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Cooper Student Team Takes Home $15k Software Prize
POSTED ON: May 5, 2014
A team of Cooper Union engineering students has won a $15,000 prize from the first-ever Dream it. Code it. Win it. software competition during an award ceremony held in the Great Hall last week. Alyssa Davis, Aman Grewal, David Sheckhtman, Kevin Shi and Robert Walsh, under the faculty advisment of Prof. Eric Lima, won the prize for "Mycrophone," a smartphone app born out of a problem that has vexed students and instructors since the age of the Lyceum: how to effectively handle questions from a large audience during a lecture. Eric Lima, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was the faculty advisor to the team. The Cooper students' software solution took second prize along with teams from Quinnipiac University, who took third, and Harvard College who took the top prize.
"The event was great," Kevin Shi says. "We felt incredible." The winners were selected from over a hundred submitted projects from across the country, according to organizers.
"Dream it. Code it. Win it.," sponsored by the MIT Club of New York and other organizations, offered big prizes to "celebrate and reward creativity in computer science," Cristine Dolan, the event moderator and an officer of the MIT Club of New York, says. "Instead of organizing an event that had tremendous expense, we gave the money to the kids. We wanted the prizes to have a positive impact on the students' lives." The goal, she says, was to encourage students, especially women, to take up computer science as a major by encouraging creativity over coding expertise.
The awards ceremony was preceded by a panel discussion on "The Future of Innovation in a Networked World." The panel included Teresa Dahlberg, dean of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering, Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, representatives from Google, Yahoo!, Forbes and others. The panelists were also the judges for the contest finalists. Dean Dahlberg summarized the panel's subject: "Because networks and software have become economic drivers across all business sectors, while standards and open source tools now enable virtually anyone to create something new and bring it to market, computer science has become an incredibly creative and exciting discipline."
"From the moment I heard about the event, I knew a Cooper team could win, despite our small size," Dean Dahlberg says. "Our students embody the ethos of creativity and innovation. The 'Dream it' event was an opportunity to make this aspect of Cooper Union more visible to New York City and the broader tech innovation community, as well as to prospective freshmen."
The Cooper team's winning application took shape during their freshman year, Kevin Shi, one of four sophomores on the team, says. "Mycrophone is a smartphone app designed to help shy, introverted students. It allows you to submit a question to the instructor through your smartphone, and it will appear for your teacher to see on their computer during their presentation. This way it lets shy students participate and submit questions in class. It has a voice aspect too. The original idea was a solution for a 1000-person lecture room where one person will speak and no one else can hear them. It turns the smartphone into a microphone."
"The problem they were looking to solve was interesting," Cristina Dolan says. "They were trying to give everyone an equal voice in the classroom. The judges liked the fact that you could use technology to solve a problem of different personalities in the classroom. The Cooper team had a very clever solution for it."
"Each one of us has different idea of what we want to do with the money," Kevin Shi says. "Collectively we want to have a party to celebrate. But working on the project is definitely a consideration, especially with the support and excitement following the event."

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This 11-minute video takes us from the preparations of the Fat Man nuclear weapon, its loading onto the plane Bockscar, and the explosion of the bomb in Nagasaki. It's a sobering look at this catastrophically destructive technology and a reminder of the toll it took in human lives.
YouTube user RestrictedData uploaded this video and provided annotations that explain exactly what is going on from shot to shot. Aside from an adjustment in the contrast, this is essentially raw footage taken from the island of Tinian and a second bomber that observed Bockscar and the explosion, archived by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The annotations in this case are extremely helpful, although you can turn them off to experience the video by itself.
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Win a Trip to Fall NYFW!
NYFW may have come to an end, but now's your chance to get in on the fall shows! During the month of February, when you buy two TRESemmé products at Walgreens (I recommend the Fresh Start Dry Shampoo), you'll receive a code to enter here for a chance to attend Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. The grand prize includes:
- Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week access
- Round trip airfare for two
- Hotel stay for 3 nights/4 days
- $1,000 spending money (hey now)
- Gift card to a New York salon
- 20 first prize winners will also receive $250 Walgreens gift cards (yes, please)
Although we can't all be winners, behind-the-scenes videos are the next-best thing. I lose hours, slack-jawed, watching these—especially the beauty ones. Forget the outfit changes, I don't know how the stylists turn out the seemingly endless parade of updos.
I'm loving the sweet buns with a retro twists for spring. They're that perfect combo of romantic and modern. Just add an orange-red lip and flirty dress.
Any spring beauty trends you're looking forward to? Until then, get thee to a Walgreens, snap up two TRESemmé products, and head on over here to enter. Good luck!
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Texas Government
Understand government debt
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- Category: Texas Legislature
- Published on 11 September 2013
- Written by lillie
New profiles available at Tell the Truth Texas
provide context for local, state debt.
To help Texans better understand fiscal realities at the state and local government levels, the Texas Comptroller's office has posted new Debt-at-a-Glance profiles for the state and Texas' most populous cities and counties.
Visit the site and click around a bit to learn interesting facts about state and local community obligations. At the city and county levels, individuals can even see per capita debt — how much each resident would have to pay to settle the entity's total debt. See how various city and county debts compare to similar entities in the state.
Contact the Comptroller's office with comments or questions. Citizen input is invaluable in the process of creating and refining Web resources that help people to understand government debt.
Debt-at-a-Glance is intended to inform citizens, not to present comprehensive data for investors. Data is provided as of the date indicated and may not reflect debt, debt service, population or other data as of any subsequent date.
For fuller, more detailed, or more current information, see the issuers' web sites or their filings at Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA®).
The Comptroller does not control or guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or currency of any such site. When you access any such site, you will be leaving the Comptroller's website.


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Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) was an American broadcast journalist. A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow is best remembered for his television series Person to Person and See It Now, and for his series of news reports on Senator Joseph McCarthy.
- In an episode of Sam and Friends, the "Poison to Poison" sketch is a lipsynched parody (to a Spike Jones album track) of Murrow's Person to Person, with Harry the Hipster taking on the role of cigarette smoking "Ed Burrow."
- On Dinosaurs, the character Edward R. Hero's name is a nod to the famed journalist.
- Brian Williams signs off his Word of the Day segment in Sesame Street Episode 4135 saying, "Good day, and good squid."
- Episode 4181 of Sesame Street features a nod to Murrow when a chicken signs off his newscast with "Good night, and good cluck," a play on Murrow's signature sign off of "Good night, and good luck."
- In a Muppet News Flash for DXD, the Muppet Newsman announces his retirement and signs off, "good night, and good luck."
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"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!"
12 April sees the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space, the first human to do so. ESA pays tribute to these five decades of human spaceflight with a collection of articles and interviews on a special website.
"The world's first spaceship, Vostok, with a man on board, was launched into orbit from the Soviet Union on 12 April 1961. The pilot space-navigator of the satellite-spaceship Vostok is a citizen of the USSR, Flight Major Yuri Gagarin."
To the world of 1961, this was an electrifying announcement, made while Gagarin was still in space. The Americans were stunned, but the congratulations they sent to Moscow were genuine. This historic 108-minute flight, orbiting once around Earth, made Gagarin the first human in space, and an international hero. He was only 27 years old.
His feat was amazing at the time. NASA rushed to get an astronaut into space and, in May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first US astronaut, albeit making a suborbital ballistic flight. It wasn't until the next year that a US astronaut flew in orbit, when John Glenn circled Earth aboard Mercury Friendship 7 in February 1962.
Two days after the return of Vostok 1, Gagarin was back in Moscow, where he appeared on the balcony of the Kremlin with Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Forty-eight hours earlier, he was unknown; now he was arguably the most famous man on Earth. He embarked on a worldwide tour during which cheering crowds greeted him wherever he went.
Gagarin's international visits were extraordinary because they came at the height of the Cold War. Here was someone who could travel not only between Earth and space, but also between the open and closed worlds of the east and west.
Ideological differences were momentarily forgotten as this man was hailed a hero around the globe.
Gagarin never flew in space again. After touring, he returned home to Star City to continue his work in the Russian space programme. He was in training for an early flight of the new Soyuz spacecraft in 1967, but was grounded by senior space managers who did not want to risk the life of a Hero of the Soviet Union in another hazardous mission.
It is even more of a tragedy then that Gagarin should lose his life during a routine training flight on 27 March 1968, when his plane crashed and he and his instructor were killed. His ashes were placed in the Kremlin Wall and a lunar crater and asteroid 1772 Gagarin are named in his honour.


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Kent State University at Stark announces the 2013–2014 Featured Speakers Series
Kent State University at Stark is proud to announce the 23rd season of the popular Featured Speakers Series, highlighting four inspirational and world-renowned individuals. Each season, nearly 2,500 campus and community members take advantage of a rare opportunity to be introduced to national and international experts on a wide range of topics and issues that shape our society.
Come to Kent State Stark for the 2013-2014 season to hear exciting lectures by innovative educator John Hunter, legendary tennis champion Billie Jean King, best-selling author Jodi Picoult, and art preservationist Robert Edsel. Each program will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the University Center's Timken Great Hall, located at 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township.
All lectures are free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at 8 a.m. each weekday on the date listed with each speaker. No phone reservations will be taken. Tickets will be limited to four per person. The University Center will open at 6:45 p.m. prior to each event.
World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements will be presented by John Hunter on Tuesday, Oct. 8
John Hunter, a teacher, musician and filmmaker, is the inventor of the World Peace Game. During a compelling TEDTalk, which was selected by TED and 4 as "the most influential idea of 2011," he explained how this challenging game of collaboration and communication encourages students to explore the ideals of global harmony while accepting the reality of violence. Both the secretary of defense and the United Nations have requested him to speak, and at a recent conference, Bill Gates was honored to open for him. Hunter's project is chronicled in the critically acclaimed documentary, World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements. Tickets for the John Hunter event will be available beginning Monday, Sept. 16, at the Main Hall Information Desk.
Billie Jean King will present Pressure is a Privilege and Other Lessons in Business and Life on Tuesday, Nov. 12
Tennis champion and activist Billie Jean King won 39 Grand Slam titles during her career. Named one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century" by Life magazine, this recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom has been a pioneer of social justice. In 1970, she founded the Women's Tennis Association and successfully fought for equal monetary prizes for women. King notoriously defeated Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes" match – one of the greatest moments in sports history. In 2006, the facility that hosts the U.S. Open was renamed the United States Tennis Association Billie Jean King National Tennis Center to honor her remarkable accomplishments on and off the court. Tickets for the Billie Jean King event will be available beginning Monday, Oct. 21, at the Main Hall Information Desk.
Jodi Picoult will present The Facts Behind the Fiction on Tuesday, Feb. 25
A best-selling author of 21 novels, Jodi Picoult has been writing fiction since age five. As a student at Princeton University, she published two short stories in Seventeen magazine. Today, 14 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and she consistently receives international acclaim through numerous awards and reader response. Four of her books have been reproduced as television movies and her 2009 novel, My Sister's Keeper, became a major motion picture, starring Cameron Diaz. The New York Times Bestseller List has debuted each of her last seven novels in the number one slot, including her newest work, The Storyteller. Tickets for the Jodi Picoult event will be available beginning Monday, Feb. 3, at the Main Hall Information Desk.
Join us for Robert Edsel's presentation of Monuments Men on Monday, April 7
Author and philanthropist Robert Edsel has dedicated the past 10 years to painstaking research about the Monuments Men, unsung heroes who saved the world's greatest art and cultural treasures from the devastation of World War II. He authored three historical books on rescuing and protecting artistic masterpieces from Hitler's reign and co-produced the Emmy-nominated documentary, The Rape of Europa. He is the founder and president of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, which earned a 2007 National Humanities Medal, the highest U.S. honor awarded for excellence in the humanities field. Captivated by Edsel's writing, actor George Clooney directed and produced The Monuments Men, a film to be released in December 2013. Tickets for the Robert Edsel event will be available beginning Monday, March 17, at the Main Hall Information Desk.
For additional information about the 2013-2014 Featured Speakers Series, visit www.stark.kent.edu/about/events/featuredspeakers or contact Cynthia Williams at 330-244-3262 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A Jeanne and Cassondra Food Fight....
Cassondra: I was in New York a couple of weeks ago, like many of the Bandits, and had a chance to spend just a bit of time with the one Bandit I sometimes refer to as "my evil twin."
You might wonder why we would think of ourselves that way, since I'm short and dark haired, with a rather overpowering preference for black clothing, dark blue nail polish, and deep purple lipstick, while Jeanne is tall, stacked and blonde, with a tendency to wear *shudder* earth tones.
Jeanne: Hey! I resemble that remark! (Heehee. Actually, it's quite a nice description....thanks!)
Cassondra, rolling her eyes: Nevertheless, for you who might not have noticed this, we tend, often, to think alike about certain things. We're both extremely analytical, come from strong marketing, art and design, and business backgrounds, and we both like things that go boom.
Jeanne: I love it when she calls me analytical. I SO don't think I am, but it's nice to know someone ELSE does!
Cassondra: Will you let me finish?
Jeanne: Pray, continue, my Evil Twin.
Cassondra: Thank you. We also both come from small country towns, love plants and gardening, and have a strong interest in a lot of similar things.
But when it comes to food, the similarities….well…I begin to doubt our twinhood.
Jeanne: Gasp! Say it isn't SO!!!
Cassondra: Yes! It's so! During the New York trip, a vast chasm opened between us. Yes, that's right. We're disagreeing about food again. And this time, it's sacred.
Jeanne: (muffled laugh) It's a sacred cow-product! Oh, noes!!
Cassondra stifles a grin: This is serious! Y'all remember my ice cream blog, right? So you know I'm no stranger to cow-originated goodness. So it's probably no surprise to you that I love floats.
Jeanne: Ugh.
Cassondra: Hey! I mean I don't just like floats. I love floats. Being much like the Sally character in When Harry Met Sally, I like them made a certain particular way, of course. I do NOT want the ice cream all blended together with the soda. That's just gross.
Y'all remember Koogle, right? Peanut butter and jelly blended together in one container? Like that. Blech. Grrrrross.
Jeanne: Oh, now that WAS disgusting. Bleech is right.
Cassondra: Thank you. But as to floats, the ice cream and the soda of choice should not become some amorphous, smooth substance. The ice cream and the soda must remain individual. It's a marriage of two distinct and opposite individuals, one with a crisp, bright burn, and one with a sweet, soft, creaminess. It is NOT a genetic blending experiment, where everything ends up looking the same. Ew.
I want generous scoops of ice cream, with Coke or root beer poured over the top (allowing proper time for the foam to go down, of course), then poured over the top again, until the container is full to the top of soda, and then I want extra Coke or root beer on the side. While I realize there is a group of float lovers who prefer to have their Coke poured in first, then their ice cream scooped in, because, they say, it doesn't foam nearly as badly that way, I say this is bowing to convenience. Maybe even bordering on laziness, this sacrifice of quality for speed of preparation. I am a Coke Over Ice Cream float girl.
I do not want chocolate ice cream, nor any other flavor except rich, natural vanilla. No swirls, no nuts, no candy additives. I want a bit of time for the ice cream to become malleable. Then I poke at it with the long-handled spoon so bits of it break off into the ambery liquid. So I can then slurp the glorious combination.
Now, brace yourselves, because I know you'll be shocked. I was. But our beloved Duchesse, Jeanne, my otherwise evil Bandita twin….dare I even say it?
She does not like floats.
This, I do not understand. Instead, she likes malts.
Jeanne: Yes, yes I do.
Now let me be clear. It's not that I find a float abhorrent or anything, it's just....well...Let me put it this way. It's a million degrees here in DC this week. The humidity is about 110%, with blue skies, and no rain. I'm hibernating in the house. Hiding, actually. Do you know what that kind of humidity does to my hair? Eeeeek!
Coke, Diet Coke, Root Beer - they're all wonderful, but there is nothing, and I mean NOTHING that is as refreshing and "bring-down-the-core-temp-good" like a milkshake. In particular, a malt. You know, a mix of cold, gorgeous ice cream in vanilla, coffee, chocolate (pick a flavor, but it's got to be real ice cream), luscious milk, and malted flavoring. YUMMMMM!!!
Cassondra: Okay, we agree on the "real ice cream" part, but once you get flavors or - UGH! - MALT in there, we are at a very wide cravasse in our twinhood. I cannot understand this passion you have for malt. Malted milk balls--okay I can tolerate those. But malt in your ice cream? Yuck. Give me a good, old fashioned float any day. You know, an ice cream float - ice cream floating in a soft drink, like root beer.
Jeanne: Ohhhh no. No fizzy, fuzzy stuff messing up my ice cream, please and thank you. I'm planning to have a malt today in fact, and tomorrow, and probably the next day as a defense against the evil heat and humidity. (We have a code orange heat advisory - baaaaaad)
Cassondra: Truly, you astonish me. Why would you want to diss my perfect summer beverage? I will admit to one exception to my strict coke/vanilla combo.
Jeanne: Just the one?
Cassondra: Oh, be quiet. The one is the orange dreamsicle float, with vanilla ice cream and orange soda. Oh. My. Gosh. And when anyone has a sick stomach, I make them an orange sherbet with 7-up float. Goes down easy and stays down when nothing else will.
Jeanne: Remind me not to be sick around you. Hate to admit it but I'm SO not a dreamsicle fan. My DH - he'd LOVE for you to be around when he's sick. He's an huge fan of orange/vanilla combos, no matter what frozen form they take.
And going back to the point at hand, why would you want to ruin a perfectly good scoop of ice cream by submerging it in, or pouring Coke over it? Or Root Beer? Why, for that matter, would you ruin a perfectly good, ice cold root beer, by dumping ice cream in it?
Cassondra: Oh, please. I'm sorry, but what, precisely, IS malt? I've wondered this for a long while now. They never let you actually see it, and I find that deeply troubling. It doesn't come from a "malt" plant. There is no "malt cow." No "malt truck" drives up and unloads cans of it. They dump it into the cup when you're not looking, then they keep their backs to you while they put in the ice cream and blend it all together.
Jeanne: *rubs hands in glee* Malt is made from grain, m'dear Twin! It's the food of the Gods, don't-cha-know. Snork!!! See, you get a grain AND a dairy serving when you get a malt!
(Nancy, that makes malted milk balls a grain food! We're saved!)
Cassondra: Maybe we should switch husbands since your husband, Ralph, likes floats and dreamsicles. My husband, Steve, likes floats, but alas, Jeanne, like you he LOVES malts. In fact he likes EXTRA malt in his vanilla malts. I have no idea how we ended up together.
He has a theory that floats, actually, are a regional thing. A few years ago, he worked for a big hospital corporation, and traveled all over the country visiting hospitals and helping with their scheduling software. He's run across several places where floats are not served. At one point he was in Texas, (I think) when he stopped by an ice cream shop—one of the little glass-walled kind that I blogged about a couple of months ago—and asked for a float. They looked at him with a blank stare. Then they frowned.
"A what?" they asked.
"A float," he said. "You know, ice cream with coke or root beer poured over it?"
The girl looked over at her ice-cream scoop-wielding companion. Scoop girl came over and stood near girl number one, making an impenetrable wall of "ya ain't from here are ya" confusion. They'd never heard of a float.
I mean really! They don't know about floats! How can this be? After I've heard such nice things about Texas? I might start to believe that Texas really is a whole other country—an alien one where they don't serve floats.
Jeanne: Now, I do find that hard to believe--the not knowing about floats. Or maybe it's that your region (Kentucky) and my original region (North Carolina) are so close and so similar that they DID know about floats.
However, your point about Texas being an alien country is also well taken. It IS where they filmed Cowboys and Aliens, so....coincidence? Perhaps not!
(Then again, anything that features Daniel Craig AND Harrison Ford? Rrrrrowwww!)
Cassondra, laughing: Could be, could be. Steve explained the concept, but they could not imagine pouring soda (pop, Coke, soft drink, whatever they call it down there) over ice cream.
You know what I think, though? I think they served him the malt he settled for (Bleh), then they closed the windows, and late that night, after dark, with the lights out, they scooped out some ice cream, poured root beer over it, and found their way to Nirvana. The question, of course, is whether they've kept it their special little secret, or whether they've shared it with others, spreading the float love across a barren, malt-infested land.
Jeanne: Malt infested? Oh, for Pete's sake! It's GRAIN, I tell ya'! So we're a grain infested land. Excellent. Amber waves, and all that. Snork! Tell Steve we'll fix him right up with a malt, and you and Ralph can go slurp down some carbonated milky goo drinks. I swear, I'm sending Steve a ginormous box of malted milk balls for Christmas, just to tweak you. Bwahahahahah!
Cassondra: Ya'll can have them. I'll studiously ignore them as I find Nirvana in ice cream and Coke. Oh, and your husband is too tall for me, and you're taller than Steve, so you keep Ralph, and I'll keep Steve. Kay?
Jeanne: Of course, because, hey, we chose them for other reasons than ice-cream-beverage preferences. *VEG* But when visiting all together, the four of us? Ya'll go to the other side of the table with those floats. Steve and I will keep our malts allll nice and soda-free.
Okay, so who's side are YOU on? Malt or Float?
Flavored ice cream, or pure, perfect vanilla?
Toppings, nuts, and fruits? (And here I AM in Twinhood again because I don't like cold nuts - SNORK! - nor do I like fruit goo on my ice cream)
Cassondra: Fruit goo. Ewwwww. Real fruit? That's different. Love me some bananas or strawberries....slurp...or chocolate....yummm..oh..ahem...
Jeanne: Back to being Twins - I'm there with you on real fruit on ice cream - or IN ice cream. Just not goo.One scoop or two? Or four?
And last but not least, besides vanilla, what's your favorite flavor?


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Greenwich reaps conveyance tax windfall after $120M mansion sale
Greenwich reaps conveyance tax windfall after sale
Propelled by the recent sale of Copper Beech Farm for $120 million, the most expensive residential property sale on record in the U.S., Greenwich is on pace to eclipse last year's conveyance tax windfall of $5 million.
The town budgeted for $4 million in revenue from the levy for the current fiscal year and is already up to $4.8 million, with May and June still to go. Its cut from the April 11 sale of the 50-acre compound on the shores of Long Island Sound was $300,000.
"We put it right in the bank," Town Clerk Carmella Budkins told Greenwich Time. "Nice piece of change. Our conveyance is doing very well."
Conveyance tax is paid to both the state and municipalities when a property is sold, with most cities and towns, including Greenwich, getting $2.50 for every $1,000 of a property's selling price.
The state collected $1,496,000 from the unprecedented sale of one of Greenwich's "Great Estates," a designation given by local preservationists.
A boon for Greenwich for most of the decade, the money brought in from the conveyance tax levied on home sales had dropped off during the past few years and had contributed to mounting financial pressures on the town.
But since the second half of 2013, the market has rebounded in a big way, especially at the top end, those who track sales say.
"I've got to tell you, it's something we haven't seen possibly ever, and certainly not since the recession," said Mark Pruner, a sales executive with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties who blogs about real estate.
During the past 10 months, 25 sales or pending sales in excess of $10 million have been recorded in Greenwich.
"Over $10 million is a hot market," Pruner said.
In contrast, there was just one sale over $10 million during the first six months of 2013.
The record-setting conveyance tax check of $300,000 was made out to the town by Fogarty Cohen Selby & Nemiroff, a Greenwich law firm used by the owner to execute the transaction.
The property is listed under the name of The Conservation Institute, a limited liability corporation established to protect the identity its new owner, who bought the estate from timber tycoon John Rudey.
There has been widespread speculation that the true owner is Ray Dalio, the eccentric hedge fund mogul and Greenwich resident.
David Ogilvy, the property's listing agent, would only say that the buyer was not local when interviewed by Greenwich Time immediately after the sale.
Another mystery is whether the buyer paid considerably less than $120 million for the property because it was carrying $124 million in mortgage debt and had narrowly averted foreclosure.
The estate boasts a pair of private islands, a 19th century French Victorian mansion with 12 bedrooms and a grass tennis court. There is a carriage house with a clock tower, co-joined heptagonal pools, a greenhouse and wine cellar.
Town officials are simply content with the windfall from up-market sales such as Copper Beech Farm.
"They'll all help to contribute to the surplus," said Kathleen Murphy, the town's treasurer.
And what kind of penmanship did the writer of the $300,000 check have?
"No, it's typed," Murphy said.
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Nobody Flashes: The History of North Korea and the Democrats
Nobody Flashes
North Korea just released this video in where they dream of nuking New York. In the background is the music of Michael Jackson– "We Are the World." Nobody asks herself —is the reason they want to nuke New York is because Steven Spielberg lives in California? Why hit the same place twice? Isn't Micheal Bloomberg doing enough damage as it is?
And oh my goodness…'President' Obama today…all of a sudden, seems a bit worried about the "sequester" coming up in March, which will decimate our military down to the point that even people with the video capabilities of a six-year-old can fire some missiles at us, and have a decent chance of succeeding.
You know, it's got to be tough. Here's a President that is trying to bring troops home from around the world, in order to put them to work as his own private HomeLand Security army, and some little dweeb over in North Korea is making him look silly.
And you might say: Come on Joyanna…how can a country that can't even make a simple video actually launch a missile to hit New York? (And once again…why is it always New York?)
Well…once upon a time…Bill Clinton sent over his favorite plutonium giver Sandy Berger, and Sandy supplied North Korea with enough uranium to make their own bombs, which they did. Of course, Clinton said later that, "They lied, they told me they needed it for peaceful means."
And just recently, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, went over to North Korea with Sandy Berger, and…you have to wonder what else was given to them? Have you noticed that Bill Clinton and Sandy Berger are the only two politicians that love to visit North Korea? Have you also noticed that every time a democrat comes back from visits to countries that don't like us, they want to kill us even more?
Democrats. Arming the world…with the help of Michael Jackson. In the meantime, who are all the democrats screaming about as the ones that have to be destroyed forever more?
The Tea Party.
And that's because the Tea Party KNOWS where the real enemy lies, and it's not in New York.
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Nations and governments abide by the 'Human Being' rule. They are not abstract entities but conglomorations of people and develop as people do. And we are all aware that some people are a brick short of a wall, have kangaroos in the top paddock, are a sandwich short of a picnic; ie nuts. And some are plain bad, psychopaths, sociopaths, heroic figures fighting for the freedom to take you for a mug. Some are as thick as two short planks but many are just plain nasty dum-dums.
North Korea sank into loonie territory a long time ago and went downhill into psychosis and sociopathology. They are dangerous. Some might say the same about many western countries, even the USA, even if to a lesser extent.
We lock up the mad and the bad, but even they get 'visitors' from time to time. And some of the visitors take in reading materials of a dubious nature, drugs and mobile phones, and weapons. The guards are often a bit suss too.
All those 'democrat' visitors to NK who find it difficult to criticise the Great Leader and his meglamaniac minions, are democratically elected by millions of good old American folk choreographed to put on a fine display because they too have much the same mental defect. The NK mob dream of nuking New York but the democrats AND the republicans of the USA are wide awake as they buy up millions of dum-dum bullets for internal use, thousands of spy drones fitted now with weaponry in case the sane US citizen says 'hold on a minute, pardner', and pass laws that create gulags in Connecticut. Not to mention the war on anyone they cast a Beenevalent eye on.
The US arm reaches out much further than NKs and far more often. I would like to think it was to help folk in furrin' climes but the talk in the pub says it ain't so. Even the sane and resonable can have senility creep up on them or get a bang on the head from a falling dollar, or drink too much Power-Aid.
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I started out 2009 with a few resolutions. Let's just say that #2 was a fail on all accounts. Moving onto #1 – expanding my exercise horizons to more than just running – well, that didn't last and now I am training for a marathon. #3 was to keep my house more picked up & organized. While I am making a better effort, I have come to realize that this is an ongoing process. It will never be "done". I just have to learn to accept it and move on.
So, let's focus more on the running now. When I started out 2009 I really had no goals in mind when it came to running. As I went through the first couple of weeks, I set my sights on a 10K in March that didn't happen. Then one day as I was getting the mail in the spring, I saw a "Team in Training" postcard that was recruiting people to run the Columbus Marathon & Half Marathon to help raise money to fight cancer. While I didn't end up running with Team in Training, I did set my sights on the Columbus Half Marathon that was to take place on October 18, 2009. I also decided that I should run another race of some sort before the half to get accustomed to running a race. I chose a 10K in July. Then, the training started.
I was following all the "rules" I should have been for training, though I wasn't really following any one specific plan. It was Mother's Day weekend when my right foot started to hurt. The more I ran & walked, the more it hurt. I couldn't figure out why, as I had even bought my shoes at a running store after having my run/gait evaluated. After seeing a couple different Sports Med docs, I was diagnosed with a Morton's Neuroma. The first treatment I was advised to try involved buying new shoes with a wider toe box. If that didn't work, come back & there were a number of other things to try. Well, it worked! Got some new kicks and within a few weeks I was as good as new. I ran my first ever race on July 18, 2009 and finished 2nd in my age group!
It was now time to really get down to business. Time to start running longer runs. I had to learn how to properly fuel myself so that I was able to make it through the runs, too. I quickly learned that any distance of 8+ miles required mid-run fueling for me. I also learned that 6+ mile runs required eating before the run. I typically run at 5 AM, so that was tough to do. I started out with bananas. They were too filling for me to eat that close to a run. Then I moved to Sharkies and Gu/Clif Shots. While I love that these products are gluten-free, I wanted to try to stay away from "processed" foods during my runs. Well, that didn't work. I had to learn to make it work on the longer runs – I needed quick fuel that I could eat while running. I was practicing for the big day in October. I wanted to mimic the foods I would be eating on that day so that I could make sure that my stomach agreed with my head. 😉 I finally figured out a system. I also added watered down Gatorade (also gluten-free) to my 8+ mile runs to help fuel & keep me hydrated.
Over the course of the training I was running 30+ miles/week. Those miles sure add up quickly! I knew that I was ready for my big day. I learned all about carb loading and how to do that gluten-free. Brown rice pasta, quinoa pasta, brown rice, buckwheat & millet all became very good friends of mine. Served up with roasted veggies, beans or lean meat/fish and I had a great, well balanced meal to fuel me through my run. I also had to keep an eye on my "diet" to make sure that I wasn't losing weight. Long runs tend to make my appetite disappear, so I began having to watch the clock to eat on those days. Making sure to eat something well balanced every 3 hours or so.
Half marathon day came and I was sick with what I now think was H1N1. I was fever free, but had a nice cough going on. I ran anyway. I managed to finish in 2 hours 1 minute & 22 seconds, just over my goal of coming in under 2 hours. I was beating myself up at first, then I remembered I was sick. Okay, I'll take it. 🙂 I worked hard for that and am proud to have done as well as I did.
This brings me to the present. I have continued to run to maintain my fitness. I am currently running about 25 miles a week. I have also been incorporating weights to build strength in my upper & lower body to help me achieve the goals I have set for 2010. I have 3 races that I am planning to run in 2010. The first race will be March 21, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the ING Half Marathon. Not only am I running this race, but so is my sister & a group of people that we have recruited to run in memory of my nephews, Wyatt & Jack. This half marathon will only be a training run for me – I will not be looking for a new PR during this half. Why? Well, because I am getting ready to start training for my first marathon in Cleveland on May 16, 2010! I do have a goal for this marathon – I would love to finish in under 4 hours. Can I do it? Only time will tell. Will I be upset if I don't? Maybe, but that will only make me train harder for race #3 – the Nationwide Columbus Marathon in October 2010. All of those races will have me running lots of miles over the course of 2010.
So as I look back over 2009 I have come to the realization that I have run over 1000 miles this year. If you would have told me back in January that I would have run 1000 miles this year, I would have laughed. Then I might have cried. Will I hit 2000 next year? I have no idea. I think the race goals that I have set are enough. I don't want to set any mileage goals and end up hurting myself in the process.
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Lynne Gillis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 202 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
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I'm an independent interior designer that loves, loves, loves helping people fall in love with their homes! I offer both traditional one-on-one interior design services, as well as virtual design services. Above all else, there are three things that I want to communicate to people through the overall branding look/feel of my logo: Approachable, Fresh and Authentic.
Its really important to me to have the logo communicate a culture of openness and trust that I will help them through whatever decorating challenges they face in a way that makes them feel cared for and safe.
I want to be able to communicate that I am great at helping people find their own "personal style" and to build on that. I don't want anything too trendy or too traditional -- TRANSITIONAL is probably the best description for who I am and why I appeal to people.
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LITTLE ROCK — Lawmakers this week will take up legislation to rewrite the state's stricken death penalty law as opponents of capital punishment draw new encouragement from Gov. Mike Beebe's comment that he would sign a ban on executions if such a bill reached his desk.
No such measure has been filed or has even been considered, legislative leaders say.
What a legislative panel will consider is a response to a state Supreme Court ruling last year that struck down the state's lethal injection law.
Executions in Arkansas have been on hold since the state's highest court ruled that the Legislature "abdicated its responsibility" by giving the Department of Correction too much enforcement discretion in violation of the separation of powers doctrine.
The Methods of Execution Act of 2009 states that a death sentence is to be carried out by lethal injection using one or more chemicals "as determined in kind and amount in the discretion of the director of the Department of Correction."
The law says the chemicals could be one or more ultra short-acting barbiturates; one or more chemical paralytic agents; potassium chloride; and "any other chemical or chemicals, including but not limited to, saline solution."
An attorney for one of the prisoners who challenged the law argued last year that the law theoretically would allow any substance, even rat poison, to be used to execute prisoners.
Senate Bill 73, by Sen. Bart Hester, R-Cave City, would set forth specific procedures and chemicals for the prison department to use in carrying out executions.
SB 73 would require prison officials to use one or more of the following: Sodium pentothal or sodium thiopental; pancuronium bromide; potassium chloride; or saline solution. It would remove the phrase "any other chemical or chemicals; including but not limited to," which the high court said gave the Department of Correction too much discretion.
The bill also sets forth a step-by-step procedure for carrying out executions.
"This clarifies (the Supreme Court's) concerns," Hester said, adding that he has discussed the bill with the state attorney general's office and prison officials.
The judiciary panel also will consider Hester's SB 52, which would guarantee relatives of the victim of a capital crime a right to witness the execution of the person convicted of the crime if they choose, and would accommodate them by increasing the number of people who can witness an execution.
"This is about victim's rights," Hester said. "This simply allows the immediate family members of victims in a capital punishment case to be able to attend the execution … It's going to help them with closure."
But death penalty opponents say instead of devising ways to improve the procedure and increase the visibility of putting someone to death, the state should consider less costly alternatives.
"We know the death penalty costs more than life without parole," said Sam Kooistra, executive director of the Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
He cited a recent study by Duke University that found the state of North Carolina would save about $11 million annually if it dropped the death penalty. A recent study in California found that over a lifetime, an inmate on death row costs more than $1 million more than an inmate serving a life sentence without parole, he said.
"These are not small numbers, they are significant savings we could have if we did away with the death penalty," Kooistra said.
Kooistra said he appreciated the motivation behind the Hester's bill to allow victims' relatives to witness executions but opposes it because he believes the state could spend the savings from dropping the death penalty to assist the family of victims and reduce crime.
"If we're really interested in helping a victim's family … a smarter, better use of resources would be to do away with the death penalty and fold those savings into things like counseling services for the victims, or throw (the savings) into law enforcement, crime prevention, social services, education, things that prevent crimes from happening in the first place," Kooistra said.
In a recent appearance before the Political Animals Club, Beebe was asked about a hypothetical bill banning capital punishment. He said he would sign such a measure if it made it through the Legislature.Beebe said his position on capital punishment has evolved after signing numerous death warrants, which he called one of the most difficult things he has had to do as governor.
"I think there is zero chance a bill like that would pass the Legislature," Hester said. "I think that's probably one of the reasons why it was easy for (Beebe) to make that statement. But I also think of we passed a law supporting (the death penalty) he would sign that too. I think Mr. Beebe is a governor of the people and he respects the legislative process and that if we pass (SB52 and SB 73) he will sign them."
On Monday, the Senate is to consider SB 71 by Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forest, which would give churches the option of allowing people to carry concealed handguns in church. The measure was unanimously endorsed by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
On Thursday, the House Public Health and Welfare Committee is to consider House Bill 1037 by Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley, titled The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
The measure, to be considered Thursday, would ban abortion on a fetus 20 weeks old or older, the age of which the bill asserts that a fetus is capable of feeling pain, except to save the life of the mother or save her from irreversible physical impairment.
The proposal, supported by anti-abortion group Arkansas Right to Life, also would require doctors to record information about all abortions they perform and submit the information to the Department of Health. The department would be required to release annual reports containing abortion statistics, excluding any information that would identify the women.
The Arkansas Chapter of the Americans for Civil Liberties Union opposes the bill.
"What's so troubling about this bill is that there is such complete disregard about women's health and for their doctor's ability to decide what is best for the patient," she said.


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Rounding Third: It's a wonderful world after all for Dodgers
Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Say what you want about the Los Angeles Dodgers, but they are having fun. And you know what? The St. Louis Cardinals could use a little bit of their swagger, as they try to close out this National League Championship Series.
Up 3-1 in the series, the Cardinals were the ones who came out tight on Wednesday in Game 4. Should they fall behind on Friday against Clayton Kershaw, a whole lot of bad memories will fill the heads of those inside Busch Stadium.
Los Angeles staved off elimination on Wednesday behind four home runs - two of which came off the bat of Adrian Gonzalez - in a 6-4 win over the Cardinals.
"We're still climbing that mountain," said Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis. "But we don't have as far to go today as we had 24 hours ago. So today was a big day."
Yasiel Puig and Gonzalez have drawn the ire of St. Louis by (gulp) showing some personality on the bases. While St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright didn't chime in on Puig's over-exuberant standup triple the other night, he was not too fond of Gonzalez' "Mickey Mouse stuff at second."
Wainwright essentially said that Gonzalez was heckling him as he went into his delivery on Monday.
Gonzalez laughed it off then by saying, "We're in L.A.," then on Wednesday, put both hands up to the sides of his helmet - like Mickey Mouse ears - after the first of his two home runs and put Chavez Ravine into a frenzy.
"I was just having fun with the comment that was made," Gonzalez said. "Nothing against them or anything. It was just to have fun."
Isn't baseball supposed to be fun?
St. Louis can complain about Gonzalez and Puig or all they want. There is an easy way to avoid all this. Get them out. Shouldn't the Cardinals be focused on something else anyway rather than becoming baseball's narc squad.
Then again, maybe they are tight. The Cardinals haven't been able to close an NLCS out the last two times they've been in this position. And it's not like it's been a while since it happened.
St. Louis blew a 3-1 series lead to the San Francisco Giants last year.
"I mean, it's different," Molina said. "I don't know why you guys continue talking about last year. It���s different. We're facing another team this year."
In fact, they've lost rather epically, as the two other times the Cardinals have blown these advantages they were outscored 52-2 in the six games that followed.
Now the series shifts back to St. Louis for Game 6, but awaiting the Cardinals is the best pitcher on the planet in Kershaw, but one they have already beaten three times this season.
Kershaw was certainly up to the task against the Cards in Game 2, but his offense failed him, as it has for most of this series. The lineup seemed to get on track Wednesday and that may be bad news for Mike Matheny's club.
St. Louis had its chances early on Wednesday, as it loaded the bases with no outs, but Zack Greinke pitched out of it by striking out Matt Adams and getting Yadier Molina to hit into a double play.
"When Zack got out of that inning with no runs, it was just a huge momentum swing in the game," Dodgers second baseman Mark Ellis said. "Sometimes a game is won or lost in that first inning. I think that first inning had a huge impact on today's game."
Even with Wednesday's loss, the advantage still tilts toward the Cardinals, who have won 25 of 31 home games since Aug. 11.
Not to mention St. Louis will throw its two best pitchers in Michael Wacha in Game 6 and potentially Wainwright in Game 7 should that be necessary.
Wacha beat Kershaw last Saturday and has been nails this postseason, pitching to a 0.64 ERA.
But then again, in five combined starts against Kershaw and Game 7 starter Hyun-Jin Ryu, who tossed seven scoreless innings versus St. Louis on Monday, the Cardinals have managed seven runs in 33 innings.
"I think if you look at it now, we've kind of become America's team because everyone wants to see a seventh game," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "Probably even fans in St. Louis want to see a seventh game, so I figure that everyone's for us to win on Friday night."
You may want to check in with the people in St. Louis on that one, Donnie.


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November 13, 2012 (TORONTO) – Postmedia Network Canada Corp. ("Postmedia" or the "Company") today announced that, further to its announcement of October 12, 2012, it has applied the net proceeds of the sale of the property at 1450 Don Mills Road in Toronto to the redemption of its 8.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 in accordance with the provisions of the Senior Secured Notes indenture.
A total of C$23.187 million of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes were redeemed, at par.
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I've been kind of busy drinking and dancing this weekend, and speaking of which…
Mets fans!
There's no need to feel down
I said, Mets fans!
Pick yourself off the ground
I said, Mets fans!
'Cause in one silly town
There's nobody very happy
Mets fans!
There's some games you can watch
I said, Mets fans!
With no kick to the crotch
You can sit back!
And I'm sure you will find
An absence you surely won't mind
It's fun to tune in the N-L-C-S!
It's fun to tune in the N-L-C-S!
You can root for the Crew
Or have enough of St. Loo
And there'll be no Phillies no way!
Mets fans!
Are you listening to me?
I said, Mets fans!
They won two but lost three
I said, Mets fans!
I know it seems like a dream
But you've got to know it happened
No team!
Loses all by itself
Like the Yankees!
The Phils are now on the shelf
So just turn on!
Frequency TBS
Their games will be among the best
It's fun to tune in the N-L-C-S!
It's fun to tune in the N-L-C-S!
The Cards annoy us a lot
But the Phils they are not
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As an English major in both college and grad school, I've read a fair amount of literature. But in my entire academic life I never encountered a Polish author on the syllabus other than Joseph Conrad, who, though Polish, wrote in English and can be found in English lit books as opposed to "World" lit. I became interested in the subject partly because of my heritage, but also thanks to a penpal relationship with a young Polish college student. The third thing that led me to learn more was when I began to learn about the life of a Polish man I greatly admire…you could say that Pope John Paul II led me to discover Polish literature! In honor of Polish-American Heritage Month I thought I would briefly highlight some of the great authors that have shaped Poland's cultural life, and in a separate post I will write more about John Paul's early life, how Polish culture affected his views, and the time we met.
Please note that Poland's history is long and full, and its literature is no exception. In this post, I will merely highlight just a few of the many talented authors; this is by no means complete. As such, I'm skipping over hundreds of years worth of works until arriving at the period known as "Polish Romanticism". Throughout 19th Century Europe, literature reflected the revolutionary ideals of the time. But while most of these writers wanted to break away from the past, Poland's writers suggested returning to it, for they felt that something had been lost and needed to be reclaimed. For most of the writers, the "something" was the country's Catholic values. With the Romantics, history took on a spiritual purpose.
One of the most famous of the authors from this period of Polish literature is Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916). He is perhaps best known for what is commonly called "The Trilogy" – a series of three histoical novels about events from the 17th Century Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth. The three titles are With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Fire in the Steppe. Each dealt with Polish history: the Cossack rebellion, the Swedish invasion, and wars with the Ottoman Empire. The novels are sweeping in scope and quite lengthy, but Sienkiewicz was a gifted writer so the size of the novel is irrelevant. One of Sienkiewicz's most popular novels is Quo Vadis, which was another historical novel. This one, however, takes place in Rome during Nero's reign and involves a star-crossed romance between a Christian woman and a pagan Roman patrician. While the Trilogy is still on my "to be read" list, I had the pleasure of reading Quo Vadis, and it is truly a great story. You may recogize the name from the 1951 Hollywood movie, which was based on the novel. The quality of his work is evident by the honor he received in 1905 when he won the Nobel Prize for achievement in literature. If you enjoy historical sagas, you will enjoy Sienkiewicz!
Another of Poland's literary greats is Adam Mickiewicz (1789-1855). Mickiewicz was primarily a poet, but he also wrote plays. His most famous work is Pan Tadeusz, an epic poem that takes place during the period of the partitions. The work is so famous in Poland that it is considered to be the national epic and it is required reading in schools. Mickiewicz was the driving force of the Polish Romantic movement, and he believed in the redemptive quality of suffering and that Poland's destiny would emerge from the country's brokenness (as the country did not exist as a country after the partitions). He was a patriot more than a writer, and he left his writing career at its prime to devote the rest of his life to politics. I found a good page that not only highlights his writing, but also his politics and his family history.
Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849) was another poet and playwright who deeply influenced Polish culture. He was influenced himself by Byron and Shakespeare, and he shared the belief that Poland's suffering would one day end. I was fascinated to learn that in 1848 he wrote a beautiful poem about a future "Slavic Pope" who will be a "brother to all mankind" and lead all of humanity beyond suffering. I'm not certain that this is an exact translation from the Polish, but the only English text I found of the poem is at this blog. Rather prophetic…
One of my favorite authors that I encountered in college was Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). I was surprised to learn that his real name was Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, he was born in Poland, and he learned English when he was an adult. The novels I read were not translations from Polish, but written in English. His prose is beautiful, and I can not fathom how talented a writer you have to be to write in a language that is not your "first". English was actually his third language, after Polish and French. Yet his prose flows so fluidly, so poetically, that I can only wonder what he would have produced in his native tongue. In The External Solitary by Gillon, Conrad is quoted as saying that Polish literature is in "too high esteem to introduce it to my poor writing." Among his many novels, the most famous are Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, and The Secret Agent. One interesting aspect of his work is his focus on the themes of loyalty, fidelity, and self-sacrifice, which all relate to his Polish heritage and the fate of his homeland. The theme of being set apart in exile or being solitary from the rest of the world also permeates his work, perhaps due to his own isolation as a Pole living away from his country.
I copied this quote into my notebook when I was in college, and although it is merely from a letter Conrad wrote to a friend, it offers a fine glimpse of his talent:
…old Father Time, always diligent in his business, has put his eraser over many men, things, and memories: yet I defy him to obliterate from my mind and heart the recollection of the kindness you and yours have shown to a stranger, on the strength of a distant national connection. I fear I have not expressed adequately to your wife and yourself all my gratitude: I do not pretend to do so now, for in my case when the heart is full the words are scarce, and the more so the more intense the feeling I wish to express.
These are only four of the many famous Polish authors in the history of Polish literature. Jumping ahead to modern times, perhaps you are familiar with the names of the Nobel-prize-winning poet Czesław Miłosz or the science fiction writer Stanisław Lem. One of my favorite Polish poets is none other than Karol Wojtyła, the nan more commonly known as Pope John Paul II. He wrote poetry and dramatic works both before and after he became a priest and pope. I will share one of his poems, one that is actually genealogy-related, in my next post.
[Written for the Polish History & Culture Challenge.]


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We are sad to announce that after a request by Google, MetroTalk will be removed from the Windows Phone store on May 1, 2014. We apologize to all our users for this but the decision is beyond our control, and in fact affects all third-party Google Voice apps. The good news is that the app will remain available and fully functional for 6 more months, and you can expect bug fix updates during that time. A huge thank you to all of our users for making us one of the top downloaded and highest rated apps of the Windows Phone store. Once again, we truly apologize to everyone affected by this.
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So you want to live a life of luxury it up and be a Goldsmith ey? Let this fateful and serendipitous encounter be a smooth one! Welcome to our GSM Leveling guide!
Before you begin…
Where is the Goldsmith Guild? How to become a Goldsmith? You can become a Goldsmith by visiting the Goldsmiths' Guild in Ul'dah. If you have at least L10 in any combat class – you're good as gold (heh)!
Updating your Cooking Gear is quite important if you're going to be crafting your own leve items. We have a Crafting Gear Guide to help you out on that.
Goldsmith Class Quest Item Reference:
GSM 01: Copper Ingot
GSM 05: 3x Copper Gorget
GSM 10: 12x Copper Rings
GSM 15: Fang Earring & Brass Gorget
GSM 20: Staghorn Staff (Materia Enhanced)
GSM 25: (HQ) Silver Ingot
GSM 30: (HQ) Malachite Earrings
GSM 35: (HQ) Fire Brand
GSM 40: (HQ) Horn Staff
GSM 45: (All HQ) Electrum Circlet (Zircon, Amber, Spinel)
GSM 50: (HQ) Black Pearl Ring (Melded with: Piety III Materia)
Just use the above as a quick reference if completing multiple Goldsmith class quests at once.
Levequest Items Discussion?
Every tier has 3 kinds of Leves:
- [1]Single Submit Leves: Levemete & submission are just a short walk from each other.
- [C]ourier Leves: Levemete is from the [H]ometown, to be submitted to the [L]ocal Levemete.
- [R]epeatable Leves.
Notes: [1]Single and [3]Repeatable Leves (1 each) are from the [H]ometown, and [L]ocal levemete. [C]ourier leves will always give the Highest EXP per craft, but require alot of time, and travel costs. [3]epeatable leves will always give the Highest EXP per Leve. If you value your leves alot or don't have many left, these are good. But, they are thrice as expensive. We will recommend the best [1] and [3] levequest(s) for every tier. Note that this depends on server prices and might not apply to you (Unlikely). We will comment on every tiers [C] levequest but will likely never recommend it. Use [C] levequests at your own discretion! Also, a Precursor item means it requires a fully crafted item AS A MATERIAL.
Useful links to have open: Crafting Gear Guide | Goldsmith Leves Guide
Goldsmith Level 1-15: The early levels
We DO NOT advise using "Regular" Leves for these low levels. You should be using Courier / Reverse Courier Leves:
Level 1: Brass Circlet (Sunstone) / Brass circlet (Danburite) [ Scorpions Crossing ] Level 5: Bone Necklace / Copper Needle [ Scorpions Crossing ]
Level 10: Decorated Bone Staff / Brass Spectacles [ Horizon ]
If you really want to use spammy single submit GSM leves:
GSM 1 Leve Recommendation: [H][1] – Copper Wristlets
GSM 5 Leve Recommendation: [H][1] – Ramhorn Claws
GSM 10 Leve Recommendation: [H][1] – Fang Earrings
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By Brian Keogh
Special to ARMCHAIR GOLF
MICHELLE WIE HAS HIT BACK at European vice-captain Annika Sorenstam again and insisted that hitting the books has made her all grown up. Ten-time major winner Sorenstam believes the big hitting Hawaiian has made a mistake by mixing the tour with her degree at Stanford University and isn't "mentally strong enough to finish at the top."
|Michelle Wie is a proud Stanford student.
Set to graduate next March, Wie said: "I think that going to college is a very good decision for me. I think it's a very personal decision. I didn't have the normal childhood, per se, growing up in the spotlight.
"Obviously, I was very connected at the hip with my parents, going to every tournament and spending a lot of time together.
"I think for me going to college was a step for me to grow up, for me to go out there in the real world and kind of live out by myself and get an education. I've never felt so proud when I got that acceptance letter for me to go. It was a very personal decision. I don't regret it at all."
Wie turned professional with Tiger Woods-style hype just before her 16th birthday, signing contracts with Nike and Sony believed to be worth over $12m. But she has won just twice on the LPGA Tour since and Sorenstam reckons she's got her priorities all wrong and failed to live up to the fanfare.
Sorenstam said: "I think really her focus, in my opinion, should be more on the golf. She's very distracted with school, doesn't really play as much full time as I thought she would. I think she needs to come out here and compete more regularly."
Wie insists her studies make her work even harder on her game and she's hoping to prove it by grabbing her second Solheim Cup win and America's fourth in a row. She won three and half points out of four on her debut in 2009 but insisted: "I feel like a rookie. I'm really excited to see what's going to happen this week."
The Americans are odds on favourites with the bookies but US veteran Angela Stanford is claiming that they're the underdogs.
Stanford said: "This is my fourth time and this is the most consistent European team I have faced from top to bottom. They're solid, and they're at home."
Brian Keogh covers golf for The Irish Sun and contributes to a variety of golf publications. Pay him a visit at Irish Golf Desk.
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CCFIILE stands for Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal Immigration
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canary in the mine, alerting you about the problems before they become
life threatening, and believe me Framingham has plenty.
We're composed of law abiding citizens residing all over the United States who are concerned with the overwhelming problems associated with illegal immigration.
In our town of Framingham we have had as many as 10,000 to 30,000 illegal aliens living here. I would say today there are around 5-10,000 living here because many have left due to the bad economy.
What would we like to see?
Teddy R. said it well..
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
- Theodore Roosevelt 1909 .
The Padaria Bakery in downtown Framingham is where some of these illegal alien workers converge in the early morning looking for work. The picture below is a protest of the pro-illegal people who are for the illegals working here and taking the jobs away from Americans. Several of our politicians were there holding signs. You kind of wonder whose side they are on. Some of our politicians are also for giving these illegals licenses, and also allowing them to vote. if they allow them to vote I bet they will be voted out of office by an illegal. Now wouldn't that be interesting.
So far the town has done nothing to stop the huge influx of illegal
aliens in the area. It is costing us approx. 25 million dollars a year
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We've been having an absolutely gorgeous stretch of weather here in Colorado.
Today's Saturday Sky:
MJ hosted a puppy party/knit group at her house today.
Felicia and I showed up with knitting, food and puppies.
There was a lot of playing:
Followed by a lot of resting:
I'm making progress on the At First Blush Blanket:
There's mystery knitting going on, too. The first project is almost finished.
I'll close today with my favorite picture that I took today. It's of my darling Kishka, being most unladylike:


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Oh, this wasn't how it was supposed to be? LeBron James wasn't theoretically capable of delivering a devastatingly effective performance in Game 6 at the TD Garden? Fuck all that. James finished with 45 points, 15, rebounds, and five assists, and the Heat won by 19 points. (The last player with such a stat line in the playoffs? Wilt.) The Celtics looked utterly outplayed all game long. Game 7 is Saturday night in Miami, going up against Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. Yeah, I wonder which game everyone will be watching.
Oh, and Skip Bayless said something. I'll just leave this here.
UPDATE: And it appears some Celtics fan dumped a beer on LeBron as he headed back to the locker room. [obligatory GOOD JOB GOOD EFFORT joke here]


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"Mike Bales' Infantilism," by Dan, tdaxp, 26 February 2005, http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/02/06/mike_bales_infantilism.html.
"The Road to Dubai," by Paul Krugman, New York Times, 31 March 2006, pg A21.
Two days ago I argued that we should annex Mexico to expand States' Rights. However, we don't need to go that far to bury the dreams of the big government elite. Simply embracing sustained immigration leads to smaller government and more freedom
The paleoeconomist Paul Krugman eloquently demonstrates this point in his New York Times column today…
Labeling immigration part of a "hard right economic conservative" agenda, Dr. Krugman notes
Countries with high immigration tend, other things equal, to have less generous welfare states than those with low immigration. U.S. cities with ethnically diverse populations — often the result of immigration — tend to have worse public services than those with more homogeneous populations
This is true. I've seen this first hand. As I wrote more than a year ago:
[My home state, South Dakota, was] settled by two big government groups: Germans and Swedes. Swede-state Minnesota is famous for its "red' tradition, while the state of Bismarck, North Dakota is partially socialist. Fortunately, while Germans and Swedes are very charitable to their own they are suspicious of each other, and so ethnic distrust led to South Dakota's very small government.
Diversity leads to small government. Think of the huge "protected" sector in Japan, or the traditionally insular European states, and the huge welfare systems they have built. People are generous with other people's money to people like them, and will spend away the future in big-government solutions to problems. But in an immigration nation built with people from all over, and the public is more respectful of property and skeptical of Official Establishments.
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Our steak mince is sourced from Dalachy Farm in Aberdour. Their cattle are raised under the Farm Assured Scotch Beef scheme ensuring great time and care has been given to their welfare. The meat is matured for a minimum of 21 days to ensure great flavour and texture.
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HMS Edinburgh D97 moored alongside HMS Belfast
Photo by Damien Burke.
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