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For 20 years The Little Magazine has been offering poetry, fiction, and human insight to a national readership. Volume 21, however, offers something extra: sights, sounds, and a transport into the 21st Century.
The journal, which originated at Columbia University in the mid 1950s and has been published since the late '80s by graduate students in the Department of English, is now one of the first digital multi-media literary publications to circulate in the U.S., with a CD-ROM version for IBM/Windows. Hypertext, visual and audio poetry and fiction, colorful graphics, and short video segments are included in a multi-media mix.
"I think it is a real breakthrough," said Judith Johnson, award-winning poet and chair of the English department. "It's also absolutely essential. More and more, this is the direction in which publishing is going to go: printed text and in addition a digital publication along the lines of this Little Magazine. They are not competitive. It has been found that the CD-ROM attracts more readers, it does not cut into a book's sale in print.
"What the multi-media publication does do is allow artistic and literary possibilities that are not possible with print. It allows a fluidity for the reader to move from one train of thought to another: to listen to one poem while reading another, for instance, or to hear something while moving through a list of graphics." She added that the original intentions of some classic writers like Emily Dickinson that readers be given word options for poems can now be realized.
"It is truly a brilliant result from our student editors," said Johnson. They include Christopher Funkhouser (editor-in-chief), Belle Gironda and Benjamin Henry.
Contributions for Vol. 21 include the work of 75 different artists, among them nationally and internationally renowned poets like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jackson Mac Low, Charles Bernstein, Nathaniel Mackey, and Anne Tardos, as well as works of faculty members Pierre Joris and Laura Marello and many past and present graduate students.
The magazine's interface revolves around a design, "The egg of thought becoming human," digitized from an ink drawing by Ferlinghetti.
The editors are also not waiting for next year to expand the magazine's parameters. A "call for work" through February 1996 is being made now for visual and sound art conceived by artists as multi-media. It will be digitized for Volume 21B, whose proposed theme is "Visual Behaviors," and place on the World Wide Web. "The limits (as always) are only those which the technology still places on the imagination and vice versa," states the written invitation.
Funding for The Little Magazine comes from the College of Arts and Sciences and the SUNY Research Foundation.
The New York State Writers Institute will have an official "launching" of Volume 21 at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 4 p.m. in Humanities B39. The public presentation of the magazine will utilize computer images and overhead projection.
The Little Magazine is the latest example of University faculty and departments taking advantage of the technological revolution. The on-line New York Journal of Mathematics was founded in July of 1994 by current editor-in-chief Mark Steinberger of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. An English literary electronic publication, E-Journal, is the product of Department of English faculty member Edward M. Jennings.
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Noble knights in shining armor are a dime (a silver?) a dozen Alliance-side in World of Warcraft. Where you find one or more Alliance roleplayers, you'll find a veritable solar flare of the Light. In most cases, however, the buck (or the Light, as it may) stops right here at the boundary between Azeroth and Earth. But in one longstanding Moon Guard (US) guild, the Light spills forth into all corners of members' lives. The Bearers of Light's noble guild foundation rests on charity, both in game and out. Moving beyond regular newbie zone assistance events, the guild recently embarked upon a real-world community challenge that's racking up life-changing results.
Since its inception in the classic WoW era, this guild force for good seems to be filling an apparently unique niche among Azerothian guilds. Back in 2009, WoW Insider's David Bowers (then author of our roleplaying column) wrote about discovering the guild with his own character: "The guild I eventually chose is called The Bearers of Light on the Moon Guard server, and I chose it because its members pledge to be kind to others. It was the first and only guild I've ever seen in World of Warcraft that is explicitly founded around the spirit of benevolence and charity. I felt that it was a perfect match for me personally -- if you've seen movies like Pay It Forward or read about ideas such as random kindness and senseless acts of beauty, then you will have seen the kind of impact this theme can have on a group of people. Once kindness itself is a goal, it makes life so much more livable."
Looking for inspiration to start your new year off on the right foot? Look no further than The Bearers of Light.
Main character Zelyna, guild master
Guild The Bearers of Light
Realm Moon Guard (US)
WoW Insider: Zelyna, even a cursory glance at your guild website and charter shows that The Bearers of Light are all about service and sharing the Light. The big question, I think, is whether that philosophy simply serves as a roleplaying focus for the guild or if it's a broader mission aimed at the players behind the characters.
Zelyna: It does come into play for the guild roleplay, ensuring the characters are good aligned and would take big risks for each other and to help each other out. However, it is also intended to be a guideline for how the members are expected to conduct themselves within the game itself, whether we are talking about their dealings with other guild members or people they are pugging an instance with, or even just with people who are hanging around Stormwind. Finally, there is the hope that my fellow members will take our guild beliefs and put them to practical use in their daily lives. Not only is it our hope to make Moon Guard a better place, but the real world around us as well.
Has the guild always had such a focus?
I was not the original leader, nor did I play when it was created, which was shortly after Moon Guard went online. My best friend Zal was a member very early on. It was made with the same tenants of benevolence, kindness, and charity, as it is now. I really liked this aspect of the guild, as well as I had gotten to know some of the members vicariously through Zal. When I decided to play, I wanted to join and I filled out an application. Lo and behold, when Zal logged in the next day, the guild was disbanded. I was sorely disappointed, since I was looking so forward to joining it and meeting all these great people I had been hearing about.
Well, to find out, no one else in the guild was happy it was gone either, so we reformed it, with the same tenets and website, and put Zal in charge. ... Eventually he stepped down ... and he passed the lead onto me.
The guild itself has evolved over the years from a heavy RP guild to an all-purpose guild. We try to cover all aspects of the game from RP to raids to PvP. However, one thing has not changed, and it's the tenets of kindness, benevolence, and charity. I do not have many demands on the membership, as WoW ultimately is a game and it should be enjoyable, so I do not believe in making people raid or come to events when they really don't want to, but I do demand all the members at least respect each other and treat each other the way they would be treated themselves. It is also expected each member try to be nice to others outside the guild confines and help if they can and it's needed. They are also expected to pull their own weight (powerleveling is frowned upon) and not demand people drop everything and run them through dungeons or give them lots of gold. It has really worked to keep the drama level down ... and has really made us an extended family of sorts.
... which today includes your Evenings of Giving. What are those all about?
The guild members who want to participate spend time gathering up materials for crafting or getting low-level greens. If the character does not have a crafting profession, then we either give them something to hand out or have them go buy pets. Then we meet in a city and finish crafting using mats from the vault if we have them, or I give out items from the vault to hand out. Then we stick around in the chosen city and see if we can attract adventurers 20th level or under through announcements on general and yell. If things are slow in the city, then we head off to the starting area and try out luck there. Sometimes we even switch cities, if it's that dead.
Usually we hand out most of what we bring with us, so we have had good luck. Everyone who visits gets one item or a small stack of items, like health potions, from each person who is there. All the while we are handing out stuff, we also stay in character and roleplay with them, proving that not all roleplay on Moon Guard is ... well ... you know. Then again, that sort of roleplay is banned from the guild entirely.
As for the items we hand out, it really does depend on who goes and what they can craft. We have handed out everything from potions (which is my specialty), to crafted weapons, to leather patches, rings, pets we get from a different starting area, to cookies. (Even the light side has cookies -- ha!) The most useful item to a new adventurer is bags, though. Usually we ensure someone makes Netherweave Bags to hand out.
It's a great event for even small guilds to do, since you do not need a large amount of people present to do this. A good minimum number is five. If the crowd is too large, it can be a bit intimidating to a person new to the game.
The Bearing Light to the World Month of Service is something I tried this year around Sept. 11. I figured on this day when so many gave their lives in the service of others, maybe it would be nice to give something back to our communities, and by doing this, we could bring our guild goals into the real world. This year it was a week but next year it will be a month, to give people more time. All I asked was for members to do one nice thing in their communities or for a charity of their choice. It could be as simple as donating money to a favorite charity or picking up trash in a nearby park.
Nice! What kind of participation did you get?
One of my guild members donated to NPR and their local EMS squad. On top of that, they donated food to their local food bank and clothing to another local charity, and books to their library. Another member has gone as far as to sign up to go do missionary work in Central and South America, as well as donating blood and also donating books which would be given to people who can't afford them. My charity was Locks for Love. I donated a foot and a half of my hair.
Finally, I asked around what the members do for real life charities. I got more answers than I realized I would, which made me very happy.
We have multiple members who donate blood on a regular basis.
- Bozdin donates through his store to St. Jude's Children's Hospital and the March of Dimes.
- Kyleah donates to Paralyzed Veterans of America and through school, sends aid to Japan, and collected used textbooks to send to schools in third-world nations.
- Gaerm has done mission work in Mexico, plus he supports various charities associated with law enforcement, the military, and the fire department.
- Jericane who took poinsettias and cookies to her [home health] clients over the holidays, especially to people who have no family.
- Sallic supports the Red Cross and, through his church, helps the homeless.
- Antisthenes and his family, instead of buying gifts this Christmas, donated to various charities through his church as well where the money went to places such as the local soup kitchen. (I almost cried when I read this ... Wow.)
- Ashvati donates to his temple and the Himalayan Academy, which helps people who are interested in converting to Hinduism.
- Lightbeacon donated to her store's hosting a Christmas dinner and gifts for a deserving family.
- Zualeane made a large donation to Toys for Tots. She is a survivor of a heart transplant and naturally works to promote organ donation.
- Phazium is in a band and his band regularly does shows for charities such as MDA, Elks Children's fund, and a food pantry his mom is involved in.
- Both Phazium and Zualeane served lunches to the families staying at the local Ronald McDonald House.
- Pinkiepie works with Habitat for Humanity and she knits scarves for her local Kids Without Coats drive.
- Praeus donates to the local EMT/volunteer fire department, NPR and the ASPCA. She and her husband look around to see who might be in need and tries to make a difference; once they bought a dinner and had it delivered to a homeless man sitting outside the restaurant, she frequently works with animal rescue, and she's even tutored the children Vietnamese family who had just immigrated here.
- Baudouin taught English last summer in Turkey.
- Lorinan works in the various ministries at his church.
- Xythyl has worked in Central and South America doing missionary work and is going again next summer.
Personally, I have not seen many guilds out there where this is a focus, and I have not really heard about any who have tried to carry their guild goals to the real world. One of my members said to me once, they had checked out other guilds and never found one which was like ours. That said, I am not saying that they don't exist out there, just that I have never heard of any who do what we do.
With a nice, crisp new year ahead of us, what's in the works for The Bearers of Light?
I would like to see us adopt a charity that the members pick and try to help in a bigger scale than we do with the month of service. Our guild has been growing by leaps and bounds, so the more people we have who can help, the more we might be able to accomplish. I would even like to come up with new ideas for events on Moon Guard which will benefit others outside the guild. I have also been visiting the WoW forums and going onto the Guild and Raid Leader forums and the new player forums (when I have time) and trying to give helpful advice if needed.
Anything else?
I found myself telling the people we gave items to the only thanks we wanted was for them to pay it forward. It is my goal that if even just one person does pay it forward, the server will be a better place.
"I never thought of playing WoW like that!" -- and neither did we, until we talked with these players, from a player battling Alzheimer's disease to Game of Thrones' Hodor (Kristian Nairn), gaming industry insider Liz Danforth and El of El's Extreme Anglin'. Know someone else we should feature? Email firstname.lastname@example.com.

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ALBANY -- The natural gas industry and business groups are pushing back against a bill proposed Tuesday that would create a company-funded reserve to cover the cost of damages from any future gas-drilling accidents.
The bill, proposed by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, would allow the state to create the fund by tacking on a surcharge to permit fees for natural gas companies and other production facilities.
The fund would then cover the cost of any cleanup work from accidents during gas drilling or hydraulic fracturing if the cause of the contamination couldn't be immediately identified, or if the responsible party refused to pay. The state Attorney General's Office would later determine who is responsible and sue for damages, with any money recovered going back into the cleanup fund.
DiNapoli said the proposal is modeled after the state's oil spill fund. The bill would allow for leaseholders or other landowners to seek claims if drilling accidents were to occur, he said.
"Unlike protections for those who suffer from an oil spill, we don't have a similar recovery and compensation fund for incidents involving natural gas extraction," DiNapoli said. "So we're trying to provide a level playing field."
But the head of the state Independent Oil & Gas Association called the bill "premature" and said there is "simply no basis for such a fund at this time."
"The proposal does not take into account existing permit requirements, which address bonding for site reclamation, and it does not acknowledge existing environmental, criminal and civil law, which holds businesses accountable on many levels," IOGA Executive Director Brad Gill said in a statement.
The comptroller's proposal comes at a time when the state is readying itself for a sharp increase in natural gas production. In recent years, national scrutiny over the safety of hydrofracking -- a technique in which water, sand and chemicals are injected into shale formations to break rock and unlock natural gas -- has grown.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is developing permitting guidelines for drilling and high-volume hydrofracking in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations, which sit below the Southern Tier and other parts of the state. Permits for that type of gas extraction are on hold until the DEC's review is complete, which is expected next year.
DiNapoli said it would be up to the DEC to establish the cost to gas companies to enter the fund. He said he has started conversations with lawmakers about the proposal, which would need approval from the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. DiNapoli's top deputy is former DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis.
"The issue is often, as we see with the oil spill fund, if you can't locate the responsible party or if they are unwilling to deal with the damage that is done, this sets up a mechanism to provide a remediation and a recovery as well," DiNapoli said.
Ken Pokalsky, senior director of government affairs for the state Business Council, said the bill is too broad and gives the DEC too much leeway.
"It gives regulatory authority almost without parameter to DEC to determine contamination in terms of natural gas exploration and what cleanup expectations are," Pokalsky said. "It's much different than the way cleanup by Superfund, the state oil spill law and even brownfields have been done for decades."
In a statement, the DEC didn't take a stance on the bill. In July, the department launched a hydrofracking advisory panel to make recommendations on issues like permit fees, bonding and severance taxes.
That advisory panel will have its first meeting on Aug. 18, according to DEC spokeswoman Emily DeSantis. A date for the meeting is being worked out, but it won't be open to the public because the panel is not subject to the state's Open Meetings Law.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that he wanted to wait and see what the panel came up with before responding to individual ideas.
"The DEC has an advisory panel of real experts in the area that I think represent a good cross section and I'm looking forward to their recommendations," he said.
At least one member of the DEC panel voiced support for DiNapoli's proposal, as did a number of environmental groups.
"Given the level of concern about the environmental risks associated with drilling, I am glad Comptroller DiNapoli has proposed this legislation," said Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, D-Endwell. "It will provide a much needed sense of security by ensuring that the industry is held accountable."
While the measure would likely garner support in the Democratic-controlled Assembly, it would face an uphill climb in the Republican-held Senate.
Sen. Thomas O'Mara, R-Big Flats, Chemung County, said DiNapoli's proposal should wait until the DEC's review is complete.
"It seems to me that the DEC is who we're relying on to set up the regulatory structure for this, and certainly they're being considerate of how we deal with accidents," O'Mara said. "I'm not really sure why it's the comptroller coming out with this."
Another Senate Republican -- Greg Ball of Patterson, Putnam County -- said the fund makes sense and could provide a middle ground for concerned landowners and gas companies eager to drill in parts of the state.
-- Jon Campbell is a staff writer at the Gannett Albany Bureau. Bureau Chief Joseph Spector contributed to this report.


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While carpooling can be great for the environment, as Jane Lynch experiences in a hilarious new clip from FunnyorDie.com, it can also be mentally challenging.
The bit stars Lynch as the passenger in fellow "Glee" co-star Matthew Morrison's vehicle. Things start off innocently enough, with both taking pride in their decision to travel green, but after Morrison decides to "warm up" by turning on the radio, the horror begins.
From "Faith" to "Nookie" to "Wild, Wild West," Morrison proves that while carpooling is a great option for many people, you should always choose your travel mates carefully. After he starts singing the traffic report, Lynch finally loses it, screaming, "Why do you have to sing everything like you just swallowed a pair of jazz hands?! You are a grown man in a 2003 cherry red Beetle singing Disney ballads!"
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So I moved to our house this past week/weekend. I'll get some better pictures but got almost everything put away in the room that's going to be "the bar". I added some nice curtains and lighting, it turned out nicely.
If I loaded the pictures correctly, the tower is my growing bourbon collection with the boxes on either side making up my "bunker".
Then the wine cellar in view, racking is 2 bottles deep, and all the boxes are full. I need to drink a lot...soon.


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Like "American Idol" today, "American Bandstand" was wildly popular among TV viewers in the 1950s, '60s and beyond. The show went nationwide in August 1957, and within 6 months, it was broadcast on more than 100 stations with 20 million people regularly tuning in [source: Doyle]. "American Bandstand" helped increase adult acceptance of rock-and-roll music -- seeing the chaperoned dancing teens on daytime TV helped diminish the stigma attached to sock hops in many parents' minds. Dick Clark, the show's host, even put in live appearances at additional sock hops, sometimes attending more than two dozen a week.
The Music and the Fashions of the Sock Hop
In the 1950s, a variety of groundbreaking fashions burst onto the scene, and their popularity swept the nation. When teens planned to attend a sock hop, the girls would often suit up in sweaters and swirling circle skirts. The best remembered style today was the felt poodle skirt, first designed by Juli Lynne Charlot in 1947 [source: Bramlett]. Guys, meanwhile, would commonly sport jeans and T-shirts. Of course, subtle tweaks in the model could create a whole separate look, and teens could fall into social roles ranging from preppies to greasers.
Music was the other major defining characteristic of a sock hop. Rock-and-roll had recently surged into the mainstream -- the first use of the term in its modern context had allegedly been in Cleveland in 1951 by disc jockey Alan Freed -- and many teens quickly became obsessed fans of the new sounds. With the upsurge in television ownership and shows like "American Bandstand," teens took to rock-and-roll music en masse.
At sock hops, teens might dance -- and even dally with -- a date, or simply dance in a group. That was the beauty of the informal setting. But sock hops were more than just simple school dances. They signified a changing tide in the culture of teens. More about that on the next page.


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Highwoods Properties' $152 million acquisition of The Pinnacle at Symphony Place, at right, sets a new record purchase price for a multitenant office building in Nashville. / Jae S. Lee / File / The Tennessean
The Pinnacle at Symphony Place in 2009 / George Walker IV / File / The Tennessean
The Pinnacle building is at 150 Third Ave. S. in downtown Nashville. / Sanford Myers / File / The Tennessean
Highwoods Properties closed its $152 million acquisition of The Pinnacle at Symphony Place on Thursday, setting a record purchase price for a multitenant office building in Nashville.
The Raleigh, N.C.-based real estate investment trust paid roughly $294 per square foot for downtown Nashvilles most expensive office address. The company also plans an additional investment of $800,000 for planned short-term improvements to the building.
Its certainly the high-watermark for Nashville, said Douglass Johnson, senior vice president with CBRE Capital Markets in Nashville. He said the price is still a good value, though, compared with recent sales of similar buildings in Atlanta and Charlotte that were closer to $350 per square foot. With additional leasing, they will be able to enhance the value of the building.
Owner Canyon-Johnson Urban Funds put The Pinnacle up for sale in the spring. The $294 a square foot tops the $206 per square foot Toronto-based Sun Life Financial paid last year for the Baker Donelson Building at 211 Commerce St. the previous record price since the Great Recession.
The 520,000-square-foot, 29-story Pinnacle is currently 84.9 percent leased with law firm Bass Berry & Sims, banking company Pinnacle Financial Partners and Butler Snow OMara Stevens & Cannada PLLC the largest tenants. Highwoods was already was the largest owner of office properties in Nashville and with the acquisition the firms portfolio now comprises 3.1 million square feet of mostly office space that is roughly 94 percent occupied.
Most of Highwoods office space is off West End Avenue, at Maryland Farms and its Seven Springs development in Brentwood, and in Cool Springs where the firm and SouthStar LLC plan a project called Ovation to include 1.4 million square feet of offices, 350,000 square feet of retail stores and restaurants and a 300-room hotel. Their move from the suburbs to buying a building downtown is really a testament to their commitment to Nashville, Johnson said.
Ed Fritsch, Highwoods CEO, cited the buildings long-term leases as a major advantage. He said occupancy at The Pinnacle will likely reach 93 percent within two years.
Highwoods has obviously made a significant investment in Nashville, added Brian Reames, the companys senior vice president and regional manager for Middle Tennessee, referring to its latest purchase of the Pinnacle building. We have a capacity and the appetite for more.
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Confidex, a provider of contactless smart tickets and specialty RFID tags, announced that the company is supplying several million contactless smart tickets for two years to one of the largest European public transportation operators, ACTV in Venice, Italy.
ACTV S.p.A. operates land- and water-based public transportation throughout the province of Venice, with the primary mode of transport being the waterbus, or vaporetto. To enable a faster, smoother flow of passengers, ACTV employs contactless smart tickets from Confidex throughout Venice's waterbus routes – a city that sees more than 20 million tourists a year. In total, ACTV operates 600 land buses and 160 waterbuses, carrying nearly 200 million passengers per year in and around Venice.
Due to the tremendous volume of passenger traffic carried by the waterbuses daily, ACTV says it required a system offering speed, ease of use, reliability and security, as well as a provider capable of delivering ticketing products for its changing needs. "Besides designing and manufacturing high quality smart tickets, Confidex offers a full range of other services, including industry-leading turnaround times for changing ticket artworks, efficient customer communication through dedicated team, full end-to-end traceability, unmatched personalization options and capabilities, and flexible ticket deliveries according to customer needs," the company says.
"We designed an affordable ticketing solution for ACTV that ensures tickets with enhanced durability to resist normal wear and tear in humid conditions, security against fraud, and full compliance with ACS automatic fare collection machines," says Pierre Chadebech, senior director for Confidex Smart Ticketing. "The tickets are customized with visually appealing advertisements to promote seasonal tourist activities in Venice, and the transit tickets are often programmed to also allow access to events, festivals or casinos with varying fare schedules, per the customer's wishes."
ACTV uses several different configurations of smart tickets from Confidex, including single tickets, reel tickets, fanfold and a unique custom size design with visual personalization. "We have a very good relationship with Confidex," says Emanuele Filippi, director of ACTV's administration and control. "Their communication was responsive and functional, ticket deliveries matched the schedules agreed, and the products provided have been of good quality."
According to Confidex, contactless tickets deliver improved ease of use, security and reliability versus magnetic stripe tickets or cards. Additionally, they enable reduced maintenance costs because the tickets are waved over the reader instead of inserted, resulting in improved passenger flow and user satisfaction.


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The government has thrown open a mine of data for enterprising mashupmeisters to create new ways for us to see what's really going on
Carmine Gallo joins the show to unveil some of Steve Job' secrets from Gallo's book "The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs."
Bebo members can participate in an election to send 500 messages to a planet 20 light years away.
As one of several start-ups trying to crack the code on building a piece of the semantic Web, its biggest challenge will be attracting users.
In today's episode, Leo Laporte drops in (and out) to discuss the future of CNET, the future of Yahoo, and lack of future we'll all have if the Air Force doesn't stop trying to build a real-life Skynet.
Dell comes out harsh against the idea that their solid state drives are defective. And Vista SP 1 hits the shelves.
The inventor of the World Wide Web says that what Google has done so far pales in comparison with what the Semantic Web will bring. Facebook and MySpace could eventually be trumped, too.
It's like a super-Delicious, with a brain.
With series B funding in place, company prepares public beta of app that organizes people, places, companies, Web pages, and other concepts into "semantic graph."


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Like most marathons originating at the beginning of the running boom of the 1970′s, the Houston Marathon started small. There were less than a hundred finishers for that first five-loop course event held at Memorial Park in December 1972.
The Houston Marathon used the original Memorial Park course in 1972, 1973 and 1975. There was no Houston Marathon in 1974 because the race scheduled for December 1974 was moved to January 1975. In 1976, George Kleeman measured a three-loop course, which included portions of the original course while expanding into an adjoining neighborhood. George took over as race director in 1977 and continued through 1980. During his tenure, he brought on board a major sponsor, Tenneco, and measured a new two-loop course with a start and finish in the downtown area to utilize the comforts of the convention center.
In 1984, a delegation from Houston was invited to visit the New York City Marathon. Representatives of the Houston Marathon, Houston Police Department and the mayor's office rode in the lead vehicle to observe how a big city-wide marathon worked. Realizing the advantages of a race involving all of Houston's varied neighborhoods, the City of Houston offered full backing for a city-wide marathon.
The first city-wide marathon was run in 1986, leading runners through Houston's downtown district, Near Northside, Midtown, Hermann Park, the Texas Medical Center, West University, the Galleria and Memorial areas. Until 2014, the course had been very similar to the original 1986 course, with some minor changes incorporating Montrose and the Heights, as well as a start-line move in 1989 to take advantage of the newly built George R. Brown Convention Center. For the 2014 Houston Marathon, the first eight miles of the course were changed, merging the marathon and half marathon start lines and leading the runners out of downtown via the Washington Corridor and through the River Oaks and Upper Kirby neighborhoods.
The Houston Marathon has grown steadily over the years, with almost 7,000 finishers in 2014. A 5K run was added in 1995, which proved popular with spouses and relatives of the marathoners waiting for the marathon to finish. In addition, a half marathon debuted in 2002 and was an instant hit with who did not want to run a marathon. Participation in the Houston Half Marathon has also grown over the years, starting with 2,600 finishers in 2002 and reaching 10,500 finishers in 2014.


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Le Pacte acquires French rights to Spring Fever
Le Pacte has picked up the French distribution rights to Lou Ye's Spring Fever.
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Nakagawa is an old linen manufacturer from Nara prefecture in Japan. They specialize in high quality linen and hemp fabric products.
This hanger may seem like any hanger, but hell no! Notice the width of this thing. It is 20" wide. It can hold a full size bathtowel, but please don't use it only in a bathroom... It can hold a wide piece of beautiful textile in your living room.
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Jim Carrey Responds To The "Media Colostomy Bag" Called Fox News
Jim Carrey released this statement today in response to Fox News, who attacked him for his "Cold Dead Hand" video on Funny or Die. The video targets assault weapons and large magazines.
Since I released my "Cold Dead Hand" video on Funny or Die this week, I have watched Fux News rant, rave, bare its fangs and viciously slander me because of my stand against large magazines and assault rifles. I would take them to task legally if I felt they were worth my time or that anyone with a brain in their head could actually fall for such irresponsible buffoonery. That would gain them far too much attention which is all they really care about.
I'll just say this: in my opinion Fux News is a last resort for kinda-sorta-almost-journalists whose options have been severely limited by their extreme and intolerant views; a media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams and should be emptied before it becomes a public health issue.
I sincerely believe that in time, good people will lose patience with the petty and poisonous behavior of these bullies and Fux News will be remembered as nothing more than a giant culture fart that no amount of Garlique could cure.
I wish them all the luck that accompanies such malevolence.
Go check out his Twitter feed, he's on a mission. Go Jim!
Cross-posted at Extreme Liberal's Blog
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Geez…why do you all seem so angry all the time?
Comment by SHIRLEY GRIFFIN | March 30, 2013 |
There are some people who think Jim Carey is risking that his fans have a short memory regarding his gun control stance while trying to become more relevant after his thirty million dollar film has only brought in about nineteen million. Jim is probably going to be shocked when he realizes the "cold dead hands" group has a very elastic memory and will not forgive him not for his parody but for his response to those who objected to it.
When he used the MF'ers line he crossed a line. Jim Carey has permanently lost at least half of the audience he had a month ago. Silly Jim.
Comment by Andy | April 2, 2013 |
Why not try another TROLL device, Andy, and scour what Jim Carey says to discern if he makes any grammatical errors in order to deflect from REAL issues? Not all movies are profitable but watch for this one to at least break even now having earned 2/3 of its investment in its first 3 weeks of distribution, Except for release to the English speaking UK, Australia/NZ, and Canada it has yet to be dubbed in other languages and released to the rest of the world where profits are often earned. The movie got 4 out of 5 stars in a local newspaper review with Steve Carell, not Carey getting panned. Even though it did not fare well with Rotten Tomato reviewers, nearly 2/3 of its audience liked it and that is what counts.
Comment by grantinhouston | April 4, 2013 |
A Colorado Sheriff weighs in http://youtu.be/mlwgZzeq8oI
Comment by Andy | April 6, 2013 |
What do you expect from a REICH-wing REPUBLICAN Colorado Sheriff? His county is 95% white with only a handful of Hispanics/Native Americans and less than 1% black so he can say anything he wants about our first black President. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR3KmdWjXWo
Sheriff Heap will surely rate an A+ from his NRA puppetmasters and probably gain some campaign funds, too in his next run for office.
Comment by grantinhouston | April 6, 2013 |
A gun story that got little attention in Texas and for sure not on Fox News Sports Network that broadcast the NRA sponsored NASCAR Race. The manager of the Texas Speedway dissed Connecticut saying we didn't need any Connecticut "values" in Texas!
Comment by grantinhouston | April 14, 2013 |


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Schumi has overcome infection: reportComment on this story
Grenoble, France - Formula One legend Michael Schumacher, lying in a coma in a French hospital since a December skiing accident, has overcome a lung infection, German daily Bild reported Friday.
The newspaper had reported two days earlier that Schumacher had contracted pneumonia last week, but it said Friday that the infection in fact had happened earlier and "this week no longer spells an acute danger".
"Therefore Schumi has already won the fight against pneumonia," said the top-selling daily, using the popular nickname for the 45-year-old German racing driver.
Schumacher has been in intensive care in Grenoble University Hospital since his December 29 accident in the Alpine resort of Meribel in which he hit his head against a rock in an impact strong enough to crack his helmet.
After surgery to reduce bleeding and bruising he was placed in a medically induced coma and his body temperature lowered to reduce the risk of further damage.
Schumacher's spokesman said on January 30 that the drugs used to keep him in a coma were being reduced with a view to bringing him back to consciousness.
On Thursday his family said that he was "still in a waking up process" which could take a long time.
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The Problem:
During backup of a mixed virtual machine environment (kvm, openvz) the proxmox web interface becomes unreachable and the virtual machines become unavailable for a period of time while they are being backed up. Each machine becomes unreachable one by one as it begins its back up. Eventually, it comes back online and is reachable over the network again. The backups are being done as snapshots and are being directed to a NAS share on a freenas server on our local network. Additionally, the freenas share as well as other cifs shares on the freenas server become unavailable to other windows machines on the lan. We also have another proxmox server with a similar configuration that we are not backing up yet. It too has the NFS share mounted and becomes unavailable via the web interface at the same time as the proxmox server performing the backups.
The Hardware:
Intel server with 2 sockets each populated with a quad core hyper-threading xeon X5650 @ 2.67gh. Proxmox sees 24 cores. There is 36 GB of DDR3 installed. We have 4 3TB hard drives in RAID 10. The array is partitioned into a 95 GB root partition with an additional 5087 TB LVM mounted for virtual disk storage.
Proxmox software:
Proxmox version: pve-manager/1.9/6567
Kernel Version: Linux 2.6.32-7-pve #1 SMP Mon Feb 13 07:33:21 CET 2012
Our Virtual Machines:
101 alstr-dc-1 8192 350.00 4242 (KVM) Win Server 2K8 R2
102 winvm03 1024 64.00 4210 (KVM) Win 7 Pro X64
103 alstr-dc-2 8192 64.00 4085 (KVM) Win Server 2K8 R2
107 winvm02 4096 32.00 6744 (KVM) Win 7 Pro X64
108 winvm01 4096 32.00 6903 (KVM) Win 7 Pro X64
120 linva109 (OPENVZ) Ubuntu 10.04
I am trying to determine why the web interface on both proxmox machines becomes available while only one server is performing backups. Also why the VMs on the LVM cannot be reached on the network while being backed up using a snapshot. I almost suspect that they are being stopped/restarted at some point during the backup process. I was under the impression that using snapshot on an LVM would allow the VMs to stay online during the entire backup process.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Top sports stories of the year
December 31, 2013
Issaquah athletes take top state honors
It was another successful year for Issaquah community sports.
Athletes at the three district high schools took home conference titles and state championships, while an Issaquah racing team made a splash on the water.
Lakeside Recovery Baseball Club earns third in American Legion World Series
August 28, 2012
The Lakeside Recovery Baseball Club only lost two games in the American Legion World Series in Shelby, N.C., both to the same pitcher. Genetically, that is.
Brooklawn's twin phenoms Casey and Cody Brown held Lakeside in check in the two games, limiting the Bellevue team to two runs in their first meeting Aug. 19, and only three runs in the Aug. 21 semifinal game. Both games were one-run affairs.
"We ran into a tough left-hander, and they got the big hit when they needed it with two outs," Lakeside head coach Rob Reese said. "We got our chances in the eighth inning and we only got one out of it. There's not much room for error when you get to that level. You have to take advantage of your opportunities and we had a couple shots, but we just didn't get it that day."
Lakeside Recovery Baseball Club nears national title
August 21, 2012
With only two games standing between them and an American Legion World Series title, Rob Reese's Lakeside Recovery Baseball Club will find out if it has what it takes to bring the hardware home.
After going undefeated in the Senior Legion State Tournament in Selah, the team packed it up and went to Billings, Mont., to participate in the Senior Legion Regional Tournament.
It was there where the players' offense came alive — they scored an average of 9.8 runs a game, losing only one game to Idaho Falls, by a score of 6-3.
Lakeside Recovery pitcher Brandon Mahovlich gasses competition
July 17, 2012
Lakeside Recovery catcher Jim Sinatro squatted down behind the plate July 14 at Bannerwood Field. As pitcher Brandon Mahovlich peered in for the sign, Sinatro extended only his index finger.
Lakeside Recovery rides hot streak to postseason
July 3, 2012
When they're hot, they're hot. When they're not, they're not.
And after June 30's 13-1 routing of Prep Sportswear's ball club at Bothell High School, the Lakeside Recovery team proved just that.
Lakeside coach Rob Reese said that kind of winning margin — the team has scored at least seven runs in 10 of the team's 14 wins this season — is not uncommon for this year's team.
"Offensively, we're kind of contagious," he said. "We can be hit and miss offensively, though. When we do hit, everyone hits. When we don't hit well, nobody hits well."
Issaquah High School baseball falls in state playoffs, 3-1
May 22, 2012
It was an up-and-down year for Issaquah High School baseball in 2012, but a late-season surge vaulted the team into the state tournament for the first time since 2009.
Hoping to ride the hot hand of senior pitcher Brandon Mahovlich, Issaquah's offense came up short, and the team lost to Puyallup, 3-1, on May 19 at Everett Stadium.
"Puyallup's a great team," Issaquah head coach Rob Reese said. "We had our chances, just didn't get enough runs. They had six hits and two of them were bunts. They clutched up, they had a triple one time and another sac fly. When we got guys on it was always with two outs, it seemed like. We just couldn't get the run. We couldn't string enough together."
Mahovlich struggled early, but managed to give up only one run in the first inning and one run in the second.
Issaquah High School baseball team defeats Roosevelt, 9-0
April 17, 2012
It doesn't hurt when you score nine runs in the first two innings. It also never hurts when your starting pitcher throws a complete game shutout, and that's what Issaquah High School senior pitcher Brandon Mahovlich did April 13 as Issaquah defeated Roosevelt, 9-0.
"It makes it a lot easier," the winning pitcher said. "I can just go out there and throw strikes and not have to worry about it. They can score a couple runs and I can just pitch confidently with a lead."
And quite a lead it was. Issa-quah jumped straight out of the gates with a two-run homer from senior shortstop Jake Bakamus, and followed that with the next five batters all touching home plate.
New rule, bats expected to lower scores, reduce injuries
April 3, 2012
New, stricter bat regulations are forcing producers to make less powerful bats and will greatly affect gameplay on both the college and high school levels.
The regulations require BBCOR bats, short for Batted-Ball Coefficient of Restitution. Though the bats are still aluminum, they are less "springy" and will hit more like wood bats. Permissible bats will feature a BBCOR-certified sticker.
A major problem with the old BESR (ball-exit-speed-ratio) bats was that they would become too powerful once broken in. As fibers within the bats repeatedly came into contact with baseballs, they would break down, become more flexible and surpass levels deemed safe.
"Back in the early days, the best it was going to be was right when you took it out of the wrapper," Issaquah High School head baseball coach Rob Reese said. "Recently, bats would get more powerful after use."
Pitching, defense will be key to local baseball teams' success
March 13, 2012
As the clocks spring forward and the calendar flips to March, the Issaquah, Skyline and Liberty high school baseball programs will all have a common approach to this season: pitching and defense.
With the new bat regulations for the upcoming season, first-year Liberty Coach John Martin thinks the game is in for a change.
Retiring Sports Editor Bob Taylor shares milestones from a long career on the sidelines
March 6, 2012
I kind of know how Bill Gates must have felt when he made his first million. When I joined The Issaquah Press news staff May 22, 2000, I struck it rich, too!
Five days after being hired at The Press I covered my first Issaquah School District state championship team. Actually, it was inevitable that an Issaquah team would win when Issaquah and Skyline met for the 3A state baseball title in Tacoma's Cheney Stadium. Issaquah won 5-3.


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Mitt Romney was projected the winner of Tuesday's presidential primary election in Florida by the Associated Press.
The former Massachusetts governor was running ahead in the polls going into the contest.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was projected to finish in second place. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum was projected to finish in third with U.S. Rep. Ron Paul in fourth.
Ahead of Tuesday, Gingrich said he intended to continue his campaign for the White House regardless of the outcome of the contest.
HuffPost's Jon Ward reports:
Romney's win put him in solid position to ultimately claim the GOP nomination. At points throughout the past year, many political observers thought that the race would be over if Romney won here.
But the race will go forward at full speed, largely because Gingrich has dug in his heels and angrily denounced those who say his candidacy is over after a Florida loss. That chorus was joined Tuesday by Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
Defiantly, Gingrich said this week he'll fight tooth and nail, "state by state," all the way to August and the Republican convention, which, by the way, will be right back here in this city.
Check out the live blog below for the latest developments out of Florida.
|@ howardfineman : So MItt has secret service -- not the nomination, but will do for now.
The AP reports:
Women abandoned Newt Gingrich in droves Tuesday and helped fuel former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's triumph in Florida's Republican presidential primary, according to preliminary data from an exit poll of voters.
Click here to read more.
HuffPost polling expert Mark Blumenthal explains what went down in Florida and what we can expect in the coming weeks:
|@ howardfineman : Newt won virtually all of North Florida -- the "southern" part of the state, which gives him hope for Super Tuesday on March 6
Thursday. ABC breaks the news:
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been informed that it will start receiving Secret Service protection on Thursday, two campaign sources and a senior Republican with ties to the campaign
tell ABC News.Secret Service protection is being given to the campaign not because of a specific threat but because of the increase in crowd sizes as the primary season has progressed over the past few weeks, according to the sources, who refused to be identified because they don't have
authority to comment on such matters publicly.
-- Jon Ward
|@ philipaklein : FL turnout was 1.94 mln in '08 GOP primary, it's at 1.6 mln w/ 95% precincts in. State GOP was hoping for over 2 mln.
|@ AliNBCNews : DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz on @msnbctv: President Obama won FL in 2008, he will win FL again
|@ TheFix : Restore Our Future, Romney super PAC, raised million in 2011. Wowza.
|@ BuzzFeedBen : A Newt insider emails, re tonight's finish: "Devastating"
|@ crowleyCNN : Paul &Santorum called Mitt 2 congratulate. Gingrich did not. ( says romney source) I think newt might be upset.
The Tampa Bay Times posted the text of an email from Florida Democratic Chairman Rod Smith congratulating Romney on his Florida win:
Mitt Romney won in Florida tonight for a very simple reason -- he ran the most negative primary contest ever. Romney and his allies outspent Newt Gingrich by nearly 5 to 1, almost all of it on negative advertising. He may have won this contest, but he lost the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the people of Florida. Floridians, like all Americans, are looking for positive ideas that will rebuild an economy that works for the middle class. But they won't find them during this primary campaign. Instead, Romney has flipped between negative attacks on Gingrich and distortions to his own positions, in a blatant attempt to pander to seniors and Latino voters. There's a reason a vast majority of Florida voters want someone new to jump in this race – they know they can't trust Mitt Romney to stand by his beliefs or stand by anything that helps average Americans get ahead.
|@ daveweigel : Gingrich did not call to concede to Romney. Mitt had called to concede to him in SC. #burn
HuffPost reports:
Rachel Maddow grilled Florida Congressman John Mica about whether Mitt Romney's personal finances and work at Bain Capital were "unpatriotic" on Tuesday night.
Romney's career and wealth, of course, have both been hot button issues in the campaign. The candidate released his 2010 tax return after much criticism about his reluctance to do so. The return revealed that he earned .7 million in 2010, and paid a lower tax rate than someone who earns ,000 a year.
Click here to read more.
|@ howardfineman : Having gotten rest, Ron Paul is on his game tonight. He's a greater threat to beat Romney upcoming caucuses then Newt is. He needs a win.
released by his campaign:
Thank you all. To the people of Florida tonight, thank you for this great victory. There are fewer candidates than when the race began, but the three gentlemen left are serious and able competitors. And I congratulate them on another hard-fought contest
in this campaign.Primary contests are not easy -– and they're not supposed to be. As this primary unfolds, our opponents in the other party have been watching. They like to comfort themselves with the thought that a
competitive campaign will leave us divided and weak.But I've got some news for them: A competitive primary does not divide us; it prepares us. And when we gather here in Tampa seven months from now for our convention, ours will be a united party with a
winning ticket for America!Three years ago this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and said that if he couldn't turn the economy around in three years, he'd be looking at a one-term proposition. We're here
to collect.Since then, we've had 35 months of unemployment over 8 percent. Under this President, Americans have seen more job losses and more home
foreclosures than under any President in modern history.In the last 10 days, I met a father who was terrified that this would be the last night his family would sleep in the only home his son has ever known. I've met seniors who thought these would be their best years and now live day to day worried about making ends meet. I've met Hispanic entrepreneurs who thought they had achieved the American
Dream and are now seeing it disappear.In his State of the Union Address, the president actually said, "Let's remember how we got here." Don't worry, Mr. President, we remember
exactly how we got here! You won the election!Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. In another era of American crisis, Thomas Paine is reported to have said, "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." Mr. President, you were elected to lead, you chose to follow, and now it's time for you to get out of
the way!I stand ready to lead this Party and our nation. As a man who has spent his life outside Washington, I know what it is like to start a business. I know how extraordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, how
it can help.My leadership helped build businesses from scratch. My leadership helped save the Olympics from scandal and give our athletes the chance to make us all proud. My leadership cut taxes 19 times and cast over 800 vetoes. We balanced every budget, and we kept our schools first among 50 states. My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a
new era of American prosperity!This campaign is about more than replacing a president. It is about saving the soul of America. President Obama and I have two very
different visions of America.President Obama wants to grow government and continue to amass trillion dollar deficits. I will not just slow the growth of government, I will cut it. I will not just freeze government's share of the total economy, I will reduce it. And, without raising taxes, I
will finally balance the budget.President Obama's view of capitalism is to send your money to his friends' companies. My vision for free enterprise is to return
entrepreneurship to the genius and creativity of the American people.On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government
bureaucrats. He forced through Obamacare; I will repeal it.Like his colleagues in the faculty lounge who think they know better, President Obama demonizes and denigrates almost every sector of our economy. I will make America the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, for innovators, and for job creators. And unlike
the other people running for President, I know how to do that.President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience; I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations
that trample on our first freedom.President Obama believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. He is intent on shrinking our military capacity at a time when the world faces rising threats. I will insist on a
military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.President Obama has adopted a strategy of appeasement and apology. I
will stand with our friends and speak out for those seeking freedom.President Obama wants to "fundamentally transform" America. We want to restore America to the founding principles that made this country
great.Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the
Constitution of the United States.Together, we will build an America where "hope" is a new job with a
paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle-to-grave assurances that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise more benefits, then I'm not your president. You have that president
today.But if you want to make this election about restoring American
greatness, then I hope you will join us.If you believe the disappointments of the last few years are a detour,
not our destiny, then I am asking for your vote.
I'm asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an American.I want you to remember what it was like to be hopeful and excited
about the future, not to dread each new headline.I want you to remember when you spent more time dreaming about where to send your kids to college than wondering how to make it to the next
paycheck.I want you to remember when you weren't afraid to look at your
retirement savings or the price at the pump.I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who
we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.
That America is still out there. We still believe in that America.We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of
us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
This election, let's fight for the America we love. We believe in America.
Thank you. And God bless America.
- Jon Ward
Ron Paul spoke to supporters at a gathering just outside of Las Vegas after his fourth-place finish in the Florida GOP primary.
Paul received boos from the crowd when he said he called and congratulated Romney for his Florida win. The Texas congressman assured his supporters that while he was cordial to his rival, he would take him on "through the caucus states."
"Tonight I saw a statistic we're in third place when it comes to delegates, and that's what really counts," Paul said. "We're only getting started."
"If you have an irate... minority, you do very well in the caucus states," Paul said, reinforcing his delegate-focused campaign strategy. (That strategy is actually rooted in Obama's 2008 campaign, as HuffPost's Sam Stein pointed out several weeks ago.)
-- Paige Lavender
MIAMI -- If you listened carefully to Newt Gingrich's "concession" speech tonight, you heard the first strains of what could be an independent, third-party run for the White House if he doesn't get the Republican nomination.
He vowed that he would not henceforth run a "Republican campaign but a People's campaign" –- raising the specter, at least rhetorically, that his vision of his role in American history is too large and personal to be contained by a mere political party.
The former House speaker gave his fans a detailed –- very detailed -– vision of what he would do in the first hours and minutes of his presidency. It was as if all the grubby business of running for president were secondary to his imaginative thoughts about how he would run the world starting on Jan. 20, 2013.
He depicted his march to power as a matter of a personal, direct relationship between him and the voters.
"If I become your president, I pledge to you my life, my fortune and my sacred honor."
His vaulting ambition knows no bounds; and so, perhaps, does his plan for how he is going to get from here to there in the GOP nomination race.
-- Howard Fineman
|@ JoNBCNews : Newt just pledged his "life" and "sacred honor" to American people at the end of a long speech. No mention of Romney.
HuffPost has compiled a list of winners and losers from the Florida primary.
Click here to view a slideshow and make your pick for the biggest in each category.
HuffPost reports:
Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are in Vegas.
While Mitt Romney was quickly announced the victor in the Florida primary at 8 p.m., the two GOP presidential contenders are hosting election night parties in the Silver State ahead of Saturday's caucuses.
Paul is holding a "Florida Election Night Party" at a casino in Henderson, Nevada just outside Las Vegas. Santorum is hosting a party at his campaign's headquarters in Las Vegas.
Click here to read more.
In an email sent to supporters on Tuesday evening, Rick Santorum's campaign continued its criticism of rival Newt Gingrich, saying the former House speaker is "no conservative."
The message also highlighted Santorum's new television ad, which began airing in Colorado and Nevada on Tuesday.Read the full message:
Newt Gingrich has continued to drop in the polls because conservatives have looked at his record and realized he's no conservative. You are one of the first to see this new ad that exposes Newt Gingrich's record. With your immediate contribution of , , 0 or more, we can get this on TV around the country and continue to show that there is only one true conservative in the race that can stop moderate Mitt Romney and liberal Barack Obama -- and that's Rick Santorum. It is time for conservatives and Tea Party supporters to unite and support Rick Santorum, the only candidate that shares their values and convictions.
I hope you will watch the ad, donate and ask your friends to as well. It is critical we get this out as far and wide as possible, so people understand how outside mainstream Newt Gingrich is. With your help and immediate contribution, we can get this ad on television in MN, CO, MO, and NV — key states with primaries and caucuses in the coming days.
-- Mollie Reilly
Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida's 20th congressional district, Tuesday criticized Florida GOP primary winner Mitt Romeny for his negative campaigning:
In a statement Tuesday evening, Schultz said:
"Mitt Romney's victory tonight in the Florida GOP primary comes as no surprise -– Romney and his Super PAC outspent his nearest opponent by running 13,000 ads to Newt Gingrich's 200, carpet- bombing the airwaves with negative ads. In fact, Romney's campaign has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run.
"Tonight, Romney was successful in buying his way to victory -– but with every passing Republican contest, he becomes weaker with key general election swing and independent voters should he make it that far. That's because Mitt Romney has made it clear he will say anything, take any position on any given day and before any given audience and will distort any fact about his or his opponents' record to win.
"But voters are paying more attention than Mitt Romney gives them credit for. They know he has declared support for both an extreme Tea Party agenda that would gut Social Security and Medicare and a budget plan that would end Medicare as we know it and shifts costs onto the backs of America's seniors. They also know Romney has doubled down on his incredibly out-of-touch positions of letting foreclosures hit the bottom and expanding tax breaks to the wealthiest few at the expense of the middle class. And despite his double-speak in Florida, Mitt Romney has done nothing to dissuade voters from the notion that he is the most anti-immigrant significant major party candidate for president in generations.
"The reason Mitt Romney's negatives have soared with independent voters nationally and in key states, even as he has won one contest on his home field and bought his way to victory in another, is because the more voters learn about his extreme and out of touch positions the less they like him and the less they trust him to lead."
-- Mollie Reilly
|@ howardfineman : Newt will now head "The People's Campaign." He is going rogue. The GOP is too small for his vision.
Newt Gingrich -- speaking behind a podium adorned with a sign that said "46 STATES TO GO" -- addressed supporters after his second-place finish in the Florida GOP primary.
Gingrich addressed the "46 states" signs in his speech, saying he printed them up for "the elite media."
"I want to assure them tonight... we are going to be in Tampa as the nominee in August," Gingrich said.
"You might ask, 'how might that be true?'" Gingrich said. "We are going to contest every place and we are going to win... We're going to have people power defeat money power in the next six months."
Gingrich also addressed his Florida loss to Mitt Romney, calling it "something very important."
"I think Florida did something very important coming on top of South Carolina," he said. "It is now clear that this will be a two-person race between the Conservative Leader Newt Gingrich and the Massachusetts Moderate."
Gingrich said that those who are "comfortable with the way America's decaying" could vote for someone else.
-- Paige Lavender
Appearing on Fox News, Sarah Palin continued to advocate that Republican primary voters back Newt Gingrich in future contests -- strictly out of desire to see the campaign continue.
"As it stands, obviously it is Romney and Newt who are closest to being the front-running candidates," said Palin. "I would continue to vote for whomever it is to allow the process [to continue] and at this point it looks like it still is Newt. You have got to try and continue to even the playing field with your vote."
Palin has taken this same approach in South Carolina and Florida and it truly is a Herculean effort in covering all the bases: a non-endorsement endorsement for Gingrich that leaves plausible deniability with the Romney campaign.
In her Fox interview on Tuesday, she trumpeted the Gingrich campaign line -– dismissing the Florida results as the byproduct of Romney's prodigious campaign war chest.
"I think with million purchasing ads and some respects some false narrative it was very, very difficult for Newt Gingrich and the other candidates to counter just that bombardment of advertisements and the typical campaigning that seems to be going on in this primary," she said. "When a bell is rung it is really tough to un-ring that bell no matter how many surrogates that you have out there speaking for you."
-- Sam Stein
In an interview prior to his primary night remarks, Rick Santorum criticized rival Newt Gingrich, stating that the former House speaker "had his chance" and "couldn't deliver" results.TPM reports:
Dana Bash asked Santorum why he had left Florida.
"Because we realized in a winner-take-all race like Florida, where millions of dollars were going to be spent, we were not in a position to compete on a financial basis at this point," said Santorum. "We had a great financial -- fundraising month. We raised almost four-and-a-half million in the month of January, and our fundraising numbers are incredibly strong today.
"People are starting to realize now, and they're seeing the results here in Florida, that you know Newt Gingrich had his chance, had his shot. He had a big boost and a win out of South Carolina -- and couldn't hold it, couldn't deliver in Florida. I think they're gonna be looking for a different conservative as an alternative to Mitt Romney now."
-- Mollie Reilly
|@ howardfineman : Sarah Palin says she's for Newt in Nevada. She isn't endorsing him, just supporting him state-to-state
HuffPost's Howard Fineman reports:
The nastiest campaign is about to get nastier -- and will stay that way all the way to November. The Democrats are planning to play the game the same way the Republicans have been playing it: on character more than issues.
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|@ howardfineman : Santorum has .1. million cash on hand to make it to...the end of February, maybe. He has a rationale: neither Mitt or Newt can cut it.
Rick Santorum spoke to voters in Las Vegas after Mitt Romney was projected the winner of the Florida primary. He congratulated Romney for his "resounding victory" before turning to more personal matters.
Santorum started his speech by thanking his supporters for the "outpouring of support from folks, frankly, on both sides of the aisle" his family received after his daughter Bella was hospitalized just days ago.
"It was a very trying time," Santorum said.
Santorum touched on the upcoming primary in Nevada, where he said "we're going to have a little different result than what we saw in Florida."
Santorum said it is important to focus on how to defeat Obama, and noted "we're not going to do that by mudslinging."
"[Voters] want to know what you're plans are and how you're going to contrast yourself with President Obama," Santorum said, noting he'd give a speech on "Romneycare and Obamacare" tomorrow.
"We can't allow our nominee to be the issue in the campaign," Santorum said.
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Derailed (2003)
by James Siegel
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James Siegal's cautionary tale about a middle life crisis gone awry is just plain awesome and thoroughly entertaining. Charles Shine is an ordinary, bland 45 year old advertising executive who indulges in an elicit love affair with a beautiful women he meets by happen-chance in a commuter train. The story in a spectacularly violent fashion unravels from there, as Charles fights to reclaim his dignity, money and family.
Dead bodies start to pile up and Charles Shine emerges as sort of kick ass kind of guy, but there is still something distasteful about his character. I guess I feel he brought all this disaster on himself, but I still enjoyed seeing him lay his traps for his enemies.
Quite exciting thriller but some twists are a bit over the top.
A clever debut with several plot twists, once you get past a rather nasty violent section, which you realize subsequently has a very specific purpose for the reader, without giving too much away. Very easy to see into the mind of Charles Schine as he embarks on a fateful journey in every sense, understand and empathasize with his rationale which seals his fate.
Derailedby James Siegel is full of twists and turns and punch-in-the-gut dramatic stops that propel the story forward at a terrifying pace. It's very easy to have sympathy for Charles, though it was through his own actions that the world is crumbling down around him, and to will him to win out over Vasguez and his accomplices. Derailed illustrates the "line upon line, precept upon precept" and "slippery slope" concepts as Charles crosses farther and farther into moral ambiguity while trying to hide his adulterous indiscretion, a secret any reader with a brain KNOWS will eventually come out.
All in all, the book is a good book in that it entertains and thrills the reader. It does experience some slow spots, but those are more for the purpose of lulling the reader in order to amplify the coming shock. And for the most part, the story is believable and possible, enough is established before the bomb that saves Charles goes off to prevent it from feeling like a deus ex machina. However, beyond the initial horror of the rape scene and terror of being stalked, the book isn't memorable.
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A pleasant surprise of a thriller.
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Easy drops + early draw mechanic to flood the field with auras and kill quickly. Swing for 20 ~ 80 power in 3 to 6 turns via Ethereal Armor and Ancestral Mask.
Kor Spiritdancer and Argothian Enchantress are the engine of the deck, and the 1-drop auras are fuel. Flickering Ward versus many decks is practically hexproof while adding evasion. Flicka is also cool for being able to pull it back and replay for more card-draw abilities, turn a passive creature into a wall, or remove enchantments off opposing creatures.
Lands become enchanted with Wild Growth/Utopia Sprawl for double or plus value, then Arbor Elf lets me re-tap to double-up on that. Once the snowball starts rolling, in a turn you might play 5 cards, 15, or half the deck.
Aura Gnarlid is great because I don't even have to enchant him. The honey badger is lethal from drop and strikes instant terror.
Turn 1: Forest, Elf.
2: Land > Tap > Utopia Spraw/Wild Growth the Forest, Tap > SpiritDancer/Enchantress, Tap Elf (Untap Enchanted Land) > Tap for 2, play 2 more enchantments, draw 2 more cards.
Versus Black - Spreading Algae
Vs Creatures - Prison Term, Sphere of Safety
Vs Counter/Burn, that can drag to midgame - Winter Orb should be crippling, though harmless to my deck, with Sigil of the Empty Throne and Auratog for easy turn-arounds.
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Hannah Evens '14 (Glen Mills, Pa.) is an intern with the Dialogue Institute at Temple University.
Jessica Ramirez Vasquez '14 (Portland, Ore.) is an extracurricular instructor/curriculum coordinator/translator for KairosPDX in Portland.
Marni Schreiber '14 (Pittsburgh, Pa.) is pursuing a master of arts in religious studies at Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales.
Abbie Shain '14 (Bordentown, N.J.) has been working with Macalester Admissions and is now working with Rain Taxi, a literary magazine, helping plan the Twin Cities Book Festival.
Max Edwards '13 (Rochester, Minn.) is working on his master's degree at Harvard Divinity School.
Hannah McIntire '13 (Milford, Conn.) is a family literacy instructor at Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island.
Ashley Campbell, '12 (Waterford, Mich.) Divinity School, University of Chicago
Martha Coe '11 (Grand Haven, Mich.), interning for the non-profit Grassroot Soccer–AIDS education through soccer in South Africa
Laura Leatherman '11 (Minneapolis, Minn.), Vanderbilt School of Nursing
Dan Rocklin '11 (Iowa City, Iowa), University of Chicago Divinity School
Sher Afgan Tareen '11 (Arlington, Va.), Harvard Divinity School, MTS program
Anne Gonzalez '09 (Normal, Ill.) and Sara Schultz '09 (Albany, Calif.), Union Theological Seminary
Aurora Sekine '09 (Kansas City, Mo.), math teacher, Teach for America
Kim Wortmann '08 (Lincoln, Neb.), PhD at Harvard
Emma Gallegos '07 (Bakersfield, Calif.), Associate Editor at LAist.
Ashley Geisendorfer '07 (Rothschild, Wis.), Research Assistant Law Center, University of Minnesota Law School
Mashal Saif '06 (Lahore, Pakistan), Sherali Tareen '05 (Quetta, Pakistan), and Sonia Hazard '08 (St. Paul, Minn.), PhD program at Duke University
Rebecca Wexler '04 (Bethesda, Md.), Cantorial student at Hebrew Union College
Jennifer Godar '03 (Grinnell, Iowa), practicing law at Du Page County, Ill.
Lydia Brawner '02 (Auburn, Ala.), adjunct assistant professor, Performance Studies, New York University
Jessica Schachterle '02 (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Minnesota Literacy Council
Katherine Brink '99 (St. Paul, Minn.) and Anne Knafl '99 (Chicago, IL) PhD in Biblical Studies, University of Chicago
William Garriott '99 (Danville, Ky.), PhD in Anthropology, Princeton University
Paul Jarvis '96 (St. Paul, Minn.), pastor at Guardian Angels Catholic Church
Rebekah Savage Montgomery '96 (Bethesda, Md.), Army National Guard chaplain
David Colby '93 (St. Paul, Minn.), pastor at Central Presbyterian Church
Ananda Abeysekara '92 (Colombo, Sri Lanka), professor at Virginia Tech, has published The Politics of Postsecular Religion and an award-winning book on Sri Lankan Buddhism titled Colors of the Robe.
Kathryn Youel '92 (Richfield, Minn.), winner of the Gateway Writing Prize, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, studied law at the University of Michigan, and is now a lawyer for the U.S. Department of State.


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People wait in line for water from a 7,500 gallon tanker truck brought in from Washington, Pa., on Friday at Riverside High School near Charleston, W.Va. A chemical spill left the water for 300,000 people in and around West Virginia's capital city stained blue-green and smelling like licorice, with officials saying Friday it was unclear when it might be safe again for even mundane activities like showers and laundry.
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A chemical spill in a West Virginia river has left hundreds of thousands of people in and around the state's capital city of Charleston without clean water, but it is not expected to cause a problem here, according to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
"We aren't really expecting a concern here in Ohio due to the distance and the dilution that will occur," said Carol Hester, spokeswoman with the Ohio EPA. "We are keeping an eye on it, but we are not expecting a concern in Ohio."
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(AP) Rare 1865 baseball card to be auctioned in Maine
BIDDEFORD, Maine
Six-figure bids are expected when a rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rural Maine yard sale is auctioned.
Saco River Auction Co. in Biddeford is holding an auction Wednesday evening that includes a card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club.
The card isn't the same as a modern-day baseball card, which became common in the 1880s. Rather, it's an original photograph from 1865 mounted on a card, showing nine players and a manager.
The Library of Congress said last month it was aware of only two copies of the photo. The other is in the institution's collection.
In its book "Baseball Americana," the Library of Congress calls the item the first dated baseball card, handed out to supporters and opposing teams in a gesture of bravado from the brash Brooklynites, who were dominant and won their league championships in 1861, 1864 and 1865.
About half a dozen people are expected to bid by phone, and at least five people have said they'll travel to the auction house to place bids, said Troy Thibodeau, manager and auctioneer at Saco River Auction.
"The great unknown is the Internet," Thibodeau said. "We have two Internet bidding sites, and we won't know how many people will use those until the bidding begins."
A Maine man who doesn't want to be publicly identified found the card inside an old photo album he bought while antique picking in the small town of Baileyville on the Canadian border. The man bought the photo album, old Coca-Cola bottles and a couple of oak chairs together in a single purchase for less than $100, Thibodeau said.
It's impossible to predict what kind of price the card will fetch because of its rarity, he said, but he guessed the winning bid will fall somewhere between $50,000 and $500,000. The priciest baseball card ever is a 1909 Honus Wagner card, which sold for $2.8 million in 2007.
Thibodeau said he's expecting a packed house for the auction because of the interest in the card, which is one of 425 items being sold. The auction house has seating for about 150 people, and can hold an estimated 500 people for standing-room crowds, he said.
Rare 1865 baseball card to be auctioned in Maine
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A CODEC is a coder-decoder. The sound of a voice is digitized with a CODEC. The CODEC changes the sound of a voice to data (or data back to the sound of a voice).
IVR is an interactive voice response system, also known as an Automated Attendant. An Automated Attendant allows your PBX to respond to touchtone commands, for example, "press one for sales." These systems are used in many ways, including routing calls, placing orders, answering in-bound calls etc.
Jitter is the variation in the time between voice data packets arriving to a destination. Jitter of 50ms (milliseconds) or less, as measured by our bandwidth test, is good. If higher, voice quality could be adversely affected.
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Projo, the Providence (Rhode Island; U.S.) Journal carried a story about two students who won a contest in which teams of students built imaginary stock portfolios. In the story, C. Eugene Emery Jr. reports that the two boys turned $100K into $128K over 10 weeks by buying and selling securities.
So, why am I recounting this story? Well, here's the quote that caught my eye:
The two boys who won, whose last names were not released because the school is for adolescents recovering from emotional disturbances and behavior disorders, did better than any of the high school or college teams.
There are two aspects of that quote that made me twist my head. First, why not release the boys' last names? Emery and his editors use their first names–Bryon and Chris–later in the story and identify their teacher, without noting that the names used were pseudonyms. From the phrasing, I have to guess that the school chose not to release the names.
Is the reluctance to use their last names something about the way Bryon and Chris gained noteriety? What if the boys were being recruited by a top collegiate basketball program? What if they had helped classmates escape a conflagration? That's probably not the reason the school withheld Chris and Bryon's names.
Probably, the reason is that someone thought Bryon and Chris would be stigmatized by being recognized as having EBD. You know how it goes: "Keep these things quiet…no need to add to their difficulties by recognizing them." It's a well-intentioned motive, but probably a misguided one. If you've done something well, recognition of your achievement is deserved. I'd have to bet that Chris and Bryon were pretty proud of winning. Would they want to hide their light under a basket?
Leaving that aspect of the quote alone for now, let me turn to the second idea that raised concern for me, Emery's use of the word "recovering." The language may reflect what he was told by representatives of the school or it may just be his own phrasing. Regardless, I find it inappropriate. I associate "recovering" with the language of Alcholics Anonymous and related movements, not with scientifically based treatment of EBD.
Does one recover from EBD? Can one ever? Do you have to go to meetings to recover?
Even more problemsome to me is the possibility that the boys' school, Stevens Childrens Home, uses this language deliberately, that they base the program they provide on recovery from alcoholism. Although I would agree that EBD is almost always a life-long condition and therefore students must vigilantly adhere to a self-control regimen, I doubt that a 12-step program is a good basis for educational treatment of EBD.
It would be great if we could have some secret recovery from EBD. However, I suspect it's better to recognize that treating EBD successfully requires hard work and much of it must be public.


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What is policy?
"…[W]e define standards for behavior or practices that are formalized to some degree (i.e. written), and
embodied in rules, regulation, or operating procedures."
Toomey, T., Wagenaar, A. Policy Options for Prevention: The Case for Alcohol Journal of Public Health Policy vol. 20, no. 2 (1999), pp. 192-213. accessed
The Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project provides training, tools and technical assistance to individuals and groups working to adopt and implement alcohol policy.
The Wisconsin Alcohol Policy project supports the work of municipal leaders, law enforcement, the media and community coalitions reviewing and adopting the policies and practices to improve the alcohol environment and reduce alcohol misuse.
Every community has an alcohol environment, the local expression of Wisconsin's alcohol culture. Like all aspects of culture, the alcohol culture can change and improve. A municipality, its schools, organizations and residents can adopt policies and practices to improve the local alcohol environment over time.
Improving the alcohol culture allows us to reduce alcohol misuse without significantly impacting adults who drink in moderation.