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Tracey Becker writes at Just Another Mommy Blog and is co-producer of Listen To Your Mother Chicago, which is how she became a friend of Miss Elizabeth Rago who is a celebrity in her own right (so says Tracey, and so it shall be).
Numbers 1 and 2 – If I could have 5 wishes for my house? Oh man. This is perfect timing. In fact, one of my real wishes this year was a gift card to Menards so that we can get new flooring for the first floor. Not that I don't like our current situation of polka dotted carpeting and missing tile squares, but it seems to me that if you can see the sub-floor of your kitchen, you should probably replace it. I am not picky about the carpet/tile combo we get; I just want something that is affordable, hides stains/washes easily, and isn't super slippery so that my dog can walk and run on it properly without breaking her hip. Does that count for 2 wishes?
Mohawk New Market Plush Carpet from Menards
Wish Number 3 – I would love to line our office in shelving. Lots and lots of high quality, wooden shelves to hold not only my overflowing book collection but also the books and gear for our homeschooling supplies. I'm talking floor-to ceiling, solid oak shelves with a few doors to hide the ugly plastic bins…. I can just imagine it…
something akin to this: (I am dying just looking at that picture…)
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Wish Number 4 – What I wouldn't give for new lighting throughout my home, but especially in our bedrooms. True story: On Tuesday of this week, I wore a sweater that I thought was brown. I got dressed and left so quickly that it wasn't until I took off my coat in proper lighting that I realized my sweater was a dark green. Obviously, our bedroom is like a cave. If Santa is listening, this is a really affordable wish as I am not picky or fancy with my lighting needs…
ELDSHULT Lamp from IKEA
Wish Number 5 – I would wish for a new bed. As a married couple, we only owned a real bed for a few years before I admitted that my husband was just too tall for a footboard. At 6'4″, he would need the extra length that a King sized bed would offer before we could consider a framed bed again. I have always, always, ALWAYS loved sleigh beds. Kind of fitting for the Christmas season, eh?
Milford Louis Phillip Warm Brown Traditional King-size Sleigh Bed at Overstock.com
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As is custom for Valentine's Day, many businesses are offering heart-shaped merchandise. Papa John's Pizza is offering a such a themed pizza. But, as is often the case, reality can be strikingly different than advertising. Come inside to see what the pizza actually looks like.
Papa John's Love (Pizza) Is A Lie
Baskin Robbins Death Shake Has 2,300 Calories
Last time I checked, an adult male should consume 2,500 calories a day, and this shake nearly meets that requirement! The saturated fat present in that shake is over 3 times the RDA of 20 grams, which will put you on the fast track for heart disease. Of course, that's if the Type 2 diabetes caused by all 266 grams of that sugar doesn't get you first.
Medtronic Stops Selling Faulty Defibrillators
Medtronic is "recalling" its latest heart defibrillator models because of faulty wiring, which could lead to either it not working when you most need it, or it shocking you randomly in the heart with painful electric jolts. "The company is urging all of the roughly 235,000 patients with the lead, known as the Sprint Fidelis, to see their doctors to make sure it has not developed a fracture that can make the device misread heart-rhythm data."
Heartburn Drugs Prilosec and Nexium May Cause Heart Attacks
The FDA has launched a safety review of the heartburn drugs Prilosec and Nexium after two studies linked the medicines to an increased risk of: "heart attacks, heart failure, and heart-related sudden death." The FDA warned that the studies are only preliminary, and that doctors and patients should keep using the drugs. From the LA Times:
Your Heart Has Been Recalled
The Food and Drug Administration has warned Guidant that, in the agency's opinion, it has not resolved the manufacturing problems detected in an earlier inspection. In a letter to the company, the FDA said that would likely result in restrictions on its ability to bring new heart devices to the market…

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McCormack had a stellar NFL career both as a player and a coach before helping Jerry Richardson form a team in Charlotte:
Story " Mike McCormack, 1930-2013
McCormack also had a lengthy post-playing career in the NFL. He began a career in coaching starting as an assistant with the Washington Redskins starting in 1965. He also had three stints as a head coach with the Philadelphia Eagles (1973-75), Baltimore Colts (1980-81), and Seattle Seahawks (1982).
He served as Seattle's president and general manager through 1988. The following year, he was hired as a key advisor to assist with a campaign to bring an NFL franchise to the Carolinas. McCormack was named the Carolina Panthers first President and served two seasons in that role before retiring after the 1996 season. He became the first member of the Carolina Panthers Hall of Honor.
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Archive for September, 2010
I know – we couldn't wait until Monday
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Here they are, a day early, in all their glory. There are 11 different themes, and we've even given them their own category 'Bundles of Joy'. We're giving away 2 of these beauties to one lucky person. All you need to do is leave a comment telling us what would be in your perfect bundle of joy. All comments registered between now and Sunday 3rd October will be entered into a draw and the winner announced after that date.
Please note: To enter the draw and be in with a chance of winning the bundles – comments should be left on this post.
This giveaway closed last night at midnight, all entries posted before that time will be in the draw – Good Luck!
Tags: boy, bundle of joy, christmas, fabric, fabric bundle, girl
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Bundles of Joy – coming soon….
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Calling all husbands, partners, brothers, sisters, Mums, Dads, Aunties, Uncles and children! If you need some gift ideas for the loved ones in your life, look no further – we've been busy designing these wonderful 'Bundles of Joy'. Each bundle has carefully selected co-ordinating fabric, so you can be sure the designs and patterns really complement one another. They are wrapped in cellophane and tied with lovely spotty satin ribbon with a gift tag.
We've also put the bundles into themes, so you have an idea of the designs in each bundle.
These beauties will be launched on Monday and to see the arrival into the shop we're holding a giveaway, check back on Monday for details and to peek at our new gift!
Tags: bundles of joy, christmas, fabric, fabric bundles, gift, present
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Keeping you posted…
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Apologies for the break in blogging, we've been so busy getting orders out that unfortunately something had to give, so without further ado here is the Fabric Rehab news…
New FAB kits from Paper & String, great little Christmas Tree decorations, I love the new Mr & Mrs Owl brooch, whooo wouldn't want one of these in their stocking at Christmas?!
We've added some delightful Lecien dots and florals to the shop, a welcome addition to any fabric stash.
For those of you patiently waiting for news of the Little Fawns, they have just sprung back into the shop, find the pink here and sky colourway here.
Tags: christmas, fawn, felt, lecien, paper and string, robert kaufman, sewing kits
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Birthday boy and dog
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Where has the last year gone, Alfie turned 1 yesterday, it doesn't seem possible. We had a little tea party for him which he thoroughly enjoyed. One of the highlights for him was playing with his favourite little tractor, as you can see, he is making 'full-on' tractor noises! One of his presents from us was 'dog'. Alfies first word wasn't 'mama' or 'dada', it was 'dog', so it only seemed right that he got a sausage dog for his birthday. I used Farmdale Crosshatch Mustard for the body, Farmdale Blossom Red for the tail and Duck Egg Linen for his ears. When Alfie saw him he 'arrrrrred' him with a big squeeze – sweet!
Tags: alexander henry, cotton, farmdale blossom, farmdale crosshatch, linen, sausage dog
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Cosy knits
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
We've added some lovely cosy jersey to the shop. It would be great for children's clothing, hats, tops backing of dribble bibs and snuggly taggie blankets. Its 150cm wide, so 1 FQ will give you 75cm x 50cm. Please note its important to wash this before use as there will be shrinkage, between 15-20%.
Tags: baby, baby clothing, dot, jersey, knit, spot, stripe, warm
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And the winner is……
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Jennie, comment 22 – congratulations! This is what Jennie suggested:-
'I adore your site and cannot help but buy lots every time I visit.
What would be helpful in my eyes is seeing all the fabrics in a category in one go rather than having to clck the option or browse per page, if that makes sense. Also because I usually trawl through all the categories anyway I would like to have to option to see all fabrics in one huge list, regardless of what category they are in. And then being able to sort by colour would be great.
And i agree that more customer or your projects would be really inspiring.
But keep up the good work as yours is one of my favourite websites!'
Thank you to everyone that entered and for all your comments, we've had some great suggestions. Its an exciting time for Fabric Rehab, watch this space for the new and improved shop…
Tags: fabric, giveaway, winner
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Witchy Stitch Owl, Ghastly Forest & Farmdale Orchard
Monday, September 6th, 2010
We've received some fantastic new fabrics from Alexander Henry, the designs pictured have a real Autumnal feel about them, ideal for Halloween projects – apple bobbing anyone? Why not embrace the changing of the seasons with some fabric therapy!
Tags: alexander henry, autumn, fabric, farmdale orchard, ghastly forest, halloween, witchy stich owl
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Gorgeous Gingham
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
The shop now stocks some lovely gingham, we thought they warranted their own category, so you can find them easily. The width is longer than standard, so you get more to work with, a FQ measures 80cm x 50cm, so if you want 1/2 a metre you'll receive a piece measuring 160cm x 50cm.
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Q: When will the Adventure Time DVDs be released?
A: I don't know. I've heard that it has something to do with itunes sales. Like if the itunes sales do well then they'll release DVDs. I'm not sayin go buy the show on itunes.. I'm just sayin that's a thing I've heard.
Q: Why haven't you responded to my question/email/letter/formspring/tweet/vyou?
A: Aww I'm sorry y'all. I've got enough energy to work 12 hours on Adventure Time, drive home, play xbox for an hour, eat pizza, call my mom and go to sleep. I do read every email that I get. I love readin 'em! And sometimes I will randomly answer one of them. I know it sucks though to not get a response. When I was 14 I emailed Todd McFarlane.. and I was super pissed at him when he didn't write me back! Eventually I got over it.. actually.. I never got over it, I just forgot about it.. I'm still mad. But I understand now I guess.. he was either busy working or relaxing.. and relaxing is important to a brain.. if it has to work a lot. That's another thing I've learned.. gotta relax the brain y'all.. if you don't.. it'll.. shuuuuuutdooowwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
Q: Is (insert any character here) going to be in any more episodes?
A: Yeah, probably. If we like a character than they'll probably come back!
Q: Will you put the character that I created into Adventure Time?
A: Aww man/gal I'm sorry.. but I've got 2 writers and 8 storyboard artists and 3 character designers all working on creating the most awesome characters ever. I hired those 13 artists because I want to put the characters THEY create into Adventure Time. So no, I'm probably not gonna put your character into Adventure Time but I love reading about fan-made characters on the web and in the emails that I get from y'all.
(update: I'm gonna put a fan made character into the show named Me-Mow.. because it's so cute and it was drawn by a tiny kid)
Q: How can I get a job writing on Adventure Time.
A: Well.. if you're writing on the show in the future it's because I found you through someone I know telling me that you're awesome or through work of yours that I picked up at a comics convention that led me to asking you to take a storyboard test. I think all of the guys and gals writing on the show are people who are actively making art on their own time.. outside of the show. I want to find more people like them because I know this dream team isn't going to stick around forever. I'm stoked to hire writers who are stoked about crafting stories that work on a higher level. I think it's easy to hack out generic stories with meaningless dialog.. and I think it's easy if you've got the right bloobs to make someone laugh.. but it's really hard to take a basic 11-minute story arc.. make it funny.. and make it beautiful.. all in the span of a couple weeks. My storyboard crew is so fucking talented!
Here's a paraphrased quote from an answer that vyou.com/jessemoynihan (board artist on adventure time) gave to a question about getting a gig: "I don't want to sound mean but a lot of people's stuff... there's nothing that indicates any kind of depth to their work. But if the depth of your being projects through your work, people will want it. They'll need it." -paraphrasing J. Moyns
So my advice is.. make stuff that's high-level and put it on the web and send me a link to it. Or just make stuff and sell it at a small press table at San Diego Comicon or SPX cause I'll always be at those two conventions.. and I'll always walk the whole floor to see if there's anything awesome for sale.
Q: Can you give me advice on animation?
A: Yeahhhsss... well.. ehmm.. what I learned from animation school is the bouncing ball. I learned how that worked and then I just applied it to everything.. like butts and legs and arms.. so that's all I know about animation.
Q: Can you give me advice on choosing an animation school?
A: CalArts is pretty solid. That's where I went.
Q: Is Adventure Time set in post-apocalyptic Earth.
A: Mmmhmm, The Land of Ooo is what Earth has become after The Great Mushroom War. Everything's irradiated and mutated.. that's why magic exists and Princess Bubblegum's made out of gum and Finn has little dots for eyes. They're all mutants. That's also why Finn and Jake find a lot of cool junk underground.. or under the water like in the Business Men episode.


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A lively celebration of the arts and culture of West Africa, with music, dancing and drumming performances by Gansango Music & Dance, Senegalese percussionist Thione Diop, master kora players Kane Mathis & Sean Gaskell, and the Mandinka drummers of Wulibaa. At intermission, enjoy a delicious West African meal catered by Afrikando Banadir Restaurant (The Stranger calls their food "extraordinarily rich, flavorful and deeply satisfying"), wine and beer, children's games and activities, a marketplace of Gambian handicrafts, and a silent auction. Proceeds will benefit Gambia Health Education Liaison Project, or GambiaHELP, a nonprofit providing educational and health services in rural Gambia and helping villagers establish sustainable local businesses.
Presented by: GambiaHELP, a Seattle-based nonprofit that has been supporting communities in The Gambia for 22 years, with support from Stanford, Munko & Co. PLLC, Car Tender, Summit Law Group, Tarutis & Brunstrom Health Lawyers, and individual sponsors.
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Good morning! To start off the day, catch up on the Cardinals and the NFL. Here are the morning links you are looking for.
Respect Factor Follows Bruce Arians
With Cards coach, "when (players) realize a guy is real, they gravitate to him"
Word From the Birds Blog | Fitz too has hometown rooting interests
Good thing most Cardinals' fans are level headed and won't blow this out of proportion (and yes that's a dig at 49ers' fans).
Cardinals' Patrick Peterson ranks as top-10 most versatile player ArizonaSports.com
Here's hoping that Tyrann Mathieu joins him on the list next year.
Matt Schaub 'on cusp' of becoming elite NFL quarterback, says QB coach - SBNation.com
Texans quarterback coach Karl Dorrell believes Matt Schaub can become an elite quarterback in 2013. How realistic is this outcome for the 32-year-old?
Cowboys, Dolphins open NFL training camp season - SBNation.com
Our long national nightmare is almost over -- training camp starts next week! Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming schedule.
NFL Huddle: Carlos Dunlap gets paid, Forbes ranks the NFL teams - SBNation.com
The franchise tag deadline has come and gone with just one player -- the Broncos' Ryan Clady -- inking a long-term deal, the Bengals surprising a few folks with a long-term deal for Carlos Dunlap and lots more from SB Nation's NFL blogs on Tuesday.
The Texans introduce ridiculous new themes for every home game - SBNation.com
The Texans are having homecoming this year and a bunch of other corporate sponsorship vehicles to liven up home games.
Oakland Raiders want new 50,000 seat stadium, can't afford it - SBNation.com
Because nothing with this team ever seems to be easy.
DeMarcus Ware injury: Cowboys star will be ready for training camp - SBNation.com
DeMarcus Ware's offseason shoulder surgery shouldn't be a concern. He's expected to be 100 percent for training camp.
Randall Cobb works to become complete wide receiver - SBNation.com
Randall Cobb doesn't want to be pigeonholed as a slot receiver. He wants to do more work on the outside and become a more all-around receiver.
Chris Cooley retires from NFL - SBNation.com
Longtime Redskins fan favorite Chris Cooley is hanging them up after nine seasons. He will join the Redskins' radio broadcasts this season.
Kyle Van Noy 2014 NFL Draft preseason scouting report - SBNation.com
Will Van Noy build off the momentum he established in the Poinsettia Bowl last season?
Aaron Ross: Can't have anyone else playing Super Bowl in our backyard - Big Blue View
Aaron Ross says the giants are hungry to be the first team to win a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
Bengals Officially Announce Carlos Dunlap's Five-Year Extension - Cincy Jungle
The Bengals confirmed and officially announced the contract extension signed by defensive end Carlos Dunlap.


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Matt Ma
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I eat at least 5 meals a day, love to cook, and play tennis. Some people call me llama...I don't know why.
Briana Lee
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Major: Business Administration / Psychology
Board Position: Vice President
Everyone just makes fun of me for being short...
Julianne Tsai
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Kristen Wang
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Pinteresting is very therapeutic for me. I also like eating.
Brenda Wu
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Major: Materials Science Engineering
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I like to eat, sleep, and repeat. In my spare time, I like to ballroom dance and attempt to do the splits.
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I like to sing and show people my very attractive double-jointed elbow. I'm not Taiwanese but I LOVE TASA. AND FOOD.
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I love food, playing video games, and tumblr. I also own two giant stuffed animals that are probably twice my size.
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Photography, music, filmmaking, sewing, and quite a few fandoms. Sustenance is acceptable. Food is quite good.
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I lack the skills to be a rapper, I like The Regular Show, and I've always wanted to jump really high but sadly I can't.
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I love meeting new people and eating!
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My family's not from Taiwan but TASA's my home away from home now! I moved 10 times and attended 3 different high schools. Buy me bubble tea & we can share life stories & be best friends haha (:
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A witness in the trial of a St. Louis man charged with killing three people at a Minnesota home says he seemed "desperate" to silence a teenager who had accused him of molesting her.
Thirty-five-year-old Eddie Mosley is charged in the April 9, 2012, deaths of 59-year-old DeLois Brown and Brown's elderly parents, 83-year-old James Bolden Sr. and 81-year-old Clover Bolden.
Last April, Mosley was subpoenaed to face charges of sexually assaulting a teen in Minnesota. Mosley's half-sister testified Friday that Mosley had called the girl's mther multiple times after he was subpoenaed. Prosecutors say he then drove to Brown's Brooklyn Park home to silence the girl, but she wasn't there.
Mosley's attorney, Travis Keil, has said Mosley had no motive to kill the victims.
Mosley's trial resumes Monday.
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Judge1: What're you doing today?
Me: I'm SpongeBob!
Judge2: That's great, now tell us what you're doing.
Me: I'm SpongeBob!
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United Way helps with anything from the cold to loss of wages
Some people dealing with extreme cold or loss of wages are turning to the United Way of Escambia County for help.
The United Way helps people in need find the agencies that can help them.
Even during the storm they answered calls to their 211 help line around the clock.
They *expected to answer even more than they got.
Andrea Krieger, United Way of Escambia Co.: "Even though we can answer the calls 24 hours a day, seven days a week our call volume didn't really increase. And we think that's because there were so many closures that callers automatically assumed that we were gonna be closed."
Most of the storm-related calls were from people needing heaters or food.
The United Way help line in Escambia County is 211.
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Disability Support Services (DSS) will coordinate sign language interpreters for students with a documented disability who have been approved for this academic adjustment by the DSS Director. The following identifies the responsibilities of the student and DSS if the student chooses to utilize sign language interpreters.
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2. Student shall notify DSS within a reasonable amount of time, preferably at least two weeks in advance, when requesting an interpreter for events, appointments, or meetings outside of regularly scheduled class time.
3. Student should utilize Priority Registration.
4. Student should notify DSS of any difficulty with an interpreter.
5. Student will notify DSS; if possible, at least 24 hours in advance if unable to attend class or other pre-arranged interpreter requested appointment.
6. Student understands that the interpreter will only wait 10 minutes per scheduled class hour. If the student does not show within that time frame or call the DSS Office to inform of late arrival, the interpreter will leave and report to the DSS Office for reassignment.
7. After three absences interpreting services will be suspended until the student meets with the DSS Director.
1. DSS will send a letter to the student outlining the student's approved academic adjustment.
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"There's a pretty significant turnover rate for chiefs," says Chief Richard "Smokey" Dyer of the Kansas City, MO, Fire Department. "We want change to stick and not be dependent on the tenure of a particular chief. So since 2000, we've used a labor/management process in the hope and design that changes that are made are not just the chief's but are those of the whole department. Trust is one of the sub-components of that relationship but so is the sharing of power."
Dyer adds, "Before I came, we were averaging 150 grievances a year. A big portion of labor's and management's time was handling the grievances and being in an adversarial relationship to determine who had done what wrong. Our energy was consumed with the battle. There's no time for progress or change. So I came to this conclusion: A consensus decision that we would agree to and implement and would last longer than me is better than the decision I think is best that would last no longer than me."
- Work from the inside out. A team-oriented, diverse department is like a well-oiled piece of apparatus -- it functions effectively both on the inside and the outside. If a department is going to attract and retain diverse firefighters and paramedics, it needs to be a welcoming working and living environment for everyone. That's different from being tolerant and being nice. Tolerance and being nice are surface behaviors. As Deputy Chief Robert Oliver of the Redmond, WA, Fire Department explains, "Building meaningful relationships and effective teams require honest communication beyond the limits of formalities, niceties and defense mechanisms."
Supporting Diversity
Oliver gives training on relationship skills and considers it a way to put in place an environment that supports diversity.
"You have to create an environment that supports people being who they are," Oliver says. "My training on relationship skills -- acceptance, handling rejection, mechanisms to deal with different people -- is focused on successful strategies that are not damaging. Anytime you have different people coming together there's sniffing around and some adjustments that have to take place. That doesn't have to be cruel. We can have acceptance rituals."
- Relationships are key. Plain and simple, recruiting is all about relationships. Relationships take time to develop and nurture. Signing up applicants by category solely for the purpose of making diversity numbers doesn't cut it. On an annual basis, Amesqua sends out a notice to line personnel asking them to let her know about someone who they want to work with for the next 20 to 30 years.
"They not only have to put their names and reputations on the line," explains Amesqua. "They have to help those who they want to succeed. They become de facto mentors. I believe that if an individual really wants to shine in recruit school, he or she would bring a woman or man of color to the table. In other words: Don't just tell me you value diversity, demonstrate it."
Relationships also play an important role in breaking down the barriers of prejudice.
"It's really easy to dislike someone when you don't know anything about the person," says Navarro. "Once you do and come to care and value who he or she is, the differences -- skin color, religion, sexual orientation -- become a 'so what!'"
For Chapel Hill, NC, Fire Chief Dan Jones, the importance of relationships applies to the local government and throughout the community as a whole.
"I've been blessed with supportive city managers," Jones says. "I see myself as part of the overall city management team and am always looking for ways where the fire department can step in and provide added value. That puts us out in the community in a visible way and supports both recruitment and prevention."
- Out-of-the box thinking. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." That quotation is often attributed to Albert Einstein. While not meant to be taken literally, it's a good reminder that in recruiting and retaining diversity, we need to try different things.
"We're a member of the Chamber of Commerce," Jones says. "It gives us access to a tremendous amount of information. As a member, we get the e-mail list and membership list. When we have recruitment information or prevention information or emergency management notification information, we can use the chamber's e-mail blast. We get immediate access to the business communities' communication network."


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The planning on this project has been going on for years, and now the actual construction on the Northern Beltline is expected to start next year.
The Northern Beltline is a 52 mile stretch of highway from Interstate 59 in northeast Jefferson County to the junction of I-459 and I-20/59 in southwest portion of the county.
The first phase of the project consists of a little more than a mile stretch between State Highway 75 and State Highway 79 in northeast Jefferson County.
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Ceramicist Suzy Hatcher is having a pottery sale on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. 308 S. Bayly Ave., 895-7735.
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 715 W. Main St., 589-0102, is holding a Halloween Drop-In Workshop on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $6 per person. Open to all ages.
The "Slideluck Potshow," part of the Photo Biennial, is on Saturday, Oct. 29. Potluck 7 p.m., slideshow 9 p.m. Land of Tomorrow, 233 W. Broadway, 632-6500.
The Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., 634-2700, is showing "Total Recall," part of the Willie Doherty film series, at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30. Visit www.speedmuseum.org for more details.


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Cedar Grove High School girls basketball team advances in Essex County Tournament past Golda Och
Faced with an undefeated opponent and an athlete averaging over 30 points per game, the Cedar Grove girls basketball team rose to the occasion with a double-digit victory.
The Panthers defeated previously 9-0 Golda Och Academy, 42-32, in the play-in round of the Essex County Tournament on Thursday, Jan. 24.
Cedar Grove earned the right to host the game by being named the 21 seed, using the midsection of the contest to pull away. The Panthers outscored the 24th-seeded Roadrunners 23-11 from the start of the second quarter to the end of third, sticking close in the other two frames.
Cedar Grove's main goal was to slow down Golda Och's Gloria Rothenberg, who entered the county tournament averaging 35 points and 14 rebounds per game.
Sophomore point guard Sabrina Palma and junior Daniela Marinaro were charged with the main task of stifling Rothenberg's scoring prowess. They held her to 20 points – 15 off of her season average.
Head coach Bill Scanlon said Palma primarily guarded Rothenberg in the first half while Marinaro took over in the second, but both did a "great job" on defense.
"We played box defense on [Rothenberg]," Scanlon said, "and she only had 14 points in the halfcourt. She had six on fast break layups. It was a good win for us because they were undefeated and brought in the leading scorer in the state."
Only two other athletes scored in the game for Golda Och while Cedar Grove spread out the offense more liberally.
Seniors Candace Mitola and Erica O'Hagan each scored 16 points while three other Panthers got in on the offensive action.
In addition to her season-high point total, O'Hagan also notched her second double-double of the year with 16 rebounds. Junior forward Elena Zecchino also contributed 11 boards to keep possession with Cedar Grove often.
"I really asked Erica and Elena to concentrate on rebounding," Scanlon said. "I said if we got 20 out of those two then we would win, and we got 27. Candace also shot the ball well and showed very good leadership on the floor. I was very happy with them."
The victory was the fifth of the winter for Cedar Grove. The girls basketball team also played Montclair Kimberley Academy on Tuesday, Jan. 29 but was defeated 52-27.
Palma had eight points to lead Cedar Grove.
After advancing to the preliminary round of the county tournament, the Panthers earned a rematch with 12th-seeded Columbia.
Cedar Grove last played the Cougars on Jan. 22 and were defeated, but Scanlon said he will be looking for a more competitive match this time around.
Columbia holds a 7-10 record, 5-3 within the Liberty Division, and has won four straight games.
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- Tuesday, May 22, 6 p.m., "Blount County Public Library Board of
Trustees Meeting," in the Board Room.
- Monday, May 28, Library closed in honor of Memorial Day.
- Friday, June 1, Sign Up Begins for the Summer Teen Reading Program
(June 1 through July 31). Teens (grades 6-12) are invited to the
library to sign up at the Genealogy Reference Desk for participation in
the program to read books. There will be a weekly drawing for prizes
and a concluding party for all participants at the library along with a
drawing for the Grand Prize.
- May 1-31, Teen Bulletin Board on the bulletin board in the Teen area of the Library.
May 1-31 Exhibits:
- "A New Creation" Portraits Art Exhibit" by Jonathan Howe, Senior
Art Student & 2007 Graduate of Maryville College, on Art Wall at
librarys Bookmark Café.
- "25th Anniversary 1982 Worlds Fair" exhibit by Nancy
Underwood in 2 Display Cases in the Main Gallery.
- "Tennessee Postal History" exhibit by Barry VanWinkle in Reference
Department Genealogy Display Case at the Reference Desk.
- "Blount County Arts & Crafts Guild Member Artwork" on two
easels in Sitting Areas of the Main Gallery.
- "Daniel Jenkins Art Exhibit" display on five easels in the Sitting
Areas of the Main Gallery of the library.
- Display by Circulation Department on Circulation Desk Cabinets and
New Books Shelves in the Main Gallery.
Childrens Library: 865-273-1414. (Unless otherwise indicated, all childrens programs are in the childrens library)
Monthly Surprise Display will be showcased in the childrens library office window. The monthly topic will not be publicized, but children can guess the theme by reading clues on the librarys website. Visit the childrens library to see if you guessed the correct display topic.
Foreign Language Story Hours:
Community volunteers will present bilingual stories and crafts for all interested children.
- Saturday, May 26, 3 p.m., Amigos Spanish Story Hour. Additional
volunteer readers are being sought.
Elementary Age Activities:
- Fiction Favorites - Kids Reviews. Read Juvenile Fiction
books, write and share reviews. Find book review forms and logs in
Childrens Reference area.
- Mondays, 6 p.m., Funtabulous Family Game Night. Families with
children of all ages can enjoy a fun-filled evening of board games,
puzzles, hopscotch, toddler bowling, play huts, and more.
- Tuesdays, 4 p.m., Serendipity Activities, Grades K-6, in
Childrens Library. Sign up in Childrens Library to
- May 22 - Grades 3-6, Fish Banks
- May 29 - Grades K-2, Fishy Fuzzy Pictures
- Tuesday, May 29, 6:30 p.m., Chess Club, Elementary aged children
have the opportunity to challenge other young chess masters in a
relaxed setting.
- Wednesday, May 23, 4 p.m., Reading Zone Elementary Story Hour,
Grades K-2,. Story hour meets on the fourth Wednesday of each
- Wednesdays at 4 p.m., Library Skills Workshops. Must be a reader
and sign up in Childrens Library to participate. Learn Dewey
Decimal System and Computer Catalog Skills.
- Colorful Thursdays offer fun and education for kids who love to
color. Coloring pages with crayons, markers, and colored pencils are
available at the childrens activity tables all day and evening (9
a.m. to 9 p.m.) each Thursday.
- Thursday, May 24, 4 p.m., "Road Trip" Book Search for 3rd Grade, in
the Childrens Library. Please sign-up at the Childrens
Circulation Desk.
- Friday, May 18, 4:30 p.m., Stamp Club for elementary aged
Pre-School Story Hours and Crafts in Childrens Library Reading Pond
- May Story Hour Theme: "Reading Around Town"
- Tuesdays, 10 a.m., Story Bears #1, Ages 3-5 years
- Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m., Pillows and PJs, Bedtime Pre-K
- Wednesdays, 10 a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Pooh Pals, Ages 2 and
- Fridays, 10 a.m., Story Bears #2, Ages 3-5 years
The library will be closed May 28 in honor of Memorial Day.
These programs are free and open to the public. The Blount County Public Library is located at 508 N. Cusick Street, Maryville.
For further information about other library programs or services, call the library at 865-982-0981 or visit the Web site at www.blountlibrary.org.
To print a one-page monthly calendar of events at the library, go to the library Web site at www.blountlibrary.org, click on "Programs and Events" and then click on "Click here to view the monthly calendar of events in printable format" or sign up to receive a monthly calendar by email by scrolling down and clicking on email@example.com and putting "subscribe" in the subject line.


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A new measure passed through North Dakota's legislature is raising some eyebrows.
House Bill 1467 allows people to possess a gun during a declared state of emergency and even allows them to sue if the government tries to take their guns or ammunition.
But some people are concerned about the bill's confusing language and how it could be interpreted during.
Carol Saude was not quite sure about what it says, explaining, "Well it has to do with something with firearms in emergencies."
Prairie Rose Seminole adds, "So if Fargo starts flooding, I can just get my pistol strapped on and carry a load of bullets..."
Several struggled with what exactly House Bill 1467, a measure discussing firearms in a declared emergency, says.
"Is that what this is doing? Kinda creating a lot more vigilantes," says Seminole.
The confusion of most was not noticed by lawmakers, though.
Bill writer Rep. Karen Karls says, "I don't see that at all, and obviously the House or the Senate didn't see that either."
To both Karls and one of the co-sponsors, Sen. Kelly Armstrong, what is written is pretty clear.
"Simply all the bill does is make your gun rights the day after an emergency situation, exactly the same as they were the day before the emergency situation," says Armstrong.
A person cannot carry a concealed weapon without a permit, and Armstrong says you cannot go waiving AR-15's around in the streets.
The bill is meant to protect Second Amendment rights from the government in declared emergencies including floods. It is modeled after what happened in 2005 with Hurricane Katrina when help was not available and police tried to confiscate firearms.
Rep. Karls says, "Law abiding citizens were at some point able to buy guns or maybe they had guns to protect their property. There was a lot of looting going on."
While the bill awaits a signature from Governor Dalrymple to send a message about gun rights, the constituents also want to send a message to lawmakers.
"We should be able to understand our rights and understand our laws and language like this doesn't allow us to do that," says Seminole.
Bill supporters say about 30 other states have enacted laws like this one.
The measure would also allow the sale of firearms and ammunition during a declared emergency.
Here is a link to the actual bill:


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NORTHFIELD, Vt. (AP) - Vermont's Norwich University is going to be displaying landscape drawings created by graduates and others from the American Civil War.
The exhibit opening Monday at Norwich's Sullivan Museum and History Center is entitled "Useful and Elegant Accomplishments."
Many of the drawings in this exhibit were produced by Norwich students or alumni who were involved in the American Civil War. The show complements the Sullivan Museum's ongoing series of exhibitions commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War.
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Turn a Pentagon into a Square
You can cut up a pentagon and rearrange the pieces into a perfect square. Below is one way to cut a pentagon into six pieces that can be rearranged into a square.
- Cut out the pieces from the pattern. You can cut them from card stock, cardboard or Foamies™. You might want to somehow mark the back of the pieces to help you reassemble them.
- Rearrange the pieces into a square without flipping them over.
- Solution: here is how you can rearrange the pieces to make a square.
- This solution is by Henry Ernest Dudeney, a great English inventor of puzzles. Before he found his solution, the simplest solution known took seven cuts.
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Van driver faces jail after admitting part in death crash
12:00pm Wednesday 18th June 2014 in News
A van driver has admitted causing death by dangerous driving which led to a fatal three-vehicle crash on the A35 last summer.
David Churcher, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of causing the death of 49-year-old Stephen Fawcett by driving a Ford Transit van dangerously, relating to a crash between three vans near Bridport on August 19, 2013.
Churcher, of Singleton Drive, Bournemouth, also pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis on the same date.
Mr Fawcett, who was driving an Express Blinds van died at the scene, outside Woodlands Farm, near Uploders.
Churcher was cut free from his cab by firefighters before being airlifted from the scene by the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance and taken to Southampton Hospital. A third man, a 48-year-old from the Wareham area driving a silver Volkswagen Transporter, suffered minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to hospital in Dorchester.
The collision happened past the old Travellers Rest, two miles east of Bridport.
There was major traffic disruption as the A35 between Bridport and the Monkeys Jump roundabout in Dorchester was closed for several hours to allow police, firefighters and paramedics to work safely at the scene.
Heavy traffic was diverted for miles around the area while lighter vehicles used the coast road.
At Bournemouth Crown Court on Monday, he was told to expect a lengthy prison sentence by Judge Peter Johnson.
"A lengthy custodial sentence is inevitable, as is a length period of disqualification which starts today," he said.
Representing Churcher, Les Smith said the defendant had entered his guilty pleas at the earliest opportunity to 'relieve the anxieties' of Mr Fawcett's family.
Mr Smith called for the case to be adjourned for medical reports to be prepared.
"He is still under supervision at the brain injury unit at Poole Hospital. He has a brain stem injury," he said, adding that his client currently has difficulty seeing.
Judge Johnson adjourned the case for sentencing on August 15 and Churcher was released on bail on condition that he co-operate with the probation service.
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suzigirl says...
1:32pm Wed 18 Jun 14
HRH of Boscombe says...
suzigirl wrote:I agree. It would make people a lot more careful
Life for a life!
8:49pm Wed 18 Jun 14
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10:04pm Wed 18 Jun 14
MotorbikeSam says...
DinosaurQueen83 wrote:I am not sure I could admire someone of kills another human. It is quite rare for the CPS to allow a charge of Dangerous Driving because of the difficulty to prove so the evidence must be overwhelming .
That's such a typical thing to say! People make mistakes. David Churcher is a very admirable man who has not denied his guilt in part. As the article says he will serve a custodial sentence and he will probably never recover from his own injuries. I hope you never find yourself in a situation like this.
David Churcher drove like a moron and deserves the full 14years in clink and a driving ban for life.
We will all be safer with him off the roads. even DinosaurQueen wont no be the victim of another one of his "mistakes".
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I'm curious to know if we have ever hit on a 5th rounder?Except for the trade for Lorenzo Neal (can't believe we didn't keep him) and the selections of Jermaine Phillips and....... I can't believe I'm typing this.... Sean Mahan. I can't name a single 5th rounder.
FRG is the most logical poster on this board. You guys just don\'t like where the logical conclusions take you.
Quote from: bradentonian on August 31, 2009, 01:25:50 PMBoJax. I think bo is coo owner. You can spell bust without Booker Reese! That dude was horrible!!!!
I'm curious to know if we have ever hit on a 5th rounder?
Another good 5th rounder was Jeff Davis, LB, Clemson.
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I got to the article "Twentysomething: Why I regret getting straight A's in college" from a link in some blog post. I really enjoyed reading the article- May be because i am not the one getting straight A's or may be i enjoy reading such career related articles. Its about a person, slogging his time out to get A's and as the article mentions he got 37 A's and only 3 B's. Can one imagine that? I cannot Even i know people who are so obsessed with the grades Anyways coming back to the article the author has put forward his experiences of being someone with loads of A's to his credit. At the end of the article the author mentions that anyone looking for a masters should stay away from the post. Even i want to say the same thing. People aiming for masters- Stay Away- I need not do that- As i am not going for masters
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Straight A's isn't that big of a deal when it comes to getting into grad school. I actually pulled off a perfect 4.0 in undergrad, and only got accepted by 2 out of 8 grad schools. Probably because I was overconfident in myself and didn't study for the GRE hardly at *all* Here's the article I wrote about my own four-point-ohh experience: http://www.xamuel.com/straight-a/
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Security Flaw in Remote Desktop
Exploit code published for RDP worm hole
I don't always post on Windows security updates, but when I do, it's
a Dos Equis near to my heart! Do you use Remote Desktop? Of course you do. That's why you need to install this update immediately:
MS12-020: Vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop could allow remote code execution
This is important for anyone running just about any version of Windows, but especially if you've got any machine exposing Remote Desktop directly to the internet (such as a Terminal Server). Fortunately there is a mitigation for those who just cannot patch tonight: enable NLA for your Remote Desktop connections.
Read more here.
Hop to it! Microsoft says not to wait for a normal patch-cycle on this one…
Talking IRM on RunAS Radio
Recently, I had a chance to chat with Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes on the popular RunAS Radio Show. The topic was Information Rights Management and how it relates to Exchange Server. This was also a feature I demonstrated on stage at the Exchange Connections event in Orlando earlier this year.
If you're not sure what IRM is or does, or if you wish to learn more about it, be sure to tune in on May 4th to listen to show #210!
Major PKI Breach
There has been a security breach identified with many Comodo Certificates.
Comodo CEO Melih Abdulhayoglu calls the breach the certificate authority's version of the September 11th terror attacks!
If you're running Windows you need to apply this patch immediately.
If you're using Mac or Linux, this affects you too, however I do not have links for you at this time.
Service Pack 1 for Windows 2008 R2 Now Available for Download
Just a quick note to remind everyone that Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 has just now become available for download on TechNet & MSDN.
If you don't have a TechNet or MSDN subscription you should see it on the Microsoft Download sites next Tuesday. [EDIT: Here is the download Link]
Be sure to check with each product group before installing this. Obviously it is supported with the OS itself (clustering, Hyper-V, RDS, etc) but you should seek a direct support statement like the one the Exchange group published.
You should also validate your 3rd party applications. You'll note there may be some issues with VMware, for example…
For more information such as release notes or articles on what's new, visit this page:
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
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Installing and Using Forefront Protection Server Management Console 2010 – Part 2
In a previous post, we took a look at Microsoft's Forefront product line and saw where the new server management tool: Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) fit in. In this article, we will install FPSMC.
Before we start clicking, I'd like to point out a few important notes:
- FPSMC cannot be deployed on a domain controller, an FPE server or an FPSP server.
- FPSMC will not install on a server running any other Forefront product.
- FPSMC will only support FPE and FPSP. It will not manage Forefront Security for Exchange server v10.x, Forefront Security for SharePoint v10.x and Antigen for Exchange and SMPT v9.x products – these still require Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC).
- FPSMC cannot redistribute the Cloudmark micro-updates.
- FPSMC Beta will only support up to 100 servers per management console deployment.
- FPSMC must be installed on a domain-joined server.
- FPSMC will not install on a server running any version of Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft SharePoint Server.
As well as some system requirements:
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 300MB free RAM
- 30MB free disk space (for the console)
- 900MB free disk space (for SQL)
- 4GB free disk space (for signature distribution)
- .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 or later
- Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
- IIS (for subcomponents visit TechNet)
- SQL Express installs by default, but a licensed version of SQL recommended
You'll also want to create a service account for the encryption of data between primary and backup servers.
Once you've got the above prerequisites in place, you'll run the setup file and complete the product installation. In the below demonstration, I did not deploy a SQL server, so the installer configured SQL 2008 Express on my behalf. Additionally, if you do not have the Chart Control component listed above, you'll be given a link to go get it.
Here are the installation screenshots:
Once the installation has completed, a program shortcut will be placed in the Start menu's program list. You can launch FPSMC from here, or directly via the following hyperlink:
In the next article, we'll discuss adding and managing servers running Forefront Protection for Exchange 2010.
Network Monitor 3x "How To" Videos
I try to avoid reposting other people's blog articles, as I am a man of efficiency and do not appreciate the extra clutter on the internet. However sometimes I cannot resist!
In a previous post, I claimed Microsoft's Network Monitor was my favorite protocol analyzer. Recently I learned about a site with several instructional videos on this product; which is good, because using a protocol analyzer is anything but intuitive!
Apparently some of the videos date back to the ancient times of 2008, but there are fresh ones included as well:
- Network Monitor Overview
- Introduction to Capturing with Network Monitor
- Introduction to Capturing Traffic using the command line utility NMCap
- Tour of the NM3 Capture Tab
- Tour of the NM3 Start Page and Parsers Tab
- Introduction to basic filtering with NM3
- Using the conversation tree with NM3
- Introduction to using reassembly with NM3
- Plugfest Intro To Network Monitor 3.3
- Network Monitor Automation/Scripting using PowerShell
To view them, check out this site:
Installing and Using Forefront Protection Server Management Console 2010
Do you use Forefront products to protect your Exchange or SharePoint environment? Do you have more than one server that you'd like to manage centrally?
If your answer is "yes" to both of those questions, this post is for you! In this multi-part article, I'll show you how to install and use Microsoft's latest (free) Forefront management product:
Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) 2010 (Release Candidate)
However, before we start, I'd like to provide you with some Forefront orientation. It seems that title "Forefront" is starting to mean so many things these days. Hopefully this table will help put some of the product names into perspective:
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That's quite the moving target for us trying to learn!!
As you can see FPSMC has had a few different names so far. In fact, Microsoft was going to release this as "Forefront Protection Manager". Talk about an identity crisis!
Now, if you are familiar with the existing Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) product, take a moment to note the differences between it and the new FPSMC:
So now that you have some background, let's get on with it, shall we?
As I suggested above, FPSMC is a product we'd install to centralize our management of Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and SharePoint. It does this through a web-interface, SQL and FPSMC agents running on each Forefront-protected server.
For a brief intro on the console, read this help article excerpt:
…[FPSMC] deployment allows administrators to deploy various files and settings to all or selected servers in the enterprise. Using the FPSMC, you can deploy the following to remote servers:
- FPE and FPSP service packs and patches
- Policies for configuration management
- Forefront Protection product activation keys
- Scan engine signature file updates (to centralize the update procedure)
- Jobs that send reports on a fixed schedule
In addition, you can retrieve the following from remote servers:
- Quarantined data.
- Centralized reporting allows administrators to more closely monitor the servers in the enterprise and evaluate the effectiveness of antivirus software. The FPSMC collects statistics from all of its managed servers and stores them in a central repository for later analysis. Reports provide information about the trends in virus, filter, and update activity for each individual server or the entire enterprise.
Data retrieved by FPSMC will be stored in Microsoft SQL Server®. It can be stored in SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, which is a version of SQL Server with limited features. Alternately, data can also be stored on an existing Enterprise SQL Server 2008—locally or remotely—using SQL or Microsoft Windows® authentication.
In addition to the help article, here are some additional published resources on this product:
- Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console User Guide
- TechNet Webcast: Take Control with Forefront Server Security Management Console (Level 200)
- Whitepaper: Forefront Server Security Management Console: Simplified Management of Messaging and Collaboration Security
- While we're on the topic of centralized Forefront Server Protection management, I'd like to point out that while we wait for this FPSMC Release Candidate to go Gold, you can manage your multi-server deployment with these scripts:
We'll compare the scripts to the new FPSMC product later in this article.
In the next part of this article, we'll identify the prerequisites for FPSMC and begin our installation.
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Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 Released
Many of my colleagues use tools like Wireshark or Ethereal to capture network packets, but I can honestly say that I prefer Microsoft's "native" tool over the 3rd party alternatives.
Early on, there was no competition. NetMon was lacking in many key features, but over the years (especially since version 3x) it's gotten a lot better.
My favorite feature is NetMon's ability to group traffic by the application that generated it. To my knowledge, Wireshark and Ethereal cannot do this. The feature is of course useful when you want to quickly locate traffic from a source without first filtering on ports and addresses.
So as mentioned in the title, version 3.4 of Network Monitor was released today! You can download it for yourself here:
If you have an earlier version installed, you do not need to uninstall. The 3.4 installer will upgrade it.
For more information about Network Monitor, including this version, stop by the NetMon blog here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/netmon
I have not seen any release notes published on the web, but you can find them, including a "What's new" within the program installation directory.
I'll save you the trouble by listing them here:
What's New in Network Monitor 3.4
• User Interface Refresh: The Network Monitor UI has evolved. New features
have been added and previously hard-to-find features have been made more
readily available:
• Parser Configuration Management: Parsers are now installed with profiles
that allow you to easily switch between parser configurations with the
Parser Profiles toolbar button. These configurations are also cached,
removing the need to recompile when you switch between them.
• Column Management: Network Monitor will automatically choose a column layout
based on the type of file being opened. This column layout is applied to the
Frame Summary Window. This layout can be modified and saved for future use.
In addition, two extra layouts for HTTP and TCP diagnostics are included.
• Color Rules: Network Monitor can now save sets of Color Rules to files for
easy sharing. You can also right-click in the Frame Summary and Frame Details
windows to add a new Color Rule.
• Window Layout Dropdown: The new window layout dropdown provides multiple
configurations for window arrangement. You can move windows by holding down
the Shift key while clicking on their title bars. Arrangements are saved
for each of the three layout options. The Restore Default Layout option
will reset the currently selected layout back to the default.
• "Live" Experts: Experts can now be run during a live capture session. Also,
experts that have been recently installed now appear automatically in the
Experts menu, without requiring you to open another tab.
• Fixed-Width Font: You can now use a fixed-width font in the Frame Summary window.
• Auto-Apply Aliases: Aliases are now automatically applied and re-applied
when created using the right-click add-to-alias feature.
• High Performance Filtering: Network Monitor will now enter a high-performance
capturing mode when you specify fully qualified capture filters with certain
fields in the UI or nmcap (e.g. Frame.Ethernet.IPv4.TCP.Port == 8080).
• UTC Timestamps: Network Monitor will now capture and save Time Zone related
information in a trace. By default, traces opened with Time Zone information
will automatically have times adjusted to your local Time Zone. The original
time or Time Zone can be viewed by adding the "Time and Date" column or viewing
the Properties under the File menu.
• 802.11n & Raw IP Frame Support – Network Monitor now supports monitor mode on
802.11n network on Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and later operating systems as
well as Raw IP Frames on Microsoft Windows 7.
• Process Tracking in NMCap: It is now possible to capture process tracking
information in the NMCap command-line tool. It will automatically be enabled
when using a filter, or can be manually enabled using the "/CaptureProcesses" flag.
Exchange 2007 Certificate Installation in 7 Easy Steps!
1. Use this link to generate the cmdlet structure for your PowerShell command. This will output the CSR https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/exchange2007.htm
2. Send the CSR to a trusted provider.
a. Entrust is my favorite but GoDaddy is the cheapest. Other UCC vendors include DigiCert and Comodo.
b. More detail here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929395
c. You'll notice VeriSign isn't on this list. They DO offer UCC but only if you spend thousands in their managed PKI program…
3. While Windows Mobile support all of these vendors, understand that the iPhone and Palm may not.
a. Palm doesn't support UCC at all, but you can get around that by using a UCC / SAN cert anyway, and just putting the OWA/ActiveSync FQDN as the primary name in the certificate. It just can't read the alternate fields.
4. Once you get the certificate back, rename it to a .cer file
5. Open PowerShell again and type: Import-ExchangeCertificate c:\filename.cer
6. Type Get-ExchangeCertficate to see your new cert at the top of the list. Copy the thumbprint to the clipboard.
7. Then type: Enable-ExchangeCertificate –Thumbprint xxx –services iis, smtp, pop, imap, um
a. Don't list all the services unless the role is actually installed on the box itself
b. If you intend to use the same cert on multiple servers, understand that may break your agreement with the Certificate Authority, and you have to import the key pair on the 2nd server before step 6 works.
- Palm OS cert list: http://www.palm.com/cgi-bin/cso_kbURL.cgi?ID=16733
- Windows Mobile cert list: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/archive/2006/03/14/550747.aspx
- iPhone cert list: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2185
- Note that the iPhone may not like the certificate, but you can choose to use it anyway when creating the profile and it won't bother you again.


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Woodway police are looking for 3 men and 1 woman accused of stealing items from a Woodway store. The robbery took place around 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the HEB grocery store in the 9100 block of Woodway Dr.
3 black men and 1 younger black or Hispanic woman are suspected of stealing several items from the electronics section of HEB. All of the suspects seemed to be working together and were seen leaving the scene in a blue truck and a blue minivan.
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Journalist 'really doesn't feel responsible' for Pryce
Isabel Oakeshott, the political editor of The Sunday Times who worked with Vicky Pryce to expose her taking of Chris Huhne's speeding points, has said she "really doesn't feel responsible for what has happened to her".
Oakeshott told Daybreak: "I really don't feel responsible for what has happened to her.
"Remember where this story started - it started with Chris Huhne walking out on his family after 26 years of marriage."
She added: "For me it was, at the beginning, a political story – that's why I was pursuing it.
"It was about a cabinet minister who had apparently committed a criminal offence."


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I know I am going to be pounced upon for saying this, but I cant help it:
I just do not understand what is so special about these photos!!!!!!!!!!
I have seen such pictures 20 years ago.
[Not saying anything against 1dx or the photographer, but these photos are NOT great for ME.]
Then I guess you haven't need to upgrade in a two decades...


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Mechanism of Action: HIV-1 entry inhibitor. Cenicriviroc is a small-molecule CCR5 coreceptor antagonist that prevents viral entry by binding to a domain of CCR5 and subsequently inhibiting the interaction between HIV-1 gp120 and CCR5.3,4 Cenicriviroc is also a CCR2 antagonist.5
T½: 11.3 to 12.8 hours (once daily oral administration of 100-mg and 200-mg doses, respectively, in HIV-infected subjects, using a 50-mg tablet formulation).6
Metabolism/Elimination: Oxidative metabolism was primarily via CYP3A4 and CYP2C8 in rats, dogs, and monkeys. Cenicriviroc had no inhibitory effects on CYP-mediated activities and no inductive effects on CYP3A4 in human hepatocytes. In animals, elimination of cenicriviroc was primarily as unchanged drug (minor amounts of metabolites) into feces via the hepatobilliary route.7
Resistance: In a study of a cenicriviroc-resistant clinical isolate, several amino acid changes in not only the V3 region but also in other Env regions were required for R5 HIV-1 to develop complete resistance to cenicriviroc.8
In a Phase I/II 10-day monotherapy dose-escalating study of treatment-experienced, CCR5-naive HIV-infected patients, shifts in viral tropism were not detected (except in one subject who was found to have a tropism shift from CCR5 to CXCR4 coreceptor at baseline and was excluded from efficacy analysis).5
Cenicriviroc is administered once daily and orally.5,6
Phase I/II (treatment-experienced, CCR5 antagonist-naive):
1. United States National Library of Medicine. ChemIDplus Advanced.
2. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). NIAID ChemDB, HIV Drugs in Development.
3. Baba M, Takashima K, Miyake H, et al. TAK-652 inhibits CCR5-mediated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection in vitro and has favorable pharmacokinetics in humans. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Nov;49(11):4584-91.
4. Briz V, Poveda E, Soriano V. HIV entry inhibitors: mechanisms of action and resistance pathways. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2006 Apr;57(4):619-27.
5. Marier JF, Trinh M, Pheng LH, Palleja SM, Martin DE. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of TBR-652, a novel CCR5 antagonist, in HIV-1-infected, antiretroviral treatment-experienced, CCR5 antagonist-naïve patients. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Jun;55(6):2768-74.
6. Martin D, Beliveau M, Marier JF, Driz R, Palleja S. Pharmacokinetics (PK) of Cenicriviroc (CVC) Following 100 or 200 mg Once-Daily Dosing with Open-Label Tenofovir / Emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) in HIV-1–Infected Subjects Enrolled in a Phase 2b Study. Poster presented at: 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI); March 5-8, 2012; Seattle, WA. Poster 600.
7. Martin DE, Kawase M, Asahi S, et al. Cenicriviroc (CVC, TBR-652) Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion Profile in Rats, Dogs, Monkeys, and Humans. Poster presented at: 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI); February 27-March 2, 2011; Boston, MA. Poster N-101.
8. Baba M, Miyake H, Wang X, Okamoto M, Takashima K. Isolation and characterization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 resistant to the small-molecule CCR5 antagonist TAK-652. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2007 Feb;51(2):707-15.
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Growing up is hard to do, but some rites of passage are tougher than others. Try being a model whose lovely face is destroyed in a car crash. Try being the one flat-chest among bosomy schoolpals who trade lip gloss and jocks. So we meet the two Charlottes of Look at Me, aged 35 and 16, at their distinct existential crises of first love and individuation and their shared one of not being beautiful.
Older Charlotte emerges from hospital titanium-pinned but still raucous. Her intactness is a secular miracle, an emotional response the only amputation. But Jennifer Egan has just got started and goes on to disgrace her heroine at every turn, pulling wings off her butterfly until Charlotte's engagement with fate is a riot of masochistic endeavour.
Rendered "less visible" by re-construction, Charlotte attempts to remain bookable, and her spats with her booker, Oscar, are as crisp and dry as their Martinis. Egan's portrayal of 90s Manhattan is as candid as Candace Bushnell's but it's the more lurid narcissism and pathos of adolescence, embodied by young Charlotte, that makes her even funnier than Franzen. And offsetting Charlotte's coming-of-age, like a berserk memento mori, is the figure of her Uncle Moose on he lurches, all too mortally, from high-fiving jock pin-up to sandalled, under-medicated prof.
In the end, it's only by losing face that older Charlotte saves it along with her soul. The allegorical possibilities for this stuff are plainly numerous and, with an artistic energy that is at times a bit scary, Egan has a go at them all. By page 200, she's done fame, consumerism, image, persona, photography, memory, and advertising to name a paltry few. And her inventiveness is so consistently dazzling that we assume the convergence of the parallel Charlotte plots will produce a shower of stars. But it doesn't. Instead, it's the novel's vanishing point: poof go our heroines in a cloud of postmodern trickery.
First published in 2001, Look at Me is the wild-child elder sister of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Throughout, Egan's visions and revisions bound and rebound until the experience is the intellectual equivalent of a labrador flattening you on the sofa. Or a golden-haired saluki, perhaps, because wherever it strays, her prose is always limber and glossy. Look at Me is exquisitely written, but its content is too clever by half.
Guardian review
the guardian Fri 14 October 2011
Jennifer Egan is so hot right now. Her new book? It's about a model! And the quote on the back saying how marvellous it is? Vogue, darling!
Actually, that's unfair. Jennifer Egan is indeed very hot right now, but she's no mere fashion-froth. Her most recent novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won two of America's most prestigious literary awards the Pulitzer prize and the National Book Critics Circle award and received excellent write-ups everywhere. Accordingly, her delighted publishers have trawled her backlist and reissued Look at Me, first published 10 years ago to rather less fanfare.
Egan took six years to write Look at Me, and it shows: this is a sprawling, ambitious novel that links together some of the most diverse characters you could imagine. There is Moose, a middle-aged ex-jock turned erratic history professor, still reeling from an epiphany he experienced years ago, on a grassy bank overlooking the interstate highway. There is Charlotte, a speccy teenager longing for love while her brother recovers from leukaemia. There is a furious Lebanese terrorist, a happily married academic and an unhappily divorced private detective. There is most strikingly another, older Charlotte, this one a model from New York who has been in a disastrous car accident. Her face has been reconstructed with 80 titanium screws; once her livelihood, it is now a mask she hides behind as she walks past old friends, even lovers, who show no sign of recognition.
This Charlotte dominates the first half of the book, and her narrative provides most of the fun in the book. Callous, impulsive and selfish (who wants to read about a saintly model?), she tries to claw her way back into the glossy Manhattan fashion circle, but finds her new face no longer passes muster. Her descent into drink, despair and so on could have been clichéd, but Egan gives her much more depth than that.
Charlotte follows in the steps of modern literature's two great Manhattan fast-lane, high-life dumb-asses: John Self, in Martin Amis's Money, and Victor Ward in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama. They all think they know the score, and they all have no clue. Charlotte's foible is that she believes she can glimpse people's "shadow selves", the true characters behind their public personas. She's often hilariously wrong, but it shows the importance of seeing and being seen in this very image-conscious book. "Being observed felt like an action, the only one worth taking," Charlotte tells us as she explains why she became a model. "Anything else seemed passive, futile by comparison."
A critic could write a long essay on the novel's sophisticated treatment of perception, image, media and identity. Luckily for you, I won't. What more people have found exciting here is the uncanny way in which many of Egan's futuristic visions have come true.
She began the book in the mid-1990s, long before the US succumbed to reality TV in the form of Survivor (The Real World, their equivalent of Big Brother, was older but not so popular), and when webcams were almost unheard of. And yet here we have a dotcom start-up approaching Charlotte in the hope that she'll let them record and webcast every detail of her daily life: memories, dreams, audio, video. There is a very good and spookily prescient scene in which the dotcom's CEO explains to Charlotte how her recordings, and those of other "Ordinary People", will offer paying viewers access to an authenticity they lack in their own lives. "TV tries to satisfy that, books, movies they try, but they're all so lame so mediated! They're just not real enough." Needless to say, his idea of reality includes heavy editing, product endorsement, Hollywood tie-ins, beefed-up drama and tension: "We don't want shit happens, we want shit happens for a reason."
As satire, all this misfires somewhat, since we now know that no one would pay for access to webcasts of someone's daily life and thoughts; why would they, when half the world's population, it seems, is clamouring to tell you about theirs for free? But as a commentary on how our own stories are mediated, commodified and shone back at us as if from a distorting mirror, it's spot-on.
There's a lot more going on here, but some of it may not be of much interest to non-American readers. The town of Rockford, Illinois gets a lot of attention; Moose, the professor, is obsessed with its industrial past, in a rather long-winded, metaphorical way. And there are many more minor characters than I have room to describe. When the climax brings them all together, it feels at once implausible and wearily predictable, as so often with novels that have large casts. But there is a lot here to mull over and enjoy, and if it lacks the pith and zest of Goon Squad, it certainly deserves its second chance on the bookshelves.


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If you haven't already, there is good reason to get your flu shot now. Flu cases are spiking early.
Right now, Dallas County has 3,000 adult vaccines on hand, which sounds like a lot, but they're worried they will run out by February.
That's typically the month when we see the most cases.
Dr. Steven Davis is an infectious disease specialist with Baylor Irving.
He joined Jason Wheeler on News 8 at 4pm to talk about other precautions you can take to avoid the flu bug.


text: WVII (Channel 7) reported on the University of Maine's 2014 annual Student Art Exhibition, "Be, Do, Make," that opened Friday, April 4 in Lord Hall Art Gallery. The exhibition features 116 pieces from 62 student artists in a variety of media. Michael Grillo, chairman of the Department of Art and associate professor of art history, credits the university's new Wyeth Family Studio Art Center with helping students create work. "We opened the new building last September, and what we're seeing is that there's an exuberance in the work. We're seeing the ability to make things on a scale and size which we have not been able to do before," he said.


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Remembrance tributes damaged in North Lincolnshire
Humberside Police are appealing for witnesses after tributes left at a war memorial were damaged.
After Remembrance Day a number of poppy wreaths, wooden crosses and messages were left at the war memorial in Crowle.
Overnight they were damaged beyond repair.
Anyone with information should contact Humberside Police on 101.


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PEORIA, Ariz. — Chris Woodward fielded the ball at shortstop with near-perfect precision and fired a strike to first base, just like he had done so many times in his 12-year major league career.
But unlike in years past, Woodward didn't take another grounder. They weren't meant for him. They were for the players, who stood watching. Instead, he removed his glove and began to talk about what he'd just done and why he did it that way. Just another day in his new life in baseball.
It was just a few years ago that Woodward was in a Seattle Mariners uniform as a player at spring training. Now he's teaching
them as a first-year coach in the organization.
"I've been kind of preparing for this back to when I was (first) with the Mariners in 2009," said Woodward, who played 20 games for Seattle in 2009 and eight more in 2010 after a short stint in Boston. "I was talking with a lot of front office people. I talked with Jack (Zduriencik). I asked about how the transition would be, what they saw me doing, what I would be good at. I asked a lot of questions."
Woodward would go on to play three more seasons, mostly in the minor leagues, but knew it was time to start thinking about a life after playing.
"At that point of my career, it took a long time to get a job in 2009," Woodward said. "It took a long time for Seattle to call me. And that was because Jack was familiar with me from playing in Milwaukee. Fortunately, I got four more years out of it."
But over those four years, Woodward started making plans. He started taking classes online to get his business administration degree, and began to research a future in coaching.
"We had a couple of conversations about it," said Tacoma Rainiers manager Daren Brown, who managed Woodward in 2009 and 2010. "It was obvious it was something he was thinking about. It was obvious it was something he would be good at."
Woodward played his final season last year with the Triple A Las Vegas 51s. He had a productive season, hitting .285 (88-for-309) with 25 doubles and 34 RBI in 89 games. But he achieved an even bigger milestone that season – a college degree from the University of Phoenix.
It came from a lot of hard work. He would spend free moments before the game in the clubhouse on his laptop doing assignments and homework, while his teammates played video games and watched movies.
"That was probably one of the most satisfying things I've ever done," he said of attaining his degree.
When he submitted his final required assignment last season, his 51s teammates decorated the team bus with streamers, balloons and "Congratulations Graduate!" signs.
"It was very cool," he said. "They knew it was a big deal to me. I'd worked very hard on it. It meant so much to me, not just for what I learned, but it helps to show younger guys that you can do it, that there's no reason why you can't educate yourself while you are playing."
And it also provided the perfect way to end his playing career.
"I decided before last year that it would be my last season," he said. "And it worked out for the best. Luckily, it worked out so I could end on my terms."
It's not that he couldn't keep playing. He's still in outstanding shape, and could still be a utility player at Triple-A or in the big leagues with the right organization.
"I felt great physically," he said. "I knew I could still play. I could probably play now. But it comes to a point where you realize: I got a family, three kids and I can't chase my dream anymore.
"If I was single with no kids I would just keep playing until I couldn't. Even if it meant being in Mexico or whatever, I wouldn't care. But you have to look in the mirror and tell yourself there is more to this than just me."
The recent offseasons spent waiting to hear from a team offering him a minor league contract were excruciating. Two years ago, spring training had started and Woodward was without a team. It took an injury for the Toronto Blue Jays to sign him a few weeks into spring training.
"The instability of it was wearing on my family," he said. "It was wearing on everybody. It wasn't fair to my wife. It wasn't fair to my kids to be gone for another eight months. I'd already played enough. I'd played in the big leagues."
Woodward talked with the Mariners and Blue Jays about a coaching position. He chose the Mariners.
"It's been a nice transition," he said.
Woodward looks like a coach. He carries a fungo bat with an infielder's glove attached to it over his shoulder. He hits grounders, throws batting practice, offers tips and advice, and listens to players' concerns.
"You knew he was going to show up somewhere down the road as a coach," Brown said. "It's good that he is with us."
Even with all of his time in professional baseball, Woodward didn't know exactly what being a coach entailed.
"The time commitment is more than I expected," he said. "When you played, you'd look at coaches and they'd always seem like they had a lot time on their hands. I feel like I don't have any time, which is good. That's why we are here."
Woodward puts in long hours. For a while he was doing two sessions a day, working with former teammates Dustin Ackley, Kyle Seager, Alex Liddi and Nick Franklin in the morning sessions and then doing minor league minicamp in the afternoon.
"We are always on the go," he said. "There's always some place to be or some player to work with."
Woodward is in a unique position of being so fresh from a playing career and also being familiar with some of the players he's coaching.
"I think I can give a different perspective because I was playing so recently," he said. "I understand what these guys are going through because I was in the same position a year ago."
Ultimately, Woodward's goal is to be a manager. He has played for a wide range of them, and taken little bits from each to help shape his own philosophy.
"I think that's helped me more than anything – having that diversity of opinions and ideas from a managerial perspective," he said.
One of those managers stood out.
"I played for a guy like (Atlanta's) Bobby Cox (in 2007)," he said. "To me, he was the best. He was the ultimate professional. If you ask anyone who's ever played for him, he's the best."
For now, this job suits Woodward best.
"This is a perfect first year," he said. "This gets me integrated into the organization. I really like what I'm doing."
DODGERS 3, MARINERS 2 (at Camelback Ranch)
The facts: Another streak for the Mariners came to an end when they were held without a homer in the one-run loss. It was the first time that had happened this spring. Seattle had 11 hits but could never capitalize. Seattle had a 2-1 lead going into the seventh inning, but the Dodgers' Alex Castellanos ripped a two-run homer to left field for the winning hit.
Play of the game: Franklin Gutierrez continues to swing the bat well, delivering a bases-loaded single to left-center field off Los Angeles starter Aaron Harang. Two runs scored on the play.
Who was hot: Jon Garland continues to make his bid for a spot in the starting rotation. The veteran right-hander pitched three innings, allowing one run and two hits while walking one. The one hit was a leadoff double to Andre Ethier in the second inning. Ethier later scored on a ground ball to first. "I think today was his best day," Mariners manager Eric Wedge of Garland's outing. "It's obvious he knows how to pitch. He knows how to execute pitches."
Who was not: Justin Smoak and Kendrys Morales – two of the more productive hitters for the Mariners this spring – combined to go 0-for-8 with three strikeouts.
Quotable: "We still knocked the ball around, but we didn't do a particularly good job with runners in scoring position. But we still had a lot of good at-bats today." – manager Eric Wedge on the team's hitting.
On tap: The Mariners will play host to the Chicago White Sox at Peoria Stadium today. Right-hander Andrew Carraway will start for Seattle. Also scheduled to pitch are Taijuan Walker, Tom Wilhelmsen, Charlie Furbush, Lucas Luetge, Carter Capps and Carson Smith. The White Sox will start right-hander Dylan Axelrod. First pitch is set for 1:05 p.m. The game will be broadcast locally on 710-AM.Ryan Divish: 253-597-8483 firstname.lastname@example.com blog.thenewstribune.com/mariners @RyanDivish email@example.com


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Self-Assembly Electronic Kit (Soldering Required)
The benefits of air ionisers are now widely recognised. They can improve your health and promote a more positive state of mind. They increase the concentration of negative ions, refreshing the air by removing dust and smoke particles and oxidising organic gases.
The in-car ioniser and can help maintain a more healthy environment inside your car allowing you to stay a more alert, relaxed and safer driver. It is easy to build and install. Kit includes solder for assembly.Specifications


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Stop by Magnone Trattoria and Marketplace after 4 p.m. today at 1630 Spruce St. You might remember it as Ciao Bella, which closed two years ago November.
The Magnon siblings, the property's owners, have breathed new life into the 25-year-old building with a floor-to-ceiling renovation. The 6,000-square-foot building shaped like an artist's palette is ready to welcome patrons.
Come in and sample dishes and order drinks. You can also buy Italian ceramics, fresh produce, deli meats, cheese, olives, artisan breads and gourmet fare in the new marketplace area in the north side of the restaurant.
A week from today, on Monday, Jan. 28, the full dining room will open its doors.


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Last week, the New York Film Academy welcomed the multi-talented Suzanne De Passe to come in and speak at Warner Bros theater 4. Producer Tova Laiter, who is a friend of Suzanne's, brought her in and moderated the event. The iconic female African-American producer / writer (who was drafted by president Barack Obama to produce his first inauguration Gala) started at Motown, where she discovered and signed Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5, Lionel Richie & The Commodores, Rick James, and others. She oversaw the soundtracks for Cooly High, The Mack, Trouble Man, and Lady Sings the Blues; and her Motown films include Mahogany, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars, and The Wiz. Her TV work includes the iconic mini-series, Lonesome Dove (CBS) and numerous family shows including Sister, Sister (The WB), The Temptations mini-series (NBC), Kid & Play Saturday morning cartoon (NBC). After producing the live show Motown 25 for NBC, Suzanne produced the NAACP Image Awards, The Essence Awards, and Showtime at the Apollo. Her productions have garnered over 30 Emmy nominations and 2 Emmy wins, a Golden Globe win, five NAACP Image Awards, 3 Peabody Awards, and an Oscar nomination as co-writer of Lady Sings The Blues. She is currently working with Steven Spielberg on the definitive film on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., and is prominently featured in the new broadway show Motown.
On Tuesday, we screened the Emmy Award winning television special Motown's 25 Year Anniversary (Best Variety Show), thought-up by Suzanne and sold to NBC. The television event, hosted by the legendary comedian Richard Pryor, included Michael Jackson's first recorded "moonwalk" performance – a moment that changed his career forever.
At the young age of eighteen, Suzanne met Berry Gordy of Motown and began working for him. She rented a limo with money "from her piggy bank" to celebrate with her friend, Cindy Birdsong, when Cindy was hired to sing with The Supremes. When she picked Cindy up, Berry Gordy's driver was on a run and Berry needed a lift. Suzanne and Cindy obliged and this was the beginning of a long relationship.
After moving to their offices in Detroit, artist Bobby Taylor approached her about an act. She went to Bobby's house to observe a "kid act" in his living room. The then unknown Jackson 5 sang three songs for her a cappella. She had to badger Berry to see them, as initially he wasn't looking for a kid act. When he finally agreed to see them, it was the beginning of The Jackson 5 and Michael's unprecedented career. "Michael was a perfectionist, immensely talented, committed," said De Passe. "He gave everything to his art and we felt it, we responded to it. He was electromagnetic!" From then on, Berry trusted Suzanne's ability to find talent, and let her sign the next artist herself. She signed Lionel Richie and The Commodores. It's safe to say that Suzanne has a keen eye for talent.
Suzanne went on to produce the TV mini-series Lonesome Dove, which she called a complete game-changer for her. Currently, Suzanne has a '1st look deal' with Universal and is doing a remake of the classic film, Mahogany. "Nobody bothered to tell me to stay in my box," said De Passe. "My specialty is in responding to material as I see it. I am story and content-based, not genre," she added, referencing the variety of projects she has worked on and produced.
Allister, a NYFA Filmmaking student, asked her for some general advice about the business. She answered, "Don't take no for an answer through gentle persistence. Know your vitamin, and be very open to receiving critique from your constituents that you respect. Patience and persistence…as long as you really believe in something, then it deserves your energy."