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NEW YORK (AP) — Ever see something in an ad or a display and want to buy it — but you don't know who makes it? Target is coming out with an app that helps bridge that gap for shoppers.
It's an app called "In a Snap" — and it will let you scan through magazine ads in home decor magazines like Architecture and Real Simple.
Users scan the image — and when it's recognized by the app, it can be added to your shopping cart as a possible purchase.
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3 things to watch in 2013: classical music
Opera, symphony and Mainly Mozart in spotlight
In classical music, the key things to watch in 2013 involve institutions that have an indelible relationship with San Diego: the San Diego Symphony, Mainly Mozart and the San Diego Opera.
The San Diego Symphony, during its 102-year history, has never performed at New York's Carnegie Hall, but the institution has rented the hall, engaged Chinese keyboard sensation Lang Lang, and has an Oct. 29 date with destiny.
The engagement is likely to be immediately followed by a "friendship tour" of China, although underwriting for the tour is still being finalized. The tour could include performances in Beijing, Tianjin, Yantai (San Diego's sister city), Shanghai, Taipei, Gaungzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. But if it is not completely funded in advance, symphony management said the tour will not happen.
The Carnegie Hall concert is definite, but with programming still to be determined, the orchestra's appearance raises some intriguing issues.
The ensemble's programming in Copley Symphony Hall is decidedly middle-of-the-road. That's in response, according to management, to the tastes of its audience. Apparently, that audience is hooked on the classics.
But there would be no point to bringing one of the symphonic war horses to Carnegie Hall. It would be like — and pardon the cliché — carrying coals to Newcastle (and it would set the orchestra up for direct comparison in that timeworn repertoire with virtually every renowned conductor and orchestra in the world).
But the orchestra undoubtedly wants to be seen as more than Lang Lang's accompanist. And what is this gifted ensemble's true character? What music director Jahja Ling decides to program at Carnegie should be almost as telling as how the orchestra is received in New York.
Mainly Mozart, during its 25-year history, had the services of conductor David Atherton. Atherton's final festival will be 2013, which in itself adds interest to the upcoming season.
But Mainly Mozart is not waiting for Atherton's departure or his successor's arrival to redefine itself. It has initiated three new series for 2013: an "Evolution" series, a set of "Mozart & the Mind" presentations, and concerts by the Festival Chamber Players. Each has an artistic director: Stephen Prutsman for "Evolution," UC San Diego researcher Tim Mullen for "Mozart & the Mind," and Ronald Thomas, a veteran Mainly Mozart cellist and founding artistic director of the Boston Chamber Music Society, for the Festival Chamber Players.
Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, who was named chamber music curator last year, will concentrate on programming the "Spotlight" series, and Atherton will conduct the orchestra.
You may have noted the contrast between Mainly Mozart and the now-bankrupt Orchestra Nova: Orchestra Nova's management and especially its conductor, Jung-Ho Pak, tried dumbing down classical music; Mainly Mozart is doing the exact opposite and playing to the belief that its audience is smart and wants to be treated intelligently.
That would seem to make sense. How it all plays out should be fun to watch.
The San Diego Opera, during its 48 seasons, has fought some heavy headwinds. But as the company approaches its 50th anniversary in 2015, the challenges have become gale force. Companies across the country — from Dallas (which had to cut productions) to Washington, D.C., (where the National Opera had to merge with the Kennedy Center) — are facing serious issues as they struggle with an aging and elite audience and generating the considerable income necessary to mount grand opera (among other issues).
The San Diego Opera has cut ticket prices (in more than half its seats) and redoubled its efforts to attract and involve new and younger patrons, but it has kept its "product" essentially unchanged. Ian Cambell, who has run the company for many of its 48 years, continues to program operas and singers he believes in, this season including a work he'll direct in its U.S. premiere, Pizzetti's "Murder in the Cathedral" (March 30, April 2, 5, 7 in the Civic Theatre).


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Its only a soap so you can't expect it to be true to life. After all if people had extra marital affairs with the regularity of those characters they just wouldn't have any energy left for any real work. Life must be tough if every relationship, family member and moral is a random variable. Yet foolishly I still occasionally want to see the positive examples I see in the real world, a happy faithful marriage, an honest and reliable Christian man, a businessman with real feeling for his workforce who doesn't hate his competitors.
Let me declare an interest here, I am involved in a company which interacts with small businesses, about 500 of them, and with a few exceptions they are honest decent people, really hard-working families who are trying to get ahead in the best way they know how. They put up with extraordinary levels of red tape and unnecessarily complex taxation often doing silly hours to make ends meet. They can't afford to lobby government, although the FSB does a good general job for them, but they are fighting a losing battle over decades with more and more state interference and a harder line from bigger business such as the supermarkets (who can and do lobby government), the banks (enough said) and the internet (which is and always will be a slam dunk for bigger businesses who can afford to employ specialist staff).
On the more positive side small businesses have entrepreneurs, people who can move their boats quickly around the supertankers, seeing opportunities and making them happen well before others move. Taking risks, often where they can lose everything, but with the opportunity to win in a life changing way. They learn skills and then put them into practice quickly and hopefully to good effect. Entrepreneurs have always been the life blood of the economy, creating, growing and building businesses which employ staff and create tax revenue, it really is no exaggeration to say that without them we would have no UK at all.
Last weeks Emmerdale crystalised for me the media scriptwriters attitude to business. In order to set up his own business one character stole property, destroyed files and general made a lawness nuisance of himself. These type of people do not thrive in business, believe me they do not, I don't care what you have been told about nice people it just isn't true. Good people are better business people, business is rarely about one deal and if you have fleeced somebody once how do you go back and deal again? The famous Dr. Jack Welch, possibly the most successful businessman of the late 20th century always left something on the table when negotiating. David Cameron was reported as saying that growing small and medium sized businesses were our way out of this economic crisis, with the stakes so high and roles to be generated for role models, is it too much to ask for a bit of help from our scriptwriters?


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Hey Keven ,
3 yrs. to draw X12 ? Man you are lucky if you draw it every 3 yrs. ! I drew X9A in 2006. I was a little dissapointed at what I saw but !didn't have many days to hunt. Took off from there to Az. and arrowed an elk. Came back to X9A 2nd time and ended up shooting a fork horn. Was kind of funny though. I was staying at a cabin at Convict Lake with girlfriend and my son. My friend and his wife were in another cabin. He had shot a little dinky buck on the first trip. I told him that night I was getting up real early and going hunting in the morning. He said don't wake me up , I'll be hung over. Said no problem. Didn't have my quad on that trip so I drove the truck up the canyon to the south of the lake and hunted up in there for awhile. Just saw some does. Was driving out to go back to the cabin and some deer ran across the dirt road. I glassed them and there was a fork horn in with the does. I said what the heck, it's bigger than his. So I got out and dropped him. Gut him and threw it in back of truck and drove back to the cabin. He comes over and saw blood on my hands and saw the deer and saw way to go ! I said yeah, thanks for all you help ! LOL ! Anyway, I have only two pts. this yr. going in (I think) so most likely not possible to draw X!2. Hope you do !


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Steele Jantz has a good arm, very good speed and athletism, and good size. He is still very raw at quarterback and he does well against average competition, but struggles against very good and superior defenses where his athletism and speed are above that of the defense. Does not progress through his reads and will sometimes struggle to find the open man. He lacks the accuracy, precison, and sharp mental game he needs to do well against the better teams. He has plenty of upside, but lacks the experience and mental/leadership at the position to excel.
Jared Barnett has speed and quickness and does a very good job at running the zone read. Does not have the size, vision, and arm to be a consistently effective passer. He is not as effective this year because of the loss of Kelechi and Hicks in run blocking. He has limited upside because he is somewhat one dimensional because he can not make all of the throws and can not find the open receivers consistantly. Defenses figured out what he could and could not do.
Sam Richardson has the quickness and speed to run the zone read. He has an accurate arm which is essential to the success of screens and short game. The receivers get the ball in the right location that gives them extra yards. He moves through the progressions well, sells the pump fakes and double WR moves. He is the most complete quarterback of the 3 and the best fit for this offense. The 2 1/2 quarters against Kansas was the most effective offense under Paul Roads. He needs to bulk up a little to take the hits from the more elite defenses. I did not see any drop passes as the ball had the right touch and accuracy.
I like our chances against WV.
Good write-up. I really wonder what Jantz would have looked like had he been on campus as a Freshman. Ideally that would have given him more time to progress and show his upside, or maybe his mental game has reached a ceiling.
I feel better about our O but against WVU I'm more worried about our passing D. Could be a long night.
We have a very small sample size on SR at this point, but he did better than the other 2 would have against what looked to be a pretty bad defense. SJ is gone after this year, so his growth really had to come at the beginning of the year, obviously it didn't.
Hopefully SR will play well against a bad WV defense, and then we'll have to see what kind of D we face in the bowl game. If we can give him protection, he looks to be the best option of the 3. If we can't, well we'll have to see how that goes.
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Jantz: Give him 15 years in the system, and he still freaks out when the ball is snapped. Great teammate, and he played his *** off for ISU.
Barnett: give him an arm, and he's almost the perfect QB for this offense. He was an important part in some of the greatest moments in ISU history last season (OSU). Does anyone else feel like he's going be a real good coach some day?
SR: it's embarrassing that I was impressed with someone who simply finds the guy who's open, and then throws the ball to that guy in a way that makes it easy for him to catch it. ISU has two games left, and experience is only good from here on out, no matter how the games go. If he doesn't start Friday, CPR must have been blackout drunk down in Lawrence.
Great game by SBR. It was one game against the now, 1 - 10 Kansas. We felt really good about JB about this time last year. We felt really good about Jantz 14 months ago.
However, it is kinda cool that we now have 3 QBs on our team that have been successful at various points in their career. SBR: -> 1 game = success. Let's see how he handles some expectations and pre-game pressure.
Jantz: Pretty good QB 90% of the time IMO. Can make all the throws, and is a very effective runner as well. It's just the other 10% that just kills him. Just out of the blue he will throw it right to the other team or fumble in a critical situation. He can win games for you with his playmaking ability, but he can just as easily cost you games.
Barnett: Good running QB that also understands the game. He just can't throw the ball to save his life though. Defenses can just stack everyone up on the line of scrimmage against him because he is no threat to beat you with his arm.
Richardson: In the KU game, he showed he has the total package. Great arm and accuracy. Also very effective at running the ball too, but has to learn to slide IMO. AND... he finds the open guy versus just locking in on one guy like Jantz and Barnett do. But as I said, it was just the KU game so far. He had the time to throw, and he had some guys pretty wide open too. But at least he showed what he is capable of when he has time and guys are open. Jantz and Barnett have had that at times too and not shown the ability to get guys the ball.
Richardson will be the guy for the rest of this season and will be the starting QB going into next season as well IMO. My guess is that WV is going to bring the kitchen sink at him on Friday, so we better be prepared for that. Work on the screen game this week, as well as the dump off to the TE over the middle because WV is going to try to bring pressure.
It was just so refreshing to see an ISU QB that looked through his progressions, found the open guy, and hit him in stride. I think we all saw what this offense can be when ran effectively. I think we saw that it's not so much the design of the offense, but it's who's running it. We are capable of putting up some serious points if we have a more than capable QB.
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Jantz: Pretty good QB 90% of the time.
Honestly I think that Jantz's fumbles hurt him more than anything. He's always good for one pretty much unforced fumble per game. Worst ball security I've ever seen from a runner.
My thoughts are that Sam is a pretty damn good QB. With Lenz back we can burn WV if they blitz. This is the best I have felt about our offense in a long, long time. An accurate throwing QB who has the right touch on the ball and is very adept at ballhandling for the run game. Plus he followed his blocks well when he ran. Sam's upside is huge.
My biggest fear right now with Sam is that he needs to learn when to slide. He took some pretty big, unnecessary hits last night. The good thing is that he was just trying to get as many yards as he could, but we can sacrifice a few yards for a healthy Sam Richardson.
My thought is why did it take 10 games to try sr.
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My thought is why did it take 10 games to try sr.
Probably because he was a freshman who didn't understand the Offense enough to be put into a game.
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My thought is why did it take 10 games to try sr.
This was the perfect game to do so.
It was exciting to watch him it receivers in stride but its not very fair to judge him based on game where are seemed to actually have step or two on the secondary and he almost never had any pressure.
I feel like both Jantz an Barnett looked good at the beginning of games but once they started getting hit their patience in to stay in the pocket a progress through the looks pretty much disappeared. SR will have to show he can maintain his pocket presence with guys breathing down his neck to be truly effective in the Big 12.
I am however still excited. Watching him actually hit receivers is something that ISU has been missing. A good quarterback can make his receivers look better and SR did that last night. Did CPR say multiple times that he is the best passer of the QBs?
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OK, I poked around but didn't see anything that looks quite the same.
My company's CEO has been using the iCal connector on OSX10.5 for some time without a hitch, but starting in the past few weeks, there have been issues. He's using the iCal connector version 5.0.9. He used to have no difficulty syncing his iCal, Zimbra Calendar, and iPhone, but now we have two symptoms:
1) Every time a sync occurs, he gets the same message about having to update 1100 (or whatever) entries in his calendar. The sync then appears to work, but if run again a minute later, it will throw the message about having to make the same 1100 updates.
2) Data now appears to be syncing in only one direction--from Zimbra folders to iCal. Data entered on his phone does not get replicated to Zimbra (or apparently even his iCal, although it may be that iCal is being updated but is then overwritten by the Zimbra data, I'm not sure).
When the problem first occurred, I uninstalled the iCal connector, reinstalled, and reset the account sync data. At first I thought that corrected the problem of the constant "1100 changes" message, but the user has reported that continues to happen.
I realize this is a bit light on details, but that's about what I've got to work with. I haven't been able to discover settings for preferences or controls for the sync'ing behavior other than the really basic setup info in System Preferences. Also, unfortunately, I don't currently have access to the system that is experiencing this problem--it's the CEO and he's traveling.
A few general questions:
1) The control for conflict resolution--is that a part of iCal, iSync, the iPhone itself, or what? What am I supposed to be looking for?
2) Anyone who has an iCal/Zimbra/iPhone setup working? What order did you set everything up in? How many things are "installed" and what information did you have the chance to provide?
Since I don't have the machine, any general tips or avenues to investigate would be appreciated.


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I have got zimbra running now for about three months but today, only about three users can connect to zimbra. for the others, it just sits there after they enter their username and password.
Any clue on whats going on pls?
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Labor wages internal battle in mayor race
The unified political might of labor unions catapulted Bob Filner into the Mayor's Office last fall, but the labor community is decidedly split in the contest to replace him as San Diego's next mayor.
The infighting over whether to back City Councilman David Alvarez or former Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, both Democrats aggressively courting union support, could result in a distinct advantage for Councilman Kevin Faulconer, the lone major Republican and the biggest threat to labor's agenda in the race.
With former Mayor Bob Filner's resignation following a sexual harassment scandal, it's widely presumed that no one will win a majority in the Nov. 19 special election which means the top two finishers will duke it out in a runoff likely to be held in February. Most analysts expect Faulconer to nab one of those spots given the Republicans cleared the field for him so the real battle is over who will join him — Alvarez, Fletcher or someone else?
Union strategists must now weigh how far they will go in campaigning for their favored candidate. Going on the attack against either of the two front-running Democrats risks torpedoing their respective chances of winning the runoff against Faulconer.
"The problem right now is that it is disorganized labor not being able to rally behind a single candidate," said Carl Luna, a Mesa College political science professor. "Will Democrats follow the Ronald Reagan rule and not speak ill of one another? If they spend all their time attacking the other guy on their side, they are only going to make Mr. Faulconer's campaign for him."
The schism in the labor community revolves around Fletcher, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year as a Republican with an anti-labor record before leaving the party midrace to run as an independent. In May, he announced he had registered as a Democrat and has since espoused pro-labor viewpoints on several issues.
Simply put, some labor activists don't trust Fletcher's evolution. Others, especially public-safety labor groups, wholeheartedly support him.
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Democratic political consultant Chris Crotty said Fletcher's biggest problem with rank-and-file union members is his record of voting against labor 82 percent of the time when he was a Republican the Assembly.
"They question his commitment," Crotty said.
Mickey Kasparian, the head of the United Food and Commercial Workers, said Fletcher's past votes trouble many union leaders.
"Quite frankly, Nathan Fletcher's record has been poor when it comes to working families," he said.
The battle for union endorsements has been frenzied over the past couple of weeks since Alvarez entered the race at the urging of some labor leaders. Alvarez has the backing of the influential San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council which spent millions on Filner last year and recently opened a political-action committee to do the same for Alvarez.
"The council is solidified and all in on David," said Kasparian, who noted Alvarez's consistent voting record on labor issues. "He is one of the only candidates who is truly about neighborhoods and working families. I see labor totally behind him and expect there will be a significant budget for him. We will get boots on the ground and we have a great strategy in place."
Meanwhile, Fletcher has collected a growing list of union endorsements, including groups representing the city's firefighters, lifeguards and white-collar workers. This week he added Unite Here Local 30 that represents hotel workers, the International Union of North America Local 89, Union Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 230 and the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters. Fletcher also had the backing of the Police Officers Association last year, but the group has yet to endorse this time around.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Most of you are going to lambast Washington Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan for the next six months. You are going to call him irresponsible, liable for his quarterback's knee injury and even a liar -- in the wake of USA Today's Dr. James Andrew's report.
I'm not going to verbally berate Shanahan. He doesn't deserve that. And here's why.
1) An unwritten NFL rule: At the end of the season, your best player doesn't come off the field unless he says so.
Example A: DeMarcus Ware played against the Redskins in week 17 with one arm. He was quite ineffective. But you better believe Cowboys coach Jason Garrett had no reservations risking further injury to Ware in case he did produce a game-changing play.
Okay, so you'll argue that the quarterback position is a different animal.
And I'll argue Donovan McNabb threw four touchdowns on a broken ankle. Steve McNair played some of his best football on one leg. I shouldn't even have to explain Brett Favre's history to you -- or how about Jay Cutler's legacy for sitting out an NFC Championship game and costing his team the game.
NFL players, specifically superstar quarterbacks, are the closest thing we have in today's society to Roman gladiators. Simply put, there just isn't a way to tell these guys to come off the field. Especially when you are someone as highly respected as Robert Griffin III. And especially when the season is on the line.
2) If you put in Kirk Cousins after half time and lose, Shanahan looks even more foolish than some of you think he looks now
I can picture the Fox broadcast like clockwork.
Kirk Cousins throws a pick-six to the locally despised Seahawk defender Richard Sherman. The lanky cornerback streaks down the sideline, jumps into the stands -- a la RGIII's Minnesota touchdown run -- and puts a finger to his lips, hushing a silent Fed Ex crowd.
Joe Buck: "You've gotta' think every Redskins fan in the country is fuming at Mike Shanahan's decison to sit his pro bowl quarterback. Troy, It's win or go home."
Troy Aikman: "If I'm RGIII, there's no way I would allow myself to come off the field. I'd be sick to my stomach watching this as a competitor."
Fox then cuts to the sideline. First it's DeAngelo Hall throwing his helmet in disgust. Then it's Rex Grossman trying to coach up Cousins. Finally a close-up of a teary-eyed Griffin.
By sitting RGIII, not only would Shanahan have potentially betrayed the entire fan base, he'd have seriously jeopardized his relationship with Griffin. Although it would never be admitted publicly, an underlying resentment would exist for a long period of time -- potentially dividing the locker room. And D.C. residents know very well how fractured relationships can cripple success over night.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
3) What other NFL coach would have benched RGIII?
Listen, I'm a Cousins believer. But the Redskins had the lead going into the fourth quarter, even if it didn't feel like it. Please name me one NFL coach who would've put his balls on the table like that. Maybe someone like Tony Dungy. Probably not.
When your Mike Shanahan, and you've won seven games in a row, and your team captain tells you this quote:
"I can guarantee I'm hurt right now but give me a chance to win this football game because I guarantee I'm not injured," as Shanahan relayed his quarterback's message to reporters following the game.
If you honestly could look Griffin in the eyes and tell him to go sit on the bench, you are a machine. It's human nature to reward the people you love and trust, even during underlying circumstances.
4) Just because RGIII lacked scrambling ability, doesn't mean he couldn't be effective
Yes, I will obviously agree that RGIII was more hobbled than he was in Philadelphia in week 16. But who is to say that he couldn't find some rhythm in the touch passing game like he did against the Eagles? On the Thanksgiving Day game in Dallas -- one of Griffin's best career games -- the quarterback rushed for a mere 29 yards.
This is a pro bowl quarterback we are talking about here. He beat out the likes of Drew Brees, Eli Manning etc. at the throwing position. He's proved he can deliver damaging blows to the defense using his arm, even on a bad knee.
There's no doubting that Griffin had a poor performance in his first ever playoff game. I'm sure lots of it was based on the additional pain he suffered after landing awkwardly in the first quarter. The combination of that, and Seattle's staunch defense was too much to overcome.
But admit to yourself when he trotted out on the field, down 21-14 with 7:08 left to play, you hadn't ruled out the Redskins chances. He's proved to be magical all throughout 2012. He alone spews optimism and the chance to win, even on a bum knee. On Sunday, he finally failed.
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Voters will have an important choice as they decide who will fill the seat vacated by the retirement of the most capable Congressman Maurice Hinchey, D-Saugerties.
In a mailer I received from ultra-conservative Congressman Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, he touts his concern for the elderly and Medicare. Very strange, as he has already voted to gut Medicare, putting more stress on seniors with limited income, and simultaneously advocating more tax relief to millionaires. He is backed by Karl Rove's organization, Crossroads, which runs videos to smear his opponent, Julian Schreibman, D-Stone Ridge. Is Crossroads afraid of Schreibman? Why?
oYale law graduate, cum laude, 1994.
oWorked in Washington on international trade matters, mid-1990s.
oEmployed as counsel by CIA, late 1990s. Prosecuted al-Qaeda terrorists.
oAssistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, 2002. Prosecuted drug dealers, financial fraud.
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oOpposes fracking; supports Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act.
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OCALA - Members of the Marion County Sheriff's Office Mobile Field Force team and volunteers plan to resume the search for a 64-year-old Oak Run man who has been reported missing for at least a month.
The team will gather at 9 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of an office building at the intersection of Southwest 103rd Street Road and Southwest 80th Avenue.
Thomas Edward Mascaro, who has been estranged from his family, is known to walk various trails in the Greenway, sometimes all the way to Pruitt Trailhead and Ocklawaha.
Mascaro is a white male who stands about 5-feet 8-inches tall and weighs about 200 pounds. He has gray hair, brown eyes and a full beard.
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Thus, once release and the bug fixed PTAT will work as it knows that transponder to record and it knows what channels in that transponder map to the network for the menu of PTAT.
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11:30-12:30 p.m.: Meet & Greet at Fitters Pizza and Pub – 131 W Pine St. in Warrensburg (Hosted by KOKO Radio)
3-4 p.m.: Meet & Greet at Hy-Vee – 3721 W Truman Blvd in Jefferson City (Hosted by KLIK Radio)
7-8 p.m.: Meet & Greet at Coyote's Adobe Café – 1742 South Glenstone in Springfield
South Caravan Trip, Day #2: Monday, January 24 (Fayetteville, Springdale, Ark., Pittsburg, Kan.)
11:30-1:30 p.m.: Luncheon at Holiday Inn – 1500 South 48th St. in Springdale (Hosted by NW Arkansas Naturals and Springdale Rotary Club)
Luncheon tickets are $15, which includes a buffet lunch.
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Sports Network) - Defending champion Na Yeon Choi and
Karrie Webb both shot a 6-under 65 on Thursday to share the lead after one
round of the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia.
Choi, who won the U.S. Women's Open for her first major title in July, fired
six birdies and endured a lightning delay during her bogey-free opening round
at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club.
Webb, a 37-time LPGA Tour winner, also finished without a bogey on Thursday to
secure a share of the lead.
Min Lee, Mika Miyazato and Sun Young Yoo are tied for third place at 5-under,
while Hee Young Park and Hee-Won Han both shot 67 to share sixth.
World No. 1 Yani Tseng, who finished one stroke back of Choi at this event in
2011, is tied for 66th place after recording three double-bogeys during an
opening-round 78.
Top American and World No. 2 Stacy Lewis fared better on Thursday with a 1-
under 70 and resides in a large group tied for 24th.
Tseng and Lewis are the only players with three tour wins in 2012.
Third-ranked Jiyai Shin, who is attempting to win her third consecutive event,
shot par. The South Korean captured the Ricoh Women's British Open and the
Kingsmill Championship in her previous two tour appearances.
Also on Thursday, Michelle Wie opened with a 4-over 75 to sit in a group tied
for 62nd place.
Choi was 4-under through eight holes and recorded another birdie on the 12th
before lightning forced her to halt. After the delay, Choi birdied No. 14 to
get to 6-under, then closed with four straight pars for her opening-round 65.
The Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia is the first of four events in the tour's Asian
swing, which also features stops in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
NOTES: Choi is seeking her second tour win of the year...Seven players are
tied for eighth place at 3-under...The top 10 players in the world are in the
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How much is Charter cable internet worth to you? I registered and the process is a simple 4 step form. After validating the registration, I was also entered into a drawing for a Nintendo Wii.
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OS: Ubuntu 6.10 Server
Zimbra: 4.5.4
New to zimbra and trying to get the spam filters to work.
First got the can't find rules and did the symlink fix found on the forums.
Now I receive the following when running zmtrainsa on all messages:
reading message user@server:X of Y (XXXX header octects) . ( XXXXX body octects) ..........archive-iterator: raw location "-" is not supported at /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/lib/MailSpamAssassin/ArchiveIterator.pm line 734.
after that I get a
Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined).
not flushed
Training DSPAM
Any help would be appreciated.


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I have been searching the documentation, the forums and Google but have been unable to find a solution for this problem.
I am attempting to migrate a ZCS 6.0.7 implementation on old hardware to a ZCS 6.0.8 Implementation on new hardware. I have successfully backed up one user on the old box and restored him on the new box. But, of course, the Global Address List didn't migrate with this single user. My intent is to migrate a few more people to the new server for testing purposes before biting the bullet and moving the whole company over.
So now I need to figure out how to migrate the Global Address List from the old server to the new one. This Camtasia video purports to demonstrate the process:
The only problem is, when logged into Zimbra Desktop as either the admin user or some other user, when I click on the "Preferences" tab (as shown in the demonstration) that row of tabs below it does not appear. In other words I don't get a row of tabs for General, Mail, Composing, Signatures, Address Book etc. This fails to work whether I log in as an privileged or unprivileged user and it fails to work equally on the old 6.0.7 server and on the new 6.0.8 server.
I get no tabs at all under "Preferences".
Has anybody encountered this problem before? Is there a fix?


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Luncheon in Newport Beach
The first pre-preview of my Fall 2011 Women's clothing line was held at Fashion Island in Newport Beach last week. It was a small luncheon hosted by Style 2020. I showed about 18 pieces of clothing, and there are more in production right now. As you can see, there are many late 1930s vintage-inspired details, but all my pieces have been tweaked and worked on to make them thoroughly modern and wearable. I primarily design high-end prêt-à-porter or luxury sportswear, which means there are lots of separate options for women who need well-made but fun clothes for work. I'm also big on cocktail dresses and coats, because these are pieces that women need all the time.
This is one of the trays from my fine jewelry line. The strand on the left is a classic creamy white South Sea strand with diamond ball clasp. The strands on the right are akoya pearls with 18k designs inspired from a textile that I created for my clothing line. Some of them have a sprinkling of diamonds, emeralds and sapphires. They're whimsical and a wearable length designed to be practical to wear during the day.
It was such a fun event and I was so happy that Katie from Goodnite Irene was able to attend!
What does couture mean?
There's a lot of confusion about what the word "couture" actually means.
* Couture is the French word for sewing and generally refers to Haute couture or "high sewing"/"high dressmaking. And no, Juicy Couture does not count. Haute couture is usually confused with prêt-à-porter (the French term for ready-to-wear fashion).
* Technically to be considered Haute couture, you must be a member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. There are only 10 official Members in the world and they include Chanel, Givenchy and Jean Paul Gaultier. To give you an idea, Ralph Rucci is a former member, and he's the only American to have been accepted in decades.
What is the difference between prêt-à-porter and off-the-rack?
* The fit, fabrication, and quality of the garment are the main difference.
* The pattern is what determines the fit and a good one can make you look 10 pounds thinner! A good patternmaker knows how a garment should hang, understands the importance of designing and cutting on the bias (more expensive because it uses more fabric, but gives a much nicer drape). I feel fortunate to work with an amazing patternmaker. He was the head patternmaker for James Galanos for 30 years and I learn from him every time we make a new garment.
* The fabric: Expensive fabrics like silk and wool contain little man-made content. They breathe much better than cheaper fabric and feel wonderful to the touch.
* The lining: some lines claim to be high-end, but if you examine the inside of the garment, they aren't lined. That's one way to cut down on cost, but it makes the garment much less luxurious. All of my garments are lined with silk charmeuse, making them as luxurious on the inside as the outside--it's one of the first things women gush over when they try on my garments.
* The sewing: most off-the-rack garments use overlock stiching because it's fast and cheaper to produce in a factory setting. A high-end garment is made by highly specialized sewers who use princess seams, meaning you don't see any of the stitching on the interior of the garment. Baby stitching is used to finish of chiffon and there's often plenty of hand-stiching on special details. Even the zippers are sewn differently for a high end garment. A cheap replica will use overlock on every aspect of the garment. Once you get used to wearing garments that feel great and fit you correctly it's hard to go back!


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T. E. Lawrence
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Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence known as T. E. Lawrence (16 August 1888 - 19 May 1935) was a British Army officer renowned especially for his role during the Arab Revolt of 1916 – 1918. The extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, have earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by a film based on his life.
In Uncharted 3: Drake's DeceptionEdit
In the game, on the day of his motorcycle accident (May 13, 1935), a package containing his findings on Ubar was mailed from Dorset, England. The Hermetic sect that Marlowe headed was believed to have been the cause of the accident, as witnesses saw a black car run him off the highway. The package came into the hands of the sect, and was filled with Lawrence's accounts of the Crusaders. A thousand years ago, the Crusaders were also on a quest to find Ubar. Lawrence was able to map two Crusader sites with Sabean script that would help lead to Ubar: a Chateau in a forest in eastern France and a castle in Syria.


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This site supports full e-commerce. You are able to place an order and pay, all online. We will then process your order and deliver it to your door. The first step is to Sign Up. Once signed Up, click the Check Out button.
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There are two options for payment these options are Credit Card and Direct Deposit. You can pay with your credit card right here on our web site.
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Being a virtual environment, this means that we have built in some added features that you would not find in a real shopping trolley.
The (Selected) checkbox is for those of you who can never decide which one you really want.
Disable the checkbox to leave the item in the trolley but exclude it from the list of items to buy. You will not be charged for these items if the box is unchecked.
If you would like more of the same item, use the quantity field to set the number and then click the Update Totals button to effect these changes.
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City tales | Uninsured workers find health care and more thanks to Good News
MIAMI- In the shadow of Miami's sprawling skyline, the famous Calle Ocho (8th Street) winds through the city's historic neighborhood of Little Havana, home to thousands of Cuban and Hispanic immigrants.
Middle-aged men in linen shirts roll cigars on thick tables in narrow storefronts. Old men in heavy sweaters hunch over chessboards and dominos in crowded Domino Park, smoking stogies and placing bets.
Cuban immigrant Carlos Knapp makes frequent trips to Little Havana, but not for cigars or dominos. Instead, Knapp visits poor families with no health insurance. The visits are part of Knapp's job as chaplain for the Good News Care Center, a free health-care clinic operated by the Miami Baptist Association (MBA).
The clinic is one of many free health-care centers in Miami and around the country that provide a dual benefit: treating the uninsured and driving down health-care costs for others. Knapp's work provides another benefit: caring for spiritual needs among populations often overlooked.
Despite a growing population of ultra-wealthy residents, Miami ranks as one of the poorest metropolitan areas in the nation. Researchers at Florida International University estimate that 25 percent of the area's residents are uninsured, a figure representing more than a half million people. Many of the uninsured are immigrants or migrant workers who harvest tomatoes and oranges in the fields outside the city.
Just a few miles from one migrant camp in nearby Florida City, eight Hispanic patients pore over clipboards in the Good News Care Center's packed waiting room in a modular building in the parking lot of Florida City Baptist Church. Several more wait outside on a bench at the top of a wooden wheelchair ramp.
Ana Alves-Daily, the clinic administrator, says the patient flow is steady: The center cares for 45-55 patients a day in five exam rooms off a narrow hall.
Alves-Daily's husband, Michael Daily, spearheaded efforts to open the clinic 12 years ago. Daily, director of church and community ministries for MBA, observed the need for health-care access while conducting two-day dental and medical clinics in migrant camps. Many of the laborers had never visited a doctor.
After years of raising funds and navigating red tape, the clinic opened in 1996. Today, the center is open five days a week and operates with two staff physicians and some 70 volunteer physicians each year, providing primary care to adults. To qualify for care, a patient must have no health insurance and an income that doesn't exceed twice the federal poverty level.
In a tiny break room near the back of the modular building, plastic display cases hold brochures about diabetes in Spanish and English. Alves-Daily says diabetes and hypertension are the most common illnesses among clinic patients.
Those ailments may be easily treated with primary care, but patients with no medical insurance often visit emergency rooms for treatment when their conditions grow serious. By providing primary care, Alves-Daily says the clinic keeps patients out of the emergency room, a benefit to hospitals that often pass the cost of caring for the uninsured to those who are insured.
Florida's sovereign immunity laws allow physicians to practice at free clinics without the threat of malpractice suits. And they allow free clinics to operate without costly malpractice insurance. Daily says that enables the center to conduct some 10,000 patient visits each year (including follow-up visits) on a budget of about $585,000. He estimates the same care is worth nearly $10 million in the health-care market.
The spiritual care is harder to value. Alves-Daily says the clinic makes its Christian mission clear: "We don't have anything to hide. We take care of the soul and the body." She often tells patients that receiving free care is like receiving grace: "Grace is getting something you don't deserve."
Knapp, the clinic chaplain, knows about that grace firsthand. Knapp first came to the clinic last year as an unpaid minister with heart problems and no insurance. "I couldn't walk a half a block," he told WORLD. "By grace I found this place."
After follow-up treatment at Baptist Hospital, a nonprofit hospital that provides free care for clinic patients, Knapp says he "feels like a new man." (The hospital's umbrella organization-Baptist Health South Florida-also provides a grant for the bulk of the clinic's operating budget.) Three months after visiting the clinic, Knapp joined the staff full-time.
As the clinic chaplain, Knapp follows up with every clinic patient, offering to visit with them in their homes. The work takes Knapp all over the greater Miami area, making hundreds of visits each year.
On home visits, Knapp takes Christian literature, as well as hygiene packets with items like toothpaste, toothbrushes, and soap. He makes sure that patients are taking medicine correctly and that they have basic provisions like food and electricity. Some families don't have basic supplies, and Knapp often makes trips to local grocery stores. Volunteer churches sometimes help with electric bills and other needs, and Knapp recruits church members to help make home visitations.
He also talks with patients and families about deeper needs. "I go there to show Jesus Christ," he says. Spiritual needs run deep, Knapp has discovered, and many people are depressed, especially immigrants away from home and family. "They're lonely," he says. "They need some attention."


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Actor Bob Odenkirk refused to read the script for the highly anticipated "Breaking Bad" finale because he wanted to see for himself how the drama unfolds on TV.
The funnyman, who plays lawyer Saul Goodman in "Breaking Bad," admits he was given the opportunity to find out how the hit series ends, but instead he will be glued to the screen with millions of fans when the last ever episode airs on Sunday.
He tells RollingStone.com, "I don't know how the show ends. I did not read the last episode and a half. Wherever I was not in it, I did not read it. Not only did I not read the parts I was not in, I put them in the trash in my email, and then I deleted my trash. I'm a fan of the show! I want to watch it just like you!"
Meanwhile, Odenkirk, who is set to star in his own "Breaking Bad" spin-off prequel show entitled "Better Call Saul," admits he never expected fans to like his dodgy character.
He adds, "I mean, how do you like this guy? He's an awful guy! I was hired to do three or four episodes of the second season, and I don't think Vince (Gilligan, creator) had a sense that Saul would stick around.
"A lot of people say he brought a little lightness to an incredibly dark show, and that's true. Yeah, I didn't think he would stick around. I'm amazed and surprised that people like him… Every episode I picked up, I expected to be killed in, you know? I even told the writers, 'Listen, if you're gonna kill me, let's have fun with it. Make sure you decapitate me or something.'"
"Better Call Saul" is expected to premiere next year.


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For many music lovers in the Louisville area, Matthew Sweet is a must see show, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Girlfriend (1991) and promoting his latest release, Modern Art, under Missing Piece record label. In honor of the anniversary of Girlfriend, Sweet played the album in its entirety, profoundly pleasing the audience. The crowd gathered at the stage, staking claims to prime concert real estate as Sandy Owens for WFPK introduced Sweets. Taking the stage dressed in comfortable black, the aura of the 1960's still very prevalent as he strums a vintage guitar, probably on the road with him since the early 90's which was very cool! The band was in tune, and not just musically. The guys really showed a true love of the music; soulful renditions of all the songs. They must have been tired from traveling, but no one in the audience knew it.
The new album is a mixture of Sweet, tunes that come together in a very organic fashion. Sweet reflects, "In the past, I'd make deliberate changes of structure and normalize things", this time he let the music and lyrics take him where they may. Modern Art brings together the best of the past and hopes of the future, connecting the human spirit to inspiration. The music offered on this newest release allows the listener to see and hear humanity. One can almost see the wheels turning in Sweet's head as he lays down the tracks.
The onset of Sweet's musical career began as a teenager in Lincoln, Nebraska and continued as he went to college in Athens, Georgia. The infamous music scene in Athens gave Sweets the proper setting to get in a groove with the likes of Michael Stripe from R.E.M. and David Pierce of Oh-OK. Under DB Records, Sound Castles (1994) hit the scene as the first full length offering from Sweet as he and David Pierce sang as "The Buzz of Delight". Columbia Records signed Sweet in 1985, and released Inside (1996). Enter A&M Records, exit Earth (1989). It was in 1991 when Sweet hit the sweet spot. Sweet released Girlfriend in October 1991, yes; it's been 20 years, under Zoo Entertainment and was received with glowing reviews; featured on MTV, MuchMusic, and Night Tracks. Sweet went on to record Son of Altered Beast (1994), 100% Fun (1995), and Blue Sky on Mars (1997) under Zoo Entertainment.
From 1997 until now Sweet released many other notable albums, including a collaborative set, Under the Covers Vol.1 (2006) and Under the Covers Vol. 2 (2009), under Shout! Factory, on which he worked with Susanna Hoffs, the rhythm guitarist and vocalist for The Bangles. A great treasure for Sweet was being credited with the music and lyrics from "Girlfriends", a play of the same title. The most recent album from Sweet, Modern Art, was released in September of this year and he has not stopped touring since. Matthew's music is readily available, and matthewsweet.com is the first place to go looking for great chill music, jammin' pop, and reflections of 1960's music


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ArtPrize, the radically open, international art competition, today announced that we have signed on as a premier leadership sponsor and will be the official brewery of ArtPrize for the next five years. The agreement will allow both us and ArtPrize to capitalize on our respective platforms and nationwide growth. "We approached ArtPrize because we love…Read More »


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I have a Zimbra 8 setup. Everything works pretty smooth, but some of users started to complain that they are receiving SPAM e-mails from their own address.
Looked at headers and found out that there is no record of SPF check.
So the question is - does Zimbra 8 have SPF check enabled by default, or i have to enable/install it some how?!


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - A little boy is fighting to hold on, his mother is now gone, and his father is devastated.
Monday Jinglei Yi and her 5-year-old son's SUV hit black ice and plunged into a pond. The father of the family said he's in so much pain, he doesn't know where he'll go from here.
"I came right away," Dangyong Yang said through tears.
Winter Ice blanketed Arkansas streets Monday morning. Dangyong Yang, a surgery tech, saw a call coming in on his cell phone just as he was scrubbing up for surgery. Just nine minutes earlier, his wife made a chilling call to 911.
"Yes, I'm falling down in a pond, and the water is in the car right now," Yi said to a 911 operator as her SUV was sinking. At this point, the water is about 2 feet up her leg.
"She said 'Me and my son have gone into the water.' I said 'Where are you?' 'Some water is in the car,' she says, 'It is almost to my knees,'" Yang said.
Yang rushed to the scene from work at St. Vincent's in Sherwood.
"I didn't see any car over there. I just saw in the water bubbles coming up," he described.
Now the 911 dispatcher is under fire. Due to an error, police said it took 43 minutes for a water rescue unit to arrive.
"Some firefighter is changing, preparing to go into the water, I tell him this is too long, it's too late, too late," Yang explained.
Divers said within 5 minutes of arrival they rescued both Yi and her son, but for Yang's wife, it was too late. Her body not able to handle the amount of water she had taken in.
Yang was a cardiovascular surgeon in China and is able to read his son's charts. He said his son's brain was without oxygen for a while. He has not woken up, but is showing improvement.
Yang said he hopes his wife's death brings awareness to the street near where the accident happened. He said during ice and rain the road presents a constant hazard.
As for the 911 operator, police said she did not enter a call into a Little Rock computer system that would have properly notified fire and police.


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A Purple Heart, 68 years later
He's not much for medals. Ask retired fighter pilot Richard Kenney to bring out the ones he received during his 23-year military career and he has to think a minute about where he's stashed them in his Coronado home.
So when he got a phone call from a volunteer researcher in Arizona, telling him he deserved recognition for what happened in that awful winter of 1945, he shrugged. He'd made it out of World War II alive. What's another Purple Heart compared with that?
"But if you want to pursue it," he told the caller, "Go ahead."
The caller did. His name is Robert Johnson. For the past decade he's made it his mission to unearth medals that were overlooked or lost in bureaucratic red tape so that members of the Greatest Generation can live out their days with all the battlefield glory that's due them.
"I want these guys to get what they earned," he said. "It's as simple as that."
It's a mission that's taken him deep into the history of some of the war's legendary battles and face to face with the ghosts from some of its most harrowing evils. Corregidor. Bataan. Stalag Luft III.
Luft III was a German POW camp built in what is now Zagan, Poland, about 90 miles southeast of Berlin. It housed 10,000 Allied aviators who had been shot down over Europe, Richard Kenney among them. His P-38 was knocked out of the sky in June 1943 during a strafing run on a radar installation in Sicily.
The camp is best known as the place where the "Great Escape" happened, immortalized in a 1963 movie by that name starring Steve McQueen and James Garner. In March 1944, after a year of surreptitious tunnel-building, 76 prisoners made it under the wire. All but three were soon recaptured. Most were then executed.
Kenney wasn't part of the escape, not directly. During the tunnel excavation, he hid dirt in his clothes and gradually spread it around the prison yard where it wouldn't be noticed.
Later, though, he was part of something else: a forced march in the snow deep into Germany. The Russians were closing in, and Hitler wanted the captured aviators moved so he could use them as possible negotiating pawns.
They slogged more than 50 miles during one of the coldest winters on record. Dozens died. Others, like Kenney, suffered frostbite. The survivors were packed into railroad cattle cars for a three-day ride to other prison camps, nowhere to sit, nowhere to sleep, nowhere to go to the bathroom.
A Purple Heart was the last thing on anybody's mind.
Changing policies
It is America's oldest military medal, dating back to the Revolutionary War and Gen. George Washington. He created the Badge of Military Merit as a way to boost troop morale and ordered it to include "the figure of a heart in purple cloth or silk."
In 1932, on the 200th anniversary of Washington's birth, military leaders unveiled a new medal to honor those wounded or killed in combat. It has Washington's profile on one side. It is shaped like a heart. It hangs from a purple ribbon.
The Purple Heart.
An estimated 2 million of them have been awarded, roughly half for actions during World War II. More than 43,000 have been given out for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Policies have changed over the years about what kinds of wounds, suffered under what kinds of conditions, merit the medal. That can make it difficult when trying to get one for things that happened decades ago.
The first World War II vet Johnson tried to help was also a Luft III survivor who had suffered frostbite during the forced march in late January 1945. He put in for a Purple Heart and was rejected. Authorities pointed to an Air Force policy adopted in 1951 that says frostbite is no longer an injury that qualifies for the medal.