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The Creative Process with Tien Chiu
Sun, Apr 7, 2013
Times: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: American Textile History Museum
491 Dutton Street, Lowell, MA 01854Contact:
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Tien Chiu, a fiber artist specializing in hand-woven couture, spent a year designing and weaving her own wedding gown, on display in ATHM's special exhibition, "Behind the Veil: Brides and their Dresses," an intimate look at generations of wedding dresses and the women who wore them. Learn about the process of designing and creating original works through Tien's inspiring story. Visit Tien's blog at http://www.creatingcraft.com for more information about her work.
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First metal cut for Embraer Legacy 500
Embraer cut the first metal for the Legacy 450 and Legacy 500 on April 20 at its São Jose dos Campos, Brazil headquarters. The first component to be manufactured for the fly-by-wire pair of business jets is part of the forward fuselage, to which the radome, radar and glideslope antenna are attached. The Legacy 500 is scheduled for certification in 2012 and the Legacy 450 in 2013.
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A busy northeast Atlanta road reopened at 9:30 a.m., after a tree blocked it for eight hours.
The tree fell across Ponce de Leon Avenue, near Clifton Road. Police received the call around 1:30 a.m. Thursday. It was not clear what caused the tree to fall.
The Georgia Department of Transportation did not get on scene to clear the tree until 5:30 a.m., and by that time, traffic had begun backing up toward Decatur.
A GDOT spokeswoman said no one called them to request assistance in clearing the tree.
"We need to know, and we need to know as soon as possible," said GDOT spokeswoman Natalie Dale.
Dale said it is GDOT's responsibility to maintain state highways like Ponce de Leon Avenue, even if those roads are within Atlanta city limits.
"When there is a tree down on one of our state routes, of course we're going to get out there, take care of it, assess the situation, make sure the people can get to work on time," said Dale. "This is a situation where we just weren't notified."
Drivers faced long delays and detours.
"Definitely inconvenient, to say the least," said Meghan Patel, who was late to work.
The City of Atlanta issued a statement about the lag in response time through their Parks and Recreation Department.
"The Department of Parks and Recreation is working with Atlanta police and our forestry division to investigate why there may have been a delay between when the call was received, and when forestry was contacted," said Director of Parks Doug Voss. "We regret any inconvenience and traffic challenges that this may have caused commuters this morning."
Copyright 2013 WGCL-TV (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved.
The following are mugshots of individuals arrested in May by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee.


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I was accepted into another College/School at UT Austin, but I want to enroll in the School of Architecture. What do I need to do?
Undergraduates currently enrolled in another college or school at The University of Texas at Austin who wish to pursue a major offered by the School of Architecture must submit an internal transfer application. In order to be eligible to apply, students must meet the following requirements:
- Complete at least 24 UT Austin hours in-residence by the end of a spring semester
- Earn at least a 3.25 UT Austin GPA
- Attend ONE of the fall information sessions in GOL 2.308. Fall dates will be posted before the beginning of the fall semester.
- Turn in a completed application by the March 1st deadline
Meeting these requirements does not guarantee admission.
If I am accepted, when and how will I be notified?
Decisions are made after the date all spring grades are posted at the end of the spring semester. You will be notified our decision by email.
How many students are accepted and who is accepted?
The number of internal transfer students admitted is limited and varies from year to year depending upon available space. Emphasis is given to strong performance in university courses, especially classes relevant to the degree program to which the applicant is applying, and to the applicant's written essays.
Can I start taking classes in my desired major?
Yes, UT Austin students who are applying for internal transfer can take certain architecture and interior design courses.
Architecture majors:
- ARC 308 - Architecture and Society
- ARC 318K - History of Architecture, Survey I
- ARC 318L - History of Architecture, Survey II
Interior Design majors:
- ARI 318K, Interiors and Society*
- ARI 318M, Interior Design History I*
- PSY 301, Introduction to Psychology
- ARC 318L, History of Architecture, Survey II
* Requires instructor permission. After permission is received, please contact the Undergraduate Dean's office to be added.
The remainder of your schedule should be filled with courses that fulfill university core requirements.
What are the requirements to be considered as a summer start design student?
Students who intend to begin in the summer must:
- Indicate on the application that they intend to begin the design sequence in the summer and enter the second year of the program the following fall semester
- Register for ARC 310K - Design I, ARC 311K - Visual Communication I, ARC 310L - Design II, and ARC 311L - Visual Communication II during the first summer registration access period in the spring
- Meet the prerequisites (applies only to prospective architecture majors): Credit for M 408C (or at least M 408K) and PHY 302K/102M (or PHY 303K/103M) is required before enrolling in the summer studio coursework.
The summer program consists of both summer sessions. Students are in class from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. every day.
Are there other opportunities I can take part in to prepare?
Yes. Attend The School of Architecture Lunch Forums on Fridays at noon in Battle Hall; attend the School of Architecture Lecture Series. Visit the events calendar for information on these events. You may also get involved in the student organization that interests you.
How long will I be in school to get my degree?
It depends on the degree program you have decided to pursue and whether you begin the design sequence in the summer or fall.


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MORTON, Ill. -- Road construction season is underway.
State officials are asking drivers to be safe during this National Work Zone Awareness Week.
Illinois State Police Troopers said during last year's construction season there were several crashes in the Interstate-74 work zone near Morton, but they are hoping it will be different this year.
Last year in Illinois, there were 4,800 work zone crashes, 1,100 of those involved injuries and 29 people died in construction zone crashes.
The Morton construction zone is the largest road construction project in central Illinois.
State officials are asking all drivers to really think about what they are doing and who is at risk when they are driving through not just there but any work zone.
We all want better roads and bridges. That comes at a cost but it shouldn't cost a life.
"It could be somebody's daughter, somebody's son and once you hit them you can't take that back," said Bob Schroeder of Laborers Local 231. "You can't slow down and you can't not text and you can't do everything that you shouldn't have been doing when you hit them in the first place."
Illinois State Police say they will once again be aggressive in enforcing laws this season.
"Out in the construction zone behind us last year we had some extremely high speeds. We had up to a 96 mph in a 45 mph and that's completely unacceptable," said Illinois State Police Sgt. Dustin Pierce.
Last year, District 8 State Troopers, who cover Peoria, Tazewell, Marshall, Stark and Woodford counties, issued almost 800 work zone speeding tickets. Most of them were near Morton.
"It will take you an extra minute to get through this job site at the posted speed limit," said Ed Walch of Fred Weber, Inc. "I ask you for one extra minute of your time for the safety of yourself and those driving around you."
Troopers also issued nearly 700 tickets to drivers for being on their cell phone in construction zones.
"Think of that message you are sending to those workers when you pick your cell phone up and drive through this job site," Walch said. "You are telling them that you don't have very high regard for their safety or the safety of the people driving around you."
There is still a lot of work ahead for the Morton construction zone. Traffic patterns will constantly be changing until they are completely done in July 2016.
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I'm stuck living in Ohio these days. Imagine the nightmare of being surrounded by Buckeye fans. I swear I have never met a fanbase as delusional as they are about their team's supposed greatness, but I digress.
I do miss Alabama a lot, since they don't apparently know how to cook food up here, and this article reminds me of one of the things I miss the most:
Rib meat and greet at Alabama an absolute Dream
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Young's Dirty Dick's Ale - Young & Co Brewery PLC
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Ratings: 198 | Reviews: 187 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by wyllder:
3.65/5 rDev -0.8%
Pours a clear, caramel amber with a small head that fades away.
Caramel malt on the nose with a slightly yeasty edge.
Taste is pleasant but unremarkable. Somewhat malty and leaves a mildly bitter finish.
Mouthfeel & drinkability are ok. I wouldn't pass it up in the future, but wouldn't go looking for it.
11-01-2004 14:26:01 | More by wyllder
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North Carolina
4/5 rDev +8.7%
Relatively easy to find and thats good so we can taste a good tradiomal brown ale.Good rich brown/amber color,quite a head for the style I rhink but it goes real quick.Toffee is very prevalent in the aroma(Ifind a lotta English dark ales have that trait),along with some biscuit malt.Malty sweet with some hop to throw in there.Real easy to drink I like that the most with this,and its not watery!
03-21-2003 06:53:44 | More by oberon
3.48/5 rDev -5.4%
Appearance Clear, dark orange body with a huge head that went down moderately and laced the glass.
Smell This smells like the billing: a mild, maltry ale. Its almost like a macro in strength, but theres a bit more quality to the aroma.
Taste Yes, this one is very mild. Theres a sweetness that I cant quite make out and a hint of bitter hopping, but mostly the toasty malt tones lead the way here. Again, I should stress, the flavors are very mild.
Mouthfeel Light, fluffy carbonation fills the mouth. I thought this was the one weak spot of the beer.
Drinkability This went down well, mostly due to its effective mix of light malts, some sweetness, and a tinge of hop bitterness. I wouldnt choose to buy it again, but others might enjoy it.
09-04-2003 00:47:12 | More by RoyalT
3.23/5 rDev -12.2%
This was a nice red/orange color with a thick white head, and some slight lacing. It had a fresh, grainy odor, with a little spiciness to it. Actually a pretty good taste, with some initial sweet/hoppiness, followed by a pleasantly bitter hops taste. A pretty good beer, not outstanding, and certainly not bad
04-01-2006 14:16:58 | More by lordofthewiens
4/5 rDev +8.7%
Presentation: 500ml custom Young's brown bottle. No recognizeable freshness date. Stated to be release in March-April of 2000, on the website.
Appearance: Clear ruby/brown/amber with a very healthy, frothy, creamy, off-white head that sticks to the glass.
Smell: A slighy musty smell with a pleasant aroma of hop leaf and malt.
Taste: Light to medium bodied with some malt chewiness. Creamy on the palate, a bit oily (hops). Malt is a bit thinner than most Young brews, but it's still rather complex with light roasted flavours, mild sweetness and a background toasted malt flavour. Yeast flavours are a bit more pronounced coming thru as bready. It mixes well with an earthy raw hop leaf flavour. Hop bitterness complements the level of malt character by providing just the right amount of bitterness to balance. Aftertastes of residual earth/yeast notes and oil notes on the upper mouth.
Notes: 4.1%abv. This is a perfect session ale. Nothing about it is overpowering or stands out as a tastebud landmark, yet it really hits the spot and leaves plenty of room for more. Most enjoyable.
The brew is named after Young's famous pub in Bishopsgate, London, which celebrated its 250th anniversary in 1995. Dirty Dick, whose real name was Nathanial Bentley, was an 18th century regular at the pub, whose reluctance to wash became legendary.
01-14-2001 14:07:03 | More by Todd
New York
4/5 rDev +8.7%
Sampled: Bottle, cellar temperature, pint glass
Deep amber color, fluffy head that thins out quickly to a thin white layer that likes the side of the glass. Caramel malt and toasty/biscuity aroma. Very nice.
I have to agree almost entirely with the previous review as far as flavor profile - he nailed it. Very flavorful for its strength. A touch more bitterness would make it an ideal session beer to my taste. As is, I'd only drink a dozen as opposed to fifteen... <g>
03-31-2002 01:16:33 | More by sponberg
4.1/5 rDev +11.4%
This English Mild pours a clear copper body with a small, but lasting, offwhite head. Active carbonation is apparent and a moderate amount of patch lacing is left on the pint glass.
Aroma is well balanced between sweet ale malts and floral hops.
Mouthfeel is light medium bodied, with even carbonation and a refreshing smoothness. Slight mineral note seems to be calcium.
Very British in taste, with subdued caramel sweetness and leafy floral hop bitterness. Nice balance. Bready malt notes work very well with the floral hops bittering.
Clean and refreshing. Perfect with a few slices of sharp cheddar cheese. Very sessionable with the low abv, but priced kinda steep.
02-06-2005 14:59:25 | More by merlin48
New York
3.73/5 rDev +1.4%
16.9 ouncer bottle, with freshness dating notched onto the label. Pours a dark nutty brown, initially, tons of medium sized bubbles clinging to the glass. Moderate oatmeal head, leaving copious amounts of lacing. Nose is a wiff of cherries, strangely, and some malt in the background. This is a mild, malty brew. Smooth and balanced, clasically British in its approach and attitude. Decent sessioner, to bad we could get this stuff on tap.
04-13-2005 02:50:01 | More by Billolick
3.95/5 rDev +7.3%
Amber in color with a thin head that is gone quickly. The smell is of well balanced hops and malt. The flavor is more of the same. As it warms, the malt comes to the forefront to make it even better, in my opinion. The mouthfeel is thin, the flavor is long lasting, which balances it out. Overall, a very drinkable beer, but not outstanding.
08-26-2002 07:32:12 | More by ryanocerus
2.88/5 rDev -21.7%
Appearance - amber, nice head, lacing left
Aroma - grainy, is that metal?
Taste - Nice start, malty, caramel roastiness. Balanced with hops but I'm getting a bit of a metal taste that took away from the taste overall.
Mouthfeel - Nice carbonation, a bit thin.
Drinkability - a fairly good session beer, good and bad points.
09-17-2008 05:02:20 | More by Dusty278
3.95/5 rDev +7.3%
Perfect head, appealing ruby/brown color. Overall unassuming, but delightful chewy sugary malts, with biscuit and cracker elements. Some earthy hint of potato. Slight hop bitterness makes your mouth want more. This is not Young's finest but their standard is so remarkable that this is still excellent. Hate to say it, but this mild is, well, a little mild. Not tons of flavor and a bit watery in the mouth. Can't see it standing up to anything but the blandest food. However, it seems ideal as an after-work beer, perhaps in autumn when things start to get chilly.
06-04-2002 15:01:58 | More by Thrasher
3.5/5 rDev -4.9%
Are those all 3.5's? That's how it seemed. Slightly better than average all around. Aroma of sweet malt and roasted marshmallow. Copper color with a thin, beige head that lowers itself quickly. Honey-copper colored. Flavor is sweet, and honey laden. Grassy hops, some light brown sugar, with nuances of pear and apple. Little bits of caramel, some sweet yeast. A slight metallic tang detracts. Good mouthfeel, a little slick with some tingly carbonation.
09-14-2003 02:37:56 | More by far333
3.65/5 rDev -0.8%
Just the right pour, nice 1/4 inch head of good character. Cinnamon dark brown color. Aromatic, a little bread, a little mint and "red hot" smell. Flavor is understated, the malt portion is mostly brown sugar with just a little prune, but the hops lend a nice balance. Easy drinking, not incredibly memorable. Look and color are nice, flavor is restrained. Would love to down a few pints at a pub...
08-26-2002 07:52:09 | More by ADR
West Virginia
3.73/5 rDev +1.4%
Appearance: Pours a deep amber tone with a nice decently lived cream colored head lacing forms in complete circlular patterns around my glass very nice looking ale. Aroma: Mild toasted nut tone, rose like floral quality, and a nice formed sweet caramel presence here, absolutely nothing is overdone very good and clean nothing's off here. Taste: Starts sweet with the malt profile then definitely has a sweeping cleanliness across the palate followed by an aftertaste of hop bitterness very nice session ale would like to sample on cask that would be key. Mouthfeel: Very solid texture a bit thin but overall a quality made lighter bodied ale here. Drinkability: Meant to be drank in number by the imperial pint, nothing is overdone but it lacks any special fireworks that make each beer their own for simplicity I love it for a challenging brew I will pass on this one.
10-07-2003 16:41:51 | More by WVbeergeek
3.75/5 rDev +1.9%
(Served in an imperial pint glass)
A- This beer has a dark coppery brown body that is crystal clear and shows of the slow gentle carbonation of tiny bubbles. The head is a smooth creamy light egg shell color that last and last with large bubbles pushing through the surface.
S- The smooth smell of lightly toasted malt with some note of fresh pale malt come through even during the pour. The smell of green floral hops adds a great balance to the malts.
T- This beer has a soft malt taste with a slight nugget taste that follows. The hops had a bitterness that doesn't really show off a hop flavor just a bitterness. There is a light toast note to the malt but the nugget taste starts to taste like a tart earthiness but very faintly as it warms.
M- This beer has a medium-full mouthfeel with some creaminess to the texture.
D- This beer started off really looking and smelling wonderful but it just didn't have the flavor richness and depth to back it up. I have had good low ABV beers that still show the malt and hops but this one just fell a bit short.
02-25-2006 01:13:49 | More by rhoadsrage
3.58/5 rDev -2.7%
A very nice presentation- reddish brown with crystal clarity.
The head is creamy tan. A definitie nuttiness and sweetness in the nose.
Though not intense in flavor there is a well rounded fullness here.
The finish is clean and this mild ale, though not my favorite style, is certainly an excellent choice for a session brew.
04-12-2004 01:49:15 | More by brewQ
New Jersey
3.43/5 rDev -6.8%
"One of the Cheekiest Ales around"
I usually don't drink anything with the words "DIRTY" or "DICK" in it but I like beer so I gave it a try.
- "Not that there's anything wrong with it!"
Appearance- Light amber/ red with a moderate size off white HEAD. small bubbles with a quick dissappation.
Smell- Malt, A faint hoppiness, and a nut aroma. Can't have a DIRTY DICK without some NUTS!?!
Taste- malty, slight bitterness. Slight nutty flavor with a crisp bitterness POKING through.
MOUTHFEEL- carbonated and bubbly. A little bitterness.
Overall, A good session beer. This will be the only Dirty Dick in my mouth!!!
02-23-2004 19:17:27 | More by NJpadreFan
North Carolina
3.65/5 rDev -0.8%
Clear mahongany amber color with white head that fades to a nice thin layer. I've already drank most of this and just started reviewing. Pleasant aroma of sweet barley grains and maybe some subtle campfire. Taste is of toasted smokey malts and a little bit resinous. Very mild flavors with extra carbonation. Medium body, a little oily and quite smooth.
Good for drinking large amounts fast. Nice malts.
03-17-2006 23:30:45 | More by tastybeer
3.93/5 rDev +6.8%
Pours a clear amber with a large tan foamy head. A very nice looking beer,full of color and a head that lasts and leaves great lacing. The smell is full of sweet malt,dark fruit,bread yeast,and some alcohol. The taste is much like the smell,full of sweet roasted malt, a surprisingly high amount of hops,and some candy flavors like carmel. The m/f is light and the flavors mix very well. It's too bad that this is retired because this really is a quality beer that could be a session brew.
04-08-2007 00:56:16 | More by jmz62565
4.1/5 rDev +11.4%
Clear chestnut bodied with a supple chalky white crown.
Wafts of buttered biscuits and perfumed hops, touched with pangs of metal.
Begins with that same toasty biscuit sensation from the nose. Apple preserves and caramel on top. Toffee and dilute butterscotch. Ghostly mild chocolate impression. Adequately and appropriately hopped, in a lightly herbal metallic manner.
On the gentler side of medium bodied. This is a drinker, without question. And a well-done Dark Mild.
10-02-2003 00:22:11 | More by cokes
North Carolina
3.68/5 rDev 0%
Dirty Dick's was a dark brown-amber color with a thin, creamy-beige head and a nice, malty nose. After the first few sips, it had a very nice overall flavor with no trace of bitterness and a soft mouthfeel. As I drank more, my appreciation for the beer waned a touch, as it was a touch too malty for my taste, and grew upon its own aftertaste to almost a suffocating level in my mouth without a hint of crispness to clear it out. Still, I really did enjoy this beer and appreciate its finer points.
09-24-2003 14:15:11 | More by RockyTopHeel
4/5 rDev +8.7%
Clear, deep russet in color with a nice, creamy ivory head that holds fairly well and leaves good lace. The aroma is very lightly fruity, lightly caramel, and slightly metallic (Fuggles?), which can be off-setting at first, but may also become quite charming and desireable. The body is light, with a gentle carbonation and a smooth mouthfeel. The flavor is softly fruity with a gentlly caramel & lightly toasty maltiness, balanced by a light hop flavor and more than adequate bitterness. The finishes is dry with a lightly lingering toasted malt note. A beer that is at once both subtle and bold! A highly drinkable beer because it never blinds the palate and continually offers fruitiness, maltiness, or bitterness. Very well done!
09-19-2002 20:03:33 | More by NeroFiddled
3.85/5 rDev +4.6%
This is a delicious session beer that is easily drinkable in large quantities, and the moderate alcohol content (4.1% by volume) helps with this.The beer is a brown ale, lightly so in color with mild carbonation and head and a slightly dry malty nose. The beer pours to a deep mahogany color with a substantial, thick and meringue like head formation. The nose is pasty and malty, the palate rather mild and drinkable, soft malty, lightly nutty with notes of toffee and molasses. The beer finishes slightly sweet but is a very drinkable English mild.
08-17-2005 04:19:34 | More by Rootdog316
3.75/5 rDev +1.9%
12-28-2012 01:39:34 | More by cliff1066
Ontario (Canada)
3.33/5 rDev -9.5%
Don't let the name put you off :o) as this pours with a nice looking white head that leaves a nice lacing as it recedes down the glass. Clear brownish-amber liquid. The nose is clean and biscuity maltiness. Taste is light malt flavor with a seltzer-ish sensation on the palate, with more hoppiness than I was expecting from this beer. It finishes on a light and dry note...a very drinkable session ale for those seeking a lighter style ale, although I'd prefer something with a bit more balls.
02-09-2003 14:48:38 | More by beerluvr
Young's Dirty Dick's Ale from Young & Co Brewery PLC
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Nearly 70 years later, Nazi past still haunts Vienna Philharmonic
It has been nearly three-quarters of a century since the end of World War II, but the hatred of the Nazi regime, what it did and what it stood for, still runs deep in the hearts of many. Â
When the Vienna Philharmonic travels abroad, it is often the target of picketing  by those who accuse the orchestra of discriminatory practices.
James Oestreich writes in The New York Times that "charges that (The Vienna Philharmonic) shields access to its archives to conceal the darker aspects of its Nazi past" brought an unusually swift reaction from the orchestra.
One of the stories which reportedly roiled the waters began with the 1942 presentation of a "ring of honor" to Baldur von Schirach, the governor of Vienna, as the orchestra celebrated it's 100th anniversary. Schirach, who participated in the deportation of tens of thousands of Viennese Jews to extermination camps in Poland, would serve 20 years in prison for his role.
Schirach's ring apparently disappeared during that time, but after his release from prison, the orchestra presented him with a replacement. In his Times article, Oestreich asks "Has the orchestra been trying to hide this information?"
The orchestra hired three historians, said to be independent, to comb through it's historical records from that era and post the results on it's website. Â
Some of the preliminary findings were recently released to the Times as the orchestra prepared for a weekend series of concerts at Carnegie Hall.  The name of the orchestra representative who presented the ring is to be revealed on March 10, during an Austrian television documentary on the orchestras "Nazi period."  According to Oestreich's article, "new records have been recently unearthed in a deep cellar of the Vienna State Opera in the far back of a room which should contain only opera scores.â€
Rumors, innuendo, secret stashes of papers, sounds like this would make a great opera. Â Stay tuned.
Read more: Orchestra to disclose it's Nazi past (NY Times)
Watch: Strauss' Beautiful Blue Danube from the Vienna Philharmonic 2013 New Years Day concert


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July 02, 2012, 4:41 PM —
Turbine company knows which way the wind blows at your house
The science of wind energy is well-suited for big data solutions, as a Danish wind turbine-maker discovers
How ComScore is using Hadoop to tame its big data flow
Mike Brown, the CTO at ComScore, knows a bit about managing big data. Every day 12 terabytes of information rushes into his cluster of 80 servers running the open-source software Hadoop, which sorts and analyzes the data for a host of clients who want to know things like which online vendor sold the most e-cards or how fast Facebook is growing in Brazil. "We ingest 32 billion new rows of a data a day," he says.
10 questions for Hortonworks CTO Eric Baldeschwieler
The Grill: DigitalGlobe CIO Scott Hicar on the challenges and opportunities of Earth imagery
Esri's Jack Dangermond on cloud, big data and Apple-vs-Google map wars
What Hadoop can, and can't do
Hadoop shouldn't replace your current data infrastructure, only augment it. Here's when it makes sense, when it doesn't, and what you can expect to pay.


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Cybernet to hire 300 more at Chennai centre
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Chennai , Oct. 31
CYBERNET Software Systems Inc, a US-based company, plans to add about 300 employees in Chennai by March 2006, according to its CEO, Mr Shiv Kumar.
The company is looking for people with skills in Microsoft, Java and Opensource. The addition will take its total headcount to 750, with most of them located in Chennai. It will add 15,000 sq.ft. of space in the city over the next two quarters to take care of the outsourcing deals won recently, he told newspersons.
Part of the $40-million CSS Group, Cybernet signed an agreement with the US-based Business Signatures Corporation and Navic Networks.
The company expanded its relationship with Operative (Tafficmac), which is likely to bring an annual revenue of $1.5 million, and this could go up about $4 million in the next couple of years, Mr Kumar said.
For Navic, an interactive television technology and service provider to the cable industry in the US, Cybernet is developing a set-top-box simulator for interactive television, he said.
According to Mr Kumar, revenue for the CSS group this fiscal should be $50-52 million. The group, which employs about 3,000 professionals, has four companies SlashSupport (providing technical support), ReadyTestGo (software testing), Cybernet Software (software service provider) and Synaptris (software products).
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GI Joe Ninga Coloring Pages
GI Joe Coloring Pages are a part of a group of free printables that are cartoon, book, and television characters. This group of characters are a part of a group of military men. These characters have dangerous adventures. Who is your favorite GI Joe character? Ninjas are Asian fighters. They can be friends or enemies. Which one do you think this Ninja is? Perhaps you can ask your students or homeschoolers make a history book or story board with their decorated pages. Download these free printable coloring pages for your students today.
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astle hotography (Owned by Castle Software Australia Pty Ltd)
Welcome to Castle Photography
(Updated 7th January 2014)
Photos from Lords of Time 2 (Melbourne and Adelaide) are now online. General photos from this event can be found at: First Contact Photos
This site hosts Official Photos with Guests from First Contact Conventions, Armageddon in Australia, and Best of Both Worlds events. Reprints of these photos are available for sale, either online, or you can approach me at any event I attend to get on the spot reprints.
For a number of reasons I've had to split my photo archive into two blocks - official photos for which we must control reprints, and all other images taken at events, which are freely available. If you are interested in all the other photos I've taken at these and other events, you may find my others websites interesting. They include: Pete's Fan Photos, First Contact Photos, and Armageddon Photos
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First Contact Conventions presents a 50th Anniversary Dr Who event, with guests covering almost all (re)generations of Classic WHO:
Guests this year included:
Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek: TOS) makes the long trip across the Pacific to visit us in Melbourne. With her is Erin Gray (Col. Wilma Deering in Buck Rogers).
Oztrek 9.5 - Anthony Montgomery
While in Australia For Supanova Sydney/Perth (thank to Gifts for the Geek!!), Anthony Montgomery (Star Trek: Enterprise) visited melbourne for a couple of mid-week appearances, including this one!
First Contact Conventions & Culture Shock Events presents a 50th Anniversary of Doctor who extravaganza - with Four Doctors (Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Paul McGann) and companions and behind the scenes guest including: John Leeson (voice of K9), Nick Briggs (Daleks, Cybermen and more), and Janet Fielding (Tegan).
First Contact Conventions presents a 50th Anniversary of Doctor who extravaganza - with Four Doctors (Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Paul McGann) and companions and behind the scenes guest including: John Leeson (voice of K9), Nick Briggs (Daleks, Cybermen and more), Janet Fielding (Tegan), and Alexandra Tynan (BBC costume Designer).
With guests: Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax, Deep Space 9) and Nicole De Boer (Ezri Dax, Deep Space 9)
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An Australian First! 3 of the 4 main cast members of Red Dwarf in one event in Melbourne. Our guests were: Danny John-Jules (Cat), Craig Charles (Lister) and Robert Llewellyn (Kryten)
The second combined Sanatuary and Stargate themed event in Melbourne! This time with guests: Jonathon Young (santuary), Jennifer Spence (Stargate Universe) and Ben Browder (Stargate SG-1, Farscape and many others).
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False Confessions
There are different types of false confessions, typically listed as voluntary, coerced-compliant, and coerced-internalized.
Among voluntary confessions, people sometimes just confess spontaneously: in 1932, when Charles Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped and killed, more than 200 people said they did it. A decade later, more than 30 people confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short, "the Black Dahlia." Such confessions are usually done in high-profile cases.
More common are confessions that are coerced in which the suspects eventually comply to please their interrogators.
Ironically, Arizona was the source of the landmark decision in Miranda v. Arizona which established the rights of suspects to remain silent. In part, the Miranda rights were established to prohibit the use of torture in getting confessions. Any statements that are made are subject to an evaluation as to whether they voluntary. If the subject decides to talk, the police are free to use deception and manipulation to elicit the information they seek. Yet it's not always clear when that becomes coercion.
The third type of confession, coerced-internalized, is the least common.
People confronted with a crime may internalize guilt and even come to believe -- and even "remember"-- that they committed it.
An astounding example of this type of confession is the case of a sheriff's officer, Paul Ingram, in Olympia, Washington. Toward the close of 1988, one of his two daughters was pressured by youth workers at a church retreat to admit to having repressed memories of sexual abuse, so she accused her father of molesting her. He vehemently denied it, but then his other daughter made a similar accusation, saying she had been raped at his poker parties. He was arrested and interrogated by men he trusted who suggested he had repressed memories. Even his minister insisted that he confess, and since he believed in the Devil's influence and could not imagine his daughters lying, his self-confidence wavered. Ingram could only say he had no memory of such episodes. By the end of twenty-three interrogations across five months, Ingram began to believe he might be guilty. With the help of a psychologist who taught him trance work, he started to experience fleeting images. A memory expert, Richard Ofshe, later proved that Ingram had created these false memories, but he went to prison, anyway.
False confessions of this kind commonly occur under certain conditions:
1.) Sleep deprivation
2.) Feigned friendship
3.) Isolating the suspect
4.) Using leading questions or threats
5.) Exposure to graphic crime scene photos


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Soccer blanked by South Dakota State
Cardinals return to action Sunday at UTSA
SAN ANTONIO, Texas –The Lamar University women's soccer team suffered its first shutout loss in 12 games after dropping a 3-0 decision to South Dakota State at the UTSA Classic on Friday.
Lamar (1-2) hadn't been blanked since a 1-0 loss to McNeese State on Sept. 28, 2012. Nicole Inskeep made four saves for South Dakota State (1-2).
South Dakota State held a 2-0 lead at halftime on goals by Alyssa Brazil and Darci Miller. Caylee Costello extended the Jackrabbits' lead to 3-0 just 49 seconds into the second half.
Lamar goalkeeper Bailey Fontenot made six saves, including one on a penalty kick by Diana Potterveld. Fontenot gave way to Zoey Stephenson, who saw her first collegiate action, making one save and allowing no goals over the final 22:09.
South Dakota State held a 17-4 advantage in shot6s for the game.
Lamar returns to action at 1 p.m. Sunday when it faces host UTSA in the final game of the tournament.
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ATLANTA (AP) - After a rare snowstorm stopped Atlanta-area commuters in their tracks - forcing many to hunker down in their cars overnight or seek other shelter - the National Guard is sending military Humvees onto the city's snarled freeway system.
Gov. Nathan Deal says it's an attempt to move stranded school buses and get food and water to students on them.
Deal says the Georgia State Patrol also is sending troopers to schools where children remain stranded after spending the night in classrooms.
Deal plans a briefing at 11:30 this morning at the Capitol to discuss the state's "ongoing disaster response."
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced his own update at 10 o'clock this morning at Atlanta Public Safety Headquarters on Peachtree Street.
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Cabin on U level - mid ship. Quiet. 2 good sized closets with robes! 3rd closet area with a safe and shelves. Only one outlet so bring a power strip. Shower was a nice size. Hot water and water pressure were good. No problems with sewer gas smells. Beds were pretty...continue
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Jonathan Gilling and Jahii Carson each scored 18 points to lead Arizona State to a 77-62 win over Texas Tech on Saturday.
Gilling carried the load in the first half, hitting five of his six career-high 3-pointers, and Carson took over after the break with 16 second-half points.
Carrick Felix added 13 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (10-2), and Evan Gordon had 12 points.
Jaye Crockett led the Red Raiders (5-4) with 11 points and nine rebounds. Jordan Tolbert and Josh Gray each added 10 points.
Arizona State led by 15 points with a little over nine minutes left in the first half before the Red Raiders fought back within four just minutes into the second half. The Sun Devils extended the lead back to as many as 17 with 2:32 left in the game.
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CATEGORIES Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Home Entertainment, Features, CinematicalThe history of the movies is jam-packed with the people who advanced the art of F/X, and Bert I. Gordon was one of those pioneers. Gordon started his career in the early '50s making television commercials, but soon moved to directing 'creature features', and would later earn the nickname "Mister B.I.G." for his trademark super-sized creatures. By the late '70s, Gordon was coming to the end of his long career, but in 1977, he was still knee-deep in giant monsters when he directed the H.G. Wells adaptation Empire of the Ants, which you can now watch for free at SlashControl as part of their free movie selections.
The B-horror was loosely based on H.G. Wells' story of a British colonel discovering a murderous species of ant in South America, and Gordon's adaptation starred Joan Collins as Marilyn Fryser, a sleazy land developer trying to pawn off worthless land in the Everglades to a group of unsuspecting investors. Unfortunately for them, the real estate in question has been taken over by giant killer ants -- dun dun dunnn!
These days modern audiences are a little spoiled; those rear-projection techniques and foam monsters don't impress like they used to, and sometimes we forget how much effort it used to take to bring those fantastical creatures to life. Granted, in Gordon's 'classic' there are Ants walking off into thin air, not to mention some serious continuity issues, but keep this in mind: you have to walk before you can run.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Spurred by severe drought conditions and Hurricane Isaac, 41 Mayors representing towns and cities throughout the Mississippi River basin participated in a recent two-day conference to craft a strategy that brings national attention back to the Mississippi River — America's most critical natural asset — and spearhead a new level of regional cooperation to make it more sustainable.
"The drought and hurricane serve as urgent reminders that the Mississippi River needs to be a national priority. As mayors, we have vowed to forge ahead with one voice to protect the local and national interests presented by this vast and important river," said St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, who hosted the meeting.
The drought — the worst in 50 years — severely impacted the towns, cities and people who live and make a living along the Mississippi River, the ecological linchpin to the 37-state Mississippi River Basin. This summer, eight out of the 10 states touching the river received USDA drought emergency declarations. Hurricane Isaac also further threatened and damaged many river communities.
The meeting was the first for the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI) and engaged officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, USDA, Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as well as state officials and non-government organization stakeholders on critical federal activities affecting Mississippi River cities and towns.
Modeled after the successful Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, MRCTI is an effort coordinated by the Northeast-Midwest Institute (NEMWI) with funding from the Walton Family Foundation to create a new and influential voice for the Mississippi River that dramatically increases demand for effective river protection, restoration and management in Washington, DC.
During the meeting, the mayors set the MRCTI framework for articulating and driving multi-stakeholder solutions to recurring federal and state policy problems that impede environmental and economic health of river communities. They agreed that next steps would include:
* Supporting a Farm Bill, which is urgently needed to provide help to drought devastated communities and protect the national economy from being stressed by higher food and energy prices;
* Involving the agriculture, recreation and navigation industries in this effort; and
* Heading to Capitol Hill in the first quarter of 2013 to demand critical policy changes such as: (1) transforming the National Flood Insurance Program to incentivize sustainable development of flood plain areas, (2) reforming the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund and Inland Waterways Trust Fund so they stay effective tools and (3) focusing on the river's environmental health to ensure that navigation remains viable.
Longer term, MRCTI will also build its members' capacity to undertake effective local initiatives to attract green jobs, move to sustainable economies and achieve local environmental protection goals. Ultimately, the work will help protect and restore the Mississippi River as a natural system that can sustainably support human culture and economies as well as wildlife.
The river is responsible for creating $105 billion worth of U.S. GDP; providing drinking water for more than 18 million; transporting 62 percent of the nation's agricultural output; delivering nearly 400 tons of coal and petroleum products; and directly supporting one million jobs and millions more indirectly.
Mayors participating in the MRCTI press briefing represented Missouri, Mississippi, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas.


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Artist: Jill Scott
Featuring: Eve
Producer: "J.R." Hutson
Album: Light of the Sun
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Not familiar with actress/singer Jill Scott? Don't even know her name?! Well, that's a damn Shame, and you're most definitely missing out on a good thing – as her latest single attests, the veteran songstress' progressively retro soul stylings deserve a spot on any R&B-lover's iPod. On this new release, producer J.R. Hutson cooks up a breezy, minimal hip-soul groove (garnished with a little reversed percussion) as Scott admonishes an indecisive fella for letting a spectacular catch like her fall by the wayside. As she puts it, "I'm the one you really want, but you just can't see it." Femcee Eve provides moral support after the (brilliantly fresh) bridge, marveling at the transparent wackness of the dude in question. While I have my doubts as to whether this joint will be effective in convincing that unlucky man of the error of his ways, Jill Scott's prospects of wooing Boothgoers seem much brighter. If you're digging it, more freshness awaits on the artist's forthcoming Warner Bros. debut album, Light of the Sun.
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UPDATED: 12 players, two coaches suspended after brawl breaks out at end of Quebec junior hockey playoff game
Xavier Ouellet has hat trick to lead Armada over Drakkar 4-3 in QMJHL semifinal
BOUCHERVILLE, Que. – The brawling Blainville-Boisbriand Armada and Baie-Comeau Drakkar will be short-handed for their next meeting in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoffs.
The league suspended 12 players, fined another, banned both coaches for two games and fined the two teams on Thursday after a donnybrook that saw the benches empty at the end of the Armada's 4-3 victory on home ice over the Drakkar on Wednesday night.
The win evened the best-of-seven series at 2-2.
Blainville-Boisbriand will be without five players and the Drakkar will be down seven when the teams meet in the fifth game on Friday night in Baie-Comeau.
The suspensions included the two goaltenders from each team, who traded punches with each other. The teams will have to use third-string goalies in Game 5.
Ryan Tesink of the Armada was suspended two games while his teammates Aaron Hoyles, Yassin Cisse and goalies Etienne Marcoux and Guillaume Decelles each got one-game bans.
For Baie-Comeau, Bokondji Imama was suspended two games while Jeremie Gregoire, Gabriel Verpaelst, Jon Banville, Alexandre Ranger and goalies Philippe Cadorette and Francis Desrosiers got one game each.
Blainville-Boisbriand forward Cedric Paquette, who appeared to start the brawl by taunting the Drakkar on the ice as the game ended, was fined $1,000 for "inappropriate behaviour."
Armada coach Jean-Francois Houle and his Baie-Comeau counterpart Eric Veilleux, who spent the brawl shouting at each other on the benches, were each suspended two games.
Each team was also slapped with a $5,000 fine.
Multiple fighting majors and game misconducts were handed out after the melee, which saw fans litter the ice with plastic bottles and other debris as several fights broke out at once.
The sanctions were announced by league director of player safety Raymond Bolduc.
It's been an eventful series for the Armada, who fought back to tie the series after dropping the opening two games in Baie-Comeau.
Blainville-Boisbriand released New Jersey Devils first-round draft pick Stefan Matteau following Game 2 for leaving the team to ride home on a fan bus after being benched by Houle. The player's father, former NHL forward Stephane Matteau, remains an assistant coach with the club.
That's the #QMJHL standing up on nonsense; is it being forceful enough?—
Patrick Johnston (@risingaction) April 25, 2013
I guess making the Memorial Cup doesn't matter that much to all those QMJHL dudes who decided to get suspended for brawling in a 2-2 series.—
Scott Sepich (@SSepich) April 25, 2013
No league has brawls like the QMJHL—
Jordon Cooper (@JordonCooper) April 25, 2013
The QMJHL is to Major Junior Hockey as "Jersey Shore" is to television.—
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Like most of you, I was upset with the Cowboys moves in the first round. According to the TVC, they lost 80 points in the trade. They passed on players such as Eric Reid, Shariff Floyd, and Sylvester Williams who we all thought would be good picks at 18. However, with a night to sleep on the First Round, I do not think it is as bad as it seems.
I will preface this article with an assumption that I am working under:
The Cowboys wanted to come out of the First Round with an OL (preferably an Interior one) to protect Romo.
Any casual fan knows that the Cowboys Offensive Line was a source of problems for this team and we have been begging all off-season for changes to be made, whether in the form of drafting Jonathan Cooper, signing Eric Winston or whatever other moves we preferred. Clearly, the Front Office saw it in a similar light, they knew that the Offensive Line needed to be improved and they wanted to do so through the Draft.
6 OL went in the first 11 picks. This is unprecedented and something that we knew was possible. Cooper, the one that we coveted, went 7th overall. I can tell you right now that even as much as I wanted Cooper, I would have been livid if the Cowboys gave their first and second round picks and moved up to pick Cooper, Warmack or Fluker. That would have been a much worse decision then moving down and taking Frederick. This is a team that has some holes in the starting lineup and certainly needs depth and moving up and sacrificing 2 top 50 picks would not have been the right decision.
Once those players were off the board, the Cowboys had a decision, they could draft another position and wait for an OL in the 2nd round, reach for someone at 18 or trade down later into the round and pick an OL then. Operating under the assumption that they wanted an OL before Thursday night ended I am happy with the result. Imagine if they had stayed at 18 and picked Pugh or Long, we would have been outraged, yet people call Pugh a classic Giants pick and do not lambast them.
If Pugh, Long and Frederick are equally rated on the Cowboys board (which they probably are close to that), then the trade down was a great idea. They got an equivalent player to who they would have taken at 18 and picked up the 74th pick which in a draft such as this where there is a block of 60 or so players that have 2nd round grades on them is a great move. If I had the choice between Pugh/Long or Frederick and someone like Markus Wheaton or DJ Swearanger or Akeem Spence; I would certainly take the latter.
People will point to other players that were on the board at 31 that would make sense at OL like Menelik Watson, Terron Armstead or Larry Warford. I believe that interior OL was a more important position to draft then an OT. For all we know, the Cowboys could sign Clabo or Winston today because they didn't come out of the 1st round with a OT (Fluker). Clearly, they had Frederick rated higher than Warford as well so I have to have some faith in a board and system that over the last 3 years has drafted: Smith, Lee, Carter, Bryant, Claiborne, Murray.
Also while people question the Cowboys DL, I see it as a strength of the team. Ware and Spencer are starting DEs and Hatcher and Ratliff at DT. Crawford seems to have the versatility to play DT or DE. Lissemore will be a solid DT backup. Bass seems to be able to play DE. And there are a ton of 4-3 DL on the Board still: Short, Spence, Jordan Hill, Tank, and the list goes on that could be picks from the 2nd-4th round. The OL were not going to be there later.
Operating under the conditions of what happened last night with a historic run on OL in the 1st round, I cannot be upset right now that the Cowboys came out with a starting center and an extra high 3rd round pick. Only time will tell whether Frederick is good (high picked Wisconsin OL have been good) and whether the trade was worth it.
I only hope that Bill Polian's analysis of Frederick is right that he is the "prototypical Bill Callahan lineman"


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Thompson torn on torts
By Bill Adair
Published on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 4:30 p.m.
Fred Thompson describes himself as "a consistent conservative" and cites his record on tax cuts, balancing the budget and reducing federal regulation. But one area where the former trial lawyer splits with many conservatives is on tort reform, a broad term that generally refers to limitations on lawsuits. Many companies and trade groups have sought new tort laws to reduce how much they have to pay if they lose a suit.
Rudy Giuliani cited several of Thompson's votes against tort reform bills during a Republican debate in Orlando on Oct. 21, 2007.
"Fred was the single biggest obstacle to tort reform in the United States Senate," Giuliani said. "He stood with Democrats over and over again."
Giuliani said Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages, which they have in Texas. He voted against almost anything that would make our legal system fairer: 'loser pays' rules, things that would prevent lawsuits like that $54 million lawsuit by that guy who lost his pants . . . Fred Thompson, along with very few Republicans, blocked tort reform over and over and over again. That is not a conservative position."
Thompson responded that he opposed some of the bills because of his preference for states to handle those matters. "Local issues belong at the state level. Most states have passed tort reform," he said. "That's our system. It's not all federalized."
But he added that he had supported tort laws that involve product liability and securities because he felt they related to interstate commerce.
We find Giuliani is stretching the truth with some of his claims, while Thompson is on more solid ground with his defense.
We find Giuliani has his facts only partially right and is stretching the truth with his rhetoric.
Giuliani is correct that Thompson cast a vote against a $250,000 cap on punitive damages, but that's only part of the story. Thompson's no vote back in 1995 was on an amendment to a product liability bill. The cap as written in the bill originally had been $250,000 or three times the economic damages, whichever is greater. The amendment lowered it to $250,000 or double the economic damages. Thompson was one of only six Republicans to vote against lowering the cap.
But the following year, when the amended bill came back for final passage, Thompson voted for it. President Clinton later vetoed the legislation.
Giuliani is right that Texas has a $250,000 cap on the amount individuals can receive in punitive damages in a health care liability case, although claims against separate hospitals and health care institutions can collect make that as high as $500,000. But Giuliani's comment was too vague; he would have been more accurate if he had said "punitive damages on medical claims."
As our friends at FactCheck.org noted in their report on this topic, Giuliani overreaches with his claim that Thompson was "the single biggest obstacle to tort reform in the Senate."
Giuliani is exaggerating with his claim that Thompson opposed "loser pays" rules.
Giuliani's claim that his rival opposed "loser pays" rules is based on Thompson's vote (on the winning side) to strip language from the 1996 bill that would have forced only the defendants — not the plaintiffs — to pay attorney and court fees if they refused to settle of court and the refusal was "unreasonable or not made in good faith." But this doesn't really fit the definition of "loser pays;" instead, striking the language did more to benefit the corporate defendants.
Overall, we find Giuliani's attack on Thompson to be Barely True.
Thompson's response, however, was more accurate.
In 1995, he voted with his party for a bill limiting product liability lawsuits against manufacturers. However, he was instrumental in narrowing it from the broad tort reform that the Republican leadership had wanted.
Asked in 1995 about the product liability bill, Thompson said, ""I've been supportive of that, but I've been against a broad takeover by Congress of our state court system ... I came to Washington to downsize the influence of Congress on people's daily lives and to give more authority back to the states."
Also in 1995, Thompson voted with fellow Republicans on a bill that made it harder for shareholders to file class-action lawsuits companies. When that law caused more and more class-action securities fraud lawsuits to be filed in state courts, Thompson voted for a 1998 law that required such cases to be handled by federal courts.
He is correct that most states have passed some sort of tort reform, according to Darren McKinney, spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association, a group that advocates state and federal tort reform.
Overall, we find Thompson's response to Giuliani's attack to be Mostly True. UPDATE: We have revised our ruling on Giuliani's attack with respect to Thompson's vote on the $250,000 damages cap. We orginally ruled it Half-True, but have changed that to Barely True. We discovered we had only examined some of Thompson's votes on that issue.
Sources:U.S. Senate, 1995 vote on product liability tort reform
U.S. Senate Final passage of product liability legislation
U.S. Senate, Vote on limiting debate on broader version of the product liability bill
U.S. Senate, 1995 Securities Liability Veto Override
U.S. Senate, Vote on 1998 Securities Liability law
U.S. Senate, Thompson punitive damages vote
Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, Chapter 74, Section 301
U.S. Senate, Thompson "Loser Pays" Vote
Chattanooga Free Press, Thompson Warns Of Legal Reforms Hurting States, May 10, 1995
ABA Journal, Mr. Thompson Takes on Washington: Whether as a lawyer, actor or now U.S. senator, Fred Thompson follows his own script, December 1995
FactCheck.org, Florida fandango
Researchers: Miranda Blue, Jody Kyle
Names in this article: Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson
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Selena Gomez has said that her fourth album will be a "huge fun dance record," as inspired by Ellie Goulding. For now though, a new clip shows that the Spring Breakers star would rather pop and lock to songs inspired by '90s R&B — oh, and terrible boyfriends.
In the clip above, Gomez and four friends dance to a song by rising Philadelphia singer Dustin Tavella, the Ginuwine-sampling "Everybody Knows" (as in, "your boyfriend is a douchebag"), and with choreography reminiscent of that from Aaliyah's "One in a Million." Earlier today Gomez made the original clip private, only to make it public again once Tavella caught wind on Facebook. But hey, no matter what happens to the clip from now on, fans knew already that lately, she's loved a good kiss-off.
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Sustainably Speaking — Technology Links Almond Grower with Sustainable Farming
When Greg Wegis fires up his iPad from the conference room of Wegis & Young, he has more than 2,000 acres of almonds in the southern San Joaquin Valley at his fingertips.
The fourth-generation Kern County family farming operation grows more than 3,000 acres of almonds, pistachios, cherries and tomatoes, and also custom-manages another 16,000 acres of alfalfa and row crops from Blythe to Lake Isabella.
Technology allows him to stay on top of what is happening in the field, and also helps members of the family communicate more efficiently with each other and their work force.
Wegis last year participated in the California Almond Sustainability Program (CASP), joining other almond growers in doing a self-assessment of sustainable practices in their almond-growing operations. He was encouraged to learn that many of the practices and technologies his company has implemented are among the practices that the sustainability modules discuss.
"We are making a lot of improvements and using a lot of technology to maximize the efficient use of our inputs and minimize waste," Wegis said. "And I think in the overall sustainability picture, that is what everybody is after."
Wegis uses his iPad to track and monitor irrigation and other inputs through a network of 22 monitoring stations throughout his almond-farming operation. He can monitor microsprinkler sets and soil moisture status down to 60 inches on every individual almond block.
Wegis & Young has also partnered with a proprietary software program company called Redtrac, which allows them to manage and track all its hardware, tractors and implements from an iPad, laptop or cell phone. From his iPad, Wegis can generate reports on hourly usage and locations for each piece of equipment, and receives alerts when something goes not according to plan.
"My irrigation foreman and I meet once a week to go through the sites and talk about evapotranspiration rates, moisture levels, what they are, what we want them to be and what we want them to do. I'm fortunate that my foreman sees the value of technology and he likes to use it," Wegis said.
For more information and to sign up for an upcoming CASP workshop, go to AlmondBoard.com/Growers/Sustainability or phone Almond Board at (209) 343-3230.


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What to Listen for in Music
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Featuring an introduction by William Schuman, as well as a foreword and epilogue by Alan Rich, an indispensable guide from one of America's foremost composers teaches readers how to develop a deeper sense of musical appreciation and contains chapters on contemporary music and film music, recommended recordings for each chapter, and more. Reissue.
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After a local publication challenges the Youngstown, Ohio mayor, city employees are prohibited from speaking with reporters, and the case goes to court.
By Andrea Wood
Our argument is simple: The mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, George McKelvey, doesn't like what The Business Journal wrote about him personally or our coverage about how the city spent $1.5 million in federal funds. His response: He banned city employees from speaking with any of our reporters.
In a lawsuit brought before a U.S. District Court, our lawyers argued that the ban is based on nothing more than the mayor's personal animus and constitutes retaliation against us for exercising our First Amendment rights. Such retaliation is illegal, the pleadings claimed, according to Section 1983 of the Civil Rights statute, enacted in 1871, that prohibits governmental entities from depriving citizens of their constitutional rights.
This situation began in August 2001 when our newspaper, a locally owned publication with a circulation of 10,000, criticized the mayor for calling 911 to report a possible "sniper" hiding on "a grassy knoll." Multiple sources confirmed for us that when the mayor called the city's emergency dispatch center he knew the "suspicious character" was, in fact, a political activist armed with a pair of opera glasses, who was hiding near a closed-to-the-public restaurant, where the mayor was attending a private luncheon.
The activist, also the host of a weekly radio show, was jotting down license plates as the mayor and other guests arrived. A few dozen local officeholders, bureaucrats, judges and business leaders were attending the weekly gathering of the Cafaro Round Table (so named for the politically powerful family who had hosted similar luncheons for more than 40 years). Outsiders long suspected that important who-gets-what political decisions are made at the Cafaro luncheons, which is why the activist had taken it upon himself to compile a roster of participants.
That day the mayor made two 911 calls—the second call just five minutes after the first. He also wrote an incident report, included in the official police record, stating the person he saw hiding "was in the prone position, holding a large black and shiny object in his hands (possibly a gun), pointing said object directly at the lounge window of the restaurant." (This word emphasis is present in the original filing.) And he later described his actions as those of a "prudent public official." On a local talk-radio show, he explained how he feared for his safety and told the same story to newspaper and TV reporters.
Our news organization was the only one to spoof McKelvey's account in a political cartoon and to question its veracity in an editorial, in which we opined the activist's "opera glasses, pen and paper posed more of a threat than had they been an Italian carbine with a telescopic sight like the one Lee Harvey Oswald fired (but not from the grassy knoll)."
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The mayor was furious. "Your editorial mission was to attack the integrity of the mayor of Youngstown," McKelvey wrote in a letter, which we published in its entirety. "[But] the victims of your Journal Opinion were the truth and your journalistic integrity …. May your journalistic integrity rest in peace." (Italicized words were emphasized in his letter.)
Our coverage of this incident was the first instance McKelvey cited in an affidavit provided to the federal court, in which he explained how he determined our newspaper is "untrustworthy" and "irresponsible" when he banned city employees from speaking with our reporters. Much of the city's defense against our First Amendment claim is, in fact, based on a 2004 federal court decision (Raycom National Inc. v. Jane Campbell) in which the mayor of Cleveland was found acting within the law when she determined that reporters from WOIO-TV were "untrustworthy" and "irresponsible," and banned them from city hall.
In response to McKelvey's affidavit, The Business Journal provided the court with an affidavit from a retired president of the Ohio Senate, Harry Meshel. He swore that he was with McKelvey when they recognized the man spying on the Cafaro Round Table "and confirmed for ourselves that he was not brandishing a gun. Mayor McKelvey clearly knew that there was no sniper but made a call to 911 anyway," according to his affidavit. "At no point did Mayor McKelvey express any security concerns, and I specifically tried to dissuade Mayor McKelvey from making a public issue of the incident." The city's lawyers ignored Meshel's affidavit in their reply brief to support their motion to dismiss our First Amendment complaint, although they continued to cite the Cleveland precedent.
McKelvey copied certain phrases from the Raycom decision in his February 2005 letter notifying us of his ban on city employees speaking to our paper. That letter arrived within days of The Business Journal's reporting that the city was using federal funds to defend a lawsuit we filed against it on October 31, 2003. And that lawsuit claimed that city officials improperly withheld public records related to land it had purchased for a federally funded project.
In February 2003, we'd begun publishing a series of articles that questioned why the city had spent $1.5 million to buy former steel-mill land for this project without an appraisal of its value. This was a parcel of land that the previous administration had refused to buy for environmental reasons, when it had been repeatedly approached by a political operative who is now in prison for bribing judges.
In December 2004, a magistrate for Mahoning County Common Pleas Court found the city had withheld public records and awarded The Business Journal its legal fees (the only remedy provided by Ohio law when officials do not comply with public records' requests). A judge overturned the magistrate's decision on March 17, 2005, and the newspaper has appealed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
In the case our paper filed against the mayor, in May, U.S. District Court Judge Peter C. Economus refused The Business Journal's request that a preliminary injunction be ordered against the mayor, and he dismissed the case. Economus explained his decision by finding that the Journal is "not likely to succeed on the merits" of its claim of First Amendment protection.
Andrea Wood is the cofounder, publisher and editor of The Business Journal, a bimonthly local publication in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Paper Tiger shelving, cubes and trestle tables popped up at the National Gallery of Victoria for a 3 month temporary retail store fitout. The trestle table is a new design which was loaded to the hilt with design books, objects, sculpture and jewelry. 300 cubes were used to house the new influx of Melbourne-designed wares. Paper Tiger was commissioned to design the stores at both state galleries, and the cafe was fitted out with stools for the three month duration.


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Michigan State Spartans @ North Carolina Tar Heels
December 1st, 2009
Is it fair to say that this one means more than any other non-conference game on schedule?
- First true road matchup for the Spartans
- Features two teams that like to push the tempo
- Carolina lost more than 80% of their scoring from last season, yet reloads with top talent
- Two future hall of fame coaches with Tom Izzo and Roy Williams
- Opportunity to play a historically-elite school on their home court
- Modest redemption from the '08-'09 disappointing losses last December and April
- Chance to win back-to-back games against UNC in the Dean Dome
- Last time we beat UNC on their home court, we went on to win a National Championship
Dean Smith Center
Since relocating to the heart of Tar Heel country, I've had the opportunity to attend a few UNC basketball games. A good friend of mine is a season ticket holder who was kind enough to invite me to some non-conference games, but far too sensible to offer up his other ticket for the big game tomorrow. Most recently, I went to the matchup against Gardner-Webb on the 23rd where Carolina prevailed 93-72. The Dean Smith Center is fourth largest in D-I and holds about 7,000 more than the Breslin. Despite the greater attendance, the student section is at the baseline only, reserving the rest of the seats for alumni and season ticket holders. The relatively lesser student presence creates a missing piece of game time atmosphere that the Izzone provides: the "in your face" disruptive volume. Then again, I may have been spoiled after four years of Izzone tickets. I'm certain the crowd will be much louder when the Spartans come to Chapel Hill. All-in-all, the Dean Dome itself is a traditionally solid arena. If you ever have an opportunity to see a UNC game there, I recommend it.
The Four Factors: Effective FG%
The talent in the post is the strength of this Carolina team. Deon Thompson (1.51 PPS), the Heels' go-to guy, is near-automatic and presented matchup problems for the Spartans last year. Ed Davis (1.78 PPS) is extremely athletic and ever-present (reminds me of Delvon Roe at 100%, well, maybe 80%). Tyler Zeller (1.61 PPS) has an effortless jumper. Against Gardner-Webb, the bigs were able to create high-percentage shots with ease. Through seven games, they've shot 55.4% 2P% and 36.0% 3P%. The team is still searching for a consistent deep-ball threat. Will Graves was supposed to be that threat, but has shot 27% beyond the arc. Larry Drew II and Marcus Ginyard are the other threats and have had moderate success. Expect their production to come from driving and dishing or just feeding the bigs in the paint.
The Four Factors: Turnover%
Carolina likes to run (2009 Adj. Tempo of 73.9), but their youth has marginally limited their ability to get up the court (2010 Adj. Tempo of 69.5). The PG spot, occupied by Drew II and some assistance from Ginyard and Dexter Strickland, was the biggest concern for Heels fans entering the season. Ty Lawson and Raymond Felton have run the show since '06-'07, so Drew II has some big shoes to fill. He is answering the call for the starting spot averaging 6.7 assists to 3.0 turnovers, but depth is still a concern. Roy has been experimenting with the lineups over the first six games, even moving players out of their comfortable position. Overall, their youth is starting to show in the turnover department as the Heels sport a turnover % of 22.8, which will improve as the season progresses. I'd much rather play this team now than in March.
The Four Factors: Off. Reb%
After pulling the scouting report on kenpom, I thought I was looking at last year's team. UNC posted a 43.3% Offensive rebounding rate through seven games. Although rebounding is a strength of this year's squad, I couldn't help but notice a wealth of missed opportunities during the Gardner-Webb game. A much less talented team was getting rebounds when the Heels were out of position. That said Thompson and Davis average 8.9 and 9.9 rebounds per game, respectively. Six others average between two and four rebounds per game. Izzo's focus on rebounding will prove crucial in this matchup, if executed well.
The Four Factors: FTA/FGA
Getting to the charity stripe doesn't occur as often as you'd think for the Heels. Roy leads a very unselfish team, frequently dishing to the open man instead of forcing tough shots (67.3% A/FM). Combined with a tendency to create easy buckets in transition, the Heels have a relatively moderate FTA/FGA (41.0%).
Keys to winning:
- Disruption of Larry Drew II. Prohibiting his passing lanes and getting him out of sync creates transition baskets and disrupts Carolina's flow. Personally, I'd love to see Allen or KL2 assigned to this task.
- Strong start. In both of the losses last year, the game was out of control early. Getting out to an early lead in a hostile environment against a young team will lead to more UNC turnovers and three-point attempts, which is not what Roy would care to see. Not to mention the Heels have performed much better in the 1st half than the 2nd.
- Superior rebounding. The most critical component. Limiting the easy put-backs for the Heels strips Roy's team of one of their strengths and puts us in the driver's seat.
- Confidence. This team performs admirably when they have that swagger. Ten-fold for Chris Allen. Act like we should be in control of this game and we will.


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[Editor's Note: C.J. was thoughtful enough to share this with us on former MSU pitcher Scott Tanksley's tragic passing. Just awful news. Please keep his family in your prayers]
Scott Tanksley lettered in baseball with the Mississippi State Diamond Dogs from 1993 to 1995. He pitched 82 games and is ranked third in the school's all time saves list. He was a Mizuno Freshman All-American in 1993 and was the last freshman to throw a complete game shutout at MSU. He still ranks in the Top 10 in seven statistical categories for the Bulldogs.
Tanksley was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 22nd round of the 1995 draft. He pitched three seasons in the minor leagues going 2-6 with a 3.34 ERA, 51 strikeouts and 18 walks over 36 appearances.
In 1999 Tanksley joined the Dallas Fire Department and served on the Fire-Rescue team. Tuesday night, while helping a motorist involved in a weather-related wreck, he was killed when another vehicle struck him and he fell from a freeway overpass.
Tanksley leaves behind a wife and three children. His funeral is slated for Monday. A Mississippi State athletics story on Tanksley can be found here and a Dallas Morning News story can be found here. A remembrance Facebook page has also been set up with links to other stories and information about Tanksley.