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Brian Scalabrine, worst player in Celtics history?
Tom Haberstroh wrote a column about the worst players in each NBA franchise's history, and Brian Scalabrine rated as the single worst Celtic ever.
I can't read the entire article since I don't have ESPN Insider, so I'll leave you with Celtics Hub's breakdown. (Q: What kind of blogger doesn't have Insider? A: One who can't even afford a free sample.)
But that is exactly what Tom Haberstroh of ESPN and HoopData.com fame is saying. He and his crack team of statisticians have compiled a list of the bottom top five worst players for each team in the history of the NBA (Insider Only).
Scal won (?) the honors but rounding out the list were Lou Tsioropoulos, Andy Phillip, Jim Loscutoff, and Acie Earl. This kind of analysis is yet another reason why the infamous Belichickean mantra "stats of are for losers" is so important.
In his next column, Haberstroh will use stats to explain how the Tooth Fairy really does exist. Because THAT'S how outlandish it is to believe Scal's the worst player in Celtics history. Believe me, I've seen many bad Celtics in my lifetime. I've lived through the worst period in Celtics basketball history. And if I can promise you one thing in life, it's this:
On a scale of one to bad, Scal is nowhere near Brett Szabo, Marty Conlon, Patrick O'Bryant, Andrew DeClerq or Dwayne Schintzius. At times, the Big Redhead was even useful and reliable.
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"Sequester is the same as austerity, the heavy handed movement of austerity hasn't worked very well in Europe. Food for thought, why do think rioters and protesters in Greece had to throw rocks? Because they don't possess 50 percent of the guns in the world."
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"How ironic that a good portion of the animal shelter protesters would be the same group that would support a womans right to terminate what would otherwise become a healthy human child. Things that make you say hmmmmmm."
"Re: 'El Paso, Texas, has the lowest crime rate in the continental U.S. and 85 percent of its population is Hispanic. So the Venter who claims most crimes are committed by minorities is wrong.' Statistics can be made to say anything. Yes, El Paso has a very low murder rate but its rates of assault, theft, burglary and motor vehicle theft per FBI statistics are much higher than the national averages. Also, the writer of the original vent made a big deal about the large Hispanic population. If you look at the El Paso police department statistics the majority of crimes in El Paso happen in the largely Hispanic neighborhoods. So again, statistics can be made to say anything."
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Chapter Thirty Two
Markus threw open the door, surprised to find it unlocked. He stepped inside, glancing at the interior of a house he once thought of as his own. Many afternoons, after school had closed for the day, were spent with Julia, hanging out in her bedroom, living room, and kitchen. Her parents had been kind to him, treating him just like he was one of the family.
Then it all came to a close when Julia fell for him, kissing him on the lips. A month after that monumental kiss, he was sucked into the dreamscape, leaving reality for four, long years.
His eyes swept over the oddly messy house. Dishes, covered in old food and scraps, piled up on the countertop and inside the sink. Articles of clothing, books, papers and garbage lay scattered on the floor. The kitchen, which was in such a state of disrepair that he momentarily wondered if he was in the right place, was fortunately far messier then the living room.
Well, except for the boy his age, curled up on the couch, staring up at him with a dark, confused expression. His long, curly blonde hair fell below his pointed ears. A set of deep, dazzling blue eyes momentarily caught him off guard. Grimacing, the boy sat up and spoke.
"Who are you?"
Markus, who was taking in the house with a heavy feeling of nostalgia, wondered how to answer that question. Truth be told, he wasn't sure he knew the answer to it. "I'm a friend of Julia's." He shuffled over to the stranger, trying to put an affable smile. "Markus. You?"
"Steven, I'm a friend of hers as well." His eyes clouded over, while he scratched the back of his neck. Staring up at him, Markus was surprised at the amount of pain in his gaze. "Are you looking for Mr. Ryte?"
"No. I'm looking for Julia. What are you doing here?"
"I don't know, actually." Steven got up, his hair matted and complexion pale and sickly.
"Where is she?"
Steven couldn't look in his eyes while his lower lip quivered. "Julia passed away, a few weeks ago. She was in a car crash, was hit by a drunk driver." He stopped, his voice cold and distant. "Wait? What did you say your name was?"
"Markus Anderson?"
This caused Markus to hesitate, his eyes narrowing. "Yes. Did Julia tell you about me?"
"She did." He frowned, then his face began to light up. He tilted his head, staring at Markus with a faint, knowing grin. "And she told me everything. Dreams and all. And she said that you were taken into the dreams, but yet here you are," he gestured at him, eyes widening. "You escaped somehow. Julia was wrong," now he was talking to himself, his voice raised, "there is a way out!"
Markus swore under his breath, his mind beginning to connect the dots. "She kissed you too, didn't she?"
"Julia?" Steven asked, to which Markus nodded his head, his rage stirring deep within. That stupid, cheating whore had done the same to another. Clenching his fists, his face turning a bright crimson, he couldn't wait to kill her. Or wait, didn't he just say she died?
Suddenly, a wave of sorrow rose up inside him, churning his insides stronger then the rage had. Markus took a step back, alarmed by the grief that was wrapping around his heart like hot, painful coils.
"Yes, she did kiss me. We met at camp, but like you, I had no idea about the dreaming curse." He paused, looking intently at Markus. "What does that matter though?"
Markus closed his eyes, trying to keep a lid on the emotions trying to burst out of him. Opening his eyes, he gave his answer. "That's what sends you into her dreams-her kissing you."
"That's impossible."
"Crazier things have happened. A lot in this life is fantastical, it's hard to accept, but what was once impossible, now seems quite possible. I have no idea how it really works, the dreams, but I know that a shared kiss is what transfers it to someone else." Markus felt a growing, biting pain in the back of his head. "Can we take a seat, please?"
Steven nodded his head. They both sat on the couch, trying to relax on the soft cushions, but finding the situation didn't allow for that. Markus was just trying to realize what was happening-his desires for vengeance and anger were slipping away. Remorse, self-hate, regret and grief were storming in.
Steven cracked his knuckles, Markus stared at the stranger, feeling an eerie connection with him.
"So how did you get out?" Steven asked, breaking the heavy silence.
"Of the dreams?"
Markus thought about that, trying to recall the last moments leading up to his emergence from the hot, empty ocean. Was there a shift inside him? A change? Not that he could recall, it was just like every second before that, only that time it would be his last.
Then he thought back on how Julia had died and when she had.
"You said she got into a car crash? And died, when was that?" It still felt strange to say those words. Though all feelings of love had long departed, Julia had once meant a great deal to him. It was now his early memories of her, not his later, that provided the heaps of sorrow on his chest. No amount of rage and hatred could wash away the memories staining his heart and mind.
"September 6th. Mr. Ryte said she lived for about a day and a half after her accident."
"That was the same day I woke up." Markus now wondered why he hadn't connected the dots earlier. Of course that's why he'd woken up! Now that she could no longer trap him, he was completely free.
Steven nodded his head, yet his eyes were still dark. "But I'm still entering the dreams. Even after she died, the hallucinations are growing worse, I hear voices." His eyes drifted to the kitchen, widening for a fleeting moment. "I see them still, staring at me, talking to me." Shaking his head, he pleaded with Markus with his desperate expression. "How do I escape?"
Markus considered his question, pursing his lips together. "We're all slaves to what we give power to." That's what I was told by one of those hallucinations before I finally went under.
Steven's eyes snapped open, a flabbergasted expression on his face. "Me too."
"The dreams… Steven," he paused, his mind buzzing furiously. It was all coming together. Piece by piece. Memory by memory. Words, hints, and feelings that had once confused him about the dreams were now beginning to take shape. Staring into Steven's eyes, he knew that the same thing was taking place in him.
"We're all slaves to what we give power to." He mumbled, his head nodding with excitement. Then he froze, realizing just what he had to do. "I'm placing myself in these dreams, and to get out… I have to let go."
"You have to let her go. So did I. Though when I was in the dreams, it was too late for me to give it up. I was already ensnared too strongly. Only by her dying, did all of the entangling power leave. Then I was free. Steven, it's not too late for you. You just have to let her go."
Helping out this stranger, who really wasn't, Markus was beginning to get his first taste of joy in literally years. He thought about letting go himself, letting go of his rage, letting go of his bitterness and desire for revenge. Though there was now no way to forgive Julia, he still felt the desire to as it wrapped around his heart.
However, he knew that doing so wouldn't change very much. He was still a murderer, perhaps even one wanted by the police. If he was caught, there'd likely be a massive sentence, unless he could get off with an insanity plea. There was an idea.
Grimacing, he realized that the moment he'd entered those dreams for good, a part of him had died. Not even waking up could revive the old, beautiful life that had been inside him once. There would be no resurrection for this battered, dying soul.
But he could still save Steven from a similar fate.
"Before I go," Markus said, noticing the troubled look on Steven's face, "will you show me where she is? I need to do one last thing."
Steven, who was biting his lip and staring at the floor with a darkening gaze, sighed. "Follow me."
The wind was still blowing quite strongly, rustling leaves and loose pieces of grass in the lonely cemetery. An older woman, hobbling on her cane, stood at another row of tombstones, resting flowers atop a freshly dug grave.
Steven stood with his arms crossed, staring down at the headstone with that same mixture of sorrow and disbelief. How could that beautiful, amazing girl he'd just been kissing in his dreams, be the same one rotting away in the worm-ridden dirt?
Markus was kneeling down, sobbing gently.
Steven saw a knife in a small sheath, attached to his belt.
Above them, the sun sent down warm, bright rays of light on the miserable pair. What was wrong with the sun? Didn't it know that this wasn't a happy time that it should hide behind dark clouds, while the rain poured heavily? Didn't it know that it was only a mocking insult to them both, shining so stubbornly when both of their worlds were darkening and crumbling.
"So she is gone." Markus muttered, getting to his knees slowly. "Never thought this would happen." He put his hand on the leather sheath, staring at it with piercing, deep brown eyes. His nose crinkled, his lip twitched.
Steven said nothing, he knew there was nothing he could.
Putting his hands in his pocket, he looked Steven right in the eye. "But I guess she isn't gone to you, is she? You still see her?"
"In our dreams, yes. I was thinking though, I really can't let her go, Markus. I just can't."
"You have to though, trust me, you don't want to go into those dreams forever. It's exactly like hell and if you ever do escape it, then you won't be the same. Not at all."
"I wish it were that easy." Steven stared at the tombstone, wishing he could blot out the name and put his own on it. If he couldn't live with Julia, he was quite sure he didn't want to live at all.
"Listen, I don't really know you Steven, but I know exactly how you feel. Those dreams are amazing, and Julia? Though she stole four years of my life, regardless, she's an amazing girl. I remember our dreams just as much as I remember our happiness, our love. But you have to trust me Steven, none of it is real.
"This, right now. Is real. This grave, that is real. What happens when you close your eyes and drift off to her dreams, that isn't real. None of it is. I know that it feels a hell of a lot better reality, but you can't make it yours. We weren't born to dream, Steven, we were born to live."
"But if the dreams are all we have, then I have to take it. I made her a promise, and that promise was to love her forever, no matter what. How can I just give her up?" Steven thought back to the beautiful, amazing girl in their dreams, waiting for him to return.
Even if he had to go into the dreams forever, it would be far better then giving her up.
"Because she's already gone, Steven. You're not giving her up-you're letting her go. I wish I had done the same thing earlier, before going into those dreams killed me, turning me into a monster. But, it's your call." He put his hand on his shoulder, squeezing it lightly.
"I know." Steven shrugged his hand off, wanting to leave this horrible graveyard and go back home. To see his father, to see his friends, to apologize to Cerise and to see Julia, hold her in his arms and love her until the last moment he could.
"What about you? What are you going to do?"
"Me?" Markus shrugged, staring up at the sky and then behind Steven to the outlying town of Camrose. "Atone for my sins. Go back home, try to piece my life back together. I've made a lot of mistakes in the short time I've been out. I want to make it right, though I'm sure that I'll never be whole again, not after what happened."
He nodded his head. "Good luck."
Markus dipped his head in return, smiling faintly. "I guess this is goodbye then," he extended his hand, which Steven took after a moment's hesitation. "I hope you make the right decision."
Steven squeezed his hand, looking into Markus' clouded, sorrowful eyes. "You too."
Markus let go, Steven turned away.
He sat on the dry, withering grass, taking out his knife and holding it tightly in his hands. He watched Steven go, tears building up in the corner of his eyes. He took the knife from his sheath, ran it lightly over his skin. Took a breath, stared up at the sky, then down at Julia's grave.
He muttered, "Good luck, indeed."
The knife dropped to the grass moments later, red and slick with blood.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Software giant Adobe (ADBE), which is due to report third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, has become (on many levels) a very interesting story. Without a doubt, this company still has a say not only in the world of digital media, but also in content distribution and consumption.
But it's unclear, though, whether management can effectively prioritize the company's collective ambitions.
You see, over the past couple of years, Adobe has struggled to grow revenue and margins on its once-dominant creative suite applications -- the one that includes popular titles like Pagemaker and Dreamweaver. Free offerings from rivals like Google (GOOG) and software alternatives from Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT), began eating into Adobe's market share. Not to mention, each of these companies had cloud-distribution advantages, an area Adobe had yet to adopt.
In a case of "if you can't beat them, join them," Adobe has been working to transition its business from software sold in a box to a cloud/subscription-based model. On top of that, Adobe recently announced a $600 million all-cash deal to acquire Neolane, a privately held French company France that specializes in cross-channel campaigns.Given Neolane's capabilities in online and offline marketing, I won't dispute that this acquisition makes perfect sense. But again, given Adobe's transition, I have to question the timing. And I believe that this just might have been a case where management has bitten off more than it can chew. The other concern is with Adobe's digital media business, which has been -- as I said --shedding revenue, including a drop of 18% in the June quarter. I appreciate that management has decided to move away from this business. But it's still an important source of cash flow. Not to mention, this brings up a very important question: To what extent can Adobe offset these declines, while (at the same time) implementing a new business model, given Neolane's annual revenue of (only) $60 million, which amounts to just 1% of Adobe's 2012 total sales of $4.4 billion? To be perfectly honest, beyond the software synergies, I'm not seeing what Adobe hopes to accomplish here.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A gunman who opened fire on shoppers at a Portland mall had no connection to the two people he fatally shot and wanted to kill as many people as possible, police said Wednesday.
The shooter, who wore a mask, was a young man who fired randomly, investigators said. The only person wounded was a young woman, Kristina Shevchenko, whose age could not be confirmed. She was in serious condition at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland.
Police said they had tentatively identified the gunman but would not release his name or give any information on a possible motive.
"It really was a killing of total strangers, to my knowledge at this point and time. He was really trying to kill as many people as possible," Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts told ABC's "Good Morning America."
People at the mall were heroic in helping get shoppers out of the building, including off-duty emergency room nurses who rendered aid, Roberts said.
In response to previous mass shootings elsewhere, the first arriving officers were trained to form teams and go inside instead of waiting for SWAT. Employees at the mall also received training to handle such a situation.
"This could have been much, much worse," Roberts said.
The first 911 call came at 3:29 p.m. Tuesday. The first officers arrived a minute later. By 3:51 p.m., all the victims and the gunman and rifle had been found. Four SWAT teams spent hours clearing the 1.4 million square-foot mall, leaving shoppers and workers to hide in fear.
The mall Santa, Brance Wilson, was waiting for the next child's Christmas wish when shots rang out, causing the mall to erupt into chaos.
About to invite a child to hop onto his lap, Wilson instead dove for the floor and kept his head down as he heard shots being fired upstairs in the mall.
"I heard two shots and got out of the chair. I thought a red suit was a pretty good target," said Wilson, 68. Families waiting for Santa scattered. More shots followed, and Wilson crept away for better cover.
Witnesses said the gunman fired several times near the mall food court until the rifle jammed and he dropped a magazine onto the floor, then ran into the Macy's store.
Witnesses heard the gunman saying, "I am the shooter," as he fired rounds from a semi-automatic rifle inside the Clackamas Town Center, a popular suburban mall several miles from downtown Portland.
Some were close enough to the shooter to feel the percussion of his gun.
Police rapid-response teams came into the mall with guns drawn, telling everyone to leave. Shoppers and mall employees who were hiding stayed in touch with loved ones with cellphones and texting.
Kayla Sprint, 18, was interviewing for a job at a clothing store when she heard shots.
"We heard people running back here screaming, yelling '911,'" she told The Associated Press.
Sprint barricaded herself in the store's back room until the coast was clear.
Jason DeCosta, a manager of a window-tinting company that has a display on the mall's ground floor, said when he arrived to relieve his co-worker, he heard shots ring out upstairs.
DeCosta ran up an escalator, past people who had dropped for cover and glass littering the floor.
"I figure if he's shooting a gun, he's gonna run out of bullets," DeCosta said, "and I'm gonna take him."
DeCosta said when he got to the food court, "I saw a gentleman face down, obviously shot in the head."
"A lot of blood," DeCosta said. "You could tell there was nothing you could do for him."
He said he also saw a woman on the floor who had been shot in the chest.
Austin Patty, 20, who works at Macy's, said he saw a man in a white mask carrying a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest. There was a series of rapid-fire shots in short succession as Christmas music played. Patty said he dove for the floor and then ran.
His Macy's co-worker, Pam Moore, told the AP the gunman was short, with dark hair.
Kira Rowland told KGW-TV that she was shopping at Macy's with her infant son when the shots started.
"All of a sudden you hear two shots, which sounded like balloons popping," Rowland told the station. "Everybody got on the ground. I grabbed the baby from the stroller and got on the ground."
Rowland said she heard people screaming and crying.
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Everything is up and running, but I have an issue with the "allow custom login " with mail.
I'll preface this with the fact that I'm moving everything from a ISPconfig 2 setup to the new servers. With clients already setup with logins, etc on the old system, I'm trying to make the change as transparent as possible...hence, wanting to use the custom login names if possible.
I've checked the box for that in ISPConfig and I can log in to squirrel mail using the extra login after changing the dovecot-sql.conf to use login = '%u' instead of email = '%u'. However, if I send mail that way from any virtual hosts, it shows it comes from
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It was not "standing up to the EU" that delivered the Prime Minister's objective of a slimmer EU budget, it was pragmatism and alliance building.
We have been calling for radical reform of the EU budget since we were founded in 2006 and last year published a fully costed Alternative EU Budget which would have saved the UK over €10 billion.
David Cameron and Angela Merkel managed to deliver a 3.3 per cent cut in the 2014-2020 budget compared to 2007-2013. We are still spending too much on agriculture and the wasteful practice of recycling cohesion funds from rich members to rich members' regions still continues. Spending on growth enhancing measures will go up by 37 per cent by €34 billion though. A budget that reflects economic hardships faced by voters across Europe and spends more on growth finally sends the right message.
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All eyes will be on your as you accompany your Batman to your next costume gala! Costume includes a metallic red and green mini dress with a side slit and yellow accents, a bright yellow cape that fastens at the neck, a yellow belt, shimmering green fingerless gloves and a black eye mask. 4-piece set. Polyester. Wipe clean.
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Title: Not bad costume
Date: Oct 25, 2012
this costume is pretty cool. The dress however runs a little on the short..but nothing to complain about. The mask is a bit tight leaving your eyes wanting to bulge out. ...i wouldn't say i have a big head hahah. Overall the costume is really cute and fun
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Date: Jul 13, 2012
My husband decided to go as the caped crusaders for Halloween for our annual party. We were a HUGE hit! Everyone loved my costume and I felt very sexy in it! I will say, the belt was cheaply made and the mask did not fit. It would have been better for a small child. Other than that, it was a fabulous costume!
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yes the costume is great!! but i did not recieve my cape for the costume and that wasnt good but everything is is ok
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The Costume was a hit!
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The costume is nice but definitly is not what you see in the picture, the gloves/hand things are alot shorter! The costume fits but runs small and the eye mask i think could just fit a 10 year old so i am going to have to do some adjusting. Overall it will work--just could change a few things esp for the price!!
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My husband is batman so i am his sidekick. It runs a little small and is pretty short. Very thin material but appreciated in this heat. Mask is really tight, belt too big but nothing a little velcro cant fix, and unless you have BIG boobs, the picture makes her look alot better. It is still a cool costume though.
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Statistical Software Camp: Introduction to R
This is a short course designed to prepare students for homework assignments (computational exercises and empirical analyses) in the quantitative analysis sequence. The course covers basics of the R language. I taught this course twice as Instructor.
Summer 2009: syllabus and handouts 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Spring 2009: syllabus and handouts 1, 2, 3 and 4.
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POL345: Quantitative Analysis and Politics
This is an undergraduate course for Politics majors at Princeton. The course covers basic principles of probability and statistics as well as introductory programming skills for data analysis. It is primarily aimed at sophomores and juniors who wish to conduct quantitative analyses for their junior and/or senior theses. I taught this course as Assistant Instructor in Fall 2008. More information can be found at Prof. Imai's website.


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Moonlight Mile -- A young man grieves with the parents of his fianc e after her accidental death. As he is drawn into issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love, against his own best intentions.
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Tonya Plank--whose diligence sometimes depresses me, puts me to shame, makes me feel sluggardly; then again I'm away on a working vacation, so why am I beating up on myself, plucking the old guilt nerve, begrudging myself some "me time"? (I believe in keeping the prosecutor and defender in my mental courtroom noisily occupied)--is once again serving as recording angel for the war of the wagging hips that is Dancing with the Stars, whose ninth season kicked off this week with a triple header. On Monday, the men uncorked the fiery exuberance of their flamenco butts and tried not to throw their backs out of commission. Tuesday was ladies' night, marking the unlikely yet oddly charming mating of Kelly Osbourne's punkette persona and the spirit of old Vienna. Tonight the voting results are delivered and two contestants, one of each sex, will be asked to waltz the gangplank.
Here's Tonya on the men's opening round.
And on the women's, here.
I may have to follow Dancing with the Stars (and So You Think You Can Dance) vicariously through Tonya and other dance bloggers because I find the hysteria-hyperbole levels of these screech fests increasingly hard to take. Everything from the audience screaming reactions to the judges' overwrought antics to the oversold performances themselves are whipped up to a Thunderdome bombastic echo-machine pitch that's like Beatlemania in a can. I'm less inclined to cut judges Len and Bruno slack for their ogling comments about the female contestants--they're established enough seniority to tell the producers to shove off if the producers are encouraging such wank-talk--and I think some of the critical putdowns of the fledgling dancers have been overly cruel and crude. They're sweaty, they're anxious, they're vulnerable, they're afraid of having made fools of themselves or let down their partners, and there's no reason to take cheap shots at the rookies' expense, especially in the opening weeks before they've truly found their legs. (In the first episode of Marc Maron's WTF podcast, comedian Jeff Ross divulges the backstory of his mortifying round-one elimination from DWTS. He notes that Cloris Leachman scored better than she did and all she barely danced, her partner lugging her around in a Weekend at Bernie's deal.)
The flashpoint of this season's Dancing with the Stars is the controversial inclusion of former Republican power-hammer Tom DeLay, who I thought acquitted himself quite well on the dance floor, though his demented grin and milkshake-machine wiggling made him look like one of the more singular demons to escape from the Hellmouth, or a future Batman villain.


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BEFORE & AFTER: The Man Repeller's Office Makeover
The hilarious and hyper-fashionable blogger shares an exclusive look at her office before and after a designer makeover
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AFTER: Shelving
Why did Medine stick with white for the color scheme? "It's clean, it makes the room appear more open and spacious."
Custom shelving by Inside Squad, art chosen from Uprise Art, and wall sculpture by DwellStudio.


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Ava Lee Scott was born in Brooklyn, New York. She traveled most of her childhood acquiring a facility in learning foreign languages. Ava excelled in sports, she was in the soccer, basketball, volleyball and track team. She started dancing flamenco and ballroom at an early age. In school, she was the storytelling champion from her district and a ... See full bio »


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agreed. rappers with this kind of heart are a dying breed. people need to hear this guy
Kyle Hubbard – Sorority Girl
Artist Name : Kyle Hubbard
Genre : Hip-Hop
Year formed : 2006
Hometown : Houston, TX
Website : kylehubbardhtx.com
Myspace : myspace.com/kylehubbard
Facebook : facebook.com/kylehubbardhtx
Featured Track : Sorority Girl
Kyle Hubbard was born September 4th 1987 in Houston, Texas. On paper, it seems like rap music would be the last thing that would become his calling, being raised in a suburb outside of the city with two loving and caring parents its hard to say at what point Kyle Hubbard made the transition from happy go lucky kid to bitter lyricist with a microphone.
Judging from his outside appearance one is quick to assume that this kid has no place in the world of hip hop. His glasses, pale skin, and lack of muscle make he seem better suited for the confinement of a cubicle than for the stage, but through years of hard work he has proved that not only does he belong in the world of Hip Hop, but that it may be his for the taking. With his insightful lyrics and heartfelt delivery, Kyle Hubbard stands in sharp contrast to his peers.
In a time where music as become more a product than an art form Kyle Hubbard seems hell bent on standing out on his own, in a major way. His mission is to make music you can feel in your soul and to write rap songs that not only make you nod your head to the beat but that also make you stop, listen, and digest his words. With every song on the radio today consisting of the rants of some bragadocious idiot, or filled with the heartless materialism that has defined an entire generation, it is very refreshing to hear an artist who is a real person. It's refreshing to hear a rapper talk about real life, and real issues that affect average people on daily basis.
- Kyle has been named Artist of the Week by The Houston Press
- Kyle's song feat. Roosk and DZA, "Sipping" was The Houston Press Song of the Week
- Kyle's song "My Girl Likes To Drink" was The Houston Press Song of the Week
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Watson, Please Meet IBM Collaborative Software
OK, I admit, when I first heard that IBM Research had developed a computer to play Jeopardy, my initial reaction was, "there's a great use of people's time." Then I saw some of the IBM commercials, and I was angry. "Here goes IBM marketing again, can't spend a dime to show Lotus software, but Lord knows how much they've spent marketing this stunt. (At least the IBM hardware folks had to be happy that the Power7 logo was displayed.)"
Then I watched the Nova episode on Watson last week, and my perspective has completely changed. If you missed the episode, I strongly encourage you to take time out and view it (I've embedded it at the bottom of this post).
What was so cool was to learn about how the Watson team used "machine learning" to "teach" Watson how to deconstruct questions to understand what is being asked, and then through many examples of what correct answers to questions are, used its vast database of raw unstructured data to piece together answers to these questions. (Yes, its Jeopardy, so actually it's reversed. Watson deconstructs statements, researches, then constructs questions.) The Nova folks did a fantastic job walking through the development history of Watson, showcasing the challenges the team faced, and describing the methods they used to overcome them. My only critique is that I wished they would have gotten more technical in their description of machine learning. The example of getting a computer to recognize the letter 'A' was great, but I'd love to understand more about the bits and bytes of how this works.
Watching the episode made a convert out of me. I'm completely amazed by what IBM has accomplished with Watson, and look forward to watching it compete on Jeopardy Monday - Wednesday this week (the DVR is all set to record). I guess I'd be surprised if Watson actually beats the two best Jeopardy contestants to ever play the game, but regardless of the outcome, the technology behind Watson holds amazing promise.
I have always been a sci-fi fan, and Isaac Assimov had me hooked at an early age on the idea of artificial intelligence. But where IBM talked about the potential real-life applications of Watson to things like medical treatment and financial analysis, my first thought was to applying this to human learning. Wouldn't it be amazing to have a system that learned about you--not to understand what movie you might want to watch next, or what product it could up-sell you on--but learned about your learning styles and objectives. Imagine it then dynamically assembling learning content from the vast resources of the internet in a manner that you would learn best. Imagine linking all of these systems so that the examples of how Joe and Susy and Ryan learned, could be referenced so that your system would get better and better at this over time.
Human learning has always been a keen interest of mine, so not surprising that's where my thoughts initially went. But then it hit me, what could possibly have more unstructure content than email and social sites like Connections?
What if Watson were put to use to read your email and prompt you on what you may want to do next, such as:
Create an activity
File the email in a folder that matches where you've put similar emails in the past
Create a new folder and file the email
Open a composite application to pull data to answer a question asked
Start a reply to the email based on a template you've used in the past
Recognize that this sender is not in your contacts, and create a pre-populated entry based on the person's email signature
Create a new calendar entry based on the request to meet next Tuesday and populate it with the invitees
I mean, I get all jazzed by live text recognition in Notes (which I think is Majorly underutilized), but talk about a better Outlook! Or imagine being able to ask a question of your social network, and Watson jumping in an suggesting blogs, Wikis or bookmarks you should check out.
So yes, PLEASE, Watson, meet IBM Collaborative Software--I can't wait! (Oh yeah, and good luck on Jeopardy too.)
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I've put together a couple of video demos of the Cisco Voicemail Plug-in and the Cisco Phone Control and Presence Plug-in. Hopefully they convey some of the great features that they provide. They are best viewed full screen. The plug-ins require that the user is licensed for Sametime Standard. But the plug-ins themselves are free. So if you have Cisco telephony and a Lotus Notes environment today, you really should be looking at deploying them for your end-users. The only additional hardw
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At the end of last year, Cisco released an update to the Phone Control and Presence plug-in. At the time, I posted just a quick copy of their announcement, but did not comment beyond that. If you have a Cisco telephony environment with PCAP deployed, you should upgrade to this latest release for one MAJOR reason, it now supports live text in Notes. If you don't have it deployed yet, do it now! So why is this update such a big deal? The number one question we would get from customers we wer
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The Finsiders continue their AFC East positional breakdown series with the wide receiver position, looking at each of the receiving corps in the division. Read More
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Located in the northeast corner of the state, Etowah County has been an industrial center of Alabama since the nineteenth century. It is the birthplace of William Patrick Lay, the founder of Alabama Power. The city of Gadsden played an important role in both the Civil War and World War II and is the starting point for the annual World's Longest Yard Sale. The county is governed by an elected six-member commission
and includes 13 incorporated communities.
· Founding Date: December 7, 1866
· Area: 542 square miles
· Current Population: 104,430 (2010 Census)
· Major Waterways: Coosa River
· Major Highways: I-59, U.S. 431, U.S. 278, U.S. 411, U.S. 11
· County Seat: Gadsden
· Largest City: Gadsden
Etowah County was created by an act of the Alabama State Legislature on December 7, 1866, from portions of Cherokee and DeKalb counties. Originally named Baine County in honor of Confederate General David W. Baine, the county existed for one year before being abolished by the state's Reconstruction government. One year later, the county was recreated and named Etowah, a Cherokee word believed to mean "edible tree."
The first settlement in what is now Etowah County was located at a town called Double Springs on the Coosa River. Double Springs was transformed on July 4, 1845, when Captain James Lafferty piloted the first steamboat to the area. Local residents offered to name the town "Lafferty's Landing" in his honor, but Lafferty declined. Instead, the name Gadsden was chosen, in honor of Colonel James Gadsden of South Carolina, famous for the Gadsden Purchase. On May 2, 1863, during Union colonel Abel Streight's raid through north Alabama, a local farmer named John Wisdom gained notoriety when he raced ahead of Streight's troops, who were in turn being pursued by Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, to Rome, Georgia, to warn the town's citizens of the Union troops' impending arrival. A young girl named Emma Sansom became a local heroine during the raid when she led Forrest and his men across Black Creek to capture Streight's troops.
In 1903, Gadsden resident William Patrick Lay built his first hydroelectric plant on Big Wills Creek, which furnished the town of Attalla with electricity. He organized Alabama Power Company in 1906. Gadsden became an important military center during World War II, when the Gadsden Ordnance Plant was constructed to produce shells for cannons. By the end of the war in 1945, the plant had produced more than 16 million shells. In 1942, the U.S. took possession of 36,300 acres in Etowah and adjoining St. Clair County to establish Alabama's first Chemical Warfare Center (CWC). Known as Camp Sibert, it served as a Unit Training Center and a Replacement Training Center for the CWC. Deactivated in 1945, Camp Sibert was the training site for more than 45 percent of all CWS troops who served in WWII. In 1963, Etowah County received national media attention when civil-rights worker William Moore was murdered near Attalla.
Major Cities and Demogr aphics
According to the 2010 Census, the population of Etowah County was 104,430. Of that total, 80.3 percent of respondents identified
themselves as white; 15.1 percent as African American, and 3.3 percent as Hispanic, 1.5 percent as two or more races, 0.6
percent as Asian, and 0.4 percent as Native American. The median household income was $36,378, compared with $40,547 for the
state as a whole, and the per capita income was $20,354, compared with $22,732 for the state. The county seat, Gadsden, had
an estimated population of 38,856. Other towns in the county are Rainbow City, Attalla, Glencoe, Hokes Bluff, Sardis City, Southside, Altoona, and Mountainboro.
Because of its rolling and hilly terrain, Etowah County has never been an agricultural powerhouse. Instead, the county's natural resources and large labor force have made it one of the most important industrial centers in Alabama. In 1845, Coosa Furnace, located on the banks of Big Wills Creek, became the first iron furnace built in the county. In 1895 Dwight Mill in Alabama City was organized, and at the height of its production in 1953, it employed 2,600 people. The mill, which included a village, eventually closed as a result of strikes in 1959. In 1900 Underwood Coal Company was organized and later purchased by Alabama Steel. At one point, the company had 11 mines in operation near the town of Altoona. In 1929 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company constructed a plant in Gadsden. At the turn of the twenty-first century it remained the largest employer in the county, with 2,550 workers. On October 5, 2006, U.S. Steel workers went on strike at the plant, which left approximately half the workers without jobs. As of August 2007, Goodyear announced that it would spend close to $125 million to upgrade the plant. The second largest employer, Gulf States Steel, organized in 1903 and in 1998 employed 1,900 workers. In 2000 the company declared bankruptcy and closed.
The workforce in present-day Etowah County is divided among the following occupational categories:
· Educational services, and health care and social assistance (24.2 percent)
· Manufacturing (17.6 percent)
· Retail trade (11.2 percent)
· Arts, entertainment, recreation, and accommodation and food services (7.6 percent)
· Construction (7.5 percent)
· Professional, scientific, management, and administrative and waste management services (6.6 percent)
· Other services, except public administration (5.1 percent)
· Transportation and warehousing, and utilities (4.9 percent)
· Public administration (4.6 percent)
· Finance and insurance, and real estate, rental, and leasing (4.4 percent)
· Wholesale trade (3.6 percent)
· Information (1.7 percent)
· Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and extractive (1.1 percent)
The Etowah County School System currently employs 540 teachers who serve more than 8,400 students in 22 schools. In addition
the Attalla City School System currently employs 115 teachers who serve more than 1,800 students in four schools. The Gadsden
City School System currently employs 362 teachers who serve more than 5,400 students in 17 schools. Etowah County also contains
four private schools with enrollments of approximately 1,200 students. Etowah County is also home to Gadsden State Community College, a two-year public coeducational institution.
Comprising approximately 542 square miles, Etowah County lies in the northeastern area of the state, wholly within the Cumberland Plateau physiographic section. It is bounded to the east by Cherokee County, to the south by Calhoun and St. Clair counties, to the west by Blount and Marshall counties, and to the north by DeKalb County.
The Coosa River runs north to south through the eastern half of the county, and two of its tributaries, Black and Big Wills
creeks, intersect the area. In 1966, Alabama Power constructed H. Neely Henry Dam on the Coosa River, creating the H. Neely
Henry Lake, which covers the southern tip of Etowah County. In addition, both the Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain ranges
are located in the county. Interstate 59 runs north-south through the center of the county, and U.S.11 and U.S. 411 parallel
the same route. U.S. 278 runs east-west through the center of the county, and U.S. 431 runs north-south. Gadsden Municipal
Airport is the county's only public airport.
Events and Places of Interest
Gadsden is home to one of the state's most breathtaking geographic features, Noccalula Falls, a 100-foot waterfall. Every August the "World's Longest Yard Sale" begins in Gadsden and runs along the scenic Lookout Mountain Parkway. The four-day event attracts thousands of shoppers and yard-sale vendors to the area. The area also features Silver Lakes, a golf course on the famed Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. Lake Neely Henry features some of the area's best fishing, including crappie and largemouth, spotted, and striped bass.
Additional Resources
Etowah County Centennial Commission. A History of Etowah County, Alabama. Birmingham: Roberts and Son, 1968.
Heritage of Etowah County, Alabama. Clanton, Ala.: Heritage Publishing Consultants, Inc., 1999.
Patricia Hoskins Morton
Auburn University
Published August 29, 2007
Last updated October 27, 2014