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Vt. potholes gain national notorietyBy Kevin O'Connor
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A vehicle passes by a pothole on Terrill Street in Rutland on Monday.Vermonter Tom Bodett — the ad voice that advises "we'll leave the light on for you" — began this past weekend's fact-or-fiction segment of National Public Radio's news quiz with a dark story of his state's surest — and surliest — sign of spring.
"'Watch for that pothole on Route 9' used to be a warning to drivers," he told listeners. "These days it's an invitation for visitors to southern Vermont to witness a road hazard so infamous it has become a destination all its own."
Bodett spoke of Brattleboro townsfolk and tourists, facing so many flat tires local leaders have stopped counting, surrendering to a pothole "of such frame-wrenching, tongue-biting proportions that people are now stopping to have their pictures taken beside it, and not always for insurance purposes."
"This week, Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources Deb Markowitz responded to a petition that the pothole be preserved and turned into a state park," he continued, "by saying simply that might be the stupidest thing to cross my desk all winter, and that's saying something."
The studio audience laughed, as did Markowitz. ("It was fun getting a shout-out," she says.) But drivers who know all but the state-park petition to be true aren't in a joking mood this April Fools' Day.
"2014 is shaping up to be one of the worst pothole seasons on record," the Vermont Agency of Transportation confirms on a new special page on its website.
The state has spent $1.3 million so far this fiscal year to patch potholes from northernmost Alburgh to southernmost Vernon, but the problem keeps growing.
"It's something legislators keep asking us about," says George McCool, state assistant maintenance transportation administrator.
Who's to blame? McCool points straight to the top: Mother Nature.
"We've had a lot more rain followed by a lot more colder weather," he says. "The water gets in and underneath the pavement and the traffic knocks it loose."
In Brattleboro, this "freeze-thaw cycle" began in February, when drivers of more than 20 vehicles — including a state police cruiser that had to be towed — reported flat tires on one particularly problematic mile of Route 9.
"After the first few weeks, people stopped calling," says Hannah O'Connell, the town's water and highway superintendent. "They realized it's pothole season. But it has been a particularly difficult one this year."
Michael Bosworth, president of the West Brattleboro Association, has written an open letter to federal and state officials in hopes of fixing the problem.
"Traffic has slowed to a crawl as everyone tries to avoid flat tires or damage to their undercarriages," the businessman noted. "And this road is our gateway to southern Vermont, one of our prime skiing and tourist destinations?"
Sympathetic crews that have shoveled 2,500 tons of filler statewide point to several challenges. You can't patch a pothole in too cold or wet weather or the fix won't hold. And most asphalt plants close in the winter, requiring workers to figure out ways to crush and propane-heat their own mixtures.
"We're trying to get out there as fast as we can and keep up," McCool says. "But you just can't throw something in and drive away."
The state estimates it could be another month "until the weather changes over, the frost heaves begin to settle and the hot mix plants open for the season," its website reports.
Until then? "We are all going to have to exercise a little patience, caution and common sense," it advises, "when navigating the handiwork of nature's jackhammer."
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Palestinian investigators accused Israel of being the "only suspect" in Yasser Arafat's death on Friday, a day after Swiss laboratory experts said tests suggested he was killed by polonium poisoning. The Palestinian president died in Paris in 2004, and the Palestinian government in Ramallah demanded France send it the results of a probe launched there over a year ago as soon as possible. "We say that Israel is the one and only suspect in the case of Yasser Arafat's assassination, and we will continue to carry out a thorough investigation to find out and confirm all the details and all elements of the case," said Tawfiq Tirawi, the head of the Palestinian Authority's inquiry into the death.
Tirawi said Palestinian investigators had studied the findings of Swiss scientists released this week which "moderately" supported the notion that Arafat had been poisoned. "This is the crime of the 21st century," Tirawi said. "The fundamental (goal) is to find out who is behind the liquidation of Yasser Arafat."
They said the quantity of the deadly substance found on his remains pointed to the involvement of a third party. "We can't say that polonium was the source of his death... nor can we rule it out," said Professor Francois Bochud of the Lausanne Institute of Applied Radiophysics. Bochud's lab measured levels of polonium up to 20 times higher than it is used to detecting. Palestinian justice minister Ali Mhanna at Friday's news conference urged France to send findings from its investigation. "We've so far received no response from the French side. We've sent a letter to the French demanding they accelerate the sending of results, and we're still waiting," said Mhanna. "From the beginning the French have told us they can't send the results until there's Franco-Palestinian judicial cooperation," the minister added.
Read: Arafat's mysterious death becomes a whodunit Tirawi declared that "France knows the whole truth and details of the martyrdom of Yasser Arafat". Some 60 samples were taken from Arafat's remains in November 2012 and divided between Swiss and Russian investigators and a French team carrying out a probe at his widow's request. So far, there has been no word on the French or the Russian test results.


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As we await Oracle Oracle earnings at market close on Wed. Salesforce.com Salesforce.com and its vocal chief executive Marc Benioff don't want to share the spotlight. Salesforce and Workday Workday have announced a new partnership that will include each company's products within the others' systems, with details to come also at market close.
Benioff already had his turn on Tues. when he unveiled a reorganization of Salesforce's key marketing unit to integrate acquisition ExactTarget ExactTarget during the first day of the Connections conference. The new unit is a mouthful–Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud–and creates an even broader stack of marketing tools for Salesforce, which had already acquired its way to a stack of social marketing and listening tools, but added email marketing capability and more traditional user data analytics when it bought ExactTarget for $2.5 billion in June.
In came Scott Dorsey, ExactTarget CEO and now chief of the combined unit. Absent, from the company's press release at least, was Buddy Media's Michael Lazerow, who while his title within the unit has remained CMO for months, took a seat for the major announcement (he seemed pretty happy with it based on his tweets). The biggest takeaway from the announcement? The innocuously named "Journey Builder," which promises to track customers from their initial email and mobile touch points "to power personalized customer experiences," and market to users based on their engagements and where they've touched the chain of marketing, allowing for efforts such as retargeting over Facebook Facebook.
Though there were two days left in the Connections conference, that'd be the big news, a major marketing restructuring and new product announced at a marketing event.
As rival Oracle plans to announce earnings at market close on Wed. with a press and analysts call shortly thereafter. Now Salesforce has announced a "and one more thing" deal that doesn't seem to have much of a marketing connection at all. Salesforce.com and Workday, another major cloud player, announced they will "deepen their trategic partnership," with details to come on its own call at…market close on Wed.
In a release, the companies said the integration will connect Salesforce's platform to Workday's financial management and human resources tools, while linking Workday's applications directly into Force.com and Salesforce's collaboration tool, chatter.
The ExactTarget integration won't be finished until the first quarter of next year with Journey Builder coming in Q4 of 2013. The Workday integration won't be more thoroughly fleshed out until Salesforce's annual conference, Dreamforce, in two months.
I will be updating this article as Benioff and Workday cofounder and co-CEO Aneel Bhusri speak to analysts and press. Keep an eye out for a post on Oracle's earnings, too–despite Benioff's apparent flair for a scheduling coincidence.
Updated from analyst call, 4pm ET:
In prepared statements, Benioff tells his call that this is a great commitment from each company to each other. Testing of the products together is already under way. Bhusri says the partnership will have the "world's first comprehensive CMR solution completely in the cloud."
Not much meat, but takeaways from analysts' questions:
The bromance is on. Benioff says he already has been recommending Workdayfor human resources and finance in the cloud. Bhusri says the same for Salesforce sales and marketing. "Customers want integration, they want partnership, they want vendors to have working relationships with each other," Benioff says.
Integration and pre-packaging of Salesforce.com and Workday products could save money, but sales representatives will not be compensated for sales of the other company's products.
Now Oracle comes up. Benioff is asked if Salesforce had not promised to work with Oracle in the recent past, too. Benioff replies that Salesforce uses the Oracle ledger internally but that the company is going with Workday as its standardized choice. Benioff invokes Thomson Reuters, which he says chose Salesforce and Workday separately after its merger.
No word on why Benioff needed to make this announcement now, perhaps distracting from his ExactTarget unit's conference, which is still under way. Benioff does speak glowingly of the ExactTarget tech, and Bhusri says he'd expect Workday to move onto the marketing cloud in time, but not presently.
More information to come at Dreamforce, where Benioff will have all the stage time he could ask for.
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In many ways, the route Bonita Rex took to college is not unusual. After graduating from high school in 2007, family issues forced her to delay enrolling in college. Two years later, thanks to Pell grants and an improved family situation, she enrolled in the Community College of Philadelphia with a focus on general studies in cultural science and technology.
After Rex earns an Associate degree while holding down two part-time jobs, she plans to complete requirements for a bachelor's degree at California State University.
But recent changes made to Pell grants has Rex, 24, worried that she might not be able to complete her bachelor's degree at Cal State or anywhere else.
The Pell Grant program nearly doubled from assisting about 5 million students in 2009 to 9.4 million students in 2012. The program, which provides low-income students with financial aid they do not have to repay, was projected to face an $18.3 billion shortfall during 2012-2013 academic year because of an increase in need.
In an effort to maintain the maximum grant of $5,550 per academic year, Congress opted to eliminate four qualifications for the program, making an estimated 145,000 students suddenly ineligible for funds. In addition, students are no longer eligible to receive their Pell Grants during the summer semester.
During the 2012-2013 school year, if a student did not have a high school diploma or GED, had a family income of more than $23,000, needed less than 10 percent of the maximum award, or had received a grant for longer than 12 semesters, they were no longer able to receive Pell funds.
"Twelve semesters is kind of slim," says Rex. "It's unfair. They're forcing non-traditional students to rush through our courses so that we have enough money to last through an Associate's, Bachelor's, and potentially a Master's."
After this year, Rex will have completed nine semesters on her Pell Grant, leaving only three to lead her through her studies at her dream school of California State University where she wants to study to become a dietician.
The 1,200 community colleges across the U.S. educate about 8 million students every year, representing almost half of all undergraduate students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Of the nearly 40,000 students enrolled at the Community College of Philadelphia, 56.7 percent are Black. Nationally, 32 percent of community college students are African-American.
About 92 percent of Black students received financial aid during the 2007-2008 school year, 80 percent of which came in the form of grants. Blacks received $4.5 billion in Pell Grant funds during the 2008-2009 school year.


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Hien Nguyen's Ford Crossing Border's research project was titled "Performing Arts of Vietnamese Mediumship and Folk Practices among Vietnamese in the United States."
The residency enabled her to expand her previous research on popular religious practices in Vietnam and include similar and related practices among Vietnamese communities in the United States.
During her fellowship, Nguyen made fieldwork trips to San Jose, CA and to Vietnam. Collaborating with Prof. Karen Fjelstad of San Jose State University, together they conducted fieldwork among Vietnamese American spirit mediums on their Len Dong rituals in San Jose, CA. The result of this fieldwork was a paper on the Vietnamese Mother Goddess Religion and Len Dong spirit possession ritual from a transnational perspective.
As part of her preparation for teaching at UCLA, Nguyen conducted further research on "Contemporary Vietnam in Ethnographic Images." From December 8, 2003 to January 26, 2004 she traveled throughout Vietnam and visited a number of places from a village of minority people in Lao Cai province in the north of Vietnam to the sacred Black Lady mountain in Tay Ninh. The aim of this field trip was to record the daily life of Vietnamese people and to prepare multi-media teaching materials.
Nguyen developed and taught a new course at UCLA in Spring 2004 in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, "Society and Culture in Contemporary Vietnam." The aim of the course was to explore Vietnamese society and culture at the beginning of the 21 st century. Rather than focusing only on Vietnam's past, as a country that has experienced centuries of warfare, or looking only at the majority Kinh people, this course introduced contemporary Vietnam as a country, which included urban and rural people who are both ethnically diverse and geographically varied.
Nguyen's principal research effort during her UCLA residency was manifested in the symposium she organized on "Mother Goddesses and Spirit Mediums: Popular Ritual and Spirit Possession in Contemporary Vietnam" on June 2004, at the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. The theme of the symposium was based on the Mother Goddess Religion (Dao Mau.) One of the oldest religious traditions of Vietnam, temples are dedicated to Mother Goddesses, including temples for her spirit possession rituals (len dong.) These temples are found in every region of Vietnam and in communities of overseas Vietnamese. Although the rituals of mother goddess worship have been a part of Vietnamese culture for 1,000 years or more, they have periodically been illegal in contemporary Vietnam. Still, Vietnamese continue to practice spirit possession and wherever Vietnamese settle outside of Vietnam, they bring spirit possession rituals with them. The symposium gathered together nine international scholars who discussed their research with the intention of compiling their broad findings into one comprehensive book. Co-edited by Nguyen and Fjelstad, the book will exclusively examine the religion and practice of the Vietnamese Mother Goddess and should be published sometime in 2006 by Singapore Press under the title: "Mother Goddesses and Spirit Mediums: Popular Ritual and Spirit Possession in Contemporary Vietnam."
The symposium participants and contributors to this book include:
The conference was attended by over 50 people and made a significant contribution to Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Studies nationally and internationally.
While at UCLA, Nguyen gave several lectures, some of them included:
In addition to the book publication based on her symposium, Nguyen developed two other manuscripts during her residency: "Spiritualism: Spirit Possession Rituals and Mother Goddess Religion in Vietnam" a special publication on Vietnamese Rituals, 2006. And an encyclopedia entry titled "Folklore of the Viet," in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of World Folklore, edited by William M. Clements, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.
Hien Nguyen completed her Ph.D. in 2002 in Folklore with a Minor in Religious Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2002. Her dissertation was entitled: "The Religion of Four Palaces: Mediumship and Therapy in Viet Culture."
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"My logo is halal and has a moon and a star, and is green for the color of Islam," owner Damrong Maslae told the Guardian. "Starbucks has insisted I take out the green and the words 'star' and 'coffee.' I can't do that."
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For decades, hundreds of horse owners have housed and trained their animals at the fairgrounds during the off-season. But now, those same people who pay to be there are losing access to the track.
Friday is the last official day for training on the track. Basically it all comes down to money.
The three groups involved are trying to figure out how much horse owners should pay to use the facilities.
"For them not to leave a state-owned facility to help our people and our industry out, to me seems, to be totally ridiculous," Tom Pierce, a horse owner, said.
Pierce is one of hundreds who boards his horses at the fairgrounds and uses the track to train them.
The current price is $5 a day.
Downs General Manager Darren White said that does not even come close to how much it costs to maintain the track and stalls, more than $30,000 a month.
"In southern New Mexico they have several different options they can go to, in northern New Mexico the only track you can train your horses at year round is here in Albuquerque," Pierce said.
Friday, after training, the track will be sealed and closed, at least temporarily until the New Mexico Horsemen's Association can reach an agreement with the Downs of Albuquerque as well as Expo New Mexico about how much horse owners have to pay.
Jack McGrail is the executive director from the NM Horsemen's Association.
"We do pay stall rent, it's not like we're looking for some gift or benevolence, but those numbers we haven't been able to agree on what is an appropriate amount per stall per day," McGrail said.
Owners worry how long the negotiation process could take.
"If we can't track, what's the use of keeping horses, we'll just have to send em to the slaughter house," Rey Marquez, a horse owner, said. "You're gonna cost 200 or 300 jobs, you're gonna cost - slow the breeding industry down, the owners industry," Kevin Crow, another horse owner, said.
McGrail said he is hopeful the three parties will be able to work something out, adding, it is just a matter of getting everyone to sit down together to do so.
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6-17-05 – Powerful storms knocked out power and caused damage in some parts of Texoma late Thursday night and early Friday morning. In Carter County, one family is lucky to be alive after power lines crashed onto their home.
Around 2:00 a.m. a major power line source snapped off its wooden post, into the kitchen of a Springer home off highway 77. Ruth Walker and her husband heard the noise, and crawled out of a back window.
An entire string of power lines were pulled down along highway 77, leaving a few hundred customers without power.
Durant and Ardmore also reported nearly 2,000 customers without power. Crews in the Sherman and Denison area are trying to restore power to 300 people. Bonham is only reporting a few dozen homes that are without power.
Strong winds from the storm blew down trees and some street signs, but no major injuries are reporting.
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Edouard Manet: The Direct Gaze
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Actor Fiona Shaw unlocks the gaze of the famously naked women painted by French Impressionist Edouard Manet, the 19th century painter known as the father of Impressionism. Yet little is known about him. He did away with mythology, allegory and history and instead painted the life around him. His friend Baudelaire wrote "You are only the first in the degeneration of your art". Now, with a long-awaited exhibition of Manet's work at the Royal Academy in London, Fiona Shaw – who enjoys painting when she's not acting or directing – stares back at the women in Manet's most famous works. She talks to historians and artists including author Julian Barnes, Manet's biographer Juliet Wilson Bareau, curator Stephan Guegan, art historian Tamar Garb as well as contemporary artists who carry a torch for their 19th century predecessor, including the father of Brit Art, Michael Craig Martin.
Manet first shocked the Paris salon in 1863 with his most famous painting, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, which shows a naked woman having a picnic with her friends in a glade on the Seine. Rejected by the formal exhibition, it found its way to the Salon des Refusés, an invention of Napoleon III, who described it as "an offence against decency" while the Empress Eugenie walked past, determinedly averting her gaze. Manet followed this with his painting of a naked prostitute...
In this programme, Fiona Shaw strips back to explore painting itself. She visits the Musée d'Orsay to see Manet's great works, traces his influences from the Louvre and walks the streets near his studio to unlock the gaze of his sitters.


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DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. (Feb. 17, 2008) – The 50th running of the Daytona 500 will be remembered as one of the most exciting of all time. From the star-studded pre-race show that also included a roaring flyover from the Air Force Thunderbirds; to the 42 lead changes among 16 drivers – this Great American Race will go down as one of the best.
Carl Edwards and the No. 99 Office Depot team had high hopes heading into the season opening Daytona 500. After posting consecutive top-five finishes in both the Budweiser Shootout and Gatorade Duels, Edwards and crew chief Bob Osborne looked to continue their success at Daytona International Speedway in 2008. However, for Edwards and the No. 99 Office Depot team, the inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race would not end up they way they were hoping. What started off as a promising day for the No. 99 team, that included 95 laps in the top 15 and four of the event's fastest laps, concluded with a mid-race incident that caused lingering damage to the Office Depot Ford and a long-fought, late-race battle to finish 19th.
On a warm, sunny Florida afternoon, front-row starters Jimmie Johnson and Michael Waltrip led the 43-car field to the green flag just after 3:30 p.m. (ET). Edwards, in the No. Office Depot Ford, rolled off 11th and settled in for the 200-lap event.
Early in the race, Edwards reported that his Office Depot Ford was experiencing "tight" handling conditions. Though the No. 99 was not operating to Edwards' liking, he managed to maintain a top-10 running position until his first pit stop under green on lap 35. During this stop, Osborne directed the Office Depot crew to make a wedge adjustment and service the No. 99 with four tires and fuel. Edwards returned to the track and when the field cycled through green flag stops, he was scored in 10th place.
Edwards again settled in on the track and cruised around in seventh place for another 35 laps. Without a caution, green flag pit stops again began. Edwards brought the No. 99 down pit road on lap 74 and the crew gave him four fresh Goodyear tires and an air pressure adjustment. The entire field circled through and when everything cycled out on lap 78, Edwards was shown in eighth place. Reporting that the Office Depot Ford was "better," Edwards continued to log laps around Daytona International Speedway.
The first caution flag of the day fell on lap 79 for debris on the track. Most of the field, including Edwards pitted with the leaders. Since only five laps were registered prior to this stop, Osborne called for two tires, an air pressure adjustment and a splash of fuel only. Green flag racing commenced on lap 84 and Edwards was still in eighth place.
On lap 102, just passed the half-way mark, the No. 43 cut down into Edwards' lane on the race track, making contact with the left rear quarter panel of the Office Depot Ford. Though Edwards was able to avoid a crash, significant body damage was incurred and Edwards quickly began losing valuable track positions – falling from eighth on lap 84 to 31st on lap 112 and ultimately 34th on lap 117 when he was finally able to pit.
Under green flag conditions, Edwards brought the No. 99 down pit road on lap 117. A quick stop for wedge and air pressure adjustments, along with four tires and fuel were all that time permitted. Since the field was still under green, there was no time to repair the damages sustained on the lap 102 incident. Edwards would continue to nurse the No. 99 around the track until lap 150 when a caution fell allowing more time for the Office Depot crew to repair the wounded racecar.
The green flag waved again on lap 155 and Edwards was running 32nd. Though he would gain a spot here and there, he would lack the drafting help needed to break into the lead pack. With just 20 laps remaining in competition, Edwards was scored in 26th place. He avoided the race's final three cautions and managed to finish 19th.
Before a sell-out crowd of nearly 200,000 Ryan Newman won the 50th Daytona 500. Kurt Busch, Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch and Reed Sorenson followed to round out the top five.
Up next for Edwards and the No. 99 crew is the Auto Club 500 at the California Speedway. FOX television and MRN radio affiliates will carry the live broadcast beginning at 4:00 p.m. (ET) on Sunday, February 24.
Carl Edwards Daytona 500 Quote:
"We were really pretty good and just got shuffled back at the end. And we had a deal where we got caught up with the 77 car and slowed us way down. We had a competitive car, and it could've definitely been a top-10. We just did the best we could."
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Carrier-Eades Aides USA to Thorpe Cup Victory
MARBERG, Germany - Former West Virginia University track and field standout Chelsea Carrier-Eades helped lead Team USA to a third straight Thorpe Cup victory over Germany in the heptathlon.
The women of Team USA held off Germany with a team total of 17,332 points to 17,251 with the top three scores from each team counting toward the team total.
Carrier-Eades finished third overall and contributed to the team score with a final point total of 5,783. Kira Biesenbach of Germany won the event with 5,878 points and Bettie Wade of Team USA finished second with 5,795 points.
"This was not only a great honor for Chelsea, but also a wonderful experience for her," coach Sean Cleary says. "Taking home the bronze medal in such a prestigious event is a great way to end her European tour. Chelsea has a very bright future as she enters the world of professional track and field. Chelsea will return home and together with the coaches, determine if this mark the end of her year.
"Additionally, the Javelin and 800-meter run scores mark her lifetime bests in those events. Now that she has graduated, she will have the time to train and to work out the kinks in her weaker events. Once that happens, the sky is the limit for her."
On Saturday, Carrier-Eades pulled out two first place finishes in the 100-meter hurdles (13.11, 1,108) and the 200-meter dash (23.84, 996) while also scoring solid marks in the high jump (1.65 meters, 795) and shot put (10.36 meters, 553).
Carrier-Eades opened the second day of competition with a fifth place finish in the long jump with a 6.10 meter mark for 880 points. The Buckhannon, W.Va., native finished the day with a 33.31 meter throw in the Javelin for 539 points and a second place finish in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:13.66 for 912 points.
The win for Team USA marks the fourth victory since the event was established in 2006.
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Community:1dev2/Welcome to the Town of Robloxia
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|Welcome to the Town of Robloxia
|Town and city
|Place visits
|Around 18,300,000
|Information accurate as of 25/06/2015
The place is based in a town called Town of Robloxia. It has a Police Station, a Fire Station, and a Medical Clinic, just as a real town would. It also includes other industrial and commercial private companies. Such companies include a Tower, a fire station, a gas station, a factory, a mall, a small airport thats only for VIP, school, and a News HQ.
The place was originally made some point in 2009, but the game moved to the another game slot.
On 6/14/2012 this game has changed to the starter map because Jaredvaldez4 stole WttToR and put it in one of his gameslots. The game hit the front page. On 6/29/2012 place was changed from a starter map back into the original game, and it was made uncopylocked. It is unknown who did this, but many users say a moderator/administrator set the game back to normal.
- The place has been stolen many times. In 2011, 1dev2 came forward with proof that he was the original creator. On David.Baszucki's profile there is a previous copy of WttToR (originally the start of the stealing). When opening the place in Solo mode, a VIP Script can be found in the VIP Car. In the VIP Script it is written '1dev2'.
- Welcome to the Town of Robloxia has the fastest Place Visits growth in Roblox History. There was a long period of slow growth (around 400,000 and 500,000 player visits), but on January 2010, the game was full of people and on 3/13/2011 it received 1,000,000 total visits. One month later it had grown to 2,000,000 place visits. It finally recieved 3,000,000 visits around late May 2011.
- WttToR has not been updated for a while. So, there have been quite a few bugs including that a player cannot buy a house due to no 'Buy House' button. A player can spot this as the garage door will always be open. 1dev2's last update to the place before he was banned by was bringing the VIP back. He was then deleted due to the Mass Hacking of April 1st.
- A remake of the game by Andrew7643 is currently being made. Unlike JuliusColesV2 version, this version doesn't use free modeles and recieves mostly good feedback.
- Althought not every user participates in this, WttToR is a hotspot for Online Daters and Role-Players.
- The game is un-copylocked.
- Along with Reason 2 Die by PlaceRebuilder, this is one of the only Roblox Games to have been given a good review by the Raging Roblox Reviewer series.
- In April 2014, someone unknown updated it.
- In January 2014, JuliusColesV2 had created a place called, "Advanced Town of Robloxia!" which has hit the front page as of August 2014. The place is exactly like WttToR, but contains several free models added by Julius.
- The Roblox Mart is a representation of WalMart and houses several goods that players can buy with the currency they earn from jobs.


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- Steve Jobs's Best Quotes (WSJ Blogs) — Playboy: We were warned about you: Before this Interview began, someone said we were "about to be snowed by the best."; [Smiling] "We're just enthusiastic about what we do." (via Kevin Rose)
- The Tao of Programming — The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler. The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages. Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao. But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it. (via Chip Salzenberg)
- In Defense of Distraction (NY Magazine) — long thoughtful piece about attention. the polymath economist Herbert A. Simon wrote maybe the most concise possible description of our modern struggle: "What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." (via BoingBoing)
- 31 Days of Canvas Tutorials — a pointer to 31 tutorials on the HTML5 Canvas.
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Four short links: 25 August 2011
Jobs Quotes, Tao of Programming, Distraction, and Canvas Tutorials
Four short links: 5 August 2011
Flexible Display, Free Icons, Virtualization, and Virtualization Management
- NanoLumens — flexible display technology, 2.6lbs/sq ft (that's 17 kilofrancs/kelvin in metric, I think). (via Fiona Romeo)
- The Noun Project — a vast collection of free-to-use icons. (via Russell Beattie)
- VirtualBox —
SunOracle's open source virtualization product, trivial to run multiple VMs on your local box. VirtualBoxes has pre-built VMs for common OSes.
- Vagrant — tool for managing VirtualBox VMs with provisioning and teardown, NFS folder sharing, host-only networking, etc.
Four short links: 3 August 2011
Library Licensing, Mac Graphics, Coal Computing, and Human Augmentation
- Just Say No To Freegal — an interesting view from the inside, speaking out against a music licensing system called Freegal which is selling to libraries. Libraries typically buy one copy of something, and then lend it out to multiple users sequentially, in order to get a good return on investment. Participating in a product like Freegal means that we're not lending anymore, we're buying content for users to own permanently so they don't have to pay the vendor directly themselves. This puts us in direct competition with the vendor's sales directly to consumers, and the vendors will never make more money off of libraries than they will off of direct consumer sales. What that does is put libraries in a position of being economic victims of our own success. I would think that libraries would remember this lesson from our difficulties with the FirstSearch pay-per-use model that most of us found to be unsustainable.
- Radi — a Mac app that can produce pretty much any kind of visual content for the web. Images, animations, vector graphics, video clips, realtime visual effects, JavaScript programming…. (via Hacker News)
- Cost of Computing in Coal (Benjamin Mako Hill) — back-of-the-envelope estimation of the carbon costs of running an overnight multicore Amazon number-crunching job. Thinking about the environmental costs of your crappy coding might change the way you code, much as punched cards encouraged you to model and test the program by hand before you ran it. How many tons of coal are burnt to support laziness or a lack of optimization in my software?
- Friction in Computer Human Symbiosis (Palantir blog) — Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process. (via Tim O'Reilly)
Four short links: 1 July 2011
Vector Graphics, Processing Maps, Augemented Senses, and Graph Analysis
- paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting. MIT-licensed Javascript library that gives great demo.
- TileMill for Processing — gorgeous custom maps in Processing. (via FlowingData)
- Research Assistant Wanted — working with one of the authors of Mind Hacks on augmenting our existing senses with a form of "remote touch" generated by using artificial distance sensors, such as ultrasound, to stimulate tactile stimulators (vibrating pads) placed against the surface of the head.. (via Vaughn Bell)
- GoldenORB — a cloud-based open source project for massive-scale graph analysis, built upon best-of-breed software from the Apache Hadoop project modeled after Google's Pregel architecture. (via BigData)
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Four short links: 7 June 2011
Shadowy CSS, Bitcoin Mining, Graphics API, Date Design
- OMG Text — a plugin for CSS framework Compass for directional text shadows. (via David Kaneda)
- Build a Cheap Bitcoin Mine — some day it will be revealed that the act of generating a bitcoin token is helping the Russian mafia to crack nuclear missile launch codes and Afghan druglords built the Bitcoin system to destabilize the US dollar.
- Polycode — a free, open-source, cross-platform framework for creative code. You can use it as a C++ API or as a standalone scripting language to get easy and simple access to accelerated 2D and 3D graphics, hardware shaders, sound and network programming, physics engines and more. The core Polycode API is written in C++ and can be used to create portable native applications. Lua interfaces. (via Joshua Schachter)
- Flickr Date Design — interesting thoughts on Flickr's date design. The date your photos was taken is stored in a MySQL datetime technically giving you the ability to label your photo as being taken solidly 800+ years before anything most of us would describe as the invention of photography. Which is a little silly.[…]Fundamentally this split between system activity time, and human editable creation date models a world where the people who use your software do something other then use your software. You have to decide how you feel about admitting that possibility. (via Nelson Minar)
Four short links: 23 March 2011
Health Prediction, Fake Ads, Bogus Patents, and Realtime Graphing
- The Heritage Health Competition — Netflix-like contest to analyze insurance-claims data to develop a model that predicts the number of days a patient will spend in hospital in the coming year. $3M prize. (via Aza Raskin)
- Historically Hardcore — fantastic fake Smithsonian ads that manage to make the institution sexy. Naturally they've been asked to take them down.
- Another Plato Innovation Ignored — turns out the above-the-fold doodle has a long and glorious history, culminating in a fantastic demonstration of our broken patent system.
- Graphite — Enterprise scalable realtime graphing. Apache 2.0-licensed, written in Python. (via John Nunemaker)
Strata Week: Statistically speaking
Trading platforms, truth in graphs, European financial stats, and Mandelbrot's passing.
In this edition of Strata Week: The London Stock Exchange moves from .Net to open source; learn how graphical scales can lie; the Euroean Central Bank president calls for better financial statistics; and we bid farewell to the father of fractals.
Four short links: 11 October 2010
Teaching Design Thinking, Client-Side Graphics, Removing Logos, and Tweeting the Revolution
- Design Thinking in Schools — materials to help teach design thinking in schools and education. My favourite: Design MadLibs (though until they can include "fart" in the list of acceptable words, it won't be as interesting to my kids as the original MadLibs). (via Justine Sanderson)
- PaintbrushJS — Open Source (MIT-licensed) Javascript library for client-side graphics effects (blur, gamma, edge detect, etc.). (via Simon Willison)
- Unlogo — a web service that eliminates logos and other corporate signage from videos. Very clever use of computer vision technology: "if we have all these demos of CV that put logos on blank sheets of paper and otherwise inject them into our lives, why not use the same technology to remove logos from the world around us?" There's a nifty demo replacing logos with the head of the relevant corporation's CEO. (via Phil Lindsay)
- Gibbets, Dismemberment, and Dickens (Julie Starr) — evocative and well-written Dickens account of witnessing a guillotining. If the next revolution is tweeted, it'll be a sad day for journalism, literature, and history. Do read this, it's not revolting.
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Four short links: 5 August 2010
Delicious Graphs, Charities and Data, Climate Psychology, Data Structure Portability
- Delicious Links Clustered and Stacked (Matt Biddulph) — six years of his delicious links, k-means clustered by tag and graphed. The clusters are interesting, but I wonder whether Matt can identify significant life/work events by the spikes in the graph.
- Open Data and the Voluntary Sector (OKFN) — Open data will give charities new ways to find and share information on the need of their beneficiaries – who needs their services most and where they are located. The sharing of information will be key to this – it's not just about using data that the government has opened up, but also opening your own data.
- Cognitive and Behavioral Challenges in Responding to Climate Change — At the deepest level, large scale environmental problems such as global warming threaten people's sense of the continuity of life – what sociologist Anthony Giddens calls ontological security. Ignoring the obvious can, however, be a lot of work. Both the reasons for and process of denial are socially organized; that is to say, both cognition and denial are socially structured. Denial is socially organized because societies develop and reinforce a whole repertoire of techniques or "tools" for ignoring disturbing problems. Fascinating paper. (via Jez)
- Blueprints — provides a collection of interfaces and implementations to common, complex data structures. Blueprints contains a property graph model its implementations for TinkerGraph, Neo4j, and SAIL. Also, it contains an object document model and implementations for TinkerDoc, CouchDB, and MongoDB. In short, Blueprints provides a one stop shop for implemented interfaces to help developers create software without being tied to particular underlying data management systems.
Four short links: 10 February 2010
Open Source Government Tools, Insider Journalism, Open Clip Art, Mining Facebook Profiles
- OSOR.eu — The OSOR is a platform where public administrations can exchange information and experiences and collaborate in developing free and open source software. The platform has managed to bring together more than 2000 such open source software applications in just sixteen months after its launch. (via EUPractice and vikram_nz on Twitter)
- Inside Glitch — writeup of behind-the-scenes during the development of the game Glitch, the new project from Stewart Butterfield, Cal Henderson, Eric Costello, and Serguei Mourachov. The historical details themselves are banal, but what's interesting is how the reporter got access: "I'll let you determine when the piece runs (but not editorial control over what goes in it), and in return I get to meet regularly with you and you tell me all." It's analogous to the Newsweek tell-alls that come out after the election. (via Waxy)
- Open Clip Art — archive of public domain-contributed clip art. (via Mark Osbourne)
- How To Split Up The US — clique analysis from 210 million public Facebook profiles. Some of these clusters are intuitive, like the old south, but there's some surprises too, like Missouri, Louisiana and Arkansas having closer ties to Texas than Georgia. To make sense of the patterns I'm seeing, I've marked and labeled the clusters, and added some notes about the properties they have in common.
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New York, NY — The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) reinforces its call for cutting-edge science as the path to a cure for the complex autoimmune disease of lupus as it sponsors key programming in innovative research at the International Lupus Congress in Vancouver from June 24 through 27.
"This is a very exciting time in global lupus research, as we witness results of the incredible power of innovation in cracking the mysteries of this disease," said LRI President Margaret G. Dowd in preparation for the triennial meeting, which assembles top lupus researchers, physicians, and clinical trial leaders to share and assess key developments in the field.
The LRI's Cutting Edge of Lupus Research Plenary Session kicks off the full Vancouver meeting on Thursday, with presentations of the world's top innovative lupus research abstracts.
Presenters include:
- University of California at San Francisco's Matthias Wabl, PhD, who will explore a concept that remnants of ancient viruses in our genome may be what triggers the lupus immune system attack-and that removing them may be key to stopping the disease process.
- University of Chicago's Timothy Niewold, MD, FACR, who has made an innovative model for linking genetic associations with lupus.
- University of Michigan's Marianna Kaplan, MD, who has a novel explanation for why vascular damage occurs in so many people with lupus.
- Dr. Qingyu Cheng, who travels from Germany to present a cutting-edge hypothesis on lupus nephritis.
Other innovative international abstract presenters at this opening session include Dr. Ram Raj Singh at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Sahena Haque from the UK, and Dr. Patrice Decker from Germany.
"So much about this complex and surprising disease is not yet understood," said Dowd. "Over the past decade the LRI has encouraged scientists to think creatively and outside of the box, taking risks and bringing new ideas, new questions, and new eyes to bear on the complexities of lupus and autoimmunity."
"The LRI is a global leader in identifying bold and promising scientific hypotheses in lupus—and its approach is working, demonstrating the power of innovation to lead the path to discovery," said Michel Nussenzweig, MD, PhD, the Sherman Fairchild Professor at Rockefeller University and a member of the LRI Scientific Advisory Board.


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Suspected cigarette thieves wanted in connection with as many as eight burglaries
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - Police in Broward County have released surveillance video to help catch a couple of suspected cigarette thieves.
Authorities say they've been hitting stores all over South Florida.
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Sammi Sweetheart Changes Her Hair and Rocks Edgy Outfit at New York Fashion Week! (PHOTO)
Even nor'easter storm Nemo isn't going to stop New York from having Fashion Week. It also didn't stop Sammi Sweetheart from heading to Project Runway's show this morning with a brand new 'do.
Shockingly, Sammi didn't straighten her hair today and rock a sleek hairstyle, but instead — as seen on her Instagram — she swept her dark mane into a perfect bun. But that's not all that she changed!
The gorgeous guidette spruced up her patterned white dress with a sexy black leather jacket, contrasting in a fashion-forward, edgy way. To get an even closer look at her outfit, she also Instagrammed a photo sitting next to actress Paula Garces and a video on Keek, letting us know that she will tell us all about her Fashion Week fun later on!
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We followed this recipe exactly (other than cutting down on the salt a bit), and we were very pleased with the results. The meatloaf came out very moist and flavorful. It didn't taste TOO strongly of sun-dried tomatoes, but I thought they were a really nice, unusual addition to an otherwise pretty classic meatloaf recipe. I'd definitely make this one again.flag if inappropriate
I love it! Even my husband who hates the meatloaf still changed his mind. I'm going to make it again.flag if inappropriate
very easy recipe. After reading the reviews I used fresh sage, oregano and I also added rosemary. I also cut the salt and pepper in half.flag if inappropriate
Good Recipe! I never thought about using sun-dried tomatoes with meatloaf or hamburgers before. I made mini-meatloaves so they would cook faster and I made them on the grill. I did find they were a little dry...next time I might use a little of the sun-dried tomato oil to mix in...flag if inappropriate
Love this recipe, always make it as written except with less salt. Didn't have celery this time so I wizzed up cauliflower, gr pepper and onion in food processor before cooking and it still came out great. My picky kids love it!flag if inappropriate
Followed exactly, turned out great. Moist, delicious, made great leftovers for the next few days. Going to make again tonight. I only give it 3 forks cause although it's great, it's still just meatloaf, and really I gotta save those 4-fork ratings for the rare sublime dishes.flag if inappropriate
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I was looking for low fat and healthy so I cooked up a bunch of mushrooms that I added (saw the idea on one of the other reviews). I have made it once with commercial sun dried tomatoes and once with my own oven dried fresh tomatoes. Both great. My family thought it needed some sort of sauce so the second time I made a mushroom gravy with cream, some dijon mustard, and a squirt of ketchup. We think this meatloaf is better tasting than regular meatloaf, but just a tad dry (hence the gravy).flag if inappropriate
Turned out great! I added carrots and mushrooms, and used toasted wheat bread for the breadcrumbs. I also agree with previous post- the worcestershire sauce in ketchup was a nice addition. I will definitely make it again!flag if inappropriate
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va., Sept. 30, 2011 During his tenure as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen was critical to preserving the effectiveness and health of the 2.2 million people making up America's armed forces, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said here today.
Panetta spoke during the hail and farewell ceremony on Summerall Field here as Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey replaced Mullen as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Mullen took office in 2007 as the military and the United States faced a critical time. "We faced hard fighting and heavy casualties in Iraq as the surge troops battled a determined insurgency," Panetta said. "Afghanistan was slipping away as then Taliban expanded its presence throughout the country. And our military, particularly the ground forces, was under tremendous strain -- deployment after deployment."
The U.S. military was still the strongest military in the world, but it was under stress. Mullen was determined to preserve the health of the all-volunteer force and he succeeded, the secretary said.
Mullen worked with Army and Marine leaders to reduce the burden on the ground forces -- reducing the length of combat tours and giving forces more time between deployments. He also worked tirelessly and spoke out often on the stress the combat forces faced in these deployments.
Mullen and his wife, Deborah, also highlighted the impact multiple deployments were having on military families, and sought ways to enlist the American people in helping those who bore the brunt of the burden.
Even as fighting raged in Iraq, Mullen saw that the war in Afghanistan needed more attention, people and resources. He also called for a new, regional approach to combating al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The chairman made many trips to Afghanistan and especially Pakistan, where he acted as a military diplomat to leaders in the region, especially to Pakistani Army chief of staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
Mullen also made progress in the Asia-Pacific region.
"He worked to prevent a dangerous escalation of the conflict on the Korean peninsula and helped Japan and South Korea forge closer ties," Panetta said. As chairman, he added, Mullen also cemented ties with Australia and re-opened military-to-military contacts with China.
The secretary said Mullen helped to bring about the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
"At a moment in time when few thought it was possible, his courageous testimony and leadership on this issue were major factors in bringing about this important change," Panetta said. "His courage and honesty achieved this milestone in the history of equal rights for all."
Mullen's leadership, candor, straight talk, compassion and concern for the troops "have set him apart, and he has set an exceptionally high standard for the role of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," the secretary said.
Panetta called Mullen "part warrior, part diplomat, part mediator, spokesman, fighter and leader."
Panetta welcomed Dempsey as the 18th chairman. He hailed the general as a great combat leader.
"Marty truly came up from the grass roots," Panetta said. "He knows about people; he knows about hard work; he knows about sacrifice.
Panetta said that President Barack Obama's choice of Dempsey to succeed Mullen was inspired.
"He brings a keen intellect, proven leadership, strategic vision, and most of all, humanity to that critical post," the secretary said of Dempsey's abilities. "And, oh yes, he tells it like it is as well."
Panetta said the change bodes well for the United States.
"I am supremely confident of the future because we have the strongest military force in our history and in the history of the world," the secretary said. "And it is strong exactly because we can replace one great warrior with another.
"The men and women in uniform are the greatest asset we have," Panetta continued. "They are our greatest strength. And we celebrate that strength today by honoring these two great leaders."
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NEW BRAUNFELS – Ron Wesbrooks' Lamar coaching career may have ended in 1987, but his legacy has stood the test of time as he is set to be inducted into the Texas Tennis Coaches Hall of Fame on Friday.
Wesbrooks, who first set foot on campus as a graduate student in 1969, took over the head coaching role for the university in the fall of 1970 and led to Cardinals to just their second Southland Conference title in 1973. He'd go on to record 198 career victories over 16 years, both marks ranking the most in school history.
"I came here as a graduate student, and I was fortunate enough to stick around," Wesbrooks said. "Lewis Hilley really put Lamar men's tennis on the map with the national titles in the NAIA, and I happened to be in the right place at the right time as we moved into Division I. It was a good team when I got here, and I still remember the 1973 team, which had several international players but also three players from Beaumont. It was a really special group."
Wesbrooks is the first Lamar coach to be inducted into the Texas Tennis Coaches Hall of Fame, and he joins Cathy Beene as the second person with LU ties to be inducted into a hall of fame this year. Following Friday's ceremony, a plaque bearing Wesbrooks' name will be on permanent display at Newcombe's Tennis Ranch in New Braunfels as well as at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco.
"It's really a nice honor, and since I've been out of coaching for so long, I was kind of surprised to get the phone call," Wesbrooks said. "The TTCA is made up of a variety of coaches from both the high school and college levels, and they are very active in trying to educate and promote the value of tennis. It's a beautiful game that can teach you a lot about life, and this organization shares that belief."
Since stepping down as LU's coach in 1987, Wesbrooks has continued to teach at the university, introducing more than 5,000 students to the game over his tenure. He's also remained very involved with the Beaumont Labor Day Tennis Tournament since 1973 and helped start the Southeast Texas Tennis Association Zone Advancement Tournament, both of which are sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association.
The TTCA Hall of Fame induction will take place on Friday evening at 6 p.m. at the T Bar M Resort and Conference Center in New Braunfels.


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TxDOT officials say the bridge rail has been hit numerous times in the past as a result of the make-up of the road.
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NEW YORK — Two stories born in Britain are vying for America's biggest theater prize.
"Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" are each a virtual lock to get a Tony Award nomination today for best musical and each show will be eager to capture as many nods as possible in the other 25 categories.
The nominations will be announced from The New York Public Library for Performing Arts in a televised event co-hosted by Tony winner Sutton Foster and "Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
"Kinky Boots" is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear. Songs by pop icon Cyndi Lauper and a story by Harvey Fierstein have made it a crowd-pleaser, albeit in open-minded New York. Touring potential is key for Tony voters.
"Matilda," the import from London, is a witty musical adaptation of the beloved novel by Roald Dahl and is true to his bleak vision of childhood as a savage battleground. It has proven it can find audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
The other contenders for the best musical prize — the biggest reward on Tony night— include the peppy "Bring It On: The Musical" the hit-stuffed "Motown: The Musical," the quick-to-close "Hands on a Hardbody" and the sweet "A Christmas Story, The Musical."
"Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" also have a good chance of nabbing nominations in the best musical actor category, with some interesting drag involved for both shows' leading men, who both wear skirts onstage.
British actor Bertie Carvel plays a brutal headmistress in "Matilda" and Billy Porter plays a drag queen in "Kinky Boots."
Others who may get a nod include Rob McClure as the lead in "Chaplin," Matthew James Thomas in "Pippin," Brandon Victor Dixon in "Motown: The Musical" and Jim Norton in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Porter's co-star Stark Sands might also get a nomination.
The best play category is stuffed, but only four can make it. The leading lights include Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties," Sharr White's "The Other Place" and Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."
Others with a real possibility include Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary," Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy," Douglas Carter Beane's "The Nance," Craig Wright's "Grace," Holland Taylor's "Ann" and John Logan's "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers."
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: June 16, 2011 : Updated: June 16, 2011 9:38am
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CONEXION: Local filmmaker Pablo Veliz is filming The Boys of Ghost Town in San Antonio. One of the stars of the movie is Danny Trejo, who's been in several Robert Rodriguez films. Helen L. Montoya/Staff
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In this film publicity image released by 20th Century Fox, Danny Trejo stars as a legendary ex-Federale in a scene from, "Machete."
Danny Trejo stars in "Machete"
Danny Trejo will find good uses for his assortment of weaponry in 'Machete.'
The 2010 film "Machete" made Danny Trejo a leading man. He returns to a starring role in the new action drama, "Strike One."
The film imitates Trejo's life. His character, Manny Gerardo, is an ex-gang member who's recently released from prison and is pursuing an acting career portraying gang bangers.
Trejo told Latin Heat magazine he likes playing bad guys only if they get caught or killed. "If someone asked me to play a bad guy that always gets away with it, I'd pass. ... That's the very message I preach to youths who are in crisis and in trouble ... the bad guy always loses and the good guy always wins," he says.
Filming on "Strike One" started June 13 in Los Angeles.


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The total deposit balance of Vietnam Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Private Enterprises (VPBank) has reached 3.103 trillion dong, up by 40% compared with the start of the year, according to VPBank.
The banks lending balance is 1.793 trillion dong, which is basically on target. In addition to completion of procedures on opening new branch transaction points, VPBank is proceeding with plans to raise its chartered capital to 210 billion dong by the end of this year. Also, VPBank is also planning to to issue domestic and international credit cards in the near future.
According to Le Dac Son, general director of VPBank, to date total assets of VPBank is more than 3.379 trillion dong, of which profitable assets account for 93%.
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A statement on www.livornocalcio.it read: "AS Livorno Calcio is pleased to announce officially the extension of the contract for the player Paulo Sergio Bettanin - "Paulinho".
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Driver hits two people in her driveway, takes off
By Safiya Merchant, Staff Writer : July 27, 2013 : Updated: July 28, 2013 4:41pm
A driver struck two people in her driveway Friday and fled the scene, according to police.
The driver, who witnesses identified only as "Michelle," struck John Huggins, 68, and Kathy Green, 49, at about 10:30 p.m. in the 100 block of Canton Street, just east of downtown.
According to Huggins's son, his father and some friends were having drinks in the driveway of the woman's house.
She reportedly had an argument with Green before getting in her car, backing up, and moving forward into the front yard. She backed up again, stopped, and drove forward once more, striking Green and Huggins, who were sitting in the home's driveway, police said.
The two fell out of their chairs, but were not run over, according to information from San Antonio police. The driver later left the scene.
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Wow. Jennifer Hudson has lost all her baby weight, and then some, with help from Weight Watchers. The Oscar-winner (and Idol loser) showed off her slimmed-down figure last week and praised the weight-loss company for helping her to shed the poundage. "After I had the baby, I made up my mind that I wanted to go in a different direction and find a better lifestyle and a better way," she told Good Morning America. "So I set my mind to this challenge and I went after it. I feel like I've conquered the world."
Jen's weight loss goes hand in hand with her new gig as a Weight Watchers spokesperson, so while she's dropping pounds, she's gaining some extra cash. What do you think of Jen's slimmed down look? Do you like here long and lean, or are you craving her old curves?


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Speaker, Mercy CEO discuss future of health careWritten by Brigitta Burks | News Editor | firstname.lastname@example.com
One-hundred-and-twenty-five business, government and community leaders gathered at a Mercy event Feb. 7 to view a presentation on the future of health care.
Mercy's Community Leader Breakfast, emceed by Chrys Peterson of WTOL 11 at the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion, featured talks by Andrea Price, Mercy president and CEO, and Bradford S. Koles Jr., executive director of the Advisory Board Company, a health care research firm.
Despite tough economic times and a changing American dream, Price said Mercy is still innovating with its use of tomosynthesis, a new 3-D mammogram technology, digital records and management styles that involve physicians.
"Every day, the health care industry is on the frontier," Price said. "I see something wonderful on the other side of reshaping health care."
"There is no room for worry; we are focused," she added. "We haven't turned our attention to health care just because it's an election year."
Mercy employs 7,400 people and has net revenues of $900 million, she emphasized.
Koles, a Toledo native and industry expert, was the keynote speaker. His talk focused on health care changes in the coming years, especially with tightened budgets.
"For Mercy, the implications are very straightforward: lower-rate growth," he said. The country also faces its largest generation, the baby boomers, coming into their Medicare years, he stressed.
"Medicare was designed for a completely different country," he said. "People talk about a world of Medicare — that is becoming a reality faster than you would think."
Koles pulled up a slide of several celebrities whose age makes them eligible for Medicare. "Take a minute to relish that you are paying for Donald Trump's health care," Koles said.
Many also face having to cover health care with private insurance and are struggling to cover costs. Koles said 95 percent of physicians reported patients recently forgoing treatments. He pointed out that the future of health care depends largely on who wins the presidential election, pointing to a slide of President Barack Obama, former Gov. Mitt Romney and Gov. Rick Perry's health care philosophies. Koles joked he didn't have time to update the slide with the changing GOP landscape.
Additionally, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impact the future of health care, Koles said.
"If you and I had been sitting in a room a year ago, we would only be talking about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," Koles said.
Koles also asked "the biggest existential question of all: What will happen to the benefits market?" He said more companies may move toward giving employees stipends, which may not keep up with medical inflation, instead of picking benefits up.
Still, Koles said there is no reason for panic. "Nothing I have shown you is sudden; nothing I have shown you is a catastrophe. It is a slow squeeze that frankly has to happen."
Mayor Mike Bell, who was in the audience, deemed the presentation "excellent" and praised Mercy.
"[Mercy] is extremely vital in our future in being able to contain these costs in the large population they deal with," he said.
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Fiesta is many things to many folks whether it's a family tradition of staking out a perfect spot for the parades, a night of revelry at NIOSA or simply a backyard fiesta with neighbors and friends. In all cases there's one thing in common – great food! And yes, often beer and sangria are in […] [Read More]
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