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I went out yesterday to get a game. Didn't really care what game I got, I just wanted a new one for my 3DS. I had intended to get the new Fire Emblem, but the stores haven't gotten it here and won't until at least the 8th for some reason. However I happened to find this at Kmart for only $20...
Final Fantasy III is one of the few FF games that I have yet to play. And I don't know if $20 is a good price for it or if that's what you can buy it for anywhere, but I couldn't resist.
I haven't had the chance to play it yet since when I got home I noticed that my 3DS shut off due to lack of battery power. I like to leave it on since I get new videos downloaded, but I'm not sure why since most of the videos have sucked lately, but I digress.
Once I play more I'll write about FF III, and I'd say that at least I have one less blog to worry about, but from what I've heard FFIII can be a pain in the ass so I may not even beat it by the time February is over. So I'll just move on for now.
I also bought the movie From Paris with Love. It stars John Travolta and Jonathan (great name) Rhys Meyers. Instead of writing about I'll just leave you the trailer for it.
I love this movie and it's well worth the five dollars I paid for it. Bit it does have a lot of language and violence so it's not for everyone.
Now off of movies and on to TV. Lately I've been watching that new show The Following and at the moment it's my new favorite show. Well that and Elementary. The Following is about Kevin Bacon who is forced out of retirement by a serial killer who escapes prison. I don't want to go into too much detail, but it's a great show. Not for the squeamish though, but they can watch The Carrie Diaries.
Well if you couldn't tell today was a write down whatever you can think of to get the blog requirement done type of day. Sorry. It's only the third blog and I already have writers block.

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WASHINGTON -- On the brink of power, House Republicans challenged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to join them in a drive to cut federal spending, ban earmarks for favored projects and overhaul the nation's tax code.
At the same time, incoming Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., conceded that the new GOP majority intends to bypass its own new rules when it votes next week to wipe out the health care legislation approved by Congress last year.
"We just need to repeal it," Cantor said of the effort to fulfill one of the party's main campaign promises from last fall.
Republicans, their ranks expanded by tea-party-backed freshmen, will take control of the House when the 112th Congress convenes at noon today.
One of the first orders of business will be the election of Ohio Republican John Boehner as speaker, replacing California Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
Across the Capitol, Democrats retained their Senate majority in the November elections. But the 60 Senate seats they controlled two years ago, enough to push through much of Obama's agenda, will fall to 53.
That will make it harder to enact legislation Obama still seeks, but it gives them more than enough clout to block passage of bills such as the health care repeal that House Republicans desire.
And it leaves Republicans with leverage to bargain for a reduction in spending on such measures as a $1.4 billion food safety measure Obama was signing during the day.
Obama, speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew home from a year-end vacation in Hawaii, predicted that Republicans would "play to their (political) base" initially.
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He said the two sides can build on the lame duck session of Congress in December, when they agreed on a compromise to prevent income taxes from rising, to extend unemployment benefits and to enact a Social Security tax cut that took effect Saturday.
Cantor challenged Obama in a news conference in which he said the GOP envisions a "cut and grow majority" to reduce government spending and regulations and benefit the economy.
The first spending-cut vote is set for Thursday, a 5 percent reduction in the amount ticketed for lawmakers' and committees' offices as well as leadership staff.
Aides estimated the savings at $35 million over the next nine months.
Republicans have pledged to vote at least once a week on bills that cut spending.
Obama is expected to deliver his State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress on Jan. 25, and Cantor said he was "looking to see some significant spending cuts proposed by the president that we can work on together."
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Toward a perspective of cultural friction in international business
This article introduces a new lens that addresses cultural interaction in global business. Shifting away from viewing culture in terms of its differences, the cultural friction lens captures the nature and magnitude of interaction between the cultural systems engaged in cross-border businesses. In this study we present that (1) cultural distance may not transform into a clash, or yield any meaningful interaction effect, negative or positive, until organizations truly engage in interactions; (2) cultural friction is situation-specific, subject to the influence of "drag" parameters, such as entry mode (e.g., contract vs. equity; greenfield vs. acquisition), workflow interdependence, breath of local stakeholders, speed and stage of international expansion, and depth of localization; and (3) cultural friction can be curtailed through a series of managerial mechanisms, or lubricants, around the points of cross-border contact. We also develop a measure of cultural friction and assess the implications for extant theories as well as for future theory development in international business.
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The next most challenging shot in our piece is shot-003. We are going to be utilizing some of the elements from shot-001 to make the shot look great. But before we do that we've have a few things we need to do. I am going to start off by closing up my Working comps folder and opening up my Audio-Video folder. Let's drag ourselves a little more room. We can close up the WATER FOOTAGE for now. In our CINEMA 4D Imports, I am going to open up the shot-003-render-END. Let's duplicate this composition, Command+D, and hit Enter on the keyboard and just delete everything off of that name so that it just call shot-003.
Let's move this shot-003 into the Working comps folder. So, I'll drag that down and put it into Working comps and then I'll open that shot-003 up. Now, I can see my shot-003 here and in the composition, I've got all these multi-pass layers. We don't need them right now so I am going to turn them all off and then drag in the RGBA pass. The RGBA Pass is here in the Special Passes folder of the shot-003. I'll drag that in and put it right below the shadow lights. We are not going to be needing the shadow lights. I'll just turn those off.
Now, what I'd like to be able to do is to separate the shark from the reflective floor. So, I am going to be using Object Buffers to do that. I have an Object Buffer for the shark and I have an Object Buffer for the shark type. So, let's start off by isolating the shark. I am going to drag Object Buffer 1 into the shot and put it right above the rgb layer. Now, I am going to set the Object Buffer 1 to be a track matte by clicking on the Track Matte column and going to Luma Matte for Object Buffer one. My shark comes out from behind the type element over a black background, which is great.
Now, what I can do is let's raise this up just a bit. I'd like to be able to able to isolate the type and an easy way to do that is to simply duplicate these two layers by hitting Command or Ctrl+D on the keyboard. Now, I'll replace the object buffer one with Object Buffer 2. So, I'll select that Object Buffer below on the secondary layer. I got two sharks right now and they are both on top of one another. I'll drag an Object Buffer 2 by holding down the Option key. So, hold down the Option key and replace Object Buffer 1 with Object Buffer 2 and there is my SHARKZONE type.
So, now as I scrub through this scene I can see I have both elements and I can turn them off and on, at will. That's just what I want. I no longer have the floor. I am going to be adding some effects to these guys so I need to pre-compose them so I can treat them as one layer. So, I'll select the Object Buffer 2 and the rgb pass that it goes with. Then use the Pre-Compose command, Shift+ Command+C on the keyboard, and we'll call this shot003-sharkzone PRE as in pre-comp.
Now, when I hit Enter, that sharkzone pre-comp went some place. So, if we scrub down you can see that it went into our sharkzone PRE folder. So, let's close these guys up to give ourselves a little bit room to work here. I am going to deselect everything and create a new folder here and let's call this one 4-Pre Comps. The reason I put a 4 on there is I want all these things to show up in order and this relates back to the folder structure in the After Effects template that I showed you guys very early on in the chapters.
I am going to take that pre-comp and put it into the Pre Comps folder. Then I am going to do to the same thing for the Object Buffer 1 file. So, let's select these two guys. This is our shark, Shift+Command+C, and call it shot003-shark PRE and then move that one into the Pre Comps as well. Now that we have both of those pre-comps in there, we can turn them off and on at will and we can now add effects to the shark and Shark Zone type. I'd like to have the shark and the Shark Zone sitting on top of a gradient background that kind of looks like what they rendered on top of originally.
So, let's add a new solid to the scene. I'll go to Layer and do a New > Solid. We are going to call this solid BG gradient and the color doesn't matter because we are going to be adding a gradient effect to this. So, let's just leave it black and I'll hit OK and then it shows up on top of everything. Let's go to the Effects menu and add the effect gradient. So, we are going to go to Generate. In After Effects, they don't call it the gradient. They call it a ramp.
So, we are going to go to Generate > Ramp. The ramp has controls on it that allows to control the direction of that. I'll like to have the direction go from the top-left down towards the bottom-right. We'll adjust that a little bit. I want to change the colors so that they match our backgrounds. So, we are going to have it go from kind of a darker color on the left to darker blue color to a lighter blue color down here. In order to get that to match up, let's go and take the gradient layer and drag it down below everything so we can get a sample of blue from here.
So, I'll click on the eyedropper and grab a dark blue from inside the type. Then click on the end color and grab a lighter blue from the face of the type, there we go. I think that's not too bad. We can always tweak the position of the gradient with these two handles. Now that we have our gradients in place, we can add back in the reflective floor. The great thing about this is we'll be able to control the intensity of the reflective floor here in After Effects without having to go back to CINEMA 4-D.
So, that layer that we need is already here inside the composition and it's this shot003_reflection pass. I am going to drag that up above the gradient and then turn it on. You can see it's on an Add for its blending mode. So, if I take that now and adjust the intensity of it by changing the Opacity. Let's bring that down from 100% down to about 20 or so. There we go. You can see now we have a scene that looks very much like we had before but we have complete control over the elements in it.
Let's zoom in on that so you can get a better feel for it and I'll drag this down and open it up. So, you can see have our SHARK ZONE type. We have our shark. As we scrub through that we can see a little bit of reflection on the floor and that's just how we like it. Now, our shark has a little but of the halo on it and we are going to adjust that after we add in the character layers from the shot-001 comp. So, I am going to go back to shot-001 and let's raise the frame up a little bit. I'll select all and twirl it closed.
The layers that I'd like to get off of here are the More Darker, and I'll hold down the Command key and select grain, brighter, darker and fractal noise. I'll copy those to the clipboard and then go to shot003. Select the camera object and paste them down, Command+V, and look what happens to our scene. Looking good. It instantly changes the character of that scene. Now it has all the same elements as shot-001. When we go back and forth between the two, they blend together a lot better.
Now, I can tweak the halo on that shark a little bit by going to the shark layer, which is the shark PRE Comp here, and going to the Effects and adding a Color Correction > Levels. There is a lot of ways to do this. I can go to the Levels and in the Alpha Channel, I am going to grab the Input Black slider and drag that to the right just a little bit. Let's enlarge the Effects palette so we can see the other side of the histogram. I am going to drag the Input White slider to the left. As I tweak that, there we go.
Drag the mid-tones just to the right a bit. You can see that halo go away. If I turn the effect on and off again, you can see it just tweaks a little bit to get rid of it, excellent. That's the first part of creating our hero shot. Next, we can add the bubbles that will get us out of our thrashing shark transition.
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Pros: This card runs extremely cool, even when put under severe pressure. I do constant parallel computing keeping this card at 100% usage 24/7 and keep it overclocked at 1190MHz. It remains stable and sitting at about 80C in the summer. That may sound hot, but when you're doing constant high-intensity calculations (far more than any game would do) it's very impressive. In 3D applications I did not see this card exceed 60C.
For overclockers, I was able to get this card to 1190MHz without touching voltage. I'm sure it could go further if you wanted to play with the voltage a bit; I've heard of people breaking 1300. The on-board voltage control mechanism is really neat for those of you EE types that really want fine-grained control and configurability.
Cons: It seems like underclocking this card is a little more difficult. I attempted to reduce voltage and memory clock. The memory clock refuses to go much lower, and the voltage does not seem to be able to be controlled by software, in either direction. (Even with the provided software.)
Honestly, the provided utility to overclock the card is not particularly useful. I ended up just using MSI Afterburner which handles the card. The provided tool has very low limits that the card can easily exceed.
I was also not able to get this card to work with an nvidia card on the same system. Most will ask "well why would you do this" and it won't be relevant, but again, I do parallel computing and would have liked to see both be able to work in the same system. Alas, it seems when both are in, either one or the other fails to be properly detected.
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Spent Saturday at Busch Gardens Africa and Sunday at SeaWorld Orlando. It is very interesting how they are handling the retheming of the Hospitality Houses and Brewmasters Club. Both have signs stating that the HH will close briefly then reopen as a new resteraunt. The difference? BGA's sign, plus fliers that they are handing out, clearly state that this will have no effect on the Clydesdales and that they'll continue to be on display in teh Clydesdale Hamlet. At SWO, they aren't handing out fliers, and there is no (zero, zip, nada) mention of the Clydesdales — at all. The Clydesdale workers there are still up in the air and don't know that they'll have jobs after — drum roll please — Jan. 31, the same day that the Hospitality House closes. Also of interest with regards to SWO, the BBQ resteraunt that was formerly located behind Pets Ahoy — Smokey Creek Grill — has been reopened in a very slipshod manner as a pizza place. So, I would suspect that the new HH will be opened as a smokehouse or similar establishment.
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Closes Sunday Feb 1st, as in, Last Day is Feb 1st. Not Saturday Jan 31st!!!
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Screamscape reported that Voyagers and the BBQ place just switched menus. I'm not a fan of either one of them, so anything different will be appreciated by me...
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Fresno: Life Is a Joy remains unbeaten by taking Charlie Palmer Futurity
Life Is a Joy set a legitimate pace, withstood a strong challenge by stablemate Hirschy, and improved his record to 3 for 3 by winning the $67,400 Charlie Palmer Futurity by six lengths at the Big Fresno Fair on Saturday.
Life Is a Joy ($8.20) broke sharply and was put on the lead by jockey Leslie Mawing as Hirschy settled into second behind through fractions of 23.60 and 47.85 seconds in the one-mile race for 2-year-olds.
Hirschy, who won the Cavonnier Juvenile at Santa Rosa, moved up inside Life Is a Joy on the second turn, closing to within a head at the quarter pole.
Though Life Is a Joy drifted out to the four path swinging for home, he found another gear and began to pull away. He was six lengths in front at the finish line with Mawing wrapping up on him.
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Life Is a Joy is a 3-year-old Cal-bred gelding by Globalize out of the Indian Charlie mare Tadita. He is the younger brother of stakes-placed Life Is a Stone and multiple stakes-placed Life Is a Rock. All three are owned and bred by trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, his wife Janet, and Dr. George Todaro.
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Her friends reserved a table for eight at Le Palmyre, a chic St. Tropez restaurant, and planned a festive celebration for Brigitte Bardot's 49th birthday. Hoping to cheer up the onetime sex symbol, who had been lovesick and depressed for weeks, they ordered not one but three birthday cakes—one chocolate, one lemon, one strawberry—each decorated, according to her wishes, with a single candle. But Bardot never tasted the cakes. That afternoon, Sept. 28, while her guests sipped aperitifs at La Madrague, her beachfront St. Tropez hideaway, Bardot took a handful of sleeping pills or tranquilizers, washed them down with red wine and then, according to unconfirmed press reports, wandered out to the beach, where she was later pulled from the surf. She was rushed to the nearby L'Oasis clinic, where her stomach was pumped before she was released that evening.
"She didn't want to be with anyone that night," says Gérard Montel, a longtime intimate. "It was her birthday and she was depressed. She wanted to forget, so she took some pills to sleep and—voilà. I don't think she wanted to go that far. She's never wanted to die."
Bardot's nonconformist behavior is legend, and her much-publicized obsession with animals has become a staple of French comedians' routines. In the last few months, however, her eccentricities have taken a turn toward the tragic. The slide began in August when she had a spat with her lover Allain Bougrain-duBourg, 35, producer of a French TV series on animals who met Bardot in 1977 in Canada, where she was protesting the slaughter of baby seals. In 1982 Bougrain-duBourg interviewed Bardot for her three-part televised memoirs, which he produced. That, ultimately, led to the quarrel. "Brigitte accused Allain of making money off her," recalls a friend. "She accused him of using her the way the film industry used her, manipulating her as a money machine. Nothing was further from the truth. Allain genuinely cared for her."
After repeated arguments over money, Allain packed his bags and returned to Paris. A week later Bardot called to ask him to come back to St. Tropez. He did, but the reconciliation was short-lived. "The same old argument blew up," says a friend, "and Allain walked out for good."
Bardot, seeking consolation, took up with a local Don Juan she met in a St. Tropez bar. "Their fling lasted only three days before Brigitte threw him out of her house," says a friend. Then she took to drinking heavily, sometimes starting at midmorning and spending the entire day with a bottle of red wine. "It became commonplace for her to telephone acquaintances apparently drunk out of her mind," says an intimate.
Concerned for Bardot's health, her friends hoped the party would help snap her out of her depression. To that end, they asked Bougrain-duBourg to attend. He promised to try to leave work early enough to catch a flight to the Côte d'Azur, but apparently he instructed a friend to call and say he couldn't make it.
Bardot's flirtation with death did not surprise her friends. "This is typical Brigitte behavior," said one. "I think she is desperately crying out for love and attention—something she claims she finds in her dogs alone. But for heaven's sake, she's not a dog, she's a human being. I'm seriously worried that she could be going crazy. Her behavior gets stranger and stranger."
BB—the initials alone are sufficient identification anywhere in the world—has already lived a very strange life. Daughter of a Parisian factory owner, Bardot has been in the public eye since 1950, when a family friend asked her to pose for the cover of Elle, a leading French magazine. The fresh 15-year-old face on the magazine attracted the attention of French film director Marc Allégret, who instructed his assistant, Roger Vadim, to find her. Vadim did more than that: He married her (at age 18), coached her on the art of projecting sex on the screen and made her an international sensation in his 1956 movie And God Created Woman.
During the next 17 years Bardot made 40-odd movies, many of them instantly forgettable. Yet her sex appeal was rivaled at the time only by Marilyn Monroe, and seldom since. Bardot became "the sex kitten," a national treasure, an international superstar with the power to move American adolescents and French intellectuals. Jean Cocteau called her "a pouting young sphinx but with perfect curves." Simone de Beauvoir said, "She incarnates passion for the absolute, a sense of the imminence of death." And Charles de Gaulle, who received her at the Élysée Palace remarked, "This young woman seems to be made of sterling simplicity."
In private, as well as in public, she filled the role of sex goddess. She was married three times—to Vadim (1952-57), to actor Jacques Charrier (1959-62) and to German industrialist-playboy Gunther Sachs (1966-69). Before, during and after her marriages, she enjoyed many celebrated affaires de coeur. "When I love, I do it without counting," she told an interviewer. "I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life."
In 1960 she gave birth to her only child, Nicolas Charrier, but she quickly gave him up to her former husband and in-laws to raise. "I didn't bring up Nicolas because I needed support, roots," she said later. "I couldn't be Nicolas' roots because I was completely uprooted, unbalanced, lost in that crazy world...." Nine months after delivering the baby, Bardot swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills and was found unconscious and bleeding from cuts on her wrist. It was not, Vadim told the press, her first suicide attempt; he said she had already tried to kill herself at least twice. "She has a real suicidal tendency," he said. She later admitted that he was right. "For me, then, death was like love, a real romantic escape," she said. "I couldn't throw myself off the balcony—they would have photographed me landing below—so I took sleeping pills."
Bardot sometimes seemed to be heading for the same tragic fate that befell her American counterpart, Monroe. But, suddenly, in 1973 she took her life into her own hands, dropping out of the rat race of stardom, quitting the cinema cold. Like so many of her decisions, it was spontaneous. During the filming of L'Histoire de Colinot Trousse-Chemise, she looked into a mirror, beheld herself attired in a ridiculous turban and was struck by the absurdity of her life as an actress. "I thought, as I looked at myself, 'Poor girl, what are you doing here?' I decided at that precise moment that between me and the cinema, it was a final divorce."
At the time her retirement seemed like a publicity stunt, but her decision stuck. She took up residence in a St. Tropez beachhouse and at a farm outside Paris and began to devote her life to animals. "She is ultrasensitive to all the misery on earth," says Bougrain-duBourg. "She is happiest living with her animals. On her farm she has goats, dogs, horses. She spends her time walking at least an hour a day to exercise her eight dogs, and she also does work with protection societies, animal shelters and so on."
Bardot's crusade to make the world safe for animals caused her last year to lead a raid on a dog pound that she considered inhumane. About the same time, she was sued for defamation of character by a St. Tropez florist after Bardot marched into the florist shop and accused the owner of beating a cat to death. (Bardot was found not liable.) Several months ago, when her beloved black-and-white mongrel dog drowned in a neighbor's swimming pool, Bardot hired a private detective to ferret out the dog's "murderer." And once, when a friend brought six live lobsters to her St. Tropez home as a surprise dinner gift, Brigitte, who is not a vegetarian, threw the crustaceans into the sea. "Murderer," she yelled. "Why can't people leave living things alone!" Such stunts have caused friends to question her mental health. "Brigitte lives in an almost paranoid fear of the world," says one. "She is convinced that people are just waiting to do her wrong."
While so much of Bardot's love has been lavished on her animal friends, she has found plenty left over for men—generally younger men. During her retirement, she has enjoyed two long relationships. In 1975 she met Miroslav Brozek, then 33, a Czechoslovakian-born sculptor. Smitten, she moved "Mirko," as she called him, into a studio at La Madrague and for the next five years served him as patron, muse, model and housekeeper. "With him, there have been ups and downs," she said at the time. "Before, when there were downs, I used to leave. I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them."
The tenderness and kindness did not last, however. In December 1979 Brozek moved out, leaving Bardot alone at Christmas to gaze morosely at a lighted tree without presents. Soon her romance with Bougrain-duBourg heated up. In 1982 she agreed to sit for a series of television interviews if Bougrain-duBourg did the interviewing. "People have already dirtied my name too much," she explained. "Now it's my turn to talk. I want to set the record straight."
In the interviews—entitled Brigitte Bardot Telle Quelle (Brigitte Bardot as herself)—she showed her claws, offering a slightly misanthropic view of life. She was candid about her acting talents: "I was no good as an actress. I never had the vocation." She was acerbic about her celebrity: "For 20 years I was cornered like an animal. I had crazy people stealing into my bathroom to take my toothbrush. I was treated as a husband-stealer. One woman wanted to disfigure me with a fork. Even the clergy made me the incarnation of evil." And she revealed a macabre side, confessing that she ponders death daily: "It must be our punishment. And we deserve it. It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away."
Since her birthday disaster, Bardot has resumed her usual routine, shopping for groceries in St. Tropez and dining in the local restaurants with friends. She has also resumed her old habits. She still cannot bear to leave a restaurant without collecting scraps to feed the stray cats she meets along her walk home. Her behavior concerns those who are closest to her. "Lately she has not been in good shape," admitted her sister, Mijanou Bardot, a former actress. "I sense that she is disturbed, tormented and unhappy. I know that she was going through a bad period—that of age and an unhappy love."
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Bootstrapping wisely means asking tough questions and prioritizing activities that are essential to your business development.
As oDesk VP Matt Cooper learned from his first startup experience, testing and feedback are steps that entrepreneurs ignore at their peril. "You've got to test whether the business you're building is what customers want," he wrote in a post for Inc. magazine last year.
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Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers had a common mental illness, such as depression, panic disorder or ADHD, before enlisting in the Army, according to a new study that raises questions about the military's assessment and screening of recruits.
More than 8 percent of soldiers had thought about killing themselves and 1.1 percent had a past suicide attempt, researchers found from confidential surveys and interviews with 5,428 soldiers at Army installations across the country.
Nearly 1 in 5 had mental illness before enlisting in Army, study says
Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers had a common mental illness, such as depression, panic disorder or ADHD, before enlisting in the Army, according to a new study that raises questions about the military's assessment and screening of recruits.
Obama orders Pentagon to prepare for full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
Barack Obama formally ordered the Pentagon on Tuesday to make plans for a full pullout of American troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, pointing to a way out of the conflict that is reminiscent of his end to the Iraq campaign.
While the Obama administration reiterated that it would prefer to maintain a residual military presence in Afghanistan, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has refused to sign an accord that would pave the way for some US forces to remain. That has forced the administration to begin a contingency plan for a full departure after Nato formally ends hostilities in November.
A similar rebuke from the Iraqi government prompted all almost all US troops to leave there in 2011.
Army to discharge 500 NCOs in move to reduce ranks
More than 500 senior non-commissioned officers will be involuntary discharged this year as the U.S. Army moves to reduce its ranks, a Pentagon official says.
That's more than triple the 160 active duty and reserve NCOs released last fiscal year, Stars and Stripes reported Wednesday.
The 506 soldiers were being released because "the Army can no longer retain soldiers in over-strength skills as we improve grade and [Military Occupational Specialty], Lt. Gen. Howard Bromberg, deputy chief of staff for personnel, said in an email.
US Citizen Possibly Targeted for Drone Attack
An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year.
The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he's a U.S. citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it hasn't completed.
Documents reveal chaotic US military sex-abuse record
At U.S. military bases in Japan, most service members found culpable in sex crimes in recent years did not go to prison, according to internal Department of Defense documents. Instead, in a review of hundreds of cases filed in America's largest overseas military installation, offenders were fined, demoted, restricted to their bases or removed from the military.
In about 30 cases, a letter of reprimand was the only punishment.
More than 1,000 records, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, describe hundreds of cases in graphic detail, painting a disturbing picture of how senior American officers prosecute and punish troops accused of sex crimes.
Why Are US Special Operations Forces Deployed in Over 100 Countries?
"Dude, I don't need to play these stupid games. I know what you're trying to do." With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me.
More than a month before, I had called US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) with a series of basic questions: In how many countries were US Special Operations Forces deployed in 2013? Are manpower levels set to expand to 72,000 in 2014? Is SOCOM still aiming for growth rates of 3 percent to 5 percent per year? How many training exercises did the command carry out in 2013? Basic stuff.
US Air Force copter crashes in England, killing 4
A U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in the coastal marshes of eastern England during a training mission on Tuesday night, killing all four crew members aboard, officials said.
The helicopter crashed at about 6 p.m. local time near Salthouse on the Norfolk coast, a statement from the U.S. Air Force said. The aircraft was based at the nearby Royal Air Force station in Lakenheath, Suffolk County, which hosts USAF units and personnel.
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Rackspace Private Cloud Software Package Update - 20 March 2013
Rackspace has released a package update for Rackspace Private Cloud Software.
Update Instructions
If you have an existing environment created with Rackspace Private Cloud Software v. 3.0, you can update your environment by performing update commands on all nodes in your environment.
Server Update
Rackspace recommends that you update the OpenCenter server before updating the agents.
Log in to the Server node and run the following commands.
On Ubuntu:
$ apt-get install opencenter-server opencenter-agent opencenter-client
On CentOS/RHEL:
$ yum install opencenter-server opencenter-agent opencenter-client
Restart the OpenCenter services.
$ service opencenter-server restart $ service opencenter-agent restart
Agent Update
After the server has been successfully updated, update each agent.
Log in to the Server node and run the following commands.
On Ubuntu:
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On CentOS/RHEL:
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Restart the OpenCenter service.
$ service opencenter-agent restart
Package Update Changes
The following list summarizes key changes included in this package update. Where relevant, it includes the issue number from the related Github repository. All issues addressed in this package update can be found at the RCBOPS Github repository.
The Rackspace Private Cloud Software Getting Started Guide, the CLI and API Guide, and the Rackspace How-To content have been updated to reflect these changes.
--roleflag has been implemented in the installation
Server installation:
{.screen} $ curl -s -L http://sh.opencenter.rackspace.com/install.sh |
 sudo bash -s - --role=server
Agent installation:
{.screen} $ curl -s -L http://sh.opencenter.rackspace.com/install.sh |
 sudo bash -s - --role=agent --ip=<OpenCenter-server-IP>
GUI installation:
{.screen} $ curl -s -L http://sh.opencenter.rackspace.com/install.sh |
 sudo bash -s - --role=dashboard --ip=<OpenCenter-server-IP>
dnsmasq configuration has been updated so that instances can use a different DNS server. (nova issue #255, chef issue #12)
OpenCenter now uses the short hostname instead of the fully-qualified domain name for compatibility with OpenStack Nova. (opencenter issue #445, opencenter-agent issue #221)
HTTP proxy is now supported correctly. (opencenter-agent issue #207)
Logs on the OpenCenter agent have been improved, and you can now include a
--debugflag for logs. (opencenter-client issues #60 and #61)
OPENCENTER_ENDPOINT{.filename} is not set, the error message now indicates the correct endpoint URL:
https://user:pass@localhost:8443{.uri}. (opencenter-client issue #48)
The node move command is now used to move a node from one container to another (opencenter-client issue #51). The syntax for moving a node is:
{.screen} $ opencentercli node move node_id_or_name container_node_id_or_name
Issues where the OpenCenter server might not appear in the Service Nodes container have been resolved. (opencenter issue #433)
Users can no longer accidentally add attributes or facts to non-existent nodes in the CLI. (opencenter issue #429)
nova:libvirt:vncserver_listen{.filename} address is set by default to
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Error messaging on invalid node IDs has been improved. (opencenter issue #440)
Virtualization is enabled for clusters and availability zones. (opencenter issue #415)
An issue where an installation on RHEL 6.4 could use the Ubuntu package has been resolved. (opencenter-install-scripts issue #123)
The OHAI passwd plugin has been disabled to prevent performance problems. (opencenter issue #436, opencenter-agent issue #208)
Issues that could prevent a successful host evacuation have been resolved. (opencenter-agent issues #203, #204)
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I've been a fan of the books for about a year now and I thought the first season was brilliant. First off whoever shot this needs to be commended because the show looks beautiful. Also whoever casted this also needs to be commended because I thought all of the roles were casted to perfection.
The first season followed the first book almost to a T in my opinion. There were a few things that were emphasized more in the books though. Rickon Stark wasn't in the first season at all except for the final episode when Bran was in the crypt if I recall correctly which struck me as kind of odd. Rickon doesn't have a huge role in any of the first four books but they could have at least acknowledged his existance in the premiere episode while everyone was still in Winterfell. The direwolves have a much bigger presence in the books specifically Ghost (Jon Snow's wolf) and Grey Wind (Robb Stark's wolf). Lord Varys aka "The Spider" had a bigger presence in the books as did Sandor Clegane aka "The Hound".
I thought the books were superior as they almost always are mainly because you get to read what goes through the character's minds and you get a better understanding of the events and a deeper connection to those characters and events.
I agree completely with KryOnicle about the 4th book "A Feast for Crows" being the weakest in the series and a bit of a disappointment. The main reason I think that is, is due to the fact that a few of the main characters the first three books were following are conspicuously absent in the 4th book and the chapters that replace them aren't as interesting or intriguing. Some of the chapters in the 4th book can really drag on and really the Cersei and Jaime chapters for the most part are the only ones with alot of substance. I like Brienne of Tarth as a character but most of her chapters in the 4th book are boring aside from the final two chapters. The Ironborn and Dornish chapters kinda bored me but I know that the events that happen will probably come into effect later in the series so following them was necessary. The Arya chapters are also pretty boring nothing really happens of any consequence but again it is a necessity in the long run to follow what she's doing. The Sam chapters were weak as well literally next to nothing happens in them aside from a few minor parts. I will say that the last 150-200 pages of a Feast for Crows really starts to pick up again and were really good for setting up the 5th book.
I expect the 5th book to be really good based on the characters that have already been revealed will be followed in the next volume and because of the last 150 or so pages of the 4th book. The second season of the series should also be much better with the characters already having been established.
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Milwaukee Film Festival picks: Day Eleven
One regrettable, if inevitable, occurrence during a film festival is that films you want to see often play opposite each other. That occurs Sunday at the Milwaukee Film Festival with parallel screenings of "The Act of Killing" (Downer Theatre) and "Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me" (Fox-Bay Cinema Grill), both at 8 p.m.
"The Act of Killing" is an appalling yet compelling and strangely beautiful documentary in which the Indonesian gangsters and paramilitary group members who killed 1 million Chinese "communists" in 1965 re-create their crimes as surreal movie scenes. »Read Full Blog Post
Queens of the Stone Age live life loudly at Riverside
Josh Homme, frontman for unconventional hard-rock band Queens of the Stone Age, told a sold-out crowd at the Riverside Theater he didn't have much to say Wednesday night.
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Singles Scorecard: Hear new songs from Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Lopez, Usher and Coldplay
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AIA Wisconsin architecture awards go to Kahler Slater, HGA, Flad, Johnsen Schmaling
A home on an old farm with a fieldstone wall running through it, an old box factory transformed into a global center for research, a disused industrial building turned into a radio station and an attention-getting museum built on a tight budget are some of the architectural projects that are being recognized by the AIA Wisconsin, the state's society of the American Institute of Architects.
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Watch: Singing nun on Italy's 'The Voice'
A performance by a nun on Italy's version of "The Voice," has gone viral, with more than 47 million views on YouTube.
In a blind audition, the nun, Sister Cirstina Sruccia, performed what The New York Times called a "hip-shaking" version of Alicia Key's "No One." »Read Full Blog Post
How many channels do you watch?
As if another reason was needed, a report cited in The Wall Street Journal makes the case for unbundling pay-TV channels.
The report by the A.C. Nielsen ratings company says that Americans receive 189 channels, up 60 channels from six years earlier. »Read Full Blog Post(5)
Milwaukee one of five cities for preview screening of 'The Normal Heart'
Milwaukee Film will present a preview screening of the HBO film "The Normal Heart" at 7 p.m. May 21 at the Oriental Theatre, 2230 N. Farwell Ave.
Milwaukee is one of five cities chosen by HBO for the preview, along with Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. »Read Full Blog Post
Simmer food truck will open a quick-serve cafe on Water St. downtown
Simmer, the food truck that serves soup, panini and salads, plans to open a counter-service cafe at 718 N. Water St.
Steve Perlstein and his wife, Jennifer, started the truck last year, and developed a following for its vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free menu items. "We have a really, really loyal group who seeks us out," he said. »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap Today: Electric folk, baseball, polka and yoga
Hello. If you are looking for things to do this Wednesday, you could do worse than a trip to the Riverside to see Chelsea Wolfe, whose electric folk sound has been described as "dark and sparkling."
Or how about some major league baseball around lunch, polka in the afternoon, a book sale, a garden walk or nature-inspired yoga for that matter? »Read Full Blog Post
Kane Place Record Club, LoveMonkeys among headliners at 2 stages
Summerfest officials have wrapped up their daily stage announcements with the headliner lineup for two local-music-dominated stages: JoJo's Martini Lounge — featuring cover bands like the LoveMonkeys and Eddie Butts Band — and the KNE (K-Nation Entertainment) New Music Stage, featuring Milwaukee bands such as Kane Place Record Club,the Fatty Acids and Paper Holland.
K-Nation, a Grafton-based music company that bankrolls local country act Chasin' Mason and British band Familiar Looking Strangers, in addition to offering promotional services and live event production, co-sponsored the local-music-heavy Cascio Interstate Music Stage at Summerfest last year. »Read Full Article(2)


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Kotra-Loos joins Wor-Wic Wor-Wic Community College recently welcomed Dr. Tiffany Kotra-Loos of Hebron as clinical coordinator and assistant professor of the physical therapist assistant program. Before coming to Wor-Wic, she worked as a physical therapist at HealthSouth Chesapeake Rehabilitation Hospital in Salisbury for the past 10 years. She has also been a clinical instructor for five of the 10 years. She received her master's and doctoral degrees in physical therapy from the University of Maryland Baltimore. She and her husband, Kevin, have a son, Jeffrey, 8, and a daughter, Emme, 6. Grand opening Damokee Vapor will host a grand opening and ribbon-cutting celebration on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 4 p.m. "This is an exciting time for us," said owner Jason Budler. "The goal is to help our customers quit smoking." Not only does "vaping" reduce carcinogens and tar that is associated with smoking cigarettes, it can also save th...» Click here for the full story.
Nonprofits set Salis. seminar on health care
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SALISBURY–Four local nonprofits have joined together to offer a seminar on the topic of advanced care planning. "Expressing Healthcare Wishes Before a Crisis" seminar will take place on Friday, Oct. 24 from 9 a.m. to noon at the MAC Center on Progress Circle in Salisbury. The nonprofit partners hosting the seminar are MAC Inc., Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care, Peninsula Regional Medical Center and The 50+ Network for Creative Engagement. Advance directives clearly communicate a person's healthcare wishes to their family and doctors. Yet only 23 percent of the population have advance directives, even though most people say making sure their family is not burdened by tough decisions is extremely important to them. All medical records should include advance directives. Advance directives are critical for people of all ages, because a healthcare crisis can occur at any time: during a serious illness, after an automobile accident or head injury, or during a...» Click here for the full story.
Bungalow Love celebrates early
Posted On: 10/16/14
Written By: Josh Davis, Staff Writer
BERLIN– Local, vintage and fair trade shop Bungalow Love is celebrating its fifth anniversary a few months early. The shop, described by owner Heather Layton as "an eclectic mix of wonderfulness," sells handmade and vintage items, tucked just off Main Street near Berlin Town Hall on 12 William Street. "I grew up on Williams Street literally three blocks away," Layton said. "My parents still live there and I still live in Berlin. It's nice to see how much this town has changed, but there's still a core group of locals." Layton, who had been a stay-at-home mom for eight years, opened in December 2009 with a handful of items, including her own handmade jewelry, a dozen purses made by her sister and a few vintage pieces. "Even though I knew I had to step up my game on inventory, I was eager to open before Christmas simply to let people know I was there and what Bungalow Love was about," she said. "We had j...» Click here for the full story.
Tastes good, good for you, it's many-flavored olive oil
Posted On: 10/9/14
Written By: Josh Davis, Staff Writer
BERLIN– Built to resemble a small Italian villa, Una Bella Salute is stocked with enough craft olive oil and vinegar to appease even the most discerning Mediterranean palate. The new shop, run by mother and daughter duo Charlene McQuillen and Deborah Nicole, opened during the last weekend of September. The name means "beautiful health." "I was in South Carolina and went to a store that sold olive oil and vinegar and the product was wonderful," Nicole said. "I knew some of the backgrounds of the health benefits of olive oil and vinegar. The ambience, the atmosphere and just the whole experience was amazing and it was something that I was really interested in pursuing for ourselves." A Worcester County resident – by way of Long Island – since 1998, Nicole said Berlin provided the perfect location for her own endeavor. "Berlin is becoming more of a foodie town," she said. "Being that the shop is very quaint ...» Click here for the full story.
Gazette, OCT announce new staff members
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OCEAN CITY – In an effort to provide more complete coverage and a broader depth of stories for northern Worcester County readers, Ocean City Today and the Bayside Gazette have added to their reporting staff for both papers. Two new reporters, Brian Gilliland and Kara Hallissey, joined the news team this week, and will work with Editor/Publisher Stewart Dobson, Managing Editor Lisa Capitelli, and fellow reporters Zack Hoopes, Josh Davis and Clara Vaughn as well as intern Taylor Sloan. Gilliland is a veteran reporter and editor, having worked locally at Oceana Magazine, the Maryland Times Press, Worcester County Times, Ocean Pines Independent, Beachcomber, and Salisbury Daily Times and was the previous editor of DelmarvaNow.com. He has had many columns and articles featured on different web sites and magazines, from restaurant reviews to Search Engine Optimization strategies. He lives in Snow Hill with his wife, Lora Bottinelli, and sons Julian, 5, and Grady, 2. Hal...» Click here for the full story.
Damokee Vapor targeting those who want alternative
Posted On: 10/2/14
Written By: Josh Davis, Staff Writer
OCEAN PINES– Locally owned and operated, Damokee Vapor is the latest area shop to offer modern alternatives to traditional tobacco products. Opened in September, the Ocean Pines shop sells e-liquids, mods (the modules that hold the other elements) batteries and tanks. Owner Jason Budler said he was initially skeptical about vapor products. "About two years ago a friend of mine came into work with an electronic cigarette and at first I made fun of him for the way it looked and I didn't think it was going to work for me," he said. "I tried the patch and gum and everything they had out and it just wasn't working for me. Then I tried exactly what he had and it worked great. Two years later I decided to put my money into something good that I hope is going to help a lot of people around here." Budler said he prefers vapor to e-cigarettes. "I tried those little blue cigarettes when I was trying to quit and it just didn't work for m...» Click here for the full story.
Atlantic Physical Therapy continues to grow
Posted On: 9/25/14
Written By: Josh Davis, Staff Writer
SELBYVILLE– Atlantic Physical Therapy continues to expand its reach opening its sixth location in the area in March. Robert Hammond opened the original branch of APT and his son, Bobby Hammond III, operates the newest branch at 37031 Old Mill Bridge Road in Selbyville. "I've been doing this since I was 10," Bobby Hammond said. "I've been around the physical therapy profession since my dad first opened it up." As a 10-year-old, Hammond, who recently earned a doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, said his father let him do laundry and light cleaning chores. He also took note of the work his father and the staff were doing. "The best thing in life is helping people," Hammond said. "I always watched people come in and saw a lot of people that weren't in the best shape. They were hurt or recovering from an injury and in this profession you're able to help nurse them back to whe...» Click here for the full story.
Raceway Citgo owners denied license upgrade
Posted On: 9/25/14
Written By: Nancy Powell, Staff Writer, Ocean City Today
BERLIN–The Raceway Citgo is currently a gas station, seafood market, and furniture outlet – but it won't be a bar, at least for now. Traffic issues and lack of public need led the Worcester County Board of License Commissioners last week to deny a request from brothers Mark and John Wittmyer, Raceway Citgo's owners, for an upgrade in their alcoholic beverage license for the store, located at the intersection of Route 50 and Route 589. "You guys do a great job," board member Charles Nichols told the brothers during the Sept. 17 public hearing in Snow Hill. "But we're here to look after public safety." Nichols also noted that Rita O'Neill, owner of Rita's World of Wine, Beer and Spirits in Pennington Commons across from Ocean Pines, had testified that business at her store has declined 8 percent since the county's Shore Spirits liquor store moved from Berlin to Route 50. If Raceway Citgo started selling liquor, h...» Click here for the full story.
Ocean Pines Chamber Board announces award recipients
Posted On: 9/25/14
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OCEAN PINES–The Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and staff have announced the 2014 award recipients that will be recognized during the 15th annual awards and installation banquet on Oct. 9 at the Ocean City Marlin Club. The 2014 Ocean Pines Citizen of the Year is Terri Mahoney of WMDT ABC/47, the Ocean Pines Business of the Year is Taylor Bank and the Ocean Pines Non-Profit Organization of the Year, sponsored by the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, is the Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines–Ocean City. Join in the celebration as these local award winners are honored for their accomplishments and contributions to the local community during the "black tie optional" annual banquet. This years' theme is "The Captain's Dinner" capturing the ambiance of the semi-formal dinner night on a cruise ship. Guests will enjoy a buffet dinner of prime rib, carved turkey breast, ahi tuna, various side dishes, homemade dessert...» Click here for the full story.
'Say I Do' wedding expo in Berlin planned for Friday
Posted On: 9/25/14
Written By: Josh Davis, Staff Writer
BERLIN– The town is throwing "an elegant wedding block party" on Friday for Eastern Shore brides to be. The 2014 "Say 'I Do'" in Berlin expo features more than two dozen vendors at the Atlantic Hotel and Courtyard from 5-8 p.m. Billed as one-stop shopping for brides, the event will feature photographers, florists, wedding cakes, venues, jewelers, invitations, services, gifts, entertainment, wedding attire and beauty vendors. Kathy Macaboy-Walsh, organizer of "Say 'I Do'" and owner of the bridal boutique Bustle, spent six months planning the event with a committee of local business owners. This year the committee decided to branch away from traditional bridal showcases and throw a block party. "It's going to be very exciting," Macaboy-Walsh said. "We wanted a different deal for this show so it's going to be 'Say 'I Do with a Cocktail or Two.' We'll be at the beauti...» Click here for the full story.


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Editorial: The Troika must cut us some slack on austerity
Published 19/06/2014 | 02:30
As she seeks to lead a party reeling from the ravages of the part it played in the current deeply unpopular austerity Government, could Joan Burton, the Minister for Social Protection, be happy with the assessment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that she will "remain in the Coalition and maintain the fiscal targets for 2015" should she win? While there is little doubt that the new leader would keep Labour in government, it is unlikely that such a leader will want to continue with the austerity regime which has ceded large sections of its support to Sinn Fein and Independents.
What Ms Burton must be hoping for is some renegotiation of the Programme for Government that will help build on the fragile return of consumer confidence and put more money in the pockets of working people. However, the mandarins of the Troika are insistent that austerity should continue for another year and a further €2bn in government taxes and spending measures must be adhered to in Budget 2015 next October. This will bring the Irish deficit to the required equivalent of 4.8pc of gross domestic product (GDP). While recognising that it was these three organisations which came to the aid of Ireland when nobody else would lend us money, it must also be pointed out that they are receiving interest payments of €1.5bn a year for their 'generosity'. These latest pronouncements, backed up by our own Fiscal Advisory Council, may make sense on paper, but politically and socially they are unpopular and are undoubtedly causing deep trauma to the social fabric of this country.
As such there should be a review of the targets contained in the programme. The Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, who has remained popular while implementing the austerity programme, has recognised this and knows that taxpayers need something of a tonic if they are not to lose all hope from 'austerity fatigue'.
The IMF official Craig Beaumont said yesterday: "It's our job to give advice." But it is equally true that the Irish Government's job is to listen to advice but make its own decisions. There is no arguing that we got ourselves into this mess, but it is equally true that the vast majority have struggled manfully to get us out of it. What we need now is some sort of middle ground which will not lose sight of the European Commission spending targets, but will do something to ameliorate them so that the Irish people can look forward to 2015 and 2016 with hope for a sustainable future.
All credit to McIlroy for commendable loyalty
SO let us now welcome Rory McIlroy as an Irish Olympian and representative for the team preparing for the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. The national tug-of-war between Ireland and Great Britain over which country he would represent has been unseemly at best and an embarrassing distraction for the golfer himself.
While citizenship is a matter for him to choose as he sees fit, there is no doubt that Rory McIlroy is an 'Irishman' in the broadest sense of the term. In his voice, his demeanour and the love of the sport, McIlroy demonstrates where he comes from and it is to be hoped that he chose to honour that Irishness without political pressures from either side of what is known as 'the divide' in Northern Ireland, where he was born.
In making the decision he has also shown a commendable loyalty to those who believed in him before he was an international golfing superstar. "I played my junior and boys golf for Ireland. I played my amateur golf for Ireland. Just because I'm getting paid to play this great game now doesn't mean I should change that," he said, announcing his decision.
McIlroy has already played for Ireland in golf's World Cup in 2009 and 2011, so his decision is only natural.
Rory McIlroy is to be applauded for showing such loyalty to those who supported him when he needed it and all Irish people, regardless of borders or religious or political beliefs, should applaud his decision.
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Easy being an arm chair quarterback. I occasionally read Yahoo message boards for entertainment purposes as most of the posts are made by disgruntled ex-employees that were fired for some reason or another and have no investment value whatsoever. Maybe you and all of the other smart guys that like to sit back, belly ache and second guess what guys that are actually in the game trying to improve businesses should send the guy from Cerberus your résumés. He might need something to wipe his ars with. If you're not willing to put yourself out there to try to have a positive impact on a company and its employees then you should crawl back to the anonymity of your pc where it is easy to criticize those that have. I'm sure it won't take long for you losers to jump all over the new person.
Nice sentiments but how can you defend the record? The last 5 years have been a colossal failure. Bleeding money, enormous debt, loss of market share, poor personnel decisions, surrounded by "yes-men", allowed top tier talent to leave & go work for the competition and consequently get throttled by them. This organization needs a major overhaul. The model just isn't working. The useless & redundant layers of excess management should be the first cut. How many VP, GM, Director, Sales/Business Manager position's can you justify when you're getting crushed everyday? Good luck to the new guy - bring your machete.
Sentiment: Strong Sell
Celebrate, certainly not defending the performance, just stating it is easy to second guess and boldly criticize from the anonymity of a pc, especially if the poster hasn't faced the type and scope of decisions that have had to be made in the industry over the past 6 years. You make very valid points that could be made about many companies in the space. I am not in the know about the specifics with BL management as I don't currently, and have never worked for GP or BL. I empathize with the management team because I work in the industry and I know the general challenges that every management team has faced since 2006. You seem to know a lot about BL. I was looking at their Q1 investor presentation and they really tout their growth of specialty products, but their margins in specialty products are only around 14%. Do you know what specifically they classify as specialty? I think of specialty products more of general building products such as connectors, fasteners, composite decking, weatherization, etc., and at the wholesale level those should fetch 20+%. Why are their margins so low on specialty products? Also, they really play up their centralized structure as a strength. I agree that there are aspects of the business that should be centralized, but isn't it primarily a local business on a market-by-market basis? Do have any idea of the level of autonomy at the branch level? Do they have local P&L managers or are the decisions made at corporate and the branches are there to perform the logistical aspects of distribution? Sorry for all the questions, but you appear to be only person that I have seen post that raises valid business issues v. all the typical uninformed bologna.
I was a long term employee of GP/BXC and haven't worked there for years or followed all the message board "stuff" in a long time. Someone told me that George "hung it up" the other day so decided for entertainment value I'd see what the message board was saying about the event. WOW...there is so little being said that I didn't realize BXC was such a non-event these days. What was once the greatest and biggest Distributor of Building Products in the entire country has shrunk to a "also run". Very sad that Pete and the boys kicked this once vibrant business to the curb, got McKenzie involved, put incompetent leaders in positions they had no business filling and a once $5 BILLION dollar dominant distributor has evolved to where the CEO resigns and no one even notices or cares. WOW, what a decade give or take can do in today's business world. George, I wish you the best but you being gone may give this horse one more chance to race again. For the few people that have stuck with it, I hope it does!
Big ups to gj. Who but an industry veteran could have put this company on his back an lead it to where it is today? Yes bxc could be doing better, but it also could be a lot worse! Even the bloated steve m. With all of his ivy league degrees and harvard buddies, ran when the going got tough. Be careful what you ask for. As for me, i will take a guy who made his way through the ranks with one company and had the fortitude to stick it out during the "great recession". Pimpin plywood aint easy, but it sure is fun!!
Time for a drug screening. Lead it to the brink of bankruptcy maybe? They're taking a beating! I believe Steve M. departed because they wouldn't pay what he demanded. Last I checked Enpro's stock was trading around $50/share. I think he made the right choice. Give me the ivy league degrees all day long.
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Gabby Douglas' story on Lifetime Saturday
Since she captivated the world during her gold-medal performance at the 2012 Olympics, gymnast Gabby Douglas has had news both bad and good.
On the good side, she published two books and got TV gigs like a reporting job for "Inside Edition" at this year's Super Bowl.
On the downside, she had to address stories about her father, who had not been in her life for years, and ludicrous debates about her hair.
But ups and downs were nothing new for the young star, as is clear in "The Gabby Douglas Story," which premieres tonight at 8 on Lifetime.
Her success at the Olympics is shown in a brief series of clips of the real Douglas and her family, so don't come to this expecting tales of the Fierce Five team. Instead, it focuses on the years leading up to those moments, with Douglas played by Sydney Mikayla as a child and by Imani Hakim in her later years.
So the movie has young Gabby, full of energy and precocious talent for gymnastics. It has her studying Olympian Shawn Johnson and deciding that she should work with Johnson's coach, Liang Chow (played here by Brian Tee).
It has her threat to quit when she grew weary of training in Iowa while her family was in Virginia. It has some mild conflict with other gymnasts in her early years, though not the degree of racism and bullying Douglas would later describe.
Even more, it has the story of Natalie Hawkins (Regina King), who struggled to meet the enormous financial demands of a gymnastics career while bringing up Gabby and three other children.
The movie has her trying to be realistic, only to recognize that Gabby has a remarkable gift that should be used -- even if that leads to sacrifices along the way. Nor is Hawkins the only one to offer emotional support; there are also Gabby's siblings, and Natalie's mother (S. Epatha Merkerson).
We all know how the story ends. The idea, of course, is to believe in dreams and then work hard to achieve them.
It may be fine for younger viewers, then. But older ones will find it disappointing, and impressive performers like King and Merkerson have done better work.


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5 Ways to Display a Pottery Collection
- Dan keeps his mid-century collection on the coffee table.
- Wes and Kayla hung their hand-crafted pots on hooks above the fireplace.
- John and Christy put their Arts and Crafts pottery on top of the dining room buffet.
- At Heath Ceramics, they display their pottery on custom-built shelves.
- Nicole and Brandon's built-in dining room hutch shows off their rotating collections.
Photos: Evan Thomas (1,5), Wes & Kayla Schwartz (2), Sarah Coffey (3), Laure Joliet (4)


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-Clamp is fast to hold my phone or MP3 player, very sturdy
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Pros: 1. Power Supply is on the bottom of the case. --This helps my system to run cool since the power supply's heat remains essentially isolated from the rest of my system, most notably, my video card.
2. Large. --Plenty of room to house the longest of video cards.
3. ESata front port. --Plugs into an unused Sata port so no need for onboard ESata support or an expansion card.
4. Attractive minimalist design. --Has a nice feel to it and seems very well put together. Sturdy and shiny in all the right places.
Cons: 1. (Minor) Power Supply is on the bottom of the case. --Mention this as a con because most motherboards are organized to have the power distribution from the top. I barely had enough length in my CPU power to plug into my MSI P7N motherboard. Power Supply used: "Cooler Master's Real Power Pro RS-750-ACAA-A1 PSU"
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