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Officials on Tuesday laid out details for the new dunnhumbyUSA headquarters building. It will have 250,000 square feet for offices and more than double its workforce of 520 employees, providing another boost to downtown revitalization.
The company is a 2003 joint venture of Cincinnati-based grocer Kroger Co. and a London-based firm that analyzes loyalty card use and other consumer behavior for retailers and consumer products makers, including Macy's and Procter & Gamble Co.
The private, nonprofit Cincinnati Center City Development Corp. would own and operate the building's first floor with retail space. The plans include job creation tax incentives from the city and the state of Ohio.
Mayor Mark Mallory said it's the latest development that's good for both Cincinnati and the state. Cincinnati has been adding restaurants and shops along its riverfront and plans to build a streetcar system that he says will draw visitors and more development. Critics have said the streetcar plan will be a waste of money and some say there is too much focus on downtown while other city neighborhoods need attention.
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"Dunnhumby is taking off, exploding in analytics, as cool as it gets," Kasich said. He urged the dozens of employees on hand to tell their fellow "young, smart, hip" friends who live elsewhere to join them in Ohio.
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SAN ANTONIO -- ABC announcer and Hall of Fame guard Magic Johnson said off the air Wednesday he is "shocked by the way" LeBron James played in Game 3 of the NBA Finals and implored him to stop deferring as much to teammates.
Johnson also said that regardless of the results of these Finals, the Heat needs to change its roster.
"No matter what happens, things have to change with this team," Johnson said on a conference call. "Everyone has caught up to them. Teams are not afraid of them. They have adjusted to the Big 3."
Asked how losing the Finals would hurt James' legacy, Johnson said: "It may take a little hit, but I don't think much. What I think you may see is the end of the Big 3."
But the dismantling of the Big 3 this offseason would seem unlikely. Though James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh can exercise opt-out clauses in the summer of 2014, Bosh has said he wants to spend the rest of his career here and Wade's affinity for South Florida and the Heat is well-established.
The Heat also believes James is happy here.
As for James' play in this series, Johnson said he "has to score points. He's still trying to get everybody involved. That can't be his game plan. Dwyane Wade is what he is now. You know he can't give you 25, 30 points. … Chris Bosh is great player but not a dominant force. … You are a dominant force! He should know that when you come on the road, you can't expect Mario Chalmers to score 19 points. …
"He has to take a more assertive role as far as scoring, especially in the [first half]. I want him to be more like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan than like me. This is the worst team Miami could play — they play so well together."
James shot 2 for 14 outside the paint in Game 3 and is 7 for 30 on those shots (23.3 percent) in this series. Should James keep taking those shots or should he try to force the issue against a Spurs defense that is determined not to allow him to penetrate?
"You've got to do a combination," Johnson said, emphasizing the need for James to get out in transition. "On the half-court side, he knows guys are sliding over. He can't go all the way to the basket. Pull up for a five-, eight-, 10-footer. Hit that midrange shot."
The Heat was outscored by 32 points with James in the game Tuesday, the worst plus/minus of his career. What's more, he had no free-throw attempts for the first time in a game since December 2009.
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• Ray Allen said the responsibility of fixing the problems that plagued the Heat in Game 3 extend beyond the players.
"Our coaches have to do a better job of getting D-Wade more involved, getting C.B. more involved," he said. " Mike Miller had a great game, but we didn't really look for him down the stretch."
• After scoring 22 points combined in the first half of the past two games, Wade has managed just four combined in the past two second halves, on 2-for-11 shooting, including 2 for 8 in Game 3.
"I got some shots in the second half that I liked — I just missed them," he said. "Second half, we all need to be better."
Asked if there's a correlation between his knee injury and second-half production, Wade said: "If it is, I won't tell you."
• Chalmers said there was "dead silence" among Heat players during Wednesday's 60-minute review of the Game 3 film. What was clear in the film, Bosh said, is "we didn't give the effort we needed to give. It's really embarrassing to be a part of."
• The Big 3 combined to average 64.6 points per game during the regular season. They're averaging 43.3 in this series.
• The Heat has won 11 games in a row after losses, by an average margin of 19.7 points. And Miami has followed its five previous playoff losses with wins by margins of 37, 18, 11, 23 and 19.
• The Heat's 36-point drubbing not only was its most lopsided loss in the Big 3 era, but also the third-worst loss in NBA Finals history.

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Modern Milliners Find A Mentor In Stephen Jones-------
I'm a history buff, so I get a kick out of being able to date the moments when things change. It's easy in fashion, which is already glued to a calendar. Five years ago, Stephen Jones curated an exhibition devoted to hats, at the Victoria & Albert Museum. "Without that exhibition, I don't know what the hat industry in the UK would be," said milliner William Chambers the other day at Somerset House, where he was one of the designers in the Jones-curated Headonism initiative, a joint effort by the British Fashion Council and Royal Ascot to support the art and craft of millinery. The Royal Ascot—the most famous racing event in the equestrian calendar—is just as famous for its batty hats as it is for its horses. And the Headonists get to show their work not just during London fashion week but also to a captive audience at Ascot itself.
For a millinery master like Stephen Jones, Ascot is a major payday. He'll make one thousand hats for race-goers. And it's typical of the sweetest soul in fashion that he would want to share the wealth by curating something like Headonism. "There was no one to show me," he says, "So it's great to choose people who are really good and give them a little bit of help."
This year, the chosen five included Piers Atkinson, already famous for ADR's cherry headpiece. Though business has been booming for him, especially in the Far East, Atkinson is worried about the effect success might have on his creative freedom. He needn't bother just yet. What he showed at Headonism mixed Alphonse Mucha's art nouveau, the Manchu dynasty, a 2-D jigsaw-puzzle headdress inspired by Russian royalty, and a floor-length extravagance of ripped tulle, feathers, and fringing (above) that had Gaga written all over it.
Emma Yeo, in her first season as a hatter, laser-cut and molded wood to replicate the ethereal structure of moths' wings (above). The technology defied comprehension. Defiance was also key to Aurora Ozma's headgear. "Plan what you're wearing around my hats," said the rock 'n' roll moll, whose quiff embodied the architectural essence of her designs. Eloise Moody's work, the most traditional, carried a torch for her hat-wearing granddad.
"I don't want people to turn out some old stuff I did," said Jones as he looked around a roomful of his spiritual children. "They're doing things I would never have thought about." And yet they wouldn't be there if it wasn't for him. It was a rare and generous fashion moment when Piers Atkinson said, "Stephen Jones is everything." It truly couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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No ifs, ands, or buts about it: The Brits love their hats. And, seeing as they're fond of supporting emerging designers, it makes sense the London fashion crew would champion bright new milliners, too. (After all, they need something to wear with their up-and-comer-designed duds.) Curated by Stephen Jones and supported by the Royal Ascot (which hosts the most hat-tastic horse race in the UK, and possibly the world), the four-year-old initiative welcomes three new milliners this season—Aurora (designed by Aurora Ozma), Emma Yeo, and Moody and Farrell (designed by Eloise Moody, whose work is pictured, left). They join veterans Piers Atkinson and William Chambers. "The Fall '13 Headonism milliners usher in a new wave of excitement in millinery, combining London's individuality and fine craftsmanship," Jones told Style.com. "These three [new designers] complement perfectly the astounding talents of the witty Piers Atkinson and poetic William Chambers." Headonism's Fall '13 hatters will unveil their new collections at an exhibition at Somerset House on the first day of London fashion week, which begins on February 15.


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Bills moving through the House of Delegates could increase the speed limit on one section of the West Virginia Turnpike and make failure to wear a seat belt a primary offense. But only one of those bills made it out of the House Roads and Transportation Committee.
House Bill 2108, sponsored by Delegate Barbara Fleischauer, D-Monongalia, would make it a primary offense for motor vehicle operators and passengers to not wear a seat belt — something that is currently a secondary offense. If the bill passes the Legislature, it means law enforcement can stop a vehicle and fine a driver for failure to wear a seat belt. Those who don't wear a seat belt will face a $25 fine.
Some members of the committee questioned during the Feb. 20 why a bill is necessary. In the past, West Virginia has ranked high in the number of drivers who wear their seat belts.
"But for the past four or five years it's been declining," said Bob Tipton, director of the Governor's Highway Safety Program. "It's been going down."
Delegate Daryl Cowles, R-Morgan, pointed out during the meeting that 84.9 percent of residents wear their seat belts, which is in line with the national average. States with high seat belt usage rates can qualify for some federal safety grants. Cowles asked Tipton if he supported the bill because it would bring in federal money or because it could potentially save lives.
"I think it definitely will increase usage of seat belts and there is no question it will save lives and prevent injuries," Tipton responded.
"In every state that passes a primary law, the usage rate does go up," he later added. "By how much I couldn't tell you, but I would say 5-7 percent."
An amendment to the bill would allow those with medical conditions and mail truck operators to be exempted from the law. The bill passed out of committee, as amended, 14-4 and will now go to the House Judiciary Committee.
The Roads and Transportation Committee also looked at legislation that would increase the speed limit on the West Virginia Turnpike between the Chelyan and Mossy exits. The speed limit on that nearly 30-mile stretch of road is currently 60 miles per hour, but the speed limit on other parts of the road is 70 miles per hour. House Bill 2472 would increase the speed limit between the Chelyan and Mossy exits.
Greg Barr, the general manager of the West Virginia Parkways Authority, said the state's commissioner of highways sets the speed limits on the Turnpike. In 1998, Gov. Cecil Underwood appointed a highway safety task force to study the effects of lowering the speed limit on that stretch of road from 70 miles per hour to 60 after several accidents took place, most involving tractor-trailers.
"If you don't drive it very often from mile post 60 Mossy to mile post 86 Chelyan, there are a lot of slopes and curves — very curvy," Barr said.
That's partly because that section of road was designed in the late 1970s to early 1980s, a time when the federal government required a speed limit of 55 miles per hour. That stretch of road is engineered for a speed limit of 60 miles per hour. Underwood's task force placed advisory signs at 33 curves on the road, reducing the speed limit to 55 miles per hour in those places.
One delegate asked about the possibility of a split speed limit — 70 miles per hour for cars and 60 miles per hour for big trucks. Barr said that could cause even more problems.
"The task force looked into that," he said. "They thought if they left it at 65 for cars and 60 for trucks, it would lower the amount of turnovers."
But, Barr said, split speed limits means cars would be more likely to weave in and out to pass by slower tractor-trailers. Nearly 20 percent of Turnpike traffic is tractor-trailers, so weaving cars would create a bigger safety issue.
Delegate Linda Good Philips, D-Wyoming, moved to table the bill until the committee could devote more time to the issue. The bill did not move from committee.


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Now it's starting to get interesting. As the NFL season rolls into its final quarter, the Vikings have hurtled into a dramatic, if unanticipated, position: the confines of a playoff race -- and with it, talk of tiebreakers, strength of schedules and "if-then" scenarios.
A month ago, who would have thunk it?
"We would have thought that," tight end Jermaine Wiggins said Monday, a day after the Vikings improved their record to 7-5 with a 21-16 victory at Detroit. "[The media] wouldn't have thought it. We definitely thought we had the ability even if everybody else didn't."
Yet even after winning five consecutive games and six of seven, the Vikings remain on the fringe of the NFC wild-card chase. Now that Seattle has clinched the NFC West, five of the top six teams vying for the NFC's remaining playoff spots hold a tiebreaker advantage over the Vikings; only the New York Giants (8-4) would lose a wild-card tiebreaker if they finish the season with the same record as the Vikings.
While there is much to be decided, the Vikings almost certainly must win three of their remaining four games and possibly finish 4-0 to ensure a playoff spot.
And while Chicago maintains a two-game lead in the NFC North, the Vikings tiebreaker situation makes a division championship their clearest path to the postseason.
"Our focus isn't on the wild card," linebacker Keith Newman said. "Our focus is to win the NFC North. That's our No. 1 goal, first and foremost. ... The easiest way to ensure ourselves of a playoff spot is to take each Sunday at a time for the next four weeks and get a victory. If we do that, at 11-5 we'll be in the playoffs. But if we're going to rely on tiebreakers or we need this to happen or that to happen, then we'll find ourselves on the outside looking in."
The final push must begin Sunday against St. Louis, a team that has trounced the Vikings in their past three meetings by a combined score of 137-83. In those three games -- the 1999 divisional playoff contest, along with regular-season matchups in 2000 and 2003, all in St. Louis -- the Rams have amassed 1,370 yards of offense. Their quarterbacks have completed 81 percent of their passes, running back Marshall Faulk has produced 422 total yards and six touchdowns, and the Rams receiving duo of Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce has combined for 37 receptions and 595 yards.
Although the architect of that offense, coach Mike Martz, is on medical leave and has been replaced by Joe Vitt, the numbers gave Vikings coach Mike Tice plenty of motivational ammunition Monday. The Vikings will play three of their remaining four games at the Metrodome, but Tice made vague threats Monday about players who peer into the crystal ball.
"Players will not be allowed to look ahead if I can help it," Tice said. "I don't want to hear any discussion about anything other than the Rams. I think they'll adhere to that advice, or they should. If they don't, we'll see what type of penalties we'll employ. But we will not allow anybody to look ahead past St. Louis."
For the players, perhaps. Media? It's a free country.
The Vikings in essence are the NFC's eighth seed in a six-team playoff field. Their early-season losses to Tampa Bay (8-4), Carolina (9-3) and Atlanta (7-5) mean they must finish with better records to beat out any of them for a playoff spot. The Vikings also currently trail Dallas (7-5) because the Cowboys have a better conference record (6-3) than the Vikings (6-4).
Leapfrogging three teams during a four-game stretch is conceivable, but statistically it might be more difficult than snatching the division from Chicago. The Bears play three of their final four games on the road, including Sunday's matchup against Pittsburgh and consecutive games at Green Bay and the Vikings to finish the season.
Even if Bears win their next two games, the Vikings can set up a division title game Jan. 1 if they win their next three and Chicago loses Dec. 25 to the Packers.
"We have to think about [winning out]," Vikings safety Darren Sharper said. "You can't let it take over your thinking, because you have to concentrate on your next opponent. But in the back of your mind, you are thinking, 'If this team loses, hopefully we can gain a game.' We always are watching Chicago to see if they have dropped a game or to see who they're playing.
"The thing is, we can control our own destiny if we continue to win. That's something we haven't had around here in a while."
Who would have thunk it?
"If at first you don't succeed, parachuting is not for you"
Re: Vikings: Playoffs!? Well, if they win ...
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Jermaine Wiggins claims that the Vikings can win every game between now and the Super Bowl.
And then win the Super Bowl.
"I definitely think we can do those things," the Vikings' tight end said. "It's been done before."
Wiggins was on the 2001 New England Patriots, who won nine in a row, including the Super Bowl, after a 5-5 start. The Vikings already have won five straight after starting 2-5. To win the Super Bowl, they would need a win streak of 12 games, 13 if they're a wild card.
I don't see the Vikings catching the Chicago Bears in the NFC North or reaching the Super Bowl. I do see them in the playoffs as a wild card.
Once in the playoffs, they'll be a dangerous team and win a game or two. They'll beat anyone in the NFC except Seattle or Carolina. The Bears have a terrific defense, but their lack of offense will make them vulnerable in the playoffs.
The Vikings' defense, the catalyst for the five-game streak, will be better come playoff time because Fred Smoot and Kevin Williams will return. The offense will be improved, too. Brad Johnson gets more productive each week. Nate Burleson, now that he's healthy, and Koren Robinson, now that he understands the offense, will scald defenses.
"Yeah, we'll be explosive," coach Mike Tice said. "We're starting to gain some rhythm offensively."
They're gaining on the NFC teams with better records, too.
"I've been around long enough to know, in order to win championships, you have to have a lot of guys who might not do things great but do things well,' Wiggins said. "I think we have that."
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When we build machines, we turn hyperthreading off in the BIOS. We normally run AutoCAD 2011. But on a machine that is running Revit 2013 and AutoCAD 2013, does it make better use of hyperthreading? Is it better in general performance for Revit or only for rendering, which we don't do a lot of?
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I would suggest testing both scenarios, and see which works best in your environment.
Hyperthreading will divide each processor/core into two virtual processors, which will double the number of "processors" available to programs. However, the performance of each virtual processor would be less than the physical processor. There is a tradeoff between the number of tasks that can be performed and the speed at which each task can be performed.
The following blog posting talks about some additional multi-threaded actions (beyond rendering):
Note: The multi-threaded commands noted are enabled by default in the current version of Revit (no need to manually enable as described in the link above).
While looking into this, I also found this interesting article that describes why scaling performance with multiple cores is not a straightforward task when dealing with non-discreet tasks:
Thanks for the reply. The blog post was insightful.
Can you recommend a good benchmark program or script?
This wikihelp page lists the actions in Revit which benifit from hyper threading.
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In his second semester at the University of Maine, Louis Fortin switched his major from computer science to anthropology to study history and cultures.
Three years later, the Monmouth, Maine, native was in southern Peru's Andes Mountains, assisting with research by one of the world's leading authorities on South America's earliest inhabitants and the influence of climate on their cultural development.
Fortin was a field assistant to the UMaine research team led by UMaine Professor of Anthropology and Quaternary Studies Daniel Sandweiss. Also on that summer 2004 expedition were undergraduate Benjamin Morris and graduate student Kurt Rademaker.
As part of an ongoing investigation, the archaeologists are studying prehistoric settlements to learn how the first inhabitants arrived and lived in South America. In particular, the researchers are looking for links between coastal and highland paleoindians.
Among their findings at a 3,700-year-old excavation site near Alca were ground stone tools that still had traces of maize and vegetation from the Amazon. The discovery confirmed that highlands inhabitants consumed corn 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. It also opened the possibility of interaction between people of the Andes and the Amazon.
That first summer of fieldwork, Fortin learned about the history and culture of paleoindians and their descendants, including their use of obsidian, the volcanic glass made into weapons and tools.
For the past two summers, Fortin worked in Peru with Rademaker and glacial geologist Gordon Bromley, both UMaine Ph.D. students in the Climate Change Institute, and Claire Todd of the University of Washington, doing field surveys of the glaciated volcanic mountains. Amid the glacial landforms of Peru's Nevado Firura and Nevado Coropuna, the team mapped archaeological sites, which are among the world's highest elevation paleoindian settlements.
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The Middleburg Film Festival offers four days of fantastic films in a spectacular setting, only 30 minutes from Dulles International Airport and just one hour from Washington, D.C. A carefully curated selection of narrative and documentary films will screen in an intimate theatre environment, followed by fascinating Q and A's with world-renowned filmmakers and actors. The films include festival favorites, premieres, and Academy Award contenders.
Festival attendees will also be able to experience the natural beauty, food, wine, and warm hospitality of Middleburg during morning hikes and horseback rides through the glorious Piedmont countryside… at late afternoon wine-tastings at local vineyards... strolling through the historic town… and engaging in casual conversations with filmmakers while enjoying the best of Virginia cuisine at local restaurants.
The festival kicks off with a festive "Meet the Artists" dinner where guests can enjoy an evening with distinguished filmmakers and actors. Other events include Panel Discussions, Interactive Workshops, One-on-One Conversations with filmmakers and industry representatives, and of course lots of great Parties! The festival will close with a special "Awards Brunch" – recognizing the audience's favorite films of the festival.
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I want to personally invite you to join me this fall to see some wonderful films in a truly spectacular setting. The Middleburg Film Festival is an exciting opportunity to celebrate two of my favorite things by bringing the best in independent film right here to the town I love.
As an avid filmgoer, film producer, and member of the Sundance Institute, I've seen over and over the power of films. Movies have a rare and magical ability to inspire, to educate, to engage and entertain. They lift us up out of our everyday lives, help us see others' points of view, and build new bridges of empathy and understanding.
This festival will showcase independent films selected for their exceptional craft and creativity. These visionary films push boundaries, challenge convention, and often try things no one else has dared to dream.
And where better to host a film festival than Middleburg, Virginia, one of the most beautiful places on earth?
Middleburg has been my home for over fifteen years. I can't wait to give people from all over the world one more reason to visit this very special region. And I'm delighted that the Middleburg community will have the opportunity to experience some truly extraordinary films together.
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ANDERSON — The fourth quarter Sunday at famed Candlestick Park began ominously.
Clinging to a 13-7 lead with his offense facing fourth-and-9 at San Francisco's 33-yard line, Colts head coach Chuck Pagano sent in the kicking team. The venerable stadium is notorious as a wind cavern, and the gusts pushed Adam Vinatieri's 51-yard attempt wide to the left.
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Instead of mounting a demoralizing comeback, Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers were limited to just seven plays on their next two possessions. And by the time San Francisco got the football back for a 10-play march with 2:55 remaining, the Colts already had put their 27-7 victory on ice.
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Running back Ahmad Bradshaw powered in from the 1 three plays later, and San Francisco was on its way to back-to-back losses for the first time in head coach Jim Harbaugh's three-year tenure.
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text: Inside Google+ - how the search giant plans to go social Technology 29 June 11 by Steven Levy Tweet Wired.com Google, the world's largest search company, is formally making its pitch to become a major force in social networking. The product it announced on Tuesday is called Google+, and observers might wonder whether it's simply one more social effort by a company that's had a lousy track record in that field to date.Parts of it certainly seem to appear similar to what we've seen before. One significant component is a continuous scroll called "the stream" that's an alternative to Facebook's news feed -- a hub of personalised content. It has a companion called "Sparks," related to one's specified interests. Together they are designed to be a primary attention-suck of Google users. Google hopes that eventually people will gravitate to the stream in the same way that members of Facebook or Twitter constantly check those continuous scrolls of personalised information.The second important app is Circles, an improved way to share information with one's friends, family, contacts and the public at large. It's an management tool that's a necessary component of any social network -- a way to organise (and recruit) fellow members of the service.But as I learned in almost year of following the project's development, with multiple interviews with the team and its executives, Google+ is not a typical release. Developed under the code name Emerald Sea, it is the result of a lengthy and urgent effort involving almost all of the company's products. Hundreds of engineers were involved in the effort. It has been a key focus for new CEO Larry Page.The parts announced Tuesday represent only a portion of Google's plans. In an approach the company refers to as "rolling thunder," Google has been quietly been pushing out pieces of its ambitious social strategy -- there are well over 100 launches on its calendar. When some launches were greeted by yawns, the Emerald Sea team leaders weren't ruffled at all -- lack of drama is part of the plan. Google has consciously refrained from contextualising those products into its overall strategy.That will begin now, with the announcement of the two centerpieces of Google+. But even this moment -- revealed in a blog post that marks the first limited "field tests" outside the company -- will be muted, because it marks just one more milestone in a long, tough slog to remake Google into something more "people-centric.""We're transforming Google itself into a social destination at a level and scale that we've never attempted -- orders of magnitude more investment, in terms of people, than any previous project," says Vic Gundotra, who leads Google's social efforts.Some think the battle is already lost. Bloggers and critics opine that social software just isn't in Google's DNA. Google is all about algorithms, they say, not interactions between humans. And where's Larry Page's Facebook profile? (Sergey Brin does have one, under a pseudonym that unmistakably points to its owner.)But Googlers working on Emerald Sea note that the company has a lot advantages to play on the fields of social networking. Hundreds of millions of users, the vast majority of whom trust the company. Unparalleled mastery of determining relevant information. A vault filled with cash, to buy small companies (Aardvark, Picnik, Slide) that have gained a foothold in a given social activity.To grasp the significance of this for Google, you must get past a corporate quarantine and catch a glimpse of the giant hand-painted mural that greets those very few visitors granted access to enter to the fourth floor of Building 2000 on the Google campus, which was an early hub of the initiative.The mural has been there for a year now. On first glance, the artwork, on a wall facing the two elevators, is a frightening mash up of a J.M.W. Turner painting and a storyboard for a scene from The Perfect Storm. It depicts a tumescent oceanscape, dominated by a wall of surf that is about to upturn a pitiful sailing ship.The image was discovered by Google VP of product management Bradley Horowitz when he opened Google Image Search and typed "Emerald Sea" -- which had just been chosen as the project code name. The first result, a depiction of an 1878 painting created by German immigrant artist Albert Bierstadt, so impressed Horowitz that he commissioned a pair of art students to copy it on the wall facing the fourth floor elevators. That way, the hundreds of workers contributing to Emerald Sea would draw inspiration as they headed to their computers to remake Google into a major social networking force.The massive wave symbolises the ways Google views the increasingly prominent social aspect of the web -- as a possible tsunami poised to engulf it, or a maverick surge that it will ride to glory. Beirstadt's turbulent vision is the perfect illustration. "We needed a code name that captured the fact that either there was a great opportunity to sail to new horizons and new things, or that we were going to drown by this wave," Gundotra said last August, when Google first showed me a prototype.Did he say drown? It almost beggars belief that the king of the search -- the most successful internet business ever, with $30 billion in yearly revenue -- would be running scared by the social networking trend led by Facebook, a company that barely rakes in a few billion. Nonetheless, people at Google feel that retooling to integrate the social element isn't a luxury. It's a necessity. As early as last August, I asked Gundotra whether he felt Emerald Sea was a bet-the-company project."I think so," he replied. "I don't know how you can look at it any other way." Google still wants to organise the world's information. But this time, it's personal. Read page 2 1234567 Read on one page Comments This will be great. 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14 Jan 2013
I asked Lilla about her Annie audition and she remembered that after her last one, she didn't hear anything for a few weeks. One day, her mom picked her up at school early because her agent told her she had to film a PSA. On the way to her agents to film it, her mom kept getting different texts with conflicting information: Lilla got the PSA or she had to audition for the PSA but she had it anyway, etc. It was confusing and bizarre. Lilla brought two different outfits to wear but her agents said her school clothes were fine. They set up a camera to film her. Mom took Lilla's younger sister into the waiting room so they wouldn't disturb the filming. The agents thought her mom was coming back, so they waited 15 minutes. Finally, they went to get her and, even though her mom was saying Lilla's younger sister might make noise, they told her they wanted her in the room. Her manager started filming and asking Lilla random questions about dogs and suddenly her manager said, "How does it feel to be playing Annie on Broadway?" Lilla was about to respond that she wasn't playing Annie, she had only auditioned, but before she could speak, her agent yelled, "You got the part!!!"
Yes, the whole thing had been a set up to see Lilla's reaction. Apparently, every orphan was filmed being told that they were cast! I'm sort of obsessed at how not well-thought out it was: confusing information about whether or not she got the PSA, awkwardly waiting for her mom/younger sister to return, her mom being told it was fine if there was noise while they were filming, and then before Lilla could respond about how she felt, her agent blurting out the news. I guess that's why agents agent and Ken Burns makes documentaries.
Lilla finished the Chatterbox by singing her amazing rendition of "Disneyland" (that she did at the New Year's Eve Marvin Hamlisch salute at Lincoln Center). The entire interview/performance is available at SethTV.com. (At this week's Chatterbox, the Broadway vet with 1,000 stories, Phyllis Newman! Get info at SethsBroadwayChatterbox.com.)
And soon I'll be announcing a fun project I'm doing in New York during the month of March with some other Broadway folk. So make sure to keep every single date free, please. Peace out!
(Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon Broadway host on SiriusXM. He has played piano for over 15 Broadway shows, was Grammy-nominated for his concert CD of Hair and Emmy-nominated for being a comedy writer on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." He has written two novels, "Broadway Nights" and "My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan," which are also available at Audible.com. He recently launched SethTV.com, where you can contact him and view all of his videos and his sassy new reality show.)


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An administrative hearing for a Dougherty County school teacher accused of hitting a student results in a board recommendation to suspend her for 30 days without pay.
She must also attend an anger management course, be reassigned to another school and also be placed on probation once she goes back to work.
The action was taken after the school board produced a video which appears to have captured the act. However, the board voted against the superintendent's recommendation to terminate her.
Tracy Drayton, a P.E. teacher at Turner Elementary, was removed from the classroom after she was accused of slapping a kindergartner across the face on October 2nd.
Howard Stiller, Drayton's attorney, says she did use an open hand to hit the girl. He says she had a momentary lapse in judgement, and that the child has had some behavior problems.
Flin Coleman, the Dougherty County School System attorney, showed board members video clips of P. E. classes at Turner Elementary, one of which shows Drayton striking a student. Another clip shows Drayton pulling that student across the gym.
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The California prison guards' union – one of the state's richest and most reviled special-interest groups – is funding a multi-million-dollar attack on Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act. The prison guards' newest ally is Jerry Brown, attorney general, former governor of California and former mayor of Oakland.
The prison guards, however, oppose Prop. 5. They don't like the math. Fewer prisoners will mean fewer jobs and less overtime pay for prison guards. Today we released a new ad that will be running throughout the state that shows how the prison guards are sabotaging California's future for their own self interest.
Prop. 5 would also forestall massive new prison construction. For taxpayers, that means saving $2.5 billion for each new prison that is no longer needed. For the guards, however, fewer prisons will mean less staff to run them – and possibly fewer new dues-paying members in the future. This is bad news for a union with burgeoning membership that boasts higher annual take-home pay than the governor. To put it bluntly, the prison guards' union is built on the backs of human beings in cages.
Attorney General Jerry Brown's role in all this is the most perplexing. He is either taking progressives for granted or figures they'll give him a pass for cozying up to the prison guards and fighting a measure that offers drug treatment and a second chance to young people, nonviolent offenders and prisoners.
Since I am a co-author of Prop. 5, Jerry contacted me a couple of weeks back. Said he wanted to talk about Proposition 5. He called me on my cell phone while I was participating in a panel discussion about California's prison crisis sponsored by UC Berkeley. I decided to duck out of the symposium. Months earlier, I had reached out to Jerry to discuss the details of Prop. 5, but those calls went unreturned. I figured that, if Jerry Brown was now ready to talk about Prop. 5, that would be a good use of my time.
"OK," I say, "let's talk." Turns out, Jerry doesn't want to chat about public policy. He wants to vent. He lectures me for five minutes about how, when he's governor, he'll solve the state's decades-old prison crisis in his first month in office. He neglects to mention that the roots of the prison crisis date back to his first stint as governor.
The prison guards' union is built on the backs of human beings in cages. Jerry Brown is cozying up to the prison guards and fighting a measure that offers drug treatment and a second chance to young people, nonviolent offenders and prisoners.
Jerry pounces: "Prop. 5 is anti-democratic," he complains. I tell him that that's an odd attack, particularly when Prop. 5 creates an independent citizen's oversight commission, appointed by the legislature and governor, to bring transparency and change to the state's prison system. And what could be more democratic than a voter initiative?
Jerry switches tack. He argues that Prop. 5 deprives him – and by "him" it is clear Jerry means the next governor of California – of too much power over prisons. I ask him whether he's actually read Prop. 5. No response. I note that Prop. 5 in fact allows the governor to appoint two officials to head up the state's prison and parole agency, not just the one allowed under current law. The governor also gets to appoint more than half the members of new oversight panels that, in turn, must run public hearings, take public comment and publish audits and reports on their activities. These panels provide new levels of transparency and accountability for prisons and for treatment programs statewide.
Jerry gets flustered. His angry pit-bull persona dissolves into more of a wet pug. "But the drug court judges oppose you," he stammers. "True," I respond. "But their opposition, like the prosecutors and prison guards, is ideological, not evidence-based." I continue, "All of the state's leading drug treatment and medical professionals – the folks who know the most about delivering substance abuse and mental health services to this population – support Prop. 5." Also, recalling Jerry's "anti-democratic" blast earlier, I note that the drug court judges voted to oppose Prop. 5 when their partners in the treatment community were out of the room.
Jerry wants off the phone. "Okay. Listen. This thing is complicated," he says. "I need you to walk me through Prop. 5, line by line, so I can understand what you are doing here."
"Great," I say. "How about we talk later today or tonight, right after this prison symposium is over. I can meet you or go over it by phone." Jerry gives me his mobile number.
Later that evening, I call Jerry. No response.
I call Jerry more than a dozen times over the next week, not only on the cell number he gave me, but also on two other numbers I have for him. I call every morning and every afternoon. I leave messages. Jerry has my home, office and wife's cell phone numbers. He knows what time I pick up and drop off my son at kindergarten. Still no word from Jerry. I'm starting to think the facts don't matter, despite his entreaty to grapple with the details of Prop. 5.
Two weeks later, Jerry accidentally answers his cell phone while getting in his car to go to Sacramento. It's me. "Let's talk," I say. Jerry sounds bummed that he forgot to check caller ID. He says, "Can't talk now. I'll call you tonight at home." I say, "Great. No hour is too late." I give him my numbers again.
Jerry doesn't call.
But Jerry was working the phones, after all. He's done a press conference for No on 5. He's inserted himself into the campaign, courtesy of the prison guards. They are now listed as among the largest contributors to "Jerry Brown 2010." Their biggest gift to date: $825,000 worth of TV time starting this week for No-on-5 ads starring Jerry.
If those ads help Jerry, he'll move one step closer to becoming CEO of one of the largest, most expensive and worst-performing penal colonies in the world. History suggests that in 2010 he will need some help with his prison problems. I don't trust him to make the right call.
Daniel Abrahamson is the director of Legal Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance Network and co-author of Prop. 5. This story originally appeared on The Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-abrahamson/jerrys-brown-nosin-with-c_b_139293.html. Bay View staff contributed to this story.
6 thoughts on "Jerry's Brown-nosin' with California's prison guards"
Tim Hughes
Thanks for this enlightening article. I feel the time is right to take on the prison guards union and this story inspires me to help in that struggle. The next step is to vote no on Prop. 5.↓
Annie Garrison
Thanks. I voted for 5, but this reminds me to go see what happened, amidst all the fury about Prop 8. Jerry Brown is a pain in the ass, to say the least.↓
Annie Garrison
Thanks. I voted for 5, but this reminds me to go see what happened, amidst all the fury about Prop 8.↓
Annie Garrison
I accidentally left the long and short versions of the last comment, but here's the election result:
Meanwhile, 60% of voters said no to Proposition 5, which promised treatment as an alternative to incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders. Another measure, Proposition 6, which called for nearly $1 billion in annual law-enforcement spending, was the ballot's biggest flop. Nearly 70% voted against it.
I am totally behind all the people outraged about Prop 8′s passage, but I've gotta say that the huge amount of press that has gone to Prop 8′s defeat, and the very little given to Prop 5′s defeat, says a lot about who has a voice and who doesn't, in California.↓
Hi. I am a compensated freelance writer for Environemntal Graffiti. I would like to use the above pic of overcrowding in an article about unusual prisons I am writing.With your permission, I would link you, the link, the site, an any other pertinent info to the pic. Please let me know asap.
Asher Kade↓


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