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Virgin Media Business will provide free public Wi-Fi within Leeds and Bradford city centres after winning a contract from the local authorities to do so.03 Dec 2012
Virgin said that the contract, the first of its kind awarded outside of London under the Government's "super connected city initiative", would lead to the deployment of 'small cell' wireless networks in both cities.
Virgin trialled the use of the technology during the summer and said that this "win" for the company had proved that "small cell architectures can significantly boost the capacity of both 3G and 4G networks". Virgin said that the small cell technology allows for network capacity covering large areas and numbers of customers to be concentrated on small areas and groups.
Free Wi-Fi services could now be available to 1.2 million people by the start of 2013, it added.
"Through enabling the future deployment of small cells, Leeds and Bradford can look forward to their residents and visitors enjoying mobile connectivity as it was always meant to be, super-fast and reliable as standard, even in the busiest parts of their cities," Virgin said in a statement.
"The concession agreement with Virgin Media Business ensures that the cities of Bradford and Leeds can move towards super connectivity at no cost or financial risk to themselves, and allows both cities to share in the commercial success of future small cell deployments for the mobile network operators by Virgin Media Business," it said.
The leaders of the respective local councils in Leeds and Bradford said that the development would provide benefits to businesses in the area.
"I'm delighted our citizens, visitors and businesses will be among the first in the country to benefit from a free, fast, accessible city centre Wi-Fi service," Councillor Keith Wakefield, leader of Leeds City Council, said. "Leeds is leading the way in ensuring that our infrastructure is in place to make the most of future digital developments and we are pleased that our neighbours Bradford are also supporting the regional push for super-fast broadband."
Councillor David Green, leader of Bradford Council added: "The initiative will give existing local companies a greater competitive edge in national and global markets, as well [as] attracting new companies and bringing additional jobs."
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Young Jeezy "F.A.M.E." (ft. T.I.) (video) / "I Do" (ft. Jay-Z and Andre 3000)
Published Nov 18, 2011
T.I. contributes a verse to "F.A.M.E.," as well as appears in the video. The clip also features some expensive-looking watches, scantily clad ladies and Jeezy-related headlines scrolling across the screen.
Check out Young Jeezy and T.I. in "F.A.M.E." below.
TM:103: Hustlerz Ambition is to drop December 20 via CTE/Def Jam.
UPDATE: Jeezy also just premiered the new album cut "I Do" on Funkmaster Flex's radio show. The track comes sporting guest spots by Andre 3000 and Jay-Z so you might want to check that out below.


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- November 27, 2006, 5:03 AM
Martinair has become the first European airline to sign up for Pratt & Whitney's innovative EcoPower engine washing system.
Claimed to bring fuel burn savings of up to 2 percent, the EcoPower system has been tested on Martinair's fleet of PW4000 engines in May. P&W said it expects to be contracted to wash not only Martinair's engines but also those of other airlines using Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
The system replaces the traditional detergent-based engine washing process with a closed-loop, environmentally friendly system using atomized de-ionized water, which P&W claims is not only more effective but faster.


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Pusha T - Trust You Lyrics (feat. Kevin Gates)
Pusha T – Trust You Lyrics (feat. Kevin Gates)
[Hook: Kevin Gates]
These women ain't shit but hoes with tricks
Baby girl, you different
When you're not around, it feels like something's missing
And I know you keep it real
Never tell no lie
No, you heard what they say
True love all divine
I just might trust you with my drugs
Trust you with my money
I just might trust you with my drugs
Might trust you with my money
Girl, I'll trust you with my drugs
Might trust you with my money
Might just trust you with my drugs
Might trust you with my money, girl
[Verse 1: Pusha T]
Started out as just a fuck mission
Who'd have thought I'd have fucked with ya
Dope boy, they got trust issues
Never imagined being stuck with you
Years later, we in the villa suites
Top back, we on vanilla seats
Reminiscing about my episodes
With the extra hoes, but you didn't cheat
Cold nights when you couldn't sleep
Celine bags with the giving treat
C-class helped you see past
All them other hoes, and that they niggas weak
Whoo!, I'm good money, got you talking in dollar signs
It's all good that you the top bitch
But she just wanna know the bottom line
I don't blame her, I don't change her
I just sit back and give her options
Phillip Lim, Dereck Lim, every baller gotta know she sponsored
Whoo, you earned that, now where the fuck did you learn that
We turned up, we turned out
We too far gone to ever turn back
[Verse 2]
Locked phones, passes tense
Passcodes we pass this
Pass time, presidential, Rolex is both sexes
Blue bezel, we both flexin, big diamonds, we both flexin
Pitch though, touchdown
Both sports im o jackson
Your bitch fronting thats you
My bitch stunting that's me
I break it down and break her off
I'm breaking bread and that's key
We everything that they talk about
No them haters be watching
Them bitches lerking they page locked
And they still know when you shopping
They still know that i'm balling
You still know that i'm all in
Your ex nigga, your next nigga gon hate the fact that im spoiling
Whoo, but you earned that
Now where the fuck did you learn that
We turned up, we turned out
We too far gone to ever turn back
[Verse 3]
Girl I mixed on molly, I just sneaked some time in it
Requirement is you just gotta make sure you and me on mine
Standing there standing with your bowlegged stance
Trust me or nothing you could hold in your hand
Hustle in the hood, strong with the bands
I be doing something more than a ho I can smash
I feel something bad like a bone in the bag
Pole in my pants grab attention
When you stepping out the shower and your ass is wiggling
Glance at the ceiling, now your glass is empty
Thinking back whats really
I done grabbed a vixen thats supposed to be up
In a rapper video, thats a really blow
That spaghetti sauce
See you when you not around
We text each other when out of town
We remain the same no matter up or down
These other women stay pretending
Money up and they help to spend it
But will fuck my niggas in a very minute
I was down and out and had to go to prison
Got play our road its nothing and again I say I love em
My name is my name
[Pusha T – Trust You Lyrics (feat. Kevin Gates)]
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When new superintendents start their jobs in the United States, some of them have the benefit of help. Since the 2005-2006 school year, the state of Missouri has mandated the mentoring of first-year superintendents. And now, the Missouri Association of School Administrators, which is an arm of the AASA, has a mentoring committee that extends the help, according to Chris Gaines, a former co-chair of that committee and now superintendent of the Wright City (Mo.) R-II School District. Missouri is not alone.
Several other states, including Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Michigan and Illinois, have either mandatory or voluntary mentoring programs for new superintendents, according to officials from each of those state administrator associations. They provide either a mentor, who might be a retired superintendent or an active superintendent in a neighboring community, or an executive coach. "We believe new superintendents are more likely to succeed if they have a quality mentor," Gaines says. "We need successful leaders to ensure the success of each student."
Gaines says that mentors in Missouri are usually retired superintendents or active superintendents who undergo training. Mentors receive a $250 stipend for 10 hours of face-to-face contact and numerous hours of phone calls and email conversations with the rookies. Every year in the state of Missouri, at least 10 percent of the superintendents, or about 60, are new to their jobs and need mentoring. "With that turnover, we've got a lot of people who have been mentors and have served as mentors," Gaines says.
Mentors voluntarily get together once a year at the annual Missouri School Boards' Association conference, held in cooperation with the Missouri Association of School Administrators, to discuss popular topics. Gaines says much of the discussion revolves around how to deal with school boards, how to deal with personnel issues, and how to handle budget questions and problems.
Over the past two years, Gaines says, the discussions also have been about "asking for help in methodologies on how to do budget reductions in a transparent manner." A mentor might suggest that the new superintendent dedicate space on the district's Web site to include information about the budget process. "If possible, we tell them to get the board of education to adopt a process that you are going to follow so it's done in systematic fashion," Gaines says. "And then we share with them various models that other folks have used in the state and that have been successful."
Gaines also says that he has mentored some superintendents using "cognitive coaching," which is in part about helping people figure out their own problems. He has advised new superintendents not to tell staff members or central office administrators what to do. "But ask the questions so they can come to an answer through having them reflect on what's happening," he says. "We try to help them look at problems from a different perspective and ask them questions they might not be thinking on their own. When you're new in a job, you don't know what you don't know."
In other situations that are complicated, Gaines says he advises new superintendents to contact the school attorney. "Sometimes," he says, "they need more specific expertise."


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Most people who know about Torture Squad (however few that actually exist) probably have heard of how much of a piece of orgasm Pandemonium is. And while that album is indeed very fucking excellent, earlier Torture Squad should by no means be overlooked. This album is basically a more old-school Death Metal-ish version of Pandemonium, with the riffs having slightly more in common with Death than with Thrash (though the balance is still maintained for the most part), and the production sounding slightly less polished. Vitor Rodrigues alternates between high-pitched screams and Death growls like always (kind of like Wagner Antichrist or Glen Benton, but slightly more controlled), and the drumming and guitar playing is technical yet not wankish… like always. And again like always, there's an onslaught of guitar riffs every minute, with an early '90s Morrisound guitar tone to match. So essentially, this isn't all that different from recent Torture Squad, though the songwriting isn't quite as well-developed in places (the middle of Murder Of A God kind of meanders a bit before it goes back to the main riff).
For those of you who aren't yet familiar with Torture Squad, basically what makes them kick so much ass is that they sound similar to most old-school bands (Sepultura, Suffocation, Atheist, Deicide, etc.), while at the same time they don't rip off any of those bands. Rather, they use those influences as building blocks to create their own unique sound, and the end result is very pleasing to fans of old-school Death/Thrash Metal. They sound familiar, yet unique at the same time. On this album in particular, they also tackle all different kinds of speeds and excel at all of them, with nice blastbeating moments (Convulsion), midpaced moments worthy of banging your head to (Agonies In Your Brain), and heavy as fuck almost-Doomish parts (the title track). The lyrics mostly have to do with speaking out about things like the idiocy of religion and politics and the like. They're pretty well written for a band whose native language isn't English.
In the end, this is a very good album that I suggest searching out for. If you don't already have Pandemonium though, get that first, and if you want more, then check this out. The remastered version comes with 5 bonus live tracks, which demonstrate Torture Squad's prowess in the live field. This is the version I suggest getting. Hails to Torture Squad for a killer release! \m/
Highlights: Murder Of A God (which aside from the already-mentioned middle part is still a good song), Agonies In Your Brain, Convulsion, etc.


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I just had botox from a plastic surgeon in Milan, Italy, and he used 50 units. I had around my eyes and my forehead done. I paid 800 euro....which seems too much!
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Hello, thank you for your question! Actually, since there are 25 units in one syringe of botox, 50 units is not too much for most people who have active muscle movements. I use between one to two syringes on most of my clients, depending on their desired look and muscle use. Prices vary from different locations, and since you had it done in a different country altogether, I would suggest looking up online the typical prices in their currency for that procedure to compare.
Is 50 units of Bocouture too much?
Depending on how strong your muscle movement is and if thats a look you want to achieve,(Frozen) this may be reasonable.
Is 50 units of Botox too much?
50 units of Botox to treat the forehead and around the eyes is not an unreasonable amount to use for both those areas. 800 euros is probably more than you would have paid in the U.S. for the same amount, but the costs are going to vary by injector.
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"Viva Pinata, one of the best game I've ever played."
Viva Pinata is a game where your goal is to become the very best Pinata gardener ever. Sounds pretty child-ish, right...WRONG. This game is one of the best games I own for the Xbox 360. And I gotta say it is my favorite. I haven't even played any of my other games since I got this. That's how addicting it is.
The graphics in this game are absolutely incredible. When I first played this game I thought that the graphics ok. But after you play for a while you'll start to realize just how good they are. I mean you can see each and every individual blade of grass in your garden. And all the little paper confetti stuff on the back of your pinatas. They are really amazing.
Score: 10/10
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You start out with a not-so-decent garden and you have to clean it up in order to get all the different pinatas to come and hopefully stay at your garden. The game is very addicting after you get past the 30-60 minute tutorial about how to play and all the little things about the game. But after that it is soo much better. I was so surprised at how much I wanted to keep playing so that I could get another pinata or make one of them romance. It is soo much fun.
Score 10/10
I thought the sound was really good. The music fits in very nicely with the game. And each pinata makes their own little sounds. And what I really liked is that no matter what is said there is still voice acting added. No matter how much it doesn't matter, there is still voice acting and I thought that was really cool.
Score 10/10
I could play this game 24/7 if I could and probably never get bored of it, or at least not for a really long time. You can have up tp eight gardens. Which is really cool because then you can have different pinatas, or make a themed garden with only one type of pinata. There are just soo many different possibilities. I really don't see how I'll ever get bored o this game.
Score: 10/10
If your still sceptical about this game then go ahead and rent it. But you will probably not even be able to scratch the surface of how great this game is in the amount of time you'll have until you have to return it. I would definitely consider buying this as soon as you have the money, I'm sure you wont regret it.
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The last of the 11 V-Not gang members arrested for the murder of a Syracuse high school basketball star pleaded guilty.
28-year-old Kahari Smith admitted to conspiracy and intentionally shooting Henninger High School basketball player Kihary Blue back on November 26th, 2010. The shooting was part of a feud between the V-Not and the Bricktown gangs.
Smith shot at another car while driving on Interstate 81 in downtown Syracuse. Earlier this week 27-year-old Habakkuk Nickens admitted to driving the car into position so Smith could shoot and kill Blue, who was a passenger in the back seat of the other car.
As part of the guilty plea, Smith admitted to conspiracy to exploit gang members and protecting a territory to sell crack using violence charges between at least 2003 and May of 2012. This includes cases of murder and attempted murder going back to 2010.
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The Bucks are ready to trade Monta Ellis after he turned down a two-year extension, tweets Chris Broussard of ESPN, also mentioning that Ellis wanted to play out this season first. Earlier, we heard from HoopsWorld's Alex Kennedy about the expectation by some around the league for Monta to opt out of his contract this summer and sign with a contender, so it will be interesting to see how Milwaukee handles this situation over the next two days. Broussard had a wave of Twitter updates to share in the past hour, all of which you can find below:
- The Hornets have made Eric Gordon available for a trade, but Broussard anticipates a lack of interest considering doubts about his health moving forward. The notion that New Orleans is willing to listen to offers for Gordon shouldn't come as a surprise, as we heard a similar report earlier this month.
- The Celtics are willing to move Rajon Rondo in the right deal. The Wizards have been actively shopping Jordan Crawford.
- A list of players who are currently on the trade market: Nets forward Kris Humphries, 76ers guard Evan Turner, Bobcats guards Ben Gordon and Gerald Henderson, Spurs' DeJuan Blair, Raptors big man Andrea Bargnani, Jazz big men Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap, Magic guard J.J. Redick, and Timberwolves forward Derrick Williams (All Twitter links).
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GWEN IFILL: Technology changed the speed and the accuracy with which we learned of the Boston attacks, but it also quickly became a platform for the nation's shock and grief.
NewsHour political editor Christina Bellantoni talked with our Daily Download team about that.
CHRISTINA BELLANTONI: For that look at how technology factored into yesterday's tragedy I'm joined by Lauren Ashburn, Daily Download editor-in-chief, and Howard Kurtz, Newsweek's Washington bureau chief and host of CNN's "Reliable Sources."
Thanks for being here.
So, after 9/11, we saw people physically putting up photos of their missing loved ones in Lower Manhattan. Yesterday, the Internet provided a sense of comfort for some. What did we see?
LAUREN ASHBURN, Daily-Download.com: Well, Google Person Finder factored into this. We have a graph that can show you exactly what it looks like.
There's a big button that says "I'm looking for." You can type in the name of somebody. Or "I have information about," and you can also type in the name of someone. Then you can take this tool and embed it on your own website.
So, in the aftermath of disaster, Howie, it really seems like this tool and others are much more effective than going to the bulletin board near the World Trade towers and scanning all of the pictures.
HOWARD KURTZ, Newsweek/CNN: And the tone of Twitter, where there were about five million tweets in 24 hours according to the website Topsy, was very striking to me, because, in the beginning, when Twitter was young, journalists kind of looked down their nose, well, anybody can post anything. How do we know it's true? And often things were not true.
Now, while there were examples of excesses in partisanship, I found, really, Twitter has almost grown up. There was a tone of restraint and people saying they were not going to retweet every last bit of speculation, and even criticizing the mainstream media for speculating about who was behind this attack.
LAUREN ASHBURN: Journalists did that, too.
CHRISTINA BELLANTONI: And there was a lot of misinformation out there. You have seen that in the wake of a lot of different types of tragedies, that major news …
LAUREN ASHBURN: Not so much now, though, during this one.
You remember Hurricane Sandy, when there were doctored pictures of a shark swimming through a New Jersey neighborhood. And the call, as Howie said here, was for restraint, a lot of journalists and other people saying don't retweet things that you don't know to be true.
HOWARD KURTZ: There was the New York Post mistakenly reporting, for example, that the death toll was 12, not initially two or three, and saying there was a Saudi suspect, when that was unconfirmed. Twitter spanked the news organizations that went off the rails.
CHRISTINA BELLANTONI: Sure.
And, on Facebook, this became a site where people could check in on their friends that were running the marathon or people that lived up there. You also saw like this online tribute that was created by a D.C.-based designer, Matt Ortega. He posted all these sports-themed Facebook images that you could share with your friends to sort of show solidarity there.
LAUREN ASHBURN: I saw lots of memes put together, a heart of the city of Boston saying "We love you" that had the actual map of the city on it.
It was an outpouring of love, as there is oftentimes amidst tragedy. But there was also not some very helpful things. There was an "_bostonmarathon" on Twitter that was taken down within an hour because it was fake. They were asking for money. And we have seen that a lot in the past. But this one was caught very quickly.
HOWARD KURTZ: And not just on Facebook, but as you were saying before we came on the air, on Tumblr and Instagram. You had a sense of community, sharing of photos, sharing of feelings, sharing of sympathy.
It used to be television was the place where everybody gathered around the hearth. And television still played a very important role, the broadcast networks going wall-to-wall for a while, but now you see that much more online. And the tone was heartening.
CHRISTINA BELLANTONI: Even our own Mr. Rogers from PBS, this quote that he said about finding the helpers, that's a way to comfort children in times of tragedy, was going viral.
LAUREN ASHBURN: I found it very interesting also who was first.
You know, journalism, part of the problem in breaking news stories is that everybody rushes to be first. Well, here, it was a Twitter picture of someone saying "Holy cow" and hashtag "explosion." And that was at 2:50 p.m. on Monday.
HOWARD KURTZ: Monday.
LAUREN ASHBURN: And then the Boston Police Department didn't confirm it until 3:39.
Twitter had the actual pictures and eyewitness accounts, and TV and radio and the Net had to really play catch-up.
HOWARD KURTZ: There are more people tweeting than there are journalists in the world. So, it's often going to get there first.
CHRISTINA BELLANTONI: Sure.
And you saw some actual physical tributes, like this Light Brigade picture that we have here, the Overpass Light Brigade. This was something that was really shared a lot on social media as well.
LAUREN ASHBURN: And there were other ones, too, like that, in different cities. There was one in New York that said "N.Y. Heart" and then a B. in the …
HOWARD KURTZ: Boston Red Sox, yes, logo.
LAUREN ASHBURN: … Boston Red Sox logo.
HOWARD KURTZ: You mentioned the Boston Police Department. Now, that was very aggressive in using online, Twitter.
CHRISTINA BELLANTONI: Yes.
Let's talk more about how investigators are soliciting this information from crowds via social networking, like this tweet from the Boston Police Department saying that we're looking for video of the finish line. Is this unusual?
LAUREN ASHBURN: Well, they used it more.
What I found interesting is if you looked at the Boston Police Department's Twitter feed, at 1:38 in the afternoon, they put up a picture of runners at the finish line. And at — by the time it was 3:39, they came out with the announcement. They used that Twitter feed to get out information, like a — commissioner, what he's saying, what areas are closed, what you can do for loved ones, where you can find things.
And the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said, use your — if you're having a problem with your cell phone, use your texting, and that has less bandwidth.
HOWARD KURTZ: With cell service having been shut down for a while after the bombings, this really was the way to communicate for the police and for people using social media.
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The boy of summer grows up
It's like watching someone die or seeing Newt Gingrich having sex on a kitchen counter.
I have an image that just won't leave my head, though this particular memory is hardly in the above category.
Years back, Kenny Rogers and then-pitching coach Tom House sat on a secluded bench under an outfield eave at Arlington Stadium. House, the amateur psychologist, was always counseling somebody. And Rogers usually needed it--on the field, anyway.
"Now Kenny," said the coach like the young uncle who has been asked to talk some sense into his teenage nephew, "there is the game before the game [long pause], the game during the game [longer pause], and the game after the game."
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Rogers, who struggled so much, looked down at his fingers and counted off each phrase, as he slowly repeated the mantra, as if it were a cheat sheet for a multiple-choice biology test.
Back then, everything was a test for Kenny Rogers. I walked away, half grinning at the sight, but knowing that whatever brain cells were taking notes inside that pitcher's head, they had better do it in shorthand.
Kenny Rogers had a lot to learn to control--the pressure he put on himself, the fear of failure, the occasional flash of temper--before he'd ever control the American League.
Now, Rogers owns his head. Hell, he owns the American League. Last Thursday night, his streak of consecutive shutout innings ended at 39 1/3. Of course there was the perfect game last year. He has been named AL pitcher of the month for May.
With Kevin Brown gone, Rogers is the ace of the Rangers' pitching staff, and unlike Brown, Rogers is acting like one.
When his scoreless streak ended Thursday, the crowd stood and roared for almost a minute.
"I didn't know what to do," says Rogers. "To acknowledge it would have seemed disrespectful to the other team, but finally, I felt like I needed to."
And he--or at least the man rumored to be Kenny Rogers--tipped his cap.
No one, not even Kenny Rogers, knows for sure why he has changed so much--in both attitude and statitude. It's all speculation--from a better breaking ball to better company in the clubhouse.
The latter is a particularly popular theory, though not one Rogers himself espouses.
Rogers was part of the little pack on the far side of the Rangers clubhouse. He was flanked by Rafael Palmeiro and Kevin Brown and seen as a follower.
A friend of Brown's, he was forever lending an ear for Brown's bitching.
"I think it would do a disservice to Kenny to say just because Kevin Brown is gone, he is a better pitcher," says former Rangers general manager Tom Grieve. "Maybe it could be just one small factor, but not the reason. A lot of it just has to do with maturing and experience."
General manager Doug Melvin doesn't detail his thoughts about Rogers prior to Melvin's joining the organization. Though it is clear that reports from "the other side" (when Melvin was in Baltimore) were not overly positive.
"Without naming names from the past," says Melvin," I think he is surrounded by the right people now."
Kenny Rogers has learned how to behave. And he has learned how to pitch. Linking these changes to previous members of this team is more than fair, argues more than one Rangers official.
"Kevin wanted the money and wanted to be the ace, but he couldn't stand the pressure and didn't pitch like the ace," says a Rangers insider. "Kenny enjoys this role. He longs for this role and is adjusting to it well."
Rogers never pitched until he was paid to in the minors. He didn't even play ball until his senior year in high school, and that was in the outfield. He batted .375 and defense was his forte. In the June free-agent draft of '82, the Rangers finally drafted the kid because he had a strong arm.
In 1992, the Rangers were sending him out in relief so much that anyone else in the American League would have been wasted. Hell, anything outside of an octopus would have run out of arm. But Rogers just kept going back, setting longevity records with a chain of inning after inning pitched in relief.
In the middle of that, I asked Rogers what he thought of a variation on the every-guy-has-a-finite-number-of-pitches theory: Rogers was such a horse because he had been picking strawberries on his folks' farm in Florida instead of ruining his arm with the rest of the teenagers.
"You know," Rogers said that night, "I never thought about it, but that might have a lot to do with it."
But what could have to do with Rogers becoming one of the best pitchers in baseball?
Kenny says the change in him--and believe me, he is different--is due a lot to just being happy, in his work, his city, his personal life.
"And I've learned how to pitch," he says. "As a reliever, I was just going out there throwing out everything trying to get guys out.
"I am finally learning to pitch instead of just throwing."
Just throwing 'em up. No one then thought Kenny had the wherewithal to start a ball game, to pitch long innings. The stuff just wouldn't hold out.
In those days it was fastball, changeup. Fastball, changeup.
Now, Rogers' breaking ball is suitable for framing as well.
But how does a man get to be this much different? OK, maybe not to people who see him in sound bites or on a TV screen, but I left last year to cover the Phillies, came back, and didn't even recognize the words I heard from this man's mouth as belonging to Kenny Rogers.
He has matured, and he has worked at maturing, both on the mound and at the locker. Some guys are content to live with their immaturity in this game. Like being a fat woman working in Lane Bryant--it's real easy to stay that way. This game is full of children, with no mechanism to compel them to grow up.
It would have been easy for Rogers to stay the way he was. To his credit, he has worked hard to get better, in his heart, his head, and within the game.
Not that Kenny Rogers was ever a bad guy. Though he has had his transgressions, such as last year when he pushed reporter Simon Gonzalez out of the clubhouse. Other than an apology from Rogers, the two have never discussed the incident.
But take the Rangers luncheon last month. The man I heard talking up there was a leader, humbled by his success more than anything.
Rogers told Doug Melvin that he had been in the Rangers organization almost half his life. That includes seven years of struggling in the minors, being more chronically injured than an old Chihuahua, and nearly giving it all up all together several times. And the latter is no exaggeration. He had plenty of failure to make him want to give up, go back to Florida, and put that arm to work in the strawberry fields.
"He told me he wanted to be here," Melvin says. "We got a lot of things out on the table, and that was important. From the other side [Baltimore], it was not that Kenny was a bad guy. I had heard he was not a leader, he was a follower.
"When we sat down and talked, I saw another Kenny Rogers I had not seen before. Now you see him doing things like a Greg Maddux is doing.
"A lot of people thought Kenny Rogers didn't have no hot stuff, but you can't tell what's inside a guy. The first time in spring training, Oates and Bosman saw him and said, 'We gotta find the money and keep this guy.'
"It wasn't so much what we saw from him as what we heard--though we didn't see 39 scoreless innings. When Kevin Brown was here, he was the No. 1 pitcher."
More than anything else, Rogers has willed himself to mature and learn. If he benefited from the departures of Brown and Palmeiro, says Grieve, it might be because he saw what happened to them could happen to him. That is, he could be gone.
"This [the success and recent award], shows to me, if no one else, that I am a capable pitcher," Rogers says.
That would be part of "the game before the game."
After the game, last Thursday, he stands talking happily with two reporters after the rest of the media horde have wandered off. One suggests the key to his success is the electronic chess game sitting between his and Kevin Gross' locker. (Gross even got a book so he could get better).
"Yeah, that's it," Rogers says. "Maybe I had to get smarter to be a better pitcher. That's part of it."
Then he proudly holds up his new shirt, which he says he will put on in exactly an hour and a half. (Kenny's diggin' his new role).
"There's nothing like being..." says the red lettering across an athletic gray front.
Rogers flips the T-shirt for the punchline on the back: "...the winning pitcher yesterday."
Years back, a reporter asked the singer Kenny Rogers if he had heard of the pitcher Kenny Rogers.
The singer-turned-chicken-chopper hemmed and hawed a little and said that yes, he thought he'd heard of the pitcher guy.
Last summer, Rogers pitched one of just 15 perfect games since 1880, with two of those before the advent of modern baseball. No-hitters can be flukes; perfect games are not. They are majesty.
The next day, the Branson, Missouri, star sent the American League's high rider a congratulatory telegram.
Now everyone--even Kenny Rogers--knows Kenny Rogers.
And no one in Arlington really wants to think much anymore about Kevin Brown.
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Easily Move Items to Different Lists With Google Tasks
Have you been using Google tasks to manage your "to do" lists? You can turn Tasks on in the Labs section of your Gmail settings. Once it's enabled, you will find Tasks under your contacts and you can start creating your virtual lists!
Well Google has just announced a new helpful feature in Tasks that is sure to make all of our lives easier. Say you are quickly jotting down notes in your Tasks list throughout the day, but you want to go back later and organize each item in its appropriate list?
Well now you can easily move them to a list by clicking on the arrow to the right of the task. And if you want to create a new list like shopping or travel, etc., just click on the paper icon at the bottom right of the Tasks screen and click on "new list." I think I can officially kiss my text edit "to do" lists goodbye.


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The only thing that the group has in common is that they are all my Livemocha friends.
Probably none of them thinks of themselves as linguists -- just people who want to learn languages.
One, for example, whose username is Branka, a Croatian and English native speaker, is spending an unbelievable amount of time studying languages on that site.
Today, I began to study a language again, because I remembered how interesting it is -- along with the community you find. I chose Swedish for now.
The language lessons are set up as "parallel texts" so that if you go from one language to another, the material is the same. I should probably start to diagram the material.
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For the last few years I have been the caretaker of my sister who now has a serious heart condition ( 2 hearts surgeries so far this year !)
She has 3 children, her oldest 2 live in another state ( where she use to live) with their families, her youngest, a son, who is 20, still lives with us, he has always ha learning problem, and he is what you would call "slow" , he is capable of doing alot but on the othe hand he would probably never be able to live on his own.
He recently met this girl who, she too is what you would call "slow" , she does live on her "own", however it is in an apartment building that is only for people with certain "problems" ...
She has a 2 year old daughter who she believes she is raising, but in fact the father's family has full custody and she is just aloud to spend time with her...
She is still married to that little girls father ( who too, has "problems"), and just a few weeks ago, she talked openly about having a miscarriage by him ...
Now the problem is, she started saying she was pregnant again by my nephew ... wrote it all over facebook, called several of our family memebers to tell them, even called her case manager to tell her about it...
SHe then made a post on facebook about getting ready tocal my sister and tell he about the pregnancy ... I replied with a " maybe you should wait until you find out for sure" ... because she only took a home pregnancy test, and since she just had a miscarriage a few weeks ago, I just thought she should wait until she was 100% before making my sister upset... Well she and several other people got mad at that and was sending me mean messages over this... Also I find it horrible that she would do that, because it would probably be a very small chance that it would be my nephews child, sice they just met 2 weeks ago !!!!!!! I wasnt evn sure you could find out you were pregnant at just 2 weeks ???
Of course she called my sister, my sister was horrified ! and has been in bed ever since..
THEN, today she goes to th doctor and finds out she is NOT pregnant .... and nephew still wants to sta with her, even talking about moving in with her ....
What would you do ?
Also, they both get SSI for their "problems", even if they put that money together, they would barely have $1400 - how can they eventhink of being able to have kids on that, let alone, we knowthey would not be able to raise the baby.... I m almost 70 years old, I can not do it, obviously my sister could not do it and er family has nothing to do with her !!!
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Now that VAs face suitability requirements, is life insurance far behind?
Variable annuities now have stricter suitability rules than apply to other securities. FINRA and the SEC have determined that the logical purchaser of a variable annuity needs more consumer protection than is necessary for other investments. In addition, recent years have seen the state insurance regulators follow FINRA's and the SEC's lead and began the process of requiring greater suitability screening for fixed annuities. While these new requirements are not yet in effect in all jurisdictions, it is only a matter of time until they will be applicable--not just to products like fixed indexed annuities, but to all annuities. Thankfully, the state insurance regulators have not added a second layer of suitability regulation for variable annuities at the state level to that already applied by FINRA and the SEC--at least not yet.
Now that suitability screening is a priority of regulators with respect to annuities, can similar requirements be far behind when it comes to other life insurance products? The reason for increased suitability screening for annuity transactions as stated by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is "to protect consumers from the unlawful or unethical practices of producers and insurers who gain from unsuitable sales transactions." Apparently, the NAIC, along with FINRA and the SEC, believes that annuities are so complex and difficult to understand that consumers need special protections to ensure that these products are "suitable" for their needs. It is not a great leap to determine that traditional life insurance products are of equal or even greater complexity than annuities, so the trend toward greater suitability standards may well extend to other life insurance products in the not too distant future.
No one can argue with the concept that consumers should not be pressured to buy inappropriate or unsuitable financial products; particularly when such products may involve a substantial portion of the consumer's net worth. Unfair trade practice laws and regulations have been in effect in most states for decades. These laws and regulations are intended to prevent consumers from being preyed upon with respect to most types of transactions. Only securities, and now annuities, have been singled out as needing enhanced consumer protection. These suitability requirements lead us to this question: What is the definition of a "suitable" transaction?
Obviously, a "perfect" product would, in all instances, be a "suitable" one. Yet, perfection, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. A review of FINRA arbitration claims would lead to the conclusion that, with respect to variable annuities, a "suitable" product is one that always increased in value--that is, was not subject to downward market fluctuations. Many consumers who purchased variable annuities seem to have the opinion that when the market goes up, the variable annuity they purchased was "suitable." On the other hand, when the market goes down, the product was "unsuitable" and the person who sold it to them engaged in misconduct.
"Suitability" is difficult to define as a positive term. It is easier to define as a negative term, that is, what is "unsuitable." Thus, it is far easier to find that a particular product is not suitable than to determine that it is suitable. The rules require that the suitability determination be a positive one where the salespeople (and those responsible for supervision of salespeople) determine that an annuity is "suitable" for the consumer's needs. We have long believed that such a determination is, in fact, difficult to make. Instead, a determination that a product is not "unsuitable" makes more sense. Unfortunately, the legal standard does not agree so sales people and their supervisors must make a positive determination that an annuity is "suitable"--whatever that means.
Traditionally, a financial advisor was only obligated to make a suitability determination on the sale of a variable annuity if the advisor made a recommendation to the customer to purchase the product. Recent years have seen an effort to impose the necessity for suitability screening even if the purchase of the variable annuity originated with the customer with no recommendation by the financial advisor. Fortunately, both with respect to variable annuities and fixed annuities (for those states that have followed the NAIC model) there is no requirement for a suitability determination unless a recommendation is made.
The general scheme imposed by both FINRA with respect to variable annuities and by state insurance regulators with respect to all annuities is that the financial advisor and the advisor's supervisor have determined that there is a reasonable basis to believe that the customer has been informed about the important features of the product and the impact on the customer's situation; that the customer would benefit from the features of the product and, that in general the product is suitable for the needs of the customer. The special FINRA requirements (enunciated in FINRA Rule 2330) applies only to deferred variable annuities. The state requirements apply to all annuities. However, the states generally accept the FINRA standards with respect to both variable and fixed annuities. Both FINRA and the states require that financial advisors selling annuities receive special training and that appropriate suitability and compliance screening procedures are put in place.
The pressure for enhanced suitability requirements for annuities derives from the feeling among some legislators and regulators than the natural prospects for such products--people of more advanced age--are more vulnerable to being taken advantage of than are younger people. Indeed, some states have toyed with requirements that annuities should not be sold to people beyond a certain age. Although these people are allowed to vote, they should not be permitted to rely on their own judgment when it comes to securing their financial futures. Recently highly publicized Ponzi scheme scandals have clearly indicated that it is not only the elderly who are foolhardy when it comes to investments that are too good to be true.
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Klein Cuts Check For Camping
BRONX-Senator Klein stopped by Boy Scout Troop #182 last Thursday to present a check for $1000 to eager scouts. Klein, an avid fisherman, spoke briefly about his own enjoyment of the outdoors, the importance of public service, and the role organizations like the Boy Scouts of America serve to promote civic mindedness and physical activity in young people.
When asked how they intend to spend the money, the troop leader responded that he hoped it would help support the cost of camping trips, an important activity in the life of a young scout.


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Situated in Ragusa, this bed & breakfast is within a 5-minute walk of Palazzo La Rocca, Cathedral of San Giorgio, and Cathedral of St. George. Palazzo Sortino-Trono and Church del Purgatorio are also within 10 minutes.
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Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a train station pick-up service.
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Prof. Murray Gell-Mann, a New Yorker on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, was the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics awarded here today. Gell-Mann is Jewish. He was cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for "his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interaction." Among these was the "quark," purported to be the smallest known particle of matter.
Dr. Gell-Mann, 40, has been a leading theorist for many years in particle research. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Yale University in 1948 and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. He joined the Caltech faculty in 1955. Five years ago he evolved a theory concerning the smallest particle in the universe, the so-called "quark." The theory created a controversy in scientific circles, but it appeared to be verified this year when an Australian scientist at the University of Sydney announced that he believed he had isolated the "quark."


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NAT SCCP Fragmentation Support
NAT SCCP Fragmentation Support
The NAT SCCP Fragmentation Support feature prevents skinny control message exchanges from failing in a TCP segmentation scenario because the NAT skinny ALG is able to reassemble the skinny control messages. A fragmented payload that requires an IP or port translation will no longer be dropped.
Configuration Information
Configuration information is included in the "Using Application Level Gateways" module in the Cisco IOS NAT Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T, at the following URL:
Command Reference Information
Command reference information is included in the "NAT Commands" chapter of the Cisco IOS IP Addressing Services Command Reference, Release 12.4T, at the following URL:
New or Modified Commands
There are no new or modified commands introduced by this feature.
List of All Release 12.4T Commands
An alphabetical list of all Cisco IOS Release 12.4T commands is in the Cisco IOS Master Command List, Release 12.4T, at the following URL:
List of All New, Modified, Removed, and Replaced Release 12.4T Commands
Alphabetized lists of all new, modified, removed, and replaced commands for each Cisco IOS Release 12.4T release are in the Cisco IOS New, Modified, Removed, and Replaced Commands, Release 12.4T, document at the following URL.


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There are seasons where Space Brothers would be in the running for the #1 spot on my list, but even I tend to take it for granted sometimes with so much competition this Spring.
I really do have to keep this one short, but it's no reflection on the episode, which was really stellar. Uchuu Kyoudai for me is really about the simple pleasures a long-running series can deliver like no other. When a show has time to really develop its characters, episodes like this are possible – the entire focus being on reflection, self-doubt, priorities and the basic joys of family. There was nothing spectacular but every moment was true to life, and had something genuine to say. In anime or otherwise, that's pretty rare.
I especially loved the way the episode gently reminded us of what astronauts lives are really like. "Hero" is one of the most overused words in the English language (especially when it's confused with "victim") but astronauts really are heroes. Space Brothers took pains this week to show us what they sacrifice for their jobs, and the risks they take. They're "taking one for the team", these folks – yes, they do it because they love it but they're also away from their families for extended periods, and taking risks no amount of technology and preparation can totally eliminate. Mutta's reference to the accident in 2023 that killed three NASA astronauts – including the "Brian" Hibito mentioned last week – was a quiet but forceful reminder of the many astronauts who've already died in service of their vocation. The image of the lonely astronaut Eddie Jay (Arimoto Kinryuu – presumably Brian Jay's brother, offering a nice parallel – though hopefully not foreshadowing – for our main pair) on the ISS waving down to Earth was a powerful reminder of the loneliness of life in space.
The allusions to family were strong here. I love Mutta's parents for their relentless cheer and sheer goofiness, and it's clear they've come to terms with Hibito's (and now Mutta's) decision to risk their lives in space. But when Mutta mentioned Hibito's will there was a moment's hesitation before they became irreverent again – how could there not be? And then there was Kenji's wife and child (it's not enough for Swashiro Miyuki to play Serika, Apo and boy Mutta, she needs to play toddlers too?), a reminder to Mutta of what's missing in his own life, and what Kenji is risking if he goes to space. Finally there was Serika, longing to go to space to complete the dream of her father, searching for a cure to the disease that claimed him. She's hoping to do so aboard the "worn-out" International Space Station, which provides both a link to ourselves and between Mtta and Serika. These two seem to have a sentimental side in common that will serve them well when they finally settle into a relationship.
The little touches in this episode were what made it special, as usual – the drop-down tray on the airplane being a keyboard (interesting that the jet itself looked no different from ones in use today, reflecting that very little progress had been made in this area). Mutta putting on lipstick to kiss Hibito's autograph paper. And Hirata Hiroaki's great (as always) work, especially his "Ka-pe!" to Kenji as they said goodnight after their "Ganbatte!" party. I can see that the two young studs are going to provide some tension in the third phase, being as they're jealous of Mutta's family connections, but I hope they don't become two-dimensional villains – I think Uchuu Kyoudai is best when the foes Mutta fights are his own self-doubts and the vagaries of chance.


text: JELLOWAY Robert R. Koppert, 83, of Jelloway, died after suffering a heart attack Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006, at the home of family in Jelloway, in the company of his entire family and many extended family members gathered for Thanksgiving. Funeral arrangements are pending with Byerly-Lindsey Funeral Home, Loudonville. (T-G 11/25/06)


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Confined in Utah's Mars Desert Research habitat for three days—habitat diameter: 33 feet—the five-person team experienced the cramped living quarters and zero-waste living necessary to survive a journey to outer space. — Quartz
Designers from IKEA are exploring space-saving solutions for tiny homes by living in an actual Mars research station. During the immersion workshop led by Constance Adams, NASA architect behind the habitat for the first human mission to Mars, the team examines the ways in which astronauts'... View full entry
Following on the heels of that paperclip-esque tower design for New York, here's another 'out there' skyscraper design. Literally, this one is 'out there'—in Earth's orbit. Designed by Clouds Architecture Office, this speculative building would hang from an asteroid, which would be... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Eleven Magazine. In 1969, the Space Race peaked with the success of the Apollo 11 mission bringing the first man to walk on the Moon. Today, nearly half a century later, new technological advances and a renewed interest in space are igniting a new race. This time... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Eleven Magazine. In 1969, the Space Race peaked with the successful Apollo 11 mission, which allowed the first man to walk on the moon.Between 1969 and 1972, there have been six successful manned missions to the moon, all from the USA. In total, 12 people (all male)... View full entry
"It took multiple spacecraft over several years to solve this mystery, and now we know there is liquid water on the surface of this cold, desert planet," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program at the agency's headquarters in Washington.
"It seems that the more we study Mars, the more we learn how life could be supported and where there are resources to support life in the future." — NASA
In an announcement made this morning, NASA stated that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected "the strongest evidence yet" of liquid water on the fourth planet from the Sun. The new evidence emerged from data collected by an imaging spectrometer mounted on the spacecraft, which was... View full entry
Canadian space and defense company Thoth Technology is attempting to make reaching the stratosphere as simple as riding an elevator up a tower about 23 times taller than the world's tallest building.
The Thoth space elevator patent, approved by the US patent office on July 21, specifies that the tower could be built on any "planetary surface," (i.e. not just Earth), a sign that Thoth is thinking pretty far ahead. [...] the top of the tower will serve as a rocket launch site. — qz.com
In slightly more recent-technology elevator news:ThyssenKrupp's cable-free elevator test tower tops out in less than 10 monthsJapan's simple logic for putting toilets in elevatorsInstallation of UltraRope elevators begins at Kingdom Tower View full entry
The comet landed on by the spacecraft Philae could well be home to an abundance of alien microbial life, according to leading astronomers.
Features of the comet, named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, such as its organic-rich black crust, are most likely explained by the presence of living organisms beneath an icy surface, the scientists have said. — The Guardian
On the other hand, Stuart Clark refutes the claims made in the linked article. In a response also published to the Guardian, "The vast majority of comet scientists would agree that comet 67P's surface features are much more easily explained by non-biological mechanisms."Philae, the spacecraft... View full entry
...after a year-long delay, Canada has committed $243.5 million to build a giant telescope observatory in Hawaii. The Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, will cost an estimated $1.5 billion USD to build...When completed, the TMT will be one of the largest telescopes in existence...Its 30 meter-wide mirror lens...will allow scientists to search the skies for planets outside of our own solar system, as well as other phenomena like supermassive black holes. — Vice
Remember the memorable double sunset on the desert planet Tatooine in the original Star Wars? As it turns out, such a vista isn't unimaginable – if you can get to Kepler-16b, an exoplanet about 196 light years away. Of course, if you did get there, you might be disappointed to find that the... View full entry
Architects, designers and scientists have joined forces to explore the technologies needed to build a spacecraft that could be launched within the next 100 years and sustain human life for generations.
Early designs for the ship envisage a giant 15km-wide ball filled with soil that will support complex ecosystems of microbes, plants and animal life. Rather than building homes on top of the soil, humans will live within, carving out rooms in a network of connected burrows. — theguardian.com
Instead of specially engineering spacecraft components to fit into a rocket, NASA could densely pack materials like fiber and polymer into existing spacecraft and create the components while orbiting the planet. This cuts down on cost and opens up the possibility for larger spacecraft. — gigaom.com
In 1967, his architectural firm, Warner Burns Toan Lunde of 724 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, won a contract to advise the Grumman Corporation of Bethpage, N.Y., for what would eventually be Grumman's bid to construct an orbiting space station. Mr. Toan worked on the project for the next 20 years, until Grumman was bypassed as a prime contractor by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. — cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
A new partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration brings an out-of-this-world opportunity for Cal Poly Pomona architecture students. Over the past months, students have been constructing a massive 30 foot structure in the parking lot of the Interim Design Center. [...]
The scenario given by NASA was to build a vertical habitat facility for four astronauts that can go into deep space for 60 days. — thepolypost.com
Foster + Partners is part of a consortium set up by the ESA to explore the possibilities of 3D printing to construct lunar habitations. Addressing the challenges of transporting materials to the moon, the study is investigating the use of lunar soil, known as regolith, as building matter. — fosterandpartners.com
The practice has designed a lunar base to house four people, which can offer protection from meteorites, gamma radiation and high temperature fluctuations. The base is first unfolded from a tubular module that can be transported by space rocket. An inflatable dome then extends from one end of... View full entry
Most of us think of memory as a chamber of the mind, and assume that our capacity to remember is only as good as our brain. But according to some architectural theorists, our memories are products of our body's experience of physical space. Or, to consolidate the theorem: Our memories are only as good as our buildings. — blogs.smithsonianmag.com
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Let's Unveil One for the Gipper
This Fourth of July, during a transatlantic Age of Austerity, roughly 2,000 people paid to attend a private celebration near the American embassy in London's Grosvenor Square, where a memorial statue of Ronald Reagan was unveiled. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were among the event's distinguished guests.
It was not popular demand that brought an immortal image of the 40th president of the United States to the English capital. The event was organized by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation as part of a two-year-long Reagan Centennial Celebration marking what would have been his 100th birthday. –ARK
But this is the Age of Austerity. The party is now a scaled down event for the creme de la creme. This year, the big 4 July event in London was held in Grosvenor Square just across from the American embassy and it was a private affair not hosted by the US government. A statue of Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States, was unveiled.
… The creation of the statue — total cost $1m — did not grow out of a public clamour for a fitting memorial to the late president (though Westminster City Council made an exception to its usual rule refusing permission for statues until 10 years have passed since the subject's death).
The event is part of a year-long series of big occasions to mark the centenary of Reagan's birth, organised by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. In the weeks prior to the London unveiling, statues have been unveiled and conferences convened in Krakow, Budapest and Prague.