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Bluesman made his mark
Canadian harpist's brush with greatness was frustrated by his battle with the bottle
By Bruce Farley MOWAT Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, January 16, 2003, Page R9
He will be remembered for creating some of the high water marks in the history of popular music in Canada. Blues harpist Richard NEWELL, also known as King Biscuit Boy, has died. He was found dead at his house in Hamilton on January 5.
Richard NEWELL's story is the stuff of legend, but not legendary. The Oxford Canadian Dictionary defines legend as "a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical, but unauthenticated."
Nearly all the career anecdotes surrounding King Biscuit Boy have been verified. Yes, he really was recruited for the Allman Brothers in 1969, for Janis JOPLIN's Full Tilt Boogie Band in 1970 and for a mid-seventies session with Aretha FRANKLIN. The stellar Houston blues guitarist, Albert COLLINS was recording a version of Mr. NEWELL's Mean Old Lady, before he died in 1994.
Mr. NEWELL, though, would rarely volunteer to offer up such information, unless you prodded him for it. He didn't think it was important.
He was born the son of Lily and Walter (Dick) NEWELL, an Royal Air Force airman stationed in Canada during the Second World War. Richard NEWELL developed an early interest in music, from the country of Hank WILLIAMS Sr. to the jump blues of Louis JORDAN, to the frenetic sounds of such original rock 'n' rollers as Little Richard. At age 12, he purchased his first harmonica after discovering the blues via late-night AM radio.
Mr. NEWELL spent seven years rehearsing his ever-expanding collection of blues 45s, which he purchased on regular hitchhiking forays to Buffalo. Few of his Friends at the time were even aware that he played harmonica and guitar.
In 1963, Ronnie COPPLE's sock-hop rock 'n' roll group, the Barons, recruited Mr. NEWELL as its lead singer. Mr. NEWELL had heard a recording of their instrumental original, Bottleneck, and came by with an record by the prototypical American electric blues slide guitarist, Elmore JAMES.
Within weeks of his joining, the group was transfigured into the flat-out, deep blues band, The Chessmen Featuring son Richard. The sound was guitar driven and harmonica-heavy, certainly not the type of thing you'd find at the average mid-sixties Southern Ontario teen dance. The band made it to Europe the following summer, playing successful shows at U.S. Army bases to predominantly black audiences.
Back in Canada, Mr. NEWELL would go on to become the lead singer of Richie Knight and The Mid Knights in 1966. He also made his debut professional recording at this time, as a session harmonica player on a recording by country singer, Dallas HARMS, best known for writing such hits as Paper Rosie for American country singer Gene WATSON.
When ex-Mid Knight and future Full Tilt Boogie band member Rick BELL was recruited for the Ronnie HAWKINS band in 1968, Mr. NEWELL's name came up. After one audition, he was hired on the spot and rechristened with the royal King Biscuit Boy moniker, a title he was never totally comfortable with.
Back in his native Arkansas, HAWKINS had rehearsed in the basement of the old KFFA radio station where blues harpist, Sonny Boy Williamson 2nd (Rice MILLER,) did his King Biscuit Flour Hour broadcasts. To HAWKINS, Mr. NEWELL must have sounded like a letter from home.
When JOPLIN scooped BELL and guitarist John TILL from HAWKINS's band early in 1970, Mr. NEWELL and drummer Larry ATAMANUIK were left with the task of re-assembling the band. That group would become the first King Biscuit Boy-led outfit, Crowbar. In a fit of pique, HAWKINS had inadvertently given the band its name in an exchange of parting shots at the Grange Tavern in Hamilton. "You guys are so dumb," he yelled, "you could fuck up the moving parts of a crowbar."
As the bandleader, singer, harmonica player and guitarist on Official Music, Mr. NEWELL was responsible for building a razor-sharp and singularly intense sound. The rehearsals for these sessions were apparently tension-laden affairs, but the payoff came when the album muscled its way on to the Canadian charts, (without the benefit of Canadian-content regulations), the fastest-selling domestic release to date.
Mr. NEWELL and the band would part ways after King Biscuit Boy and Crowbar had scored on the singles chart with the traditional piece, Corrina, Corrina. In 1971, Crowbar (without King Biscuit Boy) earned a place on the bestseller charts with a song that was to become a perennial Canuck rock anthem. Oh, What a Feeling was the first domestic single to take advantage of the newly legislated Canadian-content rules for broadcasting.
Fate intervened throughout the following years to rob Mr. NEWELL of his career momentum. The backing band he assembled to promote Good 'Uns, the 1971 followup to Official Music, was beginning to work on a third album, when the funding for it ran out.
With the momentum lost, that unit disintegrated, with guitarist Earl JOHNSON leaving to form the hard-rock outfit, Moxy.
In 1974, sessions produced by Allen TOUSSAINT, the architect of many a New Orleans Rhythm and Blues classic, would culminate in the Epic label release of a self-titled recording. Mr. NEWELL would tour the United States the following year with The Meters (featuring future members of the Neville Brothers) as his backup band. When the Epic label cleaned house later that year, though, he was one of the acts dropped.
In 1972, Mr. NEWELL wed Jacqueline WILLETTS but found that married life did not curb his increasingly frequent drinking binges. The couple divorced in 1979. Alcoholism was also the source of most of his professional woes for the better part of his life, as key shows were either cancelled, or worse, rendered into shambles. Musicians who worked with him tended to admire him, but found it incredibly frustrating that such an enormous talent was being squandered.
At several junctures in his career, Mr. NEWELL managed to quit drinking. Of the three albums he recorded and released in the eighties and nineties, two were the direct dividends of his abstinence. Those recordings earned him Juno nominations, in 1988 for Richard NEWELL aka King Biscuit Boy,and in 1996 for Urban Blues Re: NEWELL. The latter is still in print on Holger Peterson's Stony Plain label. Official Music, along with Good'Uns and Badly Bent, a best-of compilation, are available on the Unidisc label (http://www.unidisc.com). The rest of the King Biscuit Boy catalogue, including the 1980 Mouth of Steel album, is out of print.
In 2000, Mr. NEWELL's mother died and he left regular stage work, preferring the seclusion of his home in the central Mountain neighbourhood of Hamilton. His last recordings include a version of Blue Christmas, available on the Hamilton Hometown Christmas Compact Disk compilation assembled by saxophonist and long-time friend, Sonny DEL RIO. An original composition, Two Hound Blues, along with material recorded by DEL RIO and Mr. NEWELL in the late seventies (the Biscuit With Gravy sessions) is planned for release this year.
Mr. NEWELL, who leaves his father Dick, brother Walter (Randy,) and son Richard James Oddie, made his last public performance in a cameo appearance with The Little Red Blues Gang on September 12, 2002, at Mermaids Lounge in Hamilton. The 60 or so audience members present were treated to a version of his hit, Corrina, Corrina, which is strange, because he never particularly cared for that song.
Richard Alfred NEWELL, musician; born March 9, 1944, in Hamilton died in Hamilton, January 5, 2003.
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"Shine bright, shine far, don't be shy, be a star! Where you live where you are be a star!" If you remember that theme song, then prepared to dust off your vocals to sing it again!
That's right, there will be a sequel to the original Life Size movie, titled Life Size 2 featuring the iconic Tyra Banks and will premiere on December 18th! With there being overall talk about if this movie plan was really going to fall through or not, Banks herself confirmed the sequel on her Twitter.
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One word: LIFESIZE Oops... 2 words LIFESIZE 2
Talk about epic! Even though there's a super high chance the movie may be geared towards a younger crowd – when has that ever stopped adults?! Not only will this be semi-nostalgic for millennials; even parents who might've been annoyed from their kids watching and rewatching Life Size over 100 times, get to embark on this moment.
The early 2000's original Life Size was about a widower's daughter (Lindsay Lohan) trying to use a spell that'll bring back her mother, but instead brought a doll named Eve (Tyra Banks) back to life. This movie is truly a classic, but it also raises some questions for the sequel: Will Lindsay Lohan still play Casey? Does Eve finally know what career she wants to keep? Even better, will Eve stay an adult and never go back to being a doll? Guess we'll get to see!
Tyra Banks singing "Be A Star" from Life Size
Tyra Banks in the movie Life Size as "Eve" alongside with Lindsay Lohan. Tyra Banks singing "Be A Star", which is the Eve Doll Theme Song. Credits: Walt Disney hismovies1
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My friend told me that it make a beeping noise when you put it up to your ear but when I did it just goes RRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRrrr RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR and my other tamagotchi ( I have two) was beeping. Is my tama broken.
My tama isn't beeping?
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Last Post18 Oct 2004
Posted 16 October 2004 - 05:07 PM ( #2 )
No...U.S. Connections either make a quiet beeping sound or the constant sound that you have described.
Posted 17 October 2004 - 11:20 PM ( #4 )
By the way, has anyone figured out what that sound is? It bothers me that only Connections make that sound while Plus and Connexion versions do not.
Posted 18 October 2004 - 03:59 AM ( #5 )
If you notice, on the connections, when it makes the quiet beeping noise, it happens to be at the same time the tama is moving. I do hope that makes since.
Posted 18 October 2004 - 07:47 PM ( #6 )
Not quite. Mine beeps twice as fast as my Tama moves. I have noticed that it beeps every second when on the clock and about every half second otherwise.
Posted 18 October 2004 - 08:12 PM ( #7 )
the beeeeeeeeee noise is the last note sound heard being held on longer. It even happens when the sound is off and the tama is paused. My tama doesn't click or tap when on pause.


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"Caius, surely you see the potential. I haven't seen a prospective talent so promising since we found Jane and Alec. Can you imagine the possibilities when she is one of us?" - Aro Edward is gone. Jacob never came to Bella's room. She is alone. What happens when she goes to Italy for her senior class trip?
This is my second fic and my first attempt at a multichaptered fic.
1. Graduation Present
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I sat in one of the mismatched chairs at the kitchen table doing my calculus homework. I actually have an A in the class. Since I need to keep my mind constantly busy, I put in more hours of studying this year than the first three years of my high school career combined.
I heard a familiar crunch of gravel as the cruiser pulled up. I looked at the clock on the microwave; the green light read four forty-two. Charlie was home early. I didn't start dinner yet.
"Hi, Bells," he called as he opened the front door. I suspiciously eyed the bag of takeout in his hand. He noticed. "Umm. I thought you could use a break."
He placed the paper bag on the table and started emptying its contents. Italian. My favorite. I worried what he was up to as I got some glasses from the yellow cabinet and poured our drinks.
We ate in silence for a few minutes as Charlie obviously worked up his courage. Then he sprang the news on me. "Bella," he said, looking down at his dinner. "I have an early graduation present for you." He slowly looked up and gave me a tentative smile. I knew this was hard for him. We are alike in so many ways.
"You didn't have to get me anything." I have always hated presents. But after my last birthday - I winced at my own thought - I hated them even more.
"I know, Bells. But I am your father and graduation is a big deal. I am proud of you." I knew how difficult it was for him to admit that out loud. I felt a sudden and unexpected wave of emotion come over me and hugged him.
"Thank you, Dad." I said, looking around for the present. "Where is it?" I asked, trying to hide the dread in my voice.
"You will receive the tickets and all the information from school on Monday," he replied, then shoveled more pasta into his mouth. Wait. School. Oh, no. Tell me he does not mean the senior class trip.
"The trip to Italy..." I paused waiting for him to contradict me. He didn't. "Dad, that's too expensive. You can't afford that." I argued. However, cost was the least of my objections. This wasn't the first time Charlie had tried to get me to leave Forks. He already threatened to send me to live with Renee in Jacksonville. That time I used school as my excuse to stay. But the truth is I am terrified to leave Forks. I am afraid that if I leave this dreary, cloud covered town I will forget Him.
"It will be as if I'd never existed."
"Don't worry about the money, Bella. I have been putting money away for your college education. And now that you have decided to stay here and go to Peninsula Community College, I have the extra money in the bank."
"It's still too much. I couldn't accept a gift like that. You should save the money for your retirement, Dad."
"No, I want to do this for you. You seemed to be getting better, Bells." I winced. Charlie didn't seem to notice and continued. "But now with this whole Jacob thing, I worry about you." Why did he have to bring up Jacob again?
"You don't need to worry about me. I'm fine." I interrupted, but Charlie's no fool. For months, I've been trying to act normal for Charlie's sake, going through the motions of school, work, homework and housework. Charlie saw right through my pathetic attempt.
"I don't think I can live through seeing you try harder. I've never seen anyone trying so hard. It hurts to watch."
"I want you to be happy - no, not even that much. I just want you not to be miserable."
"Listen to me, Bells. I think it would be good for you to get away, go someplace where you're not surrounded by memories of the Cul..."
A searing pain rippled across my hollow chest. I had to cut him off. This conversation was starting to break my unspoken rules. He knows that speaking that name is not allowed. "Fine. I'll think about." I said, ending the conversation at least for now. I started clearing the table, placing the leftovers in the fridge and throwing the empty containers in the trash.
After doing the dishes and wiping down the kitchen table, I told Charlie I was going to my room to study. I grabbed my books and hurried upstairs, somehow managing not to trip in my rush. I really didn't want to be in the same room with him, in case he brought up the subject of the Italy trip again.
After an acceptable amount of time passed, I went halfway down the stairs and told Charlie I was going to bed.
"Good night, Bells." He said, out of habit. I wasn't going to have a good night. I never have a good night and neither does poor Charlie. I wake up screaming almost every night from the same recurring nightmare. I know the sound of my screams wakes Charlie up too, but he doesn't get up to check on me anymore.
"Night, Dad."
School, the next day, went by much the same as it had the rest of the week. The whole senior class was a buzz with talk of the upcoming trip during spring break.
I sat quietly at my lunch table, where my presence was merely tolerated except by Mike and Angela, who have forgiven me for my recent antisocial behavior. I picked at my food, glad to be left out of the conversations around me, all centering on the trip. Some of the girls were planning a shopping trip to Seattle. Apparently, their clothes were not fashionable enough for Europe. Everyone else seemed to be discussing what they wanted to see and do in Italy.
Jessica came running over to the table with unmistakable excitement in her eyes. "My parents have finally agreed to pay for the trip!" She exclaimed with a wide grin. She quickly sat down at the other end of the table next to Lauren and started babbling about the trip. I tuned her out.
Then,to my horror, Mike turned to me with a hopeful look on his face and asked, "So Bella, you haven't said anything. Are you going on the trip?"
Everyone at the table turned to look at me, curious, except for Lauren and Jessica who glared. I didn't want to tell them that I had absolutely no desire to go. Someone might ask why and I am a horrible liar. Then, I remembered my discussion with Charlie. We had kind of left things up in the air. I quickly composed a little half-truth. "I don't know. Charlie said he wanted it to be a graduation present, but there was some mention of money." I strategically left out the fact that I was the one who mentioned the money.
I was glad when lunch was over and rushed off to sixth period World Cultures class with Ms. Lang. Even the teachers were excited about the trip, some of them going along as chaperones, including Ms. Lang.
Just before the end of class, she gave us an assignment. She said she went online and made a list of different places to visit and events that would be going on in Italy the week of the trip. As we exited the classroom, we were to take an index card from her desk. Each card contained one of the places or events, which would be the topic for a report due on Monday.
When the bell rang, I gathered my books and headed for seventh period, grabbing a card on my way out the door. It read Saint Marcus Day Festival.
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Grapefruit Diet
(Hollywood Diet)
The grapefruit diet entails eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice at every meal. According to the American Dietetic Association, the grapefruit diet first became popular in 1950 and is also known as the Hollywood diet.
How Is This Diet Supposed to Work?
The premise of this diet is that grapefruit contains fat-burning properties. However, there is no research to support this theory.
What's Involved?
There are many variations of this diet, but in general they all entail consuming grapefruit with meals. The older versions of this diet are also very restrictive in the foods that are allowed and are, therefore, very low in calories.
One common version of this diet consists of eating four meals per day, with grapefruit included at three of these meals. Other foods allowed on this particular version include as much black coffee as desired, eggs, and meat. A sample daily meal plan may look like this:
Meal 1
Meal 2
Meal 3
Meal 4
A newer variation of this diet, proposed in The Grapefruit Solution , has dieters following a weight loss plan of their choice, but with grapefruit added to their daily meal plans.
What the Research Says
While there is no research to support the theory that grapefruit has fat-burning properties, a recent study conducted by the Scripps Clinic in California found that adding grapefruit to each meal for 12 weeks resulted in greater weight loss. Because this was a relatively small study and the first of its kind, more research is needed to support these results.
Most of the grapefruit diet plans are very low in calories and fall short on many essential vitamins and minerals. They are also very restrictive in the foods that are allowed. Thus, they are both unhealthy and unrealistic.
A concern with grapefruit in general is that it interacts with many different types of medications, possibly resulting in serious side effects. Use the ]]>Drug Interaction Database]]> to find out whether grapefruit may interact with any of your medications.
Bottom Line
The original grapefruit diet is too restrictive in foods, calories, and nutrients, and thus is not recommended for anyone who wants to lose weight in a healthy way. And while some versions of this diet may be more sensible, they are still not based on solid research. Most of us should strive to eat at least three servings of fruit per day, and grapefruit can certainly contribute to these servings. But eating a variety of nutrient-rich foods—including a variety of fruits—is key to any healthful diet.
American Dietetic Association
Choosing a Safe and Successful Weight-loss Program
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Canada's Food Guide
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Effectiveness of grapefruit diet studied at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt University Medical Center website. Available at: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/newspub/crmQtG?id=26384 . Accessed May 14, 2007.
Fujioka K, Greenway F, Sheard J, Ying Y. The effects of grapefruit on weight and insulin resistance: relationship to the metabolic syndrome. J Med Food . 2006;9:49-54.
Krumm S. Only consistency among fad diets is their failure to work. Journal-World . 2007 Mar 21.
Thomson DL, Ahrens MJ. The Grapefruit Solution: Lower Your Cholesterol, Lose Weight, and Achieve Optimal Health With Nature's Wonder Fruit . Linx Corp; 2004.
Last reviewed December 2009 by ]]>Brian Randall, MD]]>
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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This fall will see the beginning of a new voting system throughout New York State. In preparation for upcoming elections, the Nassau County Board of Elections, in cooperation with the Nassau County League of Women Voters will demonstrate the new optical scan voting machines at Roosevelt Field shopping mall.
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Maybe now enough time has passed to assess the 76ers coaching situation without the emotional, knee-jerk reaction stemming from that, um, embarrassing end-of-season loss.
I'm as guilty as anyone. Right after that, and with all the drama revealed, it was difficult to see clearly through all the words and counter-words. But it's been almost a week. So let's take a look at the options, the thought process, what might happen. Basically, what I'm saying is this blog is speculation, mixed with a little information. A "little" information because that's all that's out there right now. So take it as such.
Going into the playoff series with the Orlando Magic, and even throughout it, all information, discussion, etc. was pointing towards Tony DiLeo returning this season as the Sixers coach. Throughout the series, DiLeo had his guys executing a very smart defensive game plan against the Magic. Look at the first game against the Boston Celtics the other night ... Yes, Boston is depleted, but that was impressive by Orlando, building that huge lead. But what kind of miscalculations did DiLeo make that led to the Game 6 disaster. Did his belief he didn't need to remind his team to stay focused affect the outcome? Could/Should one game -- albeit an awful, awful game -- impact this decision that much?
Did/Does DiLeo deserve to be retained? This question is littered with X-factors. By the numbers, DiLeo had an above-.500 record (32-27 ... is my math right?) with a team that, before he took over, was 9-14. But then we have the X-Factor: Elton Brand. Was the team's struggle to incorporate him what dragged Cheeks down? Did his injury allow DiLeo to have a better record because he didn't go through figuring out how to win with Brand? Or was Brand's injury -- as Ed Stefanski and Tony DiLeo have suggested -- a blow to the Sixers (and DiLeo's) effectiveness? We just don't know the answer to this question. And because we don't, it's hard to judge DiLeo's effectiveness as coach.
But let's look at the pros and cons for DiLeo. First, because the glass is half full, the pros.
1.) By bringing DiLeo back, you're 100 percent avoiding any in-fighting between coach and management. You're guaranteed to have the energy focused on the vision that DiLeo and Stefanski have -- because they have the same vision. If you believe in that vision, then bringing in an outside guy is quite risky. No matter how detailed the discussion is beforehand, you're risking that halfway through a season, the new coach has developed a different vision. DiLeo is known league-wide as a smart, high basketball IQ guy. And I agree with that assessment. How important is it to have a unified vision? Is it more important than having some new blood who will challenge the thought process? I honestly don't know.
2.) DiLeo did well. Now that we can step back from the 25-point loss. You can't argue that DiLeo had this team playing well, but was it often enough? Like we said, how much of that was caused by circumstances Cheeks wasn't given, we won't know. But the team was 40-35 at one point. There was that 14-4 record before the All-Star break. There were glimpses that the team was advancing.
3.) It's safe. That's not what Sixers fans necessarily want to hear, because it seems imperative to get this thing going in the right direction, right now. But let's look at the alternative: signing someone to a significant, lengthy contract (because goodness you can't go with a 1-year deal at this point). That's a risk of time and money, and money and length doesn't guarantee this guy will do anything more than DiLeo has done.
4.) DiLeo didn't have an entire season as his. Don't underestimate how important it is to go through a training camp with the team. When DiLeo came in he was running another guy's offense and defense. He was picking up midstream with another guy's ideas.
So, with DiLeo, you're getting a solid coach, guaranteed drama-free, little risk, but still with upside because we don't know his vision/touch for integrating Elton Brand.
And now, the cons.
1.) No splash. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the Sixers are currently the 4th most popular franchise in the city right now. They did nothing to inspire excitement going into the offseason, nothing to spark ticket sales. Sticking with DiLeo would continue that trend. The franchise would continue to fly under the radar, with people thinking they were headed for a carbon copy of this past season. You sign someone with a high profile, you make a splash, spark some interest, make it clear you have your long-term guy. That gets people talking, but you've also put yourself on the ledge there. The Elton Brand signing got people talking, sparking interest. It didn't resonate the way it might have.
2.) The players don't seem sold on DiLeo. We know what Theo Ratliff said right after the loss. That was a blow to DiLeo. In speaking with the rest of the team, and with those around the team, the vibe is two-fold. There are those that said all the right things -- that DiLeo should be brought back, he did a good job, etc. -- but there were others, like Iguodala, who seemed less than effusive in their praise. But take all this with a grain of salt. The mentality of NBA players doesn't always seem conducive to accepting blame, but it can often be conducive to distributing blame. How much of that played a part in dumping on DiLeo that night and, slightly, the next day? Ratliff wasn't the only guy questioning hether DiLeo was the right guy, he was just the only one who did it on the record.
3.) These guys need a take-no-prisoners type of coach ... that's what I've heard. Can DiLeo be that kind of coach? We aren't allowed to watch the heart of practice, so who knows what he is saying to guys. Who knows what he is demanding, what mistakes he won't allow. Ratliff said he was lenient, and in watching many of the games, that seems to be a justified position. But the NBA isn't like coaching in college, you can create more problems than you solve by ruling with an iron fist. But how much of an impact did DiLeo's background have on the players? He came from the front office, he hadn't been a head coach for two decades, and that was in another country. It's not hard to see how the players might have scoffed at his authority from the second he stepped into the role. Can DiLeo overcome that? Or must Stefanski bring someone in with the authority from Day 1?
So what's happening right now? The Sixers are saying nothing is happening yet. And after many calls around the league, to agents, coaches, etc. that seems to be the case. The first thing to happen will be Stefanski and DiLeo sitting down and deciding. That does not seem to have happened yet. It seems both sides have taken a few days to step away. If, when that does happen, the decision is to move DiLeo back to the front office and begin a coaching search, the speculation will begin in earnest. Until then, the speculation will just be luke warm. But here it is. Some names, rumors, reasons for speculation, etc. Remember, this is speculation.
1.) Eddie Jordan, formerly the Washington Wizards coach. He worked with Stefanski while Stefanski was in New Jersey. Thus the connection. Jordan's name has been mentioned for this spot, as well as the Sacramento Kings job.
2.) Jay Wright, coach of Villanova. You couldn't make a bigger splash than hiring Jay Wright from an in-town university fresh off a Final Four appearance.
3.) Doug Collins. The Chicago connection (think, Iguodala), and his reputation as a hard-nosed coach, makes him a top choice.
4.) Avery Johnson. We've heard this name many times.
5.) Jeff Van Gundy. You can't do much better in terms of discipline, focus.
Like we said, it's impossible to nail down candidates because right now the job is still DiLeo's and former NBA coaches, heck all coaches, refuse to step on the toes of a fellow coach -- it's like crossing the picket line.
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Education, insurance costs and protections for the state's freshwater springs are just a few of the issues state lawmakers are expected to tackle during the next legislative session. Pinellas County voters will have plenty of choices on the Aug. 26 primary ballot when deciding who they want to represent them in Tallahassee.
Races are being held in state House District 65 in northern Pinellas, in House District 67 in the eastern half of central Pinellas, and in House District 68 in an area stretching north of downtown St. Petersburg. In two of the races, Republicans are hoping to elect a candidate who can unseat incumbent Democrats in the November general election. In the other race, two Republicans and three Democrats are running to represent their party in the November general election.
House 65
A tax attorney and a state prosecutor are running in the Republican primary to face Rep. Carl Zimmermann, the Democratic incumbent.
Debbie Faulkner, 28, runs her own law firm and has deep roots in the district. She says she would work to create high-paying jobs, address rising insurance rates, cut back on government regulations and work to improve local schools.
"We need to allow Florida's teachers to do what they do best by freeing them from overly complex federal and state regulations," she says.
She doesn't think the state should take the federal money to expand Medicaid, and favors gambling expansion because it would generate revenue.
Chris Sprowls, 30, is a state prosecutor for the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office who beat cancer as a teenager. He says he'll work to develop jobs and a more vibrant economy. He wants to target pill mills that promote addiction, thinks the state should find better health care solutions, and wants to make sure the county's coastline and parks are protected.
He doesn't think the state should accept federal money for Medicaid expansion, and is against expanded gambling in the state because of the potential effects on tourism and crime. He's lined up an impressive list of endorsements from local and state Republican officeholders.
Both candidates bring intelligence and passion to the race. And both are running on conservative platforms. But Sprowls is the more polished candidate and appears ready to serve on day one if elected. In the Republican primary for state House District 65, the Tribune endorses Chris Sprowls.
House 67
A union president, a political consultant and an employee of a local dairy production plant are running in the Democratic primary. The son of a state legislator and an Iraq war veteran are running in the Republican primary. The winners will face each other in the November general election to fill the seat vacated by Ed Hooper, who was term-limited out of office.
Stephen Sarnoff, 61, is an accounts manager for the city of Clearwater's solid waste department who has represented workers as president of the local Communications Workers of America union since 1999.
He says too many people are being ignored in Tallahassee. He thinks the state should accept the Medicaid expansion money, and says legislators should keep their hands off the pension system for state workers.
Shawna Vercher, 32, started a communications consulting business and worked on political campaigns, including the National Rapid Response Team for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. She thinks she can improve communication in Tallahassee. She says the state should accept the Medicaid money, and says schools should partner with corporations to produce graduates ready to enter the workforce.
Thomas Ryan, 61, works in the production area for the Dairy-Mix company. He's always wanted to run for office and says he offers a fresh voice in Tallahassee. He thinks accepting the Medicaid expansion money is the morally right thing to do, and he would work to relieve the wild fluctuations in flood insurance rates.
Ryan has a basic understanding of the issues but lacks political experience. Sarnoff and Vercher are well versed in the issues and understand the political process. But Sarnoff's work in the trenches representing the union over the years makes him the best candidate. In the Democratic primary for state House District 67, the Tribune recommends Stephen Sarnoff.
Chris Latvala, 32, is the son of state Sen. Jack Latvala, state Rep. Ed Hooper's former aide and a vice president at his father's printing business. He says he loves the district, has grown up in politics and is ready to carry on the legacy. He's focusing on jobs, education and public safety. He doesn't think the state should take the Medicaid expansion money, and he is against gambling expansion but would listen to his constituents if they favored expansion.
Christopher Shepard, 26, works at Sam's Club as a member associate and saw combat in Iraq. He ran unsuccessfully for a House seat in 2012 and wants to bring conservative principles to Tallahassee. He is against Medicaid expansion in Florida and thinks the Affordable Care Act should be repealed. He supports school choice, and pledges to oppose legislation infringing on gun rights or climate change if it affects government revenues.
Shepard speaks more passionately about national issues than those involving the state Senate. Latvala knows the district well from his time working for Hooper. In the Republican primary for House District 67, the Tribune endorses Chris Latvala.
House 68
The son of a legendary politician is running against a taxi cab driver in the Republican primary to face incumbent Democrat Dwight Dudley.
Bill Young, 30, is the son of the late Congressman C.W. "Bill" Young and works in business development for the National Forensic Science Technology Center in Largo. He says he wants to continue the work his father did helping constituents and the entire Tampa Bay area.
He doesn't think the state should take the Medicaid expansion money because it will run out one day and leave the state on the hook. He says he'll work to make Florida more business friendly and will champion veterans issues.
Joshua Black, 31, drives a taxi and is known for making national news by saying President Obama should be hanged for war crimes. He says he doesn't regret the comments. Voters should expect better judgment from candidates.
Young watched how his father served effectively in Congress and has a realistic understanding of the issues. He'll fight for conservative principles without being crude or theatrical. In the Republican primary for House District 68, the Tribune recommends Bill Young.


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Man charged in Somerville Street shooting had permit for pistol
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Man charged in random Manchester shooting gets lower bail
Somerville Street shooting victim: 'I thought I was going to die'
Pedestrian shoots passenger in car on Somerville Street
MANCHESTER — The man accused of walking up to a stranger's car Monday night and wounding a passenger in the leg has a valid concealed weapon permit.
Police Lt. Maureen Tessier said Thomas Landry, 25, of 759 Somerville St., applied for a concealed weapon permit in August 2012, citing personal safety and defense as the reason.
In court documents, Landry wrote that prior to living with his family in Manchester for the past year, he was based at U.S. Marine Corps Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for six years.
Landry also said in his application for a court-appointed attorney that he is disabled and receives monthly VA benefits.
Court documents show Landry told police when they spoke with him while investigating the shooting that he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder due to multiple military deployments.
Tessier was unable to confirm Landry's military service Tuesday, saying that was not a top priority for investigators.
Landry's criminal record consists of a misdemeanor conviction for driving while intoxicated, which is not an issue in obtaining a pistol/revolver permit needed to transport a handgun in a vehicle or carry it concealed.
No license is needed for open carry of a handgun.
The gun is still missing, police said.
A rifle and a magazine for a Sig Sauer P229 .40 caliber handgun and a magazine holder were found with a duffel bag in a bedroom at Landry's residence, according to court documents.
Landry did not need to mention PTSD in the concealed pistol permit application, which only asks for details if the applicant has been "adjudicated as a mental defective by a court or committed by a court to any mental institution."


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October 09, 2012 11:00 ET
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 9, 2012) - Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division (Toshiba -- www.telecom.toshiba.com), today announced that its IPedge® IP business telephone system has won TMC's 2012 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. This award was given, in part, for the successes achieved by Toshiba's IPedge EP at LifeLong Medical Care. The 2012 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners are published in the September 2012 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com.
"We are honored to have Toshiba's IPedge EP win TMC's 2012 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award," said Brian Metherell, vice president and general manager of Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division. "Designed for small companies and branches of larger companies, IPedge EP empowers users to communicate more effectively, be more cost effective, and have greater access to their customers, partners and each other."
"The editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY are pleased to award Toshiba's IPedge EP with a 2012 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award for its innovation in IP communications. With its IPedge EP, Toshiba has demonstrated outstanding quality and delivered exceptional solutions for its customers," said Erik Linask, group editorial director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.
IPedge EP Delivers Big Company IP Functionality for Small Companies
Toshiba's IPedge EP, the smallest member of the IPedge family, is an IP business telephone system designed specifically for small businesses with up to 40 users per server. It gives small businesses big company IP features and functionality at an affordable price. IPedge EP delivers all the features, functionality, quality and reliability for which Toshiba's telephone systems are known. It is networkable with other IPedge systems and/or Toshiba's Strata® CIX™ IP converged business telephone systems.
IPedge EP goes beyond most competitors' small-business IP solutions by delivering more applications on a single server, including expanded call processing and voice mail with unified messaging features, unified communications, meet-me audio/video conferencing and Web collaboration, centralized administration, and the ability for individual users to easily program their own telephones.
IPedge EP is available from Authorized Toshiba Dealers nationwide.
IPedge EP Success Story: LifeLong Medical Care
Founded in 1976, LifeLong Medical Care is a dynamic nonprofit community organization with nine locations, delivering quality health services for all ages. LifeLong provides approximately 233,720 health care visits to more than 41,000 individuals, many with complex health conditions.
Mission: Create an Affordable and Reliable Networked Telephone System
Managed by Betsy Ami, LifeLong's director of IT, LifeLong's Toshiba business telephone system helps meet LifeLong's communication objectives, including centralizing telephony applications and networking locations together over IP.
LifeLong's Authorized Toshiba Dealer, ATS Communications Inc. of Concord, Calif., installed and provides service and support for the system.
Solution: Toshiba Provides the Best of Both Worlds - IP and Digital Converged Communications
Installed by ATS Communications, LifeLong's Toshiba business telephone system consists of both pure IP and IP converged systems for the best of both worlds, including both IP and IP converged systems supporting both digital and IP telephones. LifeLong's IPedge EP is networked with eight of Toshiba's Strata CIX IP converged business telephone systems, delivering telephony solutions for nearly 900 ports across all locations. The solution also includes an extensive call center, unified messaging, auto attendant, and Toshiba's Network eManager® for centralized remote management of all systems in all locations.
Result #1: Centralized System Reduces Costs, Improves Productivity
Toshiba met LifeLong's requirement for a centralized system with shared applications across all locations, including voice mail, call center and remote system management. Using Toshiba's Network eManager remote administration tool, LifeLong's IT staff can now remotely manage the entire telephone system from their desktop or laptop computers.
Result #2: Seamlessly Networked Systems Deliver Low-Cost Communication
LifeLong's locations are seamlessly networked via IP using Toshiba's Strata Net IP networking solution. Networking the systems enables direct extension dialing and call transfers between the locations, helping reduce toll charges by thousands of dollars every month. And, it's helped improve communication between both the internal staff and their patients.
Result #3: Easy Mobility Solutions for Mobile and Remote Workers
Using Toshiba's SoftIPT® softphones, LifeLong's mobile and remote workers have their Toshiba telephones with them on their mobile devices, no matter where they go. They can make, receive and transfer calls, pick up voice mail and do conference calling -- just as if they were using a desk phone -- from anywhere they have Internet access.
Bottom Line: Toshiba Delivers a Centralized Business Telephone System That Saves Costs and Improves Communication
Toshiba's IPedge and Strata CIX telephone systems have met LifeLong's communications objectives, including:
About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™. Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine reaches more than 225,000 readers, including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.
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TMC is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online.TMC publishes the TMC's CUSTOMER Magazine (formerly Customer Interaction Solutions), INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility, and Cloud Computing magazines. TMCnet.com, which is read by 1.5 million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world's leading B2B communications event. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: Cloud Communications Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; CVx (ChannelVision Expo); DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; LatinComm Conference & Expo; M2M Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobility Tech Conference & Expo; MSPAlliance MSPWorld; StartupCamp; Video World Conference & Expo and more.
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
About Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. (TAIS)
Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TAIS is comprised of three business units: Digital Products Division, Imaging Systems Division, and Telecommunication Systems Division. Together, these divisions provide digital products, services and solutions, including industry-leading portable computers; televisions, TV/DVD Combination products, Blu-ray Disc and DVD products, and portable devices; imaging products for the security, medical and manufacturing markets; and IP business telephone systems with unified communications, collaboration and mobility applications. TAIS provides sales, marketing and services for its wide range of products in the United States and Latin America. TAIS is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation.
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Toshiba is a world-leading diversified manufacturer, solutions provider and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products and systems. Toshiba Group brings innovation and imagination to a wide range of businesses: digital products, including LCD TVs, notebook PCs, retail solutions and MFPs; electronic devices, including semiconductors, storage products and materials; industrial and social infrastructure systems, including power generation systems, smart community solutions, medical systems and escalators & elevators; and home appliances. Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today operates a global network of more than 550 consolidated companies, with 202,000 employees worldwide and annual sales surpassing 6.1 trillion yen (US$74 billion). Visit Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm
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This great quick page pack is great for rodeo/ranch/cowboy photos or even just everyday photos. The neutral colors make it great especially for sepia toned photos. There are 12 pages with spots for 32 photos plus space to add more if needed. Pick up the full Cowboy Up kit at My Memories also.
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text: Before 9-11, there was Guernica! The Spanish town of Guernica was home to a tragic historical event that inspired Picasso to create a masterpiece. Guernica, the play, follows Eric, a young aspiring artist who meets a man claiming to be Pablo Picasso, offering him a seductive opportunity: create an even grander canvas. Join Eric, the Man, and his mysterious friends as they explore the creative process and the madness of war while the "Guernica," on exhibition, comes to life in this passionate, intellectual drama. The Strayer-Wood Theatre presents the Midwest premiere of this award-winning play.


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Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay return as mentors/judges in season premiere
Food Network's long-running competition series "Food Network Star" returns for a ninth season this summer with fresh talent, intense challenges, and culinary icons Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay leading the charge to discover the best and brightest new faces in food television.
In the one-hour season premiere on Sunday, June 2, at 9 p.m., the 12 contestants arrive in Los Angeles, ready to kick off the biggest audition of their lives to find out who has the personality, on-camera charisma and kitchen chops to follow in their idols' footsteps and helm their own show. In new twists, focus groups of Food Network fans will also have their say on contestant performances, and one finalist will be brought back after elimination for another chance at victory. Viewers will again be able to vote online or via phone before the Aug. 11 finale to determine who will win the ultimate prize: their own show on Food Network.
"Alton, Bobby and Giada are not only enduring stars, but also star-makers, so they are the ideal mentors to bring out the best in our talented cast," said Bob Tuschman, general manager and senior vice president at the Food Network. "These newcomers are competing to achieve their dream, and their journey is fascinating to watch."
The finalists are: Nikki Dinki (New York); Andres Guillama (Waynesville, N.C.); Rodney Henry (Baltimore); Chris Hodgson (Cleveland); Connie "Lovely" Jackson (Los Angeles); Russell Jackson (San Francisco); Danushka Lysek (New York); Daniela Perez-Reyes (Haleiwa, Hawaii); Viet Pham (Salt Lake City); Damaris Phillips (Louisville, Ky.); Stacey Poon-Kinney (San Diego) and Chad Rosenthal (Ambler, Pa.).
Each episode before the finale features a first-round "Mentor Challenge," second-round "Star Challenge," and an elimination determined by the selection committee, including returning judges Food Network executives Susie Fogelson and Tuschman.
In the season premiere, Alton, Giada and Bobby greet the finalists and immediately kick off their life-changing "Star" journey. Each finalist is challenged to refine their personal point of view and film a pitch tape in the season's first "Mentor Challenge," and convincingly explain why they are the best person to win their own show. In the second-round "Star Challenge," each contestant must prepare and present one dish to Food Network executives Fogelson and Tuschman and a focus group of Food Network fans.
Upcoming episodes feature a "Chopped"-themed mystery ingredient challenge before "Chopped" judge Alex Guarnaschelli; an anything-can-happen live, on-camera test with "E! News" co-host Terrence Jenkins; a fresh Italian-themed challenge with a twist using Buitoni products; a pantry cook-off with Kellogg's Special K cereals and snacks; a "Star"-making screening evaluated by The Hollywood Reporter Editorial Director Janice Min and senior writers Gary Baum and Leslie Bruce; and guest appearances by Guy Fieri and Robert Irvine.
For more "Food Network Star," fans can visit www.foodnetwork.com/star all season long for on-set video, exclusive interviews and insider blogs, behind-the-scenes footage, photo galleries, peeks into finalists' personal journals, online polls, interactive quizzes, sweepstakes and more.
Launching Memorial Day weekend, fans can vote in the "Star Summer Showdown," pitting summer recipes from "Star" winners and judges against recipes from "Chopped." Fans can also connect with one another and the show's stars on Facebook at facebook.com/foodnetwork and on Twitter with the hashtag #FoodNetworkStar.
All season long, Food Network will offer the Food Network Star TV Sync Experience. Partnering with Yahoo!'s second-screen mobile application IntoNow, Food Network is creating a custom experience that will bring fans into the world of" Food Network Star" like never before. This unique two-screen offering will allow viewers access to exclusive content from the set, including commentary, photos, exclusive video, behind-the-scenes details, live polls, interactive trivia and special culinary tips. Fans can download the IntoNow app from the iTunes App Store or Google Play, then sync the app with the broadcast. The experience will also work when synced with encores and when watching the episode on DVR, VOD or online streaming.


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Has anyone ever read this novel? Your thoughts as to if/how it might apply today?
Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905 and she came to the United States in 1926. Growing up, her father owned a pharmacy that the Communists eventually confiscated, displacing her family and forcing them into near starvation.
She also wrote a similar book titled The Fountainhead, which came out in 1943.
Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. Rand's fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. Atlas Shrugged includes elements of romance, mystery and science fiction, and it contains Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism in any of her works of fiction.
The protagonist, Dagny Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry. The book explores a dystopian United States where many of society's most productive citizens refuse to be exploited by increasing taxation and government regulations and go on strike. The refusal evokes the imagery of what would happen if the mythological Atlas refused to continue to hold up the world. They are led by John Galt. Galt describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing the minds that drive society's growth and productivity. In their efforts, these people "of the mind" hope to demonstrate that a world in which the individual is not free to create is doomed, that civilization cannot exist where every person is a slave to society and government, and that the destruction of the profit motive leads to the collapse of society.
Atlas Shrugged is set in an alternative dystopian United States at an unspecified time, in which the country has a "National Legislature" instead of Congress and a "Head of State" instead of President. Writer Edward Younkins noted, "The story may be simultaneously described as anachronistic and timeless. The pattern of industrial organization appears to be that of the late 1800s the mood seems to be close to that of the depression-era 1930s. Both the social customs and the level of technology remind one of the 1950s." Many early 20th-century technologies are available, and the steel and railroad industries are especially significant; jet planes are described as a relatively new technology, and television is a novelty significantly less influential than radio. While many other countries are mentioned in passing, there is no mention of the Soviet Union, no reference to World War II or the Cold War. It is implied that the countries of the world are converting to big government statism, along vaguely Marxist lines, in references to "People's States" in Europe and South America. Plot elements also refer to nationalization of businesses in these "People's States", as well as in America. The "mixed economy" of the book's present is often contrasted with the "pure" capitalism of 19th century America, wistfully recalled as a lost Golden Age.
A dystopia is a place in which "people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives" or in which "everything is unpleasant or bad, typically....totalitarian or environmentally degraded." Common elements of dystopias may vary from environmental to political and social issues.
Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independent of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (or rational self-interest), that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical forma work of artthat one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally.
No but I saw the Hunger Games! Does that count?
Never heard of it.
Never read it, probably never will.
For Dystopian Future style writing, there are vastly better and more entertaining/though provoking writers out there, especially in Sci-Fi.
People that rely on books to define their philosophy are weak minded.
"Atlas Shrugged" has sold 7 million copies and sales of the book have picked up since Obama took office.
Ayan Rand devotees include Steve Jobs, Clarence Thomas, Melanie Griffith, Frank Lloyd Wright, Kurt Russell, Cal Ripken Jr., Marc Cuban, Hunter S. Thompson and Alan Greenspan.
I think so... Bernie Madoff was the books hero?
I agree with the troll, we most certainly should NOT read History or Economics or Social Science or Political Science or Phillosophy or other silly books in forming out viewpoint.
What kind of fool does that?
For any of you (I'm sure Fish has read them) wishing to read some definitive sci-fi books on dystopian society, I'd recommend Orwell's 1984, Wells' The Time Machine and most definitely Huxley's Brave New World.
I just finished writing a paper on dystopian societies and in doing research I found myself really interested in the philosophy of John Stuart Mill (the man who coined the term "dys-topia) and the writings of Walter Lippmann. But who bases their philosophies on what they read?


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Consumer spending in the U.S. rebounded in May following the largest drop in more than three years, a sign the biggest part of the economy will underpin growth this quarter.
Household purchases, which account for about 70% of the economy, rose 0.3% after a 0.3% decline the prior month that was the biggest since September 2009, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. Incomes advanced 0.5%, more than projected.
The report may help ease concern about the outlook for the economic expansion after data yesterday showed household purchases rose at a slower pace than previously estimated in the first quarter. Rising home prices and an improving job market, combined with faster income gains, may help to accelerate spending in the last six months of 2013.
"Consumer spending will continue to be the driver of the recovery," said Tom Simons, an economist at Jefferies LLC in New York, who accurately predicted the gain in purchases. "The second half looks better. The labor market is continuing to improve. The housing rebound will help as well."
Jobless claims decreased by 9,000 to 346,000 in the week ended June 22 from a revised 355,000 the prior period, a Labor Department report also showed today. Smaller reductions in headcounts indicate employers are confident enough that demand will be sustained as the housing market improves and consumers grow more optimistic.
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Stocks rose as another report showed more Americans than forecast signed contracts to purchase previously owned homes. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index advanced 0.9% to 1,616.93 at 10:26 a.m. in New York.
The National Association of Realtors' index of pending home sales jumped 6.7% in May to 112.3, the highest since December 2006. The increase exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists and was the biggest since April 2010.
The median projection of 83 economists in a Bloomberg survey called for a 0.3% rise in spending. Projections ranged from gains of 0.1% to 0.7%. The April reading was previously reported as a drop of 0.2%.
The Bloomberg survey median called for incomes to rise 0.2%. The prior month's income figure was revised up to show a 0.1% gain from unchanged.
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The Walrus Says
Now, in an e-mail, Matthew Clarke tells us that she is all grown up and his 21-year-old daughter, Bethany, is working toward the completion of her bachelor's degree in music at the University of Rhode Island, with a double major in music history and music education. As a requirement for her degree, Beth will be performing in her senior recital Saturday, Nov. 14, at 3 p.m. at URI's Fine Arts Center Recital Hall. She will be performing works by Ravel, Schubert, Copland, Sondheim and others, accompanied by Karyn Kauffman, Beth's first music teacher and current music teacher at the Jamestown School, plus Leslie Sykes and Joseph Alberg. The recital is open to all and there is no charge.
In addition to her scholastic achievements, Beth is the codrum major of the URI Marching Band and will be performing her last half-time show at Mead Stadium on Nov. 21. She is also conducting the Jamestown Community Band and will be a guest conductor with the Jamestown Community Chorus at its 60th anniversary concert next month.
Next semester, Beth will be student teaching with islander Greg Charest at Exeter-West Greenwich High School.
Beth said, "I'm happy to be able to do what I love and lucky that that's what I can do my entire life. Not everyone gets that opportunity."
Tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m., the curtain goes up at the recreation center for the Jamestown Community Theatre's production of "Willy Wonka." Playing the compelling role of Veruca Salt is Dana Larkin, a very talented 13-year-old who says that "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was one of her favorite childhood movies. We asked her about the role and she said that Veruca is a real brat. "I'm happy because it's the only place I can be bratty without getting in trouble," she said.
Dana has appeared in just about all JCT presentations since she was 7 and stepped up to be assistant director of "Little Women.' Dana also had roles in Fantasy Works productions of "Music Man Junior" and "Aladdin." The Lawn Avenue School eighth-grader takes singing lessons with Julie Andrews and is president of the school chorus and vice-president of the band, where she plays tenor sax. She plays with jazz bands and participates in school music programs. Dana has appeared in talent shows and sings at fundraisers with her dad's band, Dead Blues Society. You can see her tomorrow or Saturday night at 7:30 and Sunday at 4 p.m. The same times apply next weekend, Nov. 20, 21 and 22.
Islanders are being called upon to help heft up food baskets to be delivered by the Jamestown Salvation Army to needy islanders on Nov. 23. Maggie Grenier said that the Salvation Army's headquarters in Providence provides 25 turkey vouchers and a small amount of sides for the meal, but that this year, they are a bit meager. "We are asking our island residents for the next week and a half to make additional donations of fresh produce or canned and boxed goods in the basket situated near the exit door at Mc- Quade's. Gift certificates for the items would also be appreciated. You can call Maggie at 423-0175 or Sue Brayman at 423-0237 to arrange a pick up.
Whatever happened to candidates for town offices who used to go door to door to meet constituents? If people weren't home, the candidates would leave brochures so residents knew they had been by. Often my vote went to the person who made that extra effort.
We note that insurance companies continue to rip off islanders on their homeowners' policies. Mine just went up $500 for next year. Isn't that red-lining? Where are our representatives?
Betty Kinder has last week's poser correct. It is "Do-Re-Mi" from the "Sound of Music" by Rodgers and Hammerstein and originally sung by Mary Martin.
Kudos to Governor Carcieri for vetoing the bill to license saltwater fishermen.
Bob Eaton, who left the island in '74, called to say he remembers Western Auto being next to the Islander where his mom, Elsie Eaton, worked for different owners. Bob said he bought a BB gun at Western Auto that had a defective front sight. He said that Leo (he can't remember his last name) put in a new screw and he had the gun for years.
Do not worry about dinner before going to see "Willy Wonka" on Saturday. Enjoy a Primo Pasta Dinner that evening from 5 to 7 p.m., put on by the St. Mark Council 9197 Knights of Columbus in the church hall. Tickets are $9 for adults and $5 for children. Family tickets are available for $20. The menu consists of pasta, meatballs, salad, sausage and peppers, Italian bread, beverages and dessert. David Nardolillo said he guarantees the best pasta sauce this side of Federal Hill.
The Knights will also be kicking off ticket sales that night for the group's 10/10 Club, with profits going to the purchase of a new tabernacle that will be included in the recently completed altar renovations at St. Mark. Tickets are $100 each, $10 a month for 10 months or $90 up front. There will be 10 monthly drawings for $100 and the grand prizes will be drawn in October 2010. Questions or tickets, call Dave at 423-2413.
A Snapple cap moment: A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.
*** Be true!
Call in your stuff to 423-0383 or 829-2760 or e-mail us at jtnwalrus@ hotmail.com.


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2009 Trends and Directions for WebSphere
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Happy 2009! Each year I outline a few technology areas that we are eagerly focusing on in WebSphere-land.
Here is my top 10 list for 2009 (in no real particular order), that I outlined on my blog, (with help of David Letterman).
- Business Mash-ups
- Business Rules
- Middleware-as-a-Service
- Rainmaker
- Extreme Scale
- Restful - Agile
- DataPower-lution
- POWERful Middleware
- Industry-savvy Middleware
While to some this may look like a random assembly of intriguing topics, there are a handful of overarching themes that these technologies areas are playing to. Facilitating the Alignment of Business and IT, by empowering the Business user with a set of rich, web-based business tools – is a theme dominating the SOA front in 2009. Getting the business user to electronically express their thoughts (do I dare say program?) in a repeatable, testable and visual fashion is key to topics like Business Mash-ups, Business Rules, Middleware-as-a-Service (MaaS), and Industry-savvy middleware. Agility is the second key theme that is pervasive across the list. This is especially important given the outlook of a lagging economy in 2009. Built-for-purpose middleware that radically improves time to value are the central thoughts behind our agile software endeavors and can specifically be found in WAS.NEXT, RESTful, DataPower-lution and Industry-savvy middleware. And never to be overlooked, is our perennial focus on one of WebSphere's core values; Extreme Transaction Processing, which is the motivation behind Extreme Scale and our focus on POWER™.
Let's look a little closer at the ten areas:
Business Mash-ups - Take the rich web experience of MySpace and Facebook and put a business twist on it and you have the essence of our Business Mashup activity. Business Mashups empower a business user to construct a custom web portal that allows them to dynamically create dashboards where they can monitor and control their essential business activities– like monitoring business processes and responding to actionable business events. Within this rich Internet application, AJAX based authoring tools allow you to model and test business processes and apply business rules to alter the behavior and flow of your processes in real time. Business Mashups utilizes the IBM Mashup platform technology that is present in products like IBM Mashup Center.
Business Rules – iLog is now part of the WebSphere team… Woo-hoo! With the help of the iLog team, we will continue our integration of business rules technologies – both procedural and inference based – throughout our WebSphere product lines; including WebSphere Application Server, Business Events, Process Server and in our business authoring tools (Modeler, Monitor). In 2008, we acquired AptSoft, which gave us a collection of tools for visually constructing procedural rules that run on our event server (WBE). In 2009, we will further enhance these tools and look at integrating iLog rules technology into the mix to allow for more sophisticated inferencing to be applied to event processing and process orchestration. We will also focus on managing and governing business rules using means consistent with our SOA management story (e.g., in the WebSphere Registry)
Middleware-as-a-Service – Point your browser at a web site and you have instant middleware at your fingertips. Middleware-as-a-Service (MaaS) is focused on pre-provisioned and hosted middleware, running in a compute cloud (either on-premise or off-premise). We are initially focusing on Connectivity/Integration, Commerce and BPM in the context of a hosted/service model. We aim to take an 80/20 solution for each of these topics – meaning that we are working to provide a simplified, constrained abstraction for each of these functional areas - all driven through a rich web-based interface. Our first goal is this space is to be arms providers to creating on-premise middleware clouds in their enterprise (which is the embodiment of my term Rainmaker – more on that below). In 2009, we will also exploit public clouds, like Amazon, to run WebSphere middleware. MaaS provides advanced virtualization, automation and autonomics to reduce operational expense, "time to value" for on-premise WebSphere deployments and reduces the complexity associated with integration of services which are outside their core IT (e.g. LOB, B2B, and born-on-the-web applications/services).
Rainmaker – I've been using the term "Rainmaker" to encompass our activity relating to WebSphere Clouds. You bring the hardware, Rainmaker technology helps you create and manage the WebSphere Cloud. It introduces the notion of a WebSphere virtual image – which is a pre-installed, pre-configured, pre-optimized binary image of WebSphere middleware (e.g., WAS). Rainmaker allows for the cataloging and customization (e.g., adding your application and associated componentry) of WebSphere images (think CVS for virtual images). Rainmaker technology also allows for those images to be assembled into image patterns, which are groups of images that form highly available clusters that conform to 10 years of established best practices. Rainmaker can also dispense images to hyper-visors and activate them. The images and applications contained within, are continually managed, monitored and optimized by Rainmaker. Watch this space, as we'll be making some very exciting announcements soon.
Extreme Scale – Millions of transactions per second, with predictable latency, and an effective price/performance ratio is what we aim for. Data grid technology provides the means to achieve these feats. Our WebSphere Extreme Scale (WXS) product is the focal point for Extreme Transaction Processing – recreating the attributes of CICS and TPF in a Java-centric/distributed environment. In 2008, we took another step towards infusing extreme scale throughout portfolio, by embedding WXS technology in WebSphere Business Events (WBE/XS). WBE/XS has recorded multi-million events per second in our labs. But we are not stopping here. We are looking to XS-enable our process server, ESB and Registry. In 2009, we are also looking at expanding the programming APIs that sit atop WXS; including REST APIs, simple cache APIs - inspired by the open source memcached, to the sophisticated map reduce and streaming APIs.
WAS.NEXT – At 10 years old and with 7 major versions under her belt, WebSphere Application Server (WAS) is ever moving and evolving. In 2009, the WAS team will be busy working on the next major release, which promises to be a landmark release. The days of one-size-fits-all servers have evolved towards purpose-built servers that specialize in specific types of workloads (e.g., Web). Building on the Equinox-based OSGi core, which has been present in WAS since V6.1, WAS.NEXT moves even closer to a "composable application server" platform. Profiles allow the WAS server to take on personalities; including JEE, pure Web, Messaging and Extreme Scale - while economically using only the minimum system resource to run that profile (e.g., small footprint and ultra-fast startup times.)
Restful / Agile – In 2008 we made solid progress in REST enabling our WebSphere portfolio. I'm quite proud of the team for aggressively responding to the call; including the REST enabling in CICS, WebSphere MQ, WAS, WSRR, Commerce, Portal, Process Server, and the list goes on. We have more work to do in 2009. Specifically, with all this REST work, a Common REST API is needed across these products. Complementing our work on REST is our work on Agile programming – specifically the dynamic scripting capability (PHP and Groovy) that is the hallmark of our WebSphere sMash product. In 09, we will continue to work on our web-based tooling; adding better support for forms and more "off the shelf widgets". We also continue to focus on our business partners. In fact, I will be delivering the keynote address at SugarCon next month to illustrate how SugarCRM, the worlds most sophisticated PHP business application, runs atop sMash.
DataPower-lution – DataPower-lution is about the evolution of our appliance line. Our WebSphere DataPower (DP) appliances were one of the most popular WebSphere products with customers in 2008 – and as a result, we grew the product line, adding two new (B2B and Low Latency Messaging) appliances before 2008 concluded. Given the economic outlook for 2009, our customers will be even more cost and time conscious. Our DP appliances are now proven to deliver on "time to value" and "cost of ownership/operations"; reducing a business integration task that would take weeks to a few hours. Therefore, in 2009 you can expect more appliances. DP will increasingly become a platform for new styles of appliances; similar to the way WAS became a platform for "stacked products" like Portal and Process Server. Given that, look for DP to cross over into the cloud computing and virtualization space via our Rainmaker and Middleware-as-a-Service projects. Also look for DP to focus on "WebSphere Application Firewall" functions by moving application optimizing features to the edge of the network, like fragment caching, middleware self-balancing and application content filtering. Other focus areas include improved appliance management (e.g., updating the firmware of a cluster of appliances) and scaling out our appliances via IBM BladeCenter integration.
POWERful Middleware – In 2009, we will put extra emphasis on integration of our middleware with our IBM hardware, especially our POWER™-based hardware systems. This includes taking advantage of the multi-core capabilities of our POWER6-based server, directly in our middleware; including our JVM and Just-in-time-compiler. At the simplest level, this involves more aggressive work to testing and document best practice configurations of our products on POWER hardware. For example, we can now demonstrate record transaction-processing performance when you combine the latest 64-bit POWER hardware with the latest 64-bit support in our WebSphere platform (leveraging features like 64-bit pointer compression in our JVM). As we aggressively implement our Rainmaker/virtualization Cloud strategy; our POWER-based hypervisors plays a key role in virtualizing our middleware with strong security and isolation of our virtual WebSphere environments.
Industry-savvy Middleware – Across our product line, we are focusing on how customers use our products from specific industries. In 2009, we will continue enabling our middleware to excel at providing immediate "out of the box" value for industries; like banking, insurance and financial markets. For example, in 2008 we acquired Infodyne, which gave us a huge momentum boost in the financial markets business. We quickly worked to combine the Infodyne technology, which includes highly performant market data feed handlers, with WebSphere Low Latency messaging – including it in both our WebSphere Front Office product as well as our new DataPower XM-70. In 2009, we will continue to leverage assets acquired from Webify to build out our WebSphere Business Services Fabric; which enables business users to rapidly assemble new industry aware business processes and define industry savvy vocabularies and tasks to enable the creation of new tasks from existing IT assets.
While these top ten technology focus areas will surely bring a new level of Agility and improved time to value to our WebSphere product line; there are about a dozen (or more) other interesting technology endeavors happening in WebSphere-land that I have not described here. Given this level of investment and innovation, I am certain that 2009 will lay the foundation for another solid 10 years of customer success around WebSphere.
Gennaro "Jerry" Cuomo is an IBM Fellow and one of the founding fathers of IBM WebSphere Software. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of WebSphere, where his prime charter is to "cultivate the future of WebSphere".
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2009 Trends and Directions for WebSphere-- technology & salesmanship
If this has any reflection on IBM standards, then good luck!
Re: 2009 Trends and Directions for WebSphere-- technology & salesmanshi
Floyd Marinescu
I fail to understand who could benefit from reading this kind of article.Hi Javaid, InfoQ covers current events in our space, so a letter by the CTO from IBM about what their plans are for Websphere is not just 'current' but forward looking. InfoQ is the only place where you can read this.
If this has any reflection on IBM standards, then good luck!
Decision management and WebSphere
James Taylor
It looks nice... on paper
Peter Veentjer
- inexperienced developers
- Websphere just getting too complex for mere mortals to understand
- nice individual technologies (like coherence) that never work well together
But Websphere environments are never something I'm looking forward to. Imho: too much baggage without providing value.
Re: It looks nice... on paper
Colin Renouf
One other thing about this announcement - speaking as a customer - is that Jerry and his team have actually spent a great deal of time going out to the customers and architects, or working at a low level with the user groups, to find out what we wanted. A lot of these directions are as a direct result of the IBMers listening to customers, making proposals, getting feedback on the proposals, and then iterating the proposals into products.
So, I am pleased to see the content of this letter, and look forward to Rob High (Chief Architect and IBM Fellow) going into more detail at the WebSphere User Group conference in the UK next month.....
Re: It looks nice... on paper
Alex Sorkin
Could somebody provide GOOD customer feedback on any WebsFear product?
Most expensive, most unimproved, most buggy, most unstable, most complicated, most costly products...
- Black Hawk down... finally...
Re: It looks nice... on paper
Robert Dean
IBM has made steady, continuous improvement to WebSphere with each release. In fact, I would have to say that the only thing I don't like is that their new feature pack strategy makes application of maintenance more difficult and time-consuming.
In the past several months, we've tripled the work that our WebSphere server is doing, and it's not even breaking a sweat.


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Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves: Just Married!
Matthew McConaughey has tied the knot with his longtime love Camila Alves!
The 42-year-old actor and the 29-year-old Brazilian model became engaged on Christmas Day last year and have been together for six years.
Matthew and Camila wed in a private ceremony on Saturday evening (June 9) in Texas. After the ceremony, the guests stayed in tents pitched on his sprawling property, according to People.
Camila will be taking Matthew's last name, becoming Camila McConaughey. The couple has two children together – Levi, 3, and Vida, 2.
Congratulations to the happy couple!