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On-the-Fly Fancy
Diaper Changer, Homework Checker, and Boo-Boo Kisser, sure. Domestic Diva? Not likely. For most busy parents, decorating is usually the first thing swept under the rug. It seems expensive, time-consuming, and just plain hard if you can't sew or don't know a glue gun from a Bedazzler.
Carol Field Dahlstrom, author and founder of Brave Ink Press, knows a thing or two about motivating the craftless, having written books like "Easy Decorating Projects -- Even if You Don't Have a Creative Bone In Your Body!" "I try to tell people they already have things at home they don't think to put together," she says. "For example, if you have a pretty dish, put a colorful candle on it and surround it with things you have around the house," like autumn leaves or fresh fruit.
A Christmas variation on this theme might include a red candle surrounded by jingle bells, small ornaments, or pistachio nuts on a holiday platter: "Beautiful with no stress at all," says Field Dahlstrom. In autumn, fill a basket with seasonal gourds and miniature pumpkins and place it by the front door for instant, easy style, she says. And, to make a bold statement, try repetition: group candles, bottles, or even flower pots in the same color on a mantle or tabletop. Field Dahlstrom advises harried parents to start seeing their homes in a new light. Look for old gift bags, bits of leftover ribbon, and pretty papers to make napkin rings and place cards when entertaining.
If you must shop, there's good news. "Craft supplies are much more abundant and there's more variety now," says Field Dahlstrom. When you're out, look for inexpensive clear glass bowls, which can be filled with household items, flowers, candles, or candy and nuts to make simple but elegant decorations, she says. For example, stacking different colored gumdrops in rows inside a pretty glass bowl adds an unexpected pop of color.
Seasonal flowers, whether mums, day lilies, or pansies, are often abundant and inexpensive, even at local grocery stores, says Field Dahlstrom. "If you have a pretty pedestal or platter, put a glass bowl on it, fill with water, and let flowers float on it," she says. Add floating candles and glitter to the arrangement for last-minute glam.
At Halloween, create a unique luminaria using pumpkins and power tools, says Field Dahlstrom. After carving the pumpkin, drill holes of varying sizes to make polka dot pumpkins, placing votive candles or lights inside. Making several of these to line the front walkway creates a big impact at Halloween, she says.
Here are some more tips and tricks to add easy elegance to your home.
- Scope out craft stores after holidays and as seasons change to look for ribbon and gift wrap on sale.
- Baskets, trays, and platters can be arranged on a dining or display table and filled with seasonal items.
- In-season fruits, vegetables, and flowers are often abundant and reasonably priced. Pick up a few extras for use in centerpieces or filling glass bowls or mason jars on a mantle or end table.


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The football and bbq gods got together and decided to once again allow the True Blue 'Cue Crew a weekend to compete without having to worry about leaving the hungry masses to fend for themselves on Devil's Alley.
We'll be turning in our ribs as kickoff gets under way vs. the Hokies; our chicken will have already been submitted to the judges' mercy. We are returning to try to once again come home with a stylish hand blown glass trophy, hopefully more than one. Last year was our first contest of any kind and we came back to Wallace Wade with third place in pork out of 47 teams.
This year there are 42 total, so still a good number and most are familiar names. If anyone is in or around Rocky Mount next weekend, please come by and party down with us as we bring our tailgate and smoking skills to the badlands between tarheel and pirate country.
Mmmm, BBQ!
I really, truly wish I could join you guys... Talking Duke while eating great BBQ sounds like a dream come true!
Please take, and share, some photos! Every guy on earth loves seeing bits of meat!
And remember... Not too heavy on the sauces, please!
I'll be posting pics to both our facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Tru...27120737343228) and our website (http://truebluecuecrew.com/index.php?p=1_6_Pics).
It's fun during the competitions to go around and talk with the other teams and check out some of their rigs. Our grills are nothing more than many use for your average backyard cooking (although we have a new one being built now that is trailerable), but some of these folks have pits that they have paid over 10,000 for. It's amazing to see the variety of styles of grills that are used, and the way teams have their kitchens set up. We are under tents, but many use motor homes.
Mmmm, BBQ!

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You can either continue saying 'the white part of the egg,' and the 'yellow part of the egg' in Italian, or you can take this opportunity to be fancy and use, albume and tuorlo. Albume = egg white (m. noun) Tuorlo = egg yolk (m. noun) Albume comes from the Latin, albus, or white. (I … Continue reading
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Current Museum Exhibits in Rome
I am sure that you have all been enjoying this not-so-cold weather, but let's face it, it won't last forever! In anticipation of the upcoming wintry weather, probably, here's a summary of most of the museum exhibits going on in Rome at the moment. You know, just in case you want to spend a day indoors, weather … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Ghingheri
Dressed to the nines, that's what today's Word of the Day means. In other words, dressed in a very fancy way. Depending on how you use the phrase, it can also mean being overdressed. Gingheri is always used with the verbs 'essere in' or 'mettersi in,' to be in, or to put yourself in, respectively. … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Moquette
It's not often that Italians pay homage to France or French culture. For the most part, Italians mock and frown upon all-things/people-French. But if you're like me, you're probably wishing Rome had some French restaurants where you can bathe yourself in butter instead of olive oil for a night (like confit duck leg, mmm). But … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Forfora
Thanks to the guy sitting next to me on the bus today, (prompting me to look this up), I now know how to say dandruff in Italian: forfora. It comes from the Latin furfur, meaning a bran (Merriam-Webster: "the edible broken seed coats of cereal grain separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting.") … Continue reading
Get Your Calendar Out: Upcoming Concerts in Italy
Time to organize your music schedule! There are a bunch of artists coming to Italy in the coming months (mostly to Milan argh!), so what better way to see the country and catch a show?! Tickets can be purchased on GreenTicket or TicketOne sites. November 20th: Skunk Anansie at Rome's Teatro Tendastrisce 20th: Francesco de Gregori at … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Salamelecco
As you all can imagine, most words in the Italian language come from Latin or other romance languages, with some words occasionally borrowed from German or English. Today's word of the day comes from… maybe you guessed it already… ARABIC! Salamelecco is an Italian noun (m) used mainly in its plural form, salamelecchi, meaning excessive formality, … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Bis
Today's cute, little word of the day, bis, is a Latin adverb meaning twice. Not surprisingly, since bi is used across many languages to refer to 'two' or 'twice.' Bis also has a theatrical meaning: an encore. Used in this way, as an exclamation, it means 'play that part again!' In other words, a crowd screams out, 'Bis! Bis!' … Continue reading


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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A male Mississippi high school student is drawing attention after deciding to finish his senior year dressing as a girl.
The American Civil Liberties Union says it is working with the South Panola High School student to ensure a smooth transition in the early stages of gender transformation.
ACLU Mississippi Legal Director Bear Atwood on Wednesday identified the student only as "Leah." Atwood says a few parents voiced concern, but most students are supportive.
Mike Foster, interim superintendent of South Panola School District, says officials will "follow what the law says" in protecting students' constitutional rights to dress in accordance with the gender in which they identify.
Foster says about a dozen students have protested by not following the school's dress code, but he said there hasn't been much controversy.
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A quickie post, because people have been asking. Yes, it's right, I'm no longer a Creative Director of GobbleDEEbook.
I loved my interaction with the authors last year and the buzz from the absolute success of the events, but I made the decision not to be part of it this year. There's no big story, but the decision was a difficult one to make. It was ace being part of something right at the beginning and I wish the circumstances could have been different and I'd been able to carry on.


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Curing genetic blindness---it's a goal researchers at the University of Iowa are working towards. Friday, the university celebrated a big donation that will help the cause.
The campus now has a Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research.Wynn, famous for building casinos, is sharing his fortune with the university. In August he donated $25 million for vision researchWynn suffers from a degenerative eye disease. He's hoping his donation to the program, which has already made strides in research, will help them become even more successful.
Last year, Brian Walker's teenage son learned he has a disease that will eventually cause him to lose his sight.
"Prior to a year ago, we didn't know the disease existed, so we would have said his vision was actually very normal," said Walker.
The Walkers wanted to help their son in any way they could, and turned to the University of Iowa's Institute for Vision Research.
"Our goal is to leave no one behind in our quest to end blindness," said Robert Mullins, Associate Professor.
The university studies genes, trying to find the cause of different genetic eye diseases. The goal is to develop effective treatments for all diseases that cause blindness, as rare or common as they may be.
"It makes anything being done in normal business or commerce mundane and flat by comparison," said Wynn.
Because of Wynn's donation, the University has renamed the institute in his honor.
"When you think of the University of Iowa, you think, in fact, of exactly what we're celebrating today," said Sally Mason, President of the University of Iowa.
The donation means the University will be able to continue its work for years to come, which families like the Walkers are glad to hear.
"Ultimately, we know there's going to be a cure," said Walker. "It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when."
The Wynn institute has three major focuses: genetic testing, gene therapy, and stem cell research. Scientists at the university hope that many forms of blindness will be treatable in the next 10 years.


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Social networking: I can't make the connection
by Andy Oram
networking, six-degrees types of systems you've been hearing so much
about. Someone whose interests I didn't know or care about asked me to
put him in touch with someone else whose interests I didn't know or
care about. Sitting there in the middle of the chain, I didn't know
what value I could add. I suppose I could honestly say, "The person
along the chain just before me is an upright member of his community
and not likely to drag heavy, clanging metal objects behind his car on a chain or endorse
other people who do so."
It turned out that the two people I was so laboriously involved in
connecting already know each other and have each other's email. I
think someone was just testing the system. Sheesh. Reminds me of
Internet portals, back when the Web was very, very young, that offered
a button where you could view a random URL. I'm certainly no closer to building my business and enriching my personal relationships.
I'm been shamelessly promiscuous about the people I form connections
with. I form connections with just about anyone I know, and I know a
lot of people because they're interesting for one specific reason or
another, and none of that means they're fit for some particular task
that somebody else has defined. I don't vouch that the people I know
are fit for anything at all.
And that's the problem that people have noted about social networking.
How do you formalize relationships? How do you say that something
relevant to one relationship is relevant to a different relationship
with a different person?
Maybe if I did more research and was more careful about whom I dealt
with (and kept track of why I dealt with each person) I could use this
social network more effectively. But if I took that kind of effort
with a social network, it would make sense to take the same effort
with email and every other forum through which I deal with
people. You'd have to fill out a form to send me email. (That last
sentence might have drawn a laugh a few years ago, but with the
growing frustration over spam I bet you're saying right now, "Yeah,
that seems to be the next stage to go to.")
Anyway, the most productive relationships I've had concern
relationships that I formed for one reason (like, "Hi, I'm Andy, sorry
I spilled my beer on your sleeve") and found other reasons for keeping
up. ("Wow! You've been helping your national government set up
policies for software deployment?") I just can't predict where my next
good connection will come from. Don't email me; I'll email you.
Are you getting productive results from an online social network?
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2.5 Multiple Linear Regression
Let us now study the dependence of a continuous response on two (or more) linear predictors. Returning to our example, we will study fertility decline as a function of both social setting and family planning effort.
2.5.1 The Additive Model
Suppose then that we have a response y and two predictors x1 and x2. We will use yi to denote the value of the response and xi1 and xi2 to denote the values of the predictors for the i-th unit, where i = 1,,n.
We maintain the assumptions regarding the stochastic component of the model, so yi is viewed as a realization of Yi ~ N(μi, σ2), but change the structure of the systematic component. We now assume that the expected response μi is a linear function of the two predictors, that is
This equation defines a plane in three dimensional space (you may want to peek at Figure 2.4 for an example). The parameter α is the constant, representing the expected response when both xi1 and xi2 are zero. (As before, this value may not be directly interpretable if zero is not in the range of the predictors.) The parameter β1 is the slope along the x1-axis and represents the expected change in the response per unit change in x1 at constant values of x2. Similarly, β2 is the slope along the x2 axis and represents the expected change in the response per unit change in x2 while holding x1 constant.
It is important to note that these interpretations represent abstractions based on the model that we may be unable to observe in the real world. In terms of our example, changes in family planning effort are likely to occur in conjunction with, if not directly as a result of, improvements in social setting. The model, however, provides a useful representation of the data and hopefully approximates the results of comparing countries that differ in family planning effort but have similar socio-economic conditions.
A second important feature of the model is that it is additive, in the sense that the effect of each predictor on the response is assumed to be the same for all values of the other predictor. In terms of our example, the model assumes that the effect of family planning effort is exactly the same at every social setting. This assumption may be unrealistic, and later in this section we will introduce a model where the effect of family planning effort is allowed to depend on social setting.
2.5.2 Estimates and Standard Errors
The multiple regression model in 2.16 can be obtained as a special case of the general linear model of Section 2.1 by letting the model matrix X consist of three columns: a column of ones representing the constant, a column representing the values of x1, and a column representing the values of x2. Estimates, standard errors and tests of hypotheses then follow from the general results in Sections 2.2 and 2.3.
Fitting the two-predictor model to our example, with CBR decline as the response and the indices of family planning effort and social setting as linear predictors, gives a residual sum of squares of 694.0 on 17 d.f. (20 observations minus three parameters: the constant and two slopes). Table 2.5 shows the parameter estimates, standard errors and t-ratios.
We find that, on average, the CBR declines an additional 0.27 percentage points for each additional point of improvement in social setting at constant levels of family planning effort. The standard error of this coefficient is 0.11. Since the t ratio exceeds 2.11, the five percent critical value of the t distribution with 17 d.f., we conclude that the have evidence of association between social setting and CBR decline net of family planning effort. A 95% confidence interval for the social setting slope, based on Student's t distribution with 17 d.f., has bounds 0.04 and 0.50.
Similarly, we find that on average the CBR declines an additional 0.97 percentage points for each additional point of family planning effort at constant social setting. The estimated standard error of this coefficient is 0.23. Since the coefficient is more than four times its standard error, we conclude that there is a significant linear association between family planning effort and CBR decline at any given level of social setting. With 95% confidence we conclude that the additional percent decline in the CBR per extra point of family planning effort lies between 0.49 and 1.44.
The constant is of no direct interest in this example because zero is not in the range of the data; while some countries have a value of zero for the index of family planning effort, the index of social setting ranges from 35 for Haiti to 91 for Venezuela.
The estimate of the residual standard deviation in our example is [^(σ)] = 6.389. This value, which is rarely reported, provides a measure of the extent to which countries with the same setting and level of effort can experience different declines in the CBR.
Figure 2.4 shows the estimated regression equation [^y] = [^(α)] + [^(β)]1 x1 + [^(β)]2 x2 evaluated for a grid of values of the two predictors. The grid is confined to the range of the data on setting and effort. The regression plane may be viewed as an infinite set of regression lines. For any fixed value of setting, expected CBR decline is a linear function of effort with slope 0.97. For any fixed value of effort, expected CBR decline is a linear function of setting with slope 0.27.
2.5.3 Gross and Net Effects
It may be instructive to compare the results of the multiple regression analysis, which considered the two predictors simultaneously, with the results of the simple linear regression analyses, which considered the predictors one at a time.
The coefficients in a simple linear regression represent changes in the response that can be associated with a given predictor, and will be called gross effects. In our simple linear regression analysis of CBR decline as a function of family planning effort we found that, on the average, each additional point of family planning effort was associated with an additional 1.25 percentage point of CBR decline. Interpretation of gross effects must be cautious because comparisons involving one factor include, implicitly, other measured and unmeasured factors. In our example, when we compare countries with strong programs with countries with weak programs, we are also comparing implicitly countries with high and low social settings.
The coefficients in a multiple linear regression are more interesting because they represent changes in the response that can be associated with a given predictor for fixed values of other predictors, and will be called net effects. In our multiple regression analysis of CBR decline as a function of both family planning effort and social setting, we found that, on the average, each additional point of family planning effort was associated with an additional 0.97 percentage points of CBR decline if we held social setting constant, i.e. if we compared countries with the same social setting. Interpretation of this coefficient as measuring the effect of family planning effort is on somewhat firmer ground than for the gross effect, because the differences have been adjusted for social setting. Caution is in order, however, because there are bound to be other confounding factors that we have not taken into account.
In my view, the closest approximation we have to a true causal effect in social research based on observational data is a net effect in a multiple regression analysis that has controlled for all relevant factors, an ideal that may be approached but probably can never be attained. The alternative is a controlled experiment where units are assigned at random to various treatments, because the nature of the assignment itself guarantees that any ensuing differences, beyond those than can be attributed to chance, must be due to the treatment. In terms of our example, we are unable to randomize the allocation of countries to strong and weak programs. But we can use multiple regression as a tool to adjust the estimated effects for the confounding effects of observed covariates.
Gross and net effects may be presented in tabular form as shown in Table 2.6. In our example, the gross effect of family planning effort of 1.25 was reduced to 0.97 after adjustment for social setting, because part of the observed differences between countries with strong and weak programs could be attributed to the fact that the former tend to enjoy higher living standards. Similarly, the gross effect of social setting of 0.51 has been reduced to 0.27 after controlling for family planning effort, because part of the differences between richer and poorer countries could be attributed to the fact that the former tend to have stronger family planning programs.
Note, incidentally, that it is not reasonable to compare either gross or net effects across predictors, because the regression coefficients depend on the units of measurement. I could easily `increase' the gross effect of family planning effort to 12.5 simply by dividing the scores by ten. One way to circumvent this problem is to standardize the response and all predictors, subtracting their means and dividing by their standard deviations. The regression coefficients for the standardized model (which are sometimes called `beta' coefficients) are more directly comparable. This solution is particularly appealing when the variables do not have a natural unit of measurement, as is often the case for psychological test scores. On the other hand, standardized coefficients are heavily dependent on the range of the data; they should not be used, for example, if one has sampled high and low values of one predictor to increase efficiency, because that design would inflate the variance of the predictor and therefore reduce the standardized coefficient.
2.5.4 Anova for Multiple Regression
The basic principles of model comparison outlined earlier may be applied to multiple regression models. I will illustrate the procedures by considering a test for the significance of the entire regression, and a test for the significance of the net effect of one predictor after adjusting for the other.
Consider first the hypothesis that all coefficients other than the constant are zero, i.e.
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In the above comparison we proceeded directly from the null model to the model with two predictors. A more detailed analysis is possible by adding the predictors one at a time. Recall from Section 2.4 that the model with social setting alone had a RSS of 1449.1 on 18 d.f., which represents a gain of 1201.1 over the null model. In turn, the multiple regression model with both social setting and family planning effort had a RSS of 694.0 on 17 d.f. which represents a gain of 755.1 over the model with social setting alone. These calculation are set out in the hierarchical anova shown in Table 2.8.
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Note the following features of this table. First, adding the sums of squares and d.f.'s in the first two rows agrees with the results in the previous table; thus, we have further decomposed the sum of squares associated with the regression into a term attributed to social setting and a term added by family planning effort.
Second, the notation Effort|Setting emphasizes that we have considered first the contribution of setting and then the additional contribution of effort once setting is accounted for. The order we used seemed more natural for the problem at hand. An alternative decomposition would introduce effort first and then social setting. The corresponding hierarchical anova table is left as an exercise.
Third, the F-test for the additional contribution of family planning effort over and above social setting (which is F = 18.5 from Table 2.8) coincides with the test for the coefficient of effort based on the estimate and its standard error (which is t = 4.3 from Table 2.5), since 4.32 = 18.5. In both cases we are testing the hypothesis
2.5.5 Partial and Multiple Correlations
A descriptive measure of how much we have advanced in our understanding of the response is given by the proportion of variance explained, which was first introduced in Section 2.4. In our case the two predictors have reduced the RSS from 2650.2 to 694.0, explaining 73.8%.
The square root of the proportion of variance explained is the multiple correlation coefficient, and measures the linear correlation between the response in one hand and all the predictors on the other. In our case R = 0.859. This value can also be calculated directly as Pearson's linear correlation between the response y and the fitted values [^y].
An alternative construction of R is of some interest. Suppose we want to measure the correlation between a single variable y and a set of variables (a vector) x. One approach reduces the problem to calculating Pearson's r between two single variables, y and a linear combination z = cx of the variables in x, and then taking the maximum over all possible vectors of coefficients c. Amazingly, the resulting maximum is R and the coefficients c are proportional to the estimated regression coefficients.
We can also calculate proportions of variance explained based on the hierarchical anova tables. Looking at Table 2.8, we note that setting explained 1201.1 of the total 2650.2, or 45.3%, while effort explained 755.1 of the same 2650.2, or 28.5%, for a total of 1956.2 out of 2650.2, or 73.8%. In a sense this calculation is not fair because setting is introduced before effort. An alternative calculation may focus on how much the second variable explains not out of the total, but out of the variation left unexplained by the first variable. In this light, effort explained 755.1 of the 1449.1 left unexplained by social setting, or 52.1%.
The square root of the proportion of variation explained by the second variable out of the amount left unexplained by the first is called the partial correlation coefficient, and measures the linear correlation between y and x2 after adjusting for x1. In our example, the linear correlation between CBR decline and effort after controlling for setting is 0.722.
The following calculation may be useful in interpreting this coefficient. First regress y on x1 and calculate the residuals, or differences between observed and fitted values. Then regress x2 on x1 and calculate the residuals. Finally, calculate Pearson's r between the two sets of residuals. The result is the partial correlation coefficient, which can thus be seen to measure the simple linear correlation between y and x2 after removing the linear effects of x1.
Partial correlation coefficients involving three variables can be calculated directly from the pairwise simple correlations. Let us index the response y as variable 0 and the predictors x1 and x2 as variables 1 and 2. Then the partial correlation between variables 0 and 2 adjusting for 1 is
Simple and partial correlation coefficients can be compared in much the same vein as we compared gross and net effects earlier. Table 2.9 summarizes the simple and partial correlations between CBR decline on the one hand and social setting and family planning effort on the other. Note that the effect of effort is more pronounced and more resilient to adjustment than the effect of setting.
2.5.6 More Complicated Models
So far we have considered four models for the family planning effort data: the null model (f), the one-variate models involving either setting (x1) or effort (x2), and the additive model involving setting and effort (x1+x2).
More complicated models may be obtained by considering higher order polynomial terms in either variable. Thus, we might consider adding the squares x12 or x22 to capture non-linearities in the effects of setting or effort. The squared terms are often highly correlated with the original variables, and on certain datasets this may cause numerical problems in estimation. A simple solution is to reduce the correlation by centering the variables before squaring them, using x1 and (x1-[`x]1)2 instead of x1 and x12. The correlation can be eliminated entirely, often in the context of designed experiments, by using orthogonal polynomials.
We could also consider adding the cross-product term x1 x2 to capture a form of interaction between setting and effort. In this model the linear predictor would be
This is simply a linear model where the model matrix X has a column of ones for the constant, a column with the values of x1, a column with the values of x2, and a column with the products x1 x2. This is equivalent to creating a new variable, say x3, which happens to be the product of the other two.
An important feature of this model is that the effect of any given variable now depends on the value of the other. To see this point consider fixing x1 and viewing the expected response μ as a function of x2 for this fixed value of x1. Rearranging terms in Equation 2.17 we find that μ is a linear function of x2:
The extensions considered here help emphasize a very important point about model building: the columns of the model matrix are not necessarily the predictors of interest, but can be any functions of them, including linear, quadratic or cross-product terms, or other transformations.
Are any of these refinements necessary for our example? To find out, fit the more elaborate models and see if you can obtain significant reductions of the residual sum of squares.
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AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Film Festival, better known simply as Silverdocs, takes place annually for seven days during June in Silver Spring, Maryland. The key venue is the AFI Silver Theatre, the American Film Institute's flagship theatre and one of the premier film exhibition spaces in the United States. Other venues include regional art house cinemas and the Discovery Communications World Headquarters.
Silverdocs is dedicated to fostering the power of documentary films to enhance our understanding of the world. The annual festival celebrates independent thinking and generates global media attention for films that express the diverse voices and free expression of independent storytellers from around the world. Based in the National Capital Region, where important global and national issues are the daily business, Silverdocs is marked by its relevance, broad intellectual range, and wide public appeal.
International Documentary Conference
Silverdocs also presents its concurrent 5-day International Documentary Conference, the largest professional conference of its kind in the U.S. The conference explores the business of documentary filmmaking with 1,200 industry participants and 80 workshops, seminars and networking events. The Conference brings together business leaders, filmmakers, broadcasters, distributors and funders from both established and emerging media markets.
Silverdocs History
Silverdocs was established in 2003 through a unique alliance between AFI and the Discovery Channel, the festival's Founding Sponsor. In the ensuing years, the festival has evolved into one of North America's most important documentaries film festivals, and has attracted many notable participants, including Ted Leonsis (AOL Vice Chairman Emeritus and documentary filmmaker), former Vice President Al Gore, BET Co-Founder Sheila Johnson and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Barbara Kopple, and Alex Gibney, among others. The 2008 Festival presented 108 films selected from 1,702 entries, included 27 significant premieres and welcomed over 21,000 attendees. All six 2009 Academy Award-nominated documentaries screened at Silverdocs 2008. Of these, The Garden and Smile Pinki were Silverdocs World Premieres.
Program Categories, Honors and Awards
Silverdocs bestows awards valued at over $80,000 in cash and prizes. Awards and Grants include:
- Ace Documentary Grant
- Cinematic Vision Award for Short and Feature
- Music Award
- Sterling Award for Short and Feature (US and World Competitions)
Additionally, Silverdocs presents its signature program, the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, honoring the legacy of artistic excellence, profound respect for humanity and democratic values of the late four-time Academy Award-winning Charles Guggenheim. Past Guggenheim honorees include Albert Maysles, Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese and Barbara Kopple.


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"…Tim Cook (Apple CEO) received a call from Samsung CEO explaining that they will pay $1 billion dollars for the fine recently ruled against the South Korean company in this way.
"Lee Kun-hee, Chairman of Samsung Electronics, told the media that his company is not going to be intimidated by a group of "geeks with style" and that if they want to play dirty, they also know how to do it…"
"At the end of April, Tor Books, the world's largest science fiction publisher, and its UK sister company, Tor UK, announced that they would be eliminating digital rights management (DRM) from all of theirebooks by the summer. It was a seismic event in the history of the publishing industry. It's the beginning of the end for DRM, which are used by hardware manufacturers and publishers to limit the use of digital content after sale. That's good news, whether you're a publisher, a writer, a dedicated reader, or someone who picks up a book every year or two."
"Recognize that they love you for your money. Recognize that they have entire corporate departments at their disposal to distract you from the fact that they love you for your money. Recognize that they are happy to use your desire for affiliation to help further goals that not only are you not necessarily aware of, but ultimately may not be in your interest. Recognize that things these corporations do that you see as immediate gains can lead to long-term losses, and vice versa."
"We're heading to a world where there are just a handful of influential bookstores (Amazon, Apple, Nook…) and one by one, the principles of open access are disappearing. Apple, apparently, won't carry an ebook that contains a link to buy a hardcover book from Amazon.
"That's amazing to me. It must be a mistake, right?"
"Two doctors at Penn State University have developed Caffeine Zone, a free iOS app that tells you the perfect time to take a coffee break to maintain an optimal amount of caffeine in your blood…"
Gather round, boys and girls, as I tell the next exciting instalment of one man's struggle to not be charged for something he didn't get. For those who missed the first part, it's here (go ahead, I'll wait):
So this morning it's determined that actually my wife wouldn't mind going to the outlet mall in Gilroy, so why don't we head down there and sort the whole thing out now, rather than waiting until nest week? Good idea, I think - not at all the act of a man who'd really, really like an iPhone 4S, or at least closure on this poxy bag of shite.
So we schlep down there. It's well over an hour's drive. Not a long way in US terms, but in UK terms and why am I spending my Saturday doing this terms, it's plenty long enough - especially as a lot of it is through deeply non-interesting and parched areas of the Santa Clara valley. After only being slightly terrified by Gilroy's bonkers road system, my wife drops me off at the Corporate Sprint Store - no other type will do, as the RUDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD told me over the phone yesterday - and goes off to snout around the stores. I'm told it'll be 25 minutes before I can talk to someone but in the end it's only about ten. So far so good. The representative I wind up with is pleasant, cheerful and keen to help. Even better. I give her an absolutely VAST amount of identifying materials, and for a bittersweet moment… it looks like we're getting somewhere.
But then we hit the wall. Though I have proof of address from my US bank and my US insurer, and photo ID in the forms of UK passport, driving licence, and an O-Visa issued by and stamped in the name of the United States Government - good enough for Homeland Security to let me in the country for three years, but not good enough for Sprint (oh, except for when it comes to taking $500 out of my account) that's simply not sufficient to get the account un-suspended. I may self-evidently be who I say I am, but…just not in the right way. (FYI, in the UK you can rock up to a phone shop and get a phone with a credit card and two utilities bills. But they're like that in the UK. They're just, like, crazy batshit. You can get free beer in pubs, too, just by promising to pay for it 'some day'. Go on - try it).
Having given it my best shot to get around this brick wall, I finally give up and tell the representative - who has remained solicitous, in the face of a glowering Brit speaking in increasingly clipped tones - okay, this is ridiculous: let's just cancel the account. Ah, no, she says - I can't do that. But THE RUDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD said you could, and in fact claimed that I had to come to you to get that done. Well, I can't to it. So who can? You have to call this number and talk to the Fraud Department. The WHAT department? Yes, it gets even better - my account has now been marked as fraudulent, with who knows what implications for my already non-existent credit rating.
I thank her for her time, stalk out and have a furious cigarette in the baking hot parking lot. Then - wife and child still off enjoying the delights of Gilroy Outlet Mall (which, I have to warn you, is the seventh circle of hell: always vilely hot, full of nothing that interests me, and arranged with wilful unhelpfulness around a frenetic highway intersection that Beelzebub himself might regard as a touch overdone) I decide I might as well call the Fraud Department. Not least as I'm still standing outside a Sprint shop, so if the fuckers tell me I have to go to one, I can do it right there and then.
I make this call on my existing cell phone - which is English. Yep, I'm that dumb - or actually, that pissed off. The number I'd been given dead-ends me in a message telling me it's out of office hours. So I doggedly try the number it suggests. I get through to a very helpful woman who's as surprised as I am at the situation, and does her best to try to try to resolve it - including talking to her supervisor - and makes progress to the point where I was nearly able to put her and the lady in the shop together to thrash out a deal… but no, it turns out my ID really, really isn't enough. So I really do have to cancel the account.
Ready by this point to take my existing phone, sharpen it to a point and stab anyone within range of my deranged, pinwheeling arms, I ask her how I go about doing that - as the RUDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD that I spoke to yesterday said I had to cancel my account in person at a Corporate Sprint Store, though I've just been told by someone in a perfect example of such a store that she can't do it. Well, the lady says… you need to get a letter from Social Security attesting that you are indeed who you say you are, and live where you do. Because it looks like someone might have tried to use your Social Security number. Or are you also called Michael Brook? No, I say between gritted teeth, I am not. Well then you need to do that, she says. And THEN what, I ask - by now smoking three cigarettes in each hand, out there in the melting parking lot - assuming Social Security will even give me this letter (after god knows how much grief and wasted time, and what the **** is this about someone trying to be me, anyway?), to whom or what and via what medium do I have to present this letter? I can't tell you, she says, apologetically - you have to speak to the Fraud Department. She thanks me sincerely for my patience, and puts me through… to the menu system I first encountered, which again dead-ends me in a recorded message saying that the office is closed, and that I should call back between such-and-such hours.
It's at the point where I realize that actually I *AM* CALLING BETWEEN THOSE FUCKING HOURS that I murder everyone in a hundred mile radius, set fire to Brazil and go back in time to destroy all of human civilisation. Though sadly only in my imagination. Instead I just end the call, to find I've spent twenty five minutes on an international cell phone.
I don't know how long it's going to take to sort out this thing via phone calls, visits to Social Security and possibly another drive to ****ing Gilroy. I don't know whether Social Security - whom I'm loath to tangle with, as I'm not an American citizen - will understand what I need, or give it to me. I have no idea who I have to present it to, or how, even if they do. And all I wanted was an iPhone.
To be clear, if companies need certain specific forms of ID, I get that dem's de rules, and fair enough. Verizon and AT&T bounced my attempts, presumably on that basis. My point is that Sprint… did not. They took my money, and they took that iPhone order out of the pool. Now they have my money, and I genuinely do not understand what I have to do to get it back, despite having talked to four customer services reps on the phone and one in person and made a three hour round trip to visit a store.
Sprint, you're shit. Taking people's money when you're not going to give them anything in return… is shit. Making it apparently impossible for them to get their money back, is shit. Thus - and I can show you the working on this, if you're interested - Sprint, you're shit.
[As per the last missive, in the unlikely event anyone from Sprint reads this and would like to help position your company as something other than a pile of toss, please do get in touch via Twitter @ememess. Otherwise… I actually have no idea why I'm posting this. I would be much better off walking down to the ocean and shouting at it. In fact, I may do that. Goodnight.]
I'm venting here, so bear with me.
I moved to California two months ago, as some (assuming anybody out there ever even reads this) will know. The sharper and more au courant of you may also have picked up that pre-orders started for the new iPhone last week. As a certifiable Apple stalker of many years' standing, I was on that like a pack of rats. I had the Verizon pre-order page sitting there waiting that morning, and filled it out with trembling hands. It all seemed to go fine (despite me having to use a UK passport number to prove my identity rather than a US one, as I don't have the latter), but then I got an email saying there was a problem and could I call, and blah blah blah. This didn't totally surprise me. As a new resident in this country, I don't have a credit history.
Oh well, I thought, never mind.
Yeah, right. This sanguinity lasted maybe five minutes. Actually, about the length of a cigarette. Then I got straight onto the Apple Store page and tried to pre-order a phone from AT&T instead. They at least only needed a Social Security number (which I had already gone to the trouble of getting, as without one I couldn't have got car insurance), rather than the California Drivers' Licence number that Verizon had also wanted. But the order still failed, and I was told that I'd need to come in store.
Oh well. I thought. Maybe it's just not to be - though I made a mental note that I do need to sort out this credit rating issue or I'm going to spend my time in the country living in the retail stone age.
Ten minutes later I was on the Sprint Web site. And it went through! Good for Sprint, I thought - evidently you're coming to the world of Apple products with vim and pluck and an open heart. I got an welcoming email with a tracking number ten minutes later. I neurotically checked this all week, augmenting it with the UPS tracking number as soon as it became available. In the meantime, Sprint sent me four further emails confirming it had sucked nearly $500 bucks out of my account (within hours of ordering), that my autopay system was now set up, that here was my new phone number… culminating, on this very morning of the brave new iPhone 4S dawn, in yet another email welcoming me to Sprint and cheerfully informing me what next month's bill would be.
But… there'd been a nerve-wracking sub-plot running in the background over the last 48 hours. The UPS tracking had been a bit… wobbly. For a while yesterday morning it looked like the delivery had been put on hold and marked for possible return. Then that appeared to clear, and yesterday afternoon and evening I happily tracked my phone as it reached Oakland, and then set off for Santa Cruz…
I leapt out of bed this morning, and… waited. The UPS van did stop at our house, eventually, but to deliver something unutterably dull. No iPhone. In fact, signs on the UPS Web site now seemed to show it was on hold again, but more definitely, and in fact waiting to be sent back to ****ing Kentucky.
"WTF?" doesn't even begin to cover it. I waited another hour - double-checking the Sprint order status, which still claimed everything was fine, and then called Customer Service. A woman confirmed that there was a problem with the account. Using every reserve of restraint, I enquired as to what that might possibly be, for the love of Christ. She was unable to help me with that, but knew a woman who could. I waited on hold for fifteen minutes, and was then put through to the RUDEST WOMAN IN THE FUCKING UNIVERSE. This belligerent robot, who had evidently been programmed to only say one thing, confirmed that my account had been suspended because they wanted further verification. To attempt to get my phone, and un-suspend my account, I needed to get to a Sprint Corporate Store, there to present proof of address, two forms of ID and my letter from the Social Security office. Yes, seriously.
The nearest such store, she grudgingly revealed, is in Gilroy - nearly an hour away. And what if, instead of trying to regain my phone, I want to tell Sprint to stick a shark up its arse and cancel the account and get my $500 back? You guessed it - I have to do the exact same thing. Half a day of my time and a very big chunk of what patience I possess, to get back money that they shouldn't have taken in the first place… and still end up without a phone.
So far, so what, I'm sure you're thinking (if you're still even reading what doubtless sounds like the ranting of a whack job on a street corner). But there's a bigger issue here than a lone obsessive and his non-phone. I am led to suspect that Sprint pre-bought an awful lot of phones, and decided that rather than pre-checking credit like other carriers, they'd grab and process orders first and then pull them at the last minute from people they suddenly decided they weren't sure about - people who'd been under the impression all week that they were going to get a lovely new phone. Taking hundreds of their dollars first, of course - and then making them jump through ridiculous hoops to get their money back, and to unscrew themselves from two year contracts.
As customer service and corporate policy, that badly, badly sucks. If it's not fraud - in the shape of taking money on false pretences - then it's pretty bloody close.
I'm not just an Apple fanboy, I'm an Apple fundamentalist. As such it is utterly essential that I have an iPhone 4S, and so I shall by-God have one. If I can't sort out the Sprint situation then I'll cancel the account, then wait and get an unlocked phone in November. My beef is not with Apple, let's be clear: and my concern is that, especially now the company has lost, in Steve Jobs, not just its inspiring genius but also its protective PR Rottweiler, it needs to avoid being tainted by third parties. This kind of behaviour and customer service from a company is not what it needs right now.
So. Anyway. At some point next week, when I've calmed down and have the time, I shall schlep down to sodding Gilroy and do battle with the Sprint shop there. If you start seeing breaking news reports about mass slayings in the area, you'll know it didn't go well.
[In the unlikely event that anyone from Sprint reads this and would like to help, feel free to tweet me at @ememess. Otherwise, run and hide. Everyone else, feel free to retweet.]
I was never a fan of home computers and mobile phones; very late adopter and user of both. I picked up my first Windows PC in the mid-90s, mostly to see what this new internet was all about and to use a comic cataloguing program I'd inadvisedly bought from a comic shop. My first phone was quite advanced, but I only used it to call and text people, and to take the odd photograph. The problem with both devices being, I didn't want to have to learn how the things worked in order to operate them. My attitude was the same as for playing video game consoles - shove the game in, play the game (my attempts at playing PC games did not last very long).
The first six issues of West were written in Word on a Windows laptop, and lettered and produced using Photoshop. I'm proud of them, and they've been well-received, but they are simple, insular tales of western adventure, and the notes I'd made to myself were in a separate Word document to which I had to constantly refer.
The thing is, about those pre-Apple devices (because, yes, this is a Steve Jobs memorial post) - the only time I had an emotional connection with them was because they didn't work. When they crashed, or froze, or caught another damn virus. The only feelings I had towards them were anger and frustration.
Almost three years ago, my laptop caught its last virus. I went out and I bought a MacBook. When I turned it on it showed me a video of flying through the solar system that would have flat out killed my previous machine on its best day, located my wi-fi signal, and asked me what I wanted to do.
For the first time, I knew what I wanted to do - I wanted to do everything.
And I could.
I later upgraded my Archos MP3 player to an iPod, and today I have an iPhone, and making calls and sending texts is the least of what I use it for. It's my Filofax and address book, calendar and scheduler, and social network interface; I have a bunch of cool games on it for whiling away spare moments and a couple of apps (Hipstamatic and Instagram) that actually turn the unsatisfactory camera into a strength by imbuing the photographs with the feeling of the time they were taken.
And that MacBook is still going strong, and hasn't given me a second of frustration. Because on the very few occasions things weren't proceeding as expected, I could figure out how to solve it myself. Not through technical knowledge, but through common sense.
And West is now written in a program called Scrivener (now in Windows beta, but a Mac-exclusive when I first bought it) that gives me multiple drafting windows, index card plotting, HTML and PDF research pages, audio and video panes - all in the same program in one window - that have made volume 2 of West a far more intricate and cohesive story than it ever was before.
There are a lot of tech people eulogising Steve Jobs on the net today. I didn't teach myself BASIC as a kid, or go into I.T., graphic design or professional writing as a career. I just wanted to write the best comic I could, access the amazing things computers could do, without having to understand how they did it, or how to fix it when it went wrong.
Steve Jobs figured all that out, so that idiots like me wouldn't have to.
Thank you, Steve.


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Three men accused of murdering a 56-year-old man in his north Columbus home
early Monday morning have were each given a $1 million bond Tuesday.
John C. Brewster, 21, Jamel C. Preston, 19, and Marsean T. Sowards, 18, were
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According to Franklin County court records, Sowards is charged with murder,
aggravated menacing, obstructing official business, drug abuse, and possessing
a weapon under disability. Brewster is charged with murder, and Preston is
charged with complicity.
The three suspects are currently being held in the Franklin County main
Sowards, Brewster and Preston are accused of murdering Rick Rundblad at his
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According to police, each of the suspects allegedly had a role in the
homicide. One of the suspects is accused of planning the robbery at Rundblad's home, a second
suspect is accused of pulling the trigger, and a third suspect is accused of
returning to the home to set the two fires.
Sowards was arrested during a traffic stop on Dublin Granville Road, near
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later determined that he was connected to the homicide on Hempwood Drive.
Preston and Brewster were arrested a short time later at a nearby hotel.
Following the arrests, Columbus police detective Ron Jacobs says Brewster
told investigators that he and Soward had broken into Rundblad's home to steal
marijuana plants. Brewster told investigators that things took a turn during the robbery and Soward
shot Rundblad.
Brewster also told investigators that he returned to the scene hours later
to set the fires inside of the residence. He told investigators that the robbery
had been planned by Preston.
The three suspects are scheduled for another court hearing on September 26.
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HMV's debt has been acquired from the group's lenders by retail restructuring group Hilco UK.
The company, which went into administration last week, had an underlying net debt of £176m as at the end of October.
The Financial Times says that, although Hilco has not acquired HMV, it paves the way for a rescue, as it means Hilco can effectively take control of the retailer.
It is not certain at this stage what it will mean for the stores in Bury and Bolton.
Experts have been suggesting that any successful buyer of HMV would concentrate on the larger stores with greater footfall such as those on Market Street, Manchester, and the Trafford Centre.
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When parenting gets rough we parents probably need true understanding, and maybe a validating and compassionate hug, more than we need advice, admonitions and lectures.
So it is with our children when being a kid gets rough.
"I think therefore I am," has shaped centuries of life on planet earth—but it is an abject failure when it comes to parenting in the heat of dark moments (not to mention love and the making of art) simply because we feel before we think—and when we feel raw passion we need some safe space to rage and then we need animal soothing not intellectual structuring.
The art of parenting, when the going gets tough, is to put our children and their raw animal experience ahead of our ideas, no matter what those ideas may be. Instead we must use our own animal selves to connect with, and soothe, the splendid wild animal that is our child.
No matter how old your child is (or yourself for that matter), when triggered into fear and anger our inner teacher-scientist gets dragged behind our runaway beast.
Like in some old Western movie, if you find yourself parenting a runaway horse of a child (prompted by anything from a nightmare to a "no" in the face of a pre-dinner cookie) this is no time to explain things, this is the time for metaphoric action—time to jump up onto your own humble hobby horse of an aging body and gallop after him or her.
It takes an animal to calm an animal. Thus while limits are important, love rules the day—especially in infancy and in any breakdown moments that look like regression to infancy—when words and thoughts fly out the window in a swirl of feeling. When the animal who is our child is scared or enraged they have only one question: Am I safe? They have only one goal: to survive.
When the animal who is our angry or frightened child appears to be in the heat of battle with us, it serves for us to be gallant riders upon our humble horses; a rider who can get down from our intellect (which is useless in such moments) and remember the animal that once was, and still is, our Self.
When parenting goes code red we must grasp that the child is scared—this is almost always at the root of her anger. We must make ourselves small (not big to further overwhelm or dominate, as this just fuels her need for bigness to counter); we must find our calm (not out-rage her storm); we must be the eye of the hurricane, a calm bowl to hold her broken teapot self and the tempest that has shattered it. The continued breaking and rebuilding is how the vessel of Self gets forged solid and sturdy.
No matter how fierce your kid's rage and terror in the heat of frustration, picture your baby as a frightened bird who flew into a window (i.e. your limit, her own frustration) and does not know what hit her. Strive to use your heart like cupped palms to hold the dazed bird and keep her safe as she regains her instinctive wits.
Then, depending on her age and level of development, you can talk about whatever ideas you wish to teach.
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The South Carolina Highway Patrol is looking for a vehicle wanted in a hit-and-run Wednesday night that left a moped rider seriously injured. A week after the crash, troopers released surveillance video of the accident.
Troopers say the crash occurred on Platt Springs Road in Lexington County at about 9 p.m. Wednesday. After hitting Dustin McDonald, the driver of the SUV drove away.
"It's a phone call you never want to receive in the middle of the night or at any time," said McDonald's mother, Shan Jennings. "They don't know if he's dead, they don't know if he's alive. They just left him lying in the middle of the road and didn't care. It's got to be a heartless person to do something like that."
Troopers are looking for a dark SUV that may have damage to the right front, or the front of the vehicle. Photos of the wanted vehicle are attached to this story.
Jennings says McDonald is improving.
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text: I still remember saying goodbye to my parents when I set off for college all those years ago. That was only to Liverpool and I left them on the platform of Carlisle's Railway Station. Imagine how more traumatic it is when one crosses oceans. My parents and I separated in tears, Xin Li leaves his mother with harsh words but mothers are not so easily shaken off. Warm Winter has a tenderness about it that is most endearing, the sepia images drawn in smudgy lines developed in Photoshop; only the scarlet scarf cuts through the winter and airport gloom. Notice where the scarf ends up - a nice touch. Xin is a student at Queensland College of Art, part of Griffith University. The choice of narrator or music is a key feature in any film. No narration here but lovely piano from Tim Bond and sound design courtesy Paul Lalo. Xin comes from Harbin in China, moving to Australia as a student in 2007. Warm Winter was made in his second year and has only just become available on the web. He is a fine artist in every sense of the word as a click on his link will clarify.


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The Kansas City Chiefs have not been to the Super Bowl in 42 years. It is the longest drought in Super Bowl history except for the New York Jets at 43 years. The Kansas Chiefs will never get back to the Super Bowl as long as the current ownership (Hunt Family) is in place and fan loyalty remains strong.
The ownership football management philosophy is not to commit to a long-term winning quarterback and coach. Click here: http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2012/10/4/3456974/2012-kansas-city-chiefs-matt-cassel-romeo-crennel
The only exception to this football management philosophy was the hiring of coach Marty Schottenheimer (1989-1998). Schottenheimer's teams had the highest winning percentage (.634) of any Chiefs coaches. Schottenheimer lead the Chiefs to their only AFC Championship in 1993 and lost to the Buffalo Bills.
The Chiefs have never been successful drafting or trading for a long-term winning quarterback. Joe Montana is the most successful Chiefs quarterback in the last 42 years, leading the Chiefs to the AFC Championship game in 1993. Joe Montana played for the Chiefs from 1993-1994. In the 1983 draft, the Chiefs drafted Todd Blackledge over future hall of fame greats Jim Kelly and Dan Marino.
The Kansas City Chiefs consistently draw capacity crowds in both good and bad seasons. From 1996 to 2006 the Chiefs averaged 77,300 fans per game (second only to the Washington Redskins).
The ownership of the Kansas Chiefs has no incentive to change their football management philosophy in order to put a consistent winning team on the field because of fan loyalty. The Hunt Family is in this for the money! The fact that they played a game the day after the murder-suicide death of one of the Kansas City Chief's starting players, proves that money is the Hunt Family's primary motive. See "Why Chiefs should not play the Panthers game" below. I urge all Chief fans to boycott watching Chiefs games to turn the Hunt Family's money maker into a money loser!
"Why Chiefs should not play Panthers game"
Michael Silver, yahoo football sports journalist, is correct on so many levels!!! It's all about the money!!! If the owner gave a damn he would have stepped in and stopped Sunday's game from happening until health professionals have some time with the team!!! What organization on Earth would expect people to go to work and perform with about 24 hours to grieve a horrible tragedy!!! I urge everyone that has tickets to the game to boycott it in respect to human decency!!!
Click on this link http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--nfl-making-mistake-by-allowing-panthers-chiefs-game-to-go-on-as-scheduled-222206231.html to read his article: "NFL making mistake by allowing Panthers-Chiefs game to go on as scheduled"


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Debby brought misery in the form of flooded streets and wind damage, but it is also bringing in opportunity for some small business owners.
Michael Marciniak with Arbor Bay Tree and Landscaping says picking up the pieces left by Debby's mess has them very busy, day and night.
"We have seen a lot of flood damage. We've seen a lot of debris from the high winds. My crews have been running nonstop, " Marciniak said.
From the ground to rooftops, there is a lot of work to be done. At Tampa Roofing Company, they have been flooded with calls.
Company owner Keith Swope has brought in more roofers and supplies to deal with the demand, but they are already two weeks behind schedule and can't seem to catch up.
Some calls are easier to take than others.
"They're panicked. They're losing everything and they're crying on the phone, and it's difficult to talk to them," Swope said.
Strong winds also damaged pool screens, windows and fences, which has those businesses busy as well.
And at Bill Currie Ford, a few cars, including some police cruisers, had some flood damage.
"When you run your vehicle through water and then ingest water, you're going to need an engine. Sometimes you can't avoid it, but that's what happens," said John Benson, with Bill Currie Ford.
The effects of a stubborn storm are leaving many homeowners scrambling, while putting many to work.
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(FOX 11) A botched burglary is what investigators are beginning to think.
At the arraignment for 29-year-old Daniel Martinez, we learned he was supposedly in a getaway vehicle, the night when a 10-year-old Northridge girl was abducted from her bedroom.
The primary suspect, Tobias Summers, is accused of breaking into the house, and instead of coming out with computers or TV, he was carrying the young girl.
Martinez adrove them for a bit, and got out of the car, leaving the girl alone with Summers, who eventually left her at a hospital parking lot, authorities say.
Summers faces over 30 sexual counts, plus kidnapping a person under fourteen years of age, enhancement of kidnapping for sexual purposes. The list goes on in the 37-count paperwork.
Martinez, who has pled not guilty, faces counts of burglary and kidnapping.
Why the family was targeted remains a mystery. Anyone who sees Summers is asked to call 911.
Meanwhile, FOX 11 is told that the LAPD has found the abandoned San
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The AFC North leader takes a trip to the West coast this Sunday as the Baltimore Ravens travel to play the San Diego Chargers, and experts across the Internet are split on who will pick up the victory.
Baltimore has won three games in a row after a 13-10 victory on the road against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now at 8-2, the Ravens cross to the other side of the country for the bout with the Chargers.
San Diego has lost five of its last six games to fall to 4-6 on the season. Despite having the third-best rushing defense in the NFL, the Chargers haven't defeated a team not named the Kansas City Chiefs since Week 2. The experts don't seem to mind that fact, however, as predictions across the web have San Diego ready to compete with one of the league's best teams.
The large staff of pickers at ESPN are split on the game, with Baltimore receiving an 8-6 edge by taking the Accuscore and fan pick 'em predictions.
The experts at CBS Sports give the edge to the Chargers, with five choosing San Diego to only three for Baltimore. On Yahoo! Sports' smaller sample, the Ravens are chosen to win 3-1.


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Eugene Palmer, 73, may be armed and hiding in the woods of Harriman State Park, police said. He allegedly admitted to his family that he had killed his daughter-in-law, Tammy Palmer, before taking off.
Police want to talk to talk to Palmer about the shooting death of Tammy Palmer, 39, at her Haverstraw, N.Y., home Monday morning. Tammy Palmer was murdered while her two children were at school.
Elaine Babcock, Eugene Palmer's sister, said her brother had been arguing with Tammy Palmer about his son's custody rights. Tammy and Eugene's son are separated and she had a restraining order against her estranged husband.
Police said the husband is not a suspect.
Eugene Palmer is a skilled huntsman and owns several guns. Police said he could survive in the woods by himself for a long time.
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Who's going to HHH this year? What distance are you doing?
Mountain bike racing!
// February 9th, 2012 // 3 Comments » // Races
Weird. 2 years ago, I would never have thought about riding dirt. Then I got a cross bike. Now…I sit here about to head off to a training ride for the 2nd event in DORBA's 2012 Frozen Endurance Series on Feb 18:
I'll be in the 4 hour men's solo event.
IC3 Spoke Director Todd Gillman will be manning the tent to give shade, rest and fellowship to all that stop by. Please come out and watch/cheer for all competitors (this isn't CycloCross…no heckling!)
Cyclocross racing this Thursday…come race or spectate!
// October 19th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
Come out to Woodcreek church in Richardson this Thursday to race or cheer on team IC3 as we go flying through the course!
If you are not familiar with Cyclocross, think "obstacle course on bikes." Straights, dirt, run-ups, barriers to jump over, sweat, pegged heart rates. Good times! Cyclocross bikes look like a blend of Mountain Bikes and Road bikes. If you don't have a 'cross bike, bring out the MTB, but take off the bar-ends first.
More info here:
Thursday Cyclocross Series
First race at 6pm. We'll be there early to set up the IC3 tent…probably somewhere between 4 and 5.
If you are there to spectate, bring your football fan voice, and cowbells. Racers love when the crowds are into it
Saturday Ride 09/17
// September 16th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
Come join us either at the 8:00 or 9:00 ride from Richardson Bike Mart coit/campbell. A few of us do the 8:10. Ride the 36 mile Tour de Allen and on the way back stop at Los Rios/Renner turn and wait for the 9:10 group to ride another loop. Makes for a great ride. Ends up being a 53 or so mile ride. Look for the IC3 kits. The 8:10 and 9:10 are 36 mile rides.
Todd Kelly
Texas Time Trials
// August 16th, 2011 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
After talking about it for more than a year, Todd 'OT' Gillman and I mailed off our application to enter the 6-hour event in the UMCA Texas Time Trials on September 22-24. What we didn't know a year ago is that we would be riding a tandem!
Please pray for us as we train and prep, as well as for good teamwork and communication that is essential to successful tandem riding. I'm trying hard to not be a "Back saddle driver"
I am thinking of making this into a fund raising ride, similar to the MS150 with the proceeds going to support one or more of our International spokes (or "spokes-to-be"). Can you pledge to help us raise money on a "per mile" basis? Flat donations are great as well, but the per-mile thing may help us go that extra lap when we're tired…
Also, we will be bringing the trailer and tent as well as some neutral water for other teams that may have underpacked their own support cooler. This ride is self-supported and lots of folks have never done this sort of ride before. I messed up myself in 2006 and brought the wrong type of hydration…limited me to 80 miles instead of to 100 I was shooting for.
We are signed up as "Team ChristianCycling.com"
If you want to make a pledge…just add a comment below or email me: email@example.com
MS150 Hotels
// February 8th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // BikeMS
If you are wanting to stay at a hotel for the MS150 you better hurry up. They are going fast. First one I called was sold out. The next one I called was about to be. Sleep Inn is sold out. Motel 6 has a few left.
Horse Country TT, 2011
// December 7th, 2010 // 6 Comments » // Races
We are working to make the call on whether or not we run the HCTT again in 2011. As always the big issue is having enough people to put on a quality race.
Will you help? We need stagers, registration, setup/teardown, refreshments, and "ad-hoc" folks. Hilltop church members have our road marshall duties covered.
Please comment here or send me an email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ride Saturday 11/27 morning
// November 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // Rides
Anyone interested/available to ride the BikeMart rides 11/27? I'm looking at the 29 mile Tour de Plano…9:11 I think? Dress for it…should be a chilly start…
New Schwalbe Tires
// October 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
Ok. All us Schwalbe tire owners will get a new road version pretty soon. Check it out.
IC3/I am Second BikeMS team is back for 2011
// September 29th, 2010 // No Comments » // BikeMS, Christianity, Rides
If you are a Christian Cyclist riding the 2011 BikeMS Frisco to Ft. Worth (TX), please join us for fun, fellowship, food and various other words that start with F!
See our current team page here:
The registration price goes up as we get closer to the ride, so join in as soon as you can! We are partnering again this year with I Am Second, PowerFM and Interstate Batteries to make this a fantastic event.
We raised just short of $10,000 in 2010 for the MS Society, and will be looking to make our team bigger, faster, stronger and most importantly…better fundraisers!!!
Keep coming back here for more info as we get closer on registration issues, team jerseys, training rides, etc.
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Back home now, I'm using my old college library to look at old NY Times articles from periods in Korean history that are not accessible for free online.
I chose the period of President Rhee's fall and subsequent rise of Park Chung Hee. Like with previous efforts on the Russo-Japanese War (1905) and the March 1st Movement (1919), I'll look month-to-month at what the press was reporting as events were unfolding.
Since I do not have much respect for the objectivity and accuracy of today's media, I am not offering these excerpts as definitive evidence.
I simply like history, and these old articles are a window into it…
Unlike previous events covered here – you will not be able to access the full article without paying in the NY Times Archives. I'll post links anyway…
President Eisenhower said today that allegations that the United States supported dictatorships were ridiculous.
This is datelined in Chile but includes notes on Korea.
Pres. Syngman Rhee declared today that Japan had given no sign that it sincerely wanted to live with Korea in peace and friendship.
Dr. Rhee made the remarks in an official statement on the 41st anniversary of the 1919 Korean Independence movement against the Japanese.
During the next two months as things heat up against Rhee, there are many articles about Korea's effort to forge better relations with Japan.
Dr. Rhee asserted that if Japan had honored South Korea's property claims she "would have reduced Korean hostility and suspicion and established a basis for friendly relations."
The opposition Democratic party made public here last night what it alleged were secret instructions to the police to falsify returns in the Presidential election March 15.
The purported police instructions outlined methods for tallying 85 percent of votes for Dr. Rhee and Mr. Lee. In case plans for the casting of the requisite votes should fail, special ballot boxes with ready-made ballots would be provided.
The morale of US servicemen in Korea could be "a lot higher than it is," Louis G. Feldman, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said today.
"Korea, whether justly or unjustly, is a penitential duty station so far as some of the men are concerned," Mr. Feldman said. "Men come out to Korea with a sour attitude and remain sour."
He attributed the servicemen's adverse reaction to Korea in part to the average serviceman's lack of understanding of why he has to be there. "He does not understand there's a war on," Mr. Feldman said.
Korean Students Held
An opposition legislator and about twenty high school students were seized for questioning tonight after 200 demonstrating students had clashed here with policemen.
…The presidential election, in which Pres. Rhee is unopposed, takes place March 15.
11 Mar Korean Violence Rising
A mob killed an opposition political leader last night at Yosu in southwestern Korea in the most serious in a series of attacks on candidates opposing Pres. Rhee.
The police said a crowd beat to death Kim Yungho, chief of the financial section of the opposition Democratic party. Another party member, the chief of propaganda in Yosu, was serious injured.
The police reported 800 students in Taejon and 200 in Suwon demonstrated today against the administration.
Pre. Rhee, 84 years old, is unopposed in his bid for a fourth term. But voters can cast invalid votes to show their preference for another election.
South Korean voters are preparing to elect a president and vice president next Tuesday in an atmosphere one of the candidates described as "terrorized."
The president, who will be 85 years old March 26, also instructed authorities to halt "practice voting with imitation ballots" conducted by local chapters of his Liberal party.
Numerous students and others are reported to have been beaten at anti-government rallies. The beatings were administered, it is said, either by policemen or by hoodlums while policemen present "looked the other way."
Dr. Rhee's election to his fourth consecutive term as president was assured when his opponent, Dr. Chough Pyong Ok, died las month in the US after undergoing surgery at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington.
15 Mar US Deplores Violence
The State Department called on Pres. Rhee to foster the "free expression of the popular will" in Korean elections. The department said it "deplores any action contrary thereto."
15 Mar Tense Korea Set to Ballot Today
16 Mar Bloodshed Mars Election of Rhee
At least 10 persons were reported killed in anti-government demonstrations in three cities last night.
The opposing Democrat party announced a court injunction would be sought within thirty days to invalidate the election, which they charged was won by intimidation and fraud.
Korean news agencies carried early accounts of rioting in Masan, a southern port city. Less violent outbreaks were reported from Kwangju and Pohang. Isolated assaults, including one stabbing, were said to have taken place in other localities.
Seoul was quiet except for small demonstrations by supporters of the opposition. The streets were heavily patrolled by the police.
Home Minister Choi In Kyu said two members of the Opposition Democrat party had been killed and fifteen injured in Masan as a result of "warning shots" fired by the police.
The Hapdong news agency reported from Masan ten persons had been killed and forty injured as several thousand anti-government demonstrators surrounded and stoned city hall, where votes in yesterday's election were being counted. The crowd burned down a police substation and damaged another.
The voters were guided into booths in groups of three, a procedure the Democrats alleged had been devised by the Liberals so that marking ballots could be overseen by a government party worker in each group. However, it was impossible for an outsider to see what went on inside the curtained booth.
17 Mar Rhee's Burdened Aide: Lee Ki Poong
Of the Koreans to whom Pres. Rhee is the voice, soul and supreme authority, none stands closer to the aged patriot than Lee Ki Poong – the quiet little man who has been elected Vice President. Since the days of the liberation of Korea from Japan in 1945, Mr. Lee has stood by Dr. Rhee's side, often taking the buffetings intended for the older man and quietly slipping out of the limelight on occasions of triumph for the President.
"I look to the day when I can lay down these burdens," he told a Western friend not long ago. "I am weary, but as long as the President needs me I will stay."
The article goes on to tell how he came to the US in poverty, earned a college degree, but still struggled in NY before returning home to find his parents dying.
He remained in Korea during the Japanese occupation. He met Rhee – who he had met while in NY – at the airport when Rhee returned in 1945, and he remained in his service until the writing of the article…
Rhee had adopted Lee's own son due to the fact Rhee and his Austrian wife were childless… (Next month, we will see how things turned out for this man…)
17 Mar Landslide Korean Vote Attests to Rhee's Durable Popularity
After fighting against the ancient Korean monarchy and the Japanese rulers who followed, Dr. Rhee became one of the world's most outspoken foes of communism.
Since he became the republic's first president in 1948, Dr. Rhee has often been condemned at home and abroad as despotic and over-aged for his job. But yesterday he received endorsement by ballot for the fourth four year term from nearly half of his country's entire population.
18 Mar Seoul Opposition Acts
Opposition members of the National Assembly walked out in a body today in protest against alleged corruption in Tuesday's national election.
19 Mar US Said to Block Rhee Attack Bid
Pres. Eisenhower was reported today to have refused to acquiesce in a proposal by Pres. Rhee for a South Korean military attack on Communist-held North Korea.
Mr. Lee said Dr. Rhee told the group he had written to Pres. Eisenhower suggesting that if the US "does not intend to help" in expelling the Communist regime from NK, Washington should "keep silent or sit by" while Rhee's forces attacked.
26 Mar Korea to Try Police
Hong Chin Ki, newly appointed Minister of Home Affairs, said today that criminal charges would be filed against policemen who had fired on thousands of demonstrators in Masan during the night of the Presidential election, March 15.
Mr. Hong said four or five policemen were involved in the gunfire that killed at least ten persons. He told newsmen the policemen went too far.
Hundreds of high school students in Pusan demonstrated today for the second consecutive day…
27 Mar Rhee Marks Birthday
Pres. Rhee observed his 85th birthday today without much fanfare. All public functions, including a rally and a military parade, were canceled in accordance with his wishes.


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Ladies of the World: quit with the Ugly Glasses, will you?
Posted at 4:00 PM Mar 05, 2009By Andrea Grimes
It seems the concepts "ugly" and "ironic" have become confused in Hipster Lore. And while I have been happy to ignore the Hipster Mullet and star tattoos due to the fact that those things are more sad than anything else, I cannot continue to live in a world where pretty girls put on stupid, ugly plastic glasses in the name of Hip.
It was bad enough when you forgot your pants, but slapping some plastic glasses on your face only says "short bus," no matter what Vice tells you. I was especially saddened to see this awful trend immortalized on The Sartorialist today in a photo of a girl from Milan, featuring unrelenting commenter support re: that crap on her face.
There's nothing wrong with vision correction or celebrating your geekiness. However, ugly plastic glasses very likely neither correct your vision nor celebrate your geekiness, they merely make you look like a narcissistic twit who wants to be told how pretty she is despite them. Ladies of the world, ugly plastic glasses are over--if they were ever happening at all--and it's time to find another ubiquitous trend with which to assert your individuality.


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Spilt Milk (2009)
Kristina Train was born in New York City but grew up singing in church choirs in Savannah, GA, home to many great soul and pop singers over the years ... Show synopsis Kristina Train was born in New York City but grew up singing in church choirs in Savannah, GA, home to many great soul and pop singers over the years. Train sang in soul bands while still a teenager and got a development deal with Blue Note when she was 19. Seven years later she went to London to cut Spilt Milk with producer and songwriter Jimmy Hogarth, and songwriter arranger Eg White. Train, Hogarth, and White wrote most of the tunes here, and they're all solid, with half of them sounding like potential anthems. The album opens with the title track, possibly the collection's strongest song and certainly the catchiest. The tune opens with a subtle piano figure and Train's whispered vocal, full of jazzy inflections, then the chorus kicks in with Train belting out the hook line with a soulful, tear-stained power. It's the kind of tune that will have you pushing the replay button over and over. "Don't Beg for Love" is another sizzler, a quiet tour de force with hints of Aretha and Dusty Springfield in the vocal, and that's not critical hyperbole. Train's restrained delivery is full of implied power as she tells a weak lover to get lost, while the backing singers drop some wailing, gospel-drenched melismas into the mix. The gospel singers return on "I Can't But Help," which celebrates life's darker moments with Train's vocal full of hope and jubilation despite the grim lyric. Train walks the fine line between aspiration and resignation with aplomb. "Call in the Maker" is another sharp bit of pop/soul while "Far from the Country" perfectly blends blues, pop, and Southern soul with Train's breezy vocal. The songwriting has plenty of knowing nods to the artists and songwriters of the late '60s and early '70s, but it's Train's voice that dominates the album. She has a dusky, soulful tone that can imbue even the simplest phrases with wrenching emotion. Spilt Milk -- the song and the album -- announces the birth of a remarkable new talent. ~ j. poet, Rovi Hide synopsis