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Jimmy Williams drove past a deputy while allegedly drinking a can of Busch beer, reports WTSP CBS News-10 in Tampa.
When the deputy pulled over the 42-year-old Tarpon Springs man, Williams immediately 'fessed up and shouted, "I'm wasted, ya got me!" He then got out of his pickup truck, holding his beer, and admitted to having "a few more beers" before he started his drive, according to the report.
It was Williams' 5th DUI, deputies said.
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Page 43 - Adam, the first sentient computer, doesn't like to be referred to as "artificial."
A longtime reader was curious about this, asking if it was a matter of political correctness. There's actually quite a bit of history behind it. Some of it boils down to semantics, but a lot of it has to do with Adam himself, and the fact that he's a bit of a snob.
Abbreviation and Acronym alert!
Because he's the first, he's got a bit of a big head. To make matters worse, he's in charge of protecting the world from Inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBM). His primary function is to monitor the Grid of Orbital Defense (GOD) to ensure it can, at any moment, disable long-range nuclear weapons and/or unidentified bombing platforms (UBP's).
Being charged with "Safeguarding Humanity" (trademarked by the US department of defense) has inflated his ego a bit. Therefore he gets touchy over little things.
On the semantics side of things - The term 'artificial' implies the opposite of true. Artificial sweetener isn't really sugar. An artificial limb isn't really an arm. Hence, an artificial intelligence isn't really intelligent. The term 'synthetic' is a better fit because it defines something that is created as opposed to something that is untrue.

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Early season prairie chicken hunters can cover miles in a day's hunt
PRATT – The early prairie chicken season (Northwest and East units), Sept. 15 - Oct. 15, 2013, gives bird hunters a unique opportunity to walk up greater prairie chickens and work bird dogs long before traditional upland bird seasons open. The early season was established to provide additional hunting opportunity for this tallgrass prairie icon and let hunters enjoy a true one-of-a-kind grassland hunt.
The traditional prairie chicken season is Nov. 16-Jan. 31, 2014 in the East and Northwest units, and Nov. 16-Dec. 31 in the Southwest Unit, and during this season, most prairie chickens are taken by pass shooting. Hunters scout feed fields near large tracts of native prairie for feeding prairie chickens, and then take up stations around feed fields well before sunrise. As the sun crests the horizon, prairie chickens will lift out of the prairies and fly to feed. Hunters lucky enough to be positioned in just the right spot may get shots. However, prairie chickens are strong fliers and challenging quarry for expert wingshots. Prairie chickens rarely flush within shotgun range of walking hunters during the regular season.
During the early season, flocks of young birds are more likely to hold for walking hunters and pointing dogs. However, prairie chickens are truly birds of the prairie, and hunters will walk many miles of grassland to find birds. While it can seem like finding a needle in a haystack, the unique hunting opportunity, scenery and connection to the prairie keeps hunters coming back.
All prairie chicken hunters must have a $2.50 prairie chicken permit in addition to a hunting license. Permits may be purchased wherever licenses are sold and online. Information provided by hunters at the time of purchase will help biologists estimate prairie chicken harvest and hunting pressure.
During the early season, the daily bag limit for prairie chickens in the East and Northwest zones is 2, and the possession limit is 8. For more information and a map of prairie chicken hunting zones, go to www.ksoutdoors.com.


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An aerospace manufacturer has a vehicle with a 50-ft, 4-stage double-acting telescoping cylinder mounted to the front. The largest movable section has a buggy with wheels that support the cylinder tube when it is extending or retracting. The vehicle has six outriggers that engage steel recesses in the floor when the cylinder is actuated, giving it a fixed point so that when the cylinder extends, it will develop the necessary force to push and form the part being fabricated.
The manufacturer had a nuisance problem with the cylinder drifting out when the directional valve was in the neutral position and the vehicle was moved to a different location or position.
The engineer in charge of the project added a double pilot-operated check assembly to hold the cylinder in place. He figured a mechanical device could cause a major problem if the operator forgot to disengage it and thought the hydraulic solution would avoid this potential safety problem.
After the piloted-operated check valves were installed, and the system cycled several times — removing most, if not all of the air — they moved the assembly into position to form a part. Much to their surprise, the smallest moving stage ballooned and blew the rod gland out. The picture shows the deformation near the end of the rod.
Any idea what caused the problem?
Whenever applying pilot-to-open check valves (PO checks) to cylinders, the pilot ratio of the check valve needs to be considered. This ratio is the force required to open the check that has an opposing force trying to keep it closed. This is not as simple as it sounds. As the pressure to move the cylinder and open the check increases, the force on the backside of the check increases from the incoming pressure pushing on the cylinder. This, in turn, causes the pressure on the opposite side of the cylinder piston to increase. This increase in pressure increases the force holding the check closed.
The pilot ratio, say a 3:1, means the pilot pressure to open the valve only needs to be slightly more than 1/3 of the pressure holding it shut. A 2100-psi force holding a check valve shut only needs a little more than 700 psi on the pilot line to open the check valve if not used on a cylinder application. There are formulae that can be used to determine the minimum pilot ratio needed when used on cylinder applications. If the pilot ratio is too small, the check will never open, causing the pressure between the check and cylinder to intensify beyond the cylinder's burst pressure rating.
A check valve with a larger pilot ratio was installed, which solved the problem.
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This is a great country. I've been privileged to live and work abroad, but there is no place like America. It's a cleaner, cheaper, nicer place. Big cars, big hair, the big country -- purple mountains majesty, amber waves of grain and all that -- makes me proud to be an American. Give me a political landscape dominated by God, guns and gays and I'm happy. Yet, I must admit there are some things Europeans do better than Americans. I take away nothing from the observations made in Philip Jenkins book, "The New Anti-Catholicism, The Last Acceptable Prejudice", but the Europeans do anti-Catholicism or anti-clericalism much better than we do.
While it is the French who have unfairly earned a reputation as cheese-eating surrender monkeys in the American psyche, it is the the European establishment -- Matthew Arnold's chattering classes -- who deserve the accolade. But as church-eating surrender monkeys.
Religion has no place in the public square in European political life. In January the Irish Independent reported the Irish Labour Party had called for a secularist litmus test for senior civil servants. Catholics were bad people who needed to be kept under close scrutiny lest they undermine the government.
All senior officials in state bodies which are likely to have to deal with the Catholic Church should be screened to ensure that they will not show inappropriate deference to the Catholic Church. Those who feel they are 'Catholic first and Irish second' should seek promotion in other organs of the State.
Such sentiments are not exceptional. The news this week of the appointment of a new EU health commissioner offered an illustration of this Weltanschauung. On 28 Nov 2012 the BBC and the DPA (the German wire service) reported the European parliament had given its approval to the appointment of Malta's Foreign Minister Tonio Borg as health commissioner. For those who missed this news here are extracts from the DPA story:
Maltese Foreign Minister Tonio Borg will be the European Union's new health commissioner, EU governments confirmed Wednesday, giving the appointment its final blessing. Borg, 55, will replace John Dalli, who resigned last month over claims he did nothing to stop an acquaintance from using his ties to ask a Swedish company for money to influence new EU tobacco rules.
Borg has vowed not to water down the rules, which he has identified as a priority and has said should be ready in January. Borg's nomination had proven controversial, after some EU parliamentarians raised concerns about his conservative views on abortion and homosexuality. He has pledged to abide by the EU's human rights charter, regardless of his personal views on social issues.
The story received more play from the Times of Malta and Malta Today, which ran a provocative second day story based upon an interview with a Swedish MEP.
Cecilia Wikström, the Liberal Swedish MEP who had dubbed Tonio Borg "a dinosaur that does not belong in our modern world" when the former foreign minister was nominated for the post of EU Commissioner, has reiterated her stand that Borg's personal political standpoints did not make him fit for the post of health and consumers affairs policy Commissioner.
And these objectionable beliefs are?
"Borg is a very well known politician with a high education [who] would have been a fantastic leader of Europe a couple of decades ago," Wikström said, pointing out that his conservative beliefs might put him at loggerheads with several aspects of his portfolio. "Had Borg's portfolio been on something else, like fisheries, culture, higher education or even the internal market, he would have been a wonderful commissioner. "Since Borg's portfolio deals with rights and the choices people make, I think this is going to be complicated for him," Wikström said, mentioning as an example, sexual and reproductive health rights that would include the provision of safe and legal abortion for women.
Ms. Wikström, who also is a Lutheran minister, believes Borg's Catholicism to be incompatible with government service, save in areas that don't matter much like Fish & Agg.
The only mainstream English-language report on Borg's appointment that I have seen that raises these questions was the New Scientist -- the British science news weekly. Its article "Staunch conservative to be new EU health commissioner" framed the story around the objections to Borg's Catholicism.
Borg is Catholic and is known for his conservative views on abortion, homosexuality and divorce. For example, he is a supporter of the Embryo Protection Act currently being debated in the Maltese parliament. If approved at the end of November, the bill will prevent experimentation on human embryos, ban egg and sperm donation, and prohibit the freezing of embryos for IVF procedures other than in a few special cases.
The article reported on the grilling MEPs gave to Borg during his confirmation hearings.
Some MEPs questioned Borg's stance on abortion, recalling how he tried to incorporate the ban on abortion, even if the mother's life is at risk, into Malta's constitution. Borg replied: "The laws on abortion are a matter of national law… These are not matters within the competence of the Commission and the Union."
But in the end Borg's appointment was approved on a 386 to 281 with 28 abstentions. The New Scientist rounded out its story with comments from liberal MEPs who warned they would be watching Borg for signs his faith was influencing his job, and with comments from International Planned Parenthood and a stem cell researcher who said that:
"Although I do not dispute his technical skills, there is the risk that personal views, especially when radical in nature, will interfere with or slow down important projects which have already been endorsed by public opinion," he says.
From the classical journalism perspective, the New Scientist story is incomplete. We have the back and forth between Borg and his critics, but the comments and critical observations offered that would give context are one-sided -- Planned Parenthood and a stem cell researcher. Nothing is offered from those on the opposing side of the argument. That, however, is not a surprise, as the New Scientist's reputation is one of being on the secular left -- and I do not fault them for being true to their editorial line.
But from the mainstream media we have next to nothing. The wire services and the short BBC item do not do justice to the ethical issues at play. Part of the problem is the lack of space and resources. Not all stories can be covered and editors must pick and choose how they utilize their space on the page and their reporter's time. However, I also believe there is an agreement in just about all newsrooms that the criticisms raised by the New Scientist are valid. This belief that religion belongs to the private sphere of life and is not welcome in the public square permeates the European press.
A response I hear from supporters of the secularist model runs along the lines of "If you want to hear a sermon go to church", meaning the worlds of faith and news are so far apart that one should not trespass on the other. I do not agree. Incorporating faith or ethical issues into journalism is not proselytizing. It is being faithful to the dictates of honest fair and full reporting.


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NetSuite Buys Retail Anywhere
Retail Anywhere will become part of NetSuite's eTail/Retail Products business
By: Maureen O'Gara
Jan. 11, 2013 09:00 AM
NetSuite said Thursday that it's bought 28-year-old Retail Anywhere in a deal that's supposed to deliver the first cloud-based system that unifies POS and e-commerce in a single application.
The company, which is majority owned by Larry Ellison, says it's bringing brick-and-mortar retail businesses to a global commerce cloud, grafting multiple-customer touchpoints onto its SuiteCommerce platform to deliver an integrated cloud business suite for retailers including POS, web sites, smartphones, tablets and call centers.
Terms were not disclosed.
Retail Anywhere, which specializes in POS terminals and the software that runs them, became a NetSuite partner when NetSuite trotted out its SuiteCommerce last spring and talked up Commerce-as-a-Service stating it could manage and scale both the retail back-end through its the core ERP/financials and CRM solutions as well as give clients a web store B2B/B2C front-end.
Retail Anywhere decided to base its next generation of POS terminals on SuiteCommerce and created an Apple POS app for NetSuite. It runs on traditional POS widgets as well as iPads, iPhones and the iPod touch to facilitate transactions from anywhere.
The two companies teamed up and reportedly attracted 30 joint customers. With the likelihood of up-selling NetSuite to Retail Anywhere's large bank of clients it found the tie-up potentially profitable hence the acquisition.
"Up to now traditional retailing has been left behind as the rest of the world has embraced cloud technology," Andy Lloyd, NetSuite general manager of commerce, said in a statement.
"With this acquisition, even brick-and-mortar retailers are able to become part of the rapidly evolving global commerce cloud. By adding an in-store solution to SuiteCommerce, NetSuite is enabling merchants to meet their customers' demands for cross-channel shopping integration. NetSuite Retail Anywhere further extends the reach of NetSuite's full platform of business capabilities to the showroom floor, where most retail business still takes place today."
According to a recent Deloitte survey, consumers who engage with retailers through multiple customer touchpoints were likely to spend 71% more than those who only engage through the traditional brick-and-mortar channel. It also said that legacy retail systems lack the technical capacity to unify multiple channels, and retailers have to use multiple, disparate software systems to run their businesses, creating inefficiency and customer frustration.
Initially at least NetSuite will connect point-of-sale with its cloud platform and build on to its SuiteCommerce platform. Ultimately it will probably drop the POS hardware end of Retail Anywhere in favor of a purely digital experience.
Retail Anywhere will become part of NetSuite's eTail/Retail Products business, with its CEO Branden Jenkins as general manager of the unit.
Retail Anywhere competes with Celerant, Micros, Retail Pro, Syncronics and Tomax.
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At left, the Skidmore Owings & Merrill design of One World Trade Center with the radome; at right, without it
September 11, 2013
A Beacon Diminished
by James Panero
The 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is the first that will see One World Trade Center, formerly known as Freedom Tower, topping out at a symbolic 1,776 feet. After years of missteps and inaction, the building's completion, now scheduled to take place in early 2014, will be a welcome end to a fraught project that has long weighed on the national consciousness. Yet just as construction costs have ballooned to nearly $4 billion, making this by far the most expensive new office building in the world, its developers—the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, along with the Durst Organization—have decided to cut one last corner, blunting the building's most prominent and important symbol.
In 2005, once David M. Childs of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) took over the design of One WTC, he devised a brilliant solution for balancing the building's monumental and memorial demands with its practical and commercial needs. He took a chaotic jumble of ideas left by Daniel Libeskind, the site's quixotic planner, and compressed them into a shimmering crystal, one that reflected the scale and volume of the original Twin Towers while also recalling the tapered facets of the Washington Monument. From a solid, cube-shaped base (regrettably made more bunkerlike over time), the edges of Mr. Childs's One WTC chamfer in so that halfway up it becomes a perfect octagon and, at its top floor, the building faces 45 degrees off its base.
Two of Mr. Libeskind's proposed symbols remained through Mr. Childs's redesign: the building's 1,776 foot total height, and an illuminated beacon at the top to allude both to the torch of the Statue of Liberty and to the soaring skyscrapers of the Manhattan skyline. To accomplish this, SOM brought in the sculptor Kenneth Snelson to design what was meant to be the building's most visible element: a spire to rise 408 feet from the center of the building's 1,368-foot-high roof, bringing One WTC to 1,776 feet. Through Mr. Snelson's knowledge of tensegrity structures—designs with "floating compression," where solid forms are suspended in a tensing web—SOM crafted the spire, 40-stories tall and made of a shell of interlocking fiberglass triangles, into an elegant, tapered sculpture known as a radome. Since the radome is transparent to radio waves, it was meant to conceal the broadcast equipment mounted to an antenna mast inside.
The Stuttgart-based engineering firm Schlaich Bergermann & Partner helped turn this complex idea into reality. WTC.com, the website maintained by Silverstein Properties that chronicles the overall site reconstruction, continues to advertise the many benefits of the innovative design: The radome would "resist wind loading, and create a protected maintenance area" for workers attending to the broadcasting equipment contained inside it. Much like the building itself, the radome would serve the building's functional needs while also completing its aesthetic mandates.
Nevertheless, in 2012 the owners of One WTC announced a stunning last-minute design change: They would eliminate the radome and leave exposed the antenna that was meant to be hidden inside. The owners cited the radome's supposed cost—$20 million—to bolster their decision. Inquiries to SOM concerning the spire were referred to their "clients" at the Port Authority, who in turn referred them to Durst.
"The architects wanted more heft," said Jordan Barowitz, a Durst spokesman. "So they proposed the radome to give it more surface area so it could be seen from a greater distance. But it was impossible to maintain"—a claim that its designers have refuted.
This newspaper and other media outlets have reported that since taking an ownership interest in One WTC in 2010, Durst has been agitating for the radome's elimination—a push rejected by the agency's executive director at the time, only to be approved by his successor. "I don't think it will affect the visual appearance," Douglas Durst, the chairman of the Durst Organization, said regarding the radome's elimination. "I try not to get involved with the aesthetics." In fact, the financial incentives of Durst's co-ownership deal, it has been reported, are structured in such a way as to prioritize cost-saving construction over aesthetic concerns.
Much of the controversy over the elimination of the radome has focused on One WTC's final height and whether the exposed antenna would count toward its total. The difference would be between "the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere" (including the antenna) or merely the third-tallest in the U.S. (without it). The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the nonprofit organization recognized internationally as the arbiter of construction height, states that it considers spires in calculating architectural height but not "antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment." In May 2012, shortly after Durst and the Port Authority announced their change order, the council referred to several articles concerning the "questions on One World Trade Center height" on its website and issued an early warning about the 1,776-foot designation if the antenna is left without its radome skin.
It could be that Durst and the Port Authority have a plan to win the council's approval through a technicality, such as by leaving the very tip of the radome in place while eliminating the rest. But any way you measure it, they plan to rob the skyline of a promised symbol and leave it with a structure that, at its best, resembles a 400-foot umbrella stand. The results of their decision are now apparent, as the spire's internal sections, assembled in Montreal and shipped to New York, have been hoisted atop One WTC.
In a 2012 statement, Mr. Childs called the radome an "integral part" of the building's design. He also offered to find a suitable compromise. "We stand ready to work with the Port on an alternate design that will still mark 1 World Trade Center's place in New York City's skyline." Unfortunately, it appears the owners have chosen to follow the cheapest and worst of all possible routes. Rather than design a new spire, they are instead using the older design, minus the sculptural shell, in a way that was never intended.
Just imagine constructing the Statue of Liberty but then, for cost reasons, forgoing its sculpted copper skin. Of course, as nothing more than an exposed metal skeleton and a spiral staircase, Lady Liberty wouldn't be the same. In certain ways, the current short-changing at Ground Zero is even worse. One WTC rises over hallowed ground, pointing to the heavens from the place where over 2,600 souls lost their lives. The substitution of its graceful spire with a radio antenna reduces the building to the mundane and diminishes its meaning as a monument and memorial.
UPDATE: Douglas Durst responds to the article on the WSJ comments page:
Durst is an advisor, not a developer of 1WTC.and has no decision making authority on construction matters. PANYNJ made the final determination to eliminate the radome not to save money, but because the radome structure could not be maintained. Durst tried for several months to find away to maintain the radome, but the building was nearing completion and it was too late to engineer a new structure. Incidentally, radome is put on after an antennae is installed. The radome structure designed by SOM would have made broadcast antennas infeasible depriving PANYNJ of much needed revenue.


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Monthly Count
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
To collect the count on the storage drive:
- Log onto libcontent1 via SSH and change into the scripts directory. (see Command-line_Work_on_Linux_Server)
- Run GBcount: type in `GBcount` and hit enter. It will output on the command line the total count in gigabytes for the archival storage directories on the server. It will also output a detailed report in the scripts/output directory.
- Run acumenCount: type in `acumenCount` and hit enter. It will output on the command line the total number of collections represented in Acumen, including the number which do not have EADs; the detailed report will be output in the scripts/output directory.
- Download the report created by acumenCount, and open it in Excel, with tabs as delimiters. This report lists collection identifiers, titles, item count, file count, and whether the collection has an EAD. At the end is the total counts for both items and files.
- use the monthly GB counter described here Monthly_gb_counter. This script is kept (where??? how do you run it? what does it output and where?)
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To combine and reconcile the two into the monthly report:
Please refer to this document for information on how we compile our monthly count File:Collecting numbers for use in the monthly count.docx


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News Corp. Gives Spinoff Details, Taps Editor
Publishing Entity to Retain News Corp. Name; Entertainment Unit to Be Called Fox Group
News Corp. NWS -1.22% on Monday fleshed out management details for when the media conglomerate splits in two, and disclosed that the News Corp. name will stay with the publishing assets.
After the split, the entertainment assets will take the name Fox Group.
Also on Monday, the media company disclosed that it will cease publication of the Daily, its iPad-only publication, in mid-December, ending a money-losing experiment in digital publishing.
Heading the publishing company post-spinoff will be Robert Thomson, 51 years old, who is currently Wall Street Journal managing editor and editor in chief of Dow Jones. News Corp. said he will assume the new role on Jan. 1, though the split isn't expected to be completed until midyear.
Gerard Baker, 50, currently Mr. Thomson's deputy at the Journal, will succeed him, the company confirmed. In the Journal's newsroom on Monday afternoon, with the staff gathered, News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch jokingly poured Champagne on Mr. Baker's head after a round of speeches.
Prior to joining the Journal in 2009, Mr. Baker was the U.S. editor and an assistant editor of the Times of London. Before that, he worked as a journalist at the Financial Times and the BBC. He attended Corpus Christi College at Oxford University and worked in the financial sector before becoming a journalist.
Earlier this year News Corp. announced plans to carve off its publishing assets from its entertainment businesses. The split allows investors to choose between owning the low-growth publishing assets and the healthier entertainment businesses. The publishing company will include Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., British and Australian newspapers, HarperCollins book publishing and Australian television assets.
The Fox Group entertainment company will include the 20th Century Fox film studio, Fox News cable channel, and the Fox broadcast network. The Fox Group businesses accounted for nearly 90% of operating income for fiscal 2012.
The management team that will take the reins at the publishing company is a mix of old and new executives. The chief financial officer will be Bedi Ajay Singh, 53, a former CFO of MGM Studios, where he worked until 2010. He previously held "senior finance roles" at News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit, News International, and at 20th Century Fox, the company said.
Paul Cheesbrough, chief technology officer for News Corp., will assume that role at the publishing company. He earlier worked at News International.
The management changes have already led to one departure. Late Sunday, News Corp. said that News International's chief, Tom Mockridge, is resigning, just 18 months after taking over. In an internal memo Monday, Mr. Mockridge said he was leaving because "the new structure does not offer me a role I am comfortable with and, after 22 years with the company in five countries, I feel I have made enough of a contribution to make a personal choice to go."
Mr. Mockridge, who has run several other businesses before taking over News International, had been seen by some people as a potential contender for the CEO slot.
The publishing company is expected to come out of the split with a significant cash pile and analysts are anxious to hear how the new News Corp. will deploy that money, including whether it will pay a dividend.
"That is a fundamental issue that has to have further clarity before anybody from an investment perspective can figure out how they feel," said Todd Juenger of Sanford C. Bernstein. "Is it a growth acquisition vehicle or is it a value-oriented high dividend high cash flow sort of company?"
News Corp. said such details haven't been disclosed.
News Corp. has shown signs of pursuing acquisitions in publishing, recently expressing interest to CBS Corp. about buying its Simon & Schuster book business, according to people familiar with the talks. News Corp. also is expected to consider acquiring newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times, a unit of Tribune Co. which is about to emerge from bankruptcy. News Corp. declined to comment.
Another question is whether the company will pursue further cost cutting or close money-losing titles. News Corp. declined to comment. Analysts say the Daily, for instance, was losing money.
The Daily was launched with much fanfare nearly two years ago, as an effort to redefine news-gathering in the digital age. Mr. Murdoch said at the time of launch that "we believe the Daily will be the model for how stories will be told and consumed. But in a statement Monday, Mr. Murdoch said, "we could not find a large enough audience quickly enough to convince us the business model was sustainable in the long term."
"It's a positive to see Rupert [Murdoch] close the Daily," said David Bank of RBC Capital Markets. "It appears that if he's willing to make a change he's making it quickly. If that's the new Rupert, that's a real positive to me."
News Corp. had already laid off almost a third of the Daily's staff last summer, after the split announcement.
Jesse Angelo, the Daily's editor in chief, will become the publisher of the New York Post. Paul Carlucci, publisher of the New York Post since 2005, will give up that post but continue in his role as chairman of News America Marketing.
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What's PREP?
PREP provides practical information on getting ready for any potential emergency, from storms and power outages to floods and earthquakes. This information will help you and your neighbors to make it through on your own, since authorities may be overwhelmed and unable to respond promptly after a major disaster.
PREP offers step-by-step tips, with printable checklists and links to more information. PREP has four steps to readiness:
- Get Prepared: What to know, what to have on hand, what to do ahead of time
- Get Prepared with Your Neighbors: How to help your neighbors get ready
- Get Organized: Make a plan with your neighbors for helping each other after the disaster
- Get Confident: Keep current and learn new skills by practicing together
PREP focuses on earthquakes and tsunamis. This is because if you're ready for an earthquake, you're pretty much ready for anything. The next big movement of the Cascadia Subduction Zone could happen anytime and leave us without utilities, food deliveries, fuel and other services for a week to a month or longer. Fire crews, police, and emergency medical responders will likely be overwhelmed. Travel and communication may be difficult or impossible.
The good news is that earthquakes are the most survivable of major disasters. Coming through a major disaster well will depend on our ability to take care of ourselves and those around us. Our greatest assets will be our own knowledge and attitudes, our household resources, and our connections with neighbors and community.
PREP encourages you to get to know your neighbors and work with them to prepare your neighborhood. Should streets be impassable, due to downed trees or broken pavement, you and your neighbors will be each other's closest source of help. Experience shows that disasters tend to bring out the best in people, and Oregon is full of neighborly people who will pull together to get ready for and respond to these events.
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Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash had all the qualities of a country legend: a rich life, a keen instinct for storytelling and an unflinching eye on the world around him.
Cash's humble beginnings made him an authentic storyteller whose plainspoken narrative songs spoke to the American everyman. He wrote songs prolifically but never carelessly; each one captured a deeper truth and resonated uncannily with the working man.
To millions of fans, Johnny Cash is "the Man in Black," a country-music legend who sings in an authoritative baritone about the travails of working men and the downtrodden in this country.
Lesser known is the fact that Johnny Cash was present at the birth of rock and roll by virtue of being one of the earliest signees to Sam Phillips' Sun Records back in 1955.
Cash was part of an elite club of rock and roll pioneers at Sun that included Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. The four were collectively referred to as "the Million Dollar Quartet" after an impromptu gathering and jam session at the Sun recording studio on December 4, 1956. What Cash and his group, the Tennessee Two, brought to the "Sun Sound" was a spartan mix of guitar, standup bass and vocals that served as an early example of rockabilly. Cash recorded a string of rockabilly hits for Sun that included "Cry, Cry, Cry," "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line." The latter was first of more than a dozen Number One country hits for Cash and also marked his first appearance on the national pop singles charts.
Straddling the country, folk and rockabilly idioms, Johnny Cash has crafted more than 400 plainspoken story-songs that describe and address the lives of coal miners, sharecroppers, Native Americans, prisoners, cowboys, renegades and family men. Cash came by his common touch honestly, having been born in Kingsland, Arkansas, during the Great Depression on February 26, 1932. At age three, he moved with his family to Dyess, Arkansas, where he worked the cotton fields. Cash's roaming days included laboring at an auto plant in Michigan, serving in the Air Force in Germany and working as an appliance salesman in Memphis. Cash became a full-time musician after his two-sided hit—"So Doggone Lonesome"/"Folsom Prison Blues"—shot to Number Four on the Billboard country chart in 1956. From Sun, he jumped to Columbia Records in 1958, where he recorded such favorites as "Ring of Fire," "Understand Your Man," "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" and "Tennessee Flat-Top Box." But Cash never forgot his roots, nor did he leave hard times behind. A prototype for the black-clad rebel rocker, Cash cultivated a serious drug problem in the Sixties, which ended when he met his second wife, June Carter, whom he married in 1968.
Some of Cash's best work includes live albums recorded, quite literally, for captive audiences at Folsom and San Quentin prisons. Johnny Cash at San Quentin included the 1969 hit "A Boy Named Sue," which went to Number Two. In 1969, Cash cut a duet with Bob Dylan for the latter's Nashville Skyline (1969), and Dylan returned the favor by appearing on The Johnny Cash Show, a successful TV variety hour that premiered in 1969. All the while, the rugged simplicity and uncut honesty of Cash's approach was steadily seeping into rock and roll by way of the burgeoning country-rock scene.
Cash remained a stalwart figure and working musician through the Nineties. His career received a shot in the arm in the mid-Nineties, when he released what many consider to be one of his finest albums, a stark study for guitar and voice entitled American Recordings. In 1999, Cash received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Johnny Cash died of complications from diabetes on September 12, 2003. Two posthumously released albums, both produced by Rick Rubin, received critical acclaim: 2006's American V: A Hundred Highways and 2010's American VI: Ain't No Grave. A feature-film biopic, Walk the Line, came out in 2005, and the following year a jukebox musical called Ring of Fire opened on Broadway.
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Find out where and how to obtain or renew a driver's license or identification card. Also see information for new residents.
The Jefferson County Clerk's office is contracted with the State of Tennessee Department of Safety to renew and replace Tennessee State Driver's Licenses and Identification Cards. As an express location we are unable to do any driver's testing, drivers license transfers from other states(new residents or returning residents), renew any Tennessee Commercial Driver's License, reinstate driver's license, issue new identification cards, concealed carry permits or print a driving record. Also as a part of our contract we are required to charge an additional $4.00 processing fee on all transactions. For online services such as renewals and reinstatements see Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Online Applications.
The hours of operation are:
Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Residents wishing to renew their driver's license or identification cards must submit their renewal notice and their current license or ID. You will be required to complete an application provided by the state in the event you did not receive a notice from the state to renew. An additional $4.00 processing fee is charged on all transactions due to changes in our state contract.
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Our office can only renew and replace identification cards due to our new state contract. Anyone wishing to apply for an identification card for the first time or changing from a drivers license to an identification card must go to a main examining station.
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A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing here on this blog One Night of Madness, a book written by Stokes McMillan, a native of Attala County, Mississippi. It was McMillan's first book, a true account of events that happened in that county, in the racially-charged 1950s. According to the author, a series of photographs taken by his father who worked for the local family-owned newspaper in Kosciusko, Mississippi, the Star-Herald, was the impetus for the book. McMillan's gripping tale of murder and mayhem in rural Mississippi is well-researched and written and is spell-binding as the events in the story unfold. The book was published in 2009 and was very well-received, earning McMillan an EDGAR award the next year. A husband, father of three sons, and a grandfather, McMillan is a graduate of Mississippi State University and retired last year from a long engineering career with NASA in Houston, Texas. His plans to write another book are on hold, at least for the present, since he is currently involved in a second career working for a private company in Colorado.
Fast forward to 2012.....
McMillan and his book seem to have made an impact on the literary world, at least in Mississippi, as evidenced by a recent article in Publishers Weekly. The transcript of that article is included below.
"Stokes McMillan's self-published book, One Night of Madness, was named winner of the 2012 Mississippi Author Award. Inspired by articles written by his journalist father in 1950, McMillan's One Night of Madness is the true story of how local, white citizens in the pre-civil rights South unite to hunt down racist white murderers in a small Mississippi town. A book with an unusual story gains a unique honor with the win. According to vice president Lynn Shurden, 'this is the first time that I'm aware a self-published book has son.' Published in paperback through Amazon's CreateSpace in November 2009, the book has sold modestly with around 4,000 copies to date. 'Due to my very busy day job, I have not been actively pushing it so sales have slowed accordingly. I have, however, signed a contract with a movie producer who is working to make it into a movie,' McMillan said. Past winners of the Mississippi Author Award include Eudora Welty, Charlaine Harris, and Kathryn Stockett. One Night of Madness previously won a gold medal Independent Publishers Book Award in 2010. McMillan is represented by Wendy Schmalz of the Wendy Schmalz Agency."
Stokes McMillan and his book are now part of Mississippi's literary history, and his name is among others on a hallowed list of authors who call that state "home." Although he is staying busy with other projects at the moment, I predict we will see more of McMillan's talented story-telling.
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
A two-sentence post on.... the end of the line
But for now, let's just sit back and watch the team slug the ball all over (& out of) the goddamned ballpark one last time, shall we?
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Amen! Could not have said it better myself!
- October 2, 2010 at 11:23 PM
- Ty said...
I remember the last game of the 2009 season: the Jays blew the lead against Baltimore when Brandon League made multiple fielding errors in the same inning, and though I was going to miss the idea of watching baseball, I was admittedly glad to say goodbye to that shitshow of a team.
This year, it's different. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I'm going to legitimately miss this team. It's been a hell of a season, by far the most fun team to watch in at least the last decade. And although I'm giddy to see what AA does in the offseason - it's going to be a fun one - it's also sad to know that this is likely the last time we'll see Lyle Overbay, John Buck, Scott Downs, Jason Frasor, and even Cito, in Blue Jays uniforms.
I guess ultimately it's better to be bummed out on the last day of the season than bitter and glad to see it gone, but April is so far away! Here's hoping it comes quickly.
- October 3, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
- October 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM
- Ice Cream Jonsey said...
Cito's gonna love this off-season; there will be six solid months where he'll get to not pencil JP's name in anywhere.
- October 4, 2010 at 11:51 AM


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MP's Indigenous work call faces rough road
A resident of Santa Teresa in Central Australia says forcing people to commute to Alice Springs to find jobs is not a reasonable solution to unemployment in the region.
The Prime Minister's Parliamentary Secretary for indigenous affairs, Alan Tudge, has suggested unemployed Aboriginal people in the community should travel the 80 kilometres to Alice Springs to find work.
Judy Lovell runs the community's arts centre and says there are already a large number of unemployed people in Alice Springs.
"I don't necessarily follow the logic that if you can commute you can do all of these other things, that all these other things are going to happen," she said.
"I do not know where of all these other jobs would be in Alice Springs that people would suddenly come running into town for."
Ms Lovell says the road is too dangerous for people to drive between Santa Teresa and Alice Springs on a daily basis.
"The road is no way appropriate for use by lots of people," she said.
"You would not keep the cars running.
"The road would take the cars out very quickly."
Mr Tudge is overseeing a Federal Government review of Indigenous employment schemes, including the Remote Jobs and Communities Program introduced by Labor.
He says the review will report back next year but he already has concerns about existing programs.
He visited communities across central Australia last week, including Santa Teresa.
In an opinion article in The Australian newspaper today, he wrote that changes were needed in collective thinking about Indigenous employment.
"In most remote communities, policies to get people into jobs are caught in a downward spiral," he wrote.
"Every reason under the sun is accepted as a barrier against work."
He said that he had been "dismayed to find out that too often language about remote Indigenous Australians does not focus on what people can do but on the barriers that prevent them being work ready".
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As the final seconds ticked off the clock to end this year's Super Bowl, our Twitter feed filled with the rejoicing of our fellow baseball fans. "Football's over and baseball season is here!"
We were fully prepared to jump into that packed Plymouth Reliant K Car of joy and awesomeness, until it struck us that there remain two full weeks until the Blue Jays' hurlers and receivers punch the clock for the first time in Dunedin. And moreover, there's nothing quite so anti-climactic as celebrating the start of the new season by watching video of a row of catchers squatting and stretching and maybe (if you're lucky) pitchers' fielding practice.
Oh sure, baseball is coming soon. But we want it now!
And since there's not much else going on, let's pore through a whole lot of nothing.
Oh Manny: Remember a couple of winters ago, when Manny Ramirez was the big, proven, middle-of-the-order bat that everyone wanted the Jays to go after, damn the consequences? How about we pour some hot water on those shrivelled old leaves and make ourselves some tasty ManRam tea? (That might be a terrible analogy. Just be happy that we didn't torture it with some added bit about scones to go with the tea, because that's just ugly.)
The Jays have more than enough depth between left field and DH, and Manny comes with all sorts of warnings on his label. Still, for a one-year, minor-league deal with incentives built in, we'd be more than happy to take a chance that Manny would eventually make his way to Toronto with the motivation to come back to the big leagues and hit. For all the talk about how Manny's career is over, it's worth noting that he posted a .409 OBP in 2010.
Let Manny sit on the sidelines for 50 games, see how the rest of your lineup shakes out, and if you need him, you bring him aboard and give him at bats. And if you don't need him, you pay him out and let him sign elsewhere, or you trade him. What's to lose?
Old Friends, Bound for Moving On: There are few Blue Jays over the life span of our blog who have befuddled us more than Camp, as we teeter-tottered back and forth between appreciating his occasional contributions and loathing the sight of him jogging in from the bullpen with his ill-fitting pants and silly socks. Now comes the news that Camp has packed his pantaloons and is headed for the west coast, signing a big-league deal with the Seattle Mariners.
Over his Blue Jays career, Camp walked a few too many batters (2.8 per nine innings), while not striking out nearly enough (5.5 per nine), and depended primarily on the kindness of his infielders, managing to induce ground balls more than 50% of the time throughout his four seasons. Through the bulk of his time with the Jays, we never trusted him in any sort of situation where the game may have still been close.
Just as we were ready to run him out of town on a rail, he had a decent-if-lucky 2010 campaign, posting a sub-3.00 ERA (versus an xFIP of 3.93) in 70 appearances. And if our foggy memory recalls that season correctly, Cito seemed to look to him first whenever a call to the pen was needed. Every damn time. With those stupid baggy pantaloons billowing as he ran to the mound. Like he was some sort of bullpen Mountie.
Why did those pants annoy us so?
Elsewhere, Mark Teahen got an invite to the Nationals training camp and...whatever. It doesn't really matter.
Syracuse Honours King Carlos: Last Friday, former Syracuse Chiefs great Carlos Delgado (remember him?) was inducted into the Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame. The Syracuse Post-Standard has an interview with Delgado from that evening, and we have to say that seeing him made us happy and wistful all in one fell swoop.
We're not sure what the right time would be to invite Delgado back to Toronto. On a certain level, it feels as though he's put a fair bit of distance between himself and the city over the past seven years. But there's no one who is more deserving of having their contributions to the Blue Jays recognized and saluted than Carlos, and we hope that it happens soon.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Various and Sundry - Catching up on a whole lot of nothing
3 comments:
- Drew said...
Hail to the King.
- February 7, 2012 at 11:18 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I could go into the "Delgado-before-Alomar" rant that I usually reserve for myself after I've collapsed on the floor in my own drunkulence.
But I won't.
- February 7, 2012 at 12:39 PM
Yes, cause you would just embarass yourself.
- February 16, 2012 at 4:10 PM
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Government and Industry Leaders Want Broadband Everywhere
The latest update of the Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast of Internet protocol (IP) data traffic from 2011 to 2016 is just astonishing. At the top level, global IP traffic growth is exploding at a CAGR of nearly 30% with much regional variation across the world, and different technologies and applications gaining share.
To explore the implications of the VNI forecasts for countries, consumers and corporations, I hosted a panel of experts with a wide range of policy, technical and industry experience. Joining the discussion were:
Diego Molano Vega: Colombia's Minister of Information Technology and Communications
Daniel Weitzner: Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy, Office of Science and Technology Policy at The White House
Kathleen Abernathy: Chief Legal Officer and Executive Vice President of Frontier Communications; and former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
Kevin McElearney: Senior Vice President of Network Engineering at Comcast
The panel discussed a wide range of issues, with three key take-aways:
Broadband is a critical tool for individuals and communities to connect to each other and the global marketplace. Broadband data traffic is growing fastest in emerging countries, and the ability to exchange information quickly across long distances expands economic opportunities, driving growth and productivity, as well as increasing social interaction and inclusion. This is as much the case in a country like Colombia as it is in rural areas of the United States.
While broadband infrastructure is crucial to lay the foundation to expand access to connectivity, the development of applications, proper training and skills are necessary to ensure adoption of broadband and truly unleash the transformative power of the Internet. Governments, working with private industry in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), play a role ensuring a conducive business environment where industry can invest in infrastructure and help to spur demand by providing online services for its citizens and opening up information, including public data.
Broadband data demand, quantity and speed, are only going to increase as more and more content is digitized and delivered over IP networks. The networks that will be able to support this demand will be heterogenous — Het Nets — combining macro and small cell wireless access and fiber optic cables. Only such networks will be sufficiently "future proofed" to keep up with the data growth rates forecasted by the VNI.
Watch the lively panel discussion below. The video includes the latest VNI results presented by my colleague, Doug Webster, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on May 30, as well as the panel discussion.
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Catholic observes National Day of Appreciation for Catholic school
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[November 17, 2012]
Each year the National Catholic Educational Association sponsors a
National Day of Appreciation for Catholic school principals. The
traditional day for this observance is the Thursday before
Thanksgiving. This year the day of appreciation was Nov. 15.
Carroll Catholic had a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge the
contribution of Mr. Welch and to say "thank you" for all the time
and energy he devotes to the school. It is also always
nice to surprise the principal with gifts throughout the day. So
each classroom invited Mr. Welch to join them for a period of time
on Thursday.
See the attached document for pictures and descriptions of
his visits to the classrooms.
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Jennifer K. Craig, school secretary and assistant athletic director,
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Decker honored with The DAISY Faculty Award
Graduates often talk about hearing a faculty member's voice in the back of their head helping through a tricky situation or difficult procedure. To honor these nurse educators that students hear – even years after graduation – the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) College of Nursing recognizes outstanding faculty members annually with The DAISY Faculty Award.
Willa Decker, M.S.N., M.A., RN, FNP-BC, assistant professor of nursing, received this year's award during a college-wide event May 14.
"The DAISY award gives the College of Nursing the opportunity to recognize model faculty for their commitment and inspirational influence on the nurses of tomorrow," said Sharon Wilkerson, Ph.D., RN, TAMHSC-College of Nursing dean.
Decker received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston and her Master of Science in Nursing in psychiatric mental health from Texas Woman's University–Houston Center. She also has a Master of Arts in individual, marriage and family therapy from the University of Houston and her post-master in advanced nurse practice from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
"Professor Decker is a professional example for her students and peers," Dr. Wilkerson said. "Her positive attitude and enthusiasm for teaching, learning and nursing inspires and motivates students and faculty alike."
The DAISY Foundation was started in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes, who died at age 33 of complications of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). His family was astounded by the compassionate treatment he received from nurses during the eight weeks of hospitalization and created the DAISY award in appreciation of those nurses. DAISY stands for "Diseases Attacking the Immune System." The DAISY Foundation mission is to celebrate and show appreciation to the extraordinary nurses who combine their experience and education with their kindness to impact patients and families.
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In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldi-known as the Red Priest of Venice-is maestro and composer. Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale della PietA as an infant, is determined to find out who she is and where she came from. Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society; from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king; from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestro's favor to the larger-than-life world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall. In this world, where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be. A virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vivaldi's Virgins is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldi's musical legacy, interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young woman's coming-of-age in a deliciously evocative time and place.
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We believe that it is important to have a mission – however in order to have a mission, you must have a purpose. Our purpose as choral musicians is to strive for excellence in the art of music, reach new heights of discipline in rehearsal and personal life and to develop our character as we journey through our years together.
The students who have been a part of the Hilliard Darby Choral program have long understood what it takes to build a superior program. The current members are only visitors of a long standing reputation.
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Construction workers had been dying at a rate of one every six weeks in the $32 billion building boom on the Las Vegas Strip. But deaths stopped last year after the Las Vegas Sun exposed serious safety flaws on the sites and detailed how lax oversight by safety regulators failed to prevent accidents.
The stories forced state and federal investigations and became the subject of hearings in the U.S. House and Senate. Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and others sent a letter to President Bush demanding safety reforms in the Labor Department.
As the Sun pursued the story, the newspaper reported on cozy relationships existing between safety regulators and builders. Angered by the revelations and continuing death toll, workers walked off the job at MGM Mirage's CityCenter, shutting down the largest private commercial development in U.S. history until the contractors agreed to safety improvements.
Twelve workers had died in 18 months. But after the improvements, the deaths stopped. No workers have died since June 2008.
This page features the Sun's series, which includes stories, a video, an interactive and documents from OSHA concerning the deaths, plus follow-up stories.


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Monday, November 26, 2012
OOTD "You Talking To Me" + Cyber Monday
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You are looking bad chickish indeed. hahaReplyDelete
Love the spot of red in your hair.
I wish we'd have 'leather gloves weather' in my country! I think they are one of the chicest things anyone will ever own but it's too darn hot here lol! Glad you enjoyed your thanks giving!ReplyDeleteReplies
I love them and they are chic ;-) Thanks!Delete
I love your hair! Your daughter did a fab job. I'm also lovin' the gloves with the jacket & shoes(^_^)ReplyDelete
*swoon* I love Moto jackets, and you are so rocker meets glam/feminine with the addition of the necklace and heels. The red highlights look hotReplyDelete
LOVE THIS LOOK MIMI! Yes, indeed you do look bad a**...and that pop of red in your hair is hawt....kudos to your daughter, she did a great job! I must get that jacket. Just purchased a grey moto jacket from the GAP, I was eyeing those jeans, should of snag them over the wknd when they were on sale.ReplyDelete
Mimi I had that shirt in my F21 cart for a couple of weeks. Went to place my order last night, and of course it was out of stock. I hate when I do that. You look marvelous darling.ReplyDeleteReplies
LOL, I do that all the time ;-)Delete
Love the look!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 26, 2012 at 7:23 PM
Love the highlights! Keep them (at least for a little while)! Change is good. I only wish I could color my hair but I have become highly allergic and choose life and health 1st, lol. But you look great! Love the look, casual but well put together.ReplyDelete
Hey Mimi love your style hot lady!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 26, 2012 at 9:01 PM
Love that jacketReplyDelete
i really love your sense of fashion! so chic! you haircut is amazing!!! i love your jacket and your shoes!! ♥♥ReplyDelete
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I'm definitely a fan of the highlights and the gloves!!! Keep the red for a bit, it looks soo good and also edgier!
Hey Mimi,ReplyDelete
I'm definitely a fan of the highlights and the gloves!!! Keep the red for a bit, it looks soo good and also edgier!
you sure do look like a bad chick from an action movie LOLReplyDelete
stunning as always!
- AnonymousNovember 27, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Giiiiirl! This is FIRE, and the hair color just sets it all off.ReplyDelete
Suber badd look lady!ReplyDelete
I really love this look... Always had a soft spot for that army/olive green, and it looks fabulous as that jacket!! And the heels? no words... other than they are just delicious. Looking fabulous, as always :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 28, 2012 at 8:07 AM
You look like a bad ass in this outfit! You better get it honey booboo chile! LOL I love this look and you have the pose and face expression to match:) {in my Tamar Braxton voice "you did that"}ReplyDelete


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KC downtown benefiting from back-to-back hoops
Estimated 130K visited KC Live Block for Big 12, St. Patrick's Day
Downtown Kansas City has been benefiting from back-to-back waves of basketball.
Just a couple of days after serving as host for 120,000 people over the four-day run of the Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament, the Sprint Center is now preparing for the NCAA tournament and a second wave of packed hotels and restaurants and a downtown entertainment district flooded with fans as eight teams try to advance in the NCAA basketball tournament, The Kansas City Star reported.
Nick Benjamin, executive director of the Power & Light District, said the crowds attracted to his venue for the Big 12 tournament and St. Patrick's Day were the biggest in the five-year history of the entertainment district.
"The past five days are the best five days we've ever had," he said.
Benjamin estimated 130,000 people visited the Kansas City Live Block and 14th Street, which was closed during the tournament, between Wednesday and Saturday. They went through 300,000 cups during the event.
College basketball fans from several states now have their sights on Kansas City and the second and third rounds of the NCAA tournament starting Thursday. The NCAA brackets had only been set for 30 minutes or so Sunday night when the phone inside the sales office at Kansas City's The Hilton President started ringing.
"It's going to be packed," Philip Strnad, general manager of The Hilton President, said Monday. "We're sold out from Wednesday night on."
Rick Hughes, president and CEO of the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association, said businesses have it all down pat by now.
"I think most of hotels and restaurant understand the magnitude of the business," Hughes said. "They know they have to be staffed up and stocked up. . They really are prepared."
Jim Watry, district manager of the KC Live area in the Power & Light District, prepares all year for March tournaments, his busiest time of year. That includes hiring 65 temporary workers for restaurants and bars, making repairs and putting in new equipment
Carol Pecoraro, general manager at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown, said perhaps some of the customers will return during other months too.
"You hope all these people come back sometime when there's not a basketball tournament," Pecoraro said.


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Kat Dennings "was in a rut." She needed something "to brighten her day."
So she tried jogging.
And yoga.
And gardening.
But Lipton was the only thing that made her feel better.
I desperately wish I had been in the room during the probably months and months of discussion between Dennings' agent and the Lipton people over their excited discovery that Kat Dennings loves tea and Lipton's admission that they're trying to target a younger, hipper demographic and oh wouldn't she just be PERFECT for this new idea we have. And Kat just rolls her eyes and says, "Dude it's cool as long as the shoot is over in a day and the royalties come in on time, I'm good because I once had to fake an orgasm with Michael Cera. I can do anything."


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* Mickelson sets red-hot pace with opening 60
* Takes early four-shot lead at Phoenix Open
* Play suspended with 33 players yet to finish (Updates at end of day)
Jan 31 (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson came up agonisingly short in a spectacular bid to become the sixth player to dip under 60 on the PGA Tour when his birdie putt for a magical 59 horseshoed out at the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona on Thursday.
Having lined up a 25-footer at the par-four ninth, his final hole in the opening round at the TPC Scottsdale, Mickelson watched in anguish as his ball caught the right edge of the cup before rolling around the back of hole and spinning out.
"The last six feet it was right on glide slope, it should have been right in the middle," Mickelson told Golf Channel after shooting an 11-under-60. "To have that putt on line, I am kind of mortified that it didn't go in."
The four-times major champion, who had pointed his putter in the direction of the ball as it headed towards the cup, clutched his drooping head with his left hand when his hopes of a 59 were so cruelly dashed.
Mickelson had to settle for a share of the course record at the TPC Scottsdale - which he already held jointly with Grant Waite and Mark Calcavecchia - but grabbed a commanding four-shot lead in the fifth PGA Tour event of the season.
Thirty-three players were still out on the course when play was suspended for the day in fading light after the start of the opening round had been delayed for an hour due to morning frost.
Americans Brandt Snedeker, Ryan Palmer, Jeff Maggert and Ted Potter Jr, along with triple major winner Padraig Harrington of Ireland in his first start of the year on the U.S. circuit, opened with 64s.
Belgian rookie Nicolas Colsaerts and American Brian Gay, winner of the Humana Challenge at La Quinta 11 days ago, were among a group of nine players knotted on 65.
Masters champion Bubba Watson, who has not played since the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii because of flu, opened with a five-birdie 67 on a near-perfect day for scoring in the Arizona desert.
"I'm ecstatic to shoot 60," Mickelson said after piling up 11 birdies with a flawless display of golf in dazzling sunshine. "I am excited and so forth but you don't get chances to shoot 59 very often.
"I could not envision what side of the hole it would have missed on when it was a foot out. But I made a ton of putts today, I hit a lot of great shots and I drove it very well."
Winner here in 1996 and 2005, Mickelson birdied seven of his first nine holes to reach the turn in a blistering 29 amid intensifying thoughts of a possible 59.
"I was thinking 59 back on my 10th hole," said the 42-year-old fan favourite, who studied at the nearby Arizona State University. "When I had that front nine, I was thinking of it the whole time."
Mickelson, a 40-times champion on the PGA Tour, picked up further shots at the first, third, fourth and seventh before his birdie attempt on the ninth green stunningly failed to fall into the cup.
"I am walking after it and somehow it moves at the end low and caught the lip," Mickelson said. "And even at that pace, I think it's going to lip in. That one - that was heartbreaking."
Harrington, playing in the Phoenix Open for the first time, was delighted with his seven-birdie 64.
"It's a nice score, obviously," the 41-year-old Dubliner said after hitting 14 of 18 greens in regulation. "It's a little bit behind Phil but still a nice score in itself.
"I pretty much got the most out of the round for the first 15 holes and then had three chances the last three holes and didn't hole the putts. But overall I've got a good feeling about it."
The five players who have shot 59s on the PGA Tour are Americans Al Geiberger (1977 Memphis Classic), Chip Beck (1991 Las Vegas Invitational), David Duval (1999 Bob Hope Classic) and Paul Goydos (2010 John Deere Classic) as well as Australian Stuart Appleby (2010 Greenbrier Classic). (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Frank Pingue/Nick Mulvenney)


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An Inn or Hotel may be a good place to sleep but sometimes it can bring problems, and opportunities, of it's own...
Foot Coral. It attatches to a foot like moss, almost gluing itself to an organism. It gets its food supply from the ground, and does not leech off the host in any way. It is not a malignant organism, and is entirely harmless. But it only grows on human feet, and even then, never on the left foot. An organism that it grows on can feel touch through the coral, but not pain. Removal of the coral is painless, but why would you want to?
Texturally, if fells like a dry, non slimy amoeba.


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The Council of Europe and UNESCO established the ENIC Network in 1994 in order to develop joint policy and practice in all European countries for the recognition of qualifications.
In addition to that, the ENIC Network plays a key role in the implementation of the Council of Europe/UNESCO Convention on the recognition of qualifications concerning higher education in the European Region adopted in Lisbon on 11 April 1997.
The Council of Europe and UNESCO/CEPES jointly provide the Secretariat for the ENIC Network. The ENIC Network cooperates closely with the NARIC Network of the European Union. The Secretariat for the NARIC Network is provided by the European Commission/Directorate General for Education and Culture.
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The Network is made up of the national information centres of the States party to the European Cultural Convention or the UNESCO Europe Region. An ENIC is a body set up by the national authorities. While the size and specific competence of ENIC may vary, they will generally provide information on:
The ENIC's principal target groups are: students, parents, employers, universities and other higher education institutions, ministries responsible for higher education, other interested persons and organisations.
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In June 2004 the two networks adopted the Joint ENIC NARIC Charter which was approved by the Lisbon Recognition Convention Committee.
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Within the ENIC Network, a number of policy and information issues are prepared by Working Parties, which submit their proposals to the annual Network meetings.
Topics considered by working parties presently include Electronic Information, while the Working Party on the Development of Information Strategies concluded its work in June 2004.
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The Yeti that Inspired the Robot
There are a lot of really great things going on in the sound design community on the web, and one of the coolest things is the "Sound Design Challenge" being put on at the Dynamic Interface site. Each month a new challenge is put out, with a list of restrictions of what can and can not be done and just one week to complete the challenge. I have been wanting to take part in one of these for a while but have always been just too busy with current projects to be able to jump head first into the competition. In January I finally got a chance to make an attempt, the competition was, to come up with a set of vocalizations for a hypothetical "Yeti" and the challenge's imposed restriction was that you could only use your own voice and processing to make a range of emotions for this fictional Yeti. So the usual tricks of grabbing lion roars or other animal attacks and manipulating them to create a new creature was not allowed. Each entry had to have a vocalization from their Yeti for anger, confusion, curiosity, happiness, breathing and pain.
Sadly I don't really feel like I put my best foot forward as I was not able to spend much time polishing my entry, so I think it was pretty forgettable to the judges. The upside though was all the people who entered agreed to make a library out of all the submissions. So I got a ton of crazy new monster sounds for future projects. I have even used a few already to make the sounds for a rabid grizzly bear attacking an RV in the middle of the night (Mostly the Yeti submitted by "Farley").
Here is my submission for the Yeti competition, again this is all based on my voice:
Yetti AzimuthAudio by azimuthaudio
I was able to do something similar with a different character.
This roar ended up having an almost mechanical servo type sound. Could be a robot vocal or a element of a mechanical arm movement or something along those lines.
Basically I was able to take some techniques I used in the Sound Design Challenge to use in real work but mostly the challenge was able to shake me out of my routine on how I was building Monster/Creature/Robot sounds. Hopefully I can find the time to enter future competitions through Dynamic Interface because it seems you get more out of it then you think you will.