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We're all a little hung-over from last night's Vancouver Smut Soiree. I'm hanging onto my blowout for dear life. But it was fun, so fun! Lainey's blind item reveals are my favourite—Dan Levy was so scandalized, I hope he recovered.
It's Friday, so let's take a moment to enjoy Karl's b-tch-beating fan.
Drew Barrymore's Chanel wedding dress is becoming a story of its own. Chanel's not a standard choice for celebrity brides (Vera Wang, Marchesa or Monique Lhuillier are standbys) so it's a big deal, fashion-wise. I don't know if Chanel makes "wedding dresses" per se, but they definitely service their couture clients and many of the resort runway pieces can be worn as a wedding dress.
And it's not just Drew's celebrity that got Kaiser Karl to custom make it for her; Will Kopelman's father was President of Chanel America, so Karl has known Will since he was a child. How terrifying would Karl Lagerfeld be to a kid? Seriously, imagine that white ponytail and trout pout across the table from you at Thanksgiving dinner, eyeballing your serving of mashed potatoes. But maybe Karl was more fun when he was fat? You remember fat Karl don't you? I've attached a photo to refresh your memory.
People (via InStyle) has the photos and Lagerfeld's official quotes:
"I think she looked beautiful and it fit her strong personality," Lagerfeld told InStyle.com of the dress this week. Barrymore customized her gown — which featured a skirt embroidered with tulle flowers and feathers — with a black satin belt. "She wanted that," Lagerfeld added. "I loved it. I love her." (Source)
But at Chanel's Little Black Jacket Exhibit, Karl just couldn't tame his b-tch, thank god. This is still nice, by Karl standards, but let's examine the subtext.
"[There was] only so much we could do. (But) for someone who is pregnant, she looked perfect." (Source)
Imagine you tried on a custom-made wedding dress and the seamstress stepped back, took a long hard look and said, "This is the best I could do for you." And that person is Karl Lagerfeld. Do you think he hissed every time he had to let out the dress around her belly? That he yelled, "More fabric," at his poor assistants while Drew stood there in her bra and underwear? Do you think behind her back he's secretly pissed his creation was upstaged by a bump? Let's say yes, yes and yes.
The dress is so pretty, no? It's elegant and detailed and very unique. Love how she paired it with a black blazer at night. Let this be the trend this summer. (And please, say no to feathers.)


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You may have noticed that I've gone a bit quiet this week. This has predominantly been for the following reasons:
- We have been moving – still! After moving Danny out of his flat, we then had to move (some of him) into mine, we then had to move most of mine into storage, we then had to move the rest of mine, and a little bit of his, into my parents house where we arrived last night, and where we will be for the next 3 months.
- We have been completing and exchanging on all 3 properties, which – inevitably – come with their own set of unforeseen problems and mini-crises. Notably a 'Danny Dash' from his office in Kensington to my office in Soho to sign papers that had we had emailed to us on Wednesday morning and needed to be received by the sender by Thursday morning (I can be grateful for the fact that it was a rare day with no tube strike).
- We have been planning our website and logo which is very exciting, and we have both been loving it, but our designer has been throwing questions at us that we hadn't really considered and therefore every meeting has resulted in 2 -3 hours of debate.
- Work has been hell (and I am not exaggerating). I have had both my CEO and Commercial Director in Singapore and Australia and am being managed across different timezones and different cultures via email. For the managers among you, this is NOT the recommended approach for building staff motivation and commitment.
As an aside it has taken a HUGE amount of restraint not to use this blog to rant about my bosses and I am proud of this, along with the fact that I have resisted taking a AK47 into work and doing what the Vietnam veterans of America were doing in the 80s and 90s.
Going postal, in American Englishslang, means becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment.
The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1983 onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder. Between 1986 and 1997, more than 40 people were gunned down by spree killers in at least 20 incidents of workplace rage.
Anyway… excuses for the silence aside, I am delighted to announce that Danny and I have exchanged on the property in St Ives, along with completing on our respective flats (well, Danny's is nearly there). That's it now, there is no going back. We are just us two and a big house in Cornwall. Oh, and a larger than expected storage box room in Bow which is absolutely stuffed to bursting.
As we drove away from my flat last night, with the few belongings that are going to see us through the winter in the back of the car, I thought that I'd be sad and a little nostalgic for my beloved flat; but that wasn't the case. Instead I was excited, excited about the future, excited about being self-employed, excited that it wasn't the end but the beginning, and excited about our new logo which arrived on email earlier that day. This excitement briefly manifested itself in the Big Yellow Storage building in Bow where we 'surfed' on the trolleys through the empty gangways (well it was 9.30 at night).
Precisely 5 months ago (to the day) we arrived back from our holiday in Cornwall and announced to our friends and family that we wanted to buy a guest house in St Ives and move down there. 2 flat sales, a mortgage, and a fair amount of negotiation and planning later we find ourselves on our way to doing exactly that.

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TR10: Atomic Magnetometers
John Kitching's tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it's never gone before.
Shrinking sensors: A completed magnetometer built by NIST physicists is shown above. It consists of a small infrared laser (glued to a gold-coated plate), the cesium-filled cell, and a light detector.
Magnetic fields are everywhere, from the human body to the metal in a buried land mine. Even molecules such as proteins generate their own distinctive magnetic fields. Both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which yields stunningly detailed images of the body, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), which is used to study proteins and other compounds such as petroleum, rely on magnetic information. But the sensors currently used to detect these faint but significant magnetic fields all have disadvantages. Some are portable and cheap but not very sensitive; others are highly sensitive but stationary, expensive, and power-hungry.
Now John Kitching, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO, is developing tiny, low-power magnetic sensors almost as sensitive as their big, expensive counterparts. About the size of a fat grain of rice, the sensors are called atomic magnetometers. Kitching hopes that they will one day be incorporated into everything from portable MRI machines to faster and cheaper detectors for unexploded bombs.
The tiny sensors have three key components, stacked vertically on top of a silicon chip. An off-the-shelf infrared laser and an infrared photodetector sandwich a glass-and-silicon cube filled with vaporized cesium atoms. In the absence of a magnetic field, the laser light passes straight through the cesium atoms. In the presence of even very weak magnetic fields, though, the atoms' alignment changes, allowing them to absorb an amount of light proportional to the strength of the field. This change is picked up by the photodetector. "It's a simple configuration with extremely good sensitivity," Kitching says.
Atomic magnetometers have been around for about 50 years; most have large, sensitive vapor cells, about the size of soda cans, made using glassblowing techniques. The most sensitive of these can detect fields on the order of a femtotesla–about one-fifty-billionth the strength of Earth's magnetic field. Kitching's innovation was to shrink the vapor cell to a volume of only a few cubic millimeters, decreasing power usage while keeping performance comparable.
Working with five other physicists, Kitching makes the vapor cells using micromachining techniques. They begin by using a combination of lithography and chemical etching to punch square holes three millimeters across into a silicon wafer. Then they clamp the silicon to a slip of glass and create a bond using high heat and a voltage, turning the square hole into a topless box with a glass bottom.
Inside a vacuum chamber, they use a tiny glass syringe to fill the box with vaporized cesium atoms; then they seal the box with another slip of glass at high heat. (This must be done in a vacuum because cesium reacts vigorously with water and oxygen.) Next, the physicists mount the finished vapor cell on a chip, along with the infrared laser and the photodetector. They pass a current through thin conductive films on the top and bottom of the cell to produce heat, which keeps the cesium atoms vaporized.
Kitching currently builds magnetometers a few at a time in the lab, but he has designed them with bulk manufacturing in mind. Many copies of each component are carved out simultaneously from a single silicon wafer. Several wafers, each containing multiple copies of a different component, could be layered one on top of the other. Then the stack could be sliced into multiple magnetometers.
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Over my career I have made a living as a generalist. I have been a jack of all trades and a master of none. It has served me well in that I am able to move from one technology to the other quickly and make myself productive. Where it becomes a problem is deep knowledge. I am constantly digging for the things that aren't basic knowledge. How do you make a product like WCF or Windows RT do more than just "Hello World"?
As an architect I need to be a jack of all trades. This is what helps me to bring the big picture of a project into focus for developers with different skills to accomplish the goals of the project. It is a key when the mix technologies crosses Windows, Unix and Mainframe with different languages and databases. The larger the company that the project is for the more likely this scenario will arise.
As a consultant and a developer I need to have specialized skills in order to get the job done efficiently. if I have a SharePoint or Windows Phone project knowing the object model details and possible roadblocks of the technology allow me to stay within budgets as well as better advise the client on technology decisions.
What is the solution? Constant learning and associating with developers who specialize in a variety of technologies is the best thing you can do. You may have thought you were done with classes when you left college, but in this industry you need to constantly be learning new products and languages. The ultimate answer is you must generally specialize. Learn as many subject areas as possible, but go deep when ever you can. Sleep is overrated. Good luck.
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Tim is a Solutions Architect for PSC Group, LLC. He has been an IT consultant since 1999 specializing in Microsoft technologies. Along with running the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group and speaking on Microsoft and architecture topics he was also contributing author on "The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library".


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New lawmakers going through orientation at the New Hampshire Statehouse
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � New Hampshire lawmakers are going through orientation at the Statehouse.
The lawmakers will learn where things are located and how to find help, what the media do and how to reach reporters, and about organization day when they are sworn in.
Orientation is Wednesday and Thursday. The Legislature is sworn in on Dec. 5, after which it will elect its officers, the state treasurer and the secretary of state.


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Recently, sharp-eyed citizens in Copenhagen have had the opportunity to get a sneak preview of the upcoming, sporty Volvo S60 - which won't be introduced to the world until next year.
A disguised prototype of the new sedan model has been rolling through the streets of the Danish capital in order to test a groundbreaking new safety technology that can detect a pedestrian in front of the car and brake automatically if the driver doesn't react in time, to avoid an accident.
The new technology - Collision Warning with Full Auto Brake and Pedestrian Detection - will be introduced together with the all-new Volvo S60 in 2010. Volvo Cars' safety experts have been working with Pedestrian Detection technology for ten years and test cars have been rolling all over the world - most recently in the busy streets of Copenhagen.
"Factors like traffic behaviour, road conditions and climate must be taken into account in the design of the final system. All told we have collected more than 500,000 kilometres of real-life data. We can also use the information from these traffic tests to conduct advanced computer simulations," says Thomas Broberg, Senior Safety Advisor at Volvo Cars.
The next step - protecting the unprotected
The new safety functions in Collision Warning with Full Auto Brake and Pedestrian Detection represent the next stage in Volvo Cars' continuous development of technology to detect risky situations and help the driver mitigate or avoid accidents by providing support in the decision-making process.
"The previous stages were developed to help the driver avoid collisions with other vehicles.
Now we are taking a giant step forward with a function that also boosts safety for unprotected road-users. What is more, we are advancing from fifty percent to full automatic braking power. To the best of our knowledge, none of our competitors have made such progress in this area," explains Thomas Broberg. He adds:
"This technology helps us take an important step towards our long-term vision of designing cars that do not crash. Our aim for 2020 is that no-one should be killed or seriously injured in a Volvo."
First a warning, then automatic braking
Collision Warning with Full Auto Brake and Pedestrian Safety consists of a new dual-mode radar unit integrated into the car's grille, a camera behind the inside rear-view mirror and a central control unit. The radar and camera continuously monitor the road in front of the car. The radar's task is to detect objects and measure the distance to them. The camera determines what type of objects they are.
In an emergency situation, the driver is first alerted by an audible warning together with a flashing light in the windscreen's head-up display. In order to prompt an immediate, intuitive reaction, the visual warning is designed to look like a brake light coming on. If the driver does not respond to the warning and the system assesses that a collision is imminent, the car's brakes are applied with full braking power.
"Active brake deployment requires that the object is confirmed by both the radar and the camera. Thanks to state-of-the-art sensor technology, it is now possible to engage full braking power," explains Thomas Broberg.
Accidents with pedestrians common in urban traffic
In the EU countries' capital cities, 1,560 people died in road accidents in 2007. Of these, 43 percent were pedestrians. The speed of the car is of considerable significance to the outcome of an accident and the risk of a pedestrian being killed in an accident at 50 kilometres per hour is 85 percent higher compared to if the speed is 25 kilometres per hour.
"Our aim is that this new technology should help the driver avoid collisions with pedestrians at speeds below 25 km/h. If the car is travelling faster, the aim is to reduce the impact speed as much as possible. In most cases, we can reduce the collision force by about 75 percent. Considering the large number of pedestrian fatalities that occur, if we manage to lower the fatality risk by 20 percent this new function will make a big difference. In specific situations the fatality reduction can be up to 85 percent," says Thomas Broberg.


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To be perfectly frank, compassion does not pay the rent, gratitude will not fill the fridge with food, and caring will not prevent the PHCN from being disconnected for lack of timely payment. The truth is that we all need appropriate compensation for the vital services that we render, so I wonder about the occasional person who states, "I love nursing so much that I'd do it for free!" I challenge these people to resign from their paying jobs and volunteer their nursing services for free for the remainder of their working years. Only the well-off can pull it off for an extended time.
With that having been said, informal salary surveys can be worth their weight in gold. This salary survey response will benefits nurses particularly in private hospitals because it gleans valuable information:
It makes us more aware of the average rates of pay for each state in the country.
It enables us to be reasonable when pursuing a fair pay rate from a potential employer.
It takes other factors into account, such as geographic variances and differences in specialties.
It regards the fact that salaries can be a tricky topic – some employees would never even dream of disclosing their pay to colleagues, and many organizations have policies in place that prohibit open discussion of wages. In other words, salary can be a very touchy subject.
If you wish to participate in the informal salary survey for 2015, please list the information in the following order:
- 1. Your State
2. Monthly Pay
3. In which area / specialty do you work? DO NOT MENTION HOSPITAL NAME/FACILITY
4. What type of degree and/or certification do you have?
7. How many years of experience do you have?
8. Are you full-time, part-time?
9. What shift do you work?
And if you do not want to provide any salary information, that's perfectly fine, too. Thanks!


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Whether turbo-boosting over a ravine or jogging in slo-mo along a beach, David Hasselhoff knows how to make an entrance. So it's no surprise that he's joining the FX series "Sons of Anarchy" in a <cough> big way.
According to TV Guide, the Hoff will be joining the series next season ("Anarchy" returns in the fall) as a character named "Dondo," who just happens to be a well-endowed porn star turned porn producer (so he's basically Dirk Diggler: The Golden Years) Dondo apparently has a past with the character Luann Delaney (Dendrie Taylor), who currently runs a porn studio herself.
"Sons of Anarchy" stars Ron Perlman, Charlie Hunnam, and Katey Sagal as a close-knit biker family working along the fringes of the law in California.
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Hasselhoff, meanwhile, has been busy telling America they have no talent, and spoofing his own image in movies like "Hop" and the upcoming "Piranha 3DD" (no, that is not a typo).
Is it too early to clamor for a Dondo spin-off?


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White House pushes Congress on Syria after Obama's recoil
(CNN) -- The Obama administration pushed forward Sunday on a new path toward military action in Syria, urging Congress to support the president's call.
Tests found signatures of sarin gas in blood and hair samples collected from the Damascus site of an alleged chemical weapons attack, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.
The samples were collected separately from a United Nations investigation into the August 21 attack and provide further proof that the Syrian regime attacked its own people, Kerry said.
With "each day that goes by, this case is even stronger," he said, arguing that the United States must act.
"If you don't do it, you send a message of impunity," Kerry said. Iran, North Korea, and Hezbollah "will look at the United States and say 'Nothing means anything' -- that's what's at stake here," he said.
Syria denies using chemical weapons on its people and blames the rebels.
Kerry called the evidence "overwhelming" Sunday, and the Arab League issued a statement blaming the Syrian government for the attack.
But the United Nations argued that world leaders should wait until U.N. investigators determine whether chemical weapons were used.
"The U.N. mission is uniquely capable of establishing in an impartial and credible manner the facts of any use of chemical weapons," Martin Nesirky, spokesman for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said repeatedly at a news conference.
So when will the results be ready? The U.N. won't give a timeline, Nesirky said. "It's being done as fast as it is possible to do within the scientific constraints."
Samples will be delivered to laboratories Monday, he said.
The investigation involves a strict chain of custody and clear guidelines, he said, adding that two Syrian government officials monitored the process.
But even when it's done, the U.N. will only say whether chemical weapons were used -- not who was responsible.
Obama's last-minute Syria switch
U.S. military action appeared imminent until Saturday, when Obama announced he would first seek lawmakers' approval.
Obama made a last-minute decision Friday evening to seek congressional authorization before any military action, senior administration officials told reporters.
"While I believe I have the authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional authorization, I know that the country will be stronger if we take this course, and our actions will be even more effective," Obama said Saturday. The 1973 War Powers Act technically allows him to strike without such approval.
Lawmakers officially come back from recess on September 9.
But some members of Congress arrived on Capitol Hill Sunday for a classified briefing on Syria with White House, State Department and Pentagon officials.
Many of them said they remained skeptical and undecided about how to respond to the August 21 purported chemical weapons attack that U.S. officials have said killed more than 1,000 people in Syrian rebel strongholds.
"There was a great deal of skepticism in the room about the utility, effectiveness and support that we would have for the kind of strike that the president has proposed," said Rep. Jim Himes, D-Connecticut. "There's not a lot of skepticism, frankly, about whether or not this was an attack carried out by the Syrian regime. While nobody would say that it's been proven, the vast bulk of the evidence suggests that this was an attack carried out by the Assad regime."
Sen. John McCain told CBS' "Face the Nation" that Obama had invited him to a Monday meeting at the White House to discuss the next steps in Syria. McCain, who has been pushing for military intervention in Syria, said he had questions for the president.
"I want to find out whether there is a plan and a strategy. I want to find out whether this is just a pinprick that somehow Bashar Assad can trumpet that he defeated the United States of America," McCain told CNN. "But I will say that if Congress overrules a decision of the president of the United States on an issue of national security, that could set a catastrophic precedent in the future. It would be a very dangerous precedent to be setting."
Global debate surges over Syria
At a meeting in Cairo Sunday, Arab League foreign ministers condemned the chemical weapons attack, urging the international community to take action and calling for the prosecution of those responsible.
"The Syrian regime bears full responsibility for the use of chemical weapons (in) this heinous crime," foreign ministers from the regional organization said in a statement, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
"The council also called for providing the required forms of support for the Syrian people to defend themselves and the need for concerted Arab and international efforts to help them," the statement said.
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Araby said in a Twitter post that the league was calling for the United Nations Security Council to "assume its responsibility and take all the deterrent and needed measures against this crime and all crimes of genocide" in Syria.
But the statements Sunday did not directly refer to the United States, and it's unclear how much international support the U.S. government would have if it chooses to strike Syria.
At the Arab League meeting, Saudi Arabia called for international action, but Egypt said it was opposed to foreign intervention in the Syrian crisis.
Britain has voted against taking any military action in Syria, and France said it won't act without the United States as a partner.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle tweeted Sunday that the time gained waiting for U.S. congressional approval "must be used to reach a common position of the international community within the U.N. Security Council."
Amid the debate over whether to strike Syria, U.S. authorities are tightening domestic security measures. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are warning of a higher risk of cyberattacks after months of disruptions by hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army, and authorities say more attacks are likely.
Opposition: Obama gave false hope
The shift to ask for approval from Congress left some analysts scratching their heads.
"The decision-making has been so confused and muddled that it's difficult to put the word 'wise' in front of anything they're doing right now," CNN's Fareed Zakaria said on Sunday. "The administration has hesitated between nonintervention and intervention, and it is caught between those two."
The Obama administration, Zakaria said, "seems to want to have it both ways, but it can't."
Others praised the president for taking a step to get more buy-in at home and abroad.
"Frankly, I think he looks prudent, and I don't doubt his resolve on this," John Negroponte, who served as director of national intelligence for two years under President George W. Bush, told CNN's State of the Union. "I don't think he's looking for an excuse to get out from a box or a situation that he painted himself into."
While some praised the president for giving Congress a chance to weigh in, a key group of Syrian dissidents said it was surprised and concerned by Obama's new approach.
"We can't understand how you can promise to help those who are being slaughtered every day in the hundreds, giving them false hope, then change your mind and say let's wait and see," the Syrian National Coalition said.
Iran, a staunch supporter of the Syrian regime, warned the United States will pay a price if it strikes Syria.
Syria reacts
The Syrian government has denied that it used chemical weapons in the August 21 attack, saying that jihadists fighting with the rebels used them in an effort to turn global sentiments against the regime.
Maria Saadeh, a member of Syria's parliament, told CNN on Sunday that she sees no justification for a U.S. strike on Syria.
"There is no legitimacy to make this attack," she said, accusing rebel groups of using chemical weapons and committing other crimes against humanity.
Syrian state media have been packed with critiques of the U.S. position since Obama's announcement Saturday. An editorial in the state-run Al-Thawra newspaper Sunday said that Obama had declared "the beginning of a historic American retreat."
Meanwhile, the opposition Syrian National Coalition issued a statement aimed at U.S. lawmakers.
"The Syrian National Coalition calls on the American congress to carry their historical responsibility towards the Syrian people and take the right decision to support the American government approach to stop the killing machine of the Syrian criminal regime," the statement said.
Sarin allegedly used previously in Syrian civil war
World leaders have said previously that sarin has been used in the Syrian civil war.
In April, the United States said it had evidence sarin was used in Syria on a small scale.
In May, a U.N. official said there were strong suspicions that rebel forces used the deadly nerve agent.
In June, France said sarin had been used several times in the war, including at least once by the Syrian regime.


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And so we come the bittersweet end of this seventh season of "Project Runway," a season designed to make up for the previous flaming sequinwreck of a season, and pretty much succeeded in that mission.
There will be much to miss from this past season. I'll miss looking at Heidi Klum and assuming she was pregnant with twins when she was actually pregnant with just one child. I'll miss Jonathan trying to design a dress that was meant to look like laughter, which doesn't look like anything (as part of a challenge where his job was to design something inspired by air. I'll miss ogling Maya on close-up shots and then reacting with shock when they showed her standing next to other designers and she appeared to be two feet tall. I'll miss Maya then bailing out on the show because she wasn't ready yet, or something. Lady, if you weren't ready, why did you audition? I'll miss Michael Kors calling Jonathan's dress "sad" and then Jonathan rebutting through tears, "Is sadness not an emotion?" Oh, it is, good sir. It really is.
But most of all, I'll miss Anthony. Yeah, he got the boot two weeks ago, but he'll be back tonight. They always bring back all the ousted designers in the finale, to "help" the finalists. Anthony will be back, I guarantee you that. And he'll be as delightful as ever. If they fired the entire cast of "The View" and replaced them all with Anthony, would you be pleased? Yes, you would. Anthony is the biggest star the show has minted since Christian Siriano, and this will most certainly not be the end of his television career. Enjoy him now, before some producer polishes all the fun out of him.
This was an uneven season in terms of challenges. The hardware store challenge was awesome, as was the design-for-a-kid challenge. Other challenges, like make a dress for Heidi, were tired and old. I hate it when the show is like, "You'll be designing for a verrry special celebrity," then they reveal that the celebrity is the same lady we see on the show every week. More making designers craft clothing out of weird crap, please. I'm sure tonight's finale will include one of those "design an additional look" twists that isn't really a twist at all.
As for the finalists, I think we all know Mila isn't winning this thing. Mila is the wedding guest you get stuck next to who spends an hour talking at you and never asks you about yourself. This final will be a battle between Emilio, who grows more shrill and arrogant by the week, and the very likable Seth Aaron, who can apparently sew clothing faster than a fairy godmother. Seriously, this man should be stitching 10,000 pairs of pants a day for UNICEF. He'd be fantastic in a sweatshop.
So who will win? Well, Emilio has been on a roll (just ask him), but I'll go with Seth Aaron, who has a clearer identity as a designer, what with all the black and stuff. But it's hard to predict, and that quality is what has made this season of Runway a solid one.
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And so we come the bittersweet end of this seventh season of "Project Runway," a season designed to make up for the previous flaming sequinwreck of a season, and pretty much succeeded in that mission.


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Def Jam Rapstar developer 4mm Games to close
Def Jam Rapstar developer 4mm Games is on the verge of shutting up shop.
4mm Games headlines
EMI to sue over alleged unpaid Def Jam Rapstar royalties
Music licensing giant EMI has filed suit against 4mm Games and Terminal Reality over Def Jam Rapstar.
Def Jam Rapstar and Atlantic Records want to give you a recording contract
Def Jam Rapstar, in association with Atlantic Records UK, has announced it will offer a record deal to the winner of Def Jam Rapstar's nationwide search for Britain's best new Rapper.
Def Jam Rapstar video has some questionable celebrities starring in it
Def Jam Rapstar is out soon, and to get you pumped for the game, Konami has released a video featuring a man who has literally been pumping stuff his whole life, whether it be steroids or iron.
Def Jam Rapstar tracklist announced
Konami's released the entire tracklist for Def Jam Rapstar. Want to look like a tit while rapping Beastie Boys? Step this way.
Europe getting exclusive Def Jam Rapstar tracks
Europe's getting some exclusive dope ass tracks for Def Jam Rapstar, and you can find out who, where, and what below the break.
4mm Games uses investment banks to fund multiple titles
Rockstar co-founders Jamie King and Gary Forman's 4mm Games has found an interesting way to fund projects in the current economic climate.Investment banks that fund multiple projects instead of relying on just one to return the investment."The company we're working [with] is CEA Autumn, it's a new fund," company CEO Nick Perrett told Siliconera. "CEA […]
4mm announces Def Jam Rapstar
Remember 4mm, the firm formed recently by Rockstar Games co-founders Jamie King and Gary Foreman? Its first game is Def Jam Rockstar, according to this IGN piece.What's it about? Rapping. Fucking dope."There are not very many products out there that speak directly to the hip-hop consumer base," said Def Jam marketing bod Lauren Wirtzer."More than […]
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NEW YORK, New York - A motorcycle stealing racket in New York City has been taken down.
The 11 members of the ring have been arrested and charged over the theft of scores of motorcycles over a six-months period.
The eleven suspects have been charged with 187 crimes involving the theft of 43 motorcycles in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and The Bronx from November 2018 to May 2019.
"The joyride is over for this group," New York Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday. "For months, these individuals allegedly stole dozens of motorcycles from unsuspecting New Yorkers and then dismantled them for profit or re-sold them to customers who knowingly purchased stolen goods."
"Today's charges show that the NYPD and our law enforcement partners will shatter the false belief of any criminals who believe they can operate in plain sight with apparent impunity," said NYPD Commissioner James P. O'Neill.
"Over the course of an ongoing investigation, my office's Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau developed information of crimes that extended beyond the borders of Queens County," said Acting Queens District Attorney John M. Ryan.
This week's takedown originated with the Queens County District Attorney's Office and was ultimately cultivated and completed by the Attorney General's Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) and the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) Auto Crime Division.
In a 187-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday before Kings County Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun, 11 defendants were charged with numerous counts of Criminal Possession of Stolen Property, Grand Larceny Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, Auto Stripping, and Conspiracy for conspiring to steal, possess, and sell 43 stolen motorcycles and one stolen GMC Savana van, valued at a total of over $280,000.
The eleven facing charges are:
JENNAR BATTIESTE, a/k/a/ "FIDEL" – 38 years old, Bronx, NY
DILLAN BUDHOO – 27 years old, Brooklyn, NY
PATRICK BULL, a/k/a "P-WAY" – 33 years old, Brooklyn, NY
TREVOR DAVIS, a/k/a "FORTY" – 32 years old, Edison, NJ
TIAHRA JONES, a/k/a "TIA" – 22 years old, Queens, NY
LUMAS LAENS, a/k/a "SPAZZO" – 36 years old, Brooklyn, NY
LEWIS MORAN, a/k/a "LEW" – 41 years old, Brooklyn, NY
KAON MURRAY, a/k/a "KAY" – 29 years old, Brooklyn, NY
DIMITRI ORTIZ, a/k/a "MEECH" – 26 years old, Brooklyn, NY
JOSE RIVERA III, a/k/a "FLUFF" – 32 years old, Brooklyn, NY
STANLEY WEBB, a/k/a "STAN" – 43 years old, Brooklyn, NY
The investigation revealed motorcycle theft crew members Patrick Bull, Tiahra Jones, Lumas Laens, Kaon Murray, Dimitri Ortiz, and Jose Rivera III, were responsible for locating, stealing, dismantling, and re-selling stolen motorcycles throughout New York City. After stealing these motorcycles, the theft crew members transported the motorcycles back to a garage located in Brooklyn, where the motorcycles were either dismantled and sold for parts or disguised and sold whole to customers who knowingly purchased stolen goods, including Jennar Battieste, Dillan Budhoo, Trevor Davis, Lewis Moran, and Stanley Webb.
The joint investigation included hundreds of hours of physical and covert surveillance, court-authorized wiretapping of numerous target phones, execution of search warrants, and the recovery of dozens of hours of surveillance video capturing the thefts of numerous motorcycles. During the course of the wiretapping, conspirators frequently utilized coded and cryptic terminology in an attempt to disguise their illicit activities, such as referring to conducting a motorcycle theft as "busting a move," dismantling a motorcycle for parts as "chopping it up," and altering a vehicle identification number (VIN) as "stamping."
If convicted, each of the defendants faces a maximum of seven years in prison. The charges against the defendants are accusations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The investigation was directed by OCTF Investigator Bradford Farrell and Supervising Investigator Paul Grzegorski under the supervision of Downstate OCTF Deputy Chief Christopher Vasta. The Attorney General's Investigations Bureau is led by Acting Chief Investigator John Reidy.
The case is being prosecuted by OCTF Assistant Deputy Attorney General Shanon Nicholas LaCorte with the assistance of Legal Analyst Juliana Siklos under the supervision of Deputy Chief Lauren Abinanti. Nicole Keary is the Deputy Attorney General in Charge of the Organized Crime Task Force. The Criminal Justice Division is led by Chief Deputy Attorney General José Maldonado.


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The Weekly Digest from Lorelle on WordPress this week features more guest blogging on Problogger, interviews, and getting ready for WordCamp next month!
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I'm just finishing up a 10 day trip that turned into two weeks on the road. Whew. I have a few more days left and then back to the grind for a week or so before heading towards San Francisco and the amazing WordCamp 2007.
If you haven't heard, WordCamp 2007 is July 21-22 in San Francisco. Space is limited and registration is required. There is an amazing line up on the WordCamp Schedule, so I expect it to sell out fast, so get your tickets now.
Guest Blogging on Problogger: Three of my articles have been published recently on Darren Rowse's Problogger, Telling Your Story With Words and Images, and an excerpts from my book, Blogging Tips: Writing Purposeful Content and Blogging Tips: First Impressions Count.
Interviewed: Daily Blog Tips interviewed me, asking some interesting questions this week. Last week, One Blog A Day published an interview, which covers some of the how and why I ended up on Lorelle On WordPress.
Lorelle Speaking at WordCamp 2007: My topic at WordCamp 2007 is "Kicking Ass Content Connections", helping you connect with your readers and build your blog through your blog's content. Any tips or hints you'd love to share or know about, let me know.
HELP WANTED – Looking For 21 Foot Motor Home Parking San Francisco: I'm still debating whether or not I'll drive the small motor home south to California, but parking is an issue. I'll be staying close to the conference with a friend but I can't park the motor home in the area and leave it. I'd love some tips and helps on finding a place to park it and leave it for three to five days. It parks just barely in a normal parking spot, but it is just under 12 feet high. I got nailed by a tree on my last trip to San Francisco, so all help is appreciated.
Greg Balanko-Dickson, Guest Blogging on Lorelle on WordPress: A dear friend and fellow blogger, Greg Balanko-Dickson, has graced this blog again with the brilliant Business Blogging Strategy: Build Trust and Rapport, a wonderful look at your blog identity through networking – if they can't trust you, how can you make the connection with your blog? A great article and invaluable tips. Thank you again, Greg!
Lorelle on WordPress Scrapped and Violated: Some wonderful blogging friends and fans have been alerting me to copyright violations and feed scrapers (splogs) of this blog. THANK YOU. If you find Lorelle On WordPress is being scrapped or the content stolen, please let me know.
I Like It When You Say Nice Things About Me: I have to say, I was totally blown away by Dawud Miracle's wonderful article about me, highlighting my interview on Daily Blog Tips. Some very kind people had more nice things to say. It is amazing how isolated my work and lifestyle is and then someone says such nice things – I'm really amazed and humbled. Thank you, Dawud, and everyone. I'm blushing and I promise I'll work harder to be more deserving.
Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging: My signing hand now hosts a jammed finger from I know not what. Maybe signing too many books. 😀 Still, the orders for autographed copies are still coming in faster than I can keep up with them, so apologies if your book orders are slightly delayed. I'm on the road and doing my best to keep up with the requests and discovering a lot of new post offices along the road.
To order your own copy of the limited first printed edition with a reduced introductory price, order from SplashPress or the new Blog Herald Bookstore. For more information on the book, see the original announcement and a recent update with reviews and other information, as well as the Blogging Tips Book official page.
What's Happening with Lorelle on WordPress
This past week's articles from Lorelle on WordPress included:
- Understanding GPL and Copyright in WordPress Community Podcast
- Blogging With Split Browser Firefox Extension
- Liz Strauss Offers 20 Blog Promotion Guides
- Blog Challenge: How Much Crap Is In Your Blogging Bag?
- Melissa McAvoy Offers 8 Tips for Accessible Blogging
- Tony Hung's Rules Behind Creating a Great Blog
- Business Blogging Strategy: Build Trust and Rapport
- Essential Keystrokes Throws a Gift Giving Blog Birthday Bash
- Showing Dates Not Just Times in Your Multi-Post Views
- Could It Be? Your Blog Design Really Matters?
- Do You Get to The Point or Ramble to the Point In Your Blog?
- Weekly Digest: Problogger Guest Blogging, Speaking at WordCamp, Blogathon, Parties, and Blogging Tips
- Can the DMCA Be Used Against You if Someone Doesn't Like What You Blog
- Blog Challenge: Describe Blogging
- Will You Be Blogging in the July 28 Blogathon 2007?
- WordCamp 2007 Registration and Schedule
Most Popular Articles on Lorelle on WordPress
WordCamp 2007 Registration and Schedule is attracting a lot of attention as people are excited about the upcoming conference and have been eagerly seeking information on the schedule and activities.
Will You Be Blogging in the July 28 Blogathon 2007? and on the Blog Herald with Blogathon Tips: Blogathon 2007 July 28 continue to attract a lot of attention as people start to think about this fundraising and blogging event. It's 30 days away, folks. Get busy now if you are going to participate.
The most popular posts on Lorelle on WordPress this week were:
- WordCamp 2007 Registration and Schedule
- Will You Be Blogging in the July 28 Blogathon 2007?
- Melissa McAvoy Offers 8 Tips for Accessibility
- Designing a Rainbow – Sexy Hot Colors
- Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization
- Blogging Tips – Hundreds of Resources for Finding Content for Your Blog
- Do You Get to The Point or Ramble to the Point In Your Blog?
- Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch
- All The Styles For The Sandbox Theme in a CSS Stylesheet
- HTML, CSS, PHP, and More Cheat Sheets
- What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content
- WordPress Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics
- Lists of Your Favorite WordPress Plugins
Linking To and From Lorelle on WordPress
Liz Strauss' "20 Blog Promotion Guides to Inform Your Strategy" was a winner this week. As it should be. It's jammed packed with a ton of article references and resources you need to know for promoting and managing your blog.
The Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin continues to be very popular as people love to add tags to their blogs. Remember that the latest version of WordPress does not play nicely with this Plugin and that WordPress is adding tags to their next major release.
With the Sandbox WordPress Theme Competition on, links to the Sandbox WordPress Theme and Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0 sites are very high from this blog, and incoming links to Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch and all the styles for the Sandbox Theme in a CSS stylesheet are many. I can't wait to see what people come up with for this brilliantly innovative WordPress Theme.
Who knew so many would be so excited about last week's blog challenge, Describe Blogging. The results so far have been amazing! I'll be putting together a collection of these very soon. Incredible. I thought maybe we'd all figured out what blogging is, but it seems people are still coming to grips with the term and its definition and meaning in their life.
WordPress News You Need To Know continues to send people to my WordPress Wednesday news on the Blog Herald, stuffed with all the needs on WordPress you need to know published every Wednesday.
Popular destinations and recommendations from this blog elsewhere included:
- Liz Strauss – 20 Blog Promotion Guides to Inform Your Strategy
- Blogathon
- Sandbox WordPress Theme
- Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0
- Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin
- 9rules.com
- Daily Blog Tips – Copyright Law 12 Dos and Don'ts
- joostdevalk.nl – Enhanced Contact Form WordPress Plugin
- Wil Wheaton
- Emoms – Wendy Piersall – The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes I Made in My First Year
- Wendy Piersall – Is Your Blog Template Holding You Back
- WordPress Plugin and Sandbox Theme Competitions, Hot New WordPress Plugins, Put Post Preview Back, and Stop Blaming WordPress
- Blog Herald – Blogging Tips Book by Lorelle VanFossen
- Firefox Web Developer Extension
Blog Herald Columns
This week on the Blog Herald, I wrote about:
- Political Bloggers and Candidates Have a Legal Right to Lie
- WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.2.1 Manadatory Upgrade, WordCamp Awesome Weekend Conference, WordPress in Japan, and Lots of WordPress Plugins
- SEO Tips: Increase Page Rank By Revitalizing Your Old Posts
- Learning From Blithering Idiot Blog Readers
- If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Come Blog By Me
- What Should Bloggers Apologize For and How?
- WordPress WordCamp 2007 Schedule
- Blogathon Tips: Blogathon 2007 July 28
- WordPress Wednesday News: Webware 100 Winner, Plugins and Sandbox Theme Contest Rocks, WordCamp Count Down, and a Backwoods Search for WordPress Schwag
- WordPress Wednesday News: Two Exciting WordPress Competitions, Lots of WordPress Plugins News, Hot Blogs Moving to WordPress, and Andy Skelton Riding a Motorcycle to WordCamp
Lorelle's Linkworthy Links
For my linkworthy links this week, I've been on the road all week with scarely any Internet time, so I decided to go through my bookmarked sites and a quick dash to the web to hunt for links featuring "Top 10" or "Top X" tips for blogging and WordPress:
- 10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum – These 10 mistakes will kill a blog as well as a forum so pay heed to them.
- 10 Sure-Fire Ways to Get RSS Readers Visiting Your Blog – Want to kick up your feed subscribers, I'd call this one the definitive post.
- 10 Requisites for Professional Bloggers – Want to be a professional blogger, one who blogs for a living? Then these 10 requisites are required.
- 40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation – These are 40 tips that do say it all. 😀
- My 50 Favorite Blogging Resources – Neil Patel's list of blog resources is fantastic.
- Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers – In true Mashable fashion, this over the top list of resources for bloggers includes some awesome references you need to know about.
Blasts From the Past
In keeping with the "top X" theme, here are some number titled posts from this blog's past:
- Top 9 Javascripts for Your Website or Blog Design
- ProBlogger's One Year Anniversary – Top 20 Posts Showcased
- Examining the Top 40 Blogs
- Tracking the Top Fortune 500 Blogs
- Top 5 Web Myths
- The Top 10 Clues That You Are an Amateur Blogger
- Top 10 Tips for Technorati Tricks
- New and Improved Top 100 Bloggers List
- Top 10 Worst Americans – Not Just Your Average Top 10 List
- Top 10 Interesting People on the Blogosphere by Blog Herald
- PubSub Releases List of Top 1000 Blogs
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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Monday, January 21, 2008
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14 comments:
- kristen spina said...
The last photo is amazing. I love it. The color, lack of color, framing. Way to go, Bud!
- January 21, 2008 7:24 PM
- Ange said...
I too love the last picture. Bubba has always loved "setting up" toys. And once I let him use the camera, he loves taking pictures of the ceiling fan, his brother, and his "displays."
- January 21, 2008 7:38 PM
- Niksmom said...
Ditto what Kristen said. It intrigues me and makes me want to follow the staircase to see where it leads...much like Bud himself!
- January 21, 2008 7:38 PM
- Daisy said...
Ooh, the textures!
- January 21, 2008 8:42 PM
- kristina said...
This might seem completely off topic----years ago I saw a book in a Cahill and Company catalogue---it was about teaching you to identify different types of bark. Sample were included--Bud's photos made me think of that long-forgotten (and not purchased) tome.
- January 21, 2008 8:52 PM
- Marla said...
I love this. M does photos like this and likes to post them. There is something special about them.
- January 21, 2008 9:26 PM
it's like a study in wood, the angles, textures, lighting, grade, so interesting!
and, are those reindeer???
- January 21, 2008 9:27 PM
These are terrific! I esp like the stairs. He's got a great eye.
- January 21, 2008 11:10 PM
- Jenn said...
My Nick loves to take pictures too, but they're all of his eyeball. No matter how much coaching and demonstrating I do, he keeps turning the camera around backwards.
- January 22, 2008 12:27 AM
- cathy said...
Bud's photos truly are abstract art. You could do an art show with his photo collection one day!
- January 22, 2008 11:50 AM
- mommy~dearest said...
Very cool...my fave is the deer one. I could actually see myself buying something like that!
- January 22, 2008 3:33 PM
I think the curtains-in-the-window one is quite haunting and beautiful.
- January 22, 2008 9:33 PM
- KAL said...
They are all so striking - I love seeing what Bud is seeing.
- January 22, 2008 11:37 PM
- floating in space said...
The stairs photo is my favorite. It's neat to see the world through the eyes of Bud.
- January 23, 2008 7:59 PM


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We are a couple from France, and we would like to benefit of a vietnamese egg donor, since I am of vietnemese origins.
In europe we did not find vienamese donor so we are decided to go to Asia.
But it is difficult to contact hospitals, clinics or centers by mail or phone.
It's also difficult to have an idea about these organism buy mail (serious or not, experienced or not, ...)
Do you have some experienced of it ?
Do you know how we could be helped ?
Are there some specialised agency to do help us ?
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It's hard to name a brand--even a far more expensive one--that's better visually defined than Kate Spade. The Kate Spade girl is a little preppy, a little retro, very feminine and not too self-serious to take a joke. It's exactly that spirit that you'll find in the brand's Resort 2017 lookbook, which we got a peek at earlier this week.
This collection is more midcentury-skewing than the 60s- and 70s-inspired Kate Spade of late, which will be opportune for those among us who love boxy little bags, car coats and demure pumps with low block heels. Oh, and there are also some dinosaurs in there for good measure. Why not? The Kate Spade girl loves a curveball. Check out all the bags from the new lookbook below.


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Our laboratory focuses on a specific family of homeoproteins, the Six family, and their transcriptional cofactors, Eya and Dach. The Six1 homeobox gene is overexpressed in 50% of primary breast cancers and 90% of metastatic lesions, and its overexpression correlates with poor prognosis in multiple tumor types, including breast, ovarian, prostate, colon, and brain, as well as the pediatric tumor rhabdomyosarcoma. Our past data demonstrate that Six1 overexpression can attenuate the DNA damage-induced G2 checkpoint and that it can also increase overall cellular proliferation. In addition, we have found that Six1 inhibits certain forms of apoptosis. Several of the Six family members are involved in the proliferation and survival of progenitor cell populations during normal development, and thus, when misexpressed in adult tissues, these genes may lead to the expansion of a tumor initiating, or stem cell population, thereby contributing to uncontrolled growth and tumorigenesis.
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The Arduino Funnel I/O (FIO) is a board designed by Shigeru Kobayashi, based on the original design from LilyPad.
Funnel is a toolkit to sketch your idea physically, and consists of software libraries and hardware. By using Funnel, you can interface to sensors and/or actuators with various programming languages such as ActionScript 3, Processing, and Ruby.
Arduino Fio is compatible with Funnel. It has connections for a Lithium Polymer battery and includes a charge circuit over USB. An XBee socket is available on the bottom of the board. The Fio has been designed to be wirelessly reprogrammable.
Note: The miniUSB connector on this board is used for battery charging only. To download new firmware, you will need an external serial connection over an FTDI USB-to-Serial Breakout board or FT232 USB-to serial cable (see add-on options below).
Note: The XBee socket and FTDI serial connection use the same TX/RX pins of the ATmega328. You will need to remove the XBee module while reprogramming over serial. We recommend using a wireless bootloader whenever possible to avoid this step. To re-program the board wirelessly via ZigBee you need to connect a second XBee module to your PC. This can be achieved easily with a board like the XBee USB board.
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I posted this already bit I think I did it in the wrong area.
I'm an author who is wriging a book in which a character is trying to show the difference between a computer traslating words literally as opposed to the advantage of knowing both languages fluently.
The character says the phrase in English first "I beg to differ"
I'd like to have that phrase translated into pinyin literally as babel fish would do it. eg the chineese words for "i" "beg" "To" "differ"
And then a purely Chinese Mandarin pinyin of an equivalent chinese phrase to the meaning of "I beg to differ".
My thanks in advance for any help!!
Novelist needs translation help!
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All quiet on the Raptors front as we await the NBA Finals to begin. Jay Triano has yet to get his official stamp of approval but the Raptors have until June 15th to decide on his option. Andrea Bargnani has shut up for now and is still a Raptor the last we checked. While the Raptors still hold the 5th pick in the draft and no one seems to have a consensus on what they will do at the 5th spot if they in fact stay there. But the focus of the NBA is on the NBA Finals starting tonight.
The Miami Heat are in fact what we thought they were at the end of the day. Almost everyone picked them to be in the spot they are now in the NBA Finals. On the other hand beyond Mark Cuban and Mavs fans I am not sure how many people thought the Mavericks would be here in the NBA Finals. They face the same franchise that they blew a 2-0 lead to in the 2006 Final. Aside from D-Wade and Dirk almost everything has changed for these franchises. Dallas is a much better defensive team than they were back in 2006. Pat Riley is no longer on the bench for the Heat.
It may not be popular to say it but Miami is likely going to win this series. Dallas does not really have a scoring threat in the middle and that is something you need to attack a weak point of the Heat. Dirk has been fantastic in these playoffs but he is just one guy he will need help if Dallas is going to pull off the upset. Dallas does have a chance at winning if they can get looks from three point range and stick them. Miami has improved on defence a lot over this year. How they rotate and cover the three point line will be vital in this series.
All the talk in this series will be about Dirk and Lebron both seeking their first title but Jason Kidd has had several chances to win a title and come up short as well. If he can turn back the clock and have a great series he could be an X-Factor for the Mavericks.
But realistically I can't imagine the Heat losing this series. But I did not imagine the Mavericks sweeping the Lakers for what it is worth.
Heat in 6 is my pick.
Also speaking of the Lakers, I am stunned and confused at how the Lakers could hire Mike Brown to replace Phil Jackson. This is actually happening? The guy Cleveland fired because Lebron James wanted no part of him? Kobe Bryant seems as stunned as all of us. I sense this being a huge mistake for the L.A Lakers and this is not going to be a long or happy marriage between Brown and Bryant.
In other coaching news Kevin Mchale is expected to be the new coach in Houston. When you look at some of the hirings this off-season it makes me wonder despite my objections to it that if the Raptors choosing to stick with Jay Triano was unfortunately their best option. I would not hire Mike Brown or Mchale to coach the Raptors. No chance in hell. It would appear that Jeff Van Gundy is happy to stay in broadcasting for now. I would consider him the top candidate without a job right now in the NBA. When the dust clears I am not convinced Triano will last any longer than the option on his contract. But it would appear this off-season was slim pickings and that might have to do with the impending lockout as well.
Speaking of which we are rapidly approaching that lockout becoming reality. In just over a month this will be reality. The last image we may have of basketball is Miami Heat celebrating an NBA Championship that is something that will only add to the pain of a lockout for most.


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NFL owners have navigated through years of labor battles and escaped without having to fully guarantee contracts. Instead, teams offer huge signing bonuses and partial base salary guarantees to compete.
To appease fan bases and promote ticket sales, teams will venture into bad contracts. Many will rush to judgment on the Buffalo Bills signing Mario Williams to a six-year, $96 million contract. Through seven games, Williams has 3.5 sacks and 16 tackles.
But seven games don't define a signing. Julius Peppers had two sacks and 16 tackles in the first seven games of his six-year, $84 million contract with the Bears, and no one is questioning that deal in Chicago.
Here is my list of the 10 worst current NFL contracts:
1. Chris Johnson, RB, Tennessee Titans (six years, $80.96 million): This might be tough to justify after Johnson's 195-yard effort against Buffalo, but the Bills' defense has been making a lot of money for opposing players. Before Sunday's game, Johnson averaged 50.2 yards over the first six weeks. But in the first year of Johnson's contract, CJ2K was CJ1K, rushing for 1,047 yards and averaging a modest 4.0 yards per carry. Johnson's salary goes from $8 million to $10 million next year. The Titans view the contract as a four-year, $56 million extension, but in a quarterback-driven league, it's tough to pay a running back like a quarterback unless he's among the league leaders.
2. Michael Vick, QB, Philadelphia Eagles (six years, $100 million): The Eagles are coming off a bye week in which Andy Reid fired defensive coordinator Juan Castillo, and he is evaluating every position. Vick is the quarterback for now, but after the so-called "Dream Team" didn't make the playoffs last season, the 3-3 start has everything under review. Reid could be in trouble if the Eagles don't make the playoffs, and that would affect Vick. He has $47.5 million coming to him in 2013-15, but the Eagles might try to get out of the deal if Reid is gone.
3. Mark Sanchez, QB, New York Jets (three years, $40.4 million): The Jets aren't "Tebowing" about this contract. Four years into his career, Sanchez is at a career-low 53.2 completion percentage and Rex Ryan has to explain weekly why he doesn't replace Sanchez with Tim Tebow. Though he was part of an AFC Championship Game participant his first two seasons, Sanchez's performance has declined with the shrinking offensive talent around him. The problem is twofold. The Jets are more than $7 million over next year's cap, and Sanchez has a $10 million guarantee in 2013. It would be hard to get rid of him.
4. Kevin Kolb, QB, Arizona Cardinals (six years, $62.1 million): The Cardinals felt so good about this deal that they stalked Peyton Manning with the idea of upgrading at quarterback. Kolb has looked no better than a backup. He's battled enough injuries that players question his toughness. John Skelton beat out Kolb for the starting job, and even though Kolb was 3-2 filling in for him, Skelton seems to be the better option for the Cardinals.
5. Matt Cassel, QB, Kansas City Chiefs (six years, $58 million): A good portion of the Kansas City crowd cheered when Cassel suffered a concussion. Cassel has recovered, but he has lost his job to Brady Quinn. This is Cassel's fourth and, most likely, last season in Kansas City. His salaries go to $7.5 million and $9 million in the final two years of his contract, but he's never completed better than 59.5 percent of his passes for better than 6.9 yards an attempt.
6. DeAngelo Williams, RB, Carolina Panthers (five years, $43 million): The coaching staff thought so much of the $8.6 million-a-year running back that he was on the field for five plays Sunday against Dallas even though he's healthy. He has 50 carries for 177 yards, which puts him on pace for a 472-yard season. The Panthers have sizable investments in two other running backs, Jonathan Stewart at $36.5 million for five years and Mike Tolbert at $10 million for four years. Oh, and by the way, Williams turns 30 next April, making him a target for release.
7. Tyson Jackson, DE, Kansas City Chiefs (five years, $56.2 million): Scott Pioli drafted Jackson with the third pick of the 2009 draft to be a mainstay in the Chiefs' 3-4 defense. The problem is that Jackson and Glenn Dorsey come off the field when opponents go to three- and four-receiver sets. In only one game this season has Jackson been on the field for more than 40 plays. He has two sacks and 139 tackles in four seasons and his salary goes to $14.72 million next year, the final year of his contract.
8. Will Smith, DE, New Orleans Saints (six years, $60.8 million): Smith had 13 sacks in 2009, one year after signing this extension, but he's had only 14 since. The Saints struggle to pressure the quarterback. Smith is 31. He might have to restructure his deal after the season because the Saints are close to $17 million over the 2013 cap.
9. Doug Free, RT, Dallas Cowboys (six years, $48 million): Jerry Jones thought he got a steal when the Cowboys signed Free, then a left tackle, to this contract last year. The coaching staff moved him to right tackle this season, and he's struggled in the transition. Free and left tackle Tyron Smith have been among the league leaders in penalties this season, making things tough on quarterback Tony Romo.
10. Carson Palmer, QB, Oakland Raiders (four years, $43 million): The problem isn't necessarily the salary. Starting quarterbacks make $10 million-plus. The problem is trading away first- and second-round picks to get him. Palmer has been average at best. He has 20 touchdown passes and 20 interceptions for the Raiders. Former coach Hue Jackson thought Palmer would put the Raiders over the top after some 8-8 seasons. He's been 6-10 as Oakland's starter.


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The newly exposed Heartbleed bug plaguing some 17 percent of SSL-secured websites as well as various VPN products has caused a massive case of Internet heartburn over the past 48 hours as companies rushed to confirm their exposure and lock down their SSL/TLS software. But just how bad is it?
Errata Security CEO Robert Graham scanned the Net for machines vulnerable to the implementation flaw in the so-called Heartbeat function of TLS, and discovered some 600,000 affected out of 28 million SSL machines. He estimates that some one-third of SSL machines had been patched with the update to the buggy OpenSSL library. Netcraft, meanwhile, says the buggy Heartbeat extension is enabled on 17.5 percent of SSL sites, which include close to a half-million digital certificates at risk of theft and spoofing from the attack.
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Techies need tools to manage cranky Hadoop clusters, and business managers need to manage and report on access data stored in Hadoop to appease cranky auditors. And so, as part of an update to its CHD4 stack on Tuesday at the Strata conference in San Francisco, Cloudera is previewing a new data visualization and auditing tool that adds this much-needed feature to its big data muncher. The update also includes better data archiving and tweaked Hadoop cluster management tools.
The new data visualization and auditing tool is called Cloudera Navigator 1.0, and it will control freak and document access to data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System, in the HBase key-value store that rides on top of HDFS, and the Hive data warehousing that overlays HDFS for ad-hoc querying.
Cloudera Navigator is a data-discovery tool, helping analysts figure out what data is being stored in a Hadoop cluster, what formats the data is stored in and where, and how the data got into the system in the first place.
First and foremost, however, it has auditing capabilities that keep track of who did what inside the system, much as other enterprise applications have been doing for many years now. Cloudera Navigator, explains Charles Zedlewski, vice president of products at the company, will verify which users and groups have access to what files and directories in a Hadoop cluster and allows for audit tracking to be turned on for each kind of Hadoop service individually.
Cloudera Navigator also has a dashboard that auditors can query to see who has access to what data, and there is an export feature that can take all of the audit information and port it out so it can be sucked into Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools.
The lack of such tools keeps auditors up at night, and we won't think too hard about how excited they get when they see Hadoop being brought under their watchful eyes.
But the fact remains that various regulations – Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI, Basel II, and so forth – have very strict rules about demonstrating that data is only available to those who are entitled to it. And that is why, says Zedlewski, that healthcare, financial, and retail companies have been lining up to beta test Cloudera Navigator.
Cloud Navigator doesn't actually mine the actual data, but rather the metadata that is created as information is poured into the Hadoop system. So you cannot do data discovery or auditing on information that is already in a Hadoop cluster, but you can do it for any new information you suck into it or spit out after munching it.
The data discovery side of the tool is important for ease of use as Hadoop clusters scale, too. "The very act of making Hadoop more of a self-service kind of program is more of a challenge on a petabyte-class system than on a terabyte system," says Zedlewski. You could do data discovery on the raw data in a small cluster, perhaps, but on a petabyte-scale Hadoop cluster with thousands of nodes, you might have 10,000 tables but the metadata only weighs in at a few gigabytes of capacity.
Cloudera has also cooked up a new feature called Enterprise BDR, which is short for backup and disaster recovery, that takes the replication features inherent in HDFS as well as HBase and the Hive metastore and coordinates and orchestrates them so you can do backup and recovery on a remote Hadoop cluster. Right now, says Zedlewski, companies have to do a lot of scripting themselves to take the asynchronous replication features in HDFS and Hive and the synchronous replication used in HBase and keep all the data and metadata in synch on a backup cluster.
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For those people with Oracle relational databases, Cloudera Enterprise BDR is analogous to Oracle's Data Guard, which is used to keep backup copies of production databases. Zedlewski says that failover between Hadoop clusters has not been automated, and the recovery time objective for failover, given this and the complexity of replication at these different layers in a Hadoop setup, is 30 minutes to an hour, not minutes or seconds. Cloudera is currently working on snapshotting for HDFS and HBase, and that could close the recovery window.
Cloudera is not providing pricing for either the Navigator or Enterprise BDR features, but Zedlewski says it is a "small incremental charge" that will adds tens of per cents to a Cloudera support license charge, not double or triple it.
And finally, with the update to the CDH4 stack, Cloudera Manager 4.5 is being kicked out, and you can do rolling updates of the nodes in the cluster rather than having to take the cluster down for four to eight hours to upgrade the nodes in a typical 100-node setup. You can update the Hadoop software more frequently and apply security and other patches as needed without taking the cluster down.
Now all Cloudera needs to do is coordinate the rolling updates of Hadoop with rolling updates of Linux, Java, and other elements underneath Hadoop that also need to be patched in a rolling fashion as well.
Cloudera may not provide official pricing, but it says that depending on features it costs anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000 per node for a support contract for the CDH4 stack and the Cloudera Manager.
Biz is booming, and Project Impala is impending
Cloudera is privately held and has raised $141m in five rounds of venture funding from a slew of investors, and must be itching to go public or be acquired for some outrageous multiple.
Zedlewski is not about to comment on any of that, but he did say that Cloudera was "steadily moving out of the startup phase" and now has 320 employees and has more than doubled its bookings and revenues in the past year. The company currently has more than 150 paying customers.
EMC's Pivotal Initiative made a made a big splash ahead of the Strata conference, launching its Hawq SQL database overlay for HDFS, which is a direct competitor to the Project Impala real-time, parallel query extensions that Cloudera cooked up to speed up Hive.
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If you take anything away from this story, it's this: Don't leave a burning candle unattended!
Sharon Osbourne and hubby Ozzy had a frightful Thursday morning, when the couple realized that the living room in their Beverly Hills mansion was on fire after leaving a candle burning overnight.
Luckily, no one was badly injured, and Sharon explained what happened on "The Talk" that same day.
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Osbourne said that early Thursday, she heard a sound that seemed like metal hitting the tile, which she assumed was the housekeeper dropping the keys, so she didn't think anything of it.
Then, all of a sudden, Sharon said, "my eyes are stinging and my throat's closing up something weird smelling in here, then my dogs started to bark, so I go out of the bedroom, I go downstairs and the whole living room--the candle had burst and the cracking sound was the glass in the candle exploding."
Ozzy, who had surgery on his hand the day before, tried to use his own casted arm to help put it out and opened the doors, while Sharon went to get water.
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"I go into the kitchen to get water and throw the water on it, with the doors open and the water it erupted! It erupted, Ozzy's hair from here to here, gone," she said. "And we are like two idiots, it was like 'The Three Stooges.' Everything you are not meant to do--go to bed with candles alight, open the doors and put water on--we did it all."
The experience wasn't all bad, however,
"At 5 o'clock, the firemen came and they were gorgeous," Osbourne quipped, "and I had my dressing gown on, and they laid me down on the front path, and they straddled me and they gave me mouth-to-mouth."
They didn't actually do that, but Sharon did want to "thank the firemen from Beverly Hills fire station cause you are magnificent."