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Miami Beach appears to be treating Matt Drudge well. The man who fearfully barricaded himself inside his Hollywood, California, apartment for five days as his Drudge Report Website helped unleash the Monica Lewinsky affair upon the world hardly looks like a reclusive shut-in. Instead 34-year-old Drudge, as he enters Nirvana, a South Beach Indian restaurant, appears tan, rested, and just a hair short of buff. His trademark hard-boiled fashion affectations, which nodded to Twenties gossip reporter Walter Winchell -- vintage fedora, button-down shirt, loosened tie -- have been replaced by a faded T-shirt, a Guatemalan peasant-chic necklace, shorts, and sneakers. He still spends the bulk of his day hunched in front of his computer screen, surfing newspaper sites and wire services, sifting through thousands of e-mails. But now these online sessions are broken up by frequent dips in the Atlantic Ocean -- just steps from the $352,000 high-rise Beach condo he rents.
"I've been avoiding you," he says with a mischievous smirk, referring to the previous two weeks' worth of unanswered phone calls and e-mail requests for an interview. Settling in at a corner table, he remains wary. After a few questions about his new life in Miami Beach, he begins wagging his finger sternly: "I know your angle. I can see where you're going with this. Drudge the conservative rebel'; the conservative who's not really that conservative.'"
He continues sharply: "That's not true. I am a conservative. I'm very much pro-life. If you go down the list of what makes up a conservative, I'm there almost all the way. So just because I like Junior Vasquez doesn't mean I can't believe this country was built on life, not on a death culture."
Hold on. Junior Vasquez? Junior Vasquez, the reigning DJ king of gay circuit parties?
"Oh yeah, last year Vasquez did some of his best stuff ever," Drudge enthuses, launching into an informed rundown of house music's leading lights, praising Peter Rauhoffer and Hex Hector but deeming a recent all-night set from Danny Tenaglia at Club Space "a bit overrated." He's even more displeased with Thunderpuss, the duo who have moved from sweaty club faves such as "If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It" and the less oblique "Fuck Me Harder" to remixing chart hits from the likes of Madonna and Enrique Iglesias. "Thunderpuss is gone, completely finished," he declares. "Their past three or four records have been a debacle."
So meet Matt Drudge, staunch conservative, self-described soldier in the fight against the louche Clintonistas, passionate devotee of circuit house, and -- he notes with his spoon poised in the air -- a big fan of Nirvana's mulligatawny soup.
"This is all you're gonna get," Drudge admonishes New Times photographer Steve Satterwhite, instructing him to snap only head shots. It's nothing personal, he explains from behind a pair of dark sunglasses, posing inside his 27th-floor apartment as a breathtaking view of the Atlantic unfolds through the floor-to-ceiling windows around him. "I just feel really left alone in Miami," he says, which is the way he'd like to keep it. So no unmasked eyes, no identifying full-body photos, and definitely no mentioning his exact street address.
Drudge's apartment emits the vibe of a bachelor stockbroker's pad, someone with plenty of money but little free time to bask in it. The living room is largely empty and undecorated except for a massive television set. Personal effects are few: a Larry King videotape, a boom box for listening to tapes of talk-radio prankster Phil Hendrie, and scattered copies of his own best-selling book, Drudge Manifesto. Despite having lived here for two years, unpacked moving boxes still sit stacked against a wall.
Initial speculation surrounding Drudge's move to Miami had him covering his assets. Looming large was a $30 million libel lawsuit brought by Clinton White House aide Sidney Blumenthal after Drudge posted on his Website allegations that Blumenthal "has a spousal-abuse past that has been effectively covered up."
A Florida law exempts one's home from most legal judgments or bankruptcy settlements -- the apparent lure for fellow California refugee O.J. Simpson. But Drudge insists (and Miami-Dade County records confirm) that he owns no property beyond the Mustang convertible that has replaced his old Geo Metro.
Forget about Blumenthal, says Drudge. "It was the tax-free zone -- there's no state income tax here. I started making seven digits last year, and my $600-a-month apartment would end up costing me $90,000 in California if I would've stayed. It didn't make any sense to pay nine percent income tax. To then have blackouts on top of it is ridiculous!"
Besides, the lawsuit was settled in May, with Blumenthal not only dropping matters completely but actually cutting Drudge's lawyer a check for $2500 to cover some travel expenses. Though he crowed to the New York Times that the publicity from the lawsuit had rocketed him "from rags to riches -- and I got to keep them," his mood today isn't one of vindication. "They went out of their way to cover this lawsuit really aggressively, but it didn't come down the way they wanted it to," he says, pointing to the relative silence from major media outlets following the settlement's announcement. "There was nine seconds from Judy Woodruff on CNN after probably a couple of hours discussion on the lawsuit."
After two days of fuming, Drudge announced on his Website: "AFTER YEARS OF COVERAGE: BIG MEDIA SILENT ON BLUMENTHAL CASH SETTLEMENT," charging that "New York Times readers have been left with the impression that the lawsuit against Drudge is ongoing and will continue forever until Mr. Blumenthal is victorious."
Only a few hours later, Drudge posted an e-mail inquiry he received from New York Times media reporter Felicity Barringer asking to speak with him. And while he remains aggrieved that the resulting piece was barely more than 200 words, he boasts, "You try getting the New York Times to write about you only a couple hours after you've posted Why aren't you writing about me?'"
Drudge may not want to be physically recognized, but as the Times episode demonstrates, he is obsessed with being known. In fact each morning begins with him logging on to Nexis -- a voluminous worldwide newspaper and records database -- to check on the latest appearances of his own name. "I love it when I pop up in the Jakarta Times," he quips.
Today offers a special treat beyond the daily use of his name as an adjective ("Drudgelike"): proof of his entrance into the cultural lexicon. He taps a few keys and brings up his first mention by a Bush White House official on the public record. Back in January Drudge had helped advance charges from Bush officials about outgoing Clinton staffers sabotaging their offices. The damage originally was purported to be little more than some magic-marker graffiti and a few missing W keys from some computer keyboards -- a playful scene similar to the mess left by departing Papa Bush staffers in January 1993. The Drudge Report trumpeted otherwise: "WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT TRASHED': PORN BOMBS, LEWD MESSAGES; LEGAL PROBE CONSIDERED." Several publications, as well as a host of conservative talk shows, ran with the vandalism story.
But a General Services Administration investigation later found that the "property was consistent with what we would expect to encounter when tenants vacate office space after an extended occupancy." A separate General Accounting Office inquiry also concluded there was "no record of damage."
Confronted with this evidence at a press briefing by several reporters who believed they'd been deceived, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer could do little more than stammer and backpedal. He'd been misunderstood; he certainly never accused Clinton staffers of any serious West Wing malfeasance. "Somebody was chasing Matt Drudge in the press corps here," Fleischer offered, "and Matt Drudge had put something up that said a full investigation had been launched by the White House.... I was trying to knock that down." Refuting Drudge was the only reason he'd brought the vandalism matter up at a previous press briefing.
One would imagine that Drudge would feel a little sheepish about being proven wrong, not to mention being used as a scapegoat by his erstwhile allies in the White House. Even more embarrassing, here was a dramatic example of exactly what his critics have accused him of doing: moving a politically motivated rumor from GOP circles out into the daily news cycle, regardless of its veracity. Despite all this, staring at his computer screen and taking in his boldfaced name in a transcript of Fleischer's comments, Drudge seems pleased simply to have been mentioned. It's confirmation that he still matters, that he's still a player in Washington circles, even if his relationship to the Bush administration is a bit ambiguous. After all, it's a lot harder to play the role of rebel outsider when your man now sits in the Oval Office.
"Bush is not good copy," he sighs, then adds with a raised eyebrow: "But his daughters might be." He continues musing aloud. "I say this as a conservative: Bush is so completely boring. There just aren't any angles there whatsoever. Between Bush and Al Gore, there's probably not much of a difference. At least not yet. Gore would've probably given a little better copy."
That's a jarring statement -- most liberals and conservatives alike would insist there's a world of difference between Gore and Bush, that it certainly matters who won the election, that the ability to generate "copy" is no way to evaluate the nation's leader. But good copy means good ratings. And for Drudge, ratings appear to be what it's all about.
Although Matt Drudge's name might be forever linked with Hillary Clinton's famously branded "vast right-wing conspiracy" to bring down her husband's presidency, his formative years were anything but political. A mock "last will and testament" written shortly before his 1984 Washington, D.C., high school graduation captures the mindset of an angst-ridden teen who couldn't care less about the Beltway.
"To my only true friend Ms. thing, Vicky B," Drudge wrote, "I leave a night in Paris, a bottle of Chaps cologne, and hope you find a school with original people. And to everyone else who has helped and hindered me whether it be staff or students, I leave a penny for each day I've been here and cried here. A penny rich in worthless memories. For worthless memories is what I have endured."
The next few years were scarcely more auspicious. Eschewing college, Drudge spent a month kicking around Paris, a year in New York City working at a supermarket, and then returned home to Washington, D.C., where he punched the clock as night-shift manager for a suburban 7-Eleven. Eventually Drudge made his way to Hollywood, looking for a job in the entertainment industry. The closest he came to the glamorous life, however, was working in the CBS studios gift shop, folding T-shirts and dusting off 60 Minutes mugs. It was a job he would hold for seven years.
"My father worried I was in a giant stall," he said during a speech before a June 1998 meeting of the National Press Club. "And in a parental panic he overcame his fear of flying and dropped in for a visit. At the end of his stay, during the drive to the airport, sensing some action was called for, he dragged me into a blown-out strip [mall] on Sunset Boulevard and found a Circuit City store. Come on,' he said desperately, I'm getting you a computer.'
"Oh yeah, and what am I going to do with that?' I laughed.
"I collected a few e-mail addresses of interest," Drudge recalled of his initial 1995 forays onto the Internet, and the Drudge Report debuted as a string of juicy news articles he collected, then e-mailed to a small following. "One reader turned into 5, then turned into 100. And faster than you could say, I never had sex with that woman,' it was 1000, 5000, 100,000 people. The ensuing Website launched itself."
The end result was a starkly designed, link-studded site that mixed Hollywood gossip with Capitol Hill buzz. Considering the tenor of the times, it wasn't an odd juxtaposition. Supermarket tabloids such as the Star and the National Enquirer were then competing with daily newspapers for dirt on President Clinton.
Six years later the formula endures: Links to stories detailing the latest drug arrest of actor Robert Downey, Jr., and opening-weekend box-office speculation on Pearl Harbor compete for space with Timothy McVeigh execution coverage and Senator Jeffords's bolt from the GOP. The blend is spiced up by the occasional Drudge-penned "exclusive."
"The reason I hit it big is because I got lucky with the president," Drudge says. "But [during] all that Lewinsky stuff, I was doing great stories on science, TV -- all of it. The Lewinsky stuff was getting big headlines, so that's how I became defined." He notes that he's never shied away from a good story on George W. Bush. "I had a great headline a year and a half ago -- Bush: Whites Only -- about a racial covenant on a house Bush had sold so no blacks could move into it."
While Drudge bristles at the perception he's one-dimensionally pro-Republican, mention of his protracted "war" with Clinton draws a sparkle to his eyes. "When I look back on it, to imagine that the president would be saying my name over and over again in grand jury testimony, having that bounced around on satellites all over the world -- it's pretty surreal," he recalls. "And it took just two fingers, a modem, and guts." He then adds with a snarl: "And not giving a shit!"
That sentiment is precisely what alarmed many in the media, particularly when Drudge made headlines in August 1997 with his spousal-abuse allegations against journalist Sidney Blumenthal. Reading the Drudge Report at home before his first day on the job as a Clinton advisor, Blumenthal reacted with outrage, and Drudge admitted soon afterward to the Washington Post there was no substance to the story. He said he'd been used by "top GOP operatives" to carry out a character assassination, adding ruefully: "I think I've been had." Blumenthal remained unmoved and filed his well-publicized $30 million libel lawsuit, claiming not only a desire to defend his family's honor but the very craft of journalism itself.
"[Drudge] is a menace to honest, responsible journalism," concurred Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, who had already seen several of his sources on a purported Clinton-Kathleen Willey sex story leak material to Drudge. "And to the extent that he's read and people believe what they read, he's dangerous."
An important subtext to all this is the realization that a good five months before Monica Lewinsky became a household name, Drudge -- flying solo out of his tiny Hollywood apartment with nothing more than a home computer -- already was being read regularly throughout Washington's corridors of power. "They engaged me in a fight, and the Blumenthal lawsuit just exploded it," he marvels. "To know people in the White House are reading the Drudge Report!" Or as he crowed to the National Press Club: "If I'm so bad and if I'm so useless and I'm just a gossip hound, why was Sidney Blumenthal reading me the night before his first day at the White House? I don't quite understand that. It seems to me I'd spend my time over at the New York Times, who get everything right."
If Blumenthal's intention was to financially destroy Drudge, President Clinton's enemies gleefully rose to the challenge, providing the online muckraker with a pro bono legal defense crew. The New York Observer's Joe Conason and former Newsweek general editor Gene Lyons, in their The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, describe those presidential enemies as "a loose cabal, if not quite a vast conspiracy,' involving long-time Clinton adversaries from Arkansas and elsewhere: an angry gallery of defeated politicians, disappointed office seekers, right-wing pamphleteers, wealthy eccentrics, zany private detectives, religious fanatics, and die-hard segregationists who went beyond mere sexual gossip to promote rumors of financial chicanery, narcotics trafficking, and even politically motivated murder."
Among that network's ranks were colorful characters such as Nixon-era dirty trickster-turned-literary agent Lucianne Goldberg and American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., as well as the funding largesse of notorious Pittsburgh billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. This close-knit group jumped from issue to issue -- Travelgate, Troopergate, Whitewater, Vince Foster, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones -- looking for something, anything, with which to undermine the Clinton administration.
With its growing public profile, the Drudge Report became a useful weapon. Conason and Lyons point to white-shoe attorney Bruce Conway and conservative pundit Ann Coulter, both part of the Paula Jones legal team, as the source for many of the presidential tidbits that flowed to Drudge. Some were goofily false (Clinton has a black love child; Clinton has a bald-eagle tattoo on his privates), but at least one was shockingly true.
Conway and Coulter had been leaking Jones deposition material about a young White House intern to Newsweek reporter Isikoff, who was hot on the Clinton sex trail. When Newsweek editors decided on a Saturday night to hold the story from that Monday's issue (they wanted more evidence than third-party telephone conversations), Conway and Coulter turned to Drudge. Several hours later, on Sunday, January 18, 1998, the Drudge Report posted this headline: "NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN. BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR-OLD FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT. WORLD EXCLUSIVE. The Drudge Report has learned that reporter Michael Isikoff developed the story of his career, only to have it spiked by top Newsweek suits hours before publication...."
For more than a million devoted fans, the Drudge Report isn't just a Website, it's also a radio show. Drudge leads the way into one of his apartment's smaller rooms, which serves as a studio. Aside from a desk littered with the cassette tapes that contain his show's backing music, a microphone, and a brick-size telephone coupler, the only other object of note is a framed blowup of an October 2000 New York Times best-seller list. The placement of Drudge Manifesto is circled.
"They stopped me at number eight," he grouses, noting that he still managed to sell 100,000 copies (a paperback edition is due this fall). They, of course, are the liberal media elite, conspiring once again to silence him. "They get to define who's hot and who's not? Well, I declare they're not hot. All of them! They don't have to cover me; they don't have to review my book -- which got four weeks on the New York Times best-seller list without a review anywhere really but the Washington Post."
Perhaps that Times blowup and its reminder of his underdog status help Drudge to psych up before turning on his microphone every Sunday evening at 10:00. At that moment -- via satellite uplink and an engineer in a New York City station -- he begins preaching to his fans on 157 talk-radio stations around the nation. (According to Arbitron, more than 16,000 people tune in to hear him on Miami's WIOD-AM 610.) Sunday evening has traditionally been considered a graveyard slot by radio executives, and Drudge's development of a significant audience there hasn't gone unnoticed or unrewarded; his six-figure radio paycheck provides the bulk of his current income.
If there's something ironic about this booster of the Internet revolution finding success on such an old-school medium, it's lost on Drudge. In fact he takes great pleasure in the dot-com crash. "I see all these media corporations pulling back from their Websites, saying, Oh, there's no money in it. Retreat!' The audience is still there; there's lots of eyeballs. The Internet has just failed as a commercial, corporate, bottom-line medium. But who said it had to be that?"
He's certainly had his disputes with those media corporations. A yearlong stint hosting a TV cable show on Fox News came to an end with Drudge crying censorship -- at the hands of archconservative Rupert Murdoch no less. ABC radio, the original syndicator of his radio show, terminated its relationship with him late last year. Executives in the ABC news department were uncomfortable with the association and reportedly prevailed upon the network not to renew Drudge's contract.
For Eric Rhoads, publisher of the trade journal Radio Ink, these conflicts are not surprising. "I can understand why a company like ABC, which is always very concerned with the credibility of its news, would be concerned about tying in with Matt," he remarks. "But most stations are just going to say, Look, if it gets ratings and we can make money on it, it's worthwhile.'"
Accordingly Drudge wasn't orphaned for long. Premiere Radio Networks, a division of media titan Clear Channel Communications and home to top-rated Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura, swooped in to grab him. "The hosts who traditionally have been the most successful are not wishy-washy," Rhoads says. "They're very dogmatic in their content. That's why Rush has been so successful. Whether or not you agree with him, very firm opinions lead to great ratings."
But the radio persona of Matt Drudge is not exactly a younger version of Rush Limbaugh, despite a clear overlap in the two men's audiences. Most callers to Drudge merely parrot what they've already heard on Limbaugh's show (even down to stock epithets like "limousine liberals"), endlessly rehashing familiar talk-show fodder: the death penalty, Timothy McVeigh conspiracies, unchecked immigration, the "socialist" nature of the Democratic Party leadership. "The callers are boring," Drudge admits with a shrug, an attitude that comes through on the air.
What truly excites Drudge, what elevates his radio monologues to a caustic pitch, is the media itself. "Okay, Clinton's gone," he says, "but my new rage is [AOL-Time Warner CEO] Gerald Levin. He thinks he's the most powerful man in the world. And he might be! Anyone who controls that many images, that much information, that much product, and has grand designs for societal good,' I'm onto him!"
Levin is but one of Drudge's favored targets. On the air recently he also cackled as he recited the minuscule ratings of several cable-news programs; he reveled in a New Yorker story that quoted a former Inside.com staffer claiming the site never achieved more than 1200 paying subscribers despite a $35 million budget; he clucked in disgust at both Gore Vidal's plans for a McVeigh execution profile for Vanity Fair and that magazine's editor, Graydon Carter, for offering Vidal a forum.
These fevered rants evidence Drudge's fascination with the world of "Tina" and "Harvey" (in insiderspeak, no "Brown," "Weinstein," or titles are necessary), but how many conservative-minded radio listeners share that interest? "It's just a hunch I have," Drudge says, "that these media people are better copy than Bush." And while he concedes that his fans may not monitor Salon.com's Jake Tapper and Inside.com's Kurt Andersen to the obsessive degree he does, they certainly enjoy his tirades on those figures. "For two of the last three ratings books, I was number one in New York City [in my time slot]," he says proudly, referring to his Arbitron-measured audience of more than 100,000 there. "[On Sunday nights] there is no other voice on AM or FM -- music, talk, jazz, classical, hip-hop -- that has a bigger audience. So obviously people are getting it.'"
And if they do stray, there's always Janet Reno. "I'm going to go to Little Havana and wear a Reno for Governor' T-shirt," he laughs. Not that he plans to vote for her, but as a lightning rod for conservative animus, "she's great copy." Beyond Reno, though, don't expect to hear much about Miami on the radio or the Website. "I don't write about Miami politics for the same reason I don't write about Giuliani's divorce in New York: It doesn't interest me enough. I know that's self-serving, living here and not caring what's happening on my own street. But tough, that's the American way."
Drudge has enough faith in his instincts to believe that if he's interested in a subject, so will his audience be interested. Keeping that audience glued to his Website and radio show remains paramount. Some critics might argue that such a ratings-driven philosophy is less about journalism than it is about tabloid-style pandering. "Who says that?" Drudge snaps. "The establishment press? Those people are fools to think they own the tradition of journalism. It's all about nobodies like me, upstarts, people who dig into a lot of things on their own.
"Look, I know what journalists think of me: that I'm an uneducated fool who was working in a gift shop and hit it big. And there's nothing they can do about that. I get e-mails all the time: Help me, I'm sixteen years old. I don't want to go college; I want to be like you.'"
To be like Matt Drudge is no simple thing, at least no simple-minded thing. A lengthy lunch conversation only underscores his iconoclastic nature. A case in point: his attraction to pop culture, a subject most conservative commentators either fear or deem to be beneath them. When was the last time you heard Rush Limbaugh talk about the new Radiohead album?
Despite overcast weather, Drudge slides on his sunglasses for the drive down to Lincoln Road's Van Dyke Café. He appears visibly tense, remarking that with the exception of shopping expeditions to the Wild Oats supermarket on Alton Road, "this is as far south as I go." He glances around apprehensively as he sits at his table, but as time passes, he appears disappointed no one at the Van Dyke recognizes him.
A similar ambivalence marks his feelings toward his own profession. Drudge has little affinity for other marquee conservative pundits, particularly those often held up as kindred maverick spirits. His take on P.J. O'Rourke, hipster libertarian? "Hip? P.J. O'Rourke?" he scoffs. "I don't know how anybody gets through those things he writes for Rolling Stone." How about Tucker Carlson, the golden boy recently tapped as the new voice of the right for CNN's Crossfire? Drudge rolls his eyes and offers a dismissive wave, as if he can't even be bothered to comment. Is it that Carlson is too moderate? Is it his suspenders? "He's boring," Drudge barks.
So who does he enjoy? "Who do I read? Outside of what I'm working on, nobody." He adds with a grin: "I'm like George Bush." When pressed, however, he surprisingly names liberal stalwarts such as the Nation's Eric Alterman ("I agree with the Nation on trade -- and so does Pat Buchanan") and the New York Times's Maureen Dowd ("though I'd never admit it in public").
Further complicating the Drudge portrait are his stream-of-consciousness jeremiads on media monopolies and his support of the violent anti-globalization street protesters who shut down Seattle in 1999. What begins to emerge is a philosophy that is less traditionally conservative than populist. A hint of its origin can be found in his affection for dance culture.
Drudge speaks fondly of frequent teenage visits to an aunt living in New York City; he had immersed himself in the early and mid-Eighties downtown club scene before he'd even finished high school. He recalls listening to legendary DJ Frankie Crocker on WBLS-FM and late nights at Danceteria and the Roxy, where races, sexualities, and musical genres all bumped up and ground against one another. Chestnuts from that era often turn up on his radio show as closing theme songs.
In a recent issue of New York magazine, columnist Michael Wolff talked of two nations coming into focus before us. There is a schism between "the quicker-growing, economically vibrant, but also more fractious and more difficult to manage, morally relativist, urban-oriented, culturally adventuresome, sexually polymorphous, and ethnically diverse nation (Bill Clinton's America, if you will). And there's the small-town, nuclear-family, religiously oriented, white-centric other America, which makes up for its diminishing cultural and economic force with its predictability and stability (the GWB-ies)."
New York's downtown milieu left a lasting imprint on most people who passed through it, and while the experience may not have transformed them into flaming revolutionaries, it usually left them comfortably within "Bill Clinton's America" and injected a healthy fear of the "GWB-ies." To hear Drudge throw in his ideological lot with the latter tribe simply seems unfathomable, particularly when he glides from effusive praise of borderline reactionary Georgia Rep. Bob Barr to singing the lyrics of the house classic "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" -- a veritable gay-nightclub anthem. Drudge says there's no inherent conflict. "I take this music seriously," he insists. "In fact I take this music so seriously that I don't want to see some shirtless freak tweaking. That kind of ruins it for me -- club music is the classical music of our age."
Drudge may embrace the music, but he refuses to embrace its explicit gay, black roots, a refusal that has prompted controversy in the past. MSNBC correspondent Jeannette Walls, in her book Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip, profiled Drudge as someone who "hung out with a crowd of promiscuous, openly gay men and dated several of them." She interviewed one purported ex-boyfriend, David Cohen, who recalled that "[Drudge] loved to do wild, provocative things to draw attention to himself," including getting tossed from one Washington, D.C., nightclub after tossing a full pitcher of beer into the air.
After Dish's publication last year, Walls and Drudge traded insults via New York City's gossip columns. Drudge claimed Walls's entire account was fabricated: "Jeannette, dear, slow down and come up for some air. You are becoming a laughingstock. Even by MSNBC standards."
In response Walls told the Daily News: "I'm not passing judgment. But I think his duplicity is relevant to his character as someone who has built his career on exposing other's private lives." Contacted by phone recently, Walls reiterated that both she and her publisher, HarperCollins, "absolutely stand by every word I've said." She also said Cohen has offered to sign an affidavit attesting to his comments.
At the mention of Walls's book, Drudge turns visibly angry, characterizing Dish as nothing less than an attempt to spike his career. "I go to bars," he explains with a perturbed edge. "I go to straight bars, I go to gay bars. [Walls] never said there was sex; she said there was dating. She never had enough to go that far."
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Does it bother Drudge to be portrayed in the media as gay? "No, because I'm not," he answers firmly. "But I'm not going to be a Bert Fields and sue people for $100 million for printing this stuff," he adds, referring to Tom Cruise's attorney and his defamation lawsuit against a gay porn star who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with the actor.
So does he fear a backlash from homophobic fans of his radio show and Website? "It's not an issue with me," he replies, growing weary of the topic. He leans back in his chair and opines, "I think I told the Daily News something like, My youth is a blur.'" He laughs in self-appreciation: "That's a good out."
For Drudge there's more at work here than "Is he or isn't he?" Questions about his sexual orientation, he argues, simply are more examples of liberals attempting to use culture, even dance culture, to advance their agenda. "When did synthesizers married to a drum machine become a political movement?" he asks in exasperation. "What does a Peter Rauhoffer instrumental have to do with [liberal values]? I haven't missed an issue of Billboard in eighteen years, but I hate it when their columnists mix phrases like club culture' with the dance scene. It's so phony; it's wrong. It's a record. It's a record you play as you're mowing your lawn, swinging on a swing. I don't understand why dance-music writers get so obsessed with community.' Maybe it was AIDS, a sense of coming together of the underground." He mutters that last word with obvious distaste.
"I think more people died of AIDS during Clinton than during either Reagan or Bush," he continues. "I don't think there's anything a president can do [about AIDS], especially a president who is encouraging oral sex.... If we all just have our pants down, if we follow our urges in everything we do, society is going to go down."
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Hi, so i found a - in my eyes - nice way to allow code like this:
the idea is to get "multimethod" behaviour by using a visitor pattern like approach:Code:AbstractShape a = new Box(..); AbstractShape b = new Sphere(...); a.TestIntersection(b);
This solution doesn't scale perfectly but i guess its ok. (For each shape a new method must be added to AbstractShape, and for each intersection-test implementation between 2 shapes each shape class must be updated.Code:class AbstractShape { public: bool TestIntersection(AbstractShape &r_other) { return r_other.TestIntersection_(*this); } // By default, an exception is thrown if the method is not overridden virtual bool TestIntersection_(Sphere &) { throw "not implemented"; } virtual bool TestIntersection_(Box &) { throw "not implemented"; } }; class Box : AbstractShape { public: ... bool TestIntersection_(Sphere &) { // call the actual intersection test function } }
The nice thing is, that this solution also allows deriving from a shape. So in my case i have a class OctTreeNode which is derived from Box, and i can still use the TestIntersection method on it.
Does anyone know if there is a name for that design pattern - or does anyone know where a similar pattern was used for intersection tests? I'm sure others figured out that solution, but so far i haven't found what i was looking for.
(Mostly i found ppl who used HashMaps or switch/if blocks, or used template "hacks" (typelists))
I just need something to cite for my work.

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Ceresko earns Big Ten Golfer of the Week
Ceresko earns Big Ten Golfer of the Week
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Junior Ellen Ceresko (Jefferson Township, Pa.) earned Big Ten Women's Golfer of the Week honors for her efforts in the Nittany Lion Invitational this past weekend, conference officials announced Wednesday (Oct. 2).
Ceresko finished the tournament in fourth-place at one over par and helped the Nittany Lions to a third-place finish in the event. The honor marks the second time Ceresko has won the award, after having earned it last season when she won the Nittany Lion Invitational.
The Jefferson Township native is the first member of Penn State women's golf team to be awarded Big Ten Women's Golfer of the Week this season. Last season, two Penn State golfers won this award, including Ceresko and senior Christina Vosters (Bethany Beach, Del.).
The Nittany Lions are back in action Oct. 7, traveling to Greenville, N.C. for the Pirate Intercollegiate. Follow Penn State women's golf on Twitter @PennStateWGolf and on Facebook at Penn State Women's Golf.


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The_Boojum wrote:Hi Gary,
installed the latest version. No change. Still hangs on the first thing it backs up.
The_Boojum wrote:Hi Gary,
please tell me what you need and how to trace it.
The_Boojum wrote:Hi Gary,
checked the destination directory and there are .xpi, .jar, .js, .tbu and .mab files there. Obviously it is hanging somewhere near the end. Have set the script timeout to 0 and let it run with Debug mode switched on and left it for 2 hours. The event log shows no TEBE entries. I switched on all address books and personal and collected, but only Personal and Collected are backed up. If I switch off personal and collected there is only an "allAdressbooks.tbu" which is far too small to contain all the address book entries. I have now looked through all the options and cannot find a way to get any trace or debug information further to the ones already tried to no effect.
The_Boojum wrote:Hi Gary,
I find both TEBE and FEBE worth investing time in, as they are both excellent products and I appreciate the time you are taking to help me.
The_Boojum wrote:1. The AllAddressbooks.tbu contains Abook.mab, Abook-1.mab and Abook-2.mab, so the address books part seems to be working fine.
The_Boojum wrote:2. The .js file is the PrefsTB.js as I turned on the option to backup the TEBE Settings.
The_Boojum wrote:4. I checked what extension/themes had been backed up and found some disabled ones that had not been backed up and removed these and then restarted thunderbird. The only one now not being backed up is the "Default theme for thunderbird" which I cannot remove.
The_Boojum wrote:5. I changed the backup options to selective and,
a) Selective with nothing, ends correctly with a report saying nothing was selected
b) Selective with themes, ends correctly backing up one theme and providing a report
c) Selective with extensions, backs up all the extension but hangs and has to be aborted. There are no extensions that were not backed up and all have a positive size.
It appears that there is a problem once it has backed up all the extensions and then cannot proceed. Perhaps I have an error in my About:config. I had a look at this and the entries for extensions and TEBE but could not identify anything that could be causing the problem.
The_Boojum wrote:that produced some results.
Could not read chrome manifest 'file:///C:/email@example.com/chrome.manifest'.
Could not read chrome manifest 'file:///C:/email@example.com/chrome.manifest'.
The_Boojum wrote:Let me know if you want me to remove these?
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Whenever one of my friends starts to get all anxiety about what to wear to a party, I always tell them to remember that at 99% of social gatherings, all that matters is what you look like from the chest up. Parties are so crowded that the slightly too-big pants or scuffed shoes are not going to be noticed.
I feel as though Kerry Washington took this advice on the one and only night when she shouldn't, and I can't fault her for it because I'm the one that recommended it. But the fact is, even though her hair and makeup were luscious and beautiful and selling a whole bunch of unsuspecting fans on how great it is to be pregnant*, her slightly unmemorable dress wound up looking kind of "greige" and definitely wrinkled. Which is no big deal unto itself, but it lent her the air of maybe being less on top of things than Olivia Pope always is.
What follows from this line of thinking is that I can't get a handle on whether Washington, who was pretty enthusiastically retweeting her coworkers' party antics, is the type to do a bunch of drivebys at a few events or whether she took herself straight home and was in pajamas before the broadcast was over. I kind of hope it's #2.
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Green tile: Four Seasons a colorful option
ADDRESS: 29 Woodlake Drive
BUILDING: 1428 fin. sq. ft., 52 unfin.
LAND: est. 0.08 acres
NEIGHBORHOOD: Four Seasons
CURB APPEAL: 5 of 10
LISTED BY: Mary Newton of Keller Williams, 466-6060, 220-2200
In the autumn, the variegated colors of the townhouses in Four Seasons seem to have been custom-painted to match nature's handiwork. Stained sidings of maroon and green echo the burnished leaves of the darkening dogwoods. Dark browns, tans, and muted grays blend naturally with tall cedars, pines, and other mature shrubbery lining this planned neighborhood that is itself aging gracefully.
Built in the 1970s by Daley Craig– father of Hunter and Sam Craig, whose own realty offspring include Western Ridge, Mill Creek, and Redfields– the Four Seasons townhouses are now maintained by the homeowners' association.
The three-bedroom, bath-and-a-half property is easy to locate along one of the first avenues of attached homes after the turn from Four Seasons Drive. It also happens to be one of the more fastidiously maintained properties of the 160 or so townhouses in the subdivision. (Four Seasons also offers patio homes and condominiums, managed separately.)
Compared to other available townhouses with the same floor plans, it's easy to see what TLC and a few upgrades can accomplish. The hardwood floors in the living and dining areas are immaculate. Ditto for the carpet on the stairs to the upper three bedrooms.
The kitchen is small enough to be cozy but big enough to handle a table and chairs– and a washer/dryer unit behind louvered doors. Kitchen cabinets and window treatments have all been updated recently enough that the house feels more contemporary than its origins. (The upstairs bathroom flooring, however, was intentionally left during a recent re-do because its intricate green 1970s patterning is already starting to look retro-cool.)
The agent explains the difference between a townhouse and a condominium: "In a condominium, you only own air. In a townhouse, you actually own dirt."
But paradoxically at Four Seasons, the rule for maintenance– according to the residents at 29 Woodlake– is "Everything on the outside is taken care of." That includes cable service, weekly garbage collection, periodic new staining on exterior siding, replacement roofing as needed, snow removal, and lawn mowing.
That's not a negligible benefit considering the good-sized greenbelts between some houses, perhaps because 30 years ago buildable space in Charlottesville and Albemarle County wasn't at such a premium.
All that ends up being quite a benefit, especially considering that HOA fees at Four Seasons are still less than $100 a month. "This could well represent the last of the affordable housing," the agent says.
The "dirt" that comes with this particular unit's front "yard" features some tidy boxwood shrubs, iris, miniature roses, and a brick walkway. Like its neighbors, rear access to the home includes two (uncovered) parking spots. From there, a gated entrance between two wooden storage units leads to a concrete patio with privacy fencing and latticed-trained greenery, with even more plantings and a shade tree.
The current owners replaced a sliding glass door unit with a wood-framed one that enhances both the patio and adjoining living room.
Speaking of sheds and storage, there's plenty more of the latter inside. There's pull-down access to a floored attic space with lighting and ventilation, plus an under-the-stairs closet. The bedrooms all have wide closet spaces behind folding doors, and the master bedroom sports a second one with heavy mirrored panels that reflect natural light from a sliding screen/glass door combination on the opposite wall. This upper-story door opens onto to a narrow balcony just big enough for a healthy row of potted plants, or to serve as a vantage point for hollering "Yoo-hoo!" to Romeos at the front door.
The County's 2003 assessed value for the property is just under $100,000, up considerably from this unit's 1998 selling price of $68,000, but well-under the $137,000-$155,000 range the agent declares other Four Seasons' townhouses have sold for recently.
The reason for the asking price bump on this one isn't something a website photo will reveal- you've gotta peek inside. But a visit would also demonstrate how this neighborhood of owner-occupied and rental homes is a mere 15 minutes from downtown and practically within shouting distance from U.S. 29 in one direction and West Rio Road in the other. For some folks, that just might be the right location, location, location.


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Robocallers remain a scourge
For months now, I've been harassed by the most obnoxious robocalls from Ray's carpet cleaning outfit. "Ray," who may or may not actually exist, leaves me the same semi-hysterical sales pitch each time:
"HELLO!" he screams from my voice-message machine. "ARE YOUR CARPETS DIRTY?"
Again and again it comes. My home number's been registered and re-registered for years on the National Do Not Call Registry managed by the Federal Trade Commission, yet Ray keeps calling. I reached someone a few times on his alleged business phone and told them to stop calling and they said they would. But Ray keeps calling.
So I decided to dig into it, find out how other victims were fighting back, and then see what the good guys in Washington are doing to catch up with the bad guys who, technologically speaking, seem to always be one or two steps ahead.
First, I put my home number again on the registry. I filed a complaint about Ray's with the FTC. I tried, unsuccessfully, to track down the elusive Ray from whatever cave he's calling me from. And I spoke with an FTC rep.
Yes, said spokesman Mitch Katz, robocalls are the scourge of America right now and getting worse by the day. No, the Do Not Call list is not the waste of time that many frustrated citizens think it is. And yes, federal authorities are going after these illegal fraudsters with everything they've got.
"The registry does work," Katz told me. "We know it's working because the
civil cases we've brought after people complained have stopped over 1 billion robocalls since 2009. Still, these computer-generated calls are so easy and cheap to make, and the criminals behind the operations are like cockroaches. You stomp on some here, then another bunch of them pop up over there."
Katz hadn't heard about Ray's carpet cleaning. But he's quite familiar with "Rachel," the computerized voice behind a sprawling credit-protection scam that has traumatized millions of American homeowners.
--'Rachel from Card Services,' as she's known, is our Public Enemy No. 1,' " Katz said.
Eugene Wong, a retired Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) manager from Cupertino, is all too familiar with Rachel. When I asked readers for their own robocalling nightmares, along with any tech tips they had on fighting back, Wong called me right up.
"I keep getting calls on my cellphone from Rachel with Card Holder Services, whatever that is," said Wong. "It's really annoying. The calls come at random times of the day from random area codes that I don't recognize. The recording says 'If you don't want to get future calls, press this number.' And I've done that many times and they still keep calling. It's been going on for six months and I'm getting calls twice a week."
But back to my own headache -- Ray. After I told a woman who answered Ray's robocall number that I was a reporter, she hung up on me. I called from another number and left a message saying I was interested in hearing more about their service, which I was. Haven't heard back from anyone.
A lot of the victims I talked to have given up on the Do Not Call Registry.
"I've been on the Do Not Call List since day one," said Debra Bethard-Caplick, who teaches public-relations at Chicago's DePaul University. "I kept getting robocalls and I kept filing complaints, but I just kept getting calls from the same credit card company. Nothing works."
Bethard-Caplick thinks some of these robocalling companies aren't really selling anything at all. "It's like the computers are doing it and the computer dialers have gotten ahead of the humans. I think the robots have taken over."
Frustrated by being outwitted again and again by computers and the hackers controlling them, the federal government has turned to "crowdsourcing," asking the American public to help out. After seeking tech solutions in return for a cash prize of $50,000, the FTC's Robocall Challenge has received 1,000 entrants, Katz said. The winner will be announced April 15, and he says many of the ideas submitted could "provide a mechanism that could be used to stop these robocalls.
"Until then, we'll keep filing cases," Katz said. "We're not going anywhere, and if people keep filing complaints with our registry, we'll do everything we can do make sure you stop getting these unwanted calls."
Uncle Sam vs. Robo-callers
Since 2009, when all telemarketing robocalls were made illegal (with a few exceptions, such as political fundraisers and charities), the Federal Trade Commission says it has stopped 1 billion robocalls by aggressively going after scofflaws. Here are some stats on these efforts and FTC's National Do Not Call Registry:
217.6 million
Number of landline and cellphones registered last year
3.8 million
Number of complaints received by FTC in latest fiscal year
Number of legal cases brought against companies and individuals for violating the National Do Not Call Registry
$117 million
Total amount of civil penalties imposed on violators
$28.2 million
Total amount recovered for consumers who were defrauded by robocallers
Source: Federal Trade Commission
READER TIPS on fighting THE CALLS
Ron Fuentes, Danville: "With the U-Verse service from AT&T, you can list the numbers you want blocked, assuming you know what they are. It doesn't always work, because the robocallers keep changing their numbers, but for me it blocks calls 95 percent of the time."
Charley Stephanski, San Jose: "I use my cellphone exclusively, and only answer my landline when caller ID shows it's someone I know. And if it's a robocaller, I just let it ring."
Debra Bethard-Caplick, Chicago: "Buy a phone that lets you block certain numbers. I bought a Panasonic house phone for $60 and so far it's working. I still get robocalls, but after one ring the phone cuts it off."
And this from the FTC website: "If you get a robocall: Hang up the phone. Don't press 1 to speak to a live operator and don't press any other number to get your number off the list. If you respond by pressing any number, it will probably just lead to more robocalls.'
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Small-market reality hits Thunder with Harden deal
The first big dose of small-market reality has hit the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Before the Thunder even played their first real game following a trip to the NBA finals, the franchise parted ways with Sixth Man of the Year James Harden in a trade with the Houston Rockets, fracturing the team's core and substantially changing the second unit.
''We made several efforts to try to make this work,'' general manager Sam Presti said at a news conference Sunday.
''I think there's a point in every negotiation where you start to realize where things are lining up, and at that point you have to play the hand that you're dealt. I feel like as an organization, we've made some tough decisions. This one was right up there with them.''
Presti said the Thunder made what was supposed to be a final offer on Friday, then approached him one last time before pulling off the trade Saturday night - making sure that Harden realized he could be dealt if he didn't accept.
But Harden, who developed into one of the league's most dynamic shooting guards after being the No. 3 pick in the 2009 draft, still wanted more.
Oklahoma City already had All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook plus NBA blocks leader Serge Ibaka inked to long-term, eight-figure deals and - even with an arena upgraded by taxpayer funds that's sold out for every game - wasn't willing to offer him a maximum contract.
Presti said the Thunder made an ''extraordinary effort'' to keep Harden and side-stepped whether the team tried to low-ball Harden.
''That's for other people to determine, I suppose, and ultimately we'll live with that. We understand what we were able to do, and what we did, and the significance and the importance it made, especially considering the commitments that it would have taken our payroll to,'' Presti said. ''Our ownership group was absolutely behind that effort.''
Harden said Sunday he expects to sign a long-term deal with Houston before the regular season starts. He was saying the same thing about Oklahoma City when training camp began.
Durant, Westbrook and Ibaka all took marginally less than they could have demanded on the open market to stay in Oklahoma City but Presti suggested ''the term sacrifice gets thrown around maybe too loosely.'' He said the Thunder didn't begrudge Harden for rejecting their offers.
''We're not going to judge anybody. We're not going to put anything on anybody,'' Presti said. ''We're going to do the best thing for the franchise. In a lot of cases, in most cases, the players are going to do the best things for them. You hope that those things overlap, and we've been very fortunate they have overlapped in a lot of cases.''
The Thunder simply aren't in a position to spend like the Miami Heat, who went over the cap to add Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis after beating Oklahoma City in the finals, or the Los Angeles Lakers, who added All-Stars Steve Nash and Dwight Howard to a lineup that already featured Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol.
''I think we all know that James Harden was a big part of their team. That goes without saying. He was a big part of why they made it to the finals,'' the Heat's LeBron James said. ''They got a couple pieces back that are really good as well. But we don't know how it changes their team until they actually get out there.''
Presti said the Thunder got more for Harden because they dealt him early enough that Houston could re-sign him before a Wednesday deadline to reach a contract extension.
Oklahoma City received guards Kevin Martin and Jeremy Lamb, two first-round draft picks and a second-round pick in the swap, and also sent Cole Aldrich, Daequan Cook and Lazar Hayward to the Rockets. Presti expects the draft picks to be critical to rebuilding quality depth at a low price.
The departure of Harden and, to a lesser degree, Cook and Aldrich rattles Oklahoma City's second unit that already lost veterans Derek Fisher and Nazr Mohammed in free agency. Backup point guard Eric Maynor will return after missing most of last season with a knee injury, with power forward Nick Collison the only other holdover from the second five.
First-round draft pick Perry Jones III and free-agent acquisition Hasheem Thabeet figure to move up in the rotation now.
Presti said the Thunder still consider themselves championship contenders - but so does every team in the league when the season starts.
''With the group that we have, they've been through a lot together and they've won a lot of games together. So, for us, of course we're always going to feel like we've got a chance to do good things,'' Presti said. ''However, I would also add that it's never been our approach to do a lot of talking about what it is we're going to do or who we are.
''I think we're at a point as a franchise where we have to do what we say.''
AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this report from Miami.


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The Detroit Zoo plans to break ground on the $26 million Polk Penguin Conservation Center in April.
Over the past six months, it's raised another $10 million for the project, giving it $21 million so far, Communications Director Patricia Janeway Mills said Thursday.
That includes $10 million from zoo Vice Chairman Stephen Polk, who is chairman of IHS Automotive Inc. in Southfield, and a $3 million grant from the William Davidson Foundation.
The cost of the project, originally expected to total $21 million, increased with design modifications, Mills said.
The 28,000-square-foot center will be constructed on a 2-acre site near the entrance of the zoo. When completed in 2015, it will house 80 penguins.
The zoo's existing penguinarium will be repurposed as a conservation center for another species.
The zoo expects the new center to bring in an additional 100,000 visitors and $3 million in economic impact to the region each year.
The Detroit Zoo has worked with penguin conservation since the 1960s, when it built the penguinarium, Mills said.
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This year in my role in The World Community for Christian Meditation I have been meeting with our national coordinators in six regions of the globe. We began with South East Asia and the Pacific in January followed by meetings in three European regions. We have just finished the regional meeting with N. America, Mexico, Haiti and the Caribbean countries and I move on now to the last of this series in S. America.
Several of the sixteenth century frescoes of the life of St Benedict that are in the cloister at Monte Oliveto, the mother house of the Benedictine Olivetans, portray an easily identifiable devil.
If there were Londoners who wanted to escape the tensions of their city in recent weeks they might have been well advised to go northwards to the now peaceful lands of their ancient enemies, once the terrorists of their day.
When he was ten Agostino was in the field harvesting with his family when the retreating Germans arrived. They brought their horses into the field and Agostino understood that this meant that the winter provisions would be lost.
Sometimes, when people tell you their story, you hope what they are saying is true. But even if it isn't you're still grateful for their sharing it and for the fertility of their imagination. In fact though, after some stimulating moments of doubt, I believed him.
The retreat was over and there were just a few of us left saying goodbye and heading for the cars. Here day and night change shifts without the ceremonies of twilight; between one goodbye and another it had become dark. There is a sweet sadness in separating from those you have been with after the bonding that happens during a silent retreat.
What's the price of a smile? This question was suggested by a speaker at the seminar who flashed a particularly attractive and disarming one. Smiles transmit so much just by stretching a few facial muscles and turning on a light in the eyes. They work over large distances, even to the back of the hall. Try to fake a smile but you won't convince others it's for real when it isn't.
The interfaith chapel in this northern prison is a quarter of a mile walk from the first of the series of locked gates. With each one clanging behind us, we walk down bare corridors with inmates' art displayed bleakly on the walls. At each stage you feel more cut off from the outside and more controlled by the world coming into view on the inside.
In the mosque some men seated on the floor, looking in different directions, chant the Qur'an. The sound is not as mellifluous as plainchant but fills the hall with intense emotion and the heart's desire for God. Outside in the courtyard porticos other groups of men also looking in different directions talked or listened to each other or to the ambient noises of Marrakech. They were all blind.
At dinner I sat next to the French philosopher with whom I was sharing the platform for the weekend and found to my relief that he was earthier than I had imagined. He loved his food and washed it down with plenty of red wine even just before he was to give a talk. He listened attentively, laughed heartily at the good jokes, enjoyed his freedom of spirit and was comfortable with his own eccentricities.


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Florida authorities are not pursuing any suspects in a blaze that killed a family of four in a mansion owned by former tennis professional James Blake, an official said on Thursday, raising the possibility the fire may have been a murder-suicide.
Detectives were still working to identify the people and determine the cause of Wednesday's fire, said Debbie Carter, a spokeswoman for the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department. Investigators found fireworks throughout the Tampa property.
"At this time, we do not have a suspect that we are pursuing," Carter said. "We will see where the investigation leads us."
Blake was renting the more-than-6,000 square foot Tampa home and was not in the property when the fire broke out.
In a statement on Thursday, Tampa technology company VASTEC identified the victims as Darrin Campbell, the firm's chief operating officer, and his family, TV station WFTS reported. A VASTEC official could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said two male and two female bodies were found inside the house. Two of the bodies showed signs of upper body trauma, but officials did not immediately provide additional details.
The Tampa Bay Times reported that Campbell purchased some $600 worth of fireworks on Sunday.
William Weimer, the vice president of Phantom Fireworks, told the Times that surveillance footage showed Campbell bought six packages of small firecrackers and seven packs of aerial fireworks designed to shoot into the sky.
"There was nothing about the transaction itself or the products he purchased that would be out of the ordinary," Weimer said. "You'd probably purchase more to shoot off on the Fourth of July."
Authorities received a call to 911 reporting an explosion and fire at the home at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday.
"I was walking my dog and the house just exploded," the caller said. "The house is engulfed in flames." Police released a recording of the call.
Blake, 34, retired from professional tennis in 2013. He bought the five-bedroom, five-bathroom house for $1.5 million in 2005, according to Hillsborough County property records.
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No relief for Belisle in Rockies' loss to Giants
Cuddyer takes over NL batting lead; Ottavino comes through nicely
SAN FRANCISCO -- The trials continue for Rockies veteran relief pitcher Matt Belisle.
Trusted with a one-run lead, Belisle was touched for two runs in the eighth inning as the Giants took a come-from-behind 4-3 victory at AT&T Park on Wednesday afternoon.
One of the Rockies' most dependable players over the last four seasons, Belisle (5-7) has given up runs in each of his last six appearances and earned runs in five of those. While much of his slump has involved hard-hit balls, Wednesday he gave up four singles, plus an intentional walk. But with the bases loaded and one out, Marco Scutaro tied the game with a single and Brandon Belt singled in the winning run.
Belisle punched the air in frustration after the Belt single but escaped the inning by forcing a grounder from Hunter Pence to shortstop Jonathan Herrera, who cut down a runner at the plate. Belisle ended it by fanning Pablo Sandoval to end a 10-pitch at-bat and a season-high 36-pitch inning.
In his six-game slump, he has a 16.69 ERA (eight earned runs in 5 1/3 innings), has given up 18 hits and has seen his season ERA rise from 3.88 to 4.63.
"I try not to break it down too much, overanalyze it or complicate it," Belisle said. "Obviously, something is going on where a lot of hits are falling, because it's not that easy to get hits, right? But it sure seems like it is against me right now.
"It may be a time to approach this by asking some of my offensive guys. Maybe I'm too predictable. Maybe I'm flying open and it's a flaw. But I'm still going at them with everything I have and my confidence is unwavering. I feel really good with a page turned and ready to fight that day."
Belisle has made 297 appearances since the start of the 2010 season as the Rockies' primary right-handed setup man -- the most of any reliever in baseball. He had a 2.93 ERA in 2010, 3.25 in 2011 and 3.71 last season. Belisle and manager Walt Weiss have said repeatedly fatigue is not a factor.
"He's just going through a tough spot right now, but I talked to Matty a couple days ago and physically he feels good," Weiss said. "He's going through a tough spot. He needs a couple good outings to get his confidence back. His velocity feels good. His stuff looks good. He's setting some balls on the plate and getting hit, not getting away with much."
Belisle's nightmare erased a day in which the Rockies were in position to win because of Michael Cuddyer's consistency, Nolan Arenado's clutch work and some skin-of-the-teeth pitching by starter Juan Nicasio and reliever Adam Ottavino.
Nicasio escaped two bases-loaded jams in five innings, during which he gave up five hits and four walks but limited the Giants to one run. Ottavino came on with a 3-1 lead after Josh Outman walked three batters to open the seventh. The only run scored on Pence's sacrifice fly.
The Rockies have been trying Ottavino in later innings in recent games. He was tagged with the 3-2 loss to the Giants on Monday night.
"I was disappointed the other night, not only because I lost the game but I know that I'm kind of auditioning to maybe get promoted next year," Ottavino said. "Every time that I succeed in this new job, that's a good thing for me. I'm just trying to make pitches, put my best foot forward and hopefully they keep trusting me."
Cuddyer entered Wednesday in a virtual tie with the Braves' Chris Johnson for the National League batting lead and went 3-for-4 to push his average to .334. Arenado drove in runs with singles in the fourth and sixth. The fourth-inning RBI came with two out, as have 24 of his 49 RBIs this season. Charlie Culberson added a sixth-inning RBI single.
The series ended with the Rockies (67-80) just a half-game ahead of the last-place Giants (66-80) in the NL West -- not exactly the type of race that causes goosebumps in September. Nonetheless, they managed a spirited series.
"I think we're a competitive bunch, whether it's us or the Rockies," said Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford, whose eighth-inning leadoff single began the rally. "We want to win, no matter what the standings say."
The Rockies, hoping to avoid their second straight last-place finish, are 1-5 on a road trip that concludes with three games at Arizona starting Friday. But Weiss didn't fault the intensity or effort in San Francisco.
"I like the fact that we're down the stretch here and our guys are showing up and competing to the last out," Weiss said. "I told our guys that sometimes the reward you get for competing hard is you get your heart broken."
All of the Rockies' runs came off Giants starter Yusmeiro Petit, who didn't face a baserunner until two were out in the fourth but ultimately gave up three runs on six hits. He fanned seven and walked two.
Petit turned the game over to a strong bullpen effort. Guillermo Moscoso (2-2) earned the win with two one-hit innings and Santiago Casilla pocketed his second save.


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The doctest module searches a module's docstrings for text that looks like an interactive Python session, then executes all such sessions to verify they still work exactly as shown. Here's a complete but small example:
""" This is module example. Example supplies one function, factorial. For example, >>> factorial(5) 120 """ def factorial(n): """Return the factorial of n, an exact integer >= 0. If the result is small enough to fit in an int, return an int. Else return a long. >>> [factorial(n) for n in range(6)] [1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120] >>> [factorial(long(n)) for n in range(6)] [1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120] >>> factorial(30) 265252859812191058636308480000000L >>> factorial(30L) 265252859812191058636308480000000L >>> factorial(-1) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: n must be >= 0 Factorials of floats are OK, but the float must be an exact integer: >>> factorial(30.1) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: n must be exact integer >>> factorial(30.0) 265252859812191058636308480000000L It must also not be ridiculously large: >>> factorial(1e100) Traceback (most recent call last): ... OverflowError: n too large """
import math if not n >= 0: raise ValueError("n must be >= 0") if math.floor(n) != n: raise ValueError("n must be exact integer") if n+1 == n: # e.g., 1e300 raise OverflowError("n too large") result = 1 factor = 2 while factor <= n: try: result *= factor except OverflowError: result *= long(factor) factor += 1 return result def _test(): import doctest, example return doctest.testmod(example) if __name__ == "__main__": _test()
If you run example.py directly from the command line, doctest works its magic:
$ python example.py $
There's no output! That's normal, and it means all the examples worked. Pass -v to the script, and doctest prints a detailed log of what it's trying, and prints a summary at the end:
$ python example.py -v Running example.__doc__ Trying: factorial(5) Expecting: 120 ok 0 of 1 examples failed in example.__doc__ Running example.factorial.__doc__ Trying: [factorial(n) for n in range(6)] Expecting: [1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120] ok Trying: [factorial(long(n)) for n in range(6)] Expecting: [1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120] ok Trying: factorial(30) Expecting: 265252859812191058636308480000000L ok
And so on, eventually ending with:
Trying: factorial(1e100) Expecting: Traceback (most recent call last): ... OverflowError: n too large ok 0 of 8 examples failed in example.factorial.__doc__ 2 items passed all tests: 1 tests in example 8 tests in example.factorial 9 tests in 2 items. 9 passed and 0 failed. Test passed. $
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Several years ago, I decided to test the theories of authors Thomas Wolfe and Thornton Wilder. I wondered whether Wolfe, who'd postulated that no one can ever go home again, was a cynic or a realist. I also wondered if my return home would be as painful for me as it was for Emily, the ghost depicted in Wilder's play, Our Town, who insists upon revisiting one special day in her past.
Pulling up to the house in which I'd been born was a bit jarring. I'd assumed that things would have changed. But in my heart of hearts, I'd also assumed that the new owners would have maintained the gift that my grandmother had left them: meticulously tended roses growing lush and fragrant in our front yard. To my chagrin, the beautiful rose bushes were gone, but something new had been added. Against the dangerous element that had crept into the neighborhood, there were bars on every window of the ground floor of the house.
Depressed by this discovery, I headed a few blocks south to my old church. Along with my old elementary school, it comprised an entire block. It didn't surprise or disturb me that Jesus hanging on the crucifix at the side of the church, along with young John the disciple, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene had been painted midnight black. I thought, "In China, Christ is yellow, in Latin America, he is brown; here, he is black." The thing that really rattled me, though, was my old schoolyard.
The grounds where I was castigated by the nuns for simply breathing, where I'd jumped many a rope, and where I'd allowed a few boys to chase me in the name of puppy love were, in effect, gone. The land of my childhood memories had been transformed into a bustling open-air flea market, with no respect for the church that shared the same space. Immediately, I thought of Jesus overturning the tables of the moneylenders on the steps of the temple. But these vendors were not on the actual church steps … just a few yards beyond them. Everything I'd left behind was gone. Wolfe, I reasoned, was correct and so was Wilder. Perhaps it was best to let the past lie as nothing more than pleasant memories. Inside my own head, I could examine the past with fondness, as I do with old photographs.
But the journey home put new wrinkles in my brain.
If the younger, more carefree part of me had for all intents and purposes died when my family left the old house, if souls revert to pure energy when our bodies expire, and if structures retain energy, as physics and metaphysics heavily suggest — then who and what remains behind in the places that we loved, and in which we were loved?
Somewhere in an alternate universe or perhaps this one, in a simultaneous time continuum, do our younger selves still exist, blissfully unaware of our darker futures? And if so, is it possible to tap into that bittersweet energy and time? These were dangerous thoughts, I reasoned. After all, Wolfe insisted that memories of happier days live only in our hearts, and Wilder warned us against revisiting those places that brought us such joy in our youth.
Whether it was some demon or some angel that prodded me to test these theories on my own mother, I'll never know. I only knew that, this past Mother's Day, I thought I was helping my mom relive happy memories when I decided to take her back to the old home in which she'd grown up during the Great Depression.
Set in an area of Brooklyn, New York half gentrified and half stuck in the past, I'd assumed that my mother had grown up in one of the neighborhood's gorgeous old brownstones, as had other members of her family. The gentrification efforts in this neck of the woods seemed to respect the lovely old character of the brownstones and their front gardens, flowering profusely on that windy spring day. But my mom directed me down a short block that had never housed brownstones. We pulled up to a tiny narrow house, attached on both sides to other houses. Still clinging hard to its original design, the house was in obvious disrepair. Still, I was shocked when my mother yelped, "Oh my God, it's a dump!"
For a long moment, an uncomfortable silence reigned. My mother has spoken often and longingly of her youth, so I'd assumed I was doing a good thing by taking her back there. But perhaps the sight of her childhood home, once treasured and now dilapidated, was like a knife in her heart. As we both gazed at the little house in silence, I realized that although I had not been born in that house, as my mother had, I was looking at our ancestral homestead.
This was the first place that my grandparents had settled after they'd gotten married. Here, they'd birthed four children and here they were forced to stay for too many years; due to my grandfather's illness, my grandmother became the sole support of the family. In an age when women of her generation, culture, and social background were kept "barefoot and pregnant," my mother's mother had attained — solely on merit and guts — a middle management position. With her blood, sweat, and tears, she single-handedly bought and made the payments on the well kept, two-family home in which, years later, I would be born.
As my mom and I sat and stared at her old house, images flitted across my mind. They were not memories but glimpses into the past. Suddenly, I saw my grandmother as I'd never seen her in life: as a young, bone-tired woman making her weary way up those steps after a long hard day's, year's, decade's work. I saw her dropping that weary face to greet her family at the end of each workday with smiles and hugs. I saw her burying everything she must have confronted day after day, an immigrant woman in a man's world, and an economically struggling world at that.
And then a new wrinkle appeared in my brain.
Fast-forwarding to the year 2010, I wondered if times are as hard now as they were in my grandmother's day. Older and hopefully wiser than the kid who grew up in that nice two-family house, I have a deeper appreciation for what she'd endured in order to give her family, including her grandchildren, a better life. That's when the new wrinkle bloomed. Maybe home is not so much a structure. Maybe it's not the bricks, the wood, or the roses. Maybe home is a state of mind. And maybe, unlike the Wizard's Dorothy, we don't need a pair of ruby slippers to get us home again. All we need is love.


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Strategic Action Plan Update - August 2018
Critical Success Factor No. 1: Develop and Maintain our Infrastructure
Initiative No. 1: Secure water supply for buildout and Implement Water Master Plan
A meeting with City of Houston (COH) to finalize detail of annual payments will be scheduled in Summer 2018. Approval of this agreement secures 20 MGD of available raw water capacity from the Trinity River currently controlled by the COH. This acquired raw water capacity provides source water for the future expansion of the Southeast Water Purification Plant (SEWPP), the current producer of the City's finished drinking water.
Assistant City Manager, along with the Director of Public Works, met with City Manager on May 31 to discuss the intent and direction of the proposed Ordinance for the irrigation management plan. Details will be formalized and forwarded to the City Attorney for draft ordinance in July 2018.
Initiative No. 2: Continue to refine and utilize the Master Mobility Plan so as to improve traffic flow
The purpose of the Master Mobility Plan is to improve long-term transportation connectivity and access and create a more efficient framework for economic development. This document will include a transportation policy, goals and objectives, and implementation strategies to guide the growth and development of the thoroughfare network. Once Master Plan is completed and accepted, a Hand-off of CIP will take place.
ROW acquisition position was approved by Council on 7/10.
Staff will be submitting a TIP application for Palomino Bridge project by October. The HGAC call for projects has been pushed till 9/1 thru 10/31/18 so we are not able to submit projects yet. The due date on the strategic plan to submit the Palomino application was based on the estimated call for projects date.
A public meeting was held on 8/15 to discuss the Palomino Bridge project. There was little support for the project at the meeting. Approximately 45 citizens that attended spoke about specific design details and environmental concerns. If the project moves forward, it will meet or exceed relevant local, state and federal regulations. No one that spoke supported the alignments presented.
Council approved a resolution to schedule a public hearing on October 9, 2018 to consider adopting Land Use Assumptions and Capital Improvement Plan under Capital Recovery Fees for roadway improvements.
Critical Success Factor No. 2: Financially Sustainable
Initiative No. 3: Develop a long-term financial plan to reduce tax and debt burden on residential property owners
Council approved the effective tax rate of 0.5638 on September 11.
Staff is in the early stages of checking surrounding cities' fee schedule and tracking time to ensure Engineering is capturing our cost for reviews and construction inspection activities.
Critical Success Factor No. 3: Safe and Desirable Community
Initiative No. 4: Maintain emergency response times in support of a safe and desirable community
Staff initiated a referral program for City employees who refer successful Police Officer candidates and volunteer Fire Fighter candidates. The referring City employee can earn $1,250 for each successful referral.
A code analysis was done with data collected from Superion CAD database. Data included from 911 calls and officer-initiated traffic stops. Collection of data from June 2015-July 2018. Query produced 87,050 calls for service. The districts were previously separated by Highway 3 created an East and West side, but that was impossible to maintain with the growth of the City. Staff looked at the best way to reassign reporting areas and utilized the available data to accomplish this. The new District and Beat analysis reallocates some additional Reporting Areas to the East District along with newly defined Beats. This more evenly divides the City into two (2) Beats per District along with a more consistent work-load within all Beats. With the utilization of the MDC mapping capabilities in the patrol units, officers can pinpoint exactly which District and Beat the call is assigned to. The new District and Beat plans will be implemented and go live by August 6th.
Critical Success Factor No. 4: Quality Community Amenities
Initiative No. 5: Focus on acquisition of new land and development of existing land for facilities, recreation programming, and trails as outlined in the Parks Master Plan
Staff is working with Parks Board to identify and prioritize individual initiatives and/or projects in the Parks Master Plan over the next 20 years for Immediate needs – 2018-2022 (1-5 years); Future needs – 2023-2028 (5-10 years), and Long-term needs – 2029-2036 (10+ years).
CVB Administrator Bryan Roller and Assistant City Manager Michael Kramm met with a promoter about hosting a large-scale regional basketball tournament in the Spring of 2019, with support from the Clear Creek Independent School District. In June, Roller also met with a promoter about hosting a gymnastics invitational and a regional state qualifying meet in the Spring of 2019 at Hometown Heroes Recreation Center.
The FY2019 budget was amended to include a new Dog Park on the west side of League City.
Initiative No. 6: Explore and create opportunities for development along Clear Creek, as well as utilization of detention, retention and drainage easements
Staff will investigate options / possibilities of using detention areas for amenities such as fields, and recreational areas. If viable, developers could receive credit against park fees and land dedication requirements.
Council approved the submittal of a grant application to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for the FM270 Boat Ramp Renovation Project. The deadline is later this Fall with award in 2019. Council approved a preliminary design contract for the FM270 Boat Ramp Renovation Project (PK1804) with Burditt Consultants, LLC on 5/8/18. Staff also submitted a grant application to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for the 5K Loop Trail in Hometown Heroes Park and for Bayridge Park Redevelopment on the 8/14/18 Council agenda.
Initiative No. 7: Build a new animal shelter as approved by Council with a focus on increasing community involvement through volunteerism, outreach, and education
Staff is working with Jackson and Ryan Architects to have a complete set of working drawings to progress to the construction phase of the projects.
An RFP for bids will begin later this Fall, with the awarding of a contract in early 2019.
Critical Success Factor No. 5: Trained, Committed and Valued Workforce
Initiative No. 8: Enhance the employee recognition program that includes incentivizing staff innovation and recognizing "S.E.R.V.I.C.E." values
Committee members selected to include ACMs (2), HR Director and Assistant to City Manager. In the event of "tie" for any award, City Manager will be tie-breaker. Plan would be to meet quarterly. First meeting to be identified following roll out of employee recognition tool.
The "Give a Wow" recognition program was rolled out by the HR team, providing an opportunity for staff to recognize and appreciate their colleagues and employees for a job well done. Staff can access the application via the website, as well as an app for easy accessibility.
Critical Success Factor No. 6: Engaged Residents
Initiative No. 9: Develop a Citizen Survey
Staff developed a Citizen Survey that kicked off the week of the Town Hall Meeting on June 20th, and it closed on July 1st. Staff received over 2,742 responses and will present the outcomes at the August 14th Council Meeting.
Staff are planning for their first electronic version of the City Matters newsletter to begin this Fall, along with another Town Hall meeting in October.
Staff presented the Citizen Survey results to Council on August 14, 2018.
Critical Success Factor No. 7: Economic Development and Tourism
Initiative No. 10: Continue to identify and target potential investors and partners to create entertainment venues by offering a fast-track process and economic development incentives
Staff has been working with several developers regarding House Bill 2445 Projects. The punch list and the financial and market feasibility study are dependent on the developer at this point.
Critical Success Factor No. 8: Quality-Built Environment
Initiative No. 11: Implement comprehensive enhanced development standards that address aesthetics, flood risk, site planning, and energy (LEED)
Staff submitted an updated drainage ordinance in June. An updated tree ordinance will go before Council for consideration in September.
Council approved the agreement with Centerpoint Energy for conversion of sodium street lights to LED streetlights on August 14, 2018. Texas New Mexico Power is exploring that option as well. They are not as far along as Centerpoint on capabilities. The ability to use solar power for streetlights was discussed with the other electric companies and it is not available at this time.
The tree ordinance will be presented at the September 11, 2018 Council Meeting for approval.
The subdivision and development codes are on schedule for completion in November. They will be combined with engineering standards and specifications, as well as new drainage standards and Building Codes so all will be easier to find and understand, becoming a Unified Development Code.


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