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ODIN Sets the Standard for Open Networking
"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." – African proverb
During InterOp 2012 in Las Vegas, IBM released a set of five technical briefs which lay out the path towards creating an Open Datacenter with an Interoperable Network (ODIN). This approach uses industry standards as the preferred means to address key issues in next generation data center networking. The response has been tremendous, and ODIN has been very well received across the industry. I've been posting a lot about this in my blog lately, but for your convenience here's the current list of everyone who's endorsed ODIN so far, in no particular order:
Juniper Networks noted in an endorsement from their Vice President of Global Alliances that there is an unprecedented array of technical challenges which ODIN will address, including cost effective scaling, highly virtualized data centers, and reliable delivery of data frames.
Brocade said that "using an approach like ODIN…facilitates the deployment of new technologies"
Huawei said that "ODIN addresses best practices and interpretations of networking standards that are vital to efficient data center operation." Also, Huawei Fellow Peter Ashwood-Smith shows an ODIN view of the future data center network in his webinar for Interop, entitled "How to prepare your infrastructure for the cloud using open standards."
Extreme Networks said in their endorsement that "Having open, interoperable, and standard-based technologies can enhance (these) cost savings by allowing choice of best-of-breed technologies."
NEC noted that software-defined networking (SDN) is part of ODIN, and has emerged as the preferred approach to solving Big Data and network bottleneck issues.
BigSwitch said in their blog "The Importance of Being Open" that "ODIN is a great example of how we need to maintain openness and interoperability in next generation networks"
Adva Optical Networking in their blog on "the missing piece in the cloud computing puzzle" talked about the role of ODIN in the wide area network, including both dark fiber solutions, MPLS/GPLS, and emerging trends using SDN to manage cloud computing and the WAN. They also cited recent SDN work with the Ofelia project in Europe as an example of ongoing work towards open standards in the WAN.
Ciena pointed out in a post from their CTO and Senior Vice-President that "the use of open standards has been one of the fundamental "change agents" in the networking industry". These standards are "associated with encouraging creativity by enabling a diverse and rapidly expanding user group" and "generally support the most cost-effective scaling". They called ODIN "a nearly ideal approach" and said that ODIN "is on its way to becoming industry best-practice for transforming data-centers".
Marist College provided a university's perspective, as their CIO noted that their support of ODIN was part of their broader efforts to insure that the next generation of technology students are prepared for the challenges which await them. Marist also cited related work with their National Science Foundation funded lab for enterprise computing and their cloud computing computational resources.
Thanks to everyone for showing your support of open industry standards and the ODIN approach to data center networking. I'm honored and humbled by this strong show of support from so many industry leaders, and I'm very excited to be taking the first steps with all of you on this journey towards a more open, interoperable data center network. As we continue to develop more content for ODIN, both around new standards as well as deeper technical descriptions of reference architectures which implement the ODIN design principles, I'll keep you posted on further activities with these and other companies.
Would you like to be next to endorse ODIN, and receive eternal fame and glory by being mentioned in my blog ? Let me know where I can point to your endorsement, or drop me a line on my Twitter feed


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This procedure is done to repair a
detached retina
in the eye. The retina is a thin sheet, made of light-sensitive nerve tissue and blood vessels, that lines the back of the eye. The sensory layer of the retina receives images and sends them to the brain. This layer can be pulled away (detached) from its normal position. This will result in a loss of vision. The retina often detaches from the back of the eye in a manner similar to wallpaper peeling off a wall. The detachment is usually preceded by a hole or tear in the retina.
This procedure is done to place the retina back into its proper position. It is used to try to restore vision.
If your vision was good before the detachment, a successful operation usually restores vision to good levels. If vision was poor before the detachment, final visual return may be slow and remain incomplete after surgery. A peripheral retinal detachment will likely heal quicker than one that involves the macula (central retina) or a total detachment.
The longer the retina has been detached, the less likely it is that vision will be restored.
Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have this repair, your doctor will review a list of possible complications which may include:
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
You will have a comprehensive eye exam, likely including some or all of the following:
You may also have a general medical exam prior to your surgery.
Leading up to your procedure:
You may have either a local or
anesthetic. Local anesthesia will be injected and numb the area. General anesthesia will make you sleep. The type of anesthesia used will depend on the type of procedure, your age, and other factors.
There are several surgical options to repair retinal detachment. The most common are:
A flexible silicone band will be permanently stitched to the outside surface of the back of the eye. This is done underneath the skin of the eye. You would never see the band. This band acts like a belt. It buckles the area of the detachment or retinal tear to the wall of the eye. This procedure has a high success rate in re-attaching the retina. Local or general anesthesia is used.
A gas bubble will be injected into the cavity of the eye. The pressure will force the retina back into position. You will often need to lie in a special position to keep the gas bubble in place. The retina will usually re-attach within several days. A laser (heat) or cryotherapy (cold) will help seal the retina back into place.
This method generally has a high success rate. It is not suitable for all types of detachment. Local anesthesia is sometimes used. The main benefit of this procedure is that it can be done in the office with anesthetic eye drops.
This method may be needed for more complicated retinal detachments. It may also be used if the procedures described above are not successful. The fluid in the eye as well as any scar tissue will be removed. The fluid will then be replaced with a gas bubble or specialized oil known as silicone oil. The bubble or oil will help push the retina back against the eye wall. Retinal breaks will then be sealed with a laser or cryotherapy. A scleral buckle procedure is often done at the same time. Local or general anesthesia is used.
Between 1-4 hours
Anesthesia prevents pain during the procedure. During recovery, you may experience some pain or nausea. Your doctor can give you medicine to manage any pain.
You can usually go home the same day as the surgery.
Your eye will be covered with a bandage and metal shield. When you return home, do the following to help ensure a smooth recovery:
The final visual result may not be known for 1-2 years after surgery.
After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
American Academy of Opthalmology
American Association of Eye and Ear Hospitals
Canadian Association of Optometrists
University of Ottawa Eye Institute
Charles Retina Institute website. Available at:
Digital Journal of Ophthalmology. Harvard University.
Kanski JJ.
Clinical Ophthalmology: A Systemic Approach. 4th ed. Butterworth Heinemann; 1999.
The Schepens Eye Research Institute website. Available at:
Last reviewed June 2013 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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NEW YORK, Ny. (WUSA) -- I've spoken with two different agents at the Westin Hotel in Times Sqaure, for about a half hour. Take this information for what it's worth.
1) New Orleans Hornets - Anthony Davis (Power Forward, Kentucky)
Quick Thought: In five-seven years, Davis may be the best player in the NBA.
NBA Comparison: A mix of Bill Russell/Kevin Garnett
2) Charlotte Bobcats - Bradley Beal (Shooting Guard, Florida)
Quick Thought: Two things will happen. Either the Bobcats will come to their senses and realize that five teams are trying to trade up with them because Beal is really that good, or the Bobcats will draft his rights and trade him later in the night. A source told me Cleveland is still the most likely trade partner -- where Beal and Kyrie Irving could form the best backcourt duo in the NBA for years.
NBA Comparison: Brandon Roy
3) Washington Wizards - Harrison Barnes (Small Forward, North Carolina)
Quick Thought: The Wizards can only blame themselves for showing their hand entirely too early, making the intrigue for Beal more enticing for other teams. Barnes will be a project at shooting guard -- I imagine similar struggles to John Wall -- but overall should turn out to be a solid pro.
NBA Comparison: Josh Howard
4) Cleveland Cavaliers - Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (Small Forward, Kentucky)
Quick Thought: I'm probably one of the few people who really isn't drooling about MKG. He's never been heavily relied upon at any level. And of course there's this stat from ESPN: Of the 1,296 players with 50+ catch-and-shoot jumpers this college season, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist ranked 1,242nd in points per play.
NBA Comparison: Darius Miles
5) Sacramento Kings - Andre Drummond (Power Forward/Center, Connecticut)
Quick Thought: If Thomas Robinson is still on the board here, you can guarantee the Kings trade out of this pick. Robinson has the same exact skill set as DeMarcus Cousins. If not, Drummond makes sense for a team years away from contention.
NBA Comparison: Kwame Brown
6) Portland Trailblazers - Damian Lillard (Point Guard, Weber State)
Quick Thought: Nolan Smith is the only point guard under contract next season for the Blazers. While Lillard is relatively unknown, he fits the Blazers typical athletic model for who they want handling the basketball. Personally though, I'm not a fan.
NBA Comparison: Quincy Douby
7) Golden State Warriors - Thomas Robinson (Power Forward, Kansas)
Quick Thought: There is is less than a 10 percent chance of this happening. Somebody is bound to trade up for Robinson, who most experts agree is the surest thing in the draft outside of the unibrow. Mark Jackson will be screaming praises of joy if Robinson somehow does happen to surprisingly free-fall in the draft.
NBA Comparison: A lesser version of Elton Brand.
8) Toronto Raptors - Austin Rivers (Guard, Duke)
Quick Thought: Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo can really do anything with this pick -- besides center, where Toronto has Lithuanian Jonas Valanciunas potentially joining the team next season. Disclaimer: I'm higher on Rivers than most.
NBA Comparison: Ben Gordon
9) Detroit Pistons - Perry Jones III (Forward, Baylor)
Quick Thought: To me, the trading of Ben Gordon (arguably Detroit's best player) means the Pistons are seemingly tanking for the next three seasons. They can obtain lottery talent and then unload the contracts of Rodney Stuckey, Tayshaun Prince and Charlie Villanueva -- all players no longer suited to build a franchise around -- when their deals expire in the summer of 2014. Yikes. Might as well take a flier on Jones.
NBA Comparison: Jordan Hill
10) New Orleans Hornets - Kendall Marshall (Point Guard, North Carolina)
Quick Thought: We will look back at this pick in several years and call it the steal of the draft. Who better to pair Anthony Davis with than the best passing prospect in several years.
NBA Comparison: 70 percent Andre Miller, 30 percent Rajon Rondo.
11) Portland Trailblazers - Dion Waiters (Shooting Guard, Syracuse)
Quick Thought: He's the best player available and he fits a need. Jamal Crawford is a free agent.
12) Houston Rockets - Tyler Zeller (Center, North Carolina)
Quick Thought: Zeller has great character and becomes Marcus Camby's protege.
13) Phoenix Suns - Jeremy Lamb (Shooting Guard, Connecticut)
Quick Thought: Lamb's arrival moves Vince Carter the bench -- permanently.
14) Milwaukee Bucks - John Henson (Power Forward, North Carolina)
Quick Thought: Look at the Bucks roster. They are surprisingly decent everywhere. Henson's the best player available and will add post defense.
15) Philadelphia 76ers - Terrence Jones (Power Forward, Kentucky)
Quick Thought: Doug Collins can groom Jones behind Elton Brand for a season before teaming him up with Thaddeus Young in an ultra athletic lineup.
16) Houston Rockets - Terrence Ross (Guard/Forward, Washington)
Quick Thought: Obviously, the Rockets will be leveraging for trades all night. Whomever they pick has a distinct probability of changing teams.
17) Dallas Mavericks - Meyers Leonard (Center, Illinois)
Quick Thought: The Mav's weren't the same team last year with the loss of Tyson Chandler. And with Dwight Howard in a Dallas uniform looking less likely each day, Leonard's a start on bolstering front line.
18) Houston Rockets - Moe Harkless (Guard/Forward, St. Johns)
Quick Thought: Gotta' be honest: I couldn't pick out Harkless in a jail lineup.
19) Orlando Magic - Jared Sullinger (Power Forward, Ohio State)
Quick Thought: Almost ten years ago, Orlando snatched up a guy who fell on everyone's draft board. His name? Jameer Nelson.
20) Denver Nuggets - John Jenkins (Shooting Guard, Vanderbilt)
Quick Thought: The first "major" reach of the draft will turn out to be a winning pick. Jenkins three-point shot will help space out Denver's offense even more.
The rest
21) Boston Celtics - Royce White (Power Forward, Iowa State)
22) Boston Celtics - Kim English (Shooting Guard, Missouri)
23) Atlanta Hawks - Draymond Green (Forward, Michigan State)
24) Cleveland Cavaliers - Fab Melo (Center, Syracuse)
26) Indiana Pacers - Tony Wroten (Guard, Washington)
27) Miami Heat - Andrew Nicholson (Power Forward, St. Bonaventure)
28) Oklahoma City Thunder - Darius Miller (Guard/Forward, Kentucky)
29) Chicago Bulls - Tyshawn Taylor (Guard, Kansas)
30) Golden State Warriors - Miles Plumlee (Center, Duke)


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3 Ways to Control Home Building Costs
When building a new house, one of the most important things you can do is control your building budget. Without careful planning, it is easy to go far over budget when building a home. Beginning without a building budget, making changes during construction, and poor craftsmanship are just a few of the things that can blow your home building budget or cause extra expenses.
1. Most homeowners who embark on a home building project rely on obtaining a loan from a financial institution. This requires careful planning of the building budget up front. Begin by getting a feel for what things are going to cost. For example, visit several local lumberyards and find out what materials are available and their costs. Talk to the lumberyards about buying materials in bulk. Often, lumberyards will offer a better discount when all of the materials for the home are bought at the same time. This will slash your material costs. Also, compare the costs of luxury items verses budget items such as light fixtures. If a budget fixture is just as visually appealing, comes with a good warranty and serves the same purpose as the luxury item, choose the budget item. This tactic will cut wasteful spending tremendously. Using methods like these will help you save money and establish a building budget that works with your loan.
2. Next, go over your house plans carefully and discuss everything about the design, the floor plan, special elements, etc., with your builder before construction begins. It is important to have all the details worked out with your builder ahead of time. Once construction begins, making changes to the exterior of the home or the floor plan can become very costly in a hurry. When changes are made during construction, it often requires the builder to tear down or redo some portion of the home that was already complete or near completion causing a waste of time, money, materials, and labor.
3. Finally, you might not be able to control the local labor costs, but you can control who you choose to do the work on your new home. Interview potential builders, ask to see their credentials, visit other jobsites where the builder has worked, and ask the builder for references from past clients. Researching the builder you hire (and the subcontractors) will help you choose the most qualified and skilled builder you can afford. Your new home is a major investment. You don't want to ruin the experience of building a new home with poor craftsmanship. If you end up hiring an inexperienced builder or subcontractors, it is likely you'll run it to problems quickly. Poor craftsmanship means you'll be spending more later to repair things that were not properly built, constructed or installed during the construction of your home.
If you're planning to build a new home, follow these tips to control your building costs.


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NEW 100 Introduction to College Learning. One hour, pass/fail.
Designed to help New College students become more informed about the University and about New College so that they may maximize their opportunities in their undergraduate programs through New College. Enrollment is limited to New College students.
NEW 111 Academic Skills Development. Two hours, pass/fail.
Corequisite: Corequisite required as designated each semester.
This course is designed to integrate study skills development with the content of Human Development 101 (HD 101), a corequisite course. Utilizing HD 101 lecture notes, readings, and tests, the course focuses on developing study strategies appropriate for a major university. Offered only during the second session of the summer term.
NEW 120 Capstone Enrichment Seminar. One hour, pass/fail.
This course is designed for participants in the Capstone Summer Honors Program. It focuses on the group interaction of people and the society around them. The relationship between people is studied as well as the effect of personality and behavior.
NEW 201:202 Recreation for Life. One hour, pass/fail.
In this course (designed by the student and his or her adviser using the out-of-class learning contract), the student agrees to participate in some form of physical activity that might result in a lifelong interest. These include jogging, swimming, cycling, etc. This course will frequently include a reading requirement relating to the activity.
NEW 211 Humanities I: Perspectives. Four hours.
Introductory course in the humanities — art, literature, music, etc. — with a focus on problem solving, risk taking, and communication. Human behavior and writing skills are stressed.
NEW 212 Humanities I: Creativity. Four hours.
This interdisciplinary seminar uses creativity as an organizing principle. Human culture and consciousness are explored through reading, writing, the arts, projects, studios, and discussion.
NEW 215 Humanities I: Perspectives in the Humanities on Environmental Studies. Four hours.
Considers five disciplinary perspectives on environmental studies within the humanities: literature and the environment; ecophilosophy; ecotheology; ecopsychology; and ecofeminisim. Considers how each perspective presents the relationship between humans and nature and suggests ways to heal environmental destruction.
NEW 218 Humanities I: Environmental Literature. Four hours.
Overview of environmental literature. Focus will be on the contribution of a humanistic approach to the environmental crisis.
NEW 222 Academic Potential. Two hours, pass/fail.
This course is designed to assist students in developing practical study strategies and attitudinal elements of college success. Topics of primary focus include self-assessment, motivation, personal responsibility, time management, memory, textbook reading, note taking, test preparation, and exam taking. Open to all students.
NEW 223 McNair Scholars Seminar. One hour.
To provide knowledge and skills in a variety of areas to strengthen personal, academic, and research competencies vital to success in graduate programs.
NEW 224 Model United Nations. Three hours.
Introduces students to the role of the United Nations in the world today; to prepare students to host the Alabama Model U.N. conference.
NEW 225 Natural Science II: The Population Explosion: The Myths and Realities. Three hours.
Taught during Interim term only. Designed to explore the problems associated with the world's burgeoning population.
NEW 226 Natural Science I: Organic Farming. Three hours.
An intensive, hands-on course in organic farming, taught at a local working farm. Covers the basics of organic farming while also addressing questions about organic versus industrial agriculture models in relation to current environmental problems and solutions.
NEW 230 Natural Science I: Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies. Four hours.
This course engages students in the study of environmental problems and solutions. It includes an examination of fundamental assumptions about the ethical human-nature relation and of how to value nature. The approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
NEW 237 Social Science I: Cooperation and Conflict. Four hours.
This seminar explores cooperation and conflict in human societies — all that we do or fail to do in living together effectively. Students investigate and seek solutions for contemporary social problems.
NEW 238 Honors Social Science I. Four hours.
This honors seminar explores the meaning of the practice of politics in its broadest sense as the work of the polis, or community. Draws upon various social science disciplines to investigate relationship of private and public in making political choices.
NEW 242 Natural Science I: Nature of Science. Four hours.
This seminar deals mainly with the nature of science and the scientist in the 20th century. An interdisciplinary approach is used in an attempt to understand the impact of science on life. The moral and ethical dilemmas created by recent scientific technology are discussed as part of this endeavor.
NEW 243 Natural Science I: The Laboratory Experience. Four hours.
This seminar demonstrates how the nature of the laboratory experience plays an essential role in the understanding and advancement of science. Several multidisciplinary experiments are performed in geology, chemistry, physics, and biology.
NEW 270 Leadership - Volunteerism. Three hours.
NEW 273 Social Science I: Social Issues and Ethics. Four hours.
This seminar is designed to develop an awareness of the methodologies and concerns of the social sciences in a comprehensive and theme-oriented experience. The primary focus is on the nature of inquiry, models for the analysis of change and ethical issues, and the place of ethical issues in the social sciences and society.
NEW 310-322 Out-of-Class Learning/Independent Study Experience. One to twelve hours.
A student desiring to pursue an academic interest for which no University class is available may plan his or her own "course" through Out-of-Class Learning. A contract, or agreement, with New College is prepared by the student, in which the student identifies a variety of features of the proposed study: its goals and objectives; the methodology and resources to be employed in the attempt to meet the goals and objectives; and the procedure by which the study will be evaluated upon its completion. The process of preparing the contract should be in cooperation with the New College office, from which contract forms may be procured, and with a faculty member or other authority qualified to assist and assess the study. Credit hours awarded for Out-of-Class Learning are available, relative to the breadth or depth of the study, and subject to approval of the adviser to the study and director of the New College.
NEW 338 New College Review I. Two hours.
This workshop provides students with practical experience in writing and publishing a special interest publication, the New College Review. Students gain experience in thematic approaches to a publication, concept formation for an audience, socially responsible publishing, and writing and editing persuasive essays. Students are strongly encouraged to take both NEW 338 and NEW 339 in sequence.
NEW 339 New College Review II. Two hours.
This workshop provides students with practical experience in writing and publishing a special interest publication, the New College Review. Students edit, design, and distribute the New College Review. Students are strongly encouraged to take both NEW 338 and NEW 339 in sequence.
NEW 413 Humanities II: Mythologies. Four hours.
This course in comparative mythology introduces students to mythological systems from a variety of cultures, including preclassical, Greek, American Indian, Oriental, African, and contemporary American. Recurring motifs and current theories on the mythologizing process are analyzed.
NEW 414 Humanities II: Human Futures. Four hours.
This seminar looks at possible ways people will be living 10, 20, 100 years from now. Students read, write, design, plan, brainstorm, influence, discuss, test, evaluate, and do a few other things regarding human (and nonhuman) futures.
NEW 415 Humanities II: Do the Right Thing: Moral Inquiry in Contemporary Society. Four hours.
Two great truths: life is complicated and life is not fair. This discussion seminar equips students with the tools to investigate areas of moral ambiguity and injustice in contemporary society. Individual research projects form the centerpiece of the course as each student designs and carries out a project of moral inquiry.
NEW 418 Humanities II: Arts. Four hours.
An interdisciplinary look at 20th-century art forms, this seminar includes art appreciation, art history, and studio experiences in various media.
NEW 436 Social Science II: Public Leadership. Four hours.
This seminar helps students develop the understanding and skills necessary for the practice of public leadership. The course emphasizes framing public issues for discussion and leading the decision making necessary to set the direction of public policy.
NEW 437 Social Science II: Civic Awareness. Four hours.
Current events are examined through print and electronic media in order to assist students in evaluating various sources of information concerning public issues and in developing a public philosophy for responsibilities as a citizen.
NEW 442 Natural Science II: Population and Environmental Problems. Four hours.
Natural Science II attempts to develop a broad overview of environmental and population problems. Several areas (population biology, global modeling, ecology, etc.) are studied in order to provide the proper perspective on the seriousness of the problems.
NEW 443 Natural Science II: Science and Technology. Four hours.
The course teaches scientific concepts (time and laws of thermodynamics, change, measurement, reality, etc.) as they relate to the various sciences (anthropology, mathematics, etc.). The relationship of science and technology to the environment of the Earth's surface is stressed.
NEW 444 Natural Science II: Scientific Inquiry. Four hours.
Reading and discussion of influential views about the nature of scientific method, evidence, scientific explanation and scientific change, in the context of actual scientific disputes.
NEW 472 Social Science II: Social Change. Four hours.
This seminar is concerned with the process and analysis of social change. In this seminar, students study the Holocaust, attempting to understand it as an intense and unparalleled human experience. The causes, events, outcomes, and implications are researched through books, films, interviews, tapes, and discussions.
NEW 473 Social Science II: Globalization. Four hours.
This course examines the relationship between the global and the local, using world folk craft (for example, pottery) as a point of focus. The functions of creativity in industrialized and nonindustrialized societies are explored through a combination of reading, research, discussion, and studio experiences.
NEW 474 Social Science II: Survival. Four hours.
In this seminar, students study the nature of human and societal survival under extreme conditions. Topics range from issues of a global nature to violent crime, prejudice, and disease. Causes, effects, and possible solutions are all considered.
NEW 490 Special Topics. Four hours.
The subject matter varies.


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Let's keep it rolling! Go ISU!
Soon, George Mason. Soon.
Kansas Must Be Destroyed
Sic Semper Jayhawks
Georges takes on George. Go Georges.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
I'd like to see us run away with this by halftime and not have to crawl back from double digits. Destroy them! Save my heart
I have my fortress of solitude prepared. I'm counting on you all give me a detailed account of what is going on.
Originally Posted by TruClone
Let's keep it rolling! Go ISU!
Wow. My friend, you were prepared. 12 am on the nose!
b.t.w. 4:30 and ESPNU
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Added espnu to my mediacom account, got the day off from work, got the iowa chops marinating in the fridge ready to grill, and got the beer crisper in the fridge full. Ready for the game!
Originally Posted by cowmaster1
I'd like to see us run away with this in the first 5 minutes and not have to crawl back from double digits. Destroy them! Save my heart
Already excited for the game (and for three games in four days!).
Get out front early, get some rest for the main rotation.
NFL: Buffalo Bills
NHL: Buffalo Sabres
NBA: Buffalo Braves
MLB: Pittsburgh Pirates, Toronto Blue Jays
With back to back days, this is the game you want a blowout and back ups in early. Make it happen Clones.
Wait, I thought the season ended at 8-0.
It feels like everyone else in college basketball has been having games while Freddy's guys sit and wait. Looking forward to the three games in three days, and expecting a championship when they're done.
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A crane will be in place closing King Street between 12th and 11th Street from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Dec. 8.
When King Street is closed, Dart bus routes 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 15, and 17 will be on detour. A notice posted at the bus stop on King at 11th Street informs passenger's bus routes 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 15, and 17 to board at Rodney Square on 11th Street at King Street during this detour.
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(USA Today) -- Never mind, Armani, go away, Valentino, time's up, Chanel. None of those designers were good enough for best-supporting actress nominee Helen Hunt, who wore a dress from mass retailer H&M on the Oscars red carpet Sunday.
Oh, and $700,000 worth of jewelry, too.
Hunt said the strapless gown, navy-blue gown with a train also is "green," as she explained to E! host Ryan Seacrest.
"I'm not kidding!" she exclaimed.
"H&M for Helen Hunt: certainly the most affordable gown on the red carpet #oscars proves that you DON'T have to spend a lot to look AMAZING!" tweeted Oprah's O magazine, one of numerous tweets applauding her look.
Already an Oscar winner, Hunt is nominated for her role as a sex surrogate in The Sessions.
Her dress may be the most accessible choice of a red-carpet walker since Sharon Stone wore The Gap to the Academy Awards in 1996 (a charcoal grey turtleneck), and in 1998 (a white button-down shirt).


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Visual Voices, a touring exhibit organized by the VSA Michigan/State Organization on Arts and Disability
January 19 to February 11, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 26, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
HANCOCK, MI - "Visual Voices," a touring exhibit of work by 36 artists organized by the VSA Michigan/State Organization on Arts and Disability, is featured at the Finlandia University Gallery, located in the Finnish American Heritage Center, Hancock, January 19 to February 11, 2012.
An opening reception for the exhibit will take place at the gallery Thursday, January 26, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Artwork by Christina Coon and Paul Waisanen, both of Hancock, are included in the juried exhibit. Coon and Waisanen are long-time participants in a VSA-sponsored art class at Hancock's Oak House, a group home for individuals with mild to moderate developmental disabilities.
Participants of the Oak House art class, with local drummer Bill Anderson, will present a drumming performance at the exhibit's opening reception.
Started 20 years ago, the Oak House's VSA-sponsored art class aims to teach skills, provide opportunities for creative expression, and encourage socialization. The classes are instructed by area artists who use a variety of media, including visual arts, crafts, music, and drumming. Copper Country Mental Health is also a significant partner in presenting the class.
Artwork from across the state was submitted for this year's annual Emerging Artists' Touring Exhibit, which is open to children and adults with disabilities. The Visual Voices exhibit is on an 11-month tour throughout Michigan at venues including galleries, libraries, conferences, festivals, and other public spaces. It completes its tour this April.
Work is chosen for the exhibit based on quality and to showcase a variety of media and artistic techniques. Visual Voices was juried by Amy Armand, Kathryn Knapp, and Brenda Oelbaum: three individuals that have spent their careers contributing to the advancement of arts and arts education in Michigan.
"I was honored to serve on the jury for Visual Voices," says juror Kathryn Knapp. "The passion and imagination shown by these artists is awesomely inspiring and wonderfully refreshing. Visual Voices is an amazing reminder of the importance of creative communication and illustrates so perfectly why the arts are essential to the continued development of us all!"
VSA Michigan is a member of the network of VSA, the International Organization on Art and Disability. VSA is an international nonprofit organization founded 35 years ago by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to help create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate in, excel in, and enjoy the arts.
Nationwide and internationally, VSA provides educators, parents, and artists with resources to support arts programming in schools and communities, showcases the accomplishments of artists with disabilities, and promotes increased access to the arts for all people. Each year, 7 million people participate in VSA programs.
"It is the artists who are the champions of VSA's story," notes Kennedy Smith in her introduction to "Imagination: A Celebration of the Arts and Disability," a VSA International Organization on Arts and Disability publication. "Certainly an organization can provide access, but it takes people of courage, determination, and grit to cross over the threshold, climb onto a stage, stare into a canvas, and start creating."
VSA Michigan supports programs and services across the state. VSA Michigan is funded through grants from national VSA under an award from the United States Department of Education Office of Special Education, from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and through contributions from corporations, foundations, and individuals.
"Visual Voices" is on display at the Finlandia University Gallery through February 11, 2012.
The Finlandia University Gallery is in the Finnish American Heritage Center, 435 Quincy Street, Hancock. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Saturday 12:00 to 4:00 p.m., or by appointment.
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Christina Coons, "Ducks Swimming in Water"
Paul Waisanen, "Sailboat"


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GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY (WUSA9) -- The Virginia lieutenant governor candidates Republican E.W Jackson and Democratic Ralph S. Northam took the stage at GMU with moderator Peggy Fox of WUSA9.
Sen. Northam, a pediatric neurologist who was first elected to the Virginia Senate in 2007 spoke about his contribution in the medical industry and 8 years of active duty in U.S. Army. He said, "Its about service. Its about wanting to do better on a different level."
He mentioned some of the work that has been done, in particular the ban on smoking. "People came together, we banned smoking...That has made the commonwealth a healthier place for our children and our families to dine." He also mentioned his contribution in the efforts to clean up the environment especially the Chesapeake Bay.
"But we still have a lot of work to do in the commonwealth of Va. And that's why i'm running for Lt. Governor," Sen. Northam said before Q&A.
Republican E.W Jackson mentioned about his life growing up in foster care and the lack of opportunity that his father had in his career life. "I want every single Virginian to have the ability to get a meaningful job that allows them to take care of their family."
"I really believe our country is desperately headed in the wrong direction," Jackson said. "My vision for Va. Is that every single person would be able to stay here, not have to leave, stay here and get a decent job."
Jackson also stressed the importance of parents playing a big role in their children's education.
Jackson said the Affordability care act is crushing the economy in Virginia. "I want everyone to have healthcare..i just believe this is not the way to do it." He believes turning healthcare over to the Federal Government is not going to be beneficial.
On a question regarding the treatment for mentally ill individuals, he said, "We've got to re-think how we deal with our mentally ill. Doing what we are doing is not working for our mentally ill."
Sen. Northam responded and said that institutionalizing this will only raise more costs. He then mentioned about the impact of gun violence on the society.
"The first step is to sit down on the table and lets agree that we have a problem with gun violence in our society," said Sen. Northam. "At the end of the day we are not going to do anything to threaten the 2nd amendment but we need to make sure the guns are not in the hands criminals and mentally ill."
Jackson who does not support the idea of eliminating the right to bear arms said, "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Jackson supports home-schooling and that everyone should have the option to home-school their children. "Everyone should be given the option to home school their children." he said. "Weve got to have parental choice in education...Its not about the system..its about those kids."
Sen. Northam said he shares the points of diversity and good quality education but brought up the issue of cost with 110 million dollar would be taken out of the public education budget and 1,700 teachers would lose their jobs in Va. He asked, "How do you make up that deficit? Don't take money away from the public education."
Jackson was asked about his recent comments on the LGBT community. He said, "I would govern according to the constitution of Virginia and the law. He also said, "I care about all people."
Sen. Northam promoted equality and coming together in his statement. He said, "One of the jobs of Lt. governor is going to be to unite people..it is very important for us to get along and move Virginia in a positive (direction) but making statements against the LGBT community saying they are sick individuals, making statements against democrats saying that they are anti-God, anti-Family, anti-life, those kind of statements...are offensive."


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Tallahassee, Florida- August 14, 2012
We always want to hear that things went smoothly on election day.
At one precinct, officials had to do a little breaking and entering to start the day. And for volunteers, it's not quite what they expected they were going to do.
Barbara Mann has been working as a pollster for more than a decade now in Leon County. At 5:45 a.m. Tuesday morning she she and other volunteers showed up at Summerbrooke club house. The person from the golf course with the keys wasn't there to let them in.
"It wasn't until about 7:20 (a.m.) when we got in here," said Mann.
Mann began calling a number of people shortly after she arrived to find out who was to let them in. A little after 7:00 a.m. one of the election officials made a bold move.
With a line of about 20 people ready to punch their ballots, the elections office obviously decided to punch something of their own.
An election official took matters into his own hands when he smashed a window in the back with a hammer to let the volunteers go to work.
"Once we got set up and got the first group of people through everything has been calm, cool and collected ever since."
What started out as an uncertain day, showed how quickly volunteers can pull together.
"It had a very good ending," said volunteer Julie Atteberry. "We got everyone out quickly, you know, we took care of them. The way they should have been taken care of."
As for the window, the Leon County Supervisor of Elections Office will pay to replace it.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A north Florida elections official has no apologies for his decision to have his staff break into a local country club.
Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho had a poll worker take a hammer and bust out a window in the clubhouse after country club employees did not show up as planned early Tuesday morning.
Sancho said he has a contract that requires The Golf Club at Summerbrooke to open its doors early so poll workers could set up voting machines in time for the Tuesday primary election.
At around 7 a.m., Sancho gave the go-ahead to the poll worker to break the window. Sancho said voters wound up getting delayed 10 to 15 minutes, but he said no one left before voting.
Sancho said his office is paying to replace the window.


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Wow. PT, I dub you the king of the photorealistic. I clicked the picture first, then read your post, fully expecting to see "I photoshopped the walls onto a photo of a cliff overlooking ...."
This is amazing.
A cliff-side fortress, long abandoned with a fast flowing river running through a gorge. This thing is crashing my copy of Photoshop, I may have to abandon it for real!
Rather than use Fill patterns for the mountains, I'm trying to use smart-objects so I can warp the terrain as I want. The textures are still tileable, so they blend okay. I like the warping / liquefy method for terrain, because it lets me direct the "tectonic" forces somewhat. It does tend to push your machine to the limits through. Gah.
It's amazingly difficult to get aerial views of fast moving water. I wound up building the texture from a really wimpy white-water image into a raging torrent using "fractal" techniques. Use Fill patterns at several scales set to Overlay to add additional fine-grained detail. Use it carefully, because it's easy to over do the effect. This effect works well for foamy whitewater ocean, I suspect.
Now, the plan is to have this be a battle-mat by itself and then map the castle in the off chance the players want to seek shelter inside.
Wow. PT, I dub you the king of the photorealistic. I clicked the picture first, then read your post, fully expecting to see "I photoshopped the walls onto a photo of a cliff overlooking ...."
This is amazing.
Holy (watch your mouth) I mean WOW that is incredible.
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Personally, I love the hand-drawn maps some of you guys can put out, I really want to work on my sketching and hand-painting as a long term goal.
This looks awesome so far. You may have to save off the layers while you work on other areas and then put them altogether at the end. Definitely love your texture work.
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Finally added in the foundations for the front bridge which spans the gorge, hinting in detail that they are cracked and about to be washed away by the river. Match color saved my rear end here, my rubble isn't quite the same color as my walls, so I fixed that.
If you look close you can see the trouble I'm in memory wise. It tends to crash when I'm at about 1.2G of utilization. I'm going to try and make a layers smart-objects so I can export them, and then place them back in the scene when I'm ready for them.
Eek! I pretty regularly run at about 3G of memory usage. It would drive me bananas to have to be that frugal, you have my sympathies.
So, here I'm trying to do massing on the internal structure of the castle. I beefed up the walls, as I assume masonry buildings of that era were at least 10 feet thick for the exterior walls. The grey is a refined sketch of the massing, the red was the original mass. The shaft to the SouthEast is going to lead down to an alchemical lab or something, the western half of the fortress is the "inner keep" with a well and an secret exit down to the river.
Here's the first level roughed in with walls and collapsed sections. Need to do floors, elevation changes, etc. This area here is a sloping hallway to an alchemists lab on a level below. There is supposed to be a shaft which catches light at precisely a certain time of day for +/- 5 minutes for some experiment or time-lock-door or something. Do the hand-done walls blend well with the "photo-real rock texture? I don't know. I need more work on them, I think. Advice on how to blend the two looks would be appreciated. The back half of the walls re supposed to be "carved" out of the rocks then layered over with smaller rocks and roman style cement-mortar.
I want to add more color contrast to the battlemat but leave the hue natural. I want to add in more things elsewhere on the battlemat so there are other interesting areas besides just the cliffside fortress to work with as well, which means I'm going to want to have a "outside view of the fortress upper levels as well.


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CraigCamp (@CraigCamp) Fight the 100 point #wine score dictatorship: http://bit.ly/oB9s3s Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:45:07
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Beaune Because I can – lingering over Beaune and its vines; premier cru by premier cru…
link: Summer 2010
If you're buying Burgundy and not reading The Burgundy Report you're a fool.
So in a way, the 2006 Barbaresco by Produttori del Barbaresco is the financial crisis's little gift to us: a wine that harks back to an era before the advent of Barbaresco's Francophilia.
via Do Bianchi
This is a must read. Blogger Jeremy Parzen ruminates on the career of Wine Spectator critic James Suckling, while teaching us how to cook bistecca alla fiorentina.
There's no two ways about it: during James Suckling's tenure at the Wine Spectator, the scores he gave to modern-style Brunello — with Casanova di Neri as its poster child — helped to eclipse the sale of traditional-style wines,
link: The James Suckling era ends (and what we ate and drank for my birthday) � Do Bianchi
Link: American Wine and Locavore Movement, by Todd Kliman, author The Wild Vine – The Daily Beast
In an excellent article author Todd Kliman blasts American restaurants for their public devotion to buying local food, while snob-ily ignoring local wines. He correctly points out the superficial commitment to buying local by restaurants in Missouri, New York and Virginia, all states with vibrant wine industries and many dedicated and serious winemakers. When questioned by Kliman, sommeliers (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) noted under their breaths that the wines were not just up to their standards. That perhaps is flipped around as maybe it is the sommeliers, not the wines, that are not up to snuff as it is the job of the sommelier at a locavore restaurant to discover and offer the finest local wines to their customers.
While other American wine regions may be limited in the selections they offer to restaurants, the same cannot be said for West Coast restaurants. Certainly any sommelier worthy of the title could craft an outstanding wine list from the wines of California, Oregon and Washington. Anyone claiming they can't is just not doing their homework.
Perhaps no more hypocritical example can be found than the famed Alice Waters of Chez Panisse fame. Chef Waters can be found on national television constantly singing the praises of Slow Food, but one look at her wine list in Berkeley tells another story. I agree with Chef Waters that the vast majority of California wines do not match well with her food, but there are more than enough that do to provide her with an outstanding wine list. Toss in the wines of Oregon and Washington and she has no excuse.
Let's give Chef Waters a break as Chez Panisse is a stones throw from Kermit Lynch's wonderful store and Kermit's exceptional wines can make anyone forget their locavore passions when it comes to wine. Certainly I cannot resist Kermit's imported temptations myself. However, I am not on television saying the only way to eat and drink is by supporting local farmers. Winegrowers, it should be remembered, are farmers too.
Hard core locavore chefs in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco rant on about their local sources for eggs, cheese and meat, while their wine by the glass selections are more likely to be produced from vineyards 4,000 miles away. Hopefully someday locavore will be a term that is more than a marketing fad.
In Europe, chefs are locavores naturally, in America it is still a foreign concept. Oddly enough Europeans practice it, but don't talk about it much. In America, we talk about it a lot, but don't practice it well.
I received this PR release today:
"In the July issue of Consumer Reports, CR testers found four Chardonnays they rated "very good," all for less than $10. One of them was even from 7-Eleven!"
Two things struck me. First was what must these people have done wrong to be forced to do a tasting of under $10 Chardonnay. Second was the image of the Consumer Reports team applying the same methodology they use to rate cars and stereos to wine tasting. This could explain the results.
In other wine judging silliness, the much hyped "NextGen" wine competition made Steve Heimoff's day by making themselves meaningless by selecting Barefoot Moscato as their best of show. This either means that no winery submitted any serious wine (a possibility) or that the judges only proved how pointless these judgings are - regardless of the age of the judges. This "competition" was particularly embarrassing as it begged for samples with daily email barrages right up until week of the judging itself. Good luck getting samples next year guys. You must be happy to know that, like the results of the Consumer Reports tasting, your name will be on shelf-talkers in 7-Elevens, Walgreens and gas stations throughout the United States.
If you wonder what such judgings are about you only have to look at the Next Gen tasting website:
They are selling themselves to make a profit, judging the wines is only an brief inconvenience they have to deal with for a few days and hey, the judges are free. They get the wineries to buy in with their judging fees in the hopes of getting any kind of recognition. The wineries that enter carry as much shame as the people putting on the competition.
According to their website they had openings for 2500 wines. Let's say all of them took advantage of the early entry "special" as listed below on their website. That's $162,500.
At least someone is making a few bucks out of these judgings. Too bad it's not the people that actually make the wine.
$25, That's right only $25 for a beautiful pinot noir. Nothing yet exists in new world pinot noir like the 2007 C�te de Nuits-Villages from Domaine Gachot-Monot. Pure and electric this is a wine that lifts both your intellect and the meal. Certainly this would be $50 if it where from Oregon or California. We have a lot to learn and need to be a little more humble as winemakers here on the west coast. What struck me was the almost compelling urge I had to have a third glass.
It's a bit depressing to me that I've not figured out to make a wine like this in America yet, but I refuse to quit trying. In the meantime, drink this beauty over the next three to four years.
Not surprisingly, imported by Kermit Lynch.
Thor, a wine writer and blogger whom I greatly admire and an all-around mensch, wrote the other day to winemaker Aldo Vacca (left) inquiring about his decision not to bottle his 2006 crus. Thor was kind enough to share Aldo's response and Aldo was kind enough to allow me to post it here.
Technical reason: 2006 is a very good vintage, but warm and ripe, lacking a little bit of the finesse and complexity to make a truly great S[ingle]V[ineyard wine] and yet preserve excellent quality in the regular bottling. We think 2005, lighter in body, has more fruit and balance, at least in Barbaresco and at least for Produttori.
Marketing: with the current economy we thought it more appropriate to produce a larger quantity of solid, extremely good 2006 Barbaresco avoiding a flooding of the market with too many SV wines, since 2007, 2008, 2009 will all be produced. Had 2007 or 2008 been bad vintages, we would have released 2006 SV, but since we have so many great ones, we felt we could skip one and stay on the safe side of the fence.
—Aldo Vacca
via Do Bianchi
It is perhaps difficult to understand what unusual act is being reported here by Thor Iverson (oenoLogic) and Jeremy Parzen (Do Bianchi). Here is a producer declining to make his most sought after and highest priced wines simply because being good is not enough. Also they are not doing this in some dismal vintage full of rain and rot, but from a vintage whose only fault was too much sun. This is the very type of vintage lauded as perfect by The Wine Spectator in 2000 and nearly so in 2003. Standards like this are almost unknown in wine anymore. When was the last time there was no Chateau Lafite, Screaming Eagle and so on? I think Aldo Vacca is doing much more than just staying on the "safe side of the fence" with this decision. Standards like this are why the wines of the Produttori del Barbaresco are true cult wines in a world of pretenders.
The 2008 Vietti Tre Vigne is here! The Vietti Dolcetto Tre Vigne Dolcetto d'Alba is always on my every day favorite list. Explosively fruity, brisk, zesty and bright. It's all about immediate pleasure - no waiting required. That's why I'm always excited when the new vintage arrives as it's never more fun to drink as when it's a charming adolescent and, anyway, it's a boring adult so waiting is not recommended. Maturity is for nebbiolo not dolcetto. In fact I'm already anxiously waiting for the 2009.
It's always frustrating that we can't seem to make wines like this in California. That's something I have to work on.
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[RE]FRESH is a brand new resale store - that looks, acts and feels NOT like resale! Created for teens, twenties and those who still feel like that! (It's not unusual for moms & daughters to come in together and both walk out with shopping bags full!)
All proceeds support the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition's important work to find forever homes for children in foster care. The store is open to the public as well as children in foster care.
Saturday, August 20th is the Grand Opening from 11am - 8pm. The first 25 people will receive $60 in [RE]FRESH Rewards. You can win prizes, sample the candy bar, listen to the sounds of Bill Beggs - PhD. J, get great fashion advice and don't forget the awesome shopping!
[RE]FRESH is located at 1710 South Brentwood Blvd. For more information about store hours, volunteering or organizing a clothing drive, please call (314) 881-0331 or visit www.refreshstl.org.
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The Ohio Department of Education is caught in a bit of a mess. This morning, the state auditor's office announced it would be conducting a probe into the Ohio Department of Education over school test and attendance data. Yesterday, Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner said the Ohio Department of Education will be investigating more schools for possible instances of fraudulent data reporting. The superintendent's announcement came on the same day Lockland School Districts were found to be reporting false attendance data for better test results.
Delta Airlines announced it will be closing down Comair, which is headquartered in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. The move could have a significant impact on jobs in the region.
Only 6,000 out of 140,000 eligible Ohioans have initiated a foreclosure review process, according to Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. The review could potentially save Ohioans a lot of money.
The Ohio Supreme Court still thinks Ohio's smoking ban is constitutional.
Skype is making chat and user data more accessible to police.
There is now a reason to be jealous of Kansas City. Google will be offering its ultra-fast Internet service in the area for only $70 a month.
Nearly one in five voters thinks President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Mitt Romney had a bad couple days during his trip to London: An aide allegedly made racist comments about Obama's commitment to "Anglo-Saxon heritage," Romney questioned if London is ready to host the Olympics, and he talked about meeting with the leader of MI6, the British intelligence agency. And he said he's excited to return the "bust of Winston Churchill" to the Oval Office. Whatever that means.
Nobody has a case of the Mondays, according to a new study in the Journal of Positive Psychology.
Scientists have found a way to temporarily restore eyesight in blind mice. But it requires a direct chemical injection into the eyes.
A performance audit for the Cincinnati Service Department
could save the city $3.7 million. The audit claims $2 million could be
saved every year if the city privately contracted solid waste collection
and street sweeping. An additional $1.7 million could be saved if the
city reduced overtime, sick leave and staffing levels. Along with other recommended savings measures, the changes could
amount to 7.9 percent of Cincinnati's budget.
Trayvon Martin's parents will be visiting Cincinnati today to take part in the national conference hosted by the Children's Defense Fund. The conference will target violence and race-related issues.
Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have teamed up to improve environmental sustainability at manufacturing facilities and supply chains.
The worst U.S. drought in half a century is putting pressure on oil and gas companies to recycle and conserve water used for fracking. Fracking uses millions of gallons of water to free oil and gas from underground rock formations.
Gay marriage has generated $259 million in economic activity in New York City.
The Congressional Budget Office said repealing Obamacare would increase the deficit by $109 billion.
Voters sometimes punish politicians for bad weather.
Some scientists are saying the plot of The Amazing Spider-Man might not be too far off from reality.
The Ohio Board of Regents has recommended banning tobacco
on all school campuses. The ruling is meant to curtail students picking
up smoking during college. According to the Ohio Department of Health,
40 percent of college-aged smokers began smoking or became regular
smokers after starting college.
Louise Nippert, Cincinnati philanthropist and art patron, died yesterday at the age of 100.
Secret groups have been pumping Ohio's Senate race between incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown and Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel with out-of-state money in support of Mandel. Unsurprisingly, the Brown team is not happy about it.
More Ohio adults are on Medicaid and Medicare, a new study has found. Ohioans are also relying less on employer-provided insurance. The numbers apparently match a nationwide movement.
Yesterday, the world got its first glimpse at the suspect in the Colorado theater massacre. He had orange hair.
A coalition of labor groups is getting together to push for a higher minimum wage in Ohio. They want minimum wage raised to $9.80 per hour in 2014.
Penn State is getting a heavy-handed punishment from the NCAA. It seems like the occult hand of former coach Joe Paterno will continue having a heavy grip on the university's football legacy.
Apparently, earth's resources aren't good enough for technology. Scientists want to use dwarf stars to improve computers in a big way.
Northern Ohio counties are starting to receive $19 million from Cleveland casino tax revenue. Cincinnati and Hamilton can expect a similar revenue boon next year when the Horseshoe Casino opens on Feb. 2013. Of course, the casino (and its revenue) could have been coming this year, but Gov. John Kasich blocked construction last year to protect his tax plan.
The Enquirer over the weekend did an investigative piece on ER "superusers" — individuals who can sometimes cost the health-care system as much as $1.3 million due to a lack of health insurance. Hospitals have said that this "charity care" could be curtailed by Obamacare's Medicaid expansion and save the state money, but Kasich claims the Medicaid expansion is too costly for the state.
The Ohio Board of Regents is considering banning smoking on all public
campuses. Smoking is already banned in buildings, but health concerns
may lead to a bigger ban.
Toledo Public Schools used "scrubbing" to improve report card scores. The Board of Education claimed such cheating could be a "state-level problem."
Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown and his Republican opponent Josh Mandel have settled on a day to debate: Oct. 15.
Former Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was inducted into the Hall of Fame Sunday. Here's CityBeat's C. Trent Rosecrans' column offering current players' thoughts on Larkin.
The Great Ohio River Swim was postponed Saturday because of high bacteria levels. Not very surprising.
In science news, a European agency became the first in the Western world Friday to approve a gene therapy treatment for a rare genetic disease.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Wednesday Voters
First did not turn in enough valid signatures for its redistricting
reform amendment. The organization will now have to gather 130,000 more
signatures before July 28 if the amendment is to appear on the November
The organization fired back in a statement Wednesday, saying it will still have enough signatures to get the amendment on the ballot.
"We never stopped collecting signatures even after filing our first round of petitions on July 3rd," Dennis Willard, spokesperson for Voters First, said in the statement.
The organization has criticized Republicans for building a campaign against the Voters First amendment. In an email to Voters First supporters Wednesday, Ann Henkener, a board member of the League of Women Voters, said Republicans were holding meetings to find ways to stop the amendment.
Henkener may not be far off. Dayton Daily News reported Tuesday that Republicans have launched Protect Your Vote Ohio, a PAC in opposition to the Voters First amendment. David Langdon, a Cincinnati-based conservative, was named as the PAC's treasurer.
If the Voters First amendment appeared on the ballot and passed, redistricting would be placed in the hands of an independent citizens commission. Under the current system, district boundaries are redrawn every 10 years by state officials — a system politicians have taken advantage of by redrawing districts in politically advantageous ways. Cincinnati's district was redrawn during the Republican-controlled process to include more suburban and rural areas, particularly Warren County, in a move that could give Republicans an advantage on Election Day.
During a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado last night, a gunman walked into a theater, threw tear gas, and opened fire. Police identified James Holmes as the suspect in the shooting. Twelve were killed and at least 50 were wounded. On Twitter, one witness lamented that "there is no dark knight, no hero, that could save us from anything like this."
Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig will learn later this summer if he'll be required to undergo additional training and take the state police exam. Craig and his attorneys yesterday told the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission about his 36 years of policing experience.
This summer, Ohio families will receive health insurance rebates as part of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. The average family will receive $139. In total, Ohioans will be getting back $11.3 million.
Ohio's unemployment rate dropped to 7.2 percent in June, down from 7.3 percent in May. That's the lowest unemployment has been since 2008.
An Ohio Supreme Court task force approved changes that will help prevent racial bias in death penalty cases.
Gov. John Kasich can't get even his own people to agree with him on his tax plan. An Ohio Tea Party group came out against the plan yesterday.
Speaker of the House John Boehner called the issue of Mitt Romney's tax returns a "sideshow" and said that Americans don't care about it. But Romney apparently disagreed with Boehner's perspective in 1994 when he asked then-Senator Ted Kennedy to release his tax returns.
First giant mirrors, then volcanoes. Now, scientists want to use plankton to help fight global warming.
In the first town hall-style event of the 2012 campaign, President Barack Obama fielded questions on Monday about rights for the LGBT community, what he would do for small business during a second term and which was his favorite Girl Scout cookie (Thin Mints).
Obama — the first Democrat to carry Hamilton County since Lyndon Baines Johnson — held a packed town hall meeting at Music Hall. Cincinnati Fire Department Capt. Joseph E. Wolf estimated the crowd at 1,200 people in the ballroom with an additional 421 hosted outside.
The most recent Quinnipiac University poll from June 27 showed that 47 percent of Ohio voters favored the president, while 38 percent were behind his presumed Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
Mayor Mark Mallory fired up the crowd before the president spoke, saying Hamilton County is the most important county in Ohio, and Cincinnati the most important city in the county.
"The folks in this room are the most important folks in terms of the re-election of President Barack Obama in the United States of America," Mallory said.
Attending the town hall was former Cincinnati mayor and daytime TV host Jerry Springer, who said he and about a dozen other folks had a private meeting with the president earlier in the day.
"I think it would be bad for the country," Springer said of an America that saw Obama lose the November election. He says the Republican-controlled house would run away with our country without a Democrat in the Oval Office to issue a veto.
Just an hour before the president spoke and seven blocks away at Fountain Square, dozens of Romney supporters rallied, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obama Bin Lyin'."
Republican Mike Wilson, who is looking to unseat Montgomery Democrat Rep. Connie Pillich in the Ohio House of Representatives, was among the speakers at the Romney Rally. Pillich defeated Wilson in the 2010 election.
"Ohio seems destined to play a pivotal role. We're used to it," Wilson said.
Wilson criticized the Obama campaign for "playing politics" with Romney's tenure at the head of investment firm Bain Capital.
The Obama campaign has claimed that Romney invested in businesses that outsourced American jobs.
"We're all interested with what Romney did with his money, but we're not interested with what Obama is doing with our money," Wilson said.
He blamed over-regulation and taxation from the Obama administration for companies moving their operations overseas.
Gerry Molt, who attended the rally with his wife Roxanne, claimed that Obama is at war with America and says the focus on Bain Capital is "clearly a distraction."
Roxanne Molt said she's excited about the importance of Hamilton County in this year's election.
"I think this is the premier election of our lifetime," she said. "I think Romney's got a good plan. We need someone who supports capitalism."
The president did a little bit to support Cincinnati capitalism, making a pit stop at Skyline Chili before the town hall, where he ordered a 4-way and two cheese coneys.
The economy was a big focus of Obama's speech, but also of questions he received afterward.
Tony White, who owns a barber shop/beauty salon, asked what the president would do for small businesses with fewer than 10 employees.
In his response, the president touted the possible savings for small businesses under the health care overhaul, saying they could pool together and receive the same rates as larger businesses. As for moving forward, Obama said he would continue to put pressure on banks to lend to small businesses.
"We've actually been pushing the banks to say, 'look, taxpayers pulled your backside out of the fire, it's now important for you to step up and make sure that small businesses aren't finding their credit restricted, especially if they've been in business for a while," he said.
The president was also asked by a woman who only identified herself as Anna what he would do to further help the LGBT community. Anna's son Adam is openly gay and is looking at attending Miami University in Oxford.
Despite earlier teasing that he wouldn't sing at the town hall, Obama led the crown in singing "Happy Birthday" to Adam, who turned 18 on Monday.
Obama again answered the question by touting his accomplishments so far — ending the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that forbid homosexuals from serving openly in the military and expanding hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners — before going on to say that the federal Defense of Marriage Act needs to be repealed.
The Defense of Marriage Act defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Obama is the first American president to openly support gay marriage.
The theme the president to which continued to return was that America needs to return to being the land of opportunity.
"What really sets us apart has always been that we have the greatest middle class and a basic idea that's at the heart of this country that says if you work hard then you can get ahead. If you're responsive, then you can live out your dreams. You're not confined to the circumstances of your birth."
German Lopez contributed to this report.
A citizen committee has determined that levy-funded Hamilton County social-service agencies need to provide their services with fewer resources, advising that property owners pay the same levy rate despite decreases in property values that will reduce funding for groups that help senior citizens and people with mental illnesses. The decision by the 11-member committee will reportedly affect 30,000 residents who rely on such agencies to provide services such as meal delivery and counseling. In order to keep funding level the levy would have had to increase the cost for the owner of a $100,000 home by $6.
From The Enquirer:
Bosses of the Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio had already agreed to live on less, but argued against some committee recommendations.
Those include:
• Raising the age criteria. Currently 9 percent of clients are between 60 and 70 years old. An agency spokeswoman said that's because services are disability-based. Some "younger" seniors – those suffering from strokes and early Alzheimer's, for instance – have more needs than older people.
• Requiring new clients to meet U.S. legal resident requirements. According to the agency, screening for U.S. citizenship would make the program ineligible to use Older Americans Act dollars, at a cost of almost $1.2 million a year. The spokeswoman said all clients live in the county.
Enquirer reporters Carrie Whitaker and Janice Morse broke from traditional journalistic standard on Tuesday by reporting the names of teenagers involved in an alleged theft and police chase. The three girls, ages 16, 14 and 12, were identified by full name and as being from Avondale and Pleasant Ridge. A follow up story on Wednesday reported two of the girls being released from the hospital. It also included the minors' names and did not include a reporter's byline.
Jean Schmidt sided with Democrats on an attempt to stop Republicans from cutting even deeper the funding for the national food stamp program. The legislation that passed will cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by more than $16 billion over 10 years. GOP lawmakers wanted it cut by $33 billion.
Iran put on a missile show on Friday, demonstrating the accuracy of its long-range missiles and their ability to hit Western bases and Israel.
Headline: "Wells Fargo Posts $4.6 Billion Profit, Up 17%." Big ups, Wells Fargo!
Condoleezza Rice as Romney's running mate? Sarah Palin says it's a good idea.
A nearly complete skeleton of a human ancestor has been found in South Africa.
A new survey by the Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater
Cincinnati found that local teenage marijuana use is up slightly. Mary
Haag, president and CEO of the coalition, says it's the organization's
biggest concern — makes sense considering the organization is dedicated
to creating a drug-free Cincinnati, but shouldn't someone be concerned
about this, too?
Cincinnati police will stop using a certain breathalyzer machine due to a recent court ruling that the machine must be cleared after each use. City Prosecutor Charlie Rubenstein says attorneys are consistently questioning in court the Intoxilyzer 8000's use, causing a backload of cases.
President Obama will visit Cincinnati on Monday, though no details have been released.
Mitt Romney might not like running as a potential Bush third term, but he'll take whatever money Dick Cheney can raise for him at an event in Wyoming.
In response to heated negotiations over the price of Viacom networks such as Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1 and Comedy Central, DirecTV
this week told its users where to find Viacom content online for free (Viacom's website).
Viacom yesterday shut down the free streaming shows, replacing them with
a video explaining how to complain to DirecTV that SpongeBob SquarePants isn't available and your kids are pissed.
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh said a report released today that Penn State and Joe Paterno concealed critical facts about Jerry Sandusky and showed a total disregard for the safety of his victims.
A new drug has been found to protect healthy people exposed to HIV, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first time is considering approving a drug which could prevent individuals from acquiring the virus.
Hackers released 453,000 Yahoo! passwords, potentially helping many log into their accounts after forgetting their passwords years after switching to Gmail.
The Hubble telescope found a fifth moon orbiting Pluto, which is still not a planet anymore.
A post on viral web cataloger BuzzFeed accuses U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt or her staff of airbrushing the congresswoman's Wikipedia page.
BuzzFeed claims that a user bearing the Internet fingerprint shared by all Congressional offices removed the section of Schmidt's Wikipedia entry titled "The Armenian Genocide issue."
Schmidt was one of 33 Congress members alleged to have had airbrushing done to their Wikipedia pages.
Also listed was House Speaker John Boehner, who allegedly had mention of his knowledge of the Mark Foley congressional page scandal scrubbed from his page.
CityBeat on Wednesday asked for comment from the offices of Schmidt and Boehner but no response was given.
"The Armenian Genocide issue" section appeared on Schmidt's page as of Wednesday. It's unclear whether the section had previously been removed.
According to the entry, Schmidt came under fire in 2008 from congressional challenger David Krikorian for failing to publicly define the mass killing of 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians between 1915-1916 as the "Armenian Genocide."
The Armenian-American Krikorian accused Schmidt of taking tens of thousands in "blood money" from the Turkish government in order to push the denial. Krikorian's claims resulted in a defamation lawsuit from Schmidt and a complaint before the House Ethics Committee.
However, Boehner's page still contained no mention of his knowledge of the Foley page scandal as of Wednesday afternoon.
In 2006 former Republican Florida Rep. Mark Foley resigned over reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former congressional page.
Boehner told The Washington Post that he had learned of inappropriate "contact" between Foley and a 16-year-old page and told then-House Speaker Dennis Hassert about it. He later told the newspaper that he couldn't remember whether he talked to Hassert.


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I am running zimbra desktop build 1.04 build 1833.
For over a year I have had a problem where I will discover one of my subfolders making new copies of certain messages every time it syncs with my godaddy webmail imap accounts... a subfolder could build up to thousands of messages and multiple gbs before I notice it.
For a while I took the time to meticulously hunt down and delete the problem emails and all the copies, until the problem would stop happening... and then check each individual subfolder to make sure it wasn't happening to THAT folder... this was really tedious... then it would randomly start happening in another folder... eventually I gave up and just turned off synch on those folders that started generating multiple copies of messages. So now I have many many subfolders, where I have been filing emails, that have the sync turned off.
I was hoping this was a bug that would be addressed in an update. But it is still happening. Yesterday I sorted a lot of email into a subfolder, and today there are hundreds of extra copies that have already been generated in that subfolder. So I turned off the sync on that local folder.
So now I discovered 2.0 is available and want to install it. But my local folders where I have sorted mail and turned off the sync because of the multiple copy problem, have not been synced back to the cloud.
Can anyone advise me on how to fix this problem, so I can re-enable sync on those folders and let them synch back to my godaddy imap account, then install 2.0 and let it sync...
Or some other technique? I do not want to reintroduce the problem into my 2.0 folders!


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I'm new to zimbra. I've just installed the Zimbra Desktop on CentOS5. It installed fine and initially ran. However, while downloading mail from my POP3 account, the jetty server crapped out several times. I have about 3K messages so it took a while. The first time it crashed, it took a while for me to figure out what was wrong and how to get it to continue. I got a "cannot connect to localhost" on whatever port its on. Then, I had to restart it at least 10 times while my mail was downloading.
* This should not happen in the first place. If it does, it should be rare. This is a bug.
* The documentation was not helpful in figuring out how to resolve this issue. I nearly chucked the Zimbra Desktop due to this.
After finally getting all of my mail. I started using the Zimbra Desktop. There does not seem to be an import/export feature for mail. I could not find it anywhere in the GUI. If i missed it please let me know where it is and how to use it.
* Both importing and exporting mail are extremely important. If the Zimbra Desktop cannot do this, then it is little more than a toy.
* Importing is necessary because users may have already dowloaded and removed mail from a server.
* If importing is not both possible and easy, then Zimbra Desktop has limited itself extremely.
* Exporting is of paramount importance: even more important than importing. A user needs to be able to export mail to a standard format. Although the Derby DB stores the mail in text files in the store dir; it is saved in a non-standard format that cannot be used anywhere but in the Zimbra Desktop. That is absolutely horrible.
* During any kind of upgrade from old versions of Zimbra Desktop to new version, it would be wise to export the mail to a safe location, then re-import it when after the upgrade. There is a note in the installation instructions that says to delete the entire Zimbra dir when upgrading versions prior to some build number and that the mail is safely stored on the server. That is horrible assumption on the part of the developers. User have the ability to delete their mail from the server after retrieving it.
* The lack of an export for mail destroys the concept of freedom. If a user cannot freely and easily migrate their mail from Zimbra Deskop to a standard format for use in another tool, then Zimbra Desktop is a jail. Nothing is perfect, and no tool is perfect. But if a tool makes it hard for a user to leave, then the result will be a bad impression of the tool and the likelihood of that user returning to that tool will be significantly diminished. I, for one, am the type to never return when the cost of leaving is high. I don't like jail and I have no desire to be imprisoned by any tool including Zimbra Desktop.
The configurable options for Zimbra Desktop are lacking in ability.
* in the setup; downloading mail; get new mail option: only a handful of choices are available and there is no option for the user to enter a user set frequency. "every 5 minutes" is the most frequent option. That is simply inadequate.
* in the preferences; displaying messages; display option: only 10, 25, 50, and 100 are available. That make sense for a thin client reaching across the internet to a mail server, but is absolutely absurd for a "thick" client whose mail is served up by the localhost. If I am not mistaken, Zimbra Desktop is supposed to be a thick client. I understand the concept that it a "copy" of the webclient and is simply hitting a local email service; however, if Zimbra Desktop intends to be a true thick client and compete with other thick clients, then it cannot be a simple copy of the webclient: it must be a fork with more features and definitely more configurable options. This is a show stopper for me. If I cannot view all of the messages in a folder, then I cannot use Zimbra Desktop.
* mail filters; there is no option to execute a local script as the action portion of the filter. I don't know how many ordinary users that would find this useful, but I am a developer. I currently use Evolution which has this feature. I use it often. Although I can jump through a few hoops to get a similar behavior by using the "forward to" option, I'd rather keep things simple and just execute the script from my thick client.
* There are absolutely no options for handling received and read mail confirmations. How does the Zimbra Desktop respond to a request for receipt of mail? How does it respond to the request for a request for read mail confirmation? Did I miss something in the documentation? If so, let me know where it is and what the behavior is. But beyond knowing what the behavior is, it needs to be configurable. Having no choice in how the Zimbra Desktop will respond to these requests is horrible. Alone, the lack of this feature would not be enough to make me drop the tool, but it is a strong negative.
Since I am new to Zimbra Desktop, I may have simply "not found" features that do exist. So, I'm asking for a Zimbra Desktop expert to please review my comments and address each item. I need to know if the Zimbra Deskop is a tool that I can use. Please help.
Thanks in advance.


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I have HP pc running windows 7 home premium
This is were everything started:
I have a free yahoo account and i was trying to set up outlook and i found out that they are not compatable. so i started to do some research and I found Zimbra desktop.
I deleted outlook and downloaded zimbra desktop and everything looks good, it synchronized all folders with no problem.
Here is my problem:
If i sent and email straight from my yahoo account to itself and try to view it on Zimbra desktop, i have no problem.
but, If i send it from Zimbra. It shows that it sent but, it never shows on zimbra inbox. why & how can i fix this?
Also have the onther problem for example, If I'm looking at Craiglist and i try to send and email to an add. I get the following message: "could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed".
how can i fix this?
I'm a computer newbie so please respond accordingly.


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Here's the latest Speed Lesson courtesy of Novak Djokovic + HEAD and this time the focus is on the return of serve.
They somehow manage to work in a zombie storyline here, including one who wets himself (side note: is that even possible for their kind?)
I don't know how you couldn't love this one. I mean, the undead rock.
(via speedlessons.com)
Monday, March 2, 2009
VIDEO VAULT: Nole, HEAD, and zombies oh my - it must be another Speed Lesson
Labels: HEAD, Novak Djokovic, sponsorship, sports marketing, tennis, video
6 comments:
Ok so I want to jump Nole. Like right now.ReplyDelete
I keep on rewinding over his voice... *slides into dream world*
His Jelena might have something to say about that one - though she doesn't look rough and tumble. You could take her.ReplyDelete
Just one more step on the road to re-liking Nole. Never as much as Rafa of course, but its always good to have one or two on the deck no?ReplyDelete
- Tennis ObserverMarch 3, 2009 at 2:08 AM
I'd like to get from the stuff the makers of this ad are smoking. Must be good stuff.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2009 at 8:03 AM
finally a new interesting way to promote tennis gear.ReplyDelete
Rich: I could easily take her. Besides, if she hasn't noticed her man's flexibility with fidelity by now... Just sayin'.ReplyDelete
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