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Recap: Top Chef DC Finale, And The Winner Is...
Another year, another city, another Top Chef finale! The competition was fierce as the final three contestants cooked their hearts out for the judges in Singapore. Who won the title of Top Chef, and who just went home empty handed? It's all ahead in this week's recap!
[Warning: Spoilers ahead!]
No rest for the weary! Immediately after the last challenge ended, Padma called the final three contestants back to announce their final challenge. They were told to simply "create a four-course meal of the most amazing foods they've ever cooked in their lives." Oh, is that all?
The first course had to be a vegetable, the second course fish, the third course meat, and the fourth course dessert. Tom Colicchio said he and Eric Ripert would be getting up early the next morning to choose their meats, and noted "monkey was in season." And if you thought Ed looked panicked by that statement, you should have seen the monkey.
Since this was such a daunting task, the finalists got to utilize previous Top Chef winners as their sous chefs. As usual, the pairings were determined via a knife pull. Ed got season two winner Ilan Hall, Angelo got season three winner Hung Huynh, and Kevin got his old friend, and season six winner, Michael Voltaggio.
When they got back to the hotel, Angelo started complaining that he didn't feel well. He was pretty out of it, so he decided to go to bed early while the other guys sat around the kitchen table drinking cheap beer and high-fiving each other. Ah yes. It was 11th grade all over again.
The next morning, Angelo was looking and feeling even worse. He had severe stomach pains, and was up all night vomiting. I actually felt bad for the guy because he was in such rough shape. In fact, a doctor stopped by to examine him, and gave him only a 20% chance of being able to be a douchebag to the waitstaff the next day. The horror!
Hung, Angelo's sous chef, had it just as bad. The poor guy had to do all the shopping and prep work himself, while Angelo mumbled instructions to him over the phone. Hung took it like a champ. I don't think many people would have been as patient or accommodating, so props to the guy for that.
In other news, Ed thought Angelo was being a huge baby for not sucking it up and joining them. Voltaggio, on the other hand, was busy scrutinizing prices like he was filming an episode of Money Saving Meals. "These are $1.45, and those are only $.38," he exclaimed while rifling through some onions. "They're cheaper. I don't know how they'll taste, though." Oh Michael. Sandra Lee would have been so proud.
After the grocery store, the guys started their prep work. Everyone was mad because Hung purchased the only foie gras, and didn't share it with anyone. Meanwhile, Angelo was back home getting a gigantic needle stuck in his bum. This time, the doctor gave him a "3% chance" of the antibiotic shot making him healthy enough to compete the next day. Coincidentally, that's also the percentage of Top Chef fans who will be sticking around to watch Top Chef: Just Desserts after the finale.
Wouldn't you know it? It's a Top Chef miracle! Later that night, Angelo started feeling better and the doctor cleared him to cook the next day. He finally emerged from bed, wearing a sparkly low-cut v-neck t-shirt and baggy white capri pants which may, or may not, have been from Joan Rivers' newest "can we talk" collection on QVC.
The Tasting
The tasters for the finale included David Chang, Susan Feniger, Tom Colicchio, Dana Cowin, Eric Ripert, Padma, Gail, and several other heavy hitters in the food industry. Overall, they were incredibly impressed by what they were served. Here were some of the highlights—and lowlights:
Kevin's frozen Singapore sling dessert was one of their favorites. It was refreshing, unique, delicious, and Ripert loved the "coconut surprise" at the bottom. The judges also loved Kevin's roasted duck breast with duck dumpling, caramelized bok choy, and coriander sauce. His duck was cooked perfectly.
Ed's sticky toffee date pudding with fleur de sel creme chantilly was one of the least successful dishes of the night. It was boring, underwhelming, and average. David Chang even said it was "like a fuck you." That's one way of putting it. The other is: "what the hell were you thinking, Ed? You're preparing dessert for the Top Chef finale, not for Saturday night Pictionary with your girlfriend and her parents."
During judging, Colicchio questioned Ed about preparing such a boring dessert, and Ed said he served it because he didn't want to screw up a more complicated dish. I'll take "things not to say to people who are judging you" for $500, please, Alex.
The judges also really hated Angelo's sauteed duck breast and foie gras with marshmallow and tart cherry shooter. Angelo said the shooter was supposed to be a palate cleanser, but in reality it was thick and gloopy and Padma said it "coated every corner of her mouth." And not in a good way.
And The Winner Is...
With very little fanfare, Padma whispered: "Kevin... you are Top Chef." He looked shocked, and mumbled: "I am?!" Yes, Kevin, you are! Congratulations!
While Ed and Angelo were busy worrying about beating each other, Kevin remained focused on the food and delivered the most solid, balanced menu. And let's face it: having Michael Voltaggio as a sous chef probably didn't hurt, either.
But then again, many of us already KNEW Kevin was the winner because of Bravo's epic screw-up earlier in the day. A few hours before the finale aired, Bravo updated their website to include a video clip from next week's reunion show. In that video clip, Andy Cohen congratulated Kevin on winning this season of Top Chef. Way to go, Bravo! Thanks for ruining the modicum of anticipation this season finale had going for it!
So there you have it! What did you think of the finale, Serious Eaters? Did the right man win?
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Ask what's new with the First Eagle High Yield Fund (FEHIX) and you get quite an earful. As the fund approaches its five-year mark, to say it's experienced rapid growth recently is a bit of an understatement. It's gone from $20 million in assets under management to $600 million since the beginning of 2012, all from retail inflows (you read that right). Co-portfolio manager Edward Meigs diplomatically chalks it up to "the favorable environment for the asset class."
Favorable indeed, as the fund reports an average annual one-year return of 6.07%, a three-year average annual return of 16.23% and an average annual return since inception of 12.90%.
Backing up a bit, Sean Slein, the fund's other portfolio manager, says First Eagle's clients wanted the opportunity for more income, so he and Meigs joined the First Eagle platform from Dwight Asset Management to fill that need.
"We offer an income solution that is in philosophical alignment with First Eagle Funds," Slein adds.
He notes the objective of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's QE3 policy is to increase the "wealth effect" for investors, encouraging them through fiscal measures to invest and consume in a way Bernanke hopes will ripple through the economy to stimulate consumption, hiring and, ultimately, GDP growth. These measures, Slein claims, are favorable to a high-yield investment environment.
"High yield has the potential to offer real returns when compared with higher quality issues like Treasuries," Slein says. "Also, we have a favorable credit environment at the moment, one that's benign. Many primary issuances are still quality and management of many companies is fairly conservative in their refinancing activity. They have cash on the books and are not doing silly things with their capital."
Despite Meredith Whitney's well-publicized default prediction, Slein and Meigs note that "the amount and quality of today's issuance reflects estimates of default over the next three or four years. So we're seeing quality now, which we believe should mean some stability moving forward."
The managers describe themselves as value investors who pay very close attention to factors affecting the credit markets, and "all things being equal, the credit space is a nice place to be," Slein says.
"High yield can be a complement to interest rate risk in the other fixed-income portions of an investor's portfolio," Slein concludes. "It has the potential to provide equity-like returns, with lower volatility and lower correlations than equities."


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CLEMSON, SC – The Clemson University athletic department and head coach Dabo Swinney's All In Team Foundation, along with Coca-Cola Consolidated, OOBE and St. Francis Hospital, have unveiled the exclusive 2013 Breast Cancer Awareness Tiger Paw pin, which will be available for sale to the general public beginning Oct. 1, the first day of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The 2013 Breast Cancer Awareness Tiger Paw pin is now available at the Official Online Store of Clemson Athletics on ClemsonTigers.com, as well as locally at Tiger Town Graphics in downtown Clemson and at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on the Clemson campus. The Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority is coordinating sales on campus by the Clemson Greek Community and student organizations. On football game-days, the Breast Cancer Awareness Tiger Paw pins will be available in the novelty stands at Memorial Stadium, the WestZone store and the Littlejohn Coliseum store.
The Clemson football team will wear the same pins during Tiger Walk for all October home games, as will coaches on the sideline during all October games.
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Since 2009, Dabo's All In Team Foundation has donated or pledged over $800,000 in support of its mission to raise awareness of critical education and health issues in order to change lives of people across the State of South Carolina. One of the Foundation's areas of focus is breast cancer research and prevention. Clemson Athletics will celebrate its first ever Breast Cancer Awareness Football Game October 19 against Florida State.
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With Les Jardins, Van Cleef & Arpels draws on the art of ornamental gardening to revisit the natural world which has inspired so many of its creations. In the pieces which make up this High Jewelry collection, the subject matter comes not from Nature herself but from idealized representations of Nature constructed by the hand of Man. Since gardens are ways of seeing the world, the collection evokes the four great philosophies which have guided their conception. The Asian garden seeks to reproduce natural harmony in microcosm, while the strict geometry of the French garden celebrates the triumph of reason over nature. The Italian Renaissance garden is an extension of the house at its center, while the English garden forms a landscape which opens out onto the horizon.
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The collection includes a series of pieces inspired by Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream. This 15th century Italian romance exerted a major influence on the world of art and the philosophy of gardens in the 16thand 17th centuries. The garden at the Villa de Castello was an exact reproduction of those described in the work. Van Cleef & Arpels has transformed these romantic vistas into exquisite pieces of breathtaking beauty.


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While the Google Developers site received its massive redesign quite a while ago, its sibling AOSP one at source.android.com has remained an ugly duckling. Until about an hour ago.
The difference is huge - it's like it went from Cupcake days to Jelly Bean in the blink of an eye. It would be nice if you could update Android the same way, wouldn't it?
Here are some images of the old (visible at archive.org) and new sites side-by-side (can you guess which one is which?):
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CARTAGENA, Colombia — Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a pitch for Canada's mining industry Saturday as Western Hemisphere leaders gathered to discuss critical issues such as whether to decriminalize the illegal drug trade.
In a speech to senior business executives, Harper said a strong mining sector — assisted with a low-tax regime and environmental regulation without excessive delays — can help the Canadian economy and provide a lesson to the countries of Latin America.
"Resource development has vast power to change the way a nation lives," he said.
The weekend Summit of the Americas kicked off Saturday with an embarrassing start after an incident reportedly involving Colombian prostitutes that led to a dozen of U.S. President Barack Obama's Secret Service agents being relieved of duty.
The summit is being attended by leaders from more than 30 nations, including Canada.
The talks this year include issues such as trade expansion and reducing poverty in the Americas.
As well, many Latin American leaders argue the time has come that after decades of being barred from the summit, Cuba should be invited to the next gathering.
That runs counter to the firm positions of Canada and the United States, which insist Cuba should not be permitted to attend the next summit until the communist regime initiates democratic reforms.
Meanwhile, the escalating violence connected to drug cartels in Latin America has some nations insisting it's time for a new approach — perhaps a decriminalized system in which governments regulate how the drugs are sold. They say this would remove the profits from the drug cartels.
To varying degrees, the leaders of Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico and Costa Rica have spoken out in favour of why approaches other than strict criminal crackdowns need to be explored.
But both Harper and Obama oppose the proposal, with a spokesman for the prime minister saying he will be a "strong voice" against decriminalization.
The differing views were on full display Saturday at a panel of some leaders who spoke to senior businessmen.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, host of the summit, said some people in his country are calling for a new approach to the war on drugs.
"Sometimes we pedal and pedal and pedal, and we feel like we are on a stationary bike," he said.
"I think the time has come to simply analyze if what we are doing is the best we could be doing, or if we can find an alternative that would be more effective and less costly to society. This is a topic of extreme political sensitivity."
Santos added: "One extreme can be to put all users in prison. On the other extreme, legalization. In the middle there may be more practical policies, such as decriminalizing consumption but putting all the efforts into interdiction."
Obama said he doesn't mind a debate, but made it clear his country has a strong position on the issue.
"I think it is entirely legitimate to have a conversation about whether the laws in place are doing more harm than good in certain places. I personally, and my administration's position is, that legalization is not the answer."
Before the meeting, which is held every three years, could even start two separate security incidents occurred that marred the occasion.
On Friday, there were two bomb blasts in the seaside resort town of Cartagena, where thousands of security police have been hired to prevent terrorist attacks. No one was hurt.
Also Friday, Obama's security detail — the renowned Secret Service — was embarrassed when it was announced that some of its agents travelling with the president were relieved of duty and replaced.
A spokesman for the agency said there had been "allegations of misconduct" made against the agents, who went to Colombia prior to Obama's arrival for the summit.
There were media reports that the allegations involved prostitution, something that was not disputed by the Secret Service.
In the wake of these developments, Obama and Harper were intent on delivering firm messages about their commitment to trade and investment in Latin America.
On Saturday morning, Harper delivered a speech to a gathering of chief executive officers who had gathered for their own meeting just before the launch of the politicians' summit.
Harper has been promoting Canada's plans to break through into Latin America with more trade and investment. Already, in recent years, Canadian mining companies have established many operations in the region, and Harper devoted much of his speech to promoting the industry.
He said a strong mining sector — assisted with a low-tax regime and environmental regulation without excessive delays — can help the Canadian economy and provide a lesson to the countries of Latin America.
Harper said there are many ways a government can "maximize the value of this great industry for a country and its people."
He painted a picture of how important resource industries are in Canada: Mining contributed $50 billion to the country's GDP in 2011, he said, and provides "well paying" jobs for more than 300,000 Canadians.
"We are already the world's No. 1 potash producer, second for uranium and a major global producer of most mineral and energy products."
Mining accounts for more than one-fifth of Canada's exports and has close to $200 billion in assets throughout the world, he said.
Sixty per cent of the world's exploration and mining companies are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
"In other words, in Canada, we know this industry well.
"Looking to the future, we see increased Canadian mining investment throughout the Americas — something that will be good for our mutual prosperity and is therefore a priority of our government. We are prepared to share our expertise in this area."
Harper said it's important for the industry to strive in a low-tax regime, such as the one provided in Canada by the Conservative government.
"By the risky nature of their enterprise, resource developers value certainty — legal, judicial and regulatory certainty — and they rightly fear unequal or arbitrary changes to the terms of doing business."
Harper said the industry is now being "tested" by rising costs.
"Soaring resource prices might give the impression that mining companies are making easy profits," he said.
"Less discussed is that the cost of inputs — notably skilled labour and fuel — is negatively impacting the economics of mining."
As for regulatory controls, Harper said Canadians are "justly proud" of their mining industry "for its elevated sense of social responsibility."
He noted that his government is reforming the regulatory review system to ensure projects aren't held up by unnecessary delays.
"We cannot allow valid concerns about environmental protection to be used as an excuse to trap worthwhile projects in reviews without end," he said.
"So, let me be clear: When it comes to evaluating development plans, one should not confuse the length of the process with the rigour of the science."
In its recent budget, the government announced a new process to avoid duplication in regulatory reviews and speed up the process with clearly set time frames.
Critics say the changes will lead to poor environmental reviews, but Harper clearly disagrees.
"What matters is that the relevant facts are fully considered. That need not take years."


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Ow! (Image: In Serbia)
An amateur goalkeeper turning out in a local game in the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Boljakov Potok had to be taken to hospital afterwards after unwittingly playing for the majority of the game with a bullet lodged in his brain.
Quite how you can unwittingly have a bullet in your skull is beyond us.
Anyway, Dusko Krtalica, 51, started experiencing "headaches" early on in the game which he assumed were a direct result of him knocking his head against the goalpost while diving to make a save. After somehow making it through to full-time, Krtalica then began complaining of numbness in his left arm and the slurring of his speech.
According to Serbian daily paper Kurir, he was immediately rushed to hospital for tests before being transferred to the Department of Emergency Medicine Hospital in Kosovo for an x-ray (see above) only for doctors to find that he had a bullet burrowed deep in his temple.
Police reckon the bullet that hit Krtalica in the side of the head fell from the ether after being fired up into the air in celebration at a nearby wedding, as 12 other spent bullets were found in the area around the pitch. A 42-year-old man from the Boljakov Potok neighbourhood has since been arrested, with a 9mm pistol seized.
Krtalica is still being held in hospital while he recuperates but according to a spokeswoman for Clinical Center of the University in Sarajevo, for a man who's had a foreign object removed from the head his "vital signs are stable."
How about that? Madness gone mad, no?
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What does the expression "serving two masters" and "being anxious" have in common?
They both have the same root problem – being divided within oneself. The root word for "anxiety" literally means "being of two minds." An anxious person is often "tossed to and fro" and paralyzed by fear, indecision, and insecurity. Fear of some bad outcome cripples those afflicted with anxiety. It's also the case with someone who wants to live in two opposing kingdoms – God's kingdom of light, truth, and goodness or Satan's kingdom of darkness, sin, and deception – following God's standards and way of happiness or following the world's standards of success and happiness. Who is the master in charge of your life? Our "master" is whatever governs our thought-life, shapes our ideals, and controls the desires of our heart and the values we choose to live by.
Matthew Chapter 6:24
Jesus said to his disciples:
"No one can serve two masters.
He will either hate one and love the other,
or be devoted to one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and mammon.
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink,
or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds in the sky;
they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns,
yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are not you more important than they?
Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?
Why are you anxious about clothes?
Learn from the way the wild flowers grow.
They do not work or spin.
But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was clothed like one of them.
If God so clothes the grass of the field,
which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow,
will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?
So do not worry and say, 'What are we to eat?'
or 'What are we to drink?' or 'What are we to wear?'
All these things the pagans seek.
Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given you besides.
Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself.
Sufficient for a day is its own evil."
We can be ruled by many different things – the love of money and possessions, the power of position and prestige, the glamor of wealth and fame, and the driving force of unruly passions, harmful desires, and addictive cravings. Ultimately the choice of who is our master boils down to two: God or "mammon". What is mammon? "Mammon" stands for "material wealth or possessions" or whatever tends to "control our appetites and desires." There is one master alone who has the power to set us free from slavery to sin, fear, pride, and greed, and a host of other hurtful desires.
That master is the Lord Jesus Christ who alone can save us from all that would keep us bound up in fear and anxiety. Jesus used an illustration from nature – the birds and the flowers – to show how God provides for his creatures in the natural order of his creation. God provides ample food, water, light, and heat to sustain all that lives and breathes. How much more can we, who are created in the very image and likeness of God, expect our heavenly Father and creator to sustain not only our physical bodies, but our mind, heart, and soul as well?
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22 March 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Algae.Tec , WorleyParsons sign fuel MoU
Singapore: Australia's Algae.Tec has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with WorleyParsons for joint developments of Algae projects in future. A number of Algae.Tec projects, including those in the EU, USA, Australia and Brazil, are already in the final stages of technical feasibility studies.
Algae.Tec executive chairman, Roger Stroud, said, "Algae.Tec is extremely pleased to have the support of WorleyParsons during this global development, construction and management phase. WorleyParsons, a world leader in the delivery of engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) services, brings an extensive network and years of experience in supporting project development and plant operations."
Algae.Tec has developed a high-yield enclosed algae growth and harvesting system, the McConchie-Stroud System. The company was founded in 2007 and has offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Perth, Western Australia.
The Algae.Tec bioreactor, an enclosed modular engineered technology, is designed to grow algae on an industrial scale, and produce biofuels that replace predominantly imported fossil fuels.


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ANN DeMATTEO: In walks Lorraine Cronin, one of St. Raphael's most generous guardian angels
You never know when the next friend is going to pop up. So I'm sitting in my hospital bed and the latest in the long line of guardian angels appears.
Little did I know when the moment occurred how significant Lorraine D. Cronin would be in my life as a patient at the St. Raphael campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital.
It all began through Lorraine's affiliation with Hamden Hall Country Day School. Jodi Amatulli of the development staff mentioned my name while they were at lunch, and Lorraine said she loved my column and wanted to meet me. So after lunch they came to the hospital.
My room was filled with visitors already. I didn't think I needed any other visitors, but I really needed this one more than I would know.
Jodi pushed her way through the group and introduced Lorraine to me. It was a pleasant exchange, but I still didn't know who I was talking to until more time passed. Turns out, Mrs. Cronin's husband was a trauma surgeon at Hartford Hospital. Despite working elsewhere, but living in the New Haven area, they were benefactors of St. Raphael's. And that's a wonderful thing, too. Without their donations, St. Raphael's wouldn't have had Cronin's Crossing, the skywalk above Orchard Street; the Dr. Robert J. and Lorraine D. Cronin Auditorium; Dr. Robert J. and Lorraine D. Cronin Short Term Surgery and a canopy in their name in recognition for the birth center gift.
Lorraine, a former president of St. Raphael's Auxiliary, has also contributed to the Grimes Health Center's Chapel and Gift Shop. She has given generously to the Hospital of St. Raphael since 1980.
Now, there's a benefactor if ever you've seen one. When you are a generous person, you're a generous person. That's all there is to it.
Since that initial visit, Lorraine has visited my room at the hospital a number of times. I feel so blessed to have made her friendship. My mother, Ann, has also benefited, as Lorraine offered her her parking space at the hospital.
But the biggest favor this wonderful benefactor extended to me was making sure that I was placed in a private room. Imagine six of us in half a hospital room. It doesn't work. Thank you, Lorraine Cronin.
Lorraine is someone who gives selflessly. One of her main concerns is that patients are getting what they need. I can assure you that I certainly have been treated well. And when it comes to my choice for nurse of the week, it's Christine Silvestrini.
On the homefront: I haven't seen my cats, Patches Marie and Smoky Ann, for three weeks. I miss them greatly. Do you think they miss me? Hah! They're cats. Secondly, I'm still in the hospital, fighting whatever infections they're giving me antibiotics for. Please pray for my recovery.
Former longtime Hamden and North Haven reporter for the Register, Ann DeMatteo, is the managing editor of The Middletown Press.


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I never met my maternal grandfather, since he died before I was born, and I was only one year old when my maternal grandmother died. They had six children and they live through the stories their children tell.
Memories have a way of reinventing themselves and I have listened to many family discussions that disagree. One memory all their children agree on,however, happened during the depression when grandfather was a bootlegger.
Granddad supported six children, a wife and a father living in his home; as well as a roving number of assorted relatives, who stayed for short and long stays, and friends who dropped by on Sunday for the best, fried chicken dinner in town.
He had trained as a classical violinist, so when the depression descended, he made extra money playing honky-tonk fiddle in bars and on the radio. He played on the Hammond radio station as "Dad DeWitt and the Pumpkin Huskers." His four daughters sang and his two sons played instruments. This was not what he became famous for, though.
What he became famous for, was the best bootleg bathtub gin in Lake County, Indiana. The, then Mayor of Hammond was his best customer.
The still had been set up under a false floor in the coal bin of the house they rented. One day, a cousin was helping him watch the still and fell asleep at the gauges. Yup, it exploded. Fine black coal dust sifted up out of every register in the house. No one was hurt but it days to get the house cleaned of soot.
Grandpas bootlegging career ended unexpectedly the day a black limousine pulled into the yard. The driver knocked on the door and told granddad that Al Capone was waiting to talk to him. Mom says Granddad's face turned white as a ghost at those words. Grandma did not know if she would ever see him again. He walked to the car, with Capone's henchman, and got into the back seat. The car did not drive off. Instead, Granddad sat in the back seat and had a conversation with Al Capone, in the limousine, in my grandparent's yard.
Capone told Granddad that the quality of granddad's gin was so high he wanted granddad to make bathtub gin only for him. He would buy Granddad a new car and a new house. But the house would have to be located where Capone wanted it. Granddad politely declined what must have been great wealth during the depression. He explained to Capone that he had children and did not feel it would be right to get them involved in this business. Capone was very friendly and polite about the whole thing and even gave Granddad a cigar.
After the conversation, Granddad came in and smashed the still. That is when grandpa, Omar DeWitt, decided he was not going to make bootleg bathtub gin anymore, for anyone. He was not going to endanger his family because once you start working for Al Capone, you could never ever quit.


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Welcome your new baby in style! We are always coming up with cute new wall decal designs and we are especially excited about our new baby decor ideas this year! With several wall art kits, a fun alphabet kit and a new peel and stick growth chart, creating an adorable nursery has never been easier. These beautiful wall decals bring art and imagination to life in nursery décor. With soft nursery-chic colors and darling motifs, this fresh new wall art is a pleasing addition to the WallPops for baby line.
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The Weather Channel Roars into March Like a Lion, Greenlighting Three New Series
Network Has Announced Nine New Series for 2013 with More to Come
ATLANTA (Jan. 28, 2013) - The Weather Channel announced today it will premiere four series this March, including new series, "Forecasting the End," "Loaded" and "Lava Chasers," along with the previously announced "Prospectors."
"These series really show how weather provides so many diverse storytelling opportunities," said Michael Dingley, senior vice president, content and development, The Weather Channel. "Weather is truly the greatest show on Earth, and it's a pivotal character in each of these series."
The three new series include:
Forecasting the End (Premieres Thursday, March 21 at 9:00 p.m. ET)
From Nostradamus and the ancient Mayans to modern-day scientists, the theoretical "apocalypse" has been the source of endless speculation and countless predictions, with anything from super-volcanoes to mega-tsunamis, rogue planets or a massive methane eruption leading to the so-called "end of life as we know it." In "Forecasting the End," some of the world's leading scientists, along with elaborate computer graphics, illustrate the different "what if?" theories of if and how catastrophic weather or natural disasters could possibly cause the end of days or transform our lives forever. Produced by Ping Pong Productions ("Finding Bigfoot," "Destination Truth"), "Forecasting the End" will feature 6x 30-minute episodes.
Loaded (Premieres Monday, March 25 at 9:00 p.m. ET)
"Loaded" follows the cutthroat, high stakes world of trucking, and the road warriors who put it all on the line to make a profit. From battling each other to get the work, to battling weather and other road hazards to make sure they deliver on time and under budget, they are constantly under the gun. Breakdowns, accidents - anything can get in their way, and braving the elements causes constant hurdles. Facing rain, snow, extreme heat or other weather conditions can not only make them late for delivery, but cause them to lose money on their contract - even having to pay out the value of the cargo. "Loaded" will follow these truckers to see who emerges with the most money at the end of each episode. Produced by Cineflix ("American Pickers," "Property Virgins"), "Loaded" will feature 6x 30-minute episodes.
Lava Chasers (Premieres Tuesday, March 26 at 8:00 p.m. ET)
Lava flows through the Hawaiian Islands as if it's their lifeblood, shaping the landscape, ecology and economy. In fact, Hawaii wouldn't exist without volcanoes. But they are also part of its potential downfall, with the ability to destroy the paradise they created. "Lava Chasers" follows the adventurers, residents and scientists who go out looking for the rivers of 2000°F molten rock, to help understand these volcanoes and keep others out of harms way. Produced by Electric Sky ("Nature's Greatest Journey - the Wildebeest Migration," "Secret Life of the Rainforest"), "Lava Chasers" will feature 4x 30-minute episodes.
The three new series joins a rapidly growing slate of original series for The Weather Channel, including "Coast Guard Alaska," "Coast Guard Florida," "Deadliest Space Weather," "Hawaii Air Rescue," "Hurricane Hunters," "Ice Pilots," "Iceberg Hunters," "Iron Men," "Lifeguard!," "Plane Xtreme," "Pyros," and "Turbine Cowboys," as well as upcoming series "Reef Wranglers" (February 12), "Hacking the Planet" (February 28), "Prospectors" (March 5), "Breaking Ice" (April 2013), "Reel Rivals" (May 2013), and "Tipping Points" (October 2013).
About The Weather Company
The Weather Company (TWC, formerly The Weather Channel Companies), provides the world's best weather. Through The Weather Channel, weather.com, Weather Underground, Intellicast.com and third-party publishing partners, the company provides millions of people every day with the world's best weather forecasts, content and data, connecting with them through television, online, mobile and tablet screens. Through WSI and Weather Central, the company delivers superior professional weather services for the media, aviation, marine and energy sectors. The Weather Company is owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital. For more information, visit www.weather.com/press.


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Virginia in the Civil War:
A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Virginia was the pivotal state in the Civil War. As the mother state of the Union, it was a reluctant addition to the Confederate States of America. Over 60% of the battles in the four year Civil War were fought in Virginia. The Old Dominion suffered more damage in that period than has any other area in the western hemisphere. This documentary concentrates on Virginia's contributions, its sacrifices and the gallantry displayed by citizens at all levels during this nation-molding struggle.
This project was produced in conjunction with the Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and the Virginia Tech Center for Civil War Studies. The program was shot and edited entirely in High Definition. Designed for use in the classroom, the three hour documentary was broken down into nine 20 minute segments.


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Trust us: No one will complain if you double the shrimp and omit the lobster in this tart and beachy seafood salad. Just be sure to sear the shrimp quickly on a hot grill: The char plays nicely with lime juice.
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- Makes 8 servings
- 1 pound large shell-on or peeled shrimp
- 4 lobster tails (about 2 pounds total), halved lengthwise
- 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- Kosher salt
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced red onion
- 5 tablespoons (or more) fresh lime juice, divided
- 2 cups 3x1/4x1/4" pieces peeled jicama (from one 1-pound jicama)
- 2 cups hardy greens, such as purslane or watercress sprigs, with tender stems
- 2 cups thinly sliced tomatillos or small green tomatoes (about 8 medium)
- 1 cup fresh cilantro leaves with tender stems plus more for garnish
- 2 tablespoons Ancho Chile Oil or store-bought chili oil
- Build a medium-hot fire in a charcoal grill, or heat a gas grill to high. If using shell-on shrimp, use small scissors to cut shells along the curved backs. Remove veins, keeping shells intact. Place shrimp and lobster in a large bowl; drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil and season with salt. Mix onion and 2 tablespoons lime juice in a small bowl.
- Grill shrimp until just opaque in center, 2-3 minutes per side. Transfer to a large plate. Grill lobster tails, flesh side down, until slightly charred, 1-2 minutes. Turn flesh side up and grill until just opaque in center, about 5 minutes longer. Add lobster tails to plate with shrimp and let rest for 5-10 minutes. Remove lobster meat from shells; discard shells. Cut lobster into 1" pieces.
- Drain red onion; place in a large bowl. Add 3 tablespoons lime juice, 2 tablespoons oil, jicama, greens, tomatillos, and 1 cup cilantro. Season with salt and more lime juice, if desired. Add seafood; toss to coat. Drizzle Ancho Chile Oil over; garnish with cilantro.


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Liverpool defender Daniel Agger has confirmed he is likely to be out injured with a calf strain for a month.
• Usher: The problem with Owen
• Sakho: Suarez as good as Zlatan
• Premier Fantasy: Play our game
Agger, 29, picked up the injury late on during Sunday's 2-0 FA Cup third-round win against Oldham at Anfield.
And the Denmark international, who quashed talk of a January exit from the club on Thursday, expressed his frustration at the setback via his official Twitter account.
Disappointed with my injury! But I hope to be back strong within 4 weeks! Thanks for all the supporting tweets. ynwa.
— Daniel Agger (@DanielAgger) January 10, 2014
Agger's absence is a blow to Reds manager Brendan Rodgers, although he has received some positive injury news of late.
Defender Mamadou Sakho has recovered from a hamstring strain ahead of Sunday's trip to Stoke, while striker Daniel Sturridge is back in full training having been sidelined with a sprained ankle since November. Reds captain Steven Gerrard, who has overcome a hamstring strain, played 77 minutes against Oldham to add to the 30 minutes he gained after coming on against Hull last week.
"Over Christmas we were unfortunate we had a number of injuries which brought the squad down to about 15 players,'' Rodgers said. "Thankfully over this last week we are starting to get one or two back and they are very important players for us.
"Steven [Gerrard] came back into the fold against Oldham, which was great, and Daniel is back training now, which is brilliant for us."
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I'm going to format my Windows 7 x64 PC and I will make a fresh installation of Bejeweled 3. The problem is, I've made a big progress in the game and I don't want to lose the current state of the game (some levels are available only after a certain progress in the game).
What should I do to protect my state in the game? Are just backing up
C:\Program Files (x86)\PopCap Games\Bejeweled 3 folder and restoring it enough?


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blurry and small pictures than some ocrs doesnt always get accurate results.
I found out two ways:
1- Using Google docs:
- We upload a picture or a pdf file to GoogleDrive
- Open with google Docs --> It open the file in a doc with the text below.
2- My favourite, using GoogleKeep:
- Drag a picture or serveral pictures in a note or several notes apart
- Select "Grab text from image"
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Google's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software now works for over 248 world languages (including all the major South Asian languages). It's quite simple and easy to use, and can detect most languages with over 90% accuracy.
The technology extracts text from images, scans of printed text, and even handwriting, which means text can be extracted from pretty much any old books, manuscripts, or images.


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As part of a regional low sulfur strategy developed by northeast and mid-Atlantic states, Vermont will limit the sulfur content in No. 2 fuel oil sold in the state to 0.05 percent by weight. The new regulation began July 1, 2014. Reducing sulfur in fuel oils will have significant health, environmental, and economic benefits, and each state in the region has committed to adopt and implement the new limits to comply with the Clean Air Act and reduce regional haze. In the eastern United States, the dominant contributor to haze is sulfate formed from sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions.
"In addition to reducing visibility, haze causes serious cardiovascular and respiratory health problems. Sulfur dioxide emissions also can lead to the acidification of lakes and streams, contribute to the damage of trees and sensitive forest soils, and accelerate the decay of building materials and paints," said Elaine O'Grady, Director of the Air Quality & Climate Division of Vermont's Department of Environmental Conservation.
"Because the fuel will be cleaner, consumers will save money from lower maintenance costs and an increase in efficiency," added David Mears, Commissioner of Vermont's Department of Environmental Conservation.
By July 1, 2018 the sulfur content in No. 2 fuel oil will be limited to 0.0015% by weight, No. 4 fuel oil will be limited to 0.25% by weight, and No. 5 and No. 6 residual oils limited to 0.5% by weight. No. 2 fuel oil is a light distillate heating oil used in homes and businesses, while No. 4 oil is a commercial heating oil used in burner installations not equipped with preheaters. Heavier residual oils like No. 5 and No. 6 are most commonly used in industrial operations.
The rule applies to fuel that is used, purchased, or sold for use in stationary combustion installations within Vermont for heat or power generation. Fuels that met the applicable limit at the time the fuel was stored in Vermont may continue to be stored, used, delivered, or exchanged in trade after July 1, 2014.
The new sulfur limitations will improve visibility, provide substantial health benefits, and lower costs for fuel consumers through lower maintenance and efficiency improvements. Full text of the rule can be found in section 5-221 of the Vermont Air Pollution Regulations, or by clicking here.


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I'm interested in using TikZ to draw rooted trees whose leaves should all be on the same level, pretty much like this:
Please don't pay attention to the fancy style and colours, I'm only interested in having all leaves at the same level. Anyone knows how to do this? I've looked into the manual and the appropriate section on Texample, but had no luck so far.
UPDATE: a while after this question was answered, I found out about the LaTeX newicktree package, which allows you to draw such trees in an extremely simple way, just by specifying them in the format people in phylogenetics already use. This is obviously much simpler than resorting to TikZ, but thanks anyway to everyone who contributed to helping me.


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MONTREAL - David Desharnais and Erik Cole scored in the first period and the Montreal Canadiens hung on for a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Sunday afternoon.
The win completed a sweep of weekend matinees at home for Montreal (6-2-0) after a 6-1 win Saturday over the Buffalo Sabres. The Canadiens have won five straight at home, after dropping their home opener to Toronto on Jan. 19.
Jakob Silfverberg scored for Ottawa (5-3-1), which was coming off a 1-0 loss in Carolina on Friday night.
Goalie Craig Anderson has not conceded a goal after the first period in eight games this season. The Senators outshot Montreal 32-31.
Max Pacioretty was back on the ice only eight days after having his appendix removed and got an assist on his first shift. His return gave Montreal an almost completely healthy lineup and dropped Lars Eller from the first to the fourth line a day after he had three points against the Sabres.
The game was only 36 seconds old when Tomas Plekanec was sent off for goalie interference and Ottawa used the man advantage to take the lead at 1:38. Patrick Wiercioch found Silfverberg at the far blue-line with a stretch pass during a Montreal line change and the rookie went in alone to beat Carey Price on the glove side.
Pacioretty slid a puck to the net that Desharnais tipped past Craig Anderson to tie it at 2:12.
A Montreal power play had just ended when Cole lifted a feed from Francis Bouillon over Anderson at 11:29.
Anderson and Price traded big saves through a scoreless second frame.
The Senators' Andre Benoit thought he had a goal 1:26 into the third, but it was waived off as Silfverberg was called for goalie interference.
The Canadiens opened last season 1-5-2 en route to finishing last in the Eastern Conference.
P.K. Subban picked up a point in a second straight game since he returned after a contract dispute. He also had to leave the ice for a second day in a row to have a skate repaired, missing the opening 10 minutes of the third period.
Notes: With Pacioretty's return, reserve centre Petteri Nokelainen (back) is Montreal's only injured player. ... Ryan White was scratched for a second game, joining Tomas Kaberle and Yannick Weber. ... Sergei Gonchar and Guillaume Latendresse sat for the Senators, who are also without Jason Spezza (back) and Jared Cowen (hip).


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"According to the IPCC, the average summer temperature
on the North African coast could be 16 degrees hotter,
while in southern Europe summer rainfall could
decline by as much as 80 percent. "
The Christian Science Monitor - csmonitor.com -
January 14, 2008
In the first of a four-part series, the Monitor examines the impact of man-made pressures on the region.
By Nicole Itano | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
From ancient Egypt to Rome, the fertile Mediterranean has sustained great empires for millenniums. But modern development is rapidly turning the cradle of Western civilization into a dry and inhospitable place, its coasts covered in hotels and many of its unique species driven to extinction.
In the past 30 years, coastal populations have grown some 50 percent. Coastal cities have doubled. Tourism has exploded: By 2025, 312 million tourists will visit each year. Water usage is twice that of 1950. More than 100 species are endangered.
Now, climate change is exacerbating the situation.
The region's climate may already be changing faster than projected. In June, a recording station in Athens measured the highest temperature ever recorded there, nearly 113 degrees Fahrenheit.
Overall, temperatures for the summer months were about 5 degrees warmer than average. Months passed without rain. Then deadly fires swept across the country, killing at least 67 people and scorching some 650,000 acres of land.
The abnormal weather in 2007 is not proof that climate change is here, scientists say, but it is a strong indicator. And it's a taste of what's likely to come if the world continues to spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
"You can say it was probably an ordinary summer of the years to come," says Christos Giannakopoulos, a researcher at the National Observatory of Athens and contributor to the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "This kind of summer still will not happen every one or every two years. But in the future, this ... might happen every year."
Greece was not the only Mediterranean country to experience extreme weather last summer.
In Turkey, heat and drought caused major crop failures and forced Ankara to ration city water. By autumn, the water supplies in Cyprus's reservoirs had dwindled to 9 percent of capacity. Fires raged across Spain, Italy, Croatia, and Algeria in one of the worst seasons since the European Union began tracking in the 1980s.
Major meeting this week
This week, the 22 signatories of the 1976 Barcelona Convention, an agreement to protect the Mediterranean, are meeting in Almeria, Spain. Despite international efforts, however, the pace of environmental destruction in the Mediterranean has quickened.
Climate change adds a new threat to the list. The Nobel-prizewinning IPCC identified the Mediterranean - already hot and short of water - as one of the world's regions most vulnerable to global warming.
A new report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) highlights the sea's eastern and southern shores as potential hot spots where climate change could turn the scramble for scarce resources nto sources of conflict, as well as increase the pace of illegal migration.
On a political level, the urgency of the Mediterranean's environmental situation has been understood for at least three decades. In 1975, just three years after the creation of the UNEP, the countries bordering the sea created the Mediterranean Action Plan and a year later signed the Barcelona Convention, committing themselves to regional environmental cooperation. It was the first such agreement of its kind in the world.
Over the years, the convention - expanded in 1995 to coastal areas - has served as the framework for a number of environmental initiatives - to reduce land-based pollution, for example - as well as an important foundation for regional cooperation. This week, ministers from the 22 Barcelona Convention countries and territories will hold their biannual meeting where they are expected to discuss climate change and agree to new regulations on coastal development.
The convention has often broken new ground on environmental cooperation, creating a model that has been used in other parts of the world. But it also illustrates how difficult transforming concern into effective action can be.
"Barcelona is one of the oldest conventions in the world and it helped create an awareness that there was a common good to protect," says François Simard, a Mediterranean researcher with the World Conservation Union (IUCN). "It's true that one can say it's a huge amount of energy that is going into that convention and the results are not enough. But without the Barcelona Convention, I'm sure things would be much worse."
Although climate models disagree on details, such as by exactly how many degrees average temperatures will rise and how quickly, they all foresee a similar future for the region. By the end of the century, much of the Mediterranean may too hot in the summer for tourists to sun on its beaches and too dry for many crops now grown there. Heat waves will become commonplace, and water, already scarce, will become more so. According to the IPCC, the average summer temperature on the North African coast could be 16 degrees hotter, while in southern Europe summer rainfall could decline by as much as 80 percent. The sea level could rise by 10 to 12 inches.
Already there are signs that warming is occurring - and that it may be happening in the Mediterranean faster than elsewhere. Data from the National Observatory of Athens show that Greece is already in the midst of a warming period that has lasted more than 15 years. Between 1992 and 2001, the temperature in Athens increased by between 3.6 and 5.4 degrees.
Anecdotal evidence also suggest that the sea's waters may be warming, further threatening the sea's biodiversity, which is already under threat from fishing and development. Hundreds of invasive species, like algae and fish that crossed through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea, have moved in. In other places, native species like coral and sea sponges are struggling to survive in warmer waters or are being driven out by new arrivals.
"The landscape of some areas has completely changed," says Richardo Aguilar, director of research for Europe for the nongovernmental group Oceana. "But most people ... are just going to the beach, they cannot see what's happening inside the sea."
The drought and devastating fires experienced in 2007, say environmental activists in the region, has started to convince many who once saw climate change as a remote threat that it is a reality.
"People are starting to feel that climate change, global warming, is beginning to affect their lives," said Daphne Mavrogiorgos, an activist at the Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage. "There's a long way to go, but it's a start."
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A racing event the likes of which has never been seen anywhere near the Tampa Bay area will take place in conjunction with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, March 28-30.
Once synonymous with the open-wheel cars that will headline activities that weekend, former IndyCar and NASCAR star Robby Gordon is bringing the exciting world of off-road racing to street circuits such as St. Petersburg with his SPEED Energy Formula Off-Road Presented by Traxxas series.
The Stadium Super Trucks that race in the series will hit huge man-made ramps at more than 100 mph at multiple locations throughout the picturesque street circuit hurling drivers nearly 20 feet in the air and 150 feet down course. Gordon created the series to bring the excitement of Baja-style desert racing to large crowds of race fans. The Firestone Grand Prix begins the series' second season.
Following street circuit races at Long Beach and Toronto in 2013, the Formula Off-Road Series and promoters from the Firestone Grand Prix knew the SST trucks needed to be added in St. Petersburg after receiving fan reviews such as:
"The new Stadium Super Trucks put on an awesome show at the Long Beach Grand Prix. Watching the trucks brake into and fly around the corners on three wheels with the smell of burning rubber was really something…" and "That was freaking epic!!!! Best racing and the most fun I have had in a long time!!! So freakin' cool. This stuff will be big and I'm not just drinking the kool-aid, trust me this was awesome."
The series features identically prepared trucks, which are made to resemble their scaled-down Traxxas radio-control-car counterparts. Like their Traxxas namesake the trucks are designed to take flight. However, unlike RC trucks, they produce 600 horsepower generating speeds upwards of 130 miles per hour.
"Fan reaction has been tremendous," Gordon said. "Jimmie Johnson (six-time NASCAR champion), Casey Mears (NASCAR) and I all got our start driving trucks like these and we've reinvented the series and are bringing their former popularity back to the fans."
Gordon himself is a seven-time SCORE International Off-Road Champion, a three-time winner of the Baja 1000 and a four-time winner of the Baja 500. For the last 10 years he has tackled the world's most challenging off-road endurance race – the Dakar Rally – so he is an authority when it comes to off-road trucks.
"The goal is to provide equal equipment to all the drivers and let driver skill and not engineering budgets determine the winner," Gordon continued. "This is what racing should be. The trucks are amazing but it's about skill and not money that puts on a great show for the fans.
"When I was still racing in NASCAR people always asked me why I still drove off-road, and they were surprised when I told them that I raced in NASCAR so that I could race off-road. Off-road racing gets in your blood and it's where I started. It has always been my first love and it's the most unbelievable form of motorsport in the world and we're trying to do our part to make it mainstream."
As part of that objective Gordon founded the SPEED Energy Formula Off-Road Presented by Traxxas series in late 2012, and ran its first race in March 2013 in Phoenix, Ariz. The series has built more than 20 identically prepared Stadium Super Trucks that have all the characteristics of an off-road "Baja-style" truck capable of racing on dirt, asphalt or even snow.
While the concept of building and maintaining an affordable racing series with an even playing field can be credited completely to Gordon, the theory behind the series is not entirely original. From the early 1980s through 1996 the Mickey Thompson Stadium Truck Series featured races in football and baseball stadiums primarily in the western United States.
"Not only is it one of the most awesome forms a racing in the world, for drivers and teams it's about the most affordable professional racing series you can be involved with," Gordon said. "In 2014 we will race in front of something like 750,000 people, have eight hours of exposure on NBC Sports Network and will race live on ESPN at X Games Austin."
The franchise format created for the Stadium Super Trucks makes business sense for drivers and marketers knowing that they don't have to outspend other teams to be competitive. Each week the series builds, maintains and delivers race-ready trucks to competitors, which eliminates start-up costs and day-to-day overhead of running a team. A driver's focus is on winning races and delivering for their sponsors.
"I loved my time in IndyCar and NASCAR but it costs a lot of money to be competitive in either one of those series which means a lot of capable drivers have some fairly difficult barriers to entry," Gordon said. "Those series will continue to thrive based on many years of success and a proven business plan and incredible fan support. What we have created is an opportunity for drivers to race in front of hundreds of thousands of fans and a tremendous platform for sponsors.


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Project P (2009)
2009 ALA Annual Poster and Team Members
Poster and Team Members
ALA Recruitment Assembly - Revisiting the 2007 Marketing Plan for LibraryCareers.org
Summary: Initial Group Meeting
The Group With No Name (formerly Team P) met on 1/23/09 and used the project planning handout to create ground rules, discuss individual strengths/weaknesses, choose communication tools and outline the next steps for the project. The project's three focus areas consist of:
- prioritizing the 2007 marketing plan for LibraryCareers.org
- brainstorming new possiilities and opportunities for the website
- creating a concrete display for the poster session at ALA annual in July.
The GWNN's first step will be to read the marketing plan created by the 2007 EL group and make notes/observations in GoogleDocs, and follow up with a Skype discussion of these observations at 9:30 a.m. on Sat. 1/31.
First Draft of Goals and Deadlines
Short Term Goals
1. Creating a Logo for LibraryCareers.org
a) Before we take efforts to publicize and market this website, it is necessary to create a logo for LibraryCareers.org (Eric)
2. E-mail Publicity Completion: April 1 – July 5, 2009
Send publicity e-mails to and request the
a) ALA Divisions, Roundtables, ACRL sections, and ALA JobList to provide web linking to LibraryCareers.org (Chella) b) Career Centers of various schools to provide web linking to LibraryCareers.org (Eric) c) Library Schools in the U.S. to provide web linking to LibraryCareers.org (Chella)
3. Product Update Web Content Completion: April 1 – April 30 2009
a) Update of salary information on www.librarycareers.org using information from ALA's APA Library Salary Survey (Leigh Anne) b) Analyze qualifications and skills required for new positions such as, Emerging Technologies Librarians, Immersive Learning Librarians, Digital Services Librarian, Humanities Digital specialist, etc. (Chella) c) For technical positions on Joblist and College and Research Libraries News Expand paraprofessional information using information gathered from http://www.ala.org/ala/hrdr/librarysupportstaff/Library_Support_Staff_Resource_Center.htm (Leigh Anne)
4. Publications
a) Online Publication: This can be a brochure that can be created by our group (if time permits). Or, in future, another group can work on it and make it available on the www.librarycareers.org for Career Center, Library Schools, ACRL Divisions, etc. to distribute.
Long Term Goals
5. Product Multimedia Completion: Not sure how much time is required
a) Leigh Anne suggested the possibility of doing a two-minute "tell us about your job session." We can try doing this at the 2009 ALA Annual. If we manage make a few videos, we are hoping that the next group that takes on this project would be able to organize the content and put them up on the website.
6. Other Web 2.0 Marketing
Any group that takes up this project in future may consider the following options. These are only suggestions that we realize that these may change and depend on what social media are popular in future.
a) Second Life Expansion Completion: Varies
b) Hold an emerging leaders meeting discussing LibraryCareers.org in Second Life and post graphics as customization option in Second Life on Information Island. Members of ALA Emerging Leaders program will create this event.
c) Web 2.0 Marketing Completion: Varies
Expand Web 2.0 marketing by reciprocal promotion with blogs and feeds to librarians and those connected to the profession including http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/ and eye4youalliance.youthtech.info . ALA ITTS Web development group will post leads from Emerging Leaders Group DD.
7. Place
Usability Study Completion: Varies
Usability study will be contracted through ALA ITTS a LibraryCareers.org committee to track number of unique visitors, length of time a visitor remains on site, and the referring site. Study will assess need for site feedback from visitors and suggest options. Future plans can target Instituting an annual search engine optimization plan from study results. Limited user-based testing or a series of heuristic design reviews are recommended.
Site Navigation Completion: Varies Navigation in the "Getting a Little Help Along The Way" section should be rebranded into two new sections 1) Connecting to Your Library Community and 2) Assistance and Resources. Restructure will include listing all 50 states alphabetically. Individual state links would expand to reveal links to the corresponding state library, state organizations; schools within each state. Regional recruitment and job search sites should also be included in this section. Content should include national ALA job openings to local information for public, academic and special libraries.
Deliverables and Presentation (will be completed by June 30, 2009)
Our project deliverables are:
1) Message/E-mail Templates sent by Eric Frierson and Chella Vaidyanathan to different units, schools, career centers, etc. requesting them to provide a link to the librarycareers.org website
2) Logo for LibraryCareers.org (Eric is working on it now)
3) Reports from Chella and Leigh Anne (for more information, please see our "first draft of goals" posted above
Leigh Anne's report - Salary Info: Data and Applications
4) Poster (for details, please read "overview of presentation" below)
5) Two other deliverables are as follows (copied and pasted from May 23rd Skype Meeting notes):
a. "Using RSS feeds from searches in ALA JobList to bring dynamic content to the site" b. "Using RSS feeds from a 'library career' search in YouTube to bring in video"
Overview of Presentation: Poster Info Here
Our poster will be a three-paneled display. The left panel will highlight the 2007 Emerging Leaders' work, and the current LibraryCareers.org website. The middle panel will describe our task: prioritizing the 2007 plan. We will talk about our justification for the priorities we set, including the realities of the staffing and budget levels for the site. Our emphasis will be on highlighting low-effort, high-return opportunities for the site and things that need to be done at some point for the site's survival. Our last panel will include those things we have finished and accomplished, including e-mail message templates for library schools and career centers, improvements to the website using RSS feeds and some static content updating, and the new logo.
May 23rd Skype Call
Ideas: Using RSS feeds from searches in ALA JobList to bring dynamic content to the site; using RSS feeds from a 'library career' search in YouTube to bring in video
We need low effort, high-return projects, as LibraryCareers.org does not have a dedicated staff or budget.
We will design a brochure if there is time to included with e-mails to Career Centers and Library Schools.
LibraryCareers.org Brochure - Media:Brochure.pdf
Conference Poster - Media:ELPoster.pdf
Final Report
Final Report [1]
LibGuide [2]


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$100,000 Reward Offered In Missing Baby Case
Stay With KMBC.com For Baby Lisa Updates
A private investigator who has been hired to come to Kansas City to assist in the search for missing baby Lisa Irwin said on Friday that a $100,000 reward has been setup for her safe return.
Live Updates | Baby Lisa YouTube Videos |
Private investigator Bill Stanton said the $100,000 reward would also be given out in the event of a conviction in this case.
Stanton made the announcement during a 1 p.m. news conference in front of Lisa Irwin's Kansas City home.
In addition to announcing the reward, Stanton said he was assembling a team to help find baby Lisa. Stanton said one of the members of the team was Dr. Marisa Randazo, an expert on threat assessment and targeted violence according to the website, CampusThreatAssessment.org.
The news conference lasted approximately 15 minutes. Stanton gave little additional information about who brought him to Kansas City, other than to say it was a female benefactor.
"They reached out to me, they called me and they said get out there and help," Stanton said. "I have connections with friends, people, a consortium."
Click Like For Baby Lisa Irwin Updates:
Stanton said he would give any information he received while involved in the case to the Kansas City police department.
"I've worked with many police departments both on camera and not on camera...and I can say they're right at the top of the list based on my observations," Stanton said. "I want to thank the Kansas City police department. They are doing a phenomenal job."
Stanton arrived in Kansas City earlier this week and announced that he would be assisting the family. He met with Lisa's parents, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, on Thursday for about an hour. It was not known what they discussed.
Lisa Irwin has been missing since the evening of Oct. 3. She was last seen sleeping in the crib in her North Lister Ave. home.
Police investigators have conducted several searches of the nearby neighborhood, woods and fields near the Irwin home, but nothing has been found.


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