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KERSHAW – Town Council is now up to full strength.
Magistrate Van Richardson swore in new Mayor Wayne Rhodes, District 2 Councilman Michael Cook and at-large Councilwoman Genny Hendrix at the start of Monday night's special meeting.
The town held a special election July 21. The election was needed after former Mayor Tommy Baker, District 2 Councilwoman Rose Marie Baker and at-large Councilman Jabo Sims resigned in April.
Rhodes told the council he wanted to start holding work sessions in addition to the council's regular meetings.
Earlier this year, 93-year-old Clara Cannucciari became a YouTube darling for a cooking show filmed by her grandson.
Many of the segments of "Great Depression Cooking with Clara" have generated more than 250,000 views.
Her recipes for Pasta and Peas, Poorman's Feast and Egg Drop Soup have been making the rounds.
Plans are moving forward for a new Roy Hardin Park in Indian Land.
A committee made up of several groups involved in the process met at the county administration building recently to discuss relocating the park from its current location near Collins Road to an area one street over, near Shelley Mullis Road.
Included in the meeting were members of Lancaster County Council and Lancaster County Recreation Commission, as well as representatives from York Development Group and U.S. Trust.
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Lancaster golfers Gene Funderburk and Tim Woodward have quite a tandem going.
A month ago, they used a clutch birdie on No. 18 to capture the first flight win in the 31st annual member-guest golf tournament at the Lancaster Golf Club.
A familiar formula keyed the Funderburk-Woodward team to the first flight win in the annual member-member golf tournament at the LGC on July 19.
Woodward's No. 18 birdie, the team's seventh on the day, lifted the duo to the member-member first flight win.
The Columbus Parker Track Club placed 12th in a field of 62 teams at the national qualifying meet at Lucy Laney Stadium in Augusta, Ga., on June 25-28.
The CPTC garnered 71 medals and qualified 24 athletes to the National Junior Olympics, which is under way now until Aug. 9, at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
An athlete was required to place in the top four in order to qualify.
The CPTC's awards breakdown was seven gold medals, four silver, seven bronze and 53 copper medals.
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Racing action at Lancaster Motor Speedway has picked up with intensity as was evident with the huge crowd this past weekend – even with the absence of the Limited Late Model division.
The Young Guns division was won by Andrew Yandle. Fans commented on what a great show this was. Yandle was victorious over last week's winner Josh Langley, who raced to second place. Nathan Geist finished third, Amanda Bell fourth and Amanda Blackmon rounded out the top five.
Lancaster golfers Gene Funderburk and Tim Woodward have quite a tandem going.
Two Lancaster youth softball all-star teams will be seeking to continue their outstanding postseason play as they launch World Series tournament hopes this weekend in Sumter.
The Lancaster County Darlings and the Lancaster Southern Belles will begin their quests at the Bobby Richardson Complex in Sumter.
The Darlings, ages 7-8, launch their Series hopes at 1 p.m. Saturday when they face the Florida state champion.
The Belles, ages 13-15, open play at noon when they meet the Virginia champion.
A month from today, the 2009 Lancaster County high school football season kicks off.
Today, county teams, like those across the state, officially open their preseason camps in preparation for the new campaign.
The Lancaster County prep football landscape sports a new coach as former West Florence High School defensive coordinator Elmer Bench takes control at Andrew Jackson.
Bench replaces Louis Clyburn, who guided the Vols one season before moving to rival North Central High School in neighboring Kershaw County.
The Lancaster County Sharks honored top performers at the recreation summer swim team's banquet on Monday night at the Springdale Recreation Center.
Coach Midenna Anderson and her staff honored a most valuable swimmer in each age group.
Following are the 2009 most valuable swimmers and each competitors' total points for the season.
6-under – Mikaela Beacham (girls, 47 points), Will Jones (boys, 54 points)
7-8 – Charlee Brooke Henry (girls, 55 points), Logan Phillips (boys, 77 points)
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On Tuesday, Wichita County commissioners voted to once again partner with the city of Wichita Falls to fund another cloud seeding contract.
Local company Carter Aviation Technologies is again moving into the leading edge of flight technology. The company just landed a $2.2 million contract to develop technology that the US Navy says is vital to ensuring American superiority in the battle field.
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THE mystery of a giant eyeball washed up on a beach in Florida US has been solved.
Wildlife officials believe the giant eye - which is the size of a grapefruit - probably belongs to a swordfish.
"Experts on site and remotely have viewed and analyzed the eye, and based on its color, size and structure, along with the presence of bone around it, we believe the eye came from a swordfish," said Joan Herrera, the curator of collections at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservatory Commission in a statement.
The "fresh" eyeball, which is white and piercing blue, was found by a man on Pompano Beach in Florida and handed to the wildlife authorities.
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Kingston First to Release TRIM Fixing FW for LSI SandForce Based SSDs
American Airlines Flight 1318 - High in the skies, somewhere between Dallas and Indianapolis we would like to interrupt your morning with this special announcement.
Just moments ago we received confirmation that Kingston has released firmware version 5.0.3, AKA The TRIM FIXING FIRMWARE, for the HyperX and HyperX 3K!!!!!!!!!
Using Kingston's Toolbox, a free SSD utility located on the Kingston's support website, HyperX and HyperX 3K owners will be the first to gain access to the new firmware that fixes TRIM in Windows.
Obviously since we are in the air we have yet to update our sample HyperX 3K but we have installed the FW in beta form. This is a non-destructive update but I would suggest treating this update as destructive.
Continue reading 'Kingston First to Release TRIM Fixing FW for LSI SandForce Based SSDs' (full post)
Flash Memory Summit 2012: OCZ shows off a SSD that uses DRAM as the memory
OCZ's AEON Series drive is probably one of the coolest things I saw at Flash Memory Summit 2012. This drive ditches the typical NAND memory in favor of using DRAM chips which have no durability issues. These chips are clocked at around 40MHz as opposed to a typical DDR3 stick which could be clocked as high as 800MHz.
Essentially this drive is like your DDR RAM in your PC. It's faster than a typical SSD due to the use of volatile memory, however, if the power goes out, the data is lost. It's almost like a RAM disk, though the bandwidth is limited by the interface. In the event of a power loss, the data is flushed to typical NAND memory.
The drive's capacity is up to 64GB as of right now, and has super low latency (20 microseconds or less) and typically is about 1 microsecond. The chip is built to be used in servers and features a 6GB/s SAS connection. Note that these are preliminary specifications which are subject to change. Even still, this is a sweet drive!
Flash Memory Summit 2012: Toshiba demos new HybridDrive, races it against an SSD
I've never really been a believer in hybrid hard drives as they've never been competitive to SSDs when it comes to speed. Today at the Flash Memory Summit 2012, Toshiba had a demo showing just how wrong I could be. They had three identical laptops set up, one with a 19nm NAND SSD, one with a 5,400RPM drive, and one with an undisclosed hybrid drive.
The demo was booting from a completely powered down state into Windows and then starting a movie playing. Some of the results were shocking, to say the least. The traditional 5,400 RPM hard disk of course came in last as you would expect. However, the hybrid drive and the SSD were locked in a dead heat to the finish.
While the SSD finished before the hybrid drive, it couldn't have taken the hybrid drive more than 2 seconds longer. This result is quite a bit different from what I have seen in the past with regards to hybrid drives. When pressed, Toshiba wouldn't say when we would see this hybrid drive on the market or really give us any info. The best I could get from them is that it is a demo showing what is possible. All of a sudden hybrid drives are looking a whole lot more attractive.
Toshiba increases enterprise SSD offerings with three new lines
Here's a mouthful for a business name: The Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. Anyway, these folks have announced an expansion to their enterprise SSD offerings in the form of three new lines of varying capacity and specifications. They bill the three lines as "High Performance," "Value," and "Read-Intensive/Boot Server."
- High-Performance: Targeted at applications requiring the highest levels of eSSD performance, the PX02SM series is Toshiba's first eSSD to utilize 24nm eMLC (enterprise multi-level cell) NAND technology, with capacities of 200/400/800GB1 and 1.6TB2, and is Toshiba's first offering with a dual-port 12Gb/sec SAS interface with a form-factor equivalent to industry-standard 2.5inch HDDs.
- Value Line: Optimized for entry-to-mid-level server and storage applications requiring balance, reliability, capacity and endurance, the PX02AM series also features 24nm eMLC NAND flash in capacities of 100, 200 and 400GB, all with a 6Gb/s SATA (Serial ATA) interface. Featuring a slim 7mm 2.5inch industry-standard form-factor, all capacities offer power-loss protection.
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Marvell unveil Flash-based innovations at Flash Memory Summit
Marvell have unveiled some things over at the Flash Memory Summit (where some of our guys are schmoozing with the crowd), with the first of these being the general availability of their PCIe-based DragonFly platform. If you haven't heard of DragonFly, it's a platform that combines Marvell's SoC technology with newly-designed circuit boards, and uses PCIe as its connectivity.
The results of this are storage solutions that can provide 10-100x lower latency and improved server I/O performance, all while using less power, space and storage capital costs in a datacenter. Marvell's DragonFly platform will be commercially available from September 15, 2012. Marvell's specs on DragonFly are pretty insane, as they've shown:
DragonFly is sold as a PCIe Gen2 x8 adapter with up to 8GB SODIMM ECC DRAM and up to 1.5 TB of external SSD storage; read, write-back and write-thru caching; synchronous low-latency peer-to-peer write-back mirroring; 3.2GB/s of throughput; less than 22us latency; 220K IOPS read; 220K IOPS write; integrated ultracapacitors to protect data in the event of power loss; and a wide variety of host operating system support, including RHEL, KVM, Xen, VMWare and Windows.
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DNA-based storage contains 700TB into 1 gram of DNA, could we soon see DNAS' on the market?
I hope you enjoyed the pun in the title, but seriously, I want a DNAS as soon as possible. Grab your lab coat, because we're about to do a quick science post. Harvard geneticist and bioengineers George Church and Sriram Kosuri with the help of John Hopkins Yuan Gao have stored 5.5 petabits (700TB) of data into one gram of DNA.
The accomplishment of these scientists, is grand, as it beats the previous DNA data storage record by more than 1000 times. DNA-based storage is attractive to scientists, as DNA itself is quite dense, requires absolutely no moving parts when stored, and is durable. Usually data is stored on magnetic media, versus DNA strands storing 96 bits, with each of the base pairs representing a binary number.
In this case, Adenosine and Thymine represent zero, and the Guanine and Cytosine represent one. Each strand of DNA is encoded with a 19-bit address block allowing vast quantities of DNA to be stored volumetrically to be decoded and sorted so that usable data can be extracted, 96 bits at a time. In comparison, the original human genome project, with 3 billion base pairs, took 13 years to complete (from 1990 to 2003).
Continue reading 'DNA-based storage contains 700TB into 1 gram of DNA, could we soon see DNAS' on the market?' (full post)
OWC unveils SSD upgrade for Retina MacBook Pro
OWC have just announced the first SSD upgrade for the Retina-powered Apple MacBook Pro, with the new drive available on a single 480GB capacity. The upgraders who purchase before September 30 will receive OWC's Envoy Pro USB 3.0 bus-powered portable enclosure that will house the removed SSD, and use it as an external drive at no extra cost.
OWC's drive is dubbed the Mercury Aura drive, and is user-installable. The Mercury Aura drive is capable of 500MB/sec, compared to the stock Apple drive of 461MB/sec. The Mercury-branded SSD is also capable of block management and wear leveling technologies, which limits the reduction in speed common in SSD drives over long-term use.
The Mercury Aura 480GB sell for $580 and is available right now.
RumorTT: Hard drive makers working on slimming 2.5" drives to 5mm thick
DigiTimes is reporting that hard drive makers are working on slimming the 2.5" HDD standard down to a 5mm thick version. The move appears to be to compete with solid state drives and to provide a product that can be used inside today's fashionable ultra-portables and Intel's Ultrabooks. The slimmed models would still feature a hybrid design to provide better performance than a traditional drive.
DigiTimes reports that most hard drive manufacturers are still in the planning stages of development for the new 5mm thick drives and there has not been one manufactured as of yet. The source says the two major issues with the shrinking is stabilization of the read and write actions and increased cost due to the shrinking.
The source also believes that early 2013 will see heavy hybrid hard drive competition as the drives continue to be adopted in Ultrabook settings as well as entry- to mid-level laptops. Furthermore, this competition should accelerate the speed at which a 5mm 2.5-inch drive standard is developed and adopted.
SSD RAID 0 with TRIM, a match made in heaven
Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been out for quite some time now, but as with any new technology, the iron needs to be bought out to get out some of the niggly issues, some big, some small. One of these has been RAID 0 on SSDs with TRIM.
RWLabs has an editorial where they talk about the subject itself, and I can't really condense it into a news post as its a four-page piece. If you're interested in SSD RAID 0 with TRIM enabled, then I suggest you check out the piece here.
RWLabs reckon it won't be long before we see motherboard makers bake the necessary goods into their BIOS', so as long as you've got the hardware, TRIM on RAID 0 SSDs shouldn't be too far away!
Intel plans to standardize SSD specifications for Ultrabooks
Intel have plans to standardize SSD specifications for their popular, and heavily marketed Ultrabook platform. The chipmaker wants to steer it toward slimmer, faster Ultrabooks. Intel plan to invite a large number of industry players such as NAND flash memory makers SanDisk, Micron and Samsung.
This would result in a bunch of the big players in the market discussing what is known as Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), a new SSD form-factor derived from mSATA. Intel wants to accelerate their NGFF SSD plans, as current mSATA has limitations, including limited PCB area, where a number of ONFI channels can be wired out.
NGFF will probably end up as mSATA with much more PCB area, which will allow the same number of ONFI channels as 2.5-inch SSDs, with the latest generation of controllers and toggle-NAND flash memory. NGFF doesn't increase the thickness of the SSD itself compared to mSATA, but just elongates it. Intel and their Ultrabook partners are discussing five length standards at the moment.


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The Outline of Victory, or Defeat
If you look closely at the latest poll from The Wall Street Journal and NBC News, you can see the outlines of victory for either Obama or Romney. The top line result is where it's been for the last two months—Obama leads Romney, 47 percent to 44 percent. He wins 92 percent of African Americans, 52 percent of women, 66 percent of Latinos, 52 percent of voters ages 18 to 29, and 40 percent of independents. By contrast, Romney is ahead among Tea Party supporters (94 percent to 1 percent), whites (53 percent to 38 percent), and men (48 percent to 43 percent).
Obama's challenge is to boost his share of the nonwhite vote to 2008 levels, and retain a significant plurality of the white vote. As Nate Cohn points out at The New Republic, Obama's magic number for white support is around 38 percent:
Obama would require 40 percent of the white vote if minority turnout falls to 25 percent of the electorate and only 77 percent of minority voters support Obama. Obama would only require 37 percent of the white vote if the minority share of the electorate increases to 28 percent of the electorate, as foretold by the Obama campaign earlier this week, and 80 percent of non-white voters support Obama, as they did in 2008. The targets allow Obama to exceed 49.24 percent of the popular vote, which represented 50 percent of the two party vote in 2008.
Around 38 percent is what you would get if the minority share of the vote grew to 27 percent, and Obama maintained his 2008 level of support. Judging from this poll, Obama is a stone's throw away from matching his 2008 performance among African Americans and Latinos.
Just as significant is Mitt Romney's poor performance among the same groups. In 2008, John McCain won 31 percent of Latino voters and 4 percent of African Americans. It may seem hard to underperform those numbers, but Romney is well on his way to doing so; only 26 percent of Latinos and 1 percent of African Americans support the Republican nominee, according to NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. If this holds, then Romney will have to win a large majority of white voters–no fewer 59 percent. For a solid win, he'll have to win 61 percent of white voters, which would give him a greater share of the white vote than any Republican since Ronald Reagan, who won 66 percent of whites in 1984.
When you compare the two, Obama has a somewhat easier path to victory than Romney. High minority support is a given, and high minority turnout is possible and still likely. What's more, by defining Romney as an unfeeling plutocrat, Obama seems to be building an effective defense of his white support. By contrast, Romney will have to win a large majority of undecided whites to have a shot at winning the two-party vote. And absent a complete deterioration in economic conditions, that's a sizable challenge.
All of this underscores the extent to which Romney is a weaker candidate than he looks. That isn't to say that he'll lose, but to say that with a stronger nominee, Republicans would likely have a solid lead over Obama.
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What Republican nominee would that be? Romney was the strongest nominee they had. The notion that the guy who was willing to dump the US auto industry is going to carry the white working class vote in the midwest is ridiculous. Absent a disaster and with a good turnout Obama is home.
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When your alternatives are Santorum - an 18 point loser in his home state to an uncharismatic candidate - and Paul - a 77 year old nut, Romney seems like a sane choice.
Given the job growth numbers and the 2010 results, Romney does not have as difficult a mission as Obama did in 2008. Desperate times lead to desperate actions. I can envision a post-election analysis that reads "a surprising 63 per cent of the white vote and even more surprising 32 per cent of the Hispanic vote combined with a very strong 49 per cent of the women typically cited lack of jobs as their willingness to try something, anything new."
A typical white and woman voter reaction in the exit polls: 'I never voted for a Democrat before 2008, and four years of no jobs has convinced me to never repeat that mistake again.' Even Hispanics turned out higher for Romney than expected with many pointing to their 11 per cent unemployment rate as the reason.
Hope it doesn't happen but it's definitely within the realm of possibility, with the odds increasing with every month job growth remains under 100,000 and the unemoyment rate is over 8%.
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Olly's brother, Matt, has always wanted to be a clown, and when he sees the plight of Africa's children, he makes the decision to fly the family nest to take his skill to a place devoid of laughter. To his family, it is a travesty: this bright, intelligent boy with a glowing future ups and leaves to head into the unknown, leaving behind him a trail of worry and feelings of impending doom.
Olly is charged with the care of a family of starlings that she and her brother have been watching over in the garden. After Matt's sudden departure, the nest is ravaged, leaving just one fledgling alive and stunned. Olly nurses him back to health, and names him Hero. It is Hero's subsequent long and perilous flight to Africa that links the story of Olly, at home with her mother in England, to Matt's new life in Africa.
Told in three voices - that of Olly, Hero and Matt - this novel spans the continents and delivers love and determination in a poignant, thought-provoking story that stirs the soul.
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I haven't listened to many audiobooks for younger readers (although I'm working my way through the Narnia series) but the characterisation is superb and concise, within a short format.
I would like to suggest it's thematically similar to other Michael Morpurgo books (although I've only read War Horse) in that human and animal characters are treated with the same degree of respect and dignity to create a memorable and thought provoking scenario. Narratively, it reminded me a little bit of the recent Comic Relief-inspired drama on TV, 'Mary and Martha'.
I have not, but his vocal styling - authoritative yet empathetic - suits the material well, and maintains the listener's focus.
I found the character portraits at the beginning absorbing; the clash of ambitions, lifestyles, between parents and children; those in middle age and those just starting out, which anyone can relate to - and this made me want to keep listening to discover Olly's fate, which I feared wouldn't be good.
Has inspired me to purchase several Michael Morpurgo books for my nephew as his handling of difficult themes is sensitive and realistic, as well as entertaining.
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M. Lucille Coffman, 96, of Carthage, Illinois passed away Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011 at
10:03 a.m. at the Petersen Health Care Center in LaHarpe. She was born on August 28, 1915 a daughter of Archie and Mary Stewart, of LaHarpe, Illinois. She was the last surviving of her other 13 brothers and sisters.
Her death completes a lifetime of community service, most notably more than 50 years of volunteer service with Memorial Hospital, where she was a charter member. She was one of the initial hospital Women's Auxiliary and later served numerous volunteer functions with the hospital and was recognized in April 2005 for her 55 years of volunteer service.
She was preceded in death by her loving husband of nearly 50 years, Howard Coffman, who died in 1986. After living near Bentley, she moved to Carthage in 1985.
Survivors include: two sons: Robert (Elizabeth) Coffman of Urbandale, Iowa; Kenneth (Lynn) Coffman of Carthage.
She is also survived by four grandchildren, two step grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
She was an active member of the Carthage First United Methodist Church through her adult life. Lucille was extremely grateful for the care of her medical staff and home care givers, and for the fellowship and compassion of th e local Carthage Senior Citizens Center and family, neighbors and friends in her final years. Her lifetime of service to others was rewarded by others equally showing concern for her when she needed them the most.
Services were held on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 at the First United Methodist Church of Carthage with the Rev. Steven Smith officiating. Burial followed at the Harmony Township Cemetery, east of Bentley.
Memorial contributions may be made in her name to: The Carthage Memorial Hospital Women's Auxiliary or the Carthage Senior Citizens Center.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.lamportefuneralhomes.com
Lamporte - St.Clair Funeral Home of Hamilton is in charge of arrangements.
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Phil Coke's transition from reliever to starter went well early on, as he posted a 3.69 ERA through 11 starts, but that came with an ugly 1-6 record and Coke has since fallen to 1-8 by giving up 18 runs in his last three starts.
Today the Tigers ended the experiment, dropping Coke from the rotation and sending him back to the bullpen, where the left-hander had a 3.76 ERA and 53/26 K/BB ratio in 65 innings last season.
Coke's overall numbers as a starter certainly aren't very impressive, with a 4.91 ERA and 37/30 K/BB ratio in 77 innings, but I'm guessing the Tigers wouldn't have made the move if he were, say, 4-5 instead of 1-8 and much of that comes from poor run support that was out of Coke's hands anyway.
Whatever the case, left-hander Charlie Furbush will replace Coke in the rotation after pitching well in a dozen relief appearances following his call-up last month. Furbush was a starter in the minors and has always posted excellent strikeout rates, but his ERA in 17 starts at Triple-A was just 4.64. He does get some extra points for the name, however.
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I'd hate to be Furbush's sister (with a name like that)…
- Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward - Jun 30, 2011 at 1:28 PM
Furbush is a bit redundant, no?
- The Common Man - Jun 30, 2011 at 1:29 PM
Thank God the destructive Coke Era in Major League Baseball is at an end, and players can finally get back to doing what they do best, hitting the old Furbush.
- sportsdrenched - Jun 30, 2011 at 1:46 PM
Your tweet alerted me to the fun that can be had in a blog post that contains Coke and Furbush.
Maybe New Orleans Saints OL Bushrod will be in attendance.
- Jonny 5 - Jun 30, 2011 at 1:35 PM
LMAO!!! Tweeted from one C.C. " weird to see Furbush on the mound so early."
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How many 2-0 counts will the Tigers announcers quip "Furbush has two balls"
- boxchain - Jun 30, 2011 at 2:49 PM
They made you put the word "Phil" into the headline, didn't they?
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Waiting for the Announcer to utter, "Chuck Furbush, toes the rubber, and …
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New Coke was a nice experiment, but they are going back to Coke Classic.
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|Once in Royal David's City
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|'Alarmingly Clever'
|p. 13
|Once a Paulina
|p. 25
|Never Surrender
|p. 43
|Holes in Coal
|p. 70
|Woman of the Left Bank
|p. 87
|Seine v. Strand
|p. 108
|What Is Life?
|p. 119
|Joining the Circus
|p. 125
|Such a Funny Lab
|p. 141
|The Undeclared Race
|p. 168
|Eureka and Goodbye
|p. 190
|Escaping Notice
|p. 207
|The Acid Next Door
|p. 217
|O My America
|p. 233
|New Friends, New Enemies
|p. 249
|Postponed Departure
|p. 271
|Private Health, Public Health
|p. 286
|Clarity and Perfection
|p. 295
|Epilogue: Life After Death
|p. 311
|p. 329
|p. 353
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Meet the team competing in the bi-annual World University Games (Summer Universiade). The GB contingent are flying out to Korea this July to represent British universities in their chosen sport.
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Charlie Hunnam Gossip
Charlie Hunnam gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
My Obsession's pink hair
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My Obsession, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, showed up to an event yesterday in Hollywood with new pink hair. At this point, it blends in. It's not even different anymore. I like the pictures of them interacting with other people at the party. Look at Aaron's face listening to his wife. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
My final argument in favour of Charlie Hunnam's odds of being named the Sexiest Man Alive as part of the annual handicapping feature was as follows:
"He knows how to f-ck. I promise you."
Here's a screencap of Charlie from last week's episode of Sons Of Anarchy during a montage of several characters having sex that the Parents Television Council is now objecting to.
I guess it's because I don't have kids. Because I don't object to ANYTHING about this photo. We were on a shoot yesterday when it came up on my feed and the moment I showed it to Traci Melchor we both stopped breathing. Like I said, he knows how to f-ck. He knows how to use that leg as leverage and crank the right parts into the right places at exactly the right angle. Read Full Intro
Hotter than yellow
Can you imagine anyone else in this yellow jacket? Like… Leonardo DiCaprio? Total douchebag, right? But somehow, on Charlie Hunnam, I'm not getting skeeved. Not even when he's eating. And no one looks sexy when they're eating. Sh-t. He's so f-cking hot, I can't. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
I don't watch Sons Of Anarchy anymore. For a variety of reasons, one of them being that the sex to violence ratio has become too heavily favoured on the violence side. But I've heard that Charlie Hunnam finally got down to f-ck on last night's episode. Sh-t. I'm going to have to find that.
Charlie, Kurt Sutter, and the cast were on Conan last night to promote the final few episodes of the series. Charlie talked about how he gets propositioned often and Jax Teller's "cool factor" for men. See, I hate the Jax character. He looks good, sure. But all he ever does is screw up. That isn't sexy to me. Charlie Hunnam in real life on the other hand…
And when he's talking about hand jacuzzis…
I was REALLY, REALLY excited when that story started. Read Full Intro
Charlie Hunnam
Arguments for: -Have you seen him in the Men's Health December issue OH MY GOD HOLY F-CK -Please if you haven't watch the video below -Sons Of Anarchy is really popular and the cover would be well-timed going into its final episode. Full Story
Five more Jax
There are now 5 episodes remaining of Sons Of Anarchy. Have you been watching? I thought I would, just to close out the series, but then I lost interest. If you tell me when Jax is going to have sex again though, I might care. Give me the episode number and the minute mark and I'll take it from there, no need to get through all the story parts. Full Story
Charlie cares about a carpet
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My complaint about Charlie Hunnam red carpet pictures is that he always looks so sh-tty in them. Probably because he doesn't give a f-ck. But I do. Because he's SO hot, it's like a waste when he doesn't present it to its highest potential. You can see the difference when he poses for editorial or promotion. Full Story
Ummm…there's more video
I'm about to make you feel creamy all day… That Charlie Hunnam CK Reveal ad? There's a longer video. FLARE posted an interview with Doutzen Kroes with some behind-the-scenes footage and… It's making me short of breath. Full Story
Charlie at the hotel
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who wrote in with identification! Her name is Astrid Berges-Frisbey. She's an actress. Charlie Hunnam was photographed in London today outside the Soho Hotel with a really, really, really pretty girl. She looks to me a little like Alicia Vikander although I don't think it's Alicia Vikander. Full Story
Today it's the backpack
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Charlie Hunnam's wardrobe on Sons Of Anarchy doesn't change much from day to day. These are new shots of him taken yesterday on set at lunch. But they're not that much different from the shots taken of him on Wednesday which I posted here Full Story
Jax's revenge
FX has released a trailer for the final season of Sons Of Anarchy premiering on September 9. Still deciding whether or not to recap it. Thoughts? The club is the only thing Jax has left now. And the desire for revenge. Oh…and his psychopath of a mother, played by Katey Sagal, perhaps the most underappreciated character in television. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
I posted a blind riddle back in 2012 called 2 Days and 20 Years. It was about a woman who had two evenings of sex, with two different partners aged twenty years apart. Click here for a refresher. Please think about that today.
On an unrelated note – why was Charlie Hunnam not at Comic-Con? A VOGUE photo shoot. Charlie isn't photogenic when he's standing on a red carpet. But in a studio setting and properly styled? Jesus. I can't wait to see these pictures.
Anyway, to help ease the disappointment from his absence, he recorded a video message to the fans that was played at the Sons Of Anarchy panel, the show's final Comic-Con panel since it's concluding this fall. What a great ass. He shows his ass all the time on SOA. Read Full Intro
Charlie's backpack and Lea Michele
Charlie Hunnam arrived with his backpack on the set of Sons Of Anarchy yesterday, same day Lea Michele was there. So now I'm wondering if they hang out. You think they'd hang out? You think he'd roll a fat one and pass it to her? Not that I can't see her smoking a fat one. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
The Daily Mail, that paragon of accuracy, is reporting that Justin Bieber will soon be a Calvin Klein underwear model. Well, he's worked hard enough for it. Supposedly the brand has signed JB to front their next campaign. The photo shoot, according to the Daily Mail, has already happened.
Calvin Klein juuuuust featured Charlie Hunnam in a fragrance ad for Reveal.
I know fragrance and underwear are different business streams but under one label, how did we get from Charlie Hunnam to Justin Bieber?
Yours in gossip,


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June 24, 2015, 03:00 pm
Proposed rules on federal overtime threshold
By Lee Saunders
Those of us in the labor movement like to say that we're the folks who brought you the weekend.
June 24, 2015, 03:00 pm
By Lee Saunders
Those of us in the labor movement like to say that we're the folks who brought you the weekend.
June 24, 2015, 09:00 am
By Greg Mastel
Undoubtedly, the existence of TAA did make it politically easier for the United States to lead the world toward freer trade.
June 23, 2015, 07:00 am
By J. David Cox Sr.
Fairness and transparency are the two most fundamental principles underpinning the federal personnel system.
June 17, 2015, 07:30 am
By Tom Broadwater
All Americans should ask candidates if current and proposed immigration policies properly balance our nation's humanitarian interests with our economic interests.
June 15, 2015, 05:00 pm
By John Alan James
Established trade unions carry heavy weight, and in some cases the key vote, in many 'blue' states.
June 15, 2015, 01:30 pm
By Marc Dixon
Right-to-Work was hatched by business organizations in the 1940s as a means of curbing a growing and increasingly ambitious labor movement.
June 11, 2015, 06:00 am
By Baldemar Velasquez
Extend to farmworkers the same basic labor rights enjoyed by other sectors.
June 08, 2015, 11:00 am
By Michael McGeary
While inequality is on the rise with on-demand employment, so is economic opportunity.
May 14, 2015, 04:00 pm
By Vishnu Sridharan
More than half of blacks and close to 60 percent of Latino workers make less than $15.
May 11, 2015, 02:00 pm
By Saket Soni
The H-2B program has become notorious in recent years for case after case of severe labor exploitation.
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Special guest interview with Luis Benitez, latest addition to the PM team!
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Luis Benitez recently joined the IBM Social Software Product Management team, and we're excited to have him on board! Here are some of his thoughts on the new role and IBM Social Software.Today we have a special guest author who you are likely familiar with.
Luis, you are the newest member of the product management family in IBM Social Software, but you certainly aren't new to social software. Can you tell us how you got started in the field and what roles you've had?
>> I initially started with IBM as a Java developer based in Cambridge, MA creating our eLearning platform. I also was one of the developers for the Workplace Rich Client (what we know today as Lotus Expeditor: the base of Lotus Sametime v7.5+ and Lotus Notes 8+). From development, I jumped into consulting helping customers plan and deploy eLearning systems. In 2007, I started to move away from eLearning and into collaboration. At the same time, Lotus Connections v1.0 was born. In 2008, I became the Americas Evangelist for Social Software and now have joined in as a product manager.
What are you looking forward to most about being on the product management side of IBM Social Software?
>> I look forward to continue working with customers and being able to take their needs and challenges and provide them with viable solutions to help them accelerate innovation and connect better with their own customers and partners. I'm also very excited of taking everything that I've learned in the past 2.5 years working on-site with customers and be able to influence the product direction to not only satisfy customer requirements but also keep us ahead of the competition.
What aspects of IBM Social Software are you focused on in your new role?
>> Initially, I'm going to be focused on our Collaboration Agenda which was announced at Lotusphere 2010. I'm going to be working very closely with industry experts to see how we can tailor our solutions for various industries. On one hand, I will be mapping existing industry needs to existing product functionality. On another hand, I'll be learning some of the in-and-outs of the various industries to understand their pain points. With that information, I'll have to influence the product direction to address those challenges.
Your blog, SocializeMe, has become one of the most highly read blogs on all things IBM Social Software. Are you planning to continue blogging? You of course are welcome to blog on Synch.rono.us as often as you'd like!
>> Hahaha! I plan to do as much blogging as possible. Just like Ed Brill when he moved from Sales into Product Management, there will probably be certain things that I can't talk about such as new product features that are coming. Other than that, I plan on being as active as possible and continue to share tips, hints, and my views of what I'm seeing out there.
As an evangelist, part of your role was to evaluate our technology against other social software and collaboration technologies. How does IBM Social Software stack up against the others?
>> From what I've heard and seen from customers, our platform is very mature and ready for the enterprises; it's truly an Enterprise 2.0 platform. IBM social software was really born 12 years ago as an expertise location tool for usage within IBM, and that became the base for our product. 12 years!
Additionally, because of our global reach, we have the experience and the know-how of what it takes to deploy, for example, in countries with strict privacy laws.
Moreover, whether a customer chooses our platform or a competitor's, I think it all comes down to adoption. If the users don't use it, then it's hard to create value. For this reason, I'm really excited about the new social analytics and recommendations engine in the 3.0 release of Lotus Connections. Those features are going to be key in engaging users from day 1 and getting them to return.
Finally, one of the reasons I use and believe in Lotus Connections, it's because it works in **my** context. I really like the fact that the software adjusts to my needs and integrates directly into my email client, my desktop, my instant messaging client, and my BlackBerry. It's almost like the tool comes to me... as opposed to expecting me to go to the tool every so often to check what's new and contribute. It's like real-estate: it's all about location, location, location. And Lotus Connections works where I do (which is not the browser).
Thanks Luis, and welcome aboard!
Social Software in Europe - User Group & Product Tour
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My first stop was Folgaria, Italy, which is in the northeast mountains of Italy in the Trentino area. The event – DDIVE (Dominopoint in Village Event) - was hosted by athe leaders of the Italian Lotus community Dominopoint, made up of Giuseppe Grasso, Claudio Meregalli and Daniele Grillo, who in addition to being great partners write a fantastic blog. There were several session per day, having a single track which ensured that everyone could attend what they wanted. The theme for the conference was "Vulcan�, and Scott Souder was invited as well to speak on that topic. Vittorio Fosci covered Lotus Quickr, including what's new with 8.5, and I covered an overview of IBM Social Software with a deep dive on what's coming in the next release of Lotus Connections. I was happy to see that when I asked the audience who was using Lotus Quickr or Lotus Connections, the majority of the room raised their hands, and attendees showed interest in upgrading to Quickr 8.5 and Connections 3.0.
I knew this event was going to be a little different than most user groups when I received my invitation and saw that families were invited to join. Given the conference was over the weekend, this was a wonderful touch. In addition to the standard conference sessions, the team planned a set of activities for the families, such as golf lessons, nature photography, and nodic walking. The last night of the conference was very special, turning the main street in Folgaria to a food tour and going through various Folgarian specialty foods, wines, and desserts. Even the mayor joined us for the evening and participated in the awards ceremony. Hats off to Giuseppe Grasso and Dominopoint as well as Fabio Fabbi of Movantia, who they worked with on the event planning, for creating such a special and memorable event! Thank you Dominopoint for inviting me to speak at your fantastic event!
After spending the Labor Day weekend in Folgaria, I continued on to Helsinki, Finland. The next event was IBM Lotus Forum, hosted by IBM and several sponsors, and the event was all about social networking for the enterprise. I was invited to keynote, and I covered trends in enterprise social software, business examples relevant to the market in Helsinki, and of course what's coming with our next releases. The team in Helsinki kept me busy with several customer and partner meetings, and I am so excited to hear what some of them are up to. One of our top partners in the market are looking at new ways to our blend social software with custom-developed applications, and I spoke with customers about their current deployment and plans for upgrading to the latest releases. I was impressed with the event itself, which brought in a series of panelists to discuss social software for business. I had the pleasure of meeting Janne Saarikko who was a panelist well known in Finland for his Office Nomad experiment of working at a different company every month. He's taking the concept of coworking to a whole new level!
Of course, the Helsinki event was an interesting experience as well. The theme was a Cuban beach setting, and for the first time ever I presented in a room full of beach sand and beach chairs! In typical Finnish style, one of my business meetings was held in a (thankfully powered off) sauna, as it was one of the few quiet areas with wifi! After the event was over, we had Cuban food and entertainment. Thanks so much for the team in Helsinki for my new Lotus tietaa wear (Lotus Knows)!
The last and final stop on the tour was Amsterdam, for the Netherlands User Group (NLLUG) conference. This was another partner run event with the theme of social software. There was an entire track dedicated to social software, and a sizeable portion of the sessions were about Lotus Connections and / or Lotus Quickr. I presented a portfolio overview and focus on Lotus Connections Next. However, the highlight of the sessions for me was attending 2 sessions by one of our customers, BASF, who talked about the business benefits they have experienced using Lotus Connections as well as their IT strategy for rolling it out. In a very short time, they have gain considerable adoption across the company and had a great story to tell about how they were able to push social software forward.
One of the most interesting things about the Amsterdam event was the venue – the Amsterdam Arena. This is the location where their football (soccer for us Americans) team plays, and the stadium is gigantic! The opening and keynote sessions were in the bleachers and grass area of the stadium, and general sessions / partner showcase was in dedicated rooms. What a cool location of have the event!
These 3 events showed me that the international presence of business social software is strong and growing. These were high-energy and enthusiastic conferences conducted by dedicated business partners and IBMers. Thank you all for inviting me to be a part of them, and for highlighting the value of social software for businesses!
This week in Lotus, from Amsterdam
Suzanne Livingston 110000F23G firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  ibm-connections travel social-software 430 Visits
Stuart McIntyre got Bill Buchan, Chris Miller, Mary Beth Raven, Paul Mooney, and I together at NLLUG for a "This Week in Lotus" podcast session, covering all sorts of topics like recent Lotus User Groups, NLLUG, how we arrived there, and even some tips on Connections 3 and Notes 8.5.2. It was a fun session thanks to the ever entertaining personalities. Click hereThis morning,


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