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by Mike Smithon Nov 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM
Greetings from the lobby of the Opryland Hotel in Nashville. I am away from my laptop, starting this chat on the iPhone because there are a couple of people I've been waiting to talk with. Please forgive me if the chat gets off to a erratic start ... Like, wait, there goes author Tony La Russa ... I'll to some questions here and the start cranking once I can find my way to the laptop. Here's hoping my battery holds on ...
I've been toying around with those figures in my head this week as we see the deal for Napoli, the option exercised for McCann, the signing of Russell Martin, and so on. Look at the teams that are in the market for a catcher. Start with the Yankees. Molina would be at the head of his class and the target of a frenetic auction ...
There are some Cardinals who have been discussed for the Team USA roster. I agree, Craig was my first guess for being selected. Matt Holliday has not been approached. Relievers will also be valuable in that tournament, and Jason Motte figures to be a candidate for the roster. Here's an added tidbit: What would you think of Tony La Russa returning to manage in the WBC? Sure, Joe Torre is running TeamUSA
That is the vibe right now. Though, it is interesting to note that several teams made a play for Shelby Miller during the season because they had the (mistaken) opinion that the Cardinals had recalculated his place in the organization and he could be had on a classic buy-low trade. That wasn't the case.
Shortstop. No question. The Cardinals next big impact need is shortstop. And it's entirely possible that they try to approach that position like they have other pending big-ticket needs. Acquire first. Sign later. They have the pitching depth now to at least approach a deal like that, especially if they feel they would get a shortstop in return that would solve that position for years to come.
It's more than "just talk." It's actual conversation. Scutaro has received interest from several teams, not just the Cardinals. The Giants are obviously in play, too. Opportunity will be something to consider. Scutaro has to be looking for a starting job (obviously) and a commitment at that. At 37, does a deal for Scutaro make sense if the Cardinals really believe Kolten Wong is a year away from taking over the same position? There's the makings of obvious interest here. But what's the longterm fit for a deal. It does seem like so many of the things the Cardinals could/would do here aren't just for 2013 ... And it's interesting that the Cardinals are now dabbling in markets where in the past they've sought the bargains: lefty relief, second base, bench.
The Scutaro question was answered immediately below, so your question arrives at a good time. And I do expect to gain some added information on this perhaps even as the chat goes on. Ah, real-time coverage. Ain't it swell? So, let's leap to the second part of your question: Yes. Yes, they have. The "ask" -- as Mozeliak has been saying in comments -- has been pitching, and not just pitcher but pitcher(s) from the Cardinals' depth chart. The asking price of Asdrubal Cabrera, for example, is too high for the length of his contract. Cardinals are believed to be looking for a longer-term answer to part with a significant package of pitching.
It's up to management to approach him and frame the situation in terms he'll understand. The frustration with Jaime Garcia and his injury this past season was obvious. In the clubhouse in Houston that day, I was expressly told that I should ask Garcia about what was going because I might get a clearer answer. There obviously was something going on with Garcia, but it took the team awhile to pinpoint the trouble. And then there was the whole process of going through the treatment suggestions and plans. Garcia and the doctors convinced the Cardinals that a non-surgical rehab/pre-hab could be done to help his shoulder recover without the longterm layoff. He has asked the team to trust that he'll maintain the regimen needed to keep the shoulder healthy. It stands to follow that he should respond if the team approaches him and explains the risks he's taking by pitching in a tournament before, say, pitching an inning of competition for them coming back from this injury.
Schlereth was once a target for the Cardinals in the draft, and it was their opinion at the time that he could most swiftly through the system -- especially because of the lack of options they had on the left side of the depth chart at that point. He was non-tendered and is a free agent, though he appears to fit in the secondary market for this position. There is at least one non-tendered lefty that appears ahead of Schlereth as far as interest, Manny Parra. We've outlined some of the options for lefties that the Cardinals have discussed. Burnett has been contacted by the team. Mike Gonzalez, Randy Choate and J. P. Howell also fit, and while the market is developing for each they are likely to take less of a commitment than Burnett.
I asked recently about what the Cardinals have heard about Matt Carpenter and whether he had started his focus on second base, yet. Mike Matheny said: "I imagine he started the day after we talked to him." One plan discussed is getting Carpenter to Florida at least once this winter to work directly with Jose Oquendo. The club wants to begin that process before the start of spring training, and I imagine Carpenter will go through a little of that 2B Boot Camp that Skip Schumaker did several years ago. (Remember the 95-mph grounders from the pitching machine?) As with Schumaker, the drills are swell, but the proof is in the competition.
Nope. I'll suggest that guessing is easy. Confirming and reporting takes effort and often doesn't get as much attention as the wild speculation. The Cardinals looked into the situation. John Mozeliak spoke directly with David Freese the day after the accident. There is concern for him, and that was made clear when the Cardinals had him meet with a doctor within days of the accident to avoid a situation like the one several years ago that ended up limiting Freese for several seasons.
I don't know about that. Wacha has a plus changeup and he showed more giddyup in his fastball than advertised as he sped through the system, all the way to Class AA bullpen. Wacha has a high-ceiling. He'll return to starting for the 2013 season and the Cardinals expect him to be immediately in the crowded mix for a spot in an upper-level rotation. It doesn't take much of a stretch to imagine him starting for Springfield. He's set to catch up with some of the pitching prospects picked years before him. He's polished. He has three pitches. Like other teams who scouted him late in the season, the Cardinals are high on him.
Excellent question, Mike. In a way, it does, yes. The Cardinals are better positioned now than they ever have been to lose a starting pitcher to free agency. See: Lohse, Kyle. But, and this is a capital-B but, Adam Wainwright has already proven to be top-shelf, true-ace pitcher. He's a rare No. 1. The Cardinals are only projecting that some of their young pitchers could reach that level. Wainwright has. When it comes to leverage, that gives a lot to Wainwright because there is a sizable gap between the rotation with him and what you can envision now as the rotation without him.
This isn't the kind of campfire that draws players. I guess some former players are here. Jason Varitek was wondering around earlier. You have the managers who are former players. Players show up if they have deals to announce, like the Marlins who came by during the last winter meetings on their way to Toronto or Arizona, apparently. This is an execs and management and scouts meeting. TLR has been signing autographs. But MVPs aren't just hanging out here.
The Cardinals are not tone deaf to clubhouse culture. Consider that the team will be losing Lance Berkman and Kyle Lohse from last year's team. Both were personalities and had presence in the clubhouse -- Berkman's was just more gregarious and better advertised. Schumaker is part of the fiber of the club. He has the faith of his teammates and is one of the rare players who no matter his role can effectively lead or influence the team. You are correct: Moving him will leave an absence that isn't so obviously filled off the field.
If pressed, Matt Adams. Adams is under control for longer, but Craig is proven as a middle-order hitter who could be a presence in the lineup for a long time. There's a good balance there. Adams brings a return because of the control and Craig is already a fixture. That should be read as some short of inference or hint that the Cardinals are making that same choice.
Let's see, nobody had numbers like Pujols had numbers before Pujols. So maybe we should ease off the gas a little bit when it comes to predicting somebody will have Pujols' numbers. What he did for the Cardinals in his first 11 years was singular. There's a reason why he was the first to do it. What is true about Taveras is this: He's the best hitting prospect the Cardinals have had since Pujols. And there are scouts who believe that Taveras could have an impact in his rookie year similar to the one Pujols did. Not numbers-wise, but playing time, reliability, addition, ROY award-wise. Comparing anyone to Pujols is a foolish exercise. Taveras has performed well enough to ditch the comparisons and just judge the bat. It's legit. The Cardinals and baseball aren't overselling the kid as a talent who will be in the majors, and soon.
For more on Oscar Taveras and how he's done in winter ball, please see the article in the Post-Dispatch from this past weekend: www.stltoday.com
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The actual day for Rajon Rondo to make his NBA season debut is still in flux. However that day (whenever it is) is fast approaching. Rondo himself has said it will be before the All-Star break.
NBA All-Star weekend takes place on Feb. 14-16 in New Orleans.
This is welcome news for all Boston Celtics fans and of course all UK fans. First year Celtics coach Brad Stevens has to be the happiest of all.
Boston is currently 13-24 and holds a half game lead on the Philadelphia Sixers for next to last place in the Atlantic Division. That said, the Eastern Conference is exceptionally down this season.
The Celtics are still very much in playoff contention. They trail the Charlotte Bobcats by two games for the eighth and final playoff spot. Insert a healthy Rajon Rondo and a second half surge in the standings for Boston is definitely foreseeable.
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Buffalo, N.Y. (WKBW-TV) - A local film director and Buffalo State graduate has decided to take a stand against domestic violence and hopes others will too.
"The message is the main purpose really," says Brandyn T. Williams, founder of Bewildered Media Productions. "It's not just about raising awareness, it's about inspiring action against domestic violence."
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The house used for the Philips couple is in Clarence and the Blasdell Fire Department is used in the opening scene.
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illuminimal//iIlumifeet - Exclusive Core77 Feature
I've been following Core77 for years now, and I'm incredibly honored to have written an exclusive feature for them, reflecting on the process behind illuminimal and illumifeet.
Here's a brief excerpt:
We worked full time upstairs during the day, and then in the photo studio into the night. Not once did it feel like work, and on a couple of occasions, I stayed up all night out of excitement for the project. There was no money or fame involved, just a shared passion for making something we were really excited about.
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The start of a new chapter
I'm excited to share that I'll soon be leaving JDK to start a 'solo career,' as Craig Winslow II. I'll be pursuing new mediums, innovating existing ones, and most importantly, collaborating with others.
Welcome to my new studio space.
'illuminimal' hitting Gizmodo was huge for me, and the amazing response gave me the confidence and clarity to start my own path.
My last day at JDK is May 17th, 2013.
This date exactly 3 years ago, May 17th, 2010, a week fresh out of Champlain College, I started as a JDK LAB intern working on digital production of Burton snowboards. I thought it a fitting date to start my next chapter; it's truly been a wild three years.
Expect rolling changes to www.craigwinslow.com over the next month; there's a few more announcements up my sleeve.
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Footwear projection mapping project performed live using a pair of Merrell Bare Access 2 and a pedestal.
An in-depth making of will be posted here in parts, but for the time being, here's the previous process posts: blog.craigwinslow.com/tagged/illuminimal
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Illuminimal - Brief Recap
First things first, the performance of Illuminimal went very well. As my first full projection mapping project, I'm very proud of how it turned out.
So, posting daily updates clearly didn't happen through the end of last week. Late nights, early mornings, and an all-nighter on Thursday kept me busy enough to realize a few hours talking about my progress was the least of my concern; the clock was ticking.
I think it's important, and hopefully interesting, to share the process of what I work on, but when the project requires full attention, there's often no time to reflect-on-the-fly. I stuck to sharing quick blips on instagram, thoughts on twitter, and I came to the following conclusion:
I realized it's far better to work on a project than to work on talking about said project.
Over the weekend, Mike Deedy and I shot some more footage, and following an epic day of snowboarding on Sunday, I put together a rough cut of the video. I definitely forgot how much I enjoy editing.
Speaking of, I might just need to edit a longer cut of my 1-minute west coast trip video from almost exactly a year ago…
The Illuminimal video should be online sometime this week, followed by a series of deeper making-of posts that break down elements of this project I haven't touched upon. Very excited to share.
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Illuminimal - Content Creation & Mapping Madness
Being in the creative "what if?" phase of any project is exciting.
What typically follows, are all of the logistics necessary to actually execute the project, which often puts a strong damper on the excitement had for the idea from the beginning.
This mapping project has been the reverse; deciding to first tackle all logistics/planning/setup/hard stuff, has put us in a position of flowing creativity and most importantly, rapid execution.
Shown above, an audio breakdown helps us storyboard and ideate.
After building a template for the projection content (concept template, above left, current template in action, above right), Josh, Jeff and I can very quickly create content, and using a shared Dropbox folder, see it on our dimensional canvas within seconds.
In other news, I'm now a proud owner of both Modul8 and MadMapper, programs I'll be using in tandem with each other to perform this live and make sure it maps cleanly.
I'm exploring a few other 3D tools as well, such as the BLAM camera calibration toolkit for Blender, and Mapamok by Kyle McDonald, to synchronize a camera in Blender to the exact point of the projector in the real world. This part is definitely more difficult than I expected, but once I smooth out the logistics, it'll make creating 3D content/lighting for it all that more exciting.
Moving forward, I'll be aiming for daily blog posts leading up to the big finish this Friday, March 22nd at 4pm. My good friend and fellow Champlain College Alumn Mike Deedy will be filming it, so expect 'Illuminimal' to drop early next week on the interwebs.
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Illuminimal - Projection Setup
Last night, I spent a while setting up the projector, making sure it was tightly mounted it to an armature on a vertical pole. Jeff came in and we strung up both shoes into position with fishing line, using four contact points to ensure each hangs in just the right spot.
Earlier last week, I carefully wrapped each shoe with white tape, and then spray painted them matte white. This makes for a consistently even, bright surface to project onto.
Here are some shots of the space last night:
The video tested in the last image is from making-of footage of the MINT shirt box, which I'll eventually edit and get on vimeo!
Our projection canvas is set… Much more to come this week, leading up to the performance/presentation, this Friday!
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Illuminimal - Footwear video mapping project
For a few weeks now I've been excitedly researching and planning a projection mapping project, using a pair of Merrell running shoes and a pedestal.
There will be sound-reactive animations, colorway collaborations (with Josh Franklin and Jeff Yeager), and 3D elements, all performed live to music using an iPad with a custom TouchOSC interface as a controller. The project is scheduled to be shown at JDK's staff meeting on March 22nd, filmed, edited, and shared online shortly after.
With less than three weeks to go, March is going to be a busy month.
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It's genuinely hard for me to be completely happy for Martin St. Louis all the way.
And no, watching Marty play with Brad Richards again, like old times, isn't quite cutting it.
The former Tampa Bay Lightning captain (for all of five months give or take), and 14-year Lightning veteran has done his fair share this post season to carry his new team, the New York Rangers, into the 2014 Stanley Cup Finals, after jumping the Bolts' ship on March 5 at the trade deadline to join the Original Six team at his request.
He even scored an OT winner, painting himself a hero in New Yorker's eyes, against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 to put the Rangers up 3-1 in the series on May 25; one win away from clinching the Eastern Conference Championship and moving on to the Cup Finals. Of course, New York ultimately did that, but it took a Game 6 win last night to clinch it after the Habs rallied in Game 5 on May 27 to draw within a game in the series 3-2.
Who here didn't see Marty hit that top-shelf game-winner in OT and not get a small case of 2004 déjà vu? Who here didn't feel a small pang of loss, maybe even jealousy, that such contributions were reaped by a team not affiliated with Tampa Bay? A team with no lightning bolts on their sweaters.
I liken it to a similar feeling, if not exactly, but in the neighborhood, down the street, within waving distance of this other feeling: It reminds me of when a relationship of many, many years suddenly ends because your significant other has met someone else and decided to end what you two had going on to pursue something she deemed better in someone else, only to marry that someone else, and seems to be genuinely happier and successful.That may be a bit melodramatic, I know, but all postseason long that feeling has been rattling in my gut while watching Marty play for the Rangers and it's the closest thing I can compare it to, even if it's nowhere near as personal as a real break-up, like I said, it is at least within waving distance from that feeling, even if that distance could be pretty far down the street.
It's a muted version of that feeling, but still relatable.
Passion for a sports team could sometimes border on the affection we might harbor for a significant other on occasion. And I think Tampa Bay definitely had a deeply felt love for Martin St. Louis.
Whether or not he returned that affection is sort of up for debate now, isn't it?
This is only the second time St. Louis has been in the SC Finals in his 16-year career in the NHL, the first being in 2004, of course, when the Bolts won their first and only Cup over the Calgary Flames. And at 38-years-old, you'd think, despite the hullabaloo over his trade, that as a true blue Lightning fan, I'd be happy to see Marty up against the ropes, one more time, and gunning for more glory as a SC champion. And yes, part of me does feel that way about it.
But another part of me feels that Marty is simply wearing the wrong jersey for all of that, and has been since March 5, and that all this potential glory is being reached and possibly achieved with the wrong stinking team.
Marty will be in the Hall of Fame one day, that much is written. And one more Stanley Cup, at his age, with an Original Six team like the Rangers (who haven't seen the Cup Finals since 1994 when they last won it in historic fashion) surely won't hurt, if it doesn't outright make this Cup run legendary along with his career: A red, white, and blue cherry on top so to speak.
But how Bolts fans feel about Marty, I think, has forever been altered, and maybe, just maybe, our collective hearts will have healed enough by the time Marty's career is settled and written in stone, for all of us fans to take measure of the man, the overall player, the legend, and not just the Lightning player he was – until he wasn't.
I don't know yet, it's still too soon for me, believe it or not, and I'm still nursing something of a broken heart about the trade. A bit of the rejected heart, really.
I'd like to think I'd be big enough on the day to see things that way, but it's too early to say. I'm shooting for that feel-good ending though, regardless.
Meanwhile, I'm still neighbors with a very sad hockey fan who understands that sometimes the trade of a beloved player isn't so far removed from being traded yourself by a loved one for another player in life.I'm still neighbors with that idea and we wave to each other from time to time in understanding.
Maybe one day, we in Tampa Bay will all move on from that idea, and leave the past in the past.
Like I said, that's what I'm shooting for, the feel-good ending; but with every great-heartbreak you have a great amount of things to process. I have a feeling that maybe I'm not the only Lightning fan in Tampa Bay who is still processing things since Marty's exit from the team, especially in the wake of St. Louis playing for another Cup…in the wrong stinking jersey.
This article, if not a bit melodramatic, is my way of waving to all of you, collectively, in understanding: To those of you still struggling with watching the heart of the Tampa Bay Lightning playing with another team like its normal, like nothing's wrong: I'm waving to you, you're not alone. We're just down the street from each other, really.
And yes, it is hard. Yes, it does sometimes take longer than you expected or wanted it to. But time, good company, and good hockey cures all the woes of the rejected fan base's broken heart. And we got plenty of each on all of our horizons.
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The Pocket Rocket started out as a 7/8 scale Vega made by Umbro Machine and Tool. In the early '80s, Nagel, a former Super Gas driver, would button himself into the tiny Vega and rocket (quite literally, the car was powered by a hydrogen peroxide rocket), down the quarter mile, achieving speeds of almost 250 mph and e.t.'s in the mid 6-second range. He also had an amazing mustache, and a very Tommy Ivo-inspired glass-sided trailer. We highly recommend reading through Nagel's very funny Flickr albums HERE.
John Francis was seven years old when he saw the Pocket Rocket run, but it left an impression he's remembered to this day. When he found the original body, he figured he'd scored a sweet wall hanging, but it didn't take him long to decide he'd have to get it back on four wheels and share it with the public.
He began by building a new chassis to go under the fiberglass body. The original Pocket Rocket's undercarriage is displayed in the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, but Big Daddy didn't have any desire to sell it to John, although he did send him several helpful pictures and build details including the fact that the original front wheels were made of fiberglass. Would you go 250 mph on fiberglass wheels? You would? Aren't you a brave one. The new frame is 1-inch mild steel tubing, with just the barest hint of a seat in the center. "You lie down to drive the car," John says. "It's pretty small. There's not a lot of choice about where to put things. I basically built it around myself."
Nagel had custom Centerline rear wheels on the Pocket Rocket in the '80s, but John settled for 13×20 rims off a midget sprint car, with a brake kit he built using four-wheeler components. In the front he passed on the idea of fiberglass wheels, and went with Jr. Dragster wheels, tires, and spindles. To recreate the multi-layered paint job, John's friend "Dino" Don Usner spent more than 400 hours tracing designs, making templates and spraying the car to return it to its triple candy glory.
Of course the big question was, what to do about the engine? John looked into rockets, but isn't ashamed to admit he found them intimidating. "There really is a science to rocket science," he says, "I decided to do a home-made jet engine out of a turbocharger instead. You still get the flames and the noise, but it's a little less dangerous." John got a used HX80 turbo, a monster of the sort you'd find on an earth mover or other heavy machinery. With help from another friend, "Turbine" Tom Mitchell—everyone has nicknames in this story—John drilled and welded together a combustion chamber and flame tube. The finished engine should provide about 250 pounds of thrust. That's not going to make for 6-second quarter-miles, but it does sound a lot safer, and John wants to try it out someday. "When I first built it, I didn't think anyone would let me run it, but I've had several local track owners call my bluff. I'm going to have to drive it, but don't tell my daughter, she's worried about me."
We're looking forward to seeing the Pocket Rocket on track. It may not be as fast as when Nagel campaigned it, but if these turbo-jet go-karts are anything to judge by, it should be pretty darn loud!
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Back in the 90s, I remember seeing more than a few Bible-thumping right-wing zealots running for seemingly-nothing-type elections like school boards and garbage commissioner slots in the local city governments. I remember thinking, "Who the hell would want those jobs?" Later, I realized that the answer to that question was "crazy Bible-thumping wackadoos who want evolution, sex education and civil rights lessons removed from school curriculums and replaced with whatever they think Jesus told them about gays, minorities and women".
In that sense, they were wildly successful; most local government bodies- from the local school board to county commissioners to state capitols - are filled with right-wing pod-people who built their machine from the ground up and are now now dug into local governments like an Alabama tick. And they're such a fixture that most people can't even begin to figure out how to replace them.
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Mike Smith says Julio Jones will have 2nd opinion in Charlotte on Wednesday. First tests were not encouraging.
— NFL: AroundTheLeague (@NFL_ATL) October 8, 2013
After questioning by @jeffdarlington, coach Mike Smith reveals Julio Jones hurt his foot before that incredible catch. Unreal.
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As if Monday night's loss to the New York Jets wasn't devastating enough to the Atlanta Falcons' season, they may have lost their All-Pro receiver in the process, as Julio Jones suffered a foot injury that may knock him out the remainder of the season:
Breaking: Falcons fear Julio Jones likely OUT for the rest of the year w a foot injury. He's getting a second opinion tomorrow to determine — Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) October 8, 2013
Initial determination by falcons is that Julio Jones season is over. They are hopeful 2nd opinion says otherwise but not optimistic — Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) October 8, 2013
This is a nightmare for the Falcons, who just one month ago were being touted as a Super Bowl contender, and now will be more likely to be drafting the top-10 of net May's NFL Draft if indeed Jones , one of the games' best receivers, misses the next 11 games for a team that's sitting at 1-4.


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The Department of the Navy on Friday released information officially confirming the expansion of Townsend Bombing Range in Long County. Confident the announcement was coming, the Long County Commission on Thursday held a town-hall meeting at Long County Middle School to discuss the expansion's effects on the county.
Vice Chairman Kent Hall told the crowd of about 20 that the county will lose approximately 28,000 acres from the tax digest, resulting in an annual revenue loss of about $140,000 for the commission and the board of education.
Despite the financial setback, Hall said the commission has received no indication that mitigation funds will be provided. Long officials were told the county could receive a new building — possibly a fire station — but furnishing, equipping and staffing the station would be the county's responsibility. After weighing the costs, Hall said officials determined the county couldn't afford the building.
The county needs financial assistance, not an empty building, the vice chairman said. Initially, commissioners were given a "take it or leave it" offer on the building, but that since has changed, and Long County now has three years to accept or decline the structure. Regarding the offer, Hall said he and the other commissioners feel Long County is not being treated fairly.
"They're getting the house and we're getting the septic tank," he said.
Commissioner Gerald Blocker defended the representatives from the Marine Corp Air Station in Beaufort, S.C., saying they did all they could to help Long County, but that their hands were tied by lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
"The Marine Corps has done all that it could within their guidelines … to get more. The changes have got to come from Washington, and they're not making that happen," Blocker said.
Hall said U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston previously met with the commission and expressed a desire to help, but so far, the county only has been offered an empty building.
"I feel like we have been let down by Kingston," Commissioner Dwight Gordon said.
The MCASB news release states that the decision to expand the bombing range was reached after careful consideration of the purpose and need for action. The base reportedly gathered information from federal, state and local agencies before approval was given, and officials said the Marine Corps remains committed to working with neighbors and stakeholders around the range.


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When Dumbledore is killed, a part of me dies inside. Then when Bellatrix destroys the Great Hall and the look on Draco's face. It's like everything good has left the wizarding world.
I feel like crying my eyes out. If I could, I would hug Harry and hug Snape and slap that Bellatrix Lestrange right across the face nine hundred effing times.
Annoyed as fuck. I can't wait to be not 17 and I can go anywhere with who ever I want. I'm a huge cliche, but I don't really care right now.
Whose to say that my age is to stop me from traveling where I want to go, seeing what I want to see, with whoever I want?
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People and their assumptions make me so sad.
And their misconceptions over small things when they very well know me better than that.
A sad reality I'm coming to is that someone will always, always, always see the worst in your words. Or not even your words, ones you have repeated.
Also, I'm writing my luminaria speech. I lost it when I wrote about Krista. I have no idea how I'm going to do this. Senior Year Relay, going out with a bang, I guess.
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And I pray that it's someday soon.
Just Kendall works!
Oh wow. Of course! That's fine by me.
I've learned so much in the past weeks.
About myself, about life, about humanity.
I've learned that gender roles are utter bullshit and I promise to fight them my whole life. You can identify as a woman and be attracted to women, but you are in a man's body. The combinations are endless and all of them are 100% completely natural and normal. Thank you Laura Jane Grace. You've opened my eyes a lot, I thought they already were open to everything. You proved that wrong and I'm loving it. I'm a woman who feels the need to have children and have a husband, but that doesn't define my entire life. My life is dedicated to being a human, an independent human. I'm not obligated to be the housewife, to be the English teacher, to be the mother. But if that's what I want, I'll sure as hell do it. And if I choose otherwise, I'm ready to hop a plane to go where my heart takes me.
I've learned that love isn't something you trade like Pokemon cards. If you love someone, they deserve to know that and I'll show them it every day of my life. If the person I'm in love with isn't at the same page as me, that's okay, I'll wait. Love isn't a game, it's merely what you choose to give. And I'll make you a priority, I'll support your day dreams, I know you love me too.
Nothing will ever go as planned, but if you let it happen something GREAT will come of it. I'm scared as fuck at how much my life has changed and is changing and will change. But I've never been more excited in my life and I cannot wait.
Rant over. Happy Mother's Day to everyone.
I'm all itchy from all the grass I played in today. It's been quite lovely.
…came out as a transgender today. He's suffered from gender dysphoria for years and he is finally getting a sex change.
I support you 100%, Laura Jane Grace. You're still fucking awesome and a hero of mine. Go do what you gotta do.
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It's not a victory for PC fans until there's a PC port! C'mon PC port!
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Really glad to see this game make it over here. I'll be picking up a copy for sure. I was going to get around to importing it, but I can pick up the US version in April now.
Hopefully there'll be enough of us to send a message that these kinds of games can do alright here. I don't actually think there are... but I hope the "look at what you can't have!" notoriety Xenoblade gained will convince more people to try it.
|Jeremy Reaban
Still, I've never understood how games like this could be a loss for a company like Nintendo (or Sony or whoever).
I mean, there's a small host of companies that stay in business localizing RPGs that have less appeal/quality. NISA/Aksys/Atlus/Xseed.
Does every game a big company publishes need to sell millions? Isn't simply making money enough? That seems to be the problem with the industry, there is very little middle ground these days - it's either blockbusters or indie stuff that could have been done on a Colecovision
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After drinking a bottle of wine, i found this petty entertaining reading this out loud to a country accent.
I didn't learn anything about this game itself, it was just a crying shame that this post was a rabble rousing.. I wanted to know more about the game. Yeah I too am trying to make a game in Asia. Sorry America, but you guys think an idea is worth a dime a dozen. That's why I'm keeping this one locked away in a chest untill I find the right team of adventurers.
Actually it's the type of game you would wanna play too. If you play games that is. If your not paid to fuss about new releases from competing companies
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Too late for me since I imported it the week it was released in the UK, although I'm glad NOA has somehow come to its senses.
Xenoblade is a friggin' awesome game, by the way. More people will get to experience it now, and that's a good thing.
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Honestly i can't understand what took so long as Wii is home to the most shovelware on any system EVER the system should get as many quality games to offset the 95-98% crap that has been dumped over the years i just hope Wii U doesn't follow Wii in this regard.
Nintendo's quality control people need to do a much better job when gems get overlooked and deku sports is on shelves @ all.
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Christian, thank you for writing this piece.
Monolith Soft is an intriguing studio that deserves more attention and Xenoblade in particular is one of their finest moments so far. For all the negative remarks that have been made about the state of the Japanese game industry of late this game proves (in spades) that there is plenty of bite left in the old wolf. Sure, the natural embrace of commercial game engines and middle-wares in the west and the lack thereof here in Japan has taken it's toll this generation. But working here I can say things are changing. Fast. Things are certainly looking up with the horizon immensely widen by social game platforms, smartphones and tablets next to handhelds and a new generation of consoles around the corner. Add the inevitable smart-TV's to that mix and future is very very shiny.
Nintendo did well by acquiring Monolith Soft. They should let them continue making splendid games like this and Nintendo should concentrate on finding a successful marketing formula for them. I sincerity hope that this game does as well as it ever can when released in the US.
|Daniel Martinez
Gotta hand it to Monolith...
Nintendo of America has been burned by publishing late-in-the-generation RPGs before (anybody remember Baten Kaitos Origins?
I have to agree about this (Ironic it 's the same company that created this game) but I still crunch through Origins on my Wii from time to time (Have not finished it yet but I did finish the first one.) I now will have Skyward Swords (Christmas Present) to play over the holidays into next year and then this game in April into the summer. Hopefully the Wii U will be backwards compatible with the Wii and maybe also provide a bit of upscale to some of the old games.


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Because you flat out forwarded all ports to the Slingbox.The NVG510 can blindly "pass through" said traffic to a static IP, but it can only Nat specific ports to a LAN device that it has assigned a local IP to via DHCP. If you want the Slingbox to show up in the "needed by device" list so that you can forward only the specific ports, you would have to remove the manual/static settings from the Slingbox.
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I have actually been cooking, you know. Sort of. In the laziest manner possible anyway. Last week I saw this recipe on The Kitchn, and I thought, "Hmmm, that looks easy." Done. To jazz it up a little, for the liquid called for in the recipe, I went wild and used Brent's latest home brew, a fruity saison.
I've been loving on this beer since he finished the bottling. It is definitely his best one yet, which is why I'm trying to strongly encourage his hobby by telling him to upgrade his equipment. I'm totally selfless like that.
So with the addition of this beer, I figured tacos with a fruity salsa was the way to go. Plus the recipe mentioned tacos and had a picture of a taco with a pineapple salsa, so it's not like this was a ground-breaking decision on my part.. And because I started out this post by telling you I was choosing recipes based on least amount of effort expenditure, you can be sure I just bought a prepared mango salsa from Whole Foods.
So after they were done cooking in the slow cooker, I did add one extra small step and crisped them up a bit in a frying pan because I love the contrast of the crisp edges with the melt in your mouth pork. So that's how it went. And these were pretty great tacos. Especially great considering I put 5 minutes of work into them total.
And we had leftovers all weekend, which worked out well because I worked the night shift both friday and saturday and basically couldn't even remember what year it was, let alone how to cook a meal, so leftovers saved my life. Anyone got any other summery slow cooker recipe ideas?


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Porte went from domestique to leader in seconds during a disastrous stage 6. Can he carry the hopes of Sky at the Tour?
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Stage 5 was a wet and wild mini Paris-Roubaix that did what most teams cannot: rattle the Team Sky machine
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2012 Tour winner Bradley Wiggins is left off Sky's Tour squad that sees the return of Danny Pate for the first time since 2011
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Chris Froome secures his second straight Tour de Romandie victory with a win in the finishing time trial
Sky stumbles through spring with injuries and illnesses
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Several riders on the British squad have been sidelined because of crashes, illnesses, and even anti-doping issues
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This dream has been viewed 666 times.Horrible dream last night. I was on the driveway of this gigantic house, which was my parents' house in the dream. They came home and both had watches with a ball of ice cream where the face would be. My dad threw his over the fence. (He's diabetic and has heart/cholesterol problems.) My mom tried to do the same but it fell and landed on the pavement about a foot from my dad. He went around the fence where there was a lake and started digging into the bank, which was made of wet concrete. I walked over and asked what he was digging. "My own grave," he answered. I was afraid of how he'd react if I asked him why or told him to stop, so instead I asked, "You want to be buried here?" He stopped and we walked back to the house, and he put on this fake smile and started talking about work instead.
Later in the dream, I was in what looked like the gameroom of the Texas house, upstairs. I'd just finished my English/chemistry exam. I walked into the guest bathroom and went to take the watch my dad had thrown away out of the trash can, to have somethingby which to remember him. I remembered it being made of metal, but when I picked it up, it was made of chocolate-covered ice- cream cone and began to melt on my fingers. I threw it away.


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The main thing that's driving the growth of the art market is the demand for a good investment for the very rich, art adviser Todd Levin said.
Israel Lund's grainy, washed out yellow and gray painting was sold four times over 11 months, jumping more than 1,500 percent in price along the way.
Christie's was propelled to its biggest auction ever by selling $745 million worth of art, fueled by Barnett Newman and Francis Bacon paintings and billionaires from around the world who competed for the masterpieces.
Kour Pour, the 26-year-old whose detailed paintings depict Persian rugs, drew such a frenzy for his first solo exhibition that his works sold out before the opening last month at New York's Untitled Gallery.
Martial Raysse hadn't had a solo U.S. show for more than four decades when the 78-year-old French artist's Pop paintings of neon-faced beauties went on view at Luxembourg & Dayan gallery in New York last May.
Art Basel Miami Beach, the largest U.S. art fair, will offer more than $3 billion of mostly postwar and contemporary works when it opens to a select group of collectors today, a 20 percent increase from two years ago.
Henry Kravis, co-chairman of KKR & Co., sued collector Donald L. Bryant Jr. claiming he reneged on an agreement to donate paintings by Jasper Johns to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Adam Sender, one of the first hedge-fund managers to get serious about contemporary art, is putting much of his collection on the auction block after shutting his firm Exis Capital Management Inc.
The Internet revolution has at long last reached international art fairs as a new event tests buyers' willingness to shop online for contemporary works.
The art world is watching to see the fate of billionaire hedge-fund owner Steven A. Cohen.
"It's about the need of high-net worth investors to park their excess capital."
- Todd Levin on Jun 19, 2014


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I can't believe our last best of the web post was really last year!
Well, okay, I can.
It's really only been a few weeks, but those weeks have been busy in the blogosphere. Between taking a break and celebrating with our nearest and dearest, the beginning of the New Year is a time to reflect on what has gone by and what is to come; that's precisely what we've been doing at Firepole Marketing, and plenty of other blogs have had the same idea.
There have been years in review, round-up posts, reflections on the year that passed, and inspiration for the year to come. Despite being more or less MIA for the past couple of weeks, I've read a lot of them, and I'm going to share the creme de la creme with you.
So without further ado – our first Best of the Web for 2012!
Look Back on the Old, Looking Towards the New
The New Year always brings a few things with it: a new calendar, some hopeful resolutions, new business goals and always, always, recap and round-up posts from the year gone by. Here are some of my favorites:
- 20 Life Changing Habits to Make 2012 the Best Year Ever (The Sales Lion)
Tips, Advice, and Food for Thought
We always love a good, solid informational post on Firepole Marketing, so here are some of the latest and greatest:
- Starting a Business Isn't All Unicorns and Rainbows (the Other Side of the Story) (Corbett Barr)
- Banner Advertising: Viable Money Making Blogging Solution? (Traffic Generation Cafe)
- Here's the Biggest Mistake I see Bloggers Make (DIY Themes)
- Free Useful Icons to Use in Your Site (Arterruption)
- Magnanimous Donation leads to Speculation (Inside Influence)
- The Misconception that is Inspired Writing and Blogging and Do 'Top Blogger Lists' Really Mean Anything At All? (The Sales Lion)
- 5 Marketing Lessons You Can Learn from a Weird "Real World" Business (CopyBlogger)
- How to Make Your Blog Stand Out in a Crowded Niche without Guest Posting (Think Traffic)
Interviews and Mentions
There's nothing that makes a blogger feel quite so good about themselves as being asked for an interview, or finding your work mentioned by someone you respect. It's a really unique feeling, and a few bloggers out there have given it to me recently with interesting, insightful interviews and mentions.
If you haven't had a chance to read or listen to these yet, check them out (they mention a lot of other great people, too!):
- The Best of Copyblogger from 2011 (CopyBlogger)
- How Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing Took over the Blogosphere in Less Than a Year (WriterViews)
- Danny Iny's Interview – On MBA, Getting Subscribers and Modern Publishing (Write Region)
- Top 12 Posts from December 2011 (Write, Change, Grow)
- How Danny Iny Scrambled up the Firepole (Write, Speak, Sell)
- Discover the Value in Danny Iny (Discover Local and Online Auctions)
- The Freddy Krueger of Blogging (Deliberate Ink)
- The 12 New Media Days of Christmas 2011: 5 Traffic Tips (Blog World)
Engagement from Scratch!
Positive response to Engagement from Scratch! continues unabated, to my ongoing delight.
Here are some more bloggers who took the time to get in touch with me, or otherwise write about the book. I am deeply grateful to all the bloggers who have done so.
- Three Small Business Books Worth Reading (Small Biz Trends)
- A Conversation with Danny Iny, Author of Engagement From Scratch! (Ghost Writer Dad)
- Interview with Danny Iny on Engagement From Scratch (Online Business Hour)
- Engagement from Scratch! Recommended Holiday Reading (Triberr)
- Engagement from Scratch – An Interview with Danny Iny (Word Chef and Blog Talk Radio)
We've listed a lot of great sites here, but if you think we've missed out on anything important, let us know in the comments!


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I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't
think that Kelly Osbourne is
anti-transgender. She's been hugely supportive of the GLBT community. I do
think her ranting on about her ex-fiance cheating on her with a
"chick with a dick" is horribly insensitive and that she knows
better, and should say she knows better and apologize.
JP Marzulla is
the vice chair of Area 3 of the Republican Party in New Hampshire. He believes in three things: God, liberty, and his gay son.
Now if he can just convince enough of his Granite Staters to think like him.
This may be one of the more useful responses to the "quit flaunting your
lifestyle" arguments that entitled heterosexuals like to bring up all the
time. I may keep a copy in my wallet to hand out.
Eddie Redmayne has joined the ever-growing cast of Les Miserables as Marius. I've had such the crush on
Redmayne for ages, and adding him to a cast that already includes Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Hugh
Jackman may make this irresistible.
I'm not going to grow a mustache for Movember to raise money
and awareness for male
cancer research. I'll make a donation, but my salt-and-pepper stash does
not match the rest of me. But feel free to get involved.
One would think that Gavin
Creel is perfectly suited for life in New York City. He's a musical theater
geek, stunning performer, and a gay activist. But as he's the first to tell you, sometimes you can't take
the Ohio out of the boy. I know what he means. That's how I'm back in West
Virginia, which they couldn't take out of me. Obviously I never had any Ohio in
me. Well…
JK Rowling has
admitted she considered killing off Ron Weasley early on, which leads me to wonder if it would have
mattered that much to the story. What do you think?
Scarlett Johansson
just leveled up in my book. Talking about the nude photos that leaked last year, "Those
are old, from three years ago… They were sent to my husband. There's nothing
wrong with that. It's not like I was shooting a porno… Although there's nothing
wrong with that either." Which brings up several questions, not the least of
which is if Ryan Reynolds sent back
nude photos, and if they will ever leak.
Anyone who believes the Loudon County Republicans thought sending out an image of Zombie Obama with a bullet in his
head was an innocent joke without subtext please raise your hand. Anyone?
Just so you know, Satan makes babies gay. And here I thought it was watching
Bravo during pregnancy.
If the AP was willing to sue Shepard Fairey over his iconic Obama
poster, the least Reuters can do is sue the National Organization for Marriage, who says that when they lifted the Reuter photo of crowds
at a 2008 rally for then-candidate Obama and used it for their own, it was a
"common use photo in the public domain."
Those cute lesbians who were voted Homecoming King and
Queen? Their school is getting violent disgusting threats from Christian groups.
James Franco is looking to play a "rapping drugs and arms
dealer" in Spring Breakers opposite Emma
Roberts. He'll bail out Emma and her friends from jail when they rob a
convenience store to pay for their college fun.
PBS UK is set to launch on Sky and Virgin, bring the Brits the
same programs they export to us, only 10 years later. Seriously – you'll get Nova,
and some really great news.
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U.S. Olympic skier Jeret "Speedy" Peterson called 911 moments before he committed suicide Monday ... and while fighting back tears, the 29-year-old told the operator, "I'm going to kill myself."
Peterson then gave his location to the operator and said, "I want police to come get the body." He then hung up the phone.
Cops in Summit County, Utah responded to the spot where Peterson said he would be ... and found the skier's body "obviously deceased from what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head."
According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, Peterson left a suicide note ... but cops are not releasing it to the public.
Peterson was one of the best freestyle skiers in the world. He competed in 3 Olympics for the U.S. ... winning a silver medal in Vancouver in 2010.
I cannot begin to comprehend why you would ever post this video. How disrespectful to him, his family, and his friends.
TMZ as a whole, and especially you, Harvey Levin, as the head of this news organisation and as the individual person in charge here, have no dignity and NO respect for other human beings. Don't you ever run your gob about your "journalistic standards" again. You've gone from ambulance chaser to hearse chaser.
Shame on you!
You guys are slimebags, especially you harvey for approving this smut, it popped up on my screen as i was reading something else. After seeing it i refused to press the button because there has to be some set moral values left in this country.I "loved" TMZ, work in Beverly Hills, but this takes the cake. How would any of you feel if this was your son, you had raised him, taken him to practice, watched him take his first steps and then achieve all these things and then find his lifeless body in a field somewhere? And then if that is not enough...have you post this....I REFUSE TO EVER WATCH OR LISTEN TO YOUR **** AGAIN......


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Ribfest 2014 Hours of Operation and Event Information:
Friday, October 31, 2014
6:00 p.m. -- 11:00 p.m.
Friday: Free Entry. Free Sides with the Purchase of a Half-Rack, or Whole Rack of Ribs,
DJ streaming music. Admission to Spooky Zoo Night includes access to Ribfest.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
11:00 a.m. -- 9:00 p.m.
All-Day Southern & Classic Rock concerts
Five National Ribbers
Beer-Inspired Cooking Demonstrations and Pairings beginning at 12:30 p.m. at the Chefs Corner
12:30 P.M. Chef TBD
2:30 P.M. Larry Goeser, Good Beer Larry
Good Beer Larry is a South Florida-based beer instructor, craft beer aficionado and beer tasting extraordinaire. Over the past 17 years, he has visited over 250 brewpubs, breweries, beer bars and beer festivals. Larry brings 6,000 years of beer history alive through an engaging presentation which includes an eclectic collection of beer memorabilia. Larry will present the "History of Beer and the Rise of Civilization".
4:30 P.M. Michell Sanchez, Latin House Burger & Taco Bar
Food truck pioneer Chef M successfully made the crossover to full-service restaurant with the opening of Latin House Burger & Taco Bar which is bringing a different feel to Kendall. Offering an eclectic mix of dishes infused with Latin flair, no two meals are identical and no two experiences are the same. Located at 9565 SW 72nd Street, the best seller right now is the Tomahawk Ribeye Steak. Chef M prepares a tiger shrimp ceviche!
Celebrity Judging Takes Place
Sunday, November 2, 2014
11:00 a.m. -- 7:00 p.m.
All-Day Country Music concerts
Five National Ribbers
Thunder Country's Dougie Hitchcock broadcasting live 10 a.m. - noon
Beer-Inspired Cooking Demonstrations and Pairings beginning at noon at the Chefs Corner
12:00 P.M. Frederick C. Kaufman, Proper Sausages
Miami's only artisan sausage maker, Proper Sausages opened its doors in Miami Shores in March 2013. The shop features a wide variety of fresh sausages, house made bacon, and specialized cuts of beef, pork and poultry, along with a beer & wine section focused on artisan brewers and international vintners. Proper Sausages, located at 9722 NE 2nd Avenue, is owned by husband and wife team, Freddy and Danielle Kaufmann. Get ready as Fred prepares Florida raised Wagyu short ribs!
2:00 P.M. Jorgie Ramos – Barley & Swine Gastropub
Barley & Swine is refining the art of pairing beer with food. The neighborhood boutique gastropub, located at 9059 SW 73 Court, opened in June 2013. Menu options include everything from pork belly to popcorn ice cream, all under the direction of chef/owner Jorgie Ramos. On Sunday, he'll be making wild boar baby back ribs.
4:30 P.M. George Patti, M.E.A.T. Eatery & Taproom
Owned and operated by Chef George Patti, the M.E.A.T. Eatery and Taproom is a cutting edge restaurant in the Upper Florida Keys. It smokes its own meats, makes its own sausage in-house, has high quality burgers, hot dogs, pulled pork and even lobster rolls as a Gourmet Fast Food establishment. M.E.A.T also carries craft beer, microbrewed sodas, organic wines and homemade ice cream. Just down the street from M.E.A.T is Chef Patti's newest establishment Tasters Taco Emporium. On tap for Ribfest, house made chorizo and sliders!
Kiss Country's Darlene Evans broadcasting live from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Throughout the weekend, you can also enjoy: Farmers Market, Arts & Crafts Vendors, Photo Opportunity, VIP Experience, Zoo Miami admission, and much more.
Parking is free
Admission is free for children 3 and under
Friday, October 31, 2014 - Free Admission
Saturday, Nov. 1 - Sunday Nov. 2, 2014:
$10 General Admission
$25 Ribfest/Zoo Miami Combo
$75 VIP Experience
(VIP Experience includes: General Admission; VIP meal (½ rack of ribs and two sides); 6 Beers from an expanded craft/seasonal beer selection to include Blue Moon Pumpkin Harvest, Batch 19, Blue Moon Rounder, Crispin Cider, Fox Barrel Pear, Linenkugel Orange, Third Shift and Blue Moon Short Straw; shaded lounge area; and comfort station restrooms.)


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Proposal Basics
What has happened to my great proposal?
The OSP maintains a current library of funding sources
OSP Services/Overview
The Office of Sponsored Programs is available to assist faculty and staff with the development and delivery of quality grant proposals to external funding agencies. Whether working with electronic or hard copy submissions, the staff can assist with the following:
Provide information on funding opportunities for general and specific areas of interest.
Locate and download specific agency guidelines and forms.
Review proposals for compliance with all applicable university, state and federal regulations.
Review incoming proposals for form and formatting.
Review budgets to ensure that salary and wage amounts, fringe benefits, cost share, travel, Facility & Administrative Rates, and all other costs are applied correctly.
Determine submission dates or deadline dates to ensure that proposals are submitted to the sponsor by the required time frame.
Provide budget approval and institutional authorizing signatures.
Submit all electronic proposals to the sponsor through the appropriate electronic system (such as grants.gov or FastLane).
The OSP requests that all proposals, electronic or otherwise, be submitted in their complete and final form to OSP FIVE WORKING DAYS PRIOR to an agency deadline with a hardcopy of the proposal and the signed Internal Approval Form. For electronic submissions, you must also provide all electronic files at the time of submission of proposal materials to OSP.
Please note: Pre-proposals and/or "white papers" do not require OSP review and endorsement unless budgetary information is provided and/or institutional certifications/assurances are required. If budgetary information is required, then the pre-proposal or white paper must be pre-approved just as a regular funding proposal.
Because the actual proposal development process can take weeks, we recommend that the PI contact the OSP very early in the proposal process, so the staff can help facilitate the overall process and allocate resources to assist you.
Before developing a proposal
Before developing a proposal, the principal investigator needs to receive preliminary approval from the appropriate department head, or director, and dean.
Questions regarding your time commitment, space and facilities need to be resolved before you start writing!
If your idea involves hiring additional staff, leasing space or entering into subcontract agreements, call the Office of Sponsored Programs for guidance to be certain you have received the proper clearances before proceeding.
Begin to estimate the costs of the various budget components. The OSP can provide you with assistance and can help in making sure you have captured as much matching as possible and that the budget format complies with the specific sponsor requirements.
So, you're finished - now what? The final copy of the proposal, along with any forms and appendices should be assembled and reviewed. Prepare the Internal Approval Form and begin the routing! Your signature assumes your responsibility for the scope of the scientific and technical effort, your willingness to prepare any required technical reports, and the management of the resulting award in compliance with sponsor regulations and the University's policies and procedures.
Proposals are usually in a race for time. Plan for five full working days to prepare your proposal for leaving the campus. Once your proposal is received in the Office of Sponsored Programs, office records must be made. Your funding request must then go to the authorized University official for signature. If the deadline is extremely short, call us so we can be expecting it and can process your request as quickly as possible.
What has happened to my great proposal?
Not to worry! The OSP will verify your proposal with all agency guidelines to assure compliance, will check for all approvals that may be needed from the Human Subjects Committee, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, University Advancement if you are submitting to a foundation, and all other aspects that affect your proposal. The proposal will be returned to you after the required signatures are secured for a final review by the principal investigator. Most agencies provide a final checklist to aid in the submission process. This checklist should be followed closely.
The OSP welcomes and encourages your draft proposal and draft budgets. The OSP staff will be happy to review your drafts and assist with the preliminary approvals so your proposal can move quickly once it reaches the final stage.
The OSP maintains a current library of funding sources:
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If possible, talk with a program officer in the funding agency about your idea. LISTEN CAREFULLY.
Read their guidelines thoroughly and follow them to the letter.
Before you begin, have a truth session with yourself by asking the following questions:
Will my study tell anything new?
Is this area already heavily funded?
Will the results make a significant difference?
Will the study have relevance beyond the narrow geographic area of the type of project focused on by the study?
Does the research really answer the question addressed in the proposal?
State objectives clearly.
Design objectives to conform to the interests and guidelines of the agency.
Demonstrate a convincing need for the proposed activity, either by showing that it fills an important gap in existing knowledge or
that it serves the needs of a specific clientele of concern to the funding source.
Indicate project management skills by including devices such as time lines, organization charts or task charts.
Clearly describe the research or program design.
Demonstrate your competence as an investigator by having an updated curriculum vitae and good capsule biographies of professional staff. (Keep in mind that most agencies limit vitae to two pages.)
Use your FACTS Card to provide up-to-date background information about the University.
Your goal:.
To state clearly the significance of the problem being addressed
To provide a quality solution
To sell the agency on why you should receive the funding to achieve your goal
If time permits, discuss your idea with peers and look for ways to strengthen your proposal. After your proposal is written, have a colleague critique it to see if you have communicated your ideas thoroughly in writing.
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Tyler Kirkham Screwed by Zenescope
- Written by Jude Terror on Wednesday, May 15 2013 and posted in News with Benefits
Source: Press Release
Zenescope Entertainment is famous for making comics with J. Scott Campbell covers featuring giant-boobed fairy tale characters in their underwear, a fact we've made fun of in the past, but it seems the publisher is looking to step up their game with a new comic called Tyler Kirkham: Screwed, in which the creator will presumably be banged on-panel by a bunch of scantily-clad fairy tale characters.
"I'm realy looking forward to drawing Tyler in a thong," said Campbell lecherously. "Mmmmm."
It's unknown whether the comic will be packaged in a brown paper bag, or whether... wait, hold on... what's that? Not a porn? Oh, with an apostrophe! Right. Got it.
Readers, I'm so sorry. My editors have just informed me that the book is not called Tyler Kirkham: Screwed, but, rather, Tyler Kirkham's Screwed. You see, it's a creator owned book by Tyler Kirkham, which makes a lot more sense, now that we think about it. Here's how Zenescope describes it:
Screwed follows a young woman who awakens in a hospital covered in scars as if she had been taken apart and put back together again; her mind as fragmented as her body. As she tries to piece together what's happened to her, she will find many enemies are after her but she'll also find a valuable ally in FBI Agent Erin Scott.
"I'm really looking forward to drawing FBI Agent Erin Scott in a thong," said Campbell lecherously. "Mmmmm."
God dammit, Zenescope.
Screwed is in stores June 12. Look on the top shelf, behind the counter.
- Words: Tyler Kirkham, Keith Thomas
- Art: David Miller
- Covers: Tyler Kirkham, David Miller
- Colors: Oracle
- Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment
- Price: $2.99
- Release Date: June 12, 2013
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As a social justice organization, RWPL has over the years grown to spread her wings beyond an anticipated capacity. From a small organization operating in a backyard room to an increasingly expanding NGO in the Kenyan context, we endeavor to embrace a universally recognized organizational development approach in tandem to changing needs and demands. "Smart Growth" is the tool we have chosen as a developmental and discovery model that will enable us to benchmark our capacities now and for the future to achieve a balanced and sustainable growth in terms of resources and strategic influence. With assistance from one of our partners, Hivos, RWPL staff and board members went through a 2-day organizational self-assessment workshop on 3rd and 4th September 2013 to reflect on key organizational capacities as well as the life stage of the organization and were all able to share insights on their accelerators (strengths) and inhibitors (weaknesses). At the end a forward looking action plan was developed and will be implemented with assistance from external independent consultant from Hivos.
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