very few airlines have as strong a corporate culture, with the exception of Southwest.
Having a powerful culture can leave an airline in a somewhat isolated position, but the next step in JetBlue's development involves opening up to others. The airline has long worked with different carriers, but mainly in the sense of putting the other airline's code on its own flights. Allowing JetBlue's code on someone else's flight means relinquishing some control. That is likely to happen next. "We are working with carriers with whom the brands align," says Laurence. Emirates or Aer Lingus are among them, but the most likely carrier for two-way code-sharing partnership is South African Airways (SAA). The carrier is, in many ways, the exact opposite of JetBlue: it is government-owned and controlled, and incurs huge losses, but because the airline traditionally has a big share of very long routes owing to geography, it pays special attention to comfortable cabins.
In addition to SAA, JetBlue currently has one-way code-shares with Aer Lingus, Emirates, Japan Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Lufthansa. The Aer Lingus deal was expanded in April to include another 33 destinations.
Another possibility is a broader partnership with American Airlines. However, the planned US Airways/American merger seems to have put that plan on the back burner for the time being. Laurence notes nonetheless that "the fundamental reason why we would partner with American has not changed."
American could indirectly provide JetBlue with some nice growth opportunities, too, if it (or US Airways) was forced to give up slots at Reagan Washington National Airport. "We absolutely hope for slots at National," says St. George.
JetBlue's management has been discussing joining one of the three alliances, weighing the pros and cons in trying to figure out whether the benefits would be worth the investment. Two-way code-sharing may be a step in between or it could be as far as the airline is prepared to go for a long time. "Everything is on the table, and that includes alliances longer term," says Laurence. JetBlue has been working with members of all three—Star, Skyteam and Oneworld. In fact, Lufthansa's 2007 investment in JetBlue was based on the assumption that it would need feed in New York. That need has diminished significantly as a result of the United-Continental merger that gave the Star alliance a hub at Newark (N.J.) Liberty International Airport.
Independent of future partnerships, the airline is investing billions of dollars in its fleet. The company ordered 40 A320NEOs. It still has 14 more A320s coming from an earlier order and is moving into operating larger aircraft through its commitment for 30 A321s, the first of which is due to arrive in October. JetBlue's large A320NEO order brings two major benefits. "The NEO will totally eliminate any transcontinental restrictions," says Laurence. Today, JetBlue still needs fuel stops on around 2% of its transcontinental flights because of the current A320's range limitations. The range benefits of the NEO will be important on some of JetBlue's longest existing and new routes such as Fort Lauderdale-Lima and Boston-San Francisco. The NEO is also opening up opportunities for JetBlue to go "a bit deeper into Latin America."
In ordering the A321, the carrier is also taking the next step toward operating larger aircraft. But the largest Airbus narrowbody is only about a 20% capacity step up from the 156-seat A320s. And it does not allow true long-haul flying. "At some point, we could operate widebody aircraft," says Laurence. "There is no short-term plan, but we always evaluate it." He even says "widebodies could make sense in the current network."
Becoming a long-haul operator would be the next natural step once its short- and medium-haul networks are mature. JetBlue is already flying to previously unforeseen destinations. "Nobody would have predicted that we would be in Colombia or in Anchorage," says St. George. "The network is dramatically different [from] the original plans in 1999." So chances are it will continue to broaden its blueprint. The airline has already identified Latin America as one of its main growth targets, but narrowbody technology limits that. Widebodies don't, and the new generation of aircraft, particularly the 787s as the smallest long-haul aircraft, would seem like a good fit. JetBlue is not discussing aircraft choices at this stage, but one thing is clear: "If we go long-haul, it would probably be Latin America first," says St. George.
Because of range issues and JetBlue's approach to opening up markets, fleet choice has always been a very strategic item. The airline was the first in its segment to trade down in terms of aircraft size and introduce a 100-seater—the Embraer 190. Its experience has been mixed: Commercially, the fleet has been valuable in many aspects, but the technical side is still difficult. Barger has a clear opinion by now: "We should never have been the worldwide launch customer of a new airplane. We weren't big enough." He is still disappointed because of the higher-than-expected maintenance cost of the aircraft. He also expressed unhappiness with the Brazilian aircraft's General Electric CF34 engine. "We're not pleased with what we're seeing on the Embraer [with] the GE motor."
JetBlue operates 54 100-seat Embraer 190s. Barger, who stretched out deliveries of the Brazilian jets after becoming CEO in 2007, stopped short of saying he regretted ordering the aircraft. He notes that they are optimally sized for JetBlue's expansion in Boston and other key growth markets. He says the airline has been able to drive down maintenance costs, but not enough. "We're seeing our later 40 [190s] performing better than our first 20."
JetBlue ordered 100 Embraer 190s in 2003 and took its first delivery in 2005. The airline struggled with early maintenance challenges and delivery delays, hiccups that have been acknowledged by the manufacturer. "Back in 2006-07 we were still struggling on the [E-Jet] production ramp-up, dispatch reliability of the aircraft and we were late on deliveries," Embraer CEO Fred Curado told Aviation Week in 2010. "JetBlue was the most visible, but other customers also had problems."
On the other hand, the E-190s have been efficient tools to develop the network and build up thinner markets. "Boston would not have been possible with a 150-seater," says Laurence. JetBlue tends to dispatch them on high-frequency business markets, but it also is using them on intra-regional flying in the Caribbean. "The sweet spot tends to be 300-600 nautical miles."
The Embraer issues are an example of how the airline is willing to take risks when it sees a merit. This approach does not always pay off as expected, and a lot of work is required to fix it. Some of that work is likely to take place in one of the conference rooms in Long Island City. "Gates" they are called—it is JetBlue after all.
—With Joseph C. Anselmo in Boston
Tap the icon in the digital edition of AW&ST for more on JetBlue's fleet, operating statistics, financial results and crew productivity, or go to AviationWeek.com/jetblue


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Intel's Yonah—currently going by the names Core Duo and Core Solo—is the last gasp of the classic Pentium M architecture. It's destined to be replaced next year by a successor, the Merom architecture, which is the microarchitecture that Intel will eventually unify its entire x86 product line on. Some recent news out of Intel sheds more light on the exact timing of the Conroe transition, as well as giving some hints of what may be in the pipeline from some of Intel's OEMs, Apple included.
Details of Intel's 2006 roadmap are starting to trickle out to the press. The roadmap shows a slow rollout of Conroe over the course of the last half of 2006, starting with the processor's planned introduction in Q3 (it may slip into early Q4). Intel expects Conroe's mainstream desktop market share to be at 10 percent by the end of Q3, and somewhere just under 20 percent by the end of the year.
According to some reports, Conroe will debut at a range of clock speeds, topping out at 2.66GHz. The naming convention for Conroe parts will be on the pattern "Core E6x00," where the "E" signifies the processor's voltage range (over 50 watts, in this case), and the digit following the six is a general performance indicator. So the US$209 Core E6300 is a 1.86GHz part with a 2MB L2 that's aimed at the middle of the mainstream market segment, while the US$530 Core E6700 is a 2.66 GHz part with a 4MB L2 intended for the performance segment.
At the highest end of the desktop market will be the Conroe XE (Extreme Edition), about which almost nothing is known at this time other than that it is eXtreme.
If you're holding out for Conroe, you'll also want to hold off on a motherboard purchase. The current batch of 975-based motherboards will not work with Conroe, even though the 975 chipset itself is Conroe-compatible. Conroe will require an updated voltage regulation module (VRM), the specs of which haven't yet been released. Future motherboards with an updated, Conroe-ready VRM will be backwards compatible with existing processors.
The mobile market will see the introduction of Merom at some point in Q4. A report from the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona indicates that Intel will push OEMs to squeeze Merom into super-small subnotebooks, like the Toshiba Libretto. Rumors and wishful thinking have Apple developing just such an ultraportable, possibly for a hypothetical April 1 launch event celebrating the company's 30th birthday.


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CAL SOUTH SRA GEORGE NOUJAIM ANNOUNCES NEW STATE REFEREE COMMITTEE SELECTIONS September 2009
FULLERTON, CA (Wednesday, September 2, 2009) – Cal South State Referee Administrator George Noujaim announced today his selections for the new Cal South State Referee Committee, who will combine to administer and nurture the various levels of the Cal South Referee Program, as well as serving the entire Southern California referee membership.
CAL SOUTH SELECTS GEORGE NOUJAIM AS THE NEW STATE REFEREE ADMINISTRATOR (SRA) August 2009
Fullerton, CA (August 21, 2009) – Cal South officially announced today the naming of George Noujaim as their new State Referee Administrator (SRA). Cal South was named an official "joint" Youth and Adult State Association back in March by the USSF, and along with this comes the responsibility of having all State Referee Committee activities falling under the Cal South umbrella...
USA BID COMMITTEE RECEIVES $100,000 DONATION FROM CAL SOUTH TO SUPPORT U.S. BID FOR FIFA WORLD CUP™ IN 2018 OR 2022 August 2009
NEW YORK (August 18, 2009) – The USA Bid Committee today announced a donation commitment of $100,000 from Cal South toward the effort to bring the FIFA World Cup™ to the United States in 2018 or 2022.
CAL SOUTH DONATES $120,000 MORE TO ITS CHAMPIONSHIP-BOUND TEAMS July 2009
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Welcome to TV's Deli & Diner
TV's Deli & Diner was established in September of 1995 by Tracey Wipp and Victor Stroia. The two met working for famous restaurateur Jimmy Schmidt, where Tracey was the General Manager and Victor was the Catering Coordinator. Tracey is a graduate of Michigan State University and Victor attended Northwood University where he majored in Hotel Restaurant Management. Victor also is certified in Catering by the State of Michigan. Combined, Tracey and Victor have over 30 years of restaurant and catering experience. They are active in the community and support many charity benefits in the downriver area.
With their entrepreneurial spirit and love for good food and service, it was only a matter of time before Tracey and Victor would set out on their own. Their search for good food from scratch near home lead them to open TV's Deli & Diner in Trenton. The stylish diner serves up freshly prepared food and has an extensive menu created by Chef Victor. Victor has also won several soup contests for his unique homemade soups -- including his first place award for Reuben Soup, a soup deliciously reminiscent of the Reuben Sandwich.
The diner's recognition has also created a great demand in its catering business. TV's catering expertise ranges from Victor's renowned pig roasts and on-site grilling to elegant dinners, casual cocktail parties, weddings, graduations, corporate affairs etc. TV's now caters for several businesses and families on a regular basis. The friendly and highly qualified servers, bartenders and chefs assure the guests every needs are met.
TV's Deli & Diner prides itself on quality food, experienced service and guest satisfaction. Eighty percent of TV's current business is from repeat restaurant and catering clientele.
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By Rev. Andrena Ingram
January 22, 2012
Hi Everybody! I am excited to become one of "thebody.com" bloggers on this site. I come here often and have been checking out a lot of your blogs, and you folks are pretty amazing!
I have been around the "proverbial block of cyber-land" for many years now. I remember when "Prodigy" was the one of the first online services; the other was CompuServe. I have belonged to many online groups AND a majority of online personals sites, and one of the first things they always ask is for you to provide a short intro about who you are. It has always been a headache.
I am not one of those who is easily definable. I am a complex creature ... and to tell the truth, I don't understand who I am most of the time. I am 56 years old and still finding out more and more about myself. This is not to say that I am "confused", but rather, I am always evolving. Not who I used to be, but made up nevertheless of all the complex parts of my life and living more abundantly and positively as each day goes by.
What am I? Who Am I? "Sometimes I have felt like "some kinda barnacle on the dinghy of life".
But, I come from "strong stock". Have lived through sexual abuse by my dad, have lived through the tail end of the Civil Rights Movement -- always bused outside of my own community, to be integrated into sometimes not too friendly school environments. I have lived through being an observer of domestic violence in my own home to becoming a recipient of said violence in my first marriage. Lived through seven years of active duty in the U.S. Army, first as an Administrative Specialist and ending as a Drill Instructor. I lived through my years of active duty in a drunken stupor. Made it out of the Army by the skin of my teeth with an Honorable Discharge. I have always lived through my experiences as being relatively "functional" on the outside. I have lived through snorting heroin, cocaine and living life inside the bottles of Wild Irish Rose, Mad Dog 20/20 and Colt 45. I have lived through a few years of smoking crack and living in abandoned buildings. I guess you can fairly surmise that smoking crack and living in abandoned buildings does not qualify as "relatively functional", even though there is a certain "functionality" to being able to live through that.
Somewhere, in between the crack-pipe, the three-day missions and living in abandoned buildings, I caught a case of "The Virus", although I would not be diagnosed until many, many years later. I am today 23 years clean from drugs and alcohol ... it has been that long (if not longer) that I have been living with HIV.
Twenty-three years ago, I came off the streets into Phoenix House for 18-month residential treatment, to get clean, to deal with the ugliness that had become my life, and to begin finding out who I am. I lived through that too. Thanks be to God! Phoenix House saved my life, and I met my second husband there. We were both clean five years and married less than a year, before he was diagnosed with HIV (diagnosed in March 1993 and died in September 1993). During his passing, it was recommended that I get tested. My CD4 result came back as 350, and life for me "went viral".
Did I say, I come from "strong stock"? How else can you explain the trajectory my life has taken since then?
What am I? (wondering about me'self -- "to be or not to be" -- Who's askin'?!)
I am a mother of three (all fine). I am a widow. I am in recovery 23 years and living with the virus for just as long. I am a survivor of sexual and domestic violence. I am an Aquarian by nature (love to laugh and love all humanity). I am an activist against HIV stigma, by putting a face to the disease. I am a LOYAL friend -- loyal to a fault and get hurt in the process most of the time. I am an extrovert, but do need time away to recharge my own batteries.
I am a child of God, and for the past five years, am the pastor of a congregation on Germantown Avenue, in Philadelphia. It has been a long journey, a very public journey ... especially when it comes to my HIV status. No secrets ... I live my life as a religious leader LIVING unashamedly with the HIV virus. Took me a minute to realize that God loved me, even in my darkest hours, even when I had the pipe in my mouth and sucking the last corner out of the bottle. Took me a minute to understand that I have been primed and pumped for the life I have now -- to be a vessel for others who have no hope, to pour myself out as Christ poured himself out for me.
So, the above is who I am -- give or take a few character flaws I haven't mentioned.
What will my blog center around? Of course my passion is combating stigma and shame and guilt. Other than that, I guess it will just depend upon how I am feeling at any given time.
I'm looking forward to widening my circles of support, but mostly I am looking forward to sharing my life with someone who may need an experienced ear and an open heart. With all that I have been, and all that I am, I am not fake. I speak my mind. I don't pretend to be "holier than thou". With me, what you see is what you get. Heck, I may even let fly a few cuss words every now and then! (careful, there, don't ruffle me feathers!)
Hope I introduced myself properly! As a child, I used to love the cartoon "Popeye" ... and really loved the movie Popeye, with Robin Williams, and his song kinda sums up the question "Who Am I"? or "What am I"?
And I gots a lot of muskle and I only gots one eye
"And I yam what I yam what I yam and I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam 'cause I yam what I yam!"
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Reverend Andrena Ingram (also known as "Pastor Andrena" or "Pastor Ingram") has become a strong advocate for those living in the margins, as she once was. She is an activist in the HIV/AIDS arena, herself living openly and unabashedly with the HIV virus for over 22+ years.
Raised in South Jamaica, New York, Reverend Ingram served seven years of active duty in the U.S. Army. She would later move to the South Bronx, where she attended Transfiguration Lutheran Church with Pastor Heidi Neumark as her pastor and mentor -- empowering her to rise up out of herself and her life challenges, which seemed to her, at the time, insurmountable.
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Encouraged by your comments on the post 'Communication, KM, monitoring, learning – The happy families of engagement', here is a follow up post attempting to complete the picture of the families of engagement. And despite my immediately previous post, this is the real final blog post for 2011.
So, the three main branches of the family have been mapped out (1): communication, knowledge management and monitoring. But as in any fascinating family, the engagement family has lots of extended branches that enrich the colourful engagement family tree. Here are just a few more that are worth considering:
The Capacity development branch. This branch aims at beefing up the potential of people to do their job better. And since work is better done together, it also focuses on engagement to get more people in its network. This part of the family kept changing names through history. It was originally known as training but its members said it was too restrictive a name for what the whole family does – so the first son kept that name but the whole family itself was re-baptised capacity building, but then it was accused of suggesting that capacity had to be built from scratch. So it became capacity development.
- Training remains the most prominent son. Under pressure, however, it changed its approach. Where it used to bring people together intensively for two to three weeks, it now invites people for a couple or more days but repeats this exercise across a more extensive period and with more sustained interactions in and between training sessions. It seems to work out better for him now: Engagement around a process rather than just an event. Despite those more recent changes, it is still challenged by other branch members.
- A sister in the lot is coaching. She has been around for a long time, in fact a much longer time than training although in the old age she was rather known as mentoring and apprenticeship. Her objective is to follow the practice of people over much longer time, to assess that practice in situ, identify good practices and provide a safe space to make mistakes and improve; her approach thus aims at giving better advice, going more deeply in the perspective of excelling at a function and of benefitting from others' experience. Coaching is thus all about deep, not wide engagement.
- Quite a few even younger siblings are coming to light: exchange visits, job rotation etc. For this branch of the family, learning is also essential. And it has become increasingly virtual in the past few years. The capacity development branch has been in touch with the distance learning relatives and this is really bringing engagement across various means of communication. Some are jealous of the booming business of this branch – certainly in the development/cooperation arena.
In contrast, the organisational development branch is not enjoying much wind in its sails these days. It is very close to the organisational learning brother in the KM family and it is basically concerned with all the ways that an organisation can perform more effectively. In fact, some argue that this is not really a branch in its own but rather a clan bringing different relatives together from the KM, communication, capacity development and monitoring branches.
- The one person that rallies all of them under this banner however is the ambitious organisational leadership. Driven by entrepreneurship, this cocky lad is quite happy to shine brightly and show its managerial capacities. But it does so with a purpose: to bring the organisation to the next level. So it's not pure flash and tack. He knows that without having a sincere goal that transcends self interest, it will never manage to bring the people that form organisation to that next level – so engagement has to be its mantra.
- To ease this job, he is backed by his more distant cousin group dynamics, who knows how to get teams to work together and contribute to the bigger organisation. It is easier to rely on well-functioning teams than high individual performers only. Yet it's still not enough.
- Organisational learning is thus part of this family enterprise to make sure that group dynamics works in accordance with the goal and perceives the value of its successful efforts and the lessons of its not so successful ventures.
- Change management also joins the club sometimes, to give advice from a system perspective, because the branch realises that it's not possible to develop an organisation without adopting a broader perspective of systemic change. He is however much more related to the next branch of the family, the institutional change.
Some views on this branch even relate it to action research. It's unclear where exactly this branch fits… and it is handing over to…
The Institutional change branch: close to the 'organisational development' branch, this family has a slightly broader look. It really aims at having a wider effect than the organisational clan. This branch believes in large scale engagement and logically talks a lot about systems thinking, change management and complexity. Subsequently, it is sometimes accused of being delusional ('how can you achieve change at such a large scale?') or too intellectual ('you and your systems!'). But for all this, it is enjoying a great wave of popularity at the moment.
- The patriarch of this branch is institutional development. He is a reformed organisational development relative who has decided to branch out and look outside the organisational box. He quickly perceived the importance of the context surrounding the organisation if change is the overall objective. Engagement was in his DNA and he first looked at the edges of the organisation: the networks and personal relations that evolve as conscious or unconscious satellites of the organisation. He moved into networks and foundations, collective units of organisation, including legal aspects (statutes) etc. He has now brothers and sisters that adequately complement his ambitions technically and ethically.
- Multi-stakeholder processes are the twin brothers and sisters that want to bring all kinds of people together to connect, learn and act together. They are very demanding, they eat a lot of resources (time and money) and they really need someone to help facilitating their interactions. But they offer a relatively practical solution for this branch's objectives of wide scale engagement. Next to institutional development's approach of changing organisations, they propose to combine forces between organisations; and that just fits the family ethos.
- Social change is the turbulent little sister. She cries for social justice, she craves freedom, empowerment and engagement in favour of the (more) socially-deprived. Engagement is her main strategy and she wants to mobilise all her family members to help in this. She's not considered very serious by some family members, but she knows that some extraordinary figures from the past are on her side, the likes of Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. And she also knows that focusing on changing people one by one is a long but right track to flip institutions over too.
A family in transition?
It's worth noting a few trends affecting the main families of engagement:
In the main communication branch, two trends are moving things around. Every family evolves over time to espouse the zeitgeist and practical arrangements that come with it:
- On the one hand, the communication branch is going 'strategic'. This is the new motto to bring all family members in the same car for a journey to visit their contacts (their audiences) and have them come together as one, to align their methods and skills. In practice, having all members onboard does not mean that they play a melodious tune together. And the journey can be quite chaotic. But you have to praise the comms family for its intention to have one whole family experience. There's chances that if they keep doing such journeys, one day they will play a beautiful tune together.
- On the other hand when the family goes on a journey to developing countries, and perhaps as a result of going 'strategic', the communication family is really moving away from their original 'messages' approach. It was too uni–directional. They have all realised to some extent the value of genuine bilateral engagement.
- Some elements of the family are coming back in the picture. It's the case with coaching but also with the wild cousin storytelling mentioned in the previous 'happy families' post. is actually an age-old family member who's been passing through the history of his engagement relatives time and time again to tell his tales and disappear again. He is celebrated again these days – is it yet another hype or is storytelling going to stick around this time?
Finally, much could be said about all the other clans evolving next to the engagement family. Some commenters mentioned artistic expression, psychology, I would add humour and jokes and all kinds of other related groups that gravitate around the engagement family and other families too.
At the end of the day, regardless of the specific portrait of each family, and regardless of their current and possible future transitions, what matters is that all these families contribute to more engagement across the board and in a networked way. In this sense, the elephant in the room that Harold Jarche mentioned in a post about managing engagement is perhaps indeed the networked approach that all engagement family branches are trying to follow, consciously or not. But perhaps the real elephant in the room is the collective sense-making and mobilisation of energies directed at a wider goal – in this sense social change is perhaps leading the pack.
But we're not quite there yet, neither in the networked ways nor in the networked social change. Now we're still at the stage of nurturing engagement, and such a family seems on the right path. For what good and what worth offers a family if not a place to develop deep relationships, trust in each other and trust in life, starting with the most basic steps of engagement?
- Again, this family tree does not pretend to be exhaustive nor the way to look at engagement.
Related blog posts:
- Communication, KM, monitoring, learning – The happy families of engagement
- A simple KM and communication strategy… with double focus on the context
- Get personal: KM closer, together, for the bigger picture
- Rethinking facilitation and engagement
- Communicating inside to learn outside?


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The older brother liked to look like a man of means, once posing for a photo in front of a gleaming Mercedes sporting a long wool scarf and white leather slip-on shoes. But Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was a stay-at-home dad, relying on his wife to work long hours as a home health care aide to support the family.
And the car? Tsarnaev most recently owned a 15-year-old Honda.
Tsarnaev's younger brother never seemed strapped for cash, according to people who knew him at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he was a sophomore. But Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a scholarship student who earned spending money by selling marijuana, say three people who bought drugs from the 19-year-old.
Even the explosives they allegedly set off at the Boston Marathon a week ago turned out to be crude and inexpensive — likely built from ordinary kitchen pressure cookers, nails, and other household items from instructions available online. Each bomb may have cost less than $100.
If the brothers had outside financial or technical support for their deadly attack on the Marathon, it certainly isn't reflected in their lifestyle or their weapons. The picture that is emerging is more like terrorism on a budget, consistent with reports that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators from his hospital bed that he and his brother acted alone.
"There is no barrier here to two men doing this on their own," said Brian Michael Jenkins, a Rand Corp. adviser who focuses on terrorism. "You could easily do this for under $100 per bomb. . . . This is an investment even someone with modest means can make."
Such details are important because speculation has swirled for days about whether the brothers had any connection to foreign governments, outside terrorism groups, or underworld organizations such as the Russian mafia, who may be planning additional attacks on US soil. The older brother's travel to Russia fueled speculation.
But the Tsarnaevs' terrorism operation, while deadly, bears little resemblance to the sophisticated 9/11 plot during which the hijackers spent an estimated $500,000 — mostly from Al Qaeda — for flight training, living expenses, and travel, including tickets for the planes they hijacked.
Almost as soon as Tamerlan Tsarnaev was identified and killed in a dramatic shootout with law enforcement early Friday morning, reporters and amateur gumshoes unearthed an online photo gallery that appeared to capture a lavish lifestyle of a talented boxer living the American dream, making some wonder if he also had outside support.
But his everyday life turned out to be much more ordinary, someone who was just trying to scrape by.
The older brother lived with his wife and 3-year-old daughter in an apartment near Inman Square, a working-class neighborhood in Cambridge that has gradually become more gentrified over the years. A neighbor who asked not to be identified said the brothers paid "below market" rent for the apartment where their entire family had lived previously.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev reportedly worked odd jobs and short-term positions, such as delivering pizzas, to help pay the bills. He reported to police that he was "unemployed" during a 2009 domestic violence arrest and listed himself as a "driver" on his marriage certificate when he got married a year later.
Instead, he relied mainly on his wife, Katherine Russell, to be the primary breadwinner. Her lawyer, Amato DeLuca, told reporters that she often worked 70 to 80 hours a week, seven days a week, as a home health care aide, a sometimes grueling job that typically pays around $12.50 per hour in the Boston area, according to Department of Labor data.
"She has been living in Cambridge, raising her child, and working long hours, caring for people in their homes who are unable to care for themselves,'' DeLuca and his partners said in a statement Tuesday, adding that Russell and her family were still struggling to come to terms with her husband's death and the accusations that he was involved in the bombing.
'I don't think he ever brought any friends in here that spent more than $500.'
The older Tsarnaev did excel as an amateur boxer. He competed in the national Golden Gloves tournament in Salt Lake City in 2009 and was New England's Golden Gloves heavyweight champ in 2010. But he made little, if any, money from his efforts.
"There is no money," in amateur boxing, said John Allan, owner of Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts in Allston, who saw Tamerlan Tsarnaev compete and considered him the best boxer in the city, in an interview last week.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev owned a black Mercedes C230 at one time — but it was a 1998 model likely worth only a few thousand dollars today. When he died last week, he only owned one car — a 1999 Honda CRV, according to motor vehicle records.
Indeed, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his family had so little income that they even qualified for state assistance until 2012, state health and human services spokesman Alec Loftus said Tuesday. Both brothers also received benefits through their parents when they were younger. The welfare benefits were first reported by the Boston Herald.
His younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, always seemed to have money for food and other everyday expenses. "He lived a good life, I guess," said Jason Rowe, his former roommate at UMass Dartmouth.
But Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn't live a particularly lavish lifestyle. He drove his father's green 1999 Honda Civic. And while UMass Dartmouth costs more than $22,000 a year, including room and board, many students receive significant student loans and other financial aid. UMass declined to give details on Tsarnaev's aid package, but he received at least one scholarship — $2,500 from the city of Cambridge, where he went to high school.
Several fellow students reported he earned at least some cash selling marijuana — at least the portion he didn't smoke himself. "There was a permanent stench of marijuana in his room," said one person who asked not to be named.
He also had a mysterious side enterprise involving repairing damaged cars.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev regularly brought cars to Junior's Auto Body, a well-worn shop on the Cambridge-Somerville line, on a road lined with scrap metal and auto repair garages.
Why a 19-year-old college student was bringing cars in for work for people he said were friends remains unclear, though his father had worked as a garage mechanic before he returned to the family's native Russia. The shop owner, Gilberto Junior, said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sometimes accompanied friends to the shop, riding in the passenger's seat. Often, the friends told Junior they were students at MIT, he said.
The repair jobs were small, and it's not clear whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a commission.
"I don't think he ever brought any friends in here that spent more than $500,'' Junior said. He was never under the impression that Tsarnaev had much money.
But Junior said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did have a dream: He wanted to buy a new car once he graduated from school.Globe correspondent Leanne Poirier contributed to this report. Todd Wallack can be reached at email@example.com. Beth Healy can be reached at email@example.com.


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Jenny Westerfeld has been named interim president of LSC-North Harris. Westerfeld replaces Dr. Steve Head, who was appointed chancellor for the Lone Star College System effective August 1. Westerfeld will assume her interim duties on August 1 as well.
"Penny's vast leadership experience within the Lone Star College System and the support of our senior leadership team will position LSC-North Harris well," said Dr. Steve Head. "We are fortunate to have someone with her familiarity to assist us during this transition period.
Westerfeld has previously served as the interim president of LSC-Montgomery and interim CEO of LSC-University Park. In May 2014, she was awarded the title of Associate Vice Chancellor Emerita by the LSCS board of trustees in recognition of her contributions and years of service to Lone Star College.
Westerfeld began her career at LSC-North Harris as a full-time faculty member teaching Business and Office Administration. After 12 years of teaching, she transitioned into the administration department at LSC-Kingwood where she served four years as the Dean of Business and Technology Division, then the Dean of Community Education before being promoted to the Vice President of Community and Economic Development.
The next seven years of Westerfeld's career were spent providing oversight and leadership for the University Center at Montgomery as the Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive Director. In addition,
A search firm will be hired in the fall to assist Chancellor Head and LSCS conduct a national search for a permanent president for LSC-North Harris.
Lone Star College System has been opening doors to a better community for 40 years. Founded in 1973, LSCS remains steadfast in its commitment to student success and credential completion. Today, with 78,000 students in credit classes, and a total enrollment of more than 90,000, Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area and one of the fastest-growing community college systems in the nation. Dr. Richard Carpenter is the chancellor of LSCS, which consists of six colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball and LSC-University Park, seven centers, LSC-University Center at Montgomery, LSC-University Center at University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online.


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Young Democrats and Clinton
They're ready for her. They're excited about her. They're planning their next career moves with her campaign in mind.
Young Democrats just have one question: If Hillary Clinton runs for president, will she be ready to make room for them?
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In interviews with nearly 20 current and former Democratic activists and operatives younger than 30, there was overwhelming, palpable enthusiasm about the prospect of a second Clinton candidacy and the chance to help elect the first woman president. Yet equally apparent was a sense of doubt and trepidation about piercing the foreboding, multilayered organization known as Clinton Inc. to land a decent campaign job.
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Many pointed to Clinton's existing network comprising decades worth of political relationships; surely, some surmised, those associates would get preferential treatment. They mentioned Clinton's reputation for historically maintaining a tightknit circle of advisers. And they noted that in the spring of 2014, a campaign, albeit one without an actual candidate, is already well under way on the Democratic side — with two prominent super PACs, Ready for Hillary and Priorities USA, primed for a Clinton run.
Neil Makhija, a Harvard Law School student who has worked for several politicians and is active with Ready for Hillary, said he's confident that a future Clinton campaign would seek out the best talent. But he's cognizant of how the world works.
"It can also help to know someone from a previous campaign," said Makhija, 27. "And with Clinton, everyone knows someone from a previous campaign."
In 2008, Clinton failed to harness the energy of young Democratic activists, who instead played a central role in propelling President Barack Obama to the White House. Whether she could effectively bottle their enthusiasm in 2016 — when she would be nearly 70 years old — remains an open question, and would be one of her central challenges.
For the generation of young people who came to Washington on the Barack Obama wave, the lore remains vivid: fresh-faced staffers who started off carrying bags or stuffing envelopes and ended up in the West Wing, in some cases becoming D.C. celebrities in their own right. Obama's lower profile at the outset of 2008 and shorter career in politics combined to create a meritocracy of sorts, in which young, energetic and in some cases inexperienced staffers were given the space and opportunity to shine.
Several of the Democrats interviewed for the story said it's hard to envision the same thing happening with Clinton.
"Hillary has a lot of establishment coming with her, I'd imagine," said Ilyssa Meyer, 22, whose excitement for Clinton bubbles over. "I know she's had a much longer career than Obama [had by 2008]. She brings a lot of experienced candidates, [people from] the Clinton Foundation, all of these people. I wouldn't vie for a policy position, because she has advisers cultivated who could do a better job than me. I don't think that it's a bad thing."
Meyer is planning to go to graduate school instead of trying to get onto a Clinton 2016 race. One day she hopes to end up in the White House.
For those who do want in, navigating the elaborate Clinton complex — and figuring out where they might fit — is an intimidating task, said one Democratic consultant in his late 20s who would like to work for the "next Democratic president of the United States."
"Hillaryland feels like, it's like a 40-year corporation based on political networks that have never had a management consultant come in and reorganize it," said the source, whose firm has worked with Ready for Hillary. Like many people interviewed for this story, he requested anonymity in order to speak more freely in discussing future employment opportunities. "It's four decades of a team being built. For young people, it feels really daunting. I know a lot of young people from the Obama world who are like, 'How the the hell do I engage in this world?'"
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Mitch Stewart, who played key roles on both Obama campaigns and now advises Ready for Hillary, pointed to positions tied to field work and technology as natural fits for young people looking to work the next presidential contest.
"The thing I know will be true in 2016, and I hope Secretary Clinton decides to run, is you're going to want smart, young, ambitious people to help run the campaign," he said. "It's so important to reach out and engage through social networking. The folks most conversant in that are young people."
He added: "Any campaign running in '16 is going to be very open and accommodating to young people. They really provide the fuel and energy for a sort of vibrant national effort. … I think the overwhelming majority of total staff hired will be young people right out of college, [including] folks taking a semester off."
A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to a request for comment.
Clinton has said she won't make a decision about running until sometime later this year. But if she does, the former secretary of state, senator and first lady would enter the race with a vast network of political contacts — people who have worked for her or her husband dating as far back as their days in Arkansas — who might look to be involved in her campaign.
There is typically plenty of room for young volunteers to work in the field, and, increasingly, there is a need for them in technology roles. But from very young people just hoping for full-time employment on such a campaign, to older operatives hoping for meatier jobs, questions persist about the opportunities that would exist on what already looks like a crowded bus.


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Susan Granger's review of 'Life Itself'
Film critic Roger Ebert knew he wouldn't live to see this documentary based on his 2011 memoir of the same name. In a particularly poignant scene, he tells director Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") that he knows that his thyroid cancer has metastasized to his spine, saying, "It is likely I will have passed when the film is ready." Indeed, Ebert died in April 2013 at age 70.
Filmed during what would be the last five months of Ebert's life, he reveals his regret that he never got to say goodbye to his contentious "frenemy" Gene Siskel, who concealed his brain cancer diagnosis back in 1998 out of fear that Disney would replace him on ABC's "Siskel & Ebert." That affected Ebert so much that he was determined not to make the same mistake, even though numerous surgical procedures left him without a lower jaw and unable to eat, drink or speak.
Ebert's wife, Chaz, is equally forthcoming, admitting for the first time publicly that she met Roger at Alcoholics Anonymous, not at a Chicago restaurant where they were reportedly introduced by columnist Ann Landers. Chaz also reveals she was not aware that Roger had signed a "do not resuscitate" order until the day of his death.
Beginning with Ebert's definition of cinema as "a machine that generates empathy," this biopic covers Ebert's career and personal life -- from his early days at the Chicago Sun-Times to his popular television show and his final years, when he enthusiastically continued to post reviews. While Ebert was both celebrated and criticized for his thumbs-up-or-down judgments, he was also the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. Included in this narrative are interviews with Ebert's director friends Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Ramin Bahrani ("Man Push Cart," "Chop Shop"), whom Ebert championed, along with critics A.O. Scott of The New York Times and Richard Corliss of Time magazine.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Life Itself" is an unflinching, engrossing 8, an inspirational tribute to America's most influential film critic.


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The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday that it reached a settlement with two auto dealers in Ohio and Maryland, including Timonium Chrysler Inc. of Cockeysville, over charges of deceptive ads on the cost of vehicles or available discounts.
The agency said that the Cockeysville dealer, which does business under the name of Don White's Timonium Jeep Chrysler Dodge, promoted discounts and "Internet prices," but allegedly failed to tell consumers that they needed to qualify for rebates generally not available to them. Even if consumers did qualify for the rebates, the FTC said, the vehicle's price was higher than advertised.
Under the order settling the FTC complaint, both dealers agreed to make copies of ads and promotional materials available to the FTC upon request and to not misrepresent prices and discounts.
"We don't agree with the allegations they're making," said Andy White, vice president and owner of the Cockeysville dealership. Nevertheless, White said, the FTC wanted the dealer's ads to be "a little more transparent" on rebates, and "we were happy to comply."


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60 scholars from eight countries met in late November at a 2-day conference at the ITS (International Tracing Service) in Bad Arolsen to discuss the results of their research on the Holocaust death marches. The conference "On the traces of the Death Marches – Crimes, Investigation and Remembrance" focused on documents...learn more
On 17 and 18 November 2011, the 14th conference of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship and the Association against Oblivion – For Democracy in conjunction with the International Tracing Service (ITS) was held in Bad Arolsen. 40 participants – among them senior staff from memorial centres,...learn more
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Which meaning the search for family members can still have more than six decades after the end of the Second World War was described by Renate Bauer and Victor Sokolovs at the event "Arrived - tracing and the clarification of fates today" on the 2nd of November, 2011 in the Rauch Museum Bad Arolsen. "I can hardly...learn more
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Christian Hentschke has searched the archival material of the International Tracing Service (ITS) for any information on the lives and persecutions of Sinti and Roma from Nordhausen and its surroundings. "As I have few details on the victims only, my search is arduous", so the researcher. "By doing research on them,...learn more
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Texas Governor Calls 2nd Special Session on Abortion
Gov. Rick Perry is calling for the Texas Legislature to meet in a second special session to pass restrictions on abortion.
The first such effort died following a filibuster and rollicking late Tuesday night protest.
The announcement gives Republicans another crack at passing sweeping anti-abortion rules that would close nearly all clinics performing the procedure in the country's second-largest state.
It passed the House, but died after Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis led a more than 12-hour filibuster effort. Hundreds of protesters then cheered, disrupting Senate proceedings as the session closed at midnight.
Perry can call as many 30-day extra sessions as he likes, but lawmakers can only take up those issues he assigns.
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Call him Jermaine Jacksun ... with a "U" ... because as of this afternoon, that's legally his name.
We've learned ... an L.A. County Superior Court judge approved the singer's petition for the name change, which the 58-year-old filed back in November.
TMZ broke the story ... the man formerly known as "Jermaine Jackson" had said he wanted to make the change for "artistic reasons" ... whatever that means.
Jermaine was not present during the hearing ... because he's off in Europe performing with his brothers ... the Jacksons.


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Placing eggs atop a light base like raw zucchini or any type of summer squash is a great, lighter alternative to regular pasta, especially this time of year, as summer squash are abundant. A mandoline is the easiest way to make the ribbons, but using a vegetable peeler is always an option if mandolines scare you.
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Hey guys! Here's a new pic I found at markwahlbergfan.com! Thought you would enjoy!
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 11:34 pm
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Thank you so much Tigger! I can't wait to see this movie
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could we swap places with her? good idea?
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:13 pm
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pardon my ignorance, but who's the chick? and if this isn't for the movie 'planet of the apes' then e factor really needs to have a talk with mark about his clothing... or some designer should take up the gaunlet and give him a designer range to wear - free!!!
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i definatly can't wait to see this movie!! i think it's gonna be great... lol i'd kill to be one of the girls he makes out with!!
then again.. who wouldn't
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2001 4:20 am
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Thanks a lot for the pic!
Hey, did you guys know that he makes out with an ape in this movie? Nice, eh?
PS the chick in the picture is Estella Warren, also a Canadian, like me! Yay!
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thank you!! Yeah Estella Waren is pretty! at least i think so! eww thast nasty if he makes out wit the monkey! i heard that the scene wasnt gonna b in the movie cause it would cause too much controversy! oh well guess we have to wait n see! my mom told that in the first planet of the apes one of the humans actually does it wit a monkey! *shudder*
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2001 2:23 am
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I have seen the first planet of the apes, and he (charlton heston) DOESN'T do it with a monkey. he kisses one of them just before he leaves and finds out the planet is earth, but its not like they make out or anything. POTA is coming out in Oz on the 9th of August, and i am waaaaaaay excited. but one thing, i heard they were going to have HEAPS of toys and stuff, like dolls, lunchboxes, trading cards etc, but i haven't heard anything about that since. so are they? if so, i want the mark doll!
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Hey Milky, I did read that the "love making" (to quote the magazine) in the movie was cut out, but he really does fall in love with Helena Bonham Carter (an ape!!!). So I guess their children would be cute if they inherited their mom's genes, or their dad's genes(lame, i know). Mark? A daddy? Wierd!
Bye bye!
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2001 10:56 pm
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actually I read that mark wants to have a big family. Within a marriage, of course. I think that's so cool!!
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2001 10:05 pm
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Hey there. I saw planet of the apes. it was great!...but, no, he doesn't make out with the ape. he kisses her right before he leaves, probably because he's thankful for her help. ALl through the movie it looks like the ape is in love with HIM! he DOES, however have a more "intimate" kiss w/estella warren. Right after that picture above.
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 2:07 pm
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I really dont think that estella is that pretty, I mean she's pretty but she kinda has a wierd mouth.
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 6:04 pm
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well i say mark looks sexy but that skank has got to go. lol.
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Woah he is so hot!...(Im new here). I thought it was sweet at the end when Mark and Ari kissed. She loved him and he at least acknowledged that. Whats so controversial its just a movie?!
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Bleisure Travelers Are Hungry for Sunshine, Sightseeing and Cuisine
New insights released today by Expedia Group Media Solutions reveal that domestic and international bleisure travel is booming, and business travelers are invested in making the most of their time away from home.
The findings, from a multi-national study commissioned by Expedia Group Media Solutions and conducted by Luth Research, spotlight the behaviors, influences, resources, and preferences of American, British, Chinese, German, and Indian bleisure travelers - or business travelers who extend their trip for leisure.
Unveiled today at Phocuswright Europe, Unpacking Bleisure Traveler Trends shows that on average, across the five countries, bleisure travelers take more than six business trips per year, and more than 60 percent of business trips during the last year were extended for leisure purposes. In the U.S., bleisure travel conversion is consistent with the multi-national average of 60 percent, revealing a nearly 40 percent increase in American bleisure travel since 20161.
On average, 72 percent of bleisure travelers said there are destinations they have visited or will visit in the future for business that they would like to extend for bleisure, but what makes a destination appealing for bleisure travel?
Fifty-six percent said they are more likely to consider a bleisure trip in a destination with great food and restaurants, closely followed by approximately 50 percent influenced by beaches, weather, nature, historical monuments or sightseeing. This further validates the importance of experiences and activities for all travelers, and illustrates an opportunity for marketers to attract bleisure travelers from around the world.
"The study provides a deeper look at the influences and motivations of the growing and valuable bleisure audience, and the actionable insights will empower marketers to strategically target and convert these travelers within the condensed research and booking window," said Andrew van der Feltz, Senior Director, EMEA & APAC for Expedia Group Media Solutions. "By showcasing unique experiences and activities, which are influential factors during the decision-making process, every destination, hotel, restaurant, attraction, airline, and more, can entice business travelers to extend their trip for leisure."
Converting to Bleisure
Business trips lasting 2-3 nights are most likely to result in bleisure trips (50 percent), as are trips where the business destination is far away, or more than 400 miles from home (49 percent).
Leading factors that influence bleisure travel decisions include traveling to a destination with great entertainment (48 percent) and visiting an iconic or bucket list destination (43 percent); easy-to-navigate destinations, proximity to the weekend and additional personal costs required to extend the trip for leisure are also influential factors.
Bleisure Research & Booking Resources
Approximately 80 percent of bleisure travelers spend 1-5 hours on research during both the inspiration and planning phases, which is more condensed than more traditional leisure booking windows.
Before deciding to bleisure, 68 percent of travelers conduct research using a search engine, 47 percent use travel-related websites - including OTAs, airline and hotel sites, and review sites - and 44 percent use destination websites.
Most bleisure travelers personally research and book accommodations (61 percent), airfare (42 percent) and dining (38 percent) for the leisure portion of their trip.
Willingness to Travel for Bleisure
Two-thirds of past bleisure trips were in the same city as the business trip, but more than 80 percent of bleisure travelers are willing to travel from the business destination for leisure.
On domestic and international trips, more than 50 percent of bleisure travelers are willing to travel 1-2 hours via car from the business destination for the leisure portion of their trip, and more than 28 percent would travel 1-2 hours via plane.
When traveling domestically between the business and leisure destinations, 38 percent of bleisure travelers are unwilling to travel via bus and 25 percent are unwilling to travel via plane.
Bleisure Budgets & Payment Preferences
Compared to a typical vacation, 57 percent of bleisure travelers spend the same amount of money or more on a bleisure trip, and more than 75 percent save money specifically for bleisure travel.
When on a bleisure trip, credit cards are the leading preferred payment method (69 percent), followed by cash (47 percent) and debit or ATM cards (44 percent).
More than two-thirds of bleisure spend is allocated to hotel, airfare and dining for the leisure portion of the trip.


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Old Man Winter brings more than just snow days and an excuse to curl up by the fire. Dropping temperatures can lead to many problems for homeowners that can be costly to repair.
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Dirty chimneys, busted appliances and furnaces on the fritz are some of the headaches homeowners face in the winter months, according to internal data from HomeAdvisor.
HomeAdvisor, which connects homeowners with service professionals, polled members and found that the most frequent emergency repair last year during the winter months was for broken-down appliances.
Having an appliance break down is never ideal, but losing a refrigerator or oven when trying o feed everyone during the holidays can be an added stressor. "If the dishwasher goes put it can wreak havoc on a family get together," says Amy Matthews, HomeAdvisor's home improvement expert and DIY Network host. "The most calls for repairs are for those appliances people don't think about."
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While it's not likely a refrigerator is going to need yearly service calls like a furnace requires, Matthews suggests keeping appliances clean and in good condition to avoid any unexpected break downs.
Keep all warranties in a safe place and adhere to any requirements to make sure an appliance stays covered. The holidays are a busy time for repair companies, so ask around for recommended service people and get their contact information to eliminate scrambling when something breaks.
To prevent a furnace or boiler from breaking down during the winter months, Matthews says to keep on top of regular maintenance and have a yearly service call to identify any problems that could prevent costly major repairs.
Make sure to research and know what types of maintenance is required on these major appliances. "If your filters need to be cleaned every month or three months keep up to date," says Matthews. "Cleaning it will extend the life of the furnace."
Dirty Fireplaces can Cause Fires
Sitting in front of a crackling fire is a staple of the winter months, but fireplaces are also a top reason homeowners have to call in a service professional, according to HomeAdvisor's poll.
Dirty fireplaces can be fire hazards, and Matthews recommends having a fireplace inspected to ensure the chimney is clean before lighting the first fire of the season. She advises homeowners who use the fireplace often to have it swept every year or every couple of years.
While a fireplace creates a warm and cozy ambiance, it can also waste a lot of energy. To prevent a fireplace from sucking up hot air, Matthews says to install a glass enclosure or glass doors on the opening of the fireplace.
Winter Storms can Destroy Trees
While pretty to look at, snow can be dangerous to homeowners with tress on their property. Heavy snowfall can take down a tree, which could hit a power line and leave you without power. To avoid falling trees, Matthews suggests pruning overgrown branches or any that could lead to an accident. "People don't think about landscaping this time of year. It's good to remember those kinds of weather related accidents happen."


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