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Japanese eyeshadows, especially high street/drugstore level brands usually come in palettes with a particular colour theme (ie. browns or purples etc.) and come with a selection of shades from light to dark – very handy. They also tend to be sheer and shimmery although some palettes pack a real punch, the majority are wearable daytime palettes.
If you ask me, there was this season when KATE had the Glam Trick Eyes (absolutely stunning eyeshadows, pigmented, gorgeous) and Lavshuca had the Mix Eyes (I can't find these anymore online so I am guarding them with my life!). Ever sine then the eyeshadow releases have been quite – meh.
These KATE Wide Edge eyeshadows had promise! I purchased two:
PU-1 (purple) and BR-2 (gold brown). No particular reason for these choices, I find Japanese eyeshadows rotate the same kind of shade groups…
In each palette for get a helpfully labelled: Eye Base (matte or very low shimmer creamy shade), Highlighter, Medium tone for the crease and deep to line. The Wide Edge shades is a very rich shimmery colour with traces of glitter.
If you buy KATE eyeshadows too, have you noticed how they look better in their packaging then out of it!??!
Hello!? This is supposed to be purple but it's more of a muted grey-plum type palette. It's sophisticated but oh so dull. The only remotely purple tone is the wide edge shade with is a dull lilac and the medium has hints of purple.
Swatching it, it's rather dull. Yes it is wearable but it's a little to 'thin' to me, if that makes sense. A wishy-washy shimmer:
BR-2 however fares much better. The deeper shades are nice and pigmented and the wide edge shade which is a cool gold is FAB. Really gorgeous pure metallic shade. There's a lot of shimmer with this palette.
Once again, these palettes are not extraordinary, and they are like a lot of other Japanese eyeshadow palettes, quite shimmery, quite wearable but with a pretty edge. I'm not blown away by either, but they're not bad – certainly BR-2 is worth buying if you love cool golds.
I bought this from eBay.


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Good morning all. Hope this weekend is smiling on you.
It was fun last night. I didn't expect that much talk on a Saturday night. It makes me feel good that people are responding to the blog. I can't explain the Cubs. No curse. They just got waxed there was no bad luck. The series was decided with Game 2.
Off to get some breakfast. A veggie omelet. I like to put Tabasco and strawberry preserves on mine. I call it `sweet heat.' Try it, you'll like it.
Will spend much of the day sending out resumes and clips. This job hunting is a bear. Will have the playoffs and football on, and, of course, I'll be monitoring on-line so feel free to drop a comment or two.
My NFL picks:
Chicago over Detroit
Green Bay over Atlanta
San Diego over Miami
NY Giants over Seattle
Philly over Washington
Carolina over KC
Baltimore over Tennessee
Indy over Houston
Denver over Tampa Bay
Dallas over Cincinnati
Arizona over Buffalo
NE over SF
NO over Minnesota
In the playoffs, I like the White Sox, Brewers and Red Sox.
Enjoy the morning. I'll look for you this afternoon.

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SCons / SConsification
The SCons wiki has moved to https://github.com/SCons/scons/wiki/SConsification
SConsification Process
NOTE: Not to be confused with SConfiscation.
*SConsify: verb [trans.], to create SCons build automation script(s) for a project.
*SConsification: noun, the process of SConsifying a project.
The main difference of SConsification from SConfiscation is in unobtrusive SCons integration that doesn't force projects to abandon current build system, giving them ability to use SCons in parallel to compare and provide valuable feedback for improving SCons. SConsification sprints can be handled during IRC parties.
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Keep your eye on China's Hebei province, whose new Communist Party chief is the former chief in Tibet.
Zhang Qingli, who was in charge of Tibet during the 2008 crackdown on Buddhist protesters, is now in Hebei, the province that surrounds Beijing and a stronghold of Catholic communities that have not registered with the government.
Scott Flipse, deputy director at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and the organization's China specialist, said predicting what Zhang's appointment would mean for the Catholic Church was like "reading tea leaves."
"I can't predict with entirety what his record is going to be" but he is "known for his persecution of religious communities and his attempts to curtail foreign influence," Flipse told Catholic News Service.
"His experience is such that it doesn't necessarily portend well for Vatican-Beijing relations," he said, noting that China sees the Vatican as a foreign influence.
Vatican-Beijing relations worsened in recent months after China ordained bishops without Vatican approval and the church announced they were automatically excommunicated. China also has increased pressure on Catholics who have not registered with the government to do so.


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Since its establishment in 2005, NuForce of USA has been building a great reputation as an audiophile equipment manufacturer by offering a wide range of products, from a high-end Class-D amplifier to a small portable speaker. And in March of 2014, order to accommodate the specific needs of the audiophiles who rather prefer portability, the Californian company finally launches its first multi-balanced armature transducer driven IEM, Primo 8.
Not to mention its quad-driver configuration, according to the manufacturer, Primo 8 comes with two key innovations: A special patent-pending cross-over network design, which offers phase coherence throughout the frequency spectrum, and a multi-layered star shaped Litz cable joined with a MMCX connector.
Primo 8 comes with a good amount of accessories, including a carrying case, an airplane adapter, a 1/4' plug, and ear sleeves with different sizes.
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Corn, cotton and soybean farmers in Tennessee and northeast Mississippi affected by early May flooding are eligible to take advantage of an enhanced replant policy, including the option for some growers to upgrade to Monsanto's newest Genuity corn product.
"Our prayers and thoughts go out to those residents affected by the devastating floods," said Dion McBay, Monsanto regional business director. "A disaster like this calls for us to amend some policies and respond to farmers' needs in a timely manner. As a result, we are enhancing our replant offerings to allow farmers a quick and low-cost option to replant their corn crop or switch to Asgrow soybeans and Deltapine cotton."
Corn farmers in the Roundup Rewards program will be able to substitute, at no additional cost, YieldGard VT Triple with Genuity VT Triple PRO, Monsanto's newest corn trait package for the South.
"Because farmers will be replanting late, corn earworm pressure may be higher," McBay said. "Genuity VT Triple PRO will give farmers better late-season protection, as it offers two modes of action to combat earworm, corn borer and fall armyworm, resulting in higher yield potential and better grain quality."
McBay acknowledges the window for replanting corn is quickly closing, and some farmers may switch to soybeans and cotton.
"In some areas, we understand that replanting corn won't be an option, as some fields are still under water. Once the waters recede, farmers will need to survey their fields for erosion damage and even have to take time to re-till fields," McBay said. "If farmers need to make the switch to soybeans or cotton, we have replant programs in place for those crops as well."
All counties in Tennessee are eligible for the enhanced replant program. In Mississippi, these counties are eligible: Alcorn, Benton, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo and Union.
Farmers are encouraged to contact their dealer or Monsanto sales representative for more information on the replant programs.
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WASHINGTON — California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Tuesday.
In his first interview since taking office last month, the Nobel-prize-winning physicist offered some of the starkest comments yet on how seriously President Obama's cabinet views the threat of climate change, along with a detailed assessment of the administration's plans to combat it.
Chu warned of water shortages plaguing the West and Upper Midwest and particularly dire consequences for California, his home state, the nation's leading agricultural producer.
In a worst case, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra snowpack could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture.


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(ARA) - Gas is pretty expensive so you certainly don't want to waste it. But millions of U.S. drivers waste gas by the gallon every day by driving on under-inflated tires.
Fewer than 8 percent of vehicles have four properly inflated tires, according to a Rubber Manufacturers Association-sponsored national tire pressure survey. Worse, at least 20 percent of vehicles were found to have at least one tire under-inflated by at least 8 psi.
Driving on under-inflated tires can significantly affect fuel economy and safety. The U.S. Department of Energy says that properly inflated tires can improve fuel economy by 3.3 percent and help you save 9 cents per gallon at the pump. The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) estimates that under-inflated tires contribute to more than 600 fatalities and 33,000 injuries a year.
To help keep your car and tires road-worthy, make sure you check your tire pressure at least once a month and before every long trip (including the spare). Keep tire pressure at the level recommended by the vehicle manufacturer.
Under-inflation creates excessive stresses and heat and may lead to tire failure that could result in vehicle damage and serious injury or death.
Another problem to watch out for is tires and wheels that are out of balance or misaligned, which can cause uneven wear or vehicle problems. Have your alignment checked periodically and rotate tires every 5,000 to 8,000 miles to help get the most miles from your tires.
Be tire smart - play your "P.A.R.T." That stands for pressure, alignment, rotation, and tread, which are the key elements of monthly tire maintenance.
* Pressure: Check tire pressure monthly before you drive with a tire gauge and inflate to vehicle manufacturer's recommended pressure.
* Alignment: Misalignment of wheels can cause uneven and rapid tread wear.
* Rotation: Rotate every 5,000 to 8,000 miles to help you achieve more uniform wear.
* Tread: Bald tires are dangerous. Insert a penny, head first, into the tread groove. If you see all of Lincoln's head, it's time for a new tire.
For more information visit RMA's website at www.betiresmart.org.
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WSJ House of the Week
Stefanos Chen joins Lunch Beak with a new batch of House of the Week contenders, including beach vibe in Austin, Texas, and a sunny waterside retreat in Florida. Photo: Mark Borosch Photography.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Speak Softly, She Can Hear
Simon & Schuster March 2005, 23.00 341 pp. ISBN 0743255399 In 1965 New York City Carole, an overweight shy student is determined to lose her virginity before she begins Vassar. Her best friend Naomi arranges for Carole to meet twenty-six year old Eddie in Vermont so he can teach her about sex. Carole gets very drunk so that when Rita appears for a menage a trois she does it. Carole remembers little except that Rita is dead and Eddie claims she...
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Carole Mason and her best friend Naomi make an agreement to both lose their virginity before they graduate from the prestigious Spence School in New York City, in 1965. When they are in Vermont on a ski vacation, Naomi sets things up for Carole to meet with Eddie, a 26 year old actor and college drop-out. Carole gets what she wanted, having sex with Eddie, but never expected Rita Boudreau to enter the scene. Rita unexpectedly dies after having sex with E...


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Bryant gives peek into his life
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Kobe Bryant says he's "scared" about his future after basketball, although he's embracing the challenge of finding something that he can be as passionate about as sports.
Bryant turns 36 next month and is under contract with the Los Angeles Lakers for two more years. He was limited to just six games last season because of two major leg injuries, leaving him with the kind of idle time he never had before in his career.
Bryant gives a peek into his life in a Showtime documentary airing in November. "Kobe Bryant's Muse" covers much of last season, when Bryant was sidelined and the Lakers finished 27-55, the most losses in club history.
"It's a fascinating time to be around this guy," said Gotham Chopra, who directed the film. "There's this sort of looking forward to life after basketball. This is a guy that's asking a lot of questions."
The unexpected time off last season forced Bryant to think about his post-basketball future.
"I'm afraid, too," he said Friday at the summer TV critics' meeting. "You really have to lean on muses and mentors going forward, just as I did as a kid. It's about having that next wave of things, which is scary as hell, but it's fun at the same time."
Bryant said this film is different than the 2009 ESPN documentary "Kobe Doin' Work," directed by Spike Lee. The new film includes Magic Johnson and former Lakers coach and current Knicks president Phil Jackson.
"It's more introspective," he said. "It's about who or what has inspired me."
Bryant is credited as an executive producer on the Showtime film, a vanity credit only.
"I'm not even quite sure what it is they do," he said.
He arrived 30 minutes late for his session with critics.
"I was out looking for a head coach," he said, joking.
The Lakers remain without a coach, and big man Pau Gasol recently chose to leave for Chicago as a free agent. The team failed in its bid to land Carmelo Anthony, too.
"We're still trying to figure the roster out," Bryant said. "We don't know what system we're going to be operating out of. A lot of those questions remain to be answered."
Bryant reaffirmed he was "very happy" with the effort the Lakers made in trying to land Anthony and retain Gasol. He indicated approval of general manager Mitch Kupchak's recent signings of complementary players.
"It's my job to go out there next season and lay it all out there on the line and get us to that elite level," he said.


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Schedule the Policies
In this task, you will schedule the best practices policies that you imported in the previous task.
To schedule the best practices policies
In Object Explorer, expand Management, expand Policy Management, expand Policies, right-click a best practices policy, and then click Properties.
As an alternative, to easily see which policies are associated with best practices and to sort the best practices categories, expand Management, expand Policy Management, and then click Policies. On the View menu, click Object Explorer Details. In the Object Explorer Details pane, click the Category heading to sort the policies by category. The best practices policies have the prefix Microsoft Best Practices. Right-click the policy that you want to configure, and then click Properties.
On the General page of the Open Policy dialog box, in the Evaluation Mode list, click On schedule.
Next to the Schedule box, click Pick to specify an existing schedule, or click New to create a new schedule.
After you have configured a schedule, you can select the Enabled check box near the top of the page to enable the scheduled policy.
Repeats steps 1 through 4 for each policy that you want to schedule.
To view the evaluation results after a scheduled policy runs, open the Policy History log on the target instance. To open the log, right-click Policy Management, and then click View History.
You configured scheduled policies to run on a single instance of SQL Server. If you want to deploy scheduled policies to multiple instances, continue to the next task in this tutorial.


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Great music choice! I am now dancing around my office right now!
I love his stuff.
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Editor's note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report and co-host of a new CNN podcast "The Big Three" that looks at the top three stories of the week. Follow him on Twitter @deanofcomedy.
(CNN) -- "Terrorists use Guantanamo Bay prison to recruit new members." Aasif Mandvi, "The Daily Show's" senior correspondent, passionately made this argument as our first guest ever on the weekly CNN podcast "The Big Three." Mandvi thinks it's time to close Guantanamo Bay now -- and I couldn't agree with him more.
President Obama brought this issue back to the forefront when he renewed his call to close the prison facility. Obama explained at his press conference on Tuesday: "It is critical for us to understand that Guantanamo is not necessary to keep America safe. ... It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It is a recruiting tool for extremists."
Mandvi echoed President Obama's sentiments that the United States cannot simply hold people indefinitely without affording them the opportunity to answer the charges against them. "Why can't we try these prisoners in court? We have done that with other terrorists like Timothy McVeigh," Mandvi said.
Mandvi, who appeared in the Off-Broadway play, "Guantanamo," and can be seen in the soon-to-be-released comedy film, "The Internship," spoke about his discussion with the father of a Guantanamo detainee. The father made a simple plea to Mandvi: "Try my son in court, and if you find him guilty of being a terrorist, execute him. If not, then let him go."
There are 166 prisoners in the prison. Eighty-six of them have been cleared for release by our government but have still not been set free.
Many of these prisoners are on a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. In response, prison officials are force-feeding them by inserting tubes through their nasal passages, a practice that the U.N. Human Rights Office declared as torture.
Should the U.S. government close Gitmo and put the prisoners not cleared for release on trial? That's the first issue in this week's episode of "The Big Three," which features CNN contributors Margaret Hoover, John Avlon and me.
Here is a brief summary of the big three issues we took on:
1. Guantanamo Bay Prison -- close it now? Our guest, Mandvi, emphatically argued yes. Hoover noted that more than 40 of the prisoners have been deemed too violent to ever be released. Avlon expressed concerns that national security secrets could be released if these prisoners were tried in open court.
2. Is Jason Collins, the NBA player who came out of the closet, the Jackie Robinson of gay athletes? While all three of us applauded Collins' courage in coming out, we disagreed over its significance when compared to Jackie Robinson. Avlon argued that Robinson was far more important because racism was a much more polarizing issue at the time and also, Robinson was a far superior athlete. We all agreed, though some of the criticism Collins received makes it clear the fight to end homophobia still has a long way to go.
3. Who will voters pick in the congressional special election in South Carolina next week? Mark Sanford, a Republican former governor who famously cheated on his wife by sneaking off to Argentina, or Elizabeth Colbert Busch, a liberal-ish Democrat who is the sister of Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert?
Avlon was the moderator of a recent debate between Sanford and Busch. Some were shocked that Busch brought up Sanford's past affair. I'm not shocked. In fact, I think it tells us a great deal about Sanford's character. Avlon argued that many have forgiven Bill Clinton for his escapades, why shouldn't Sanford get a second chance? Hoover noted that the demographics of the district are becoming moderate, which can help Busch win the May 7 election.
We would love to hear your thoughts on these issues. To listen to this episode, click on the Soundcloud audio player on this page. Or you can find us on iTunes.
Follow us on Twitter @CNNOpinion.
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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dean Obeidallah.


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Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by sunny12345, Nov 17, 2012.
How can i recover my mouse problem i linux. i did n't understand it sometimes hanged??
What kind of mouse? Ps2? Usb?
Also, is this locking up in your console, or in a xwindows session?
You might take a look at the gpm command for your linux box.
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What should have been done months ago finally occurred today when the New York Mets non-tendered the moody and limited-talented outfielder Jordany Valdespin, making him a free agent.
If some team is stupid enough to sign Valdespin and he becomes a star, then so be it because he never was going to do anything with the Mets.
Valdespin supposedly had a flair for the dramatic, but in reality he was simply a showboat with a volatile temperament.
Valdespin was suspended for a lack of hustle, but things boiled over for him when he posed after a meaningless homer in a blowout loss to the Pirates and then became aggravated when he was hit by a pitch the following day and complained saying his teammates didn't have his back.
Manager Terry Collins didn't seem too upset when Valdespin was plunked citing an old school mentality. Collins later lamely tried to justify Valdespin's actions by his upbringing and background, and praised his emotional spark, which everybody could plainly see was a "look-at-me'' scream.
Not soon after, Collins gave Valdespin a week tryout at second base, which he failed miserably and it was clear he had no future with the Mets.
On May 13, I wrote the Mets would be better off without Valdespin, and during spring training – noting his me-first attitude – I wrote how he was throwing away his career.
David Wright, as team captain, was the only Met to support Valdespin on the record after the beaning incident, but it was lukewarm at best. Several teammates off the record said Valdespin was generally hated in the clubhouse.
One of the last things a young, building team such as the Mets need is a divisive presence in their clubhouse, either on the major league or minor league level.
The topper came when he was suspended for 50 games in the Biogenesis scandal. Evidently, his performance wasn't enhanced enough.
If I seem harsh on Valdespin, it is because I am. Valdespin was given a chance to play major league baseball because of his raw physical ability and he threw it away.
Nobody should feel sorry for him.
The Mets also non-tendered reliever Scott Atchison and shortstop Omar Quintanilla.


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How's a little Heisman intrigue splashed in with the de facto college football National Championship game sound for this Saturday?
For the second year running, #1 plays #2 not in the BCS National Championship Game, but in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta. It is must see TV for all college football fans – support your favorite team (or if suffering from Tebow Fatigue like most of the nation root for Alabama) and support your local eatery and get out of the house and enjoy what looks to be a battle of the Irresistible Force (Tim Tebow) against the Immovable Object (Terrance Cody).
I still think Colt McCoy gets the Heisman Trophy, but even I cannot deny that the SEC Bowl presents a great chance for either Mark Ingram (my #2) and Tim Tebow (my #4) to create many Heisman moments.
Quick tidbits of the national ranks
there are many other points where this is a matchup of Number One or Number Two
* Bama Rush D #2 (77ypga) vs. Gator Rush O #6 (236ypg)
* Bama Rush O #13 (213ypg)vs. Gator Rush D #8 (90ypga)
* Bama Scoring D #2 vs. Gator Scoring O #10
* Bama D yds/play #2 (3.87) vs. Gator O yds/play #7 (6.77)
Analysis, matchups and questions to ponder at Fantasy College Blitz.
The ability to run the football Saturday will be the key to victory. Mark Ingram has practiced all week so the Bama backs should be at full strength, but if not we have seen super-recruit Trent Richardson and Roy Upchurch fill in with quality reps. Heck, that Terry Grant guy lurks at RB4 and he was the starter in the first part of his freshman year.
Likely more telling is the absence of Florida DE Carlos Dunlap, suspended for this game after charged with DUI being found asleep at the wheel of his car at 4am during game week. Well played, Sir Dunlap, maybe the best NFL prospect and best hybrid DE in the country but not available for the biggest game of his junior season. No bother as Jermaine Cunningham on the LDE spot has more tackles for loss this year. Cunningham mans the offense strong side and his play will be of utmost importance to stopping the run and forcing Tide QB Gregg McElroy to throw.
The intriguing part of the battle when Florida has the ball stands to how Alabama will defend the option/zone-read. I expect that NG Mount Terrance Cody will man his two gaps and make RB Jeff Demps and Chris Rainey struggle with the famed Gator Dive play up the gut – but how does the Bama 3-4 flow to the edges and stop the RB-Tebow-Hernandez combo? No one on the Alabama schedule ran much option at all, very little from Kentucky nor Auburn so this is a great question. Option blocking doubles up the 3-4 playside end (or sometimes the OLB) and lets the QB make the call against the unblocked defender. Alabama has the speed and quicks to defend it, but can they mentally handle the option coupled with the underneath shuffle pass to TE Aaron Hernandez? The Tebow Child runs the option as well as anyone with power, this has to be the focus for the Tide defense.
I cannot be too clear – the team that defends the run better will win this game. Much more pressure on Bama D since they own the statistically weaker offense (see below).
- Gator Total D YPG #1 vs. Bama Total O YPG #40
- Gator Pass D #1 vs. Bama Pass O #89
Next, lets look at the BLITZ rankings, both offense and defense for some surprising conclusions.
- Gator BLITZOffense #6 vs. Bama BLITZIndex D #2
- Bama BLITZOffense #21 vs. Gator BLITZindex D #1
When I ran these numbers, I must admit shock that the Crimson Tide almost cracked the Top 20. Regardless of the great field position the defense affords them, QB McElroy efficiently got points off the short field (very close to top quartile in yds/play, Yds/pt and pts/gm). OC Jim McElwain forged an above average and consistent unit, although stay tuned for the Red Zone woes.
When the Gators have the ball is when the NFL-quality will be on full display, esp. in the trenches. I mention Cody for the Tide, but the Pouncey twins Mike and Maurkice blast holes in d-lines from Hawaii to Georgia. I choose Gator TE Aaron Hernandez as the gamebreaker candidate – there are few as athletically talented as him at the TE position, and OC Steve Addazio makes full use of him blocking, running and receiving. Hernandez takes shovel passes and screens, lead blocks sweeps and patrols the hook zones with great results. Gator WR Riley Cooper reintroduced himself to the big plays over the last month (and has significant size advantage over Bama corners), but Hernandez is more likely to be the steady influence on offensive production against the best secondary they have seen all season (best player, Tennessee Eric Berry. Best team defense, Bama)
Two big questions for the SEC Bowl
1) Will return specialists shine and make a difference?
With two great defenses on display, and above average offenses, this should come down to special teams. Florida trots out Brandon James to whom opponents dare not punt, and Alabama has Javier Arenas who seems to have more moves than cousin Gilbert of the Washington Wizards. Two interesting stat divergences exist on the punts – Tide rates 6th nationally in yds/return, but Gators just 78th! Both teams rate in the top 15 of kick returns, which makes sense since the kickoff hangtime is greater than the punt so both can get under the ball more easily. Also, Alabama only rates #116 out of 120 in kickoff return yards defense – James likely thinking of TD #3 against them in the big game.
2) Neither team is great in the Red Zone – who gets edge?
To me, Florida but by a narrow margin – again due to the relative weakness of the Tide offense. Expect lots of Alabama K Leigh Tiffin FG since in the 42 RZ scores this season of 49 opportunities (#35 nationally), 21 of them have been by FG – not a good efficiency ratio of 50%. You would think with the running game that Bama would be better – they aren't and likely will not be against the Gators #12 RZ defense (allowed 17 scores in 23 chances)
The Gator kicking game weakness (revolving door of Johnathan Philips and Caleb Sturgis) hurts the Gators also, as they rank #81 in RZ coverting only 44 of 56 shots inside the 20, and 16 of those were field goals. Combine that with the Tide defense ranked #4 (14 of 20) this puts even more pressure on the Gator kickers. A game this tight cannot afford sloppy kicking.
Low scoring battle with a couple of big plays in the passing game – all the griniding will be broken by either Cooper or Alabama WR Julio Jones, but not to any great degree. If wither can make multiple big plays, the edge has to go to that team, but trying to predict that is folly given the quality of defenses. Vegas has this as a 23-18 Gator win and that sounds like a lot of points to me…
I like Florida 17-14, and then on to the BCS National Championship Game.


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Cycles of Violence: A Dynamic Control Analysis (or Model?)
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This paper introduce and analyze a simple model of cycle of violence in which oscillations are generated when surges in lethal violence shrink the pool of active violent offenders. Models with such endogenously induced variation may help explain why historically observed trends in violence are generally not well correlated with exogenous forcing functions, such as changes in the state of the economy. The analysis includes finding the optimal dynamic trajectory of incarceration and violence prevention inteverventions. Those trajectories yield some surprising results, including situations in which myopic decision makers will invest more in prevention than will far-sighted decision makers.
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Gerry's Summer Reading List
Hey, readers: if you're in the beverage innovation game and haven't yet read Jonah Lehrer's Imagine: How Creativity Works (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), you ought to put it on your summer reading list. Not that the book utters a single word, to my recollection, about the packaged beverage business, but its insights into innovation – ranging from how creative corporations like Pixar routinely break through creative barriers to the neuroscientific underpinnings of innovative thinking – are fascinating reading. (OK, I'm no neuroscientist, and if I was maybe I wouldn't be in the beverage business, but Lehrer's arguments and citations have a convincing ring to them.)
Since you've just promised me you're going to read the book, there's no need to review all its key arguments, which are rooted in compelling empirical experiments and case histories. So I'll just highlight a couple. For one, Lehrer makes much of the propensity for outsiders to make key breakthroughs in a given sector, using insights from their areas of expertise to spot solutions that are opaque to insiders wrestling with the same problem. Such "recombinant" discoveries are reflected in history by Gutenberg's transferring his knowledge of wine presses to book-printing and the Wright brothers' transferring their knowledge of bike-building into creating the first (pedal-powered) airplanes. More contemporarily, former Eli Lilly unit InnoCentive, an early crowd sourcing initiative aimed at solving problems that Lilly's own scientists couldn't crack on their own, scored its best results from people who weren't enmeshed in that specialty. Lehrer notes: "The secret was outsider thinking: the problem solvers on InnoCentive were most effective when working at the margins of their fields" – chemists solving molecular biology problems, a particle physics expert solving problems in chemistry and engineering, and so on.
Another key point in the book: new ideas arrive from the creative friction of dissimilar people who are forced to interact – whether it's citizens colliding in a crowded city (Talking Heads frontman David Byrne picked up many of his most crucial musical and art influences just bicycling around New York) or people from different corporate departments bumping into each other in public areas (as Steve Jobs forced his Pixar employees to do by progressively moving the meeting rooms, cafeteria, bathrooms and gift shop to the center of its headquarters). Those ultimate outsiders, immigrants, account for a disproportionate share of patents and technology startups, Lehrer notes.
That creativity and innovation come out of this stew of unlike people interacting has cropped up in quite a few recent books on urbanism, including Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City and Alan Ehrenhalt's The Great Inversion (about the movement back into the city). But, as Lehrer makes clear, it's a mistake to view big corporations as a business analogue of vibrant cities. He cites researchers who concluded, after an exhaustive analysis of 8,500 publicly traded companies, that corporate productivity, unlike urban productivity, doesn't increase with size. "In fact, the opposite happened: as the number of employees grew, the amount of profit per employee shrank," he reports.
It's easy to transfer Lehrer's insights to other realms. As a pop music fan, I've long been struck by how many ground-breaking acts not only came out of left field, but couldn't even claim a fundamental mastery of their instruments – whether it's the semi-amateurs Johnny Cash assembled into his Tennessee Three or the Ramones, who helped change the direction of rock music while barely managing to strum three chords coherently. It's not that breakthrough artists never emerge from conventional realms – after all, before breaking out, Jimi Hendrix spent years as a sideman – but rather that commanding formal virtuosity hasn't been necessary to making a lasting impact.
Though Lehrer doesn't talk about beverages specifically (aside from a discussion of the cutting-edge cocktail mixologist Don Lee at the center of a "parable of knowing less"), his conclusions synch up pretty well with the ad hoc observations of beverage people I know. Smaller companies, despite – or actually because of – the pressures and limitations they face, are inherently more likely to come up with breakthrough ideas than large companies. Prior beverage experience confers only limited advantages: many of the most intriguing new brands have come from total outsiders, or from folks who've come from some marginally related area, whether online marketing or sports medicine. In innovation, as Lehrer persuasively shows, having just a little bit of knowledge, far from being a dangerous thing, actually can be a good thing.
Sometimes having that "outsider" perspective can come just from being willing to look beyond the beverage aisle. This was brought home to me early when, in the 1990s, a since-vanished rival of AriZona Iced Tea used its superior purchasing power to put the squeeze on the 23.5 oz. cans that were vital to AriZona's identity. That sent AriZona's founders scrambling for an alternative, and the solution turned out to be a longneck, square-shoulder glass bottle of the type seen not in the beverage aisle but in the salad dressing or steak sauce aisle. In its modest but vital way, that seems to reflect the kind of "recombinant" thinking that Lehrer argues can lead to breakthroughs. In AriZona's case, the bottle allowed the company to weather the can crisis, and it remains a key part of the packaging mix today, more than 15 years later. For those of us – in large companies or small – who take pride in how carefully focused we are on our business – it's worth keeping examples like this one in mind.
Longtime beverage-watcher Gerry Khermouch is executive editor of Beverage Business Insights, a twice-weekly e-newsletter covering the nonalcoholic beverage sector.


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BDU stands for "Battle Dress Uniforms." Camping Survival.com carries a wide variety of BDU, such as basic issue, desert camouflage and City Camo Ultra Force.
The history of the BDU is a long and honorable one. Camouflage uniforms were used in World War II by both the Army and the Marine Corps. While widely used in the Pacific Theater by the USMC, there was not much other use for BDU's, particularly in the ETO because it was difficult to distinguish the difference between them and the German troops that used the same pattern.
The U.S. found it to be ineffective and that BDU pattern was withdrawn in 1944 — in part because of anticipated friendly fire incidents before D-Day. In 1968, Special Forces units in Vietnam were issued a BDU camouflage pattern rip-stop poplin jungle utility uniform to replace the green sateen used before.
The actual Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) was issued in September 1981 in a woodland pattern. A four-color development of the ERDL pattern, it used two shades of green, one of brown, and black on a cotton-nylon mix. It was issued in two different types, a lighter temperate-weather design, and a heavier cotton winter-weight variant. The temperate BDU is part of the Army's battle dress system (BDS), which includes four camouflage subsystems allowing the Army to operate in temperate, desert, tropical, and arctic environments. There are camouflage patterns to cover all operating environments a soldier might encounter. The U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center at Natick, MA is constantly evaluating improvements to BDU clothing and other gear.
The U.S. military has run trials on many BDU patterns (some of which have been used by other nations) and issued some environment-specific ones. Notably the six-color chocolate-chip camouflage (designed in 1962) and "night-time desert grid," both of which saw use in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Both were discontinued just after the conflict in 1991.


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The Knight Foundation awarded more than $3.2 million to eight projects that can improve the way government interacts with citizens.
The Knight Foundation, dedicated to information access for both the public and the press, named eight winners of the Knight News Challenge on Open Government this week. Winning projects were singled out for their potential to improve the way people and governments interact by providing new and useful tools. Recipients received more than $3.2 million for their ideas.
"While technology has changed nearly every aspect of our lives, it is only beginning to affect the civic sphere," said Knight Foundation vice president for journalism and media innovation Michael Maness. "We see a tremendous opportunity in developing new technologies and approaches that can reinvent the way people relate to their governments, provide journalists the information they need and ultimately strengthen our democracy."
OpenPlans received $620,000 from the Knight Foundation for Plan in a Box. Frank Hebbert, director of Civic Works at OpenPlans, has been working on tools for civic engagement for several years. Hebbert's interest lies in building online tools that empower communities to be involved in making their neighborhoods better.
Plan in a Box will enable local governments to share updates about urban planning projects by identifying the essential information that will help people be better informed and make it easier for municipalities to share that information.
"We want to make good information about urban planning the norm, rather than the exception," Hebbert said.
Hebbert talked to a number of municipalities and groups who work on urban planning projects in researching the solution. Although he sees this tool as being helpful for government, the main goal is to help municipalities empower citizens by sharing information and providing better project updates.
Plan in A Box will start with two "unconferences" to bring together people interested in urban planning, including city officials, community groups, news media and other technologists. Then it will develop a simple information-publishing tool in close collaboration with planners and community groups.
The software development process for the open source software will be collaborative -- users will be asked to weigh in along the way in order to see what works and what doesn't. Input will be used to revise and improve the tool.
"It's incredibly powerful to know what's proposed, what's possible, what is and isn't happening," Hebbert said. "With that baseline of information, we're providing a foundation for engagement about many projects."
GitMachines, which received $500,000 from the Knight Foundation, aims to smooth the path to government adoption of new software and technology by tackling security and compliance issues up front. GitMachines Co-Founder Rodney Cobb's background is in service learning and civic engagement, and he describes the project as near and dear to his heart. By pre-configuring servers to meet government guildelines, GitMachines can be up and running quickly, simplifying the adoption of open source software and other new technologies for public sector agencies.
"Our team believes that delivering these key services will not only improve the relationship between average citizens' knowledge of government information, we also believe it will improve the internal IT development innovation cycles of government agencies," Cobb said.
Greg Elin, GitMachines co-founder, has been a civil servant at the FCC for the three years and has interacted with others through cross-agency projects.
Elin describes the undertaking as building a grab-and-go depot of virtual machines (e.g., servers) that are built to government specifications. They can be up and running in minutes, reducing the traditional configuration hurdles of server set-up and making sure civic innovation projects can meet government certification and accreditation requirements.
Cobb says GitMachines will cover a wide spectrum of internal and external aspirations. Its team's combined years of knowledge in government IT, civic engagement and software development have allowed it to create a unique set of virtual machines that will be government compliant on every level. It will ensure that any civic developer will have the ability to download a GitMachine, be dependency free, meet all government accreditation and certification for open government projects and do it fast.
"We felt lowering the burden of IT certification and accreditation could improve how civic innovators and government IT administrators interact," Elin said. "We'd love to see a number of large and small cities using GitMachines over the next year to try some technology and civic applications that they might not have otherwise tried."
Cobb and Elin and their team plan to build 50 GitMachines for open government over the next year, using Knight funding.
Other winners of the Knight News Challenge on Open Government include vacant property data tool Civic Insight; OpenCounter, open source software to simplify the business registration process; Open Gov for the Rest of Us, to encourage more data important to Chicago's low-income population; public policy simulator Outline.com; Oyez, a state and appellate court information tool; and Procur.io, which eases government contract bidding for small companies.


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The Boulders Penguin Colony
Welcome to paradise: penguins and beautiful beaches in a seaside village. Penguins live almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, but yes, you will also find them in South Africa, in the seaside village Simon's Town in False Bay between Fish Hoek and Cape Point – an easy hour's drive from Cape Town.
February – March: 8am – 6.30pm
April – September: 8am – 5pm
October – November: 8am – 6.30pm
December – January: 7am – 7.30pm
Conservation fee: Adults, R45 adults; children under the age of 12, R20 @ free entrance for WILD card holders.
Sanparks, Tel: (021) 786 2329
The Company's Garden
Featuring a historical city park, a rose garden, a fish pond, an aviary & numerous trees of botanical and historical significance.
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Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town, Tel: (021) 400 2521
De Waal Park
A cool retreat in summer, dogs delight in the pond around the Victorian fountain while the children enjoy themselves in the playground.
Open daily @ 8am – 6pm
Upper Orange Road, Gardens, Cape Town, Tel: (021) 400 2521
Trafalgar Park
This park is situated in Woodstock & is a safe place for children to play.
Open Daily: 8am – 6pm
Corner Victoria Road & Searle Street, Woodstock, Tel: (021) 400 3031
Arderne Gardens
The Arderne Gardens, with its Japanese garden, shady glades and romantic nooks, conjures up happy memories for many Capetonians as a place to bring young children or take precious wedding photographs.
Open Daily @ 9am – 4pm
Main Street, Claremont, Tel: (021) 689 4185
Rondebosch Park
This is an open park with big trees, and features a variety of flora. There are pathways for gentle walks and its lawns provide ample space for picnics.
Open Daily @ 8am – 6pm
Corner Campground Road & Sandown Roads, Rondebosch, Tel: (021) 689 4185
Maynardville Park
This district park features rolling expanses of lawn populated with trees and a vibrant eco-system of birds. The garden includes the famous Maynardville open-air theatre. There is also a water feature and children's playground.
Opening hours: daily 8am – 6pm
Corner Church & Wolfe Street | Wynberg | Cape Town | +27 (0)21 689 4185
Wynberg Park
Wynberg Park is where the spring of the Krakeelwater River begins. This district park features a conifer garden, children's playground, duck pond, lawns, and ideal for walking dogs, picnics and braais.
Open Daily @ 8am – 6pm
Corner Klaassens & Trovato Link Roads, Wynberg, Tel: (021) 689 4185
Durbanville Rose Garden
This district park is a historical site, and is also home to numerous farm graves. It features 500 varieties of rose bushes. Visitors and tourists are invited to enjoy tea among the rose bushes at the park's Tea Room on Sundays during flowering season.
Size: 1.5 hectares
Opening daily @ daily 8am – 6pm
Durban Road, Durbanville, Tel: (021) 970 3129
Abseil Africa
Enjoy a 112m controlled decent from the top of Table Mountain, not only experience a surge of adrenalin but also witness Cape Town's beautiful beaches and breathtaking views from above.
R695pp (excluding cable car fee)
www.abseilafrica.co.za, Tel: (021) 424 4760
City Rock
When the weather is keeping you inside, go to CityROCK, one of Cape Town's indoor climbing gyms. With its bouldering cave, lead wall, and 10m high climbing area you won't even know it's raining outside.
21 Anson Street, Observatory, Tel: (021) 447 1326
Fynbos Horse Trails
Enjoy a full or half day guided horse tour through the beautiful vineyards beneath the Hawequa Mountains.
www.fynbostrails.com, Tel: 082 3358132
Take the leap & experience Cape Town's beauty from a bird's eye view.
Tel: 082 8006290, www.skydivecapetown.za.net
Shark Zone
The Company specialises in shark cage diving and viewing tours, who pride themselves on service and the best price guarantee.
Tel: 082 8944979, www.sharkzone.co.za


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Patriarchal Exarchate of Patmos
The Patriarchal Exarchate of Patmos consists of the entire Island of Patmos(Greek Πάτμος), Leipso, Agathonesion and Arkioi and its constituent monasteries and churches, belonging to the Church of Constantinople under the Venerable Patriarchal and Synodical Act and Statute 1155/81. Patmos island is also referred to as the Jerusalem of the Aegean Sea, since it is the island of ascetic austerity.
The Patriarchal Exarch and Abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Theologian is His Grace Archimandrite Andipas Nikitaras.
Patmos is the northernmost island of the Dodecanese and is populated with churches and communities of Orthodox Christians. From the very earliest times, Orthodox tradition has associated Patmos with St. John the Theologian; on this island is the cave of his exile and from where he wrote the Book of Revelation. More specifically, it is remembered as the place where he recorded his vision from Jesus that came to us as the Book of Revelation. Revelation was written as an exhortation to the Christian believers to stay true to their faith during the persecutions near the end of the first century.[1]
The whole island is dominated by the two monasteries, built in his honour and memory, and Chora, the island's historic center, are all declared World Heritage sites by UNESCO in 2006.
Monastery of St. John the Theologian
The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian was founded by St. Christodoulos the Latrinos 1088 ad, who had been granted the whole island of Patmos with a golden bull by the Emperor of Byzantium Alexis I Komninos. The monastery belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarchate; and is therefore a Patriarchal exarchate with a Patriarchal exarch, its abbot had special benefits.
The Monastery has ten chapels, four of which are located in its yard. In the Catholic of the monastery, there is a temple of unique art, created in 1829, by 12 sculptors.
Cave of the Apocalypse
The Cave of the Apocalypse is situated between Skala and Chora. The view from the cave and the mysticism of the atmosphere are incredible. When he first arrived in Patmos, Christodoulos the Latrinos refurbished the cave. Today, a pilgrim can see the place at which the Apocalypse was written, the place where St. John stayed, the massive rock that opened up in there and through which God dictated the Apocalypse to St. John, the point were the Evangelist lay his head to rest and a curve on the rock, which he would hold onto, in order to rise - the southern part of the cave has been turned into a church.
List of Churches and Monasteries
Saints and Monastics
- St. John the Theologian (September 26 and May 8)
- St. Christodoulos the Latrinos, monk and wonder-worker of Patmos (March 16 and October 21)
- Apostle Thomas (First Sunday of Pentecost and October 6)
- St. Gerasimos of the Byzantium (April 7)
- St. Antipas Bishop of Pergamon (April 11)
- Virgin-martyr St. Pachomius of Russia (May 7)
- St. Leontas Archbishop of jerusalem (May 14)
- St. Phillip the Deacon (October 11)
- St. Macarius of Kalogera (January 19)
- Hieromartyr Platonos of Aivazidos (September 21)
Ancient Icon of St. John the Theologian
- ↑ P. N. Tarazi, The New Testament - Introduction, Vol. 3 - Johannine Writings, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood, New York, 2004 ISBN 0-88141-264-3


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The sweepstakes to acquire Baltimore Orioles star Manny Machado are beginning to heat up, as teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers and New York Yankees have all been known to be interested in acquiring him.
The Orioles reportedly are going to wait until after Tuesday's All-Star Game to trade him so he could represent them in the game as the starting shortstop in the American League.
I love the concept of a coworking space. Even though I've worked from home for a number of years, I sometimes find myself missing things like human interaction, yummy snacks, plants, and unique or super-creative spaces that make it easier to get through the 9–5 day.
The problem? Coworking is kind of like Airbnb: There's a lot to pick from, and it can feel a little overwhelming to get started. The last thing you want to do is plunk down a hundred (or a few hundred) bucks a month for a desk in a spot with amenities and working conditions that aren't much better than what your have at home.
While you've probably heard of WeWork , one of the larger coworking companies that's pretty well-known for having a variety of unique locations around the country, you might not be as familiar with the smaller coworking companies around your specific location (or any places you're travelling to). Before you can even begin to consider what coworking spaces might make the most sense for your needs (or aesthetic preferences), you have to know what's out there.
We've previously covered tools like Coworker , which make it easy to search for different working spaces around the world based on your particular service needs and location preferences. It's good, but it doesn't capture everything. Breather and Regus are also decent tools worth checking out, but these search engines still make me feel like I'm not seeing everything since, you know, a big company like WeWork doesn't show up on them.
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While the coworking search engines and listing sites can help you filter down to places that only have the amenities you want, even deciding what should appear on your list of must-haves can be daunting. If you haven't spent time in a coworking space before, how do you even know what you'll need?
A selection of AMD design patterns can be found below.
Decorator pattern:
Adapter pattern
Unlike Dojo, jQuery really only comes with one file, however given the plugin-based nature of the library, we can demonstrate how straight-forward it is to define an AMD module that uses it below.
There is however something missing from this example and it's the concept of registration.
One of the key features that landed in jQuery 1.7 was support for registering jQuery as an asynchronous module. There are a number of compatible script loaders (including RequireJS and curl) which are capable of loading modules using an asynchronous module format and this means fewer hacks are required to get things working.
If a developer wants to use AMD and does not want their jQuery version leaking into the global space, they should call
in their top level module that uses jQuery. In addition, since multiple versions of jQuery can be on a page there are special considerations that an AMD loader must account for, and so jQuery only registers with AMD loaders that have recognized these concerns, which are indicated by the loader specifying
. RequireJS and curl are two loaders that do so
The named AMD provides a safety blanket of being both robust and safe for most use-cases.
Note: Many of the above could be said about YUI's module loading strategy as well.
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Having used AMD for a number of projects, my conclusions are that it ticks a lot of the checkboxes developers creating serious applications might desire from a better module format. It avoids the need to worry about globals, supports named modules, doesn't require server transformation to function and is a pleasure to use for dependency management.
It's also an excellent addition for modular development using Backbone.js, ember.js or any number of other structural frameworks for keeping applications organized.
As AMD has been heavily discussed for almost two years within the Dojo and CommonJS worlds, we know it's had time to mature and evolve. We also know it's been battle-tested in the wild by a number of large companies to build non-trivial applications (IBM, BBC iPlayer) and so, if it didn't work, chances are they would have abandoned it by now, but haven't.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. (June 7, 2006) - Five members of the Baseball Bucs squad were drafted in the first 30 rounds of Major League Baseball's annual First-Year Player Draft held Tuesday and Wednesday in New York. The five players are the most ever drafted in head coach Tony Skole's seven year tenure at ETSU, with junior Stephen Douglas (
"This is a great day for these young men and their families and this is a great day for Buccaneer Baseball," said Skole. "I am so excited for each of them and for the opportunity that they now have to pursue their dream of playing professional baseball. When these kids walked on campus for the first time, becoming a professional baseball player was a dream but definitely not a reality. Each one of them have worked so hard, sacrificed so much and persevered through many difficult times. The one thing they all have in common is a great ambition to improve and to get better."
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The Indians looked to ETSU again in the 23rd round, selecting senior shortstop Chuck Hargis (
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"It will be very exciting to follow each one of their careers and see what the future may hold," said Skole. "As happy as I am for them being drafted, I am even more proud of the young men they have become. Whether or not they make it in baseball remains to be seen, but I know for a fact these kids will be successful once their playing days are over. Our baseball program at ETSU models itself as being a big family and many people closely related to our program should feel good inside about what happened today. Our assistant coaches, trainers, strength coaches, sports information department, marketing department, Pirate Club and our administration have all played an important role in each of these young men's careers. Today has been very rewarding for everyone involved."


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Tracy Nelson has been a favorite of mine for a long time. She celebrated her birthday on Thursday and I wanted to take the occasion to draw attention to her work.
I first heard Tracy as the founder and vocalist of the San Francisco- and Memphis-based group Mother Earth in the late '60s and early '70s. Her signature song, "Down So Low," dates from her time with the group. Thanks to compact discs, the Mother Earth catalogue has been restored to print in its entirety. Bring Me Home and Best of Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth provide a good overview of her accomplishments with the group.
Tracy started out singing folk, blues, and gospel as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. The long out of print Deep are the Roots documented her original interests. She was accompanied by the prominent blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite on the album, and one of my college friends wore out the grooves listening to it. I haven't listened to the album since college, but I can still hear Tracy's version of "Jesus Met the Woman at the Well" in my head forty years later.
Tracy went solo in the mid-70's. Her 1974 duet with Willie Nelson ("After the Fire is Gone," included on Tracy Nelson) had some chart success and was even nominated for a Grammy (you can see a video of Tracy performing the song with Willie Nelson here). However, Tracy has never had the popular success she deserves. She is a vocalist extraordinaire. The lady has pipes.
All of her solo material is worth checking out. Among her most recent recordings are Live From Cell Block D, with a set steeped in both country and blues, and You'll Never Be a Stranger at My Door, in which she revisits her country favorites. Last year's Victim of the Blues brings her full circle.
It took a while for Tracy's work to show up on YouTube, but she has finally turned up in some satisfying videos. Tracy has a natural affinity for the blues, which is where she came in. Her performance of "Walk Away" (video below), from a 1987 installment of the old Lonesome Pine Specials, decries "a three-way love affair," yet it represents a marriage made in heaven. It's a song Tracy has recorded a couple of times, both times to great effect, though I don't think it has ever sounded better than this.


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The Cordova Stor-N-Lock at 1570 Bonnie Lane has sold for $2.1 million for the second time in four months after facing foreclosure.
Dallas-based Houghton Acquisition Co. LLC bought the 54,199-square-foot property in an Aug. 30 special warranty deed from U.S. Bank NA, in care of special servicer C-III Asset Management LLC of Irving, Texas.
The special servicer acquired the property in April, also for $2.1 million, via substitute trustee's deed from R. Spencer Clift of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, acting on behalf of the lender.
The storage facility fell into financial straits earlier this year when its previous owner, Cordova Storage Investments LLC of San Diego, defaulted on a $2.8 million loan through UBS Real Estate Investments Inc. dated May 29, 2007.
Stephen R. Kaplan signed that trust deed as manager of Cordova Storage Management LLC, managing member of the borrowing entity.
Built in 1997, the Class B storage facility sits on 5 acres on the south side of Bonnie Lane east of its intersection with North Germantown Parkway. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $2.4 million.
Cordova Storage Investments bought the property in 2007 for $3.6 million from Cordova Self Storage LLC.
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Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance has been tapped to be part of a group of independent insurance agencies around the U.S. participating in the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America's Best Practices study group.
More than 1,100 agencies out of the more than 35,000 in the U.S. were nominated this year. But only 216 independent agencies qualified for inclusion in the 2013 Best Practices study.
The IIABA started the study in 1993. It documents practices of the "best" agencies and urges others to adopt similar practices.
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Memphis-based Southeastern Asset Management Inc., the investment firm that along with activist investor Carl Icahn opposed the proposed buyout of Dell Inc., disclosed that it has taken a nearly 12 percent stake in News Corp.
According to the Tuesday Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Southeastern now owns 23.8 million News Corp. Class B shares for an 11.9 percent stake in the company, making it the largest institutional shareholder of the company, according to FactSet.
Earlier this week, Southeastern and Icahn dropped their opposition to Dell's plan to sell itself to its company founder Michael Dell in a $24.8 billion deal.
The investment firm and Icahn had vehemently opposed the deal, saying that it significantly undervalued the company, but dropped their bid after realizing that they wouldn't be able to defeat a vote on the offer set for Thursday.
New York-based News Corp. owns both The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, along with Dow Jones Newswires and a book publishing arm. Last week, it announced a deal to sell off 33 smaller publications, including eight dailies. The publisher split off its movie studio and cable television business, now called 21st Century Fox, in June.
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The Bogie's Delicatessen at 2098 Lasalle Place in Overton Square has been closed by the state for failure to pay taxes.
The state Department of Revenue posted a notice at the business Tuesday, Sept. 10, saying it was closed for failure to pay taxes.
The 1,450-square-foot restaurant, which features a spacious patio, has been a Midtown staple for years. The building was built in 1920 and is assessed at $49,440.
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Memphis drug kingpin Craig Petties has begun serving his nine life sentences at a federal prison in Pennsylvania.
Federal Bureau of Prison records show Petties has been moved from the Memphis Federal Correctional Institution to Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex.
Petties is in the United States Penitentiary at Allenwood, a high-security prison for men.
Other inmates at Allenwood include Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and Russian spy Aldrich Ames, as well as several organized crime figures and a Somali pirate.
Petties was sentenced in August to serve nine life prison sentences concurrently, following his guilty pleas to numerous charges of racketeering, drug trafficking, conspiracy, murder for hire and kidnapping.
Petties headed a violent multistate drug organization with direct ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel of Mexico. The federal court case was the largest drug case ever brought in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
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Bill Young, solicitor general in the Tennessee Attorney General's office, is the new director of the state's Administrative Office of the Courts, the central office of the state court system.
Young's appointment by the Tennessee Supreme Court was announced Wednesday, Sept. 11, by Chief Justice Gary Wade.
Young succeeds Libby Sykes, who announced her retirement in August.
Young has been solicitor general for two years. Before that, he was general counsel for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. He also served for several years on the state's Judicial Nominating Commission.
The Peabody hotel's Rooftop Parties are coming back this week for a four-party encore fall season.
The all-new fall season starts Sept. 12 and ends Oct. 31 with a Halloween bash.
Craig Smith, The Peabody's regional director of sales and marketing, said the addition of parties in September and October was in direct response to demand from guests who wanted parties when the weather cools off.
The fall parties, on Sept. 12, Sept. 26, Oct. 17 and Oct. 31, will take place on The Peabody hotel's roof from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Gov. Bill Haslam has renewed an expired executive order to cover any loss of salary by state employees called to active duty by the National Guard or the Armed Forces Reserves.
The measure requires government agencies and departments to extend military leave to state employees. It also requires those agencies to provide offsetting pay when the active-duty wages of their employees are less than their normal salary.
Haslam's order extends a policy first put in place by then-Gov. Don Sundquist in response to state workers being called into active duty after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The policy was continued by former Gov. Phil Bredesen, and Haslam had renewed the annual order twice before.
Haslam's order is retroactive to Aug. 26, when the last version expired.
U.S. wholesalers increased in their stockpiles only slightly in July after three monthly declines, while their sales barely rose. The tepid gains add to worries about slower economic growth in the July-September quarter.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that wholesale stockpiles rose just 0.1 percent in July from June. That followed a 0.3 percent decline in June.
Sales rose just 0.1 percent in July, the smallest gain since December. Still, that's the fourth straight month that sales have risen.
Some economists had thought that wholesalers would ramp up their stockpiles in July after cutting them from April through July. The smaller increase could weigh on economic growth in the third quarter. More restocking boosts factory production, driving overall growth.
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Every time that I try to write about Man of Steel or Avengers sequel rumors, I get some know-it-alls in the comments correcting my basic knowledge of comics as if I'm supposed to have read every single story from the 80s, 90, 00s and 10s under the sun that fuels Superman. So I decided that I wanted to be proactive moving forward and get ahead of the game when it comes to predicting the possible plot details of Batman vs. Superman or Superman vs. Batman or whatever, aside from "Batman shows up to Metropolis and he's all, Hey Superman, stop breaking sh*t."
Thanks to the folks at my absolute favorite Tumblr site, the very simply named "Comic Book Covers," I was able to dig back through hundreds of old Marvel and DC issues for every character known to man and unearth some classic issues that I believe could really lend some excitement and creativity to the Man of Steel sequel, as Batman and Superman are finally set to meet each other in a motion picture for the first time.
I've even added my own suggested titles and plots just in case Zack Snyder and writer David Goyer need some help in really beefing up their second effort.
The Plot: With Batman and Superman finally working together to stop the world's villains, Batgirl and Supergirl set out to prove that they can battle the bad guys just as well as men. So they distract Supe and Bat with a variety of meaningless chores in order to bust their balls and break their spirits, while they stop Lex Luthor and Darkseid from ruining this weekend's Tory Burch sale.
The Plot: With the world's two greatest superheroes knocking out villains left and right, they decide to turn their efforts for good into a contest of ego. All goes well until Batman actually cuts off a chunk of the world. To make matters worse, it's not the part that includes Florida.
The Plot: Lex Luthor and the Joker team up to take on Superman, Batman and Robin, and with the help of Luthor's giant pocketwatch (voiced by Vin Diesel) they atomize Superman and whip Batman and Robin to death with a giant coil. And that's it. They're all dead and the Joker and Luthor win. Whatever, life sucks sometimes.
The Plot: Superman's babe dumps him and he gets super bummed about it, so he stops showing up to his CrossFit classes and totally stops keeping track of his carb intake. He gains, like, 200-pounds and his tights barely fit him anymore. Thankfully, Batman shows up and he's like, "BRO! You need to cut out meat for at least six months."
The Plot: Superman turns into a dog!
The Plot: Batman and Robin travel to Metropolis to meet Superman for the first time, but a mixup at the dry cleaners leaves them with only their Halloween costumes from last year. Boy, are their faces red when they get to town, only to realize… they're just in time for a costume party!
The Plot: Before Batman actually travels to Metropolis, Robin travels back in time to meet Superboy and destroy his clock that, unbeknownst to the Man of Steel, will kill him in the future. How will it kill him? I don't know, it's a big f*cking clock, so it probably falls on him while he's moving.
The Plot: The robotic villain Metamorpho arrives in Metropolis and extracts the best halves from both Batman and Superman so he can control the Earth forever. But then a guy with a gun just shoots the Batman half and Metamorpho dies because Batman's a human. The idiot should have just taken all of Superman. God, what a dipshit.
The Plot: Instead of fighting all the bad guys and destroying Metropolis in the process, Batman and Superman challenge the Joker and Lex Luthor to a game of baseball. Nine heroes vs. nine villains and the winning team controls the Earth. The heroes win when it's revealed that Darkseid lied about his age and tested positive for HGH.
The Plot: Clark Kent and Lois Lane get a place in Brooklyn together and they start their own urban farm, because they're disgusted by the way that humans and especially Monsanto are poisoning our foods. Batman shows up as a Freegan and things take an unexpected turn when Lex Luthor drops off a fixie made of Kryptonite.
The Plot: Someone dumps a ton of acid and ecstasy into Metropolis' water supply and everyone gets really high and starts seeing little people villains that play pranks on everyone. When everyone comes to, Batman is found naked in a swimming pool with only Robin's severed hand in his possession. Everyone agrees to just not talk about it.
The Plot: Superman names himself the King of Earth, but then LeBron James shows up and challenges him to a dunk contest, and Skip Bayless is like, "SUPERMAN IS BETTER THAN LE-CHOKE!" and Stephen A. Smith is all, "LEBRON JAMES HAS MORE MVP AWARDS THAN SUPERMAN BY AGE 27!" and everyone in Metropolis begs Doomsday for a quick death.
The Plot: Julius Caesar's ghost actually shows up in Metropolis, but not to haunt anyone. He's opening a new casino and the world's newest superhero is the hottest slot room in North America. And don't forget to win your money back at the all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet!
The Plot: Superman needs Batman's help to stop the Prankster, because he's a total dick and keeps hitting the Man of Steel in the face with pies. "That sh*t's hard to get out of my eyes," he'll complain.
The Plot: Batman discovers that Superman has a twin brother that he's been keeping chained in a basement all along, so everyone wants to know why he's done this, until he eventually reveals that it's not actually his twin brother but a sex slave that looks a lot like him, because Superman's a total pervert, you guys.
The Plot: I don't really know how or why this would work, but Cheetara could be played by Kate Upton and it would just take care of a lot of things for me, okay?
The Plot: Superman suddenly realizes that he has the power to shoot rainbows from his hands, so he flies around turning all of the world's most awful places and things into Lady Gaga concerts. And Adam Lambert plays Batman and Mario Cantone plays Robin, and it's just awesome because everyone is well-dressed.
The Plot: Realizing that they're the world's greatest superheroes, Superman and Batman quickly do away with all of their foes, so they just sort of decide that they're going to be dicks to everyone. Why? Why not, f*ck you, loser.
The Plot: This one's kind of like Metamorpho, except it's Composite Superman and he's not a robot. He's just this really annoying villain who tries way too hard to fit in, and Superman and Batman can only stop him by teaching him how to just be himself. In the end, he finally asks out that really cute chick at the J. Crew store. You know, the brunette with the tits.
The Plot: BROS! Black Adam is crazy totes pissed that Shazam took Pi Phi Katie to the formal last week and Superman knew about it, but neither of them asked his permission because she just dumped him like a week ago and SUPER BROS BEFORE HOES! Anyway, Black Adam's like, "My dad's a lawyer and I'm gonna have this whole house shut down because you're all a bunch of pussies and I'll kick your asses!" and Blowjob Stacy shows up all, "Superman, I'm pregnant or whatever" and he uses his x-ray vision and is like, "You're lying, ho" and she's like, "F*CK YOU, I'M GONNA TELL EVERYONE YOU HAVE A TINY DICK!" But they end up together because she's still pretty hot.
The Plot: This horse keeps bumping into Superman and he's finally like, "This horse sucks" and he blows it up with his heat vision. Meanwhile, the Metropolis homeless shelter eats well.
The Plot: Superman is mad because people are wasting water, so he takes over the entire city's water supply. Some people think they're smart and buy bottled water, but they forget that he's ridiculously fast and he flies around smacking the bottles out of everyone's hands. Finally, Batman shows up and is like, "Don't you see the irony?" and Superman is like, "Oh snap, good point" and he gives everyone their water back.
The Plot: Superman gets a visit from Batman, who is played by Snoop Lion, and they just smoke a bunch of different types of weed and play video games for two hours.
The Plot: In a very touching story of personal growth and overcoming adversity, Superman battles perhaps his greatest foe of all – a poor self-image. He soon develops eating disorders and it takes the help of his good friend Batman to make him realize that we're all beautiful in our own way.
The Plot: Seriously, he just plays marbles all the time, and Batman arrives in Metropolis and immediately leaves because, "I'm not hanging out with this f*cking tool."