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At NBC's "Today," orange is the new black.
On Thursday, Deborah Turness, the new president of NBC News, and Don Nash, executive producer of "Today," previewed the morning program's redesigned set, which will be officially unveiled to viewers Monday.
The open-plan set, which took 30 days to construct, is the first redesign for the show in seven years and was in the works before Turness was named to replace Steve Capus as president. Highlights of the "hipster New York City apartment," as Nash described the environs, include a 360-degree rotating floor, a souped-up touch-screen weather map, and energy-efficient LED lighting.
Oh, and orange – lots and lots of orange. The new couch is an orange arc reminiscent of the "Today" logo. Behind it hangs a flat-screen television that will display viewer-submitted photos of the sunrise from across the country. There's also a digital studio, appropriately dubbed the "Orange Room," where Carson Daly, who is joining the program, will interact with the "Today" audience via social media.
"This is without a doubt one of the most beautiful sets I've been involved with in television," Turness said.
The show's new weather map, designed with input from weatherman Al Roker, will feature a touch-screen and zoom-in capabilities reminiscent of a smartphone. "Our kids are growing up touching screens," he said. The animated map can also be used during election season as a display for political polls.
Cosmetic changes alone won't revitalize the once-dominant morning news show, which now trails rival ABC "Good Morning America" in viewers -- after the messy search for a co-host for Matt Lauer after Meredith Vieira left. First, Ann Curry was given the job, but after it became clear that the chemistry between her and Lauer was lacking, she was pushed out in favor of Savannah Guthrie.
However, the perception that Curry was treated poorly by Lauer and NBC hurt the show. Unlike evening news shows where an anchor is there to tell the audience what is happening in the world, morning shows try to create a family-like atmosphere.
Turness, who joined NBC News from Britain's ITV News, where she was editor, said she wants "Today" to be guided by three operating principles, "substance," "uplift" and "connection."
Since arriving at NBC several weeks ago, Turness has been spending much of her time on "Today." She's been in the control room most mornings analyzing the show and charting a strategy to return it to its former glory.
Part of that, people familiar with her thinking said, is for "Today" to reestablish a "human connection" with its audience while continuing to focus its efforts on hard news and "agenda-setting" stories.
Inside NBC, there is optimism that the show can get its mojo back. While "Good Morning America" has made gains, NBC executives note that less than 10% of the viewers who left "Today" went to its arch rival.
"They haven't married someone else; they are still out there," a Turness said.
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We need a design from the ground up (literally). Design a "Plant A Tree" campaign for us. Offer up some of your freshest looks in a single webpage format. Fill the page with at least three (3) "Plant a Tree" banner ads. Animated gifs or flash (preferred) are encouraged, but not required. All three ads can be of the same concept, just different layouts. However, if you would like to make several different concepts and you feel it gives your entry the winning edge, please feel free to do so.
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YUKON, Okla. – With a one-point lead, 2.9 seconds to play and possession of the ball, all Hugo High School had to do was inbound the basketball and run out the clock to advance in the Oklahoma state boys' basketball tournament.
But what followed stunned everyone.
Hugo guard Trey Johnson got confused after he received the inbounds pass and laid the ball into the wrong basket just before time expired, giving the opposing team, Millwood High, a 38-37 win Thursday night and a place in the Class 3A semifinals.
"When I saw the kid going that way, I was like, `No, he's not. No, he's not ... Oh, yes he is,"' Millwood assistant coach David Samilton told The Oklahoman. "I couldn't believe it."
Johnson needed only to dribble away the remaining seconds to wrap up a victory for Hugo.
Instead, he got turned around and dropped in a most bizarre buzzer-beater, Hugo coach Darnell Shanklin told The Associated Press on Friday.
Hugo's celebrating fans went silent, and Millwood fans broke out in celebration after a moment of silence for reassurance that the points -- and the win -- were theirs.
"Without a doubt, that's the toughest locker room I've ever had to talk to," Shanklin said.
Johnson was tough to console, Shanklin said, adding that other players on the team called and texted him on Friday.
"The kid feels terrible. It's still a game, regardless of what anyone says, basketball is still a game," Shanklin said.
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One thing led to another last weekend and we ended up on Youtube. We ended up on Youtube watching, no that's not quite correct, watching and singing, Ian Moss's all time Australian pub rock classic, "Tucker's Daughter" (1989).
My first innate reaction was to sing louder. My second was to be thankful I wasn't the outback daughter of Ole Man Tucker and the object of Ian's affection. My third was to set off a multimedia juke box of classic 80's and 90's Australian tunes whilst debating: Johnny Diesel's greatest hit? "Right on the Tip of my Tongue" or "Crying Shame", discuss.
|Dream Boat Retrospective - Johnny Diesel despite torn off denim sleeves and subsequent identity crisis
Unless you are a foreign member of the Ian Moss fan club or an Australian descending through the 25-40 year old age bracket, you're probably about as lost as my British friend Jo was while this archive of antipodeon chart toppers played out. Jo understands that we didn't attend Erinsborough High, that we call shrimps prawns and that pants aren't pants they're undies. But I am fairly sure she didn't understand why we still, after 20 years, know every word to Darryl Braithwaite's "One Summer". And just who is this Darryl Braithwaite anyway?!?
Contrary to our play list, I was glad I'd crafted a menu for the night that displayed no consistent cultural reference. After fresh ricotta, Manuka honey and toasted walnuts we followed with a Way to Decadent in a Good Way Rabbit and Pork Lasagne. But it was finally ending on the left-field British high of sticky toffee pudding that gave Jo a brief caramel and culturally familiar reprieve. We also had to stop singing during dessert as it's incredibly hard to consume pudding, sauce and ice cream whilst effectively using an air-mic.
While I've been assured Jo did have a great time at dinner (and probably afterwards at our expense recounting our unselfconscious antics to her more civilised British friends) the medium of nostalgic mullet anthems highlighted one of the many or few fissures diverging the British and Australian experience. This sometimes-cultural divide between we convicts (of which I'll erroneously include myself despite being first generation Australian) and The Motherlanders appeared before me again a few days later. But this time, it was personal.
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While being served an exceptionally tasty butter-rich bacon-crispy plate of breakfast happiness my ears were forced to endure this statement: "Avocado has no place on a breakfast plate. It's just wrong!"
Now hold on a minute Mr! Avocado is what you say? Why you little [fist raised]….and it was at about that point of incredulousness that I got distracted by the crispy crispy salty bacon and lost my train of thought entirely…and then I was back: Avocado is the number one draft pick for breakfast plate side orders for 9 out of 10 Australian diners. That statistic in no way represents thorough or un-bias research but it was as true as it needed to be at the time before I got distracted by the creamy creamy buttery eggs…and then I was back: Avocado makes a breakfast plate, it's the perfect duvet to a bacon, the greatest spread on sour dough toast, the perfect fresh substitute for over-cooked spinach or slippery slimy button mushrooms which are the eternally sad side-kicks of the core English breakfast characters. Avocado, it's just right!
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I could swiftly see I wasn't going to sway any voters with my New World argument for the monosaturated monolith so we entered a social treaty whereby the purveyor of that delicious British breakfast accepted the existence of, without agreeing with, my culinary dissent and we both returned to the bacon on which we very happily agreed.
After this polling failure you can imagine my joy when the long awaited opening of Bill Granger's only European venture, Granger & Co (175 Westbourne Grove, London W11 2SB, http://grangerandco.com/, +44 20 7229 9111) came to fruition around the corner from my home here in Notting Hill. Now Bill, he's a man who understands the avocado. In fact, it's his number one side offering for eggs or toast. Oh, and look at that, it's his number two side for eggs or toast too – avocado salsa. I'll have both thanks Bill – no mushrooms, no spinach for me please.
|The Full Aussie Breakfast: How did those pesky mushrooms get on there?
The scrambled eggs at Granger & Co are super light and not at all too rich (there could be an argument for or against this state of affairs, but let's carry on), the bacon is incredible, the breakfast plates loaded with full Aussie goodness and not a baked bean in sight. The ricotta hot cakes are just like Sydney…hang on a second…the whole place is just like Sydney. The tables, the staff, the menu, the huge windows…should I be judging my own lack of originality in enjoying this replica establishment as much as I do? I am really enjoying it and judging at the same time. But mostly I'm enjoying.
|Judging AND stirring as demonstrated by my more competent friend
Looking around, the dining room is packed. The wait for a table is over an hour and the confusing sunshine outside is offering those smug people seated in the window a lame excuse to inappropriately wear their designer frames inside. I detest them, but am too preoccupied trying to stir the Callebaut chocolate chips through my hot chocolate to care. I can't judge and stir at the same time.
The bustling hum of the largely Australia via Nottinghill crowd is broken only by the intermittent steam of the coffee machine, the odd squawk of a Queensland ex-pat's laughter or the conga line theme song rolling through my head: "I love av-o-ca-do! I love av-o-c-a-do! Ah dah dah, dah dah, dah dah".
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I haven't been back yet for lunch or dinner service but the menu looks like a solid Bill-style offering of tasty BBQ and casual fragrant mains. Chilli pork ribs, whole baked fish, crispy duck with plum sauce. No big surprises, nothing avant-garde but plenty of trouble choosing.
I still think Peter Gordon's Providores serves up the best breakfast meets brunch in the whole of London. I'll also eternally love any breakfast offering me bacon and butter in perfect excessive harmony. Who knows if I'll ever convince the avocado disbelievers out there that Granger & Co is worth the long wait for a breakfast table adrift a sea of Ralph Lauren? But it's the simple good food and effortless Australian style of Granger & Co which just made me and Tucker's daughter smile on that sunny Saturday morning…but please, you in the window, take those sunglasses off!!


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KnowledgeBase 00054: Executing Code on a Remote Server
It is sometimes useful for an application on one system to be able to execute a subroutine or a command on another system. The QMBasic interface to the QMClient API makes this easy.
Using QMClient inside a QMBasic Program
There is a class module in the global catalogue named !QMCLIENT that provides the ability for an application to open a connection to a remote QM server, subject to the usual QMClient security rules.
SESSION = OBJECT("!QMCLIENT") IF SESSION->CONNECT(servername, port, username, password, account) THEN ...processing... SESSION->DISCONNECT END
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SESSION->CALL("subrname", arg1, arg2,...)Data can be passed in both directions via the arguments in the same way as for other subroutine calls.
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To execute a command on the remote system, the processing element of the above code fragment becomes
RESPONSE = SESSION->EXECUTE(command, state)where the returned value is the output from the command and the state variable indicates the status of the executed command. In particular, this allows the program initiating the command to handle requests for input (see the QM Reference Manual for details).
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The Next 'Downton Abbey?'
Will HBO's "Parade's End," based on the work of Ford Madox Ford, be the next "Downton Abbey"? Alexandra Alter has details on Lunch Break. Photo: HBO.
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The international conference "New Frontiers in Quantum Foundations, CUPI 2011" was held at the Clyde V. Madren Center at Clemson University, March 9-11, 2011. The conference is part of the new Clemson University-Perimeter Institute (CUPI) partnership. The organizer is Antony Valentini (Clemson). The co-organizers are Murray Daw (Clemson) and Lucien Hardy (Perimeter). The conference facilitator is Amanda Ellenburg (firstname.lastname@example.com).
After more than 80 years, the mystery surrounding quantum mechanics continues to increase. At stake is our understanding of the whole of fundamental physics, from elementary quantum phenomena such as nonlocality and contextuality, to the creation of primordial fluctuations in the early universe, as well as information loss in evaporating black holes and the problem of time in quantum gravity. The subject is being attacked from a variety of perspectives. The many recent theoretical developments include: physical axioms for quantum theory, the application of collapse theories and of de Broglie-Bohm theory to cosmology, understanding probability and classicality in the many-worlds interpretation, understanding the structure of possible hidden-variables theories, making collapse theories Lorentz invariant, reconstructing quantum theory from general probabilistic and operational frameworks, new perspectives on black-hole information loss, and progress in solving the problem of time. On the experimental side, among many we have: new fundamental tests such as the three-slit experiment, tests of contextuality, and remarkable fluid-mechanical analogues of elementary quantum phenomena. Some workers in these sub-categories are not fully aware of the work being done elsewhere. The aim of the conference is to bring together representatives from this wide spectrum.
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We already had so much fun with assembling the new blog.
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wil dat zeggen dat je met deze stopt ?
Happy moving day ~ I'll be there.
Have a great weekend.
Ik ga dus maar snel een kijkje nemen.
Groetjes en alvast een heel fijn weekend.
Best of luck with your new place.
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Your blog is very very pretty!!! Hugs and my english is very bad... sorry!!!
I've just found your wonderful blog...reading through all your vibrant posts ;-D. But what double joy I have found...you have another blog with your sister.
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WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) — A National Weather Service team headed to western North Dakota on Tuesday to assess the strength of a tornado that injured nine people, one critically, and destroyed at least eight trailers at a workers' camp in the heart of the state's booming oil patch.
The twister touched down at 7:50 p.m. Monday at a camp just south of Watford City, about 30 miles southeast of Williston.
McKenzie County Emergency Management Director Jerry Samuelson said crews sifted through debris at the camp, and that he was confident nobody was missing. He said the situation would have been much worse had the tornado struck a few days earlier when there were many more trailers at the camp.
"Obviously, we're very fortunate there are no deaths, to our knowledge," Samuelson said.
Weather service meteorologist Todd Hamilton said two meteorologists and an emergency response specialist were leaving Bismarck at daybreak Tuesday to survey the damage at the camp. He said the agency should be able to rate the tornado on the enhanced Fujita scale later in the day.
Related: A dozen trailers destroyed by tornado south of Watford City
"The only pictures we've seen, we're seeing some trailers moved around," Hamilton said. "You can't really discern that much from pictures."
It is likely that only one tornado touched down Monday night, although there were reports of several funnel clouds alongside baseball-sized hail, Hamilton said.
More storms were moving through the region early Tuesday but the chance of more tornadoes was small, Hamilton said.
Karen Holte, a volunteer at an American Red Cross shelter at Watford City's civic center, said the tornado descended so quickly that nobody had time to take shelter. Samuelson said all the injured had been inside their trailers.
The critically injured person was taken to Trinity Health hospital in Minot for treatment, Samuelson said. The others were treated at McKenzie County Memorial Hospital in Watford City.
Tony Beyda, who suffered a head wound and cuts on his arm, said he saw something flying toward him as the twister slammed into his home. He pulled back the bandage on his forehead to show how the skin had been stapled back onto his head.
"It peeled it back pretty good," he said.
William Bunkel, a trucker, was in Watford City when the storm hit. Bunkel, 38, said he had just moved his vehicle inside because of large hail when he spotted the funnel cloud in the distance. He estimated it stayed on the ground for about a minute.
"We saw it form, come out of the sky, hit the ground and go back up into the clouds," he said.
The oil boom has brought tens of thousands of people into the area looking for work. Many live in hastily assembled trailer parks, also known as man camps, housing pre-fabricated structures that resemble military barracks. Some companies rent blocks of hotel rooms for employees to live in, and some workers sleep in their cars or even tents.
Housing developments are constantly popping up but the developments are not keeping pace with demand and oil money has pushed rents to among the highest in the nation: A simple one bedroom apartment in Williston can easily cost $2,000 per month in rent. Even a spot to park a trailer can cost over $800 per month.
Associated Press writers Blake Nicholson in Bismarck and Carson Walker in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, contributed to this report.
Contact Wood at https://twitter.com/JWoodAP and Walker at https://twitter.com/carsonjw


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1991 Ford Mustang - Pure Sick
Charles Cartrette set a healthy goal for his project—a new standard in Fox 'Stangs
We've seen a few Mustangs in our day. We've also been asked to consider a few for the magazine—just a few. As you might imagine, we've grown a bit jaded.
It's our gig to pick the best Mustangs for the magazine. So it's often with some trepidation that we approach a car someone enthusiastically asked us to check out. Such was the case at the 2012 Mustang Week Meet 'N Greet. What could have been a here-we-go-again moment became love at first sight. We couldn't ask to shoot the car for the magazine fast enough.
We love it when a story has a happy ending. However, it started in a way that might have made your Strawberry Fox-loving scribe break into tears.
"The car started as a Wild Strawberry 1991 with a mild 302. It had new paint but Strawberry didn't pop enough," explained Charles Cartrette. "So we went to Electric Currant with candy and House of Kolor charcoal graphics. Then I took the car home and it never saw the light of day."
It never saw daylight because Charles just wasn't satisfied with it. We might have finally met someone who holds his cars to a standard that would exceed even the most passionate enthusiast.
"I decided I wanted a smoothed engine bay. It snowballed from there. From just a simple smoothed engine bay, it evolved into a totally smooth firewall, framerails, radiator panel, and more. Nothing was left untouched," Charles explained. "I wanted a Fox-body unlike anything that had been done: smoothed everything, mini-tubbed, painted, cleared, and a highly detailed undercarriage."
Working with his friends Shawn Thompson, Tony Robbins, David Hardie, and Corey Spann, Charles took the car down to the bare shell and the crew did just what he had in mind, smoothing every nook and cranny and prepping it for a unique custom blue paint that would deliver the pop he sought. In the end, the car and all its parts absorbed seven gallons of this one-off hue.
With a such a detailed chassis ready to go, there's no way the mild 302 was going back into this Fox chassis. "I already had a Dart 327 setup with a turbo ready to power the car," Charles said. "But that had already been done. I now had bigger goals. I wanted a Fox unlike anything ever seen or built."
That's certainly a bold plan. Obviously, a pushrod engine was old hat for a car like this, but a straight Modular swap wouldn't do either. Instead Charles found a stout Modular engine equipped with a turbo setup. "The powerplant and tranny came from a donor car already making 723 horsepower," Charles said. "It had run 10.11 at 143 mph with a bad solenoid on the wastegate."
To that combo, he added a more efficient turbo and replaced the Mach 1 intake with the more purposeful Sullivan intake you see in the photos. Obviously the engine received a fair amount of detailing before it ended up in the car, but its performance stats from previously powering a hatchback Fox gave the car instant performance cred.
Like the clean presentation of the painted and polished Modular in the super-sano engine compartment, the car's interior follows a similar path. To a highly coveted black interior, Charles and his pals added a few choice pieces to make it fit in with the car's overall presentation.
While the interior is nice and the engine compartment is out of this world, it's the car's underside that really pushes the coupe to that next plateau. "The first time we slid the mirrors under the car, we were stunned," he said. "What we had created was so far ahead of what we had envisioned. Seventy-thousand dollars later, I arrived and Mustang Week and it took Best of Show."
Yeah, even when you start with a simple Fox, you can't go that far without spending a bit of cash on it. That said, people spend that and more on newer Mustangs that don't stand out quite like this car. Charles summed it up perfectly with his estimation of the car's rear visage: "From the side it looks normal, but from the rear, the sumped tank and 345/40-18s scream 'pure sick.'"
As much as he loved the car, Charles lost his sister shortly after its completion. Eventually he associated the time spent on its build with time he could have spent with her. It made it difficult to enjoy the car, so he ended up parting ways with it and picking up a Terminator droptop in the process.
Though he moved on from this Fox, he hasn't moved on from loving Fox projects. He is planning another build to debut at Mustang Week 2013. He also hopes to move forward with his own shop, Fox by Design. He wants what he calls a "community shop," where he can help fellow enthusiasts with their projects. If it blossoms into a business, he will run with it—but if not, he can simply continue with the hobby he loves.
Horse Sense: Charles makes his living as a commercial beekeeper. He and a partner raise, care for, and supply bees for agricultural use. They deliver their bees as far away as California and Maine to facilitate crops that need pollination.
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all cats are grey in the dark
all cats are grey in the dark
The Qualities that distinguish people from one another are obscured in some circumstances and if they can't be perceived they don't matter. – proverb
The US version of this proverb is at night all cats are gray.
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bell the cat
take the danger of a shared enterprise upon yourself
Bell the cat alludes to the fable in which mice or rats have the idea of hanging a bell around the cat's neck so as to have warning of its approach, the only difficulty being to find one of their number willing to undertake the task.
the cat has got his tongue
Someone is remaining silent.
a cat may look at a king
even a person of low status or importance has rights – proverb
1998 - Times - A cat may look at a king. The cat may be wrong in its conclusions, but others, following its gaze, can draw their own.
a dead cat bounce
a misleading sign of vitality in something that is really moribund – informal
A dead cat might bounce if it is dropped from a great height…the fact of it bouncing does not reliably indicate that the cat is alive after all. The expression was coined in the late 20th century by Wall Street traders to refer to a situation in which a stock or company on a long-term, irrevocable downward trend suddenly shows a small temporary improvement.
enough to make a cat laugh
extremely ridiculous or ironic – informal
This expression dates from the mid 19th century and is associated with the story of Puss in Boots.
fight like cat and dog
(of two people) be continually arguing with one another.
1995 - Edward Toman - Dancing in Limbo - Her desertion of him hadn't come as a total surprise... for the pair of them had been fighting like cat and dog for the best part of a year.
let the cat out of the bag
Reveal a secret especially carelessly or by mistake
A similar metaphorical use of bag may be found in the French phrase
vider le sac
empty the bag
meaning tell the whole story.
1996 - Bernard Connolly - The Rotten Heart of Europe Tim Renton... at odds with his leader on Europe, let the cat out of the bag when he told a television audience….we need a strong Europe to maintain our independence from the United States and the Pacific Rim.
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O'Reilly's Strata 2014 conference is in full swing in Santa Clara, Calif., this week, and show organizers are turning a page with the conspicuous absence of the term "big data" from the major themes and conference tracks. It's another sign that people are ready to go beyond the comic book version of what's happening with data.
"Making Data Work" is the aspirational theme of this year's conference, and the tracks promise a more nuanced novella with topics including "Connected World" (Internet of Things), "Data in Action" (real-world case studies), "Data Science" (skills, techniques, and strategies), "Ethics, Policy, and Privacy" (can we actually do anything about these?), "Design" (data-visualization and interfaces), and "Hadoop and Beyond" (tools and technologies).
Many vendors making announcements at Strata have yet to pick up on the emphasis on productivity over hyperbole. The big-data buzz talk seems to be ladled into press releases in inverse proportion to what can be stated about specific capabilities and, more importantly, named customers citing real-world business benefits.
[ Watch InformationWeek's Doug Henschen discuss "16 Top Big Data Analytics Platforms" with the editors of AllAnalytics (below). ]
We'll skip the news here, therefore, about venture capital rounds and stealth companies and focus instead on nine more notable announcements from Strata in three categories:
Analytics at Scale
SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop: SAS has progressed from an Access connector to Hadoop to delivering SAS Visual Analytics and SAS High-Performance Analytics products capable of running on Hadoop. The new news this week is SAS In-Memory Statistics For Hadoop, which takes advantage of the vendor's capabilities to perform data analysis on high-scale, in-memory clusters.SAS In-Memory Statistics For Hadoop, to be released in the first half of this year, will enable multiple users to "simultaneously and interactively manage, explore, and analyze data, build and compare models, and score massive amounts of data in Hadoop." Selected data from Hadoop is loaded into memory once for iterative analysis across multiple users, avoiding time-consuming rounds or writing to and reading from disk.
SAS also promises to eliminate "a patchwork of tools" and "the need for different analytic programming languages," but this hints at a SAS-only world that might not go down well with open-source-minded Hadoop fans. Analysis options are said to include clustering, regression, generalized linear models, analysis of variance, decision trees, random decision forests, text analytics, and recommendation systems. We're anxious to see how open this world might be and how it combines a memory cluster with a Hadoop cluster (or could they possibly be one and the same)?
Alpine Chorus: We gave you a preview of what Alpine Data Lab's new Alpine Chorus product offers in our recent "2014 Analytics, BI, and Information Management Survey." Alpine is calling it "The Sharepoint of Data Science."
The idea behind Chorus is to break down complex, iterative analytics workflows into discrete, understandable steps that can be shared with and controlled by business users. The goal is to eliminate the time-consuming back-and-forth between business users who know what they want and data wonks who were previously the only ones who could deliver results. Havas Media, the beta customer we interviewed in our report, said it gives business users and data analysts a shared workflow and "a common language" for analytic exploration. Chorus can do its distributed "in-cluster" work on top of Hadoop if you choose, avoiding data movement from your high-scale data store.
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La Scala offers extra shows for Milan world's fair
MILAN (AP) — La Scala is showing off for Milan's 2015 world fair, offering shorter operas for children as well as half-priced tickets to attract opera-lovers who haven't been able to afford to go to the fabled theater.
General Director Alexander Pereira on Tuesday unveiled the 2014-2015 season's program, which overlaps with the city's Expo 2015. He said La Scala Theater will be open every day during the world's fair, which runs from May 1 to Oct. 31.
Operas lasting about 90 minutes will be put on for children. Pereira said he hopes 25,000 children will attend.
Also in 2015, 20 La Scala opera and ballet performances will have half-priced tickets available a month ahead of time, he said.
On the bill on La Scala's traditional Dec. 7 gala opening night will be "Fidelio," conducted by Daniel Barenboim. The Expo season will open with "Turandot," part of a cycle of Puccini operas under maestro Riccardo Chailly's direction.
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Divine Women "Handmaids of the Gods" Bettany Hughes travels to the island of Lesbos to discover the truth behind the much sensationalized poet Sappho. Best known today for giving us the words sapphic and lesbian, in her own time Sappho fulfilled the important role of a priestess, channeling the power of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty and sexuality. Part 2 of 3G
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Outdoor Idaho "Backroad Adventures" Taking three routes - Owyhee Backcountry Byway (Mud Flat Road), Magruder Corridor, and Lolo Motorway - the program samples what Idaho's 40,000 miles of backroads offer travelers. Along the way, there are scenic vistas, a bit of history, and opportunities to spot wildlife.G
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Call The Midwife "S2 E3" Jenny is loaned to a short-staffed London Hospital to work on the male surgical ward. Hesitant about her temporary assignment, she becomes increasingly uneasy when she finds herself working under an intimidating surgeon. Back in Poplar, Jane, a new addition to the household, lends a hand in Jenny's absence.G
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Masterpiece Classic "Mr. Selfridge, Part 3" After taking his wife, Rose, and eldest daughter to see the iconic dancer Anna Pavlova, Selfridge invites the dancer to his store for a publicity event, and to take tea with his wife. Ellen Love makes an appearance at the tea while Rose is delayed by Bohemian painter Roddy Temple and his friends. Part 3 of 8G
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New Tricks "Part of a Whole" Thirty years ago, Strickland and a group of his associates, including Stephen Fisher, were involved in a covert operation on behalf of MI5. Now, someone is trying to kill all the members of that group, and Strickland turns to the UCOS team for help.G
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Orchestra of Exiles World famous violinist and Polish Jew Bronislaw Huberman embarks on a four-year odyssey, which culminates in 1936 with the creation of a top-flight symphony orchestra in the desert outback of Palestine. His Jewish musicians were drawn from among the best players of Europe and were all escaping a world that would soon be torn apart by Nazi aggression.G


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It is early yet. The election was one week ago. Obama will be President-Elect until January 20, 2009.
After one week it looks like the defining theme of Obama's presidency will be his famous self-definition, "blank screen." I think it was Tallulah Bankhead who said, "Deep down I'm really quite shallow." I'm beginning to think this a good description of Obama. At his core he has no core. He is a man whose essence is the desire to show other people what they want to see.
What would you expect from a Democrat blank screen? The Democrat status quo. Ron Radosh writes,
The appointment of Rahm Emanuel is more evidence for what I suggested the other day, that Barack Obama will seek to govern from the political center. As Ben Smith and John Harris suggest on Politico.com today, one must not confuse Emanuel's tough game playing with ideology. As they and others have argued, Emanuel's reputation is that of a centrist, who has often sought to reign in the left-wing of his party, "who does not share the reflexively liberal views of many of his House colleagues." That judgment was seconded by Rep. Jim McCrery (R-LA) who said that Emanuel "is closer to the center, from a policy standpoint, than many of the Democratic Party." It was also shared by Lindsey Graham, who said that while a "tough partisan, he understands the need to work together." Graham called him "honest, direct, and candid" and a man who will "work to find common ground."
Max Boot sees Encouraging Signs From Obama:
I worked for the other guy in the presidential race, but I have been cheered so far by the early indications of how the Obama administration is shaping up. Scuttlebutt has it that the front-runners for Treasury secretary are economist Larry Summers and New York Fed President Timothy Geithner. Either one would be a good, centrist choice. So, too, would be Jim Steinberg, a deputy national security adviser for Bill Clinton, who is now a rumored choice for national security adviser in the Obama administration.
It goes almost without saying that nothing would signal Obama's moderate credentials more than retaining Bob Gates at Defense. So it is encouraging to read in the Wall Street Journal that the president-elect is "leaning toward" such a move, and that Gates "would likely accept the offer if it is made." As the Journal notes: "the defense secretary strongly opposes a firm timetable for withdrawing American forces from Iraq, and his appointment could mean that Mr. Obama was effectively shelving his campaign promise to remove most troops from Iraq by mid-2010."
Going with the status quo is better than the wildest fears of the right, that Obama would try to create a socialist dictatorship from day one. However, in a time when Republicans socialize Wall Street with some trillion dollars and Democrats want to nationalize 401k plans, the status quo is bad enough. There is no widespread movement to cut spending and dismantle government intervention in the economy.
But what choice does Obama have, if he wants experienced hands in his administration, than to choose from, well, those who have experience? Radical leftists are a double risk in that they have no experience. In today's climate, when politicians are terrified of taking blame for anything that goes wrong, it's hard to see how the Democrat establishment would let Obama fill his administration with unknown faces.
Another sign of Obama's deep down shallowness -- an amateurishness that merits watching in the coming years -- is his uncertainty and flip-flopping, the same stuff we saw during the campaign.
First, he was for involuntary servitude for college students, then he decided that it should be voluntary and pay $40 per hour! Then he deleted his website and we have no idea what he wants.
Then, he was for the Polish missile-shield when he was talking to Poland's president, but backtracked when he was talking to the U.S. press. (Now, Poland is kowtowing to Obama, saying it was all a misunderstanding.) This is an echo of Obama's NAFTA gaffe with Canada, which was also blamed on a misunderstanding with one of Obama's advisers.
This morning he was for closing Guantanamo Bay, and having the detainees face criminal charges in U.S. criminal courts, courts using the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or new, specially created national security courts. This evening, he has backtracked yet again.
"There is absolutely no truth to reports that a decision has been made about how and where to try the detainees, and there is no process in place to make that decision until his national security and legal teams are assembled," said Denis McDonough, a senior foreign policy adviser for the transition team, in a statement.
So where did those original reports come from? According to the AP, Obama's legal advisers.
One hand doesn't know what the other is doing so we end up with many conflicting statements. Mr. President-elect has to keep "clarifying" the positions his subordinates keep releasing on his behalf. It's almost like he has no leadership experience whatsoever.
If this goes on, then Obama will quickly disappoint his more intelligent supporters.
Competence isn't just a technique you learn from reading management books. It rests on having firm convictions. A man who can be blown one way or another by any gust of wind will be incompetent. All the evidence we have so far, from the campaign and one week as President-Elect, points to a man without principles, a man who can change 180 degrees on an issue if the need of the moment requires it.
I find all this immensely encouraging. If my analysis is correct, then Obama will be the second Democrat president in a row who was a social metaphysician -- a man who primary orientation to reality was not the facts but what others think of the facts.
A man without a core is easy to push around. Look at what the Republicans did to Clinton, a Democrat who was so intimidated by the right that he declared the era of big government to be over. The best thing that could happen to America right now is a neutered Obama worrying about uniforms for school children.
But it is still early and Obama could have big surprises in store for us. Clinton had to suffer the national health care debacle before his presidency diminished. Plus, Obama will not be hampered by Clinton's sexual appetite and risky behavior.
Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, "There is no there there." Will Obama be an Oakland president?
UPDATE: From Gabriel Melor:
Melor concludes:
Obama appears to be abandoning his promised commitment to end government torture.
The Administration-elect is only a week old and already it's foundering because of a lack of leadership.


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If Facebook's Platform Is A Strategic Mistake, It's In Facing The Wrong Direction
from the not-open-enough dept
However, the article did get me thinking about whether or not Facebook has made a strategic mistake with its platform strategy. When the Facebook platform strategy was first announced, it made a lot of sense. We've been waiting and waiting and waiting for someone to build out a true "web platform" (and remain amazed that Google has repeatedly ignored the opportunity). However, while the Facebook platform strategy may have made sense initially, it's way too inwardly focused. That is, it's been entirely focused on having people build applications within Facebook to get access to its users. What would have been a lot more interesting and a lot more powerful is the ability to build applications for outside of Facebook that would leverage the power of the people inside Facebook. While I'm sure the short-term view is that Facebook needs to keep people locked in, the long-term benefit needs to be making something that's really useful -- and so far, it's not clear the Facebook Platform has really reached that stage.
As such, perhaps it's not too surprising that many of the more successful Facebook apps to date have really just been focused on games and music, rather than anything all that productive. Turning the community inside out, so that it can take part in activities outside of just the Facebook arena could be a lot more interesting. Right now, Facebook's Platform seems designed to keep people in Facebook so that advertisers get value. But the real opportunity is in using the people in the community to do something of value and to provide value back to those users as well. Hopefully, that will be the next stage of growth that we see out of the Facebook platform, or expect to see people start to drift elsewhere.


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4.12.2M Spitfires outperform 109?
I've tried everything with the 109s against all spitfires.
I don't know if it's from the SAS modact or it's just Spitfire bias,but at any altitude they just outperform 109s.
I tried zooming away / outclimbing them,but they catch up every time.
How do you deal with Spitfires in the 109?
Witch kind of Spitfire and 109 ? I suggest to consult the IL2 Compare Software to compare performance. Here is an example.
Bt 109 F4 vs Spitfire Mk V M45 12lbs
IL2 Compare 4.11m (almost the same FM's of 4.12.2m and 4.13.3m)
This video can help i think.
A track 109 vs Spit (Ace)
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If you read your history books you will see that the Spitfire was always the equal of the 109 or better, only the 190 had the edge early on and it lost it soon enough.
It never mattered what patch of IL2 you were flying, it is brains and tactics and experience that will make the difference in who gets shot down and who does not.
You deal with Spits or any opponent in IL2 just as you would have in WWII, by getting in the sun and surprising them, or by having a good wingman to shoot them off your six.
Even in the instances in WWII where there was a "duel" between two pilots the one with the experience and natural ability is the one that won.
If you get shot down by a Spit it is your fault, you must have gotten yourself at a disadvantage. If you get into a Spit vs. an IL2 pilot that is actually good at flying a 109 he will shoot you to pieces all day long even in silly duels. Same thing with a good pilot in a Spit, he will shoot down 109s all day long until he runs into someone with more experience and more tricks.
The Ace AI for IL2 has always been easy to beat with a little experience and knowledge about it's limits.
I was surprised a few days ago to see that a few new patches had popped up since I have not flown IL2 for the last year or so. I was excited to see all the "improvements" listed for the AI so I patched my install up and got into a 109 vs. an Ace Yak expecting to get shot down but shot it down as usual. Then I jumped into a 190a5 vs. four ace 1943 Spits and was surprised to shoot them all down, just like riding a bicycle the same old rusty flying that worked in every patch still works, AI is still boring and predictable.
I am still grateful that a group of people work to make patches for a flight sim that hardly anyone is still flying though, thank-you.....
The oldest myth in IL2 is that some particular aircraft is "uber" and can make anyone who flies it unbeatable........nope.
Other possibilities for performance gap...
I had a Windows XP computer some years ago and had the stock 4.07 installed - I had great offline dogfights with the original AI, albeit having to put up with some of the original AI characteristics. The combats were such that many times the outcome was uncertain - I'm not looking to club baby seals, I want a good balanced fight with the aircraft reasonably within historic fact, and I expect to get shot down myself sometimes, the best aces did.
I then purchased a new computer with Win7 installed; it was loaded for gaming purposes and was in every way superior to my antique Win XP. However, it dawned on me after some time flying that while the graphics were definitely superior, the flyable aircraft I used were all noticeably diminished in performance, especially speed which is pretty much the foundation of all maneuvers.
I tried all sorts of remedies to overcome this, but to no avail. I inquired on various forums, and no one reported having encountered this problem. It effected all flight simms I flew, and all Il-2 1946 mods I subsequently loaded. HSFX helped a bit with their 'Expert mode' modified flight models for some of the aircraft I fly, particularly the Fw 190 and 109's. My computer is a duo core, so pretty long in the tooth, but perhaps you have a similar processor.
Also, Il-2 1946 modified flight models beginning with 411 greatly boosted the Spitfires performance, and significantly diminished the 190 and 109's performance, especially with turning - not saying it's wrong, but it will come as a shock if you were flying the earlier loads.
Finally, there is the lovely Il-2 "realistic mode" [thanks guys!] which I say yes and no. Yes, aircraft varied and wartime events took their toll, especially with the confusion and disruptions of Germany towards the war end. But most pilots flew one dedicated aircraft until lost in combat, or the to end of the war, supported by a highly trained and passionate ground crew chief working closely with his pilot to keep the aircraft in top condition. In Il-2 1946, EVERY FLIGHT SESSION gives different performance, and this often severely impacts the combat experience you have. I can fight spitfires straight up most times, but when my aircraft has diminished engine performance, diminished roll rate, having odd or out of balance control input responses, aileron sticking etc, and my opponent is rocket powered, we're no longer in the realm of reality. This caused me alot of frustration for a time, but I learned to use one of the other mod loads until I find one that is not so out of wack. I sometimes add greater fuel load to the opponent aircraft to bring it's performance back closer to reality. I do speed runs with the opponent chasing me and see if I have the proper advantage [Il-2 compare], but even with this method if the overamping of the 'reality mode' misfire is too great to overcome, you just move on the another game.
As for 109's and 190's vs Spits, as an example of how it's done, I recommend you view Leo 'Black 13' here:
He flys 109's equally as masterfully, but a well flown 190 is devastating to any spit, any time, if you use the aircraft's strengths. Yes, a spit can turn horizontally, but were not racing Le Mons here are we? You beat him with your all around control harmony, topped off by those deadly ailerons, and of course, with intelligent and quick thinking.
Good hunting, hope this helps somewhat.
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Author Notes: We eat a lot of chawan mushi in this house. There is nothing like the silky custard with slightly sweet and smokey broth topped with delicacies like crab, lobster or just a really good roasted shiitake sliced paper thin. I recently tried David Chang's bacon dashi which substitutes bacon for the bonito flakes and could not shake the idea of taking it a step further. In order to replace the seaweed I needed some other umami booster and pondered the tomato. I wanted the custard to stay a lovely pale yellow and settled on making a bacon-infused tomato water in place of the broth. This will obviously be a better dish to make at the end of summer when tomatoes are abundant, but I couldn't shake the idea and gave it a go. The garnish, I think, is crucial, but could be a variety of options on hand. —savorthis
Food52 Review: Savorthis's Bacon Tomato Mushi is a canny mix of western flavors and eastern techniques. A creative broth preparation lends an accessible taste to this traditional Japanese dish. Make sure to use very ripe tomatoes and very smokey bacon for maximum effect. The suggested garnishes are well paired, and bring out the subtle flavors in the custard, but the real fun of this dish is imagining what else you can do with it. All you need is eggs, liquid, a steamer and your imagination to open up a whole world of possibilities. Long live the savory custard. —Erik Hellman
Serves: 4
Bacon-infused Tomato Water
pounds very ripe heirloom tomatoes (light color preferred but not necessary)
ounces smokey bacon
Chawan Mushi
egg yolk
1 1/2
cups tomato water
teaspoon soy sauce (white preferred, but regular ok)
pinch salt
pinch white pepper
baby arugula
reserved bacon, julienned
various cherry tomatoes thinly sliced
Bacon-infused Tomato Water
- Quarter the tomatoes, add to a bowl and mash with a potato masher until the juices are released. Add a small sprinkle of salt and place in a clean dish towel or several layers of cheesecloth and hang over a bowl. I tied mine to a wooden spoon over a bain marie.
- It will take a few hours for the water to drip into the container. I gently squeezed the bundle every hour or so and this is fine as long as the pinkish pulp does not start to escape. You want the liquid as clear as possible. (I had thoughts of using the leftover pulp in a quick tomato sauce, but I tried it and have to say it had just about no flavor left. If you want to try though, you could quickly blanch the tomatoes first to removed the peels which will help.)
- You should get about 2 cups of liquid. If not, add a little water to make up for it or drink any excess (it's fabulous!). Place the 2 cups in a pot with the bacon and simmer gently for about 20 minutes or until it has a nice, smokey flavor. Remove the bacon and reserve and refrigerate the liquid until the fat hardens and can be removed and discarded. Season to taste with salt if necessary.
Chawan Mushi
- Bring water to a boil in the bottom of a steamer. Render reserved bacon for garnish. Strain the tomato water into a bowl and add eggs and extra yolk, soy, salt and pepper. Gently whisk until incorporated. Pour back through fine meshed strainer into 4 ramekins or mugs. (Mixture can be refrigerated at this point for later steaming).
- Place in steamer and reduce heat to a gentle simmer. Steam about 15-20 minutes checking toward the end to not overcook. You can test by inserting a sharp knife in the center. The custard should separate and the clear broth will fill the void. If it appears yellow, continue cooking.
- Garnish custards with tomatoes, arugula (you can chiffonade grownup arugula if you do not have any micro greens) and bacon bits. Serve with some buttered crunchy toast and any leftover tomato water (if you didn't drink it already).
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Hernando County sheriff's investigators concluded Thursday that a "very unusual death investigation" was the result of a suicide.
Workers cleaning out a home at 6527 Treehaven Drive in Spring Hill thought they found a mannequin hanging in the garage on Thursday morning and took it with of a pile of debris in the back of a pickup truck to the dump, said Hernando Sheriff Al Nienhuis.
Employees at the West Hernando Transfer Station, 2525 Osowaw Blvd, questioned the workers about the body but were told it was a mannequin, Nienhuis said.
They called authorities and deputies found the "somewhat mummified" remains of Jeremy Witsoth, 33, in a bin at the landfill, Nienhuis said.
Authorities found a suicide note scrawled on the wall at the home on Treehaven Drive that Witsoth shared with his then girlfriend and several children before they broke up and were evicted. They believe Witsoth hung himself in the garage and had been dead for several weeks but not more than a 1 1⁄2 months, Nienhuis said.
The home's owners went to the home on Wednesday and saw something hanging in the garage but thought it was a hoax by the former tenants who were angry because they were evicted, Nienhuis said. "They thought it was a Halloween prop or mannequin left hanging in the garage as a cruel hoax by the former tenants," Nienhuis said.
The Hernando County Property Appraiser lists the home's owner as Jean-Marie Rooby, who could not be located for comment.
The house was in complete disarray "like something you would see on (the TV show) 'Hoarders'" with dead rodents and trash everywhere, Nienhuis said.
When Israel Lopez, 50 and Adam Hines, 36, of Zephyrhills arrived to clean out the home, they thought the body was a prank as well, so they loaded some trash in their pickup, put the body on top of the pile and Lopez drove to the dump, Nienhuis said.
"We can't believe we didn't get a call about a body on the back of a pickup truck going down Springhill Drive," Nienhuis said. "The whole thing is hard to believe."
Lopez arrived at the dump with another load while deputies were investigating and he was detained.
Deputies are still investigating but no charges had been filed by Thursday evening, Nienhuis said.
Several neighbors on Treehaven said they thought the house was vacant. The grass in the front yard was nearly waist-high in some areas, while an open garage door showed toys, clothes and trash strewn across the floor.
Mitchell Brittin, who lives next-door, said that a family with several children lived at the address, but he had little contact with the family.
"We don't really take to the neighbors very well, because we had some bad experiences in the past," he said. "I'd hear some arguing every now and then. I'm not allowed to smoke in the house, and they always kept their back door open, so I'd hear it sometimes."
Neighbor Yolanda Rodriguez said she had not seen anyone at the house in a couple of months.
"There would be a bunch of people over there, kids and everything," she said.
Rodriguez said she noticed a strong smell of garbage coming from the house recently.
Fred Simerson, who has lived in the area for seven years, said the neighborhood is generally pretty quiet.
"There was a guy and his family living there a couple of months ago, but they got thrown out," Simerson said. "I saw him come back later for some of his stuff, but it looks like they left a bunch of it."


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A mammoth effort for a tiny puggle found orphaned near Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, last week has culminated in its safe arrival at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.
The baby echidna, named Muggles, was found sitting on a rock by the side of the road and taken to a local doctor before going to a vet; the first leg of a 4-day long journey that included two plane flights, hundreds of driven kilometres, and countless hours on the phone arranging transport.
Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital's senior nurse and rehabilitation coordinator, Vicky Toomey said Muggles will require specialised care for the next six months before being released back into the wild.
"Puggles are particularly difficult to look after, as they have different requirements to most other orphaned mammals," Vicky said.
The blue tinge to Muggles is from the spines and fur starting to emerge from under the skin; in two weeks it will be a very different looking puggle! It's just the beginning for little Muggles, with echidnas being known to live up to 49 years in the wild.
Get Involved!
This month, Bindi and Robert Irwin are encouraging kids to help Muggles, and patients like him, by taking part in the Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors Readathon. The month-long reading frenzy extends until Steve Irwin Day, on November 15. All funds raised will go to saving over 7515 injured, sick and orphaned animals at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. Visit www.steveirwinday.org/education/readathon/ for more information and to register!
You can also Sponsor the Australia Zoo Rescue Unit, who provide a free service rescuing sick and injured wildlife and getting them the best possible veterinary treatment at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.
Or how about Adopting one of our awesome Australia Zoo echidnas?
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Major changes are coming to the YMCA of Greater Kansas City.
In March, the Y announced a new strategic plan that includes building a new Y in downtown Kansas City, MO, renovating two facilities, and closing three locations.
The plan was developed after two years of research by the Y identified possibilities for growth through the existing Ys in Atchison, KS, and Linwood, KS, and by building a facility in downtown Kansas City, which has not had a Y since 1981.
The Y plans to build a 100,000-square-foot facility in downtown Kansas City by 2016. Possible features include swimming pools, an early learning center, meeting rooms, a café, an attached parking garage and medical wellness services. The project would cost $30 million to $40 million, says Paula Spreitzer Oxler, senior public relations director for the Y of Greater Kansas City.
The Linwood Family Y and The Atchison Family Y will be renovated and expanded to include improved aquatics centers and more healthy living spaces.
The strategic plan also called for the closing of the 8th Street Family Y, Kansas City, KS, the Richard C. Green, Sr. Family Y, Raytown, MO, and the Independence Family Y, Independence, MO. All 17 of the Y of Greater Kansas City's facilities were evaluated, and those three were identified as experiencing challenges, including declining membership, program participation and fundraising, Oxler says.
Community Reacts to Y Closings
Community members were upset by news of the closings. A petition to save the Raytown Y was launched, and the closings were the subject of several letters to the editor and opinion pieces in The Kansas City Star over the last month, with critics saying community leaders were not given enough time to propose alternatives to closing the Ys.
Last Thursday, the Y reached an agreement with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County (KS) that will allow the Kansas City, KS, location to remain open with financial help from the county.
The Raytown and Independence Ys will close Friday. The Y offered three proposals to the city of Raytown, but the two sides were unable to reach an agreement. The Independence School District expressed interest in buying the Independence Family Y building, but its offer was under market value, according to a statement from the Y of Greater Kansas City.
Oxler says that the strong reaction to the closings was expected, but the Y has to consider how it can best serve the community long-term.
"It has been heartening to see the passionate responses from these three communities," Oxler says. "We felt the community had spoken to us based on the declining lack of interest in membership, programs and donations. Moving forward, we continue to work to balance the financial realities of the business with our mission to serve the community."
Oxler adds that the decision to close the facilities in Raytown and Independence was separate from the decision to move forward with the downtown Y.
"It wasn't trading one project for another," Oxler says. "It really was seeing what the research said in terms of long-term success."
The Y needs to raise $50 million to $60 million to fund the construction of the downtown Y as well as the Atchison and Linwood renovations. The Y hopes to complete fundraising in the next year, break ground on the downtown facility in late 2014 or early 2015 and open the center in 2016.


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