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Sitting here in my den watching the sunrise. Just finished my morning prayers and I'm about to do my workout for the day. Even though I have so much to be thankful for, this is still a very rough time of the year for me. As I've said before, most of you know why, but for those of you who don't, I'll tell you. My mother died two years ago around this time of year and she was the closest person on this planet to me. We spoke just about every day, I mean almost EVERY day. I couldn't go two days without hearing her voice, hearing her laugh, or hearing her stories. She was the best! Ever since I was born we had such a bond. So needless to say, getting through these holidays that she loved so much is beyond difficult. So to get from Thanksgiving to December 8, which is the day she died in 2009, to Christmas, then to the New Years and to her Birthday, which was on February 12th, to Mother's Day in May, can be rough. I simply try to float through this time of year the best way that I can. I think about her every day! She would have been 67 this year. ONLY 67. Life is so precious and but a moment.
I said all of that, so you know what kind of headspace I'm in. "It's a little grey," but I didn't want another day to pass without me telling you how much I appreciate all of you. My God in heaven, my shows on TBS moved to a new night. It was Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and an advertising campaign that was nowhere near as aggressive as the launch of House of Payne and still 3.4 million people watched For Better or Worse last Friday. WHAT!!! That's INCREDIBLE!!! Thank you so much. The show is only on every Friday until the end of December. So if you haven't seen it, please check it out this Friday. If you have seen it, keep watching. In the next few weeks this show is going to take you on a rollercoaster ride that you won't believe. Now that all the characters have been established, we can get into a story that is going to challenge trust in every sense of the word, you'll see. And it's not what you think:-)
I also want to thank you for sending A Madea Christmas to the top of the DVD sales charts this past week. What a blessing that is! It is miraculous that I have been allowed to live my dream and even more of a blessing that you all stand with me constantly.
You have no idea what your support has meant to me, my family and the hundreds of employees that work at Tyler Perry Studios. My prayer is that for everything that you have done for me and mine, that it comes back to you.
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See, I told you that you could win with your writing lol. Ok, so it's featured, not winning, but it's still awesome :)
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I loved it! Congrats for winning! That is such an honor and a well-deserved one at that! :)
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That's wonderful news. Congratulations to you! I didn't know they did contests for features. I may need to check that out. I am going to read your post right now.
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your site osx.iusethis.com is not work((
new version 1.0.5 is available
The Exclude option would be useful, but it's BROKEN. Whenever I try to exclude an app (or something that AppFresh thinks is an app), instead of removing it from the list, it does a RESCAN of all apps. And then the app is still there! It's been this way for months or years now. Please fix!
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I've moved on. mac.informer.com is free and pretty much does what AppFresh should be doing.
The price for a license would be more reasonable if the app actually worked. It does not. It doesn't even recognize its own version number correctly. Becoming shareware in this state is just a bad joke.
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Even though I very often support small time developers with my money, I will also not be purchasing it for the above reasons.
Beta version cannot update itself, and often incorrectly reports apps as out of date but I lived with that because it was in beta. Now it's released, and is $15. Problem is it's still beta quality.
I used to use it because MacUpdate Desktop was $20 a year. I understand that the developer wants to make money, but for an extra $5 I will go with MacUpdate Desktop. At $5 I would have stuck with AppFresh… maybe.
@macjean iusethis is still free. We are not affiliated with Appfresh, even tho they use our API.
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Why Does Lindsay Lohan Have a Personal Assistant?
I spent the morning opening and closing tabs on my web browser sifting through news stories for a topic to write about. Naturally, I went straight to my bread and butter, Lady Gaga. She has a new song and video and I was disappointed to see it wasn't horrible. Then, I read up on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and was disappointed to find that is very horrible. Desperately searching for the Goldilocks Zone of horrible, I googled Lindsay Lohan: bingo. Her horrible is just right.
Elinore the Great (Coffee Retriever)Last week TMZ reported that Lindsay Lohan's personal assistant resigned her position, claiming she was physically and emotionally exhausted, and had had enough of Lindsay's demands.
First and foremost, what the fuck is Lindsay Lohan doing with a personal assistant? She hasn't been in front of a movie camera in like three years. Does she need someone to carry around her massive duffel bag filled with Xanax, plastic gallon jugs of vodka, and binders of court orders? Lindsay Lohan doesn't need a personal assistant, she needs a fucking sponsor.
Second, who does this "personal assistant" think she is? Sweetheart, you're not "resigning" a "position." Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigned from the Bush Administration—you quit. Let's be real here, you got drunk with Lindsay Lohan, had a threeway with her and a homeless guy, and ran her to In-N-Out Burger at 3am, stoned. That's not a "position," it's a gig, and a pretty sweet one at that. So before we get all Watergate with resigning positions, maybe you should invite yourself back to reality and embrace the fact that you quit a gig, and the only position you resigned is mouth-to-ass with coked out club flies.
If you go and take a gig with Lindsay Lohan, how does one anticipate that panning out? "Oh, working with Lindsay is great, we are up at 6am for a run, then yoga, then egg white and spinach omelets, then I get her over to NPR for an interview with Terry Gross. Of course, first I prep Lindsay on Darfur, the World Bank, and Keynesian economics on the way to the studio. Then, a late lunch with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg to discuss an HBO docudrama about Guantanamo Bay."
I think it's probably more, "Ugh, I'm so fucking high right now. Lindsay just bought an M16, a kilo of coke, and some grenades off this Columbian guy who calls himself The Gentleman, and there's a dead kangaroo wearing boxing gloves in my truck and I have no idea how it got there. Where the fuck did we get a stainless steel Halliburton briefcase filled with deviled eggs?"
I refuse to believe anyone who has seen a TV in the past five years could anticipate any other series of events unfolding.
Keeping this in mind, Lindsay, if you are reading this, I am currently searching for new employment and would love to meet with you for an interview. I don't mind carrying duffel bags.
Funny stuff Bill.
However, I spent WAY too much time trying to figure out in my dyslexic brain if "mouth-to-ass" was really that bad, if one was o.k. with each isolated activity. At first I laughed at the ew factor, but then realized that if one was going to do anal and oral in the same session then "mouth-to-ass" was really the only way to go. It would really be the dreaded ass-to-mouth that would be the position/gig to give up/quit.
See what I mean? WAY too much time on the concept of mouth-to-ass or ass-to-mouth, with coked out club flies in mind, for my comfort level.
Now if you excuse me, I need a shower.
I defy ass-to-mouth, mouth-to-ass seems more accurate to me just on the mechanical level. think about trying to put your ass on someone's mouth. The other way seems more logistically feasible. But then again, I'm not an engineer.
I think this is less a discussion of semantics. You two are talking about two different concepts. Bill seems to be describing Rimming. While, Andrei seems to be talking about a Dirty Sanchez.
Am I wrong?
Well, you are mostly right Weijore. I see from Bill's response that this is definitely a semantic issue. He is clearly talking about "rimming" when he used the phrase "mouth-to-ass" in the article.
I got caught up in the way it was presented due to my dyslexia and the common phrase "ass-to-mouth" which is something completely different than rimming.
Although, I am NOT talking about a Dirty Sanchez which is actually something else as well.
I was talking specifically about "ass-to mouth" as opposed to the more sanitary "mouth-to-ass" as far as chronological logistics of a woman receiving anal and giving oral in the same session.
I would also like to add that one of the reasons I love Points in Case is for comment sections just like this.
I like how the comments section has degenerated into a discussion on assplay. And uh, mouth-to-ass seems less... I dunno, disgusting? Ass-to-mouth sounds too toilet seat.
The Library of Congress suggests that authors use the term Rimming in place of "mouth-to-ass."
Ms. Firecrotch is a waste of space...not to be insensitive or anything.


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text: Nothing has been more of a surprise in recent years than the sustained revival of the thrash scene. Thought dead when the classic 80's bands moved on to more commercial styles of music, nostalgia kicked in a generation later, and we find ourselves in the second coming of thrash. The masters are still out there doing their thing, better than they have for decades in many cases, but the influx of new bands is astounding. Thrash has seen a new wave of bands taking up the mantle, spreading the gospel of speed and heaviness around the world once again.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials say as many as 13,000 people received steroid shots suspected in a national meningitis outbreak, but it's not clear how many are in danger.
Officials aren't sure how many of the shots -- from a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts -- may have been contaminated. And the number includes not only those who got them in the back for pain, but also those who got the shots in other places, like knees and shoulders. Those who received back injections are most susceptible.
The number of people sickened in the outbreak has reached 105. There have been eight deaths.
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BASALT - Roughly half a million pounds of Woody Creek potatoes were converted into 10,000 cases of vodka by Woody Creek Distillers this fall at its new facility in Basalt.
With luck - and a timely decision by the federal bureaucracy - Roaring Fork Valley residents will get a chance to taste the results by the end of February.
Woody Creek Distillers is awaiting approvals from the federal government on the formulas of its spirits as well as the design of its custom-made bottles from Italy and its labels, according to Mark Kleckner, partner and master distiller. Until those approvals are made, the well-decorated tasting room cannot open at the distillery and Woody Creek Vodka cannot be bottled and sold.
"I probably get three or four calls per day saying, 'When are you going to open?'" said Amiee White Beazley, who is directing the company's marketing efforts.
Woody Creek Distillers is next to Valley Lumber in the Mid Valley Business Center on Willits Lane in west Basalt. The company undertook a multimillion-dollar conversion of a former furniture store that totaled about 10,705 square feet. World-class stills made by Carl Industries, of Germany, were imported for the operation.
Woody Creek Distillers had planned to open at Thanksgiving, but plans were dashed by government review. One quality that should speed the review process is Woody Creek Distillers' lack of additives to its vodkas, bourbons, whiskeys and gins. It uses natural ingredients and water. Therefore, he didn't have to send samples for federal employees to test.
When the time comes, Kleckner is confident that Woody Creek Distillers is going to soar from the opening of the door. He and his partners, Pat and Mary Scanlan, invested in the best equipment possible. They also believe they mastered the best process for producing vodka, in large part by using the best ingredients. The moment of truth came in November, when Kleckner and Pat Scanlan sampled the first vodka their distillery produced. They instantly knew the best equipment and best process equated to what they believe is the best vodka.
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One quality that sets the distillery apart from others is the freshness of its potatoes, according to Kleckner. Most of the potatoes were processed the day after they were harvested at the Scanlans' Woody Creek ranch. Because of the sheer volume and the impending freeze, some were stored in a potato cellar at the adjacent Aspen Valley Ranch.
Most other distillers are using potatoes culled from food production and then stored for as long as a year, he said. Those spuds dry out and need additional water added to the process.
Kleckner can talk at length about how Woody Creek Distillers' process produces a superior vodka - and he will describe it in detail eventually while mixing with customers at the tasting room. In short, better potatoes produce better, pure ethanol. It requires less filtering of unwanted byproducts and just one distilling. It produces a silkier, creamier vodka, Kleckner said.
The distillery also has produced whiskey, which will age in American white oak barrels until fall 2014, pear and apple brandy and "baby" or "juvenile" bourbon that will age more quickly because it is aged in five-gallon white oak barrels. That bourbon, therefore, will be able to be sold sooner than the 50-gallon barrels.
Kleckner and his crew will be producing gin soon, as well. They will use juniper from the Roaring Fork Valley but also intend to master a recipe using other "botanical" ingredients from western Colorado.
They intend to use corn, wheat, rye and barely from western Colorado in addition to the Woody Creek potatoes. The distillery received permission from the Basalt town government to install two 20-ton silos behind the building to store the materials for future distilling.
The blossoming Basalt operation already has raised eyebrows in the growing craft-distilling industry. Beazley said the president of the American Distilling Institute recently toured Woody Creek Distillers and opined that it would be one of the top five craft distillers in the country right out of the gate in terms of production.
Kleckner said the goal is regional and eventually national placement of the distillery's spirits. He looks at the model established by early, successful microbreweries such as New Belgium, Sierra Nevada and Samuel Adams.
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by Josh Smith » Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:27 pm
Hey how many laps will our race be. Im pumped for this weekend.
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it is suppose to be 75 laps with 3 drivers
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Anyone need a driver . I have plenty kart experiance...i used to race ntk a few years back in the unlimited bracket class...i am a polar bear champ and have a reginal champ and 2nd in seasonal points when ntk was k.a.r.t sanctioned...and many podium finishes at ntk.. Im currentley in the process of coming back to ntk.. I had been racing dirt track cars the last few years...you can leave me a message or call me @ 817 770 3708..
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Come out to NTK on Saturday. The endurance race will be after the club race which starts at 1pm. I imagine there may be a few teams looking for drivers.
Come out to NTK on Saturday. The endurance race will be after the club race which starts at 1pm. I imagine there may be a few teams looking for drivers.
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OAKLAND -- One game into the season, the A's pitching rotation is in upheaval.
A rainout of the second game of the season Tuesday forced the first-ever day/night Coliseum doubleheader on the A's and the Indians for Wednesday, and the A's left a sodden Coliseum considering their pitching options.
They will go with Scott Kazmir in the opener against the Indians' Corey Kluber in the 12:35 p.m. first game. Cleveland will stay in rotation and go with Zach McAllister in the 6 p.m. second game while the A's were going with 'to be announced.''
The A's, already rocked in the rotation with Jarrod Parker (Tommy John surgery) out for the year and A.J. Griffin (elbow) out for another six weeks or so, can stay in house, which would mean going with their long man, lefty Drew Pomeranz, in the second game.
But what would happen if they were to need the long man in the opener? In that case, the A's would need to have a minor league option, so they'd have to call on either Josh Lindblom or Arnold Leon.
And if they used Pomeranz in Game 2, the A's would be without a long man at least through Friday and probably through Saturday, so one way to get in front of the problem would be to use Pomeranz, then call up someone to replace him on the roster Thursday to make sure there are fresh arms in the bullpen.
The other way to handle the situation would be to leave Pomeranz where he is and make a quick call to Triple-A Sacramento, raiding its starting rotation.
Lindblom, who was with Texas last year, and Leon, who has been working his way up the minor league ranks since 2006, are the only two members of the rotation at Triple-A Sacramento who are on the 40-man roster, which means they could be added to the roster at minimal cost.
"We could go with a 26th man for the second game of the doubleheader,'' A's manager Bob Melvin said without saying that's what the club was going to do.
Since 2012, Major League Baseball rules have allowed clubs to add a 26th player for day/night doubleheaders, and teams almost always use it to help balance out pitching that might otherwise get mangled when trying to squeeze 18 innings out of a 12-man staff.
Lindblom, acquired in the trade of Michael Choice to Texas over the winter, was a starting pitcher in just one of his six spring appearances, but he did throw 152/3 innings with a 4.02 ERA in Cactus League games and also made minor league starts, so he should be reasonably well stretched out.
Leon also made one start in his five Cactus League appearances and also pitched in minor league games but might have the advantage because of a the 2.13 ERA he put together.
Pomeranz didn't start in spring training, in eight games put together a good first impression (a 2.84 ERA), but he threw only 122/3 innings, so he may not be stretched out enough for the A's to feel they'd get five-plus innings from him.
Wednesday's games
Game 1: Cleveland (Corey Kluber, 11-5 in 2013) at A's (Scott Kazmir 10-9), 12:35 p.m. CSNCA
Game 2: Cleveland (Zach McAllister, 9-9 in 2013) at Oakland (undecided), 6 p.m. CSNCA


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer staked millions of his own money to take on big oil and then to close a corporate-tax loophole costing California $1 billion a year -- and won both times.
Ever heard of him? Don't worry, you will.
With his latest behind-the-scenes win at the polls as the man who stared down big business by standing up for Proposition 39, this Stanford MBA and top Obama fundraiser has become an out-of-nowhere, big-time political player in California.
So what does Tom Steyer want now?
"I am an enormous lover of California, and to the extent that I see something wrong, I will be involved in trying to fix it," Steyer, 55, said Monday. "What form that takes, I don't have a fixed idea."
That hasn't stopped his name from coming up in recent weeks as a likely candidate for statewide office or an appointment to the Obama administration. And the man who amassed a $1.3 billion fortune by co-founding Farallon Capital is stepping down at year's end -- so he'll have plenty of time and money to spend on public policy.
Indeed, Steyer seemed very much like a man of fixed ideas Monday as he strode into a conference room in his office 20 floors above the Financial District with postcard views of the city and bay, taking questions with the confidence of someone accustomed to finding a practical route to whatever he wants.
He has begun building name recognition in ways grand -- speaking at the Democratic National Convention -- and small, earning cheers at a get-out-the-vote labor rally in Oakland just before Election Day. Wonks at the Public Policy Institute of California invited him to speak Tuesday on climate change and energy policy.
Add it up and he starts sounding like a nightmare for California Republicans, or even for fellow Democrats with aspirations that might conflict with his. Yet even some potential rivals speak of Steyer in the most admiring tones.
"He's a doer -- he's stepping in where there's a void, he's filling that gap between some of the work that's being done in Sacramento and where we're falling short," said Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. "He's the real deal. ... I'm just happy to have him in California, regardless of him being a Democrat. He's pulled off two impressive and significant wins that are both legacies."
Steyer founded Farallon Capital in 1986 with $15 million in seed money. As of late 2011, it was the world's 17th largest hedge fund firm, with $20 billion in assets, and was one of the first firms to raise money from university endowments, starting with Steyer's own alma mater, Yale. The firm has invested in everything from an Argentine shoe company to an Indonesian bank to Research in Motion, the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry.
Steyer made his first major foray into California politics in 2010, when he co-chaired and gave $5 million to the campaign against Proposition 23, oil companies' effort to roll back California's landmark greenhouse-gas emissions law.
This year, he chaired and gave $32.3 million to almost single-handedly bankroll Proposition 39, forcing out-of-state businesses to calculate tax liability based on the percentage of their sales in California; it will bring the state an estimated $1 billion a year, of which half for the first five years will pay for energy-efficiency and clean-energy projects at public buildings and schools.
Steyer frames his wins as triumphs of good ideas, not just money. "Big money didn't necessarily pay off" in this election cycle, he said, from Karl Rove's apocalyptically-failed super PAC to the deep-pocketed Munger siblings who bankrolled California's Propositions 32 and 38. His paid off because it was "completely in the spirit of the original proposition idea," letting Californians overcome coordinated corporate economic interests.
A week before Election Day, the California Republican Party launched a website attacking Steyer's measure as a dangerous tax increase that jeopardized the state's struggling economy. After the vote, state GOP chairman Tom Del Beccaro said California is the most taxed and regulated state in the nation and -- considering the cap-and-trade system being launched this week under the greenhouse-gas law Steyer successfully defended in 2010 -- perhaps in the world.
"If Mr. Steyer is intent on entering elective politics ... he and others are going to have to answer for the state of the economy," Del Beccaro said.
Steyer replied Monday that Del Beccaro must've been "paying zero attention," as Prop. 39 removed an incentive for businesses to put jobs outside of California. "That is not the way they're going to rebuild the party in California, by being delusional," he said, adding he'll match his Stanford MBA and business record against the state GOP's economic rhetoric any time. "There's a reason they're in disarray."
Yet Steyer said a well-organized, responsible, truthful and realistic GOP would be good for the state and nation; he cited his work with former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz in the No on Prop. 23 campaign as an example of bipartisan cooperation.
California Labor Federation Executive Secretary-Treasurer Art Pulaski said that pragmatism sets Steyer apart.
"He's able to bridge ideological divides ... and any problem that he confronts, he's going to solve," Pulaski said. "I don't know where that takes him, but it takes him on a journey that's different from other wealthy people who've run for office before."
Steyer might be unsure if he'll ever be a candidate, but he sounds like one already.
"At what point are we going back to a state that has good education, good services, reasonable taxes?" he asked rhetorically. "If you insist on effectiveness and competence, you will get it. We need to get back to the mode of expecting our government to do a good job."
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.
Who is tom steyer?
Age: 55
Hometown: San Francisco
Political affiliation: Democrat
Career: Co-founder and managing member, Farallon Capital Management (but leaving at the end of the year)
Estimated net worth: $1.3 billion
Education: Bachelor's in economics and political science, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University (1979); MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business (1983)
Political victories: co-chaired and helped bankroll 2010's successful No on Prop. 23 campaign, upholding California's greenhouse-gas emissions law; chaired and gave $32.3 million to 2012's successful Yes on Prop. 39 campaign, closing a corporate tax loophole in part to fund green-energy projects.
Steyer's examples of good political leaders: State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, "very smart, very capable''; California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton, "he's smart and he's got his heart in the right place''; former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, "my 91-year-old hero."


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Let the jockeying for movie awards begin.
Not surprisingly, Steve McQueen and his film "12 Years a Slave" raced out to a fast award-season start with the most nominations Tuesday for the 29th Film Independent Spirit Awards. The film received seven nods, edging out Alexander Payne's "Nebraska" with six.
"Fruitvale Station" picked up a first feature nomination for Oakland native Ryan Coogler's film debut about the shooting of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer. Michael B. Jordan, who played Grant, was nominated for male lead and Melonie Diaz for supporting female.
Leading the pack, "12 Years a Slave" is in the running for feature, McQueen for director, John Ridley for screenplay, Chiwetel Ejiofor for male lead, Lupita Nyong'o for supporting female, Michael Fassbender for supporting male and Sean Bobbitt for Cinematography.
Also nominated for best film are "All is Lost," "Frances Ha," "Inside Llewyn Davis" and "Nebraska." The awards will be handed out March 1.


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John Fitzpatrick is remembering back to the crystallizing day in his life as a hotelier – the day his hotel in Manhattan became more than just a place where the Taoiseach stayed and Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne could be spotted at the bar, and Irish shoppers fell over themselves and their suit- cases taking the Fitzpatrick limousine to the airport, bags stuffed with Christmas presents. It wasn't about a fundraiser for Hillary and secret service men descending on the place because former President Clinton had decided he wanted to be in on the act. It was 9/11 and it was about people.
"People were calling from all over Ireland saying, 'Listen, my daughter lives in New York or my son lives in New York, we can't contact them but I know they'll go to your bar.' And people were stopping into the bar and saying, 'Listen, will you take my name down because I know my mom will check here.'"
John became an unofficial ambassador that day, working with the Irish Consulate, swapping lists of names and other information, and finding places for those unable to leave the city – many slept in the lobby of the hotel that night.
Those who know John will not be surprised that this day stands out in his long career as a hotelier. He's very much involved with the Irish, both in New York which he has called home since he opened the doors of the Fitzpatrick Manhattan in December 1991, and in Ireland where he was born and raised. He has received numerous accolades both for his business acumen and his philanthropic work, but at the end of the day he is proud to call himself an innkeeper.
John honed his craft at his father's side – the famous Paddy Fitzpatrick, who worked his way up from hotel manager at the Old Ground Hotel in Ennis, to owner of Killiney Castle Hotel, County Dublin, and Fitzpatrick's Shamrock Hotel in Bunratty, County Clare.
His mother Eithne, a former Miss Ireland, he credits with giving him his sense of style. She worked with his father on building up the family business and on every aspect of the interior design – even arranging the flowers in the luxurious Killiney Castle Hotel. (The striking renovation that the Fitzpatrick Manhattan has recently undergone attests to the fact that John has inherited his mother's eye for detail.)
The second eldest of Paddy and Eithne's five children, John was not content to spend his career in his father's shadow, and struck out for the United States at an early age. He broadened his knowledge of the hotel business in Las Vegas and Chicago – working his way to manager of a hotel in Oaklawn, Illinois – before the call came from his father to come back to the family business in Ireland. He was happy enough for a while – he learned to fly a helicopter so as to stay on top of the ever-expanding Fitzpatrick hotel empire – but he always had a hankering to get back to the States. In 1990, with his father's blessing he began looking at various U.S. cities, finally settling on New York, and the site at 57th Street and Lexington Avenue – a small residential hotel in a prime location that needed a complete renovation. John oversaw every detail. To save money he stayed in the empty hotel during construction, padlocking the door after the crews went home at night. The hotel opened its doors in December 1991. Soon it was the epicenter of the Irish community in New York – popular with heads of state and the Hollywood A-list alike. So successful was it, that a couple of years later John opened another New York hotel – The FitzPatrick's Grand Central.
Such is John's reputation in the hospitality industry that he is in his second term as chairman of the New York Hotel Association. Its membership includes 245 of the finest hotels in the city, representing more than 65,000 rooms and 32,000 employees. When he is not about the business of his hotels, John is a regular on the social scene in New York City and in the Hamptons where he has a weekend retreat. His name has been linked with a number of glamorous women, but he would be the first to admit that, for now at least, he is married to the job. On the morning of our interview, he is leaving for a skiing holiday in the French Alps with friends from boyhood. He's looking forward to it, but one can sense that he will enjoy it all the more in reflection – when he's back at work in New York. As he fends off calls and deals with last-minute business before he leaves for the airport, I'm struck by the fact that he is taking the time to call in a favor – a concert ticket for the daughter of a friend.
He is a warm, elegant man, with an easy manner and a knack for making people comfortable. These characteristics, the key to his success as a hotelier, were also useful when the peace process was moving warily towards the Good Friday Agreement, and he opened his hotel to the loyalists and unionists, for they are "Irish too."


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Sharapova Delivers Bagels Down Under
Maria Sharapova didn't play any tune-up events ahead of the Australian Open but the world No. 2 isn't showing any signs of rust from more than two months away from competition.
The 25-year-old needed just 47 minutes to dismiss Japan's Misaki Doi 6-0, 6-0 on Wednesday, two days after she dealt the same fate to countrywoman Olga Puchkova in 55 minutes. Her win marked the first back-to-back double-bagel at any Grand Slam since Australian Wendy Turnbull completed the feat at the Australian Open in 1985, well before the Russian standout was even born.
"It's not really the statistic I want to be known for. I want to be known for winning Grand Slam titles, not that I won two matches 6-0, 6-0," Sharapova said.
In women's tennis and in best-of-three-sets men's tennis, a double-bagel occurs when one player wins two sets with a 6-0 scoreline, so-called because bagels look like the number zero.
The win was Sharapova's fourth double bagel at a major, the most for any active player. Only six players — Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Margaret Court, Kim Clijsters, Mary Pierce and Monica Seles — have dealt more.
The second seed's has only spent an hour and 42 minutes on the court so far in the Open, less time than it took some of her peers to win their first rounds.
"I don't want anyone to know what score it is on the scoreboard just by looking at my face or my attitude. I try to play every single point like I really need to win it," Sharapova said.
She joked that she didn't know much about her opponent except that she was "a few inches shorter." At 5-foot-3, Doi, the world No. 92, is almost a foot shorter than 6-foot-2 Sharapova.
Sharapova, who has four majors, has a tougher third-round opponent in 25th-seed, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams.
The Russian leads their head-to-head record 4-3 and knows there will be no secrets.
"When you're out on the court, you're not thinking how many titles she's won or how experienced she is. You're thinking about what you need to do to step it up in a certain situation and win as many points as you can."
While not on the court, Sharapova, who has 9.3 million Facebook followers, decided on Monday to add Twitter to her social media repertoire (Luckily for her, @mariasharapova was available). She's since accumulated 61,000 followers in 48 hours with just two tweets, including a stab at apparel providers like Nike and Adidas, who are responsible for dressing a majority of players in yellow.
"Everyone got dressed in the same closet, wearing yellow on court at aus open," she tweeted.
"I'm a rookie, there are a lot of things I'm still learning about. I'm just starting to follow things and people, now I'm learning how to — is it hashtag things, right?" she said. "That was a new one for me. I won't be [tweeting] like every single minute, I won't be telling people what I'm eating. I think that's very noninteresting, but when I do have things to say, I'm sure I will."
With the focus now on Sharapova's Friday clash with Venus, it's notable that in 1985, Turnbull lost the third round following her two double bagels — a history that Sharapova will no doubt be intent on avoiding.