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Hi guys, I've made a little movie out of BufferedImages and it runs beautifully, however, the problem I'm faced with is loading time.
By loading time, I mean the time it takes to craft this array list of BufferedImages.
By the way, the movie is just an image that fades in and out.
I have pinpointed the problem to be that whenever I create a new BufferedImage, it just takes way too much time for java to allocate that memory.
Here is a code snipit:
private BufferedImage setAlpha(byte alpha) { BufferedImage temp = null; alpha %= 0xff; try { temp = ImageIO.read(new File("images\\intro.png")); } catch (IOException e) {} for (int cx=112;cx<675;cx++) { for (int cy=8;cy<567;cy++) { if(temp != null){ int color = temp.getRGB(cx, cy); int mc = (alpha << 24) | 0x00ffffff; int newcolor = color & mc; temp.setRGB(cx, cy, newcolor); } } } return temp; }
temp = ImageIO.read(new File("images\\intro.png")); is the line that takes forever, does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you,

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) There were some dark days at Notre Dame and Alabama, dark years really, during which two college football's proudest programs flailed and foundered.
As the 21st century dawned, the Fighting Irish and the Crimson Tide were old news, stodgy remnants of a glorious past, not moving fast enough to keep up with the times, and searching for someone to lead them back to the top.
Then along came Nick Saban and Brian Kelly to knock off the rust, fine tune the engines and turn the Crimson Tide and Fighting Irish into the sharpest machines in college football again.
No. 1 Notre Dame and No. Alabama meet Monday night in Miami in a BCS championship game between two titans not all that far removed from tough times.


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Nine Inch Nails is the name of a music project by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, as well as the name of the band hired by them to perform songs while on tour. It is an industrial rock band, and the most recognized one since the genre was introduced. Before Ross's inclusion in 2016, Nine Inch Nails was solely under the creative direction of Trent Reznor.
Nine Inch Nails (commonly abbreviated as NIN) was formed in Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1988, and has so far released eleven full-length studio albums, four EPs, seventeen singles, several remix collections, and some live material. Reznor's lyrics are largely concerned with the exploration of the self, but with albums such as Year Zero and The Slip, the lyrical focus shifted somewhat to extrospection. Earlier NIN material was created almost entirely by Reznor, but starting with The Fragile, he began to allow for a more collaborative writing process involving other players. The sonic ethos of NIN frequently juxtaposes electronic sounds with organic ones, and ugliness with beauty.
After recording a new album, the assembly of a new band usually follows, along with extensive touring; the live component of Nine Inch Nails is largely considered a separate entity from NIN in the recording studio. NIN's live shows often involve visually spectacular elements such as screens and lighting rigs, which have been used on the Self Destruct, Fragility, With Teeth Arena Tours (Fall & Spring), Performance 2007, Lights In The Sky and NIN 2013-2014 tours, and would sometimes culminate with the destruction of musical instruments.
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The Mississippi governor lined up a team for 2012 and lost weight, but his wife never jumped on the presidential bandwagon—and now he's out of the race. Jill Lawrence on this year's campaign game changer: family sentiment. Plus, gallery of wives who said "no."
Don't discount the power of pillow talk in shaping the nation's politics. Haley Barbour is the latest politician to abandon plans for a 2012 presidential bid in the face of strong family hostility toward the idea—and he may not be the last.
The Mississippi governor had given every indication that he was planning a full-scale run for the Republican nomination, from losing weight and lining up a team to testing a message and visiting key states. In withdrawing on Monday, he talked about lacking sufficient drive for a two-year campaign and perhaps eight years in office.
Photos: Wives Who Said 'No'
But listen to the language of his wife, Marsha, in a recent TV interview that made clear she didn't want him to run. "It horrifies me," she said of a presidential campaign and the "huge sacrifice" it would mean for her family. "You would commit to 10 years, which would be two years of campaigning, then you run to win, so it would be four years. Then you would want to run again—so it's 10 years, and it's the last part of our productive lives."
Marsha Barbour waited a long time to live in the same place as her husband. For years she raised two sons in Yazoo City while Haley Barbour lived in Washington to be political director of the Reagan White House, start a lobbying firm and restaurant, and serve as chairman of the Republican National Committee. For much of that time, he made it home just once a month.
"The last four years have been the hardest thing we've ever done," Marsha Barbour told me in a 1996 interview for USA Today, referring to the RNC job. "I haven't really been that much of a part of it. He's been so busy and so consumed. He hasn't been home for an anniversary in a long time, or a birthday." She added, only half joking, "The next 11 years will be my turn."
Her 11 years arguably didn't start until 2003, when Barbour won the first of his two terms as governor and moved back home. Since then Marsha Barbour has come into her own as first lady, winning praise for her role after Hurricane Katrina and her work on children's programs. One of their two sons, Sterling, sounded like his mom in a private email to conservative publisher Bill Kristol, writing that he was not wild about his father running. "I am a private person and don't want him to run," he wrote, though he added he would be his father's "biggest supporter" if the governor went ahead.
Apologizing in his statement for disappointing his aides and allies, Barbour said he could not guarantee "absolute fire in the belly" over the long haul. Yet Barbour never has lacked that fire before, whether as a Reagan aide, as a powerful lobbyist, as RNC chairman, as head of the Republican Governors Association, or as a likely contender questioning President Obama on energy, economics, and the drawn-out war in Afghanistan.
He might have overcome his drawl, lobbying past, and imperceptible poll ratings to win the GOP nomination. But his age (63) and civil rights stumbles ( speaking favorably of the segregationist White Citizens Council, for instance) would have offered a damaging contrast with Obama (49 and black). And Barbour's state, the nation's poorest, was already starting to draw negative attention.
Barbour said he could not guarantee "absolute fire in the belly" over the long haul. Yet he never has lacked that fire before.
One Republican close to Barbour described his decision this way: "The bottom line is he loves his family, loves Marsha, loves his kids very, very deeply. If he would have said 'this is what I really want to do,' they would have been there 100 percent. It was kind of his turn to put them first. Simple as that."
Family sentiment is emerging as a real factor this year. Like Barbour, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota looked like a contender—and then his wife, Kimberley, read Game Change, the often painful tell-all book about candidates, spouses, and tensions on the 2008 campaign trail. "It was not helpful," Thune joked. Less than three weeks later, he decided against running.
At least one other GOP prospect has gone public with his wife's antipathy for politics. "Right from the start she told me, 'I don't do the whole politician's spouse thing,'" Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said of his wife, Cheri, in an interview with The Weekly Standard. "She's not apolitical. She's not unpolitical. She's antipolitical. I told her I would never ask her to do anything she didn't want to do. And I haven't. And she hasn't."
Daniels, a friend of Barbour's, says he'll decide his course after his legislature adjourns April 29. Cheri Daniels, meanwhile, has agreed to speak at a May 12 state party dinner—a debut appearance that may or may not have larger significance.
Campaigning in a grueling presidential race, and possibly serving as first lady, is an enormous favor to ask of someone who is "antipolitical." But Daniels has left herself wiggle room with relatively mild public comments that leave the door ajar.
She would not be the first reluctant spouse to come around. Michelle Obama started out the same way. "She did not like politics. She did not want him to run for office. I know this because Barack told me," lawyer Newton Minow told Michelle Obama biographer Liza Mundy.
Haley Barbour could yet end up back in the town where he spent so much of his career. He had barely announced his decision when Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, tweeted that he would now head a " Haley Barbour for Chief of Staff national draft committee." Maybe this time Marsha Barbour—spared the cruelties of a campaign and the lightning-rod role of national first lady—will be part of the plan.
Jill Lawrence is an award-winning journalist who has covered every presidential election since 1988. Most recently, she was a senior correspondent and columnist for PoliticsDaily.com. Her other positions have included national political correspondent for USA Today and national political writer at The Associated Press.


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WHEREAS, the allocation from the 2001 Ceiling granted in Executive Order No. MJF 2001-22 was conditioned upon the delivery of the bonds to the initial purchasers on or before August 15, 2001, and that date passed without such delivery, resulting in the expiration of Executive Order No. MJF 2001-22 and/or the allocation from the 2001 Ceiling granted therein; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the citizens of the state of Louisiana to re-grant the allocation from the 2001 Ceiling to the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency for use in connection with a program of financing mortgage loans for single family, owner-occupied residences of low and moderate income home-buyers throughout the state of Louisiana, in accordance with the provisions of Section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;
NOW THEREFORE I, M.J. "MIKE" FOSTER, JR., Governor of the state of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana, do hereby order and direct as follows:
SECTION 1: The bond issue, as described in this Section, shall be and is hereby granted an allocation from the 2001 Ceiling as follows:
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|Single Family Mortgage Revenue Bonds
SECTION 2: The granted allocation shall be used only for the bond issue described in Section 1 and for the general purpose set forth in the "Application for Allocation of a Portion of the State of Louisiana Private Activity Bond Ceiling" submitted in connection with the bond issue described in Section 1.
SECTION 3: The granted allocation shall be valid and in full force and effect through the end of 2001, provided that such bonds are delivered to the initial purchasers thereof on or before December 21, 2001.
SECTION 4: All references in this Order to the singular shall include the plural, and all plural references shall include the singular.
SECTION 5: The undersigned certifies, under penalty of perjury, that the granted allocation was not made in consideration of any bribe, gift, or gratuity, or any direct or indirect contribution to any political campaign. The undersigned also certifies that the granted allocation meets the requirements of Section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
SECTION 6: Executive Order No. MJF 2001-22, issued on May 17, 2001, expired on August 15, 2001, and is terminated.
SECTION 7: This Order is effective upon signature and shall remain in effect until amended, modified, terminated, or rescinded by the governor, or terminated by operation of law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the state of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 30th day of August, 2001.
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Budding filmmaker Janis Nords wined and dined his ladyfriend at fancy London restaurants then ducked out on paying the bill—until a camera caught him, dun dun DUN, and he got busted. But maybe the crimes were her fault?
The Daily Mail and The Sun describe the girlfriend as "high-maintenance," which suggests that her feminine wiles are the real culprit here. If that gal didn't have such high standards and expectations, such language suggests, then this poor guy probably would have never dined-and-dashed so expensively—to the tune of almost a thousand pounds at one exclusive eatery. He would have been content to make his artsy award-winning movies and eat Hot Pockets or frozen pizza instead of "foie gras and mackerel and main courses of hare and venison"—the staple foods of high-maintenance ladies.
It seems the gf was also arrested, but then let go without being charged. "Police are convinced the girl knew nothing," reports The Sun. But what did her feminine wiles know, and should they be arrested? You be the judge.
Foodie fiend has starter, main course then deserts [The Sun]
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin on Vacation in Spain
Gwyneth Paltrow Mixes Bikini Time With Family Bonding in Spain
Gwyneth Paltrow Mixes Bikini Time With Family Bonding in Spain
Gwyneth Paltrow spent quality bonding time with her husband, Chris Martin, and their kids, Apple and Moses, while on vacation in Mallorca, Spain, earlier this month. Between sightseeing, shopping, and snapping sweet photos of her brood, Gwyneth slipped into a bikini to relax by the pool at the Spanish property, which is reportedly owned by Michael Douglas.
Gwyneth is likely enjoying some downtime this Summer after wrapping up a worldwide press tour for Iron Man 3 earlier this year. In addition to her Spanish travels, Gwyneth recently shared photos of her family's vacation to Indonesia in an issue of Goop. While there, they sailed around the archipelago, did some dragon spotting, and made homemade lanterns on the shore — an event that Gwyneth described in her weekly newsletter, saying, "Moses is now a pyro thanks to this particular evening."


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With second- and 12th-grade girls in tow, Renee Brackett of Southbridge left Staples in Sturbridge last week, and remarked that back-to-school supplies are expensive.
On top of requiring certain individual student supplies, Mrs. Brackett said, schools continue to fill budget gaps by asking parents to buy general classroom items.
Though the request for classroom supplies � wipes and tissue paper � was framed as optional, a paradoxical Mrs. Brackett said she felt obligated, asking, "Why should I have to?"
She said she felt the request wasn't right because she pays property taxes.
The eldest girl, Megan Baker, studies cosmetology at Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School in Charlton. The beauty kit costs $200. Textbooks are another $170.
"Things are already outrageous now, trying to get by," Mrs. Brackett said.
Though it's difficult to quantify, schools appear to be asking more regularly that parents pitch in for classroom supplies, said Timothy D. Sullivan, vice president of the 111,000-member Massachusetts Teachers Association.
"If you look at Webster Middle School, Park Avenue Elementary School, it's not trying anything" like the bring-your-own device policy for tools such as iPads or laptops at some affluent schools, said Webster Superintendent Barbara A. Malkas.
"We're talking about fundamental basic school supplies" like pencils and paper, she said.
But even that can be a hardship for some families, particularly those with multiple children, so Webster schools also turn to different organizations to bring donations, Mrs. Malkas said.
Long Subaru's annual "Pack the Outback with Backpacks and School Supplies," has been particularly helpful to the district, she said.
The Webster superintendent noted that some people might say that back-to-school shopping should be considered a rite of passage � and parents should buy supplies.
"Except the reality is, when you have siblings and they're all going to school at the same time it can actually be a pretty big investment for a family," Mrs. Malkas said.
Patricia A. Scales, principal of Dawson Elementary School Staff in Holden, said schoolchildren are sent home with lists of requested classroom supplies in each of the eight years she's been at the helm.
Ms. Scales said teachers ask for crayons, colored pencils or things teachers might need specifically for that grade level.
"When the state doesn't provide the amount of funding that schools require, that impacts a lot of different things, not just school supplies," she said.
Linda Murdock, principal of Margaret A. Neary Elementary School in Southboro, said most teachers ask parents to send a box of Kleenex, and staff might email parents to notify them the school is low on playground balls, and any contribution would be appreciated.
But Neary Elementary doesn't solicit parents for classroom supplies in a major sense, the principal said.
A big reason is that its Parent-Teacher Association provides each teacher with funding for classroom supplies. Through fundraisers, the PTA was able to give teachers $100 last year, Ms. Murdock said.
Mr. Sullivan, the association vice president, and a former middle school reading teacher in Brockton, said it was common to see Brockton teachers spend hundreds of dollars out of their pockets for classroom supplies.
Added Mrs. Malkas, "In the best of all possible worlds, teachers are not annually spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on their own classrooms. I know that they are... With the economy being the way it is, with school department budgets as slim as they are, there's no real wiggle room for extras."
Mr. Sullivan, who has a 12-year-old son attending Weymouth schools, said he has the means to bring in supplies requested from his child's school's classroom wish list.
But this would be a hardship for some Brockton parents, given that city's socioeconomic status, he said.
"I've never seen it in any way, shape or form as a mandatory thing," he said.
Mr. Sullivan said the issue also speaks to whether the state adequately funds schools.
"When you see more and more things like this � whether they be supplies, user fees for certain things, buses to play sports � I think it's time to review how we fund the schools, and is the foundation budget adequate," he said
The foundation budget came into play as of 1993 education reform.
"That formula that assists the local communities and drive school funding really hasn't been looked at in the 20 years" of education reform, Mr. Sullivan said. "So really it needs to be looked at and, I would think, most likely be revised to provide the needed funding for schools systems � preschool, K-12 and higher ed."
In California, a new state law passed last year prohibits schools from requiring parents to provide or pay for supplies. It bans schools from charging fees for classroom items and activities and from requiring students to buy anything.
The measure is the result of settled lawsuit against California, and reinforces that state's constitutional guarantee of a free public education.
"I always worry about when these things become legislated and what was the reasoning behind that," Mrs. Malkas said. "I really would rather our local and state government spend taxpayers' time and money trying to solve the budget crisis that we're in, rather than worrying about whether or not school districts are not supporting students by requesting that they purchase school supplies. I think most parents would rather be able to be gainfully employed and be able to support their kids."
The region is presently bracing for the start of school. At Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School in Upton, freshmen began classes Friday and other students reported Monday.
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Mizzou considers student requests for coed living
University hopes to have issue resolved by next fall
The University of Missouri has been considering requests from student groups to provide coed rooms for students.
Several University of Missouri student groups, including the Residential Halls Association, have adopted resolutions calling for gender-neutral housing.
"Gender-neutral housing is something that's very important," Xavier Billingsley, president of the Missouri Students Association, told The Columbia Daily Tribune. "We want students to feel comfortable at our university. Gender-neutral housing is a step we can take to really show students we do care about their well-being and want to help them as much as we can."
Frankie Minor, director of the University of Missouri's Residential Life Department, said Saturday he hopes to develop a solution by next fall and is seeking advice from other universities.
"We need to get a sense of who is our target population," he said.
Washington University in St. Louis and Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville both offer gender-neutral housing. Northwest Missouri began its gender-neutral housing program this year after requests from transgendered students. The Northwest Missouri program allows male and female students to choose to live together, and is open to all students
At the University of Missouri transgendered students can now request special arrangements such as a single room, but fewer than five students have taken advantage of that policy, Minor said.
He said space is also an issue for the university because residential halls are full and mostly limited to freshmen. Opening coed rooms also might not solve issues for transgendered students because some coed rooms could be taken by opposite-sex friends, relatives or couples. There is no guarantee that transgendered students assigned to a coed room without pre-selected roommates would find themselves living with allies.
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Jairus, a synagogue official, came to Jesus in Mark 5:22 with an unsurmountable problem. His twelve year old daughter was dying. Jesus was always compassionate. He went to the home of Jairus to help. However, Jesus was also always aware of teachable moments to train his disciples. In this case, Jesus took the opportunity to separate His inner circle from the rest of His disciples so that He could teach them a very important lesson. Jairus' daughter died before Jesus got to her. Jesus was about to restore life to this very dead girl. We know that she was dead because of the presence of mourners, both volunteer and paid. It was customary to pay musicians and wailers to give a public demonstration of the family's grief (Amos 5:16). In spite of Jesus speaking metaphorically about her only being asleep, there is no doubt that she was in fact dead.
Some teach that Jesus brought Peter, James, and John to the home of Jairus so that they could serve as witnesses to the fact that this girl was dead. That was totally unnecessary. The paid mourners testify to that fact. Peter, James, and John were there for their education. Jesus was showing them a physical resurrection to illustrate spiritual resurrection. Jesus can raise the physically dead, imparting new life to them. More importantly, Jesus can raise the spiritually dead, imparting new and eternal life to them. In this scene (Mark 5:35-43), Jesus spoke four times. In verse 36, He gave a word of encouragement, which is a word of faith. The key is "only keep believing". In verse 39, Jesus spoke a word of hope, declaring not that the girl was not dead, but rather that He could raise the dead as easily as we can wake the sleeping. In verse 41, Jesus spoke the word of life and power. He commanded the girl to do that which is impossible apart from His enabling power.
Peter, James, and John witnessed a frantic and emotional scene. They learned many valuable lessons about what happens when Jesus is brought in faith to the spiritually dead (verses 35-43). Unbelievers will jeer and mock, treating Jesus with scorn. Those walking by sight will tell us under the guise of kindly helpfulness, that it is too late and no use to bring Jesus. Bystanders will cause distractions and they will only get louder. Jesus can and will quickly and forcefully dispense with the distractions and those who cause them. Only Jesus can speak new life into the spiritually dead. Some readers are confused about Jesus command not to tell anyone and they teach that since it was not yet time for Jesus to go the cross, He was simply keeping His fame from spreading too quickly. Certainly there is some truth to that, but I think there is a more important reason.
When we bring Jesus to a spiritually dead person and He imparts life, there is no need for us to testify or witness to that. If a dead person comes to life, the new life in the formerly dead person is testimony that cannot be hidden. If the watching world cannot see the change from death to life, then life has not been imparted and this spiritually dead person is still dead in trespasses and sins. Mark notes that Jesus told them to feed the girl. When a person is born again, it is our responsibility to nourish him with Truth. This newborn will be helpless to feed himself; he will need us to teach him about Christ. He will need us to teach encouragement and gentle correction that is found in the sacred Scripture.


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Milford Teachers Train For School Shootings
Milford High School teacher Amy Allegrezza is used to doing school safety drills, but this one was different.
For one thing, she heard the sounds of real gunshots coming from a police officer running down the hallways firing blanks from a .38-caliber handgun.
And, instead of simply practicing the school's traditional, stay-in-place lockdown, Allegrezza and more than 500 other teachers, administrators, cafeteria and school custodians on Friday were told to consider new options, including breaking windows to escape, running zigzag through the school parking lot and, as a last resort, fighting back if the intruder makes it into their classroom.
"That was something to get us thinking. It got my heart racing — definitely," said Allegrezza, who led about two dozen other teachers and school employees during one practice scenario in her classroom, as the sounds of gunshots rang out in the hallway. She ordered them to barricade the classroom doors with filing cabinets, pull down the blinds and keep quiet.
In another scenario acted out in the school cafeteria, the 500 participants ran in all different directions when the sounds of gunshots thundered just outside the room. Most ran outside through the cafeteria's four doors, while about two dozen people fled through a side door into an adjoining teachers' lounge, then barricaded the doors with long tables and chairs. One woman rolled her body over a lunch table in a mad scramble to get out of the cafeteria.
School Superintendent Robert Tremblay said he decided to expand the school staff's safety training after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December.
"Staying in place and hiding under a desk may not be the best solution at all. The best solution may be to get out," Tremblay said.
The training, given to the school employees during professional development time, was conducted by Synergy Solutions Inc., a Franklin-based company that offers active shooter and incident management workshops to law enforcement and other groups.
Jay Brennan, the company's co-founder and a police sergeant in Medway, said the program only advocates fighting back as a last resort.
"If you are confronted with an aggressor, he's coming into your room, you may have to take action," he told the group. "Study your surroundings for a possible weapon."
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Study Conducted by Kent State Professors Reveals Economic Impact of Akron Marathon
Kent State University economics professors Shawn M. Rohlin, Ph.D., and Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley, Ph.D., conducted an economic impact analysis of the 2012 Akron Marathon on the city of Akron, Ohio. Their study reveals that $6 million was generated by the race and more than 60 full-time jobs were created.
Rohlin's career as an urban economist led him to conduct the study because he wanted to know the financial impact of the race. Rohlin has been asked by the Akron Marathon to conduct the study for the past three years. He asked Greenhalgh-Stanley to partner with him in conducting and writing the study.
"The purpose of the study is to determine the economic impact of the Akron Marathon in terms of salary, money spent in the region and if it created any jobs," Rohlin said. "We find a large effect from the Akron Marathon, and in difficult economic times, it's good to see large events like this boost the economy. Having 15,000 people come to your city – eat, drink and run – does have a substantial impact on the local economy, and I think that's pretty interesting."
The study results come from a survey that is done one week after the race that asks participants a variety of questions focusing on what and how much money they spent while in Akron.
"I think it shows economic justification for having a marathon," Greenhalgh-Stanley said. "This is proof for why there should be local events. It's really great for an economy that is struggling right now, as well as the health benefits for society."
Rohlin offers his students the opportunity to gain real-world experience by allowing them to participate in the study. In 2010, master's students in his economics classes helped to conduct the study while he oversaw their work. He hopes to have more master's students participate in the study in the future.
Rohlin's goal is to contact other race organizers and have students do similar studies on their economic impact.
For more information about Kent State's Department of Economics, visit www.kent.edu/business/economics.
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Doing Big Business with Gaddafi & Co.
Even as Europe condemned Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's crackdown on protests, a new report says EU countries led by Italy and Malta have been busy peddling arms to Libya.
First published in January, the report has attracted renewed scrutiny after an escalation of violence against a popular uprising in the North African country.
The EU document, which refers to annual figures in 2009, says the bloc's member states granted export licenses worth 343 million euros ($470 million) to Libya. Italy was shown to have approved exports worth 112 million euros, most of which was taken up by military aircraft. It was followed by Malta, which authorised the sale of an 80-million-euro consignment of small arms.
Germany was third on the list, with 53 million euros of licenses, mostly for electronic jamming equipment used to disrupt mobile phone, Internet and GPS communication.
"Lucrative market"
Analysts say the sales by themselves aren't surprising. In 2003, Gaddafi agreed to abandon efforts to acquire chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, effectively ending his international isolation. The following year, the EU lifted an arms embargo on Libya.
"Libya at the time had a huge amount of old, out-of-date military equipment dating back to the Soviet era and was looking to modernise its armed force," says Mark Bromley of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). "It was the perfect opportunity for western arms companies to get a foothold in this lucrative market and incredibly oil-rich country."
It's a trend that's continued. While Russia remains the biggest arms supplier to Libya, European defence companies – mainly from France, Italy and Germany – have been steadily increasing business ties with Libya. The US notably has largely kept out of the country's defence market.
"As opposed to Europe, the general perception in the US is to take a much harder line on Gaddafi," says David Hartwell, Middle East analyst at the UK-based IHS Jane's. "There's a lot of political pressure within Congress not to do big business with Gaddafi after the Lockerbie bombing," he said.
Hartwell estimates that America's defence ties with Libya are in the region of hundreds of millions of dollars with most exports related to communications technology and not actual military hardware. With defence budgets shrinking in several western nations, many arms companies have been scouting around for new markets beyond Europe and the US.
"EU arms sales both to North Africa and the Middle East have soared in recent years," says Kaye Stearman of the British arms control group Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). "For example between 2008 and 2009, in North Africa alone, they went from just under one billion euros to two billion euros."
European nations feeling the heat
While the sales may not have attracted attention, the brutal suppression of popular uprisings across the Middle East and now Libya has raised uncomfortable questions for western governments.
Could European-made arms technology have been used by authoritarian regimes to silence their own citizens? Analysts say that's hard to prove, but reports that governments both in Bahrain and Libya may have done just that have sparked angry debates and accusations of double standards in some European countries.
In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron this week revoked licenses for arms sales to Libya and Bahrain after fears surfaced that British tear gas or riot equipment may have been used against political demonstrators.
In Belgium, YouTube footage showing alleged semi-automatic FN 303 anti-riot guns recently seized by anti-Gaddafi protesters sparked a political controversy. Belgian defence company FN Herstal is said to have sold Libya arms worth 11.5 million euros. That included rifles, pistols, rifle grenades and ammunition cartridges.
In Germany, there are worries that its electronic exports to Libya could have possibly been used by the regime to jam internet and GPS services.
Germany can't be allowed to "aid and abet authoritarian regimes," Volker Beck, parliamentary group leader of the opposition Green Party, told Handelsblatt Online last week. He said the possible use of German-made weapons to crush civilian protests risked undermining Berlin's human rights policies.
Chance to improve controls?
Some point out that the concerns over the Libyan crackdown and its link to European arms provide a chance for the European Union to rethink and improve its mechanisms for arms exports.
The EU's 27 member states are bound by a code of conduct to share information about arms licenses and exports, including those relating to sensitive destinations and countries that were subject to embargoes.
"It's a good opportunity to have a focused debate on what was licensed to Libya since 2004 and how systems of information sharing and risk assessment could be improved." Bromley said.
In 2008, Britain blocked a license to ship 130,000 Kalashnikovs to Libya because of fears they could be resold to warlords in Sudan, But in the same year, Romania gave the go-ahead to sell Gaddafi 100,000 of the guns.
"It shows the EU still has a long way to go in achieving harmonisation in granting arms export licenses," Bromley said.
A "disastrous signal"
But some believe only a complete halt to weapons exports to North Africa and the Middle East can ensure that arms don't end up in the hands of despots.
"Only if we stop selling arms to these countries, then their governments have much less chance of repressing their populations," Kaye Stearman said.
She added however that there's little sign of that happening.
David Cameron, who was on a tour of the Middle East this week, paid a visit to the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi with more than 1,000 companies showing their military equipment and services. Cameron was accompanied by eight leading British arms industry executives.
"That sends an absolutely disastrous signal to pro-democracy movements in the Arab world," Stearman said.
Sonia Phalnikar
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Editor: Aingeal Flanagan/Qantara.de
The Role of the Libyan Military
The Threat of Civil War
As Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fights to crush a popular uprising and maintain his grip on power, experts say that Libya's faction-riddled military is unlikely to play the stabilising role its Tunisian or Egyptian counterparts did. Sonia Phalnikar reports
The Role of the Military in the Egyptian Power Struggle
Tipping the Scales?
President Mubarak deployed the military to restore public order in Egypt. So far, however, soldiers have been acting with restraint and have even been given an enthusiastic welcome in some places. Loay Mudhoon analyses the role Egypt's military is playing in the ongoing power struggle
Uprisings in the Arab World
The anger of the Tunisians and the Egyptians towards the autocratic regimes in their countries has triggered an unprecedented revolt in several states in the Arab world. Our dossier provides an insight into the factors that led to the unrest and an overview of current developments


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Employment counselors forced to sit on the other side of the window
The rise of non-regular employment has received a lot of coverage because of its effect on job security in the general work force. A seldom discussed side effect is the acute anxiety experienced by non-regulars as their contracts approach their expiration dates. Will mine be picked up for another year? Will I have to go out and look for a new job next month?
For public non-regular employees this emotional roller coaster starts right after Jan. 1, since most contracts end with the fiscal year in March. And for those who have been working in the same position for an extended length of time, there is no solace in the new law that goes into effect this year and which says an employer must hire a contract worker as a regular full-time employee, complete with benefits, if the worker has been in the same position for five years.
Though it's assumed that many employers will work the loophole by not renewing a contract just before the five-year period is reached and then hiring the person back after a six month "cooling off" period with an open-ended contract, non-regulars who work in the public sector aren't covered by the new law in the first place. They can be retained as non-regulars indefinitely.
This exception was highlighted when the labor ministry announced that 2,200 non-regular members of its unemployment advisory staff had not had their contracts renewed for fiscal 2013. That represents 10 percent of all the non-regulars employed at Hello Work counseling centers nationwide, and presents an interesting scenario: Former employment counselors who themselves must seek employment advice.
In fact, a Tokyo Shimbun article described one woman in her 50s who received her notice in early March while she still had several weeks on her contract. Though she knew there was always the possibility her yearly contract would not be renewed the lateness of the notice (the media reported the announcement as being "sudden") caught her off-guard.
In the last weeks of March she was looking for a new job at Hello Work on Saturdays while still working Monday through Friday at the same facility counseling people who themselves were looking for jobs.
One part of the new law that was already in effect before April 1 is to make the practice called yatoidome illegal. "Yatoidome" means nonrenewal of an employment contract for "no good reason," but, of course, "good reason" constitutes a gray area that the Japanese legal system isn't equipped to address. It is this part of the law that doesn't apply to public workers, supposedly because non-regular government employees are only hired as stopgap workers, meaning people employed to fill certain positions on a temporary basis. They do not have to pass a test the way full-time regular civil servants do. However, in many cases, these workers become as indispensable as regular employees. In 2012, 63 percent of all Hello Work employees were non-regulars.
As for why the labor ministry decided to effectively lay off so many employment center staff at one time, a representative told the media that the ministry hired extra contract workers when the recession worsened in 2008 and again after the disaster of 2011, but now the job situation "is stabilizing" so the ministry doesn't need as many counselors. Some laid-off employees counter this explanation by claiming that their workloads have been heavier in recent months, not lighter, especially in areas most affected by the disaster. What may have sparked the layoffs was the finance ministry, which has been auditing budgets across all government agencies and ministries and demanding cuts.
The yatoidome exception doesn't just apply to national public workers. One-third of all local government employees, or about 700,000 people, are also non-regulars. That's an increase of about 100,000 since 2008, according to a labor ministry survey. Of these, 60 percent work more hours than regular employees. More than half of these non-regulars make less than ¥160,000 a month or ¥2 million a year. And because they are technically part-timers, they are not up for promotions or salary increases. The most prevalent jobs in this category of public worker is day care attendant and librarian, but it also includes policemen, firemen and school teachers.


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Schroeder Center receives Robert Wood-Johnson Foundation grant
Under a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RJWF), researchers from William & Mary's Schroeder Center for Health Policy and Department of Economics will study the impact of Medicare's Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) on health services. The $117,000 grant will allow researchers at the Center to look at the growth of outpatient services since the August 2000 implementation of OPPS and the potential impact of cuts proposed in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Jennifer Mellor, director of the Schroeder Center and the principal investigator of the project, noted that in recent years Medicare's outpatient spending per beneficiary has grown more than twice as fast as inpatient care spending, and that it now constitutes more than 20% of Medicare's total payments to hospitals according to a 2010 MedPAC study.
"Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of Management and Budget, and the Congress itself need to know what effects reductions in outpatient services payments will have on hospital's provision of services to Medicare and non-Medicare patients," she said.
Medicare's Outpatient Prospective Payment System is the way that Medicare pays for outpatient services at hospitals under Medicare Part B.
Researchers will use data from Florida ambulatory and inpatient discharge records from 1997 – 2008. These data will be combined with data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Medicare Cost Reports, American Hospital Association Annual Survey data, and data on private sector prices.
According to economics professor Daifeng He, the study's lead author, this project is unique in several ways.
"This study is the first to look at OPPS' effect on Medicare volume. It's also the first study to test whether this Medicare payment change led healthcare providers to change how they treat other types of patients or where they treat patients in general – in the inpatient setting or the outpatient setting."
The study is expected to be complete by Feb. 2012.
The grant is being funded through RWJF's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) Initiative. According to the Foundation's web site, the goal of the program "is to bridge the health policy and health services research communities" and "support investigator-initiated research and policy analysis and evaluation projects examining major changes in health care financing and organization, and their effects on cost, access, and quality."
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – March 1, 2017 – Siteimprove, a leading provider of web governance tools, has won a Silver Stevie® Award in the Customer Service Department of the Year – Computer Software – 100 or More Employees category in the 11th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.
The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service honor the achievements of customer service, contact center, business development, and sales professionals. More than 2,300 nominations from organizations around the world were evaluated in this year's competition. Finalists were determined by the average scores of 77 professionals worldwide, acting as preliminary judges.
Since its inception, the Customer Xperience team at Siteimprove has evolved to include more than 60 roles, including customer success, technical support, education, marketing, and specialized consultants to expand support for global Siteimprove customers. In addition to an expanding team, Siteimprove has doubled its efforts to provide digital self-service and on-demand resources with its Help Center and online user community.
"We're honored to be recognized by the Stevie Awards for the work we do to create world-class customer experiences," said Mike Flanagan, Chief Customer Officer at Siteimprove. "Our customers are at the center of all that we do, and it's our mission to continue to seamlessly deliver value to customers at every touchpoint."
Details about the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service and the list of Stevie winners in all categories are available at
About Siteimprove
Siteimprove provides organizations of all shapes and sizes with solutions that make website management, maintenance, and optimization both easier and more affordable. With a worldwide customer base of more than 5,000 customers, Siteimprove serves dozens of markets from offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Minneapolis, Oslo, Sydney, Toronto, and Vienna. For more information, visit siteimprove.com.
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Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the American Business Awards, the International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at StevieAwards.com.


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SUBJECT: Implementation of Trustee-Approved Graduate Degree and Admissions Requirements (revised)
The following recommendation of the Academic Senate, dated April 4, 1975, entitled Implementation of Trustee-Approved Graduate Degree and Admissions Requirements is approved as CSULB policy.
Admission to Post-baccalaureate Standing: Unclassified. An applicant may be admitted as an unclassified post- baccalaureate student if the applicant satisfies the requirements of each of the following:
(a) The applicant holds an acceptable baccalaureate degree earned at an institution accredited by a regional accrediting association, or has completed equivalent academic preparation as determined by the appropriate department and/or school and certified by the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.
(b) The applicant has attained a grade point average of at least 2.5 (B=3.0) in the last 60 semester units attempted which includes any postbaccalaureate credits completed.
(c) The applicant was in good standing at the last college attended.
Special Action: An applicant who does not qualify for admission under the provisions of (a) or (b) above, or both, may be admitted by special action if in the judgment of the appropriate faculty of the department/ school concerned there exists acceptable evidence that the applicant possesses sufficient academic, professional and other potential pertinent to her/his educational objectives to merit such action, as shown through aptitude scores, recent academic performance, and experiential background. For declared majors, departmental and school standards for special action will apply. Special action for undeclared majors will be determined by the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.
Admission to Post-baccalaureate Standing: Classified. An applicant who is eligible for admission to Post-baccalaureate standing: Unclassified may be admitted to classified post-baccalaureate standing for the purpose of enrolling in a particular postbaccalaureate credential or certificate program, provided that the applicant satisfies such additional professional, personal, scholastic and other standards, including qualifying examinations, as may be formally established for the particular program by the faculty of the appropriate academic area.
Admission to Graduate Standing: Conditionally Classified. An applicant who is eligible for admission to Post-baccalaureate standing: Unclassified but who has deficiencies in prerequisite preparation which in the judgment of the department and/or school can be met by specified additional preparation, including qualifying examinations, may be admitted to an authorized graduate degree curriculum with conditionally classified graduate standing.
Admission to Graduate Standing: Classified. An applicant who is eligible for admission to Post-baccalaureate study: Unclassified may be advanced to candidacy in an authorized graduate degree curriculum of the University as a classified graduate student if she/he satisfactorily meets the professional, personal, scholastic, and other standards for admission to the graduate degree curriculum, including qualifying examinations, as the appropriate department and school faculties shall establish, and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research may prescribe. Only those applicants who, in the judgment of the faculty concerned, show promise of success and fitness will be advanced to candidacy
in graduate degree curricula, and only those candidates who continue to demonstrate a satisfactory level of scholastic competence and fitness shall be eligible to continue in such curricula.
Academic Probation and Disqualification. For purposes of determining a student's eligibility to remain at the University both quality of performance and progress toward her/his objective shall be considered. Such eligibility shall be determined by use of grade points, grade point average, and progress points. The progress point scale shall be based on the grade point computation for letter grades and augmented by the assignment of two points per unit for the CR grade and no points per unit for the NC grade.
A student who is enrolled in a graduate degree program in conditionally classified or classified standing shall be subject to academic probation if she/he fails to maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 (grade of B on the five-point scale) in all units attempted subsequent to admission to the program.
A student who is enrolled in any post-baccalaureate status other than in conditionally classified or classified standing shall be subject to academic probation if she/he fails to meet criteria established by the University.
A graduate or post-baccalaureate student shall be subject to disqualification if while on probation she/he fails to earn sufficient grade points to be removed from probationary status. Disqualification may be either from further registration in a particular program or from further enrollment at the campus as determined by appropriate department and/or school.
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Savile 'thought he was untouchable'
Jimmy Savile thought he was "untouchable" and would regularly walk in on vulnerable Broadmoor patients while they were in the bath, it has been claimed.
The former star had "total" access to the high-security hospital in Berkshire - where he would walk in on females as they bathed, a former patient from the 1970s said.
His former personal assistant Janet Cope also claimed that Savile had free rein of Broadmoor, where she accused him of working to gain access to high-profile criminals.
"Jimmy was untouchable. (He) was very proud of the fact that he spoke to all these very high-profile poorly criminals."
Ms Cope said that although she had never seen him abuse anyone, he was a controlling person.
She added: "I knew how he operated so I was very wary of him and I felt there was an undercurrent, there was a bad side, which not many people saw."
At Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Ms Cope said Savile held a position of real authority, adding: "He controlled everything. He controlled me. Everybody was - I'm going to use the word frightened - of him."
Savile, a former BBC TV presenter who died last year, has been accused of hundreds of allegations of child sex abuse and rape.
A former female patient told the programme Savile would walk in while female patients were having baths.
She said: "He would come in when you'd be having a bath...he would just walk in."
Speaking anonymously, she added the star once tried to touch her breast - and when she reported him she spent months in solitary confinement.
Former Conservative MP Edwina Currie told the programme she was "fairly sure" that Savile suggested himself for the role at Broadmoor in the 1980s.
She said: "He would have been seen as an extremely useful person and to have a high profile doing this would have been so much the better.
Ms Currie said that Savile unearthed a series of problems at Broadmoor and believes he planned to use information to blackmail staff there.
"We gave him every instrument that he needed in Broadmoor to prey on some extremely damaged individuals."
"If Savile was alive now I would want to see him locked away for the rest of his life" she added.
Lawyer Liz Duck told the programme she was representing nine women who claimed they were abused by Savile at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
"Some of them have had their lives destroyed (by Savile)," Ms Duck said.
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"Meet the curators" tours in Restless Youth exhibition
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In March 2019 the House of European History opens its new temporary exhibition: Restless Youth - Growing up in Europe, 1945 to now.
Interested to hear stories from the team who made the exhibition? Join one of our "Meet the curators" tours with Kieran Burns, Laurence Bragard, Christine Dupont and Jitka Mlsova and get a unique insight into the way this exhibition explores four generations of young people who came of age at key moments in Europe.
The tours takes place at 12.15 – 13.00 on the following dates:
- Tuesday 26 March: tour in English,
- Wednesday 27 March: tour in French
- Thursday 28 March: tour in Dutch
- Friday 29 March: tour in German
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The Central Connecticut baseball team scored four runs in the seventh inning to top Wagner on Sunday afternoon. The Blue Devils (23-21, 15-13 NEC) erased a 2-0 deficit by scoring six unanswered runs over their final two at bats. Senior Mitch Wells had the big hit of the game a two-out, two-run triple that gave the Blue Devils the lead.
The Seahawks (19-27, 12-12 NEC) scored a run in the first and a run in the second off Blue Devil starter Jack Greenhouse. After the second, Greenhouse settled in and retired 12-of-14 batters over the next four innings as he pitched into the seventh.
The Blue Devils got on the board in the fifth inning without the benefit of a hit. Junior Bobby Migliazza walked to start the frame and came around to score on an RBI ground out by sophomore Josh Ingham.
Greenhouse started the seventh inning on the mound, but after a lead off single and a sacrifice bunt, he intentionally walked a batter and head coach Charlie Hickey went to the bullpen. Greenhouse was lifted for sophomore Nick Boyd who came on and walked the first batter he faced, but induced an inning ending double play to get out of the jam without allowing a run.
The Blue Devils took the lead with three runs in the bottom of seventh. With one out, senior Danny Hickey was hit by a pitch and Ingham singled up the middle. Senior Jake Matuszak advanced the runners with a bunt, which set up second and third two-out for senior Mitch Wells. Wells delivered a two-run triple to right center that gave the Blue Devils their first lead of the game. Sophomore JP Sportman followed with a single up the middle that scored Wells and improved the Central lead to 4-2.
Sophomore Dylan DelaCruz led off the eighth inning with a single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt. Sophomore Anthony Turgeon followed with a single that scored DelaCruz. After a bunt single by Hickey, Matuszack doubled to left center scoring Turgeon, but Hickey was thrown out at the plate trying to score Central's seventh run of the game.
Sophomore Nick Boyd pitched two thirds of an inning to earn the victory. He did not allow a run. Ingham threw the the final two innings to earn the save. He allowed just three hits and also did not allow a run. Boyd improves to 3-1 with the victory and the save is the seventh of the season for Ingham.
Greenhouse worked 6.1 innings and allowed two runs on seven hits. He struck out three and walked three, but did not factor in the decision.
Matuszak and Wells each had two hits in the game. Wells was the only Central player to drive in more than one run, both of his RBI came on his seventh inning triple. Ingham, Sportman, Turgeon and Matuszak all drove in a run in the game.
The Blue Devils won three-of-four games to take the series from Wagner.
The Blue Devils return to action Tuesday at Fairfield at 3:30. They'll play their final home game of the season on Wednesday, May 2, with a non-conference game against Hartford.


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We bid adieu to New York!
Above, a few mementos of our week.
I'm a scrapbook keeper from way back, so I'm like a little squirrel wherever I go.
I finished reading "Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge" the biography of the American tycoon Harry Selfridge who created one of the largest, successful department stores in the UK and probably the world. Interesting man, very interesting life, but sadly, I found the book a little dry. I've heard a film is in the works and I imagine his story could definitely make a great movie.
Next, I'm going to read "A Summer of Hummingbirds" " Love, Art, and Scandal in the intersecting world of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe & Martin Johnson Heade" which I picked up in my new favourite bookshop on the upper East side "Archivia Books"
I'll let you know if it's good. Anything to do with Mark Twain, I'm in. Now that was a life and a film begging to be made.
Also in the photo, business cards from a few of the shops I had fun visiting, including "R by 45rpm" (great casual clothes, I love their indigo) and "Nicholas Brawer" ( Campaign furniture, sporting antiques, vintage bar accessories and great chat. I was thrilled to find in him a fellow Charles Baker devotee' )
Read my post about cocktails and Charles Baker Jr. Here
Speaking of cocktails, I had a positively SUBLIME "Whiskey Smash" in Bemelman's Bar at The Carlyle Hotel.
OMG. I don't even like whiskey.
It's not on the menu, so you have to ask for it-a friend told me I must try one.
She's an even Bester friend now 🙂
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Tommy Rowles, the Irish bartender who has been crafting cocktails behind the bar at Bemelmans since 1958!
and lest you be concerned that was my only cocktail (I know you worry) fear not Dear Reader.
We attended a delightful soiree in the home of fellow proud parents from my son's graduating class (one of those fab. NY apartments with so much charm, not to mention one of the best examples of vintage red & white stripes used in a cool way, but I can't pull my camera out all the time, as much as I'd love to)
I also went to The Kips Bay 40th Annual Decorator Show House cocktail party with my friend Heather Clawson from Habitually Chic. We had lots of fun and I enjoyed meeting Nicole from the blog So Haute (who gave me an instant "Instagram" lesson) and Stefan from Architect Design . It's always nice to put a face to blogs you read.
Todd Alexander Romano's dining room at Kips Bay
This year's show house (actually two large apartments in a new high-rise building on the upper West side) was filled with shiny, reflective surfaces, including the walls & ceiling treatments and "Green" was definitely the flavour of the moment, in more ways than one. The apartment boasted an outdoor pool-can you imagine? A pool in the heavens but, alas, no hot tub for cold NY nights. The party was in full swing, so impossible for me to snap any pics, but if you're interested in seeing it all beautifully shot, check out Habitually Chic where Heather has several posts and extensive photos from her visit earlier in the week as well as the complete 'low down'.
Thom Filicia's entrance/foyer at Kips Bay
Both photos via Habitually Chic
.For the most part, the weather co-operated and I maintained my 10,000+ steps a day walk around the city..
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I found more colourful Prada windows,
although I didn't get a great shot of this one commemorating the Schiaparelli exhibit at the Met (which sadly I didn't see)
and Caution;
Thighs in reflection will look bigger than they actually are (or so I tell myself)
Does this window make me look fat?
Words of wisdom in the windows at Bergdorf's
and of love on the stairs of "Opening Ceremony" downtown
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you DO remember the song, right?! (start at the top)
My alter ego "The Barktorialist" was charmed by a new model in town
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Meet My Gal "Friday" (just coming from her eyelash extensions appointment on the upper East Side)
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I managed to keep breakfasts down to a moderately subdued level.
I'm not saying there weren't a few of these consumed this week…
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But I was good in the afternoons
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usually ordering salads.
Our absolute favourite meal was at "Eleven Madison Park"
Trust me on this one.
Jump through whatever hoops you must to secure a reservation.
The extended tasting menu was
one of the best and most fun dinners we've experienced in a long time.
The menu below doesn't even include the "amuse bouche(s)" (which I don't want to spoil for you, but are truly 'amusing') or the insanely delicious dessert we enjoyed in the kitchen, where I (insert red face) when asked to 'crack' open with our spoons the dry ice prepared-rhubarb mound of wonderfulness floating in a divine liquer, cracked the actual glass cup instead.
Cringe. They promised me I wasn't the first.
Some sort of mob boss was also too heavy handed.
Oh… red face encore just reliving the moment.
You have to believe me when I say I'm one of those people who never breaks anything!
No spoilers, but the apple tea, the "lollipops", the clams (served 3 ways), the lobster and the "Egg Cream" were my favourites.
Definitely one of the most handsome locations in Manhattan
Photos by Francesco Tonelli
The staff couldn't possibly have been more charming in helping us to celebrate our Graduate with such a memorable feast.
"11 Madison Park: The Cookbook" video here
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Good night Manhattan & Manhattanites!
Until next time…
I have to go unpack.
I hope I don't break anything.


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Good news if you hate 3D, "My Soul to Take" had the worst opening for a 3D movie to date, making roughly $6.9 million this past weekend. I'd love to see the breakdown of people who saw it that weren't forced to because they're on a podcast.
John Carpenter suffered a minor stroke this past Saturday at the Spooky Empire convention in Orlando. The bad ass part? He returned to the convention on Sunday to continue meetings fans. He also bit the head off of one. Alright that last part's a lie.
Producer Bryan Fuller recently dropped some info on his upcoming reboot of "The Munsters" TV series. It's being described a combo of "Modern Family" and "True Blood" which to me sounds like a bunch of vampires who are related screwing each other. Hollywood is a bunch of sickos.
If you've all being waiting for the next Indonesian flick to hit the states you can finally get some sleep because "Satan's Facebook" is coming. There's really no reason to explain what this is about, from the title alone you should be excited and if you're not you're a racist. There, I said it.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Orders for big-ticket U.S. goods slumped 5.2% in January because of sharp declines in bookings for commercial and defense aircraft, but orders minus the volatile transportation sector rose for the fifth straight month, the government reported Wednesday. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected orders to drop 5.0%. Stripping out the herky-jerky transportation sector, orders climbed 1.9%, the fastest rate in more than a year, according to Commerce Department data. Orders for machinery were particularly strong, climbing 13.5%, but demand for autos was flat and bookings for computers fell. Orders for core capital goods, a key barometer of private-sector business investment, jumped 6.3% to mark the largest rise in more than two years. Yet shipments of core capital goods, a category used to calculate quarterly economic growth, dipped 1.0% in January. Orders for December, meanwhile, were revised down to a 3.7% increase from a prior reading of a 4.3% gain.
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Knife attack survivor speaks out against attacker
Brittany Costello helped lead police to killer in Alissa Shippert case
A woman who survived a brutal attack from a man who had already killed one woman breaks her silence.
Quintin O'Dell was sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to killing Alissa Shippert in 2011.
Police hadn't suspected O'Dell in Shippert's death until a young woman told police O'Dell was also behind an attack that left her with horrific knife wounds.
"I wish he was dead," said Brittany Costello.
O'Dell also admitted to attacking Costello in her Ferrelview apartment in December 2011. Costello was cut from her neck down through her torso, an injury that left her disemboweled and lucky to be alive.
She said she is relieved to know that O'Dell will die in prison.
"(It's) good. So I don't have to walk the street and be scared all the time," Costello said.Her survival and willingness to identify O'Dell helped break open the Shippert case. Prosecutors said that as they watched O'Dell plead guilty Thursday, they wondered if they were looking at a serial killer.
"We may well have caught a serial killer in the very beginnings," said Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd. "Thankfully, we'll never know the answer to that question because he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars."
Zahnd said had originally planned to pursue the death penalty for O'Dell. The victims' families accepted his guilty plea and life sentence to spare them the pain of reliving the crimes, not just during the trial but during years of appeals.
Costello said she was unmoved by O'Dell's apologies to her and Shippert's family.
"He actually said sorry. He's not sorry. If he was sorry then he wouldn't have done it in the first place. But he did it and he's going to regret it for the rest of his life," Costello said.
Costello has been through multiple surgeries for her terrible wounds and will face more surgeries throughout the rest of her life.


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NCIS Season Finale Review: "Pyramid"Steve Marsi at .
After Mike Franks' "Swan Song" made for one of the best episodes in NCIS history, last night's finale felt less like the season's climax and more like the denouement.
"Pyramid" connected the dots and filled in the blanks involving operation Frankenstein, while dangling a number of intriguing threads that will carry into next fall.
The Port-to-Port Killer, Lt. Jonas Cobb, wreaked plenty of additional havoc on the team before he met his maker, but ultimately went down fairly easily in a shootout.
The more interesting and unexpected developments didn't fully unravel until later. This being NCIS, Cobb's demise was just part of a complex, tangled web.
There were several significant reveals this week, not the least of which being that E.J. Barrett is the niece of Secretary of the Navy Davenport. Naturally, Gibbs knew.
He never spoke of the obvious nepotism that buried him in the P2P case, possibly because you don't just call out SecNav, and it's not Barrett's fault who her family is.
If that were E.J.'s only secret, maybe we'd actually like her after this episode.
Her "moment alone" with the body was chilling (no pun intended) and beyond shady. What was in Gayne's wrist, why was it there and how did Barrett know about it?
You can expect this surprising twist to be fleshed out next season and you can guarantee there are more layers to E.J. than we're currently aware of (although Tony may be privy to more information than anyone else, which we'll get to briefly).
Vance's role in all this was equally startling.The Director actually conceptualized Frankenstein ages ago, only to watch it blossom into a joint CIA/NCIS operation that went horribly wrong on so multiple levels.
Vance's hands had blood on them, and were tied by the chain of command. There was plenty of blame to go around between Vance, Kort and SecNav Davenport.
With Cobb "evolving" as Ducky put it, his focus shifted to destroying those who made him a creature. That put NCIS and the CIA squarely in the killer's crosshairs.
The weight always falls on the bottom of the pyramid.
In this case, it's hard to tell where upon the pyramid Vance sits, stifled by higher-ups, with his agents at risk, yet due to an operation - at least in part - of his own creation.
When he brutally kidnapped Ziva and then surrendered shortly thereafter, you knew there was more to it. His target wasn't Ziva at all; she was merely a distraction.
Having occupied Leroy Jethro Gibbs and his team, Cobb broke free within NCIS' confines - a bit dubious that he wasn't more tightly guarded - and returned "home."
With Mr. Palmer, Kort and Barrett held hostage, Vance, Gibbs and SecNav all descended on Frankenstein in what promised to be an epic showdown. It was not.
Davenport, Vance and Kort were all there, and Cobb wasn't making it out alive. Why he didn't he take them out, or at least try? Did his humanity surface, however fleetingly?
In any case, he hesitated and when he drew his gun, the aforementioned trio shot him countless times. Game over. Anticlimactic in a sense, but the demise of Lt. Cobb was but one of many elements to this twisted tale of government subversion.
Ray, who made his return last night, received a text message that Kort was in Tel Aviv, and to "handle it." Perhaps the one-eyed slime, who co-opted Frankenstein for personal gain, has finally crossed the wrong people at The Company.
Suffice it to say, the box he gave Ziva felt like an empty gesture in more ways than one. CI-Ray may be one of the "good" guys, but he has work to do to win our trust.
The fact that CI-Ray is off to Tel Aviv of all places makes you think, too. As world cities go, that's a random one ... unless his business there somehow involves the Davids.
Mike's funeral, meanwhile, was one of the most moving scenes in recent memory. As many of us posited last week, if Cobb didn't kill Gibbs' mentor, Franks' own lungs were about to. Gibbs knew it, as evidenced by my favorite reveal of the night.
After watching Gibbs in the basement all season, finally seeing his woodwork on display during Mike's burial - with the Marines' gun salute and "Caught By the Light" by The Boxer Rebellion providing the soundtrack - probably left a lot of viewers choked up.
Then came the cliffhanger(s).
Barrett is moving on, or so she says. Gibbs told her she's welcome back anytime, or so he says. From the theft of that chip to Cobb sparing her twice, there's something very much amiss about E.J. Which brings us to Tony and the new SecNav.
Vance and his new boss called Tony in to track down someone within the organization selling U.S. intelligence. Clearly Tony was chosen for a reason, and from the look on his face, clearly he's familiar with whom he's been assigned to keep tabs on.
Kort, Ray, Cade ... there are plenty of possible suspects. But the one I keep coming back to, given the scene in the morgue and Tony's relationship with her, is E.J.
What does Tony know? What will he do? This was a fantastic way to end a season finale that, rather than splitting Gibbs' team apart, brought them closer than ever.
While "Pyramid" was unconventional in some ways, it left me appreciative of the show's underrated writing and acting, and already anxious for Season Nine of NCIS.
Do you agree? What was your favorite part of the NCIS season finale? What do you make of Tony's assignment? Sound off with your comments below.
Steve Marsi is the Managing Editor of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Google+ or email him here.


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After a Redskins fumble deep in Giants territory, a scrum emerged.
Eventually, Redskins offensive lineman Will Montgomery, while laying on his back, kicked at the knee of Giants defensive lineman Linval Joseph.
Joseph retaliated, with a kick to Montgomery.
Neither player was ejected, though both were flagged. Undoubtedly, both will be fined.
The Giants lead, 13-10.


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Xanthoparmelia mexicana
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Parmelia mexicana
Parmelia ramigera f. minuta
Parmelia ramigera f. murita
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Greater Sonoran Desert
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: foliose, adnate to loosely adnate, 4-10 cm in diam., irregularly lobate
: subirregular, elongate, plane to subconvex, separate, contiguous to somewhat imbricate, (0.5-)1.5-4 mm wide, not lobulate; apices: subrotund, smooth to crenate, eciliate
upper surface
: yellow-green, smooth, shiny, epruinose and emaculate, moderately to densely isidiate
: initially subglobose, soon becoming cylindrical to coralloid branched, 0.1-0.2 mm in diam., 0.1-0.5 mm tall; tips: syncorticate, brown to blackish brown, sometimes weakly erumpent; soralia and pustulae absent
: white, with continuous algal layer
lower surface
: pale to medium brown, plane, moderately to densely rhizinate; rhizines: pale brown, simple, 0.2-0.5 mm long
: rare, substipitate, 2-7 mm wide, laminal on thallus; disc: cinnamon-brown to dark brown; margin: smooth, pruina absent
: clavate, 8spored
: hyaline, simple, ellipsoid, 9-10 x 4-5 µm
: rare, immersed
: bifusiform, 6-7 x 1 µm
Spot tests
: upper cortex K-, C-, KC-, P-; medulla K+ yellow to dark red, C-, KC-, P+ orange
Secondary metabolites
: upper cortex with usnic acid (major); medulla with salazinic acid (major) consalazinic acid (minor), and usually norstictic and protocetraric acids (trace).
Substrate and ecology
: on acidic rocks, often on soil near the coast, in open, arid habitats
World distribution
: Africa, Asia, Australasia, southern North America and South America
Sonoran distribution
: common at lower elevations in Arizona, southern California, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua and Sonora.
: Xanthoparmelia mexicana is probably the most common Xanthoparmelia in the Sonoran region. Typically it is a somewhat broad lobed species with dense isidia, a pale to reddish brown lower cortex and salazinic acid as the major medullary metabolite. In the interior deserts of central Arizona, X. mexicana often has narrower lobes and a higher degree of adnation than coastal populations.
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Swan Caretaker Killed By, Yup, You Guessed It
Remember in the movie 'Black Swan' when Natalie Portman makes out with Mila Kunis? This story has nothing to do with that. We just wanted to think about that scene again. It's also the only way to brighten up this awful story about a swan caretaker that was attacked by… yep, swans — and drowned.
Anthony Hensley — who worked for Knox Swan and Dog LLC, a company that handles geese populations by use of swans and dogs — died after an attacking swan tipped his kayak over in Bay Colony Drive Condos in Des Plaines, Illinois.
The caretaker, who fed and cared for the swans, reportedly tried to swim back to shore but was no match for the marauding bevy (that's the plural for a group of swans, look it up!). A nesting swan protecting her eggs may be what caused for the attack.
If we add one more woman to the Portman/Kunis scene is that then considered a bevy?
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Health Resolutions That Can Help Save Money
From quitting smoking to shopping around for care, Marketwatch's Jen Wieczner explains how health-related New Year's resolutions can also improve the health of your wallet.
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