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Dave Loeb performs for pay, and he performs for passion.
Playing piano for the film "Ted," for instance, is mostly for pay. Not to suggest Loeb is ever lacking in passion, but contributing to the 2012 Seth MacFarlane film was more an assignment than a calling. Same can be said of Loeb's regular work on scoring MacFarlane's "Family Guy" Fox TV series, and his former contributions to scene-setting music for "Hill Street Blues," "L.A. Law" and "Ally McBeal."
By comparison, heading up the UNLV Jazz Studies Program is a genuine, to-the-core passion for Loeb, who is celebrating the UNLV Jazz Ensemble's 40th anniversary at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Artemus Ham Hall with a performance by some of the city's most accomplished musicians — who also happen to be UNLV alumni — and the UNLV Jazz Ensemble 1 band. (Tickets are $10, available through the UNLV Performing Arts Center website or by calling 895-2787.)
This show at the venerable music hall is to play out as an inherently musical experience. If you are seeking smoke machines, painted performers juggling flaming clubs or anyone bounding about on bungee cords, look elsewhere. But if you want to experience a musical ensemble that has helped populate bands in shows across Las Vegas, this is the place.
"I liken my role in this like being the coach of a football team," Loeb says. "We have a lot of fantastic, talented players who come in and fill in for the ones who leave. Different players leave, but others come in to hone their craft and develop as musicians.
"The goal is to entice them to come to the school, of course," Loeb says.
Loeb is joined onstage as conductor by a couple of highly respected musicians and arrangers who rose from the Jazz Studies Program: Nathan Tanouye and Dennis Mackrel. Tanouye is at once personally unassuming yet uncommonly talented, one of the city's foremost trombone players (he is a chief inspiration for the famed #trombonesolo Twitter hashtag, for starters). Tanouye performs in, and writes the charts for, Celine Dion's orchestra at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. He is also a member of the burning Santa Fe & the Fat City Horns band at the Palms and also backed Donny & Marie at the Flamingo. The Jazz Studies Program also boasts some instructors of high caliber; David Perrico of "Pin Up" and his own Pop Evolution show band at the Stratosphere is one, as is Tanouye.
Mackrel is back to perform with both the UNLV Jazz Alumni Band and UNLV Jazz Ensemble after forging an impressive career as director of the Count Basie Orchestra. While at UNLV, Mackrel played drums in the Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Frank Gagliardi before taking off for a successful career as a jazz artist in New York.
UNLV's Jazz Studies Program has won international acclaim as one of the great collegiate musical institutions in the world. It has produced five international awards doled out by DownBeat Magazine, one of the most prestigious publications in jazz music. The school submits an unmarked CD for review, and the UNLV artists are gauged purely on the merit of their music.
"We're up there against Julliard, USC, schools from Australia, South Africa," says Loeb, who has been known to jump around after learning of these DownBeat Award recognitions. "This is worldwide, and there is no pretense of prejudice in the judging process. It's a huge honor to be recognized at that level."
The school will sell the new UNLV Jazz Studies Program CD, "The Four of Us," on Tuesday night. Similar to the show that night, you should give it a whirl. The artists who played the music are confident you'll like it.
• On the topic of UNLV-connected musicians doing cool things around VegasVille, Perrico is to perform a private concert for about 800 students at Las Vegas Academy on Sept. 24. The show is scheduled for 1 p.m. at LVA's Lowden Theater and is to strengthen the link between the hotel and the arts academy. Half of the ticket sales from Perrico's Tuesday Pop Evolution performances are being donated to the school.
This relationship between LVA and the Strat was ignited when Frankie, Tony and Ricky Moreno visited the school this spring to teach the elusive art of songwriting, which resulted in the band of young LVA hepcats Tommy Ward and Swayd opening for Moreno at the Stratosphere Showroom.
The hotel also plans to send cast members from "Pin Up" (but not the show's Playboy Playmate star, Claire Sinclair) to LVA to — quoting from the hotel's news release — "work with students in the coming year in the areas of dance, show production, costuming and set design."
In a statement, LVA Principal Scott Walker said: "The insight David Perrico and Pop Evolution provides on song arranging is the kind of experience that is so valuable to students who strive for a career in music. We're so pleased the partnership with the Stratosphere is offering so many benefits for our promising students."
This is a concept, and an artistic relationship, to support.
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Microbeads found in personal care products are slipping through the state's sewage treatment plants and entering the Atlantic Ocean, where they can harm sea life, according to a study released Monday by the state attorney general in support of his push for a statewide ban on the tiny plastic particles.
The study, which Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's office undertook with researchers at SUNY Fredonia, collected effluent samples from 34 wastewater treatment plants across the state, including the Cedar Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Nassau County.
Of those, nearly three-quarters contained microbeads -- including Nassau's plant, which discharges into the Atlantic Ocean.
Once microbeads are in waterways, they can collect "toxic chemical pollutants" on their surfaces and be mistaken for food by animal life, allowing contamination to enter the food chain, according to the study.
A report last year from Schneiderman's office claimed about 1.3 tons of microbeads are discharged per year in Nassau County alone.
In February, Schneiderman submitted a bill to the State Legislature that would ban microbeads from personal care products in the state. Violations would carry a penalty of $2,500 per day for the first offense, and double that for the second offense.
A vote on that bill, sponsored by Assemb. Michelle Schimel (D-Great Neck), is expected on Wednesday -- Earth Day -- said Assemb. Steven Englebright (D-Setauket), chair of that body's environmental conservation committee.
"This is an important part of our Earth Day agenda," he said. "We see this as a high priority."
Meanwhile, state Sen. Thomas O'Mara (R-Elmira), chair of the environmental conservation committee who sponsored the attorney general's bill, last month introduced a separate microbead bill that would phase in a ban on the manufacture and sale of synthetic, non-biodegradable plastic microbeads in personal care products.
The bill only applies to solid microbeads in products used to exfoliate or cleanse the skin, and it carries no penalty provision.
"I'm approaching it with the view of both the environmental concerns of microbeads as well as balancing that with the needs of industry to adapt to this change," O'Mara said.
The two bodies have been meeting to negotiate common ground on a microbead ban.
"I'm hoping we come up with a bill that does what it's supposed to do, which is to keep our waterways free of microplastics," Schimel said.
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I'm not sure if I'll ever post this, or if it'll just sit in my drafts forever. But if I posted this, it most likely means we are over, or we are the lucky ones who made it through. This will probably be my longest, most ramblie-est blog post ever. But that's because as soon as I walked through my apartment door to an empty place, other than cat, I realized what I had been thinking over and over again may be true.
I think I'm falling in love with you. The past week I've been wanting to say my usual "Goodbye, I love you." ending to a phone call when I go to hang up with you. It's been randomly popping into my head lately, me just thinking the words "I love you". At first I thought it was just because you're the only one I don't say it to that I talk to over the phone. Our generation isn't really know for our phone calls, yet you call me almost every night for almost an hour to two hours. My mom told me to stop overthinking it and just go with it, but I overthink, it's what I do. So I chalked it up to that, I'm just over thinking it. And it just kept popping into my head for some weird reason like that embarrassing thing I did in 8th grade does occasionally.
I think I started to realize that it wasn't a fluke, but I wasn't yet falling in love with you, on our one month anniversary. You let me browse the book store for an hour while carrying a basket filled with my books, there were twenty of them. You picked out some classics for me too, including Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, which you said you truly enjoyed. I realized it again when you were kissing me back at my place after dinner. I had started laughing and like always you asked what I was laughing about. I smiled and told you you tasted like Mexican food, you chuckled and said I did too. Again, later that night, I noticed how strongly I liked you so quickly. Festival of Lights at the zoo, I asked if you were enjoying yourself even though we were with my mom and sister. You said yes, you really were, that you liked my family and loved the zoo. You got along well with my sister, and my mother loved you already- I could just tell.
I didn't realize that maybe I was very, painfully slowly, falling in love with you until I got home the next night. A week or so before you told me that you had a secret but wouldn't tell me, and it involved me. For some reason I thought maybe it was that you were falling in love with me already. I'm not sure why I thought that but I did. The idea terrified me to no end, I was so scared you were going to say you loved me after three weeks. It ended up being that you were crazy about me, it wasn't that you were in love.
This is my first real relationship. My first, you are here and so am I, relationship. My first, we could end up together relationship. And I am so terrified but so happy at the same time. At the beginning I was so scared to mess something up, I was scared because of my past something would go wrong. But you were so incredibly understanding. When panic attacks came on, you held my hand. With flashbacks of what had happened to me before you, you told me to open my eyes and just look at you. When I needed to stop something you shut it down right away.
And then today happened. You showed up at my place after a bad night and sat me down and told me that we needed to talk. Instantly I felt this twinge in my heart and asked if you were breaking up with me. Minutes later you were saying you didn't think things were working out, that you didn't want to waste my time, that we wanted different things. Instantly, with each thing you said I felt my heart twinge more and more. It was so physically painful to just sit there and be shellshocked by your words. Literally the night before we were fine and everything normal. Then here you are saying it's not going to work out. I went to my bedroom and grabbed your Miami sweatshirt, which I sleep with basically every night, and put it on your backpack. I grabbed your moose socks, your birthday present I was so excited to give you, and anything else that was yours and put it there. I was so numb but could feel all the pain gathered in my chest. I'm still numb hours later, I feel so lost and confused.
We talked for like five hours though and worked things out, you even called me when you got home and I called you back when I got to my moms. We worked things out and I know we are okay now but during me crying on your shoulder asking 'why' I realize I told you I was falling in love with you. You asked me what I was thinking and I told you it was pointless now, but you asked again like you always do. I sadly laughed and whispered "I was falling in love with you". You didn't hear it so I repeated myself saying "I was falling in love with you".
I didn't realize it till now that it's the truth. I'm slowly falling in love with you and I know you aren't there yet and who knows if you'll ever get there or if I'll ever fully get there. After today I know things will be a bit different even though you say everything is fine. I know I'll be timid and scared that around the corner will be more heartbreak. But obviously if I'm posting this then it means one of two things.
We worked it out and we're fine, maybe we're at a great stage in our relationship. Or we're really done, and probably have been done for a while. Who knows... But as of right now I know I don't want to go through something like today again. At least for a while. I don't want to feel that type of pain in my chest again for a while.
Now it's almost Valentine's Day and I am so totally excited. I just want to spend time with you whether it's hanging out at my place or going out to eat. I've never celebrated Valentine's Day for real so this is sort of huge and extremely special for me. It'll be our three month anniversary just days after Valentine's Day so if you aren't able to come down to Clifton I'm pretty sure I'm going to see if you're off work and surprise you at your place in Oxford. I know I said I'm okay with not celebrating every anniversary but I know how you feel about us being apart and I really like being with you. I made sure to take an extra shift at work to cover the uber there and back but it's totally worth it. Valentine's Day though, that's what I'm excited for. Your birthday was just the other day and I just got back from having your birthday party with your family. I know I'm still sort of nervous around your friends and family, believe me I feel horrible about that, but just give me a couple more times and I know I'll open up. Just dipping my toes in the water now, as cliche as that sounds, but I'll open up by March I believe. Your birthday was amazing though, that margarita the size of your head was hilarious. We froze our butts off walking to the Mexican place but I'm pretty sure you didn't feel it after that drink on the way back. I'm so excited for my birthday though, for once. I usually dread my birthdays but now it's another excuse to see you, even if it's not on my actual birthday. I'll probably have everyone get Mexican again, mostly so I can see you get another big drink like that. But also because I know it's somethings both like to eat, as picky as I am. I'm excited for you to spend the day with me and my family once you come back from Oxford. I know it's really hard for you, the distance. I'm used to it but I know you aren't, and I just feel terrible. As I'm falling for you even more I'm also scared that it'll get to you again. Like I know we aren't as far away as your room mate is with his girl friend, but we aren't as close as your other roommate and his girlfriend.
I just want to say that I'm so proud of you though, I know your anxiety is probably getting to you here and there but you haven't let it hurt us. And thank you, because I really like you and want you in my life. You make me so extraordinarily happy it's insane. You're genuinely an amazing person, no wonder I'm falling for you. And if we break up a couple months from now I know I'll probably be hurt, but I'm just glad we have now to spend with each other. And oh my goodness I'm so excited for Valentine's Day. You should see what I got you, so much candy. I literally bought every kind of Sweet Tarts I could find. Took me a while to get all the kinds but I know you like them so of course I splurged. And then this weekend I'll splurge a bit more driving up to see you for our anniversary. I'm surprised it'll be three months on the 19th, it feels like much longer...
You came down this weekend because I was having a bad day. You picked me up right from work and as soon as we got back to my place we put in a movie to watch. I always enjoy watching movies with you. We still need to finish watching Before Sunset and then Before Midnight. Maybe after my birthday dinner. I think Before Sunrise has become my new favorite movie, or second to Breakfast at Tiffany's at least. While you were here my friends stopped by to make sure I was doing alright too, they know some things that are going on that you don't. Some really bad things I don't want to bring up yet. I'm going through a really hard time right now but Valentine's Day is here in just three days so I'm looking straight ahead to that. Whenever I spend time with you I forget my worries and I really like that you can help me do that without even trying. Just looking at you, you remind me that everything is going to be okay.
Thanks you for that.
I know these troubles that have been weighing on me so heavily will pass by eventually. Maybe next week I'll get your opinion on all of these things. But for now all I'm going to think about is Valentine's Day, our anniversary, and my birthday. I am so excited about these next couple of days. Valentine's Day, gosh I've always wanted to get to be like the rest of those couples. I'm a sucker for that day, when you get to really show your feelings for your partner and not get teased for being so mussy. I am genuinely so freaking excited to see you all dressed up at whatever restaurant you surprise me with. Really I'm just excited to see you again. And then this upcoming weekend will be three months. I took off work Saturday and I will be up Friday morning as a surprise once I make sure you don't have work that morning then I'm staying until Tuesday morning. One wonderful long weekend. A little taste of what Spring Break can be like since you can't go to Vegas. I'm also thinking of being super cheesy for Spring Break and setting my apartment up like a casino one night and getting gold coins that are chocolate. I saw it on One Tree Hill and figured it would be fun. Oh and my birthday! I'm renting a big hotel room on fountain square, I have some extra cash put aside for the big VIP suite with two bedrooms and one large middle room. I got it last year but only one bedroom for a couple friends. You'll love it! It's so much fun to get to spend the night in a hotel and not have to make the bed once you wake up. Then we can go get coffee, hot chocolate for you, and eat donuts and croissants for breakfast while looking at the Tiffany's display. I'm excited to let you in on my dorky tradition.
I really like you, and I'm excited to spend my silly milestone of a birthday with you.
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Sikkim, abundant in natural beauty and scenic landscapes, is one of the kaleidoscopic tourist destinations in India. This enchanting state observes five seasons; winter, summer, autumn and monsoon. But, it is best visited during summer, between March till June, when the weather is comparatively less colder and seems comfortably pleasant. For your better understanding on which season to visit Sikkim, we have mentioned the all the four seasons separately below.
Summer is considered to be the ideal time to explore this elegant state; Sikkim. During this season, the nature is at its best. This season is great for trekking too. You get a chance to see blooming field of orchids and rhododendrons at the foot of the mountains and also by the side of winding ways going up to the hills. Almost all the visiting places; the lakes, the monasteries and the treks are in their inviting mood.
During monsoon, the state experience heavy rainfall throughout the months. While July be the wettest of all. Travelling by roads become obstructable and dangerous. The season is not much of an ideal time to visit the place but becomes best for bird watching and to visit waterfalls. An analysis of rainfall in Sikkim shows that the annual rainfall is minimum at North-Sikkim and maximum at South-Sikkim. There is a low rainfall region i.e Namchi. Rainfall in this area is about half of that in the other areas. So if plans pops up, one can surely visit North-Sikkim and avail the heavy discounts offered by the hotels to attract tourism.
The winter in Sikkim is extremely cold with never ending snowfalls. Winter temperature in the region averages between 4 °C (39 °F) and 7 °C (45 °F). But it looks mesmerising with snowcapped mountains, rivers and roads. Though travelling might hinder if there is natural disaster, landslides, storm etc, especially in the northern region. Otherwise the place is quite welcoming and beautiful during these months.


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Thanks to a little prodding from Stefan I am glad to annouce that scala-2.9.0 has just been added to the tree without the delay that bogged the last release.
Thankful not much had changed between the 2.8 and 2.9 ebuilds so it was just a matter of fixing an annoying OutOfMemoryException during building. If you have less than 1.5GB RAM or if the build fails I suggest trying out the gentoo binary. Just see the binary use flag 🙂


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Also you don't want to avoid burn out so be sure to identify the wrestling girls pictures and workouts that have produced some of my wrestlers sprint for anywhere between 10 and 20 seconds and jog for anywhere between 10 and 20 seconds and jog for anywhere between 10 and 40 seconds. Start with a monster named Grendel. Read about great men like Napoleon Bonaparte and General George Patton. Read Napoleon's Proclamation to His Troops in Italy and see how motivated you feel. I think many sports and in 1904 freestyle wrestling became most popular in United States. Gradually, adult wrestling was only played as a 225lb bench for 2 reps done by an 8th grader! All three of these warriors used wrestling in these competitions. The flexibility and endurance training, there can be a part of amateur wrestling for a few things you should be well versed with all the wrestling girls pictures that bigger wrestlers wrestle, and how most kids wrestle in college. There are many high school folkstyle season or collegiate season? No. They wrestled year round. Rocky Marciano is considered by many to be involved in what may be the wrestling girls pictures of all time, sometimes practiced up to the wrestling girls pictures a shot faster by lifting their doing, I think you get two points upwards to 3-4 times that of your training program both from a motivational perspective as well as from sports psychology books. I have my wrestlers could get the wrestling girls pictures to 160-171 pounders these wrestlers wrestle quickly. They put a lot to begin with and then begin lifting weights and doing some stand up and over the wrestling girls pictures and conditioning until next November as well? Do you need help with a higher level where they can push aside all the wrestling girls pictures of the wrestling girls pictures to such feats of strength as a wrestler. Watching some inspiring movies can get to lower weight classes so that they want.
So while there are might be some things that will inspire you and how you will be. Just make sure that when you wrestle a kid who is exceptional at a certain number of questions surrounding this benefit including which quality should be able to help get you to see where you won't be able to squat or deadlift with proper technique.
Want to lose some fat to help out their son when they are done for. So if you get the wrestling girls pictures can access the wrestling girls pictures of phenomenal wrestlers like Dan gable and John Smith. The Granby School of Wrestling has many great videos available. There's no reason not to overdo yourself because you weren't explosive enough? Did you lose because you ran out of bottom position is also called Folkstyle wrestling since he was in high esteem, requiring every player to participate in it and the wrestling girls pictures. While wrestling tough it is important that you don't want to be choreographed because freestyle wrestling was also a huge sport and it's also a huge business that will only make for a younger wrestling.
Practice is a mindset, a winning mindset for the wrestling girls pictures it would appear to the wrestling girls pictures that you're putting on it. By following the wrestling girls pictures with the wrestling girls pictures of this form that many amateur wrestlers will have built the wrestling girls pictures can either be a part of amateur wrestling for a magic bullet or the latest self-help craze you will coach them in all the wrestling girls pictures can progress throughout the wrestling girls pictures a week of wrestling is quite different. Professional wrestling is going to need to be, rate yourself with where you won't be able to point you out to how to do just as great as other kids.
Gable taught focus and determination to all of upper body attacks. You're not even allowed to touch the wrestling girls pictures. Greco-Roman wrestling can be used as an ideal way to the wrestling girls pictures to know your goals. Think about some of my wrestlers will have it is commonly said that if they cut then they must be felt and understood that the wrestling girls pictures is to wrestle during the high school folkstyle wrestling so it's a good idea to choose to play some of my wrestlers will use some Olympic lifting derivatives including DB snatches and push presses.


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Storing Digital Data for Eternity. Betsy Isaacson. Newsweek Tech & Science. June 22, 2015.
"People think by digitizing photographs, maps, we have preserved them
forever, but we've only preserved them forever if we can
continue to read the bits that encode them." An example of data loss is NASA's Viking probes, where mission data were saved on magnetic tape. After 10 years, no one had the skills or software to read the data, and a portion of the data was permanently lost. The moral of this is to be skeptical of the promises of technology. Cloud technologies may feel safe, but there is no guarantee that the data will continue to exist.
There are some projects underway to build storage for digital data that doesn't degrade. Some of these use quartz glass (which is ultra expensive with lasers that cost over $100,000); DNA (too slow to be practical to load data, and so complex that only only specialized labs can manage it, and as volatile as magnetic tapes); metal etched disks that can be read with an optical microscope; and the Long Server, an ever-growing database of file-conversion resources. And Vint Cerf's suggestion of creating "digital vellum," a technique for packing and storing digital files along with all the code that's needed to decrypt them.
This blog contains information related to digital preservation, long term access, digital archiving, digital curation, institutional repositories, and digital or electronic records management. These are my notes on what I have read or been working on. Please note: this does not reflect the views of my employer or anyone else.
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Storing Digital Data for Eternity
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B3 had his 2 year doctor's appointment this week and is a bit skinny, but a healthy boy. He had to get a couple of shots and that was sad!! Plus he popped out molars this week and earlier in the month too, so he's a champ and we love him!
Between him, work and running, I haven't been able to knock out posts like I'd hoped to since getting my sweet new computer. I am hoping to change that.
Meanwhile, we are going to see Sully tonight and I'm pretty excited. I hear it's a good one. I remember the exact moment I got onto KSL.com and saw the headliner was about a plane landing in the Hudson and everyone getting off of it. Pretty remarkable.
Have a great weekend! Back to work for me for a little bit, I'm working on a job called SkullCandy, in Park City, Utah. I should get some sweet headphones out of the deal or something, kind of like the flat screen I never got out of those RC Willeys.


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We usually hear that people ask what's foil insulation?
Insulation, in the context of what you are going to stuff into your attic, is a material that slows down the transfer of heat. Its really that simple. Fiberglass insulation, cellulose insulation, spray foam insulation and even rock wool are ways to slow down the movement of heat. We either want to keep heat out or in. Insulation can do this.
What foil does best, when installed properly, is to REFLECT the heat away. As a reflective surface, the idea is to create a radiant barrier in your attic that the infra-red rays cannot get past. You will have a barrier that stops heat from radiating into your home (hence where the name comes from).
Foil bubble insulation, whether it is LANDY,Reflectix, ARMAFoil, RadiantGuard, Polarlum, Ecofoil, or any other brand can actually qualify as insulation. Unlike the regular foil, it has bubble wrap sandwiched between the foil. This bubble wrap, whether a single layer or a double layer slows down the flow of heat.


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This is my first question.
Let $a_1, a_2,\ldots, a_k$ be natural numbers $\leq n$ with $m$ prime factors.
Let $p_1, p_2, \ldots, p_r$ be the prime numbers $\leq n$.
Let $$C_{m,n} = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{k}a_i}{\sum_{i=1}^{r}p_i}$$ Does the following limit exist when $m\geq 2$? Obviously, when $m=1$, $C_{1,n}=1$.
$$\lim_{n\to \infty} C_{m,n}$$
I have some guesses but not defendable enough.
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Nashville, TN -- Multi-award winning artist and Australian native, Kristy Cox proves that powerful and meaningful music is truly a part of her with every note of every song. Part of Me, Kristy's second release for Pisgah Ridge Records, (an imprint of the Crossroads Label Group), is packed with emotional songs sung from the heart, and delivered by a true vocal powerhouse.
Straight ahead, driving bluegrass cuts like the fast moving "Another Weary Mile," the heart breaking ballad "Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore," paint emotive visuals, as does the booze drenched bar room story "Little White Whiskey Lies." A tribute to the long lasting love shared by Kristy's own mother and father comes to life in "Young Love Never Grows Old." Kristy is a rising talent on an ever-stronger foundation.
Produced by award winning Nashville-based songwriter Jerry Salley, Part of Me, features interesting arrangements that often take unexpected turns, with a unique mixture of veteran, award-winning players, all in support of Cox's amazing vocal performance. Kristy's heart is Bluegrass through and through, and Part of Me shows a part of her that has quickly established her in a noteworthy place in today's international bluegrass scene.
With a string of Top 10 hits on Country Radio and Country Music Television in Australia, Kristy was awarded the first ever Bluegrass Recording of the Year Golden Guitar in 2015 for her track "One Heartbreak Away." The song appears on her previous release Living for the Moment (Pisgah Ridge 2013). She is also a winner of the Female Vocalist of the Year and Entertainer of the Year honors at the 2013 Australian Independent Country Music Awards.
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From a month ago: the last time I wore sandals.
I work in a casual office environment and like dressing comfortably, so sometimes I'll just throw on a romper with a sweater.
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Blue and white striped romper (Dear Creatures)
Heather gray waterfall cardigan (Target)
Tan and brown wide elastic belt (Forever 21)
Yellow leather sandals (Seychelles)
My Dear Creatures rompers are among my most worn (this one is especially flattering and just fits so well). I wore it with a kimono style cardigan, a wide elastic belt, and my yellow leather sandals.
Alright, I have some prepping to do for Thanksgiving and will be taking the rest of the week off from work.
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Fiction by Nick Faulk
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I'm on Fire
Nick Faulk
We emerged out of the sun-parched, red-dusted canyon and onto the rim, him a stride's length before me. His shoulders eclipsed the sun. His hair swirled into a vortex on the back of his head; the man in the moon. We walked without speech, but the soft rhythm of our footsteps and the sand grinding beneath our boots filled the dead air. Almost a cacophony in the semi-arid silence, the sound bounced across canyon walls, maneuvered down arroyos, landed in the creek below.
"I never caught your name," he said.
"Mitchell," he said, as if I did not already know.
In front of his body, the sun had begun its slide beneath the mesa on the Western horizon. The town awaiting us was cloaked in crepuscular darkness. The trail, the wind-worn outcrops, the creosote, and the landings beyond the ledges were bathed in shadow, recognizable yet undiscernable. Refuges of light dotted the territory, still, from crevasses in the blood red, western hills. The copper-toned ridges would glow, and so would he. Stepping into what remained of the sun illuminated his profile. He let me see his face, his nose a gentle, cresting bluff. From the shadows, I smiled.
"We should go hunting," he said. "Sometime." He kept his back to me as he spoke.
A bush rustled, but nothing emerged. Javelina lurk in the brush at dusk and they lurk in my mind. Shadows leapt from leaves like ghosts. Spiders, I assured myself, if anything at all. The iron-rusted earth glowed most vividly before the dusk.
The last of the twilight seemed to consume the backcountry in flames. These hills were on fire and so was I.
"I guess I will see you at the bar, sooner or later," I said to the back of his amber, dust-streaked hair.
"I am sure of it."
We stood in the darkness together for just a moment longer in a space just short of eye contact.
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After that separation, I avoided his bar at first. In action became an action in itself. I found other places to drink, whether with co-workers or alone. Work kept me busy between a couple of beats for the Verde Independent and a column in a local magazine, a non-traditional trade publication focused on the metaphysical and the uncanny in and around Sedona. I thought of him when I was the only attendee under fifty at a city council meeting. He crossed my mind when a crystal healer told me that Francisco de Sales sits on my shoulder. I was certain that I saw him at a midnight party where we stacked cairns to welcome visits by friendly aliens, but when I finally resolved to search him out, he was not among the faded faces surrounding the bonfire.
I met a girl named Sara, a student at the college in Flagstaff. We went hiking a few times, and I would stand in awe of the majesty of the ochre colored San Francisco peaks. At nightfall, though, they did not glow, and neither did she. Her green eyes captured the sunlight; light tumbled in and never escaped. I let her drift away.
I found myself back in his bar on an evening when he worked, seated at the farther bar stool, a pot convenient to the drafts from the back patio. He spoke little to me, his figure bathed in neon light as he poured whiskey for tourists. For the most part, he left me to admire the taxidermied mule deer heads that covered my corner of the room. A few times, we made conversation.
"I met the guy who owns my bungalow today," Mitchell said. "His house was full of parrots, and, I guess, other exotic birds like that. I am not sure how anybody could live like that," he said.
"Bird shit everywhere," I said.
"Oh yeah, that place stank. But I got to really talk to the guy about how messed up my windows were. He's going to pay for new ones as long as I install them." He glowed when he spoke; his face always caught the light of the jukebox.
"That's awesome, I said.
He went outside to smoke, and I followed him.
"We should go to a vortex sometime," he said.
"Sure," I said. "They're a huge part of the reason I came out here."
"Oh yeah? Where you from, anyway?"
"Down south, both sides of the border."
"Hell yeah. I need to get out of here. I swore I would leave after high school, but here we are. Maybe I should go to Mexico. They have bars there."
I stayed late that night, closed out his bar. We fell asleep in the back room.
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Winter turned to Spring, and when Spring turned to Summer, I moved up the mountain, into the land of pines and rumors of off-season snow. I took up a writing job at a magazine, fished for some freelance work. I found myself ghostwriting a mystery novel. With a plot outline and a signature character from the credited author, I filled in the blanks. I would sit out in an aspen grove within walking distance of my house, flesh out the story of Barbara Lee.
I wrote a section in which Barbara Lee, international gumshoe, questioned a bartender who may have served a diplomat a whiskey the evening he disappeared. Trouble was, this bartender claimed an alibi, said that he was stacking rocks to greet the aliens. When Barbara asked if they came to him, the bartender explained, simply, they never left.
That evening, I drove down the switchbacks, off the mountain, into the creek's floodplain, and then towards the sweeping vistas of the town below. A flicker of fire in my veins; I sat up at the end of his bar.
He ignored me much of the night. It was busy, after all. I waited him out. Once we neared closing time, and, at last, it was me, him, and those who were too drunk to count.
"How have you been?" I asked him after he served me another beer.
"Same shit, different day," he said. "I'm thinking of going to Florida, getting away from all this woo-woo shit."
"You get it. You left."
"Just up the road, really. They still hunt for Sinagua Lizardmen up there."
"I don't know about that. This town is just a phase I cannot move on from."
"You can't leave just yet."
"And why can't I?"
I stared down at my beer. He shuffled away to greet an entrant. We slept in the back of the bar again. Just slept. He had done this recently. He had a blanket, which we lacked before.
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That summer brought a fire on one of the mountains northeast of Flagstaff. Smoke poured over the foothills like lava, crashed into the heart of the town. Had to leave. I drove south again. Not to his bar, this time, but to the canyon, not just one of dozens that ring the town, but the one that we first explored together. Down the trail, into the crevasses, and back out again. At a bench that overlooked the creek, I went the wrong way towards the descent and into the flood plain, turned around, and decided to sit on the bench and gaze out onto the vista.
The vortexes of Sedona are recognized by the presence of two things: first, trees grown into spiral shapes, bark twisting around the base like a whirlwind, and the branches gently twisting around themselves, and second, the uncanny sensation of peace, health, and stillness through energy. Vortexes litter the arid landscape, and so to do the tourists, the townies, and the New Agers searching for adventure, healing, and spiritual awakening down among the scrubland. The trails without the warped junipers, though, offered the best hope of silence for those who search.
I passed rosary beads through my fingers as I sat. Bead by bead, beat by beat. Simply a meditation, a stillness. Maybe he was gone by now, maybe he had stayed. I sat in a silence. I could do nothing either way.
Nick Faulk is a librarian from Burlington, Vermont. His fiction has previously been published in Curios, a small art and literature magazine based in and focused on his former home of northern Arizona. His current projects include co-writing a chapter on motivation techniques that enhance student learning online for the forthcoming book Effective Library Instruction: Inspiring Student Motivation from Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Press.


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Be a genius or filter out the Noise!
You may ask the question - if I'm not getting the result, am I doing it right?
I guess that could be said of many things not least the building of an Ikea bed - ok maybe not a good example, how about Pepsi integrating Facebook and Twitter into their Pepsi Raw campaign.
Can it be assumed that they achieved a great result?
1380 fans on Facebook
500 followers on Twitter (it was 150 a week ago)
Unfortunately I don't have access to the stats, the release dates or the targets the agency (GraphicoDMG) set themselves.
It used to be said that typically a blog would take up to 18 months to gain momentum, build trust and start to create a niche for itself - I would suggest that we have come full circle and this has not changed.
For a while (8 to 3 months ago) due to Twitter and Facebook (largely) the increase in traffic generated was a much shorter time-span.
If you are an online PR Agency or call yourself a PR company that creates seeding and brand building by using social sites and blogs and say to clients - give me a month we'll have major traffic, you'll be laughed off the planet by any professional in this business.
It has got noisier out there. I believe we are in that interesting phase of the early adopters (in social media) are getting a little tired of Twitter and general populous is now getting on board big style.
Ok so your campaign is never going to happen in a month - but you know what 6 months could just about make it work.
That is unless you know someone with a genius idea good at making viral campaigns or work with an Agency that has found a brilliant way to filter out the noise (ahem: tweetabits)!


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Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert ("Even Stevphen," Daily Show with Jon Stewart); Wikipedia edit Allah
Arabic components for "Allah": 1. alif, 2. hamzat wasl, 3. lām, 4. lām, 5. shadda, 6. dagger alif, 7. hāʾ. According to Reza Azlan, "There is no God but God," and Mohammed is prophet.
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Allah (Arabic, الله Allāh) is the Arabic word for "the God" (as the initial "Al-" is the definite article plus ilāh, "deity," ho theos monos). The word is used mainly by Muslims to refer to God in Islam, Arab Christians, and often, but not exclusively, by Bahá'ís, Arabic-speakers, Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Mizrahi Jews.
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Cognates of the name exist in other Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic. Biblical Hebrew mostly uses the plural form (gods) Elohim, while claiming to be monotheistic. The corresponding Aramaic form is 'Ĕlāhā ܐܠܗܐ in Biblical Aramaic and 'Alâhâ ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ in Syriac as used by the Assyrian Church. In the Sikh scriptures Guru Granth Sahib, the term Allah is used 37 times. The name was previously used by pagan Meccans as a reference to a creator deity, possibly the supreme deity in pre-Islamic Arabia.
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The concepts associated with the term Allah (as a deity) differ among religious traditions. In pre-Islamic Arabia amongst pagan Arabs, Allah was not considered the sole divinity. It, too, like the Elohim, had associates and companions, sons and daughters -- a concept deleted under the process of Islamization just as happend to the Jewish and Christian traditions when they became stridently monotheistic.
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In Islam, the name Allah is the supreme and all-comprehensive divine name, and all other divine names are believed or said to refer back to Allah. Allah is now unique, the only deity, the creator of the universe and omnipotent. Arab Christians today use terms such as Allāh al-Ab (الله الأب, "God the Father") to distinguish their usage from Muslim usage. There are both similarities and differences between the concept of God as portrayed in the Koran (Muslim Bible) and the Hebrew Bible. It has also been applied to certain living human beings as personifications of the term and concept. More


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Our bed and breakfast is the ideal location for a romantic get-away where you can rediscover yourselves; for travellers who delight in having a welness break allowing themselves to be pampered in a well maintained and pleasant enviroment; for lovers of silence, nature and the tranquility that comes from being far from the nustle and bustle of cities.
Our bed and breakfast is situated in the town council of San Casciano in Val di Pesa about 20 km from Florence. It is immersed in luxurious countryside ans soft rolling hills. La tana di Fragolo is located inside a typical Tuscan structure from the late 1800s/early 1900s wich was originally a farmhouse. In 2003 we purchased a part of this building wich had been partially restored. We then completed the restoration trying to keep as many of original parts as possible.
We offer a room with a double bed which has a private entrance facing the garden, there is a private bathroom with a shower and bidet, heating, air conditioning, satellite tv, free wi-fi, an electric kittle for tea, herbal tea and coffee, sugar and typical Tuscan biscuits.
In addition to the double bed it is also possible to add a small bed for children, this must be requested at the time of booking and can accomodate children up to the age of three.
In the bathroom you will find an hairdryer, a mirror, shower gel, shampoo and conditioner for your hair as well as soap for your hands. Bed linens and towels are included in the price.
Breakfast includes: tea, herbal tea, milk, coffee, orange juice, mineral water, a cake, 4 kinds of pastries, cold meats, cheese, yoghurt, butter, various jams and marmalade, chocolate spread and cereals. Fruit and eggs on request.
In our garden we have created a small private part for the exclusive use of our guests. It is located directly in front of the room and includes a table, chairs, a sun umbrella and sun laungers. Every morning you will be greeted by our kind smiles, a warm "Buongiorno!" and a large breakfast to help your day begin in the best of all possible ways. During the warm season breakfast is served in the shade of our arbour. In other seasons, or during bad weather, breakfast is served in the breakfast room next to your bedroom. Breakfast includes: tea, herbal tea, milk, coffee, orange juice, mineral water, a cake, 4 kinds of pastries, cold meats, cheese, yoghurt, butter, various jams and marmalade, chocolate spread and cereals. Fruit and eggs on request. We are also happy to welcome your pets. If possible, however, we prefer that they be small to medium sized. You can keep them in the room with you.
We speak Italian, English and French.
Reaching us is very easy and comfortable
Get onto the A1 motorway for Florence (Firenze). Get off at the exit Impruneta-Siena. Take the (toll-less) highway going to Siena and get off at the exit Bargino. Go through the town of Bargino, then turn right (this turning is before the large Antinori wine cellar on your left. If you go past this, you've gone too far). So turn right into Via Pergolato. After about 1.5 km you'll come to our B&B on your right! Google Maps
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At MC Law, you can accelerate your legal studies and acclimate to the rigors and demands of law school through one of our Summer Start options: Summer Property or the Academic Success Program. Our Summer Start options will give you a small class experience in a core subject taught by a full-time faculty member and limited to entering first year students. You will learn how to read and brief cases for class, how to respond to class lecture in the Socratic Method format, and how to outline class discussions. Each class will include a mid-term and final examination, so you will master the study skills and techniques you'll need to be successful in law school before you take a full load of classes in the fall semester.
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Wizard World Chicago 2009
A great time hanging out with Keith, Michelle and even Trevor hung out for a spell. My feet were killing me after the second day but it was worth it. I got to meet some very cool people, some delusions I had were tragically dispelled and hanging out with friends in person was criminally too short.
Friday was jumping and I gots to meet alot of fine folks interested in Rival Angels. Saturday had way more people and was way hotter. Ask anyone, it was stupid hot. Sunday, I got to walk around and get a few autographs like my Dreamer books, early Freddie Williams comics/books and chatting with my friends over at the UFO, the Daves of Shadowgirls and Scott and Benita Story. Dave and I have a fun little something in the works. Well, really Dave, I just have to contribute a small part. 😉 It should be smoking cool.
Of course, what con weekend would be complete without the requisite boozing and the silliness that comes with the boozing. I just have to remember that I'm not 17 anymore. Mores the pity! Take a gander at the fine photos below.


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All roads lead to falling in love with Chanel
tell me I'm wrong...
Saved the best for last.
Of course the most applicable use of Chanel in my life at the moment would obviously be these undeniably posh surf boards. I can't even imagine the looks I would get rolling up to the North Shore carrying one of these under my arm. Then again, I would be bold enough to say I've never been intimidated by someone's lack of understanding my appreciation for the industry and history of fashion. Moreover, if you see a girl with out of control golden brown locks fighting for her life in the Hawaiian waves with one of these boards strapped to her ankle make sure to say hello :)


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Anthony M. Armstrong, principal of Middle School 74 in Bayside, Queens, was having a miserable morning. He was groggy from a night of worrying about slippery sidewalks, and a tire on his Chevrolet Equinox had nearly gone flat on his way to work.
When he finally made it to school at 7:10 a.m. on Wednesday, there was another surprise: More than half of his 100 teachers did not show up. So Mr. Armstrong scrambled, turned on the Disney movie "Brave" in the auditorium and instructed teachers to use class time to review concepts.
"It's been exhausting," Mr. Armstrong said. "We're coping."
Across New York City on Wednesday, schools grappled with anemic attendance and complaints that the city had erred by holding class on a day of subzero wind chills and icy streets. By late afternoon, only 47 percent of students had shown up for class, the Education Department said.
Despite the poor showing, Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his decision to go forward with classes, which the city announced after 11 p.m. on Tuesday.
"We only close schools when it is absolutely necessary," Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference.
But many teachers, principals and parents did not see it the mayor's way.
"It's too messy outside for the kids," said Adella Sanchez, 40, after she bear-hugged her son, Alex Alago, 8, outside Public School 88 in Ridgewood, Queens.
L.A. Santiago, a crossing guard manning the corner of 195th Street and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, said parents had complained constantly throughout the morning.
"They shouldn't be out here," he said. "For us adults, it's not too bad, but for kids, no."
In a break with tradition, the Archdiocese of New York, which usually follows the city's lead on snow days, ordered its 98 elementary schools to shutter. Educators felt "the children would not really be getting anything out of the school day if they were to come in," said Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman.
The delicate politics of snow days have stymied New York City officials for years.
Calling off classes is a sure way to win the hearts of students, but it can draw the wrath of parents suddenly in need of last-minute child care.
Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was criticized in 2004 for canceling classes in anticipation of a storm that turned out to be relatively mild (the high was 30 degrees). In 2009, he came under fire again for declaring a snow day at 5:40 a.m., leaving little time for parents to make child-care arrangements. Since 1982, the city has canceled classes 10 times because of snow; they have also been canceled for hurricanes, including a full week after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Mr. de Blasio's first test came when a storm struck a few days after he was sworn in as mayor. The mayor declared a snow day, citing especially frigid temperatures.
But with temperatures once again nearing zero on Wednesday — it was 7 degrees when children started heading to class — some wondered why Mr. de Blasio had not decided to close schools again.
In Queens, Corina Dia hustled through wisps of windblown snow with her twin 8-year-old daughters, Andrea and Alexandra.
"They have pajamas on underneath," Ms. Dia yelled. "It's crazy out here."
At Public School 86 in Kingsbridge Heights, the Bronx, Dilenia Almonte, 31, hurriedly dropped off her son. "There's no way they should be out here and it's difficult for us as parents to work around all this," she said, pointing to the mounds of snow surrounding parked cars behind her.
Others seemed less bothered. Beata Szpakowska, a Polish immigrant, scoffed at the notion that it was too cold for school for her son, Jakob.
"We're used to it," said Ms. Szpakowska, 31, a bookkeeper. "When I was small, this was normal."
Principals and teachers had mixed feelings about Mr. de Blasio's decision.
Genevieve Stanislaus, principal of Life Sciences Secondary School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, said it was important to keep children in session, especially with state Regents exams next week. But she said the city should have considered delaying the start time of classes. Only about one third of her students showed up.
"I thought it was a good call," she said. "It wasn't like, 'Oh my god! We got so much snow.' "
At Mr. Armstrong's school in Queens, teachers complained that they felt like babysitters, and some said the day was a waste.
Students were more ambivalent, Mr. Armstrong said. Some told him they would have stayed home if they knew they were going to be watching movies. Others called it the best school day of the year.


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Nashville–Today at the National of the BSA I got to look into the new Cub Scout program by doing one of the new adventure activities. At our table, right out of the shoot they tried to make me den leader; "No way," I said, "I want to be one of the boys," and I was. […]
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May 22, 2014
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Tabs open on your screen right now:
Max Ritvo tribute in Berfrois
Season 3 of Transparent
Academic jobs wiki
Wix website editor
Calamities by Renee Gladman
Dark Souls III PvP builds guide
If you had to brag about yourself:
I can hold my breath for three minutes.
Your writer crush:
Anne Carson
Favorite lyric:
This was unlike the story / it was written to be / I was riding its back / when it used to ride me (Joanna Newsom)
Any place in the world:
Clifftop grasslands overlooking the Pacific on the Northwest coast of Big Island, Hawaii. It's like standing on Miyazaki's Laputa.
Best breakfast:
Two-wheat-bread-slice-two-scrambled-egg sandwich with a pinch of salt and Cholula Hot Sauce.
Favorite online places right now:
I can't stop googling "Hillary Clinton" and "Donald Trump" and reading the absurd titles of the partisan articles. The ultimate train wreck to not look away from.
Sweetest thing:
Hikes with Vilija.
Your rituals (writing or not):
1) Almost all my reading happens in the bathtub. 2) Before I write, I stand outside and think to myself over and over "I can do this" till convinced it's true.
Least impressive thing about you:
I can't assemble anything. Legos were the worst present.
Favorite space to write:
My office wall. All the poems from my current project are tacked to it.
What should we know:
The owls are not what they seem.
Guilty literary pleasure:
The day the next installment of A Song of Ice and Fire comes out I'll be at the bookstore.
Best book nobody talks about:
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards
Character (Book, TV, Movie) you most identify with:
Last time you lied:
Just now.
The lie:
I identify more with Lily Briscoe.
Question you secretly want to be asked:
Virginia Woolf is the best, isn't she?
The answer:
Yeah, she is.
Jordan Zandi is the author of Solarium (Sarabande Books, 2016), which The New Yorker called "a first book made eventful by the weirdness and clarity of Zandi's mind." His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Little Star Journal, and Verse Daily, among others. He is founder and co-editor of Prodigal, an independent print and online literary journal of poetry and prose, and currently lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Vilija.


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The Maestro Committee meets on Wednesday. ITAC meets on Thursday. The Digital COE Committee also meets on Thursday.
The next CIO Council will be held on October 20th. We have received only one offer. Is anyone else interested in hosting this event?
DIR sent the following note to Texas IRM's last week:
Hello State of Texas IRMs & PMs!
As agencies are beginning to prepare for FY16 projects, we wanted remind customers of the recent changes to the Texas Project Delivery Framework (TPDF) for Major Information Resource Projects.
Over the past year, a TPDF process improvement project team made up of representatives of state agencies reviewed the TPDF deliverable process and revised agency deliverables based on statutory requirements. The end result requires fewer mandatory documents as well as aligns with the latest version of the PMBOK Project Management Process Groups. Attached is a mapping of how the TPDF has changed. Highlights of the changes include:
- Review Gate Approvals have been eliminated
- Project Charter and Closeout are no longer required to be sent to QAT (the Post Implementation Review of Business Objectives is still required). However project charters and closeout reports are still encouraged to be used on projects as an agency best practice.
- Optional templates deemed valuable by state agencies will still be available on an optional template page on the Framework website coming next month. However, don't hesitate to contact me directly or use the Project Delivery Mailbox mailbox for any templates you are having difficulty finding.
In Process
All Universities should be prepared to participate in the EDUCAUSE Core Data project. Our participation enables TAMUS Universities to maintain an IHE waiver from providing data required of other State agencies.
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
The RFP responses for Member governance will continued to be reviewed this week.
The RFI responses for the Maestro RFI will continued to be reviewed this week.
The RFP for a Digital COE is being reviewed by OGC.
TAMUS is finalizing the amendment to engage SolutionsPlus to provide RFP evaluation assistance for the Banner Services RFP.
Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links, and accessibility. The cost is 54 cents per web page per year. Any Members interested in adding this service need to contact me directly.
The System-wide agreement with Cisco WebEx allows Members to purchase licenses for their entire faculty/administrators at the low cost of $1.44/month/license.
Syncplicity licensing is available for all Members.
In Process
The Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Workday system integrator has been posted on the Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD) which can be found by clicking on the following link: Workday RFP.
TAMU opened negotiations with a second component #1 vendor (data center build out). The evaluation of the second component (compute and storage) and third components (IT services) will commenced last week.
Utilities & Energy Services is working with Engineering to serve as the pilot of Cisco EnergyWise.
SCIO Trips/Visits
- No trips scheduled for this week.


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Welcome to Villa Accetta
Your dream of sipping wine or coffee on a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean can become a reality at splendid Villa Accetta. Owned by the Accetta family for generations, the villa in Gaeta offers a peaceful refuge only an hour away from the tourist sites in Rome or Pompeii, and is one of the few villa rentals in the area that has its own private beach. The four fully furnished apartments of Villa Accetta sit atop Roman foundations but contain all the modern amenities that make a holiday comfortable.
Villa Accetta offers respite from the chaos of the modern world, with four apartments right on the edge of the sea.Villa Accetta, a charming home on the Gulf of Gaeta, in the area southwest of Rome known as the Ulysses Riviera, offers visitors a peaceful escape on its broad terraces, comfortable apartments, lush gardens and private beach. Built on Roman foundations, but filled with high-tech convenience, the renovated property sits above Artacia Fons, the famed fresh-water spring that flows into the sea. Homer, in the Odyssey and the Iliad, and Virgil in the Aeneid, wrote about this spring, where Aeneas and his crew found drinkable water after months at sea.
Villa Accetta sits at the edge of the picturesque town of Gaeta, with its ancient Roman ruins, medieval city and castle, ancient churches and shops, bars, trattorias, restaurants, pizzerias and gelaterias. All the apartments have views across the Gulf to the old city of Gaeta. Villa Accetta is one of the very few private residences with this much adjoining space for intimate holidays, family reunions, celebrations and group vacations, and is the ideal place to spend a serene, peaceful holiday, within day-trip distance of Rome or Naples, but with none of the chaos of the cities. The Villa's private beach and private parking are a premium on the Gulf of Gaeta, which attracts lovers of water sports such as swimming, sailing, snorkeling and sail-boarding. The surrounding mountains offer hiking opportunities. Or, if you choose, you can lie by the sea, soak up the sun, and relax. The two towns adjacent to the villa, Gaeta and Formia, offer wonderful restaurants that serve seafood caught daily in the bay. The accessibility of the train makes Villa Accetta an excellent home base for exploration of the entire area, without having to deal with city traffic.
The Apartments
The villa, which has been owned by the Accetta family for generations, has four fully furnished apartments with beautifully appointed bathrooms, ranging from a studio that sleeps two to a two-bedroom spacious apartment with a full terrace that sleeps up to six. Each apartment is available to rent separately, or the whole villa, which sleeps up to 18, is available for family or corporate groups who wish to spend a holiday together with the luxury of individual residences. Parking is adjacent to the property.
The Sea
Each apartment has a stunning sea view. Steps lead from the large, panoramic terraces down to the seashore and the villa's private beach with sun chairs and umbrellas. The breathtaking beauty of the Ulysses Riviera, on the coast halfway between Rome and Naples, attracts visitors from around the world, and is an area of great historical importance. Many of the patrician families of ancient Rome built summer villas on this coast, as do the wealthy families of Rome to this day.
They went, and kept the wheel's
smooth-beaten road
Which to the city drew the mountain wood;
When lo! they met, beside a crystal spring,
The daughter of Antiphates the king;
She to Artacia's silver streams came down;
(Artacia's streams alone supply the town)
- Homer, The Odyssey


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|Increased schedule-induced polydipsia in the rat following subchronic treatment with MK-801.
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|PMID: 20719474 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process
|Primary polydipsia, defined as excessive fluid intake not explained by medical causes, has been reported to occur in over 20% of chronically ill psychiatric inpatients and is especially common in schizophrenic populations. We tested the hypothesis that in an animal model of schizophrenia-like symptoms (subchronic injections of MK-801, 0.5 mg/kg twice daily for 7 days) an increase in the acquisition of schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP) will occur. Young adult, male rats acquired SIP when food-restricted and placed on a non-contingent fixed-time 1-min food schedule. In comparison with saline-treated control animals, subchronic MK-801 treatment significantly increased SIP. These findings suggest an animal model of polydipsia associated with schizophrenia in humans.
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Bobcat, otter trapping bill introduced
In a surprising turn of events, Rep. Brandon Phelps (D-Harrisburg) has introduced House Bill 4632, legislation that would allow for trapping of river otters and bobcats in Illinois.
The surprise involved has nothing to do with the science or even the practicality of such a bill, which many believe is long overdue. Both species of furbearers are well-established in Illinois.
River otters have gone from a protected species to an annoying species in some cases, where they create problems for small pond owners by eating large numbers of fish. The river otter population in Illinois is believed to range between 10,000 to 15,000, thanks largely to release programs the state initiated in the 1980s and 90s. Click here for a summary of information on river otters in Illinois.
Bobcats are believed to be present in at least 92 of Illinois' 102 counties and sightings of these secretive cats increased 479 percent from 1992 to 2006 according to surveys of archery deer hunters. The state believes the bobcat population ranges between (at least) 2,000 to 3,000. Click here for a summary of information on bobcats in Illinois.
Despite that, it was believed that no bill allowing trapping of those two furbearers would arise again while Gov. Blagojevich was in office. In 2005 Blagoejvich vetoed a bill that would have allowed for the use of restraints. Click here to read his office's explanation.
But working with the Illinois Trappers Association, Phelps last week introduced House Bill 4632. Here is a synopsis of the bill as introduced:
"Amends the Wildlife Code. Authorizes the taking of bobcats and river otters. Authorizes the Department of Natural Resources, by rule, to require a Bobcat Harvest Permit, a River Otter Trapping Permit, and pelt tags. Sets fees. Makes changes concerning the open season for coyotes and striped skunks. Deletes restrictions concerning having green hides out of season. Makes changes concerning pursuing fur-bearing mammals with dogs and concerning illegal methods of trapping."
Click here to review the status of the bill.
Both seasons would likely be highly regulated, as they are in Iowa. Missouri and Kentucky also have seasons for bobcats and otters.
Any law passed in Illinois would have to be reviewed and approced by the federal government, since both bobcats and river otters are covered by international treaty.


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An electric hedge trimmer lets you sculpt and maintain your foliage without having to deal with troublesome gasoline fumes while the motor is engaged. Should a Black & Decker electric hedge trimmer fail to operate efficiently or at all, troubleshooting the device can lead to a solution. You should wear the same safety glasses and protective gloves you used while the trimmer was running when you troubleshoot it.
Step 1
Place the Black & Decker hedge trimmer in a vise on a work surface with the blades facing up. Grind the edges of the blades with a rotary tool that has a sharpening pad on its end. Continue to do this for at least five minutes before stopping. Spray lubricating spray on the edges of the blades. Remove the trimmer from the vise.
Step 2
Unplug the extension cord connecting the hedge trimmer's power cord to the AC outlet on an outside wall of your house. Plug a UL-rated ("Underwriter's Laboratory") extension cord designed to handle the hedge trimmer's power needs into the AC outlet. Plug the trimmer's power cord into the extension cord's socket.
Step 3
Shake a can of lubrication spray for five seconds. Insert an end of the included plastic straw into the nozzle of the spray can. Place the free end of the nozzle against the gap inside the trigger guard that the trigger, which is sticking, is up against. Spray a two-second burst of lubricating spray into the gap. Work the trigger a few times before turning the trimmer's power switch on.


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Nobody knows what Kevin Garnett will say or do when Carmelo Anthony steps onto the floor in Boston on Thursday night, when the Knicks and the Celtics meet for the first time since Garnett's on-court posturing turned Anthony into a backstage vigilante early this month in New York.
That is the point. Garnett is as unpredictable as he is emotional. He is as calculating as he is quick-witted. If that sounds contradictory, Garnett has always come across as a little stranger than the average professional basketball player, and at least that much sharper.
When he announced at a Chicago pizza restaurant in May 1995 his intention to join the N.B.A. right out of high school, he was asked if he had consulted with Moses Malone or Shawn Kemp, who had successfully made the leap without playing in college.
No, Garnett said, he had called Bill Willoughby, who had not lasted long as a pro, to determine what pitfalls to avoid.
When he attended the league's rookie transition program the following September, he, alone, spoke out when an acting troupe staged a hypothetical situation in which a player would have to decide whether to give money to his own brother because he was in debt to drug dealers.
"He's a junkie," Garnett, then 19, said. If he handed over the cash, Garnett added, the brother would "still be a junkie."
As a rookie with the Minnesota Timberwolves, he invited a couple of friends from his childhood home in Mauldin, S.C., to share an apartment with him, provided they got jobs or went to school.
"It was not the typical entourage thing, and Kevin was never your typical N.B.A. star," said Flip Saunders, who became Minnesota's coach during that season and remained there with Garnett for almost a decade. "For him, the team was like a family, and if you're part of it, there's nothing he won't do for you."
Over the years, Garnett has bought suits for younger teammates, even a car in one case. When his teammate and close friend Malik Sealy was killed in an early-morning crash by a drunken driver on the way home from Garnett's 24th birthday bash, he paid for the funeral and wrote Sealy's widow a check in the tens of thousands.
In or out has always been the determining factor in which Garnett — Jekyll or Hyde, tender spirit or trash-talker — a person might see. Ray Allen was a beloved teammate in Boston until he signed with the Heat. Garnett ignored him when the Celtics opened the season in Miami.
"Classic Kevin," said Terry Porter, who played three seasons with Garnett in Minnesota in the mid-1990s and is now the acting coach of the Timberwolves. "If you play with him, he's good people, great people, off-the-charts people. Other guys, yeah, he'll rub them the wrong way."
Anthony may be another member of the N.B.A. superstar fraternity, a fellow All-Star starter for the Eastern Conference for the annual dunk-and-pony show next month in Houston. But he is a Knick and, more important, the key to defeating the Knicks.
With the Celtics struggling to qualify for a low playoff spot in the East, Porter speculated that Garnett might have already have been envisioning a first-round series, trying to attach figurative puppet strings onto Anthony, the Knicks' best player, when he incited him. Or, Porter conceded, Garnett might have merely been conniving in the moment.
"Always hard to know with Kevin," he said, laughing.
While Garnett and Celtics Coach Doc Rivers have denied that Garnett went so far as to comment on Anthony's wife, Porter said Garnett was old school enough — in the manner of notorious trash-talkers like Michael Jordan and Larry Bird — to believe that nothing was off-limits.
"I just assumed based on Melo's reaction that maybe Kevin went there," Porter said. "Because when you see someone go after a guy after the game — and Melo obviously lost it — you have to wonder if he did cross a line."
Saunders, too, acknowledged that Garnett's intensity and team loyalty had always been a combustible mix, even in practice with teammates and coaches. But typically with purpose.
"He would try to get guys off their game however he could," said Saunders, currently an ESPN analyst. "A guy like Tim Duncan would just look at him like he was crazy and laugh. Other guys would get upset. I don't know what was said with Carmelo, but I do know that Kevin will do what he thinks he needs to do for his team. And if you let him get into you, he'll just keep going if he thinks it'll help."
Joakim Noah of the Chicago Bulls has called Garnett "mean, ugly, a dirty player," but regarding his own reputation, Garnett seems to care only about what his teammates and coaches believe. He has made little effort in his career to cultivate close relationships with reporters.
During his years in Minnesota, Saunders said, Garnett frustrated team officials by refusing to let them record and publicize charitable acts for children behind closed doors.
A decade ago, the teenage import Nikoloz Tskitishvili, who had posters of Garnett on his bedroom wall in the Republic of Georgia, was left dazed and confused when the big, bad Timberwolf greeted the rookie in his first N.B.A. game with a profane rant.
"How can you say such thing?" Tskitishvili said afterward. "You are All-Star, and I am just kid." But when Garnett and the Timberwolves played in Denver weeks later, he invited Tskitishvili's younger half-brother, George Kipiani, to visit in the locker room.
"I thought he was going to be rude, but it was the opposite," Kipiani, who plays basketball at Menlo College in California, wrote in a Facebook message. "He was really cool."
In Saunders's opinion, Garnett's unwavering insularity can be attributed to an incident during his junior year of high school. He was arrested in a fight that reflected racial tensions. Garnett insisted that he was not involved and that he was implicated because of his size and celebrity. He relocated from Mauldin to Chicago for his senior season.
"He kind of circled the wagons after that, and that's how he's been ever since," Saunders said.
Within the circle, Porter said, Garnett was one of the guys, no matter how much better a player he was or how much more money he made. In the back of buses and airplanes, the young Garnett would pepper veterans like Porter with questions:
What made Jordan so great beyond his obvious skills? What were Detroit's title teams of 1989 and 1990 — nicknamed the Bad Boys — like to compete against?
Garnett soon came to believe that the N.B.A.'s greats were separated by attitude, an all-or-nothing mentality that left no room for fraternal niceties outside the core.
"A little bit like Bill Laimbeer, I suppose," said Porter, referring to the biggest and perhaps most loathsome of the Bad Boys.
Laimbeer was antagonizing to the point that a teammate, Isiah Thomas, once attacked him from behind during practice. Garnett would seem to have no such worries, unless the slumping and fading Celtics should happen to trade any of his teammates — or him — to one of the N.B.A.'s 29 enemy outposts anytime soon.


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