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DC hotspot Josephine
DC hotspot Josephine (www.josephinedc.com) unveiled its new interior decor to Washingtonians on Tuesday night with the launch of Belvedere Red for a private Friends and Family preview event. Local VIPs such as Josephine Co-Owner Alain Kalantar, Redskin Edgar Jones, Mayor Vincent Gray's son Carlos Gray, celebrity stylist Paul Wharton, celebrity Plastic Surgeon Dr. Ayman Hakki, Moet-Hennessy USA's Michelle Desrosiers, Public Bar Co-Owner Tony Hudgins, One Lounge Co-Owner Seth McClelland, Capitol File Magazine Editor In Chief Kate Bennett and KStreetKate's Kate Michael among others made a toast to the lounge's new design.
Co-Owners David Karim and Alain Kalantar closed the DC hotspot Josephine two months ago to revamp the interior with a chic new modern decor. The renovation expanded the venues usable space, with the main bar illuminated in shades of lavender, shedding an ethereal glow throughout the venue. Miami-based designer Mark Lehmkuhl is the creative mastermind behind the redesign, incorporating cutting edge technology and intelligent lighting which pulsates alongside diamond shaped mirrors throughout the lounge.
Josephine (1008 Vermont Ave. NW. DC) co-launched with Belvedere Vodka's newest initiative, Belvedere Red. The RED partnership raises proceeds for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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When will you start buying Easter stuff?
I bought window clings yesterday, my kids love those. Other stuff, not yet.
Hmm, I'm not sure. There are only 40 days from today to do so. Guess I have a bit of time. I'm not getting them much though. They'll get money to go towards the outdoor ride on toy they want for spring. I'll probably get them some matchbox cars or something though.
I will start soon. I like to take my time and buy a little here and there. I also don't like to be rushed and buy things just because the pickings are slim.
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hmm, guess I should start soon. It is coming closer that we think. For us, our daughter turns 13 on March 4 and our youngest son is 8 on April 10th. I used to buy a lot for Easter, but have cut back in the last few years. They usually get a book, a new outfit, some spring toys and candy. But what to get a 15 and a 13 year old .....
I see so much cute stuff at wal-mart and K-mart for Easter, I want to buy everything lol, they have little cute flip flops filled with jelly beans, all kinds of stuff!
I usually purchase a couple weeks before the holiday. Our Walmart and Target and Walgreens have a nice variety. When Walgreens had the coupons in the Sunday paper, I get those items right away. They tend to run out. So being the stuff is in the stores, this Sunday they may have the coupons in paper. So if that is the case, I will pick those up on Sunday or Monday. I have to pay my Target bill on the 6th so I will see what they have on sale and pick those items up then.
We are going to be starting on Monday...it takes alot for us to do Easter since we have 5 kids. We saw Easter stuff out at Walmart yesterday.
i bought buckets about 2 weeks ago. We try to buy something our kids can use all year long. I have 2 boys 2 and 4 (will be 5 by Easter). Last year we got them the metal buckets with super hero's on them, they love playing with those. This year we bought red Cars buckets and we are doing an out door theme with them. The buckets can be sand toys, so they are going to get some shovels, cups, or whatever sand toys we find. A packet of seeds to plant in the garden, bubbles, chalk, etc. THey won't get much candy because we aren't big on candy.


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September's East Coast weather has been eerily quiet with no major storms. The European weather model wants to interrupt this tranquil pattern, and is hinting a storm could form near the East Coast Sunday or Monday.
Other weather models are mixed on the idea. The GFS model, for examples, takes the disturbance the European model is locking in on for an East Coast strike and punts it out to sea (though its latest run is a near-miss for New England).
The Canadian model is more bullish with a simulation similar to the European.
Of course, last fall, the European model was the first to correctly simulate the land-strike of Superstorm Sandy when other models projected it to sail out into the open Atlantic. Interestingly, the European model develops a big area of blocking high pressure to the north of the storm, like it did with Sandy (but not as strong and further south), which helps steer the ocean storm back towards the coast.
To be perfectly clear, this storm has no chance to be a repeat of Sandy. Its origins are not tropical (Sandy formed deep in the Caribbean) and, while it could draw some tropical energy from warm Gulf stream waters like Sandy, this storm has little chance to merge with a major North American cold front and transform into a freak Sandy-like Frankenstorm.
Reminder, the water, like last year, is still very warm off east coast. Not over till its over pic.twitter.com/iTQzMIJvii
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) September 23, 2013
If the storm develops, it would probably be a sub-tropical storm – with a mix of tropical and non-tropical characteristics
At this point, I'd say there's about a 40 percent chance a storm will develop and meaningfully impact the East Coast. It's too early to say, if it makes a move towards the East Coast, whether it would affect the D.C. area and Mid-Atlantic beaches or come ashore further north. And it's also premature to speculate about storm impacts except to say some heavy rain and gusty winds are possible if the storm comes near the coast.
Stay tuned for further updates.


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WaPo media critic suggests women don't like "hard news"
Blog ››› ››› JAMISON FOSER
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz suggests women are less likely to watch "hard news" than men:
Hartford, Conn.: Do you think Good Morning America would change its format for George S. I have turned on MSNBC for years just to avoid the "how did you feel when you heard your whole family had been mauled by dogs and coyotes" questions. I would love to have "mainstream" TV on instead of MSNBC or Fox.
Howard Kurtz: I don't know. Much of the audience for morning shows is comprised of women, especially in the second hour. While I personally wouldn't mind it, moving to a harder-news format would be risky.
If Kurtz has any evidence that women are less likely than men to watch "a harder-news format," I'd love to see it. Otherwise, I'll just have to assume he's making that up. But why?
UPDATE: A Kurtz reader calls him on this nonsense:
Cambridge, Mass.: Wooooooow... because most morning viewers are women, a harder news format would be risky? Really? Really?
Howard Kurtz: The fashion- and cooking-type segments are there for a reason. Of course women are just as interested in important news as men. But morning shows are a peculiar animal, designed to be watched while many people are having breakfast and getting the kids off to school. I'd love to see GMA try a different approach. I'm just saying there's a reason that all three network morning shows do a lot of the tabloid stories and the fluffy stuff.
Kurtz seems to try to backtrack -- "Of course women are just as interested in important news as men." But he doesn't explain what the fact that the morning show audiences consist mostly of women have to do with anything. And his line at the end -- "I'm just saying there is a reason that all three network morning shows do a lot of the tabloid stories and the fluffy stuff" -- seems to reiterate his suggestion that women are more averse to hard news than men.
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thanks for the help nik & CTS!
looking forward to the goodies.
thanks for the help nik & CTS!
looking forward to the goodies.
A short clip of our fab shop and R&D bay. A glimpse of the men behind turbo kit development and fabrication.
Holler at us if you want to go fast.
What kind of software do you run with the stage 1 kit?
C2 software
Give us a holler for go fast parts.
Thanks Clay and everyone at CTS
Is there a warranty on these precision turbos?
Is the kit a do it yourself kit and is it possible for you to post a PDF of the installation instructions. Are instructions included?
You can get a smooth, quiet, floaty car and fall asleep waiting to get from point A to B, or enjoy getting there.
To be good at racing, you have to change your name to Sebastien.
It is a do it yourself kit. The kit is very basic for an experienced mechanic.
You can find an install pdf here. at kinetics website.
Well, I've been battling blue exhaust smoke problems ever since I put this kit on... the motor was freshened up with new oem pistons and rings and valve stem seals, headgasket, etc right after putting the turbo on.
It does not do it on cold starts, it is only after sitting at idle for long periods of time (sometimes) and almost always under moderate to hard revving in neutral at operating temperature. I do not see any smoke behind me while decelerating or while in boost, which has been verified by outside spectators.
I have acceptable blow by (I say this because all motors have blow by essentially, but I virtually see no oil in the intake) - PCV is rerouted to intake with hose supplied in kit.
I have the oil restrictor installed at the turbo inlet. It is the supplied precision turbo. center housing is clocked so oil inlet/drain is directly vertical. drain tube is routed between axle and block and is straight down, 90'd into pan.
I have even removed the drain hose to verify there are no blockages, a significant amount of oil pours out of the drain tube when disconnected and car is idling. I've played with oil levels to make sure its draining above the oil level. I've tried several different weights and synthetic/non synthetic oils.
what now? thanks for the help. I hate this smoke.
It is possible that the seals on the turbo may be bad. We have also had issues in the past with the 12v VR after rebuilds. It could be a couple factors, but if you want to rule out the turbo, you'll have to send it back and we can have a look at it to make sure the seals aren't blown out. We haven't had any problems with these kits, but there's always going to be that one lucky one out there
probably a dumb question, but would it be possible to run the C2 stage 1 fueling on a NA VR6?
C2 does have a chip for the NA VR6 that works really well on these motors. They retail for $189.00
give us an email if you're interested.
bump for clay and CTS!
Once I get everythign figured out Ill be ordering very soon! !
BTW, Clay, did you get my last email ?
Emails and PMs replied
im considering buying either stage 1 or 2 for my vr6 if i dont sell it. would my stock trans be able to handle the power change? i have an intake exhaust and unitronic reflash already but im worried about messing my trans up


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Social Business transformation
Been there, done it... lessons from history in WSJ of working smarter
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  wall wsj street journal 3,003 Views
Interesting article from Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School in WSJ on how companies have weathered the storm before...
Heinz in 1875 - build trustworthy business relationships, kept employees with delayed wages, collect AR - accounts receivables.. And create and feed new markets - from horseraddish and pickles to ketchup!
Proctor & Gamble in 1930s - Market, market... "We are going to market the hell out of our products, and we're going to do it on radio," ... soap operas
IBM in 1932 - invested $1B in R&D when everyone else were cutting back..
"Everybody else in this game is slicing R&D. Watson is actuallyemploying more people, building more machines and still telling thefactory that even if he can't sell them, to keep adding to inventory" until 1935 with the social securities act the data processing market opened up..
and about leadership: "We have to be thinking -- as many are already -- about the opportunities that lie nestled within the turbulence all around"
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Ascendant point of view as they get ready for IMPACT
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  ascendant social collaboration commerce connections 3,239 Views
Good discussion with Ascendant, a leading IBM business partner, as they get ready for IMPACT
"We are working heavily in the health care space, both payors and providers. Additionally, we are currently engaged with several Blue Cross Blue Shields across the country to optimize their member portals and create more agile, online business processes. We have created and combined a unique set of capabilities for our customers. By combining user experience architecture, requirements engineering, and business value measurement with an SOA execution, we are helping health care payors align key business metrics to the user's experience and then ensure end-to-end execution of the solution. The technical solution often encompasses many parts of the IBM platform, including WebSphere Portal, Process Server, Lotus Connection, DataPower, Rational Team Concert and Build Forge.
We are also helping customers across a variety of industries adopt and execute social computing strategies. We are currently working on many corporate communication and collaboration strategies and are creating "internal Facebook-like" solutions, extending online communities to partner communities. Working with a variety of large brands to improve their online shopping experience, we are stressing the importance of "social commerce" applications and strategies in the shopping experience."
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Getting ready for ARM less than $200 Netbooks on Linux
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  linux netbook arm 3,516 Views
As customers accelerate towards Netbooks, there are choices available:
Check this out: http://blogs.computerworld.com/netbook_2009_the_four_big_changes
1. <$200 ARM based Netbook on Linux
"Linux has been running on ARM processors for years. What's changed is that both ARM and Linux desktop distributors like Xandros and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, are working on releasing full Linux desktops for ARM-powered MID (Mobile Internet devices) and netbooks.
The upshot of these efforts is that by the same time Windows 7 HomePremium will be available on $400 Intel Atom-based netbooks, Ubuntu 9.04 and Xandros Linux desktops will be shipping on sub $200 ARM-based netbooks"2. $400+ Atom based Netbook on Linux or Windows
The Linux ones are $50-%75 less expensive that Windows...
3. Google Android Linux Netbooks
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More about working smarter - Harvard Business Review and other discussions
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  working productivity hbr smart harvard collaboration 3,729 Views
Is working smarter mean being more productive? more effective?
Obviously two very loaded words. Been used thru out the history of IT and Business...
Here is a 2006 HBR article by Stever Robbins that gets into some of this:
"Working smart is risky. If you work smart, you'll have more free time.That means more leisure, shorter work hours, or . . . more work. If youuse the free time to take on more commitments, you're just as busy asbefore, but now you are so tightly scheduled that a slip in one projectcan cascade to many more projects. Happiness happens when productivityenables a higher-quality life, not frantic overachievement"
"To work faster, you'll have to get into the zone"
"Key to entering the zone is eliminating distraction"
"Your biggest distractions will come from you, though. You'll multitask"
"Another way to work smarter is by distinguishing busy from productive"
"The 80/20 rule says that 80 percent of your results come from just 20 percent of your efforts"
"Working faster, identifying your 80/20 opportunities, and usingopportunities for parallelism all take thought and planning before youreap the rewards"
And then you collaborate, collaborate, collaborate...
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Working smart is also about working less hours?
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  smart working 2,708 Views
You may have seen this data from OECD (organization for economic co-operation and development):
Koreans workers burn around 2266 hours on the average in 2007.
Polish were second with 1953 hours
Japan: 1808 hours
USA: 1798 hours
France: 1457 hours
Germany: 1353 hours
More data here: http://stats.oecd.org/wbos/index.aspx?r=97791
So what about productivity? Not really in the same order for sure :-)
per some of the Wikepedia entries ...
So Working smarter would mean then that I am able to spend less time at work and maybe try to get closer to the 8-8-8 balance of work-sleep-social kind of equation the industrial revolution brought to us? There is enough data out there on the sleep part that we all need 7-8 hours of sleep every day :-)
Could it be then that the remaining 8+8 gets a new twist in terms of how you leverage social media?
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28,000 free Ubuntu based pcs for students in Assam
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  assam ubuntu amtron linux 2,902 Views
Check this out. Assam government in India has given 14,000 PCs loaded with Ubuntu Linux operating system to well performing students. 14,000 more to be distributed in 2009.
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Congrats Aneesh Chopra, US CTO
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  cto chopra aneesh 2,667 Views
Congrats to Aneesh Chopra, CTO of US Government:
Here are some reports on WHY Aneesh:
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IBMs 10th cloud lab with LotusLive in Hong Kong with Outblaze
Check out this IBM announcement:
"First IBM cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong. The new facilitywill provide a global hub for Web-based messaging services to supportIBM's emerging LotusLive (www.lotuslive.com/) cloud service portfolio"
"Strategically located near emerging growth markets, IBM intends toincrease its investment in this center to take advantage of the globalopportunity for online web 2.0 collaboration. The new facility bringsthe number of IBM's worldwide Cloud Labs to 10"
"With more than 10 years of experience delivering messaging solutions,Outblaze was one of the first companies to offer a fully- hosted,multilingual e-mail service. Today Outblaze offers services in 22languages and has more than 40 million users under management"
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Smarter Railroads
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  rail collaboration smarter transportation 3,122 Views
Great report on Smarter Railroads:
"The smarter railroad requires an intelligence that is networked,communicating and aware across the rail ecosystem. It requiresinformation to be shared across the enterprise and between manydifferent stakeholders including the railway, shipper, car owner,travel agent, municipalities, inter-modal carriers and customers, localand global."
"Imagine if: If passengers could manage their entire door-to-door journey on their mobile devices, receiving continually updated suggestions for more convenient route based on their own travel history and preferences"...
"Customer interactions with rail companies will change. With the recent emergence of Web 2.0 applications and the proliferation of mobile and smart devices, customers are becoming more informed and want more control of their travel,
shopping and interaction with railroads. In the future, it will matter less which company gets them from point A to point B; they will care more about how quick, cost effective or easy it was to plan and manage the journey. Similarly, suppliers will want to book their own freight and have it moved directly from manufacturing
to stores, regardless of carrier. They will self select their transit options by cost, efficiency and impact to the environment as required by their customers."
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Portal, Web 2.0 Smarter Collaboration rollouts in Singapore
Great story of several customers in Singapore adoption IBM technologies for Smarter Collaboration:
"After running a proof of concept in 2007 of possible systems, theschool decided to build its portal with IBM WebSphere and Quickrproducts. It tied six different backend systems, including a studentadministration system running on PeopleSoft software, Blackboard forits course management system and Microsoft Windows Live for e-mail, hesaid.
The school is currently running a pilot trial of 3,000students, and is in the midst of procuring new servers for the finalroll out, which would affect some 13,000 students come February 2010"
"Singapore-based Donut Empire is also jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon. The local chain launched a blog site two weeks ago, after a planning period of six months with its Web design company and IBM, according to its co-founder.
Donut Empire also hopes the use of Web 2.0 tools would help itaddress its business objectives such as communicating with itsemployees and franchisees, as well as quicken the response time totheir questions, said Chiew"
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Funny and interesting videos that won the Linux foundation video competition
Check these out...
Funniest: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1154
Winner: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1106
See this article for more details: http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/we_re_linux_video_competition_winners_announced
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From Miracle Software, IMPACT event diamond sponsor
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  miracle soa #impact 2,332 Views
IMPACT event diamond sponsor Miracle Software says:
"The top value that we see for our clients "in this market" is protecting existing IT investments, reducing costs through reuse, accelerating time to market ..."
more here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/smb?entry=ibm_vp_sandy_carter_talks1
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survey on windows 7 adoption plans
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  windows 7 2,676 Views
Dimensional Research surveyed 1142 IT professionals on their Windows 7 upgrade plans.
"Among the 83 percent of businesses not planning Windows 7 upgradeswithin 12 months, 43 percent pegged the economy as a contributingfactor. Among some specific reasons cited by the report:
14 percent of enterprises are switching to another operating system—27percent of this number to Macintosh and 25 percent to Ubuntu. Mac is down from 28 percent in 2008, while Ubuntu is up from 21 percent last year and 17 percent in 2007.
72 percent of IT decision makers were concerned about the "cost andoverhead of migrating to Windows 7" versus 28 percent concerned about"the cost and overhead of maintaining Windows XP as it getsincreasingly out of date."
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Web 2.0 is gaining enterprise acceptance - eweek article
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  2.0 web 3,120 Views
Interesting points in this article:
"Document-centric collaboration by itself just isn't enough. You needto have something people-oriented right alongside it," said Oliver Young, ananalyst at Forrester Research."
"There is pent-up demand among learners for easy-to-use tools thatsimplify the process of connecting a person with the need to know to a personwho knows," said Rozwell from Gartner
At IBM, 53,000 employees use a homegrownsocial networking tool called Beehive. An IBMer's Beehive page typicallycontains his or her work history and pictures. "Formerly, you had to walk intosomeone's office to get a sense of a person," said Carol Sormilic, an IBMvice president. Beehive works hand in hand with IBM'scorporatewide employee directory called Blue Pages, which surfaced commerciallyin Lotus Connections.
IBM is tying Beehive and Blue Pages intoadditional Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis and the company's Twitter-likeapplication, called BlueTwit, which has some 2,000 users so far. The companyalso encourages "crowdsourcing," in which expertise on a given topic issolicited from the social network community.
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AT&T $50 netbooks and ASUS Eee PC Linux netbooks
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  eee asus netbook att 3,467 Views
Netbooks are on a roll...
AT&T announced a $50 plan with integrated wireless network cards: http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/221/att-to-offer-50-netbooks/
ASUS has been selling a $350 linux computer: http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:ASUS%20Eee%20PC%204G%20Laptop%20Computer:1995318985;_ylt=AphDuU.7FZUfzsL6979kKfyP98Uu
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Persona Studios Photographer
Image DesignersPhotographer Male San Francisco, California, US
My MM URL: http://www.modelmayhem.com/ImageDesigners
Mayhem # 482553
About Me
I've been a photographer for the past 16 years and am currently working on Fashion, commercial, portrait and weddings photography.
As for my style of photography, I tend to lean towards Fashion, Portrait, commercial, some tasteful glamour, art and lifestyle photography as you can see in my portfolio, I think a beautiful elegant girl/woman looks even more beautiful and sexy in a classy, beautiful dress.
Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxOqHJAqAmA
I Rarely if ever do TF*. If I do, then it means either you are one fantastic model or at least have the potential to be a great model. But don't let that discourage you from trying though. From time to time I update my books with new faces and as a matter of fact I'm due for one soon, so if you're a new model who is very serious about modeling and are willing to go the distance (working on your skills before the shoot, ensuring that you have all the resources such as a hair stylist, MUA, Wardrobe, etc. and are not the type that flakes out nor stays out partying the night of the shoot, then we can give it a try).
Otherwise, for my rates, please email me with your phone number at firstname.lastname@example.com and we can discuss the rates over the phone or Stop by the image designers official website to view sample images for weddings, portraits, commercial, and artistic work in the San Francisco bay area:
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AOL names David Eun President of AOL Media and Studios
Feb 4, 2010
Eun Will Oversee All AOL Content, SEED.com and Studio Operations
New York, NY, February 4, 2010 – AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced that David Eun will join the company as President of AOL Media and Studios, effective March 1. As AOL's chief content executive, Eun will be responsible for the company's more than 80 content sites, its new SEED.com publishing platform, as well as the newly acquired StudioNow video platform and AOL's NYC and LA studios.
Eun will report to AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong and will be based in New York. He succeeds Bill Wilson, President, AOL Media, who will transition out of the role after nine years with AOL.
Until 2006, Eun helped to oversee AOL as Vice President, Operations for the Media & Communications Group at Time Warner Inc. In that role, he helped provide operational oversight and develop new businesses, particularly in digital distribution and broadband content and services, for the company's AOL, Time Warner Cable and Time, Inc. divisions. Eun joins AOL from Google, where as Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, he was responsible for managing global content partnerships with Google and YouTube.
"David brings an impressive breadth of media experience to AOL at an exciting juncture for the company as we focus on scaling our content platforms, production and partnerships to offer quality, original content that will engage consumers and bring them – and their friends – back to our properties time and again. I'm delighted to welcome him back to AOL as we continue to pursue our strategy and mission in digital content and journalism," Armstrong said.
"Bill Wilson has been a driving force for content at AOL and under his leadership the quantity and quality of our premium branded and niche offerings have expanded significantly. On behalf of AOL, I want to thank Bill for the energy and dedication he has brought to the role. Bill has been an outstanding leader at AOL," Armstrong added.
"AOL has a unique opportunity to bring together its core strengths in the key areas of content and journalism, distribution, and advertising to engage its users, partners and advertisers in a way very few companies can. These three elements will be fundamental to success as the media and technology industries evolve and converge," Eun said. "And after nearly 15 years of seeing this convergence approach, I couldn't be more excited to be returning to AOL to help Tim and his team capture that great promise."
AOL is one of the largest producers of original content on the Web, with more than 80 official AOL and custom-built sites including more than 20 which rank in the top five in their U.S. comScore Media Metrix category. Approximately 80 percent of AOL's content is originally produced by a growing team of staff and freelance journalists, including nine Pulitzer Prize Winners. AOL also produces more than 50 original video productions a month at state-of-the-art studios in New York and Los Angeles as well as through a network of freelance video producers.
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She wouldn't be found dead saying 'hoot, awa', 'or 'come ben.'
It's no much Jinny and I will be wanting while he's awa from us.
He has gart me wise it awa to Charlie, and well hae nathing as lang as Kilmarkeckle lives, but scant and want and beggary.
His evil spirit is awa i' puir 'Brownie's' body, bent on Deevil's wark.
One of the priests would then take the awa cup, drink the contents, and quickly take food.
I think whiles I'm jist like are o' them 'at ye ca' deid: I'm no awa; I'm only deid!
(there was now a loud knocking at the door;) "awa wi' ye to the kitchen!"
I wad hae been up and awa lang syne gien it hadna been for them!'
For several years she never was hersel' again, and just seemed dwinin' awa.
I'm wearin' awa fast, but I'll no' leave ye till the morn, I'm dootin'.


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Re-Roofing: Okay to Re-Use Peel n Stick?
Two days ago our roofers installed our new 30 year GAF dimensional shingle roof. Color seemed off to us, and today we verified that they did, in fact, order and install the wrong color shingles. They say that they will fix on Monday.
They installed an peel and stick underlayment that is supposed to seal around the nails. When they replace the roof, should they also replace the peel and stick, too? If so, is it even possible to unpeel it from the decking or will they most likely have to replace that, too? Or, could/should they apply another peel and stick layer on top of the current one?
See what the building inspector wants. Everywhere is different.
It will be interesting to see the responses to this one.
The peel and stick is a snow and ice barrier. It seals on the nails, once the nails are pulled the barrier is compromised and could leak if you get water under the shingles.
I doubt the contractor will lay down a new layer unless he is forced to by the inspector. I would talk to the inspector prior to him coming out to do the work. They would most likely lay a new layer on top of the old since that stuff is very difficult to remove.
In MN the snow and ice has to extend 3 feet into the heated area of the home.
It's 2 feet into the heated area.
My mistake. :whistling2:
More likely than not, since it is cold out and the roof was just installed, I would bet the shingles will come off of the Ice and Water shield rather easily. With dimensional shingles, putting a new layer of I+W over the old will be fine and unnoticeable. The correct way to do it would be to replace all plywood the Ice and Water is stuck too but that will add a lot of time for something that I dont think is neccessary.
MJW, I am sure there is no building inspector involved. We also don't know if thats an option for one to be involved because we have no idea if the homeowner hired a licensed and insured company.
Where are you located? It needs to be two feet inside the warm wall of the house here in WI too.
so, it sounds like the ice and water shield needs to be replaced as well. Best method would be to remove it and install new but if you can't get that, it should be ok.
With a quality Ice and Water shield that has been on the roof for awhile with some heat on it, you would not be able to tear it off without delaminating some of the plywood. Buy a piece of plywood and put some Grace Ice and Water shield on it and leave it sitting out for the summer. Then attempt to try to tear off the Ice and Water and use that piece of plywood for something. Then it will make sense. It is designed to stick and not come off.
Very true these days.......
I doubt the I&W will come off being shingles have been laid on it. I've only seen it come off when it is really warm out, but it delaminates the sheathing very bad like bambamm said.
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SMU Football's Second Coming
After two-plus decades of incompetence, the Southern Methodist University football team, with a 6-3 record, seems primed for its third-straight bowl appearance, a result that might tempt sportswriters to reach into the deep well of the trade's clichés and call it a "resurrection." In a manner of speaking, the team has returned from the grave. In 1987, after the Mustangs' flagrant violations of National Collegiate Athletic Assn. regulations were exposed, SMU became the first and only football program to be slapped with what is colloquially known as the death penalty.
But the story of SMU's second coming, like its earlier fall, is more about money than miracles. To build an early-1980s juggernaut—which included an undefeated season in 1983—SMU's boosters set up a slush fund to pay players. The illicit payments continued even after the school was placed on probation and happened with the full knowledge and encouragement of university officials (including then Texas Governor Bill Clements, who served on SMU's board). When the NCAA's guillotine fell, SMU's 1987 season was canceled and the number of athletic scholarships the school could bestow for the five following years was severely limited. Over the next 20 years, SMU mustered only one winning season. "It was a very harsh penalty for a very egregious case," says NCAA spokesman Bob Williams.
Nearly every football season, it seems, is overshadowed by past misdeeds. Although the death penalty has not been invoked against another program, it now threatens the University of Miami, in light of accusations that its players for years accepted payments (and in some cases prostitutes) from convicted Ponzi-schemer Nevin Shapiro. But if SMU's long, arduous rise from disgrace provides a lesson, it's that, in college football at least, there can be life after death. And while boosters can't necessarily buy players for a collegiate program anymore—they can buy nearly everything else.
It began with a new stadium. SMU's home games were played outside its Dallas campus at the Cotton Bowl and at Texas Stadium, home of the NFL's Cowboys. In post-death-penalty years, playing in those massive arenas could be embarrassing. The 1998 game against Texas Christian University, SMU's archrival in nearby Fort Worth, drew just 26,000 fans—a large swath of them clad in TCU purple—who occupied a mere third of the Cotton Bowl's capacity.
In 2000 the 32,000-seat Gerald J. Ford stadium and the adjacent Paul B. Lloyd, Jr. All-Sports Center were completed at a total cost of $56.8 million, much of it donated by two businessmen who sit on SMU's board of trustees. (Ford is a billionaire banker, not a former U.S. President; Lloyd is an oilman.) At first glance the west side of Ford Stadium, which is partially sunk into the ground, seems to consist largely of air-conditioned luxury boxes, where individual suites go for $40,000 per year.
Every big-time football program also needs a big-time coach. In 2008, SMU's athletic director, Steve Orsini, courted June Jones, head coach of the University of Hawaii and formerly of the Atlanta Falcons, known for his swaggering, run-and-shoot offense. Orsini invited 20 boosters to join SMU's "Circle of Champions" and to each commit $100,000 per year for five years. "We needed a guy who was a proven recruiter," says Lloyd, a Circle donor who played for the Mustangs in the 1960s.
Jones arrived on campus with a five-year, $10 million contract, making him the highest-paid coach in Conference USA—or in any conference that lacks automatic consideration for a Bowl Championship Series bid. But that's what winning takes, argues Jones. "They paid me a lot of money," he says, "and that commitment alone changes the dynamics of everything."
During Jones's first season, SMU finished 1-and-11. But in 2009 the Mustangs went 8-5 and routed Nevada 45-10 in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl Championship, SMU's first bowl victory in 25 years. Last year in something of a relapse, SMU fell to Army, 16-14, in the Armed Forces Bowl, after a 7-7 season. The Mustangs began their 2011 season with a tough loss to Texas A&M and then rebounded with five straight wins, including a 40-33 overtime upset over TCU, a team that went undefeated last season and beat the University of Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. The victory was particularly meaningful since, as Orsini points out, SMU had in recent years closely followed TCU's path to redemption.
"We had massive infractions, too, back around the time of [SMU's] death penalty," says TCU Athletic Director Chris Del Conte. TCU then built a new stadium and hired a respected coach. The success on the field drove admissions, Del Conte says. "In 1998, we had 4,500 applications for 1,600 spots, and now there are 20,000 applicants each year, and alumni giving is up," he says. "Our sports success has driven our recognition."
SMU President R. Gerald Turner insists that investing in SMU football is compatible with the overall rise of the university's profile, though that seems hard to square with his position as co-chairman of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which agitates against "the commercialization of college sports" at the expense of "the underlying goals of higher education." But in his office, he points to a brick that's inscribed with the number "1300." "Our average SAT score was 1144 when I got here. This year it'll be around 1260, and our goal is 1300 by 2015," he says.
The money spent on returning SMU to football prominence could be better used elsewhere, argues anthropology professor Caroline Brettell. "Ford Stadium is used six times a year," she says. "I look up at the luxury sky boxes, and I think, 'We should hold classes in there.' " James Hopkins, a history professor and Texas native who has taught at SMU for 37 years, says he believes in Turner's commitment to the academic advancement of the institution. "But the relationship between big-time college athletics and the core academic mission of the institution is inherently a perilous one," he says. "The death penalty left a black mark on the entire institution, which took years to recover. I look at the recent football scandals at Miami and Ohio State, and as a historian I think that it can happen again here, too."


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Yosi" Sailing Ship Sculpture
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- Item Category: Fine Art
- Source: GoAntiques
- Sold Date: Dec 10, 2002
- Channel: Auction House
A sailing ship sculpture that "comes alive" with gulls in flight and mast flag "waving". (Note the seagull in the main sail.) This sculpture was made by "Yossi" of California in 1981. The original tag is attached and the bottom is numbered MB1204. Interestingly, this artist is now inspiring another generation with her body art and has a website promoting this new area of artistic expression.