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There are something in live that I would like to be witness to, but from a distance and with a pillow to cuddle for comfort and hide my face behind. According to Grazia (via Page Six), Jennifer Aniston recently had a "tearful" meeting with her new boyfriend's ex. Aniston has been dating Justin Theroux for a few months now and the two are said to be serious, but Theroux was either just leaving or just recently out of an 11-year relationship with Heidi Bivens. Considering Aniston famously saw ex-husband Brad Pitt leave her for Angelina Jolie, it seemed strange that she would take-up with a guy who was already spoken for, and she has denied that there was any overlap. Alas, that is probably not of any comfort to Heidi, who is said to be heartbroken about the split.
So what went down on their little date? According to a source, "Jen told Heidi that she understands what a painful time she has been going through and explained that she wanted her to know, hand on heart, that she would never steal another woman's man. … Heidi apparently got quite tearful during the meeting, as it was understandably a lot of take in." [Page Six]
Hmm, at first I was, like, "How dare Jennifer Aniston impose herself upon this woman to explain her side? The only person who should be explaining himself is Justin." But then again, having been through a remarkably similar situation myself (my ex left our nearly 5-year relationship and immediately took up with another woman), I wouldn't have minded hearing from my ex's new chick. I was wondering what she was thinking anyway, why not get the truth (hopefully) from the horse's mouth?
Regardless of how smoothly it went, talk about awkward. I do not envy Jennifer, Heidi, or any of the other celebs involved in awkward meetings and run-ins in this slideshow.


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Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of
water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5)
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye
believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. (John 8:24)
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And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist (1 John 4:3)
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And once again you quote a mere human, John this time, and use it falsely to justify your flawed position and understanding.
Oh Oh are you complying with Jesus' teachings in the following areas?
Are you sure of the accusations you are making?
Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Are you judging?
Matthew 7:1-5 "Do not judge others...."
Are you bringing peace with your words?
Matthew 5:9: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Are you being merciful?
Matthew 5:7 "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."
Are you entitled to cast the first stone?
John 8:7: So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Who does heaven belong to?
Matthew 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Are you angry for some reason?
Matthew 5:22 "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."
Sorry to have to remind you of some of Jesus' teachings you may not be following but he also said
Mark 10:31 "But many that are first shall be last; and the last first."
It's tough being a Christian with rules like these, BUT they are in your Bibles, instructed by Jesus himself, and they must be followed to call yourself a Christian. Mustn't they?
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It was a strange marriage, even by backwoods Cajun standards.
Louis Paul Lemoine stood tall and erect.
He was well scrubbed for the occasion. You see, it was Louis's wedding day and, while that might not be strange in itself, it was a day he never thought he would experience.
Louis Lemoine could neither hear nor speak.
As if to compensate for these obvious deficiencies, Louis was a crack shot, a first-rate hunter and a hard worker.
He eked out a dubious living in the logging industry.
Addie Mae Lavespere was only 15 when she stood before the preacher man, her 23-year-old Louis at her side.
We will never know what thoughts passed through Addie Mae's mind that day in the small town of Natchitoches, Louisiana, when she wed Louis.
To an outsider, her choice of a husband might be strange, but to the swamp folk attending the wedding, her choice was simple enough.
Addie Mae was attempting to escape her own home and the dawn-to-dusk, back-breaking labour of looking after her many brothers and sisters.
The wheel had returned to its starting point. One day, Addie Mae realized she had traded the drudgery of her parents' home for the drudgery of her own. She and Louis had no friends and no diversions, if you discount work and sex.
Addie Mae realized other women were leading a far better life than she.
They went to parties, had friends into their homes and, above all, had someone to speak to during the long lonesome evenings.
Louis' silence became a stifling, hated thing in Addie Mae's mind.
She had to escape.
Running away was not in Addie Mae's nature. She loved her children and took pride in her modest home.
Addie Mae sat Louis down and explained to him she wanted a divorce. Louis was stunned.
Stoically, he took his rifle down off its rack and went into the woods with his dog.
Twenty-eight-year-old Addie Mae wasn't fooling. She went into town, contacted a lawyer and instituted divorce proceedings.
In 1955, the divorce became final and Addie Mae was free. But was she? She still had her seven children.
It wasn't long before she realized her brood needed a father. The turmoil that had driven her to divorce now returned.
She felt cast adrift. Everyone had a husband except her. Life was different without a husband, even a man who couldn't hear or speak.
Addie Mae returned to Louis, who was ecstatic. He would make things better than they had been before.
The family moved to the Belledeau area, where Louis could supplement his logging income by hiring himself out picking cotton.
He tried hard, but it didn't work. Soon Addie Mae found herself in the same old rut. She worked all day. At night, she had no one to talk to.
Then there were Louis's moody excursions into the woods. Sex alone wasn't enough to hold them together.
Addie Mae was divorced, but she wasn't divorced. She was married, but she wasn't married. She came to the conclusion she would never be free as long as Louis lived.
She was now 35 years old and had been legally married for 13 years and divorced for seven.
She had seen several of her children grow to be young adults.
Everything had changed and yet nothing had changed. There was still Louis. The idea of his death became an obsession.
In April 1962, Louis disappeared. When neighbours inquired about him, Addie Mae would shrug and tell them he had probably gone off on one of his hunting trips.
Louis had been taught to tell his brothers his precise destination when he went off on one of his hunting excursions.
In this way, should he meet with any mishap, his family would know where to find him.
Now, one of Louis' brothers simply didn't believe he had gone off on a hunting trip without telling him first.
It was this brother who went to the local sheriff and officially reported our Louis missing. The sheriff made inquiries. He learned Louis had left his home at 7 o'clock on the morning of April 23 to walk to his employment with a logging contractor some miles away in Hessmer. The contractor was questioned.
He told the sheriff Louis had not shown up for work, which was out of character.
He had never missed a day's work before. Whenever he went on his periodic hunting trips, he always made sure it was between logging jobs.
During May and June, nothing new turned up concerning the missing man.
On July 4, Addie Mae travelled the few miles to Marksville to let the sheriff know she had heard from Louis. She turned a soiled letter over to him.
It was dated May 26 and had been sent to one of her sons from an aunt who lived in Baton Rouge.
The letter was a chatty note, which concluded with the informative paragraph, "Your daddy was down here a few days ago and he said to send you and the other children his love when I wrote. I suppose he'll be returning to you and your mother soon now.''
The sheriff had Addie Mae write out a simple note giving him permission to show the letter to whomever he pleased.
The wily sheriff smelled a rat. He wanted a sample of Addie Mae's handwriting. It appeared to him the writing on the envelope and the writing on the letter had been made by different people. The letter from Baton Rouge had been written by Addie Mae.
The sheriff took the letter to the attorney general, who agreed you didn't have to be an expert to see Addie Mae had written the letter to her son. Accompanied by the attorney general, the sheriff drove out to Addie Mae's house. He noticed her washing machine was on the front porch, rather than in the wash shed where it was usually kept.
As if anticipating the question, Addie Mae explained that it was so hot she had moved it onto the porch. The two stern-faced men produced the incriminating letter and informed Addie Mae that they would be contacting the writer in Baton Rouge. Addie Mae turned white, but otherwise didn't lose her composure. She told the men, "That won't be necessary, I think you already know what you'll be told. The letter my son received said nothing about Louis being in Baton Rouge. That letter I showed the sheriff was written by me. I wanted you all to think my husband is still alive.''
Then Addie Mae pointed to the wash shed and quietly continued, "you'll find Louis in there, beneath the wash house. I put him in his grave the day after Easter, after I shot him.''
Addie Mae was taken to Marksville, where she was charged with the murder of her husband.
The sheriff, together with workmen, returned to the Lemoine home, where they uncovered Louis two feet down under the wash shed. The body had been wrapped in several sheets and blankets. There was a gaping hole under Louis' left ear.
In her jail cell, Addie Mae wrote out a detailed confession.
She described her every move on the day she took Louis' life.
"I walked to the bed where Louis was, put the barrel of the gun about six inches from his head and pulled the trigger. I then put a blanket around the gun, ran out of the house and stopped by a bush. I intended to shoot myself, but lost my nerve.''
Addie Mae went on to describe how she prepared the body, moved it to the wash shed and buried it.
"I took my shovel and dug a shallow grave, rolled Louis into it and covered it up. I then put the boards back in place.''
Tested at East Louisiana State Hospital, Addie Mae was found to be sane.
On Oct. 15, 1962, she stood trial in Marksville for her husband's murder.
At the last minute her counsel entered a fresh plea of guilty as charged without capital punishment.
The court accepted the new plea and in so doing no doubt spared Addie Mae's life.
She was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for Women.
Addie Mae Lemoine was paroled on Dec. 1, 1970. Prison authorities tell me that she has since led an exemplary life and was released from parole on Nov. 26, 1986.


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If any team could turn back the hands of time, it would definitely be the Houston Rockets. They long for the days when Hakeem Olajuwon was patrolling the paint and leading them to back-to-back championships.
Olajuwon left the team in 2001, but the glory days really ended in 1997. Since then, they've been to the playoffs just seven times, only making it out of the first round once. They're currently three seasons removed from their last trip to the postseason.
The post-Olajuwon era has been difficult for the Rockets and especially their fans, which Olajuwon is now one of, to endure.
"It is tough (to see them struggle)," Olajuwon told Hoopsworld.com. "I know management especially is trying to get back to the glory days, having a championship caliber team. It's very difficult when you're in the middle, where you don't get a chance to pick the best (in the draft). We have an average team, maybe get in the playoffs or first round. Being in the middle is very difficult. How can you end that cycle where you stand in the middle of the pack all the time? That's been their challenge."
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The Rockets actually had a center in Yao Ming who at one point looked capable of taking the Rockets to the heights they reached with Olajuwon. Unfortunately, right as Yao was establishing himself as one of the game's best big men, he suffered a string of injuries that eventually led to his premature retirement in 2011.
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Hakeem Olajuwon worked with a young Yao Ming before his premature retirement in 2011.
"That was tough, especially knowing Yao and how bad he really wanted to play," Olajuwon said. "I could see the disappointment in his will. It was like a joke. I thought maybe, 'Okay, that's not true. I'm not reading that right.' To really realize that was like, 'Wow, that's it.'
"I felt for Yao. He responded positively. He took it very well, moved on. It was tough for the Houston Rockets, especially the owner with all the investments in China and Asia and how that put the popularity of the Rockets in Asia. Just to see it for so short, then that was it. Just for the NBA as a whole, I think it was a huge loss for the league and especially the Rockets."
The Rockets had hopes of adding center Dwight Howard, who has taken the mantle as the league's premier big man, this offseason. For a few weeks it looked like they were the odds-on favorite, but in the end the Orlando Magic traded Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers.
The addition of Howard has a lot of people pegging the Lakers as the team to beat for the 2013 championship, but Olajuwon knows first-hand that what looks great on paper doesn't always translate to greatness on the hardwood.
"You have to put together the players with chemistry," Olajuwon said. "When you look at the Lakers, everyone knows what Steve Nash brings to the team by distributing the ball. That makes it easier for Dwight as a finisher and also as a go-to guy. Then, there's Kobe to operate in the mix of that, so there's a legitimate chance. It's not automatic that they'll win a championship, but they have a legitimate chance just like Oklahoma City and Miami. Those three teams, any one of those teams can win it all."
As far as Olajuwon's Rockets go, they're once again projected to be a middle-of-the-pack team in the Western Conference. Probably not good enough to make the playoffs, but not bad enough to get a top five pick either. There just aren't enough franchise players to go around right now with so many joining up to play together. That lack of balance is something Olajuwon would like to see addressed.
"Now you see superstars are playing together at the expense of other teams," Olajuwon said. "Where if you have an average team or a losing team, it's supposed to feel uncomfortable to go and play there. But they really need them to go to the next level. That's the dilemma the league has to balance to make sure each team at least has the opportunity to have a superstar and has the opportunity to be a championship contender. That's the goal of every team, but now the quality of players, true franchise players, is less than what it was."
Still changing the game
There are few basketball players who have had the kind of impact on the game that Olajuwon had.
During his playing days, Olajuwon reinvented the center position with his agility, footwork and finesse. Sure, he could post up, but his ability to dance around opposing players and foil the most intricate defensive schemes helped him carve out a spot in the Hall Of Fame.
When Olajuwon was still wearing Houston's #34, the NBA was filled with franchise players, and nearly every stop on an NBA road trip featured marquee names who were as associated with the teams as the teams' own nicknames. The Utah Jazz had Karl Malone and John Stockton. The Boston Celtics had Larry Bird and Kevin McHale. The San Antonio Spurs had David Robinson. And of course, for the majority of his career, Hakeem defined the Houston Rockets.
Today's NBA has just as many marquee names, but few seem to impact the game the way those previous legends did. Olajuwon points out that the current trend of having fewer superstars and seeing them team up makes it harder for teams to compete at a high level.
"There are superstars and then there are franchise players," Olajuwon said. "There are superstars in their own right, but a franchise player is a player who can carry his team to the next level. There are always very few of those in any era, true franchise players. Once you have that player, you can build your team around him. Today, the ones who are franchise players are teaming up together, which makes it more difficult for the teams without a superstar or a franchise player.
"I think in time, when you have guys coming from college who have the potential to be a superstar, they're going to be drafted by a losing team that can then ultimately be a contender, and that's what we need to see more of. We need to see college players who are superstars or can be franchise caliber players who can take those teams from being average teams to being a contender."
Olajuwon didn't just capture the attention of the NBA with his amazing footwork, he was also one of the very few international players who had made it to the world's biggest basketball stage. Now, a high percentage of NBA players are from other countries, and as Olajuwon points out, it's raising the level of basketball being played on a global scale.
"That just shows you the growth of basketball internationally," Olajuwon said. "The NBA is the best league in the world, and players from other countries come to prove to themselves that they can play at that level. It's great for the NBA to open up the door and say that this is the best league and it's open to all for the best time in the world. It just goes to show that now, when you go to play the other countries around the world, that those are the best players from those countries and they go back and play for their countries. So it's very competitive. The Dream Team this year, against Lithuania and in the finals (against Spain), it was a good game. It wasn't just as easy as it used to be. It was a tough game."
As the game gets tougher, even the NBA's elite stars are looking for ways to improve their individual games. More and more, they're turning to Olajuwon to help them add more to their offensive arsenals. First Kobe Bryant, then Dwight Howard, and now a list of players including LeBron James, JaVale McGee and Brook and Robin Lopez have sought out Olajuwon looking for ways to expand their games.
"It's a great honor for me, of course, to have the best in the game coming down, and you know for sure that you can add tremendous value to their career," Olajuwon said. "They're not coming just to come. And when they come, you can see the excitement that they've gained something and it was worth their trip. That's the most important thing to me. The challenge to me is whether or not I can add value. For them to go back, not for the audience, but so they themselves realize what can accomplish. That's my joy."
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Danish supermodel Helena Christensen did a little swimming today while vacationing in France with Bono and his wife. Damn, I hope someday I marry a woman who lets me bring a supermodel to the beach with us. Otherwise, I'll have to ask the neighbors to stop by our house and feed her everyday. That shit's annoying.
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Robinson was injured in Wednesday's game against the Charlotte Bobcats and originally diagnosed with a sprained anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
After further evaluation, it was determined that the ligament was torn and Robinson would require surgery.
"It's always tough to see one of your players go down with an injury," Nuggets general manager Tim Connelly said on Friday.
"Nate is known for his heart and determination, so I have no doubt he will work hard to get back on the court as soon as possible," Connelly added.
"He has the full support of our team and organisation."
Robinson, 29, was averaging 10.4 points and 2.5 assists in 44 games this season.
He departed Wednesday's 101-98 loss to Charlotte midway through the first quarter.
He was starting at point guard in place of Ty Lawson, who missed the game with a left shoulder injury.


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Everyone thinks their own baby is the most perfect, handsome being ever to have come into the world, but the truth is that newborns often look rather squashed-up and, not to put too fine a point on it, a little bit ugly. Most of us just don't have the courage to tell the parents.
Anthony Abbattista, though, is not one to shrink from telling it like it is. The VP of technology solutions at Allstate, North America's largest publicly held personal insurance company, used this analogy recently when describing his firm's collaboration with Tibco Software on the integration of its ActiveMatrix product with Microsoft's .NET environment.
"We'd been having listen-to-each-other days and that had led to Tibco's collaboration with Microsoft," he said. "When they showed us what they'd got, their first question was: 'Isn't our baby beautiful?', and we said: 'Actually no, it's wrinkly and quite ugly'."
Abbattista was using the point to illustrate why his company had been working with Tibco for the past four years, when the vendor didn't have a track record yet in the insurance sector. In short, he likes the firm's willingness to change. "Tibco has the eagerness of a start-up and the follow-through of a partner," he told the vendor's user conference in San Francisco in May this year. "They're long on vision; they'll listen, collaborate and make changes."
For an IT shop like Allstate which is 50 percent Java and 50 percent .NET, that was important, as Tibco technology was forming the basis of Allstate's enterprise service bus. Of course, as one of the largest IT users in the US with nearly 40,000 employees, Allstate can perhaps expect partners to design their products with it in mind.
But not all vendors are so open to this kind of collaboration. One former senior technology director of a large oil company recalls going to SAP's European headquarters in Walldorf, Germany with his fellow executives early on in their relationship and telling the enterprise applications vendor its demands. "We expected to have direct input into their product strategy. The answer came back quite clearly: 'No'. We were just another customer to them," he says.
So what can you do to get vendors to listen to your point of view and incorporate your designs into their product specs, and what are the barriers that sometimes stand between a collaborative relationship between supplier and buyer?
"First of all, you've got to have a degree of realism about the scale of the vendor and the amount of business you're providing to it," says Andy Hayler, former senior technology consultant at Shell International and now CEO at master data management consultancy The Information Difference.
"If it's a huge vendor, you're going to have very little input but that's not the case with smaller companies. If you're customer three versus customer 300, you can have a significant amount of clout," says Hayler.
Hayler spun data warehousing vendor Kalido out of Shell in 1997 and he recalls that in those early days the influence that its first flagship accounts like BP, Unilever and Philips had was huge. "At the user group each year we would stack up all the potential things we might do and get people to vote on them. That was genuinely not just window dressing. Later, those key accounts became our customer council," he recalls.
Immovable objects
However, it's not smaller vendors that are the problem but the top tier, where the building up of sheer scale and the dwindling influence of independent user groups has resulted in little sanction on the giants' actions. At this level, according to David Roberts, head of blue-chip user group the Corporate IT Forum, even the biggest users can struggle to have an influence.
"It's still the case that certain organizations can talk to vendors on a one-to-one basis and make it work a particular way but you've got to be a truly global organization with a massive spend," Roberts says.
Paul Simmonds, chief information security officer at AstraZeneca and a co-founder of security industry pressure group The Jericho Forum, agrees with the downbeat assessment: "The reality is there are not many out there than can influence the big boys," he says.
However, even if you can't directly influence a vendor, the membership -organization offers a good fallback position for creating collaborative pressure, argues Allen Brown, president and CEO of vendor and technology-neutral consortium The Open Group.
"At The Open Group you are part of a membership forum with over 300 members, whereas on your own you are just one voice out of dozens of people," says Brown.
In his 10 years at the helm, Brown says that The Open Group has changed considerably from a primarily Unix-focused group with "a lot of vendors sitting on the board to make sure we didn't screw around with a [US]$30bn market" to an architecture-focused group that considers the bigger themes of interoperability, information flow and enterprise architecture.
The Open Group's Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for developing IT systems has been gaining in popularity, with pressure being brought to bear on vendors from its adopters. "Although vendors prefer to use their own proprietary frameworks, more and more their customers are asking for TOGAF in RFPs as it's an open architecture framework," Brown says.
Brown contends that TOGAF has "changed an entire industry", pointing to an American SAP user group survey that found that 70 per cent of respondents -using architectural frameworks saw TOGAF as number one. SAP's New Leaf project is an effort to build an enterprise methodology based on TOGAF while a survey by Indian offshoring giant Infosys recently concluded that TOGAF was a de facto standard.
Then there are the specifically targeted organizations such as the Jericho Forum, described by Paul Simmonds as "a one-issue pressure group, driven by the users -- although it's a very large issue".
Breaking down walls
The Jericho Forum was formed by a group of large organizations four and a half years ago in response to vendors constantly pitching perimeter firewalls, when security chiefs were being told by their businesses that they needed to collaborate beyond the firewall. Suppliers weren't listening and Jericho decided the industry had to react. Simmonds says vendors would say "you've got a problem -- we have the solution" which usually ended up being "really nasty". In contrast, Jericho "spent a year in purdah defining the problem".
"In the early days, when we were trying to describe the problem, we'd describe it in our own industry terms," says Simmonds. "Standard Chartered had one take on it, Royal Mail another, and at [Simmonds' former employer] ICI we had another. So we talked about it and chunked it up to the point where we were defining it as a genericized business problem. Not only would it then bump up our buying power, but when we talked with one voice we'd already done the hard work stripping out the business part of it."
Lots of hard work and several positioning papers later, Jericho's 11 Commandments are widely accepted as a key security product evaluation guide. Simmonds says several startups are developing -directly to Jericho specifications -- and he even attributes the change in focus from Symantec Norton AntiVirus versions 10 to 11 to Jericho. "You just have to look around and see what is being built to work in a collaborative environment outside of the perimeters. They are all in some shape or form influenced by Jericho," he says.
Best expectations
Jericho had to take positive action to make suppliers sit up and take note. So what is it about supplier/buyer relationships that act as a barrier to greater collaboration? According to the Corporate IT Forum's Roberts, it's the lack of information and the difference in expectations.
"The supply side of the business works on the basis of treating each customer as an individual and keeping them away from each other," he argues. "That leads to each contract being unique. Another problem is the disparity between the supplier and the user community in the way individuals are incentivized and rewarded."
As a result, he says, suppliers are very protective of the relationship with particular customers. "Most customers know one or two others, but once you know 25 you realize you all have strengths and weaknesses with the supplier. Then you can define a reasonable best expectation."
The Corporate IT Forum has a set of strategic supplier relationship groups for major vendors like Microsoft, Oracle, BT, Dell, IBM and EDS although these groups are more about sharing experiences than directly influencing vendors. "For me, the most best way to improve your position with suppliers is by talking to people like yourself in similar organizations and sharing what you understand to be the way the supplier works," says Roberts.
Whatever method you choose to get through to your vendor, the consensus suggests that open warfare is not a good option. Some organizations, for example, have attempted to use the press and public forums to air grievances with suppliers. The London Borough of Newham famously made Microsoft sit up and take notice when it publicly threatened to switch from Windows and Office to open source operating systems and application software for its 5000 desktops, but its current CIO Geoff Connell now admits that, on its own, the council is not big enough to influence its suppliers.
In a recent campaign to improve Vista application compatibility among its line-of-business vendors ahead of the council's rollout of the Microsoft operating system, Connell admits that it hit some difficulties. "It's a chicken-and-egg situation. Suppliers will not tune in until a significant proportion of their user base is pushing them," he says.
Connell eventually had success working through Microsoft with other suppliers and cites the example of public-sector vendor Anite Systems. "It was very tardy in making its applications compatible, even in producing a roadmap. Now it's catching up rapidly, telling us what's compatible now, what it is testing and what's on the roadmap," he says.
Andy Hayler agrees working with vendors can have an impact. "If you're an active reference customer, doing reference calls and talking about your experiences, then you're listened to more than others. But it takes time to build up that kind of relationship."
Others see these kinds of public engagements as a symptom of a good relationship, rather than a contributory factor. "At the end of the day, working with innovative partners and showing up together is a two-way street," says Allstate's Abbattista.
"Done right, it helps us both build our reputations. I don't think speaking at events is the basis for a great relationship; I do however think it is affirmation of a great relationship."
Abbattista's advice to others looking to make the most of a vendor relationship is typically forthright: be up front. "Just be honest and have the fierce conversations that all good relationships need to survive," he says.
"We are very clear about our needs, desires and issues. We expect our partners to listen and either act or offer suitable alternatives." Vendors take note.
This story, "Cracking IT vendor relations" was originally published by CIO.


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USC School of Medicine researcher receives $2.7 million grant to study telehealth
By Matt Splett, firstname.lastname@example.com, 803-216-3302
Meera Narasimhan, M.D., vice dean for innovative health care technologies and professor and chair of the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study telehealth in emergency rooms.
The study will evaluate the health care utilization, quality, sustainability and economic impact of an existing statewide telehealth initiative that is providing care in emergency departments throughout South Carolina. In addition, the study will determine whether the organizational model should be provided nationally.
The statewide telepsychiatry initiative provides emergency psychiatric care access 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A psychiatrist provides assessment and recommendations for initial treatment and works closely with the emergency room physicians to identify resources in the community to help the patient with follow-up care. Patients who receive quality follow-up care are less likely to need re-hospitalization and often enjoy an improved quality of life.
In recognition of its innovative and collaborative nature, the statewide telepsychiatry initiative received the American Psychiatric Association's Silver Achievement Award for 2011.
"We are proud to belong to the great state of South Carolina and to have successfully demonstrated how public, private, and academic partners can come together to work collaboratively to improve access, affordability and quality care to the citizens of our state through this innovative project that serves as a national model of health service delivery," Narasimhan said.
The NIH-funded study is a partnership between the University of South Carolina, South Carolina Department of Mental Health, S.C. Office of Research and Statistics and Emory University.
"We are very grateful to the National Institutes of Health, the Duke Endowment, and the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services for making it possible for us to render care to the citizens of South Carolina," Narasimhan said. "We are delighted to be a part of this venture and hope this collaboration paves the way for other transformational changes in health care to better serve the health care needs of our state and beyond."
Narasimhan and Benjamin Druss, M.D., MPH, Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, will serve as co-principal investigators on the grant.


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Lap 71: Juan Pablo Montoya comes home first, ahead of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen. But Fernando Alonso's third place finish is enough to see him crowned the youngest world champion in F1 history at the age of 24.
Lap 70: McLaren's mechanics get ready to celebrate a one-two finish but Renault's pit lane crew are poised to celebrate the world title for Fernando Alonso.
Lap 67: Montoya's lead grows to 1.5 seconds.
Lap 65: Aside from Ferrari's "success" at the ill-fated Indianapolis grand prix, no team has managed a 1-2 finish this season, but McLaren look on course to do it this time, with Montoya one second ahead of Raikkonen, and Alonso seemingly happy to stay in third place as that is all he needs.
Lap 63: Michael Schumacher seems safe in fourth place, but brother Ralf is closing in on seventh placed Button.
Lap 61: Raikkonen only trails Montoya by 0.6 seconds, with a gap of over 24 seconds to third placed Alonso. But third place is all the Renault driver needs to be crowned the youngest champion in Formula One history.
Lap 60: If the positions stay the same at the end of the race, McLaren will take over from Renault in the constructors' championship for the first time this season.
Lap 59: Leader Raikkonen makes his second pit stop, but as he races up the pit lane to get back onto the track, team-mate Montoya holds onto first place.
Lap 58: Monteiro is forced off with what looks like engine failure, dashing his dream of matching Michael Schumacher's record for successive completions.
Lap 56: Button and Ralf Schumacher make their second pit stop.
Lap 55: Michael Schumacher pits from fourth and holds his place.
Lap 53: Leader Montoya makes his second pit stop, when 0.5 seconds ahead of second placed Raikkonen, who has only made one stop so far.
Lap 49: Fisichella pits from fifth place, holding onto his place, ahead of Barrichello, who then pits himself, returning in ninth place.
Lap 49: Alonso pits from third and returns in fourth, allowing Michael Schumacher into third.
Lap 46: Slowly but surely, Montoya's lead continues to grow. The Colombian looks to be in with a good chance of victory in the only South American Grand Prix of the year.
Lap 44: Barrichello sneaks past Button up into sixth place, while leader Montoya's lead over team-mate Raikkonen goes up to three seconds.
Lap 39: Montoya stretches his lead to over two seconds. Button in sixth place is only 0.1 seconds ahead of Barrichello, who will be his BAR team-mate next season, and is competing in his home Grand Prix.
Lap 39: Raikkonen now trails leader Montoya by 1.5 seconds, with Alonso over 10 seconds behind the leader in third place.
Lap 38: Sato finally pits and returns in 10th place.
Lap 37: With Alonso comfortably in the position he needs to take the championship, there is no advantage to be gained for second placed Raikkonen by team-mate Montoya letting him through to take the lead, so it is likely there will be a proper battle between the leading pair to win the race.
Lap 36: Doornbos pits with smoke coming from the back of his car, and fire extinguishers are used, before he withdraws from the race. Leader Montoya is 2.1 seconds ahead of Raikkonen in second place.
Lap 34: Sato remains in sixth place, but he is the only one of the top 10 drivers who has yet to pit.
Lap 33: The closest battle on the track is between fourth placed Michael Schumacher and fifth placed Fisichella, with only 0.6 seconds dividing them. Alonso lies in third place, which will be enough to give him the world title.
Lap 31: Raikkonen pits from first place and returns to second place, behind Montoya.
Lap 29: Webber rejoins the race, 25 laps off the pace, in an effort to improve his qualifying position for the next Grand Prix.
Lap 28: Leader Montoya pits, taking 8.2 seconds.
Lap 26: Michael Schumacher and Button both pit. Montoya, who has yet to pit, remains over four seconds clear in first place.
Lap 24: Klien pits for fuel.
Lap 23: Fisichella and Barrichello both pit.
Lap 22: Alonso pits from second for a refuel and a small tyre adjustment, but he gets back out on track quickly, rejoining in sixth.
Lap 21: With little action at the front of the field, Albers pits from 12th place. Villeneuve passes Doornbos to go 12th.
Lap 19: Karthikeyan goes into the pits and rejoins in last place after a lengthy stop.
Lap 18: Massa pits from 10th place, the first driver to go into the pits. It is thought Raikkonen may go for a one-stop strategy.
Lap 16: Still no positional change up front, although the gap between second placed Alonso and third placed Raikkonen has grown to three seconds. The front four are two Renaults and two McLarens, which is important for the constructors' championship.
Lap 14: Trulli, who was penalised places on the grid for an engine change, continues to work his way up the field and is now in 12th place.
Lap 12: Still no positional changes, but Alonso starts to eat into Montoya's lead. Monteiro is the back marker of the race, but should he finish, he will equal Michael Schumacher's record for the highest number of successive finishes in GP.
Lap 10: Montoya slowly stretches his lead over Alonso to over four seconds, but there are no positional changes among the front runners. Klien in seventh place is falling away from Button in sixth.
Lap 8: Montoya's lead over Alonso is 3.2 seconds.
Lap 5: Alonso sets the fastest lap so far, and although he is still in second, he is opening up a gap over third placed rival Raikkonen.
Lap 4: Montoya leads Alonso by 2.3 seconds, with Raikkonen in third place and Fisichella in fourth.
Lap 2: The field are bunching behind leader Alonso and he suffers a wheel lock on turn one of the second lap, and is soon passed by Montoya.
Lap 1: Coulthard is involved in a collision with the Williams cars of Webber and Pizzonia before the first turn of the opening lap and the safety car is called out. Both Williams cars are out of the race before the first turn.
Webber's car returns to the pits and bursts into flames, but no-one seems to be injured as a result.
1800: The cars begin their warm-up lap.
1750: Light spitting rain starts to fall on the track. Track temperature is 23c and conditions are overcast.
1745: Kimi Raikkonen's team change the front left tyre on his car without penalty, despite drivers being supposed to compete on the same tyres they used for qualifying.
Raikkonen, who is starting from fifth, is the only driver who can deny pole sitter Fernando Alonso the world title, but any podium finish will see the Spaniard claim the title.


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Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - A homosexual "pride" parade in Jerusalem went on Thursday night, despite one protester's violent acts.
Earlier, city officials tried to ban the parade on the grounds that it would offend city residents.
Thousands of marchers (estimates vary) paraded down the streets of Jerusalem under the rainbow banner of the homosexual community. Hundreds of ultra-religious protestors lined the parade route.
More than 800 police officers and a helicopter were on hand to secure the event. But despite those precautions, three marchers were injured when a 30-year-old ultra-orthodox Jew broke through police lines and stabbed them.
All three were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, and the violence did not stop the parade. Police arrested the suspect.
Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance (the city's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender center), blamed Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski for the trouble at the parade.
"This violent attack is a direct result of Mayor Lupoliansky's ongoing campaign of incitement," El-Ad said. "[Thursday's] Pride events focused on a message of love and tolerance - and these values cannot be obstructed by violence."
Lupoliansky and city managers earlier this week tried to ban the parade on the grounds that it would offend the sensitivities of people who live in and visit Jerusalem.
But the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance (JOH) sued on the grounds that preventing the parade was a breach of their civil rights -- and won.
The Jerusalem district court not only ruled that the mayor and municipality had no right to stop the parade because the mayor did not agree with it, but ordered the municipality and Lupolianski personally to pay 30,000 shekels each (about $6,670 each) to fund the parade.
The parade highlighted the growing divide in Jerusalem society between religious and secular Jews, drawing some secular Jews to the side of the LGBT community.
Two religious Knesset members protested the march along the parade route while another Knesset member took part in the parade. Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz, from the left-wing Labor party, sent a message to participants.
"Jerusalem Pride is part of the struggle for human rights and freedom for all sectors of society," said Pines-Paz. "The heads of the Jerusalem Municipality should self-reflect on their contribution to the incitement leading up to today's violence."
One middle-aged city resident, Yael, said she came to the event to offer her support.
"I think it is very good that it [the parade] is taking place in Jerusalem," said Yael. "I'm against religious compulsion and I'm for this. Live and let live. [I came] to give them the feeling that in Jerusalem there are people that support them," she said.
"I just came to support a pluralistic city," said Jerusalem resident Ishai, 27, who said he is not a homosexual but has homosexual friends. "I think minority rights should be respected. This is a minority right."
But others were not happy about the parade.
One couple, walking their dog near their home, objected to the noise and litter generated by the parade and post-parade party in Liberty Bell Park, adjacent to their home.
"I think this is a shame and a disgrace," the man said. "It bothers me. [Last year] it was terribly dirty. I walk here [in the park] every morning. I couldn't enter. It was like this with garbage," he said, gesturing to show that it had been waist-high. "Garbage throws garbage."
Ya'akov, a religious Jew, said he didn't understand why Jerusalem residents should be inconvenienced by street closings for a parade of people who "want to live in a certain way."
One of Jerusalem's main streets was closed to traffic for more than an hour and an intersection at the corner of Liberty Bell Park, where four busy streets converge, was closed for a number of hours.
The Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities in Jerusalem have become more outspoken about homosexual events in the city since it was announced that a 10-day international 'WorldPride" event would take place in Jerusalem this summer.
However, the JOH postponed the international gathering two months ago because it would have coincided with the Israeli government's plan to evacuate thousands of settlers in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
See Earlier Stories:
Jerusalem Court Rules in Favor of Homosexual Parade (27 June 2005) Homosexuals Challenge Jerusalem for Refusing 'Gay Pride' Parade (23 June 2005)


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In Reply to: RE: Best use for conical bass horn posted by Kloss on February 22, 2012 at 07:32:10
I'm probably around the same age but had a late start.
A priceless scene in any case.
I had built a tall rack mount cabinet to put test equipment in but my youngest adopted it as a "storefront" so i had to wait some years before putting gear in it haha.
Fwiw, i have mentioned your son a couple times at the shop, they may be needing more help this spring.
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Gorgeous little girl in a gorgeous horn! As a grandfather who builds speakers I can easily imagine what a double whammy of gratification you must get showing the two together.
If you don't mind me asking, what is the design cut off frequency of the horn?
I've used it with coaxial driver and as bass horn. Bass to 35hz it does roll off before this but output at 35hz is still strong below that pretty much nothing. Sometimes I use a front loaded sub bass horn below 40hz. I also use the conical in a 4 way conical front horn system below 100hz. Pretty much how its running now. Fostex t500Amk2, conical midrange and midbass then the big conical below 100hz. I can switch it back to coaxial use in about 30 mins. Depends on my mood and music tastes at the time.
Still a spry 47. I started early my older son was such a techno nerd. Always building faster computers messin with his loudspeakers etc instead of the ladies. The next thing I know hes heading to GA got married then 2 grand-kids, my heads still spinning. But truly the GK are better than the kids makes you feel like you accomplished something once GKs arrive hope you experience this someday. When I design for my own use I must consider 1 autistic son, 2 GK, 2 Mastiffs. So things must be designed near like playground equipment.
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Above, President's Club and Chancellor's Circle members with President Akande. From left to right, William D. Felder '80 (Delta Tau Delta), Robert W. Price Jr. '65 (Beta Theta Pi), Jack T. Baumstark Sr. '67 (Sigma Alpha Epsilon), President Akande, and John M. Panettiere '59 (Phi Delta Theta).
The President's Club is Westminster's most prestigious annual recognition club for alumni, parents and friends. The Club was established to recognize those individuals who provide leadership support to the College on an annual basis in the amount of $1,250 or more. Young Alumni membership in the President's Club, for alumni who have graduated within the last ten years, begins at $625. Corporate membership begins at the $2,500 level.
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Westminster is poised to enter a new chapter in its illustrious history that is sure to guarantee its place as one of America's great liberal arts colleges. In the coming years, we will introduce new courses and academic programs that will make our graduates even more competitive. We will update and spruce up several of our academic buildings. We will also launch a more aggressive marketing campaign to significantly increase enrollment.
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Published: July 16, 2007 at 10:54 PMNice pics! I remember that my Dad would always wear a suit to go to Disneyland and we would wear our Sunday finest. My earliest memories are from home movies. I do remember sitting with the engineer on the Casey Junior train and ringing the bell, riding Dumbo with my mom, and being scared on Mr Toads wild ride. I think I was around 2 or 3 so it would be 1958 or 59. I also remember the flying saucers, 20,000 leagues, and of course the sky buckets (that is what we always called them). My Mom had a friend that had a couple of kids around my brother's and my age. We would do a yearly Disney Birthday trip to celebrate all four of our birthdays. Then there was Grad Night.....I don't remember much about that but my program said there were a couple of good bands playing. We wore suits and ties and were searched for alcohol before entering. We went on it's a small world near the end since we were all so tired.
Published: July 17, 2007 at 9:33 AMthats nice to see,and disneyland has come a very long way!!
Published: July 17, 2007 at 11:25 AMDisney is the reason that the theme park business is so big today. Walt Disneys escape from the boring county fairs was the fuel that lighted the fire of parks. Thank you Disneyland, and Walt Disney. Also thank you Robert for starting up this site. Happy 52nd Disneyland.
Published: July 17, 2007 at 5:07 PMHere is what I sent to my Disney Sales Rep!
I will always be known by everyone who knows me as the Disney guy. Fuelled my love for coasters, for theming, & ultimately for tourism which is how I make my living.
Of course, I dream of a Tomorrowland that is no longer barren. Hopefully the return of the subs harkens that. Perhaps they will give the Astro Orbiter the height it once had, return the Peoplemover to moving something, & America Sings where we can learn folk music of America instead of bluetooth technology. (A guy can dream, thanks to Walt Disney). Don't get me wrong, I still love DL & still have much to experience there, no doubt, for the next 52 years or so.
Someday I'll dig up my eigth grade end of year project which was a collection of art projects I'd done on DL. Mostly just tracing, but quite the obsession.
I even had a t-shirt made when I was a kid…with those velvet iron on letters. It said: Imagination is the only key to Disneyland.
The guy at the t-shirt shop really got into it, & crafted an old fashioned key out of the characters 8 & F.
That guy who made it remembered me years later, & we became friends. We even built a Haunted House in Monterey to benefit the boy scouts one year. Hows that for imagineering?
Never been to World
Never even been to DL for the holidays.
Joaquin & I have vowed to go this year since he's from L.A. & had never been during the holidays either.
Published: July 17, 2007 at 7:28 PMi am the odd one here. i was 5 years old when the park opened but i was 13 before i went for the first time. my grandmther was a pie baker at Knotts and my family was Knotts or nothng. my teen memories of Disney are the private parties after hours and of course grad nite. my favorite Disney memory was a party with a friend's
Published: July 17, 2007 at 8:27 PMMade it to the Magic Kingdom for the 40th birthday party back on July 17th, 1995, and found the park that day as crowded by evening time as I've ever experienced in the now 52 years of going there. Randy Travis sang our National Anthem from atop the Mattorhorn Mountain that day too. It seems that "Birthday Cake" was being given away at 2 or 3 locations around the park also...still the only rememberance of any kind of free-bee food wise ever at Wally World. Though crowded that day I still look back with a nostalgic fondness that this Disney Kid was able to be there on such a special day. AAAUGH !
Published: July 18, 2007 at 7:06 AMHere's a guess Robert. I am gonna say 1965. :)


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Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart Shoves Fan
Oklahoma State basketball player Marcus Smart shoved a Texas Tech fan at the end of a game between the two schools on Saturday.
Smart, who is expected to be a high NBA draft pick, was possibly set off by something the fan said. The fan's name is Jeff Orr. He's a bit of a Texas Tech super-fan. If you watch the last video, you see that he's a "#1" fan.
Smart received a technical foul on the play. He may expect to see more punishment. It is unclear if Orr will face any punishment.
Okla news stations reporting fan told Smart "Go back to Africa"..IF TRUE..Smart's "shove" still wrong...BUT...19yrold kid...I UNDERSTAND!!
— Stuart Scott (@StuartScott) February 9, 2014
Radio analyst John Holcomb confirms what he said on air: He heard Marcus Smart say the fan called him the n-word.
— Kelly Hines (@KellyHinesTW) February 9, 2014
Text convo from my Tech friend w/Orr- Orr is Tech's biggest fan-everyone knows him, he goes to every game pic.twitter.com/1ZlN6gAdz3
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Karstens' injury muddles Pirates' rotation
BRADENTON, Fla. — With four days to go before the Pirates break camp, the final two spots in the starting rotation have yet to come into focus.
Right-hander Jeff Karstens likely is headed for the disabled list after being scratched from his scheduled start Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles. The club said Karstens, who declined a request for comment, is bothered by "continuing shoulder discomfort" due to biceps tendinitis.
At the start of spring training, Karstens was set to be the No. 4 starter, with the fifth job up for grabs. Now general manager Neal Huntington is mulling backup plans for both spots.
"We've kept four guys stretched out as Plan B, hoping we wouldn't have to use Plan B," Huntington said. "It looks like we're going to have to use it. Now, we've got a decision among four (pitchers) for two spots. We were hoping to have four for one."
The fifth spot has been a battle among Jeff Locke, Kyle McPherson, Jonathan Sanchez and Jeanmar Gomez. No clear leader has emerged.
"So now the uncontrollable things begin to factor in: roster status, option status, opt-out status," Huntington said. "Those begin to carry some weight in the process. When that happens, you err on the reversible versus the irreversible decisions."
That could bode well for Sanchez. He can opt out of his minor league contract and sign elsewhere if the Pirates do not put him on the active roster before Tuesday morning.
It wasn't until last week that Gomez entered the thick of the rotation competition. Gomez is out of minor league options, so the Pirates can't send him to Triple-A Indianapolis unless he clears waivers.
Midway through camp, there were signs McPherson was the favorite to claim the No. 5 job. But the right-hander was roughed up in three of his past four outings, including a nine-run nightmare last Wednesday against the Atlanta Braves.
Last Saturday, Locke gave up three runs and seven hits in four innings against the Boston Red Sox. Pitching coach Ray Searage said Locke still is evolving into a big league pitcher.
"He's more confident and more poised on the mound now," Searage said. "He's got a better idea of what he wants to do. It's good to have a conversation with the kid now, and he's on the right page. It's nice to talk to him about certain situations, whereas last year, he had to have a crash course on everything. You didn't want to overload the poor kid."
Karstens first felt pain in his shoulder Feb. 19 and called off a bullpen session that day. He has not pitched in a Grapefruit League game, but he has worked in a couple of minor league games.
Karstens threw 50 pitches in a game Monday at Pirate City. He used a new overhead windup, which he said reduced the strain on his shoulder.
Right-hander Chris Leroux started in Karstens' place Sunday and gave up eight runs in one-third of an inning. Although Leroux wants to be a full-time starter — a role he had with Canada in the World Baseball Classic — he's already tabbed for the bullpen.
Francisco Liriano (broken arm) hopes to be ready by the first week of May. Charlie Morton (elbow surgery) is out until at least June.
"We've got some internal depth, but if there's a chance externally to improve, we'll always look for that," Huntington said.
Because of the job auditions, the top three guys in the rotation — A.J. Burnett, Wandy Rodriguez and James McDonald — have been pitching in minor league games instead of facing 'A' game competition. McDonald is scheduled to throw 100 pitches Monday at Pirate City.
"With Wandy and A.J., it's almost a conditioning exercise," Huntington said. "Sure, you'd love to see them compete at this level. But the pitch count is almost more important that the competition."
Rob Biertempfel is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Twitter @BiertempfelTrib.


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FLORENCE, S.C. – Francis Marion University will observe Constitution Day, Wednesday, Sept. 16, with a presentation by V. Scott Kaufman, associate professor of history and co-director of the McNair Center for Government and History.
The program will begin at 3:45 p.m. in the Cauthen Educational Media Center's Lowrimore Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.
Kaufman's lecture is titled "Of Originalism and Interpretation: A Historical Analysis of the Constitution."
A native of Slidell, La., Kaufman, became an assistant professor of history at FMU in 2001 and an associate professor of history in 2005. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Washington, Southwest Missouri State University, Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Ohio University.
He has taught many courses in the field of history including historiography, the Korean War, the Modern World and the History of the United States in World Affairs. He earned the B.A. degree from Kansas State University, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio University.
Kaufman has published five books since 2000, including "Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China," "The Presidency of James Earl Carter Jr.," "The Pig War: The United States, Britain, and the Balance of Power in the Pacific Northwest, 1846-72," "Francis Marion: Swamp Fox of the Carolinas" and a biography of former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
Kaufman has also published numerous articles in scholarly journals. Kaufman was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture in Ireland.
His research interests include U.S. diplomatic, Latin American and U.S. military histories and the history of Japan.
Constitution Day honors the signing of the Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia inserted language into the 2005 federal spending bill that requires all educational institutions, including colleges and universities, which receive federal funds from any agency to have programming for Constitution Day.


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Okay so you obviously know who I'm going to vote for in the next 40 days. Got it. I read stuff, I make my own decisions, I use common sense. I met a woman, older, who says that in her day, everyone supported the President and nobody said a word against him because it looked bad to the rest of the world. So, for that reason, she simply said she was a Republican (duh!) and had the habit of not mixing politics and alcohol (could be boring, could be a riproaring good time, depending on the company - that's what I said).
I must say this though. There are some wacky wack jobs out there who are about to vote. I really can't make this unbiased because the only wacky wack jobs I think that are voting for Obama are the ones who just vote for him because he's black. But then that opens the door to the ones who say they aren't voting for him because he's black PLUS use slurs to accommpany said argument (and you thought racism was dead, you head in the sanders). This is straight from a Yahoo News correspondent on your beloved right wing Fox News. Did Fox news reporter interviewing Yahoo Man ask about the race issues? No! She just went ahead and asked him to breakdown, in a right wing favorable fashion, how Obama's lead wasn't really a lead but a slow down. Okay, great. The french fries I had last night were not bad for me. They were potatos from the earth.
Back to my point. On NPR (Thanks to the man at home, I have to get my news everywhere, including crazy Fox News and their bleached Country Club mentality) yesterday, there were a bunch of Latino Veterans in Colorado, expressing their undying love for McCain because he was a veteran. They even started slamming Michelle Obama because she was on some board of a parent company that closed down some random pickle factory. Okay. Hold please. My dad was a veteran. It is obvious in this blog how much I adore my father. My brother is still in the military. My beau was in the reserves. None of those upstanding men would make a great president just because they served. There is no special Genius test they give you to enter either the military, college, Wall Street or any other club that people seem to glorify. Those places are full of regular joes, admirable people and losers too. Said Latino Vets had not one thing intelligent to say about McCain's immigration policy (which wouldn't be so good for them, PS) or Palin's inability to answer a straight question let alone her other issues or his other issues with the 15k a month from Freddie Mac campaign manager.
Okay I can't focus the obvious and already reported stuff. This is about those people who make excuses and rationalize obvious crazy behavior. The human mind is basically what we are voting on. It isn't issues or economy or anything of the sort. We are sometimes as dumbed down as we seem.
Contraty to belief, I am not a McCain hater. How I feel about McCain is how I would if there was a Columbine survivor who was running for President and didn't know the issues. I would just say, "Come clean, dude. You really don't know much about this stuff, huh?" And I would hope they would sheepishly shake their head, eyes full of ernest good intentions, and then they would just withdraw.
That's my dream anyway.
But you guys can go on and rationalize how you're trying to make the world in your head the one that's around you. It will just frustrate you in the long run.
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Claiming -- Not Reclaiming -- New York's Waterfront
Looking back at the history of New York' waterfront, writer Nathan Ward shows that the city's relationship with its water has been primarily utilitarian.
"As our waterfront economy slowly faded, New York's piers became a no man's land, blocked off by empty sheds and bands of highway. In the latter half of the 20th century, there was a ghost town between landlubbers and the water.
But in this empty age lay the seeds of recovery. More than 70 years ago, when researchers from Manhattan's Greenwich House interviewed idle West Village dockworkers about ways to improve conditions on the West Side, these men called for the creation of 'opportunities for sane recreation.'"


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The International Community of Women living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA) is a regional advocacy network and membership based organisation. ICW Eastern Africa exists to give visibility to women living with HIV in Eastern Africa. ICW Eastern Africa believes that gender inequalities and the lack of sexual & reproductive health & rights for women are at the heart of the HIV epidemic. [READ MORE]


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Divisive Republican primaries, an out-of-nowhere GOP retirement in Maine and an unexpectedly competitive race in North Dakota add up to an unpredictable battle for control of the Senate this fall. It's confounding early forecasts that Democratic rule is inevitably coming to an end.
Adding to the uncertainty, tea party-backed challengers are on primary ballots against establishment candidates in New Mexico and Texas in coming weeks. That's an internal Republican struggle that Democrats hope will aid them as it did in 2010.
With the support of two independents, Democrats now hold an effective 53-47 majority in the Senate, control that they and President Barack Obama can ill afford to lose. Republicans have repeatedly pushed legislation through the House in the past year, only to have it blocked by the Democratic Senate.


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Jihadi Rifle Association
Posted on Jun 13, 2014
By Mark Fiore
The NRA: Protecting the rights of America's hunters, militants and homicidal maniacs since 1871. Read about Fiore's inspiration for this animation below.
With the recent shooting in Las Vegas, it's becoming more apparent that the crazed anti-government conspiracy nuts are a danger, to say the least. What is the largest, most well-funded group fanning these flames of insanity? You guessed it, the NRA! I've dealt more specifically with Wayne LaPierre's recent apocalyptic diatribe in another cartoon. Since that cartoon was published, there has been an attack on a courthouse in Georgia and a "revolution" started by killing two police officers who were on their lunch break. (After said revolutionaries made sure that their cats would be cared for.)
I thought it might be a fun exercise to imagine all of those heavily armed open-carry advocates and Wayne LaPierre himself were Muslims. What do you think our politicians and NRA-supporters would be saying then? Can you imagine a dozen or so fully-armed Muslim men carrying AR-15s into a Chili's? Or what the news coverage would be if it was someone of Pakistani descent who attacked the Georgia courthouse or killed the cops in Vegas?
I don't take comparing someone to a violent Islamic extremist lightly, but after the umpteenth mass shooting and a couple of attacks on our justice system, I just had to do it. All you have to do is listen to some of LaPierre's speeches, then listen to the ravings of a few of these shooters and you'll see it's not a very far leap. And just like the cartoon says, the NRA isn't a jihadi organization, they just kinda act like one. You can find more links to articles behind this cartoon on my website, as usual.
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As an actor, he has appeared extensively on stage and in dozens of TV series, including Law and Order, West Wing, and Six Feet Under. He also has performed in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. In parts of Gonville, Birkenhead recounts the first acting roles he had in his father's Massachusetts summer-stock theater.
"I caught my father in glimpses, heard him in fragments," Birkenhead writes in Gonville, a memoir about his troubled relationship with his father. "He was a collection of fleeting pieces and parts, and sometimes it seemed like each part was opposed to the next. He loved being The Man Who Won't—the looks from other peaceniks when they saw his gun collection, or the cringing faces of the neighbors as they walked by our proudly unmowed, Addams Family crabgrass lawn."
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I've technically been unemployed for the same three months of the year for the last five years. It seems to be the nature of the new academic, the average academic anyway, that there are years of this in-between-ness before obtaining an ongoing position (I want to say 'tenure' but it's not tenure in the US use of the term). It's a state described well this The Higher Education article on para-academia or the 'casual periphery', where you have the full responsibilities but little of the stability of your colleagues.
The bureaucracy of the university has essentially given me a series of 9-10 month contracts (Feb-Nov), slotting just neatly around the teaching semesters and a little left over to cover the exam periods. This effectively shuts me out of university policy to "upgrade" to an ongoing position after three years because I haven't been working continuously over that three year period. Loophole.
Instead of the promised land of an ongoing position, I have self-funded holidays imposed upon me each Christmas season because the university doesn't want to pay me to do research. Three months that I save for each year to keep our family afloat. Three months out of every twelve that mean we never really get ahead - we simply keep treading water.
But this year is different.
This year it feels like unemployment. It feels more and more intense and scary as these three months tick past and our savings drain away because the promised contract hasn't arrived. And it's not going to. Not this time. Instead of another fractional appointment or a full-time load, I've been offered a half-handful of casual hours - not even enough to make up a day but just enough to cover the cost of a day's worth of childcare. To be honest, the offer made me feel like a whipped dog, crawling back to its master because I want to take it; I want to grab at whatever crumbs they're giving me because I don't know where else to go or what else to do.
So I've been applying for jobs.
I've been fiddling with my CV, and writing cover letters and long pages addressing the key selection criteria. I've been applying for academic jobs at other universities for which I am well suited and moderately well-experienced for, and for local and state government jobs that I'm qualified for but lacking in experience, and 'real world' jobs for which I am infinitely over-qualified but terrifically under-experienced. I've been shortlisted and pipped at the post and I've been ignored and outright rejected.
I've applied to study, taking up my back-up plan.
And I've been accepted. Full time study by distance doesn't scare me but the arrangements for the compulsory practical components (five weeks in the first semester) are next to impossible to fit around academic work and looking after my boy. We aren't eligible for government support (Austudy or Family Tax Benefit payments) because I've already earned too much this financial year (ironies). So I might have to decline or defer. Or we'd need to move far, far out of the city where the rents are cheaper, doubling or tripling Lovely Husband's daily commute and losing any time with his boy during the working week.
I know this all sounds a bit whiney. I want to work. I love my job. I just wish someone would be willing to pay me to do it. A lot of these are first-world problems and pretty luxurious ones at that. But these are the problems I've got at the moment. The ones that keep me awake at night (literally) and make it hard to get out of bed in the morning. Through all of this, I feel inordinantly lucky and panicked at the same time. We have our belts cinched in but we aren't struggling to breathe, not yet. We've done this three month stint before; I've worked shit jobs before to make ends meet. But the closer to the start of semester we come, the more I worry I'll miss the boat - and that's half a year to wait for the next round of work. The closer to the start of the semester we come, the more I feel like a failure that I haven't been able to pull the rabbit out of the hat this year. The closer to the start of the semester we come, the more I feel like my life isn't going to be measured by semesters for much longer.
I'm looking for advice and answers and solutions instead of all the problems I keep seeing. I'm tired of only seeing the problems. So my questions are these:
- How long do you hold on to or hold out for the job you love before you give it up?
- Where does one go from academia? What's next?
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"What the hell were we thinking?," exclaims Dan Taylor, guitarist for U.K. indie soul-rock titans The Heavy, of the band's audacious new album, The Glorious Dead, which was released on Counter/Ninja Tune on August 21. "We wanted to make a bold statement – it's not shy." "It's over the top, in a good way," adds Heavy frontman Kelvin Swaby. "We went pretty cinematic, setting out to score a film that hasn't been written." As such, The Glorious Dead proves The Heavy's most ambitious effort: Frankensteining swampy voodoo and b-movie zombies with garage rock and Gospel-soaked soul, it's unlike anything you'll hear this year.
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