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VERSAILLES, France, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Your favorite television show is on the air and you're on a business trip overseas …
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You want to show Grandma those great snapshots of your children's school Christmas party but you left them on your iPad back home …
Your wife recorded the last two episodes of Game of Thrones, but you're stuck in a hotel room without only your smartphone for company …
No way to connect?
No problem!
Introducing VIOTECH's My eHome® -- a multi-play solution easily installed in the user's home -- renders simultaneous and fully-adapted content to users to provide the best and most familiar multimedia experience possible. Officially unveiled @ CES 2013, the launch of My eHome was a major, and yet unexpected, success. Exhibiting from the Eureka Park Tech Zone at CES, VIOTECH drew more than a thousand visits and demo requests from media, investors, analysts, buyers and a wide array of interested industrial parties, including operators such as Comcast, content providers like DirecTV and major multimedia equipment manufacturers including Panasonic, Cisco and Nagra.
VIOTECH was the only non-U.S. based startup among eight finalists selected to pitch their concept to leading angel investors at Showstoppers' prestigious Launch.it Pitchfest event on Monday, January 7.
So, what exactly is My eHome?
"The original challenge was based on the concept that today's multimedia user wants 24-hour ubiquitous access to all his content, wherever he is, on any terminal, in harmony with all the other things he loves to do," says Marius Negru, VIOTECH'S Head of Strategic Projects. "But what's simple is often the most difficult to achieve. With so many platforms and content delivery vehicles in the marketplace, while users now have multiple content access, they also face multiple access issues which include offer fragmentation, quality and privacy.
"My eHome tackles all three elements in a single platform. "
At the heart of the concept, Negru says, is VIOTECH'S proprietary design that combines a user's personal files with mainstream content (i.e., TV/IPTV channel subscription, recordings, and web browser, etc.), all of which is stored and then streamed – on demand. HomeB®, as the home-installed set-top-box device is called, reads and can transmit all videos, pictures, music, data, files and text through DLNA supported delivery mechanisms.
To access his content, the user simply connects his remote receiver to any electronic multimedia device (it can be a personal laptop, tablet, smartphone, even a hotel room TV set), and through a unique customizable interface, the receiver delivers the user's content in the identical configurations and interface with which the user feel both comfortable and familiar, since he configured it all by himself.
According to Negru, My eHome maintains several distinct advantages over its competitors in the remote content delivery marketplace. "Several companies convey data remotely, but My eHome will be the only product to deliver both a user's home television content and data files in his exact home interface," he says. "But that's only the tip of the iceberg. Thanks to the in-house-developed adaptation algorithms, the video content is streamed to the receiving terminal based on what we call the 'user-context,' a set of parameters measuring the location, the terminal or the network conditions that allow for most optimized video experience. Second, since all content is stored within HomeB, the user keeps FULL control over any shared content to allow for editing, removal or deletion."
And as they proved last week, thanks to My eHome's innovative storage functionality, What happens in Vegas stays in the HomeB®!
On the heels of their successful CES introduction, My eHome has initiated production toward a scheduled target delivery of early 2014. The company is presently seeking North American industrial partners including telecoms, content providers, cable operators and manufacturers.
Founded in 2007 by Marius Negru and fellow childhood friends and associates, VIOTECH is committed to the conception, development, creation, marketing and promotion of high-level, added-value services and applications designed for implementation within the booming Digital Home Networking Market. Through innovative hardware and software solutions, VIOTECH products enable streaming transmission of audiovisual and multimedia content via digital networks including IP multicasting over WLAN and Intranets inside homes and offices.
Follow VIOTECH on Twitter (#ViotechCom), Google+ and Facebook. For demos or for additional information on both My eHome® and VIOTECH, visit and contact us on www.viotech.net.
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Salem firefighters help battle mill blaze in Lawrence
Salem Fire Capt. Stephane Cattin said the call for assistance came in around 4:40 p.m., when the ladder truck, three firefighters and an assistant chief headed to Lawrence.
"They're operating at a defensive position, trying to contain it," Cattin said.
As of 7:30 p.m. Monday night, Lawrence Fire Department dispatchers said the fire at 9 South Canal St. was still burning and had not been declared contained.

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Final: FAU 65, WKU 62
FAU builds a double-digit lead, hangs on despite furious Hilltopper comeback to defeat WKU 65-62.
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Even though Florida Atlantic has struggled to close out games this season the Owls, holding an 11-point lead with less than three minutes remaining, had to feel like they'd withstood WKU's late pressure.
It turns out the Owls needed every point of that lead, but they did manage to hang on to beat the Hilltoppers 65-62 in Bowling Green, Ky.
A combination of turnovers and missed free throws allowed Western Kentucky to come storming back in the final minutes. The Hilloppers cut the gap to a single point on T. J Price's 3-pointer with 13 seconds remaining but could get no closer.
Freshman Jackson Trapp calmly pushed the Owls lead back to three points with 10 seconds remaining; then Price missed a 3-point attempt to tie, sending FAU back to Boca Raton with Mike Jarvis' second win in five chances at E. A. Diddle Arena.
The near collapse was in direct opposition to the way the Owls started the game. FAU played one of its best first halves of the year, getting positive contributions from eight players to take a 32-22 halftime lead.
FAU (9-9, 4-3 Sun Belt) extended that lead to 15 points early in the second half only to watch WKU (10-8, 4-3 Sun Belt) launch its first major run of the game. The Hilltoppers trimmed that lead to four with 10:25 remaining, before the Owls regained their composure and quickly built the lead back to 13.
Greg Gantt led all scorers with 22 points. Stefan Moody and Pablo Bertone added 15 apiece for the Owls. Price finished with 20 for the Hilltoppers.
The Owls outrebounded the Hilltoppers 40-29 to earn a split in a two-game road trip that started with a 10-point loss to Middle Tennessee on Thursday.
Moving Forward: Kelvin Penn made trips through the lane difficult for the Hilltoppers, blocking five shots and grabbing nine rebounds to go with his four points. ...Jackson Trapp played 19 minutes, hit a big three and drained two key free throws at the end of the game. ...Bertone in the field: Pablo scored 15 points and grabbed six rebounds.
Moving Backward: Bertone at the line: Pablo missed three-of-four free throw attempts in the closing minutes. ...Greg Gantt turned the ball over seven times. ...Big men Chris Bryant and Dragan Sekelja combined to play 26 minutes but neither one scored.
Key Stat: 8 - Blocked shots by the Owls, who turned up their defense against WKU.
Up Next: FAU returns home to face Troy on Thursday at 7 p.m. in The Burrow.
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Joblessness could raise likelihood of heart attack
CHICAGO — Unemployment hurts more than your wallet — it could damage your heart. That's according to a study linking joblessness with heart attacks in older workers.
The increased odds weren't huge, although multiple job losses posed as big a threat as smoking, high blood pressure and other conditions that are bad for the heart.
The researchers analyzed data on more than 13,000 men and women ages 51 to 75 who were taking part in an ongoing health and retirement survey partly sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. Since 1992, participants have been interviewed every two years about their employment and health.
The analysis has several limitations. The data show periods of unemployment but don't indicate whether people were fired, laid off, out of work while switching jobs or voluntarily left a job. The researchers considered all of those situations "job losses," but it's likely the greatest risks for heart attacks were from being fired or laid off, said researcher Matthew Dupre, an assistant professor at Duke University and the lead author.
The analysis appears in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine.
The analysis covers 1992-2010. Participants were mostly in their 50s at the study's beginning and were asked about their job history, employment status and recent heart attacks at subsequent interviews. People who'd had heart attacks before the study began were excluded.
Nearly 70 percent had at least one job loss, or period of unemployment after working at a job, and at least 10 percent had four or more before and/or during the study period.
There were 1,061 heart attacks during the study. Those with at least one job loss were 22 percent more likely to have a heart attack than those who never lost a job. Those with at least four job losses had a 60 percent higher risk than those with none. Men and women faced equal risks.
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Posted by James Staten on January 31, 2011
Pop Quiz: What's the fastest way to build a credible, enterprise-relevant and highly profitable cloud computing services practice? Buy one that already is. That's exactly what Verizon did last week when it pushed $1.4B across the table to Terremark. Despite its internal efforts to build an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) business over the last two years, Verizon simply couldn't learn the best practices fast enough to have matched the gains in the market it received through this move. Terremark has one of the strongest IaaS hosting businesses in the market and perhaps the best enterprise mix in its customer base of the top tier providers. It also has a significant presence with government clients including the United States' Government Services Agency (GSA) which has production systems running in a hybrid mode between Terremark's IaaS and traditional managed hosting services.
Confidential Forrester client inquiries have shown struggles by Verizon to win competitive IaaS bids with its computing-as-a-service (CaaS) offering, often losing to Terremark. This led to Verizon reselling the Terremark solution (its CaaS for SMB) so they could try before the buy.
Posted by Eveline Oehrlich on January 28, 2011
Almost every day I get the question: "We want to replace our ITSM support tool; which vendor should I look at?" There are many alternatives today and each vendor has certainly done a great amount of work to position themselves as the best. The success I had in consulting with these clients, and the knowledge I carry with me now, is thanks in part to the clients with whom I have discussed the ITSM space. They have all confirmed that the functionality across these vendors is very similar. This, however, does not help in decision-making — so I'm especially excited to have authored a three-piece research document which might take some magic out of the decision process when selecting ITSM support tools in the future.
This Forrester report is called Eliminate Magic When Selecting The Right IT Service Management (ITSM) Support Tool. It's an overview of the process decision-makers need to follow and the important — but sometimes overlooked — other criteria to keep in mind as they work toward launching or engaging with the ITSM vendor community.
I identified four phases of the evaluation process that should be followed:
Plan: Lay the groundwork, set objectives, explore existing conversations, and make necessary early decisions.
Assemble an evaluation team: Putting the right people together to understand the use cases and requirements is critical before the next step.
Define your requirements: Use the ITSM Support Tools Product Comparison to define your requirements.
Posted by Richard Fichera on January 25, 2011
Last week IBM and ARM Holdings Plc quietly announced a continuation of their collaboration on advanced process technology, this time with a stated goal of developing ARM IP optimized for IBM physical processes down to a future 14 nm size. The two companies have been collaborating on semiconductors and SOC design since 2007, and this extension has several important ramifications for both companies and their competitors.
It is a clear indication that IBM retains a major interest in low-power and mobile computing, despite its previous divestment of its desktop and laptop computers to Lenovo, and that it will be in a position to harvest this technology, particularly ARM's modular approach to composing SOC systems, for future productization.
For ARM, the implications are clear. Its latest announced product, the Cortex A15, which will probably appear in system-level products in approximately 2013, will be initially produced in 32 nm with a roadmap to 20nm. The existence of a roadmap to a potential 14 nm product serves notice that the new ARM architecture will have a process roadmap that will keep it on Intel's heels for another decade. ARM has parallel alliances with TSMC and Samsung as well, and there is no reason to think that these will not be extended, but the IBM alliance is an additional insurance policy. As well as a source of semiconductor technology, IBM has a deep well of systems and CPU IP that certainly cannot hurt ARM.
Posted by JP Gownder on January 25, 2011
Are you a product strategist trying to craft an iPad (or general tablet) product strategy? For example, are you thinking about creating an app to extend your product proposition using the iPad or other tablet computer?
At Forrester, we've noticed that product strategists in a wide variety of verticals – media, retail, travel, consumer products, financial services, pharmaceuticals, software, and many others – are struggling to make fundamental decisions about how the iPad (and newer tablets based on Android, Windows, webOS, RIM's QNX, and other platforms) will affect their businesses.
To help these clients, an analyst on my team, Sarah Rotman Epps, has designed a one-day Workshop that she'll be conducting twice, on February 8th and February 9th, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She'll be helping clients answer fundamental questions, such as:
Posted by Vanessa Alvarez on January 24, 2011
This past week, EMC had a record-breaking event in NYC, where they announced a number of new products and features. The announcements focused mainly around VNX and VNXe, as well as Symmetrix. However, the company also went into detail as to how some of the newer acquisitions would fit into their overall portfolio. The company's plans for Isilon (acquisition discussed by @reichmanIT here: http://bit.ly/bNrVKz) was perhaps more interesting. This was one of EMC's best acquisitions, as it gave it the capabilities needed for scale-out NAS. In conjunction with the rest of its portfolio, EMC is positioned to capture new markets not traditionally recognized in, provided the portfolio is integrated seamlessly. It also points to many changes we see occurring in the data center today.
Posted by James Staten on January 24, 2011
Forrester's survey and inquiry research shows that, when it comes to cloud computing choices, our enterprise customers are more interested in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) than platform-as-a-service (PaaS) despite the fact that PaaS is simpler to use. Well, this line is beginning to blur thanks to new offerings from Amazon Web Services LLC and upstart Standing Cloud.
The concern about PaaS lies around lock-in, as developers and infrastructure and operations professionals fear that by writing to the PaaS layer's services their application will lose portability (this concern has long been a middleware concern — PaaS or otherwise). As a result, IaaS platforms that let you control the deployment model down to middleware, OS and VM resource choice are more open and portable. The tradeoff though, is that developer autonomy comes with a degree of complexity. As the below figure shows, there is a direct correlation between the degree of abstraction a cloud service provides and the skill set required by the customer. If your development skills are limited to scripting, web page design and form creation, most SaaS platforms provide the right abstraction for you to be productive. If you are a true coder with skills around Java, C# or other languages, PaaS offerings let you build more complex applications and integrations without you having to manage middleware, OS or infrastructure configuration. The PaaS services take care of this. IaaS, however, requires you to know this stuff. As a result, cloud services have an inverse pyramid of potential customers. Despite the fact that IaaS is more appealing to enterprise customers, it is the hardest to use.
Posted by Michele Pelino on January 22, 2011
Vendors in the mobility ecosystem are dramatically underestimating the demand for mobility solutions in the corporate arena. Why? Because they are missing demand that will come from two emerging segments of employees: Mobile Wannabes and Mobile Mavericks. When combined, these two worker segments account for 22% of all employees today, but by 2015 they will grow significantly to 42% of all corporate employees. To identify the needs of these mobile workers, Forrester analyzed results from the Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q3 2010, which was fielded to over 5,500 employees in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US and captures their smartphone device usage, purchasing behavior, and mobile application adoption.
Mobile Wannabe employees work in desk jobs at an office and do not get mobile devices from the corporate IT department, but they "want to" use their smartphone devices for work. Today, Mobile Wannabe workers account for 16% of all employees worldwide; however, by 2015, this segment will account for nearly 30% of all employees. Wannabe worker roles include executive assistants, clerical personnel, human resource workers, and customer service representatives. Momentum in this segment is driven by Millennial workers who grew up having easy access to personal computers and mobile phones and often purchase smartphones prior to entering the workforce.
Posted by Robert Whiteley III on January 18, 2011
I just spent the better part of December on the road visiting infrastructure & operations (I&O) executives at our clients. Meeting clients is always interesting, but this year was particularly interesting. Why? Because most of the executives I met were a bit panicked. That's not to say they aren't good at their jobs, or that they don't understand how to overcome the day-to-day challenges they face. No, this was something different. Something unprecedented is unfolding — and it's unfolding with frightening speed. Put simply, these I&O execs all echoed one thing: they're ill equipped to support empowered employees.
Posted by JP Gownder on January 18, 2011
Aside from my work with product strategists, I'm also a quant geek. For much of my career, I've written surveys (to study both consumers and businesses) to delve deeply into demand-side behaviors, attitudes, and needs. For my first couple of years at Forrester, I actually spent 100% of my time helping clients with custom research projects that employed data and advanced analytics to help drive their business strategies.
These days, I use those quantitative research tools to help product strategists build winning product strategies. I have two favorite analytical approaches: my second favorite is segmentation analysis, which is an important tool for product strategists. But my very favorite tool for product strategists is conjoint analysis. If you, as a product strategist, don't currently use conjoint, I'd like you to spend some time learning about it.
Why? Because conjoint analysis should be in every product strategist's toolkit. Also known as feature tradeoff analysis or discrete choice, conjoint analysis can help you choose the right features for a product, determine which features will drive demand, and model pricing for the product in a very sophisticated way. It's the gold standard for price elasticity analysis, and it offers extremely actionable advice on product design. It helps address each of "the four Ps" that inform product strategies.
Posted by Richard Fichera on January 17, 2011
From nothing more than an outlandish speculation, the prospects for a new entrant into the volume Linux and Windows server space have suddenly become much more concrete, culminating in an immense buzz at CES as numerous players, including NVIDIA and Microsoft, stoked the fires with innuendo, announcements, and demos.
Consumers of x86 servers are always on the lookout for faster, cheaper, and more power-efficient servers. In the event that they can't get all three, the combination of cheaper and more energy-efficient seems to be attractive to a large enough chunk of the market to have motivated Intel, AMD, and all their system partners to develop low-power chips and servers designed for high density compute and web/cloud environments. Up until now the debate was Intel versus AMD, and low power meant a CPU with four cores and a power dissipation of 35 – 65 Watts.
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The performance trajectory of processors that were formerly purely mobile device processors, notably the ARM Cortex, has suddenly introduced a new potential option into the collective industry mindset. But is this even a reasonable proposition, and if so, what does it take for it to become a reality?
Our first item of business is to figure out whether or not it even makes sense to think about these CPUs as server processors. My quick take is yes, with some caveats. The latest ARM offering is the Cortex A9, with vendors offering dual core products at up to 1.2 GHz currently (the architecture claims scalability to four cores and 2 GHz). It draws approximately 2W, much less than any single core x86 CPU, and a multi-core version should be able to execute any reasonable web workload. Coupled with the promise of embedded GPUs, the notion of a server that consumes much less power than even the lowest power x86 begins to look attractive. But…
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Jeff Jardine's comments a joke told by Marty Jakosa at the Turlock Chamber of Commerce meeting last Friday beg for a reply. It's really hard to believe that what happened deserves so much attention. Front page news? I guess there must not be much news to report for this to even make the paper, much less the front page.
Has our society collapsed to the point where one cannot tell a political joke in public without a tirade from the likes of Jeff Jardine? So this took the limelight off the people that were being recognized that evening? That argument seems silly. What all this is about is political correctness run amok. The only thing Marty did wrong was to assume his audience had a sense of humor.
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Senkaku Islands Dispute May Hurt Japan?s Recovering Tourism Industry
September 17 2012 12:09 PM EDT
When China and the Philippines sparred over the disputed Scarborough Shoal (known as Huangyan Island in China) this past May, the People?s Republic canceled all outbound travel to the Philippines, dealing a direct blow to an industry vital to the nation?s economy. Substitute Japan for the Philippines and Senkaku Islands (known as Diaoyu Islands in China) for Scarborough Shoal, and you?ve got the same thing happening this September.
Airlines To Passengers: Book Directly With Us Or We Will Punish You
September 13 2012 4:33 PM EDT
Frontier Airlines changed its website to FlyFrontier.com on Wednesday, a simple enough move if it weren't for the message the company issued in the process, which went something like this: Forget the traditional online travel booking sites -- book with us or we will punish you.
International Tourism Arrivals To Exceed 1 Billion For First Time In 2012
September 13 2012 11:56 AM EDT
Europe may be in the throes of a crisis while North America recovers from its own recession, but that hasn't stopped people from traveling -- far from it. Despite concerns over the global economy, tourism has shown incredible resilience as international arrivals are now projected to cross the 1 billion mark for the first time in 2012.
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September 13 2012 11:51 AM EDT
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August 31 2012 10:52 AM EDT
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A man called CVS Pharmacy, 7520 W. Bluemound Road, at 1 p.m. April 18 claiming he was going to blow up the building and the store manager's family if $500 was not loaded on five separate Green Dot MoneyPak debit cards, according to a Wauwatosa police report.
Hoax bomb scares and Green Dot phone calls are not uncommon to Wauwatosa businesses. Three happened last year and have been investigated by the Wauwatosa Police Department, Lt. Christopher Fox said. Friday's call is the first to happen since September.
Other Wauwatosa businesses that have received hoax threats include Walgreens at Wauwatosa Avenue and Center Street, Walgreens at Mayfair Road and North Avenue, and K-Mart, 3201 N. Mayfair Road.
All three calls occurred on Sept. 16 or 17, Fox said.
According to the police report, the caller on April 18 said: "Listen to me very carefully. If you don't do what I want, I will enter your store and blow up your store. I'm currently near your store and I have nothing to live for. Will you do what I ask?"
The store manager said he would not be loading any money on to any debit cards for the man, who had a heavy accent, the report states.
The male caller replied: "Think about what you are saying. I'm going to find out where your family is and blow them up. Think about your family."
The store manager then hung up the phone and called the police. He had all employees and customers exit CVS. The caller never gave the manager his name, and there was no caller I.D., according to the report.
After 30 minutes, the manager presumed the bomb threat was false and re-opened CVS about 1:45 p.m., the report said.
TMJ-4 first reported on two bomb threats that closed stores in Oak Creek and Wauwatosa last September. The threats were made against two Walgreens stores.
Threats involving Green Dot MoneyPak cards had been made against drug stores and retail outlets nationwide, said the FBI in Atlanta, the Journal Sentinel reported last year.
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Robert Takes a Stand
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Third-grader Robert Dorfman starts a demonstration for animal rights and learns that the issue is not as simple as it seems. In his zeal to "protect the earth and all its creatures" he plans a protest in front of his local fur dealer, only to find out that his beloved grandmother wears a fur coat.
Robert's efforts to keep the fur in question a secret from his classmates while simultaneously shielding his grandmother from his snowballing anti-fur campaign consume his every waking moment. Exhausted by his double life, he comes clean to both his grandmother and his third-grade class. The experience paves the way for the launch of his political career as the campaign manager for his friend Paul, candidate for class president.
This versatile and prolific author has written and illustrated more than fifty children's books in a variety of genres. In this latest addition to her series featuring Robert Dorfman, Seuling's expertise as an author of transitional chapter books shines. In both content and style, this easy chapter book is perfectly suited to its audience of readers who are making the leap from beginner books to more traditional children's novels. At 168 pages, this is a long offering for young readers, but the episodic plot is easy to follow.
Compelling issues like animal rights, smoking, and bullies are raised through Robert's exploits, and are guaranteed to hold the interest of the reader. The types of situations that Seuling depicts—family relationships, classroom politics, friendship issues, and the like—are familiar to children, making the book even more accessible.
Seuling's writing style is well suited to her audience. The vocabulary is simple, the sentences are uncomplicated, and although the book has twenty-six chapters, the average chapter length is six to eight pages. Readers will revel in her wordplay, as when Robert and Paul literally construct a wooden platform to stand on when they are asked for Paul's presidential platform, or when Robert makes a protest sign that reads "Stop killing animals to make fur coats."
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Moving or starting a butterfly bush from cuttings?
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I have a volunteer butterfly bush that grew up right next to my little lotus bog (300 Rubbermaid stocktank in the ground).
Its a beautiful bush (about 8' tall) and attracts tons of butterflies and is real close to our deck, so its nice seeing the butterflies so close. But......it ends up covering up about half of the lotus bog. I would love to move it, but its several years old. Is there a way of starting a new cutting from it and growing it somewhere else?
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I move plants and bushes all the time! I am very poor at space management so I have gotten very good at moving plants and bushes. The key is water, water, water. And that includes filling the hole with water twice before planting - that was my grandmothers expert advice!


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It's been 3 years since Disney bought Marvel, and now, they produce the first ever crossover. It is, needless to say, a weird one however, but is it the most practical and acceptable route they can take with this?
I still think the genius brothers and their colourful world would have been better suited for Kingdom Hearts as opposed to this, but what do you think? You think it's a good idea for the Avengers to meet Phineas and Ferb, or is Disney out of their mind on this move?


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Women's rights in the Arab world still lagging behind
Source:Middle East Online
Across the Arab world, women's rights are being stifled by political unrest and conservative women in positions of power, lawyers, intellectuals and officials told a weekend conference in Germany.
"In recent years, our countries have lived through conflicts that have led our governments to make women's rights a secondary issue," Jordanian lawyer Asma Khader said. "Conservative forces in our patriarchal and sometimes tribal societies mean that women themselves, in positions of political, social or religious power, can be the fiercest defenders of the status quo," she said.
"Women who represent the system are more loyal to it than to the female condition," agreed Palestinian writer Sumaya Farhat-Nasser.
"Women who represent the system are more loyal to it than to the female condition," agreed Palestinian writer Sumaya Farhat-Nasser.
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Jeep will be showing off seven off-road concept vehicles for the 49th annual Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, which runs from March 28 to April 5.
A cooler weekend continues in Orlando, with temperatures expected to just reach 70 on Sunday.
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When a dog pounced on a boy and began biting him, the child's relatives and a neighbor rushed to the boy's aid, witnesses say.
The new DeVine Wine & Grill is an oasis for Oviedo's Lisa Cornelius, who often drives to Winter Park for dinner.
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
A case where the headline says it all
Obama's Amnesty Will Add As Many Foreign Workers As New Jobs Since 2009Well, the headline doesn't quite say it all, as the article is rather good. Here's an additional nugget worth pointing out:
Each year, the nation accepts one million new [legal] immigrants, or roughly five million since 2009. That total includes roughly 3.5 million working-age immigrants, which is slightly less than the number of Americans — 4.3 million — who turn 18 each year.
Also, companies annually hire roughly 450,000 blue-collar guest workers and roughly 200,000 white-collar guest workers. Most of these guest workers stay for less than a year, but many stay for six years. [emphasis added]And he didn't even kiss us.
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The surplus of domestic and foreign job-seekers also helps ensure that U.S. median wages have flat-lined since 2000. Economists — including Obama's top economic adviser — say that wages stall when the labor supply is larger than the supply of new jobs.So remember that they known goddamned well & good what they're doing to American workers by opening the floodgates even wider for more immigration. It works to reduce employment and wages for the native born.
Posted by Icepick at 11/20/2014 05:26:00 PM
Labels: Economics, Economy, Employment, Immigration, Politics
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Another look at emploment numbers
Taken from a series of comments elsewhere. I'm not going to edit them, just leave them as the stream of consciousness-data spewing that they were, with a few minor formatting changes:
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Full Time Employment is currently ~2,243,000 BELOW what it was at the peak in November of 2007.
Employment Level – 25 to 54 years is currently ~4,670,000 BELOW what it was at the peak in November of 2007.
Percentage of Population Employed – 25 to 54 years is currently ~2.87% BELOW what it was at the peak in November of 2007.
Still haven't bothered to find full-time employment numbers for 25 to 54 years. Anyone want to bet that number is any better than the ones above?
Anyway, the above is all the argument necessary against continued immigration into this country of any kind. Those arguing for it can only be assumed to be against American workers.
Foreign born employed is up almost two million since the last peak, BTW. Not a direct proxy for illegal immigration, but a fine proxy for immigration overall. That's series LNU02073395.
Yikes, still haven't broken out the monthly data, but I got curious and found a good proxy for what I want with annual averages for
25 to 54 worked 35 or more hours a week (000s)
2007 78,854
2013 73,589
So that's a drop of 5,265,000 full-time jobs for people in their prime working years, from 2007 to 2013. That demographic only declined by about 1,300,000 over that time frame, so that isn't a demographic shift: that is economic ruination. As a percentage of that age group, that's over 3.5% fewer people [in this age group] with full-time jobs.
Again, over a similar time period foreign born workers gained about 2,000,000 jobs, so the actual numbers for native born workers are actually considerably worse.
Tell me how cheap labor is going to make up for THAT mess!
Link 2007 data
Link 2013 data
Posted by Icepick at 11/19/2014 08:19:00 PM
Labels: Economics, Economy, Employment, Immigration
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Announcing a new business venture: HazMat Airlines!
Details (such as they are) here!
Posted by Icepick at 10/23/2014 10:52:00 PM
Labels: Ebola, HazMat Airlines
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Ebola, and the stupidity of categorical statements from public officials
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a categorical statement about the new case of Ebola in Texas. The CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, made the following statement:
At some point, there was a breach in protocol, and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection. The (Ebola treatment) protocols work. ... But we know that even a single lapse or breach can result in infection.However, the CDC went on to state that they had spoken with the nurse and could NOT determine what the failure in procedures was. They do not know what, if anything, the nurse or anyone else did wrong.
While it is most likely true that this new case was a result of a failure to observe safety protocols, the CDC should not be making categorical statements. And here's why.
Taken from the President's remarks on September 16, 2014 [the President's remarks are in block quotes, my responses are not]:
First and foremost, I want the American people to know that our experts, here at the CDC and across our government, agree that the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low.Within three days, an asymptomatic infected person was on his way to the USA via plane. So much for the consensus view of the experts.
We've been taking the necessary precautions, including working with countries in West Africa to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn't get on a plane for the United States.Wrong. See previous comment. The methodologies for screening were so rigorous that lying and Ibuprofen could beat them. Given how easily Duncan entered the country, the chances of this happening were not "extremely low."
In the unlikely event that someone with Ebola does reach our shores, we've taken new measures so that we're prepared here at home. We're working to help flight crews identify people who are sick, and more labs across our country now have the capacity to quickly test for the virus.This one appears to be true. Thank God some of it was.
We're working with hospitals to make sure that they are prepared, and to ensure that our doctors, our nurses and our medical staff are trained, are ready, and are able to deal with a possible case safely.So prepared that they got an Ebola victim and sent him home with anti-biotics. And so prepared that according to the CDC itself the medical staff at the hospital in Texas were too poorly trained to implement the procedures correctly.
Three out of four sentences wrong, although at least the President's speech writers stuck in a slight qualifier in the first sentence.
This is why the CDC should not have made the categorical statement they made regarding the new case in Texas. By doing so they look arrogant, and look especially stupid in light of the President's comments from September 16th, which were no doubt made after the relevant people from the CDC had made their views known to the President and his staff. As it is, they look like the jerk-off NASA administrators who said that the chance of a shuttle failure resulting in catastrophic loss of life and equipment were one in millions or less. It erodes their credibility, and does not reassure the public.
NOTE: I am not implying the President or his advisers were lying on September 16th or today. Perhaps they are, but that isn't proven and I will give them the benefit of the doubt. But the remarks from September 16th have serious credibility issues, and today's comments left them no wiggle room should the new statement be incorrect. And even if their belief is correct, today's statement projects arrogance, which is off-putting to say the least.
Instead, the CDC should have released a statement worded something like this:
We're confident that our safety protocols are effective and believe that one or more of these protocols were likely breached resulting in this additional case. We are working with the infected nurse and her coworkers to determine exactly what happened. We will work diligently to insure no further breaches of established best practices, or if we need to revise our protocols.That would have been reassuring without projecting know-it-all arrogance.
Posted by Icepick at 10/12/2014 10:25:00 PM
Labels: Ebola
Friday, October 03, 2014
The new jobs numbers
Much is being made of the new jobs report, and how it signals how wonderful the economy is.
Well, that's bullshit. Here are some of the more pertinent facts, as compiled from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank's FRED database:
On the job front, we're still approximately 2.6 million full time jobs behind where we were at the prior peak. This after more than five years of 'recovery'.
Also, looking at FRED data I see that people ages 25-54 have over 4.85 million fewer jobs now than at the prior peak. But that population has only dropped by 1.4 million. Overall, the employment percentage for that group has dropped 3% points since the prior peak.
Again, this is after almost five years of 'recovery'. This expansion will not last forever, and it will likely end before we reach the old peaks of full time jobs and jobs of any kind for people in their prime working years. Which hurts those folks immensely, as it will negatively impact everything from total life-time earnings to starting new families. And new household formation has been a classic and strong driver of economy growth in the past. As new household formation falls, that reduces prospects for future growth.
Just try and remember all of this when people state how wonderful a job Obama is doing, and how wonderful the current 'recovery' is. Politeness may force you to have to listen to it, and you may not even be able to object lest you lose your job or other standing, but you don't have to believe it. And if you decide to punch the speaker in the face repeatedly, know that there are several million good reasons to do so. And that's BEFORE looking at the wage numbers, which present their own horror story....
Links to data here:
Employed, Usually Work Full Time
Employment Level - 25 to 54 years
Civilian Noninstitutional Population - 25 to 54 years
Posted by Icepick at 10/03/2014 01:11:00 PM
Labels: "Journalism", Economy, Jobs
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Squirrel of the Week: [Vacant]
For the week of 9/21/2014 to 9/27/2014
No squirrel last week, unless it was Becky.
Posted by Icepick at 9/30/2014 09:08:00 PM
Labels: Becky, Squirrel, Taylor Swift
Squirrel of the Week: It distracted me so much I forgot to blog it.
For the week of 9/14/2014 to 9/20/2014
I done forgot all about it. Having too much fun cutting stuff down and playing chess.
Posted by Icepick at 9/30/2014 09:07:00 PM
Labels: Forgetfulness, Squirrel
Friday, September 19, 2014
Squirrel of the Week: Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner
For the week of 9/7/2014 to 9/13/2014
This is disheartening. I'm not sure I've ever seen a dumber media frenzy than this one. People are madder at Goodell for punishing Ray Rice than they are at Ray Rice for knocking out his girlfriend and dragging her around by the hair.
They're mad at Goodell for meting out punishment and have no problem with the fact that the government did NOTHING about this save assign some counseling. Gee, would I rather go to prison, or get counseling? Would I rather pay a fine, or get counseling? Would I rather wear one of those ugly orange jumpers and pick up trash on the side of the road as my community service, or get counseling?
And worst of all, when the public got mad about all this, it was over a video that showed NOTHING that wasn't already known. Months back the story was that Rice hit his then fiancee (and now wife) knocking her out cold, and dragged her around by the hair. This is what the video showed. Nothing new was learned by the publication of the video. But NOW people are getting worked up about this. Unbelievable.
Worse, many other players in the NFL, both current and former, have committed worse acts that aren't getting any play at all. I think Donte Stallworth killing someone while driving drunk is probably more serious than the Ray Rice incident, but you wouldn't know it from the reaction of the public right now. Stallworth was suspended for one season. Rice has been suspended indefinitely.
And it has been particularly revolting to see Ray Lewis and Trent Dilfer comment on the matter. Ray Lewis was charged with two counts of murder many years back. He and two friends were involved in an incident in Buckhead Georgia which resulted in two much smaller men being stabbed to death. Lewis and his friends were all indicted. Lewis eventually plead guilty to obstruction of justice and testified against his friends in order to get the charges dropped. His friends later got off anyway.
Trent Dilfer was Lewis's teammate. Dilfer now talks about how he couldn't play with someone like Rice. Lewis talks about he is a much better person than Rice and wouldn't want to be teammates with him. They're both full of shit.
Ultimately, this is moral outrage as a positional good. People are feeling better about themselves by being more outraged than their neighbors. What a load of horse shit.
I wanted to write something more in depth about this matter, but ultimately I just can't get over the stink of the rank hypocrisy and phony moral outrage that surrounds this and related matters. You know it's all bullshit, because very little outrage is being directed at people who have done worse, but are now lauded for what exemplary human being they are. (Ray Lewis was the face of the NFL his last few seasons in the league, and is now one of ESPN's most notable TV stars.)
Further, you get cases like US District Judge Mike Fuller. Just look that one up for yourself. You will find that the Senators demanding that Goodell be fired for not doing enough to punish Ray Rice are doing nothing about a federal judge who beat the Hell out of his wife. Not only are they not taking care of the import matters of war and economics that fall within their purview, they're not even going after the wife beater that only they, as a constitutional matter, can go after. They won't even mention it. Worst Congress ever.
I just can't write more about this, as it just makes me sick to my stomach, both for the crimes at the heart of the matter, and the way they're being handled and manipulated by the elites of the country in order to distract from small matter like war. Revolting.
Posted by Icepick at 9/19/2014 12:31:00 AM
Labels: "Journalism", Bullshit, Goodell, NFL, Squirrel
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Correcting little old ladies
At the time I'm writing this, about 2:20 PM on Thursday September 11,
2014, CNN's top stories include a story about a local police matter in
Missouri, TWO about whether or not the NFL saw a video of one of its
players KTFOing his girlfriend, a story about an obscure king-maker in
South Carolina's Presidential Primary of 2016, another story about a big
solar storm headed this way, another account reminiscing what it was
like to be with President Bush on 9/11/2001, and only then a story about
Obama's proposed new war in Iraq and Syria.
Really, it couldn't be more revolting to follow US news outlets these days. It's not like everything is going well and there's nothing else to talk about.
The old lady was wrong: it's nothing but squirrels all the way down.
[Set to publish much later tonight.]
Posted by Icepick at 9/11/2014 11:30:00 PM
Labels: "Journalism", Cosmology, Squirrel, This Means War!
A new family motto
The old family motto came from a comment by my mother:
We're not crazy; we're just mean.
Too true. But since I've either disowned my family or been disowned by them (and good riddance either way), I want a new motto. Today, in a text to my wife, I may have hit upon it.
If I'm going to be a fluffy pink poodle with purple sequins, I'm going to do it the right way.
Context might help you understand it, but why worry about that? Should probably make it first person plural, though....
Posted by Icepick at 9/11/2014 12:53:00 PM
Labels: Motto
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Trent Dilfer is a Tool
Watched the San Diego-Arizona game Monday night. Got to hear Trent Dilfer talk about the Ray Rice situation, and how he tells the children he coaches that they need to win on the field and off.
This from a man who has a Super Bowl ring because he played with a man who admitted that he attempted to help two friends get away with murder. That's what he admitted to - e may well have been the killer himself.
The moral preening around the Ray Rice case is particularly disgusting. More on that later.
Posted by Icepick at 9/10/2014 12:00:00 PM
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
A PSA about PSA Tests....
September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
My wife, Kim, has asked me to broadcast this information. More than a
decade ago she lost her father to prostate cancer, so this matter is
near and dear to her heart.
So to all the gentleman, and other males, out there, go get a finger shoved up your ass by a professional. It might just save your life. And it might spare your daughters, wives, sons and other loved ones from a feeling of loss due to your absence.
PSA = Public Service Announcement
PSA Test = Prostate-Specific Antigen Test, a blood test to help detect prostate cancer; used in conjunction with Digital Rectal Exams for screening purposes.
More information can be found here and here.
Posted by Icepick at 9/09/2014 12:30:00 PM
Labels: Health, Medicine, Prostate Cancer, Public Service Announcement
Monday, September 08, 2014
For the corporations and their top managers and owners, everything; for everyone else, nothing.
Same old same old from the Harvard Business School:
Harvard Business School Alumni Temper Pessimism About the U.S.Sounds good as a headline. But it starts looking grim as one digs deeper:
"Many business leaders see smoother waters ahead, with the promise of stronger and steadier growth in America," Harvard Business School professors Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin wrote in a report on the poll.Essentially, if you're in the top ten percent, you're golden. If you're in the bottom 90%, you're getting the golden shower from your betters. And THIS makes those folks feel good about themsleves and life in general.
The country's recovery, though, is bifurcated, according to the report. Large and mid-size companies have rallied strongly from the worst recession since the Great Depression, while middle- and working-class Americans and small businesses are struggling.
"The U.S. is competitive to the extent that firms operating here do two things: win in global markets and lift the living standards of the average American," Porter, who is co-chair of Harvard Business School's U.S. Competitiveness Project, said in a press release. "The U.S. economy is doing the first of these but failing at the second."
There are two likely endings to this scenario, and neither of them are good.
Posted by Icepick at 9/08/2014 11:08:00 PM
Labels: Economy
Sunday, September 07, 2014
Squirrel of the Week: Jennifer Lawrence's Butt
For the week of 8/31/2014 to 9/6/2014
Okay, okay, Jennifer Lawrence's butt isn't really the squirrel, but that's click-bait.The real Squirrel of the Week includes Jennifer Lawrence's butt, however. That squirrel you saw flittering around last week was Celebrity Skin. (Which is an album by Courtney Love's band Hole, BTW.)
That included the big iCloud hack that revealed photos that celebrities wanted kept private, and also Joan Rivers, who had died before the week before.
I don't really have much to say about either that hasn't been said over and over again. Regarding the former, people need to not put things into a digital format if they don't want those things all over the internet. Because everything can be hacked. Apple's reputation for security has really been more about the fact that Apple products occupied a much smaller niche of the market than Micro$oft products, and the hackers tend to focus their efforts on the biggest possible returns. But now that Apple has become a much bigger deal, the hackers will rake them over the coals as well.
As for all the Celebrity Skin photos and video, I haven't looked and I don't intend to. Not because I'm some sort of shirking violet, or because I'm respecting their privacy. It's just that I don't think it is worth it. I'm not sure how many people are "on the internet", but it is probably over two billion people. And approximately one billion of those people have put up homemade erotica/porn. There's an awful lot of unknown amateur skin out there, and some of it looks quite good. And that doesn't include the professionals! I'm sure Jennifer Lawrence's butt looks quite nice, but I'm pretty sure I've seen plenty that look just as nice. It's just not worth the effort.
As for Joan Rivers: You either liked her, or you didn't. I actually did, and part of the reason for that was that she was as brutal with herself as she was with the other targets of her wit. That counts for something to me.
Posted by Icepick at 9/07/2014 10:21:00 PM
Labels: "Journalism", Celebrity Skin, Squirrel
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Winning on the Internet
The other day we decided to switch my daughter from her five-point harness child seat to a booster seat configuration. This required removing her seat. That proved hard because the LATCH system anchors were synched in tight. So I had to work hard to get it out. Ultimately I had to move the front passenger side seat all the way forward.
(Incidentally, when I'm God-Emperor, I'm going to ban child safety seats for children over the age of 1. Let the little devils sit on their dad's laps while he drives, smokes and drinks beer at the same time. It's how we were all raised and we all survived to adulthood. It'll toughen 'em up!)
This was all well and good until the next morning when we got in the car, and the passenger side seat was stuck in the forward position.
We have a 2003 Toyota Camry XLE, and it turns out that running the electric seats all the way forward often causes them to get stuck.
I wish I had known that.
So, the choices became letting the missus sit in the back (which we did for the day), taking it to a dealer to get it fixed (more on that shortly), or trying to fix it myself.
Turns out I just happened to have a Chilton's Manual for this car from the library. Kim read through that while I drove yesterday. No help in the manual. So then she hit the internet.
First she found that this was a common problem. And she also found that many people were being given quotes from their mechanics that the fix (involving removing the seat and replacing the electric motor) in the $1,000 to $1,300 price range. Yowza! Don't have the money, and wouldn't want to spend it anyway.
Bu she also found solutions. The easiest way involved using a hammer. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I suspect that method would work, though, if you stopped fiddling with the seat once it was stuck, which I didn't do.
But that got to the method that DID work. There was even a helpful YouTube video! This worked. The only thing I had to do was get an S2 drill bit. (I may have had one somewhere, but didn't find it.) So yesterday morning, while out on another errand, I stopped in at Sears and picked up an S2 drill bit. (Along with 100 other bits, as this handy Craftsman 100-Pc. Drilling and Driving Kit was on sale for $14.99.) That, and the video, and about five minutes were enough to fix the seat.
And since I needed more masonry drill bits anyway, the big drilling and driving kit was also a win. (It's good to have all those bits in one place anyhow. I have some stuff here, some there, a lot in my main tool boxes, some security Torx bits in my computer repair kit, etc.)
Thus the internet saved me a lot of money AND inconvenience.
But this gets me to an interesting point. This is the kind of issue one could use to test one's mechanic for both knowledge and honesty. Fixing this would cost you some money at the mechanic. The mechanic WOULD be using his time and equipment. But it should come in around $50-$100 if he knows what he's doing AND is honest. If, on the other hand, he comes back and tells you it will cost $1,000+, then you know something is wrong, and perhaps you should get a new mechanic.
Posted by Icepick at 8/31/2014 12:48:00 PM
Labels: Cars, Do it yourself, Education, Internet, Mechanics, Tools
Squirrel of the Week: Wait for it ... Wait for it ....
For the week of 8/24/2014 to 8/30/2014
This week I briefly thought the Brangelina marriage wold be the squirrel. But then, Joan River's collapsed! Surely THAT would be the squirrel.
But no, it was not to be. Showing how he dominates the US media (but little else), Obama provided his own squirrel this week:
The tan suit.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)
The suit obscured Obama's comments about the wars in Ukraine, Iraq and Syria, possible US involvement in those wars, the threat of terrorism to Americans abroad and at home. It especially obscured the fact that his comments undercut his State Department, Defense Department and his intelligence agencies.
The President also admitted he didn't have a strategy for dealing with ISIS.
But the only thing that mattered was the tan suit.
What the Hell happened to America?
Posted by Icepick at 8/31/2014 11:06:00 AM
Labels: "Journalism", Enjoying the Decline, Fashion, Politics, Squirrel
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Over 19 million people live in the state of Florida ...
... and the best we can come up with to run for governor are Rick Scott and Charlie Crist. The amazing thing about this race will be the combination of the negativity, which will be high, and the fact that most of the negative comments about both contenders are true.
But it must be particularly depressing for Democrats. Seriously, the best candidate they can find is the worst governor in living memory, who happened to be a Republican up until he couldn't win Republican primaries?
Even by the current debased and degraded standards, this is awful.
Posted by Icepick at 8/27/2014 11:52:00 PM
Labels: Flatulence, Florida, Politics
Monday, August 25, 2014
Squirrel of the Week: The Golf Vacation
For the week of 8/17/2014 to 8/23/2014
The issue isn't so much that the President is spending so much time on vacation playing golf. Rather, it's that he's no less effective when doing so than when he's in the White House.
Posted by Icepick at 8/25/2014 11:02:00 PM
Labels: "Journalism", Age of Incompetence, Politics, Squirrel
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Squirrel of the Week: Tie: Robin Williams suicide and Michael Brown's death
For the week of 8/10/2014 to 8/16/2014
Both events seem to have largely overshadowed events of much greater import elsewhere, such as the evolving Ebola crisis, the continuing crisis with ISIS in Iraq, the slow boil war between Russia and Ukraine, and so on.
This is not to say both stories don't merit some attention. If Robin Williams wasn't widely beloved, he was as close to it as possible without achieving the goal. But the Brown situation, like the Trayvon Martin case or the Casey Anthony case, really merits no more than local attention.
But that's not how things work.
Incidentally, the note how the big story last weekend involved Tony Stewart and the fatal track accident he was involved in. That went away pretty much entirely after Robin Williams death was announced.
Posted by Icepick at 8/17/2014 07:44:00 PM
Labels: "Journalism", Entertainment, Sadness, Squirrel


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Cynthia Applewhite was several years younger than Louis Zamperini when she first met him at Miami Beach, Florida. She was a beautiful girl and nearly instantly captured Louie's heart.
They had a long marriage, lasting 55 years.
Image of Cynthia Applewhite, online courtesy Louie Zamperini.
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These Turkeys Would Rather Not Be Eaten — So They Attack [VIDEO]
These turkeys turn the Thanksgiving tables.
These turkeys turn the Thanksgiving tables.
Why do people gotta be so rude when they call a radio station? Can't we all just be nice to each other?!
Get the tissues out! You're gonna be jealous that you didn't adopt this dog first!
I wish I could overcome any one of my fears as quickly as this beautiful horse overcomes its fear of water!
Not earth-shattering news or anything, but I hope you can see why I enjoyed it so much!
What's that they say about survival of the fittest?
If you could have anything for your birthday, what would it be? How many people said, "a pony"?
There's nothing better than a hidden camera and a dog's antics. Especially when there's costumes involved.
Owls may be wise, but apparently they're also pretty happy.
This video will make you want to road-trip it down to the Shedd Aquarium!
I felt so much joy after watching this! Love it!
Coolest video I've seen in a really long time from the Londolozi Game Reserve in Africa!