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By Richard Gordon
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What's Old Can Be New Again—Assisted By Digital Media
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Inviting the Rise of the Entrepreneurial Journalist
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Ours, Theirs and the Bloggers' Zones: Compatible, Yet Different
By Shane Richmond
A Photographer's Journey: From Newspapers to Social Media
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Reporting Relies on Questions: Now They Come From Readers
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Ours, Theirs and the Bloggers' Zones: Compatible, Yet Different
Over the years, creating community on the Telegraph's Web site has come to mean a lot more than someone leaving a comment at the bottom of an article.
By Shane Richmond
In an episode of the 1980's BBC comedy series "Yes, Prime Minister," Jim Hacker described the readers of Britain's various newspapers: "The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The [London] Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."
His cabinet secretary asks: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?" Before the prime minister can answer, his private secretary, Bernard, chips in: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."
Though played for laughs, Britons will hear a ring of truth in Hacker's analysis. In Britain, the newspaper people read can say a lot about their political views, social class, and background. Describing someone as a Sun reader implies certain things about them that are very different from the assumptions one would make about a Mail reader or a Guardian reader.
Those distinctions are becoming blurred online. The habit of reading a single newspaper was largely formed by practical concerns: It's expensive to buy more than one, and they must be carried around with you. On the Web, someone can read several newspapers, and we know that plenty of people do, dipping in and out of different ones through the day. If they prefer the political coverage of the Guardian, the sports coverage of the Telegraph, and the financial coverage of The (London) Times, they can now read all three without having to buy them or carry them around.
This fragmentation has increased as news aggregators, such as Google News, make it possible for readers to click straight through to the story level. Often, after reading this one article, the person moves on. Therefore, in a short space of time we've moved from audiences gathering at title level to audiences gathering at section level and now to them gathering at story level.
With this content management system, editors review user comments at My Telegraph after they are posted when users complain.
Image courtesy of The Daily Telegraph.
Engaging Readers Online
Audiences are booming at
the Telegraph
, as 27 million unique users came to the Web site in June. Within this vast audience still lurks our newspaper's original community—made up of people who we'd identify, and who would proudly identify themselves, as being Telegraph readers. They are enormously important to us, and ensuring that they become engaged with what we do online could be crucial to our success in an increasingly tough environment for news organizations. They are the people who will, for example, join Clued Up, our crossword site, play fantasy football, and will perhaps subscribe to future niche services.
What the Telegraph needs to do is make certain these loyal readers have easy access to the tools that will enable them to participate on our site. Of course, community tools are becoming more common on other newspaper Web sites, and social media are part of the Web landscape for everyone online, so if we want our new visitors to be regulars they'll need to find these tools here, too, and an environment that welcomes them.
Five years ago there were few places for readers to contribute to our Web site. Indeed, apart from the letters page, they had few places to share their opinions with us, even in print. So we began this ongoing conversation with them by soliciting opinions on the big issue of the day. To do this, we'd write a brief article and ask readers to e-mail us their opinions. Back then, we didn't have comment boxes. Once we had the ability to add them, we did so at the end of all of our opinion pieces and to selected news stories.
Readers embraced the new tools with enthusiasm. Yet, in the newsroom the cultural shift was relatively small. Most journalists knew of the trend for inviting reader comments to stories. And while they didn't see the harm in letting readers join in, they weren't sure of the value of reader comments, and they certainly weren't about to start replying.
Soon the Telegraph was receiving hundreds of comments each day, then thousands and, when that happened, we had to think about moderation. In handling a couple dozen reader e-mails each day, it was relatively simple to take a look and decide whether they were appropriate for publication. Now, doing so has become a full-time job. For the most part, this change has been a good thing because this kind of attention and focus allowed us to develop expertise in moderating reader comments. It also helped a small group of us get to know some of our readers better. The downside of this approach was that it also kept journalists at arm's length from comments on their articles; this meant that it remained an option for them to engage with readers.
At the same time, journalist participation was growing on the Telegraph's blogs, and our best writers quickly realized that blogging works best as a conversation. With articles and commentary, however, journalists seldom engaged with commenters. Still, in this early stage, our plan was targeted to increasing reader participation.
My Telegraph
By early 2007, we had created a very active community of commenters in certain areas of the site. Now we decided to go further. We noticed that many readers shared a common outlook as they expressed their feelings that the country had been led in the wrong direction by the Labour Party, which has governed Britain since 1997. Crucially, many of our readers/commenters felt that very few people shared their views. Yet, we could see by monitoring their comments across the Web site that, in fact, many people shared this view. We saw in this moment the opportunity to help them connect to one another.
We did this by inviting some of our regular commenters to come to the Telegraph offices for a tour and to meet some of our journalists. While they were there, we invited them to become beta testers on a new community site we were building called My Telegraph. By working with these community members and others, we were able to build the site very quickly, dropping features that users didn't like and building new ones based on their feedback.
My Telegraph
was completed in 17 working days and went live in May 2007. Thousands quickly signed up. Its home page was redesigned to cope with the quantity of content, some features were dropped, and new experiments, such as a mini-RSS reader, were tried.
We heard a common question from other news organizations, media observers, and bloggers about one aspect of our site: "Why would anyone want a blog with the Telegraph?" We knew that plenty of Telegraph readers wanted to identify themselves as such, and they would see value in having their words appear on the Telegraph's Web site. But the important point was not that we were giving them a blog; we were giving them an audience. Of course, they could create a blog with WordPress or Blogger but they'd then spend months building an audience. With us, they could get a dozen comments from fellow readers within minutes of writing their first post. And the comments almost certainly would come from like-minded people.
The community on My Telegraph came together very quickly, and soon the site offered us new ways to connect with our readers. One reader wrote about his two daughters who were killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. The case was in court, and a story that would have run in brief, if at all, was expanded to half a page including excerpts from the father's blog. When Islamist terrorists attempted to bomb London, we asked one My Telegraph blogger, a Muslim, to expand on a post that she had written denouncing the attacks as being against the teachings of Islam. Her piece then ran in the newspaper.
Very soon it became clear to us that My Telegraph members saw the site as theirs. Quick to point out faults, they were equally happy to suggest improvements. We now realize there are three spaces on the Telegraph's Web site: ours—where comments on articles reside, theirs—My Telegraph, and the bloggers'—our blogs. Knowing this, we try to operate the site accordingly.
Our Telegraph
At the moment, comments on the Telegraph's areas of the site are pre-moderated, meaning that a moderator reviews them before they are published. However, readers can post their comments without registering with the site. Blogs and My Telegraph are postmoderated, though readers must be registered to comment.
Free speech is important to the Telegraph's readers so we tried to reflect that in our moderation policy. We're careful to remove material that runs afoul of Britain's racial and religious hatred laws, and we have to be careful about libelous material. In premoderation this is relatively simple ,but in postmoderation we rely on our readers to bring inappropriate material to our attention. Only then does a moderator review a comment.
Our journalists are learning to engage. This effort has been helped by the growth of online social networks. With our journalists now using Facebook, Digg and Twitter, each of which is an increasingly important source of traffic, and being familiar with YouTube and Flickr, engagement doesn't seem as strange to them as it did a few years ago. Still, it is important they have guidance.
Our advice to our journalists is to "play the ball, not the man" when joining comments. By all means say someone's argument is idiotic, but don't call them an idiot. Engage with constructive comments, even when they are negative, and ignore those who are being abusive or trying to derail debate. Of course some writers, and some readers, disregard those rules entirely and seem to enjoy it when comment threads turn into an anything-goes fight. That can work, too, as long as everyone understands the rules.
There's still plenty more to do. This year, having already relaunched our blog platform, we plan to release a new comment tool and refresh My Telegraph. We've been doing this for a long time now, so we feel like we know our readers pretty well. But the social media landscape has changed a lot in the past few years—and continues to change at a rapid pace—so we're eager to collaborate with our readers in building new community tools.
Shane Richmond is the head of technology (editorial) for Telegraph Media Group.
Editor's note: The print edition of Nieman Reports incorrectly identifies Richmond as communications editor at The Daily Telegraph. He was communities editor at the time he wrote the article. He now has a new job.
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Well over 200 people helped launch the "Opportunity Works in Haverhill" Capital Campaign last Thursday during a fun and informative reception at DiBurro's Function Facility in Haverhill. Plans for our new building project behind and abutting Northern Essex Community College were very well received. The beautiful melodies sung by Opportunity Sings! Chorus, ably led by Phil and Sandy Comeau, were the highlight of our evening. We gratefully acknowledge and thank the individuals who made the evening such a huge success.
We are grateful to The Daily News of Newburyport, the Eagle Tribune and WHAV.net for publicizing the event and Eagle Tribune managing editor Gretchen Putnam for serving as a masterful MC for the evening's program. We thank Matt Belfiore, Mary O'Neil and Jay LaFond from Haverhill Community Television for taping the event for broadcast and providing other media assistance.
We were honored with an invocation by the Rev. Dr. Howard Lawrence and supportive remarks from Haverhill Mayor James Fiorentini and our state senator, Kathleen O'Connor Ives. Our executive director, Jane Harris-Fale, Ken Moran from the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services and Diane Fasulo, a longtime advocate for people with disabilities, all explained the need for the new facility and how it will benefit all the communities we serve here in the Merrimack Valley. Dr. Lane Glenn welcomed us with open arms as president of our new neighbors, Northern Essex Community College.
We are also deeply appreciative of the materials that were expertly prepared by Dianne McDermott of McDermott and Company Marketing in Haverhill. As always, the DiBurro family were the perfect hosts and their many kindnesses are also appreciated.
The Opportunity Works Board of Directors, members of our still-growing Capital Campaign Committee and the dedicated and caring staff at Opportunity Works can be very proud of the evening they helped create. Development Director Deborah Andrews and our executive assistant, Christine Crutcher, deserve special note here.
We thank the many area elected officials, including Newburyport Mayor Donna Holaday, for bringing the good tidings of their respective communities and constituents. Most of all, we are so very grateful to all of our friends and neighbors who came out to be inspired by the Opportunity Works story and learn how we all can improve our quality of life and build a better community by contributing to the building of this new facility that will serve and support adults with disabilities and their families.
For more information, please call 978-462-6144, ext. 236.
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Astros Press Release
Roger Clemens to host Rocketman Celebrity Slam at Minute Maid Park
Charitable celebrity softball game to take place on Tuesday, July 15
HOUSTON, TX - Seven-time Cy Young Award winner and former Astros pitching legend Roger Clemens will host the Rocketman Celebrity Slam softball game at Minute Maid Park on Tuesday, July 15. Proceeds of the charitable event will benefit the Roger Clemens Foundation, other children's charities and the military.
The all-star celebrity lineup for the softball game includes Astros greats Jeff Bagwell and Roy Oswalt, Houston Rockets guard Patrick Beverley, former Dynamo forward and current Houston Dash Managing Director Brian Ching, former NBA All-Star and current Skeeters pitcher Tracy McGrady, Houston Texans punter Shane Lechler as well as many other former and current athletes from across the sports world. Local Houston rapper Paul Wall, country music artist Toby Keith, actor Lee Majors and several other celebrities from the music and entertainment industry will also participate in the Rocketman Celebrity Slam.
The schedule of events is as follows:
5:00 p.m. - Gates open
6:00-6:45 p.m. - Lady Celebrity Batting Practice
6:55 p.m. - National Anthem, performed by Macy Medford
7:00 p.m. - First pitch
The game is scheduled to last seven innings, ending at approximately 8:30 p.m. There will also be live musical entertainment between innings and after the game.
The 2014 MLB All-Star Game will also be live-streaming on El Grande, so fans can watch both games simultaneously. The 2014 MLB All-Star Game, which is being played at Target Field in Minnesota, begins at 7:00 p.m. CT.


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NEW: Obama calls spending cuts dumb, arbitrary WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama and Republicans are playing the blame game when it comes to automatic spending cuts that are due to kick in later in the day. Obama met with lawmakers at the White House this morning and afterward told reporters, "Let's be clear: None of this is necessary. It's happening because of a choice that Republicans in Congress have made. We shouldn't be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things." Republicans countered by saying the fault was Obama's, for insisting that increased taxes be part of the resolution. Obama says the impact of the cuts won't be felt immediately, but middle class families will begin to "have their lives disrupted in significant ways." He says as long as the cuts stay in effect, Americans will know that the economy could have been better had they been averted.
Obama says he can't convince GOP to do right thing WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he can't do a "Jedi mind meld" with Republican leaders and persuade them to do what he believes is right when it comes to trimming federal spending. Asked if he could refuse to allow Republican leaders of the House and Senate to leave a White House meeting until a budget agreement was reached, Obama said that's not how a constitutional form of government works. Obama took questions from the media at the White House after meeting with congressional leaders
Obama, congressional leaders meet at White HouseWASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are meeting at the White House, with billions of dollars in automatic budget cuts ready to start kicking in. The meeting got under way shortly after 10 a.m. EST. Representing Republicans are House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are the Democratic leaders in the meeting. No breakthrough is expected to come out of the talks. But the meeting is an opportunity for all sides to stake out their fiscal positions with the threat of a government shutdown looming less than four weeks away.
UPDATE: It's Friday, March 1, and that means the federal government has crossed the much-hyped and dreaded deadline for the fiscal reductions known as the "sequester."
The members of Congress who for voted for the Budget Control Act – and the budget cuts contained within – and President Barack Obama who signed it into law on Aug. 2, 2011, may not have believed the day would arrive, but now it has.
But today is only the beginning of the beginning.
For one thing, Obama must sign an order formally starting the "sequester" or spending reductions, which according to a new estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, would amount to $42 billion in the current fiscal year.
And White House aides have indicated that the president is not likely to put pen to paper on that order until after he meets with congressional leaders, a meeting slated for Friday morning.
Once Obama signs the order to start the spending cuts, any furloughs of federal workers could not begin at least for another 30 days due to federal regulations and to collective bargaining agreements which the government has with the unions that represent roughly half of the federal workforce.
So the Border Patrol Agents in Arizona won't suddenly vanish on Friday and the civilians who repair Navy ships won't be ordered to immediately put down their tools.
As with many things the federal government does, there are multiple rules, regulatory hurdles, avenues for appeal and opportunities for litigation.
As Under Secretary of Defense Robert Hale, the Pentagon's Chief Financial Officer, explained last week, "The bottom line is, furloughs would not actually start for DOD employees until late April."
He explained, "There's a whole series of notifications. We started the first one today (Feb. 20), with the notification to Congress, along with a message by the secretary of defense to our civilian employees. That starts a 45-day clock ticking. Until that clock has run out, we cannot proceed with furloughs."
He added, "At some point in mid-March, we will send a notification to each employee who may be furloughed. That starts a 30-day clock, waiting period, before we can take any action. And then later on in April, we will send a decision to employees, and they have a one-week period, once we've made that decision, to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board."
The Merit Systems Protection Board is the independent agency which hears and decides complaints when a federal employee claims that he or she has been the victim of an unfair, punitive, or discriminatory personnel action. The board issued 7,585 decisions last year.
In a memo sent Wednesday to Cabinet officers and the heads of federal agencies, Danny Werfel, the controller of the Office of Management and Budget, emphasized that agency heads "must allow employees' exclusive representatives" – their unions – "to have pre-decisional involvement" in planned furloughs or other personnel actions "to the fullest extent practicable" and must bargain with the unions over the impact of furloughs. The head of each department or agency must comply with "any and all collective bargaining requirements."
In his memo, Werfel did not flatly warn federal agency heads to not hire any new personnel, but he did say they should give "increased scrutiny" to hiring any new workers, as well to the money they spend on training programs, conferences, and travel.
Like Hale at the Pentagon, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano emphasized in her briefing for reporters this week that the effects of the spending cuts – while they will be substantial – won't be instantaneous.
"The impacts people are going to see – and they will build over the next several weeks; you won't see them immediately like a shutdown, but it will accrue over the next few weeks," she said. "Lines, procedures, wait times (at U.S. ports of entry and airports) are all going to get longer."
She added, "It won't be like a (government) shutdown, where it's like turning off the light switch. But all I can say for folks is these are the effects that will accrue. Please don't yell at the customs officer or the TSO (transportation security officer) officer because the lines are long.
The lines over the next few weeks are going to start to lengthen in some dramatic ways in parts of the country."
Just as the personnel decisions will take weeks to ripple their way through the federal workforce, so too will decisions on contracts for new ships, drones, and electronic gadgets.
"I don't anticipate that we will cancel many, if any contracts, because we'd incur substantial costs," Hale told reporters last week.
He said that due to the spending cuts, the Pentagon might delay entering into new contracts, "but I wouldn't expect that we will terminate existing contracts."
Seeking to reassure contractors, Hale said, "If you've got a contract with us, we're going to pay you ... . Even under sequestration and furloughs, we will find a time to keep our payments to our employers and the vendors on time."
The slow grinding of the bureaucratic wheels does not mean that furloughs won't hurt, if they occur.
A fact sheet issued by the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal union which representing 650,000 federal and D.C. government workers, spells out some of the possible pain:
•Up to 22 days out of work with no pay, equivalent to a 20 percent pay cut;
Reduced contribution to workers' retirement savings accounts;
•Reduced take-home pay due to the deduction of health insurance benefits at the full salary rate.
But as a recent report from the Congressional Research Service pointed out, the sequestration procedures provide for exemptions for many groups.
Among the categories which the law spares from the spending cuts are:
•Social Security benefits
•The Medicaid health insurance program for low-income people
•Payments to individuals in the form of refundable tax credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-wage workers and the tax credits under the 2010 health care law to help people buy health insurance.
•Retirement benefits paid to retired federal workers
•Child Nutrition Programs, including the School Lunch and School Breakfast programs,
•The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called "food stamps"
•Pell Grants for college students
•Unobligated cash balances, carried over from prior years, for nondefense programs
•Pay for military personnel.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is chiding Senate Republicans for blocking a Democratic plan to replace automatic spending cuts that are set to kick in Friday. Senate Republicans objected to $55 billion worth of new taxes in the Democratic plan. It would have replaced the cuts with tax increases on millionaires and spending reductions over 10 years. Obama says Republicans chose to cut services for kids, older people and the military rather than close loopholes for the rich. He says Republicans want the middle class alone to pay for deficit reduction. Republicans floated their own plan to give Obama more flexibility to find $85 billion in spending cuts this year. Democrats and tea party Republicans killed that plan Thursday. Obama and congressional leaders are to meet Friday to discuss potential ways ahead.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says looming automatic budget cuts will cause a "tumble downward" for the economy. He acknowledges many people may not immediately notice the full impact of the so-called sequester cuts if they take effect Friday. But he says yanking $85 billion from the economy this year would be a "big hit" on a nation still trying to fully recover from a recession. Speaking to business executives Wednesday, Obama acknowledged it will be difficult for lawmakers to reach a deal to offset the cuts by Friday. He says the logjam is not technical, "it's political. The president wants Republicans to drop their opposition to using some new tax revenue to offset the cuts. And he says members of his own party must accept some changes to government entitlement programs.
SPOKANE, Wash. - Pig Out In The Park brings in thousands to delve into their favorite fair-like foods and put diets on the back burner. But this year is a little bit different, because organizers are calling it the largest pig out yet.


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Pre-cruise: We booked through Expedia but we received great communication and reminder emails from the cruise line in the 2 months leading up to our trip.
Embarkation-The paperwork embarkation process was very smooth, but beware!! The luggage porters in the drop off area expect to be tipped and do not hesitate to say it more than once if you don't immediately offer up cash. Carnival luggage teams do not request or expect tips, so we were not prepared with small bills. This IS covered in the book they mail you, but its thrown in with luggage restrictions and flight information so I honestly thought it was referring to the airport or airport transfer teams. We checked in within the first hour of the check in process and didn't receive any of our luggage until just before the muster drill.... coincidence or intention I don't honestly know but plenty of others on our hall started receiving luggage before this time. IF you are taking bottled water with you, make sure you keep it in your carry on. If you pack it in your checked baggage, you will have to go through an additional inspection with security after the muster drill. It was VERY frustrating and if you aren't one of the first in line its very time consuming.
The Cruise- Overall we had a great time, but there are a few things I would like to point out...
1. Food- The buffet area's at breakfast and lunch are very packed. The Garden cafe outside at the back of deck 11 is always the fastest. There is a slightly smaller selection but it has the basics. The inside buffet has 4 sections that end up as 1 long snaking line that takes awhile. If you just want salad jump in at the middle and skip the deli and burger section. You will also notice that at the entrance to the buffet area's they have staff waiting to spray your hands with sanitize saying "washy, washy" ... this gets old and annoying since they also have hand sanitizer stands within 5 feet of them. Dinner in either of the included restaurants is good. The menus are slightly different, mostly affecting the "classics" portion. The wait staff is always friendly and helpful.
2.Freestyle... seems to =late night.... at least on our cruise the trend seemed to be to stay out till all hours of the night, so if you aren't a night owl or party person be prepared to hear people in the halls at all hours of the night.
Freestyle...seems to =lack of communication.... Once on board the instructions on how to leave and re-enter the ship in port were not given other than over the intercom just before docking so for people who are "planners" you were left with unanswered questions until just before time for an activity. We experienced the same lack of communication when it came to the last night waiting for information on disembarking. The information was not given out until the evening room cleaning, so you knew nothing until after dinner. The space in the daily freestyle newsletter could be put to much better use by providing this information instead of repeating the same information on the bar, paid restaurants and spa day after day on multiple pages....
3. Entertainment on board- The entertainment team is great and all of the activities were fun to watch and participate in, but if you are use to Carnival you should know that these activities take place during the late afternoon and night time hours, not early in the day so you really have to pick and choose what you want to do.
4. The Room- The bathroom is smaller than I have had on previous cruises but it does the job. Average storage space. The balcony is HUGE compared to what we had on the Fantasy and we really enjoyed spending our time here. We were however not very happy with the actual bedding. The mattress in our room was super hard and honestly felt like you were sleeping on a board with a thin layer of padding over it. The sleeping pillows were thin and not very comfortable. There were also 2 extra pillows in shams that were too hard and thick to use as sleeping pillows. If you are a light sleeper beware, they constantly play elevator type music quietly in the halls and at times you can hear it in your room ... which kept me awake on several occasions.
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Freddie Mercury memorial unveiled in Feltham
3:33pm Tuesday 24th November 2009 in News By Paul Teed
Hundreds of Queen fans paid tribute to Freddie Mercury today at a ceremony to unveil a plaque in his memory.
Bandmate Brian May joined the star's 87-year-old mother Jer Bulsara in Feltham town centre, where fans from across the world gathered this morning.
The guitarist pulled away a cover at midday to reveal the Hollywood-style star, which read: "Freddie Mercury - musician, singer and songwriter", along with the dates he lived in Feltham, between 1964 and 1968.
Mr May, who also grew up in Feltham, told how he used to go to Freddie's house in Gladstone Avenue where they listened to Jimi Hendrix records.
He said: "Freddie, we pursued your dream, our dream, and we love you and we always will, and we are very happy to honour you in this way."
Mrs Bulsara told the crowds: "I'm Jer Bulsara, and Freddie was my boy. He grew up to be a man with a big appetite for life and an even bigger talent for music.
"These things were there in him even as a boy, and coming here to England in 1964 gave him the opportunity to develop his talent and ambition.
"Feltham was his first home in England after we arrived from Zanzibar and it was a place where he began to explore his musical future.
"I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to see so many of you here today, here to honour his memory."
About 2,000 fans from as far as Japan and Australia descended on the Centre, in Feltham High Street, where Mr May signed autographs for half an hour after the ceremony.
Fiona Roberts, 53, from Brisbane, Australia, said: "I just think Freddie's mum being here makes it very special, and for her I think she deserves to see so many people come out to honour her little boy.
"Now this is somewhere the fans can come if they want to. I think it's going to be a huge thing, it will put Feltham on the map."
Life-long fan Matthew Locke, 31, drove with his partner Sarah Jenkins, 28, from their home in Buckinghamshire this morning.
He said: "I've been a fan since I was six, I'm completely crazy about them. I think Freddie was always very flippant about things, but I think secretly he would have been very proud."
David Taylor, 48, travelled with his wife from Manchester yesterday.
He said: "I think this will bring a lot of good tourism from around the world.
"I think he would have been chuffed, I think he would have been over the moon. All his fans and friends and family are here.
"I took the day off especially to come down and be here."
Queen tribute band "Mercury" played live at 11am before the unveiling ceremony in the shopping centre.
The musical legend lived in Gladstone Avenue, Feltham, after arriving from Zanzibar with his family in 1964 when he was 17-years-old. He studied art at Isleworth Polytechnic, which is now West Thames College.
The granite plaque - the first in the UK to commemorate the Queen frontman - will be a permanent fixture in the shopping centre's main piazza.
To enter a competition to win a signed Brian May guitar, in association with the Centre, Feltham, pick up a copy of the Hounslow and Brentford Times or the Richmond and Twickenham Times on Friday.
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Queens music still lives on, and is so important in British Culture, it has become engraved in the concessnous. Just clap you hands to the ryhthm of We Will Rock You, and people sing it. Shout out Flash - people go "Ahh-aaa".
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Matthews said pieces of roadways are deteriorating after rainwater froze inside cracks in the road.
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City workers are using a cold mix to fill potholes, but Matthews said the cold, wet weather doesn't allow the patches to seal properly.
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ATLANTA — Drew Brees stood in front of his locker, brown leather bag in front of him neatly packed, suit jacket crisply falling off his shoulders.
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In the past six quarters, the player the Saints almost certainly knew they could rely on in spite of everything else might be the one to have taken the Saints out of the playoffs.
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"I pride myself on being a great decision-maker and a guy that's going to help us win and not be a detriment by turning the ball over like that," a solemn Brees said Thursday night,
The five interceptions against the Falcons in New Orleans' 23-13 loss don't even begin to explain how the one-time Super Bowl MOP has cracked recently.
No, the single-most incomprehensible series that explains just how far Brees has fallen happened with less than two minutes to play in the first half.
With no timeouts remaining and 71 yards of field to traverse, few would have believed that Brees, of all people, wouldn't be able to manage.
He did, of course, peppering the Falcons' secondary with a 29-yard pass to Lance Moore, a 21-yard pass to Marques Colston and a 14-yard pass to Darren Sproles.
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But then were only 12 seconds left and no timeouts. Of course Brees would realize the situation, understand that the middle of the field was off limits and that, at the very least, a field goal was follow.
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They'd never recover.
"That's my mistake," Brees said. "That can't happen. Should have gotten points, at least three, and definitely another shot at the end zone. That was on me. That can't happen."
What makes Brees' past two weeks so disconcerting and so unimaginable is that it has been so unlike him. He has seven interceptions in the past seven quarters. Two were returned for touchdowns and two were turned into 10 more points.
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All those who cringed at the image that song brought into their heads, please accept my heartfelt sympathies. And all those who are blissfully unaware, and thus have the smiles on their faces intact, consider yourself blessed. This is a song from Aaja Meri Jaan (1993) starring the inimitable Cushion Kumar. Imagine a pincushion, for starters. Or better yet, a whoopee cushion. I considered starting this post singing O Kreeeshnaaa yewww aaa da greataste mewzeeshan aaaf theees worrulldd from Meera Ka Mohan (1992) but no amount of mistyping can do justice to Kumar Sanu's fine accent. Damn, I should be audioblogging.
So why am I hell bent on ruining your happiness with songs like this? You see, I had a most disturbing realization thanks to my last post. Apparently more people have watched Geeta Mera Naam (2000) than Johny Mera Naam (1970). At least the levels of excitement in the audience, about the respective genres seem to suggest that. Three paragraphs I dedicated to Jewel Thief (1967) and mentioned Avinash Wadhawan in passing. And yet. Tsk tsk. The commentspace of the previous post stands a firm testimonial to the fact that it is people like us who are responsible for that fine specimen of manhood — the PSW — the Paploo Stud-Wannabe.
We may cringe at the mention of their names, vehemently deny knowledge of their existence, but mention Bahaar Aane Tak (1990) and we turn into a classroom of seven-year-olds, jumping up and down, excitedly recollecting Rupa Ganguly's parandha. Why? What makes us remember these PSWs with their cuts on eyebrows, funny sideburns, 80mph hairstyles and their moments of fame? Why do we recollect Prithvi crooning dil jigar nazar kya hai, main to tere liye jaan bhi de doon to a bunch of shrieking girls on screen, when someone mentions Dil Ka Kya Kasoor (1992), although a sum total of 5.5 people went to the theatre to see this movie? (0.5 = fell asleep half-way) Why do we remember people that we'd ordinarily be glad to forget about? Why do we get nostalgic about a lot of things that we weren't so tickled about the first time around?
The answer lies in the memories. A final evening spent with high-school friends before you all moved to separate towns. A movie you watched with someone special. A heroine that reminds you of that gal in college you had a crush on. A hot summer evening spent sipping Rasna and watching Chitrahaar with mom and dad, while the cooler with the khus perfume ran in the background. The time Jagjeevan Ram died and a week's mourning was declared resulting in all shops being closed, and you watching the same movie twice daily, on six consecutive days. The oily samosas of Sangam movie hall. The magical escalators at Abhinav theatre. It's the personal associations, the feeling of nostalgia .. that lets us view the Rajan Sippys and Sahil Chaddhas of the world with a soft-focus lens.
But whatever our excuses, we have all done it. For the sake of old crushes and new loves, for the sake of friends and special moments, or simply for the lack of choice, we've been there. Gone to the theatre, paid good money for tickets, and watched with rapt attention while shape-shifting snakes morphed into humans in tight salwar kameezes and transparent kurtas and sang songs in the voices of Anuradha Paudwal and Mohammed Aziz. The all-problem-causing rain song, no less. Innocent heroine singing. Villian sees the heroine, lusts after her, pulls a Shakti Kapoor on her and kills her, compelling her to come back in another janam to reunite with her hero. Hero in the meantime, turns back into reptile-of-choice to wreak havoc on mankind. The only way to stop his rampage is for the lovers to unite. And unite they do. But alas, it is too late. Three hours, seven Gulshan Kumar T-Series songs, forty seven violins in the background and one hundred eighty-four extras in colorful dupattas later, you have walked out of the theatre with a death wish. Unless of course the audience is me. Who eagerly scanned the local newspaper pages looking for the sequel to Laal Dupatta Malmal Ka (1988).


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"He's welcome to withdraw his plea and go to trial," Lu responded.
The judge said that he's received a number of dubious requests for permission to use prescription drugs, such as painkillers prescribed after dental work, which he views as a way for defendants to avoid drug-testing requirements.
Burtsell was identified as one of two men who went into the City Mart on Haverhill Street in Lawrence on July 31 last year and beat and robbed the owner, Nazir Shaikh. He was arrested after surveillance video from the store was posted on the website of the Eagle-Tribune, a sister paper to The Salem News, prosecutor Greg Friedholm told the judge yesterday.
Burtsell appeared to be the leader, jamming a piece of metal in the door after he and the second man were "buzzed" into the store. He vaulted the counter and waved what investigators later determined to be a pellet gun, which he used to strike the owner, while the other man took $300 to $400 from the register.
Police received a tip about Burtsell's identity after the video was posted.
The second man seen on the tape, identified by police as Jered Hayes, 23, also of Nashua, was not indicted, according to court records. He can be seen on the tape at one point raising his hands as if questioning what Burtsell was doing, while Burtsell was striking the victim on the floor.
Under the plea agreement, Burtsell received a four-year prison sentence, to be followed by two years of probation, with conditions that include no use of drugs.
But Anne Poulos, who represents Burtsell, told the judge that with the recent legalization of medical marijuana in New Hampshire, her client wanted marijuana to be excluded from the "no drugs" requirement. Poulos did not cite any medical condition that might qualify Burtsell to receive the drug.
The judge told Burtsell that after he gets out of prison, if he believes he can convince a judge that he has no option but to use medical marijuana, he's welcome to try his request again then.
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Microsoft's John Hazen has posted on the official Building Windows 8 blog about the security and reliability principles in the Metro platform in Windows 8. Hazen explains how apps are installed from the Windows store, use contracts to interact with the operating system, and have to ask user consent for access to device capabilities such as the webcam or GPS, or to access user data such as documents and music.
The most intriguing part of the document comes when Hazen appeals to developers to stick to the API that is referenced in the official Windows 8 Metro SDK:
Resist the temptation to find ways to invoke APIs that are not included in the SDK. This ultimately undermines the expectations that customers have for your app. APIs that are outside the SDK are not guaranteed to work with Metro style apps either in this release or in future releases, so you may find that your app doesn't function properly for all customers. These APIs may also not function properly in the async environment that is foundational to Metro style app design. Finally these APIs may undermine customer confidence by accessing resources or data that Metro style apps would not normally interact with. For all these reasons, we have provided checks in the Windows App Certification Kit to help you catch places where you might have inadvertently called interfaces not exposed by the SDK.
While it is possible to hide or obfuscate calls to APIs that are not included in the SDK, this is still a violation of customer expectations and Store policy. In the end, we have created this platform to help developers like you to build amazing apps that work well with the system and with other apps and devices to delight customers. Working with the Metro style SDK is fundamental to your realizing that goal.
The worrying aspect of this appeal to developers to play nice is Hazen's admission that crafty developers may find ways to escape the Metro sandbox, undermining both the security and the privacy protection built into Metro. The main protection against this is such such an app should be blocked from the Windows Store, but can Microsoft check with 100% confidence that no hidden or obfuscated API calls exist? How effective is the Metro sandbox?
My guess is that the danger will be greater on the x86 version of Windows 8 than in Windows RT, which is locked down to prevent any third-party desktop applications from being installed. Nevertheless, a large part of the non-Metro Windows API must exist in Windows RT, to support the desktop, Explorer and Microsoft Office.
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Using what seemed like an approach of bump first, apologize later, Gordon admitted he was overly aggressive but said, "After they started doing it to me, I had to do it to others."
Gordon apologized about some incidents several times – particularly about the Martin Truex Jr. spin.
"There are some things that I'm not proud of that I did today; certainly with Martin," he said. "I mean, I completely messed that up and I will try to patch that up. Other things that happened out there were just really hard racing incidents."
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Gordon may have been sincerely apologetic several times about the Truex incident, but not so much about contact he made with Kurt Busch.
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Ripping sheets of plywood, slotting boards and building perfect boxes, a solid table saw is the center of any shop and strong support for countless projects, which is why the Craftsman 21807 is loaded with features. Line up every cut with the Laser Trac® guidance system and use the smooth gliding t-slot miter gauge and 10 inch carbide tipped blade to slice perfect angles. No matter what kind of work you've got ahead, this table saw is ready to lend a hand.
Perfect for long work pieces, the Craftsman 21807 Table Saw features an extendable out-feed support that gives you more control so you can focus on smooth feeding. And if you've got a wide cut to make, the extendable support tables and quick moving fence allow you to rip sheets up to 24 inches wide in one smooth, fast motion. Stable as can be, the wide base of this machine handles heavy pieces with ease. A solid fixture to any shop, but always ready to move, this table saw detaches from its base for portability that will keep it moving with you every time duty calls. Dependable, durable and ready to get the job done fast, add this saw to your arsenal and tackle any job with cuts, that can't be matched.
- Full kit includes: 36T carbide tipped saw blade, 2 AAA batteries, dust bag, blade wrenches and push stick
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The 10'' craftsman table saw with laser trac I recently purchased Is the best saw I've ever purchased. The craftsman quality is unsurpassed and all the features are great as well. highly recommend this saw. Can't beat the price!
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it does not take up too much room in our garage.
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Grandpa had a Craftsman table saw. Dad had one. Father in law had one. I used them all, and thought there were none better. 20 years later, as a homeowner, I bought my own...this one. I can't help but wonder: what happened to Sears quality? Absolutely no evidence of quality in this saw! Cheap slot for the miter guide, sloppy indent for the miter angle, sloppy fence clamp, non-flush rest plate that fits around the blade, overall a waste of money. While pushing it across my concrete driveway, the wheel caught the expansion joint and all four corners of the plastic base broke away, completely separating the saw from the rolling base! The final straw: after 6 years of occasional use, the motor locked up. After removing and inspecting, I found the plastic fan melted into a clump of plastic wrapped around the armature. The rear bearing had failed some time ago, as evidenced by the rub wear in the stator. A replacement motor costs $162 as of today. I'll go to *****.
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UFC on Fox 7 was arguably one of the more entertaining and high-level events in recent memory, and the action was prevalent from the main event between Gilbert Melendez and Ben Henderson all the way down to the Facebook opener between Clifford Starks and Yoel Romero. The UFC announced its post-fight bonuses, and they are as follows:
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Every year, the university produces a new issue of the USAO Magazine to let our many friends and supporters know about this institution's 108-year legacy and what our students, faculty, alumni and staff are doing to extend it into the future.
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CHICKASHA – Halfway through the soccer season, junior Kelli Korleski said the Drover women are on the path to success."I think we're doing really well," she said. "We've only lost two games, one that's a conference game. It's the best the women's team has done so far. I think we're headed for a good season."The women were 9-2 as of press time, and strong on almost all sides of the field. The one weakness, Korleski said, was with plays like corner kicks and free kicks.
Sadie L. Smith Abilene Sadie L. Smith, 98, passed away Friday, September 16, 2011 at a local nursing facility. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 20, 2011, at Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home Chapel of Memories, 542 Hickory, with Brent Isbell officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park, directed by Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home. Viewing will be during normal business hours on Monday. Sadie was born April 16, 1913 to Emma Mae (Breland) and Herman R. Lieb in Jones County, Texas.
Funeral services for Ruby Mae Bullard will be conducted Friday September 23, 2011 at 2 pm from the First Baptist Church of Elk City with Dr. Russell Duck officiating. Interment will be in the Fairlawn Cemetery of Elk City under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home. Ruby Mae (Beanland) Bullard was born December 17, 1917 in Quail TX, to Curtis Mitchell and Susie Pearl (Scott) Beanland, and passed away September 19, 2011 at the age of 93. Ruby married her sweetheart, Hubert Bullard, on Valentine's Day in 1941. Together they would build a full life.
Funeral service for Percilla Lee Heisler Lamar, age 93 of Chickasha Oklahoma, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 in the Epworth United Methodist Church. Dr. Rockford Johnson will officiate. Percilla Lee was born the daughter of Charles A. Heisler and May Whitley Heisler on June 17, 1918 on a farm west of Chickasha. She died on Sept. 27, 2011 in Chickasha. Percilla went to grade school at Sandlin School, which was about two miles from home. For the first two or three years of school, she rode in a buggy then walked the rest of the time.
Graveside service for Marva Jean Brown, Enid, will be 10:30 a.m. today, Sept. 27, 2011, in Rosemound Cemetery, Medford, with Pastor Craig VanDeburgh officiating, under direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home. Following at 2 p.m. will be a Celebration of Life, ôA Day of Rejoicingö service, to celebrate the life of Marva Jean Brown, with Pastor Pat Sutherlin officiating in Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel. Marva Jean was born in Enid, the daughter of Rhea Jane (McDaniel) and Christian Earl Herschberger and passed away Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, at Stillwater Medical Center.
Marla Lane Watson Reimer of Stillwater passed away Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 in Oklahoma Heart Hospital. Friends may view Saturday, Oct. 1st, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Services will be held Sunday, Oct. 2nd at 2:30 p.m. in Highland Park United Methodist Church with Rev. Derrek Belase officiating. Strode Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Marla was born on Nov. 4, 1948 in Oklahoma City to Bill and Mary (Bonds) Watson. She graduated Stillwater High School in 1967. Marla began her family in 1969 with the birth of her first son, William Jeremy Scott Roberts.
Margarette Henderson Crane, 88, died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, at The Chesapeake. She was born Aug. 10, 1923, to Clinton and Muriel Henderson in Okmulgee County, Okla., and raised in Beggs, Okla. Mrs. Crane had been a Virginia resident off and on since her marriage to Coy A. Crane in 1955. They lived in Tripoli, Libya, and three years in Augsburg, Germany, while Mr. Crane served in the U.S. Army. They moved from Williamsburg to "The Chesapeake" in 2003. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Oklahoma College for Women and did graduate work at Oklahoma State University.
Lorene M. Wehling age 86, a resident of Albuquerque since 1964 died Saturday, September 17, 2011 after a short illness. She is survived by her husband of 65 years, Patrick L. Wehling; children, Pat Wehling, Jr. and wife, Ruth Anne, Mary Pedersen and husband, Dennis, Joe Wehling and wife, Debra, Chris Wehling, and Matt Wehling; four grandchildren, Jessica, Luke, Emma and Alice; step-granddaughter, Shayla Heavner; sister, Carlene Sanders and husband, Marvin; numerous nieces and nephews; and many other relatives and friends. Lorene was preceded in death by her parents, Fred H. and Veronica M.
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Bacteria growing in far-red light use a previously unknown process for harvesting energy and producing oxygen from sunlight, a research team led by a Penn State scientist has discovered. The discovery lays the foundation for further research aimed at improving plant growth, harvesting energy from the Sun, and understanding dense blooms like those now occurring on Lake Erie and other lakes worldwide. A paper describing the discovery was published in the Science Express edition of the journal Science on Aug. 21.