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NEW YORK -- Town Sports International Holdings, Inc., which owns health clubs located primarily in major cities from Washington, DC north through New England, operating under the brand names New York Sports Clubs, Boston Sports Clubs, Washington Sports Clubs and Philadelphia Sports Clubs, announced its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2006.
Third quarter 2006 revenue grew 11.4 percent to $109.4 million from $98.2 million for the same period last year. Total revenue for the first nine months of 2006 grew 11.3 percent to $322.9 million from $290.0 million during the same period last year. Comparable club revenue increased 7.8 percent during the third quarter compared to the same period in the prior year.
"We are very pleased to be able to report our fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth, as well as 32.6 percent EBITDA growth, which is an acceleration from the first half of the year," says Robert Giardina, CEO of TSI. "During the quarter, we continued to post very solid comparable-club revenue growth along with double-digit member and ancillary revenue growth, and we are on track to meet our 2006 expansion goals while having established a pipeline of new clubs for 2007 and 2008."
Total revenue for the third quarter grew 11.4 percent to $109.4 million from $98.2 million for the same period last year. The increase in revenue was driven by growth in membership revenue and ancillary club revenue.
"We are now looking to finish the year in strong fashion and surpass our initial financial objectives for 2006, and we are excited to look to the future with good momentum, a unique strategy within our industry, and with a team of employees throughout our organization that continues to execute at a very high level," Giardina says.


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* Single-A Brooklyn named Wally Backman as manager today. In a release by the team, Backman said: "I am thrilled and grateful to be coming back to the Mets organization. The greatest days of my professional career were spent here in New York, and I have always felt a special connection to the city."
I like the idea of Backman returning to the organization and getting another chance after he was unceremoniously dumped by Arizona. Backman provides an energy and a link to when the Mets were a great team. Guys like Backman, who relied on guile and grit as players, often make good managers.
To see him grow within the organization would be a positive, and welcomed, change from how things have been done in the past.
* Reportedly, Eric Wedge is candidate for the Mets bench coach job. Sure beats Razor Shines. Yeah, I know there will be rumblings about Jerry Manuel looking over his shoulder. If Manuel is any kind of manager, if this happens he'll pick Wedge for all the knowledge he can. You can't have too many brains on the bench. Just look at Joe Girardi's and Joe Torre's supporting staffs.
* Yeah, I heard it to. Trade for Brandon Phillips. Not happening. They'd have to unload Luis Castillo's contract and there would be no takers. Look at it this way, if a team needed a second baseman, why would it trade for Castillo if it had a chance at Phillips?
* Cincinnati signed catcher Ramon Hernandez one-year contract to reduce the Mets' FA catching options. The Mets would still like to add a veteran presence.

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Equinix Continues Expansion of Dutch Operations with Opening of Second IBX Data Center In Amsterdam
Foster City, CA and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April, 21 2010 - Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced the expected May 1, 2010 opening of the first phase of its new Amsterdam (AM2) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center, which has been under development since November 2009. The first phase represents an expected investment of approximately $40.0 million and provides 480 cabinets equivalents. The second phase is targeted for completion during the third quarter of 2010 and is expected to provide an additional 520 cabinets equivalents. A third phase, to be timed to meet market demand, will provide an additional 500 cabinet equivalents. Equinix's investment into the purpose-built AM2 IBX data center represents the company's fourth facility in The Netherlands, including two IBX data centers located in Enschede and Zwolle, and is part of the company's $2.0 billion investment to expand operations between 2007 and 2010.
The AM2 IBX data center build is in response to the rising demand from global and local network service providers, digital content providers, financial services firms, and enterprises operating in the Dutch capital to leverage all of the benefits of Equinix data center services. At full build out, the AM2 IBX data center will have capacity for 1,500 cabinet equivalents.
"Amsterdam is a key location, not just for Dutch businesses, but for many regional and global service providers and enterprises that are eager to increase business operations in this important market," said Michiel Eielts, general manager, Equinix Netherlands. "Since opening our AM1 IBX data center in 2008, we have seen a steady increase in demand from both local and international organizations, and we are very excited to meet their on-going requirements for premium, well-connected, data center services."
The AM2 IBX data center is located in the Amsterdam Zuidoost business district, adjacent to Equinix's AM1 IBX data center. By building its two Amsterdam IBX data centers on the same campus, Equinix is enabling customers located at both locations to easily grow their operations and directly exchange business information. The AM2 IBX data center will build upon the range of premium data center services provided at AM1, including colocation, interconnection and peering, direct cross-connects between more than 25 networks, and access to AMS-IX, the world's largest single metro area Internet exchange. In addition, the AM2 IBX data center will also offer the new Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange™ service later this year. The AM2 IBX data center is ISO27001 certified and designed to provide customers with highly resilient yet energy efficient and secured data center services, monitored on a 24x7 basis.
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After pitching a scoreless inning against the Reds Thursday, Indians ace Justin Masterson told reporters "I figure somehow, some way I'll end up still being here for a few more years." It's a pleasant thought for Tribe fans to ponder, but it will take more than spring optimism to make that happen.
After pitching a scoreless inning against the Reds Thursday, Indians ace Justin Masterson told reporters �I figure somehow, some way I'll end up still being here for a few more years." It�s a pleasant thought for Tribe fans to ponder, but it will take more than spring optimism to make that happen.
The two sides took a break in negotiations on Feb. 19 and avoided arbitration by settling on a one-year deal worth $9,726,500. But the multiyear deal Masterson wants now has the six-year, $105 million deal Homer Bailey signed with the Reds on March 20 as a comparable. The �somehow, some way� of Masterson�s comment doubtless includes coming close to that.
>> From today's Dispatch: Bob Hunter's Rumblings
Seven teams contacted former Browns linebacker D�Qwell Jackson upon his release, according to sources cited by CBSSports.com�s Jason La Canfora, who reported that he has already scheduled free agent visits with the Denver Broncoes and Tennessee Titans.
Former Browns general manager Tom Heckert is on the Broncos� staff and the team has an acute need at inside linebacker with both of its top linebackers unrestricted free agents. The Titans have former Browns defensive coordinator Ray Horton on staff and also have a need.
The Minnesota Vikings are also one of the other teams interested.
Former Notre Dame quarterback Gunner Kiel was probably the most watched player as Cincinnati started spring practice this week. Kiel, a sophomore who sat out 2013 as a transfer and has three years of eligibility remaining, is regarded as the heir apparent to Brendon Kay. Redshirt sophomore Bennie Coney would have been in the mix but he is transferring. That leaves junior college transfer Jarred Evans to battle Kiel for the job this spring.
Fifth-year senior Munchie Legaux would have provided further competition, but he is rehabbing his knee and will not be available before summer.
Michigan offensive tackle Taylor Lewan improved his stock with impressive workouts at the NFL combine and also used it as a stage to clean up what he says are some mistaken impressions of him. For one thing, he disputes reports that he got into an altercation with a fan from Columbus following the Wolverines� 42-41 loss to Ohio State on Nov. 30 outside an Ann Arbor restaurant.
�I wasn�t in any fight,� Lewan said. �I was actually breaking something up. Some guy said I slugged him. That�s not who I am off the field. It�s not the kind of person I am. It might seem that way because of the way I play football but it�s not who I am.�
Lewan also denied that he made comments to a woman who was reportedly a rape victim of former teammate and roommate Brandon Gibbons back in 2009.
Shortly after the woman reported the rape, she said she began to receive threats from Lewan that he would rape her again if she pressed charges against Gibbons.
�That�s definitely a situation between those two people,� Lewan said. �I am not here to protect Brandon or the young lady. That�s not what I am here to do. I am here to talk about football. I can say I never said those things. I�ve said a lot of dumb things in my life but those are not things that I said. That is a touchy subject. I would never disrespect a woman like that. I consider myself a guy who likes to hold doors, not threaten people.�
Lewan is considered the third-best tackle available in this year�s draft behind Texas A&M's Jack Matthews and Auburn's Greg Robinson.
ESPN Senior VP/Programming Scott Guglielmino told Sports Business Journal that ESPN and Fox are still negotiating a joint bid for Major League Soccer and U.S. Soccer rights. The networks were reportedly closing in on eight-year, $70 million deal in early January, but Guglielmino said the delay doesn�t mean the deal won�t get done.
"It's somewhat complex in that you're dealing with two different properties, and it's a long-term deal," Guglielmino said. "It's taking a little bit longer than we would have liked, but we're going to hopefully get something done."
Michigan opened its spring practice sessions this week with several players taking new positions, the most notable being the move of redshirt freshman defensive back Ross Douglas to running back and junior defensive end Keith Heitzman to tight end.
"Ross Douglas moved to running back, we thought we could get a little more depth there," Michigan coach Brady Hoke told MLive.com. "He was a 2,000-yard rusher in high school and he showed us some things during the fall, we thought we'd do that."
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Fiaker Baron
Vienna and its Fiaker share a long common tradition. One of the most famous Viennese songs from 1885 reflects this bond. The horse-drawn carriage rides are among the most popular tourist attractions today.
Fiaker, the historic taxi-rank places, are an integral part of the Vienna cityscape and present visitors throughout the year with Vieanna's picturesque sights from a particular perspective. Many of the horse-drawn carriages are over 100 years old and offer an attractive opportunity to admire the numerous sights.
Enjoy the unique atmosphere of a cosmopolitan city with a cozy horse-drawn carriage ride and marvel at the impressive buildings and palaces of a long bygone time. Discover Vienna's magical atmosphere with a city tour and feel carried back to the history of the Empire.
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This route starts from the St. Stephen's Cathedral (German: Stephansdom), passes through the Ferstel Palace, the Hofburg, the Michaelertrakt and through the interior courtyard to the Heroes' Square (German: Heldenplatz). The next highlights are the Natural History Museum, Eppstein Palace, the Parliament and the People's Garden (German: Volksgarten). In the subsequent drive across the Viennese Ringstraße, you can admire the City Hall (German: Rathaus), the Court Theatre (German: Burgtheater), the old Viennese café Landtmann and the University. The route then passes through the Liebenberg Monument and the Scots Church, through the "Hohe Markt" back to the starting point on Stephansplatz.
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Even with this route, the St. Stephen's Cathedral is the starting point. It passes through the Ferstel Palace, the Hofburg and Michaelertrakt, through the interior courtyard to the Heroes' Square. Then the carriage continues on to Pallavicini Palace on Josefplatz where you will see well-known sites, such as the Augustinian Church (German: Augustinerkirche), the Sacher Hotel and the magnificent State Opera. You can also see monuments of prominent historical figures such as Goethe and Schiller. From the Castle garden (German: Burggarten), the route continues to the Eppstein Palace, the Parliament, the People's Garden and the City Hall. The tour concludes with a ride to the magnificent Ringstraße, past the Burgtheater, the famous Viennese coffee Landtmann, the University, the Liebenberg Monument and the Scots Church, through the Hohen market and returns back to the tour starting point on Stephansplatz.
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So by now you've heard all about Amanda Beard's Olympic-sized star turn in Playboy. (Looking for links to the pics? Try here.)
OK, I was really just looking for an excuse to post on the topic here this weekend. I didn't have an agenda in mind, but I suppose if you insist...
I'm not willing to assign some sort of "she demeans women athletes" or "she empowers women's fitness" angle to what - more than anything - is simply her own attempts to cash in on her place at the nexus of hotness and sports. I don't condemn her for that. That's the playing field.
I would, however, seriously question whether she is, as the cover claims, "the world's sexiest athlete." Now that is a hell of a debate.
(A quick aside: Is it me, or is she just not that pretty? Her face is a little too "Elway.")
I do like that "sexy" is equated to an athletic build. I married a former elite swimmer, so that's my type. A-Rod has his type (perhaps a wee bit, eh, bulkier). Tom Brady has his type (assless). We've all got the physical qualities that turn us on, hopefully matched with a few decent non-physical qualities as well.
The Comments question on the table, of course, is this: Who IS the sexiest athlete? And I'll be assigning extra points for novelty. (No, Rags to Riches doesn't qualify.)
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Coach Mauricio Pochettino and sporting director Ramon Planes leave Espanyol
Coach Mauricio Pochettino and sporting director Ramon Planes have left Espanyol with the club bottom of La Liga.
Last Updated: 26/11/12 6:59pm
Sunday's 2-0 defeat at home to Getafe left Espanyol with only two wins from their opening 13 games of the season.
Reports in Spain had said Planes was part of a meeting in which Pochettino was sacked following the match, but a statement on the club's website tonight said that both men had left the club following consideration by the board.
"This afternoon, the club and the coach agreed to terminate by mutual consent the contract that united them," the statement said.
"Ramon Planes has ceased his duties as sporting director of the club, having also reached an agreement for termination by mutual agreement.
"RCD Espanyol wishes to publicly thank the dedication and commitment of both professionals during their time with the club and wish them every success, both personally and professionally."
Despite being a fans' favourite due to his stellar playing career with the club - he made over 250 appearances at centre-half - former Argentina international Pochettino appeared to be on borrowed time after supporters turned during yesterday's game with calls of "resign" pouring down from the stands.
Pochettino joined Espanyol from Newell's Old Boys in 1994 and stayed for six years. He then returned, initially on loan, in 2004 after spells with Paris St Germain and Bordeaux.
The 40-year-old took over as coach in January 2009 and led them away from the relegation zone into mid-table safety.
Finishes of 11th in 2009-2010, eighth in 2010-11 and 14th last season enhanced his reputation before this season's struggles.
Reports suggest Marcelinho Garcia Toral is at the top of Espanyol's wishlist to fill the vacancy.
The 47-year-old made his name at Recreativo Huelva before guiding Racing Santander into the UEFA Cup in 2008.
A surprise switch to Segunda Division side Real Zaragoza came next and he led them back to the top flight before he was sacked in December 2009.
He returned briefly to Racing only to join Sevilla at the start of last season before being fired in February.


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I'm a couple weeks behind in posting my experiences on the Twitter challenge in 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy. The challenge was to monitor Twitter twice a day for seven days; examine the information being exchanged and learn how to control the incoming information.
For whatever reason, this was not that easy a challenge for me. Last month, I watched as my fellow geneabloggers tweeted from the Family History Expo in Kansas City. I tried to follow along, but just couldn't quite grasp how Twitter works.
When the 52 Weeks challenge came up, I figured that I could do this for one week. I got an account on Twitter and started to follow a few of my online genealogy friends. I downloaded Tweet Deck, which I found helped me manage the incoming information much better than on the Twitter site. After the seven days were over, I wasn't impressed and posted a comment on Facebook that said "Bye Bye Blue Birdie."
But - I didn't close out my Twitter account. I continued to check the messages a couple times a day. I still find it difficult to follow conversations - they don't appear to be threaded the way I'm used to seeing on message boards or even Facebook. But if I don't check in, I think that I might be missing something. For example, I really enjoyed reading the tweets from the people attending the Family History Expo in Salt Lake City this weekend. That's #FHexpo on Twitter in case you didn't know.
While browsing books at Barnes and Noble this week, I noticed there were a couple books on using Twitter and Facebook for marketing. These were thick books! So I thought there must be something more to this Twitter thing than 140 characters. I didn't buy the books. In fact, I didn't even look at them. But the size of them made me rethink "the Twitter thing."
Even though I am not enamored with Twitter (yet), I am a proponent of social media as a resource in aiding genealogical research. So I started to do some tweeting and retweeting. I have no idea why anyone is following me, but they are! So, just to tie LongLostRelatives.net into my Twitter account, I've added a widget to the blog that displays my most recent tweets. I've always been a believer in keeping content fresh on web sites, so having the live Twitter feed on this blog made sense.
I may have gone into this kicking and screaming and complaining, but I'm on Twitter and I'm probably going to stick around for a while. So if you want to follow me, come on over to http://twitter.com/sooznebr


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Asus to release desktop Eee PC as Ebox
First pics published
Asus will finally launch the desktop version of its elfin Eee PC early next month. Once dubbed the E-DT, the unit is set to retail as the Ebox, we understand.
The rather Wii-style Eee will incorporate a 2GB of memory and a 160GB hard drive, we hear, but for now Asus is keeping the full spec to itself.
Asus' Ebox: Wii-like
We'd suggest the machine will use a 'Diamondville' chip, the small form-factor desktop-oriented processor Intel is set to add to its Atom family next month.
The Ebox will certainly run the Eee PC's Xandros version of Linux, and come bundled with the same line-up of applications.
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The look of the Ebox is at odds with the design of a slimline home desktop PC that Asus demo'd at the CeBit show in March this year. That model, the "Digital Home System EP20", was, however, said to run the Eee PC's Linux OS.
It also sported a slot-loading optical drive, something that's not visible on the Ebox shots.
Last month, Asus launched the Essentio CS5110 mini PC, is a multimedia SFF PC that again got Eee fans' hopes rising... until they saw that it runs Windows Vista.
Asus has been talking about a desktop Eee since October 2007, but it didn't elaborate until January 2008, when it said the $200-300 box would ship in the April-May timeframe.
Asus will formally launch the Ebox at Computex in Taipei on 3 June.
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Wow, thank you very much Slamgod7140. Yes, they do take some time and yes a great deal of fun...can sometimes be hard on the body, twisting and contorting to get the shots. I take many many pictures just o get some that are good. Have you seen some of my others that I have posted here as well? I also have an ongoing storyline photo comic on the continuing adventures of GIJOE that I sell. If you are ever interested, I have made 21 issues so far. I could send you a sample to see if you would like more...let me know, thanks again for comments.


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RCA and Acoustic Research Show Off Products at CES
At the CES press conference, VOXX subsidiaries RCA and Acoustic Research showed off new home products.
RCA began with its 2012 Best of CES Innovation award-winning USB wall plate charger. A $19.99 plate that turns a wall socket into two USB ports, while leaving one regular outlet.
RCA, noticed that even when people have hundreds of channels, they spend most of the time on just 10, so RCA's new line of universal remote controls makes programming one-touch channels even easier.
Also for the home RCA showed an auto sensing LED nightlight and USB charging port for $16.99, and a line of USB charging clocks to be available in May running from $14.99 to $49.99. For the road, a nightglow USB travel charger.
New home products from Acoustic Research also took the stage. The Acoustic Research home theater power station with SpeedPass aims to make plug 'n play a reality for families. The power station has connections right on the front to easily connect portable devices to the big screen and speaker system. Versions with 8 to 10 ports will be available in April.
In audio, Acoustic Research is adding Bluetooth capability to speakers with a $129 unit in May, and Apple AirPlay to speakers on a wireless network for $199.
Acoustic Research also showed a 2012 CES Innovation award winning outdoor Bluetooth wireless speaker that is UV and water resistant and offers hidden storage for portable devices, due in April for $129. Also due in April for outdoors is the stylish AWS5 Bluetooth lantern speakers.


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Historic Church Burns
BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Six years after a historic downtown Burlington, Iowa, church was destroyed by fire, it's about to reopen.
Workers might complete the finishing touches on First United Methodist Church this week. It was gutted in April 2007. After the blaze, all that was left of the landmark granite church built in 1889 were the foundation and walls. A Burlington man was convicted of arson and is serving a 35-year sentence in federal prison.
Members considered building a new church in another part of town but decided instead to salvage what they could of the old structure and rebuild. Since the blaze, members have been holding a joint-service with Grace United Methodist.
If work is completed this week, the church plans a 12-hour prayer vigil before the first service Sunday morning.


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Art Exhibit: How the Present Rearranges the Past
Friday, January 5, 2018 - Sunday, 4 February 2018
Monika Meler, Artist
How the Present Rearranges the Past Artist Statement:
Should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is a foreigner within? -Julia Kristeva
I was born and raised in Poland, and at the age of 10, my parents and I immigrated to the United States. Like many immigrants, when I left Poland, I took with me a still picture of the place I considered home. I did not return to Poland for fourteen
uninterrupted years. Upon that return, I expected everything to resemble that still picture, and realized quickly that nothing was the same. I was a foreigner in this land that I belonged to, and realized that the immigrant journey is much more
emotional than physical. Confused and torn, I turned my nostalgia and longing for the Poland I remembered into a reality.
My work examines this desire for the place that no longer exists. The images in my prints explore the Poland that only exists in my mind. I use images that reference my father's elaborate rose gardens, my mother's rich textiles, and my parent's
exquisite vases. These images are printed in many layers on top of one another. Images repeat, change direction, and dominance. All of these actions mimic the actions of memory.
Location Arts Place, Portland
Contact Arts Place Office, 260-726-4809 or https://artsland.org/portland-center-2/


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After Packers linebacker AJ Hawk flipped off his own sideline in Sunday's game against the Rams, he said it was a running joke with a couple of his teammates. Thing is, none of his teammates has come forward to admit any familiarity with this running joke.
During the postgame press conference yesterday, Hawk refused to identify who the teammates were or elaborate on the joke. And today, according to Pro Football Talk, Charles Woodson told Jim Rome, "From what I heard it was some kind of inside joke but I have no clue. I don't know who else knew about it either. I guess there were a couple people who knew about it but it caught everybody else off guard."
Because if there is one thing locker room inside jokes are known for, it is catching your teammates off guard.
Charles Woodson doesn't get A.J. Hawk's middle-finger "joke" [PFT]


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Woman killed in Bridgeport crash
BRIDGEPORT -- One woman was killed and another person was seriously injured Saturday afternoon when two cars collided in the downtown area.
Mayra Cardona, 39, of Caroline Street, was pronounced dead at the scene after she was partially ejected from the gray GMC SUV she was driving.
The crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. at the intersection of State Street and Lafayette Boulevard, near the federal courthouse. A white Chevrolet sedan with New York license plates was traveling east on State Street when it collided with Cardona's vehicle going south on Lafayette.
The force of the crash flipped over the SUV, spreading debris across the intersection. The white sedan sustained heavy front-end damage and its airbags deployed.
Two teenage passengers in Cardona's vehicle were taken to Bridgeport Hospital where they were treated for minor injuries and released.
The 24-year-old driver and the 23-year-old passenger of the white sedan were not injured.
Augusto Rodriquez, of Bridgeport, was driving his vehicle behind the white car when it struck the SUV at the intersection.
"It happened so fast," said Rodriquez.
Police and fire crews quickly converged on the scene and covered the SUV with a large tarp as they investigated the scene.
The victim's family and friends gathered on the sidewalk on Lafayette Boulevard and sobbed as they watched the scene.
"Why couldn't it be me?" cried one young man in the street.
The intersection and several surrounding streets were blocked off for hours after the crash as police investigated. Police did not give the names of any of the people involved.
The streets were reopened Saturday evening after the damaged vehicles and debris were removed. Police are continuing to investigate the crash and said no one was charged Saturday.
Cardona leaves her parents Eugenio Cardona and Usulina Rodriguez of Bridgeport, her daughter Melissa Saez and son Juan Saez, both of Bridgeport; and a brother Frank Aviles of Bridgeport; Evelyn and Judith Cardona and many nieces, nephews relatives and friends.
The Funeraria Luz de Paz, (Peaceful Light Funeral Home), 426 E. Washington Ave., is in chage of arrangements, which will be announced later today.


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Given two graphs g1 and g2, we can form a graph g1+g2, just by placing them side by side. For example, here's what c 4 + c 5 looks like:
It's important that you see this as a single graph with 9 vertices, rather than as two graphs with four and five vertices. Unlike the graphs we have looked at previously, this graph is not connected.
When we're writing the Haskell code for this sum of two graphs, we need to be careful. What if the vertices in the two graphs are using the same labels. In this case, c4 has vertices [1..4], c 5 has vertices [1..5]. If we're not careful, we might get this graph instead:
We need to take a disjoint union of the vertices, even if in fact they are using the same labels. The way to do this is to use Either.
So, here's the code for the disjoint sum of two graphs:
dsum g1 g2 = graph (vs,es) where
vs = map Left (vertices g1) ++ map Right (vertices g2)
es = (map . map) Left (edges g1) ++ (map . map) Right (edges g2)
And here it is in action:
> dsum (c 4) (c 5)
G [Left 1,Left 2,Left 3,Left 4,Right 1,Right 2,Right 3,Right 4,Right 5]
[[Left 1,Left 2],[Left 1,Left 4],[Left 2,Left 3],[Left 3,Left 4],
[Right 1,Right 2],[Right 1,Right 5],[Right 2,Right 3],[Right 3,Right 4],[Right 4,Right 5]]
Notice how, as required, our new graph has nine vertices.
Now, what are the symmetries of g1+g2 going to look like? Well suppose we already know the symmetry group of g1 - call it H - and the symmetry group of g2 - call it K. Hopefully it's obvious that given any h from H, and k from K - symmetries of g1 and g2 respectively - then doing h to the left hand side and k to the right hand side of g1+g2 will be a symmetry.
So we can think of the symmetry group of g1+g2 as consisting of elements (h,k), where we do h to the left hand side and k to the right hand side. If we do (h1,k1) then (h2,k2), it's the same as doing (h1 then h2, k1 then k2). Or, in group language, (h1,k1)*(h2,k2) = (h1*h2,k1*k2).
Another way to think about this. Normally, if we have two symmetries a and b, it matters what order we do them in. a*b (a then b) isn't necessarily the same as b*a (b then a). However, if a is a symmetry of the left hand side, and b is a symmetry of the right hand side, then the order doesn't matter. a*b = b*a. We say that a and b commute. The reason the order doesn't matter is that a is moving only left hand vertices and edges, and b is moving only right hand vertices and edges.
Because of this, there's no need to write the elements as (h,k), we can just write them as h*k. Then h1*k1 * h2*k2 = h1*h2 * k1*k2 (since we know hs and ks commute).
In this case, the symmetry group of g1+g2 is the direct product of the symmetry group of g1 and the symmetry group of g2. (Last time, I incorrectly called this the cartesian product.) In Haskell:
dp hs ks =
[P $ M.fromList $ map (\(x,x') -> (Left x,Left x')) $ M.toList h' | P h' <- hs] ++
[P $ M.fromList $ map (\(y,y') -> (Right y,Right y')) $ M.toList k' | P k' <- ks]
Recall that in HaskellForMaths, permutations are implemented using Data.Map. What this is saying is that we change all the (x,x') mappings in the permutations in the first group to (Left x, Left x') mappings, and all the (y,y') mappings in the second group to (Right y, Right y') mappings. The construction ensures that the elements of h and the elements of k are acting on disjoint sets, so they will commute with one another. Hopefully you can see that the the group calculated by this function is (isomorphic to) the direct product.
(This function is called "cp" in HaskellForMaths 0.1.3, but I'll change it to "dp" in the next release.)
As expected, we have:
> mapM_ print $ graphAuts2 $ dsum (c 4) (c 5)
[[Left 1,Left 2],[Left 3,Left 4]]
[[Left 1,Left 3]]
[[Left 1,Left 4,Left 3,Left 2]]
[[Left 2,Left 4]]
[[Right 1,Right 2],[Right 3,Right 5]]
[[Right 1,Right 3],[Right 4,Right 5]]
[[Right 1,Right 4],[Right 2,Right 3]]
[[Right 1,Right 5,Right 4,Right 3,Right 2]]
[[Right 2,Right 5],[Right 3,Right 4]]
> mapM_ print $ graphAuts2 (c 4) `dp` graphAuts2 (c 5)
[[Left 1,Left 2],[Left 3,Left 4]]
[[Left 1,Left 3]]
[[Left 1,Left 4,Left 3,Left 2]]
[[Left 2,Left 4]]
[[Right 1,Right 2],[Right 3,Right 5]]
[[Right 1,Right 3],[Right 4,Right 5]]
[[Right 1,Right 4],[Right 2,Right 3]]
[[Right 1,Right 5,Right 4,Right 3,Right 2]]
[[Right 2,Right 5],[Right 3,Right 4]]
They're the same.
The number of elements in a group is called its order:
order gs = length $ elts gs
(Remember that we always represent a group by a list of generators. "order" calculates how many elements are in the group generated by gs.)
The direct product of H and K consists of all pairs hk or (h,k) from h and k. We're guaranteed that (h1,k1) /= (h2,k2), unless h1=h2 and k1=k2. Hence we will always find
order (hs `dp` ks) == order hs * order ks
So that's the direct product. Now, last time, we were looking at the complete bipartite graphs kb m n. In this graph, any permutation of the left vertices among themselves, together with any permutation of the right vertices among themselves, is a symmetry of the graph.
The set of all permutations of [1..n] is called S n. So what we're saying is that the symmetry group of kb m n contains
_S m `dp` _S n
Hopefully that makes a little more sense now.


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And thankfully, I won't have to watch him feel the heat with somebody. With somebody who (somebody who) loves him. Sigh.
The retired Indiana Pacer's star and TNT NBA analyst, 41, tells Us Weekly that he was approached to be on Season 4 of Dancing With the Stars, but decided to pass. The former basketball player said that he was flattered by the offer, but declined due to scheduling conflicts.
The other reason Miller's declining to get down boogie? Reigning champ Emmitt Smith. Yeah, apparently Miller told Us, "Emmitt ruined it for all athletes because he was so good." No, no, Reggie. Emmitt ruined it for all athletes because he was born with legs.
Reggie Miller Rejects Dancing With the Stars [Us Weekly Online]


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Murder-suicide claims Christie team member, spouse
DENVILLE, N.J. (AP) — A member of Republican Gov. Chris Christie's transition team and her husband were under "enormous stress" in the weeks before he fatally shot her and then killed himself, their daughter said.
Lorraine "Lori" Bramhall told the Daily Record of Parsippany (http://dailyre.co/1ygUkQt) that John Bramhall believed his wife of 54 years, Joan, was suffering from dementia.
Lori Bramhall disagreed with the assessment, saying her mother could be "forgetful" but there were no apparent changes in her personality.
But longtime friend Keith Pierson told the newspaper that Joan Bramhall did appear to have some mental issues. He said she recently asked him whether President Richard Nixon, who died in 1994, was still alive, and he sometimes noticed she had a "vacant" demeanor.
Authorities have not said what might have prompted the murder-suicide in the couple's Denville home. A medical examiner ruled Joan Bramhall's death a homicide, while John Bramhall's death was ruled a suicide.
A family member found the bodies Thursday morning and called police.
Joan Bramhall was a former Morris County clerk who was well-known in Republican political circles. She retired in December.
In a statement, Christie hailed Bramhall as an "outstanding public servant but an even better person" who would be sorely missed by family and friends.
"She was an extraordinarily selfless and generous person to friends and family alike. She honored me and Mary Pat with her friendship for the last 20 years. We considered her a dear friend and we are terribly saddened by her tragic passing. We send our condolences to Joan's family," he said.
John Bramhall, a successful builder of high-end homes, was laidback and loved to go on hunting trips, friends told the newspaper. When his wife retired after 15 years as county clerk, she said the couple hoped to travel and cruise to Alaska.
Lori Bramhall said that she and her father were estranged and that he had obtained domestic violence restraining orders against her and three of her adult children Wednesday. Those orders were dismissed Friday.
"My father said I wasn't allowed to talk to my mother. I loved my mother, and she loved me," Lori Bramhall said, noting that her parents at various times had raised all six of her children because she was dealing with substance abuse problems.
Information from: Daily Record (Parsippany, N.J.), http://www.dailyrecord.com
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Do you remember that phone that went viral a few years ago? The Pomegranate? Everybody considered it their dream phone and some people even thought it was real and wanted to pre-order it. It featured a coffee brewer, built-in shaver, built-in harmonica, built-in projector, global voice translator, and all the regular features of a smartphone of its time like music, Internet, and GPS.
It's not a real device, of course. It was a remarkably well done marketing campaign for Nova Scotia's tourism scene. Clicking anything that might lead you to a purchase such as "Release Date" or "I've Seen Enough" on the website brought up a message that read "Someday you'll be able to get everything you want in one device. Today you can get everything you want in one place." and then redirected you to a page about Nova Scotia. Clever.
You'll notice that the Pomegranate never mentions a single thing about apps or an app marketplace. That's because the campaign was launched before the App Store revolution. Fast forward a few years ahead and you reach 2012. Even by today's standards and with the hundreds of thousands of apps available, the Pomegranate still looks like a Jetson's device.
You might be surprised just how far we've come with mobile technology, however. Quite a few of the features in the Pomegranate that were considered remarkable or flat-out impossible a few years ago are now a reality. I thought it'd be fun to take a look at this in depth to see if we really are living in the future.
Voice Translator
Check that one off the list. We got it. Most recently, I've seen it advertised in commercials as one of the flagship features in Motorola's Droid Razr M. Albeit, the Pomegranate showcases the feature as useful in international business meetings instead of Motorola's tactic of randomly trying to talk to your dog in Spanish, but you get the picture. It's done with the help of Google Translate in Android Jelly Bean, by the way. Plus, even if you don't have the Droid Razr M or Android Jelly Bean, there are still plenty of third-party translation apps that at least try to mimic this functionality.
Believe it or not, this has been made a reality too. It's not exactly a critically acclaimed device, but the Samsung Galaxy Beam does sport a built-in projector that can display content on your wall up to 50 inches in size. Samsung managed to cram a projector into a device that's only 12.55 mm thin — a true accomplishment. The need for a projector in a mobile device is dependent upon each person — most people have absolutely no use for one — but nonetheless, the once futuristic technology is here.
Well, this is one tool — if you can even call it one — that hasn't made it in to any phone to my knowledge, but no one really needs one. It was just in the concept Pomegranate presumably because it was easy to fit in a device with that type of slim, pocketable form factor. Although a physical harmonica as we know it isn't integrated into the hardware of any phone, there are numerous apps that can replace much of the functionality. The one that comes to mind is Smule's Ocarina app, which lets users blow into the mic of the iPhone to create musical sound.
Yet another feature that isn't in any smartphone, but I'm willing to bet a lot of Americans in particular would appreciate the ability to brew a nice cup of coffee right from their phones. It doesn't look like we're heading in that direction, but what has changed significantly since the Pomegranate concept was released is mobile payment technology. Starbucks integrates with Passbook in iOS 6 to get some coffee with just the swipe of your device and places like Dunkin' Donuts have apps across multiple platforms with similar features. (Starbucks also has its own app.) So while we haven't quite developed technology to brew coffee from a phone, we have been able to reduce the time it takes to buy a cup.
Yeah, sorry. There isn't a phone with a shaver built in and there aren't any apps to replicate it. Try not to lose too much sleep over this one.
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It's amazing to look back and see just how far we've come, isn't it? The Pomegranate concept continues to seem less like a mere concept and more like a possibility. Plus, we've already completely replicated some of its features like the voice translator and projector.
Don't forget one other important component of smartphones today: apps. To say that apps have changed the way we use our phones would be the understatement of the century. Nobody could have predicted how they would take over our lives in such a short amount of time, not even the people who envisioned the Pomegranate, hence the lack of any third-party apps on the device at all.
One might even argue that when factoring in apps, we are ahead of the Pomegranate technologically. I sure would. While the Pomegranate does give the impression of being a phone of the future, I bet had someone dreamed up an App Store with hundreds of thousands of possibilities in the palm of your hand in the early to mid-2000s, people would have drooled over that too. Now, we take it for granted.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > March 2007 > International choir returns from China
International choir returns from China
PLAINVIEW – It was a long plane ride, but Wayland Baptist University's International Choir Director Dr. Scott Herrington said it was well worth it.
Herrington led a group of 47 students, faculty and alumni to China March 7-15 where the International Choir performed three concerts in a six-day span, two in Hong Kong and one in Shenzhen. The performances were in conjunction with the American Celebration of Music in China, a festival recognized by the state government.
The choir performed two joint concerts with universities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, as well as performing a concert at the Kowloon International Baptist Church in Hong Kong.
"Probably the highlight of the trip was the interaction with the college students," Herrington said. "We had dinner with the students. We split our kids up and ate at different tables and communicated with them. It was an incredible experience for our kids and I'm sure for theirs as well."
Herrington said many of the Chinese students had studied English and loved practicing what they had learned. He also said that the Wayland group was treated like celebrities following each concert as students rushed to meet them or have their pictures taken.
Jennifer Jones, a senior from Artesia, N.M., said getting to know the other students was one of the most interesting parts of the trip.
"They are so different over there," Jones said. "Getting to learn their culture while they are learning our and realizing that there are certain thing that bridge the gap."
Jones said one of those things that bridged the gap was "Jingle Bells."
"The directors couldn't talk to each other so they had to talk through a translator, but they wanted a song that we could sing together," Jones said. "The only song that they could come up with that both choirs new was 'Jingle Bells.' So, in the middle of March, we sang 'Jingle Bells' at a formal concert."
The choirs sang the chorus together in English, then Wayland's choir sang the first verse in English followed by another joint effort on the chorus. The Shenzen University choir then sang the first verse in Mandarin, Chinese, followed by the chorus once more.
As well as performing three concerts, the group learned about Chinese culture, visiting several worship temples including Buddhist and ancestral centers. They also learned more about eastern music, attending a concert by a Chinese chamber orchestra with traditional Chinese instruments.
"That was really interesting for our students who don't get much exposure to Asian or eastern music or instruments," Herrington said. "We had a good balance of cultural education and musical education."
Herrington said the experience was great for the students, but it never would have happened without the help of those who supported the trip.


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There are perks to doing a year-long-only-buying-from-the-Goodwill-challenge… and one of them is being able to take part in the annual Glitter Gala Fashion Show!
This summer I received my mailed invite to the event… and I immediately thought that I've attended SO MANY fundraising dinners that I didn't just want to sit and eat but I wanted to PARTICIPATE with the audience, the staff, the volunteers! I wanted to volunteer as a model in the fashion show!
So I've been working with the lovely ladies behind the scenes and pass through those elusive Golden Gates to the "goody rooms" and you wouldn't BELIEVE what is in these rooms! Anyways… I couldn't take pictures of their "collection" so you will just have to attend future fashion shows to see all they have amassed over the years but I can tell you that the items being modeled at the show are going to be available for purchase at the Glitter Gala! So get there early (because you know I'm going to be in line) for all the deals but if you want a sneak-peek at what they will be offering, attend the fashion-show fundraiser on Wednesday, November 9th at 6pm!
You can find out all about both the fundraiser dinner and the infamous shopping day here: http://www.seattlegoodwill.org/glitter/


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Jan. 5, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Weather permitting, the audio broadcast of the Engineers' next basketball game will be webcasted live at www.sportsjuice.com. MIT opens NEWMAC play this Thursday at 5:30 PM against the Bears of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Tech enters Thursday's tilt with a season mark of 5-3. Junior Mike D'Auria has ignited the MIT attack with 18.4 points per game, and is third in the league in scoring and second in assists (4.9). Senior Adam Gibbons has supplied the offense with 17.5 points per game, and is the league's fourth-highest scorer.
The webcast will be available free of charge.


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12:00 pm
Unseen Life On Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology "Microbial Diversity" This program addresses the relationship between the bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotic branches of the tree of life, with their startling variety of organisms. Students see comparisons of organisms in their natural habitats and learn how organisms are studied in natural habitats and the laboratory. D
12:30 pm
Unseen Life On Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology "Microbial Ecosystems" All life forms depend on microbes as the essential processors of oxygen, mineral nutrients for plant and animal growth, and our waste materials. This episode investigates some of the important environments dominated by microbes and how their presence is essential for human life. D
1:00 pm
Western Tradition "A New Public" Mass education and mass communications create a new political life and a new life and a new life of the mind.G
1:30 pm
Western Tradition "Fin De Siecle" Everyday life is transformed as leisure becomes a mass industry in its own right.G
2:00 pm
Discovering Psychology "Past, Present, and Promise" Introduces psychology as a science that spans many fields of knowledge, from philosophy and anthropology to biochemistry and artificial intelligence, and asks, "What is the nature of human nature?"G
2:30 pm
Discovering Psychology "Understanding Research" An examination of the scientific method of collecting and analyzing data - in the laboratory and in the field - with an emphasis on sharpening critical thinking in the interpretation of research findings.G
3:00 pm
DragonflyTV "Dogs" Canine conundrum: Alexa, Miriah and Janaya investigate which sled dog should lead the pack to victory. Seeing red (or not!): Caitlin and Elizabeth compare their pooch pals' colorblindness. D
3:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "Social Entrepreneurs" Join the Biz Kids and you'll meet social visionaries who use the same tools as profit-oriented entrepreneurs. Yet instead of building companies and large profits, these people create thriving organizations and powerful movements for social change. D
4:00 pm
The Electric Company "Revenge of the Zeros" Upset about their score of zero points in the banana sculpture contest, Danny and Annie decide to ruin Paul the Gorilla's banana festival party that is being held at The Electric Diner. The Electric Company catches on, and does everything they can to stop the pranksters and save the party and preserve Paul's sanity. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Snow Day to Be Exact" Hacker steals the powerful sunisphere from Solaria, causing the cyberworld's sunny vacation paradise to be covered in snow! In a fun-filled chase across the snowy terrain, the kids discover the power and speed of estimation in order to recover the glowing orb from Buzz and Delete before the temperature reaches zero and the site freezes over forever. The Big Idea: Sometimes using a close answer is good enough for the problem you are solving. ~G
5:00 pm
Quilting Arts "It's All in the Technique" We all love adding new ideas and materials to our quilting repertoire. Sometimes older techniques are the source of new inspiration. First, Cheryl Sleboda demonstrates heirloom smocking. D
5:30 pm
Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Rocky River, Part 3" Final episode of Rocky River. As Jerry promised the water continues to get a wetter look through reflections of shapes and colors. Finally hotspots are found and the river jumps out at you as it's flowing. D
6:00 pm
Cooking with Nick Stellino "Luscious Soups" A soup can be a form of art! Chef Stellino shares his secrets for the perfect soups, smooth, luscious and elegant. Nick visits the green grocer and prepares Butternut Squash Soup topped with Peppers, Arugula & Spicy Sausage and a Pea Soup topped with Peppers & Shrimp. D
6:30 pm
Chef's Life "Pimp My Grits" The restaurant gears up for a practice service when the new equipment and new menu will be tested in real time - but nothing is going as planned. One of the big changes to the restaurant's menus is the addition of a section called "Pimp My Grits," where Vivian exalts the lowly, quintessentially Southern ingredient in four distinct ways. D
7:00 pm
This Old House "Arlington Italianate Project 2014/Arlington Heights" Arborist Matt Foti does some selective tree pruning, while Richard revisits the benefits of using PEX instead of copper for the water supply lines. Norm tours an 1872 Stick Style home in the neighborhood, and Tom shows Kevin how to convert a former doorjamb into a cased opening. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Oslo" Rick finds evidence of the proud Norwegian spirit in the country's capital - from Viking ships to a sleek new opera house, from World War II tales of terrorism to the constant festival at the thriving harbor. He takes in major art pieces and sails with friends in a fjord.G
8:00 pm
Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope "Christmas In Switzerland" During visits to Lausanne, Montreau and Basel, Joseph goes to see a Christmas ornament artist, samples Swiss culinary specialties, journeys to old St. Nick's village, and has a close encounter with Father Christmas himself.G
8:30 pm
Lidia's Italy In America "St. Louis and Chicago Style Pizza" Lidia enjoys a New York slice of pizza and heads to Caputo's, a family-owned Italian grocery in Chicago. She teaches viewers how to make their own pizzas with her Deep Dish Pizza and St. Louis Pizza recipes. D
9:00 pm
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Company's Coming" NULL
9:30 pm
Simply Ming "Morimoto & Knives" The difference between having fun and being miserable in the kitchen can come down to this: the right knife. On this episode of Simply Ming, the blade master himself, Iron Chef Morimoto, joins Ming to make sure we all know how important knife skills are. D
10:00 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "You Say Tomato" When it is tomato season, it is sometimes difficult to keep up with the bounty. Joanne prepares a chilled tomato and Greek yogurt soup, and then teaches her student Jack the versatility of roasted cherry tomatoes, showcasing them in a lamb sirloin salad. Recipes: Chilled Tomato and Greek Yogurt Soup, Roasted Cherry Tomatoes, and Lamb Sirloin Salad with Feta and Roasted Cherry Tomatoes. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Oslo" Rick finds evidence of the proud Norwegian spirit in the country's capital - from Viking ships to a sleek new opera house, from World War II tales of terrorism to the constant festival at the thriving harbor. He takes in major art pieces and sails with friends in a fjord.G
11:00 pm
Habitable Planet, The "Agriculture" Will world population outrun food resources? The "Green Revolution" of the 20th century multiplied crop yields, in part through increasing inputs of pesticides and fertilizers. How can farmers reduce their use of agricultural chemicals and still produce enough food?. D
11:30 pm
Habitable Planet, The "Water Resources" While essential to the lives of humans and animals, fresh water only accounts for six percent of the world's water supply. Scientists in Florida's Everglades and the water challenged Southwest consider the optimum use of existing sources of fresh water for both humans and ecosystems. D


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The Five Stages of Mastering Workflow, covered in the book are:
- Collection
- Processing
- Organizing
- Reviewing
- Doing
I've been working toward GTD nirvana for six months now, which I understand is nothing. It's not uncommon for people to spend a year or more getting their system "down" so that it becomes routine.
I've read the GTD book once and listened to the audio version as well. I follow GTD blogs, listen to GTD podcasts and participate in GTD groups on various social media platforms. To date, my GTD application has been at work. However, the more I look at the five steps, the more I see this workflow applying to genealogy research.
- Collection - gathering all your "stuff" into one place. Documents, photos, books, emails etc.
- Processing - what do you need to do with the "stuff"? Scan it, read it, file it, share it?
- Organizing - if you need to read it, where does it go? if you need to scan it, do you have a scan folder? Do you need to scan it before you read it? What is the next step?
- Reviewing - What needs to be done first? What is your next action? Does it need to be a project? If you have 4, 500+ pg county histories to read...that may need to be a project.
- Doing - Scan it, File it, Read it
Isn't this what we as genealogist do? I think David Allen is a closet genealogist! I wonder if he knows it? I would love to hear from any other genealogists who have applied GTD to their research process.


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So, how was your Halloween? I did very well: people came up to me on the street and pressed Baby Ruths into my palms, murmuring, "LOVE the costume!"
I wasn't wearing a costume, but you learn to take compliments (and candy bars) where you can get them in this world.
Now, if you were wondering what treats were left for me on the back porch during the holiday week, you DO understand that since October is a "Please Don't Donate Books" month, these were more or less tricks. But some of these may turn into treats by next July. (Or earlier, depending on how the new bookstore is arranged this month.)
We had some fifty boxes come in as the first installment of an estate: fifty boxes of books on psychoanalysis, no less. The person who packed them up actually sorted them by psychologist: Freud, Jung, Bettelheim, Anna Freud, etc. There was lots of material on child psychology, that is, psychology dealing with people who are jung and easily freudened. No, that joke did NOT come in with them. I've had that one a LONG time.
What makes it worth mentioning is that one box was set aside for very early books in German, including some early and even first printings of works by Freud (but not his earliest stuff: he was already famous at this point), Wilhelm Stekel, and one book from 1904 on the use of hypnotism in analysis. From the looks of it, most of these books were part of a collection around 1921, passed to another collector somewhere in the 1930s, and were bought by the most recent owner around 2000 or so. I won't require you to buy all of these books together, but it does seem as if they've formed a family over the last ninety years. Splitting them up might be traumatic.
We had a good, solid load of Illinois genealogical material: census collections, collections of marriage license data, and a book of newspaper reprints from an Illinois county in the 1840s. These were serious genealogists, who put together a lot of these books by themselves, and did a few books on their own relatives. None of this makes it any easier to figure out what to do with these nineteenth century family pictures. (The family packed it all up and sent it to me. Maybe genealogical interest isn't hereditary.)
As usual, there was a smattering of doodaddery: a little wooden man whose head emits a sign saying "Accidents Cause People" when you press on his feet may be the prize here. (Which gives you some idea.) There's a lovely doll cradle, as I mentioned before, as well as an assortment of pressed glass, a book catalog printed as a box of trading cards, and a testimonial cane presented to "the heaviest drinker of non-alcoholic beverages" at a local club. Perhaps you had to be there.
If anyone out there still buys CDs, we have had a small collection of Christmas ones arrive (I may have to play "If Mozart Had Written I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" before I put it out for sale) and a large collection of movie soundtracks. A collection of new and unused compilation DVDs of really bad Christmas movies, cartoons, and TV specials arrived just in time to perhaps put in an appearance at the bookstore on Black Friday or Magenta Tuesday or some other great shopping day in November. (Isn't there a day in there someday for eating turkey? Used to be.)
Anyway, that's how scary MY Halloween was. Next year may be different. Should I market Uncle Blogsy costumes and make some money, or would I be better off with the handful of Baby Ruths from passersby again? (What if they give me the gluten-free version?)


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When Dwayne Johnson was in WWE, I will openly say that he was one of my favourite wrestlers.
Better known as The Rock, Johnson, the third generation star, caught my eye from the very beginning. Even as the "Blue Chipper," I had a feeling there was a lot of potential for the man with so much lineage in the business. I'll admit to laughing out loud at his promos and being impressed at the amount of dedication he took to getting better in the ring.
Seemingly on a weekly basis, Rock would improve his skills, so much so that by the time he departed WWE, he was one of the better all-around talents, not just a great promo man.
Now, looking at The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment though, I can't help but feel that Rocky has slipped from his once lofty position and cannot be labeled as one of the greatest of all time.
Let's start with the promos, since that's where most fans will go first on the DVD. Very, very quickly, the dialogue becomes repetitive. Yes, "sing-along" is great for living in the now, but in terms of longevity, it wanes. Imagine if Johnson was still talking about his strudel in a WWE ring today -- it would go over like, to borrow a catchphrase, a steaming pile of monkey crap.
Compare that to other great speakers, like John Cena, who gets a lot of comparisons to Rocky these days. Cena, throughout his time in WWE, has held only one or two catchphrases, namely "the champ is here." He doesn't feel the need to do what Johnson did, which is pull out the same schtick every week. We don't hear the "it doesn't matter" or "if you smell..." line over and over.
Indeed, Rock's staying power here has been diluted. Even the uproariously funny "Billy and God" conversation, which is thankfully on the DVD, gets repetitive when we hear "millions ... and millions" thrown in. Heck, you might as well throw in "did I do that?" or "sit on it."
Having said that about his promos, I actually found myself enjoying Rock's match content more than I expected. Due to the sheer girth of WWE's DVD collection that features Johnson matches, I was pleasantly surprised at not only how many solid bouts there are, but also the quality. We get some expected matches, such as Rock vs. Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania 18, but there are some gems in here that no one would've expected, such as Rocky vs. Eddie Guerrero and a Mankind/Rock ladder match.
Through these bouts and others, the viewer sees just how talented Rock was. The charisma that he had on the mic, which indeed drew millions of fans in, carried through in his matches and you can't help but be entertained. That value grows as Johnson progresses in his career and his workrate improves, to the point where his matches with the likes of Guerrero and Kurt Angle look solid and not like one is carrying the other.
Still, at this point, I'd have trouble listing Johnson as one of the best of all time, and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that he left at a time when his ring work as getting to a level that workrate fans truly appreciated. Had he still been around today, his work would be up there with the top in-ring workers in WWE today; unfortunately, we'll never know what could've been.
Hopefully, if they haven't already, the WWE Legends Roundtable on 24/7 will discuss Rock's place in the "best of all time rankings," because this DVD does little to settle that argument. I definitely will recommend this recording for anyone who was a late-'90s or early-'00s wrestling fan, but for the wrestling historian who is looking at this recording to be the argument for Dwayne Johnson to be labelled as one of the best, then you'll have to look elsewhere.


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Freeport-McMoRan Will Come Roaring Back
In mid-December it looked like the ever-solid Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYS: FCX) had solved its three-month labor difficulties at Grasberg, its huge metals mining facility in Papua, Indonesia.
But no sooner had the strikers accepted their agreed-upon pay raises and returned to the mines than they began literally striking their non-union colleagues, thereby once again halting Grasberg's production. Last week, however, the latest round of violence -- including the apparent deaths of two workers -- had been brought under control, and the huge copper and gold operation was again up and running. Nevertheless, Freeport apparently is still operating under force majeure, a prime indication that a return to normalcy lies down the proverbial road, most likely in the second quarter.
The strike's already struck
The final quarter of 2011, which bore the brunt of the Grasberg strike, saw the company earn $640 million, or $0.67 per share, a nearly 60% dip on the net income line from the comparable quarter a year earlier. Also as a result of the strike, revenues for the most recently reported quarter slid 26% year over year.
Freeport wasn't alone among copper producers in experiencing a fourth-quarter strike in Indonesia, however. Newmont Mining (NYS: NEM) saw 400 workers at its Batu Hijau mine on Sumbawa Island walk off the job briefly and with little effect in a November dispute over the calculation of overtime compensation.
However, for the nearly completed March quarter, Freeport management expects to have lost about 80 million pounds of copper sales from the 875 million pounds it had originally forecast. Similarly, gold sales are expected to reach about 300,000 ounces, versus the previous estimate of 425,000 ounces. Analysts who follow the company have arrived at a consensus earnings expectation of approximately $0.84 per share, well below the $1.58 per share recorded in the first quarter of 2011.
Can the red metal stay strong?
However, since Freeport's Grasberg labor unrest, while challenging, was clearly temporary, the real question surrounding the company involves the outlook for global copper supply, demand, and prices. For predictions in those areas, the world traditionally looks first to China, which consumes about 40% of the world's output of the red metal.
It's therefore noteworthy that the big developing country recently shaved its 2012 economic-growth target to 7.5% from the previous 8%. As Premier Wen Jiabao said just last week, China must move toward slower growth and stronger political reforms to prevent an economic faltering.
At the same time, however, it's likely that worldwide copper demand will exceed supply yet again in 2012, this time by an amount approaching 50,000 metric tons. That figure would represent a significant decline from last year's 400,000-ton shortfall. Nevertheless, it hardly represents a complete turnaround, and, for my money, we shouldn't be surprised by a more substantial 2012 figure, given that stockpiles on the London Metal Exchange have declined about 25% this year to a level not seen since August 2009.
Powerful prevailing prices
At the same time, the reduced supply demand shortfall will result largely from an expected refined copper output increase of about 6.7% this year, compared with demand growth that is expected to be closer to 6%. Given those expectations, May contracts on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange are trading in the vicinity of $3.80 a pound, a substantial hike from the levels just above $3 that prevailed as recently as October.
The increase in worldwide copper production will result from a number of sources. For instance, Vancouver, British Columbia-based Ivanhoe Mines (NYS: IVN) , which is 51% owned by Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto (NYS: RIO) -- in a less than amicable relationship -- is nearing completion of the first phase of its Oyu Tolgoi copper, gold, and silver project in Mongolia. The project, which may contain gold and copper with a whopping aggregate value of $300 billion, is almost certain to begin production later this year. It was effectively born in the mid-1990s when, for $5 million, Ivanhoe acquired Mongolian exploration licenses from BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company.
Freeport's global growth
While Ivanhoe's new operations will ultimately add meaningfully to the world's copper and gold output, Freeport-McMoRan will remain the world's major publicly traded copper company for years to come. Indeed, its recent labor travails notwithstanding, the company continues to build upon the strength provided by its long-lived, geographically diverse operations. Among its current projects, the company continues to ramp up its capacity at open-pit copper mines in Arizona and New Mexico, where it currently operates seven such facilities.
Similarly, it is expanding its assets in Peru and Chile. And at Tenke Fungurume, its copper and cobalt concession in Africa's Democratic Republic of Congo, its still-young facility is producing nearly half again its rated design capacity and is in the early stages of the creation of a second phase, which, at a cost of about $850 million, will add substantially to its initial output capabilities. Further, at Grasberg it is involved in the development of large-scale underground ore bodies beneath the massive facility's open-pit unit.
Given Freeport's steady strengthening since its 2007 acquisition of Phelps Dodge, which was then twice Freeport's size, I strongly suggest that Fools carefully track the company by placing it on their personalized version of My Watchlist.
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by Clark Groome
Remember when it was impossible to see a black man on a Major League baseball team?
Remember when it was impossible to imagine a Roman Catholic being elected president of the United States?
Remember when it would have been ridiculous for a presidential candidate to name a Jew as his vice president?
Remember when it was illegal for heterosexual blacks and whites, let alone same-sex couples, to marry?
Remember when it was a crime to be gay?
Remember when it was a silly notion to think a woman could be a serious candidate for vice president or president?
Remember when having a black man as president of the United States was too far fetched to be considered?
Remember when the only gay people in the news or on TV were non-flattering stereotypes?
Remember when homophobic banter was acceptable?
Remember when there were no openly gay athletes in any of America's four major team sports?
All of those issues are now in the rear view mirror.
Jackie Robinson, Jack Kennedy, Joe Lieberman, Geraldine Ferraro, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama have all moved our society's diversity bar.
The courts, some state legislatures and the people have made for a more tolerant, congenial and accepting – if far from perfect – country.
Interracial marriages are commonplace.
Ten states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriages, with three others likely to do so by year's end.
Gay TV characters have put the lie to the stereotypes in shows as diverse as "Will and Grace," "Ellen" and "Scandal."
Elton John, Jane Lynch, Neil Patrick Harris, Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen DeGeneris, among many, have had uninterrupted and, in some cases, improved careers after coming out.
Reporters and columnists have come out with little damage done to their credibility, with Anderson Cooper perhaps the best known.
So with that background, with the clear changes that society has made in the last decade, why did it take until last week for the NBA's Jason Collins to become the first active athlete in Major League Baseball, the NBA, the NFL or the NHL to say publicly that he's gay? It's a question that's hard to answer but, as with all the other issues of societal change we've dealt with since Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, the most likely answer is fear.
Athletes are insulated in their locker rooms. Until recently it was fairly common practice for athletes to use homophobic slurs on and off the field/court/ice. Gay athletes likely kept quiet out of concerns for their safety, their jobs and their friendships.
Thanks to the four professional leagues and some courageous straight athletes like former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayenbadeo, Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, Tigers starting pitcher Jason Verlander, the irrepressible Charles Barkley and even NHL bad boy Sean Avery, that climate is changing.
Each league has a group dedicated to helping gay athletes and supporting young athletes as they struggle with the issue. Flyers scout Patrick Burke, whose gay younger brother Brendan was killed in an automobile accident in 2010, founded the NHL's group You Can Play.
That organization, MLB's participation in the It Gets Better program and anti-discrimination policies in all of the major sports leagues as well as a crackdown on players who use homophobic slurs, have made the stadiums, arenas and locker rooms safer places.
The fact that Jason Collins, a marginal player nearing the end of his career, was universally respected and liked before he came out, helps.
The timing of his announcement is interesting, coming as it does less than a month after a series of articles in the New York Times and elsewhere about the efforts of the pro leagues and some pro players to make it easier for gay athletes to come out and feel safe. His was a courageous and important step. He is a free agent at the end of his career who wants to keep playing. It will be interesting to see if he gets a job. If he does, the media will watch carefully how he is treated in the locker room and on the court.
My guess is that his announcement will be followed in short order by several others. Gay athletes will feel safer and less alone since Collins, in his words, "raised his hand." They may also, understanding what a team is, not want him to stand out there alone. His courage and humility in making what had to be a very hard call is, in truth, a very big deal, for sports and for society.
The clamor will pass – as it did after Jackie Robinson was joined by other black players. Ultimately, all that will matter, and all that should matter, is how well a gay athlete plays and how positive he is in the locker room. The rest is just a distraction.