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Nominations sought for Offaly Person of the Year
The Offaly Association, Dublin has launched the Offaly Person of the Year Award for 2012.
Offaly people are being asked to nominate individuals in the community whom they consider to have made outstanding contribution in one or more of the following fields. Academic, Civic, Cultural, Social, Sport.
Nominations for the award are invited from the people of Offaly through coupons placed in the local papers and a specially elected committee of the Association will choose the winner. The winner will be announced in Spring 2013 and will receive the award at our annual dinner shortly afterwards.
Tickets for the annual dinner dance will be available in early January and can be ordered through any member of the committee. Since this event was launched in 1988 the award has grown in importance and prestige and given the standard of nominations, to be chosen is a major achievement.
The 2012 Offaly Person of the Year will join the following roll of honour:
1988 - John Dowling RIP
1989 - Fr Tom Scully
1990 - Eddie Joe Dooley RIP
1991 - Paddy Larkin RIP
1992 - Brian Cowen
1993 - Michael Byrne,
1994 - Jane Feehan
1995 - James Nolan
1996 - Kieran Keenaghan
1997 - Br Denis Minehane
1998 - Tom Parlon
1999 - Matt Connor
2000 - Brian Whelahan
2001 - Dr Philip Brady
2002 - Maura Allen and John Horan
2003 - Seamus Carroll
2004 - Miriam O'Callaghan
2005 - Tom and Paul Mangan
2006 - Sr Oliver Wrafter
2007 - Stephen Grant
2008 - Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann Organising Committee (Attracta Brady, Karen O'Grady, Tom Bourke, Mary Berry-O'Connell & Louis O'Dwyer)
2009 - Shane Lowry
2010 - Darren Hanniffy and Ronan Scully
2011 - Paddy Fenning


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The real estate investment in China regularly exceeds 20 billion US dollar a year. Now the investment from China to the rest of the world is also booming. The focus of Chinese investors is not only on a few global gateway cities, Chinese investors are also eyes on secondary cities to expand their investment horizons. Two alpha cities in China, Beijing and Shanghai are beginning to take on the characteristics of international gateway cities and sit firmly amongst the world's top commercial real estate investment destinations. By 2030, five of the world ten largest city economies will be located in China.
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Results from the pickled asparagus. Two weeks in the jar, yet just a few minutes to devour. Combined with super fresh red leaf and butter lettuces, mushrooms, avocado, and simple lemon shallot vinaigrette. Utterly delicious creamy and tangy flavor contrasts. Must repeat process.
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Taking a class with Valerie Gordon of local treat maker Valerie Confections and Kevin West of the blog Saving the Season might change that bit of family culinary history (or lack thereof). I jumped at the chance when invited to attend a session of hands-on instruction, since we already consume jars of Valerie's preserves made from local organic farmers' market-sourced ingredients at a frightening pace.
We've got the no-knead bread happening all the time, so makes sense to have fruit preserves to go with it. And what a perfect way to spend an afternoon away from my kids while doing something that benefits them. Right? Especially since most toddlers will eat just about any pickled vegetable.
Continue reading "Can It! Intro to Home Preserving and Canning Class at Valerie Confections" »
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Spring in SoCal is made extra special thanks to the magical world of broccoli.
A couple weeks ago on a whim I grabbed a big bag of Weiser's sprouting kind. With no thick central stalk around which the plant is arranged, its spindly skinny stems, purple florettes, and funny leaves shoot out every which way. What
a goofy vegetable.
Being unsure about the outcome, I trimmed the stalks down a lot and mixed it
with cauliflower to roast and make one of my veg-pasta standards. It
added some nice contrast to what's otherwise quite the exploration of
monochromatic foods, what with the pasta, cauliflower, pine nuts,
shallots, Parm and whatnot, but this mix probably just muted the pure sprouted
broccoli experience.
So last week at the market I saw McGrath has its own kind. It's not as exotic in the color department; it's basically a dark, iron-promising green. The leaves and stems are shorter and less gnarly than Weiser's, so I just rinsed and roasted with olive oil, garlic and shallots. If only making vegetables were ALWAYS this convenient without involving food science and creepy vacuum-packed bags from commercial supermarkets. When munched raw the broccoli had a little spicy tang, which was mostly lost in the cooking.
Upshot is they're both great. (I'm never much one for competition anyway.) And it would be nice if all these guys could hang around longer. But then they'd be less special. Tough call. Anyway, if you come across some, buy a big bag (it's pricey at about $5/pound, but it's all usable so worth the price), then let the stalks, trees, and leaves be untamed. Let sprouting broccoli's freak flag fly.
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When two-plus POUNDS of cured pork product from San Francisco's Boccalone shows up on your doorstep (thanks, Cicely!), what does one do?
First, feel grateful to be in possession of a well-sharpened meat slicing knife. This is a tough mofo to cut. Then use the ginormous slab of peppery and herb-infused pancetta piana in all dishes in which lesser pedestrian pancetta or bacon would otherwise be used: spaghetti alla carbonara, bucatini all'amatriciana, my own variation of carbonara with thinly sliced zucchini, roasted Brussels sprouts.
For a couple weeks we were eating a lot of this really porky stuff that turns a beautiful translucent ivory when cooked. And I eventually learned that less is certainly more. (And remember what I said about having over two lbs of it?)
I'm out of ideas. So what next?
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I'm a huge fan of afternoon tea, and I love hosting baby showers. Even better to put these things together.
After throwing wedding and baby showers at all times of day, with different kinds meals aimed at pleasing various folks, going for a girlie, elegant(ish) tea felt simple and fun. It's always a treat to bust out a bunch of my household wedding booty and set a festive table with eclectic vintage table linens.
The days of 100% DIY party hosting are behind me, and life is better since I learned to embrace partial catering. And because Cicely, the guest of honor who also provided me with these photos, loves Clementine. The first time we had food from the always-packed, earthy Century City cafe was when she sent us a Clementine basket after our kid was born. So it was obviously appropriate and well worth the drive to get some afternoon party staples for her baby shower.
Clementine's sweet and crunchy autumn chicken salad makes a great tea sandwich filling. Along with cucumber & watercress, and pear & gorgonzola sandwiches, they looked so pretty when set out. Deviled eggs are filling, and I can pack 'em away; all the better if not everyone else does. There was a time when I didn't mind making Martha's egg trio with my handy pastry bag, but well, I wasn't a mom then. A bright green salad and some roasted potatoes, plus a dessert sampler including my homemade macaroons (no need to only make them around Passover), rounded out a filling afternoon tea. Plus a batch of champagne punch served over my attempt at making a big ass block of ice (which could have been better, unfortunately, since the writer of the LAT article was among the guests). It's a formula I'm likely to use again.
And perhaps best of all was Clementine's frozen apricot and strawberry mini scones served with the traditional fixings. Just add a little bit of coarse sugar on top, no need to even brush with cream as directed. When people asked if I made them, I could honestly said I BAKED them fresh myself. Ahem.
But let's not forget the other featured word in "afternoon tea." I might have had to borrow an extra kettle and three teapots, but serving four kinds of tea was worth the effort. I went with two different black teas, one interesting green mint, and always the fave, the floraly green rooibos Martinique tea from Le Palais Gourmet. Oddly enough, I learned tea can be a good conversation starter, perhaps even more so than the more conventional social lubricant.
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Good Gawd, do I think that picture on the cover of Gourmet's April issue is pretty. The dish simply shown -- pasta with spicy anchovy, dill and breadcrumbs -- screams perfect easy weeknight dish. It might even be a contender for a place in our the regular pasta stable.
It only took me about four months filled with sincere intentions, and many rotted and discarded bunches of unused dill, but I finally got around to it last week. I don't think those months have been wasted living without this pasta.
I liked the unusual combination of flavors and textures well enough, but it won't be usurping my signature porcini pasta, spaghetti alla carbonara or bucatini all'amatriciana from their rightful places. It could also have been my fault for going very heavy on the onion-to-anchovy ratio in favor of the former, and adding shallots. Which, in general, is never a bad thing.
The recipe calls for perciatelli or bucatini. I'd use spaghetti instead, actually, because the other textures get sort of lost in the heavy tubular pasta. (Or, as Marissa would want me to say, the "tasty tubers.") Definitely reserve a hefty amount of breadcrumbs for serving, and to add throughout eating. Otherwise they all get mushy, and that's not so fun.
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As evidenced by today, we've had some scary random high temps this year. Since it feels too early for watermelon -- it not even being May yet and all -- cucumber is the best cool ingredient at the moment.
My attempt last night to recreate the fantastic cucumber cocktails (cuke-tails?) I've had this week at Hatfield's and Hungry Cat wasn't a raging success. But I've repurposed the ingredients to make a daytime Cucumber Mint Spritzer. Sort of like a virgin cucumber mojito. It's awesome on a day like today.
I like the ratios below, but feel free to tinker to find your magic combo.
5 ounces seltzer 2 oz. fresh cucumber juice1/2 teaspoon simple syrup10-15 muddled mint leaves Combine ingredients and garnish with mint leaves and cucumber slice.
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This L.A. Times article about Catalan coca combined with the rain makes me crave stuff baked on top of carbs. I've been looking back at my photos from the atmospheric L'Antic Bocoi del Gòtic restaurant in Barcelona, where in June 2006 we enjoyed marvelous coques, and I've experimented again with easy savory tarts.
If a restaurant serving coques with quality cheeses and beautiful toppings like thinly sliced ham and dates (at left) and sharp arugula and walnuts (right) opened in L.A., tushies would be filling seats in no time.
And the hearty salad topped with cheese and surrounded by the typical Catalan combination of currants and pine nuts, plus artful splatters of balsamic reduction, is also easily reproduced here using local ingredients.
In the meantime, or at least until I try the recipe featured in the article, I turn to Trader Joe's Artisan Puff Pastry. Super buttery, no fakey shortening ingredients like Pepperidge Farms, and the sheets are conveniently packaged flat in large squares.
Apologies for getting dangerously close to Rachael Ray territory, but my favorite topping of late is TJs frozen artichoke hearts. Frozen 'chokes have none of the
waterlogged texture or gross marinades that plague canned and jarred ones. After defrosting them in the microwave, I combine with caramelized onions and/or shallots and sautee other compatible ingredients, like bacon, shitake mushrooms or asparagus.
Lightly brush the dough with butter, spread the mixture on, lightly top with shredded cheese of your choice, and bake at 425 for 15 minutes or so. It's another great "pantry dish" -- or rather "freezer dish" -- to have at your disposal.
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We've been on the road for a couple weeks, but before I get to the travel posts, I must share a fall recipe I've fallen in love with.
Now that I've gotten over my stupid fear of butternut squash -- it's so easy to peel with a vegetable peeler, duh! -- I've made it a lot this season. In all forms: sautéed, pureed for the baby, you name it. Nothing hits the fall food spot better. And when mixed with blue cheese and pecans, it also perfectly gets the sweet/savory groove.
We have everyone's favorite Sultry British Jewess to thank for this combo. (Well, maybe Nigella and Rachel Weisz are tied for that title.) It comes from my signed copy of Nigella Express, which my kind friends Andy and Jennifer waited TWO hours with The Pasadena Housewives and The Gays at Williams-Sonoma to get.
So far, pork chops with mustard sauce and butternut squash have been easy-to-make hits from the book.
One large buttnernut squash (approx. 3-4 pounds)1 cup toasted pecans1 cup blue cheese for crumbling 1 tablespoon fresh thymeOlive oilSalt and pepper
Recipe says not to peel, but I peel the squash (who likes tough squash skin anyway?), remove seeds, and cube into roughly one-inch pieces. Toss with olive oil, pinch of salt and pepper, and thyme. Roast at 425 for at least 30 minutes, or until soft but not mushy. Combine with the cheese and pecans, and let it all melt and meld together. I used Point Reyes blue; I advise nothing too sharp, i.e. no Roaring 40's Blue.
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Word has gotten out about Trader Joe's chocolate croissants. These breakfast treats come four to a box in the freezer section, cost about four bucks (three if on Fearless Flier sale), and bake easily in any home oven after proofing for nine hours and getting lightly brushed with egg whites. The trick is planning ahead the night before.
I call them "treats" because that's what they should be. If my husband has his druthers, however, they'd be part of our (not) very nutritious daily breakfast. There always seems to be some good excuse, like "It's Monday," or "at least I didn't have ice cream last night."
As the reports online already say, they're flaky, rich and chocolaty -- far exceeding my average expectations. The chocolate is indeed a little too sweet for me, and also feels sort of waxy. Once you bite past the initial outer flakes the whole interior is slightly overly chewy. I wouldn't pick these over Breadbar's goods.
But as my friend Erika wrote in a TJ's croissant-promoting e-blast to her food loving friends, "you don't even have to put on shoes to get them." Amen.
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Provided by Tatum High School Principal, Debbie Maxey:
To Tatum High School Student Body:
Leah Propes has phoned me this morning and asked that I share with you what she has now confirmed.
Lillian was driving home from work and was texting while driving. There was no other car involved, Lillian was not under the influence of anything in her system but the crash happened simply because she took her eyes off of the road to see a text and answer a text. Lillian was texting someone she had just recently met.
The Propes family asked that each of you, the Tatum High School family of students, faculty and staff take this tragedy of their precious daughter's death as a screaming message from those who love you "Don't text while you drive"; Don't text others when you know they are driving.
We will remember Lillian as a member of the National Honor Society, a student athletic trainer, a yearbook staffer and a member of the One Act Play cast. She is a member of the Class of 2012 and was the only child of Tim and Leah Propes.
Lillian has been a Tatum Eagle since kindergarten.
Her body will be cremated and the family is having a private service.
A memorial service will be held at Tatum High School Thursday at 7:00 p.m.


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A tough week for stocks closed with a thud Friday. The new year got off to a bad start with a weak ISM Manufacturing report. That was followed up by a weak non-farm payrolls report that caught the market's attention and prevented investors from appreciating the reasonably decent ISM Services report. Note that rising prices were a theme in both ISM reports. This has investors worried that inflation will prevent the Fed from freely doling out rate cuts to save the economy. It was all too much for market participants and they sold stocks with abandon.
As for the TradeRadar model portfolio, we were stopped out of our position in SanDisk (SNDK). But the carnage in the NASDAQ encouraged us to move from neutral on tech to a bearish stance. Accordingly, I initiated a small position in the ProShares UltraShort Technology ETF (REW). Here's the background on this decision.
I have written a couple of posts on how the Durable Goods report over the last couple of months has led me to believe that tech as a broad category was in trouble. We have now seen downgrades of the entire semiconductor sector and bellwether Intel in particular, analysts saying a slowing economy will have a strong negative impact on the previously soaring Software-as-a-Service sector, Cisco's famous "lumpy" demand comment from their last earnings conference call, analysts saying Oracle will do fine but the rest of the software sector is facing slowing growth, signs of contracting IT spending, etc.
It seems the drumbeat for a tech slowdown is growing louder and more insistent. Given that tech was one of the best performing sectors last year, it would not be surprising to see a rotation out of last year's winners and into this year's winners, whoever they might be.
By the way, if you don't think the tech sector is having problems, just look at this list of 52-week lows from 247WallSt.com:
Tech & Semiconductors: ADI, ALU, AMD, AMAT, AMKR, ATML, BBND, BE, CSC, CYMI, ELX, FCS, FEIC, FFIV, IMOS, JAVA, KLAC, KLIC, LLNW, LRCX, LSI, LSCC, LXK, MCRL, MIPS, MRVL, MTSN, MU, MVSN, NSM, NT, NVLS, PER, PKTR, PMCS, RACK, SIFY, SIMG, SNDK, SONS, SPSN, STM, SYMC, TLAB, UIS, VECO, VIGN, VLTR, WIND, XLNX
Then there are the charts.
When considering a position in an ultrashort ETF, I always look at the corresponding long ETF and do the technical analysis there first. Looking at the Technology SPDR (XLK), we can see the ETF opening Friday's trade with a gap down. This brought XLK below its 200-day moving average. The chart of XLK is beginning to form a head-and-shoulders top. Looking at a 3-year chart of XLK it appears the first support level is at $24 (another 4% drop). If the ETF reaches that level (and it is not far from it as of today), it will pretty much confirm the head-and-shoulders. If that happens, we could see the ETF fall at least to the next support level around $22 (about 12% below where it closed today). (Support levels are indicated by horizontal black lines in chart below.) As further confirmation, the weekly TradeRadar chart shows a clear SELL signal.
With this kind of chart setup in XLK, the next step is to look at the chart of REW. Here, somewhat surprisingly, the chart pattern is not exactly a mirror image of XLK. There is no head-and-shoulders bottom apparent. What is encouraging for buyers, however, is that today's action displayed a move above the downward trend line and the move was on high volume. In addition, we have a TradeRadar BUY signal that was first flashed back in November 2007 (see second chart below.)
In summary, the charts and the red flags in the fundamental industry backdrop provide sufficient negativity on the tech sector to prompt us to jump into REW.
As for the rest of the TradeRadar portfolio, our bear ETFs had a very good week with the UltraShort S&P 500 ETF (SDS) moving up 8.6% and the UltraShort China ETF (FXP) climbing 9.3%.
Oil hit $100 a barrel this week and our position in DBO benefited. Unfortunately, Friday's profit-taking and the weak jobs report causing demand concerns prompted DBO to give back a bit of the week's gain. Still, the position remains modestly profitable and the gap up from earlier this week has not yet been closed.
Disclosure: author is long SDS, FXP, REW and DBO
Friday, January 4, 2008
Weekly Market Update - bears in control, time to short tech?
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What is Organic Self Care?
Organic Self Care is a commitment to Wholistic Living – a balance of body, mind and spirit.
It is communion with the environment and nature that nurtures and supports us.
Organic Self Care is loving our Selves and taking mindful actions to reinforce our Self Love.
Standing in our WomanPower and acknowledging our WomanRoots is part of the Self Care journey.
Organic Self Care is applying our oxygen mask FIRST so that we can help others after.
It is nourishing our bodies through healthful foods that support energy, well-being, and physical health.
Organic Self Care is identifying "intelligent cravings" versus a chocolate doughnut. And sometimes it is saying yes to the doughnut without guilt.
We release that which no longer serves us, is stagnant, or mindless busy energy in order to invigorate, renew, and invite a deeper communion with our Selves.
Organic Self Care is time for US. Time to breathe, to be quiet, to hang with friends, sink into a tub of bubbles, or step away from the day to day for a few moments.
We acknowledge, connect and nurture New JobAdd MeNew Jobour bodies through movement, organic and healthy food, and indulgent primping when we need it.
Organic Self Care is looking in the mirror and saying, "Hi, I love you."
It is support of Self to Self. Organic Self Care is the release of guilt, shame, the need for perfection and a journey towards Self Acceptance on all levels.
Organic Self Care is saying NO to others when we need to and YES to our Selves.
It is saying YES to US.
Organic Self Care is what feels GOOD and RIGHT.
It includes lots of other self-centric concepts like Self Love, Self Compassion, Self Help, Kind Self Talk, Self Comfort, and Self Satisfaction.
Organic Self Care is completely Self-ish.
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- Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
- Published: September 15, 2013
Meet Jasper! A young boy who is totally absorbed with playing video games….
With my game controller in my hands, I'm the boss of my whole world! I can be who I want and do as I please. I can get the highest score. I get all the chances that I need. If I make a mistake it's ok. Everyone thinks I'm 'it on a stick!' And the bad stuff all goes away."
Video game addiction is on the rise, but it can be prevented.
This creative story book teaches both kids and adults how to switch out their game controller for a "life controller." Video gaming is becoming a part of our culture, and we must be strategic in creating a healthy gaming balance.
Video games may be fun, but it's important to remember that it's just a game.
If you've got a pint-sized video game junkie, help him or her learn ways to enjoy games without letting them overtake all the other wonderful, fun things to do.
Just like volleyball, soccer, baseball, football, or other sports — it's just a game, and this book will help your children keep their wins & losses in perspective.


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Patrick Brown said: "Why we are purchasing power to give it away, is beyond me. We generate more than we need, and we have a giant surplus."
Fact: The last time the provincial Conservatives were in power, they spent $900 million importing electricity over two years just to keep the lights on. When we came into office, we inherited their dirty, unreliable electricity system and cleaned it up. Now, thanks to those necessary investments, Ontario families and businesses know the lights will go on and stay on when they need them to. Given our position of strength in terms, Ontario is a net exporter now, benefitting ratepayers to the tune of $230 million last year (as estimated by the Independent Electricity System Operator).
Considering the net benefit to Ontario ratepayers, it's curious as to why Patrick Brown continues to rail against this practice. Even his Conservative colleagues know better.
When the Member for Simcoe-Grey was Energy Minister in 2001, he called these exports "pure profit." He even went further, noting that "if we can make money on surplus power in the United States, we're damn well going to do that."
Patrick Brown said: "The Wynne Liberal government continues to sign renewable energy contracts that Ontario does not need."
Fact: As announced in September 2016, Ontario suspended the second round of the Large Renewable Procurement process, saving up to $3.8 B in costs. He can read more about that and other actions we're taking to reduce energy costs here.
Patrick Brown said: "Right now we have the highest hydro rates in North America."
Fact: Not true. According to the independent Financial Accountability Officer, Ontario sits in the middle of the pack in terms of energy costs among Canadian provinces. Thanks to our early leadership, Ontarians won't see the cost increases coal-dependent provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan will. (Source: FAO)
Even worse, the U.S. states Patrick Brown regularly references as examples of sound energy planning are in reality lagging behind. He should know that in 2015, Ontario's average industrial electricity prices were 8.35 c/kwh in the South and 6.35 c/kwh in the North. These rates are lower than New York 8.72 c/kwh, Pennsylvania 9.59 c/kwh, Michigan 9.13 c/kwh, and the U.S. industrial average 8.71 c/kwh. What's important about these comparisons is that even though these jurisdictions continue to rely heavily on dirty fossil fuels, our electricity rates are still cheaper. The good news is that Ontario is in this position even after doing the heavy lifting in terms of rebuilding aging infrastructure and transitioning off of coal. (Source: Hydro Quebec, Ontario Ministry of Energy, IESO)
Patrick Brown said: "Cap & Trade is a 2 billion dollar revenue grab for the Wynne government."
Fact: Wrong. Every dollar collected will be reinvested, allowing us to support up to $8.3 billion in green projects that fight climate change like transit, electric vehicle incentives and housing retrofits.
The reality is with the federal government deciding to put a national price on carbon, every province needs to come up with a plan to fight climate change. Within that framework, Ontario is moving forward with our Climate Change Action Plan, which includes putting a cap on the amount of emissions businesses can release into the atmosphere. We're taking this approach because it guarantees GHG reductions at the cheapest price possible for families and businesses, unlike Patrick Brown's carbon tax scheme which would cost four times more without guaranteeing any reductions.
Third-party experts EnviroEconomics have confirmed this, showing Brown's scheme could cost households up to $50 more per month, as opposed to $13 under the Liberal plan, just to get the same carbon reductions.
Frankly, it's a little surprising to hear the Conservatives come out against a plan that will reduce greenhouse gas pollution at the lowest cost for families and businesses. Our plan does this – Patrick Brown's scheme doesn't come close.


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WORCESTER � Federal authorities have tentatively agreed in writing to own and operate an advanced instrument landing system at Worcester Regional Airport, a step that moves the hilltop facility a step closer to technology that would allow flights to land when visibility is poor.
Officials from the Massachusetts Port Authority, the agency that owns and operates Worcester's occasionally fog-shrouded airport, said they plan to spend $30 million on improvements to the airport and a new system. It could be installed and ready for use in three to four years, said Edward C. Freni, Massport director of aviation.
"It's essential," Mr. Freni said of the advanced instrument system. "It's a necessity, especially when you're 1,000 feet above sea level."
The Federal Aviation Administration's written commitment, made in a letter to Massport received Feb. 18 and released by U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Worcester, comes about 18 months after former U.S. Transportation Secretary Raymond H. LaHood visited Worcester and indicated federal authorities would operate an advanced system if Massport would buy and install it.
Mr. Freni, Mr. McGovern and about 100 business and government representatives met Monday at the DCU Center for a program on Worcester Regional Airport.
Instrument landing systems transmit navigation signals from the ground to aircraft for assistance during landings. Systems are ranked from Category I to Category III, with Category III systems providing guidance during the lowest visibility conditions.
Massport is proposing to upgrade the Category I system on one runway at Worcester airport to a Category III system. Massport asked the FAA in April 2013 to assume ownership and maintenance of the proposed system but did not receive confirmation that the FAA would do so until recently.
"The commitment was kind of stuck," said Massport Chief Executive Thomas P. Glynn.
Upgrading the system in Worcester will involve installing new equipment, light towers and buried conduits for power and communications. Massport also plans to build a 1,000-foot partial taxiway and a building to hold a backup generator, according to an environmental report filed by Massport with state authorities.
Massport, which also runs Logan International Airport in Boston, expects to spend about $80 million on Worcester Regional Airport over the next decade, and about $30 million of that will go to the Category III upgrades, Mr. Glynn said. Another $10 million will go to general improvements, he said, and the final $40 million will cover operating losses of about $4 million a year at the airport.
Once an airport served by multiple carriers, Worcester Regional Airport has struggled in recent years to retain commercial air carriers. The only carrier now using the airport for commercial flights is JetBlue Airways Corp. of New York City, which flies 100-seat Embraer jets from Worcester to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale in Florida.
JetBlue launched Worcester service in November 2013. Passengers have booked about 30,000 trips out of Worcester since then, said David Canty, JetBlue's director of corporate sales.
"It's been a rip-roaring success so far, as far as JetBlue is concerned," Mr. Canty said.
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Worcester airport gets tentative OK from FAA for new landing system
WORCESTER � Federal authorities have tentatively agreed in writing to own and operate an advanced instrument landing system at Worcester Regional Airport, a step that moves the hilltop facility a step closer to technology that would allow flights to land when visibility is poor.


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Mr. Nice Guy – Trials & Tribulations Of Being Nice
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I don't understand it.
I've always been a nice guy.
When people get to know me that's what they say.
They want to take friendship to the next level.
I agree with it.
They put sex on the table.
I brush it off.
They try it again.
I brush it off.
I hear them say "all anyone wants is sex"
I continue to brush it off.
They tell me "You don't love me"
I tell them "I want to be with you for you, not because of sex"
Apparently translation to that is "I don't love them"
If I rushed in and went for sex
I would get told "that's all you want, you don't love me"
No winning with some people.
I can see me being single for the rest of my life.
No matter how long or short it maybe.
Gets Anywhere
This world is made up of ruthless people.
If your not that you get walked on.
When your nice, you get walked on.
Treated like shit and dumped on.
When good things happen, they come with a cost.
They happen with a struggle.
Could be the smallest thing.
But it happens after a big struggle.
Others will look at you like your twenty steps back.
But it's just the challenges of being a nice guy.
We're always the ones who get overlooked.
Always the nice guys.
We hope that what we do will get us promoted
It never does.
We hope that how we are will get us looked at.
But always single.
When someone does date you.
They think your just nice to them, when you start showing your nice to all.
Some can't handle it.
Being a nice guy means your dead inside
Passed by in life, just start going numb.
Never let them see you cry.
Just let yourself decay from inner to outer.
It's a tough thing to be.
Even harder not to show you pain.
Being nice means many lonely nights.
Painful days and wet eyes.
Never let them see you cry
Never let them see you cry
It's lonely at the bottom.
You get passed on by friends.
Many days and nights alone.
But that's the life of being a nice guy.
You bite your lip till it bleeds.
Not allowed to show them anger.
Never let them see you cry.
As Weak
Been often mistaken as weak.
Not saying I'm the strongest physically.
But a common misperception of a nice guy is weakness.
I kid you not, we aren't weak.
We are just nice.
Always lending a listening ear.
Or a shoulder to cry on.
Never asking for anything in return.
Just wanting to show compassion.
Very gentle people, is who we be.
We make some of the best friends
We make very great boyfriends.
Always kind and considerate
Treating all with respect.
A Fuck Up
Might be a nice guy, but I'm a complete fuck up.
Can't do anything right.
Keep doing everything wrong
Keep messing up.
Not just a one day thing either.
It's a everyday thing.
I'm mid 30s
I can't take care of myself.
90% of the time I feel like I shouldn't be left alone.
Simplest tasks I fuck up.
I should have stayed in bed today.
Put the covers over my head and forget about the world.
As the world forgot about me.
Another Day
Today is another day
Full of trials and errors
Full of success and failures
Had major anxiety problems the day before.
Had a few minor problems today.
Just trying to get through each day.
Sometimes it's just not easy.
Other days it does seem easier
At times people push me away
At times people test me.
But I try and put it behind me.
I try to sit back and keep my cool.
It's not always easy for me.
Let's see what tomorrow brings


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Changing your physique is a very long process that is never always straight forward. At least when you base your argument on the level of consistency. There are men who cannot add muscle despite how best or hard they try, they have reached their full-body potential. The condition is mainly caused by diet rather than the mode of training.
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You should start off with workouts that are very basic, exercises that are geared towards strengthening your joints and in the end you will lift more weight. Such exercise include: overhead presses, bench press, barbell rows and squats. You will slowly prepare your body to raise more weight with time.
Do not spare yourself, do a lot of high-intensity trainings because they are key to gaining the desired muscles. Even if you do light exercises for a long period of time, the effect is not the same. Experts recommend that you have a session of 30-45 minutes of highly intensive exercises. This is very manageable as it only requires an interval of 3-4 times a week. If you are a starter, your muscles may become soar for some time.
Advice on how to gain muscle fast says that, you should use the right form to lift the weight in the gym. If you do not know the way you should carry out a certain exercise, engage your gym trainers who will walk you through the process. After a few session with your trainer, you can comfortably carry out the routines on your own.
You should also know the number of calories that you need to take in order to grow in size. Personal calories needs depend on a number of factors: weight, gender, age and level of activity. However, there is a simple way to determine an approximate value. Take your weight in pounds and multiply it by 20. You will get the number of calories you should take every day.
Your weight lifting process should be progressive. You should constantly add more weight as the body get used to more and more weight. If you started off with 100 pounds in the first week, you should add around 10 pounds the following week. This ensures that your muscles are not over-strained leading to a start that they stop growing. The added weight triggers creation of more muscles to keep up.
You can use supplements that help in muscle gaining. This supplements should not be your main source of nutrients, they only help in closing nutritional gaps in our bodies. The gaps will occur if you are not getting enough nutrients from your normal diet. Below is one of such supplement that you can use:
Whey Protein Powder
This is a major requirement if you want to build lean muscles. It also helps is losing body fats. This supplement provide protein that is very essential in the building of muscles because it is easily digested and the body absorbs it easily.
There are a lot of supplements that are available in the market, you should be careful to choose ones that are completely safe to use. If you were wondering about how to gain muscles, these are some of the best methods to do so.


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We provide a scenic painting purchased from a local thrift store, you paint a monster into it. It's as simple as that. Your only limit is your imagination! This program was sponsored in part by a Community Arts Development Grant from the Carroll County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council. The Americans with Disabilities Act applies to the Carroll County Government and its programs, services, activities, and facilities. Anyone requiring an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or who has a complaint should contact Madeline M. Morey, The Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator, 410.386.3800, 1.888.302.8978, MD Relay 7-1-1/1.800.735.2258 or email email@example.com as soon as possible but no later than 72 hours before the scheduled event.
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Vickie D. Torrey, MBA, MHA, LMBT, is a licensed massage and bodywork therapist with over 19 years experience in therapeutic massage and over 26 years experience as a Certified Social Worker. Ms. Torrey has previously served as Director of Education for the North Carolina Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), taught massage and movement for Omega Institute of Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, New York, and wrote for the Charlotte Post a monthly newspaper column entitled "Hands On Health," that focused on massage, bodywork and mind-body psychology. In 1987 she founded Lighten Up Holistic Health Services of Charlotte, North Carolina, an international health and training agency that teaches classes in self-esteem, stress reduction and relaxation exercises, movement and massage for both adults and children. As an instructor for Lighten Up, she has many years of experience teaching unwed mothers and women recovering from domestic violence self-massage and also how to massage their infants and children. Ms. Torrey earned a certificate in Therapeutic Massage from Therapeutic Massage Training Institute of Charlotte, North Carolina in 1988. Her training there included Swedish massage, pre- and post- sport massage, polarity therapy, movement therapy, pregnancy massage and other modalities. Her additional training includes an Advanced Certification in Pregnancy, Post-Partum and Infant Massage, Pediatric Massage, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Working with Victims of Abuse, Polarity Therapy, Shiatsu, Teachers Training Certification, Esalen, Hot Stone Massage, and Medical Massage for the Cancer Patient. She received her certification in Medical Massage for the Cancer Patient from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York.Ms. Torrey presently lives in Ilhabela, Brazil where she is writing a book on cancer massage. She teaches classes in hot stone, intuitive, and medical massage for cancer patients in both Brazil and the US. Her classes are taught in an upbeat, fun and caring atmosphere. Ms. Torrey´s wealth of knowledge and experience helps make her a skilled and much sought after seminar instructor.
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2006 UNOFFICIAL Nextel Cup Series Schedule
2006 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series schedule announced:
The 2006 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series schedule was announced today, a 36-race slate starting with the Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 19 at Daytona International Speedway and ending with the Ford 400 on Sunday, Nov. 19 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. In addition to those 36 ôpointsö events, there also will be two ônon-pointsö events û the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona set for Feb. 11 and the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge on May 20 at LoweÆs Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Also, the two 150-mile qualifying races for the Daytona 500 û the Gatorade Duel at Daytona û will be held on Thursday, Feb. 16. There are no schedule changes from 2005 in terms of sites. Two tracks, though, have ôswappedö race weeks.
Next season, Richmond International RacewayÆs spring race will be held on May 6, with Darlington RacewayÆs event on May 13; this season, Darlington preceded Richmond.
Also, Kansas SpeedwayÆs 2006 event will be held Oct. 1, followed by Talladega on Oct. 8; this year, Talladega precedes Kansas. New Hampshire International Speedway again will host the initial event in the Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, the 10-race stretch that ends the season û and determines the series champion. The third annual ôChaseö will commence Sept. 17 at NHIS. Starting times and television information will be available at a later date (NASCAR)(9-6-2005)
2006 RIR Sched out, no trucks:
Richmond International Raceway President Doug Fritz announced the track's race lineup for 2006. The season begins with a doubleheader that includes a Busch Series race on Friday, May 5 and a NEXTEL Cup Series race on Saturday, May 6. The IRL IndyCar Series returns for its sixth annual race on Saturday, June 24. Also part of that all open-wheel weekend will be a USAC Valvoline National Sprint Car Series race on Friday, June 23 and a USAC Weld Racing Silver Crown Series race on Saturday prior to the SunTrust Indy Challenge.
The season concludes with a new look for the track's September weekend. The schedule will mirror the track's May schedule of events, as the Busch Series will race on Friday, September 8 and NEXTEL Cup Series will conclude the season schedule on Saturday, September 9.
The track will not host a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race in 2006, as the traditional Thursday night event will move to Saturday, October 7 at Talladega Superspeedway-also part of International Speedway Corporation's portfolio of tracks. The inaugural NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Talladega Superspeedway will be part of tripleheader weekend at that track, including NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series and ARCA races.
Once again, all races at Richmond International Raceway will be held at night "Under the Lights." Fans who hold permanent, renewable tickets for the May weekend will receive their invoices starting next week. In addition, those fans who would like to add their names to the waiting list for Richmond International Raceway NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series tickets should visit www.rir.com or call 1-866-455-RACE (7223). The Chevy Rock & Roll 400 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race set for Saturday, September 10 will mark the track's 28th straight series sellout.(RIR PR)
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2006 UNOFFICIAL Tentative Nextel Cup Series Schedule
page for what 2006 is likely to be.(9-3-2005)
No Major Changes Expected in 2006 Cup Sched:
Other than some minor date shifting to account for holidays and such, the 2006 Nextel Cup schedule will be virtually identical to this year's, NASCAR vice president Jim Hunter said Saturday. The schedule will be announced as soon as the track operators return the sanctioning agreements they have been sent, he said. The only race that was in question, Darlington Raceway's Mother's Day weekend night race, will return.(
Tampa Tribune
Richmond a week earlier in 2006:
Richmond International Raceway apparently will be welcoming the Nextel Cup Series a week early next spring. RIR officials have had discussions with NASCAR about the 2006 schedule, and all indications are Richmond's first Busch-Cup weekend will fall on May 5-6. The Chevy American Revolution 400 at RIR has been held the second weekend in May the past two years. Richmond will swap spots with Darlington Raceway, which will retain the Mother's Day weekend date after a 75,000-seat sellout on May 7 in its first Saturday night race the day before the holiday. Darlington recently was approved by parent company International Speedway Corp. to begin selling tickets for May 13, 2006. NASCAR won't release its full '06 schedule until later this summer, but no major changes (such as tracks losing races) are expected.(
Richmond Times Dispatch
2006 Schedule:
NASCARÆs 2006 Nextel Cup schedule should be released around its normal Labor Day announcement date. Expect no major changes of dates or venues in any of NASCARÆs top-three series for next year, sources said. Normand Legault, who is CanadaÆs leading automobile racing promoter, was a guest of NASCAR at the Pepsi 400. Look for a Canadian NASCAR Busch Series race in 2007, sources said.(
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No major changes in 2006 schedule?
Don't expect any major changes in next year's Cup schedule, which likely won't be released until September.(
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), last year the 2005 schedule was announced on May 14th.(5-2-2005)
2006 Schedule, bidding for finale? Darlington race date to be sold? UPDATE Denied:
NASCAR executives are working on the 2006 Nextel Cup tour schedule, and one suggestion from teams in the garage is for NASCAR to move the season finale to different tracks, as the Super Bowl is moved, with that date up for bids to the track owner willing to post the largest purse. But there are indications that the International Speedway Corp.[ISC] may be willing to sell Darlington Raceway and its lone remaining Cup tour date to track owner Bruton Smith, to move that tour date to Las Vegas, for a Cup event during the last 10 weeks of the 2006 season. And Smith would be willing to bid on being the host for the season finale at Las Vegas Speedway.(
Winston Salem Journal
Darlington Raceway president Chris Browning got a call Tuesday that sent him scrambling: Was International Speedway Corp. contemplating a sale of the old country track to its rival? So Browning, who was displaced when North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham was sold last year, called down to the company's Daytona Beach, Fla., headquarters to find out. "They told me, 'Hey, nothing to it, buddy,' " Browning told The Associated Press. "That was good enough for me. There's absolutely no truth to the rumors whatsoever," he said. "I don't know where they got started." Smith was unavailable Tuesday and the company doesn't comment "on speculative opinions expressed by other sources outside the company," spokesman Jerry Gappens said. Smith has said previously he would "welcome the opportunity to explore additional NASCAR-sanctioned events at Las Vegas Motor Speedway," Gappens said. International Speedway Corp. spokesman David Talley said there's been no talk of selling Darlington, which has hosted NASCAR events since 1950. His company's focus, he said, is developing tracks in the New York City area and the Pacific northwest. Also, recent improvements at Darlington like its multimillion-dollar lighting system mean "you can surmise that we are very behind the track," Talley said. Browning expects to announce more capital improvements in the coming weeks that will add to the track's viability.(
NASCAR to China?
General Motors' John Middlebrook, for years the man who has been NASCAR's ace-in-the-hole in Detroit, for his staunch support of stock-car racing, has a new job - global sales and marketing. And he's heading from Daytona to Shanghai, the Asian city-of-the-future. Shanghai, with some 30% of all the world's construction cranes busy at work, boasts a state-of-the-art race track, which was home to a Formula One race last fall. The F1 race was used to promote the city as a world venue, and sponsoring companies used the race to network into the lucrative Chinese market. "It's amazing - every time you go there it's like a new city, it's growing so fast. I think they've got every crane in the world there building," Middlebrook said. "The market potential for us in our business is so huge, because the number of people there who have automobiles is so tiny, and the economy is starting to really move. We're looking at a lot of synergies with China in a lot of areas. We're working with the NBA in basketball, because that's such a big thing there. And they've got the Olympics coming. So there are a lot of sports things." Could NASCAR use Shanghai as an international marketing gambit, as it did Japan, with its three races there? "I think so," Middlebrook said. "I'm sure they learned a lot from the Japan venture. It may well come down to the sponsor side of the thing. Right now we don't have that many global sponsors (in NASCAR racing), but it's increasing all the time."(
Winston Salem Journal
NASCAR Cup Race in Canada..in 2-3 years? UPDATE:
There will be a NASCAR Nextel Cup race at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal within two or three years. Maybe sooner. Now the bad news: while travelling road shows like Formula One, Champ Car and, eventually, NASCAR will continue to flourish in Canada, the homegrown road-racing scene is in serious trouble and needs a fast fix soon or all could be lost. These words of wisdom came my way several weeks ago courtesy of Normand Legault, president and CEO of Grand Prix F1 du Canada, the promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix. He was the featured guest at this year's Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame Induction Gala and delivered one of the most important speeches on the state of the domestic sport that I've ever heard. First things first, however. Every time I get an opportunity to talk to someone "in the know,'' I like to bring up the suggestion made to me in an interview a year or so ago by Canada's most successful international road racer, Ron Fellows. He said that a Nextel Cup stock car race on the GP course at ¯le Notre-Dame in the St. Lawrence would be nothing less than a success. Legault seemed somewhat bemused when I launched into my "what-if'' scenario, but then he surprised me completely by saying:
"It's true. We (NASCAR) have been talking. It's definitely a possibility that they will come to Montreal to race. We have not gotten down to anything approaching serious negotiations, but we are talking. I would say two, maybe three years, but I think it will happen.''
Fellows, when he first mused about a NASCAR race in Canada, said it made so much sense because Nextel (now merging with Sprint) is an American communications company looking to establish an international presence (unlike the previous Cup sponsor, Winston, which was only interested in the U.S. domestic market). Toss in the rumour that NASCAR might soon try to sell theold Watkins Glen circuit in western New York (thus opening up a road-racing date in the northeast), and a Cup race in Montreal makes all the more sense. "You're right,'' laughed Legault as I rattled all of this off. "With all the NASCAR fans from Toronto, Montreal and New York coming to Montreal, I probably couldn't build enough grandstands to hold everybody.''(in part/paraphrased from the
Toronto Star
Normand Legault is the promoter who runs the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal and who has the rights to the two annual race weeks at that Formula One road course on the beautiful "le Notre-Dame in the St. Lawrence in the heart of town. He said he expects NASCAR to run a Nextel Cup race at that track in the next two or three years. "We have been talking (with NASCAR)," Legault told a Toronto newspaper earlier this month. "It's definitely a possibility that they will come to Montreal to race. We have not gotten down to anything approaching serious negotiations, but we are talking. I would say two, maybe three years, but I think it will happen. With all the NASCAR fans from Toronto, Montreal and New York coming to Montreal, I probably couldn't build enough grandstands to hold everybody."
But NASCAR's George Pyne said "that's premature," said he would anticipate seeing a Truck or Busch race in Canada before a Cup race, and said NASCAR is first interested in helping build a stronger grassroots racing organization in Canada and finding good sponsorship support. Legault is on the same page: "We must find a new sense of direction and find ways where we can develop our young drivers. This must include a concerted effort on the part of all the stakeholders in the sport. "I think we should create a forum, a round table, where the stakeholders could discuss ideas, share ideas, with a goal in mind: to emerge with a road map, a creative plan to take our sport into the future."(
Winston Salem Journal
Southern 500 coming back in 2006? UPDATE:
ESPN Magazine is reporting [Dec. 6th page 140] that Labor Day racing ma yreturn to Darlington [Raceway] as early as 2006. NASCAR were concerned at the negative reaction to the mothballing of the 54-year-old Southern 500, and that was before LA [Los Angeles] TV stations bailed on the race at Fontana, CA [California Speedway, Sept 5th on NBC], Darlington's replacement, in favor of baseball.(ESPN Magazine)(12-1-2004), been told that the NBC affilaite in LA doesn't carry baseball, so not sure of that reference.
from an
ESPN Insider chat
with NASCAR President Mike Helton when asked about the 'return' of the Southern 500: "The 2005 schedule that has been released shows the only Darlington race being on the Saturday before Mother's Day. Since we only plan one year at a time, that is the most current answer."(
ESPN.com Insider
Nextel Cup to Mexico in 2006?
NASCAR is coming to Mexico next year and had to be impressed with the 300,000 spectators who turned out over the weekend. The Busch series is set to run the 2.7-mile road course in March, while Grand Am is looking at running with Champ Car as part of a doubleheader next November 6. Grand Am currently has its season finale set for early December. Gerald Forsythe, who spent millions restoring the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez into one of the finest road courses in the world, said he was interested in bringing Nextel Cup to Mexico City, possibly as early as 2006.(
Speed Channel/Robin Miller
Cup to Canada?
THE NASCAR Nextel Cup rumour machine pointed its radar at Canada again this week during the lead up to yesterday's Sirius at the Glen. The latest story making the rounds is that International Speedway Corporation -- which owns Watkins Glen International -- is trying to find a buyer for the upper New York State facility and then moving its race date to Montreal [Canada]. Sources close to NASCAR say that it would be a win-win situation. Not only would it get a foothold in Canada, it would also get the prestige that goes with racing at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve -- a Formula One track. While the same sources said that NASCAR's venture into Mexico in 2005 with the Busch Grand National series will be its first step outside the U.S., it was felt that the Canadian market was too sophisticated to accept a tier-two Busch race as the real deal.(
Toronto Sun
NASCAR to Australia [Not]:
[besided Mexico] another CART venue that's been mentioned as a possible NASCAR stop, Australia's Surfer's Paradise. Perhaps that was just dreamed about inside some NASCAR haulers. "Surfer's Paradise is fantastic," #32 team owner Cal Wells said, of the stop where John Andretti won an Indy-car race 10 years ago. "My most fun, most enjoyable, most rewarding show. The greatest crowd. Surfer's is awesome." And that could be a January race, which is summer Down Under, and might be preferably to two weeks of Daytona testing for the two relatively meaningless laps of Daytona 500 qualifying. "I think people would love to do it," Wells said. "The people are passionate. It's just a beautiful place. I don't know anybody who's gone who hasn't wanted to go back." NASCAR's last Australian venture was in 1988, at an oval track in the south, near Melbourne.(
Winston Salem Journal
No Mexico for Cup:
NASCAR's latest international moves into Mexico and Canada will be boons to the Busch and Craftsman Truck Series, NASCAR chief operating officer George Pyne said Thursday. But the impact on the Nextel Cup Series will not be felt for years, as Pyne reiterated sanctioning body chairman of the board Brian France's contention that NASCAR has no current plan to take its premier division international. "We don't see in the foreseeable future the Nextel Cup Series leaving the United States," Pyne said. "This (international move) is for Busch and Craftsman Truck Series possibilities. We don't think we're meeting the demand here in the U.S. (with Nextel Cup), but we do see the NASCAR Busch Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series as series that could go outside of the U.S., no question about that."(
Busch Series to Canada in 2006?
is hearing that a Busch Series race in Canada for 2006, preferably in Toronto, is under consideration. The Molson Indy, an 11-turn, 1.755-mile temporary road course in the streets of Toronto, is viewed as the front runner for hosting the first NASCAR event in nearly 50 years (anyone remember the sole race held north of the border, won by Lee Petty in 1958?). NASCAR officials recently visited Toronto, touching off rumors they were interested in purchasing CASCAR, Canada's premiere stock car series. Last month NASCAR announced the creation of NASCAR Canada, a joint effort with Canadian sports network TSN. Stay tuned to BGNRacing.com for further developments.(
Truck Race in Canada?
NASCAR officials spent last Sunday touring racetracks in Canada, looking for a place to hold a Craftsman Truck Series race. Two issues are holding up a possible tour date north of the border. First, NASCAR uses leaded fuels, and Canada has a strict unleaded policy. The second issue involves the tires, though garage sources aren't clear what the problem is. Insiders were confident a deal will be worked out.(
FoxSports/Sporting News
More on the future schedule; Nashville and Kentucky maybe?
Speculation about NASCAR's 2005 and 2006 Nextel tour schedules continues, and NASCAR executives are now trying to cool prospects of an expansion beyond a 36-race Cup tour. But it appears that Daytona officials are planning to add new tracks to the tour by cutting some current tracks back to a single event. The two tracks being closely watched now are Nashville and Kentucky, which have held Busch races for several years. Among reasons for holding off on any expansion - sponsors might be unwilling to spend any more money on extra races, at least not until TV ratings start going back up. Plus, TV said it's not able to sell enough ads to make money on the current package of 36 Cup races and two special events. While Fox may be comfortable with its half of the tour (Phoenix and Kansas would likely be the only two new stops), the second half of the schedule is more problematic, particularly with NASCAR reportedly wooing ABC-ESPN for part of that schedule, depending on what NBC does.(
Winston Salem Journal
Toronto and NASCAR?
Toronto has been included on a "wish list" of markets where NASCAR would like to expand if -- as expected -- it adds four events to its 36-race schedule in The weekend edition of USA Today listed Toronto with New York City, Mexico City and Seattle as markets NASCAR covets. That and this report from The Toronto Sun's Dean McNulty Sources told the newspaper that there are "fairly serious" talks among NASCAR executives to include these four big North American markets in their expansion plans. It's not the first time NASCAR has mused about Toronto as a market for its races, but it has always come back to not having a track to accommodate the 800-horsepower sedans. Certainly the temporary street circuit used by Champ Car for the Toronto Molson Indy would not work for NASCAR.(
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Of all the formidable challenges faced by Al Gore in Florida, the most daunting - and potentially most devastating - is the prospect that the Republican-dominated state Legislature in Tallahassee will simply select its own slate of delegates to the Electoral College.
It is an exclusive power granted to state lawmakers under both federal law and the US Constitution. And if done properly, no judge in the land can question it.
Such action would guarantee a victory for George W. Bush, even if extensive post-election investigations and court battles reveal that Mr. Gore received more votes in Florida.
But it would also stir up a hornet's nest of criticism in the wake of one of the closest and hardest-fought presidential elections in US history.
This week a special committee of Florida lawmakers is meeting in Tallahassee to consider the Legislature's options. And the message they are hearing from conservative constitutional-law scholars is that they should prepare now to act in the event the flood of litigation in Florida is not conclusively resolved within the next two weeks.
"In the end, my recommendation is like the Boy Scouts - be prepared," says Einer Elhauge, a Harvard law professor retained by Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives.
Federal law requires that presidential electors be designated by Dec. 12 in advance of the Dec. 18 Electoral College vote.
Presidents are not selected directly by the people. Instead, presidential candidates compete for Electoral College votes by winning the popular vote in each state. Both candidates need Florida's 25 electoral votes to amass the 270 Electoral College votes required to win the presidency.
But two key issues could cloud the outcome in Florida and potentially bar any of the 25 electors from participating in the Electoral College vote.
First, the results of any election must be conclusive by Dec. 12. That means all litigation raising doubts about who won the election must be resolved within the next two weeks.
Gotta stick to the rules
Second, the election must have been conducted and governed by laws enacted prior to election day. In other words, any effort to change the rules of the election after the votes were cast might disqualify Florida from participating in the Electoral College.
It is this second issue that is at the heart of the dispute to be argued tomorrow before the US Supreme Court in Washington.
Lawyers for Bush say the Florida Supreme Court violated the US Constitution and federal law when it changed the rules of the election by forcing the secretary of state to ignore the deadline set by state law and accept late submissions of votes recounted by hand.
Lawyers for Gore counter that Florida's high court merely resolved an apparent contradiction in state law through long-established means of statutory interpretation. They say election law is a matter that is best left to the states to resolve without federal interference.
A third position on the issue is presented by lawyers hired by Republican lawmakers in Florida who filed a friend-of-the-court brief.
They say the justices should rule that the issue of whether the election process in Florida deviated from existing law is a political matter that should be resolved by the state Legislature.
"A ruling [that the issue is outside any court's jurisdiction] would avoid involving this court in a political dispute best resolved by the political process," the brief says.
"What is at stake here is, after all, a political determination of who shall be the next president. The issue to be determined is uniquely political," the brief continues. "In this rare circumstance, it is entirely appropriate to have it resolved by the branches of government that are most responsive to the will of the people."
In effect, the lawyers are offering the Supreme Court a way to avoid directly overturning the Florida Supreme Court, while at the same time ruling in a way that would virtually guarantee Bush wins the White House.
Democratic lawmakers in Florida are angry about what they see as an attempt by the Republican majority to railroad through their pick for president.
'Let the law run its course'
They say state lawmakers are sent to Tallahassee to represent the interests of Floridians, not to vote in their place for president. The best way to resolve the election impasse is to allow the legal process to run its course.
Constitutional law experts hired by the Republicans say such an approach would be irresponsible. They say that to guarantee Florida's participation in the Electoral College vote, the Legislature should, at a minimum, pass a contingent resolution establishing that if litigation is continuing Dec. 12, the electors will be selected by the Legislature.
"You can take the power into your hands at any time," Roger Magnuson, a lawyer hired by Republican state senators, told the lawmakers. "It is a fundamental obligation of this House not to abdicate it by burying your head in the sand."
Terence Anderson, a law professor at the University of Miami, says the Legislature risks triggering enormous criticism if it is seen as undermining the ability of the courts to resolve the election dispute. But, he says, ultimately someone will be disappointed.
"No matter what you do, one side is going to have legitimate grounds for believing they were robbed of the presidency," Mr. Anderson says.
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Favorite Video Of the Moment..
Alt-J "Breezeblocks" from Project Fathom on Vimeo.
Alt-J "Breezeblocks" from Project Fathom on Vimeo.
[reminds me of the 6th sense.. remember that g33k p0rn?]
Loving Miike Snow this year.. especially since I saw this video ;)
Rabbit by Miike Snow on Vimeo.
Just got tickets for dynamic (+ bizarre) poet / musician Saul Williams performance at Triple Rock in Minneapolis on Monday, March 19 2012. Tickets on sale through link.
Now that's interesting. I didn't realize that "free" and "download" were illegal terms. Especially since Lady Gaga and her manager have both expressed interest in giving away her music for free. It seems that the RIAA's real complaint is that the end result of the searches still points people to some sites that offer infringing works. But that's a totally different complaint. Google could censor the words "free" and "download" and within hours people involved in infringement would come up with alternative words…
Heading over to the 33 gallery this Saturday to check out another MPLS Deth Crew event.. there's a theme to this one – favorite horror films (monsters) and some of the genre's greats, including Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, and Alfred Hitchcock (gods)..
Where: 33 Design Gallery
When : Saturday 12/12 @ 7:00pm
Plus: To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie is playing :)
* the 33 gallery is in a weird spot but it's well worth finding (map) as these MDC events are always a good time
Zack Kinsey | Deuce 7 | Alex Kuno | Matt Kolling | Miss Kitty | Chris Krapohl | Nate Vincent Szklarski | Rudy Fig | Erika Lommen | Maggie DeWitt | Jen Wenmark | Nicolas Caesar | Matthew Jenkins | Cassandra Schorn | Erin Sayer | Charlie Mendez
a look at the sad but true Music Industry FAILs – 4 Musical Mistakes Of The Decade ..
good article on Transformative v Incremental Change – a look at why big music just doesn't get the internet revolution..
the story behind the UK 'draconian pro-copyright plans' of the leaked Digital Economy Bill (similar to the terrifying/leaked US Copyright Treaty)..
some bizzarre + beautiful stop animation video as well as the very cool Khoda Project video .. an animated film using 6000 paintings..
everyone freaking out over this trippy + n@ked interactive site experience from Yeasayer [NSFW]..
fell in love with these bizarre drawings made out of dead flies..
a must read : The War For the Web
Fake Steve Jobs talked about Apple's patent application for an evil advertising scheme..
interesting + ballsy move by a Russian cop who used YouTube to fill Putin in on police corruption ..
learned that some homeless cannibals got caught selling a corpse to a kebab house in Russia. um.. WHAT?!
a pimp cut off a Rabbi who was on 3-day 'cocaine-fueled orgy' binge..
and a Minneapolis dads poke only Klingon to his child for three years – for science (of course)..
It's been a long uphill battle for music app developers, with Apple leaving music apps in approval purgatory for loooong periods of time (with no official explanation) – a situation which sparked many music / tech blog posts and eventually led to a dj app petition.
Well.. who knows what finally prompted Apple to give Amidio Inc the green light but they have – and you can now buy the world's first DJ app for iPhone / iPod touch – Touch DJ ($19.99). Now you can essentially go anywhere with no equipment in tow and no headphones and play dj.
Get the specs / more details on Touch DJ
Download it now from the app store
The Uptown Bar was demolished today.
I started sneaking into the Uptown when I was 15 to see the bands i loved play insane sets so close their sweat was dropping on you… it was the first (and last) bar i ever got carried out of, the first (and last) place I started a fist fight, the place where I met and fell in love with my first real lover and one of my very favorite places to work.
Although I stopped hanging out there a long time ago, I still feel sad tonight.
Danish alternative rock / experimental dream pop band MEW are holding contests to fill their opening slot at gigs in these cities : Boston, Philly, New York ,Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Pretty cool.. just go to the contest site, select your city & enter your band name / # of members / link to myspace page.
Listen to Mew
Am I Wry? No
Comforting Sounds
Wired noted that the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 could bring another round of tumult to the music and publishing industries, due to "provisions that allow authors or their heirs to terminate copyright grants — or at the very least renegotiate much sweeter deals by threatening to do so"..
Creative Deconstruction posted a great article on the problem with music streaming and why it's only the beginning – got some interesting comments too..
And we witnessed the power of the "fully armed and operational" MPAA when they shut down an entire town's WiFi over a single illegal download..
Instant Shift gave us 100 AWESOME Tilt-Shift Photographs to drool over – Tilt-Shift photography gives you that cool surreal "miniature" effect that i can't get enough of.. check out the Tilt-shift video and iPhone app if you like these..
I fell in love with this dark Invisible Empire Series from photographer Juha Arvid Helminen..
And Newsweek posted the must-see video of the week – The Decade in Seven Minutes..
LifeHacker gave us a priceless bookmark – the Repair or Replace Chart helps us determine what to do with broken gear..
On the heels of the news that the LHC is going to get fired up in the coming weeks – Discovery News quickly assured us that even if it DOES cause a black hole, it will be very small and evaporate fast (not the earth-munching kind of black hole).. so.. one less thing to worry about..
And soon after the Google Wave: Theory & Reality pic showed up on a hacker thread, Google announced that the Google Wave Invitation Donation Thread Is Open – we'll see if that speeds things up any..
In a flurry of Twitter activity, we learned that Rupert Murdoch is threatening to de-index his sites from Google.. to which Google replied "Do it – here's how" since they send his sites (Fox News, Wall Street Journal, etc) 25% of their traffic.. but then some CEO (who used to work for Murdoch's Digital Chief, Jonathan Miller) came up with a way Murdoch could actually hurt Google – by partnering with Microsoft's BING.. so who knows what will happen next..
Sadly, I knew zip about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, so I was giddy with geeky-"wtf?"-excitement when I saw these 15 amazing hi-rez images from the MRO on the Coolist – and they are waaaay cooler than that even sounds.. and we found out there is water on the moon!
And we got the video to prove that – if you wanna drive your Oldsmobile from the roof using an iPhone – yeah, there's an app for that..
Auto Tune it the audio editing software that makes vocals sound robotic – you've heard it – yeah, it's awesome. Watching this video (hilarious) convinced me to go to iTunes and grab the "I Am T-Pain" auto tune iphone app which makes me a huge dork but is also fun as hell.
thx to @SteveTalkowski for the video link :)
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BTW – the photographer from this post's photo, Daniel Boud, is a fantastic live music photographer, who has been in SPIN, Rolling Stone, NME, Vanity Fair, etc.. He has a ton of concert sets on flickr, including White Lies, Wolfmother, etc.. check them out here.
He also wrote a great overview of everything an aspiring live music photographer might want to know for Digital Photographer magazine.. read that here.
Them Crooked Vultures – Josh Homme (QOTSA), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) – have their much anticipated first release available for pre-order now (hits iTunes in the US on November 17th).
In the meantime, they've released all 13 tracks on YouTube.. so you can listen to it right now
Jack White's Third Man Records to going to release "A Glorious Dawn" on Vinyl – if you've never seen the video, this is one of my all-time favorite things in the world
Explore Music posted 3 articles (and now a follow up) on 11 Ways the Internet Has Ruined Music – all of which contain great comments / conversations on thow the music industry is adapting..
Popular digital music industry service SoundCloud – aimed at artists, producers, A&R folk and label managers – will launch it's official iPhone app on Nov 17th
I dig a lot of Japanese weirdness, but these toys are just creepy as hell
Fox News coverage of the Uptown Bar closing contains some awesome footage – including a guy dressed as Carl (from Aqua Teen) smoking a joint behind the reporter (at the 1:50 mark)
WIRED gave us a map of the future and io9 lets us view the details and gives us alink to print the poster :)
Finally – the app I've been waiting for my whole life! Car Finder uses augmented reality to locate your car
TechDirt warned us that the FCC is poised to let Hollywood break our TVs & DVRs
Why? Because you can.. Build a Home Server in a Whiskey Bottle
Not often we get a new ocean.. but there's one forming in the African desert right now!
This electronic rock guitar t-shirt can actually be played (on your body) – hilarious video footage.
Ultimate proof of what an uber-geek I am – this What To Do If Romulans Invade a Renaissance Fair video had me laughing all morning :)
This has GOT to be a publicity stunt – there's really no other explanation for California-based BlueBeat telling Apple Corps + EMI + The Beatles to get bent.
Okay that's not literally what happened but c'mon.. they're selling the entire Beatles Catalog for just short of free – singles $.25 / albums $3.25 – yeah that's almost better than the average Russian MP3 site.
And NO – they don't have any legal right to do so (whatsoever). They don't have any agreement with the band – nor with the publisher, EMI. In fact, EMI filed a lawsuit against them on Tuesday and they didn't even bother to reply (that I'm aware of), let alone stop. They never tried to hide what they were doing – their sale of the songs for dirt cheap has been in every music / news blog I've seen this week. This is full-on poking the bear.
The only possible explanation is that they expect the publicity from this stunt (and the staggering flood of traffic to the site for the cheap files) will result in future profits that will (more than) cover the cost of the judgment that EMI will undoubtedly (and rightfully) be awarded. Not to mention the other lawsuits that are bound to follow *yoko*
Read a more eloquent story about it on Beat Crave.
UPDATE 11/05 maybe they're prepping an insanity plea…
- Read about BlueBeat's (CRAZY) response! – via @artistshouse
- BlueBeat Website Claims It Owns Copyrights to Beatles Songs [Exclaim]
- Judge Halts Online Sale of Beatles Songs [Wired]
having a great day until I slowed down enough to really read up on this – very unsettling
Note: I am adding new related articles as they're posted..
- Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest [DMusic, Nov 5]
- Leaked Trade Agreement Paints a Bleak Picture for the Internet's Future. [Exclaim, Nov 5]
- New Copyright Legislation Leaked… and it's reeeeal bad. [Studio Manifesto, Nov 4]
- Secret Anti-Piracy Treaty Turns ISPs into Pirates. [TorrentFreak, Nov 4]
- Your kids could go to jail for non-commercial music sharing. [BoingBoing, Nov 4]
- Secret copyright treaty is the most annoying thing you'll read all year. [CrunchGear, Nov 3]
- Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. [BoingBoing, Nov 3]
- Copyright treaty is classified for 'national security'. [CNET, Mar 12]
LINK ♥ after a flurry of obituaries for Chuck Biscuits on Thursday, we find an equal number of stories announcing that the death of the drummer (D.O.A. / Danzig / Run D.M.C.) was actually a hoax..
LINK ♥ Relevant Magazine warns the Music Industry to "Innovate or Die. Seriously."
LINK ♥ this absolutely brilliant digital graffiti interface allows people to "virtually" paint on walls.. no idea what they cost to rent but this would make ANY promotional event a guaranteed hit..
LINK ♥ pretty much everyone on the planet will need to prep something for print at some point – band/business logo, post/business cards, posters, etc.. so Smashing Mag's 10 Pre-Press Tips For Perfect Print Publishing is a great bookmark..
LINK ♥ every Minnesotan needs a reminder to put together a winter car emergency kit – LifeHacker provides a checklist..
LINK ♥ a German book company pulls off a great stunt at a book fair – attaching little banners to (actual) flies and then releasing them on the crowd.. crazy.
LINK ♥ Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network warns us against 'demonic' Halloween candy.. saying, "most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches" hmm.. really!?!
LINK ♥ shortly after 62 year old MN man pimped out his la-z-boy, he drove it down to the local bar, downed "8 or 9 beers" and got a DWI on the way home (oh man I would have loved to have been in that cruiser).. now the cops have put the la-z-boy (complete with 8-horsepower lawnmower engine, stereo, headlights, cup holder and a "Hell yeah it's fast" sticker on the back) on ebay..
LINK ♥ yeah Keanu Reeves is hot.. but is he immortal? some guy made a video which concludes that "it's only logical to conclude that (he) is either a vampire or immortal".. well of course it is.