text:
Thanks for redeeming.{{else}}
Success! Thanks for repurchasing.{{/if}} {{else}} {{#if Expired}}
Increase my visibility!{{else}} {{#if IsMultiPack}}
{{#if HasMultiPack}} You have {{MultiPackCount}} top spot(s) left. Now loading you into the search listings... {{else}} You have used all top spots. Now loading you into the search listings... {{/if}}{{else}}
We are loading you into the search listing pages...{{/if}} {{/if}} {{/if}} {{/if}}
{{Current}} just saw you!{{/if}} {{#if LastTopSpotPurchaseIsMulti }} {{#if HasAnyTopSpot}}
{{#if HasFreeTopSpot }} {{ UnclaimedTopSpotFree }} Free {{/if}} {{#if HasPaidTopSpot }} {{#if HasFreeTopSpot }} & {{/if}} {{ MultiPackCount }} {{/if}} Top Spot{{#if Plural}}s{{/if}} Left{{else}}
0 Top Spot{{#if Plural}}s{{/if}} Left{{/if}} {{else}} {{#if HasFreeTopSpot }}
{{ UnclaimedTopSpotFree }} Top Spot{{#if Plural}}s{{/if}} Left{{/if}} {{/if}} {{else}} {{#if HasResults}}
{{Current}} see you now!{{else}} {{/if}} {{/if}}
You can now invite anyone to meet at your favorite Starbucks.
Limited-time feature
34 year old man | Indianapolis, IN, USA | Seeking women 22-34 within 40 miles
Active within 5 days
Initially shy, a blast to be around.
I have recently moved to Indianapolis after living in various locations throughout Florida over the past 12 years. I am hoping to meet the right someone at some point but am currently just looking for someone to explore the area. I love to explore and I often find myself enjoying the simpler moments in life. My most memorable moments tend to be the ones that I stumble upon. I find beauty where most tend to overlook. I love to laugh and do so proudly. I have been told that my laughter is quite infectious and it will typically fill a room. I enjoy being major part of any engaging activity but do not seek to be at the center of attention. I prefer to support and make sure that everyone is included in the fun. I also enjoy working hard, whether it be an athletic, artistic or any other challenging endeavor. My ideal partner is outgoing and energetic; fun-loving and easygoing. She is very adventurous yet also enjoys an occasional lazy weekend. She is honest, modest, patient and passionate.
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Dining out , Fishing/Hunting , Gardening/Landscaping , Hobbies and crafts , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Playing sports , Religion/Spiritual , Travel/Sightseeing , Video games , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Aerobics, Basketball, Bowling, Football, Martial arts, Other types of exercise, Running, Soccer, Swimming, VolleyBall, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines, Yoga
I exercise 3-4 times per week.
I like Cats, Dogs, Fish
Middle of the Road
Local cafes or bars. The mountains. The beach. Parks. Next to a campfire.
I love spending time with my family and friends. Art in all its wonderful forms. Being challenged in new ways. Escaping into nature whenever possible.
I enjoy outdoor activities: walks in the park, canoeing, camping, hiking, or simply hanging out at the beach. I also enjoy arts and crafts, movies and road trips. Discovery in general.
I'm inspired by the synergy of art and words. Comics, manga, and anime will always been an interest of mine. I hope to someday inspire others with works of my own.
Z{{Cta}} {{#if HasMoreInfo}} ?{{CtaSecondary}} {{/if}}
|What he is looking for
|5'10" (177cms)
|5'0" (152cms) to 5'10" (177cms)
|Body type:
|About average
|Slender, About average, Curvy, Athletic and toned
|No preference
|Dark brown
|Auburn / Red, Black, Light brown, Dark brown, Blonde, Dark blonde
|No Way
|No Way, Occasionally, Yes, but trying to quit
|Social Drinker
|Social Drinker, Regularly
|Artistic / Creative / Performance
|No preference
I've worked as a Graphic Designer, Art Director, Web Designer, Front-end Developer, and User Experience Architect. I'm in a field of work that continually evolves; thus, I evolve with it.
|$50,001 to $75,000
|$35,001 to $50,000, $50,001 to $75,000, $75,001 to $100,000
|Never Married
|No preference
|Have kids:
|No preference
|Wants kids:
|Definitely, Someday, Not sure
|White / Caucasian
|Asian, East Indian, Latino / Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, White / Caucasian, Other
|Christian / Other
|No preference
I believe that the words found in the Bible have context outside of what is sometimes forced upon us. I feel we should share the good and learn from the rest so not to repeat the horrible atrocities found within its text.
|Bachelors degree
|Some college, Associates degree, Bachelors degree, Graduate degree


text:
AEG acknowledges interest in Sacramento Entertainment and Sports Complex
Sep 27, 2011, 8:28 AM EDT
It wasn't a matter of if, it was when.
Anschutz Entertainment Group, known better as the stadium and arena operations giant AEG, acknowledged for the first time Friday that they might provide "assistance" to Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson and the Think Big Sacramento coalition in their quest for an arena, according to the Sac Bee.
AEG's involvement with the arena initiative was about as secret as LeBron's hairline, but without the illusion of a headband to try and hide it.
According to sources, that 'assistance' should come in the form of tens of millions of dollars of up-front money, assuming of course that AEG can come to terms with the City of Sacramento, the Kings, and the NBA.
In return they would get profits from operating the arena, and using the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon they could also see benefits from the fact that their partially-owned subsidiary, the ICON-David Taylor Group, is providing the logistical backbone for Think Big Sacramento and its proposals. Taylor, whose development company David Taylor Interests would like to build the arena, has also expressed interest in buying up properties located near the arena. And with AEG, Taylor, Darius Anderson, and many other committee members also having business interests near the arena, a mini-L.A. Live type project with the Kings as the epicenter is where the smart money is heading.
This public statement from AEG is just one of many baby steps the Think Big Sacramento coalition will take, as it otherwise sprints to cultivate a $387 million Entertainment and Sports Complex (ESC) that will keep its anchor tenant from leaving for Anaheim. KJ's coalition has a self-imposed, though painfully realistic deadline of December 30th to get a funding plan approved so the city can meet the NBA's deadline of March 1, 2012 to have funding in place.
The next test for the Think Big coalition will come today when the Sacramento City Council will either approve, table, or reject a $550,000 request for lawyers and consultants to be used to officially vet the project and negotiate with third parties such as the NBA and the Maloofs. The city council will also be asked to vote whether to give the ICON-David Taylor Group the authority to start negotiating on behalf of the city with operators.
Here's betting that the operator is AEG.
As for Kings fans' chances of keeping their team, Tuesday's vote will be the first time the city council, who will ultimately decide the project's fate, will be asked to part with cold, hard cash. If any of them are opposed to it, saying so before the city spends a half-million dollars would make some sense. With no real public opposition being shown by the council so far it is likely that they will approve the request, and see what numbers come through the pipeline and how the public reacts to them.
If the request is approved, negotiations will commence with the aforementioned parties to determine what level of private funding can be secured, and in turn what level of public funding will be needed. Sources from Think Big Sacramento are in agreement that a public vote to generate funds for an ESC would be an abject failure, so they don't plan on using public funds that would trigger a public vote.
Because of this limitation they've taken a kitchen sink approach where everything from hotel fees, ticket surcharges, cell phone towers on the arena, and the sale of city lands have all come into play. Local kids have taken to selling lemonade to raise funds, and Think Big may just need it. But finding enough money to hit the magic number isn't their only challenge. Making sure that the city council is comfortable voting 'yes' for a controversial measure is job No. 1.
So far, the Think Big coalition campaign has been run to a presidential degree, with traveling town hall meetings around the region and a media awareness campaign not seen before in arena politics. While there will always be skeptics and opponents of such a measure, you wouldn't have known it by the last city council meeting where every public commenter was in support of an arena and no dissident voices could be found.
Today we'll see if the first one shows up.
- echech88 - Sep 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM
That's a lot of words for you to fail to point out the most obvious information to be taken from AEG's involvement: that the money they would think to be making in this would be in the form of the money they are NOT losing by the Kings moving to Anaheim and their Time Warner contract being negatively impacted as a result.
Don't fool yourself, AEG is not involved because they feel Sacramento is a profitable market. If it was, they wouldn't have been publicly trying to steer the franchise to their building in Kansas City 6 months ago on the radio in LA.
Top Posts
- Cavaliers coach David Blatt: 'LeBron James is our MVP' 19
- No Durant, what does that mean for Thunder in these playoffs? Trouble. 7
- Kevin Durant to have third foot surgery; is done for season, playoffs 34
- Goran Dragic leading feisty Heat's playoff push 24
- NBA Draft prospect matchups to watch in NCAA Tourament this weekend 2
- Report: LeBron James frustrated with Kevin Love for not fitting in 85
- Five Things We Learned in NBA Wednesday: Kevin Love seems to be fitting in just fine suddenly 4
- It's official: Dwight Howard will return to Rockets' lineup Wednesday 2
Featured video
- K. Durant (5913)
- K. Lowry (5637)
- L. Aldridge (5573)
- R. Rubio (5565)
- N. Batum (5211)

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Ali Stephens debuted on the Prada catwalk in September 2007, only two weeks after signing with Elite Model Management. For a newbie, that's not just a good first gig — it's amazing. And she had no idea: "I was just this little girl from Utah, so I didn't know how big a deal it was. I'm glad I didn't really know what was going on because had I known, I would have been way too nervous." Aww, so cute! "I do remember after I came off the runway for the first time, I wanted to keep doing it over and over again." And she has, regularly appearing on the New York, London, Milan, and Paris runways ever since. [Modelinia]
Alexander McQueen
See it »


text:
Multiple User Credentials
MultiAuth, or Multiple Authentication, is a feature that allows administrators to create and manage additional user access to SendGrid features and allows the ability to send messages without sharing access to the master account credentials.
Usernames must be unique. No two accounts, either primary or additional credentials, may have the same username.
As the primary account holder, you can assign one of three rights to each set of credentials. These functions are:
- Email - enabling this right allows the designated credentials to send email through the account
- API - enabling access to this function allows the designated credentials to utilize all of SendGrid's APIs, with exception to any API call that sends email
- Web - enables access to the web dashboard allows the specified credentials to administer the account using the web-based console.
Future updates to Multiple User Credentials will allow for more granular control over access rights granted to the specified credentials. At this time, granting access to one of the three available features is granting full access to that feature, with the following exceptions:
- In order to allow credentials to send mail via an API call, you must also allow them Email access
- Granting credentials access to Email will allow them to use the API calls that send messages
- Granting access to Web will allow credentials to create marketing email, but they cannot send them unless they are also granted Email rights
- Only the Master Account can create, modify, or delete Subusers and Credentials
Using the Multiple Credentials Dashboard
In order to access the interface you need to login to your master account and click on Account Settings > Manage Multiple User Credentials. When you access MultiAuth's User Credentials management interface, you will see a list of any previously created credentials. As an example, if you have created any credentials using the Multiple User Credentials API, those user names will appear here and display their assigned permissions.
Credentials that have been granted access to the Web feature are not granted rights to access the Account Settings page. If they click on the link, they will receive a notification that their credentials do have have sufficient rights to do so.
As you can see in the above sample image, there is a user name called "admin" who has been granted all privileges. There are also options to Edit or Destroy the account.
To create new credentials click the Add New Credential button at the bottom left of the credentials list. This will open the New Credential page, as shown below:
When creating a new set of credentials, follow these instructions:
- For Name, enter the username for the credential. We recommend using an email address to maintain uniqueness
- For Password, enter a strong password that cannot be guessed or is based on a name or word
- Select the boxes to activate the features you want the credentials to access
When you click Create Credential, you are returned to the User Credentials list page, where you will see the new credentials and their associated permissions. If you do not intend to create new credentials, you may click the Cancel button to cancel the action.
If you need to edit a set of credentials, you can click the Edit icon, and you will be redirected to the settings page.
If you leave the password field empty then your modifications will only affect the permissions.


text:
Pleiades Luxurious Villas
No availability found through our partners. Please contact the business directly or check some of our recommended alternatives.
- Swimming pool
- Business Services
- Free parking
- Pets allowed
Photos of Pleiades Luxurious Villas
Travelers also recommend:
TripAdvisor Reviews Pleiades Luxurious Villas Agios Nikolaos
Travel Blogs from Agios Nikolaos
Day 170
... one had concentric circles on the ceiling another Buddhas and a Buddhist scene with lotus flowers. Many if the caves had names and dates of their occupants, mostly date were in the 70's.
The cove here is very pretty with a crescent shaped beach, lovely clear water, it would have been lovely living rent free in such beautiful surroundings.
As we walked back to the car park a group ...
Day 162
We left our safe haven to drive to the Lasitsi Plateau at 900 metres high our guide book said, it's a vast expanse of green fields inter dispersed with almond trees and orchards. We stopped by the beach to walk Logan and drove through a couple of towns looking for somewhere to get some documents printed off, we couldn't find anywhere so started the climb up to the plateau. It wasn't long before we hit the snow line, ...
Day 161
... closed, just a few tavernas and cafes were doing business. It's still bitterly cold so we don't wander about for too long. Heading back to the campsite we noticed signs for Karteros Canyon, intrigued we followed the signs, a few miles later after passing through some villages we turned onto a track leading into the canyon we ducked and dived through olive trees and four foot tall reeds, we crossed 3 fords coming to ...
Day 160
... 7 O'clock, we hung the nearly dry washing around where we could inside and decided a quick standby tea was in order, we keep a jar if pasta sauce for just these occasions, unfortunately I knocked it off the worktop and it smashed onto the floor splattering everywhere with tomato sauce, our 'last resort' tea was put into operation, soup and sandwich. We hope the weather will be better tomorrow so we can go into Heraklion for some ...
Day 159
The overnight hail, thunder and lightening disturbed us several times, we are reluctant to get up until the heating has warmed up. There are occasional breaks in the rain today, so we took the opportunity to take Logan out. We walked along the road which is flooded in places, were well wrapped up with full waterproofs on, the wind is bitting cold. We walked for around an hour passing an estate of military houses and beyond them an almost deritict area of what we think must have ...


text:
Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on
Covers the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena.
Format(s): Electronic
Big Data, IEEE Transactions on
The IEEE Transactions on Big Data publishes peer-reviewed articles with big data as the main focus.
Format(s): Electronic
Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of
Covers biomedical and health informatics where information and communication technologies intersect with health, healthcare, life sciences and biomedicine.
Format(s): Electronic, Electronic and Print, Print
IEEE Cloud Computing magazine is committed to the timely publication of peer-reviewed articles that provide innovative research ideas, applications results, and case studies in all areas of cloud computing.
Format(s): Digital and Electronic, Electronic
Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on
Covering innovative research ideas and applications results in all areas relating to cloud computing.
Format(s): Electronic
Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on
The IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking publishes manuscripts that advance to the state-of-the-art of cognitive communications and networking research.
Format(s): Electronic
Computing in Science & Engineering
Features the latest computational science and engineering research along with departments covering news and analysis, CSE in education, and emerging tech.
Format(s): Digital and Electronic, Electronic, Electronic and Print, Print
Internet of Things Journal, IEEE
IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal publishes articles on the latest advances, as well as review articles, on the various aspects of IoT.
Format(s): Electronic
Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on
This journal publishes manuscripts on the imaging of body structure, morphology and function, and imaging of microscopic biological entities.
Format(s): Electronic, Electronic and Print, Print
Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on (OnlinePlus)
Research emphasizing nomadic computing, multimedia applications, mobile data and knowledge management, and mobile communication systems and networking.
Format(s): Electronic, Electronic, Abstract, CD-ROM


text: Related media All News Articles Media Reviews 10° Ancient Japan Has Never Looked Better in Minecraft 1d 10h ago - Kotaku:"Tachibana 11111 spent one year and eight months to complete this work, using a self-made... | PC Comments (0) CallOfDutyFan Source 10° Things to do in Minecraft - Diamond Challenge 1d 12h ago - AH test their Minecrafting skills in a unique new environment. | Culture Comments (0) cl1983 Source Ad Start Making Games for the PS4 Now - Want to design the next generation of video games? Start learning game design today. Click for more info on how to get started. | Promoted post Read More SiteBot 20° MegaCraft - Five Nights at Freddy's 3d ago - Matt, Jeremy, and the always surprising Joel check out a recreation of the horrifying pizza survi... | Culture Comments (0) cl1983 Source 20° Let's Play Minecraft - Episode 147 - Cloud Down X 6d ago - The AH crew is back in Achievement City on the Xbox One and wondering why it took us 101 episodes... | Culture Comments (0) cl1983 Source 20° Things to do in Minecraft - Sheep Wrangling 8d ago - AH goes country and flaunts their flock appeal. | Culture Comments (0) cl1983 Source


text:
A definite yes Dec 2, 2008
by EricBonno
Okay, here's the deal. I have two children. Every night after they brush their teeth and before bed, they get a story read to them. Now we have a hundred books and library loans constant. But this is the one that they like the most. Not too much words on each page so flipping through the pages is quick (for parents, it's a Godsend). We're on our second copy because they already wore the first out. From a parent who likes short books but pleases the children, this is five stars.


text:
Give a missed call on Toll Free
to download IndiaMART FREE Mobile App
Download IndiaMART App
Durgapur Chemicals LimitedKolkata, West Bengal(Verified Supplier)
Products & Services
Company Profile
Durgapur Chemicals Ltd. (DCL) was incorporated on 31st July 1963 as a public sector company wholly owned by the Government of West Bengal as part of an initiative to develop Durgapur as an industrial hub of West Bengal. DCL started commercial production of Phenol, phthalic anhydride, Monochloro Benzene, Pe
Fact Sheet
|Year of Establishment
|Nature of Business
Contact UsDurgapur Chemicals Limited Vimal MundhraCall Us:
No. 6, Little Russell Street, Kankaria Estate, 2nd Floor
Kolkata - 700071
West Bengal, India
Kolkata - 700071
West Bengal, India
Send your enquiry to this supplier


text:
Slain Toddler's Mom Pleads Guilty To Charges
The mother of a 1-year-old Maryland boy found dead in central Ohio has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence.
Money was a focus of Monday's testimony in the murder trial of a Columbus teen accused of killing his twin brother last January. The teens' sister tried to refute a possible motive presented by the prosecution.
A newly seated jury is set to visit the family home where prosecutors say an Ohio teen shot his identical twin brother to death during a robbery.
A Franklin County judge today set a $750,000 cash or surety bond for an 18 year old Columbus man charged in the killing of his twin brother. Judge Patrick Sheeran says he weighed the gravity of the crime, the weight of evidence, the safety of the community and Derris Lewis' family ties in setting the bond.
The lawyer representing Linden teen accused of killing his twin brother appeared in juvenile court this morning. 18-year-old Derris Lewis faces delinquency murder and other charges. But today's hearing shed little light in details of the case.
The lawyer representing the East Side teen accused of killing his twin brother appeared in juvenile court this morning. 18-year-old Derris Lewis faces murder and other charges in connection with last month's shooting death of Dennis Lewis. Police still are not saying much about the case.
The murder of 17-year-old Dennis Lewis last month disturbed many people. Lewis was a member of East High School's marching band and the National Honor Society. But now an arrest has been made in his murder.
Dennis Lewis was a senior at East on Arcadia High School. Lewis died last week after being shot during a robbery in his Linden home. Lewis's funeral was held Thursday.


text:
Artist scheduled to appear include: Particle, The Motet, Consider the Source, Poor Man's Whiskey, The Mantras, The Big Dirty, The Fritz, The Steepwater Band, Jelly Bread, Los Colognes, Vinegar Creek Constituency, The Hornitz, Elm, and many more
SXSW, Austin, TX
John Davisson
March 18, 2015 |
If we have information that is incorrect on this itinerary, please
send us an email
© Copyright 2015 Pollstar. All Rights Reserved.
Use of information on this website is subject to
License Agreement.
Tickets for dates listed may not yet be on sale. Dates may change without notice.


text:
Week after week. From foes. From friends. "When are you going to write a book?"
From true friends? "Your book should have been on the shelves a year ago. You won't have any impact unless you've written a book."
I lead with the lamest excuse of all.
"And exactly when will I write this book?" The slides begin in my mind of all the people busier than I am who have written books. My slides put all these authors in earnest conversation with Charlie Rose, Faith Middleton, Jon Stewart, or Stephen Colbert.
"And exactly when?" O.K., next excuse: "The bread is in." That's a text message that arrives most weekday mornings.
"The Bread Guy" is my nickname at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, where we will soon have our seventh food bank in as many months. To clarify "food bank": the Greater Boston Food Bank unloads an 18-wheeler of frozen chicken, pork, bags of carrots, bread, and yogurt and whatever else at the back of the building. At first, an 18-wheeler's worth of food vanished in 90 minutes. The fourth was after summer classes ended and before fall classes had begun. We wondered if students would show. They did. At the sixth, last week, the food was gone in 60 minutes. These hungry, remember, are human beings taking calculus, computer science, biology, nursing.
The bread? Oh, yes. Here's an e-mail from the other day.
I am a current BHCC student who is going through a rough time financially. My friends and I look forward to seeing the "bread guy" carting around the school with free bread and pastries. For some of us, it is the only thing that we get to eat that day. For others, it helps us save what we would have spent on food so that we can buy a T pass to get to and from school.
The food bank and the bread arrived after my March column here that I had thought was about using federal work-study funds to pay students to study -- so they'd have money for food. Instead, the column broke the news of hunger on college campuses. "Here and Now," on NPR, picked up the story (Professor Suggests Paying Students To Study). That brought an e-mail from the parents' association of Minuteman High School in Concord. Could they deliver every day four to six cases of day-old bread from Panera? "Of course. Thank you." Each morning, I or a colleague load the bread onto a three-tier steel cart that clangs and rattles as we roll the bread to the Single Stop office, where a colleague has peanut butter and jelly, too.
Historical Aside/You Can't Make This Up: That's "Minuteman" as in Lexington and Concord. Remember in the Longfellow poem, Paul Revere on the 18th of April in '75, "Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oar silently rowed to the Charlestown shore." That spot on the Charlestown shore is just a few blocks from BHCC. The Minuteparents, then, are bringing the bread to Charlestown along pretty much the same roads as Revere rode in the other direction in '75. Surely the patriot silversmith had higher hopes for our nation than food banks in mind when he spurred his horse and looked over his left shoulder to where BHCC now stands.
My Goddamned Book? Next excuse?
Here's a showstopper. Wars. My colleagues and I are always working with two students out of money because of wars. The family of one is in hiding in the civil war in Mali. Car bombs in Damascus have shut the banks of another student's family. A refugee from the civil war a few years back in Kenya last year earned a few dollars over the Pell Grant limit. No more financial aid. He can't come back to school.
Every day faculty and staff all over our campus are helping the 500 U.S. veterans back from deployment in Iraq, Afghanistan, and, often, both. With the understaffed federal Department of Veterans Affairs, payments due to these men and women are late all the time. The veterans are, then, at the food banks, too.
Foes? How better to slow my nettlesome columns and convey me to oblivion than a year or two writing and (the real joke) trying to sell a book about the ease of educating the poor. My foes have the point that haunts me. Who cares, beyond my colleagues, the food banks and the Minuteparents, that these students have no food?
Who cares? The presidents of both my union, the National Education Association, and my lobby, the American Association of Community Colleges, blew off my suggestion to share with memberships the versions of Walt Whitman's "I Hear American Singing" that The Nation published this fall. Click here for the poems. I had suggested that teachers and professors everywhere Steal This Assignment and have students flood the White House with the results. Not as literature but evidence that these millions of students have talent and motivation that's worth lunch and a little help.
My Goddamned Book? Five years ago, I embedded myself at Bunker Hill Community College to find out who these students –- the millions failing to complete college –- are. What can they do? What would it take for them to succeed?
I'd had it with conferences on college access –- white tablecloths, sweating pitchers of ice water, pads and pens my students didn't have. Speaker after speaker repeating demographics. And the excuses. And the excuses. And at lunch, platters upon platters of free sandwiches. Free drinks before dinner. I found, then and now, no evidence to counter my surmise that T-Mobile and Red Bull know more about these students' lives than anyone on the higher education research/foundation/conference circuit.
My Goddamned Book would report my finding:
We, the people, can put at least a million, maybe two million, students on the path to a solid 21st-century career with funds already available in the federal budget. No new taxes.
My obstacles are that my blessedly simple, practical, finance-able ideas must be wrong. Otherwise, someone other than me would already have thought them up. Let me summarize. (This is only a column. You are going to have to buy the book.) Provide food. Give students a quiet place to study. Start with critical skills.
To increase degree, associate, bachelor's, or certificate completion by at least a leap and a bound:
My target populations are those now in community colleges. Not every single student. Two out of 20 in every section I've taught so far have the intellect to follow any rigorous course of study, from a Cisco systems license to admission at a selective college. Ten percent, then, of eight million students in community college is 800,000. To the many who will call my estimate folly, I'll adjust by 75 percent. Call it 250,000 students. I'll settle for a 10,000-student clinical trial/pilot, the rigor of which education has never seen before.
These are the students worth the public investment now. Our lack of an answer for the other 7,750,000 million students is no excuse for failing to educate, to the max, the 250,000 I will delineate in My Goddamned Book.
Yes, stories sell books. My Goddamned Book will move aside what too often passes for education reform –- the hero teacher and hero student tales. Jaime Escalante, "Stand and Deliver," and Erin Gruwell, "Freedom Writers," inspire me every day. Their work is evidence that these students are worth an investment. Recommending these movies to a friend is not what My Goddamned Book will propose.
My Goddamned Book will examine the shabby state of data with which to do real research in education. My Goddamned Book, and perhaps a column soon, will illuminate how education wonks and leaders over the past few decades have mastered (and doctored, I guess) excuses while medical doctors and scientists have found cures and treatments for many cancers.
Exactly when will I write My Goddamned Book? When the BHCC student who gave this stunning speech in Washington at the Opportunity Nation Summit has a funded plan for food for the balance of the semester. Click here and take a look.
My Goddamned Book will admit that I don't think everyone needs college and that I have no idea how many more completions and graduations will energize the economy. My Goddamned Book will recognize that none of us has the slightest idea what would happen if a million more students per year, or even 1,000, could pass those two AP Exams. My Goddamned Book will propose that we, the people, give these simple ideas – food, quiet study time, high standards -- a try.
Is 250,000 still too big a clinical trial still? Is 10,000? O.K., how about the solutions I propose for 1,000 students at Bunker Hill Community College, starting Monday? I'll bet my job on their success.
A series of new grants seek to help community college students in STEM fields successfully transfer to and graduate from four-year institutions -- a path that often is full of obstacles.
California's Coastline Community College looks east to team up with out-of-state public universities on joint online degree offerings.
Funded by Gates Foundation, MyCollege Foundation and Mount St. Mary's College launch Portmont College, a new blended model for earning an associate degree.
Ivy Tech Community College's president, Tom Snyder, has written a guidebook for students who are considering the two-year track.
Improving college and career readiness among our high school students is one of the great imperatives facing our nation. To meet this challenge, educators, policymakers and business leaders are working to increase students' academic skills through a host of national and state initiatives, including the Common Core State Standards.
While it goes without question that students need strong academic skills to succeed in postsecondary education, our research indicates that "college readiness" must be more broadly conceived. In a recent study, we interviewed almost 200 community college faculty, staff and students. These interviews made abundantly clear that certain non-academic skills, behaviors and attitudes are equally germane to college success.
Non-academic college readiness is only peripherally discussed by practitioners and policymakers. It remains poorly articulated, leaving new college students unclear about the expectations they will face, and high school and college practitioners unable to help them truly prepare. As educators aim to make the academic skills needed for college readiness clear and measurable, they must do the same for non-academic skills.
In our recent research, we identified four specific areas -- academic habits, cultural know-how, the ability to balance school and other demands and engaging in help-seeking -- in which college faculty had clear expectations of their students. These expectations differed substantively from those in high school, and while meeting them was critical to college success, they remained largely unspoken.
Many college instructors think they already clearly articulate their expectations to students, but our research indicates that behavioral expectations must be made far more explicit and precise. As one student we spoke to -- who dropped out after her second semester -- told us: "they didn't tell me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do!" Overall, the evidence points to the need for active, scaffolded guidance so that students can develop the behaviors and strategies exhibited by effective college students.
Take "studying," for example. College instructors often tell students they must "study hard" for their class. But in high school, studying usually entails completing nightly homework, taking biweekly tests, and completing short-term assignments. College "studying," in contrast, means completing work independently -- even if the teacher doesn't collect or grade it. It means reviewing a syllabus at the beginning of a course, developing a plan to complete long-term projects and studying large amounts of material for infrequent exams.
Students who meet the college expectation of studying hard use strategies such as breaking their syllabus into small chunks of material to learn at regularly scheduled intervals, and taking notes in the margins of their textbooks while reading. Instructors should explain these successful behaviors to students on the first day of class, and regularly remind them of these and other important skills, such as recognizing when they need help, and asking for assistance rather than waiting for it to be offered.
To make their expectations sufficiently explicit and actionable, instructors will have to first spend time reflecting upon the non-academic behaviors and skills they expect of their students. Once they have identified their own expectations, instructors can make these clear to students and develop assignments that will help students learn to employ the necessary behaviors. For example, when an instructor asks students to "come to class prepared," what does she mean? If she means coming to class having completed a reading and being prepared to participate in discussions about it, she can include this expectation in the syllabus, explain it to students from the first day of class, and assign students to write out three questions or observations about the reading to discuss each week.
Institutions can formalize this process by asking entire departments or disciplines to similarly identify and explicate the unspoken expectations to which students are held. Conversations about behavioral expectations could be conducted as part of program review, professional development or the creation of learning outcomes. Importantly, institutions must then make these newly identified non-academic expectations clear to current and future students -- by embedding them into course syllabi and structuring orientation, outreach activities and success courses around them.
Colleges should also work with high schools and state education policymakers to ensure that these non-academic readiness standards are incorporated into ongoing local and state college readiness initiatives. Senior-year transition courses, college-high school partnership programs and Common Core implementation are all avenues through which non-academic collegiate expectations can be clearly communicated to students, and successful skills and behaviors can be taught.
The bottom line is that educators must stop blaming students for breaking rules that they do not know exist. Until students are told the concrete ways college and high school are different, and provided strategies for how they might meet new expectations, there is a danger that all the focus on academic readiness will not lead to real change in students' postsecondary achievement.
Melinda Mechur Karp is senior research associate and Rachel Hare Bork is a research associate at the Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University.
After English department disappointed officials, administration said it would call off searches, send adjuncts "letters of non-reappointment," and tell students to take composition elsewhere. Now president says that was just a "worst-case scenario."
Study shows that 45 percent of bachelor's degree recipients studied at two-year institutions first -- as many as three-quarters in some states.
In the spotlight more than ever before, community colleges are increasingly being asked to do more with less -- facing greater pressure to produce more college graduates at the same time that state funding is being reduced.
For example, Arizona's state spending on community colleges in fiscal 2013 dropped 7 percent, from $71 million to about $66 million, in spite of a 7 percent increase in community college enrollment. In Virginia, the average state funding per student at community colleges fell 36 percent, from $4,602 to $2,946, between 2006 and 2011. And, in the last four years, demand for community college education in California has increased while the budgets have been cut by 12 percent. Many institutions nationwide cite such hurdles to justify three-year graduation rates dipping as low as 15 percent, saying it's impossible to do better. But that's not true.
Even in the face of all the challenges, there are examples of community colleges doing a superb job achieving student success at scale on campuses across the country. The sector is inventing programs that show promising results, yet community colleges are still being recognized more for their challenges than their successes. What community colleges need is a better sense of where to look for examples of excellence in the sector in order to raise the bar, not only for college completion, but also for student learning outcomes and employment after college.
In July, the Aspen Institute published data that offer some pointers on where to look for solutions. Performance and improvement metrics were released that detail which 120 community colleges are doing best -- and improving the most -- in terms of graduation rates, retention rates and degrees awarded, for all students and for minority populations that have historically performed at lower levels. The data are used to determine the top U.S. community colleges that are eligible for the 2013 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.
The data set Aspen released, which is based on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), does not tell the whole story, but it tells an important one. It shows community colleges across the country what levels of student success are possible, as well as some places they ought to look to as models. For example, the data show that:
Not every example on this list of 120 is relevant to every community college. But every two-year college in the country can find examples in the Aspen data set of a place that looks a lot like they do, yet is achieving higher levels of student graduation, or retention, or degrees awarded, or minority student success. They can then work to figure out what those colleges are doing that allowed them to be so successful and examine the programs that are working well -- helping students learn, complete programs and obtain degrees.
For example, even after consecutive years of budget cuts in California, Santa Barbara City College has maintained an excellent range of programs to improve student success, including an accelerated track that helps speed the neediest students through developmental math and an exceptional writing center that prepares students for the rigors of upper-division classes if and when they transfer to a four-year college. Walla Walla Community College has developed very strong systems for advising students to ensure that they complete degrees, employing quarterly advising by case managers and excellent online tools to monitor progress towards credentials with strong labor market value. Lake Area Technical Institute also prevents students from slipping through the cracks by enrolling all students in cohort-based, block-scheduled programs, where students progress together through each semester knowing exactly what courses, degree and career lie ahead.
Valencia College, the winner of the first Aspen Prize in 2011, achieved its 51 percent three-year graduation rate with a highly diverse student population – 46 percent of its students are Hispanic or African-American. While many significant and scaled initiatives have contributed to Valencia's exceptional student outcomes, the college's success is built in substantial part on a culture of learning among professors and staff, fueled by a completely revamped tenure process that rewards professors for improving their teaching.
These institutions, as well as the others on the list of 120, have awakened to the realities that we cannot continue to deliver higher education in the same way we always have in this country and expect better student outcomes. And, community college outcomes need to improve. The national full-time graduation rate of 28 percent is unacceptably low, and student success rates remain under 40 percent even if you count students who transfer to a four-year college without ever completing community college. And, as has been widely reported, graduation rates are even lower for the large number students who enter community college needing remedial education.
But understanding the need to improve is only the first step. By examining the quantitative outcomes of the 120 colleges on this list, all community colleges should be able to understand that much higher levels of student success are possible. Aspen will help over the coming year by releasing toolkits and providing briefings about what is happening at the 10 finalist community colleges vying for the 2013 prize -- which were just announced. Our hope is that increasing amounts of attention will be paid to these exemplars of student success, and that more and more people will recognize them as excellent, deserving of our investments and places that offer institution-wide solutions to the challenges community colleges face.
Joshua Wyner is executive director of the Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program.
The alternative to community college for most students is typically no college, finds study that pushes back against "undermatching" warnings about two-year path.
Inside Higher Ed
1015 18th Street NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20036
Ph: 1-202-659-9208
Fax: 1-202-659-9381
1015 18th Street NW, Suite 1100 | PH: 1-202-659-9208
Copyright © 2015


text:
In the latest of our occasional Reviews in History podcast series, Daniel Snowman talks to Lady Antonia Fraser about her work as a historian and biographer.
Lady Anonia Fraser is British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.
Daniel Snowman is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster on social and cultural history.
In the latest of our occasional Reviews in History podcast series, Daniel Snowman talks to Professor Roy Foster about his recent book, Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923, as well as issues surrounding Anglo-Irish history, historiography and biography.
In the introduction to his illuminating monograph The Italian Army and the First World War, John Gooch laments the state of the current historiography that has marginalised – and continues to marginalise – the so-called 'minor' theatres and 'lesser' armies of the Great War.
In the latest of our occasional Reviews in History podcast series, Daniel Snowman talks to Professor Sir Ian Kershaw about his research into dissent in Bavaria under the Nazi regime, his approach to biography, and his forthcoming contribution to the Penguin History of Europe series.
Lynn Hunt's new book, Writing History in the Global Era, places an important question on the table: 'Is globalization the new theory that will reinvigorate history? Or will it choke off all other possible contenders, leaving in place only the inevitability of modernization of the world on the Western model?' (p.
Little "Red Scares": Anti-Communism and Political Repression in the United States, 1921-1946 / ed. Robert Justin Goldstein
As it recedes in historical memory, American anti-communism becomes more interesting as a historical phenomenon. Try explaining a slogan like 'Better dead than red' to a roomful of undergraduates born long after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In retrospect, American anti-communism stands out for its coherence, vehemence, and endurance.
The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War / Alfred Rieber
The comparative history of empires has become a very popular subject in recent years, provoking interesting debates on the origins of the globalization process and on the future of post-Cold War international relations.(1) The focus on empires has also provided a constructive way to reassess the role of Europe in world history, going beyond the traditional great narrat
Police Control Systems in Britain, 1775–1975: From Parish Constable to National Computer / Chris A. Williams
Dr Chris A Williams undertakes an ambitious project in attempting to analytically discuss aspects of the development of a public institution over a 200-year period, within a publication limited to 242 pages.
History of the Communist Party in Cyprus: Colonialism, Class and the Cypriot Left / Yiannos Katsourides
Yiannos Katsouride's book on the history of the Communist Party of Cyprus (CPC) represents a comprehensive attempt to offer an analysis of the political and social realities on the island during an era commencing in 1922, shortly after the party was founded, and ending at the start of the 1940s when the its succesor was founded, the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL: acronym of the Gree
The Indian Army on the Western Front: India's Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium in the First World War / George Morton-Jack
Unsurprisingly, given the significant First World War anniversary that is now upon us, there has been a raft of new books on the conflict with a variety of foci; each aimed at different groups on the spectrum of amateur enthusiast to hardened academic scholar.


text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Classifieds
- Obits
- Special Sections
- Dawgs Deals
- Local Guide
- Games
Spring football is now in the rearview mirror for Mississippi State after wrapping up camp with the Maroon-White spring game on Saturday.
MSU head coach Dan Mullen was pleased to exit the spring with his team relatively healthy and no new injuries to be concerned with.
On Tuesday, after a couple of day to think about the progress that was made over the past few weeks, Mullen remained pleased with the mindset of his Bulldogs.
ŌĆ£I like the attitude we had out there on the field,ŌĆØ Mullen said. ŌĆ£I thought we played with a much bigger sense of urgency this spring of trying to improve every single day at practice and worry about every play.
ŌĆ£There were a couple of key plays last year that could have turned our season around and you never know when those plays are going to occur. I like the approach our guys took. Every play was critical all spring. Having that mindset helped.ŌĆØ
Mullen is also gaining confidence in his teamŌĆÖs ability to throw the football.┬ĀWith Tyler Russell under center and in complete control of the offense Mullen liked what he saw out of his receivers.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre getting there,ŌĆØ Mullen said. ŌĆ£One of the things weŌĆÖre starting to see is some of our younger guys are really the more explosive potential playmakers and our older guys are kind of the steady guys. WeŌĆÖre starting to infuse some young talent in there that gives you some big-play ability.
ŌĆ£We need that position to be very strong because itŌĆÖs probably our most experienced position on the field with the older guys and they can set a great example.ŌĆØ
Chad Bumphis, Chris Smith and Arceto Clark highlight the veteran group of wideouts that are being asked to introduce the likes of Joe Morrow to the consistency need to play Southeastern Conference football.
ŌĆ£Consistent play will allow the younger guys to develop beyond playmakers to every-down players,ŌĆØ said Mullen. ŌĆ£ThatŌĆÖs going to be a huge deal for us going into this season. If weŌĆÖre going to have a great year, weŌĆÖre going to have to have our receivers, especially our senior receivers, play great.ŌĆØ
Overall, it is the competitive nature of his team that has Mullen fired up for the 2012 season.
ŌĆ£Guys are pushing for their playing time," Mullen said. "They want to fight for their time. People want to make talk about who is the starter, but thatŌĆÖs not that big of a deal to me. It is about how many reps are you going to get. ThatŌĆÖs what everyone is fighting for right now. There are guys trying to get on the field at every position.ŌĆØ
Now it is off to the recruiting trail for the MSU coaching staff.┬ĀTheyŌĆÖll not be allowed to work with the players until fall camp rolls around on August 3.View more articles in:


text:
Everyone wants peace and order.
How are you certain there will be more chaos and disorder under anarchism? Have you ever lived in an anarchist society?
If "too many people act on their own animal instincts" then why give people authority over others? This is the same circular logic illustrated below. Please also see my signature remark below this comment.
Lastly, why would you think for a second there will be no accountability under anarchism? Do you honestly believe people would not seek revenge or justice in the absence of government? Perhaps you believe things will be worse under anarchism, in which case I go back to my first question above and your response.
If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one.
- Login to post comments


text:
View more products
Couplings enable faster and easier installation of large-diameter piping systems.
Hanley Wood, the premier information, media, event, and strategic marketing services...
PUBLIC WORKS Staff
Supervisory control and data acquisition data can be automatically imported into...
With federal highway funding expiring May 31, seems just about everyone in Washington's...
Please read our Content Guidelines before posting.
Copyright ©
2015 Hanley Wood Media, Inc. All rights reserved.


text:
This iReport is part of an assignment:
Wintry weather 2014
About this iReport
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
More from Ethicist1
- Tribute on Down syndrome day to a 6 year old child who drowned in scenic Harrod's Creek, Louisville, KY over the weekend
- Heard of Herd Immunity? May be a reason how Nature is working to slow the deaths due to Ebola virus infection
- One of Kentucky's finest sons, Senator Wendell Ford eulogized under the rotunda of the state capitol building in Frankfort, KY
- I AM NOT CHARLIE:Freedom of speech should be expressed responsibly and truthfully and with malice to none
- The most powerful American at the UN, Ms Samantha Power delivered today the 47th talk at the McConnell Center in Louisville, KY
More iReports you should see
Energy Bills and cost to individuals and governments from the winter storms and the winter wonderland
Winter looks beautiful in pictures and when viewed from inside of a well heated home. But there is a harsh reality of unexpected electricity and heating bills that are about to come to your doorsteps. Many who have not saved for rainy and snowy days or live from hand to mouth are going to be faced with the aftermath of the winter storm and unusually low temperatures for an extended period of time . Our bill doubled in January from the previous billing period. It may triple for the next one. I noticed during a cold night that there was cold air gushing through the front door passed the storm door from the bottom and the sides. There kind of leaks in homes across the regions experiencing winter storms could jack up heating bills by 25-30%. People need to be aware of that and those with big homes, leaks can result in larger bills. Shown in the image as to how I improvised to seal the door every night during the winter. I closed the gap underneath the door by covering with the door mat and a bag and then I folded sheets of paper to insert in the gaps between the sides of the door. the door seems to contract in the winter leaving multiple gaps. Of course this being a 22 year old house needs winterizing which would have sealed all the leaks around the house. Besides the increased cost of heating bills, several people have had car accidents or have slipped and fallen on ice, resulting in increased medical costs and lost wages. Then there is the cost to municipalities, state governments and federal government to deal with purchasing record amounts of salts and snow moving equipment and lost wages. I bet the multiple winter storms have been costly. overall. Possibly in billions.
What do you think of this story?
Select one of the options below. Your feedback will help tell CNN producers what to do with this iReport. If you'd like, you can explain your choice in the comments below.
Be and editor! Choose an option below:
More from this assignment - Wintry weather 2014
iReport welcomes a lively discussion, so comments on iReports are not pre-screened before they post. See the iReport community guidelines for details about content that is not welcome on iReport.


text:
This Interview with Harry Mathews
…is really excellent. Anyone interested in Harry's work, or, more broadly, the Oulipo, should read it. Thanks, of course, to Barbara Henning for doing the interview and EOAGH for publishing it.
…is really excellent. Anyone interested in Harry's work, or, more broadly, the Oulipo, should read it. Thanks, of course, to Barbara Henning for doing the interview and EOAGH for publishing it.
Exciting news for Polish-readers (and, I think, others): The new issue of Techsty, number 9, is out. You might think that a "Techsty" is just a place where infopigs like me live, but it's actually a long-running site (since 2001) on digital literature, with an esteemed journal that has been published since 2003.
The current issue includes translations of articles by Robert Coover and Brain McHale, an article by Seweryna Wysłouch, and a special section on an audacious project. This is the translation of Sea and Spar Between, by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland, which is a fairly extensive special-purpose poetry generator that is fair entwined with the English language (as well the specific authors from whom it draws: Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville). Not only did the two translators tackle the difficult and in fact unprecedented task of translating the underlying system to Polish, so that the program generates stanzas in that language; they also translated our comments from the "cut to fit the toolspun course" edition of the work. I hope this will invite remixing and code re-use in Polish as well as helping to improve the understanding of our project and our collaboration. Monika Górska-Olesińska also has an article on Stephanie Strickland's work, with a photo of Stephanie reading just a few days ago at the ELO conference.
Piotr Marecki also translated my short generator Lede for the issue. (Amusingly enough, the translated title is the more conventional and seemingly more properly-spelled English word "Lead.") It has some aspects of cultural translation – absurd figures from Polish culture are substituted for some of the ones I included from my American perspective.
The only mistake I see in the Sea and Spar Between items is that it's hard (for me, at least, not being a reader of the language) to determine who did the translation of both the poem generator and the comments: Monika Górska-Olesińska and Mariusz Pisarski, who are attributed atop the commented code but not, for instance, here on the Polish "How to Read" page. In digital literature, there generally is no system for buying rights and recruiting and paying translators for their work – just as there is no system for doing this for authors. So the least we can do is to properly credit those who work to develop new programs and cybertexts, whether they are based on earlier ones in other languages or not.
The final article I'll note is an interview, I think one that's very kind to me and my lab, The Trope Tank, by Piotr Marecki, who was a postdoc here this past year. Here's what the Googly Intelligence translates this interview as.
There's a great deal more in the issue, and I suggest those interested in digital literature, even if not literate in Polish, take at least a quick look using your favorite "translation goggles." There are some good English-language journals on electronic literature, but I think English-speakers could learn a good deal from this effort, which publishes critical writing (including some in translation) and creative work and also undertakes extensive translation projects.
My new book of programs/poems, #! (pronounced "Shebang"), has just been published by Counterpath.
Read all about it on the press's page for #!.
The book consists of poetic programs and their outputs. The programs in the book are all free software, and in case you don't want to type them in, the longer ones are all available in my "code" directory.
I hope you'll get a copy at your local independent bookseller.
codewiz and I (nom de nom) showed a wild demo at @party yesterday (June 14) at MIT.
It was "Waves 3 Ways (Topsy's Revenge)." Indeed, there's video.
The concept is based on one-line C programs to generate music, the earliest of which were by viznut. I (nom de nom) wrote a C expression in this style to generate a waveform that could be output as sound but also consisted of all printable ASCII characters. The source is about 1kb, without much effort at compression. And the sound, in addition to driving speakers, can be (and was) connected to a Tesla coil.
To connect the oneTesla coil he built, codewiz modified the firmware and the control box to allow the audio output to be read by the potentiometer input. He also wrote dsptee.c to improve the way the text scrolls.
Topsy was the elephant electrocuted by Thomas Edison in 1903 to help prove that AC electricity (advocated by Tesla) was unsafe.
My main disappointment was that the projector, which I thought would be HD and thus the same as my display, showed only the left-hand side of the video. I should have checked it more thoroughly before we got started.
We were very pleased to get second place behind a nice oscilloscope demo.
The final section of the demo is based on the bpNichol poem "Island," part of his Apple IIe collection First Screening. This poem, in turn, refers to a concrete poem by Ian Hamilton Finlay. I've put a video/screencast of the end of the production online.
I direct a lab at MIT called The Trope Tank. This is a lab for research, teaching, and creative production, located in building 14 (where the Hayden Library is also housed), in room 14N-233. Its mission is to develop new poetic practices and new understandings of digital media by focusing on the material, formal, and historical aspects of computation and language.
The lab's website has just been updated with some new information about our two major creative/research projects, Slant and Renderings. Earlier this academic year, a hardware and software catalog of Trope Tank resources was developed by Erik Stayton with contributions from Sylvia Tomayko-Peters.
As usual, the Trope Tanks hosts the monthly meetings of the local interactive fiction club, the People's Republic of Interactive Fiction. Also, the Trope Tank's series of digital writing presentations, Purple Blurb, continued this year; I was on leave in Fall 2013, but the series was back and hosted four excellent presentations in Spring 2014. See those sites for more information about PR-IF and Purple Blurb.
Here's what we've been up to since our last annual report in May 2013:
New Works: Creative projects released.
Trope Reports: We have issued two technical reports.
Exhibit & Museum Event:
Translations: Andrew Campana translated "The Two" by Nick Montfort into Japanese. Piotr Marecki translated Montfort's "Lede," "The Two," and World Clock (via translation of the novel-generating program) into Polish, and, with Aleksandra Małecka, translated "Between Page and Screen" by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse into Polish. These will be placed online when revisions are complete.
Upcoming: In Milwaukee this month Trope Tank researchers will present at (int)7 (Intelligent Narrative Technologies 7) and the Electronic Literature Organization Conference. The presentation will be "Expressing the Narrator's Expectations" by Montfort and Stayton at (int)7, and at ELO in the conference paper sessions "The Formation of the Field of Electronic Literature in Poland" by Marecki, "Computational Editions, Ports, and Remakes of 'First Screening' and 'Karateka'" by Stayton and Montfort, and "New Novel Machines: Nanowatt and World Clock" by Montfort. The ELO Media Arts show will include "The Postulate to Hyperdescribe the World" by Marecki and Aleksandra Małecka and "Round" by Montfort. Andrew Campana's work will be part of the Gallery of E-Lit 1st Encounters.
Many papers and even some books developed with Trope Tank support are forthcoming, but instead of trying to enumerate those, I'll list them next year, when they have appeared.
I persist in my quest to develop extremely simple, easily modifiable programs that produce compelling textual output.
My latest project is Modern Perverbs. In a world where nothing is as it seems … two phrases … combine … to make a perverb. That's about all there is to it. If phrase N is picked from the first list, some phrase that isn't number N will be picked from the second, to ensure maximum perverbiality. The first phrase also carries the punctuation mark that will be used at the very end. This one is a good bit simpler than even my very simple "exploded sentence" project, Lede.
(I learned of perverbs and their power, I should note, thanks to Selected Declarations of Dependence by Harry Mathews.)
In case, for some reason, you fear the legal repercussions of ripping off my HTML and JavaScript and editing it, Modern Perverbs is explicitly licensed as free software. Save the page on your desktop as plain HTML (not "complete"), open it in an editor, and have a field day.
Check out "Wandering through Taroko Gorge," a participatory, audio-enabled remix.
As James T. Burling stated on the "projects" page of MAD THEORY:
In this combination of presentation and poetry reading, I'll present a remix of Nick Monfort's javascript poetry generator, "Taroko Gorge." My remix added a musical component using a computers oscilloscope function, and more importantly allows participant-observers to type in answers to prompts which are then added to the poem in real-time. The poem will be available throughout the day, gradually adding all inputs to its total sum. I'll discuss the process of decoding html and javascript as a non-coder, describe some of my theories on participatory performance using computer interfaces, and raise questions about agency in performance and how a digital artifact can function as a poetic event.
Slice of MIT, an MIT alumni publication, has an article on my work with poetry and computation. It's by Kate Hoagland, was written for National Poetry Month, and is an excellent short discussion of several recent projects and some themes in my work and that of my lab, The Trope Tank.
My poem Round computes the digits of pi (in your browser, for as long as you like) and represents them as strings of text. It's published by New Binary Press. Enjoy it on this 3/14.
It's not quite Thy Dungeonman, but you can now play POET The Game, which pokes at the life of an MFA student poet in a browser-based roll-your-own-parser experience that is meant to recall the text adventures of yore.
Update: Blankets of snow and torrents of sleet have tried to match the intensity of the poster design below. As a result, today's talk (2/13) is cancelled! NYU is closing at 3pm today. Hopefully there will be another chance before too long…
I don't always announce my upcoming talks on my blog…
But when I do, they're promoted by very nice posters.
Consider it not in French, but Italian.
There are obsession-inducing transmissions, audio transmissions.
The ending is ugly … overall and in one language, at least.
But the story is a poet's story – it begins with O and ends with O.
"Description," my 2014 New Year's poem, was sent out as a text file at the end of 2013; it's now online in a solvable and checkable form, in a new Web edition.
The Trope Tank has a good deal going on in the next month, as classes at MIT begin. If you're in LA, the Boston Area, or New York at the right times, please join us…
The new project European Poetry Forum by Zuzana Husarova Martin Solotruk is now online.
The project aims to connect a diverse group of poets with overlapping interests, as this statement about it explains. There are answers to queries from 38 poets up now.
Online magazine The Claudius App, devoted to "fast poems and negative reviews," is now in its fifth number and clad in the classic Sim-City-like skin of a burning New York City. There's a more standard but still DOS-like directory listing, with links to much fine fare, including a translation of a Georges Perec piece and an interactive but also self-scrolling work, "Titanichat," by Cecilia Corrigan and Ian Hatcher. It comes with a soundtrack, too.
Collect all five numbers, with their curiously strong interfaces: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
At Récursion (the Montréal demoparty), we (Nick Montfort, Michael C. Martin, and Patsy Baudoin) released Nanowatt, a single-loading VIC-20 demo.
You can download it and run it using a VIC-20 emulator (or, of course, an actual VIC-20). I run it in VICE on my Ubuntu system by typing "xvic nw" from the directory that contains the "nw" file. If it's more convenient, you can also download a d64 disk image with Nanowatt on it and load "nw" from there.
It produces 8 KB of English text quoted exactly from Samuel Beckett's second novel, Watt.
And it produces 8 KB of French text quoted exactly from the French translation of Samuel Beckett's second novel, Watt.
And the entire demo (including two songs, sound system, code for decompression and display of text, and explanations and greetings at the end) is 3.5 KB: 3583 bytes.
When possible, I will upload a video of the demo running.
This rather esoteric demo was awarded 2nd place (out of 3 entries).
I also got 4th place (out of 5) for my one-line BASIC program that was done as a fast demo, based on today's theme: "weaving."
UPDATE: You can run Nanowatt without leaving the comfort of your browser. First, copy this URL into your copy-and-paste buffer: << http://nickm.com/poems/nw >>. Then, go to the page for JS VIC-20. Select the "Storage" menu from the top and choose the option at the bottom of the list, "Carts/Programs," and choose the top option, "Load Cart from URL." Finally, paste in the URL that you copied and watch the demo run.
'NOTHER UPDATE: Video of the demo running on a VIC-20 has been posted.


text:
General Topics
General Messages
> Hantuchova Vs. Petrova (4).. Who will win?
View Full Version :
Hantuchova Vs. Petrova (4).. Who will win?
DaNieLa RoCkZ
Oct 6th, 2006, 03:15 AM
I think if Dani plays well she will win this!! Please win another title.. its been far too long!
Just Justine
Oct 6th, 2006, 03:26 AM
I'm hoping Daniel too. I can't believe she's won only one title her whole career, and it was all the way back in 2002. I think she'll win this match in 3 sets.
Oct 6th, 2006, 04:38 AM
I think Nadia will return to form by beating Daniela.
Oct 6th, 2006, 04:42 AM
i hope it's daniela
Oct 6th, 2006, 05:37 AM
both are pretty much rather unpredictable, especially nadia in recent weeks, so this can go anyway
Oct 6th, 2006, 06:49 AM
Go Nadia!
Oct 6th, 2006, 06:51 AM
:eek: there's an overwhelming response in favour of daniela
Oct 6th, 2006, 08:41 AM
i cross my fingers for nadia
Oct 6th, 2006, 10:00 AM
Daniela has been opening extremely well in her matches this week, so I think if she can get the first set under her belt and maintain her focus a bit more in the second, she can have this match in two by all means. Though I didn't see Nadia's match with Anna-Lena, and Nadia's been quite unpredictable of late so it'll be an interesting match.
Oct 6th, 2006, 11:54 AM
Nadia in 3.
Terms of Use
vBulletin® v3.6.8, Copyright ©2000-2015, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.


text:
Analog Way announces the Di-VentiX IIâ¢, a Multi-Layer Hi-Resolution Mixer Scaler Seamless Switcher with Keying. A new powerful Edge Blending system with 4 Scalers!
Analog Way, a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative image converters and presentation switchers announces a new release to its High Resolution Seamless Switcher range.
Di-VentiX II⢠by Analog Way is a Multi Layer Mixer Scaler Seamless Switcher with Universal Analog and Digital input/output and Full High Resolution Digital Processing. It offers numerous Live effects including Keying and Moving PIP as well as 3 different operation modes: Multi Layer Mixer, Stand alone Embedded Edge Blending and 8 by 2 Seamless Native Matrix.
In a Multi Layer Mixer Mode, Di-Ventix II uses one output as a Preview and the other, the Main output, for the audience. The Preview allows viewing 100% of what the Main output will display. Thanks to its full frame and logo memory, the Di-Ventix II can display up to 7 layers: 4 Live Sources, 1 Frame, 1 Logo layer and 1 Mask layer. Live Layers can be customized by the users with various attributes: Borders, Mask, Movements, Zoom, Keying or Transparency⦠Full screen Frame can be used as a background or as a foreground mask.
In a Seamless Native Matrix Mode, Di-Ventix II offers a 8 x 2 scaled matrix with true seamless switching. The 2 outputs can be set with different resolutions to fit the display native dot matrix. The switch between any of the 8 inputs can be in cut or fade and synchronized on the 2 outputs. Frame and Logos are also available.
In an Embedded Edge Blending Mode Di-Ventix II provides a Stand alone 2 projector large blended screen horizontally or vertically. In this configuration, the Di-VentiX II offers the same functions as in Multi Layer Mixer Mode. Since the 2 outputs are used for the audience display, the optional Video Out can be used as a True Preview Monitor making the control of the shows as easy as in standard Mixer Mode.
Di-VentiX II offers 8 universal analog inputs including 4 fitted with digital DVI and SDI. SDI is compatible with SD and HD TV formats so is DVI which offers computer formats in addition. With state of the art 100% digital processing, the Di-VentiX II outputs Digital and Analog Signals in SDI, DVI and VGA (RGBHV) simultaneously with a selection of many formats from HDTV to Computer 2K.
Video Output card (optional) provides SD or HD TV formats in various signals and connectors from Composite Video to HD SDI. This output can be used to record the show by outputting the same contents as the Main output or to dispatch the Preview image on video monitors. In addition, it can be used as a real Preview output in case of Native Matrix or Embedded Edge Blending Mode. Multi-Screen Edge Blending can be achieved by linking multiple Di-VentiX II, updated with the Cross Blender II option.
The Di-VentiX II is controlled by the AxionTM. This easy to use and powerful High End Remote Controller was designed to manage, independently or simultaneously, several switchers of the iX range, either as stand alone boxes or any kind of combination including Soft Edge Blending. New features have been added to this remote controller, such as a new graphic interface available from the touch panel and a monitor output allowing the preview of each screenâs presets. The Axion allows controlling the Di-VentiX II as well as external matrices when they are connected to an iX range system (Di VentiX, EventiX, NatiX, CentriX).
About Analog Way
Founded in 1989, Analog Way is a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative image converters with worldwide locations (USA, France and Singapore). The company designs a wide range of computer to video scan converters, scalers, seamless switchers and up/down converters. The products provide the most advanced solutions in the Broadcast, AV, Rental & Staging, Church, Corporate and Industrial markets. For further information, do not hesitate to visit our website at: http://www.analogway.com
Related Topics: New Products
Shotoku Expands With New Corporate Headquarters
DPA Microphones Spices it up for Grammy-Nominated Brazilian Sound Engineer Gabriel Pinheiro
Christie Solaria Series 2K/4K Projectors ans Christie Vive Audio Power the New Larry H. Miller Megaplex Theaters in Vineyard, Utah
Christie celebrates the opening of its Mexican office
TDC announces partnership with NIDA – Australiaâs National Institute of Dramatic Art
Listen Technologies to Participate in Almo Professional A/Vâs âFully Chargedâ E4 AV Event in Chicago
Lighthouse Evangelism Upgrades with Two SSL Live. L500 Consoles
SSL Live. L500 Consoles Deliver Flawless Performance for 30th Annual Victoires de la Musique


text:
9 spring-y things to enjoy way past break
4 ways to keep it cool around your crush
Dear Carol: How can I turn my attitude around?
GL is hitting up the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
Feel Good Friday: Adorable photo series helps local dogs from a Utah shelter get adopted
How to make a pretty (and inspiring) mason jar terrarium
4 steps to perfectly thick 'n' long lashes
5 strappy sports bras you need in your life
Share your thoughts on our April/May 2015 music issue! What did YOU love?
Nfinity Champions League 2: The Biggest Night in Cheerleading
More Friends = More Fun
GL Tweets !
1 HOURS AGO Literally the only sandal you need this season: http://t.co/TuupMqXZt6
2 HOURS AGO This clever video reminds us that cyberbullying is so not cool: http://t.co/ciPpDtIypK
3 HOURS AGO #DailyGiveaway! 1 cutie snags Gold Bow Accent Loafers from @ssekodesigns: http://t.co/6XFvriF02f
sponsored links
How to deal with your mom's strict rules
We've all been there: Mom didn't let ya sleepover your BFFs (when all your other friends were allowed), and last week she totally freaked when you asked if you could go see a movie with your BF. You've told her...
Redo your 'rents' rules--here's how!
Ugh! My parents are really controlling. They've just set
my phone to shut off at 6:30 p.m. every day just because they caught my sister
texting after bedtime. All I want is to be able to text my friends until I go
My BF flirts with other girls on Facebook. Should I dump him?
I'm 13 years old and I have a
boyfriend. He flirts with other girls on Facebook. I don't know if he flirts
with them face-to-face because we don't go to the same school. I don't know if
I should continue my relationship with...
What to do when...Mom reads your diary
Here's this reader's sitch: "I keep a diary and my parents are divorced so I switch between houses every week. I have this really big suspicion that my mom reads it on the weeks that I'm not at her house...
Shut it down: How to get your fam to stop saying things that annoy you
You know how it goes: You're having an awesome afternoon, totally
rocking your English essay to the merry tune of "this gal is totally getting an
A+ on this paper"…until your mom pops her head in. Before she even opens her
mouth, you...
I'm not allowed to date, but guys ask me out. What do I say?
I'm not allowed to date yet, but guys ask me out. What do I tell them? I don't want to send them the wrong message.
Be flattered that guys are asking you out! Clearly they see your beauty—inside and...
My dad says N-O to makeup. What do I do?
I like to try on different kinds of makeup, but my dad hates when I put it on. Should I go with no makeup, just wear it on special occasions or keep it a secret that I wear it? It's...
My parents don't know I have a BF. Should I tell them?
I have a boyfriend and we've hugged and kissed and stuff,
but my mom and dad don't know. Should I tell them?
Hey girlie! Things like this depend entirely on your
relationship with your parents. While they should definitely know if you're...
Dad keeps terrifying your dates? How to get him to tone it down
When we see movie dads namedropping their trusty shotgun as they see
their daughters walkin' out of the house on the arm of a new dude, it's pretty
hysterical. But when it's your dad staring down your way-nervous date? Yeah,
not so funny...
Baby, be gone! How to make your parents get that you're growing up
Sometimes parents just don't want to believe that the sweet
little kid that was there, oh, five years ago, has outgrown her princess
costume and is more into indie bands than make believe. Here's how to show them
that you're growing up…minus the...
Design your dress with Duck Tape for a chance to win $10,000
Wanna stick out at prom? Check out Duck Tape's #StuckAtProm scholarship contest for a chance to show off your ah-mazing design skills! More than $50,000 in scholarships is up for grabs—CLICK HERE for deets.


text:
Liver Caner
My baby sister has been diagnosed with liver cancer. She is tired and is running a fever for 9 weeks now. She goes daily for infusions. The tumor is in the middle of her liver. She is in pain. They are still testing. Can anyone tell me about liver cancer? The prognosis?
Prayers are always welcome.
I'm sorry to hear about your sister, lgiorgi.
You can probably find out more when they specify what kind of tumor it is. Is she being treated at a cancer center, where that is all they do? I'd definitely want to be going to a cancer specialist She is young. I hope and pray the best for her.
I know quite a bit about breast cancer and cancer of the cervix, however what I do know about liver cancer is that the most common type is called hepatocellular carcinoma. You mention that she goes daily for infusions. With this type of therapy, she may have had a permanent implantable pump placed directly into the hepatic or brachial artery. This is usually done on an outpatient basis for long-term infusion of a chemotherapeutic drug.
Running a fever indicates that she has an infection due to a weakened immune system, which is usually caused by both the cancer and the chemotherapy that she is receiving.
Not knowing much about this type of cancer or what stage it is in, couldnÂt tell you what her prognosis is. She will be in my prayers though.
zoewolf thank you for the information. They were giving her infusion for an infection. Antibiotics. They thought she had an infectious disease. They did a pet scan and we find out the results today. They said her colon was clear from the other tests. I was happy to hear that because my mom died at 42 of colon cancer. I think it started in her stomach (mom)because when I was young she had most of her stomach removed. My dad knew but did not tell us until the end. Back in those days they did not have to tell the patient. I hope they can help her. It is sad. She was only 11 when mhy mom died. I feel she is being cheated out of life. Thanks for writing.
Prayers and good thoughts are on there way to your sister in Florida. I see that you mentioned your sister is being treated at a cancer center in Florida. Just a thought - after seeing that you are in NY - if she would or could consider a trip to Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City for a consultation. I've been a patient there a few times and remember that a nurse once said that people come from China to be treated at Sloan and folks as close as New Jersey don't want to travel to New York City. I know that as long as there is a diagnosis that appointments can be arranged quite quickly.


text:
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer said Monday that he will launch a campaign next year urging California lawmakers to approve taxes on companies that extract oil in the state.
SAN FRANCISCO OFFERS FREE WI-FI ALONG MARKET ST. : SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco is offering free Internet access along one of its main thoroughfares.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - The San Juan Unified School District faces $17 million in claims over harassment allegations, with ten lawsuits alleging that Superintendent Glynn Thompson created a hostile workplace.
DOWNTOWN LA ON PACE FOR DRIEST CALENDAR YEAR: LOS ANGELES (AP) - With little rain in the forecast, downtown Los Angeles is on pace for its driest calendar year on record.
SANTA BARBARA (AP) - State and federal officials are considering whether to provide students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with an unlicensed vaccine to prevent further spread of a bacterial meningitis outbreak on campus, a newspaper reported Saturday.
SANTA ROSA (AP) - The first time marijuana growers in Mendocino and Humboldt counties gathered to compare crops a decade ago, it was an underground, end-of-harvest celebration open only to a small number of cannabis cognoscenti.
SAN DIEGO (AP) - For San Diego's regional water agency, its largest supplier is also its biggest adversary.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - A Sacramento County man whose car was stolen from a local car wash is praising the vehicle's return, but mostly because of what was inside: his late wife's ashes.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Earlier this year, a river otter named Sutro Sam became the first of the whiskered critters to be seen in San Francisco for decades.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - California has long been a union stronghold, but voters in the reliably Democratic state are gradually taking a more negative view of organized labor, a poll released Friday suggested.
MINIVAN HITS SAN RAFAEL SCHOOL, CLASSES CANCELED: SAN RAFAEL (AP) - Students at a San Rafael elementary school got a day off Friday after a minivan rammed into the school and hit a gas line Thursday night.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - A state board gave approval Friday for the California High-Speed Rail Authority to start the process of seizing its first piece of property through eminent domain for a $68 billion bullet train.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A woman found dead in a locked stairwell 17 days after she went missing from her room at San Francisco General Hospital died accidentally, probably due to a chemical imbalance related to chronic alcohol abuse, the city medical examiner's office said Friday.
LOS BANOS (AP) - Federal officials have proposed a $360 million expansion and seismic upgrade for one of California's largest reservoirs that serves as a key water source for Central Valley farmers.
HUNTINGTON BEACH (AP) - Joseph Ali says onlookers thought he was drunk when he dove into the nighttime waters around a Southern California pier. But he came away with a monster of a lobster and the catch of a lifetime.
SACRAMENTO . (AP) - An annual crime victims rally that has drawn law enforcement, governors and other dignitaries to the state Capitol has been canceled this year over worries about rising anti-police sentiment.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Californians are more optimistic than they have been in years, which is translating into high job approval ratings for Gov. Jerry Brown and bipartisan support for his budget plan to pay down debt, according to a new statewide poll released Wednesday.
SAN JOSE (AP) - San Jose council members have made permanent a measure that allows the shooting of wild pigs that have become a nuisance by ripping up lawns and golf course fairways.


text:
Photo Galleries
< MyNorthwest
Helicopter crash reminds us how random, fragile life is
A KOMO television helicopter crashed Tuesday morning as it was taking off from Fisher Plaza in Seattle.
1 of 11
Burned out vehicles stand adjacent to the wreckage of a news helicopter that crashed into a city street Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Seattle. The KOMO-TV helicopter helicopter crashed into a city street near Seattle's Space Needle, killing two people and critically injuring a person in a car on the ground. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Photo by Elaine Thompson
Photo by Elaine Thompson
1 of 11
Original article: Helicopter crash reminds us how random, fragile life is
More Photo Galleries
Amanda Knox and her family celebrate acquittal
Italy's highest court overturned the murder conviction against Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Friday over the 2007 slaying of Knox's roommate, bringing to a definitive end to the high-profile case.
Week in Photos
Photos from around the world this week.
Hundreds gather to commemorate one-year mark of Oso mudslide
A solemn crowd gathered to honor 43 people who lost their lives a year ago in the deadliest landslide in U.S. history.
Photos: Oso one year after deadly mudslide
Sunday is the one-year anniversary of the slide, and although most of the mangled cars and homes have been cleaned up, reminders of loss are everywhere.
Week in photos
Take a look at the best photos of the week from around the world.
Tuesday in photos
St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2015.
Monday in photos
Monday, March 16, 2015.
Week in photos
Photos from around the world this week.
Friday in photos
The second of three Friday the 13ths in 2015; Friday, March 13, 2015.
Thursday in photos
Thursday, March 12, 2015.


text:
You must earn 10,000 points to post other members' whiteboard
Most of us root for different sports teams, but We are all on the gas buddy team, trying to help save money on gas. Congratulations on posting prices for over eight years, to help save money. That is real dedication. Wish you a wonderful and Happy 2015. Lets be cross country buddies. Shep
Congratulations on Earning over 1.7 MM points, enjoy your nice red pick up. Very few buddies ever reach that level,. that is commitment. Wishing you the very best in life. Lets be buddies. Shep
Our next coffee break is coming up. Luv to see you there!Saturday, Sept, 22nd, 201210 a.m.The Steer Inn5130 E. 10th St.Indpls


text:
High class all the way. Willing to go above and beyond to make you comfortable and very friendly staff. Quick service when we needed a blanket delivered to our room. - Anonymous
We loved everything. We have stayed at several large and boutique hotels on the Gold Coast and the Peninsula is probably the best across the board. I have a difficult last name, but all of the staff immediately remembered it and also pronounced it correctly. - Anonymous
The staff were consistently friendly and courteous. Whether you met them on an elevator ride, or whether you transacted business w/ them - they consistently wore smiles and a courteous, welcoming attitude. - Cynthia
We traveled with an 8 year old. The room even with a rollaway bed was
very large. The city/lake view was great. The highlight for our
child was the dessert - a snickerdoodle ice cream sandwich - from the
restaurant. It is conveniently located. - Anonymous
The staff was very friendly, helpful and professional. The hotel was
beautiful with alot of nice "little touches" like scented
candles lit in the lobby area at night. It is centrally located and very
easy to get around. Concierge staff was very helpful and knowledgeable.
We were upgraded to a corner suite room that had a beautiful kitchen
area with a nice selection of "tools" to use in food prep or
reheating. In addition to coffee, there is a toaster, microwave, oven,
cook-top and refridgerator - Anonymous
The standard of services and the view of the Lake from my room. - Anonymous
Good things about the room: clean, great shower apart from the bath, the beds, no noise. Good things about the hotel: at night great lighteffects, good bar, nice personnel, luxury looks.
Good things about neighbourhood of the hotel: lots of restaurants(also for breakfast) and bars around, in the middle of the most important shopping area, lots of interesting things to see and to do (for exemple boattour, musea) on a walking distance. - Anonymous
This was a very upscale hotel and the staff was very attentive. Starting
our experience a week before arrival the hotel's concierge, jen,
helped make our trip an unforgettable experience by arranging the best
reservations for us at great restaurants and jazz venues. She also made
sure we had access to the hotel's car and driver and reserved times
with him to take us there when we were ready to go. Also a great feature
was that you could set up a time to use bikes that the hotel offered at
no ex - Anonymous
Staff was excellent. We arrived at 10:30 am and were allowed to check in immediately . Our room was as requested; room service was great - Anonymous
When we parked I was a little concerned as it was our first time and up to this point the trip had been a horrible experience(our other hotel overbooked) just as we were arriving. I am glad they did. Once we got past the parking garage, the guy was cold and rude, and made our way to the lobby we were turned 180 degrees. The staff was amazing, best by far of any stay in our past. There was a woman in the elevator who works for the hotel and was off duty, she even went out of her way to help - Anonymous
The hotel lies in the middle of the down town in a fairly safe area near to almost all of the attractions of the city and within a walking distance from the blue line subway which goes directly to the airport. The ensuite was very huge and very comfortable. It was very clean as well. I really did enjoy my stay there. - Mohammad
Perfect location. Fastest internet I have ever had. Excellent beds. Attentive and friendly staff. "Wine five-o-clock" at the lobby :) Great food at Sable restaurant and impressive cocktails at the bar. We arrived late, at 11 pm when the kitchen at the restaurant was about to close but nevertheless we were served with a great dinner. - Anonymous


text:
I'm going to be upfrading from PAC 4.2.2 to 4.4 when it releases. I have a lot of settings and apps and stuff.. What's the easiest way to backup my setting and stuff and restore them after flashing 4.4?
XDA Developers was founded by developers, for developers. It is now a valuable resource for people who want to make the most of their mobile devices, from customizing the look and feel to adding new functionality.
Are you a developer?
Copyright © xda-developers. Hosted by Leaseweb


text:
First of all, Happy Valentine's Day. Typically, at this time of year, we provide tips on how to show your trees and shrubs a little love… 538 more words
Tags » Certified Arborist
What To Do With All That Plant Health Care Information
If you are one of our Plant Health Care and/or lawn care customers, you probably received a thick envelope full of all sorts of papers recently. 218 more words
Tips for Preventing Winter Dehydration in Trees and Shrubs
When our daily highs in Pennsylvania are averaging less than 40° F for more than a week, we know that winter has officially arrived. Contrary to what people think, trees can get more dehydrated during the winter months as the result of freezing soil temperatures. 636 more words
Tree Trimming in Wellington Florida
Today your professional landscaper and arborist is in Wellington Florida at the Shell gas station. If you notice from the photos, that queen palm was pretty tall. 131 more words
Look up, down, all around…how are your trees faring?
Trees provide many benefits but, like us, they may sustain injuries, become ill, or just get old and creaky. It's a good idea to walk through your yard occasionally and take a peek at your trees from time to time to assess their condition. 422 more words
Top to Bottom
(Harbert, Michigan) For the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we were presented with the worthy presence of Graham Services of Three Oaks. Bruce, Cole, and Greg came to take down the spruce that was threatening to fall on our house and crush us in our sleep. 122 more words
How To Prepare Your Landscape Plants For Bad Weather
Although we've enjoyed a relatively nice fall after a less than perfect summer, the lower temperatures are a sure indicator that winter is on the way. 254 more words


text:
Kanye West At Occupy Wall Street. No, Seriously.
Now in its fourth week, Occupy Wall Street, a series of demonstrations in New York City protesting social and economic inequality, and the influence of money and corporate greed on government, has been getting a lot of attention. Essentially, the 99% of people who don't hold the majority of the nation's wealth are protesting the 1% that do. Hence the slogan you make have seen kicking around: "We are the 99%"
Various musicians have come out to show their support for the demonstrators, most notably Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique, and Anti-Flag. But the one musician that has garnered the most attention didn't even perform.
Much to everyone's surprise and/or chagrin, Kanye "I live by two words, f**k you, pay me" West popped up at Occupy Wall Street over the weekend. The Louis Vuitton Don (net worth $70 million) arrived with his plus 1, Russell Simmons (net worth $325 million) to show support for the...99%? Right? Uhh..yeah, sure guys.
Russell and Yeezy were clearly lost behind enemy lines and we've got the lyrics to prove it. Here are the top 5 lyrics showcasing why Kanye was rooting for the wrong team:
1. Can't Tell Me Nothin' - Kanye West
La la la la / Wait till I get my money right / I had a dream I can buy my way to Heaven / When I awoke, I spent that on a necklace
2. Gettin' It In - Jadakiss ft. Kanye West
Well if tonight's the night, pop bottles, f*** models / Spend money 'til you broke, my n**ga live your life
You short minded n**gas' thoughts is Napoleon / My furs is Mongolian, my ice brought the goalies in / Now I embody every characteristic of the egotistic / He knows, he's so f**kin' gifted
4. Otis - Jay-Z and Kanye West
They say I'm crazy, well, I'm 'bout to go dumb again / They aint see me cause I pulled up in my other Benz / Last week I was in my other other Benz
Sure he's all money, cash, cars, but let's not forget a time when some of Kanye's plaques still said Kayne and the rap was still eating his fair share of humble pie:
I say f*ck the police, that's how I treat 'em / We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom / We buy a lot clothes but we don't really need 'em / Things we buy to cover up what's inside / 'Cause they made us hate ourself and love they wealth
So before we rag on this cash king, let's not forget his small beginnings! Thanks for the support Yeezy.
Check out our full gallery of photos of Kanye at Occupy Wall Street.
Follow MetroLyrics
Hot Songs
Latest News
- Preview Darius Rucker's New Album With These Beautiful Lyric Posters
- MAX's Handwritten Lyrics Will Leave You Talking 'Gibberish'
- Finally You Can Hear Rihanna's New 'R8' Single In Full
- Get a First Look at Kopecky's New 'Quarterback' Lyric Video (PREMIERE)
- 13 One Direction Songs That Just Won't Be The Same Without Zayn
- SAT Prep Book Publishes A Major Taylor Swift Lyric Flub
- Ne-Yo Explains How He and Calvin Harris Created EDM Magic on 'Let's Go'