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Im so sick of basketball already!!!!! Pitino is extremely overpaid and overrated. He has underachieved at Louisville and we don't have top 25 talent. He has better facilities than any other coach in the country!! He has embarrassed us with his personal affairs and is not supportive of the BIG 12. He is selfish and doesn't put LOUISVILLE FIRST! These guys would get me excited again!
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2. Sean Miller Arizona
3. Brad Stevens Butler
Look at what we are doing with FOOTBALL right now. We are pulling in all americans on national tv and getting SEC transfers. FOOTBALL is the only thing that matters in college sports. Only the backward state of Kentucky cares about basketball more than football which is stupid. We can separate ourselves from UK and become the big brother through football. We need to focus on our football 365 24/7. I would love if charlie got a FAT chunk of Rick's salary. OUR FAN BASE NEEDS TO EAT SLEEP AND TALK FOOTBALL. WE CAN COMPETE FOR BCS CHAMPIONSHIPS AND GET IN THE BIG 12. SUPPORT CHARLIE MORE THAN RICK AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE AT THE SPRING GAME THIS YEAR


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Dolphins give strong showing at Tom Jones Memorial Classic
Jan. 27, 2008
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The JU indoor track and field team had its second strong showing in as many weeks as it competed in the Tom Jones Memorial Classic this weekend in Gainesville, Fla.
Junior Natasha Harvey led the way for the Dolphins, finishing second overall in the long jump and first out of the collegiate competitors. Her jump of 20-9.75" is an NCAA provisional qualifying mark and is the third best jump in the country so far.
"We saw improvement today," said JU head coach Ron Grigg. "I look forward to the next few weeks to get back to training before competing again at Clemson."
Harvey is now the second Dolphins this season to break an NCAA provisional qualifying mark after fellow junior Shaquania Lundy did so in the triple jump last weekend.
"Natasha's jump was nice, but there is more there for both her and Shaq," Grigg said. "I am excited to see what they will do in the coming months."
Sophomore Elsabeth Goshu and senior Danielle Coyle finished 24th and 34th in the 3000-meters respectively.
"I was really pleased with the distance group," said Grigg. "Coach Byrne has them pointed in the right direction and everyone showed significant gains from last week's races. This group will be instrumental in our attempt to challenge for the A-Sun Championships."
Freshman Danielle Davenport was the first Dolphins finisher in the 55 and 200-meter events.
"The freshmen continue to learn," Grigg said. They are taking babysteps each time they compete and"
Junior Simone Clark qualified for the finals in the 55-meter hurdles after recording a time of 8.16 in the preliminaries, before eventually finishing 16th.
"Simone's prelim in the 55h shows me she is on track to race well this year," said Grigg.
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Extraction Process
The Inkai project will use the in situ recovery (ISR) mining method. ISR mining produces no waste rock or tailings and results in minimal disturbance to the surface and underground areas mined.
Uranium occurs in sandstone aquifers as coatings on the sand grains at a depth of up to 300 metres.
Uranium is largely insoluble in the native groundwater which is not potable due to naturally high concentrations of radionuclides and dissolved solids. Using a grid of injection and production wells, a mining solution containing an oxidant is circulated through the orebody to dissolve the uranium. The uranium-bearing solution (generally containing less than 1/10 of 1% uranium) is then pumped to a surface processing facility where the uranium is removed using ion exchange resin. The water is re-oxidized and re-injected into the orebody. The uranium is stripped from the resin, precipitated and then dried to form the final product, yellowcake. This process is repeated to remove as much uranium as is economically feasible. When mining at the site is complete, the groundwater will be restored to its original quality.
This is a closed loop recirculation system since the water from the production well is reintroduced in the injection wells. Slightly less water is injected than is pumped to the surface to ensure that fluids are confined to the ore zones intended for extraction. Monitor wells are installed above, below and around the target zones to ensure that mining fluids do not move outside a permitted mining area.
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Deploy PasswordPusher with a Single Click
PasswordPusher now has the ability to be deployed to Heroku with a single click using Heroku's new deploy button.
Clicking on this button brings you to the Heroku app creation page. The app is pre-configured and all you have to do is click confirm. (Ok it takes two clicks…)
Log all messages from an IRC channel to a HipChat room
IRC2HipChat is a short Ruby script that uses Cinch to monitor IRC and re-post messages to a dedicated HipChat room using the HipChat API gem.
on :channel do |m|
msg = "<em>#{m.user.nick}</em>: #{m.message}"
$hipchat.send('irc2hipchat', msg, { :notify => true, :message_format => 'html' })
AppNeta hosts the #appneta channel on Freenode where we offer user support and answer questions. Not as widely known, is that it's a great place to get direct chat time with the appneta team behind the scenes. On a normal day, we have developers, sales, support and some executives all logged into IRC.
Internally we use HipChat and Dan Riti setup this bot so if someone types 'helpme' a notification gets sent to HipChat to ping the team that someone needs help in IRC. It works great.
My problem was that when I forgot to boot LimeChat for Mac, I would log in and have zero chat history. I know I should instead have a dedicated $5 VM running screen and irssi somewhere but I just don't have the interest and I especially don't like screen. So what's the logical next step? Leverage some existing Ruby gems to create an IRC to HipChat Relay in about 25 lines of code.
How it Looks
How to Use It
Got Ruby? Checkout rbenv if you don't.
Clone the repository
Set your environment variables
Get your HipChat api token: http://www.hipchat.com/account/api
or even better use a labeled Room Notification Token for better presentation
echo "export HIPCHAT_API_TOKEN=xxx" » ~/.bash_profile
Ubuntu Desktop note: Modify your ~/.bashrc instead of ~/.bash_profile.
Zsh note: Modify your ~/.zshrc file instead of ~/.bash_profile.
Configure your HipChat room and IRC channel in
HipChatRoom: AppNetaIRCLog
IRCChannel: '#appneta'
IRCServer: irc.freenode.org
IRCNick: irc2hipchat
Restart your shell so the new environment variables take affect
Bundle install
bundle install
Start the daemon
bundle exec rake start
Monitoring and Performance
Being AppNeta, we like to monitor performance of all things. If you don't have a TraceView account, sign up. It's free.
If you have TraceView setup and installed on your host, IRC2HipChat will automatically report statistics to your dashboard.
AppNeta releases their TraceView Ruby instrumentation code as open source
We just opened the Github repository to the public and announced it here. The TraceView Ruby instrumentation gives you performance data like this, this, this, this and even this.
If any of you are using it or give it a run and have any issues/questions - feel free to ping me anytime at pglombardo at gameface.in or via a support ticket through AppNeta. I'd love to get as much feedback as possible. They have a free-forever project-level plan that always shows the last 24 hours of performance data.
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The War on ActionView with Russian Doll Caching
Rails 4 is out featuring Russian Doll caching (AKA Cache Digests). In this article, I apply Russian Doll caching to one of my poorer performing Rails 3 pages using the cache_digests gem.
This article was originally featured on AppNeta's Application Performance Blog. Check it out!
ActionView templates are great. They are easy to code, manage and extend but the one thing they are not is fast…at least not out of the box.
In this article, I'll be using AppNeta's TraceView to time ActionView performance. If you haven't used TraceView before, checkout my previous article Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with TraceView.
ActionView is Slow; Pitfalls Ahead
ActionView puts forth a great development pattern of layouts, views and partials that is easy to understand, implement and maintain but that comes at a cost: The rendering process is complex and slow.
The screenshot above shows the timings for the
Users#show URL on Gameface. The page in question is fairly straight forward containing four components: a topbar, sidebar, user details and a listing of game characters.
With no caching at all, the ActionView layer averages roughly ~365ms for this URL. This represents over 80% of average request processing time and dwarfs all of the other layers combined.
In terms of performance, ActionView is a weapon of mass destruction and is the low-hanging fruit for improvement.
Russian Doll Caching
Russian Doll caching is a type of nested fragment caching that auto expires fragments when object timestamps change.
You still make the same calls as previous fragment caching schemes in Rails:
- cache @user do
(user view data)
- cache [ 'details', @user ] do
(user details view data)
- cache [ 'characters', @user ] do
- @user.characters.each do |character|
- cache character do
(character view data)
With Russian Doll caching (AKA cache digests) unique cache keys are formed using an md5 stamp based on the timestamp of the object being cached:
The advantage of this is that when objects are updated and outer fragments are automatically invalidated, nested fragments can be re-used. (russian dolls)
A key requirement to this is that children objects should update the timestamps of their parent object by using ActiveRecord
touch option. This will allow for automatic cache invalidation and avoid serving stale content.
class Character < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user, touch: true
For a more thorough explanation of Russian Doll Caching, see Ryan Bates cache digests episode or this explanation from Remarkable Labs.
Cache Friendly Page Layouts
When caching, it's best to avoid caching logged-in content since the same caches will get served to all users regardless of any logged in status.
For effective (and less problematic) fragment caching, designing the page well to separate out logged in content is critical.
Below is the layout for the Gameface profile view before re-design. Logged in specific content and links are sprinkled throughout the page making it hard to divide it up into cache-able fragments.
Properly caching this page as-is would be complicated and inefficient since we would have to tip-toe around logged-in content.
The Redesign
To fix this, I re-organized the page to group the logged-in specific content into one specific area. With logged-in content out of the way, we are then free to cache the rest of the page in well-defined fragments.
The Results
With the page re-design and Russian Doll fragment caching applied to the large majority of the page, we now average a much better ~120ms for ActionView on that URL. A reduction of 265ms or 67% in average processing time.
On top of the performance improvement, we also get automatic cache invalidation as object timestamps are updated. This greatly simplifies the whole system by not requiring cache sweepers or other tricks to invalidate stale caches.
Russian Doll caching is a small but significant improvement over prior caching in Rails. When used effectively, it can greatly reduce server side ActionView processing and automatically expire stale fragments.
We took a previously un-cached URL with a poor page layout that was averaging ~365ms of processing in ActionView and reduced that number to ~120ms for a 67% performance improvement.
Additional Considerations
When using fragment caching, note which backing cache store you are using. The default cache store in Rails is the filesystem but you can get even greater performance by backing your cache store with memcache or redis instead.
See the redis-rails gem as an example.
Next Up
Coming soon, I'll revisit this page under Rails 4 to further explore performance improvements over Rails 3.
Separate out logged-in content from agnostic content for best cache coverage. Page design affects caching efficiency.
When possible, always call cache with the object being cached. Cache keys and their eventual invalidation will be keyed off of the timestamp on the object being cached.
- cache @user do
(user view data)
- cache [ 'details', @user ] do
(user details view data)
To cache an index of objects, you have to revert to manually passing in the
expires_in option since there is no single object timestamp to key off of.
- cache 'user list', expires_in: 30.minutes do
(user list view data)
belongs_to model relationships with
touch: true so that parent fragment caches can be invalidated when children are updated.
Collect timing data before and after to quantify and validate changes.
Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with TraceView in under 10 minutes
Update May 14, 2013: AppNeta now offers free tracing for single projects. Check it out on their pricing page.
TraceView by AppNeta provides deep performance monitoring of web applications.
It gives you insight into your web application performance such as this:
and a per request drill-down that shows you the nitty gritty detail of where time is spent in individual requests (full-size):
and even end-user monitoring:
I run it on Gameface and PasswordPusher - it's an essential tool in identifying problem areas, performance bottlenecks and simply poor performing code. (Read: ActionView)
Disclaimer: I authored the Ruby instrumentation for Traceview so I may be a bit biased. …but with good reason!
Installing TraceView consists of two parts: 1) installing the system daemon on your host and 2) installing the Ruby gem in your application.
Why a system daemon? TraceView uses a system daemon to collect instrumentation from sources beyond application code such as host metrics, Apache or Resque.
The system daemon is installed with two commands that can be pasted into your shell. An account specific version of these commands are available in your TraceView dashboard once you create an account. (Under Settings; App Configuration; Trace New Hosts)
And the gem for your application Gemfile available on RubyGems:
gem 'oboe'
TraceView functions by sampling a subset of all requests that go through your web application. This sample rate must be set at the entry point of requests in your application. This can be a load balancer, Apache/nginx or Ruby itself. Successive hosts and software stacks that requests pass through will act appropriately according to upstream settings.
Yes. That means requests can be traced across hosts, software stacks even track internal API calls via HTTP/SOAP/REST which make for spectacular application insight. But that's another post for another time.
For this walkthrough we're going to assume that you're running a Ruby on Rails application with Unicorn, Thin, Puma or any other Rack based Ruby webserver.
To instead configure Apache/nginx as the entry point, see here.
Ruby as the Entry Point
If you setup Apache or nginx as your entry point then you can skip this part entirely. The
oboe gem will take it's tracing instructions from upstream automatically.
When the
oboe gem is installed in your application, it makes available
Oboe::Config which is a nested hash of configuration options that affect how your application is instrumented.
Luckily, the defaults are very smart and only a couple initial values need to be configured.
The two required values are:
Oboe::Config[:tracing_mode] = 'always'
Oboe::config[:sample_rate] = 100000 # 10% of incoming requests
These values enable tracing (:tracing_mode) and sets the sample rate to 10% (:sample_rate). The
sample_rate is calculated by the value out of one million. e.g. 300000 would equal a 30% sample rate meaning 3 out of 10 requests would be sampled. (For low traffic sites, you may want to set these values higher.)
These values are usually set in a Rails initializer for Ruby on Rails. See the Optional Rails Initializer section on this page. A complete list of all configuration options for
Oboe::Config is here.
Getting Performance Data
And that's it. Now to the good stuff.
If you want to test that the oboe gem is functional, start-up a Rails console, you should see a message to
stdout similar to:
Tracelytics oboe gem 22.214.171.124 successfully loaded.
Note that on hosts that don't have the system daemon installed, the oboe gem disables itself and outputs a message to that fact.
Unsupported Tracelytics environment (no libs). Going No-op.
Deploy/restart your application and you should start seeing traces show up in your TraceView dashboard after a couple minutes.
Installation and setup of TraceView for your application is a simple two step process that can be done in 10 minutes or less. Traceview gives a unique in-depth view into requests even as they cross hosts and software stacks.
Things are moving fast for the Ruby language instrumentation in TraceView. We already support tracing of memcache-client, memcached, dalli, mongo, moped, mongoid, mongomapper, cassandra, ActiveRecord (postgres, mysql, mysql2) plus more. Most recently we added support for Rack and Resque tracing. For a full-list of supported libraries, see the top of this article.
If you haven't tried out TraceView yet, give it a run. You won't be disappointed.
Extras: Some Random Chart Porn
A screenshot that I sent to Linode when performance unexpectedly dropped:
Linode migrated my VPS to a lesser utilized host with evident results (Thanks Linode):
An older issue that Gameface had with atrocious rendering times:


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A man charged with capital murder is now set to stand trial in Rankin County after requesting a change of venue.
The Hattiesburg American reports Forrest County Circuit Court Judge Bob Helfrich entered an order earlier this month setting Drakkar Fleming's trial for Aug. 12.
The 20-year-old Fleming is charged in the May 28, 2011, shooting death of Edward Cameron at his gun shop.
His co-defendant, Gerald Taylor, stood trial in February. Taylor was found not guilty of capital murder, but guilty of accessory after the fact to murder, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
Fleming's attorney filed a motion for the change of venue in March, citing excessive pre-trial publicity as a likely reason drawing an impartial jury from Forrest County would be difficult.
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Gianfranco Zola looks ahead to Watford's Boxing Day trip to Bristol City
4:40pm Monday 24th December 2012 in Sport By Anthony Matthews, Group Sports Editor
Gianfranco Zola says Watford will have to be "very focused" if they are to continue their fine form on the road with three more points at Bristol City on Boxing Day.
Although Saturday's win was a first win in three for the Hornets, Zola's men will travel to Ashton Gate unbeaten in their last four away games and on the back of just one defeat in their previous ten outings.
City, by contrast, are languishing in 23rd in the Championship, largely due to the fact they have not tasted victory in their previous nine home matches.
Speaking to the Watford Observer this afternoon, the Hornets boss said: "They don't have a great record recently at home but even Cardiff had a great record at home before they played Peterbrough [who won 2-1], so I don't trust this Championship. I know it's going to be a tough game and we will have to be very focused if we want to win the game."
Marco Cassetti will miss the match after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season in Saturday's 2-0 win against Nottingham Forest. With the exception of the injured Lloyd Doyley though, the Hornets boss may have a fully fit squad to choose from as he revealed Fernando Forestieri will have another fitness test on his hamstring tomorrow and "might be available for selection as well".
Long-term absentees like John Eustace and fellow midfielder Prince Buaben are now back in contention and Zola said: "They're all doing very well and they're all ready. The point for them is just waiting for the right opportunity because the people that have been playing have been doing very, very well so that doesn't make it easy for them to come back straight away. But they're good players, they will have the opportunity, they just have to wait for the right moment to come in."
The Watford head coach had previously suggested he would seek to utilise his large squad during the hectic festive programme. That remains the case, although it remains to be seen whether there will be a number of changes to the side at City.
Asked about the possibility of rotation, Zola replied: "That's something that we have already done previously and that's something that we're going to be doing. Whether I'm going to do it this game or the next, I don't know, but obviously I know that we cannot play many games within a short period of time without any problems, so I'm going to try and use the potential of having a big squad like I have and maybe change some players."
Zola confirmed his players will be training on Christmas Day afternoon before travelling to Bristol but like much of the country, the Hornets have had their preparations disrupted by the bad weather.
"In the last few days we had to adjust the training sessions because of the pitches, because of the weather, said Zola. "It hasn't been easy but it's okay. We've taken the most out of it."
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jalvin says...
Fairly unlikely he planned that but you couldn't blame him though!
6:05pm Mon 24 Dec 12
hogweed says...
These are times of some optimism
Hog out
7:55pm Mon 24 Dec 12
WessexLad says...
He knows Hogg's game, so that leaves Chalobar and Abdi, both of whom had good games on Saturday.
Given that Cassetti is suspended, one option would be to push Chalobar wide.
Whoever plays, though, they'd better take their water wings!
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MLM training: What you need to do.
If you're looking for MLM training, you'll want to read this post and then take action on what you've learned, right away.
All too often, network marketing newbies wrongly assume a few things about the MLM training pros and leaders in
their field. Like:
1) that MLM leaders have closely-guarded, insider secrets;
2) that MLM leaders are just plain lucky;
3) that MLM leaders have so big a fan base that it's impossible for anyone to compete;
and on and on, blah blah blah.
Listen. Here's the most important bit of MLM training you will find anywhere on the Internet: If you fall into the trap of believing any or all three of the above, then it's time to either
1) hang it up; or
2) retrain your brain.
Plain and simple.
After all, growing a business is hard work. And if you start out of the gate assuming that business success involves secret knowledge, luck, and scarcity, then… why bother?
You might as well declare defeat and get it over with.
Now, if you're willing to do the second thing (i.e., retrain your brain), then I congratulate you. Because although it is true that "MLM training" pros and leaders may know a few things that you don't (at least, to start with), it's not because they are part of some secret society.
In fact, it's because they've put in the time, they've done their research, they've gotten tons of MLM training, and they have put that training to good use.
Like, daily.
And guess what that means? With a little bit of digging and a great deal of persistence, you, too, can possess those same techniques and methods the that top producers within the industry use every day to cultivate their business and thrive.
Let's tackle that second assumption, shall we? (Because after all, effective MLM training means dispelling crappy thinking.)
While it may also be true that good timing can play a big role in the success that an MLM leader enjoys, you're doing yourself a HUGE disservice if you've resigned yourself to sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the next round of good timing to come along.
Good timing doesn't come along. It's right here, right now.
When was it good timing for Ray Higdon, the top producer in Numis Network? The day he made a start.
What about MLM training expert Rob Fore, who has built several successful network marketing companies? His first round of good timing began on the day that he decided to launch his first MLM.
And so it goes with every MLM training expert or professional: They made a start. They took a step. And then another one, and another one.
Since we're knocking it out, let's tackle the final (laughable) assumption, that MLM training professionals and leaders enjoy a corner on the market.
Every month, Google reports, over 1,000,000 people search for MLM opportunities.
Daily? That comes out to 333,333.33 UNIQUE searches. Every. Single. Day.
Now, can you honestly still think, after knowing this, that any one person, or group of individuals, could possibly service the needs of all of these people, every day?
The truth is, it's a huge pool, there's growing demand for work from home opportunities (see: recent economy stats), and besides all of that, 97 percent of people that start a network marketing business give up within the first three months.
Okay, so now that that's out of the way, let's take a look at the things that top MLM training professionals and leaders in this industry DO do in order to make it big in this industry. Because once you learn their techniques, and emulate them, you can't help but succeed.
MLM training: Common Traits
Here's what all MLM leaders have in common:
1. They treat their business as a business. Not a pastime, not a hobby. A business.
2. They are entrepreneurs.
3. They started their businesses with realistic, reachable goals.
4. They knew and accepted that success takes time and work.
5. "Failure" is not a word they understand.
6. "Temporary setback" is, and they treat these accordingly.
7. They learned from those setbacks.
8. They maintain a positive outlook.
9. They fully understand that MLM success is a numbers game. As such, they network. A lot. A lot, a lot. And then, they network some more.
10. They share what they know.
And that's it.
MLM training: Get Started today!
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Reality Check: No Matter the State of the Union, Reporters Love Obama's Speeches
Tuesday night, President Obama delivers his third State of the Union address, and his sixth speech to a joint session of Congress since taking office in 2009. But there's no need to spend a lot of time wondering about what the media will say after The Great One speaks, since — like a gaggle of corporate yes-men — journalists have gushed over every one of these major addresses.
"It was a big and bold speech," ABC's Terry Moran applauded on Nightline shortly after Obama's budget address in February 2009, his first before Congress. "It was his debut and he wowed us," MSNBC's Chris Matthews enthused the next day on Hardball.
"It made me feel pretty good. I thought it was a great speech," NPR's Nina Totenberg gushed on Inside Washington later in the week, adding, "You know, a friend of mine said, 'Oh my God, we have a President again!' Now, in some ways, that's not fair to Bush, but that's the way you felt. You felt this was a guy who was totally in charge."
Seven months later, in September 2009, Obama returned to the House chamber to make his pitch for government-run health care. That night on ABC, George Stephanopoulos cast him not as a central planner, but a passionate reformer: "This might have been the most emotional speech I've seen President Obama give....There was even a catch in his voice.... This is very close to President Obama's heart."
Over on MSNBC, the not-yet-fired Keith Olbermann offered a typically sycophantic take: "It was, to say the least, a broad and forward-thinking speech. On the rhetoric and the phrasing and the pacing and the design of the speech itself, there seems to have been a touch of greatness."
For Obama's first State of the Union address, in January 2010, then-CBS anchor Katie Couric was in full Obama-mania mode during her network's prime time coverage. After Jeff Greenfield noted how the President went "five or ten minutes without a single applause line," Couric chirpily cited a liberal New York Times columnist's take: "Well, as Tom Friedman said, 'He's better at making us smarter than making us angry.'"
Over on MSNBC, the gang was experiencing a full Obamagasm. "If presidential leadership were only about giving speeches, the jackhammers would already be at work on Mount Rushmore," Newsweek's Howard Fineman exulted.
Chris Matthews oddly observed: "You know, I was trying to think about who he was tonight, and it's interesting: He is post-racial by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour."
In January 2011, two months after voters repudiated his liberal agenda and elected scores of new conservative House members, the media greeted Obama's second State of the Union by claiming that the most liberal President in American history was somehow another Ronald Reagan. According to CBS's Jeff Greenfield: "He kept talking about winning the future and that was always a big theme about Reagan....He was clearly striking rhetorical notes that reminded me of Mr. Reagan."
Over on ABC, Christiane Amanpour delightedly called Obama's speech both "Reaganesque" and "Kennedyesque" — "Full of sunny optimism, very Reaganesque, on and on about American exceptionalism in many, many instances and full of Kennedyesque encouragement to break a new frontier. That Sputnik moment was remarkable...."
Then in September, Obama returned once more to pitch a "jobs plan" that he claimed needed to be passed immediately, and the media once again took up the cause of spinning on his behalf. "This is an extraordinarily bold plan by the President," CBS's Norah O'Donnell argued, reciting the White House spin that "more than half of it will be tax cuts — tax cuts for every working American, tax cuts for every small business."
[Of course, Obama's "tax cuts" were temporary reductions in the payroll tax, to be offset by permanent tax increases on upper income households, a net increase in the tax burden.]
O'Donnell's CBS colleague, Bob Schieffer, was swept away: "I mean, this is not the cool, detached college professor that some people have accused Barack Obama of being....I mean, he really went at them tonight. I mean, very — a lot of Harry Truman in this speech tonight."
In the nearly 1,100 days since Barack Obama took office, the national debt has increased by more than 40%, from $10.6 trillion to $15.2 trillion. The federal budget deficit has topped $1 trillion for three years in a row, and Obama's last (FY2012) projections have it staying above $600 billion for at least the next ten years.
The unemployment rate is an historically terrible 8.5%, but as economics writer James Pethokoukis noted in December, the shrinking labor force has masked much of the pain: "If the labor force participation rate were back at its January 2009 level, the [unemployment] rate would be 11.0 percent."
If the media were to focus on the dismal state of America under Barack Obama, their reviews might not be so adoring. But the track record shows they'll likely focus on the President's rhetoric, and find it absolutely thrilling.
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"State of the Union Speech" - i.e.: Yada, Yada, Yada
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:13am.
I don't believe I'll watch or listen... If I want to get irritated tonight, I'll just treat myself to an endless loop of Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe through the Tulips."
- Grump :o)
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Here is a 30 second pre-cap, of the State of the Union spew.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:29am.
Evil oil and dreamy green jobs, bust out some duct tape.
This campaign ad is nothing but a collection of falsehoods.
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No kidding!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:53am.
I came into work this morning, saw on the big screen TVs we use here on Fox News that he was going to talk about wanting to increase oil production and I thought I was about to have a stroke, could feel my blood pressure rising just from that headline alone!
And what scares me is that people WILL buy this BS hook line and sinker when by all rights, they should be tossing this dictator out of the White House on his sorry ass and bring DC back to the people's control!
I can see people giving him yet ANOTHER chance "Oh, maybe he will do it now" or something frantically and overpoweringly stupid like that! They just can't accept the idea that this usurper is a danger to this country and Senator Rand Paul's treatment yesterday is proof of that among all the other harmful things he's done to our country.
And am I watching it? HELL NO!
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Introducing for the first time, "The Manufacturing President."
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:32am.
Plouffe and Axelgrease have invented some truly incredulous themes before, but this one is gonna take the cake.
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Just one time
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:41am.
before i die i'd like to turn on the news and get objectivity.
If you're not getting flak, you're not over the target.
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Well Fed
Submitted by kilrod on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:44am.
Welp, looks like the 0 bamas are eating good anyway.
From Newsmax
The Obamas Feast on $81 Steaks
President Barack Obama and wife Michelle celebrated the first lady's 48th birthday Tuesday night by dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant featuring a hamburger named "The Obama."
But they passed on the burger and instead both enjoyed a 10-ounce American Wagyu steak with an $81 price tag.
"The Obama" is one of five burgers on BLT Steak's "Political Burger Board." It's an 8-ounce American Kobe burger with bacon, cheddar cheese, burnt tomato ketchup, and scallion mustard. American Kobe beef is from a line of Japanese Wagyu cattle prized for its fat marbling. The burger sells for $28.
The "Bi Partisan" burger, $32, is an 8-ounce burger with Maine lobster, white cheddar cheese, and black truffle buttermilk dressing.
Other burgers include the "Pork Barrel," "Cuban Missile," and "BLT Monument."
The Obamas enjoyed their meal in a private dining room, CNS News reported.
The restaurant's assistant general manager told the Foodorama blog that Michelle Obama "dines with us quite regularly."
Other items on the menu include a dozen oysters for $34, a bone-in rib eye steak ($47), sautéed Dover sole ($49), or french fries on the side for $8.
No word if the Obamas washed down the birthday night dinner with a bottle of Chateau Petrus 1984 Pomerol, at $1,200.
If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,??
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Bet it was comped
Submitted by Model850 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 4:51pm.
Whaddya wanna bet the restaurant comped the meal?
Probably always comps the food for these moochers which is why MO is such a regular customer.
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NO SOTUS 4 ME...and he is toast IMHO
Submitted by reelman46 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:59am.
I cannot bring myself to watch OzBama tonite for his SOTUS. Its going to be another slick mix of
distractions, lies and smears sprinkled with fantasy dust and soaked in blame-shifting.
Its how the clueless apostle of socialism rolls along in his private Oz so painful to America.
The game is over. We are no longer fooled.
OzBama "can" win but I think he is toast (I posted late last June he was toast)...too much pain at the individual level with gas 2x, 401s still way down, jobless rate, housing crisis and azz-kiss tension-raising foreign policy...in other words, its personal...and "are u better off than 4 years ago"? Promises and platitudes have run their course. Keystone stonewalling is another big goof.
Black jobless is way way up also. GOP is jamming any more vote-buying debt-growing bills.
The real jobless rate is 16-18%.
Watch the markets and consumer confidence...if they ease up and up in late summer...America smells bye bye WH sincere socialist fools...of course the fool and his pawn media will think its because of a recovery...
so Ozzy surely flames out despite some vote fraud.
Another socialist failure that only needed "another year and another trillion"...lol...
will they ever learn socialism does not work?
Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish<
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Great collection of old MSM reviews of Obama speeches!
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 3:34pm.
NPR's Nina Totenberg (2009): "You felt this was a guy who was totally in charge."
We've since come to learn that nobody is in charge at this White House when it comes to bad decisions. They throw subordinates under the bus. Obama is only in charge after the fact when something goes well, like the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Chris Matthews oddly observed: " You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour."
A racist comment if I've ever heard one. But MSNBC would never fire Matthews for being an idiot; idiocy is a hallmark of his commentary.
Matthews is not unlike most liberal white guys I have met who appear to think that repeating the racial sensitivity buzz words they had learned overcomes their nascent racial attitudes, but every once in a while, they blurt something out that exposes their sentiments. I suspect Matthews is gets thrills up his leg from Obama because he holds low expectation for black Americans, and Obama exceeds them.
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Word is that as Obama reads
Submitted by celator on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:29am.
Word is that as Obama reads his last SOU speech in the teleprompter screens tonight, he'll also be auditioning the speech for this year's 'World Champion Liar' event held every year in Burlington, Wisconsin. He'll have some tough competition at this year's event, but insiders say he should easily walk away with the top prize.
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Hi, Godwin here...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:28am.
I just wanted to point out that the NAZIS loved speeches too!
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Yes, and these authoritarians are often like Nazis.
Submitted by Thalpy on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 12:14pm.
Nazi's did enjoy speeches and leaving millions speechless and lifeless.
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State of the Union Speech
Submitted by Steve Cakouros on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 4:11pm.
Why should I watch Obama's performance tonight?
I already know what the State of the Union is. Our ship has drawn perilously close to the rocks and shoals.
I suggest that we get a new captain. This time we should bring on board someone who knows something about navigation.
Steve Cakouros
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State of the union
Submitted by Model850 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 4:49pm.
If Bambi could be honest for about fifteen seconds tonight's SOTU speech would last about that long.
Good evening. The country is f***ed. I'm the one who f***ed it up. Both I and VP Biden resign, effectively immediately. Congratulations, President Boehner. Thank you.
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Submitted by 26CX on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 5:02pm.
If Obama did that he'd get a standing ovation.
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Wishful thinking
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 5:40pm.
Unfortunately, his NPD is such that he would never give up his dictatorship. He's violated the law (the Constitution most egregiously) several times over that he thinks he's got the run for the money going. My prediction? Oh man, he's gonna bring down the house tonight(according to the LSM), it's gonna be happy days all over again, we're never gonna want for anything ever again.
Meanwhile, the Republicans, especially Bonehead and Cantor and McConnell, will never do anything at this point, will never get the backbone past the Linguini state, and condemn this RBFPOSSOB for his actions as well as apply consequences.
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Flight of fancy
Submitted by Model850 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 5:54pm.
Yeah, it was just an "I wish" flight of fancy, of course. And 26CX was right: It would garner a standing ovation if Bambi actually spoke those words.
And I agree totally that the Republicans will continue as they have done the past three years, which is just roll over and play dead while they watch the country put through the shredder by the pretender in chief.
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Republican behavior
Submitted by 26CX on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 6:30pm.
Could it be that the Republicans are experiencing a political variation of Battered Person Syndrome and perceive that they are incapable of defending themselves?
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Date of News Release: 02/02/2006
(PADUCAH, KY.) On 2-1-06, Kentucky State Police Investigators charged a Paducah man with Burglary and Arson of his estranged wife's home. On 12-1-05, the Lone Oak Fire Department responded to a house fire on Lindcrest Drive, south of Lone Oak. Once the fire was under control, fire officials and the State Fire Marshall's Office noticed the fire appeared suspicious and requested the assistance of Kentucky State Police Arson Investigator Frank Gresham. Gresham's investigation led to Mark Lee Crossland, 45 of Paducah. Crossland's estranged wife was living in the home at the time of the fire but was not there when the fire was set.
On 1-27-06, a McCracken County Grand Jury returned indictments on Crossland for Arson 2nd Degree, Burglary 1st Degree, and Theft by Unlawful Taking over $300.00, Theft by Unlawful Taking-Firearm, Convicted Felon in Possession of a Handgun and Cruelty to Animals-2nd Degree. On 2-1-06, Detective Gresham served the indictment warrants on Crossland in the McCracken County jail where he was being held on related charges. Crossland is being held on $68,000 cash bond. The investigation is continuing by Detective Gresham.


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Q&A with Lori Yann
City of Residence: Warner Robins
Occupation: Teacher, Sacred Heart Catholic School
QUESTION: Sacred Heart hosts its 56th Fall Festival Saturday. What are the hours and the location?
ANSWER: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 250 South Davis Drive. Part of it, the Grannys Attic -- sort of a rummage sale -- is also open Friday from 8:30 a.m. until noon.
QUESTION: Just what is the festival?
ANSWER: Its a very, very family friendly, fun event thats open to the whole community. Theres so much to do. There are all kinds of rides and bouncy houses, amazing food, arts and crafts, all kinds of entertainment and so many other things to do.
QUESTION: What is its purpose?
ANSWER: Its our way to give back and thank the community for all their support through the year, and its become sort of a social focal point for a lot of people, a lot of families. Its also our schools biggest fund raiser each year. Id say it provides probably 60 to 70 percent of our budget. We pretty much put all our fundraising projects in this one weekend.
QUESTION: Talk about the amazing food?
ANSWER: A lot of local restaurants set up stands or bring food trucks and we have a lot of families that have booths. We have families from all over the world at Sacred Heart, so theres good old American food as well as Filipino, Chinese, Mexican and other ethnic treats at 30 or so food booths. Fair food, too.
QUESTION: Hows the pricing on food? And does it cost money to get in the festival itself?
ANSWER: Its very economical. Its very family friendly on the wallet. Theres no charge to park, no charge to get in and all the events themselves are very economical.
QUESTION: Entertainment?
ANSWER: We have a number of stages and entertainment from local performers, school groups, choruses, Irish dancers, cloggers, jump rope teams and more I cant even think of.
QUESTION: What are the games like?
ANSWER: There are separate game areas, one for toddlers with their own games and prizes -- the everybody wins sort of games, and their own bounce house and play area. Then we have an area for the older kids and grown-up games. The two most popular always seem to be the cakewalk and bingo. You wouldnt believe all the cakes we give away.
QUESTION: The usual arts and crafts?
ANSWER: Theres a real variety from professionals and hobbyists. One big thing is our eighth-graders have an entrepreneurial class and make and sell projects at the festival. Theyve made homemade candy machines, scarves, pillows and lots of bracelets. I have one kid whos making stools with sports pillows on top.
Another thing is Grannys Attic, which is open Friday morning, too. We collect yard sale items, appliances and stuff all year long. Theres also a silent auction with baskets, sports packages, vacations and such. This year were auctioning time with teachers that students or parent can bid on to go bowling or for a pedicure or whatever. We thought that would be a good idea, but were a little paranoid well turn out to be the least popular item! Theres a big dollar raffle also. First prize is $2,000, second is $1,250, third $750 and on down. Kids are selling these tickets now.
QUESTION: Do a lot of people come?
ANSWER: It gets bigger and bigger every year. We dont know just how many, but from working ticket booths I know we sell thousands of armbands for rides. The festival is spread over the whole school and church property, which is huge, so it doesnt seem overcrowded and you dont usually have to stand in line much.
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Luck of the British: Monty Python's Spamalot Celebrates First Year on Broadway
By Ernio Hernandez
Broadway's reigning Best Musical Tony Award winner Monty Python's Spamalot celebrates its first anniversary March 17 at the Shubert Theatre.
At the year mark, Spamalot has acquired a number of accolades and continues to find success:
Other fun facts about the past year:
The self-proclaimed "lovingly ripped-off" show features a book by Eric Idle based on the screenplay he co-wrote with Monty Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. The score features music and lyrics by Idle and composer John Du Prez ("A Fish Called Wanda") and also includes songs ("Brave Sir Robin" and "Knights of the Round Table") from the original film as well as Python signature "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."
Spamalot tells the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table on their quest from God (voiced by a familiar actor) for the Holy Grail - with a short stop in the dazzling Spam-filled land of Camelot.
The design team for Spamalot features Tim Hatley (set, costume), Hugh Vanstone (lighting), Gregory Meeh (special effects) and ACME Sound Partners (sound).
The show website can be found at www.montypythonsspamalot.com.
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The longest-running ABC daytime soap opera, General Hospital, began in 1963, when soap operas were targeted to women who did not work out of the home. Back then, plots centered around romance, unrequited love and intrigue.
The main characters were part of the hospital's seventh floor: Dr. Steve Hardy (John Beradino), Chief of Internal Medicine, and his nurse, Jessie Brewer (Emily McLaughlin).
As the series progressed, events took place out of the hospital, and younger characters were brought in to appeal to a wider audience. Toward the late '70s, General Hospital plots entered the realm of adventure with Luke and Laura (Anthony Geary and Genie Francis), which would change the face of soap operas forever.
Today, with a record for the most Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series, General Hospital deals with social issues such as AIDS, breast cancer and single mothers; plot lines involve the mob rulers of Port Charles, led by Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard).
General Hospital continues to target new audiences while remembering their viewers from the past by bringing back "legacy" characters. The landscape of soap operas is ever-changing. General Hospital continues to adjust to the times - but never forgets its roots.
Early Days: Less than a Legend
It all began on April 1, 1963. Husband and wife writers Frank and Doris Hursley created the half-hour show, which debuted on the same day that NBC premiered their medical soap, The Doctors. In 1976, GH was expanded to 45 minutes, and in 1978, to a full hour. The program began with the shot of an ambulance rushing up the driveway of a large, white hospital to the accompaniment of music that suggested a siren.
People perhaps think that General Hospital was always set in Port Charles, New York, but in fact, it was set in a decent-sized city on the East coast. In the 1970s, that city was given a name, Port Charles, and later, "Port Charles" began to sound and look suspiciously like Rochester, New York. It had the same area code; when Luke and Laura returned to Port Charles in the '90s, they filmed their outdoor scenes (including jumping from a helicopter and driving a pink Cadillac down Main Street) in Rochester. Both Port Charles and Rochester are towns with vast waterfronts.
Steve Hardy worked side-by-side with Nurse Jessie. Jessie was married to a younger, unreliable philanderer, Phil Brewer (Roy Thinnes and Martin West). One memorable story arc centered around Phil's murder in 1974.
When nurse Lucille's sister Audrey came to town, the sparks between Audrey (Rachel Ames) and Steve flew. They married - three times. There was always an implied "something" between Steve and Jessie, but it was not to be. Steve, Audrey and Jessie were the backbone of General Hospital. Rachel Ames is still Audrey, the grandmother of a modern character, Elizabeth Webber (Rebbeca Herbst); Emily McLaughlin played Jessie until her death in 1991, and John Bernadino was Steve Hardy until his death in 1996.
Lesley, David Hamilton, Laura, and the threat of cancellation: The Dismal '70s
By the late 1970s, General Hospital was suffering from dismal ratings. In 1976, in a controversial move, ABC head Fred Silverman changed the show's format from 45 minutes to an hour, a bizarre thing to do to a flop show!
It had been a tumultuous decade for the soap. In 1971, the show was ranked the #1 soap opera, ahead of As the World Turns, when Audrey (Rachel Ames) allegedly murdered her son's babysitter. Soon, however, General Hospital was huffing and puffing behind the popular soap The Doctors.
Writers began to lean heavily on the strong acting talent of Denise Alexander, who played Dr. Lesley Webber. Her daughter Laura (Stacey Baldwin, followed by Genie Francis) was introduced. Laura, at 16, became the lover of David Hamilton, a man who had pursued the married Lesley and been rejected. Realizing that his only motive in being with her was revenge on her mother, Laura killed him.
This was a successful storyline that resulted in the character of Laura becoming a major force on the show. In her next story arc, Laura fell in love with Scott Baldwin (Kin Shriner), which later led to the love triangle of Laura, Scott and Bobbie Spencer.
Despite these bumps in popularity, by 1978, General Hospital was on death row and in need of a pardon. That pardon arrived in the form of dynamo Gloria Monty, a director from The Secret Storm. She teamed with writers Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith, and little did any of them realize that General Hospital would soon make soap opera history.
Luke and Laura: The Golden Era
NBC President Fred Silverman gave Gloria Monty thirteen weeks to bring General Hospital up to par before giving it the ax. Monty decided to attract a younger audience by focusing on younger characters. She moved away from the hospital setting and moved toward more action/adventure and mystery, at the same time updating the sets and stepping up the pace, so that there were more scenes.
Impressed with edgy, offbeat actor Anthony Geary from her previous series, Bright Promise, Monty brought him on to play Luke Spencer, a man involved with the mob organization of Frank Smith (George Gaynes) and currently in charge of The Campus Disco, where Laura Spencer Baldwin got a job. Thus began the love triangle of Luke, Laura and Scott.
With Luke and Laura, Monty invented the soap opera supercouple, still in existence today. Their "Love on the Run" adventure helped propel General Hospital to the #1-ranked soap opera, and their 1981 wedding was viewed by approximately 30 million viewers.
Other supercouples followed: Robert and Holly (Tristan Rogers and Emma Samms), Frisco and Felicia (Jack Wagner and Kristina Wagner), Duke and Anna (Ian Buchanan and Finola Hughes), and Stone and Robin (Michael Sutton and Kimberly McCullough). Luke and Laura made the cover of both Newsweek and People Magazine (with Elizabeth Taylor, who played their nemesis, Helena Cassadine), honors never before bestowed on a soap opera.


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RONCEVERTE (WVVA)- Teachers at Eastern Greenbrier Middle School took part of the day to inform students about the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
Paul Laird a seventh grade teacher at EGMS says, "A lot of it is really shocking to them. A lot of them are asking why would they do that to the United States."
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Billy Gene Whitfield, 73, passed away Monday evening, Nov. 19, 2012, at Lincoln Centers, Connersville.
He was born May 11, 1939, in Connersville, the son of William Ezra and Jama Elizabeth Duke Whitfield. A graduate of Connersville High School, he also attended several college courses before serving with the U. S. Air Force.
On June 18, 1966, he married Rose Marie Obermeyer at Holy Family Catholic Church, Oldenburg. She preceded him in death Nov. 11, 2010.
For 30 years, he was employed at Philco-Ford and its predecessors, retiring from Visteon. He was a faithful member of St. Gabriel Catholic Church.
Survivors include six brothers-in-law: Jerry Obermeyer and wife Jeanne, Gilbert Obermeyer and wife Kay Lynn, Ronnie Obermeyer, Robert Obermeyer, Eddie Obermeyer and Richard Obermeyer and wife Pat, all of Oldenburg; and a number of nieces and nephews-in-law.
He was also preceded in death by his parents.
Visitation is Monday, Nov. 26, from 9-11 a.m. with a rosary service at 9:30 a.m. at St. Gabriel Catholic Church, 232 W. 9th St., Connersville. The Rev. Stanley Herber will officiate the 11 a.m. Mass of Christian burial at the church. Burial will be in Holy Family Cemetery, Oldenburg.
Memorial contributions may be made to the church. Online condolences may be made at millermosterrob bins.com.
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West Virginia State Police responded to a fatal accident Wednesday morning.
The two vehicle head-on-collision occurred on Smithtown Road in Monongalia County just before 8:30 a.m.
State Police said a 2003 Chevrolet driven by Kerry Bartolina, 51 of Morgantown, was traveling south on Smithtown Road and crossed the center line while attempting to pass another vehicle.
The Chevrolet then collided with a 2002 Dodge driven by Peter Devlin, 49 of Morgantown that was traveling northbound on Smithtown Road, according to State Police.
Bartolina died at the scene due to injuries sustained in the crash. Devlin is listed in fair condition at Ruby Memorial Hospital.


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A semi truck hauling forklifts jackknifed during an accident, spilling the load of forklifts onto the highway.
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Top freestyle motocross riders will take to the skies in Pretoria for the final stop on the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour.
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Another 1-2 grid start for Mercedes for the 2014 Spa Formula 1 GP as Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton came home on a streaming track from Saturday qualifying.
Valtteri Bottas ended Mercedes' run of fastest laps with the top time for Williams in a damp final 2014 Belgian Grand Prix practice on Saturday (Aug 23).
Lewis Hamilton put in some torrid laps for Mercedes in the first practice sessions ahead of the 2014 Spa Formula 1 GP on Friday - but still chilled out when the driving finished.
Caterham's Kamui Kobayashi was not going to be the only F1 regular sitting out the 2014 Belgian GP as Marussia ousted driver Max Chilton...Then the team changed its mind.
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel's 2014 season could be set to go from bad to worse if he is given another penalty ahead of the 2014 Belgium GP on Sunday.
Sergio Perez says he expects to stay at Force India for the 2015 Formula 1season with an extension likely to be agreed in a matter of weeks.
The Nurburgring circuit sale has hit a fork in the road. Will the sale still go ahead as the new owner misses the pay date?
Despite Formula 1 drivers being on holiday, no one really expects that the break has cooled the rivalry between championship leaders Mercedes' Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton ahead of the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix.
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BTB nation the moment we have been waiting for is almost here. 24 hours from now the 2011 NFL Draft will be under way in New York City. This is a great night for football players, teams and of course us the fans. So for one night let's throw out the uncertainty that is going on right now in our beloved NFL. Lets remove the CBA war going on from our brains and instead focus on who is about to be welcomed into our team. Everyone has their favorite guy, the guy you want to be the next Dallas Cowboy. Now regardless of who we draft, let's try to welcome him with open arms. Remember as soon as that player is announced as our draft pick, he instantly becomes part of the Dallas Cowboys family.
The draft is a special time for me every year, because it is a fresh start. We get to start all over again and attempt to stock this team up with talented players whose skills translate to making us a better football team. Last year was one of the best moments I have had as a Cowboys fan in a long time, probably winning the Super Bowl vs. the Steelers was the last time I was that happy. I never thought Dez Bryant was going to become a Cowboy, but he did. Dez Bryant is my favorite player in all of sports, I just love how he plays out on the football field. Getting a player that electrifying was a special moment. This year we may go the boring and safe approach to the draft. There is major talk of trading down and hoarding up some draft picks. I for one do not favor that idea. I want the best players I can get, the best talent. I do not want to stock up a team with multiple picks, we did that in 2009. Give me quality over quantity please.
For months I have been on the Tyron Smith wagon because if we are going to draft an offensive tackle, then I believe it should be Tyron Smith. I think he could be the next D'Brickashaw Ferguson and we could really use that on our offensive line. The pairing of Doug Free and Tyron Smith could be the best bookends in the NFL. Drafting offensive lineman isn't a sexy pick like last years, but it's a fundamental football pick we need to start making to solidify our offensive line.
As of writing this I am getting a feeling inside my gut, the feeling I am getting is that Jerry has been playing us all along. Guys and girls, I really think Jerry Jones is going to make a splash tomorrow night. I think Jerry Jones is going to move up for Patrick Peterson or Von Miller, more likely Peterson. For months I have ignored even discussing or doing any draft fan posts on Peterson because he should be drafted in the top five. But today I am just getting this feeling somehow. someway, Jerry is going to find a way to get this kid on our team.
Do I oppose going out and getting the best player in the draft? No. I really cannot blame Jerry for doing this if indeed this goes down. You know what will happen if we do indeed get Patrick Peterson? I will jump up and down. I will scream out sounds of utter joy. This is what I did with Dez Bryant last year, maybe it happens again. Now I have zero sources or information that this will happen, I just have a hunch. If we get Patrick Peterson I think it would be awesome. Yes, we would most likely lose a bunch of draft picks, but as long as the Cowboys can land a decent right tackle in the 3rd or 4th round I can live with that. I still believe we should take Tyron Smith at 9, but if there is a opportunity to trade up for Peterson I say we should do it. I want the best football players on my team and this guy has the potential to be one of the best players in the secondary in the National Football League.
JJ Watt is another guy I love to death. I love what he is willing to do for his team, this dude actually loves the game. It hurts him emotionally when he loses a big game, I love that he cares that much. Many rumors around suggest the Cowboys love Watt and will take him at 9. I would love that pick because Watt is what we need on our defensive line. We need pass rushers who are beastly enough to clog the run but be disruptive. I know it would be a boring pick, but this would be another smart football decision. Same goes for Cameron Jordan, the defensive end from Cal. I love this guy too man, he brings it every game and already played in a 3-4 defense. We need disruptive defensive ends and these two guys fill that role. I know we wouldn't jump up and down all excited, but think about adding disruption and pass rushing to your defensive line. It is a very important part of what Rob Ryan does in his defenses.
I think one of the more interesting spots of the draft for us is the 2nd round. Think about all the prospects that are going to be available when we go on the clock at 40th overall. The 40th overall selection weighs heavily on what the Cowboys do in the first round. If we need a cornerback then I would really want us to pick up Aaron Williams. I think he would be a great fit for this team. The 2nd round is intriguing to me for a lot of reasons. Right now I don't know who we are taking in the first round, so I cannot even get into what we are going to do yet in the second. So pay attention to what Dallas does in the first, then we can discuss the 2nd options for us on Friday night.
Now I want to get into a dream I had last night. The draft was taking place and I was watching it somewhere, not really sure where it was. I saw Roger Goodell walk up to the podium and announce our pick. I couldn't make out the number, so I don't know if we traded down. But then he said "The Cowboys select Nate Solder" and I started to panic. I tried to wake my self up and I finally did. I had cold sweat all over my body and bed. I was praying that it wasn't real. I checked the clock and the date, so thank God that didn't just happen. Nate Solder is my worst nightmare of what could happen to us. He will take at least two years to develop into an offensive lineman capable of playing in our system. I watch him on tape and I see him as the biggest star or bust material in the draft. Please take Carimi or Sherrod over Solder, Jerry.
I have done so much research and homework since January and I am drafted out for real. I cannot wait until we get on the clock and make our selection. Then I will be even more nervous in the 2nd-7th rounds because we could fudge those picks up as well. We need to seriously hit on at least 5 players this draft. This is a serious draft this time around folks, we don't have the option of not getting good players this time around. We got 3 good ones last year, but that's just not enough. We need to start filling this team with great players. This is the most nervous I have been for a draft in recent memory. I have visions of 2009 all over again if Jerry gets cute and trades down, I am sorry but that is just the gut feeling I have. The other side of myself tells me that we got Jason Garrett and Rob Ryan in the war room this year. Those two men need to have their input taken seriously, Jerry needs to listen to them. Draft the offensive players Garrett wants and draft the defensive players Ryan wants. Jerry I beg you please do not turn this into the 2009 draft all over again.
I will back whatever decision we make this week, but I am praying we come out with some real nice football players. There are so many directions the Cowboys can go here. I am still shocked we have no interest in Prince Amukamara, I find that extremely odd. We need to land a good right tackle, an inside linebacker, slot wide receiver, defensive end and running back. You can throw cornerback and possibly a safety into the mix as well. Personally, I would rather land a good cornerback than a safety we just take because we need one. I am nervous, very nervous right now on the eve before the big night. I think Jerry is either going to make a big splash and trade up or trade down from the 9th spot. I would be shocked to see them make an actual pick at 9. Jerry, just get us good football players and listen to the scouts and coaches. ChiaCrack is drafted out big time, lets get the show started already please.


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By Baylee Pulliam
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Name of business: TJ's Ice Cream Plus
Location: 2630 Broadway, Anderson
Owners: Teresa and Jerry Alexander
Opened: 2010
Hours: Spring: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday. Summer: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Serves: Homemade sandwiches, sides, soft-serve yogurt and hand-dipped ice cream.
In the owners' words: Teresa Alexander has a lot of warm, fuzzy memories connected to cold ice cream.
Watching friends gather after summer ball games to eat sundaes and waffle cones at TJ's Ice Cream Plus, "It is wonderful to see people smile," she said, "And to see ice cream all over the face of a child or an adult and know that they really enjoyed what they ate."
TJ's opened in 2010 at 2630 Broadway, named for Teresa and husband, Jerry. She's the "T," he's the "J."
The concession stand-style shop — which opened for the season Friday — is best known for its hand-dipped Ashby Sterling ice cream, soft serve yogurt and sandwiches, notably the "The Best Tenderloin in town," Teresa said.
This year, the Alexanders are adding a whole slew of menu items, including some new sundae options, old fashioned sodas, hot and cold lattes and coffees specially blended by Muds. There are also some news savory options, including Polish sausage, hamburgers, veggie burgers, tater tots and something called "TJ's Taco in a Bag."
"You will not be disappointed in the ice cream or the food," Teresa said. "We try to specialize in things that you cannot get anywhere else."
Customers can order using the traditional walk-up method, or have it brought to them via the newly-added Bickel's Catering, managed by daughter Angi, which caters business meals, weddings, receptions and other events with ten or more people.
For yet another ordering option, pull up to the brand new drive thru window.
The Alexanders got the idea at the National Ice Cream Association Annual Conference last year, Jerry said, where they heard a drive thru could increase over-all sales by over a quarter.
"We felt for us that increase in sales would enable us to make a profit," Jerry said.
Since TJ's food is made fresh, the new window is more for convenience than speed, Teresa said.
"We are thinking of those that are unable to walk up to the window," she said, "those that are tired, those with a handicap, the ones that don't want to get wet when it is raining and those that don't like the cold air or wind when the weather is not ideal."
Of course, it would also be convenient in summer, when it's hot and you need a fast ice cream fix, she said.
Speaking of a "fast ice cream fix" — how's about devouring 15 scoops in 20 minutes? Well then step right up for the TJ's Belly Buster Challenge — also new this year.
Challengers who beat the clock get their dish and its bowl free, in addition to a T-shirt (and a massive brain freeze).


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12:00pm Wednesday 12th February 2014 in News
Do you love to work with your hands? Do you have want to learn to be a potter at the renowned Leach pottery?
The Leach Pottery is looking for a beginner apprentice to join its busy production team. Previous experience and formal qualifications are not required but candidates should have a mature approach to learning, be willing to follow instructions, be good at working within a team and have a passion for and interest in crafts.
You will receive training in all aspects of production and studio activities and by the end of the year it is expected you will contributing to the production of work for our shop and other outlets.
This is a 12 month paid contract with the possibility of extension based on performance and funding. Preference will be given to candidates from within Cornwall with little or no previous experience or training in pottery.
Founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, the Leach Pottery is among the most respected and influential studio potteries in the world. Over the last hundred years it has forged the shape of studio pottery production in the UK and beyond.
This position is has been made possible by the generous support of Seasalt Ltd.


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Caesars Palace
Las Vegas, NV
Thursday, August 19
• Introduction to Social Security Disability Practice: The Sequential Evaluation Process, the Levels of Appeal,
and the Types of Claims Handled by the Social Security Administration
Andrew J. Reichardt, UT
• Using the Grid Rules to Your Client's Advantage, Both Where the Grids Direct a Finding of Disability, and
Where the Grid Rules Should Be Used as a Framework for Decision-Making
R. Scott Wilson, TN
• Ethics: What Evidence Do You Have to Submit, and Other Ethical Considerations Involved in
SSA Cases
Debra S. Shifrin, OH
• Effective Advocacy at the Appeals Counsel
Christopher Latham, NY
• Social Security Practice in Federal Court
Susan M. O'Malley, NC
• Marketing and Managing a Social Security Disability Practice
Scott B. Elkind, MD
Friday, August 20
• Everything You Need to Know About Social Security Attorneys' Fees
R. Scott Wilson, TN
Morning Session: Panel Focusing on Winning Claims with Specific Medical Conditions
• Proving Unusual Medical Conditions
Scott B. Elkind, MD
John V. Tucker, FL
Evan A. Zagoria, MI
• Winning Claims Involving Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
Evan A. Zagoria, MI
• Winning Claims Involving MS and Similar Neurologic and Autoimmune Disorders
John V. Tucker, FL
• Using Internet and Software Tools Before, During, and After ALJ Hearings with Vocational Experts
Carol Avard, FL
• An Introduction to LTD Benefits for the Social Security Practitioner
Edward P. Dabdoub, FL
• Marketing and Client Management Ethics in Your Social Security Practice . . . Avoiding
Bar Complaints
Benjamin A. Irwin, AL


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Camouflage being worn outside of the military was once a rarity. There was a time where if you wore camouflage, you were considered a thug or a weirdo. I'm no thug, nor am I a weirdo, but I've always loved wearing "camo." I really appreciate seeing people of all walks of life in well put together camouflaged outfits.
The rise of camouflage in fashion is a beautiful thing. Seeing fashionable women in fatigues is definitely becoming a new past time of mine. Women have way more "camo" options than men.
Oversized Fatigue Sweatshirt X Leather Skirt
The Slim Fit Camouflage Jeggings and Heels, My Favorite "G.I. Jane" Look
The over saturation of fatigues in pop culture has taken my love for camouflage to new heights. I've become very selective with the camouflage pieces I put on.Like most people, I pride myself on individuality. A biological twin is the only twin I'd be able to accept. It was said that famed mob boss John Gotti would de-clothed people that dressed like him. Gotti would be turning fashion shows into nudist parties if he was apart today's fashion society.
Camouflaged Wristwear by Nooka
Camouflaged Footwear by New Balance X Ball and Buck
Camouflaged Crewneck by Billionaire Boys Club
Camouflage becoming as prevalent as it has today in mainstream culture, is one of the biggest "from nothing to something" stories in fashion. Urban culture is often overlooked for setting trends in mainstream fashion. I think its safe to say that the two year marriage between Camouflage and Couture can be credited to the hip-hop community. Fashionistas frowned upon camouflage for many years. Today if you go to a fashion blog, camouflage is more praised than a sculptured god in denim.
Ironic how the initial use of camouflage was to hide. Today, camouflage is one of the best ways to be seen.
Your Thoughts?


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Film actor and Tony award winner Alan Cumming plays 17 characters in the Broadway production of Macbeth. Cumming stars in the limited engagement production that opens April 21 and runs through June 30 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
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