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Brian Cummins · Pro Sports Player Salaries & Anticipated NFL TV/Media Revenue come 2014
January 26th, 2013
On our facebook conversation, someone suggested -
"Pay the players a little less. I know this will not be popular. But, alot of people take paycuts."
Pro-sports players make a lot of money so I can understand her sentiment of hey, let them kick in some money! Some make more in one year than an average person would earn in their life time. But of all the pro sports, people have commented that the NFL is the league players can get beat-up and injured the most and the risk of their career being cut short is high.
Here are the average salaries per player per year for the 2010-11 seasons; number of players in each league and amount of money they make for each game played:
- NBA, $5.5 million (450 players, $61k per game)
- MLB $3.3 million (750 players, $20k per game)
- NFL $1.9 million (1,606 players, $119k per game)
Overall, NFL players get a 47% cut of total NFL revenues (4.6 billion of $9.7 billion) and apart from their salaries, a good size chunk is used for benefits, former players pensions and care etc…
For those curious to know what their favorate player is making see the following links:
- Cleveland Indians Player Salaries 2012-2013 – $74 million
- Cleveland Browns Player Salaries 2012-2013 – $69 million
- Cleveland Cavaliers Player Salaries 2012-2013 – $63 million
Team owners get 53% of Total NFL revenues, or $5.1 billion, and these owners are who the City, County and Gateway Econ. Dvlp. Corp have agreements with.
NFL TV/Media Revenue
The NFL negotiated most of their TV/Media contracts in 2011 for contracts that will expire this year. For the new contract period 2014 – 2022 the NFL is expected to collect about $6 billion per year, or $187.5 million per year per team. This represents a 173% increase in annual team TV/Media revenues from the 1998 – 2005 period.
To compare, here are the approximate figures for TV/Media revenue generated for the years beginning the time the new Cleveland Browns Stadium was opened (1999)
- 1998 – 2005; $2.2 billion ($68.8 million per team)
- 2006 – 2012; $3.1 billion ($96.9 million per team)
Brian Cummins · What do we do when the sin tax for the pro-sports facilities ends in 2015?
January 25th, 2013
Jason Russell of the Civic Commons, in his piece "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone", suggests spreading the dirty deed of the sin tax and to, "extend the sin tax to all counties that touch Cuyahoga County". He points out that the facilities draw spectators from the region so why shouldn't the expense of the facilities be shared by the region?
What should we consider in terms of the 2015 expiration of the sin tax?
Currently the Browns have the best deal of the three teams. The City's responsible for the debt and financing for construction and capital repairs and they keep all of the revenue generated except some fees paid to the NFL and a share of NFL media revenue.
The Indians and Cavaliers renegotiated their leases with the Gateway Economic Development Corporation in 2004 so the teams cover the debt. But, there are major capital repairs and improvements anticipated that are not covered under agreements. The City is stuck with expenses for the parking lot.
The main considerations are what are the revenues needed by the teams to be successful and what payments can the City and County, and possibly the region afford? So what are our options?
- Do nothing – the City of Cleveland will be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars for the debt, financing cost, capital repair requirements, and property taxes associated with the stadium and property.
The Gateway Economic Development Corporation and Cuyahoga County will need to come up with funding for capital repairs and improvements that are being considered. The debts for construction of the gateway facilities have been reported as being taken care of by rents from the teams that were renegotiated in 2004. They include approximately $70 million for arena not including finance cost, with payments through 2023 and, a remaining $6 million in ballpark debt is anticipated to be paid-off by 2014.
- Ask voters to renew the sin-tax – Continue applying what is generally accepted as a regressive tax – has a greater impact on lower-income persons than higher. The current sin taxes being levied for the sports facilities are:
- 4.5 cents per pack of cigarettes;
– 16.0 cents per gallon of beer, or 3 cents per 12 ounce bottle; and,
– 12.7 cents per 740 ml bottle of wine
- Ask sports teams to pay more under their lease agreements – an unlikely scenario due to existing contract terms, although the Indians and Cavaliers renegotiate their lease terms in 2004. Would the Browns be willing to do the same? And, what about the capital expenses anticipated but not covered for the Gateway arena and ballpark?
- Increase the admission tax for all three sports teams – The City would have the authority to carry this out. How much money would be needed? The three teams and facilities have different needs in terms of the liabilities, costs and revenue requirements. The Browns are reported to have one of the lowest seat pricings in the league. Would they accept a higher admission tax on seats that would then limit their own ability to raise admission taxes? And, what about premium, club seating and loge revenues?
- Better utilize revenue potential for City sponsored events – The City of Cleveland has the rights under the lease to use the Browns Stadium eight times per year. What is the net-revenue potential for using all eight days, and how could the stadium be better utilized by the City?
- Other revenue generating resources – At the time the deals were made for the facilities there were increases to parking and rental car taxes. The new Cleveland Convention Center and Medical Mart are being funded by a Cuyahoga County sales Tax (.25 cents – another regressive tax). Property taxes just took a hit in Cleveland via the CMSD (15 mill school levy). What other sources are there?
- What am I missing?
Call for increased private investment by sports teams to balance large public subsidies that will need to continue through 2028. 1.18.2013
Ed Morrison · Signing off
February 3rd, 2012
After a number of years of writing for BFD, I'll be moving on.
My duties at Purdue are expanding, and I'll be relocating to Purdue. With my colleagues from around the country, I'll be building out a national network of colleges and universities to support regional innovation and the new discipline of Strategic Doing. You can read more here.
BFD has been an enjoyable platform for me to share my thoughts on economic development in Cleveland. Best wishes to you all.
Ed Morrison · "The current global development model is unsustainable"
February 1st, 2012
In a major new report, the UN warns that the world is running out of time to make sure that there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of the world's population.
Governments need to make some major transformations in policy to move the globe to a sustainable development path. You can read more about the report here. For more background, you can visit the UN web site for the panel on global sustainability here.
Ed Morrison · Market opportunities for developing Chicago's green economy
January 29th, 2012
The Delta Institute in Chicago, which promotes building a "green economy" in the Great lakes region, released an interesting report last week.
The study explores the market opportunities for clean technologies in the Greater Chicago market. You can read more about the event here, including an interview with one of the authors, Bob Weissbourd.
Ed Morrison · Plain Dealer flubs its explanation for firing Tony Grossi
January 27th, 2012
On TV3 this evening, Cleveland Plain Dealer's Thom Fladung, managing editor, squirmed like a worm on a hot brick over his firing of Tony Grossi as a beat writer for the Browns.
The PD is upset about what Grossi tweeted about Browns' owner Randy Lerner.
Jim Donovan did a good job asking pointed questions of Fladung. Donovan compared Grossi's mistake — for which Grossi has apologized — with the scathing comments by Brent Larkin. From Larkin's column:
The Cleveland Browns (second edition) is the worst professional sports franchise in the city's history….[F]or sustained ineptitude, this atrocious, Randy Lerner-owned Browns franchise has no peer….
Here's background on what happened to Grossi: PD's Tony Grossi Removed from Browns Beat After Twitter Remark About Randy Lerner
Look, I grew up with the Browns and used to travel to the games with PD's sport editor, Gordon Cobbledick, who was our neighbor. My loyalty to the team runs deep based on those experiences.
What's the big deal? Most many Browns fans agree, I suspect, with Larkin's assessment: Never in Cleveland sports history have so many given so much to a team that gives back so little. So what if Grossi thinks Lerner is a bozo?
Flautung's explanations of the PD's actions were just not very understandable or credible. Flautung's assertion that the Browns organization had no communication with the PD is, well, just hard to believe.
Unintended consequence for the PD: Seems to me that the editors once again damaged the brand. Here's a paper that is losing circulation, where sports is about the only content that gives the paper a pulse.
The credibility of the paper — in the face of pressure from the Cleveland business community — has never been very strong, in my view. (I cancelled my subscription after the PD started publishing the Forest City blog.)
Now it's even weaker.
My guess: The PD just drove their subscription numbers down.
Well played.
Update: In another long explanation of the PD's action, Ted Diadiun, the "Plain Dealer's reader representative" (really?), tries once again to justify the PD's action. What the editors seem to be missing here is that the idea of "objectivity" is not the same for local sports journalism as news journalism.
With sports journalism, if people want objectivity, they go to statistics and box scores. People read sports news precisely because they want views and opinions. That's the reason that great sports writers — Tom Boswell, John Feinstein, Frank DeFord — have all developed a strong, recognizable voice.
Grossi, as Diadium points out, "is a passionate guy with strong, honest opinions, who cares deeply about the team and its fans". Precisely. These qualities are what made Grossi, well, Grossi. And made him valuable to the PD. He was a strong, recognizable sports writer covering a beat that people in this city care deeply about.
He had a voice. You did not necessarily agree with him. But that's the point. His views sparked conversation. He had credibility, knowledge, and he helped make sense of what was going on. Sports is entertainment, not news. Local sports writing and news writing are different.
Conflating the two, as the PD editors have done, simply tells me that the management of this paper is worse off that I thought.
To get re-oriented to what really matters in today's market, perhaps the editors should read this post from the student-run blog at Missouri School of Journalism: What's the Point of Objectivity in Sports Journalism?
Ed Morrison · Linking and leveraging university assets to strengthen regional economies
January 27th, 2012
On Sunday, we are launching our week-log Strategic Doing certification course at Purdue. The first class — 23 economic and workforce development professionals — draws from Indiana. We are focused on making our 14 county region around Purdue a hot spot for intensive collaboration using the new strategy disciplines for open networks.
Extending collaboration has been a focus at Purdue since former President Martin Jischke appointed Vic Lechtenberg to lead the effort. Purdue has launched Discovery Park, an expanded Purdue Technical Assistance Program, and the Purdue Center for Regional Development, among other initiatives. The process continues. Last week, Purdue announced a new Innovation and Commercialization Center.
Strategic doing provides a disciplined framework for extending these collaborations, a kind of core technology to designing and managing complex collaborations in open, loosely connected networks.
We are building a national network of universities committed to this new discipline. So, for example, Michigan State is using this discipline in its engagement activities and Arizona State has used strategic doing to design its initiatives to build a solar cluster in Arizona. Virginia Tech is collaborating with Purdue to incorporate strategic doing in a new executive education course on regional engagement, through its Engagement Academy. The Virginia Tech course — scheduled for May — is designed to help regional leaders link and leverage their university assets to strengthen competitiveness.
The University of Akron is collaborating with Purdue, Michigan State, Arizona State and the University of Michigan, among others, to create a platform to explore federal policies to support extended collaboration among higher education, business, government, and non-profits. The discipline of strategic doing sits at the core of this new network focused on Transformative Regional Engagement.
In the coming months, we'll be announcing details of a national initiative to bring the disciplines of strategic doing to national scale. Michigan State, The University of Akron and Arizona State have been at the core of this effort.
One of the important opportunities comes in transforming the Great Lakes economy, where we have the highest concentration of colleges and universities in the country. In an important paper, James Duderstadt, past president of the University of Michigan, has explored this core strength of the Great Lakes economy.
In the most recent issue of Michigan State's Engaged Scholar magazine, I explore the possibilities and the practical dimensions of how we can build collaborations across organizational and political boundaries with a common strategic framework and a simple discipline to manage this complexity.
Ed Morrison · Can Cleveland's politicians learn the lessons of Oklahoma City?
January 19th, 2012
We started the transformation of Oklahoma City in 1993.
In an NPR interview, Mayor Corbett talked about how the transformation took place and how we built confidence with the voters.
Contrast how the Cuyahoga County Commission crammed down the Med Mart.
Big mistake.
Brian Cummins · HOT AIR – Gasification, risk of $180 – $300 million, future of Cleveland Public Power
January 18th, 2012
The following posts are related to the proposed Municipal Solid Waste – to – Energy proposal, recently dubbed the CREG Center by the City of Cleveland municipal electric company, Cleveland Public Power.
White Paper on Waste Processing Technologies – highlights of risks associated with GASIFICATION as an emerging technology
Meeting the Future: Evaluating the Potential of WasteProcessing Technologies to Contribute to the SolidWaste Authority's SystemSolid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County, Florida http://www.swa.org/pdf/SWAPBC_White_Paper_9-2-09.pdf
Prepared by: Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. 8550 Arlington Blvd, Suite 304Fairfax, VA 22031September 2, 2009
Found an interesting and what appears to be a very useful report (Sept. 2009) that reviews waste management technology for the Palm Beach County FL.
Even though the information from this white paper was developed over 2-years ago, it marks the same time that Ivan Henderson, Commissioner of CPP lead the trip to Asia to explore emerging technologies (Aug. 2009). Some of the information may have become slightly outdated, but nonetheless, the most interesting factoids and statements are presented below:
(See further excerpts and references to useful PowerPoint slides here)
Note: CPP has yet to explain how this project, that has been estimated to cost between $180 and $300 million, will be financed.
See full post here.
Sources of Information regarding the City of Cleveland CREG Center Proposal
Here are the major sources of information available on-line pertaining to the project:
- Cleveland Public Power (CPP) CREG Center site
- CPP Air Permit Application
- EPA Draft Air Permit for proposed project
- Initial EPA Public Hearing Notice for Jan. 9th 2012 Public Hearing, NOTE: City of Cleveland has requested Ohio EPA to extend Public Comment period an additional 30-days to February 23rd, 2012. (Spanish version)
- Earth Day Coalition Clean Air site
- Ohio Citizen Action Cleveland Incinerator site
- Estimated maximum emissions as stated in the CPP application for air permit operating at 72.24% heat input
- Max Mercury Emissions CPP Facility vs Actual Reported Mercury Emissionsfrom Operating Power Plants 2010
- Max Potential Total PM (F+C) Emissions CPP Facility vs. Actual Total PM Emissions from Major Industrial and Utility Sources 2009
- Research on Gasification – Excerpts from work conducted by Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. pertaining to energy technologies.
- Public Comment submitted by Claude Lawrence Cornett, Jr.
CPP Announces meeting on gasification facility, provides no meaningful data on emissions
NOTICE – Cleveland Public Power has announced a meeting to be held regarding the proposed Gasification-Municipal Solid Waste-to Energy facility being proposed for the Ridge Road Transfer Station. The meeting is scheduled to be held at the Estabrook Recreation Center, 4125 Fulton Road, at 6:00 pm, Thursday, January 23rd, 2012.
See the initial Public Hearing Announcement from the EPA for the one and only Public Comment Hearing held on January 9th. NOTE that the City of Cleveland has requested from Ohio EPA a 30-day extension of the Official Public Comment Period from January to February 23rd. See the original announcement for where and how to submit comment.The CPP statement, linked here, see specific text regarding emissions, is an insult to the process. CPP has applied for an Air Permit to operate a gasification facility. I find it incredulous that while their Draft Air Permit is being reviewed for public comment (closing 2/2012), that CPP cannot communicate clearly what the emissions are estimated to be; what they've actually stated within their permit application.
See full post here, for a listing of maximum annual emissions reported in the application and for information regarding Environmental Justice (EJ) issues and EPA's Environmental Justice Policies.
NOTE: CPP Credibility Issues:
- The Mysterious Mister Tien
The man who sold Cleveland on visions of prosperity isn't all he claims to be
by Maude L. Campbell, Scene Magazine, December 7, 2011
- Cleveland's LED lighting plan – BOLD…but SENSIBLE? | Brian Cummins, May 20, 2010, Brewed Fresh Daily
- Mayor Frank Jackson kills Sunpu-Opto deal, says city will start over again to find LED light supplier
Mark Gillispie, Monday, May 24, 2010, The Plain Dealer
- Cleveland's narrow escape from Sunpu-Opto
Brent Larkin, May 30, 2010, The Plain Dealer
- Two companies submit bids for Cleveland's controversial LED lighting proposal
Mark Gillispie, Thursday, December 02, 2010, The Plain Dealer
- American Municipal Power will not build coal-fired power plant
By John Funk, Wednesday, November 25, 2009, The Plain Dealer
Ed Morrison · Forming a new creative media cluster in Shreveport by following some simple lessons
January 13th, 2012
We have been hearing a lot about regional innovation clusters lately. The Obama administration, bolstered with policy work by Brookings and the Center for American Progress, have been integrating federal programs in an effort to promote these clusters. The Economic Development Administration has launched a new website designed to connect clusters and create a new type of "infrastructure" to support this strategy. At Purdue, we have done a lot of work developing interactive tools to identify and analyze clusters. You can check them out on our regional innovation web site.
Yet, when it comes to actually designing and launching regional innovation clusters — "activating" clusters — we are at a very early stages of developing a professional practice. We have just now started the work of developing protocols, disciplines and frameworks in order to make these practices replicable, scalable and sustainable.
We should not be discouraged that our work in activation lags our advances in analysis. Activating regional innovation clusters — designing and launching them — represents a formidable challenge. We need to integrate insights from large group intervention practices (like Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space, the World Cafe and Asset-Based Community Development) with new strategy disciplines (Strategic Doing), lessons from open source software development, new tools (like social network analysis), and traditional financial, marketing and project management. While we're at it, we need to throw in a few insights from the rapidly evolving field of complex adaptive systems (one of my favorite books on the topic — Managing the Unknowable — describes the fog in which we must operate). Is it any wonder that there are cynics in the grandstand? In truth, as a recent analysis out of Europe demonstrates, most cluster initiatives do not work very well.
This weak record of accomplishment does not mean that developing clusters is not a worthy policy. No, the path is just fraught with difficulties.
For the past year, I have been working on the Space Coast in Florida promoting the development of a clean energy cluster. That experience has helped me understand how we can use the disciplines of Strategic Doing to accelerate the development of regional innovation clusters.
Here are some simple lessons.
The most effective approach to designing and launching regional innovation clusters is privately-led and publicly-supported, not the other way around. (When the public sector tries to lead cluster development, the result is usually a mess.) This principle carries significant implications for how initial meetings are structured and how conversations are framed and guided.
Company executives who initially engage in cluster development are impatient. We are dealing with tight time constraints, usually no more than 2 hours. Within that window of opportunity, we need to demonstrate the tangible value that can come from sharing non-proprietary information and building new collaborations from shared assets.
We can illustrate this point with that example from creative media cluster that is beginning to form in Shreveport, Louisiana. My colleague, Kim Mitchell, led an initial meeting of a new creative media cluster yesterday. He saw how government representatives and staff from economic development organizations can, without some guidance, take over the conversation. They can quickly move it in a largely irrelevant, confusing direction.
By inserting himself into the conversation, Kim was able to steer the focus back to defining new market opportunities. In Florida, to deal with this problem, we adopted the practice of bi-furcating our meetings. In the first half, industry members sat around the table and support organizations observed. In the second half of the meeting, support organization representatives joined the conversation to address the agenda items outlined by the private sector representatives.
Here's another lesson. Among the different collaborations that can arise, we want to select those that have a relatively large potential impact and that are relatively easy to do. As we demonstrated in the Arizona Solar Summit, we can use these two dimensions to select priorities quickly.
Finally, we need to work with a thirty day time horizon. If we cannot accomplish tangible progress in the thirty days after a meeting, no one will come to the next one. The good news in Shreveport: the founding members of the cluster agreed to come back together again in two weeks.
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Slow motion is an effect that makes time appear to have slowed down. It's one of the many effects widely used in editing today. We see it in television, movies, sports, etc. Although there is more than one way to achieve this effect, we are going to focus on the easier way. This is done in post-production.
Let's say you are editing some footage that you shot in iMovie but you didn't shoot it so that it would play back in slow motion. What do you do now? Can you slow down footage in iMovie to play back in slow motion? You definitely can and it's super easy.
This tutorial video will show you how to create slow motion in iMovie:
iMovie Slow Motion Video Tutorial
Now It Is Time To Go Out & Use iMovie Slow Motion!
Now that you know how to create slow motion in iMovie you can really start to get creative. Use it to make something more romantic or suspenseful. Use it during an explosion. There's so many ways it can be used that it's really up to your artistic imagination.
Here's a recap of steps for creating the iMovie slow motion effect:
1. Double-click on the clip in your project timeline to open it up in the inspector tab.
2. Find the speed control and either drag the slider to the left or manually input a number in the percentage box.
3. If you want to just add slow motion to part of a video clip, split your clip and then double-click on just the split clip to open it up in the inspector tab to make the changes.
Just like that you can add the iMovie slow motion effect to your video!

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1993 Mercury Villager (2 Reviews)
425,000 miles on this car speaks for itself. Two timing belt replacements, plug wires, 1 water pump, 1 strut, 2 half shafts, belts & pulleys, 1 radiator, elect fuel pump in the tank. Use AmsOil in engine & trans. Both original except as noted above. Has had body work done 4 times, but still drives as good as our 2007 Odyssey. All power windows & seat work fine. GREAT CAR, and still gets 22-24MPG.
My 1993 Villager is a hand me down, But I love it. Millage is currently at 193,000 and those last 90,000 were probably a a torcher test as my relative is not big on oil changes or general car maintenance. front brakes have needed replaced twice since I bought it three years ago, it only get driven around my town, lots of stop and go...the seat belt both driver and front passanger are stuck in an upright possition... I had more than 5 poeple stop me in parking lots and comment that they used to have villagers and loved them...


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Hottest 100?
Music | Billboard's historic hits make a soundtrack for America's 55-year dance with adolescence
Billboard launched its Hot 100 singles chart on Aug. 4, 1958. In recognition of the iconic countdown's 55th anniversary, the magazine has published a list of the hottest 100 singles of all time.
What gives it credibility is that, unlike most pop-culture canons, which are generated by agenda-driven critics and therefore all but guaranteed to start fights, Billboard's adheres to statistics and therefore achieves as much objectivity as can be expected from a collection of data compiled in many (and in some cases radically) different ways over five-and-a-half decades.
Or as Billboard itself puts it: "Due to changes in chart methodology over the Hot 100's 55 years (i.e., the inclusion of Nielsen Entertainment airplay monitoring and point-of-sales tracking and the recent inclusion of streaming data, among earlier modifications), certain eras are weighted differently to account for chart turnover rates over various periods."
Such a disclaimer might forestall fisticuffs, but it won't prevent the cynical from suspecting that it's really a cover for gerrymandering or affirmative action intended to make the list all things to all generations.
For instance, although the 21st century is represented by 21 songs, none of the Rolling Stones' eight No. 1 recordings appear, their decades of airplay, sales, and streams notwithstanding. Mick Jagger appears three times, but only by singing on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" (No. 82) and being alluded to in Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" (56) and Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" (68). Similarly, a song Prince wrote, Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U," comes in at 87, but none of his five No. 1 hits come in at all.
Still, some old-timers get their due. The Bee Gees appear three times, five if you count their younger sibling Andy's "Shadow Dancing" (45) and "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" (26), songs that one or all three of the Brothers Gibb wrote or co-wrote, sang on, and co-produced.
Ditto for Paul McCartney, who sings with Stevie Wonder ("Ebony and Ivory" [69]) and Michael Jackson ("Say Say Say" [40]) and on the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (44) and "Hey Jude" (10) and Wings' "Silly Love Songs" (36).
Most impressively, the Police's "Every Breath You Take" appears twice, both in its original 1983 form (28) and sampled 14 years later by Puff Daddy ("I'll Be Missing You" [94]), suggesting that its composers, Sting and Andy Summers, might just be history's hottest hook crafters.
Alas, unless Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" (9) and Donna Summer's pre-conversion "Hot Stuff" (78) count, Christian presence is nil, although had "We Are the World" made the cut (how did it not?), its co-producer (and CCM veteran) Michael Omartian would have too.
Of course, such glaring omissions could be cited as proof of the list's objectivity. How else to explain Elvis Presley's sole entry, "Are You Lonesome Tonight," landing at 91 while Chubby Checker's "The Twist" (1) bestrides the list like a colossus?
Played bottom to top, the songs sound like nothing so much as the soundtrack to perpetual adolescence. Fast-dance numbers alternate with slow-dance numbers ad infinitum, with the occasional novelty hit and air-band classic for trips to the punchbowl.
It's tempting to say that Billboard's All-Time Top 100 provides a snapshot of an era. But it really provides a daguerreotype, capturing not a moment but the process by which all the world (or at least the United States) went from being a stage to being the prom of a high school from which no one ever graduates.
Billboard's All-time Top 10
1. The Twist - Chubby Checker (1960, 1962)
2. Smooth - Santana feat. Rob Thomas (1999)
3. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin (1959)
4. How Do I Live - LeAnn Rimes (1997)
5. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock (2011)
6. I Gotta Feeling - The Black Eyed Peas (2009)
7. Macarena - Los Del Rio (1996)
8. Physical - Olivia Newton-John (1981)
9. You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone (1977)
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OVERKILL have been around for over 20 years and 14 studio albums, and they're sounding pretty damn good on their latest opus, "Immortalis". One of the leading lights of the New York/New Jersey thrash scene of the Eighties (which included ANTHRAX, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, WHIPLASH, CARNIVORE, BLOOD FEAST and numerous others), OVERKILL was a staple at legendary clubs like L'Amour, playing a Gothic-tinged, streamlined and catchy style of thrash/power metal distinguished by the gritty vocals of frontman extraordinaire Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth. Signing with Megaforce, the group got its chance to spread its wings first over the rest of North America and then the world, releasing acclaimed discs like "Taking Over", "The Years of Decay" and "Horrorscope".There have been quite a few label and personnel shuffles since then, with only Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni remaining from the original lineup, but the band has stayed consistent in both its approach and its style. "Immortalis" is a classic-sounding thrash metal album, old-school in its appeal and production, with Ellsworth screaming as ferociously as ever and the guitars having a razor-edge rawness that's sort of both nostalgic and refreshing at the same time. If it occasionally comes up generic, it's only because the band itself has stuck to a traditional groove this time out, staying away from the experimentation of some of its previous albums. The record kicks off in hyper mode with "Devils in the Mist", featuring some crunching guitars courtesy of Derek Tailer and Dave Linsk, while Blitz gets right down to business with a sturdy combination of his high-pitched growl and some piercing screams. The anthemic "What It Takes" follows with an arsenal of stop-and-start riffing before leading into "Skull and Bones", which features LAMB OF GOD's Randy Blythe on vocals. The latter's growl is powerful and ominous enough, but actually helps to emphasize how original a singer Ellsworth is. The song is bolstered by newest member Ron Lipnicki's galloping drums and Verni's flexible, rumbling bass, which tends to get overpowered in the mix throughout the record but manages to make its presence felt. OVERKILL has altered its style over the course of 13 previous full-length efforts (not counting EPs and such), adding different genres of metal into its sound (retro, industrial), but "Immortalis" is about as time-honored an album as you expect from the band. There's nothing essentially new here, and some of the tunes stand out more sharply than others, but there's still a clear energy and fire to the band's playing that is enjoyable to hear after all this time. The biggest but not fatal letdown is closing track "Overkill V", which doesn't hold up to earlier installments and goes more for atmospherics at the expense of being a good tune. For a band with its history and sizable catalog (they were the first of the original thrash metal acts to complete ten studio albums), despite never having achieved what one could consider "mainstream" success, OVERKILL is still making the music it does best — if for those reasons alone, "Immortalis" is a more than appropriate title.
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01. Devils in the Mist
02. What it Takes
03. Skull and Bones
04. Shadow of a Doubt
05. Hellish Pride
06. Walk through Fire
07. Head On
08. Charlie Get Your Gun
09. Hell Is
10. Overkill V
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The fall commencement program was held Friday at Mississippi State University, Meridian campus.
The commencement speaker was Cynthia Cooper, most well-known for her role in uncovering the corporate fraud at WorldCom. To date, it is the largest corporate fraud in history.
Cooper was named one of Time Magazine's 2002 Persons of the Year after detecting and reporting the fraud.
Among the highlights of this semester's graduation was Jeri Holdiness, a blind student who completed her degree, and married couples who finished their courses of study together; Liddia and Leslie Hughes, and Paige and Lundy Brantley.
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This is what the bottom of the fame barrel looks like, kids. So stay in school, don't do drugs or take much alcohol. If you hit the genetic jackpot and inherited a title, don't go on reality tv. It's not necessary. Even if you have no money behind that title, find another way to go about it.
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and The Bachelor's Prince Lorenzo Borghese are among the sad pool of "celebrity" contestants on the UK's Celebrity Big Brother.
Tonight, they all entered the house at Elstree Studios in London. Sorrention, with his eyes glazed over (because of the time difference?) pulled up his shirt for the crowd, while Borghese pretended he was going to a movie premiere.
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The other day, I revisited my black bean and sweet potato enchiladas—one of the most popular CR entrees, and one of my favorites. In order to make the mashed sweet potato and black been filling, I had to scoop some sweet potato out of the skin. Normally I'd discard the skin without thinking too much of it; it does contain nutrients, so I usually leave it on in recipes, but on the rare occasion I want the flesh on its own, it doesn't seem like a big deal to toss it out. That said, I love finding ways to use every part of a food or ingredient when I cook, and I wondered if I might not find a way to make better use of it. And that's how this recipe for kale and quinoa stuffed sweet potato skins was born.
The idea is simple: if you need to use the flesh of a sweet potato on its own, gently scoop it out so that the skin remains intact. If you cut your sweet potato in half, you'll end up with what looks like two little canoes. And you can stuff them with just about anything you'd like: grains, beans, veggies, guacamole, hummus—the possibilities are endless.
If you want a denser base for the recipe, you can leave some of the sweet potato in the skin (that's a more traditional "stuffed potato"). If you want to let the filling shine, you can scoop the flesh out altogether, and use the skin as a wrap of sorts. I'm frequently asked whether I can recommend a good gluten free and vegan wrap. There are plenty to suggest, including one of my raw wraps (but those involve a dehydrator), brown rice tortillas from the Food for Life company (though they're a wee bit stiff, and break easily), or collard wraps (of course!). This is another great option.
- 2 whole baked sweet potatoes
- 4 tightly packed cups of kale, washed, dried, and chopped finely
- 1 carrot, diced
- ½ bell pepper, diced
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- 2 tbsp hemp oil
- Juice of 1 small lemon
- Sea salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tsp maple syrup
- 1½ cups cooked quinoa
- ⅓ cup slivered or sliced almonds
- Carefully cut each sweet potato in half (lengthwise). Gently scoop out the flesh. You can leave a little of it in for a heartier skin, or you can scoop it all out so that you can fit in more stuffing.
- Mix the kale, carrot, pepper, and celery. Massage it with the oil, lemon, sea salt and pepper, and maple syrup till it's soft and evenly dressed.
- Add the quinoa and almonds to the kale/veggie mix. Combine well.
- Stuff as much of the quinoa and kale salad as you can into each half of the sweet potato skin. Serve, along with your leftover salad.
So much goodness in one place! I love the contrast of textures and flavors.
Per the recipe instructions, this will serve two people as an entree or four as an appetizer. No matter what, I suggest you serve the skins with the leftover kale and quinoa salad, which is delicious in its own right. Topping it all with avocado slices would be delightful, and black beans would also make a very tasty addition to the dish.
An added bonus of the recipe is that it's easy to wrap the skins up in some saran or tin foil and transport them someplace for a packed lunch; I did just that on campus yesterday! No matter what, these stuffed skins are a fun and playful way to approach the idea of a wrap/taco/burrito dish. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.


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Google Thanks Yahoo! for its Success
Posted by jonathan at 4:38pm EST on 04/22/2007
Very few people go into the history of Google to see where and when the company actually started. I'm doing a research project on Google for one of my senior classes and thought this point was exceptionally interesting.
…among those they called on was friend and Yahoo! founder David Filo. Filo agreed that their technology was solid, but encouraged Larry and Sergey to grow the service themselves by starting a search engine company. "When it's fully developed and scalable," he told them, "let's talk again." Others were less interested in Google, as it was now known. One portal CEO told them, "As long as we're 80 percent as good as our competitors, that's good enough. Our users don't really care about search…"
So looking back at history through that statement, Google really has no one else to thank for even the idea of Google, but none other than Yahoo! Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have not ever thought of creating their company if it hadn't been for their friend David Filo.
12 years later, after the initial thought of Google, we see Google as being the third largest tech company in the world. With search as only one element of the business core for Google, I can personally appreciate the blood, the sweat, and the energy that those two great executives, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have put into the heart of Google.
Along came Eric Schmidt and that's when things really started getting hot. Schmidt has taken Google to a level that may have never crossed either of those two young executives' minds. A level which is global. Google has reached a point where their stock is sky-rocketing, they have global presence, their products have become an everyday need, and a level where it seems people can't live without Google.
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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
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We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find that, in contrast to all other groups, for married women mobility is approximately uniform across countries when estimates are based on women's own earnings. Defining offspring outcomes in terms of family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed those for the US and the UK for both men and women, single and married. Unlike in the Nordic countries, we find that married women with children and with husbands from affluent backgrounds tend to exhibit reduced labor supply in the US and the UK. In these countries, it is the combination of assortative mating and labor supply responses which weakens the association between married women's own earnings and their parents' earnings.
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Posted by Ryan DeGama on May 15, 2013 12 comments
There are a number of contextually-appropriate ways to craft this post.
One would be to forgo words entirely, and represent Chris Wilcox's entire season with a series of videos. That would involve one part of this:
For every eight parts of this:
Note the headline on that second clip. Someone was so amused/enraged by Wilcox's defense that he uploaded 10 separate clips of his terrible defense. I can only assume it was a CelticsHub reader.
Another way to look at it would be to consider Boston's trade deadline move for Jordan Crawford. Despite his obvious skills as a dive man and physically appropriate makeup for an NBA big, the Celtics were more interested in moving Wilcox to the Wizards than Jason Collins, one of the league's most abominable offensive players and Fab Melo, whose long term upside probably involves 'evolving' into a poor man's Hasheem Thabeet.
A third way to approach a season wrap would be to try and draw some insight from the final games where Wilcox was eligible to play. So, let's flash back to the first round against the Knicks when Brandon Bass was struggling to stay on the floor while covering Carmelo Anthony and Doc Rivers was absolutely desperate for anyone to plug up the 4/5 spots.
Here's how Wilcox fared the night the Celtics were eliminated in game 6:
Here are his contributions the last four games of the series:
What's staggering about this is that Chris Wilcox was the most efficient per-possession scorer in the entire NBA in 2012-13.
You read that right.
Wilcox put up an average of 1.2 PPP and shot 71.9% from the field overall, much of that as a result of putbacks off the offensive glass (where he was third in the league) and as a roll man (where he was, again, first).
It's not a total shock. Wilcox is more frustrating than some of the other fringe bigs on the roster because for brief stretches he appears to be a rotation player. If you catch him on the right night, he looks like a legit weapon, the kind of guy who can run the floor, finish at the rim and protect it.
But he can't create his own shot. Or shoot anywhere but from point blank range. Or do it consistently.
And then there's the defense.
That's what doomed him in Rivers' eyes. Over the course of the year, Wilcox was responsible for dozens and dozens of blown rotations, soft closeouts, half-hearted pick and roll coverages and eventually, you could assume a certain sequence of events when Wilcox checked into the game:
1) He would appear alert and capable on defense until the ball was inbounded.
2) He would stick with his man for awhile on defense. Mostly.
3) After a few passes he would lose interest or get confused. Sometimes both, which is its own special kind of efficiency.
4) The other team would cash in on Wilcox's error with an easy basket.
5) Unnamed CelticsHub writers would send invective-laden emails to each other cursing the day Wilcox was born.
After a few minutes of this kind of thing, Rivers would anchor Wilcox to the bench where he'd often spend the entire second half. It doesn't matter how well you optimize Rajon Rondo's passes if you give the points back on defense every second trip down the floor.
Look, I don't know if Wilcox is a lazy defensive player or just has a low-basketball IQ. I wish we could get Kevin Garnett on the record on that topic but it's almost irrelevant at this point, because in two seasons with the Celtics, Wilcox rendered himself a liability and an afterthought. He won't be back next season and the C's will be better for it.
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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jugan
Myrtle Beach, S.C. was the setting Aug. 22 for the wedding of Rebecca Arthur, Mayfield, and Thomas Jugan, Baltimore, Md. The bride is the daughter of Thomas and Audrey Arthur, Mayfield. The bridegroom is the son of Mary Jugan, Jermyn, and the late Joseph Jugan.
Judith Blackburn officiated at the 6 p.m. beach ceremony.
Christine Davis, Mayfield, was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Laura Tierney, Carbondale, and Cheryl Kuzmak, Throop.
Lia Kuzmak, Throop, niece and godchild of the bridegroom, was flower girl.
Joseph Jugan, Carbondale, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. Ushers were John Kiehart, Mayfield, and James Kuzmak, Throop, nephew of the bridegroom.
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Luke Vinansky, Mayfield, son of the bride, was ring bearer.
Receptions were held at Springmaid Resort, Myrtle Beach, and St. Michael's Center, Jermyn.
The bride is a graduate of Lakeland Junior-Senior High School and a cum laude graduate of Keystone College, where she received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. She is employed by the Toczydlowski Law Office.
The bridegroom is a graduate of Lakeland Junior-Senior High School and earned paramedic certification from Luzerne County Community College. He is a graduate of Municipal Police Officers Training Act 120 Program at Lackawanna College and is pursuing a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at University of Maryland. He is a detective with the Baltimore City Police Department.
Following an extended family vacation in Myrtle Beach and an upcoming trip to wine country, the couple resides in Mayfield.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
I'm Okay and You're Okay
During the summer months, I basically live in various iterations of shorts-and-a-t-shirt. Siwy denim cut-offs with drapey tanks, my little black Kim Ovitz shorts with just about everything, and most recently, an ankle-length semi-sheer Opening Ceremony t-shirt dress that I snagged at their sample sale for $50 with little nude boyshorts underneath (yes, that counts). When it's hot outside, I can't really be bothered with outfits that get any more complicated than that.
My current favorite version of that uniform comes via Vena Cava. I'm obsessed with their little acid-wash-denim print shorts and their amazing easy-to-DIY safety-pin-and-bead necklace. The little t-shirt I'm wearing is another closet staple of mine by Kain. I must have at least a dozen of them by now--they are seriously the best t-shirts around. Shoes are Jessica Simpson. xo
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ICICI Lombard General Insurance has consistently maintained a profitable record for the last few years. Apart from becoming the numero uno private sector general insurance company, the insurer, in terms of the annual premium figure, has moved closer to some of the state-owned general insurers which have a track record running into three decades and more. Sandeep Bakhshi, CEO & MD, ICICI Lombard, speaks to FEs Sitanshu Swain, outlining his strategies to grow further. Excerpts:
What are the broad changes in the general insurance market post-detariffing? Has it been healthy?
The initial response to detariffing has been positive. It is the responsibility of insurers to take a robust approach to underwriting with pricing of covers aligned to the risk exposure. We have seen rationalisation of pricing in fire and engineering insurance with corporate customers re-evaluating their portfolios to optimise risk coverage. As the market stabilises, we will see a distinct positioning emerging for insurance companies based on their strategic response to detariffing. One of the outcomes of detariffing has been the formation of an industry pool for third party liability for commercial vehicles which will streamline the claims process and benefit the industry and customers.
To retain customers in a competitive scenario, insurers will focus on customer service and product innovation as key differentiators. The increase in width and depth of insurance penetration will trigger the spread of customer service networks along with standardisation of processes to ensure quality and uniform service delivery over a wider geography. There will be an increase in the use of virtual channels to reach out to and service customers in order to reduce operational costs and pass on these benefits to the end customer. At the industry level, detariffing will eventually result in an increase in insurance penetration, enhancement of risk assessment skills, product innovation, improvement in customer service and an increase in operational efficiencies. Customers will have a wider choice with better risk covers and will also see merit in maintaining a quality profile for a positive risk rating.
Which segment has seen a price realignment?
Prices are now aligned to risk and have seen a downward shift vis-à-vis tariff rates in fire and engineering. Flexible pricing has reduced cross-subsidisation and group health insurance premiums are more aligned to the claims history. Risk-based pricing of motor insurance has begun and insurers will continually refine their rating engines based on ongoing claims experience.
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Hey Thank you for the reply! Appreciated!
But actually this was a question asked to me, it was that whether the scope of the variables would be local or global, what i wanted to ask is that, even i thght in the beginning is that this is not the right way to declare the Macro, beacuse whenever the varible is encountered it would be changing the value of it to the one declared in the definintion of the Macro, but then i got to know that the method was not efficient to use but not wrong either, but what makes me confused is that if we are using a Macro then why is it required to make is Local to a function alone? because if it is a Macro then it will be used only in the place where it is needed so it is unnecessary to use it like this!
I did not find this correct because as per the concept we are told that the MACRO's are always replaced while COMPILE time and in the function we are having the value of (
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Caracas, 17 Dic. AVN.- Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday at the start of the Second Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and Petrocaribe, in the Headquarter of the Mountain, downtown Caracas, that regional bloc has transcended economic and political sphere to become a truly human integration mechanism.
"Petrocaribe has transcended the energy sphere, spreading out to economic, commercial, cultural, humanity and political areas. We want to greet you all, on behalf of the Bolivarian Government of our Republic," he told journalists.
After greeting heads of state, government and delegations attending the regional meeting, Maduro said the summit takes place where Hugo Chavez's remains are kept, adding that the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution enjoys the admiration of the world and, specifically, of the countries of Alba-Petrocaribe that have acknowledged his invaluable role in the construction of "the first phase of the historical era."
The agenda of December 17th will be focused on the creation of a special economic zone between the countries of both organizations.
The creation of the exclusive economic zone was proposed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during the Summit of Heads of State of Alba, held in Guayaquil, Ecuador in July.
The Alba is formed by Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda.
Petrocaribe, created in 2005, comprises Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Granada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Venezuela.
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Marcha en apoyo del lanzamiento del quinto motor de la Economía Comunal y Socialista.
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Gran Marcha del 1º Mayo
Marcha de los patriotas en defensa de la independencia
Marcha Nacional contra la Ley de Estafa a la Vivienda
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LEGENDS MAYBE, BUT NOT OF GOLD – Local non-golfers, Glenna and Les Ray of El Dorado Springs and Ray and Glenda Gipson and their daughter, Dallas, of Weableau, participated in the opening activities of the "legends of Golf Tournament" at Bass Pro's new Shooting Academy.
The Rays and Gipsons are members of the Bass Pro Rendezvous committee and were invited to take part in the June 4 opening ceremonies by Johnny Morris. At his request, the committee members were dressed in their pre-1840 attire and met and personally welcomed all those attending as they arrived at the Academy. After dinner, the committee members signaled the start of the Legends Tournament by firing a volley from their muzzleloader firearms. After the volley was fired, the evening's entertainment began as Tony Stewart arrived in his race car with "Deputy Barney Fife" in pursuit. As the attempted arrest was taking place, 10 Elvis impersonators, known as the "Flying Elvi" from Las Vegas dropped in by parachute and then performed on stage.
The real show of the evening began with the shooting exhibitions performed by a number of world record holders from both the US and Great Britain.
Altogether, the evening's events proved to be very impressive and enjoyable for all who attended.
From left: Ray Gipson, Glenda Gipson, T.C. Corning, Glenna Ray and Les Ray.


text: Kelly to sue over Land Rover incident 24 Feb 2014 Sinn Féin MLA and Policing Board Member Gerry Kelly is taking legal action against the PSNI Chief Constable. Share Share Share Story by UTV Staff, Belfast It follows an incident in which the north Belfast politician was carried on the bonnet of a police Land Rover during a disturbance in the Carrick Hill area of Belfast last June.Both he and the driver of the vehicle have received and accepted informed warnings over the incident.On Monday Sinn Féin said: "Gerry Kelly has taken a civil case against the PSNI Chief Constable over the incident in Carrick Hill last year."Gerry Kelly, in common with any other citizen, is entitled to access the courts when he believes he has been wronged."The PSNI said it would not comment on the matter.However, DUP North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds said: "This is one of the most petty and small-minded actions ever witnessed from Sinn Féin. Gerry Kelly is a member of the Policing Board yet sees fit to waste further police time and resources with this civil case."Republicans have given support to the police but yet some members of Sinn Féin engage in posturing in an attempt to distract the most discontented elements. That can be the only explanation for this latest stunt, unless of course it is just a blatant attempt to perpetuate community tensions."CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)Tom Elliott, Ulster Unionist Justice spokesperson, said: "The level to which Mr Kelly will stoop knows no bounds."I trust the courts will realise the nonsense of this action and that Mr Kelly will not be facilitated with Legal Aid and any application for compensation will be rejected," the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA added.The Police Federation for Northern Ireland, which represents rank and file officers, described the development as "sheer hypocrisy."Terry Spence, the federation's chairman, said: "This claim is risible and shows the extent to which the claims' culture has taken root. Mr Kelly has accepted an 'informed warning' for his actions and therefore has no grounds for compensation."This is sheer hypocrisy, and it won't go unnoticed that it was Mr Kelly's party that questioned the payment of compensation to officers who'd suffered the life-long disability of hearing loss in the past."He continued: "Mr Kelly should reconsider his decision. He's entitled to make a claim, but not to bring the system into disrepute. If he doesn't withdraw the claim, the hope is that it will be treated with the contempt it deserves." © UTV Share Share Share


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The project to create an embroidered history of Cornwall was conceived, designed and executed under the direction of Rita Tregellas Pope. She brought together a team comprising two designers, Joanna Tucker and Annie Corey, and a group of skilled spinners, dyers and embroiderers to create this unique record of Cornish history and culture from prehistoric to modem times.
The project took three years to complete and comprises fifty-eight embroidered panels. Fact is interspersed with fiction, famous names interwoven with legend. Cornwall's contribution to world progress is depicted in peace and war, in religion and folklore. Miners, fishermen and farmers are remembered with pirates, priests and inventors in the Tregellas Tapestries.
The embroidered panels were framed in 2000 as advised by the Royal School of Needlework. To mark the Millennium some panels were exhibited at different venues around the country, including Royston Museum, Hertfordshire, Helston, Marazion, Callington and at the Gorsedd in Falmouth. The permanent display of the complete Tregellas Tapestry is at Alma Place; it is fitting that such a superb work of art is on display in the heart of Cornwall.
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What Other Resources and Information Do You Have on Historic Districts?Updated
National Alliance of Preservation Commissions
The National Alliance of Preservation Commissions is the only organization devoted solely to representing the nation's preservation design review commissions. The NAPC provides technical support and manages an information network to help local commissions accomplish their preservation objectives. The Alliance also serves as an advocate at federal, state and local levels of government to promote policies and programs that support preservation commission efforts.
National Alliance of Preservation Commissions
325 South Lumpkin Street
Athens, Georgia 30602
Phone: (706) 542-4731
State Historic Preservation Office
Your State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), a state government office, is an invaluable source of information and should be contacted early in the planning process. The name and address of every SHPO is available on National Trust's website. The SHPO has information on any applicable state and federal funding programs or tax incentives credits for income-producing buildings, general information on the preservation of historic buildings, and nomination forms and guidelines for the National Register of Historic Places.
Statewide and Local Preservation Organizations
Private statewide and local preservation groups serve as the network centers and representatives of preservation activities within their states. They work with SHPOs, assist local groups, intervene in preservation issues, advocate state membership and educational programs, issue publications, engage in real estate and revolving fund programs, and serve as a preservation clearinghouse. For the name, address, and phone number of your state's statewide preservation organization, visit the National Trust's website or contact the National Trust's Information Center.
National Trust for Historic Preservation Information Center
1785 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washingon, District of Columbia 20036
Phone: (202) 588-6000, 1-800-944-6847
Fax: (202) 588-6038
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the nation's official list of historically significant structures. The National Register was authorized under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and is administered by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service. Some of the types of properties nominated for inclusion in the National Register are historic areas in the National Park Service, National Historic Landmarks, historically significant properties nominated by federal, state, and local governments, organizations, or individuals. A National Register designation mandates that a property must be considered in the planning of federal or federally assisted projects impacting the registered property, and qualifies it for financial assistance from governmental funds for historic preservation when these funds are available.
The National Register's website is a good place to find information, as it offers general information about the program, specific information about registered properties, guidelines for nominating properties, and publications about the National Register.
Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation
The philosophical principles in The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings have proven to be important in successful administration of historic districts. They are sometimes included in a preservation ordinance as part of the design review criteria, and other times are referenced in the ordinance as a required basis for developing local design guidelines. A few districts use the Standards for Rehabilitation by themselves as a general guideline without anything specific attached. Ultimately, The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties is an excellent resource for all work done on old buildings. These guidelines are used to determine whether the historic character of a building is preserved in the process of rehabilitation. The guidelines recommend responsible methods and approaches and list treatments that should be avoided. A copy can be obtained from your State Historic Preservation Officer, on-line, or from the Government Printing Office. For more information, call the National Park Service's Heritage Preservation Services office.
Paint Colors
Some local preservation ordinances restrict paint colors; some do not. Roger Moss has written several books on historic paint colors, including a Preservation Press publication, Paint in America: The Colors of Historic Buildings. While Paint in America is now out of print, you should be able to locate it at your library, in a used bookstore, or through an online bookseller; local bookstores will have his more recent publications. The National Park Service's "Preservation Briefs" will also be helpful. Two briefs which will be particularly useful are: No. 10 - Exterior Paint Problems on Historic Woodwork and No. 28 - Painting Historic Interiors.
Plaques for Historic Buildings
Owners of local, state, or nationally registered buildings often mount a plaque on their property. A number of private companies manufacture suitable plaques. To avoid costly shipping charges, you may want to work with a foundry or engraving firm in your local area. Historic plaque companies advertise in Preservation, so be sure to look in the classified section for companies in your area. Consult with your State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and any local historical commission to find out if they have plaque programs. Your SHPO will also be able to tell you if your state has a special funding program to help with the cost of a plaque. Finally, and most importantly, be extremely careful when affixing the plaque to the historic building to avoid harming the building material. [See also the National Trust's "Plaques" information sheet #7.]
A preservation easement is a legal right granted by the owner of a property to an organization or a governmental entity qualified under state law to accept such an easement. It protects against undesirable development or indirect deterioration. Preservation easements may provide the most effective legal tool for the protection of privately-owned historic properties. The terms are generally incorporated into a recordable preservation easement deed and can prohibit, for example, alteration of the structure's significant features, changes in the usage of the building and land, or subdivision and topographic changes to the property. The property continues on the tax rolls at its current use designation rather than its "highest and best use" (its value if developed) thereby giving the owner a genuine tax advantage. For information on easement holders in your area, contact your SHPO or statewide or local preservation organization.
The American Planning Association
The American Planning Association (APA) endorses local survey and designation programs related to historic preservation through a sweeping policy that encourages government support and integration of preservation into local planning processes. Please visit the APA website to find case studies and other information on several planning/land use issues that may be of help to you.
Heritage Preservation Services
Heritage Preservation Services (a division of the National Park Service) provides services, advice, and publications on historic preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation technology. Their publications include Preservation Briefs covering such topics as masonry, mortar, conserving energy in historic buildings, cleaning and caring for historic buildings, and aluminum and vinyl siding. All briefs are available online. For more information about their publications, call (202) 513-7270. Their website includes information on researching a historic building, applying the Secretary of the Interiors' Standards for Rehabilitation, technical information, and other resources for restoration projects. HPS has also created an online tutorial on the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation called Electronic Rehab. The program is designed for historic building owners, new members of design review and historic preservation commissions, architects, contractors, developers, maintenance personnel, and students. The website also has a test where you make critical decisions about the appropriateness of rehabilitation work on two buildings and get immediate feedback.


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When Garron of Kersey returns home from the king's service to claim his title as Baron Wareham, he's shocked to find Wareham Castle very nearly destroyed by a man called the Black Demon. Read more...
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When Garron of Kersey returns home from the king's service to claim his title as Baron Wareham, he's shocked to find Wareham Castle very nearly destroyed by a man called the Black Demon.
According to the last starving servants still clinging to life inside the castle walls, the Black Demon was looking for gold belonging to Garron's brother Arthur. Among his remaining servants is the enigmatic Merry, the bastard child of the castle's priest. Garron quickly realizes that she is much more than a servant: She reads and writes and makes lists, just as he does. Together they bring Wareham back to its former splendor.
But this is only the beginning. Did Arthur have a cache of gold? Who is the Black Demon? And the biggest question of all: Who is Merry?
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This seventh installment in hardworking Coulter's (Knockout) Medieval "Song" series employs stock characters (including a wicked witch for a mother), loyal household retainers, a plucky, resourceful heiress named Merry, a villain called the "Black Demon," a benevolent queen, a medley of wastrels, a conveniently separated-at-birth twin, and Garron, one of King Edward's strong-willed yet honorable guards. With a talent for saucy humor and a tumultuous 13th-century backdrop, the author ably turns such formulaic material into the winsome account of Merry's escape from an arranged marriage. Beginning when Merry flees her mother and joins Garron at Wareham castle, the novel details the woman's efforts in aiding his people, the lies she spins to conceal her identity, and the consequence of revealing the truth. Most chapters conclude at the cliff's edge, and there is little doubt that Merry will eventually achieve her desires, but Coulter's irresistibly escapist storytelling more than makes up for the predictable plot and one-dimensional villains. Fans of lighter historical romances and readers intrigued by an era when honor, power, land, and notions of duty were bound by the mandates of royalty will relish this tale. (Oct. 5)BookPage Reviews
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A young widow finds new happiness in Cowboys Never Cry by Tina Welling. Three years before, Cassie Danner's husband, a world-class climber, fell to his death. Now she lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, supporting herself through a string of seasonal jobs. This summer, she's the cook at the Cross Wave ranch, which runs cattle and caters to tourists. She must deal with the ranch owner too, child-actor-turned-movie-star Robbin McKeag, known most recently for his stint in a mental hospital—an outcome of the stress and excess of his celebrity life. But Robbin seems only crazy about Cassie as the summer wears on, and the entire community has an opinion on the simmering romance. Depth is added to the story with insights into the conflict between ranchers and environmentalists, but it's a love story at heart. Robbin is sarcastic but endearing as a man flummoxed by his first overwhelming experience with love. Cassie, while more accustomed to such feelings, needs Robbin's help to push her into the next phase of her life. This is a tender tale of two people who have much to offer each other.
Catherine Coulter returns to penning medieval romance in The Valcourt Heiress. Merry, aka the Valcourt Heiress, is kidnapped as she flees from a marriage arranged by her powerful mother, an abbess purported to be a witch. Dressed as a boy, Merry is rescued by Lord Garron of Kersey, Earl of Wareham, on his way to the lands he's just inherited. Though Merry escapes both her abductors and Garron, she travels to his castle and hides herself among his people, who were recently traumatized by a man known only as the Black Demon. Without a place of her own, Merry throws herself into helping Garron restore order at Wareham, and the two become close. However, Merry keeps her identity a secret, and when it's revealed, trouble follows. Missing silver coins, the mysterious villain, the frightening mother—is there a connection? Until Merry and Garron uncover the truth, the path of their love won't run smooth. With an unpredictable plot and characters readers will root for, Coulter delivers a tale of magic, mayhem and true love.
Gwyn Cready offers a rollicking romantic adventure through time and space in Aching for Always. Joss O'Malley has things under control, particularly a rich fiancé who stepped up to save the family empire as well as the beloved mapmaking company started by her mother. But a serendipitous trek down an unfamiliar alley takes Joss to a tailor's shop where she meets a handsome man who sends her world spinning. English Navy captain Hugh Hawksmoor has been plotting his revenge for years. He's determined to kill the man who traveled through time and murdered his brother. But when he finds his way to the 21st century, the object of his ire is already dead. However, his daughter survives, and the beautiful Joss—with the right incentive—might be persuaded to aid Hugh in righting her father's wrongs. Full of twists, turns and sizzling love scenes, this time-travel romance will have readers turning pages to find out how—and in what year—there will be a happy ever after.


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I had to repair my windows as well and did not have a windows disk but the recovery disks mentioned. My PC was a Dell though so your manufacturer might be different. I just contacted Dell and they sent me a Windows XP disk in days.
Good Luck,
I have an old Toshiba Tecra A1 laptop which came preinstaled with Windows XP Pro. I have done many reinstalations (wipe off the hard drive and install the factory image) with the included restore CD's.
But in this case I want only to repair the Windows installation.
I seem to have some strange problems with my registry as most of my programs are not functioning properly and report strange errors. Furthermore the list in Add/Remove Programs consists of many "subparts" of the programs that I have installed. And the strange part is that they cannot be removed.
Back to my question, as I don't have a Windows XP Cd but rather Factory Restore CD's, is there a possibility for me to borrow the original windows cd from a friend just to do the repair of my windows? Please note that I already have a license version of windows with a sticker attached to my laptop.
If this is not possible, is there any other way in which I can do a repair of my windows installation?