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Hard disk prices have plummeted over the years, and within a remarkably short span of time we've progressed from talking about storage space in gigabytes to terabytes. Recovering every little megabyte of disk space from the operating system is no longer as crucial as it might have been a few years back. Nevertheless, it still makes sense from a performance point of view to give your system a little spring cleaning. Of course, if you have shelled out the big bucks to get a Solid State Disk, disk space might still be a scarce resource for you. SSDs are now more affordable than ever before, but still expensive enough for storage space to be a constraint. Here are three free utilities to help you remove junk from your system.
There are plenty of junk cleaners, but CCleaner is probably the most popular and trusted one. I'm not going to dwell a lot on this tool, because chances are that you already know about it. Piriform CCleaner cleans up temp files, junk files, log files, memory dumps, and other unnecessary system files as well as temporary files left behind by third party apps. It supports over a dozen third party applications including Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, Nero, Microsoft Office, and all popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Flock, Rockmelt, Maxthon, Avant, and more).
DiskMax is another disk clean-up tool. I reserve this for the times when I'm really short on space. It cleans up stuff that CCleaner leaves behind. They say that with more power comes responsibility, and that's definitely applicable for DiskMax. The Detailed Scan deletes unused hibernation and page files, Microsoft Office installer cache, logs, .sav files, memory dumps, windows update backups, and more. If you want to reclaim even more space, it even offers a Deep Scan mode which cleans up files based on extension from all folders. However, I would advise against employing Deep Scan unless absolutely necessary. Even without Deep Scan I often end up reclaiming several gigabytes of storage space with DiskMax. You can find an earlier review here.
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The real estate market reflects the diverse population in the U.S., and the successful real estate professional understands and adapts to diverse client needs.
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- The court case that led to sexual orientation and gender identity being afforded federal fair housing protection
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Windows watcher Paul Thurrott is reporting that, according to his sources, Microsoft will start talking about a new Windows version, codenamed Threshold, at its BUILD conference in April. Thurrott says that this version will be released, probably with the name Windows 9, a year thereafter.
Details of Threshold are thus far scarce, but a few things are notable. Thurrott says that there won't be an alpha or beta in time for the BUILD conference, and the product won't even begin development until April. Rather, the company will outline its vision and talk about what Threshold will contain.
Microsoft is striving to reach a happy medium between the extreme sharing and openness of the Longhorn project—in which the company talked up a lot of things that were either never delivered at all, or never delivered in the way originally described—and the extreme secrecy of Windows 7 and 8 that was the hallmark of Steven Sinofsky's reign at the company.
One hopes that this will bring more receptiveness to feedback. Problems with Windows 8—its inconsistent approach, its lack of tutorial, the failure to clearly distinguish between Windows 8 and Windows RT—were all reported, both within Microsoft and from outside, during Windows 8's development. They were met with assertions that the perceived problems were not real problems and that no changes were necessary. When Windows 8 shipped, it became clear that they were, in fact, real problems. Windows 8.1 did a lot to address them, but perhaps not enough.
With this "vision" announcement, Microsoft will hope to drum up some excitement and interest in Windows. This is something the company has lacked for a long time, and it's not clear it will ever return. It's a double-edged sword. There was excitement and interest, back in the day, in the Longhorn vision—new programming model, fancy new filesystem, GPU-accelerated graphics, and more—but Microsoft's failure to temper that vision was, I think a partial cause for the Windows Vista backlash. Microsoft made grand promises, failed to clearly walk them back, and then delivered on virtually none of them.
In the light of this, we can expect the Threshold announcement to be a little more grounded. For Longhorn, Microsoft was promising things that were hard to solve even in theory. These problems turned out to be impractical to solve in practice, and so it was little surprise that Microsoft didn't deliver the promised software. The Threshold announcement should be much more realistic while still being enough to interest people.
Between BUILD and next April's release, Thurrott writes that Microsoft plans to have three milestone builds, though he doesn't know which, if any, will be made publicly available.
So what'll be in Threshold? The two things Thurrott says are a way of running Metro apps on the desktop and a reinstatement of the Start menu. Our sources say that's only sort of true, and that it won't be the Start menu as such but rather something new. Start menuesque, perhaps, but not a literal Start menu.
There are already third party apps for reinstating the Start menu and running Metro apps within Windows. Most of them leave something to be desired, for example by squandering good parts of the Start screen such as its live tiles and 2D organization. Sticking Metro apps into windows also isn't particularly streamlined. Metro apps, particularly in Windows 8, can make various assumptions about their size that windowed apps can't. Putting them in arbitrarily sized windows breaks those assumptions.
A proper, first-party solution is certainly feasible. Designer Jay Machalani created a set of neat mockups of how a more coherent Windows might look, and his concepts are striking because rather than being simply a reversion to Windows 7, they do appear to fuse the best of both worlds. This is not to say that Microsoft will do anything quite this adventurous.
Little else is even speculated about Threshold, except for one thing it won't be: according to Mary Jo Foley, it won't be the unified Windows operating system that Microsoft will eventually deliver in one form or another.


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Bar owner's killer faces life prison sentence
Blaine Whitworth killed in 2012
A 28-year-old Kansas City man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of killing a central Missouri bar owner in the businessman's driveway.
The Daily Star-Journal of Warrensburg reports Cass County jurors on Friday found Reginald Singletary guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Sept. 1, 2012, slaying of 25-year-old Blaine Whitworth of Warrensburg.
Prosecutors say Singletary confessed that he killed Whitworth but said University of Central Missouri student Ziyad Abid paid him to do it.
That claim led to first-degree murder and armed criminal action charges against Abid, who was jailed for nearly a year before prosecutors dropped the charges when Singletary changed his story.
Investigators testified Whitworth was shot three times in the back with hollow-point bullets.


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To the Responders on December 2, 2015,
Significant improvement and insight can be made, not only internally, but for other first responder agencies throughout our country when the voices of the responders are heard. Those who responded to the IRC building that day, did so with consummate courage and professionalism. The collective training, dedication, and immediate actions of these first responders undeniably saved lives. We are extremely grateful to the responders who volunteered to relive the emotional events of December 2, 2015, in an honest attempt to not only improve their response to future incidents, but to share these insights and lessons learned with other agencies across the nation, enhancing their response capabilities.
High Reliability Organizing (HRO) developed as a means to make an organization or unit stronger. In its natural state we historically found it in environments of danger or uncertainty such as military combat, firefighting, or business activities. While proactive components (plans and anticipation) and reactive components (after action reviews) are necessary parts of HRO, High Reliability itself derives from the ability of the organization and individuals to interact in real time with uncertainty or threat from the external environment.
HRO describes on the organizational level the structure necessary for High Reliability, on the social level the collaboration found in response to threat, and on the individual level the satisfaction of problem solving while modulating threat responses. These three levels facilitate the free flow of information and the migration of action for a quick response to, and interaction with, surprise or accelerating events. The High Reliability Organization emerges from the interactions between people responsive to the environment in an organization that allows this.
The High Reliability Organization is commonly described as an organization that performs high risk work but without rare, catastrophic events. Researchers, as outside observers, have identified principles and characteristics to describe or characterize HROs but these tend to be distinct, and sometimes complex. Some of these principles are directed toward the organization's structure and while some describe group interactions. Even more complex descriptions cover the processes of a crisis. While researchers attempt to describe how to move toward High Reliability they have not described how HROs originally formed. The overall research is unsettled to produce confusion between structural and functional principles, how to change people and organizations (most work describes imposed change), and the variety of the principles are assumed to be continuously connected. This has created confusion and gaps in our knowledge of HRO.
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http://mmajunkie.com After first toying with the idea, Dustin Hazelett (12-6 MMA, 5-4 UFC) apparently has decided to move from welterweight to lightweight.
Sources close to the event told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) "McLovin" has agreed to meet fellow jiu-jitsu specialist Mark Bocek (8-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) at UFC 124. MMAWeekly.com first reported the matchup.
UFC 124 takes place Dec. 11 at the Bell Centre in Montreal and features a welterweight title bout between current champion Georges St-Pierre and Josh Koscheck.
It's unknown whether Hazelett vs. Bocek will make the pay-per-view portion of the Canadian event.
While Hazelett's submission wins have added several clips to the UFC's highlight reel, he's struggled mightily with striking in his most recent performances.
The Kentucky native ceded position on the welterweight ladder when he suffered a knockout loss to Paul Daley in the co-main event of January's UFC 108 event. The loss left him with a broken orbital that necessitated a long recovery process, and in an interview with MMAjunkie.com, he stressed he would take his time in returning to the cage.
That was not to be, though, when the UFC offered him a fight against Dan Hardy at UFC 120. After personal obligations nixed the October fight, he booked a meeting with Rick Story at UFC 117 this past month. More disappointment followed; Story stopped him in the fight's second frame with ferocious ground and pound.
The dual setbacks prompted Hazelett's longtime coach, Jorge Gurgel, to announce the move to lightweight shortly after the August loss.
Bocek, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, hit a snag in his rise up the division ranks after three consecutive rear-naked choke victories over Alvin Robinson, David Bielkheden and Joe Brammer. The Toronto resident most recently fought at UFC 111 in March and dropped a decision to the always-game Jim Miller.
For more on UFC 124, check out the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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November 19, 2012
In 1996 Congress replaced the traditional welfare entitlement with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program -- one of the few government programs that puts cash directly into the hands of its beneficiaries.
In exchange for these dollars, which are intended to help individuals as they take steps to re-enter the work force, participants sign a contract agreeing to certain things:
- They will actively seek employment;
- They won't use TANF funds on tobacco, alcohol, adult entertainment or other prohibited items; and
- They will abstain from illegal drugs, including cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
In return, the government provides direct cash assistance - between $93 and $514 per month as determined by family size and income.
This month I filed SB 11 to ensure that contract is honored and, more importantly, that TANF is truly putting individuals on a path to self-sufficiency.
SB 11 tightens exemptions from work requirements so that those who can work are seeking employment. It strengthens our efforts to prevent TANF funds from being spent on prohibited items. Because drug abuse is a barrier to employment and self-sufficiency, SB 11 also requires drug testing for applicants deemed at high risk for drug abuse through a screening tool that will be developed by the Health and Human Services Commission.
There are low or no-cost screening tools available. The drug test costs $35. While I fully expect SB 11 will provide a cost savings, the primary reason we need this legislation is to make sure these individuals can transition from welfare to work.
With 80 percent of employers requiring drug tests as a condition of employment -- and with national surveys showing about 17.5% of the unemployed population uses drugs, nearly double the figure for the population at large -- there is a compelling public interest in encouraging TANF recipients to remain drug free.
Individuals who fail the drug test can re-apply after one year or, if they undergo drug treatment, six months. Medicaid and other state programs offer substance abuse treatment to those who need it. It is important to note that SB 11 in no way impacts food stamps, unemployment or other public benefits.
Some have raised questions about the potential impact this legislation will have on children. During our hearings, I want to delve deeper into this issue, but I'm not convinced that putting cash directly into the hands of drug abusers provides any benefit to children.
Since May of last year, seven states have instituted drug testing in their TANF programs, using various approaches. These laws are relatively new, and their impact is still being studied. Opponents point to the Florida law, which is still in litigation. Unlike SB 11, which tests only new and renewing applicants deemed at high risk for drug abuse, the Florida law requires testing of all TANF beneficiaries.
TANF is not payment for actual work. It differs from other government programs in that it provides direct cash assistance to qualifying individuals who commit to a path toward self-reliance. Ensuring these individuals are drug free and therefore able to re-enter the work force is a goal we should all share.


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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) Center Eric Wood wasn't laughing when referring to the Buffalo Bills playing so-called home games in Toronto as being ``a joke.''
That was the opinion Wood expressed during his weekly show on Buffalo's WGRF-Radio on Monday, a day after a 50-17 loss to Seattle at Toronto. And he stuck by his comments Wednesday, saying he believes the Bills are giving away their home-field edge by playing under a dome and in front of ambivalent crowds north of the border.
``Yeah, I did call it a joke,'' Wood said. ``It stunk that we were up there. And I was heated when I said it was a joke. And I'm not going to sit here and retract all my statements because that's what I meant and what I felt.''
Wood expressed his complaints despite not making the trip to Toronto. He stayed home because he's recovering from a sprained right knee. And yet, he saw enough on TV and also heard from teammates to appreciate how familiar the atmosphere was to the two games he's played in Toronto.
Wood was unhappy the Seahawks got the chance to play inside the Rogers Centre, as opposed to outdoors at Ralph Wilson Stadium, where the elements usually play a factor in December.
Wood cited the mixed support the Bills get in Toronto, noting there are sometimes as many fans cheering for the visiting team as for Buffalo. And he added, there are times when fans don't know when to cheer.
``Those non-Bills fans that go to the game are just cheering for plays as opposed to cheering for a team,'' he said. ``And that kills you.''
Defensive tackle Kyle Williams was in Toronto, and expressed similar sentiments.
``It's very similar to a road game, but also I understand the business side of things,'' Williams said. ``I don't think you'd find a guy in here that wouldn't agree that they would much rather be in Ralph Wilson Stadium.''
Wood understands how playing in Canada's financial capital and largest city benefits a small-market team such as the Bills by generating additional revenue and luring fans to attend the team's games at Orchard Park.
He emphasized he wasn't criticizing Toronto as a community, because he enjoys makes numerous trips there.
``I love the city of Toronto for eating and for pleasure,'' Wood said. ``But the game just has a different feel. And it's not a whole lot of fun to play in at this point.''
The Bills are 1-4 in regular season games at Toronto since the series began in 2008.
The five-year deal, in which Rogers Communications agreed to pay the Bills $78 million to play in Toronto, has now expired. The two sides have been in negotiations and are close to extending the series for what's expected to be another five years.
``I don't blame Russ for this,'' Wood said, referring to Bills CEO Russ Brandon. ``I respect the decisions that he makes to keep us in this market and provide a good business plan. But from a playing standpoint, unless it improves, it's not a whole lot of fun to play there.''
The latest complaints echoed those made by Bills veteran safety George Wilson last year.
Saying it's not a home game, Wilson described fan support in Toronto as being ``a night-and-day difference'' to Buffalo.
Last year, in a 23-0 win over Washington, the crowd was doing the wave, which led to the Bills offense jumping the snap on third down. On Sunday, there was little crowd noise drowning out Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson calling plays at the line on several third-down situations.
Customarily, home crowds remain quiet when their team's offense is on the field, and they grow louder to disrupt the opposing team's offense.
``That just doesn't happen at Ralph Wilson Stadium,'' Wood said. ``There have been times when there's been 40,000 people in there, and they're still not doing a regular cadence on third down in the first quarter.''
The announced crowd of 40,770 was well below the downtown stadium's capacity of 54,000. Many who stuck around for the second half started rooting for the Seahawks. By the fourth quarter, the fans who were left began chanting, ``Let's Go Blue Jays!''
Organizers went so far in a bid to drum up support by having Korean pop star PSY perform his hit ``Gangnam Style'' at halftime.
Wood was so worked up that he was preparing to share his frustrations on his Twitter account, before remembering the NFL rule barring players from using social media while their team is playing.
``I wrote and deleted about three tweets during the game,'' Wood said. ``That was probably best. Yeah, it kind of ticked me off.''
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By Dominique van Heerden
"I reject absolutely any allegation made against me", Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview following four days in police custody in connection with the 1972 abduction and killing of mother of ten Jean McConville.
He was released without charge on Sunday.
"I am innocent of any involvement whatsoever in any conspiracy or of any of the events including the abduction, the killing, or the burial of Mrs Jean McConville" he told Amanpour, adding that he went to the Police Services of Northern Ireland voluntarily.
"When this became a matter of public speculation two months ago I contacted PSNI through my solicitor and said I was available to talk to them."
Adams, 65, has long denied having any role in the death of McConville, a widow who was killed by the IRA four decades ago because the group believed she was a spy for the British army.
The Sinn Fein president says the allegations are part of a "sustained, vicious, untruthful and sinister malicious campaign" against him for "some considerable time".
When asked why two IRA members implicated him in the abduction and killing when he says he had nothing to do with it, Adams told Amanpour these two individuals, who are since deceased, made the remarks "as part of a very dubious project", referring to the Belfast Project.
The so-called Belfast Project at Boston College in the United States has recorded testimony from former IRA members involved in atrocities, and was used as the basis to question Adams.
Adams called those behind the project "disaffected, and very very hostile, anti-peace process former IRA activists".
But in an interview with Christiane Amanpour one of the architects of the project, Ed Moloney, pointed out that it has been recognized as a "bona fide academic exercise of considerable intellectual merit".
Click here to watch the full interview with Ed Moloney.
Gerry Adams also questioned the timing of his interrogation by the police.
"I contacted them two months ago, they waited until we were in the middle of an election before they made this very dramatic intervention, so I reject absolutely any allegation no matter who it's coming from or any assertion no matter who it's coming from, it's ridiculous."
Adams claims that he was never a member of the Irish Republican Army. In light of revelations from the Belfast Project, Christiane Amanpour raised the question of the exact nature of his relationship with the group.
Adams denied it once again, saying, "when the war was on I did politically support the use of armed action by the IRA as a legitimate response to British repression and British military occupation of a part of my country… of course I disagree with many of the issues and many of the things that the IRA did, including the killing of Mrs McConville and the way that her ten children were left".
He went on to explain to Amanpour that the premise and strategy of his recent police interrogation was to put to him that he was not only a member of the IRA, but that he had a managerial role, so should have known about the abduction and killing and secret burial of Mrs McConville. This is an accusation he continues to deny.
Jean McConville's children have vowed to keep fighting for justice for their mother. And in a recent interview with CNN her son Michael McConville said he was threatened by the IRA when he was a child and thereafter, which is why he won't release the names of those he recognised dragging his mother away the night she was abducted.
Adams responded by saying if Michael McConville wants to give names he should do so, "that's entirely his right".
But in recent interviews, Michael McConville says he was threatened by the IRA. Just today, he told BBC News that Adams himself warned him about speaking out, saying there would be a backlash if he released the names. Gerry Adams denies ever saying this.
He says he can understand why the McConville family "feel the way that they feel", but says he has been trying his best to support and help all of the victims, particularly victims of the IRA.
Adams also told Amanpour it's important to "keep our eye focused on the future".
"Of course we need to deal with the past, of course we need to deal with the issues of the victims, but we cannot allow anything to divert us from peace path and from building the peace," he says, "it just plays into the interests of the bigots and the negative sinister elements who are out there".
When asked how this case might affect the Good Friday Agreement, Gerry Adams responded by reiterating his support for the Police Services of Northern Ireland and the peace process.
He added that the police visited his family home after he was released from prison and told him there was a serious threat to his life, "from what they described as criminals". But Adams says it is a risk he is prepared to take because "the peace process is bigger than us".
As for the controversy surrounding the case of Jean McConville, Adams says it will not change Sinn Fein's commitment to keep building the peace and "to work in partnership with everyone regardless of their political background, and to defend the rights of everyone and to tackle the hard issues of the past, and particularly those which affect victims".
Click above to watch the full, exclusive interview with Gerry Adams.
It's time to move on. There were horrible things done by both sides and if they plan on investigating every misdead it will only lead to more of the same.
so how many innocent people do you have to kill to be called a mass murderer? So Sin Fein was just the political arm of the IRA (they really killed innocent kids?) so "finzies". Doesn't count.
Maybe Israel should just back off and let the leaders of the Nazi party just get off. we all know it was the SS that killed 12 million people.
Sorry you live a dream world.
Nazis....IRA....you are making an idiotic reference. The British are the Nazis in this story. The IRA was trying to end the brutal rule of the British. Sad to say they failed and/or sold out .
According to Malcolm Sutton's Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland:[143]
Of those killed by British security forces:
187 (~51.5%) were civilians
145 (~39.9%) were members of republican paramilitaries
18 (~4.9%) were members of loyalist paramilitaries
13 (~3.5%) were fellow members of the British security forces
Of those killed by republican paramilitaries:
1080 (~52%) were members of the British security forces
728 (~35%) were civilians
187 (~9%) were members of republican paramilitaries
56 (~2.7%) were members of loyalist paramilitaries
10 (~0.4%) were members of the Irish security forces
Of those killed by loyalist paramilitaries:
868 (~85.4%) were civilians
93 (~9%) were members of loyalist paramilitaries
41 (~4%) were members of republican paramilitaries
14 (~1.3%) were members of the British security forces
I am always amazed by the historical amnesia that British people like you suffer from. The British empire murdered, raped, mutilated, starved and enslaved millions of men, women and children all over the world for hundreds of years. In Ireland alone over hundreds of years your country is responsible for the deaths of millions right up to the current time.
There is an old quote that applies:
"Methinks he doth protest too much"
"The voice of an actor".
The Independent newspaper in Ireland is reporting that PSNI officers went to Adams home last night and told his wife that there was an active "credible threat" against Adams' life.
He didn't answer any of the questions posed and Ms Amapour signed off with thanks. If that is the level of CNN 'reporting' and it certainly seems to be, no wonder these people get away with what they do! As to Mr Adams being responsible for the peace in Northern Ireland one has to ask when CNN lost sight of objectivity?
I absolutely agree. She was the wrong person for the job. Paxman would have been a much better choice.
I suspect that Amanpour told Adams that she was innocent of anything that could be mistaken for credible journalism
Gerry Adams has been accused of being connected to this murder on very weak evidence but British soldiers gave been proven to have murdered innocent Irish civilians and yet have not been arrested. Sinn Fein are happy for all these events to be investigated but the British government does not want this as they are right afraid of the entire truth emerging. The truth being that they have been running hit squads since the beginning of the conflict.
what an indecency ! Garry , he is giving up all his merits . The British and the Loyalist had no shame (invaders and their home dogs-the latter deserve to be punished twice !) . Garry is about to be considered "another chicken traitor "with that statement deneying his IRA membership(that's is the only good thing he did !)


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Hurricanes don't often threaten New York City, but when they do the stock markets take notice. On Sept. 27, 1985, the New York Stock Exchange shut down as Gloria roared through. The day off had no lasting impact on stock prices.
1993: First World Trade Center Bombing
The first bomb set off at the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, which killed six and injured more than a thousand, didn't halt trading, but it did send the market down about a half a percentage point. Stocks continued down, ending about 13% off over the next year.
2001: Terrorist Attacks
The Sept. 11 attacks caused the NYSE to close for four days. When trading resumed on Sept. 17, the Dow fell 14%. But investors rebounded, and within a few weeks all the lost ground was made up.
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It is also traditional for many cultures to think about the things we want to accomplish in the new year. This year, I've decided to note down the things I've learned and wish to continue to affirm in the future. So, in no particular order:
- There is yet to be a big, difficult task that could not be broken down into a series of small, simpler ones. This means that all things are possible if you just buckle down and get to work.
- In this part of the world, there will always be more food. You can always have more tomorrow.
- The moment you think you are better than someone else, prepare to be squashed.
- If the dentist says you should wear a mouth guard when you sleep, wear the frigging mouth guard.
- The hardest person to forgive is in the mirror. Cut that person some slack.
- People are usually kinder than you think they are.
- Everyone is fighting some sort of personal battle. That means they deserve your kindess.
- If you want to get knitting done, get knitting done. Same goes for spinning, crochet, and laundry.
- Cookies are not fuel for your body. Do not attempt a workout if you have eaten a bunch.
- Stretch.
- Sleep. If you can't sleep, at least rest.
- Walk your dog everyday. Not only is it good for you and your dog, but you have no idea how happy it makes your lonely neighbours to see you go past.
- Be kind to your spouse, even if they break stuff. You're bound to screw up, too.
- Smile, even if you don't feel like it. But if you really can't, at least shut the door so the others around you don't get dragged down by your grumpiness.
- Be grateful for every single thing you get, even if it's not what you wanted.
- Worrying doesn't make stuff happen. Only work makes stuff happen.
- Say thank you every single day.
Speaking of, thanks for visiting my blog. Happy New Year, and enjoy the start of a new circle.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. beer drinkers have filed a $5 million class-action lawsuit accusing Budweiser parent Anheuser-Busch InBev (BRU:BE:ABI) (NYS:BUD) for watering down 10 of its beer brands, including Budweiser and Michelob, the law firm running the case said late Tuesday. The complaint alleges that the beer manufacturer "employs some of the most sophisticated process control technology in the world to precisely monitor the alcohol content at the final stages of production, and then adds additional water to produce beers with significantly lower alcohol content than is represented on the product labels." Peter Kraemer, vice president of Brewing and Supply at Anheuser-Busch, said in a statement that the claims were completely false and that the lawsuit is groundless. "We proudly adhere to the highest standards in brewing our beers, which have made them the best-selling in the U.S. and the world," he said.
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Color, fun, and…. whimsy alert ! Fine Paints of Europe has collaborated with local Richmond, Virginia designer Susan Jamieson of Bridget Beari Designs to create an exciting new signature paint collection.
The collection, Bridget Beari Colors, is a set of 76 custom wall colors formulated by the designer. Susan says that the "motto" of the collection is "inspired by the ones you love, created for the way you live" .
And the way that Susan lives? With dogs! She walks the walk-– each of her paint colors is named for a dog (or something else four-legged)– beloved pets of friends and clients. Is there anything more fun than that?
I recently had the opportunity to interview Susan about her fabulous color collection:
J: As a designer with a certain aesthetic, do you find yourself actually using an edited collection of "tried and true" colors time and again?
S: Yes, I do use certain colors over again, especially a good white or a perfect tan. All the colors in my Bridget Beari fan deck are colors that I have used throughout my 20 years in interior design.
J: You state that "good design comes from the ability to visualize the potential in every space." Does the "potential" of a space have limitations in terms of color? Lighting comes to mind.
S: I believe that every room has potential. It is a talent to be able to see what the positive characteristics are in a room and what design changes can really bring it to life. I also believe that if something is lacking, then create. If a room seems dark, then add light by physically adding a window, by lighting changes or by changing the tone with color. The room will always tell me what it needs, then I have to mix that with the client's taste and my Bridget Beari touch."
J: Your saturated "brights" really caught my eye. These are easy to get wrong. Are your choices the result of trial and error or do you simply have that "eye" for what looks great up on a wall?
S: I think it is a little of both. The strong colors need very specific settings. This is a mistake most people make when choosing paint colors. They think the stronger and brighter, the better. They forget to take into account all the things that make up a room. Having a design plan is so important when starting any project. My clients like to call me the "Queen of Color" because I can pick colors quickly and with good results. That said, sometimes the lighting in a room throws the color way off. I always put up samples before a room is fully painted.
J: I'm loving the hot pink "Trixie". In what sort of space have you used this color successfully? And don't tell me that "Trixie " is a dog!
S: Trixie is a horse from my childhood. It is a great accent color. I have painted chairs as well as the back of a bookcase. I'm geting a lot of positive feedback on "Trixie" from other designers.
J. I'm also wild about your range of warm neutrals. Do you have a favorite?
S: I am a neutral girl at heart. I could do a whole chart on just neutrals, so I really have a hard time paring down to a favorite. N.62 "Biscuit" is probably my favorite because it is the perfect base color for any room but it must be paired with a crisp white like "Snowball" for real impact.
Here at The Painted Room, I'm a huge fan of "signature" paint collections. The color choices of good designers are useful to me. I use them as a guide, but tweaking color to perfection depends on many variables in a space, most importantly…light. Keep that in mind when sampling paint colors.
Where can you find Bridget Beari Colors? Fine Paints of Europe retail locations and The Rue in Richmond, Virginia.
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Title: Match Maker
Author: Alan Chin
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary M/M
Length: novel (337 pages)
Buy Link: Amazon.com
Rating: 5+ stars out of 5
Author: Alan Chin
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary M/M
Length: novel (337 pages)
Buy Link: Amazon.com
Rating: 5+ stars out of 5
A guest review by Victor J. Banis
Summary: the author pulls all the stops out in this gripping story of love, tragedy and redemption, set against a backdrop of professional tennis. An emotional roller coaster that will hold the reader enthralled until the last, fully satisfying page.
In the four years since being forced off the professional tour for being gay, Daniel Bottega has taught tennis at a second-rate country club. He found a sanctuary to hide from an unkind world, while his lover, Jared Stoderling, fought a losing battle with alcohol addiction to cope with his disappointment of not playing on the pro circuit.
Now Daniel has another chance at the tour by coaching tennis prodigy Connor Lin to a Grand Slam championship win. He shares his chance with Jared by convincing him to return to the pro circuit as Connor's doubles partner.
Competing on the world tour is challenging enough, but Daniel and Jared also face major media attention, political fallout from the pro association, and a shocking amount of hate that threatens Connor's career in tennis, Jared's love for Daniel, and Daniel's very life.
When I first looked at this novel, I thought, "Oh, no, a jock book." I mention this right up front because I suspect one or two of you might have the same reaction. Let me put your minds to rest. This novel is about tennis in the same sense that Shakespeare's Macbeth is about the Scottish moors.
Yes, the author uses the world of professional men's tennis as a setting for his story, and yes, there is plenty of tennis action in it. But even if you are not a tennis fan, the author's knowledge of tennis and his love for the sport are infectious. You will find yourself pulled into the story regardless—because, again, the story isn't about tennis, it's about homophobia, and love, and courage and grace under pressure and, finally, redemption—in short, the very elements that make all great stories gripping. And make no mistake, this is a great story—surely the one Alan Chin was fated to write—and you will find it gripping.
After being driven from professional tennis for their homosexuality, Daniel Bottega and his partner Jared Stoderling have found sanctuary of sorts—Daniel as a country club tennis instructor, and Jared in a bottle. Now, Daniel is asked to coach a talented young, and straight, tennis player, Conner Lin. Daniel sees in this the chance of a new beginning for him and Jared, and he convinces Jared to come on board as Conner's doubles partner. And from the beginning, the author's love for his protagonists is as real as his love for tennis.
"He kissed me again, and in the quiet wake of his kiss, the surrounding sounds became loud: rustling leaves overheard, the pop of the ball, the chirp of tennis shoes on pavement, the boys' insistent grunts."
Of course, once again they find themselves paying the price for being openly gay; but this time, Jared determines that they will not shrink into a closet, they will let the watching world know who and what they are.
"Well, hell, what's next," Sikes said, "players kissing?""Let's give it a try and see," Jared said. He seized the back of my neck and drew me to him, kissing me on the mouth. The move surprised me so much it took me a moment to pull away.The crowd fell silent.
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"The first time," Jared said, "everything happened behind closed doors. That's how they beat us, by keeping us afraid and in hiding. This time we'll flaunt it. They'll probably still beat us, but at least everyone will know why."
There's no shortage of action and the theme of homophobia adds plenty of suspense along the way, and it looks early on as if the three players will make it to the top of their sport just fine, and you begin to breathe a little sigh of relieve and pleasure. So far, it's been a fine read, and the good guys are winning.
Then, in an astonishing display of authorial authority, the writer just plain pulls the rug from under the reader. You find yourself both horrified and mesmerized, on a non-stop roller coaster ride that carries you right to the last page. I don't want to spoil the read for anyone by giving too much of the plot away, but I can safely tell you that the love Daniel and Jared share is sorely tested in ways that will break your heart and ultimately nourish it. I had to stop reading more than once because I couldn't see the pages through the tears. Yes, it's that moving. And that was reading the book for the second time.
If you've ever been in love, you will agonize with both these young men, both of them wrong and both of them right, as they try to grope their way back to one another in the wake of the tragedy that has driven them apart.
"If I die today, wouldn't it be better if we had made love last night?""Better is putting your skinny butt on a plane and getting you somewhere safe.""It's okay to hate me a little. Sometimes I hate you too. I hate your good legs, your strength, your ability to ignore me."His face froze with pensive rejection.I said, "We need to fight them, not each other."
And as with all his writing, the author has more for the reader than just details of plot. There is beauty and wisdom here, but he writes as well of Life's ugly side, of the horrors of war, and of many different kinds of suffering. When Jared is cheated of a win by a gay-hating umpire, he tries to crawl back into the bottle, but Conners' Grandfather Lin, who survived WWII in occupied China, will have none of that.
"Stop feeling sorry for yourself and become a man. You think you have it hard? You think life is unfair? You are worse than a baby, crying, crying, crying.""Leave my house, old man," Jared growled."I will tell you what a hard life is: being a fourteen-year-old boy chased from your home at gunpoint, watching aunts, uncles, cousins slaughtered like hogs, hiding in a cave, never seeing daylight, searching for food at night where there is no food, so you cut meat from bodies that the Japanese soldiers leave along the roadside. When the bodies go rank, there is nothing but grass, but that is never enough, so you watch your family grow weak and sick. Then you marshal the courage to sneak up behind a Japanese soldier and slit his throat in order to steal his food, so that your mother and father might live a few more days…"
There is beauty here as well, and wisdom. You come away from this book understanding yourself and humankind just a little better than when you started it, and a writer can't do any better than that.
In the end, the author scores a grand slam win with the best gay sports novel I have yet read, bar none. And ultimately, you realize that it is the Alan Chin who is the Match Maker of the title, and the game he's sharing with you is not the game of tennis, but the Game of Life.
If you love a beautifully written and heart rending love story with a true but very special Happy Ever After ending, I urge you not to miss this one.


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30 Years Ago: The Alan Parsons Project Releases 'Ammonia Avenue'
Conventional wisdom suggests that middle-of-the-road (MOR) soft rock and highbrow intellectual conceits shouldn't make for happy bedfellows. But that was before they converged in the Alan Parsons Project, which built a remarkably successful career by applying pop music of many stripes to Steely Dan's studio-bound perfectionism and Pink Floyd's dreamy progressive rock signature.
In 1982, the group's sixth album, 'Eye in the Sky,' had already capitalized on past accomplishments by crashing the U.S. Top 10 and delivering a No. 3 hit with its title track. So once Pink Floyd dissolved following the next year's 'The Final Cut' LP, all conceivable commercial lanes seemed cleared for the APP to find even greater success with their seventh studio effort, 'Ammonia Avenue.'
And things couldn't have looked rosier when the album arrived in February 1984, as its lead-off single, 'Don't Answer Me,' promptly raced into the Billboard Top 15 — even though it broke with many of the familiar APP sonic hallmarks, and took the ensemble down a unique and nostalgic trip back to Phil Spector's vaunted "Wall of Sound" aesthetic.
The follow-up single, 'Prime Time,' fared nearly as well while returning to more familiar sounds, and, along with a solid batch of album tracks, ranging from punchy rockers ('Let Me Go Home,' 'You Don't Believe') to weepy ballads ('Since the Last Goodbye,' the title cut), and even an evocative instrumental in 'Pipeline,' pushed 'Ammonia Avenue' near the top of the charts in numerous countries.
Unfortunately, 'Ammonia Avenue' still failed to match 'Eye in the Sky's' platinum sales (earning a Gold certification instead) and one can't help but wonder whether the APP's sudden incompatibility with the new, image-conscious marketplace dominated by MTV -- clearly no fit place for balding old men sporting studio tans -- wasn't partly to blame for this shortfall.
Whatever the real cause, the Alan Parsons Project's commercial profile continued to fade with their follow-up album, 'Vulture Culture,' which tellingly arrived a mere five months later, and had in fact been intended to constitute a double LP, alongside 'Ammonia Avenue.' Instead, it contributed to APP fatigue and the end-days of the group's chart dominance.


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Speech Lays Out Next Goals
President's Address Will Outline Priorities in Education and Climate Change
President Barack Obama is expected to detail an ambitious domestic agenda in his State of the Union address Tuesday, including measures on immigration, gun control, climate change and education.
The speech will open a limited window for Mr. Obama to accomplish his objectives before the politics of the 2014 and 2016 contests overtake his term. Complicating matters, the address comes as the threat of spending cuts known as the sequester dominate the discussion in Washington. Usually, a president delivers the speech in tandem...
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The first annual Dynamo Juniors weekend took place last weekend at the Houston Amateur Sports Park. Almost 40 Dynamo Juniors teams from five different locations, ranging in age from U-9 to U-18, converged on Houston to meet their fellow members of the Dynamo organization.
Teams of boys and girls from McAllen, Austin, and El Paso in Texas and from Lafayette, La., and Gulf Breeze, Fla., played a total of 72 friendly games over the weekend and also attended the Dynamo-Sounders match on Saturday night at Robertson Stadium. In fact, they virtually overflowed the field providing a rally tunnel for the starting lineups.
The round-robin tournament, though not an official competition between the teams, was inspired by the Dynamo Academy's recent trip to the Eurovoetbal tournament in the Netherlands, which used 20-minute halves for most games. The shorter games made for exciting and quick action-packed games throughout the weekend, with most teams playing four games in two days.
With the Dynamo Juniors program about one year old, the weekend was a celebration of all things Dynamo and all things orange. In addition to going on the Robertson Stadium field Saturday night, players also got to meet first team midfielder Josue Soto, himself a Dynamo Academy graduate, during the weekend. Soto signed autographs, took pictures, and gave advice to the young Dynamo fans and aspiring Dynamo hopefuls.
"I think it's a great event for the first time, and I can see it only getting bigger and better each year," said Gary Hamilton, the director of Dynamo Juniors McAllen. "It's fabulous to see all the new Dynamo Juniors from around the county, and this only helps expand the player pool for the Dynamo in the future."
Dynamo Juniors offers soccer players outside of the Houston region the chance to be part of the Houston Dynamo organization. The ever-expanding program already has established programs in El Paso, Texas; McAllen, Texas; Lafayette, La.; Gulfport, Miss.; Mobile, Ala.; and Gulf Breeze, Fla. The goal of Dynamo Juniors is to help grow soccer in those regions and give more players the opportunity to achieve their dream of playing professional soccer. Select players will be asked to join the Dynamo Academy full time and will train under the direct supervision of Houston Dynamo Director of Youth Development James Clarkson. Four Houston-area products have already made their way to the Dynamo first team via the Dynamo Academy, and now players from four more states will have similar opportunities.
"What we are aiming to do is expand our player pool in terms of identification of players, but also have an impact in the growth and development of the sport," Clarkson said. "This will impact all levels, from grassroots, all the way through elite players."