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Hico native is top ad man for presidential campaign
After a long and remarkable rise to the top of American advertising, Jim Ferguson was back home in Texas in 2011, running a boutique agency in Dallas and making weekend jaunts to his boyhood home, Hico, population 1,300. His brother and parents were there, and so was the six-man-football festival he helped create, as well as the memories of collecting eggs, working on a turkey farm and hanging out with friends at the Koffee Kup Family Restaurant.
But that summer, a man named Stuart Stevens came calling. A senior strategist for presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Stevens had a slightly less bucolic vision in mind for Ferguson. He wanted him to serve as creative director and chief image maker for the Republican's 2012 campaign.
"I threw three pairs of jeans and some T-shirts in a bag," Ferguson said in a recent telephone interview, "and I've been here for about a year."
That day, here was Romney's national headquarters in Boston, where Ferguson "cuts a conspicuous figure," according to a recent story in The Washington Post . Leading a "small group of self-described Mad Men," Ferguson is a burly Texan "with straggly white hair, a pack of Parliament cigarettes and several decidedly un-Romney-like tattoos: a cyclone on his ring finger (a reminder, after his divorce, never to marry again), a dollar sign on a wrist and the words 'to-do' on an ankle, so when he crosses his legs he can write on his ankle what he needs to do that day."
At the top of that list, is helping Romney pry the White House away from President Barack Obama, a challenge unlike any the 59-year-old has faced over a long and stellar career that includes creating iconic ads ("Beef: It's What's for Dinner," "Nothing But Net"), co-writing a screenplay ( Little Giants) and heading up the nation's largest advertising agency.
Ferguson spends every waking hour these days waging an advertising war in a campaign that grows more volatile by the hour. He estimates that he has finished more than 70 spots, ranging from attacks on Obama to sepia-toned, flag-draped tributes to his boss. A typical day begins at 8 and stretches late into the night, seven days a week in Boston or Ohio or the swing state du jour. His team has three editors and is ready to respond to any new twist. "Things change by the hour," Ferguson said.
With three more debates, beginning with today's vice presidential contest, there is still a lot of work to be done. But Ferguson said Romney's performance last week in Denver in the first debate "made our job a lot easier."
"We go over things," Ferguson said. "We'll look at the debate. But we have a strategy in place. Mainly we were looking for mistakes by our opponent, the president. It's not that he [Obama] said anything good. He didn't say anything bad, either. He just wasn't on top of his game. We know he's going to come back strong."
But for all the historic drama and challenges ahead, Ferguson said a big part of him remained in Texas. In the recent interview, the weariness, even homesickness, in his voice was palpable.
"I used to go back there every weekend to be with my brother and my dad," Ferguson said of Hico, a 90-minute drive southwest of Fort Worth. "We've got a little place out there that we've managed to make very comfortable and I'd go back there a lot. I've been here alone for a year. I'm 59 years old. These hours are long and hard. The night after the debate the adrenaline starts to pump again. We have four hard weeks in front of us, you know. Yeah, I'm ready to come home."
'We weren't liberals'
Given the focus on the battleground states, few people in Hico, or Texas for that matter, have seen any of Ferguson's recent creations, and back home he hasn't flaunted his current gig. In fact, Lynn Allen, longtime owner of the Koffee Kup, said he wasn't aware of Ferguson's ties to Romney until a reporter mentioned it last week.
"Usually we get the gossip around our coffee table," Allen said. "I'm surprised that no one has mentioned anything about it. I knew he was in public relations and had done some very good things."
Allen said Ferguson was better known locally for helping his brother, Hico resident Mike Ferguson, create an annual six-man-football festival and for getting a few Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders to show up for the occasion.
"I don't know what brought in more fans -- the six-man teams or the cheerleaders," Allen said. "That's Jim for you."
Ferguson says the town was responsible for his political leanings, "the conservative roots that are part of me."
"I mean we went to church on Sunday mornings and Sunday evenings," he said. "It was just a good solid upbringing. We weren't liberals down there. I didn't know what a liberal was until I got out of college. I had never met one."
Ferguson's Hico seems lifted directly from a Norman Rockwell painting -- going to Friday night football games (he and his brother, a year older, both played), swimming in the river, hanging out with friends at the Koffee Kup.
Ferguson said his father instilled a strong work ethic in him, leading from one menial job in Hico to the next.
But early on, Ferguson's long-term ambitions involved something more creative.
"He always had a very vivid imagination as far as storytelling went," Mike Ferguson said.
"I used to read ads as a kid and I liked them," Jim Ferguson said. "I can't say why. I mean, my dad wasn't in advertising. I just thought, 'You know, I can do that.'"
He graduated from Texas Tech with an advertising degree, spent a few years as a sportswriter in Lubbock, then submitted his pencil sketches and ideas to a creative director in Dallas, who promptly hired him. Ferguson would eventually move to a major firm in Chicago and become president of Young and Rubicam in New York, the nation's largest agency. He would produce some of TV's most memorable campaigns, such as "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" and "Nothing But Net," a Super Bowl commercial for McDonald's featuring Michael Jordan and Larry Bird.
Another Super Bowl spot for McDonald's, about peewee football, inspired a phone call from director Steven Spielberg.
"If you can do that in 90 seconds, I'd like to see what you could do in 90 minutes," Spielberg said.
The result was the 1994 movie Little Giants, which Ferguson co-wrote.
Getting political again
But for all his success selling products, selling candidates never really crossed Ferguson's mind, at least until a visit to New York from three key advisers to George W. Bush. For the 2000 presidential campaign, Karl Rove, Mark McKinnon and Stuart Stevens said they were hoping to form a creative group similar to President Ronald Reagan's so-called Tuesday Team, a group of Madison Avenue types who worked for his campaign.
"They approached me with it and asked if I could put together a few high-profile creative guys in New York City," Ferguson said. "I didn't realize it at the time, but I thought everybody in New York was conservative. It wasn't very easy to find creative guys in New York who were conservative. But I stitched together a good group of guys. I got a taste of politics and I liked it."
That could have been the extent of it. Ferguson was in Dallas at his small firm called Fire in the Hole, or back and forth from Hico. But Stevens called last summer, and before long Ferguson was back into the political fray.
Ferguson "is one of the great characters in the business. Big spirit, big creative, big boy. And a ton of Texas attitude," said McKinnon, a media consultant and senior campaign strategist for Bush. "And he's been a key player on the Romney ad team."
In the last year, Ferguson has sat in on about 20 meetings with the candidate, and he says: "If I didn't believe in Mitt Romney, I wouldn't be here right now. I'm not going to say, 'I'm a Republican and I'm going to support whoever you've got.' I'm a Republican and I've been lucky that I've got to work for two who I consider to be great men, George Bush and Mitt Romney.
"[Romney] is a kind man, a friendly man," Ferguson said. "When I see this stuff about RoboMitt. ... Is he your best friend? Probably not, but I've got a best friend. I need a great president."
Ferguson said the stakes can seem daunting at times. "The magnitude of what we do and how it's viewed under a microscope, it's pretty overwhelming," he said.
And if Romney wins? Will Ferguson go with him to the White House?
"First of all, I haven't been invited," he said. "Second, I doubt it. What I really enjoy is marketing, working on retail advertising."
And he wants to come back to Hico.
He wants to come home.
Tim Madigan, 817-390-7544
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"What's the going rate for standing hay?" That's a cut and dried question, pardon the pun. It's the answer that isn't easy to determine.
"Virtually every Extension agent in the country gets that question many times in a year," sighs Mike Rankin, a University of Wisconsin crops and soils Extension agent. "I tell producers that what the market bears for standing hay and what that product may actually be worth are two different numbers."
But he suggests growers look at what bare land is renting for, taking into consideration land and soil-type variations. Then look at the value of the forage coming off the land. In his county, three cuttings of good-quality alfalfa can rent for $100-125/acre in areas where bare ground cash rents are $50-60/acre. Or for $140-200/acre where bare ground rents range from $75 to over $100/acre.
Start With Actual Rent
"I tend to work backwards with growers," he adds, starting with an actual rental figure, say $120/acre. "If you figure 4 tons of dry matter/acre in terms of season yield, then you have invested $30/ton of dry matter.
"If someone figures it's going to cost another $35/ton to get that harvested over the course of three or four cuttings, that would be a total of about $65/ton of dry matter invested in that crop," Rankin says.
Compare that to what good-quality alfalfa usually goes for in Wisconsin — around $100/ton — and you see how renting standing hay can be a good investment, he adds.
Yet it comes down to the amount of risk a renter wants to take, says Keith Johnson, Purdue University Extension forage specialist.
"In a dry-weather year, he's not going to get much." And if it rains at the wrong time? "The value isn't $100 or $120/ton; it's $50-60/ton or chopped back on the field," he says.
Renter and landowner must spell out expectations. Rankin and Johnson suggest written agreements, especially if land will be rented long term. Yet even in renting one or two cuttings, both parties should know what could be earned in either good or bad weather.
Contract Adjustments
Contract adjustments are important. "This year, there may be potential for winter injury; there has to be some agreement that the price will be adjusted based on what the productivity looks like. Don't commit to a price until you know what a stand looks like coming out of winter," Rankin suggests.
"We also make adjustments if it's an alfalfa-grass mix versus pure alfalfa and if the stand is thinned out," he says.
The agreement should make clear who's going to apply fertilizer — and how much, based on a soil test, Rankin says. And consider the cost of hauling the harvested crop.
"I once convinced a producer to rent alfalfa for $200/acre because, in his situation, that made good sense. Bare ground rents were more than $100/acre, it was a productive stand, and the field was right across from his farm. It looked to be a better situation to put up some good-quality alfalfa than to try and buy it," Rankin says.
"You have to look at the value of the hay at the moment and project what the potential yield for a cutting or season will be," Johnson adds. "Frankly, the best way to do that with the least risk is after the fact — after harvest."
Fae Holin is senior associate editor of BEEF sister publication Hay & Forage Grower Magazine.

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Michael Jackson's Mother, Kids Getting $30 Million from His Estate
Michael Jackson's mother and three children will receive a hefty sum of money, thanks to income generated by the late singer's estate.
The estate has earned more than $310 million since Jackson's death on June 25, 2009. He was heavily in debt when he died, but that income helped pay off some of it, and the estate was able to give Jackson's mother, Katherine, and the children $30 million. Some of that will also go to various charities.
Katherine Jackson is planning to put the famous Jackson compound in Encino, California up for sale. Last year, the property was appraised at $4.15 million, but it's been extensively renovated since then. Katherine Jackson and the children have been living in a leased home in Calabasas, California that is for sale for $10 million. Mrs. Jackson wants the executors of her son's estate to negotiate the purchase of a new home for herself and Michael's children, Paris, Prince and Blanket.
A judge is scheduled to hold a hearing to approve the $30 millon payment on September 28.


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"Evil Dead" sucked the life out of the competition at the box office this weekend, leaving its rivals as casualties while claiming No. 1.
The fourth entry in the horror franchise debuted with a healthy $26 million, according to an estimate from distributor Sony Pictures. Heading into the weekend, prerelease audience polling indicated that the scary film would be in a tight race with holdover "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." But "Evil Dead" ended up beating the big-budget action flick, which collected $21.1 million during its second weekend in theaters.
"G.I. Joe," in fact, was only tied for second place this weekend, even with the animated family film "The Croods," which has grossed a total of $125.8 million since its release three weeks ago..
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Meanwhile, the only other new film to open this weekend, a 3-D version of 1993's "Jurassic Park," started off with a respectable $18.2 million, putting the Steven Spielberg-directed film came at No. 4 at the multiplex.
Most of those intrigued by "Evil Dead" were adult men: 56% of the film's opening weekend crowd was male and 56% was over the age of 25. Though the film has received positive reviews, especially for a horror picture, audiences that saw it this weekend didn't love it, assigning the picture an average grade of C+, according to market research firm CinemaScore.
Still, Rory Bruer, distribution president for Sony -- which distributed the film -- said he wasn't worried that bad word of mouth would harm the movie's ticket sales in the coming weeks.
"We did so many word-of-mouth screenings on this film before it opened, and people love it," Bruer said. "I think that speaks volumes for the film in regard to its longevity."
"Evil Dead" tells the story of five friends in a remote cabin in the woods, where they encounter a demon that attempts to possess them. The film is a new iteration of Sam Raimi's original, which became a cult classic after its release 30 years ago. The latest installment will be by far the highest-grossing in the series: The third entry, 1993's "Army of Darkness," grossed a total of $11.5 million.
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The new "Evil Dead" may not do particularly well internationally, however. The $17-million production -- which Sony's TriStar label and FilmDistrict acquired from Ghost House Pictures in 2011 -- launched in 21 foreign markets this weekend and collected just $4.5 million.
Although the reformatted "Jurassic Park" managed to attract moviegoers in solid numbers over the weekend, it doesn't appear likely to match the success of a 3-D version of "The Lion King." That animated film, released in late 2011, collected $94 million domestically -- a figure no 3-D re-release since has come close to rivaling.
It was inexpensive for Universal Pictures to convert the 20-year-old classic to 3-D, however: The studio said the process cost about $10 million to complete. Next summer, the studio will release "Jurassic Park 4" more than a decade after the franchise's third entry hit theaters.
"I think this weekend result shows how beloved the franchise is," said Nikki Rocco, president of domestic distribution for Universal. "The word-of-mouth and press response has been so terrific that I think it sets up the fourth film well."
This weekend, those who saw the film about an amusement park full of threatening dinosaurs were 55% male. Roughly 54% of the crowd was over the age of 25.
Unlike a 3-D version of "Titanic," which made a whopping $285 million overseas last year, the new "Jurassic Park" doesn't seem poised to become an international hit. This weekend, the film opened in seven foreign countries -- including Russia and Australia -- and sold just $3 million worth of tickets.
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Fertility after breast cancer treatment
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I was diagnosed with hormone negative, stage II breast cancer at age 29. I was treated with CEF ( cyclophosphamide, epirubicin and fluorouracil) chemotherapy and then radiation. I am now 32 and was considering getting pregnant. I have heard chemotherapy may harm the ovaries or hormone production. Is there a test to see if harm was done? Will the harm cause birth defects or just problems conceiving? My periods have been normal - does this mean that I shouldn't be worried and that no precautions are necessary? I can't seem to be able to find this information anywhere.
Linda Jacobs, PhD, CRNP, AOCN, BC, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, responds:
There have been numerous studies and no evidence that chemotherapy causes birth defects in children conceived after treatment has been completed. If your periods are regular and your oncologist is okay with it or at least explained any risks from a cancer standpoint, you should not have any problems with fertility. You should verify this with your oncologist to make sure there are not any specific reasons why you should not get pregnant.
However, my concern would be hereditary risk and whether or not you have been offered genetic testing in light of your age? You developed breast cancer at an early age and it is important you meet with a genetic counselor to help identify any genetic risks.


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Today the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis released their 2012 personal income estimates.
Personal income is an important economic measure of a state's well-being. Higher levels of personal income mean that a state's residents are able to buy more goods and services such as homes, cars, education and healthcare. It is also a very useful way to gauge the ability of a state's residents to pay taxes.
Fundamentally, personal income comes from two sources: the private sector and the public sector. The distinction between the two sectors is important because only the private sector creates new income. The public sector, in contrast, can only redistribute income through taxes and spending. More specifically, public sector spending consists of personal current transfer receipts (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc.) and government employee compensation (federal, state and local).
The chart above shows how the private sector, as a percent of personal income (shown as the solid lines), has changed in both Maine in New Hampshire between 1929 (the earliest available data) and 2012. The chart highlights the diverging tale of two states.
Since 1950, Maine has increased taxes and spending dramatically with the introduction of the sales tax in 1951 and the income tax in 1969. New Hampshire, on the other hand, did not.
Increasing taxes on the private sector has two consequences. First, higher taxes will mean less money in the pockets of individuals and businesses which will reduce their ability to invest for the future. Second, greater public spending will crowd-out the private sector in competition for scarce labor and capital.
Overall, between 1929 and 2012, Maine's private sector as a percent of personal income has shrunk by 31 percent to 64.2 percent in 2012 from 92.4 percent in 1929–Maine now has the 10th smallest private sector in the country.
New Hampshire's private sector has only shrunk by 16.3 percent to 76.1 percent in 2012 from 90.8 percent in 1929–New Hampshire now has the 2nd largest private sector in the country.
As a consequence, Maine residents have paid a steep price with not only higher tax bills but also lower incomes. The dashed lines shows the disparity in real, per household personal income growth between Maine and New Hampshire.
Over this time-period, Maine's income grew by 247 percent while New Hampshire's income grew by 293 percent. Due to these growth difference, the average household in New Hampshire enjoys income that is 27 percent higher than the average household in Maine ($117,761 versus $92,870, respectively).
Additionally, a significant part of New Hampshire's private sector is actually derived from Mainers who cross-border shop at New Hampshire stores. According to my analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Census Bureau, Mainers are spending up to $2.2 billion per year in New Hampshire. This is entirely driven by higher sales and excise taxes in Maine.
This tale of two states has important lessons for Maine policymakers. Most immediately, Governor LePage's recent tax cuts that lowered the top individual income tax rate to 7.95 percent from 8.5 percent is a vital first step to breathing life back into Maine's private sector–after all, many of Maine's small businesses file through the individual income tax code.
Longer term, policymakers need to think about leveling-the-playing-field with New Hampshire as it once was prior to 1951–a time when not only were each states private sector levels near equal, but so were incomes. Following Governor LePages lead, the income tax rate should be pushed all the way to ZERO. Maine taxpayers would not only see a lower tax bill, but also rising incomes!


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2008 Revenue of $2.7 Billion Equal to 2007 Despite Global Economic Slowdown
Included in the firm's 2008 results were 15 acquisitions that closed during the year, the most significant being The Staubach Company and Kemper's. Full-year results included $18 million of intangible amortization and $7 million of integration costs related to these two acquisitions. Fourth-quarter results included $8 million of intangible amortization and $5 million of integration costs. Full-year results also included severance charges of $23 million, which resulted from the need to reduce staffing levels to reflect lower anticipated revenue in certain businesses related to the global economic slowdown and credit contraction. Integration costs for the acquisitions, as well as severance charges, are reported as Restructuring Charges for the full-year and fourth-quarter periods. Total Restructuring Charges for 2008 were $30 million. These costs are excluded from segment operating results for the full year and fourth quarter, although they are included for consolidated reporting.
Full-year revenue was $2.7 billion in both 2008 and 2007, despite substantial decreases in Capital Markets and Hotels transaction levels. Transaction Services revenue decreased by 8 percent from 2007, to $1.4 billion; however, excluding Capital Markets and Hotels, Transaction Services revenue for the year increased 14 percent over 2007, to $1.1 billion. Management Services revenue increased 22 percent to $882 million in 2008, with all operating regions contributing to the revenue growth. LaSalle Investment Management's Advisory fees increased 13 percent over the prior year to $278 million, and Incentive fees were $59 million in 2008, compared with $88 million in 2007. Acquisitions completed in 2008 contributed $193 million in revenue for the full year and $104 million for the fourth quarter.
For the fourth quarter of 2008, revenue was $797 million, a decrease of 8 percent from $862 million in the prior year, driven by the impact of foreign currency exchange rates as the U.S. dollar strengthened and a $106 million revenue decrease in Capital Markets and Hotels from the fourth quarter of 2007. On a local currency basis, revenue increased 1 percent over the same period in 2007. Transaction Services revenue, excluding Capital Markets and Hotels, was $365 million in the fourth quarter, an increase of 9 percent over the prior year, and Management Services revenue was $247 million, an increase of 10 percent over the fourth quarter of 2007.
"Through focused execution for our clients, we gained market share and maintained revenues in 2008 while aggressively managing our own costs," said Colin Dyer, Chief Executive Officer of Jones Lang LaSalle. "With continuing challenges in 2009, we will focus our superior market knowledge and execution skills to create value for our clients. We will remain flexible across our operations to align the company to current market conditions," Dyer added.
Operating expenses were $2.5 billion for the year, compared with $2.3 billion in 2007, and $725 million for the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with $721 million in the prior year, including Restructuring Charges of $30 million for the year and $20 million in the fourth quarter. Operating expenses from the 15 acquisitions completed in 2008, including integration and intangible amortization, were $192 million for the full year and $92 million for the fourth quarter, which were not reflected in the firm's 2007 results. Specifically, The Staubach Company and Kemper's added to the firm's cost structure and increased operating expenses compared with 2007.
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During the fourth quarter, the firm amended its credit agreements with its bank group to provide additional financial flexibility. The amendments increased the maximum allowable Leverage Ratio under the credit agreements from 3.25x to 3.50x through September 2009, provided additions to Adjusted EBITDA for certain non-recurring charges related primarily to expense-management actions and adjusted certain other definitions in the agreements. Our December 19, 2008, Form 8-K filing provides additional information about the terms of the amendments. The total borrowing capacity under the agreements is $870 million and the maturity on both agreements remains June 2012. At December 31, 2008, the firm's Leverage Ratio as calculated under the amended agreements was 2.24x.
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The firm has successfully integrated the 15 acquisitions it closed in 2008, enhancing its market share in local markets and the corporate occupier space, and diversifying into the retail and industrial sectors. The firm continues to take aggressive staffing and cost actions in response to the global economic slowdown while adapting its service offerings to the changing needs of clients. The firm remains flexible, innovative and prepared to capitalize on new opportunities to serve clients in the challenging environment that lies ahead. Statements in this press release regarding, among other things, future financial results and performance, achievements, plans and objectives may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance, achievements, plans and objectives of Jones Lang LaSalle to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include those discussed under "Business," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," "Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk," and elsewhere in Jones Lang LaSalle's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 and in the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2008, June 30, 2008, and September 30, 2008, and in other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements speak only as of the date of this release. Jones Lang LaSalle expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in Jones Lang LaSalle's expectations or results, or any change in events.
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AND THE WINNER IS... - The final three must use everything they have learned thus far in the competition for the penultimate shoot: a commercial and a national print ad for CoverGirl. Top Model 7 winner & CoverGirl model Caridee English stops by the set to share some words of wisdom. One model struggles to look youthful in her shot while another needs coaching from Jay to say her lines naturally. The judges send one model home. The final two go head-to-head in a glamorous fashion show with the Sydney harbor as the backdrop. After an arduous deliberation, the judges decide who will be America's Next Top Model. In addition to Caridee English, special guests include fashion designers Sarah-Jane Clark & Heidi Middleton of Sass & Bide, and photographer Jordan Doner (#812).


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A few weeks after the October 2002 plane crash that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, their daughter, Marcia, and five others, a Lutheran confirmation class visiting D.C. from Minnesota decided to stop by Wellstone's office to pay their respects. As the group went through security at the Senate office building, one of the students—who had worked on the senator's re-election campaign and was still wearing a Wellstone button—set off the metal detector. The officer took her to the side to wand her. As he was checking her, the guard said, "Not one other senator in this place knows my name; Paul Wellstone knew my kid's name." He and the student hugged each other, and both started weeping.
Paul Wellstone touched people's lives in profound ways, mostly because he genuinely sought to live a life of integrity, in both public and personal matters. He once advised, "Never separate the life you live from the words you speak," and those who knew him best said he honestly tried to follow that advice. (A Midwest political observer said the Right never knew what to do with Wellstone, because he lived "conservative values" at home while working for progressive change in the public sphere.)
Wellstone's political career began when, as a political science professor at Minnesota's Carleton College, he started working with farmers to block electric lines forcibly run through their farms—and he continued to organize and agitate on behalf of regular people for the rest of his days.


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The Mac Pro has always been the most powerful workhorse money could buy from Apple.
Intended for users with the highest-end video and audio production needs, it has traditionally started at over $2,000 and featured top-of-the-line hardware.
However, Apple hasn't had a new Mac Pro in three years. After rumors that the desktop workhorse was going away, Apple wowed us today with a brand new design that completely blows the old one out of the water.


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skyhawk133 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 89 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
Dream.In.Code is a community of about 275,000 developers. To thank some of the team members and experts on the site, we're giving away some of the coolest mouse pads around. FUNC Industries makes a large mousing surface specifically for gamers and we need a custom design for the surface.
The mouse pads will be for hardcore programming geeks. Think geeky industrial design.
Image Format: PNG
Minimum Resolution: 200dpi+
Size: 3375 pixels x 2850 pixels = 11.25"W x 9.5"H
Color: CMYK
Product: SURFACE1030 ARCHETYPE
Bleed: Please take note of the shape of the mouse pad and allow for a small amount of bleed beyond text/logo to accommodate the curved edges
Logo (plain text):
Font: OCR Extended
Kerning: -50
(See http://www.dreamincode.net for actual logo example)
Colors: Orange, Grey, Black, White (http://www.dreamincode.net for shade/example)
Design Elements:
We would like the logo (</dream.in.code>), names of programming languages (C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C#, PHP, Ruby, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, etc.), the URL (http://www.dreamincode.net), and the words "The #1 Community For Programmers & Web Developers. Over 275,000 Developers." as the main design elements.
The design, colors, background, etc. should have an industrial feel. After all, this is an awesome gaming mouse pad, not your run of the mill piece of foam and cloth!
Have fun with it. Don't get too wrapped up in the whole "dream in code" literal. Think what kind of awesome design you'd want your grungy nasty hands to sit on all day as you code for hours on end!


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Elena Diaz is the adored TV host of the Que Buena television show. The El Salvadoran bombshell not only hosts a television show, but is a college student and aspiring actress as well. She's appeared in several music videos for artists such as Chris Brown, Korn, Good Charlotte, DMX and others.
Growing up, school always played an important role in Elena's life. When she graduated from high school at the age of 16, Elena enrolled into the physical therapist assistant program at Long Beach Career College. After she completed the program at LBCC, she began to work in the medical field as a physical therapist assistant. Elena loved helping others feel better and stronger. But after three years of being in the medical field, she decided to go back to school and work on getting a degree in Business Management.
Elena's true devotion and passion for the arts of acting and modeling will never go away. Even though she maintains a balanced life doing all of the things that she loves to do in the entertainment field, school is her main priority. But don't get it confused, Elena loves going out and hanging with friends. Elena tells friends that she's thankful to have people in her life who support her every day in following her dream and she's also proud to be a Lowrider Girl. To learn more about this beauty you can visit her site at www.elenadiaz.com.
LRG: Where were you born?Elena: I was born in El Salvador but I now live in Newport Beach.
LRG: That's cool, what made you decide to go into modeling?Elena: Well, I love being in front of the camera. I think that I found my true talent there.
LRG: Now you know that you have guys wondering what type of skills you have since you like to be in front of the camera…Elena: Noooo (smiling). I have a television show called Que Buena. I speak in front of the camera as a host.
LRG: You hear that, fellas? So get your minds out the gutter. So, Elena, what type of guys do you like?Elena: I like party guys! I love to have fun. But at the same time my guy must have a balance and can take care of his responsibilities.
LRG: We agree, you have to have some type of balance in your life in order to make it happen. What do you find sexy about a man?Elena: I love a man who's dominant and confident. That's a big turn-on for me!
LRG: Well, Elena, thanks for talking to us, and good luck with everything.Elena: No, thank you. I loved being a Lowrider Girl for the day.


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text: THE PARTY More than 300 parishioners, parents and alumni began the evening with a St. Patrick's Day mass in the annual Faith, Hope and Charity School church followed by a festive party in the gym. THE HIGHLIGHTS Irish band Character Fleadh played during the cocktail hour as guests perused silent auction items. The live auction included trips to Jamaica and Jackson Hole, Wyo., tickets to a Taylor Swift concert this summer and a chance to meet Olympic Gold medalist and Loyola Academy alumnus Conor Dwyer. Guests also had a shot at winning a 2013 Mini Cooper from Patrick Auto Group and a "Lucky Lady" package including a Christian Dior handbag from Neapolitan and necklaces from Sidney Garber and Meredith Merrill. THE BOTTOM LINE The night of festivities raised more than $200,000 toward the Anchors with Hearts Fund. Photography by Dana Lenckus


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'This is Apple. It will take them 2 weeks to alter their website, will it?'
Plus: 'A hacker told me how Hitler ties his shoes'
QuotW This was the week when Hurricane Sandy barrelled into the US East Coast, killing more than 90 people, causing widespread flooding and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
Before the super-storm made landfall, buildings were closed, businesses went offline and folks were evacuated. The New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ stopped trading, public transport shut down and events including Google's Nexus launch were cancelled.
Despite the necessary gravity of these preparations, troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan fell into that old celebrity Twitter trap of posting a pretty stupid and insensitive comment on serious real world happenings:
WHY is everyone in SUCH a panic about hurricane (i'm calling it Sally)..? Stop projecting negativity! Think positive and pray for peace.
And if that wasn't enough, she posted this nonsensical tweet a couple of days later:
How does Hitler tie his shoes? from @oatmeal
But it's OK everyone, Lohan has not gone off the rails or anything, it was probably just a mis-click on a "share this" button on an Oatmeal comic. No wait, it was the fault of a hacker, at least the Hitler one is anyway, LiLo claimed. She let her followers know that the shoe-tying missive should be ignored, but didn't mention anything about the tweet about the hurricane.
So to clear up any confusion: the weird tweet about a Nazi dictator - some exceedingly strange hacker's idea of a joke. Weird insensitive tweet about hurricane - Lindsay Lohan.
Meanwhile, Windows 8 finally launched, prompting the Reg Oz team to get a motley crew of n00bs to test the new OS. Unsurprisingly, the resounding verdict was: "Where's the f*cking Start button?"
Starting with an 8-year-old, Reg Oz got five peeps from different stages of life, all non-expert but mostly computer literate, and forced them to try to open a web browser and navigate to their favourite website; open a Microsoft Office application; create a file in that application; save it to the desktop; and then return to the desktop to open the file.
A forty-something professional put it most succinctly when they moaned:
I could have kept trying for an hour to find how to get back to the Start screen.
And a thirty-something agreed:
Microsoft needs to put some tutorials in this or it will frustrate a lot of people.
The civilians found it tough to get to grips with - and one little old Chinese lady just wasn't having any of it. The intrepid granny leapt onto the stage at the operating system's launch party in Beijing and tried to get Microsoft to stop the racket because her grandchildren couldn't sleep.
To add to its less-than-auspicious beginnings, a demo of the new OS in Taipei went horribly wrong when Windows 8 glitched on a couple of all-in-one PCs. Redmond had a great excuse for that, of course. Marketing manager Yi-Fang Chu said:
It is a hardware issue, rather than a software one. It's partly because of the large screen size of the all-in-ones.
But then he added:
It was pretty rushed to the launch date, and the user experience will improve.
Meanwhile, Apple has been slapped down yet again by the UK courts: Judge Robin Jacob ordered the fruity firm to change its surly statement on its website - which was supposed to plainly admit that Samsung did not rip off Cupertino's blueprints.
Apple had been previously ordered by the UK courts to announce in newspaper adverts and on its website that Samsung's tablets did not infringe on the iPad designs. The judge believed that the South Korean firm had already endured a lot of negative publicity that implied it was copying the iOS-powered fondleslab. After fighting the decision in the appeals court, Apple was told to shut up and make the statements.
Instead, Apple posted a churlish statement that started out saying that Samsung had won the case and finished up talking about how other courts had not agreed. Cupertino also pulled a couple of sections from the original judgment that complimented the iPad, including the famous line that Sammy Galaxy slabs are "not as cool". The final thrust of the post ran like this:
However, in a case tried in Germany regarding the same patent, the court found that Samsung engaged in unfair competition by copying the iPad design. A U.S. jury also found Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple's design and utility patents, awarding over one billion U.S. dollars in damages to Apple Inc. So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have recognized that in the course of creating its Galaxy tablet, Samsung wilfully copied Apple's far more popular iPad.
So to summarise, the UK court found Samsung not guilty of infringing but "Samsung wilfully copied Apple's far more popular iPad". The powers that be were understandably peeved.
[We note that our headline reporting on Apple's statement was apparently read out in court, much to the discomfiture of Cupertino's lawyers. The IPKat legal blog reports:
... the point of no return may well have been when Mr Carr [Samsung's counsel] produced an article from the highly respected online forum The Register (motto: "Biting the hand that feeds IT") commenting on the statement published by Apple, the headline of which read (or perhaps screamed) "APPLE: SCREW YOU, BRITS, everyone else says Samsung copied us … But we will apologise because the judge said we had to" … this probably simply confirmed the conclusions which the judges had already reached regarding the overall impression created by the statement. So a well-timed can of petrol, thrown on to the bonfire by Mr Carr, ensured that the nicely warming bonfire turned into a total conflagration.
Truly, when the Register speaks the world listens. -Ed]
Judge Jacob gave the firm 48 hours to put up a statement that was not as "incorrect" and "non-compliant" as the first one. He said:
I'm at a loss that a company such as Apple would do this. That is a plain breach of the order.
Lawyers for the iPad maker tried to get two weeks to make the changes, no doubt hoping to slide the statement out quietly when people weren't expecting it, but Jacob was having none of it:
I would like to see the head of Apple make an affidavit setting out the technical difficulties which means Apple can't put this on their site. I just can't believe the instructions you've been given. This is Apple. They cannot put something on their website?
Also in Blighty, ISP TalkTalk complained the dash for public cash to roll out faster fibre networks was something of a one-horse race. National telco BT is the only one that's managed to hit the government up for some of its Broadband UK Delivery funds of £680m, and Fujitsu is unlikely to be able to get any after the Cabinet Office labelled the company "high risk".
TalkTalk boss Dido Harding told The Reg:
I'm not in any way - to be clear - criticising the regime as of today, but I think looking forward - whether it's in three, five or 10 years' time - a large proportion of the country will take their phone broadband as a superfast product, and I don't think that we should live in a world where that is an unregulated product provided by the admittedly very talented and lovely monopolist [BT's Openreach boss Liv Garfield sitting] on my right.
And so I think the time is now right to start looking at exactly what that regulatory framework should be to make sure that it is very clear that both parties are getting a fair price.
Finally, Huawei has received a massive slap in the chops, and it likes it. The Chinese firm said that it's not that nice to have an expert tell you that there are flaws in your gear, but the disclosures can help in sorting these problems out.
Cyber-security officer John Suffolk said his firm was talking to researcher Felix Lindner, who had pointed out some major programming errors in two of Huawei's routers. He added: "Sometimes you need a bit of a slap in the face to step back, not be emotive in your response, and say what do I systematically need to change so over time any these issues begin to reduce?
"I can fix the Felix issue in a few lines of code. But I'm interested in systemic change within Huawei." ®


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I have a need to allow certain users the ability to create folders and linked reports within specified folders, but I don't want them to be able to put actual reports in those folders. Is there a magic combination of permissions I can put on a role that will allow this? I'm assuming the "Create linked reports" permission applies to the source report that's being linked, and I'm not sure if linked reports fall under "Manage reports" or "Manage resources".
(For the curious, I want to be able to differentiate between the people developing and deploying reports to a designated location, and people linking those reports to directories that certain end users will have access to.)
Just to make it clearer what I'm trying to do... Say I've got two directories on the report server: Base Reports, and Sales Department. I want the developers to be able to create reports in Base Reports (no problem there). I also want to allow another group to be able to create linked reports in Sales Department which are based on reports within Base Reports. I do not want this group to be able to create actual reports within Sales Department.
In order to allow the second group to create linked reports based on what's in Base Reports, I set Create Linked Reports permission on the Base Reports directory. What do I have to set on Sales Department to allow them to put the linked reports in there, without allowing them to create actual reports?


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Name: Chris
Gender: male
Age: 29
I'm 29 and I've been married for the last 3 years. I was seeing my wife for 5 years prior to being married so I guess it's been a total of 8 years that we've been together. When we first got together everything was great the sex was outstanding ya know 69 all types of positions tons of oral, tons of foreplay and she had an orgasm every time. It seems that just in the last couple of years everything has dwindled away to the point where it's her on top for a little bit, me on top for a little bit till I finish then we go back to the living room and hang out. Whenever I bring up the subject she gets very uncomfortable and won't talk about it. And it's really starting to freak me out in every aspect of our relationship. I love the girl, so I don't want to go anywhere. I'm wondering if there's any hope to get things back to the way they used to be that fresh hotness and spontaneity. How can I bring the heat back?
Like I always say, If I had a nickel for every time I've heard this same complaint from a frustrated and desperate man or woman trapped in an undersexed marriage, I'd have enough money to lay down my keyboard, give up my status as the most fabulous and revered sexpert in the universe and retire to Maui.
Despite the frequency of the grievance, it still breaks my heart to hear the despair. I mean it's one thing to have the sexual connection between partners drift away by mutual consent. It's another thing all together to have one partner dissolve the sexual connection unilaterally while leaving the other partner bewildered and disoriented.
And what gives with a partner who refuses to talk about why the sex has taken a nosedive? That is so wrong. I can understand not knowing exactly what to say about things goin' south, or even how to say what may be on your mind, but to clam up all together, that's just unfair. Suppose the problem had to do with finances instead of sex. What if one of you decided to start splurging on major purchases without consulting the other? There'd be hell to pay then, huh? There'd be no duckin' out of the responsibility by clamin' up in this instance, I'll bet. But when it comes to sex, somehow the same rules for accountability don't always apply. Why is that?
Sexuality is both a personal expression and a means of bonding with another. Thus sexual wellbeing in a relationship is way more than just the old in and out. It means taking responsibility for one's eroticism as an integral part of relationship. Sex is a way of expressing one's self as well as our love for the other. The confusion, unhappiness and anxiety that results from the breakdown of this fundamental tenet will, as you suggest Chris, spill over into and contaminate other areas of the relationship. But it doesn't need to happen.
When I encounter this predicament in my counseling practice, I always build in some individual time with each partner even though the couple is there for "couples counseling." I often get a much better sense of what's causing the breakdown in these private sessions than I do when the couple and I work together as a threesome. Sometimes it's easier for the individual to talk to me privately than to be open, honest and forthcoming about his/her feelings with his/her partner sitting right there.
My experience tells me that more often than not, a refusal to discuss sexual concerns has more to do with not knowing how to express oneself without hurting the feelings of the other. Sometimes an individual simply doesn't know herself why things are different than they once were. Sometimes there are lifestyle issues at play — family concerns, work concerns, lack of sleep, drugs and alcohol consumption, etc. Sometimes there are medical and psychological issues that impact on a person's libido — weight gain, birth control, other pharmaceutical drugs, diabetes and depression to mention a few.
There's also something we in the business call: "desire discrepancy disorder," which is just a fancy-schmancy way of saying one partner has a stronger libido then the other. But often the simplest and most ordinary explanation is that the partnered sex has become stale, rote and boring.
Whatever the cause of the imbalance, it needs to be addressed as a couple. Once the couple has identified the problem the next step is learning how to talk about it in an effective yet non-threatening way. This can be tricky, to say the least. But it is still so much easier than trying to avoid the issue all together.
Ok, so your wife is reluctant to discuss the matter with you, Chris. That just means you're gonna have to be proactive in bringing this issue to a head. And I'm not suggesting that you browbeat your wife about her unwillingness to talk about the issue. It's gonna be all about you leading by example. Here's what I suggest. Set up a time for you and your wife to have a sit-down. This needs to be scheduled in advance so that both of you know it's coming. There ought be no surprises. This conference should not immediately follow sex, especially disappointing sex. Set aside at least 30 minutes when you guys are fresh and relaxed and then start preparing what you want to say. Take notes if necessary.
When the time comes for the sit down, I encourage you to use "I" statements instead of "you" statements. Begin by laying out how you feel and owing your feelings. "I feel confused. I feel frustrated. I feel that our relationship is in jeopardy." Stay away from statements like "you make me feel…blah, blah, blah. These kinds of pronouncements will only muddy the waters. Then I suggest that you invite your wife to do the same. If she can't, or won't, move on to what steps you will take to get to the bottom of this. Something like, "I don't want to continue the status quo. I've decided that I am going to seek some professional help for this. Maybe there's something I'm missing. I can't get to the bottom of this on my own, so maybe a sex therapist will help me understand what's going on." Again, invite her to join you in this effort. If she refuses or stalls out, move on to closing the discussion. You might say something like, "thank you for hearing me out on this. I don't mean to put you on the spot, but I think our relationship is worth the effort to preserve it. And I'm actually gonna do something to make sure that we stay together. My invitation to you to join me in this effort will remain open." End of discussion!
Of course, if you take this route, you will have to follow through on your commitment. If you don't you will sabotage the whole damn thing, which will only make matters considerably worse. I encourage you to find a sex-positive therapist to work with. A good resource for this is The American College of Sexologists. Visit the directory page on their website. You will find listings for certified sexologists and sex therapists all over the world. If there is no one near you, contact the person closest to you and ask for a referral. Often my fellow ACS therapists and sexologists are very well connected to the broader sex-positive communities in their area.
You may also wish to consult me, even if you're not here in Seattle. Check out the Therapy Available link in the header of my site for all the information you'll need to make an enlightened decision about working with me.
Whatever you do, don't settle for the path of least resistance. Your leadership might be just the thing your wife is looking for to muster her own strength to face the facts. Either way, the problem you are facing will not go away simply by ignoring it. Disappointments will become resentments and resentments will inevitably lead to acting-out and that will surely fuck things up royally.
Good luck


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When you sign in to your Microsoft account on your Xbox One console, you're automatically connected to Xbox Live at the basic level. If you don't already have a Microsoft account, you can create one for free.
Note If you're just getting started with your new Xbox One console, use the Xbox One System Set Up Solution.
Xbox Live is the online service for Xbox One. Xbox Live is your ticket to the most exciting social entertainment network in the world.
With an Xbox Live free account, you can experience the hottest games, HD movies and TV shows, live events, music, and sports, along with premier entertainment apps, Microsoft Edge, and Skype on your TV.
With an Xbox Live Gold account membership, you'll have access to Games with Gold and free games for both the Xbox One and Xbox 360. Plus, we've introduced Deals with Gold for Xbox One, which gives members exclusive discounts on games in Microsoft Store. With all this and the most advanced multiplayer gaming, Xbox Live Gold is better than ever. And your Xbox Live Gold membership extends across Xbox 360 and Xbox One. So if you're already an Xbox Live Gold member, you're good to go.
Here's a sampling of what you can do on Xbox Live:
*This feature requires an Xbox Live Gold membership. Visit Xbox Live Gold to join today.
You can connect your console to Xbox Live with a wired or wireless connection.
A wired network connection is the fastest and most reliable way to connect to Xbox Live. For a wired connection, you use a network cable to connect your Xbox One console to a router or modem. Here's what you need:
A wireless network connection lets you connect your Xbox One console to Xbox Live without using network cables. This allows you the freedom to move your console further away from your network hardware (the router, gateway, or modem). Your Xbox One console can use your existing wireless network. Here's what you need:
Note Satellite and 3G or 4G mobile connections are not recommended because you are likely to experience slow performance or lag.
For more information about how to connect your Xbox One console to Xbox Live with either a wired or wireless connection, follow the steps in the Xbox One First-Time Connection Solution.
If you have a digital code for an Xbox Live Gold free trial membership, learn how to redeem it by going to How to redeem an Xbox digital code.
If you don't have a trial membership but would like one, see How to get an Xbox Live Gold trial membership.
Xbox Live Gold members can take advantage of Gold sharing on their home Xbox. The first time you sign in on an Xbox One and save your password, that console becomes your home Xbox. The My home Xbox feature allows you to do the following:
You can also play downloaded games while traveling or, in the event of a network or service outage, on your home Xbox. You'll need to ensure that your console is set as your home Xbox before you go offline. To learn more, see Using Xbox One offline.
If you have more than one Xbox One console, or if you sign in on multiple consoles, we recommend you designate the most frequently used console as your home Xbox. See How to designate an Xbox One console as your home Xbox to find out how.
No, you don't need to own a console to use an Xbox Live Subscription. For example, if you play Minecraft on any "Bedrock" platform—Win10, Android, Nintendo Switch or iOS—Xbox Live will let you join multiplayer games with users on any of those platforms. Also, with an Xbox Live account, any Minecraft content you purchase in the Minecraft Marketplace can be used on any Bedrock version of the game you might own.
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chrisbayley necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 262 diseños de 76 diseñadores freelance.
I am an independant consultant with over 20 years experience specialising in change for business and technology projects including: enterprise IT systems implementations, web developments, HR performance management, document control and digital media.
I have consulted in both commercial and state government organisations, including: Adobe, AstraZeneca, BigPond, EDS, Optus, RailCorp, Telstra, and Woolworths.
Divisions within medium to large organisations that want to adjust or deploy new HR or IT systems. Project or business managers.
My website/ blog needs to appeal to a somewhat conservative audience, i.e. busy people in organisations that have a problem and need professional help to make the change a success. Success happens when people get the change and know what and how they need to do with the new technology.
The website/ blog ideally will reflect innovation through new operational processes or enhanced collaboration by better tacit interactions (where the Web 2.0 stuff comes in).
This is essentially a personal branding exercise for me. I do not expect millions of visitors, but a potential client that checks out chrisbayley.com or deltachange.com will see useful templates, whitepapers and my opinion about change triggered and developed by social media.
Apart from this the design options are open. I am deliberately not specifiying colour or characteristics. The logo will appear on the header of deltachange.com (just set up as a Wordpress blog) and on my business card. If that broadens the brief too much. The blog takes preference.
I look forward to working with and refining with the chosen designer. Good luck!
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Transforming British Tennis Together is the largest and most exciting capital investment programme the LTA has ever launched. More importantly this is the chance for local partners like you to join with us and bring improved tennis facilities to communities across the whole country. Whether you're a club, a local authority, an educational institution, or some other body, we want to help you create brilliant facilities that serve everyone in your local community.
If you have a vision as to how to make this happen in your area, we want to help you realise it.
Over the next decade we aim to invest £125m in British tennis. With this sum matched by local partners, we hope to bring £250m into the game.
We're looking for partners who have a vision to create a thriving tennis scene for their local community
So what are you waiting for? Sign up today and come and find out more about the opportunities to get involved in your area. You don't need to have a defined project at this stage and for all you know there may be others attending this event just like you looking for partners to work with.


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After "Flappy Bird" came "Splashy Fish" (and countless others).
And after "2048"? Theres "SF Lyfe," an online clone of "2048" that makes you match San Francisco iconography to rack up points.
You use your keyboard arrows to match different tiles until you get to the "ultimate SF tile." You can also play the game in your mobile browser by swiping tiles, just like the actual game it's cloning.
Tiles include pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge, pigeons, burritos and artisanal coffee. The pictures are what really make this game more fun than the actual "2048" — who cares about numbers when you can look at pictures of the Sutro Tower?
The game ends when you can't match any more tiles, or if you get the elusive ultimate tile.
I haven't reached that level yet, but I can only imagine what it's a picture of: perhaps the historic Ferry Building, or possibly the Palace of Fine Arts.
Or, of course, it could also be a picture of a Google bus.
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The HDD Eraser app is used to format your Xbox 360 flash memory and hard drive to remove everything but the operating system. This app will permanently and completely delete all user data, ensuring that no-one will be able to recreate or access your personal information on the hard drive or flash memory after you've used the app.
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To start the HDD Eraser app later, go to video, My Video Apps and then HDD Eraser.
Go to Browse Apps on the Apps hub. Select See All on the Social hub, select HDD Eraser, and then select Play now.
A screen then shows an estimate of how long it will take to delete your data and "zero write" your drive so that all data will be permanently unrecoverable. Select A to continue.
Once the process has started, there is no way to cancel it. Do not turn off your console or interrupt the process once it has begun.
Important If the console is unplugged or loses power in the middle of the format operation, the hard drive will become unformatted and not usable by your Xbox 360 console. If this happens, use the format function from the System Settings menu to rebuild the file system on the hard drive. Once this is done, the hard drive will be usable again by the console. For instructions on how to format a storage device for your Xbox 360 console, see "Format a storage device" at Xbox 360 storage.
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December 25, 2012-Merry Christmas
As we sit at anchor in Clifton Harbor, Union Island, in the Caribbean, listening to Christmas Carols on our stereo and enjoying this holiday we reflect on the previous year.
Some water has passed under our keel since Christmas 2011, when we celebrated the holiday with friends aboard their yacht in Simon's Town, South Africa.
In January, with other good friends aboard, we sailed to Namibia and saw the desert.
And then the four of us set out across the South Atlantic, from the cold and foggy Namibian coast to the tropical shores of Brazil, 3200 nautical miles, with a stop at lovely but remote St. Helena Island. What a sail we had!
After a stay in Brazil, struggling with the Portuguese language, we ventured North, across the Equator again, to Trinidad, in the Caribbean, where we stayed for the six months of hurricane season, working on the boat, making friends with other cruisers, and doing a few local races.
Now we are cruising Windward Islands of the Caribbean chain, on our way to Antigua for Sailing Week in April, and other destinations in 2013, probably Cartagena, Columbia for next hurricane season.
Al together we have sailed about 5800 nautical miles since last Christmas.
Back home among the normal folks our family continues to do well.
Our kids are healthy as are all their offspring who are all getting bigger. The oldest grandkids are all turning into fine adults. My, how the family grows.
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Part 2: Maui's Do's and Dont's
6. Don't: Drive to Hana without stopping along the way
As we mentioned in our article "Ten Tips for Driving the Road to Hana", there is a decidedly "right" way and a decidedly "wrong" way to drive the famous Road to Hana. A 52-mile stomach churner which has no shortage of one-lane bridges and dramatic vistas, the best way to experience the road is to remember that it's the journey—and not the destination—that makes this one of the most famous drives in America. The town of Hana itself is just a small, single stop-sign community with some nice beaches and a few stores. To break up the drive and get the most out of the excursion be sure to stop at fruit stands, hike to waterfalls, let others pass you, and take time to drink in the tropical beauty that oozes around every hairpin turn. As an added bonus, consider driving the "back road" to get back to your hotel, although do understand that it's a one-lane road which is unpaved and bumpy, although the scenery afforded is on par with the ends of the Earth.
7. Do: Tip your activity staff
Tourism is Hawaii's number one economy, yet despite the millions of tourism dollars which pass through the islands annually most activity staff are still dependent upon tip-income as a means of paying their bills. Sure, working outside in paradise is an enviable way to make a living, but remember that these "dream jobs" often come with little to no benefits (no 401k, no paid vacation, no sick leave, etc.), and oftentimes only pay just barely above minimum wage. In the same way that you would tip a waiter in a restaurant it's standard to tip activity staff, particularly if you feel they've made an effort to show you an enjoyable outing.
8. Don't: Schedule sunrise at Haleakala before a luau or after a scuba dive
Watching the sunrise from the top of Haleakala is something every Maui visitor should experience at least once, but the sleep-deprived reality is that you need to wake up at about 2:30am in order to see it. If you've traveled from the East Coast and are still jet-lagged there's a chance you're going to be waking up that early anyway, but most-likely by the time evening rolls around you're going to be completely spent. Do yourself a favor and don't stack up too many activities on top of each other, because it's a shame to yawn your way through a luau performance simply because you've been up for so long. From a safety perspective, if you plan on doing any scuba diving during your stay in Maui you won't be able to visit Haleakala for at least 24 hours. Due to the nature of breathing compressed air it isn't safe to fly for a full day after diving, and seeing as Haleakala tops out at over 10,000 ft. in elevation this constitutes the same altitude as a low-flying airplane. Even seasoned divers who are aware of the flying restriction forget that—even though they aren't stepping on an airplane—it's still possible to ascend to potentially dangerous heights.
9. Do: Take a moment to learn about Hawaii's cultural history
Much more than just a tropical vacation destination, Hawaii is unique in that it's the only U.S. state which was once its own independent country. It's important to remember that although Hawaii has only been a part of the United States for 114 years (it was annexed in 1898), historians date the arrival of the earliest Polynesians at somewhere between 400-600 AD. For nearly 1,300 years the Hawaiian people lived a culturally rich and sustainable lifestyle which is still very much alive for those who take the time to seek it out. Many museums around Maui such as Lahaina's Hale Pa'i Musuem recount Hawaii's fascinating history and detail the way in which the Hawaiian culture is making an encouraging resurgence.
10. Don't: Leave without trying some of the local food
It's often been said that the food of Hawaii is the perfect metaphor for the state's "mixed-plate" of cultural diversity. Due to the arrival of sugar and pineapple plantation workers from Japan, the Philippines, Korea, Portugal, and Puerto Rico, Hawaii is one of the only state's where there is no ethnic majority. Upon arriving in the islands many of these laborers brought their customs and their cuisine, and by piecing together a few items from each culture the Hawaiian islands have developed an array of famous foods which are rooted in cultures from across the globe. While foods such as ahi poke, haupia, and poi are of Polynesian origin, other dishes such as kalbi short ribs, banana lumpia, or sugary malasadas owe their existence to those who originally immigrated here. The fish in Hawaii is also some of the freshest on the planet, and between the copious amount of mahimahi and mixed plate lunches the food of Hawaii is a reason in itself for visiting time and again.
Kyle Ellison is a freelance writer based in Maui, Hawaii who frequently finds himself in obscure international destinations. Over the course of traveling through 60 different countries, he has taken part in everything from climbing mountains in Borneo to eating clams while scuba diving in an underwater Vietnamese cave. Despite his penchant for novelty and adventure, the beautiful island of Maui will always be the corner of the world where he calls home. All of Kyle's writing and adventures can be found by visiting his website, kylethevagabond.com. Kyle is also an ambassador and contributor to VacationRoost.


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My sister's birth certificate states that my father, Jasper Jackson "Jack" Spurlock, was employed by Greer Sheet Metal in Fairbanks. I tried a Google search and came up with a hit for Greer Tank and Welding in business since the early '50s. I emailed their Fairbanks location inquiring whether it was the same company, and if so, whether they would have any employment records for my dad. I wasn't sure I would get a reply, but I did; unfortunately, it was not the same company.
I recall hearing that Daddy had been to both Nome and Point Barrow, Alaska, and also that he worked on the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line. The DEW line was a series of radar stations in the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland built during the Cold War to provide advance warning of enemy air or missile attacks over the North Pole. President Eisenhower authorized U.S. participation in construction in 1954; it was completed and deemed operational in July 1957. This map shows the location of the radar stations:
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