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Loving The BITE: Powerhouse of Detoxifying Super Awesomeness
When you look at food, do you see what it has to offer? The nutrients, antioxidants, detoxifying components, fibers, energy-producers, and taste? Or, do you mostly watch out for what you should avoid? The foods that drag down your energy, promote disease, and harm your cells? For years, there seems to be a mind-set of what to avoid.
Hopefully, you're past that, and look for both what to avoid, and what to seek out to promote health. This week, to encourage healthy cells, tissues, muscles, and systems, so we can ride and feel better, we'll replace one food (that doesn't necessarily harm you, but doesn't offer the best of nutrition), with an absolute nutrition all-star.
Recipe of the Week: Lime Cilantro Cauliflower Rice
- 1/2 medium cauliflower head
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
- 2 Tbsp lime juice (typically juice from 1 lime)
- 2 Tbsp cilantro
- salt/pepper, to taste
- Cut florets in small pieces and place in food processor. Pulse until the cauliflower is reduced to the size of couscous or rice grains. Depending on the size of your food processor, you may need to do this in multiple stages.
- Place in microwavable bowl with glass lid like Pyrex. Do not close tightly.
- Add 1 Tbsp coconut oil.
- Microwave 5-6 minutes. Then, remove from the microwave and allow to steam for 1-3 additional minutes.
- Fluff rice, add cilantro, lime juice, and season to salt/pepper, to taste.
There's more to healthy eating than just avoiding what's "bad" for you. It seems like the fat-free era of the 80s and 90s instilled a sense of "good dieting" in which you just avoided what you thought was bad. "I don't fry things, I don't eat egg yolks, and of course, I only use fat-free dressing." First of all, as most readers know, I don't subscribe, in any way, to fat-free eating. Healthy fats are necessary and very important to your health, hormone balance, and obtaining a healthy weight. In addition, I generally see healthy eating as what healthy whole foods and nutrients you're actively consuming, not just what you're avoiding.
Which brings me to our topic today.
Cauliflower rice. Why in the world would you want to take a head of cauliflower and substitute if for rice? Good question.
Obviously, rice is not a horrible food for you. As an "intact" grain, rather than a ground and processed one, it is actually one of the better grain choices (along with oats). But, it does lack in nutrients and health benefit it offers when compared to a vegetable. And cauliflower is not just any vegetable, but a powerhouse of detoxifying super awesomeness.
That's a big claim, I know. In the past, I've called it a Wellness 1-2-3 punch:
Punch #1, Anti-inflammation: Who knew? Cauliflower provides both vitamin K and alpha-linoleic acid (the same omega-3 found in flaxseeds) to combat and prevent inflammation in our bodies. What's more, one of its detox components, glucobrassicin, can be converted to another anti-inflammatory compound that works at a genetic level to promote a reduction in bodily inflammation!
Punch #2, Antioxidants: Next, to combat the free radicals that have built up in our bodies, cauliflower provides 2 excellent antioxidants, vitamin C and manganese. Additionally, it contains many phytochemicals (remember, phytochemicals fight-o disease and damage) that work against oxidative stress, such as beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin, caffeic acid, cinnamic acid, ferulic acid, quercetin, rutin, and kaempferol.
Punch #3, Increased Cellular Detoxification & Gastrointestinal Immune Support: Lastly, cauliflower's phytochemicals also include a group that works directly on cellular detoxification – both Phase 1 and Phase 2 cellular detox. These phytochemicals belong to the glucosinolates group, and include glucobrassicin, glucoraphanin, and gluconasturtiian. Add to it cauliflower's high content of fiber, which directly promotes gut health and therefore indirectly promotes improved immune function, and you've got yourself a serious health promoting vegetable. If you want to include more detox vegetables along with your cauliflower, add Brussels sprouts, Savoy cabbage, Broccoli, and Kale. All fine cool-weather foods.
And, taste? Cauliflower rice is delicious. Imagine my dietitian delight when I look across the table to see my kids eating a stir-fry that includes both cauliflower rice and stir-fried broccoli. Double the cellular detox. Oh yeah!
So how might this affect your ride? While cycling absolutely makes us healthier is most every aspect, athletes' cells deal with a lot of junk, too. Extra oxygen and nutrient turnover, more free radicals, more cellular damage, likely more time out in the sun, and a lot of physical stress. You can give yourself a helping hand by pouring on the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and detoxifying nutrients found in many vegetables…like cauliflower (and not like white rice). Go ahead and eat grains at dinner a couple times per week, but consider subbing in some extra vegetables on the other evenings. Healthy, detoxifed cells await.
Fuel Your Ride. Nourish Your Body.


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Looking for title & artist of a song I remember hearing on Chris Sheppard's show:
Female voice singing/rapping abut sexual encounters and all I remember was the chorus of "doin' it and doin' it and doin' it again"
And no it wasn't the song by LL Cool J
Any help is appreciated.
Mystery song
All about the music played on the Spirit
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Fast Five: Tibetan Lama Tharchin Rinpoche offers five ways to reconnect with your peaceful inner self
BY DANA OLAND, Idaho Statesman, Aug 19, 2008
Boise, ID (USA) -- Peace is elusive for many of us, even in the best of times. Now with escalating concerns about the environment and the economy, and the world political situation, peace may seem next to impossible to achieve.
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Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
The reality is that we already know the way - we have just forgotten the path that winds down ancient roads, says Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, a Tibetan teacher and yogi who will teach at a Buddhist retreat Aug. 29-Sept. 3. He also will give a public class Wednesday, Aug. 27, titled "Creating Peace in Ourselves and Our World."
"The wisdom exists in ourselves in a perfect form. We just need to recognize it, become aware that peace is a natural state that lies within us," he said recently from his California home.
At 72, Lama Tharchin is one of the oldest Rinpoches in the West. Rinpoche means "precious one" and is reserved for special teachers.
Tharchin was born in and lived in Tibet until he was 25. He escaped to Nepal in 1960 and moved to California in 1984.
His connection to the dharma - the teachings of Buddha - is called the Nyingma school and is mingled with the old ways of Tibetan mysticism.
Tharchin draws on the rich history of his practice, finding that the journey into the future leads back to his ancient teachings.
For this week's Fast Five, Tharchin offers five ways to reconnect with your peaceful inner self.
"I was surprised to hear you wanted five," he said.
The number five is sacred and mystical in Tibetan Buddhism. The mandala symbol has a center and the expressions of four directions for a total of five, Tharchin said.
In Buddhist thought there are five elements - inner and outer- five emotions, five wisdoms, five colors and five directions that all work together to connect our inner and outer worlds.
Tharchin offers five things to meditate on or just ponder that may unlock the way to peace.
There are five outer and five inner elements that correspond to one another. Becoming aware of them helps us find our place in the flow of things.
The five outer elements are earth, water, fire, wind and space.
The five inner elements are flesh, blood, warmth, breath and mind.
Here is how the inner and outer elements connect: earth-flesh; water-blood; fire-warmth (body temperature); wind-breath; space-inner mind.
"They are interdependent and connected," Tharchin said. "What we must do now is become aware of this connection so we can positively manifest in the world."
These have negative and positive manifestations that become both the impure and what Tharchin calls the "perfect aspects" of wisdom, he said.
There are five secret, afflictive emotions that are at the root of suffering, he said. These are the impure aspects of wisdom. Understanding them is the first step in mastering them, instead of letting them master you, he said.
Ignorance, anger, pride, desire and jealousy: These negative aspects can undermine our path to peace.
Here are the five pure aspects of wisdom. In Buddhist teaching, "wisdom simply means awareness," Tharchin said. "Having awareness of why we are suffering, recognizing it will mark the beginning of the journey to peace."
Dharmadhatu wisdom (Chying Yesh, color blue, at the center of the mandala), is the most secret and divine aspect of awareness. It is the pure expression of the afflictive emotion of ignorance. It is knowing in the profound and vast sense. Lack of awareness (ignorance) of our true nature creates great turmoil, Tharchin said.
Mirror-like wisdom (Mlong Yesh, color white, direction is east) is the pure form of anger. It is clear, luminous wisdom that is objective and simply reflects and accepts what is.
Wisdom of Evenness (Nyam Nyee Yesh, color yellow, direction is south) is the pure side of pride. Being prideful creates unevenness.
Discerning wisdom (Sor-tok Yesh, color red, direction west) is the pure form of desire. This is understanding the nature of a phenomenon by simply knowing, being aware, without intellectualizing it.
All-accomplishing wisdom (Ja-droob Yesh, color green, direction is north) is the pure form of jealousy. It is the natural base of the mind that will allow the accomplishment of everything without effort, Tharchin said.
To think of these aspects as opposites is too simplistic, Tharchin said. "It is not that dualistic. There is a pure and impure form of each. One helps you. The other creates suffering.
To make it practical is the work, Tharchin said.
The outer, inner elements and pure aspects of wisdom become clear when you put them into practice.
So, understanding that maintaining and caring for the environment, or the outer elements, is a way of nurturing our inner elements, or physical health.
Tharchin recommends meditation as a way to help people recognize how the five inner and outer elements, secret emotions and wisdoms live within ourselves.
"The journey inward will lead you to the manifest peace in the outer world," he said.
If you go
WHAT: Lama Tharchin Rinpoche "Creating Peace in Ourselves and Our World"
WHEN: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27
WHERE: Nazareth Retreat Center, 4450 N. Five Mile Road
ADMISSION: $10-$20 at the door. Proceeds benefit the Pema Osel Ling Retreat Center, which was damaged during the Santa Cruz, Calif., fires.
INFORMATION: email@example.com.
WHAT: Dakini Heart Essence Retreat with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, Aug. 29-Sept. 3, Nazareth Retreat Center.
$475 for full five-day retreat.
$315 for three-day retreat Aug. 30-Sept. 1.
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Now we'll never know what disaster blockbuster director Roland Emmerich can do with 1/20th his usual budget. His $5 million "found footage" alien movie The Zone has been canceled — a week before shooting was supposed to start.
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THR is reporting that the shaky cam Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity type "found footage" movie The Zone has been officially been canceled, and director Emmerich is no longer a part of the production.
Why did this happen? THR speculates that "One, the found-footage trope is becoming overplayed, and two, Zone would have been released a scant weeks after another found-footage sci-fi movie." Let's hope this frees Emmerich up to help make 2013.


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It has been a good week for connections regarding my grandmother Elizabeth (Lizzie) WILSON married to Homer KERR. She was born 02 November 1884 near Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Lizzie's parents were Martin Watson Wilson (1857 – 1942) and Margaret Metcalf Robertson (1854 -1936)
Siblings were Alexander, Mary and Martin. All of the children immigrated to Saskatchewan Canada. Other names married into this family are Freethy, West, Whyte.
I heard from a descendant of Lizzie's brother's (Martin) family this week. Like me, she grew up in Saskatchewan and now lives in Montana. We share great grandparents.
I'm looking forward to comparing our research!
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Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C
...and not C++...
A while back, the following posting was made by Patrick Naughton who, along with James Gosling, was responsible for much of the design of Java. Objective-C is an object-oriented mutant of C used NeXTSTEP and MacOS X, and also available with gcc.
Tom Gall wrote:
> Sean Luke wrote:
>> Blair MacIntyre (email@example.com) wrote:
>>> BZZT. Wrong. Java was modelled on a number of languages, most
>>> importantly Modula-3 and C++.
>> Of course, it"s nonsense that Java was modelled off of NewtonScript,
>> but it"s even goofier to say that Java was based on Modula-3 and C++.
>> Java"s *syntax* may resemble C++, but it has no similarity to C++
>> as a language. Java"s chief *semantics* are dynamically-bound and
>> use single inheritance, class objects, and an extensive runtime system.
>> C++ and Modula-3 are as far away from this model as any object-oriented
>> language can be.
>> Java is clearly semantically derivative of Smalltalk and other
>> languages related to it. Most notably, NeXT"s
>> Objective-C is almost uncannily similar to Java: single inheritance,
>> dynamic binding, dynamic loading, "class" objects, interfaces,
>> and now methods stored as data (a-la Java"s "reflection" library),
>> all-virtual functions, you name it. It"s almost weird.
> Hardly weird it was by design actually. As I remember my Java history
> Patrick Naughton the gentleman who got the ball rolling was about to
> quit Sun and join up with NeXT. He happened to be on the same
> intermural hockey team as Scott McNealy. Scott told him to hold off,
> write what he thought was wrong with Sun before he left. Patrick
> didn"t leave and was one of the original Oak people. I would like
> to think his affinity for NeXTSTEP showed up in Java, with it
> having an close look and feel to that of Objective-C. (The main
> language on NeXTSTEP)
I don"t generally read usenet any more (not since the good old days of
comp.graphics in the 80"s...), but I happened across this article while I
was messing around with Excite Live... (a pretty cool service in
As it turns out, Sean and Tom are both absolutely correct. Usually, this
kind of urban legend stuff turns out to be completely inaccurate, but in
this case, they are right on. When I left Sun to go to NeXT, I thought
Objective-C was the coolest thing since sliced bread, and I hated C++.
So, naturally when I stayed to start the (eventually) Java project, Obj-C
had a big influence. James Gosling, being much older than I was, he had
lots of experience with SmallTalk and Simula68, which we also borrowed
from liberally.
The other influence, was that we had lots of friends working at NeXT at
the time, whose faith in the black cube was flagging. Bruce Martin was
working on the NeXTStep 486 port, Peter King, Mike Demoney, and John
Seamons were working on the mysterious (and never shipped) NRW (NeXT RISC
Workstation, 88110???). They all joined us in late "92 - early "93 after
we had written the first version of Oak. I"m pretty sure that Java"s
"interface" is a direct rip-off of Obj-C"s "protocol" which was largely
designed by these ex-NeXT"ers... Many of those strange primitive wrapper
classes, like Integer and Number came from Lee Boynton, one of the early
NeXT Obj-C class library guys who hated "int" and "float" types.
Another interesting side-note, (so as not to break any rules on my first
[and last]-ever posting to comp.sys.newton), John Seamons, (who happened
to be Andy Bechtolsheim"s roommate at Stanford and largely reponsible for
the first ever port of Unix to the SUN-0) once did a port of Oak (Java)
to the Newton. We were in the midst of trying to do a deal with 3DO to
run as their OS/API, and we didn"t have any 3DO dev systems on hand, so
John took apart an Apple Newton 100 and wired it up to a bunch of logic
analyzers, reverse engineered the interfaces and actually got some of the
original Star7 demo to run on this machine. After the 3DO deal tubed, I
think most of the code was lost to history... last I heard, John was out
in Aspen working for wnj, so you never know.
Sigh... we sure knew how to have fun in those days...
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For weeks there has been an ongoing battle in my household. Thanks to TOMY toys, Soccerborg has sparked a serious competitive edge in my daughter! Soccerborg is a remote control soccer game in which the players are replaced by robots! Friends and family can go head-to-head dribbling, tackling, passing and shooting to win the match. At first I was unsure if this game would be any fun for my young daughter, however the second we opened it up she was ready to beat me any way she could! There was a learning curve with the remote controls, but once everyone go the hang of it….it was GAME ON! I absolutely love that this game targets both parents and children so it can easily be something the entire family can enjoy. We aren't even big soccer fans, but we are still obsessed with the friendly competition Soccerborg brings! We are currently battling with #TeamMom and #TeamKids with Team Kids several points in the lead. I can't even begin to explain how much fun this game has been for us. Soccerborg is extremely easy to learn, and even easier to become addicted! This has been such a huge hit, and I don't see the hype dying down any day soon!
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SOUTH COVENTRY – Enrollments in the Owen J. Roberts School District are expected to remain flat or even decrease over the next ten years, according to new enrollment projections presented to the board at a recent committee of the whole meeting.
Projections show the overall student population rising slightly through 2016, from the current 5,121 students to 5,240. If the projections prove true, the numbers will begin dropping in 2017, when 5,233 students are expected to be registered, rising and falling in some years, but hitting 5,218 students in 2022.
Those predictions, presented by Director of Pupil Services Holly W. Acosta, are based on a new study by Decision Insite, an enrollment impact firm which looks at kindergarten enrollments, planned residential developments, and student cohorts through each grade level.
The numbers are a far cry from the steady growth the district had been experiencing in the past, with district wide enrollments climbing by over 1,000 students in 10 years, from 4,050 in 2002 to 5,121 in 2012. That's a reflection of the economy and the dip in the housing market which has put a number of large scale development projects on hold, according to Superintendent Michael Christian.
But district Chief Financial Officer Jaclyn Krumrine stressed that enrollment projections are not reliable beyond the first five years, even though they forecast out 10 years.
'The further out you're looking, the less accurate they are,' Krumrine said. 'They are most accurate five years out.'
Although the figures do not indicate steady growth, the enrollment projections won't impact the board's plans to increase capacity at two of its elementary schools. Both East Coventry and East Vincent Elementary Schools will undergo extensive renovations over the next few years in order to create equitable learning environments among the district's five elementary buildings.
Renovations will include installing air conditioning, and providing appropriate spaces for a variety of learning environments-such as support classes, commons areas and music rooms-not currently available in those buildings. Both will be expanded slightly from their existing 550 student capacity to a capacity of 650.
According to the new enrollment projections, East Vincent's student population of 531 students isn't expected to grow much over the next 10 years, never rising above 540 students. At East Coventry Elementary, which is currently over capacity with 567 students, enrollments are anticipated to begin dropping next year, but remain above capacity through 2015, then drop to 538 in 2016 and continue falling to 514 in 2022.
Board member James Frees noted that he supported renovations for equity reasons, but he questioned whether the increased capacity was needed.
'We were always under the impression that the trends were going up in East Coventry,' he said. 'But if the capacity is going up but the enrollment trends are going down, why are we doing anything?'
Christian explained that the capacity figures are derived from Pennsylvania Department of Education guidelines for school construction projects and are not necessarily related to the size of a building addition.
'Your capacity could go up while square footage doesn't increase,' he said.
Board member William LaCoff observed that the enrollment projections, which are the more conservative predictions from the study, could change significantly if the housing market improves. In that case, with more students moving into the district, greater capacity would be needed in both elementary schools.
'Trying to figure this out beyond five years is really witchcraft,' LaCoff said. 'If you don't get it done now, you might not be able to increase capacity for another 20 years.'
The enrollment projections presentation is available under the January 14 school board meeting agenda on the district's website at www.ojrsd.com.


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Fire Hydrant PaintingEvery single minute counts during a house fire. Difficulty in locating fire hydrants near your home during a fire emergency may retard arrival at the scene and cause potentially disastrous results. The Mount Pleasant Fire Department is strongly urging residents to refrain from painting or landscaping fire hydrants - we may miss them during an actual emergency!
Some hydrants look fine from the left, but you would never see the hydrant from the right. By keeping your hydrant free and clear of debris, you really help out your Fire Department. Painting your hydrant a different color is not allowed in the Town of Mount Pleasant because each color signifies the amount of water (GPM) that the hydrant will flow under normal operating conditions. The four colors of hydrants and their rated GPM are as follows.
| Fire Hydrant Color
| Gallons per Minute
|0 to 44 gallons per minute
|500 to 999 gallons per minute
|1,000 to 1,499 gallons per minute
|Light Blue
|1,500 and more gallons per minute
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- Has broken chains from the hydrant to the caps
- Has the main discharge less than 15 inches from the ground
- Has plants, trees, and shrubs planted in close proximity
- Is covered by vegetation and unable to be seen
- Is in need of a coat of paint
- Is knocked over
- Is leaking
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Veteran center Mike Fisher's plan all along was to re-sign with the Nashville Predators. It was just a matter of putting together a contract that worked for both sides.
Fisher signed a two-year, $8.8 million contract with the Predators on Friday, five days before he was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1. He will make $4.8 million next season and $4 million in 2016-17.
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Leaving a legacy is more than bequeathing the ownership of a family business to one's successors and expecting them to carry on the family name
History books are littered with names of people who have left a legacy, be it good or bad. Whether taken to mean the transfer of one's values and beliefs or the more materialistic definition of leaving assets, legacies invariably aim to benefit one's family or society as a whole.
Similarly, most business founders aspire to leave a legacy in the form of the continuation of the family name. The onus rests on the heirs and successors to support and maintain this legacy. Asking the successors what this entails, and whether they know what the family name actually stands for invariably reveals conflicting viewpoints. And as always, there are two sides to every story.
Ask the legatees why they are uncertain about carrying on the family legacy and you will undoubtedly get at least one of the following answers: our parents take us for granted, our parents fail to listen to us, or our parents live in their own bubble.
Ask the founders why such a mismatch in expectations exists, and inevitably the response will be one of the following: our children do not appreciate the suffering it took for us to reach this stage, "the West" has polluted our children's minds with gadgets and so-called "modernization" or "our children have other priorities1."


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To their credit, Google feels a very specific responsibility to be as transparent as possible when it comes to the flow of information related to their users and government requests for information. You can (and should) check out the Google Transparency website for details, but here is a pertinent quote:
We've created Government Requests to show the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests to remove content from our services. We hope this step toward greater transparency will help in ongoing discussions about the appropriate scope and authority of government requests.
The Google Transparency report does not reveal all the details about what is requested, but the numbers raise several questions in my head and I suspect there are many concerned members of TechRepublic too.
The number that jumps out is that there were 5,950 requests for user data submitted by the United States to Google, by presumably legal means, in the first six months of 2011. The next nearest number of user data requests were submitted by India at a mere 1,739.
The table (Figure A) goes on to show that of the 5,950 U. S. requests, Google complied at least partially with 93% of them.
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The overall number of user data requests sorted by country.
What does this mean?
The number of user requests seems exceedingly high to me. What information is the United States government seeking? What are they doing with it? Shouldn't the U. S. government be at least as transparent as Google? What can the government find out about me that I have not already made publicly available on social media?
I think the United States government owes its citizens an explanation.
On the flip side, how can we trust Google, or any cloud-based service for that matter, with our data? We can assume these 6,000 requests are legitimate and legal, but even with that stipulation, is that a good way to conduct business?
I think these questions have to be debated and answered in full before anyone, and especially IT professionals, can or should feel comfortable with data existing in the public cloud.


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The saying may go "as American as apple pie" but I would venture that the simplicity and thrift embodied in Apple Brown Betty is much more in keeping with the pioneer spirit. It takes just a few pantry basics—if you have stale bread, apples, butter and cinnamon, you're already halfway there. There's no crust to chill and roll, no crumble to mix, no biscuits to prep and possibly best of all, you can get an Apple Brown Betty on the table in an hour.
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- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- Juice from one lemon
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 large tart apples, peeled, cored, quartered, thinly sliced
- 2 cups coarse bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup hard cider
Preheat oven to 375°F. Using 1/2 tablespoon of butter, generously butter an 8 x 8 glass baking dish. Divide remaining butter into eight slices and set aside. In a small bowl, mix sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg and set aside. In a large bowl toss apples in lemon juice and vanilla.
Sprinkle crumbs to just cover the bottom of buttered dish. Then layer with one-half of the apples, sprinkle with one-half of the sugar mixture. Add remaining apples and drizzle with hard cider and any remaining lemon juice and vanilla left in the bowl, then top with remaining crumbs sprinkle with remaining sugar mixture.
Add butter pats to the top spacing them out evenly. Cover dish with a lid or aluminum foil and bake for 20 minutes. Remove foil and bake for 15-20 minutes or until crumbs are golden brown. Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream.
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The owner of the Old Venice Pizza Co. at 368 Perkins Road Extended in East Memphis has filed a $1.1 million loan on the property.
Old Venice Properties LLC filed the commercial deed of trust March 20 through First Chatham Bank. James Bulian and David Buescher signed the trust deed as members of Old Venice Properties.
Built in 2005, the Class A, 5,510-square-foot restaurant sits on 0.8 acres along the east side of Perkins Road Extended north of Poplar Avenue. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal was $847,600.
Old Venice operates three other restaurants, one each in Oxford, Tupelo and Starkville, Miss.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
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ServiceMaster Global Holdings Inc., the parent company of The ServiceMaster Co., announced Monday, March 24, it has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its common stock.
ServiceMaster Global is an indirect parent company of the residential and commercial services provider headquartered in Memphis and it plans to use proceeds from the offering to repay its indebtedness.
JPMorgan Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities LLC, Goldman Sachs and Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are the joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters.
ServiceMaster's SEC filing says the company intends to apply to list the stock under symbol SERV, but it does not list an exchange.
The offer is being made through a prospectus only.
– Bill Dries
Paragon National Bank chairman Napoleon Cassibry III has stepped down, effective March 19, after serving as board chair since the bank's inception in January 2005.
Replacing him as chairman is Craig Weiss, also one of the bank's original board members. Cassibry is a senior vice president of Vining Sparks IBG LP, where he's worked since 1983, and he'll continue to serve as a Paragon board member and as chairman of the asset/liability committee.
The move will allow him to focus more on his travels and other personal endeavors, the bank said.
– Andy Meek
The Shelby County Commission has appointed Jimmy Ogle, chairman of the Shelby County Historical Commission, as the new county historian.
Ogle, who is also general manager of Beale Street Landing and the Riverfront Development Corp., serves a six-year term in the unpaid position.
Ogle was selected Monday, March 24, in a process in which University of Memphis history professor Charles Crawford and Faith Christian Academy teacher Lauren Beaupre, who has also been a fellow at the Tennessee Center for Historic Preservation, were nominated.
Ogle, who succeeds the late Ed Williams, is only the third person to hold the position of county historian and the first to serve with a specific term of office.
In other action Monday, commissioners accepted two federal grant contracts through the Tennessee Department of Transportation for two road repaving projects.
The first grant is $187,500 to be used for the repaving of Raleigh Lagrange Road from Macon to Appling roads. The project will also use $62,500 in state gas tax funding.
The second grant is $225,000 for repaving Macon Road between Houston Levee and Pisgah roads, with another $75,000 in state gas tax funding also allocated for the project.
The commission also approved a $1.4 million contract with CS3 Inc. for two boiler replacements in the Criminal Justice Center and the Shelby County Courthouse.
April 4 marks the return of Food Truck Fridays at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
Each Friday from April through September, Memphis mobile restaurants will serve food there, and menu items will be offered at regular prices, with beverages also available to purchase.
Admission to the gardens will be free during food truck hours, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and shaded outdoor seating is available.
Sales of new U.S. single-family homes fell in February to a five-month low, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.
Sales fell 3.3 percent nationally to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 440,000 units, the lowest level since September. New-home sales fell 1.1 percent compared with February 2013. The median price of a new home last month fell 1.2 percent from February 2013, the biggest drop since June 2012.
Home sales for November and December were revised up by 14,000, offsetting January's drop.
The harsh winter weather played a role in the slowdown, especially in the Northeast, where sales dropped 32.4 percent. Sales fell 1.5 percent in the South, which was hit by unusually cold weather, increased 36.7 percent in the Midwest and fell 15.9 percent in the West.
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State lawmakers on Tuesday decided not to rewrite the legal definition of Tennessee whiskey this session, meaning the rules supported by Jack Daniel's will govern other distillers in the state for at least another year.
House and Senate committees voted Tuesday to consider efforts to rewrite or repeal the law in summer study panels after the legislative session ends.
Jack Daniel's master distiller Jeff Arnett, who has heavily lobbied lawmakers to uphold the current law, welcomed the decision to put off suggested changes such as removing a requirement to age whiskey in unused oak barrels.
"We stand behind last year's law. We truly believe it's best for Tennessee whiskey all over the world," Arnett said. "And for the players who've located in the state of Tennessee, we need to uphold these quality standards."
The debate has pitched two global liquor giants against each other. Jack Daniel's, which is owned by Louisville, Ky.-based Brown-Forman Corp., first proposed the establishment of a Tennessee whiskey law last year. George Dickel is owned by British conglomerate Diageo PLC, which led this year's attempts to dismantle that law.
Diageo vice president Guy L. Smith IV said he hopes the study committee gives serious consideration to changing the law.
"Rather than having one company dictate for everyone, we can do this the right way and come together in an open forum to discuss how to create the best standards for Tennessee whiskey," Smith said in a release.
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Patrick Swayze's widow speaks about coping with losing her "soulmate"
It is hard to believe that it is one year since the death of actor Patrick Swayze. Interviewed recently in People magazine, Patrick's widow, Lisa Niemi has been speaking about the pain of his loss and how she copes with it. She admits that she still texts her husband when she travels, just like she used to when he was alive.
In July, Lisa Niemi sent the actor, who died of pancreatic cancer a year ago this Tuesday, a text as she got on a plane. "I just put what I always did: 'I love you,'" Niemi, told People in an upcoming issue. "And then I cried for a little bit to myself."
This isn't as strange as it sounds. Lisa says she always texted Swayze in this way, and much like the bereaved person who still lays a place at the dinner table for their loved one, Lisa's action is a normal part of the grieving process.
The writer Joan Didion called it "magical thinking" in her beautiful novel "The Year of Magical Thinking," about the sudden death of her husband John Gregory Dunne. She said she didn't want to throw away Dunne's shoes after his fatal heart attack because she thought he might come back. The magical thinking is that you will wake up in the morning and find that this has all been a bad dream much like the infamous shower scene in Dallas, when Pam Ewing wakes up to find her "dead" husband Bobby alive and well in the shower. People who lose loved ones typically go through five well-known stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But how a person grieves is a personal experience and I was disappointed to read some quite nasty and negative online comments about Lisa's action. No one should judge how someone copes and reacts to a death. Reading her interview it didn't appear to me that Lisa was in denial, she is just engaging in some "magical thinking" to get her through the pain of losing her soulmate. Lisa, who participated in Friday's "Stand up to Cancer" telethon, admits the grieving process is still ongoing ."To have your soulmate leave you, it was definitely overwhelming" she says in her interview. She finished: "I know he wanted me to be OK. And I am stronger now. The fact that I've had some good days definitely gives me hope that I can have more".


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We don't talk much about chips for so-called "embedded devices" on Ars—consumers can't normally buy them except as part of some larger product, and they're often just rebranded derivatives of other chips. However, AMD's just-announced G-series system-on-a-chip (SoC) implies some interesting things about the company's future products.
The chip comes with two or four x86 CPU cores based on the same "Jaguar" architecture being used in the PlayStation 4 and a Radeon 8000-branded integrated GPU, as well as the requisite chipset. The SoCs feature both Windows 8 and Linux support, and AMD intends them for use in "industrial control and automation, digital signage, electronic gaming systems, SMB storage, IP-TV, medical and network appliances, set-top-boxes, and more."
However, the more intriguing thing about this part is its branding: its logo has a small X in the corner, which is reportedly meant to designate it as an x86 part. To date, AMD has made x86 chips nearly exclusively, so the need to make the distinction points to a future where x86 isn't the only architecture the company is using.
"Ultimately, we're going to have x86 and ARM in our product portfolio," AMD's Arun Iyengar told Engadget.
This isn't a surprising development—AMD became an ARM licensee back in October, and it has made a lot of noise lately about the mobile chip talent the company has tried to attract. The only concrete announcements we've seen so far have been about server products. This is the first sign that AMD is looking beyond the server market with its ARM chips, and as the year goes on we expect we'll start hearing more about AMD ARM SoCs for embedded systems. It's quite possible phones and tablets will follow as well.


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By Sarah McBride
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A tenants' rights advocacy group released on Thursday what it called a "Dirty Dozen" list of landlords from the technology sector that it said had evicted San Francisco tenants.
The list, released by a group known as the Anti Eviction Mapping Project, reflects frustrations over rising rents and cost of living that activists say are driven by the technology industry.
In recent months, grumbling has given way to blockades of the private commuter buses that pick up technology workers downtown and ferry them to their workplaces south of the city at companies such as Google Inc, Facebook Inc and Yahoo Inc.
The list included the chief executive officers of various Bay Area technology businesses, as well as several Google executives.
David Duffield, who the protesters identified as the co-founder of Web-based human resources company Workday, appeared on the list. A spokesman for Workday said the David Duffield identified was not the same as the company's co-founder.
Other executives on the list include John Golob, chief executive of sales-software company Lanetix, and Peter Caswell, chief executive of social intelligence company NetBase Solutions. Representatives for Lanetix and NetBase did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Google lawyer Jack Halprin, the target of an April protest, was also featured on the list. Other Google employees included Thomas Fallows and Kansinee Adsanatham Jung, whom the protesters identified as a Google product manager and user-experience designer respectively. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment.
Typically, the executives used a state law known as the Ellis Act to evict tenants, according to the protestors. The Ellis Act allows owners to evict tenants if they intend to take their units off the market.
The total number of Ellis Act evictions in the city rose 25 percent to 1,716 in the year ended February 2013, according to a report by San Francisco's budget and legislative analyst. The executives on the list had allegedly evicted tenants from a total of more than 100 rental units, according to the protesters.
There is growing ill will in the San Francisco area toward technology companies as housing prices skyrocket and salary growth is anemic outside the tech sector.
While many technology workers say protesters should blame landlords rather than their industry for rising rents and evictions, tenant advocates say the two are tightly linked.
(Reporting by Sarah McBride; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
[Image: Demonstrators shout during a rally in the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco, California April 11, 2014. By Robert Galbraith for Reuters.]


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Lansing Community College offers a one-year certificate of achievement and a two-year applied science associate degree in Chemical Process Technology. Chemical process technicians work in companies like Procter and Gamble and Dow Corning in chemical manufacturing and processing. These technicians operate equipment, monitor plant processes and analyze raw materials or products. They could also work for drug companies, petroleum companies, steel mill or paper plants. Responsibilities might include quality control, safety, or environmental compliance.
Employment prospects are good in this field and entry level wages average $21,000 for those with a certificate and $26,000 for those with an associate degree. After five years, chemical process technicians can expect to earn in excess of $40,000.
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Those who choose to go on to a four-year institution and continue their study of chemistry may choose to become chemical engineers, pharmacists, medical doctors, teachers or choose from any of a number of other career options. All of these professions should experience steady or increased job availability over the next decade. Salaries will vary depending on the job.
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They Made America
Who are the most influential figures in American history? The Atlantic recently asked ten eminent historians. The result was The Atlantic's Top 100—and some insight into the nature of influence and the contingency of history. Was Walt Disney really more influential than Elizabeth Cady Stanton? Benjamin Spock than Richard Nixon? Elvis Presley than Lewis and Clark? John D. Rockefeller than Bill Gates? Babe Ruth than Frank Lloyd Wright? Let the debates begin.
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Influential Critics
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[Click here to see the list.]
It's a nebulous concept, influence: you know it when you see it, but definitions are hard to come by. Still, when we talk about history in America, it's often to make arguments about influence, about the way the characters from our national past shape the virtues and flaws of our own era.
Thus, depending on whom you believe, George W. Bush is either the rightful heir to Harry Truman or the bastard child of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Baines Johnson. His critics are the successors of Walter Duranty and Jane Fonda, making apologies for tyrants—unless they're Edward R. Murrow and Eugene McCarthy, boldly speaking truth to power. Foreign-policy analysts talk of modern-day "Jacksonians" and "Wilsonians"; defenders and opponents of affirmative action alike invoke Martin Luther King Jr.; and everyone claims the Founders for their own—because the founding generation's influence, and example, is felt to matter most of all.
In Their Own Words
Of the 100 Americans selected by our panel of historians, thirty-one contributed to The Atlantic. Browse a selection of their writings.
Follow-up, the Atlantic 100
A look at reader response.
Congratulations to Our Contest Winners
Find out whose guesses most closely matched our historians' picks.
With these debates in mind, The Atlantic recently asked ten historians (see panelist biographies on page 76) to compose their own lists of the 100 most influential Americans. The balloting was averaged and weighted to emphasize consensus—candidates received extra points if they appeared on multiple ballots—and the result is the list of 100 names that accompanies this article. In the instructions we gave to our panelists, we intentionally defined influence loosely—as a person's impact, for good or ill, both on his or her own era and on the way we live now. This allowed for a certain creativity in the selection process, and it had the advantage of leaving the harder work of definition to the historians themselves.
The results are inevitably unscientific, since whittling down all the influential Americans of the last few centuries to just 100 names, let alone ranking them, is a difficult assignment. But the end product is rewarding and intriguing, offering instances of both consensus and contention, and a snapshot of our national memory early in the third American century. It doesn't settle the debate about influence and the American past, but it does offer a starting place for discussion.
Anyone trying to arrive at a historical ranking must wrestle with certain questions. Our panelist Walter McDougall, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, described five challenges that he and his fellow historians reckoned with in making their judgments for our list.
The definition of influence. What definition would allow us to rank Americans from different careers and walks of life—to compare the influence of a great novelist with the influence of a president, for instance, or the influence of a religious leader with that of an entrepreneur? Or again, what definition would allow for comparisons between present-day figures and the men and women of earlier generations? The influence of a nineteenth-century titan like John D. Rockefeller (who ended up No. 11 on our list) extends across a longer period of American history than the influence of a Bill Clinton; on the other hand, Clinton's direct impact on the way we live now is more immediately obvious than Rockefeller's. By what criteria does one choose between them?
The collaborative nature of achievement. Once you begin to weigh ideas against inventions, presidencies against companies, and present-day achievements against the past, another question arises: Who should get the credit? Do you cite Nathaniel Hawthorne for writing the first great American novel, or James Fenimore Cooper (83) for making the American novel possible? Who deserves credit for the Constitution, or the motion-picture industry, or the birth of jazz? "Harriet Beecher Stowe [41] was 'the little lady who wrote the book that caused the Great War,'" McDougall points out, "but only because abolitionists both white and black had been preaching the same gospel for decades." Even technical geniuses stood on the shoulders of giants: if Robert Fulton hadn't developed the first commercially successful steamboat, someone else would have; we might not have iPods without Steve Jobs, but we'd still have some pretty nice personal computers.
The power of pop culture. The simplest way to define influence would be to use market indicators. Whom have Americans heard of, and whom do they esteem? What products do they buy, and what television shows do they watch? Such a list would "read like a Gallup Poll or Madison Avenue guide to consumer trends," McDougall says, with Michael Crichton outstripping Herman Melville (100), and Joel Osteen beating out Reinhold Niebuhr. But perhaps this is as it should be. "The America our forefathers brought forth on this continent is a market—a free market in power, goods and services, entertainment, and spirituality," McDougall points out. "By definition, it would seem [that] the ultimate measure of influence is simply what sells."
The problem of value judgments. This is the "Adolf Hitler problem": How do you assess the influence of men and women who have changed the world for the worse? In America, call it the "Hugh Hefner problem": Does a man who has spent a lifetime lounging around in a bathrobe, getting rich off the objectification of women, really deserve a place in anyone's Top 100? On the other hand, if you're looking for the journalistic giants of the last century, doesn't Hef deserve a place alongside a Henry Luce or an H. L. Mencken? And if you open the door for the man who gave us porn-on-demand, does a parade of demagogues come trooping in after him? George Wallace, Huey Long, Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover—"We might find that half our list is a rogues' gallery," McDougall suggests.
The question of identity politics. America may be a melting pot, but influence often fails to extend beyond the barrio's edge, or the synagogue door. "Must the leaders of every ethnic or religious minority be honored," McDougall wonders, "even though they had little or no influence on the nation at large?" How broadly influential were Joseph Smith (52) or Brigham Young (74), really, given that Mormons currently account for less than 2 percent of the American population? Does César Chávez deserve extra consideration for looming so large among Hispanics? Does a gay-rights pioneer like Harvey Milk deserve consideration, for similar reasons?
Each panelist found a different response to these challenges. For Ellen Fitzpatrick, a professor at the University of New Hampshire and the author of History's Memory: Writing America's Past, 18801980, the central questions were whether a person's influence was at once "long-term" and "fundamental." So the Founders, for instance, deserve a high place because "without their vision of American democracy, not much else would have happened as it did." But a figure like Bill Gates (54), however significant, loses out in Fitzpatrick's estimation to the computer scientist John von Neumann, because "it was von Neumann's research that helped make computing possible," and so his contribution to the computer was more "fundamental" than Gates's work. (Fitzpatrick was outvoted on von Neumann, who failed to make the Top 100.)
Walter McDougall adopted a policy of giving weight to individuals involved with the federal government, "because they shaped the laws and institutions under which all Americans live"; to "the leaders in business and technology who fashioned the material environment of all Americans"; and to "the leaders in religion and education who influenced what most Americans believe and know, especially about their own country." He "omitted ethnic leaders who, while honored … influenced only a modest percentage of Americans," and he "eliminated celebrities altogether on the grounds that their influence is shallow, ephemeral, and replaceable."
David M. Kennedy, a Stanford professor and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945, made a similar calculation. "Most 'athletes, icons, and celebrities' don't make my list," he wrote, because entertainment is "highly evanescent" and most entertainers tend to "leave no lasting legacy." What he looked for instead were "originals—that is, "people who laid the foundations for enduring institutions or cultural practices or ways of thinking."
For Doris Kearns Goodwin, who won a Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, the important question was, "Which figures changed the daily lives of people, both at that time and afterward?" She looked, in particular, for "great public figures who made it possible for people to lead expanded lives—materially, psychologically, culturally, spiritually."
Brown University professor Gordon S. Wood, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, tried to pay attention to "peculiar personalities," like Abraham Lincoln (1) and George Washington (2), who were "ideally suited for the moment" in which they wielded influence. But he also looked for what he termed "stand-ins—figures like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong (79), who could embody a hugely collaborative industry, art form, or cultural change, and "represent a dozen or a half-dozen people."
H. W. Brands, a professor at the University of Texas and the author of The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar, took a similar tack, choosing some people based on "what they represent—Nat Turner (93) for the "specter of slave rebellion," for instance, or Sam Goldwyn (95) because "Hollywood had to be represented." He also noted that a bias toward political figures is inevitable. "Political figures," he said, "are important precisely because they influence the lives of everybody."
On the other hand, Robert Dallek—though he's a presidential historian and the author, most recently, of An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963—tried to privilege commerce and invention. "When people look back on this society, they will attach greater importance to science, technology, and business achievements than to our politics, or our arts and literature." He also gave special weight to the power of ideas, which form an "undercurrent" in American life—until suddenly, as with the civil-rights movement, a sense emerges that "this is an idea whose time has come."
Mark Noll, a professor at the University of Notre Dame and the author of America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, shared Brands's expectation that politics would dominate the final list, but suggested that this was a reflection of how history has been taught—"as a political narrative or as a reaction against the political narrative." He contended there is "little room for religion" in either of these narratives—even though religious organizations "have been the main glue in American society since before there was a United States." His own list drove that point home, by including little-remembered but hugely influential figures like the nineteenth-century revivalist Charles Grandison Finney, or the itinerant Methodist bishop Francis Asbury.
Similarly, panelist John Steele Gordon, the author of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power, distinguished between fame and influence, citing as an example the distinction between Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin. "Both were very famous," he argued, "but only Kern changed Broadway forever."
Like many of her fellow panelists, Joyce Appleby, a professor emerita at UCLA, showed a strong bias toward the Founders—those "rather remarkable men making decisions whose impact has been tremendously positive." But she declined to propose any broader system for gauging influence. "I reflected," she said of her choices. "But it was more of an intuitive and ineffable process."
So what do the panelists' reflections tell us about influence in America? First that although the top third of the list, roughly speaking, embodies a strong consensus—every panelist voted for the first nine figures; everyone in the top thirty received at least seven votes—agreement is hard to come by. Many figures who made the final cut did so with only marginally more support than those who missed it.
Still, certain patterns are evident. The list tells us, for instance, that though we may be a nation of immigrants, it's the native-born who are likely to shake things up the most: just seven of the final 100 were born outside the continental United States. It tells us that the East Coast states have made the most of their head start: sixty-three of the 100 were born in the original thirteen colonies, and twenty-six in New England alone. It tells would-be influentials not to be afraid of family commitments: ninety-one of the 100 were married at least once, and two—Joseph Smith and Brigham Young—had more than fifty wives between them. The list also suggests that contemporaries are sometimes good judges of whose influence will last: nine of Time magazine's "People of the Year" show up on the historians' list.
A political career (or a legal one) is the surest ticket to a historical legacy (twenty-six of the 100 held a judgeship or high political office). Aspiring influentials might also consider trying to invent something (like the lightbulb, or the airplane, or the atomic bomb), or discover something (the polio vaccine, the double helix)—though Gordon S. Wood remarked, after the list was finished, "We put too much emphasis on inventors. Someone sooner or later would have come up with the cotton gin … the lure of profits was too great. The same was true with the airplane and the telephone."
Founding a religion landed Joseph Smith and Brigham Young on the list, as well as Christian Science's Mary Baker Eddy (86). Fomenting a revolution also leaves an impression, whether you succeed, as the Founders did, or fail, but with long-lasting repercussions, as Nat Turner and John Brown (78) did. And we at The Atlantic were pleased to see that twenty-one of the figures in the Top 100 are especially famous for their writing, from Walt Whitman (22) to Margaret Mead (81)—and that more than thirty (!) of the figures on the list have been published in this magazine.
The final 100 also suggests that men still rule, at least in many historians' eyes—oh, and make that white men. Ten women are on the list (the highest-ranked is the feminist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at No. 30), and eight African Americans, but the Top 100 is heavily WASPish. Martin Luther King Jr. (8) was among the top vote getters, but there isn't another African American on the list until Jackie Robinson (35). And there are no Hispanics, Asian Americans, or Native Americans.
"It's fun and challenging," Ellen Fitzpatrick said of the exercise, but she called the rank order "an exercise in absurdity." Noting that Walt Disney (26) finished ahead of Stanton in the balloting, she wondered: "Does a cartoonist deserve a place above someone who most powerfully advanced the case that half the people deserved equality before the law?" Or again, "Are we to conclude that not a single Native American Indian influenced our past?"
If women and minorities are conspicuously absent, what about knaves? With only two votes, Cold War bogeyman Joseph McCarthy didn't make the Top 100, nor did minor demagogues like Huey Long and Charles Coughlin. (Nor Hugh Hefner, though Walter McDougall voted for him.) But the much-reviled Richard Nixon (99) is in the Top 100, as is the pro-slavery legislator John C. Calhoun (58).
In a sense, perhaps, the final list is a testament to the absence of true villains from the American past—or at least figures that everyone can agree were villainous. For every conservative who damns Earl Warren (29) or Betty Friedan (77), there's a liberal springing to the defense. The same is true, with the cheers and boos reversed, for Ronald Reagan (17) or Wal-Mart's Sam Walton (72).
Our historians seem to have made a definite judgment, however, against pop culture, and popular taste in general. The list contains seven novelists but only three musicians, Elvis Presley (66), Louis Armstrong (79), and the songwriter Stephen Foster (97), and two athletes, Jackie Robinson and George Herman "Babe" Ruth (75). There's one Hollywood mogul (Sam Goldwyn), but no directors or actors (save, of course, Reagan). And of the many novelists, journalists, and essayists, two of them (James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe) are true museum pieces, while many of the rest—Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) and Henry David Thoreau (65), William Faulkner (60) and William James (62)—wrote strictly highbrow fare. (On the other hand, as Gordon S. Wood points out, no historians made the list—leading him to remark, "I guess we don't think what we do is very influential.")
What about collaboration? Apart from joined-at-the-hip pairs like the Wright Brothers (23) and Lewis and Clark (70), the panelists found no obvious way to recognize collaborative influences. This may help explain why no woman ended up closer to the top of the ranking—because some panelists put Susan B. Anthony (38) higher and others Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and there was no way to rate the cumulative effect of the great feminists' efforts.
Still, famous collaborations show up on the final list, if you know where to look. As noted above, present-at-the-creation Mormons Joseph Smith and Brigham Young both make an appearance; so do atomic-bomb coworkers Albert Einstein (32), Robert Oppenheimer (48), and Enrico Fermi (88). Likewise the collaborators behind America's founding—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson (3), Benjamin Franklin (6), John Marshall (7), James Madison (13), and John Adams (25)—all appear near the top. They are joined by Thomas Paine (19), the prophet of the American Revolution. (H. W. Brands dissented on this one: "Paine articulated something that was in the air," he allowed, but the Revolution "was going to happen anyway.")
The list is heavily weighted toward the not-so-recent past. Only three living Americans—Bill Gates, Ralph Nader (96), and James D. Watson (68), a codiscoverer of the double helix—made the list, and of the Top 100, sixty-seven died before 1950. The only significant figures from the post-'60s era to crack the top twenty were Nader and Reagan, and in general the list reflects what David M. Kennedy calls an instinctive caution about "canonizing anyone who's among the quick," or recently deceased. "It's hard to judge the present," John Steele Gordon points out. "We aren't able to say who will be influential." And Robert Dallek notes that even Reagan, seemingly as sure a bet as recent history offers, may not loom so large in fifty years, once all of his administration's records have been opened to historians.
So if this exercise were to be carried out again in half a century, presumably it would show a stronger consensus about what mattered in our own era and what didn't. This might mean a place for Sandra Day O'Connor and Hillary Clinton, for instance, or even Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, both of whom received votes. ("One would hope that a hundred years from now there will be more women at the top than there are now, looking back," Doris Kearns Goodwin said.) Bob Dylan, who fell just short of the Top 100 in this balloting, might slip in; so might Steve Jobs, once the impact of the Internet age extends over half a century.
The panelists did vote for many twentieth-century figures—as well as many athletes and jazz musicians, visual artists and religious innovators. All told, the ten historians suggested 322 influentials; there just wasn't as much consensus on the recent and nonpolitical choices as there was on Gilded Age industrialists and Founding Fathers. But for every vote cast for a muttonchopped Victorian, at least one went to Stan Lee or Marilyn Monroe, B. F. Skinner or Tiger Woods. Which is why the most interesting part of the voting may be the fascinating figures lurking in the lower reaches of the balloting.
Take America's religious leaders—represented on the list by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Mary Baker Eddy, Jonathan Edwards (90), and the Presbyterian clergyman Lyman Beecher (91), as well as a number of ministers best known for their efforts at political reform, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (46). Worthies all, but you have to look farther down the winners' list to find the people who actually built the churches where most of today's Americans worship. Several Jews are in the Top 100, but the only rabbi to receive votes was Solomon Schechter, the architect of Conservative Judaism. The only Top 100 Catholics are George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Louis Armstrong, and James Gordon Bennett (69), the great nineteenth-century newspaperman; two panelists, however, suggested John Carroll, the nation's first Catholic bishop. There were also two votes for Fulton Sheen, another Catholic bishop, whose 1950s media ministry, as Mark Noll put it, "certified Roman Catholicism as a benign religious, political, and cultural influence" (and made him a trailblazer for today's rather-less- eloquent crop of televangelists).
Also falling short of the Top 100 were the architects of American evangelicalism, the most successful species of Protestantism in this largely Protestant nation. Two panelists listed Francis Asbury, the eighteenth-century Methodist bishop whose indefatigable missionary efforts created a model of entrepreneurial religion that successful evangelical pastors have followed ever since. The aptly named Evangeline Booth, the first female "general" of the Salvation Army, received one vote, as did Dwight L. Moody, arguably the nineteenth century's most famous evangelist; two votes went to Billy Graham, the twentieth-century heir to that title.
Another Noll pick, William Seymour, is perhaps more obscure than the other religious figures in the Top 100, but in the long run may prove more influential than any of them. The son of freed slaves, Seymour in 1906 lost his job as pastor of a Los Angeles church over his belief that glossolalia—speaking in tongues—was available to contemporary Christians; undeterred, he set up shop in a ramshackle building on L.A.'s Azusa Street, and thus touched off the "Azusa Street Revival," the beginning of the modern Pentecostal movement. Today, Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing form of Christianity in the world.
Interesting business figures also surface farther down in the list. The most famous Victorian captains of industry—John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie (20), and J. P. Morgan (37)—made the Top 100, as did Sam Walton, Bill Gates, and Henry Ford (14), three figures familiar to any late-twentieth-century consumer. But why don't we remember other vote getters like Edwin Drake, the first businessman to suggest that prospectors consider drilling to find oil? Or Cyrus Field, who laid the first successful transatlantic cable, in 1858? Or Peter Cooper, an iron-and-steel magnate who—among his many accomplishments—invested in Field's cable, developed the first steam-powered locomotive, ran for president, founded the Cooper Union, and patented Jell-O?
Then there are America's inventors. Thomas Edison (9) earned votes from every panelist, but only John Steele Gordon voted for Nikola Tesla, the Croatian-born developer of the alternating-current approach to electricity, which won out over Edison's direct current. ("Every time we turn on a light switch," Gordon says, "we feel Tesla's influence.") Cyrus McCormick (73), whose mechanical reaper revolutionized American agriculture, made the Top 100. But why not Willis Carrier, the New Englander who developed air conditioning and thus changed forever the lives of Americans from Atlanta to Albuquerque? Before Carrier, H. W. Brands points out (from his air-conditioned Texas office), Dixie was terra incognita for most businesses, because "you couldn't expect people to accept transfers" south of the Mason-Dixon Line. William Faulkner made the list for immortalizing the humid, tormented Old Confederacy; surely Carrier deserves credit for creating the brassy, air-conditioned New South.
If Carrier's air conditioning built Atlanta, what about DeWitt Clinton's canal? Dubbed "Clinton's Ditch," the Erie Canal channeled a nation's commerce through Albany to New York City. "Stand on the corner of 42nd Street and look around," says Gordon. "Clinton gave us this."
Then there's Frances Perkins, one of Ellen Fitzpatrick's picks, whose monument is the payroll deduction found on every American paystub. As secretary of labor for Franklin Delano Roosevelt (4), she midwifed Social Security into the world. The retirement program outlived her, and seems likely to also outlive William F. Buckley Jr. (another Fitzpatrick pick), despite his best efforts to eradicate it.
But it may not outlive the influence of another female pioneer: Julia Child, who was picked by Joyce Appleby, John Steele Gordon, and Gordon S. Wood, and whose fingerprints, in grease or flour, are smeared over every aspect of our culinary culture, from Emeril Lagasse to Whole Foods. (Wood, for one, expressed surprise that someone like Walter Lipp-mann [89] would be deemed more influ- ential than Child.)
Similarly, as long as there are self-help books and motivational speakers, America will feel the influence of Dale Carnegie, a Robert Dallek pick and the author of 1938's How to Win Friends and Influence People. And as long as there are Hollywood blockbusters, Americans will owe their summer entertainment—enjoyed in the cool of Willis Carrier's air conditioning—to Steven Spielberg (who received three votes, from Brands, Goodwin, and Gordon) and George Lucas (two votes, from Wood and McDougall).
Finally, some of these figures touch our present era only indirectly, but dominated an earlier one. The Top 100 includes Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Betty Friedan, all of whom insisted that a woman's place was in the voting booth and the workplace as well as in the home. But while they won the argument in the end, for a long time other influences put that outcome in doubt. Walter McDougall's list, for instance, includes the nearly forgotten Sarah Josepha Hale. A nineteenth- century journalist, Hale edited the popular women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book from 1837 to 1877, and used its pages to promote an ideal of domestic goddesshood that eclipsed the feminist vision of women's place for decades.
McDougall also picked William Holmes McGuffey, the Presbyterian minister responsible for the McGuffey Readers. These books helped make Americans almost universally literate; and by emphasizing patriotism and hard work, political equality and Protestant faith, they taught their pupils to be Americans. But their day passed, and what was once a defining text of public education persists only because it's marketed to people who opt out—to Christian homeschoolers, for instance, who prefer McGuffey's mix of righteousness and rigor to the more latitudinarian texts that have replaced his.
Influence can be deep and yet ultimately ephemeral; our list reflects, as Robert Dallek put it, the "cruelty of historical memory." But if the fate of the McGuffey Readers and Godey's Lady's Book speaks to the impermanence of influence, much of the list speaks to its contingency as well.
Take Harry Truman (21), the man who dropped the atomic bomb and created the Truman Doctrine. Surely the hot-tempered little haberdasher meets Gordon S. Wood's criterion of a "peculiar personality" ideally suited to a historical moment. Yet his moment chose him only at the last minute, as a replacement for Henry Wallace, the left-wing former commerce secretary who was FDR's vice president for most of World War II, and who was bumped from the ticket over concerns that he was too sympathetic to Joseph Stalin's Russia. Had Roosevelt's Warm Springs stroke come just a little sooner, Wallace might be on the list—remembered, most likely, as the man who misunderstood Moscow, given that two of his closest advisers were Soviet agents.
There are many of these "unfluentials—figures who, but for chance or the grace of God, might have been influential rather than obscure, and who hang like shadows around their better-remembered counterparts. LBJ (44) is shadowed by JFK, who, though hardly obscure, earned the votes of only two panelists; without an assassin's bullet, it would have been Kennedy wrestling with civil rights and Vietnam, and Johnson fading into the obscurity reserved for elderly vice presidents. Theodore Roosevelt (15) is shadowed by William McKinley, similarly felled by an assassin (though one suspects that Roosevelt would have found his way to influence in any event); Abraham Lincoln by Jefferson Davis, almost remembered as the father of a different American republic; Ulysses S. Grant (12) and Robert E. Lee (57) by Stonewall Jackson, who might have won the war for Davis had he lived past the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Even George Washington has his shadows: Benedict Arnold, who was a better general than the man from Mount Vernon but proved a greater fool; and Horatio Gates, the Revolutionary War general who, after his victory at Saratoga, was favored by some colonial officers as a replacement for Washington.
Those that future historians deem influential will doubtless have their shadows as well. If history ranks Bill Clinton an influential for the ages, it will be at the expense of other Great Democratic Hopes whom history will slight: Gary Hart, say, whose extramarital dalliance went unforgiven, or Mario Cuomo, who dithered in 1992 while Clinton seized the moment, and the presidency. If Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's influence endures, it will be shadowed by the almost-influence of Robert Bork; likewise Samuel Alito and the shadow of Harriet Miers.
And if George W. Bush's imprint is still strongly felt in 2056, then Al Gore—a few Florida ballots (or one Supreme Court vote) short of the presidency—will be (barely) remembered for the influence he never had the chance to wield.


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There certainly is no shortage on photography apps lately. The lion's share of them are Instagram clones, allowing you to alter your pics with sepia-toned and vintage-style filters. FreezePaint, however, offers something completely different with an app that lets you capture and duplicate different parts of your image.
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FreezePaint lets you build your own custom photo. Point your lens at an object and swipe your finger over a part of the screen that you want to replicate. When you're done, you can freeze the entire image and share it instantly on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or email.
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It's unique and it's an original flavor from a lot of what has pervaded the App Store lately. You can capture funny shots or you can flex your artistic muscle. For example, you could make your friend look like the Hindu deity Ganesh by cloning her arms in different positions. Or you could could put your face on a child's body. There are plenty of options because FreezePaint is totally versatile, giving you a way to create something interesting on your iPhone.
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The Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science offers the bachelor in mortuary science degree. Students planning to transfer into this program after two years at Bowling Green must pass a 60-hour minimum requirement to enter. The following are recommended but the student is responsible for checking final admission requirements:
- Anatomy and physiology with labs (two semesters)
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- College algebra (one semester)
- English composition (one semester)
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- Introductory sociology (one semester)
- Public speaking (one semester)
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gets $70 million pay package
NEW YORK: New Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's compensation package could total more than $70 million in salary, bonuses, restricted stock and stock options over five years, according to a regulatory filing made by the company Thursday.
Mayer's pay package is made up of $1 million in annual salary, as much as $2 million in an annual bonus, and $42 million in stock options and other awards, as well as $14 million in "make whole restricted options" for forfeiture of compensation from Google.
Also, by including some stock grants, Mayer could earn up to a total of $20 million a year, or up to $100 million over five years, a Yahoo spokeswoman told Reuters.
As the first female Google engineer and one of its earliest employees, Mayer's net worth is already estimated to be as much as $300 million.
Yahoo's hiring of Mayer as CEO from Google earlier this week caught analysts and investors by surprise. Mayer, 37, edged out presumed front-runner and acting CEO Ross Levinsohn to become Yahoo's third CEO in a year.
Industry observers believe Mayer's selection over Levinsohn is a signal that Yahoo is likely to renew its focus on Web technology and products rather than beefing up online content.
Her appointment caps a tumultuous year at Yahoo. In May, Scott Thompson resigned as CEO after less than 6 months in the job after a controversy over his academic credentials. Thompson replaced the controversial Carol Bartz, who was fired in September after failing to revitalize Yahoo.
Thompson's total compensation at hire was valued at $27 million. He got no severance but was able to keep the $7 million in compensation he got for leaving Paypal. Bartz got more than $10 million in severance when she was fired last year.
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A self-described "geek" with a master's degree in computer science from Stanford, Mayer started as CEO on Tuesday, the same day Yahoo announced weak financial results, with flat net revenue and a slight decline in second-quarter profit.
Although she was on the company's sprawling Sunnyvale, Calif, campus, she did not participate in its earnings call. Levinsohn was also absent from the call, which was led by Yahoo's Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse.
Mayer joins Yahoo as something of a celebrity, having already established herself as one of Silicon Valley's leading women, both inside and outside of the office. She is known for her love of fashion and regularly appears on the society pages for hosting parties.
In 2009 she married real estate investor Zachary Bogue --Mayer tweeted that the couple expects their first child, a boy, in October.
Despite its leadership upheaval, Yahoo remains one of the world's most popular websites, with more than 700 million monthly visitors, according to the company.
But revenue growth has stalled amid an industry wide decline in online display advertising prices and competition from Facebook and Google.
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Tim Langdell's released a lengthy statement - including e-mails between himself and Mobigame - presenting his version of events in his efforts to protect the trademark "Edge," and defending himself against the portrayal of his actions by the gaming press.
We've written four stories on Langdell, and sought comment without luck multiple times. The man is entitled to his say, and here it is. It's a 13-point document, making the following assertions:
• Edge never demanded money from Mobigame
• Mobigame proposed Edge give it money to use the mark "Edge"
• Edge has never acted as "trademark trolls"
• Edge acted well in the "EDGY" matter [this was the proposal to rename EDGE as EDGY]
• Mobigame has only pretended to want to change the name of its game
• Mobigame has persistently demanded Edge give up its rights to the mark "Edge"
• Mobigame has lied so as to defame Edge and its CEO Tim Langdell
• Mobigame deliberately selected EDGE as the name of its game in 2008
• How many games we have produced in the past 5 years
• Insight into the "Mirrors (by) Edge" matter
• Details of our game credits system
• "Edge of Twilight" [the matter concerning Langdell's filing of that mark this year, the name of a game under development by Fuzzyeyes since 2007].
• False accusations against Edge
One thing, as Kotaku is mentioned in the "Edge of Twilight" portion of this statement. Fuzzyeyes' CEO did in fact release a statement on July 23 (nearly two weeks after the story ran) saying any potential disputes between them had been amicably resolved. I have updated the July 11 story to reflect the statement of Fuzzyeyes' CEO.
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Argentina's Tigre accused police of pulling guns on their players and refused to emerge from the dressing room for the second half of their Copa Sudamericana final on Wednesday, leaving São Paulo to be declared winners of the tournament.
The incident, in which Tigre said they were attacked by around 20 men, followed a brawl involving players and officials as the teams left the pitch at halftime in the second leg of the final at São Paulo's Morumbi stadium.
It was the latest in a series of controversies involving Brazilian police at matches and comes just 18 months before Brazil hosts the 2014 World Cup.
"They pulled two guns on us, the rest of the match is not going to be played," the Tigre coach Nestor Gorosito told Fox Sports.
"They ambushed us and one of them pulled out a revolver and put it against [goalkeeper] Damian Albil's chest. Their security and police also hit us, there were around 20 of them."
Argentine media carried photographs of a blood-stained dressing room and comments from players saying they were hit with sticks.
As soon as the referee signalled the end of the match, São Paulo players hugged each other and began celebrating. They were then handed the trophy by officials from Conmebol, the South American Football Confederation.
Thousands of celebrating fans then filled one of São Paulo's main streets, the Avenida Paulista.
"They were going to lose by a big score," the São Paulo President Juvenal Juvencio told the club's website. "Our biggest victory is the fact that the Argentines ran away."
São Paulo goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni accused Tigre's players of spoiling for a fight.
"They came here to fight, not to play," he said. "We are not worried. I don't know what happened inside the dressing room."
The Tigre players remained in their dressing-room for three hours after the incident and then went to a police station to make an official complaint.
Tigre, a small club based just outside Buenos Aires, were angry before kick-off after officials tried to stop their players warming up on the pitch. The players managed to dodge officials by leaping over advertising hoardings.
Lucas, in his last game before his move to Paris St Germain, and Osvaldo scored in the space of five minutes to put São Paulo in control before fighting erupted as the players left the pitch at halftime.
Tigre also said their bus was pelted with stones and beer cans on its way to the stadium.
Brazil has a history of police intervention on the field with one of the most notorious incidents also involving an Argentine side at the Morumbi in April 2005.
The Quilmes defender Leandro Desabato was arrested on the field for alleged racism during a Libertadores Cup game against São Paulo following a first-half incident with opposing forward Grafite.
Desabato was held in custody for 40 hours, at one stage being handcuffed, before being released. The case was later dropped.
In October 2002, the Santos defender Preto was knocked unconscious when a policeman hit him on the head with a truncheon as players protested about a refereeing decision in a match in Belem.
In March 2006, riot police used pepper spray against brawling players during a Vasco da Gama-Flamengo derby at the Maracana stadium, where one policeman was seen with his arm around a player's neck.
Two years later the Botafogo defender Andre Luis was arrested on the field and frog-marched out of the stadium by around 10 riot police after being sent off in a match at Nautico in the North-Easter city of Recife. His teammates were squirted with pepper spray.
The coach Abel Braga said at the time: "It's unbelievable that this happens in the Brazilian championship and in a country which in a few years' time is going to host the World Cup."