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Last week the Savannah Morning News published an article on Sunday that was critical of some of the instances my office submitted travel reimbursements during the past 18 months. I will address several of the issues raised in the article in a moment. But first, I would like to make this assurance to you: Financial accountability has been and remains one of my top priorities. I treat with utmost importance the trust that City Council places upon me to manage taxpayer funds. My early years in public service were in Research and Budget, and the concept of fiscal conservatism and accounting for every dollar spent are bedrocks of my decisionmaking process. I took no greater pride than in presenting to you last year's $8.4 million surplus even as we were still emerging from the greatest economic recession since World War II. I am cognizant of the fact that this is the public's money we are managing, and every expenditure – including travel for conferences and training – must be in the interest of improving life for the people of Savannah.
Timely Filing of Expense Receipts
I take responsibility for not filing expense reports in a timely enough manner. When I travel, generally I am traveling alone and am extremely busy. When I return to Savannah, my schedule is even more hectic, with piles of work awaiting my attention. Immediately turning in expense receipts has not always been at the top of my priority list. As a result, I have neglected to turn in expense reports within the five days spelled out in our Travel Policy. I will point out, however, that this is an internal policy and not a City Ordinance. But while is it not the law, it is important that all City employees follow the same set of City policies, including myself. Thus, I pledge to be more vigilant in turning in expense reports within five days of returning. This has allowed me to reevaluate the process of turning my receipts in on time.
No Independent Auditor to Monitor Spending
The article stated that "the city has no independent auditor to monitor spending." This, of course, is not true. The City contracts annually for an external audit, and it is conducted in accordance with State law. Just last week I sent the Mayor and Aldermen the 2011 year-end audit, which was recently completed by the firm Karp, Ronning & Tindol. I will also add that all of our records, including all travel records, are open to public inspection during any business day.
A similarly related issue is the process that I use in my office to reconcile my travel expenditures. I first turn over all of my receipts and documentations to my executive assistant. She organizes the information and meets with the staff of the Finance Department. Both staffs reconcile the receipts and documentation and reach an amount that I am either owed by the City or that I must return to the City. Once this is determined my assistant communicates this information to me and my travel expenses are promptly settled. I have employed this system since 2007 because it is an internal system of checks and balances that I have assigned and entrusted to competent staff members in my office and the Finance Department to handle.
Use of Van to Transport City Council on Mayors' Day
For those who attended the Mayors' Day Conference in Atlanta in January, you will remember that the weather was cold and rainy. The route from the hotel to the restaurant where we had a dinner was up a very steep hill and the dinner was happening late at night in a section of Atlanta not immune to crime. Given these circumstances, the hotel concierge recommended a shuttle service to help facilitate the safe and dry round trip transport of Council members. I do believe the $150 expense was justified.
Reimbursement of $6 for Post-It Notes
The article stated that my reimbursement of $6 for Post- It notes was not allowed because such expenses are covered by the per diem. This is not true. There was never a charge for Post It Notes made by me. The itemized invoice does show "Post It. No. #####". My assistant called the clerk in the Gift Shop where the purchase was made and was told today that this is an SKU code for a beverage or other snack.
Acceptance of a Per Diem and then Billing the City for Meals
The cost of food was not reimbursed twice for the same expense, so this is not true. I have dietary restrictions due to a diagnosed medical condition. As an Assistant City Manager, the former City Manager and Finance Director worked out a procedure with my assistant for me to get reimbursed for the difference above the per diem amount so I could meet my special dietary needs while traveling on City business. For example, if my per diem for a trip totaled $140 ($35 per day x 4 days) and the actual cost for meals was $200, I would be reimbursed the $60 difference. Conversely, if the actual cost for meals totaled $100 then I would return $40 to the City.
When I travelled to China in September 2010 as a member of the coastal regional delegation I was advanced $1,000 including $385 for per diem. I returned $898 including all of the $385 per diem because all of our meals were provided by our hosts during this trip and my only expense was for parking at the Airport here in Savannah. So it is not my practice to keep funds advanced by the City that were not used for the intended purpose.
$100 Entry Fee for Golf Tournament
The article mentioned that there was no record of my reimbursing the City for a $100 entry fee into a golf tournament. This is not true. The Finance Department has checked, and did find that the City deposited the $100 reimbursement check from me. It appears on the cash receipts deposited in the General Ledger on May 16, 2012.
It has been and is a practice for the City Manager and senior staff to rent a vehicle when they are attending out of town conferences. While I do not always rent a vehicle, I will sometimes do so if there is something in particular that I would like to investigate about the community that I am visiting. Such is the case when I travelled to the NFBPA conference in Virginia Beach. I took the time to visit the cruise ship terminal area in Norfolk, rode through a redevelopment project and attempted to locate a community market but ran out of time before I had to return to the conference. It was also my intention to sit in on the public presentation of an economic development strategic plan to the Norfolk City Council; however, my conference sessions did not allow me to return to Norfolk.
Also the initial request to the car rental agency was for a mini SUV. When I picked up the vehicle and drove it out of the terminal before reaching the interstate, I had to return the vehicle because it was not operating properly. I was given another vehicle and I was told that a 10% discount would be taken off because of the inconvenience.
Professional Development
I hold the designation of Credentialed Manager by the International City/County Association which means that I meet the criteria of years of experience and knowledge assessments. I received my CM status in 2003 and in order for me to retain my credentialed status I must certify every year that I have received a minimum of 40 hours of professional development. My employment agreement with the current City Council provides for professional development.
Like any Chief Executive Officer for an organization of this size, work sometimes takes me on the road. I do not like being away from my home and family, but it is unavoidable. While away I have always been accessible to the Mayor and Aldermen and City staff. The ideas I am introduced to and the skills I learn help me become a better City Manager. Seeing programs being implemented first-hand in other communities gives me a better sense about whether they can be replicated in Savannah. And sometimes it is imperative for the City Manager to travel to Atlanta or Washington to make a request for funding in person.
Like members of City Council, as the City Manager I do on occasion hold lunch and dinner meetings with elected and appointed officials while representing Savannah's interests. Networking is a very important aspect of the City Manager's job and it is through networking not only throughout our City and outside of the City that I am able to bring ideas and programs to the City organization.
And as I mentioned before, I do pledge to improve the timeliness of expense reporting. But I would challenge any one who asserts that any City-funded expense I have made has not been for the purpose of performing my duties as City Manager of this city, representing the City in meetings on all levels, bringing back new ideas and initiatives to advance the priorities of the City Council and to lead our organization to a higher level of City services for our community. Rochelle D. Small-Toney City Manager City of Savannah, Georgia


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While Day 4 for pitchers and catchers followed the same schedule as the three previous days, a handful of position players took batting practice at Bright House Field. More fans were there than at the complex.
Media mass also anchored itself at Bright House Field. One of the hitters was Ryan Howard who is having a media conference in the afternoon. His health will certainly be a hot topic in camp.
Tomorrow, all infielders and outfielders will undergo their physicals. The first full workout will be at 10 a.m. on Friday at Carpenter Complex. Well, it will be sometime after 10 because of front office introductions and Charlie's annual speech. He jots notes on a yellow pad but generally gets away from the written notes and shoots from the hip.
The MLB Network is in camp today for interviews. As part of their 30 camps in 30 days schedule, they will return later for a full day . . . ESPN's spring training bus tour will also make a Clearwater stop later . . . Ruben held a conference call with the Phillies pro scouts who are scattered across Florida and Arizona camps. The call is held every Wednesday morning, except for off-season holidays . . . Papelbon is a cover photo subject for Sports Illustrated for Kids and South Jersey Magazine . . . Michael Barkann is doing double duty this week, his 94 WIP radio show from 10-11 every morning and then anchoring Daily News Live on Comcast SportsNet every afternoon at 5.
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Fascinating as both a study of two athletes, complete opposites who went from mortal enemies to friends, it also establishes how their rivalry helped to transform the NBA and save it from financial disaster. It also sharply touches on hot button issues that the two men represented or found themselves thrust into the middle of, race and race relations and later, tragically, AIDS.Continue Reading


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With a flu season that arrived earlier and more harshly than usual, government health officials have been loudly sounding the call for everyone to be immunized, while more quietly encouraging efforts to develop a better vaccine that would protect against many more strains of the virus.
The vaccines in use today are only about 60 percent effective, last for only a single flu season, and take months to produce — which left Americans initially unprotected in 2009 when the swine flu pandemic arose without much warning.
Incremental progress has been made: Next year, two firms will for the first time produce a quadrivalent vaccine, which contains four strains rather than the three in current vaccines. And the Food and Drug Administration last week approved the first gene-based flu vaccine, which uses DNA technologies to produce mass quantities of the virus in insect cells instead of chicken eggs.
While that will enable faster manufacturing and make more vaccine available to those with egg allergies, it may not increase the effectiveness.
"From the standard of protection, there's nothing new here," said Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. In an analysis of flu immunizations published last October, he and his colleagues called for more funding for a universal flu vaccine that would protect against hundreds of flu strains and potentially last for a decade or more.
Most important, it would work better than current vaccines for the most vulnerable populations, such as the elderly and patients with weakened immune systems, who have a greater risk of dying from the flu compared with young healthy people.
Developing such a vaccine and testing it will require millions in research funding that's currently lacking. "The problem we've found is that no one is investing a sufficient amount of money to get past the initial work," Osterholm said. "It might take up to a billion dollars to get a single universal vaccine onto the market."
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases allocated $260 million last year for influenza research. "We selectively prioritize influenza research to a point where even when our budget is flat, we make sure to increase it," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the institute's director. "We've had this sense of urgency since the threat of bird flu ."
But Fauci estimated that Americans won't have access to a universal flu vaccine for quite some time. "Ten years would be a conservative estimate," he said, "but if we're lucky, we can have one in five."
One of the biggest hurdles rests in the flu virus's transformational skills. The virus's DNA mutates constantly, leading to new strains. Flu vaccines are designed to get the body to produce an immune response only to specific strains, and that immune response usually lasts less than a year or two.
In 2009, researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and elsewhere determined a major reason flu viruses continuously outwitted the body's immune defenses . The virus has a lollipop-shaped protein, called hemagglutinin, that serves as a key to enter healthy cells and create more flu viruses. The head of the lollipop evolves rapidly and differs from strain to strain.
While traditional vaccines target and destroy the head of the lollipop, a universal vaccine could be designed to work against multiple strains if it aimed for the lollipop's stem, which tends not to change.
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Researchers have recently begun testing some universal vaccines in small human trials to see whether any are safe enough to test for effectiveness.
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Mickey Rourke blames himself for being out of spotlight for over a decade but says his early interest in sports gave him a spirit that allowed him to pick himself up.
The 57-year-old actor confessed to an audience at the Sarajevo Film Festival that he was out of work for almost 14 years because he did "not behave properly, like a professional, I wasn't real responsible." He said he blames himself for ruining the first part of his career.
The star was gone from Hollywood after squandering his early potential with bad-boy behaviour and by turning down roles.
"I paid the price for it," he said.
Those years were hard, he said. "It's better to never work than to have worked and become a has-been. I have been a has-been for 12, 13 years. You feel terrible about yourself; you are not in control any more."
His comeback came with Sin City and was followed by Darren Aronofsky's Wrestler. Aronofsky fought to cast Rourke against the concerns of financial backers and forged a compromise by settling on a lower budget of $US6 million ($A7.22 million). The role brought Rourke an Oscar nomination.
Rourke said he had not expected to get another chance, but then got two.
"I feel very blessed, very thankful, very fortunate," he said.
As a teenager, Rourke took up self-defence training, switched to boxing and decided on an amateur career before turning to acting.
"I think sports gave me a mindset to keep moving, that I'm not dead," he said. "You learn to pick yourself up and keep going ... For me the game was not over," he added.
The Wrestler is his favourite movie, he said, but also was the hardest one he ever made.
"Thirty years ago these guys were a bunch of fat guys in Speedos who looked like a bunch of Germans on vacation in Miami Beach. Now they know about nutrition and they stay at the gym," he said.
So the role of a wrestler required tough training and six meals a day to gain the required extra 15 kilos, he said.
"I'm not 20 years old any more and when they throw your ass down, something is gonna hurt," he said. "My back would go out, my knee would go out. I had three MRIs in the first two months. If they would say they want to make Part 2, I would say, 'No, thank you."'
He said his next project, Iron Man 2, in which he plays an evil assassin, will "be better than Iron Man 1, that I can guarantee you."
The Sarajevo Film Festival traditionally organises events called "Coffee with ..." that allow the press, as well as other people, to talk to stars at a downtown square. This year the guests were Rourke and X-Files actress Gillian Anderson among others.
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This is my take on Senegalese chicken yassa, a rich, lemony, spicy, onion-centric dish traditionally served over rice. I've pulled way back on the peanut oil, which can make some versions of yassa too rich for my taste. In place of the oil, I built a relish around naturally rich avocados, and paired it with black-eyed peas dressed, with the advantages of a little acidity in mind, with a tangy vinaigrette.
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- Senegalese Chicken
- 8 to 10 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
- 3 yellow onions, thinly sliced
- 4 tbsp peanut oil
- 1/2 cup/120 ml fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbsp kosher salt
- black pepper
- 1 habanero or serrano chile, chopped
- 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds (optional)
- 1/2 cup/120 ml chicken stock
- Black-Eyed Peas
- Refreshing. Beautiful. Delicious. Not some mushy side dish you would just as soon forget, these beans will brighten your plate.
- 2 cups/400 g dried black-eyed peas
- 1 tbsp peanut oil
- 1 to 2 serrano chiles, chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 8 green onions, white and light tender parts only, chopped
- 2 tbsp cider vinegar
- Avocado-Zucchini Relish
- Somewhere between a salad, a relish, and a salsa, this summery mixture goes beautifully with chicken. The zucchini begin to yield their moisture as soon as the salt hits them, which is why it's best to wait until just before serving to add them to the mix.
- 2 ripe avocados, pitted, peeled, and cubed
- 1 arbol chile, minced
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp celery seeds
- 6 green onions, white and tender green parts only, thinly sliced
- 1 cup/100 g chopped radishes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 zucchini, grated (about 2 1/2 cups/350 g)
- flaky salt for finishing
- Senegalese Chicken
- Combine the onions, 2 tbsp of the peanut oil, the lemon juice, salt, pepper to taste, and chile in a glass baking dish. Add the chicken and turn to coat. Marinate at room temperature for at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour, or cover and refrigerate up to 24 hours. (If refrigerating, return the chicken to room temperature for 30 minutes or so to take the chill off before cooking.)
- Remove the chicken from the marinade and pat dry with paper towels. Reserve the marinade.
- Heat 1 tbsp of the peanut oil in a 12-in/30-cm or larger cast-iron frying pan or a 5-qt/5-l or larger Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Working in batches, lay the thighs in the pan, skin-side down, and cook, turning frequently, for 10 minutes or until nicely browned on both sides. Transfer the chicken to a plate, pour off any excess fat, and wipe away any burned bits in the pan.
- Add the remaining 1 tbsp peanut oil to the pan, and reduce the heat to medium-low. Add the onions from the marinade (discard the liquid) and the fenugreek seeds (if using) and sauté for 10 minutes. Return the chicken to the pan, skin-side up, along with the stock. Raise the heat to medium, cover, and cook for 30 minutes. Insert either an instant-read thermometer into the thickest part of a thigh or cut into a thigh with a paring knife. The thermometer should register 175°F/80°C. If using a knife, look for clear, not red or pink, juices running from the spot where you pierced the meat and opaque, barely pink flesh at the bone.
- Serve by piling the onions on individual plates and putting the chicken on top.
- Black-Eyed Peas
- Rinse the peas in a colander, keeping an eye out for stray rocks. Bring a large saucepan three-fourths full of water to a boil over high heat. Add the peas and cook until just tender, 25 to 30 minutes. Drain well and set aside.
- In the same pan you cooked the peas in, heat the peanut oil and add the chiles, bell pepper, and green onions. Cook for 30 seconds over high heat, add the vinegar, and cook for 30 seconds longer before returning the peas to the pan. Reheat briefly before serving or eat them at room temperature. They're terrific either way.
- Avocado-Zucchini Relish
- Combine the avocado, chile, kosher salt, celery seeds, green onions, radishes, and olive oil in a bowl. Toss to mix well. Add the zucchini, toss again, and top with a pinch of flaky salt just before serving.
From Poulet: More Than 50 Remarkable Meals That Exalt the Honest Chicken by Cree LaFavour. Text copyright © 2011 by Cree LaFavour. Published by Chronicle Books LLC.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories1782
- Carbohydrates53 g(18%)
- Fat127 g(195%)
- Protein108 g(216%)
- Saturated Fat31 g(155%)
- Sodium2702 mg(113%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat27 g
- Fiber18 g(71%)
- Monounsaturated Fat58 g
- Cholesterol502 mg(167%)


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Immediate Opening for a full-time or part-time small animal veterinarian (Canine and Feline only). Our goal is to provide a good work/life balance for our staff. We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic, client-oriented, progressive team player who is dedicated to practicing high quality compassionate medicine. This individual needs to have a strong interest in surgery to complement the owner's strong interest in internal medicine. NO WEEKENDS or after-hours emergencies. Emergency hospitals and specialists located a few miles from the practice. Full-time package includes: very competitive salary, paid vacation, holidays, health care, 401(k) with company match, malpractice insurance, VIN, AVMA, PVMA, and WPVMA memberships and CE allowance.
With a complete renovation and addition, our 4500 sq. ft practice is a well-equipped AAHA Accredited practice with quality staff and pleasant working environment. Our clinic has Laser Therapy (K-Laser Cube 4), Core Ultrasound machine with Color Doppler, in-house laboratory (IDEXX Catalyst, ProCyte, Sedivue), Abaxis VetScan PT/PTT, digital X-ray & digital dental X-ray, Isoflurane Anesthesia, Fluid Pumps, Electrocautery, ECG, Tonopen, BP w/ capnog & Pulseox, five examination rooms with three lift tables. We have an incredibly friendly support staff providing a professional fun and relaxed atmosphere. For more details about our practice, visit our website at www.acvetcare.com.
Conveniently located in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, PA. Equal Opportunity Employer. Please send resume and salary requirements to: Always Compassionate Veterinary Care, P.C., 4701 Clairton Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15236 or call Barb Hull, Practice Manager at (412) 882-3070 or email, email@example.com.


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Airlines are getting better – if you grade on the curve.
They're flying fewer planes than they were before the Great Recession. That means fewer flights that can be delayed, less baggage that can be lost. According to the Air Quality Rating (AQR) released this month, it is the best performance for the US airline industry since at least 2004.
"The overall industry AQR score was better in 2010 than in 2009, due to improved industry performance in three of the four areas tracked," says the Airline Quality Rating 2011 report, published by Profs. Brent Bowen of Purdue and Dean Headley of Wichita State University.
Well, yes, when graded by the airlines' performance in these specifics: On-time arrival performance improved marginally; mishandled baggage rates were down to 3.49 per 1,000 passengers (vs. 3.88 in 2009); and involuntary denied boardings per passenger were also down.
"The improvement trend in AQR scores since 2007 speaks well of the industry efforts in difficult times," the reports says.
But airline passengers disagree – even according to the same survey. Consumer complaint rates are up to 1.22 per 100,000 passengers, far higher than the 0.97 per 100,000 in 2009.
In all, consumers filed 9,119 complaints against US airlines, according to the US Department of Transportation. Nearly half of them were for either flight problems or baggage handling problems, the report said. Taking all 16 rated airlines together, the industry improved from a level of -1.27 in 2009 to -1.20 in 2010.
Some airlines did better than others. Here are the top five airlines, according to the new report:
And what about the worst five?
Here they are:
1. American Eagle -2.82
2. Atlantic Southeast -1.72
3. Comair -1.56
4. Mesa -1.53
5. United -1.31


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DanBritt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
DannyBritt.com & Youtube.com/DrumTVShow
A globally-recognized drummer/teacher/clinician who runs DrumTVShow on Youtube (over 5100 subscribers) is completing a book called Drumopedia! A Handbook for Beginning Drumset. It is 22 chapters, extensive and includes many topics from rock, pop, funk, latin, rudiments/stickings, fills, coordination exercises, jazz, blues, double bass, ambidexterity, patterns, etc. This 8.5 x 11 book cover will be very highly exposed. Drumopedia Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?g…3269049631
Beginner to Intermediate Drummers -- All Ages
The only real requirements are: 1) the title and authors are on the cover which is: Drumopedia! A Handbook for Beginning Drumset by Dan Britt with Shahmir Kamalian, MD. The "with Shahmir Kamalian, MD" will be in smaller print than "by Dan Britt".
2) the cover has a regular 5 piece drumset (ideally with no company brand) with the 3 basic cymbal part - 1) the hi-hat [the 2 that go together], and 2 cymbals (one on each side). (This is the typical kind of picture of a drumset). Here is a picture of the setup from a different book: http://musicbooksplus.com/images/AP1313.jpg
3) This testimonial fits on it: "Dan Britt is one of the most forward thinking drummers/educators in the industry." - Terry Silverlight (The Sopranos Show Music Contributor/Paul Shaffer/George Benson). If there's not enough room, George Benson could be taken out.
One possible idea (but not at all a requirement) is to have the Bass Drum of the Drumset be the "O" in Drumopedia. Just an idea.
If you can make it look like a Fun and Educational cover at the same time, that would be great, Thanks very much!!....
I have a very large "reach" on the internet and even the ones I do not pick I can promote in the sense that a large amount of people can see your name and work (if you opt) on some of my facebook pages, so you can let me know and I can list your name and link!
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Social Media Rules For Journalists
The WSJ gave its journalists some rules about conduct in social media this week according to Editor and Publisher.
Most of them are good common sense rules for everyone using social media. But there are several that I think are wrong and should be rethought. Here are four "rules" that I think should be reconsidered and why.
Consult your editor before "connecting" to or "friending" any reporting
contacts who may need to be treated as confidential sources. Openly
"friending" sources is akin to publicly publishing your Rolodex.
>> Most journalists are going to have hundreds to thousands of "friends" in social media. And that is how it should be. We are all putting our rolodexes out there into the public domain. That's one of the trades you make with social media. You publish your social graph in return for getting the power that comes from doing that. And it is not going to be clear who your sources were on a particular story from a list of hundreds to thousands of "friends".
* Let our coverage speak for itself, and don't detail how an article was reported, written or edited.
>> This is a conversational medium. It's not the old world where the reporting was done behind closed doors. The most powerful reporting I see in social media is evolutionary, conversational, and done out in the open.
Don't discuss articles that haven't been published, meetings you've
attended or plan to attend with staff or sources, or interviews that
you've conducted.
>> I get great value from talking about investments I plan to make. The feedback and comments I get from those posts informs the investment decision and how we plan to manage the investment once we've made it. The same approach is being used by the most forward thinking journalists. As I said in the previous comment, reporting that is evolutionary, conversational, and done out in the open is often the most powerful way to report. Clearly there are times when it cannot and should not be used, but to say "never do this" is very wrong.
* Business and pleasure should not be mixed on
services like Twitter. Common sense should prevail, but if you are in
doubt about the appropriateness of a Tweet or posting, discuss it with
your editor before sending.
>> This is dead wrong. The friendships and relationships you build on social media build your network and provide the context for reporting opportunities in the future. I learned this early on via this blog. By being myself, talking about things other than work, I built a community of "friends" here at AVC who have helped me on so many ways I can't even begin to enumerate them. Social media is all about mixing personal and business. Those who do it best win.


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Arch based distributions (active)
zh-CN:Arch Based Distributions (Active) See Inactive distributions for distributions which are no longer maintained.
- 1 Specialty Distributions
- 1.1 alphaOS
- 1.2 Antergos
- 1.3 ArchBang
- 1.4 ArchEX
- 1.5 Arch Hurd
- 1.6 Arch Linux ARM
- 1.7 archboot
- 1.8 archlive
- 1.9 Bluestar Linux
- 1.10 Bridge Linux
- 1.11 CDN Linux
- 1.12 Chakra
- 1.13 CTKArch (formerly CTKArchLive)
- 1.14 DidJiX
- 1.15 Kahel OS
- 1.16 LinHES
- 1.17 live.linuX-gamers.net
- 1.18 Manjaro Linux
- 1.19 Mesk Linux
- 1.20 Nosonja
- 1.21 Parabola GNU/Linux
- 2 Meta Distributions
- 3 Arch Influenced Distros
- 4 Recovery Distributions
Specialty Distributions
alphaOS is a simple and minimalistic Linux distribution for the x86-64 architecture, built using Linux Live Kit set of scripts developed by Tomas M. It is based on Arch Linux and uses pacman as the default package manager. This operating system features highly configurable and lightweight Openbox window manager. Modular by design, alphaOS makes it easy to add desired functionality.
- Homepage: http://alphaos.tuxfamily.org
- Forums: http://alphaos.tuxfamily.org/forum
- Wiki: http://alphaos.tuxfamily.org/wiki
- Screenshots: forum thread
- Softpedia Entry: http://linux.softpedia.com
Antergos is an elegant and very customizable system for desktop. It started life under the name of Cinnarch, combining the Cinnamon desktop with the Arch Linux distribution, but the project has moved on from its original goals and now offers a choice of several desktops, including GNOME 3 (default), Cinnamon, Razor-qt and Xfce.
- Homepage: http://www.antergos.com/
- Screenshots: http://antergos.com/gallery/screenshots-2/
- About: http://antergos.com/about/
- Forums: http://forum.antergos.com/
- DistroWatch Entry: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=antergos
ArchBang LIVE CD = Arch Linux w/ Openbox (the name is inspired by CrunchBang Linux, which is Debian Linux w/ Openbox)
- Homepage: http://www.archbang.org/
- Forums: http://bbs.archbang.org/
- Screenshot: http://archbang.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2011-10-01-192203_1024x768_scrot.png
- Wiki: http://wiki.archbang.org/
- DistroWatch Entry: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=archbang
ArchEX, based on Arch Linux, is one of the Linux Live DVDs created by C.A. Exton, the desktop environment of which is LXDE. The latest release is ArchEX 2013 (130207) 64bit/32bit dual DVD.
- Homepage: http://archex.exton.net/
- Forums:
- Screenshot: http://archex.exton.net/archex-2013/archex-2013-desktop.jpg
- Wiki:
- DistroWatch Entry:
Arch Hurd
Arch Hurd is a port of Arch Linux to the GNU/Hurd platform
- Homepage: http://www.archhurd.org/
- Forums: http://bbs.archhurd.org/ Template:Linkrot
- Wiki: http://wiki.archhurd.org
- Mailing Lists: http://lists.archhurd.org/
Most discussions happens in #archhurd on irc.freenode.net.
Arch Linux ARM
Arch Linux ARM is the new unified effort from PlugApps & ArchMobile.
- Homepage: http://archlinuxarm.org/
- Forums: http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/
- Documentation: http://archlinuxarm.org/support
- Screenshots:
- DistroWatch Entry:
Archboot is designed for installation or rescue operations. It provides both the i686 and x86_64 architectures on one CD. It uses hwdetect and a different install script from the official Arch Linux install images. It runs in RAM using iniramfs, without any special filesystems like squashfs, thus it is limited to the RAM which is installed in your system.
- Homepage: https://projects.archlinux.org/?p=archboot.git;a=summary
- Forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/
- Documentation: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/archboot/Readme.txt
- Screenshots:
- DistroWatch Entry:
Archlive is a Simple-Chinese live system based on Arch GNU/Linux. It is distinct from the Arch Live! distribution, adding Chinese language software and packages, but it is based upon Arch Live!
- Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/archlive/
- Documentation: http://code.google.com/p/archlive/w/list
- Screenshots:
- DistroWatch Entry:
Bluestar Linux
Bluestar Linux is targeted at the desktop and is mainly focused on providing a user-friendly KDE environment with a full suite of graphical tools and applications. Out-of-the-box, both editions provide multilingual support that spans the globe. The Bluestar Full Edition provides a complete development environment and an augmented multimedia, networking, graphics and office tool-set. Both editions also have correlated versions supporting the Intel GMA3600 (GMA500) GPU at a 1024x600 native resolution by default, and other resolutions via configuration. Although still under development, Bluestar Linux easily supports everyday use, and changes and updates are documented on a regular basis. Fixes are always incorporated into subsequent releases which occur at least twice a month.
- Homepage: http://bluestarlinux.org/
- Forums: http://bluestarlinux.org/index.php?action=forum
- Documentation: http://bluestarlinux.org/index.php?action=articles
- Screenshots: http://bluestarlinux.org/index.php?action=gallery
- DistroWatch Entry: TBA
Bridge Linux
Bridge Linux is an Arch-based distro providing a workable OS out-of-the-box, while still using vanilla Arch repos and the AUR. Possible desktop environments at this time are LXDE, Openbox, GNOME, Cinnamon, Xfce, and KDE.
- Homepage: http://millertechnologies.net
- Forums: http://millertechnologies.net/forum
- Screenshots: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bridgelinux/
CDN Linux
CDN Linux is a system based on Arch GNU/Linux. CDN is designed to servers and routers. It is developed by Polish Freesco Group.
- Homepage: http://cdn.freesco.pl
- Forums: http://forum.freesco.pl
- Documentation: http://cdn.freesco.pl
- Screenshots: http://cdn.freesco.pl
- DistroWatch Entry:
"Our goal with Chakra is to provide an operating system for desktops that is easy to use, but still has all the functionality, clarity, power and speediness of a KISS operating system. In the long term, we want to build an operating system based on Arch Linux that meets most requirements desktop users have today, like easy installation of software, graphical system administration, configuring power management on mobile devices, or sharing an internet connection."
- Source: The Chakra Project - About
Chakra is a distribution heavily geared towards KDE4. The fresh install is GTK-free. All GTK apps are installed in a sandbox-like environment known as bundles. The project seeks for ease of use, using several home-grown graphical utilites for installing and maintanence. Warning: it is still under heavy development, nevertheless it is already suitable for everyday use. Expect some changes in the base system in the near future, like switching from Pacman to Akabei.
- Homepage: http://chakra-project.org/
- Forums: http://chakra-project.org/bbs/
- Documentation: http://chakra-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
- Screenshots: http://chakra-project.org/
- DistroWatch Entry: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=chakra
CTKArch (formerly CTKArchLive)
A lightweight Arch-based liveCD using c²DE (openbox) that includes English and French locales.
- Homepage: http://ctkarch.org/
- Forums: http://ctkarch.org/forum/
- Documentation: http://ctkarch.org/documentation/
- Screenshots: http://ctkarch.org/download/
- DistroWatch Entry: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ctkarch
DidJiX is the free and open source digital DJ software Mixxx (http://www.mixxx.org/) powered by the simple and lightweight distribution Linux ArchLinux (https://www.archlinux.org/) on a usb live system! DidJiX is build with the Archiso project (Archiso)
- Homepage: http://didjix.blogspot.com/
- Forums:
- Documentation: http://didjix.blogspot.com/ or https://bitbucket.org/patatetom/didjix/wiki
- Screenshots: http://didjix.blogspot.com/
- DistroWatch Entry:
Kahel OS
"Kahel OS is the first and remains to be the only Filipino Linux Distro with the rolling release model on Arch Linux + GNOME. In the community, it is the first to release (non-beta) such Linux OS on Arch Linux + GNOME."
- Source: Kahel OS
- Homepage: http://www.kahelos.org/
- Forums: https://www.facebook.com/pages/KahelOS-Community/185694278170677
- Documentation: https://www.facebook.com/pages/KahelOS-Community/185694278170677
- Screenshots: https://plus.google.com/photos/112769275752877962261/albums/5684026096095832209
- DistroWatch Entry: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kahelos
LinHES (Linux Home Entertainment System) is a distro based heavily on Arch and centered around MythTV, with the expressed goal of being a HES-appliance. Utilizing open source software and off the shelf hardware, you'll be able to assemble a box that can serve as a PVR, Jukebox, Image Viewer, and Game Station. Users can go from a blank hard drive to fully functional MythTV system in literally 15-20 min. For more information, please see the LinHES wikipage.
- Homepage: http://www.linhes.org/
- Forums: http://forum.linhes.org/
- Documentation: http://www.linhes.org/
- Screenshots:
- DistroWatch Entry: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linhes
The linuX-gamers Live DVD is a bootable medium with a collection of popular 3D games. It contains both the NVIDIA and ATI proprietary Linux drivers and includes the following games: BzFLag, Enemy Territory, Glest, Nexuiz, Sauerbraten, Torcs, Tremulous, True Combat: Elite, Warsow and World of Padman. Although the live DVD is based on Arch Linux, it does not offer any desktop Linux functionality except gaming.
- Homepage: http://live.linux-gamers.net/
- Forums: http://github.com/svenstaro/lglive
- Documentation: http://github.com/svenstaro/lglive
- Screenshots: http://live.linux-gamers.net/images/shot2.png
- DistroWatch Entry: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linuxgamers
Manjaro Linux
Manjaro Linux is a user friendly distribution based on the Xfce desktop environment.(Openbox is also officially supported, while LXDE, KDE, Cinnamon, GNOME, i3, MATE and e17 environment are supported by the Community.) It comes with a custom installer and additional scripts to install a preconfigured and out of the box working system which is fully compatible with Archlinux.
- Homepage: http://manjaro.org/
- Forums: http://forum.manjaro.org/
- Documentation: http://wiki.manjaro.org/
- DistroWatch Entry: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=manjaro
Mesk Linux
Mesk Linux is a project aiming at showcasing Arch to Arabic-speaking users . The project is also working on localizing Arch tools and documentation, providing a varitey of installable live mediums (usb, dvds ... ). The distro is using OpenRC.
- Homepage: http://www.mesklinux.org/
- Forums: http://www.forum.mesklinux.org/
- Documentation: http://www.wiki.mesklinux.org/
- Screenshots: http://www.wiki.mesklinux.org/doku.php?id=%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%B1:%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%832#%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1
- DistroWatch Entry:
Nosonja is Arch Linux based computer operating system that uses Xfce as the default DE. The goal of Nosonja is to get Arch close to all beginners who want Linux on their computers, but do not want to reinstall their os every 6 months.
- Homepage: https://plus.google.com/102479162698978916755/posts
- New Homepage: http://nosonja.org/
Parabola GNU/Linux
Parabola GNU/Linux is a fully free (as in freedom) rolling release distribution. It is approved by the FSF and uses a Linux-libre kernel. The Parabola distro uses the Arch Repos and fully free replacements from the Libre Repo.
- Homepage: http://parabolagnulinux.org
- Wiki: http://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org
- IRC: #parabola in Freenode
Meta Distributions
archiso is a very simple set of bash scripts that allow for building live bootable CD/DVD/USB images based on Arch Linux. It uses a small uncomplicated code base and is actively developed. archiso is the tool used by Arch Linux to generate the official CD/USB images. It is a very generic tool, so it could potentially be used to generate anything from rescue systems, to install disks, to special interest live systems, and who knows what else. Simply put, if it involves Arch on a shiny coaster, it can do it.
- Homepage: https://projects.archlinux.org/?p=archiso.git;a=summary
- Forums https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73878
- Documentation: wiki article on archlinux.org
- Screenshots:
- DistroWatch Entry:
Arch Influenced Distros
Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux is a run-from-RAM linux distribution. Its original target was small appliances like routers, VPN gateways, or embedded x86 devices. However, it supports hosting other Linux guest OSes under VServer control, making it an attractive hosting solution as well. Though Alpine Linux may not actually be based on Arch, its build system is undoubtably inspired by Arch. 23
- Homepage: http://alpinelinux.org
- Documentation: http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=Documentation
Enlisy is an i686 optimized Linux distribution for Pentium 2 based processors and higher. It is also as simple as possible when it comes to the construction of its underlying core. Enlisy uses its own package manager Apport, which is is based on Libpysrc and Libpypac, which are inspired by Arch's package manager Pacman. Enlisy also uses InitNG for the init system.
- Homepage: http://enlisy.com/
- Forums:
- Documentation: http://enlisy.org/ewiki/Documentation
- Screenshots:
- DistroWatch Entry:
"Frugalware Linux is a general-purpose Linux distribution designed for intermediate users who are familiar with command-line operations. It is based on Slackware, but uses a different package management system, Pacman."
- Source: Wikipedia
- Homepage: http://frugalware.org
- Forums: http://forums.frugalware.org
- Documentation: http://frugalware.org/docs
- Screenshots: http://frugalware.org/screenshots
- DistroWatch Entry: http://distrowatch.com/frugalware
Recovery Distributions
"PoliArch is an Italian distribution and live CD featuring a number of system rescue and data recovery tools. "
- Homepage: http://www.poliarch.org


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I once signed up for a dating site and despite stating I was chubby/fat/whole lotta woman I frequently received messages of the "well just exactly how fat are we talking?" variety.
These assclowns had a lot of cheek demanding I clarify shit that was spelled out when their own profiles often rocked euphemisms like freelancer. Have a job or learn a trade or write a novel – just don't waste my time with high flying acts of chow chowery designed to disguise your lack of ambition. I didn't care what folks looking to date me – when I was on the market, so to speak – did for work/living/rent scratch, as long as it didn't involve sitting on my couch all damn day, burning up my internets and making my light bill sky high – while graciously allowing me the privilege of financing their fuckery.
It should go without saying, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT FOLKS WHO ARE UNABLE TO WORK. It should go without saying, but since it won't – for the privileged hard headed folks in the cheap seats1 (cause of that whole othering POC thing, which frames our word choices as far more loaded and intentions far more sinister than if the same words were written by a NWL) – I've said it HERE AND NOW.
Playa, do you have a jobby job or what? Well just exactly how deadbeatish are we talking?
If the spirit moved me, my reply might go something like this:
Go to American Eagle/Gap/Macy's and pick up a pair of [size redacted to avoid "you're an inbetweenie" derailing] pants and hold them up to the light. If they look "too fat" then my delicious fat ass is TOO FAT FOR YOU. Good day to you, sir!
I am fat. I am a chunkerbutt. I am hourglassy. I got real big tits. I got a real small waist. I got some hips. I'm 5'0ish. My weight fluctuations have mirrored that of my personal hero Chaka Khan. Sometimes I'm Chaka Khan "I Feel For You" size.
Ha. I dance like that (still). *point Cha-cha-cha pizza served head snap big finish*
For like ten minutes in 2002 I was Sweet Thing chubby and often wore my hair and clothes like that.
Mostly, I'm Chaka "Ain't Nobody" fat2 Oddly enough I have that outfit and sometimes my hair looks like that, except dark brown. Damn, I wish I could SING LIKE THAT, though.
I used to hesitate calling myself fat, not because of any shame – cause I don't have any – but with an earnest desire NOT to misappropriate the term, in real life only when I won't let a zombie playa street harass me or on the web or when I'm on certain meds, do I get called fat to my face. Chubby is the way I acknowledge I fully understand that my fat is relative and my experiences have often been relatively free from the kind of tormenting – though I've certainly had my share – faced by those bigger than I am.
Besides, you just aren't going to hurt my feelings by pointing out the OBVIOUS.
With FULL FRONTAL FUCKING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am an "acceptable" kind of fat given the shape of my body and my height – my fat gets a "pass" not because I'm black. Not even cause I got real big tits, but mostly because as a black woman I'm just not supposed to be "sexy" or desired anyway. Sexualized, yes. Sexy, not so much. Being called fat – when it's tossed about in as an insult and in an ignorant manner – is another way of saying, "You're supposed to something else. Something a little less eye sore-ing and a lot more crotch tenting/soaking."
In addition being fat isn't my sole visible oppression. There are few others that get way more attention, thus it's not always at the top of my lists of things I need to deal with, but it's always there. Moreover, it doesn't change how I practice my activism, which is different than most people.
I don't seek to win hearts and minds. That's not my style and besides, they are way better folks for that job. I don't care what people think as long as it doesn't blow up my spot or the spots of others dealing with oppressions. What I care about is behavior. My activism seeks to make it unpleasant and EMBARRASSING and EXPENSIVE to engage in fuckery. My style of activism – whether it pertains to fat or other -isms – seeks to cause folks tremendous shame and discomfort so they STOP ENGAGING IN THE BEHAVIOR and pressure others to do the same. That's why I'm nasty when I smack down acts of -ism fuckery. I'm not trying to get folks to "embrace a diverse range of voices" – I'm way too pragmatic for that – I'm just trying to get them to STOP WHATEVER FUCKERY THEY ARE DOING, hopefully embarrassing them and causing others to give it serious thought before engaging in similar behavior.
I am all about the "you ain't got to go home, but you've got to get the fuck up on out of here" style of activism. I'm like Eastwood after beating down a mess of assclowns who then looks around and says, "Anyone else want some of this?"
I'll give you an example. I used to work with a woman who often used the term "Porch Monkey" (hopefully I don't need to explain why that's not a good thing when the bulk of the org's service users were BLACK). I am not the freaking thought police. I don't care what she thought about black folks, provided it didn't inform her treatment of them at work and as it related to the services she was supposed to be providing.
I made things REALLY unpleasant. I tattled. I brought it up in meetings and finally demanded they bring in a diversity specialist to shame us all via workshops for two long days. You know what, after that, I never had to say another word and wouldn't you know she modified her behavior. If she even started to say any word with a "pah" sound there were like five coworkers ready to bitch about not wanting to do "race training" again. Moreover, she became a better worker, when she actually had to do her work rather than complain about the folks she served. You'd be surprised how quickly folks change their behavior when the price is too high to stay the same.
I didn't care that my doctor – initially – blathered on about my size when I had good numbers and came in for vaginal tune up. His thoughts about my size or his biases were not my business; his behavior was. So I complained. I ranted at him. I ranted for all the fatties who aren't as mean as me.
Three years later, he's the one proselytizing HAES and FA when I lose my way. Think I changed his heart or his mind? No. But I damn sure changed his behavior. And if you happen to go to him, you best believe he won't be concern trolling you about your fat.
I'd do this for fatties who love me. I'd do this for fatties who hate me. I will have your back even if I don't like you. If someone's blowing up your spot (regardless of -ism), you can call on Snarky's Machine. I'll smack 'em down hard enough to harsh their ancestors's mellows. Seriously. Nothing gives me more pleasure – other than sex and cupcakes – than telling an assclown where to go and how to fucking get there.
As a fat activist, that's how I roll.
Now if you'll excuse me, there's a hairbrush and a standing room only engagement of Through the Fire I need to attend to. Hopefully I can finish before the neighbors call to report hearing the sounds of small animals fighting in the dumpster.
a more expletive riddled version of this post appeared on Snarky's Machine.
1 don't even start. "Cheap Seats" is a termed most often attributed to Broadway where there is no such thing.
2 and sometimes this version of Ain't Nobody fat too And you better believe I strapped big ass into an outfit JUST LIKE THIS ONE in my goth days and you couldn't tell me shit except, "Play on, playerette."


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A Shootout To RememberPosted by jstevrtc on December 14th, 2009
This fall I've had the pleasure to travel around a little and attend several college basketball games as a media member, but as I walked by the loading docks and into the back of the Cintas Center on Sunday night, I felt it as soon as I got inside. I've attended Xavier basketball games on a media credential in the past, but this time, the buzz, the sounds, the aura…
This was different.
I had expected a different experience, because this was my first Crosstown Shootout. But this was beyond expectation. I made a quick detour through the media room and, without being asked, one of the very helpful Xavier Sports Info workers showed me to my seat. I was positioned just around the corner from the Cincinnati bench, a short bounce pass away from UC head coach Mick Cronin, himself. If you're familiar with the Cintas Center setup, you've probably already realized — I was right in front of the Xavier student section.
Total. Freaking. Mayhem.
Now, that period-after-every-word emphasis thing you see above is an overused tool by everyone ranging from amateur tweeters (myself included) to professional sportswriters (myself not included), and it's losing a little luster. I use it here because…well, if I had to use it once in my life to get a point across, this is when I would choose to use it. As I said, I've been to a number of games in this part of the country this season. The only way I can think to describe this particular student section on this night is…"beautifully ridiculous." I turned around, saw their painted faces and myriad noise-producing implements, heard the unbelievable roar that flowed from them, and I honestly thought I'd see Mel Gibson as William Wallace riding around in front of them on a horse. They were both exhilarating and horrifying. And I mean that in the best way possible. I didn't grow up in Cincinnati, I didn't go to either one of these schools, and I brought no allegiance with me for either program to this game. I was there as an observer. But they numbered in the hundreds and sounded like thousands. They were already putting in a legendary performance — and the game hadn't even tipped off.


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My Republic Day Parade
By Smriti Rao
When I lived on Bhagwandass Road in New Delhi as a rookie television journalist, I'd wake up on chilly January mornings to the sounds of the Republic Day parade practice sessions.
Lying in bed, I'd listen to military bands getting ready with their marching tunes, the rhythmic "dum, dum, dum" of the drums, the swoosh of an air force jet slicing the early morning skies and, if the air was particularly still, the faint voice of a parade commander.
All of these distant sounds serve as a bittersweet annual reminder of the day I marched on Rajpath in the year 2000 when I was in the National Cadet Corps' girls' marching contingent.
The NCC is a voluntary student organization with members from schools and colleges across the country. Its roots go back to the aftermath of World War I, when the British created the University Corps to have a large ready pool of trained youth available to fight on notice. Many NCC cadets these days do graduate to join the armed forces, but I was in it for fun.
As an undergraduate, I had learned the NCC offered adventure activities like hiking, trekking and rock-climbing, all for free. Excited to kick-start my adventure-filled life, I cajoled my best friend Preeti to sign up with me to be a cadet.
Being a cadet, I was assured by others, required minimal effort. You sign up for free, get a uniform, attend the camps and do adventure activities. If you were ambitious, you'd attend a whole series of camps and trials and make it to the ultra-competitive Republic Day camp in New Delhi. If you'd taken extra vitamins and had a healthy disposition to withstand practice sessions on freezing mornings or blistering hot afternoons, you could make it to Rajpath. Easy peasy!
Preeti and I sailed through our first months in the NCC. We went rock-climbing and hiking. In one unfortunate instance, I cracked my skull in a parasailing accident and had to have stitches. My mother nearly fainted when I got home, shaken but grinning with a Hindi-movie style bandage wrapped across my forehead. Bolstered and comforted by the presence of one of our college professors, Nalini Shivkumar, who volunteered at the camps, we went back for more.
As trials began for the Republic Day parade, Preeti and I worried endlessly if we would make the cut. The grapevine buzzed that cadets had to be at least five-feet five inches tall to make the parade. At five-foot two, we were literally short of the mark. But as the year progressed, we made it further in the trials.
After several months in training camps we were both skinny and sunburned. The food and noisy tent-mates rendered us crabby and crotchety, and I developed a propensity to bawl endlessly when my parents came to visit. "If you're really that miserable and you think you're going to die, you know you can come home anytime," they offered. But I stayed.
By the time we were picked to be part of the final team for the parade, Preeti and I had morphed considerably.
On the morning of Jan. 26, 2000, I rolled out of bed in the Republic Day camp in Delhi, tingling with excitement. I jumped into my ceremonial uniform and gathered with my mates for one last practice session before we were bussed to the parade. As I stood at the base of Rashtrapati Bhavan that cold winter morning, my fingers were frozen but my heart was thumping.
I had worked a whole nine months to make it this far.
I patted myself on the back for not giving up despite all the setbacks along the way, cracked skull and all. And as I whispered with my other cadet friends from wildly different backgrounds, I loved that we all had endured the same training to make it to the final pack.
But I was also nervous that any mistake I might make would be caught on camera, in front of the President! I'd be a national spectacle and my parents would burn with shame.
As the drums rolled, our parade commander, a diminutive girl with a booming voice, issued us final orders to get into formation. I took a deep breath. The sound of my favorite marching tune "Kadam, Kadam, Badhaye Ja" lifted my entire being. The months and weeks of bone-wearying labor were distilled into this one shining moment. As my body grew in size with pride, I took the first steps with my comrades on to Rajpath to be part of the parade, to revel in what I still consider the single most spectacular achievement in my life.
Republic Day parade is all about the flags, the explicit signs of nationalism, the cheering families, the soldiers we never see and the patriotic songs we never sing.
In these dark days full of headlines about gang rape, corruption and petty politics, I am hopeful that this year's parade can serve as a powerful reminder of who we really are as a nation and what we can achieve when we put our minds to it.
Smriti Rao is a news anchor and producer. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, Ms. Rao has worked with major Indian TV networks including NDTV and Bloomberg's India affiliate-UTV.
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The conclusion of Allan May's three part series on the rise and fall of the notorious race wire service.
by Allan May
Part Three: Ragen and McBride and the End of the Race Wire
U. S. Sen. Estes Kefauver once called the Continental Press the nation's Public Enemy Number One. "In my opinion, the wire service keeps alive the illegal gambling empire which in turn bankrolls a variety of other criminal activities in America."
When Moses Annenberg, under pressure from Capone, disbanded Nation Wide News Service in 1939, Arthur B. "Mickey" McBride established the Continental Press. Born in Chicago in 1888, McBride had a long career in the newspaper business. Recalling an incident as a child, he said he once purchased 50 newspapers for 50 cents, "I sold the batch of papers for $1, and I've been making business deals ever since." McBride learned the newspaper circulation business by working for William Randolph Hearst. In 1911, McBride became Hearst's circulation manager for the Chicago American which took on the Chicago Tribune in a bitter circulation war.
In 1913, McBride was hired by Clevelander Daniel R. Hanna to manage the circulation department of the Cleveland News, an afternoon daily. This was one of two newspapers owned by Hanna, the son of famed politician Marcus A. Hanna. The other newspaper, the Cleveland Leader was a morning edition. Hanna hired McBride's friend James M. Ragen, Sr. as circulation manager there.
McBride stayed with the newspaper until 1930. He then got involved in the taxi cab business and eventually became the owner of the Yellow Cab Company in Cleveland. In addition, McBride had extensive real estate operations in Cleveland and in Coral Gables, Fla., where he was in business with Alfred Polizzi, the former boss of the Mayfield Road Mob. McBride became the first owner of the Cleveland Browns football franchise, which began playing in 1946 in the All-American Football Conference. He owned the team for several seasons before selling the franchise in 1953. In Miami, where McBride owned radio station WMIE, the commentators would regularly blast the area's gambling opponents.
McBride insisted that he began the Continental Press "on a modest bankroll of $20,000 purely out of sentiment and goodwill to provide a job for my brother-in-law, (Tom) Kelly," who had lost his job when Nation Wide folded. "I didn't buy anything from Nation Wide, not so much as a toothpick," McBride told the Kefauver committee in 1951. "I started a new business."
McBride, who claimed he never wanted to run Continental, asked Ragen to take the reigns. Ragen declined the offer at the time because he was "having problems with his federal income taxes." Instead McBride worked out a deal for James Ragen, Jr. to help Tom Kelly operate the service.
The new Continental Press's set up was designed to avoid the problems that Nation Wide experienced by establishing "distributorships" for its information instead of selling directly to bookies. These distributorships, a total of 24, were in the publishing business and produced racing guides and scratch sheet information. However, many of these operations were of dubious legality. These distributors in turn sold their information to the local bookies. The Continental Press claimed it was none of its business what the distributors did with the information they purchased. Several dummy operations were disguised as distributorships with the money going right back to Continental. One of these was the Illinois Sports News, located in Chicago and run by Tom Kelly's brother.
McBride testified that in 1942 he sold the Continental Press to James Ragen, Jr. One year later James Ragen, Sr. took over and asked McBride to buy back into the operation for $50,000. McBride compromised making the investment in behalf of his son Edward "Eddie" McBride, who was still attending college. The desire to have McBride involved was because Ragen felt Mickey's relationship with underworld figures in Cleveland would help ease the pressure he was under from the Capone mob in Chicago.
James M. Ragen had been a close associate of Annenberg dating back to his childhood growing up in Chicago's "Patch." When Moses first got involved in Chicago's newspaper circulation battles, he hired James and his brother Frank, who headed the infamous Ragen's Colts, a quasi social / political organization which turned into a gang-for-hire operation. After the brutal circulation wars in Chicago, Ragen headed for Cleveland. While circulation manager for the Leader, he was involved in a vicious battle with the city's other morning newspaper the Plain Dealer. This battle came to a head when a man was killed during a skirmish in November 1914. The war came to an end in 1917 when the Plain Dealer purchased the Leader.
Ragen got back together with Annenberg and in the late 1920s was Moses' top man in the General News Bureau, sometimes being listed as president of the bureau. When the Capone mob began to muscle Annenberg in the mid1930s, it was Ragen who the gang contacted to try to persuade him to turn against his boss. Now with Ragen in an ownership position, the Chicago mob was again attempting to gain control.
The initial approach was made by Jake Guzik, Anthony Accardo and Murray Humphreys. The mob wanted to cut itself in on the operation, build up the business and by doing this they felt they could employ several hundred hoods in the business. Ragen would continue to be a partner and his share of the profits would increase due to the enhanced income created by the Chicago mob's involvement.
Ragen, however, saw things in a different light and figured that once the mob moved in and gained experience, he would become expendable. He sought to ease concerns for his own personal safety by meeting with Chicago FBI agents. He also prepared affidavits in which he named Frank Nitti and others involved in the plot to murder Annenberg. He felt these moves would serve as an insurance policy against the mob's efforts.
In late 1945, the Capone mob struck by establishing the Trans-American Publishing and News Service to compete with the Continental Press. As the new wire service established offices around the country its employees engaged in a terrorist campaign against the offices of the Continental Press in an effort to force them out of business. In Las Vegas and on the West Coast, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel acted as the representative of the Capone mob, forcing the new service on bookmakers through strong-arm tactics.
By the spring of 1946 Trans-America was making serious headway. On April 18, Harry "Red" Richmond, a Chicago bookie, was gunned down in front of his home in Chicago. He had recently stopped using the mob's wire service and switched back to Continental. Eleven days later, as Ragen drove from his home, he was followed by another car containing two men. After a 15-mile chase, that reached speeds of 60 miles-per-hour, Ragen pulled to a stop in front of the Morgan Park police station and ran inside.
Ragen explained to the police who was out to get him and why. Chicago police provided him with 24-hour protection, but after a few weeks Ragen dismissed them and hired his own bodyguards. On Monday, June 24, 1946 Ragen was driving on State Street and stopped at the intersection at Pershing Avenue behind a gray sedan. The 65-year-old Ragen was in his car alone, followed by two bodyguards in a separate automobile. Soon a shabby old truck pulled along side to the right of Ragen's auto. The small delivery truck was partially loaded with orange crates and miscellaneous boxes, and its skeleton sides and top were covered with a tarpaulin. As Ragen waited for the light to change, the tarpaulin on the left side of the truck was pulled up and two blasts were fired. One tore through Ragen's upper right arm and shoulder. The two bodyguards jumped from their automobile to return fire. One of the guards tried to fire his shotgun, but it jammed, the other emptied his revolver at the truck as it sped away. The truck, which was later found abandoned, had been fitted with quarter inch steel plates to make it bulletproof from the rear. The gray sedan took off down Pershing although it was not known if it was involved in the shooting plot.
Ragen was rushed to Michael Reese Hospital where he was placed in an oxygen tent in serious condition suffering from shock and loss of blood. He was given 10 blood transfusions. Doctors discussed amputating the mangled arm. The shotgun pellets had shattered Ragen's collarbone, broke his right shoulder, and his right upper arm.
In trying to locate the would-be assassins, Chicago police sought Accardo, Guzik, Humphreys, and Hymie Levin. The Chicago Tribune reported that Accardo "is generally considered to be the new leader of the old Capone gang, and takes orders from higher ups in the old Unione Sicillione."
Ragen remained alive, but in critical condition. On Aug. 8, he had emergency surgery on his kidneys. On Aug. 14, he died at 4:55 a.m. with family members present. It was later reported that Ragen's autopsy showed traces of mercury in his blood indicating that someone had entered his room and poisoned him.
The fighting between Trans-America and Continental continued for months until May 1947, when McBride purchased back the wire service from the Ragen interests. The Continental Press was now under the sole ownership of 23 year old Eddie McBride. On June 13, 1947, Trans-America announced it was going out of business. During the Kefauver hearings held in Cleveland during January 1951, the committee wasn't satisfied that young Eddie, now a law student at the University of Miami in Florida, was the true owner. McBride explained the deal this way: "I talked it over with Eddie…and I said, 'Eddie, what do you think about it?' And he said, 'Well, I will be getting out of school. I will have to have someplace to go…I will take a shot at it if you think that would be all right.'"
Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley questioned McBride about his son's safety in purchasing the wire service for him in the wake of the Ragen murder. "Weren't you afraid that your boy would be bumped off?" Halley inquired.
McBride responded, "Well, Mr. Halley, that business has been in existence for over 60 years and one man got killed, you say, in it. I know a hundred lawyers that got killed in the last 40 years."
When Eddie McBride was questioned before the committee in Miami, Halley challenged him about the ownership. "You are a complete figurehead and dummy, is that right?"
"I guess you would put it that way if you wanted to," Eddie McBride replied.
Later Tom Kelly testified that his nephew, Eddie, received an income before taxes of over $692,000 for 1949.
On Feb. 28, 1951, the Kefauver Crime Committee announced from Washington D. C. that the "Continental Press, national horse track news service, is controlled by the 'Capone mob in Chicago' instead of Arthur B. McBride or his son, Edward." The committee announced that when it makes its final recommendations for legislation that it will ask for a ban on interstate gambling information, and that interstate transmission of betting be prohibited to help drive the race wire out of service.
The committee got what it asked for as Congress passed legislation after the hearings drew to a close. After a 60-year run, the race wire service in general, and the Continental Press in particular, went out of existence.


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UPDATE: A GOP organizer said both events for Paul Ryan, organized with three days warning, netted $1 million in donations. The original story said $3 million, which was an error.
Colorado Republicans wrote some pretty big checks tonight at fundraisers for veep hopeful Paul Ryan, who attended two events on his behalf.
About 90 people RSVP'd to attend a $2,500 a person reception at the home of Lanny and Sharon Martin, who live in one of the Denver Art Museum residences. About 40 people RSVP'd to a private, $25,000 a couple dinner at the Denver home of Michael and Amber Fries, members of the fundraising host committee.
Other members of the host committee for the Ryan fundraisers included Pete and Marilyn Coors, Diane and Charlie Gallagher, state Treasurer Walker Stapleton, Suzy and Mike Leprino, David McReynolds, John and Carol Seaman and Anna and John Sie.
Meanwhile, Denver resident Don Childers, CEO of the Colorado Banking Association, hosted a $500 per person fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, an Aurora Republican seeking his third term in the 6th Congressional District. House Speaker John Boehner attended that fundraiser.


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Head of Marketing
We have had the extraordinary pleasure of experiencing all the benefits of Broadbean, both the products and the dedicated team. Up to now, we have thrown just about every query, question, request and expectation to them, and not only have they met these with a smile, but they have actioned all points in less than an hour of receiving them.
We have a very complicated user system which the support team set up and manage for us, with each user using different job boards, a separate reporting capability and logins. The system has worked so effectively that we have expanded it to the rest of the company.
All of our 30 users can use it effectively, and we have not had any complaints nor have we ever looked back. The response is the same across the board, everyone loves it and we would not be able to do without it now.
The Broadbean has been incredibly effective on our multiple job posting, and now we have response tracking, we are able to post our jobs and manage our candidate responses all from one login. As state of the art as the system is, it is always easy to use and we are proud to be associated with Broadbean.