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No one needs to tell us anything that makes exercise more interesting is a good thing. Time to banish the vacant stares and wandering minds at the gym with a new app that turns your iPad or iPhone into a virtual tour of scenic locations.
The Virtual Active app measures your speed on an exercise bike, treadmill or elliptical by measuring the vibration of your machine. Once you download the app you just put your device on the machine, and off you go. An accelerometer tracks your pace and translates it into the speed you zip through the videos.
While Virtual Active is free to download, you do purchase the videos — ranging from the Alps, the streets of Venice, the Grand Canyon and more. They don't come cheap at eight dollars each, and they are space hogs requiring around 800MB for a half-hour video.
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The whole thing started as Project Excite when an industrious hacker hooked up his exercycle to his Xbox 360. The rest is history as it evolved into the Virtual Active app.
BitGym provides the technology behind the videos, and is planning to expand the concept into games and other entertainment around the concept of exercise propelled interactivity. They list plans for Fit Freeway, which will use the accelerometer to control speed and head movement tracking to steer.
For those of us who can't walk and chew gum at the same time it may provide some challenges, though we're probably the minority in gaming circles. But, in principle anything with the potential to motivate gamers to exercise and let them get their game on at the same time sounds pretty freakin' clever.
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Storyline: Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. Meanwhile, one of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head. Blinded by greed, his involvement draws his gang, the kid, Keong, and the whole neighborhood into a deadly crossfire. When the lazy cops fail to successfully resolve matters, Keong takes things into his own hands. Needless to say, much spectacular kung-fu and outrageous action sequences follow....
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Actor: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream, Garvin Cross, Morgan Lam, Ailen Sit, Man-Ching Chan, Fred Andrucci
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Thermo Fisher Scientific axed 1.7 percent of its total staff during the first half of 2013
Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific highlighted in a federal filing last that it axed 655 employees worldwide, which is about 1.7 percent of its total staff, during the first half of 2013.
Company spokesman Mr Ron O'Brien said that these numbers, which were published in the company's second quarter filing by segment, represent operations mostly in the US and in Europe and that the employees have already left the company.
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Tug owners are cutting emissions and increasing automation. Subject to technology choices, 'greener' tugs are a global phenomenon today, while the autonomous tugs of tomorrow are starting to emerge. David Lee S,enior Account Manager, New Build, ABB Marine & Ports, discusses tugs of the future.Around the world, there is a growing appetite for hybrid and electric technology in tugboat operations. In the Asian and European towage markets, owners are responding to increasingly stringent regulations on air emissions in ports by investing in cleaner, more efficient propulsion.
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Posted by Unknown in Microblogging on Sunday, 15 November 2009
Anyone considering microblogging in their organisations should read this blog post on the Content Economy blog. In the post the author looks at some of the reasons for microblogging, some of the suggestions include the following:
- "Asking colleagues to help them find information about something, such as a report, method or customer
- Asking colleagues to help them with a problem they have with a specific software, their computer, or something else
- Finding colleagues with a specific skill, experience or knowledge
- Sharing ideas and finding collegues willing and able to help them develop them further"
There are of course many other reasons for using microblogging to communicate and collaborate with colleagues but this is a very good list if you're trying to encourage your firm to look at microblogging.
However the author then goes on to discuss how microblogging can be intimidating. The main reason cited is transparency, as the author discuss in detail in the blog post.
"It all has to do with our fear of transparency. Micro-blogging is a transparent way to communicate, way more transparent than targetet communication methods like email. When micro-blogging, you just have to be a little more careful about what you say and how you say it than when you email people. Email is perceived as "safer" in this respect because it is much less transparent. It allows you to say more sensitive things, assuming that you trust the people that you communicate with (so they don't forward your conversation to other people)"
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The year's first Burial release, Kindred, was his "biggest" yet—the tracks were longer than ever before, beefier, and packed an emotional wallop that was impressive even by his standards. He continues down the "epic" path apace, except where "Kindred" and "Loner" had cinematic builds, every time these two new tracks choose a path, they suddenly fall apart. "Truant"'s stirring chord progressions, roiling basslines and intricate vocal manipulation are a recipe for a Burial masterstroke, yet none of these things actually occur simultaneously. The theatrical motifs are separated by gulfs of percussive tumbles, the vocals dragged over a frayed canvas and climax is cruelly snuffed out.
The 14-minute "Rough Sleeper" is much the same, but the track's midsection—wavering and tentative—has one of Bevan's most beautiful moments. As triumphant, otherworldly bells fly in from above, the rare note of celebration momentarily renders everything clear. The entire EP has built up to this moment, and it's heart-wrenching in an entirely different way than the rest of the Burial catalogue.
Of course, all that majesty fades out into licks of static, before "Rough Sleeper" pulls itself together with some 2006-style roughshod wheeling. Listeners are left in the lurch as they try to piece together the past 26 minutes. Truant is a rather audacious move for an artist who could have easily relied on the same formula for years to come and still struck gold.
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"Breaking Dawn" director Bill Condon has given his first promise to "Twi-hards" -- this is not going to resemble his past hit, "Dreamgirls."
"There won't be any musical numbers," Condon wrote on his Facebook page in a letter to fans.
Condon showed a cheeky sense of humor in the missive, directed to "Twihards, Twifans, Twilight Moms, Team Edward, Team Jacob and Team Switzerland."
In the note Condon said he was "stoked" (please notice attempt to use young-person word to express excitement) to take on the coveted directing job and said he was trying to get himself up to speed. It's a process which has included reading "Breaking Dawn" twice and watching the past two movies 2-3 times each, he said. "A guy has gotta start somewhere," he said.
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It's the CCD's (Caked Crusader's Da) birthday on the 28th April. It's also my uncle's birthday which isn't all that surprising seeing as they're twins!
OK, so I can't explain what happened on the "T" in birthday; it took on a life of its own!
The CCD is rather partial to coffee cake and swiss meringue buttercream so I took a recipe for Austrian coffee cake and teamed it up with my trusted recipe for swiss meringue buttercream. The cake was particularly interesting to me as it used a technique that I've only previously seen with lemon cake, that of making a syrup to drizzle over and be absorbed by the fresh-from-the-oven cake to guarantee maximum flavour and moistness. I suppose it isn't dissimilar to the technique used for making tiramisu. Here's the sponge after the syrup was brushed over:
The original quantities for the sponge layers looked a bit mean to me so I scaled the recipe up, hence the oddly exact looking volumes. I find that all sponges are scalable and you shouldn't ever fear doing this. My quantities are 150% of the original (except for the eggs, where I scaled three up to five) and gave a lovely tall sponge.
Candles can be used to express that special heartfelt message (this is probably an appropriate place to explain that my family are all blessed with the same "unusual" sense of humour - I think the candles were the CCD's favourite part of the cake!):
It's a tricky cake to cut and get crisp, neat slices but no one seemed to mind!
These photos show how the sponge absorbs pockets of coffee syrup and stays extremely moist:
Happy birthday CCD and Nunks!
For the sponge cake:
75g walnuts, finely chopped
263g self raising flour
2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
263g unsalted butter, at room temperature
263g golden caster sugar
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2 ½ level tablespoons instant espresso coffee powder (I used Nescafe) mixed with 3 tablespoons boiling water
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1 ½ level tablespoons instant espresso coffee powder
75g Demerara sugar
83ml boiling water
For the swiss meringue buttercream:
4 egg whites
250g caster sugar
250g unsalted butter
2 level tablespoon instant espresso coffee powder mixed with slightly less than 1 tablespoon boiling water
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan oven 150°C/325°F/Gas mark 3.
- Line two 20cm round sandwich tins with baking paper.
- Beat together all of the ingredients except for the coffee and walnuts. Ensuring that your butter is soft will make this task easier.
- Add the coffee and walnuts and beat further until the mixture is well combined.
- The mixture should drop from the spoon when tapped on the bowl. If it doesn't add a little more hot water.
- Divide the mixture evenly between the two prepared tins and bake for approximately 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Mine took 40 minutes.
- While the cakes are cooking, make the syrup: place the coffee and sugar in a heatproof bowl and then add the boiling water.
- Stir until both the coffee and sugar have dissolved. You will need to stir briskly to ensure this.
- When the cakes are cooked, leave in the tins, on a wire rack.
- Prick them all over – while they are still hot – and spoon the syrup over both sponges, trying to distribute it as evenly as possible. I found this a lot easier to achieve using a silicon pastry brush and gently brushing the syrup over the sponges.
- Leave the cakes in the tin to absorb the syrup and only remove when completely cool. Take care as a moist cake is a fragile cake.
- Now make the swiss meringue buttercream. Place the egg whites and sugar in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Stir pretty much constantly to prevent the egg from cooking.
- After 5-10 minutes, when the sugar has dissolved (when you cannot see any crystals on the back of the spoon), remove the bowl from the pan of simmering water and whisk until the meringue has puffed up and the mix is cool.
- Add the butter and coffee to the meringue and whisk until the butter has been completely incorporated into the meringue. At first it will look a disaster – it will collapse and look curdled but don't worry! Stop when the mixture is smooth, light and fluffy.
- Spread approximately a third of the buttercream on top of one of the sponges and then put the other sponge on top.
- Use the remaining buttercream to cover the top and sides as desired.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
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While the freshman senator from Massachusetts has repeatedly said she isn't running for the White House in 2016, a group titled "ReadyforWarren" was out in force at the annual Netroots Nation conference, held this year in Detroit. As Warren was introduced at the event, supporters from the group unveiled a large "Run Liz Run" banner.
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Warren, smiling, quickly quieted the 2016 cheers, saying, "Sit down, sit down, sit down, come on, sit down."
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In her rousing but brief 17-minute speech, Warren used populist language to paint a picture of America as a land of inequality where "the game is rigged." And she asked the audience to join her in pushing back, saying "I'm fighting back. I'm ready to fight back. Are you ready to fight back?"
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Warren called for an increase in the minimum wage, adding that "we believe that no one should work full time and still live in poverty."
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On the scene while Warren spoke were trackers from the pro-GOP opposition research shop America Rising. The group, which has been targeting Hillary Clinton, has now put Warren on its radar.
Warren's speech came one day after Vice President Joe Biden touted his "progressive" credentials as he addressed the audience.
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Biden touted his role in helping spur President Barack Obama to publicly endorse same sex marriage, saying he made "no apologies whatsoever" his May 2012 "Meet the Press" interview, which the White House has said pushed the process forward.
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What would cause Hillary Clinton not to run in 2016
Clinton, who is in the middle of a book tour for her new memoir "Hard Choices," isn't attending Netroots Nation. She was invited but conference organizers told CNN that her team "declined is because she's not out on the political scene."
The former secretary of state's seriously considering another bid for the White House, and if she runs, as many expect she will, Clinton would instantly become the overwhelming front runner for the Democratic nomination.
While Clinton isn't in Detroit, an outside group that's urging her to run in 2016 will be there in force. Several members of Ready for Hillary are at the conference, holding a session on how grassroots activists have changed the political landscape, and hosting a party Friday night for Netroots Nation attendees.


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Louise Aldred
Louise started dancing at the age of three, working her way through the medal test system at her mother's dance school in Nottingham. At the same time Louise also competed on the open circuit as a Juvenile, Junior & Youth competitor, focussing on Classical Sequence, Modern Ballroom & Latin American. Her proudest achievement is reaching the quarter finals of the open Junior British Ballroom Championships at Blackpool.
Since turning professional Louise has taken qualifications in Classical Sequence, Modern Ballroom, Latin American & Line Dancing. Along with her husband Robert, they began entering Inventive Dance competitions & won at their first event with the 'Countess Waltz', which went on to become a popular championship dance. Since then they have had over 30 prize winning dances including the 'Washington Two Step' which has also been accepted onto the championship list. Louise & Robert have been presented with the 'Classique de Dance' & the 'North East Dance' awards.
Louise is co-principal of the Duesbury Aldred Dance Centre, an ISTD approved dance centre in Nottingham. The centre teaches all of the ballroom styles & is involved in training professionals, competitors, medallists & social dances of all ages. Alongside running the dance school, Louise is busy organising a number of dance competitions, giving lectures & adjudicating. She is proud to have been invited to adjudicate at the British Junior Sequence Championships.
A major achievement, in 2010, was the launch of the ISTD Sequence Companion DVD which she was very proud to be invited to demonstrate on. In addition to her teaching qualifications Louise is also a fully qualified Scrutineer & Accountant.
In 2011, she was delighted to be invited to join the sequence faculty & looks forward to the challenge of promoting the benefits of dance in general & Classical Sequence in particular.


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Hey guys, how's the ol' Optimus G Pro holding up? Pretty well? Good news! That guy is about to get even better, as AT&T is pushing the Android 4.4.2 OTA starting now. That brings about a bunch of new features, including some battery improvements, Project Svelte (which just generally makes things faster), and more.
What's changing?
- Restyled status and navigation bars
- New full-screen mode
- Stronger security
- Battery performance improvements
- Google Cloud Printer support
- Enhanced processing speed
- http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/
You can grab the update now by heading into the settings menu and hitting About phone > Software Update > Update now.Read More


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Coke's Dramatic Experience
The results
Social media impressions reached 9.3 billion. Campaign engagement increased to 46 million. Volume sales jumped a further 12% year-
The challenge
In 2013, Coca-Cola China's summer campaign 'Share-A-Coke' explored online culture resulting in "Nickname Coke", which led to a 20% sales increase from the previous year.
In 2014, we introduced "Lyric Coke" tapping music culture. It became an even bigger hit despite being one of the country's coldest summers in 30 years. Which aspect of youth culture can we explore to surpass previous success this year?
The solution
Isobar's 'Quote Coke' featured 49 different labels on the Coke bottles showcasing the most popular quotes from famous movies, popular local TV shows and cartoons.
Share-A-Coke has to be culturally relevant, fun and eye catching to resonate with teenagers. We developed Coca-Cola 'Quote' bottles showcasing classic moments from contemporary films that youths can relate to in their daily lives.
Our Idea: 'Share-A-Coke to add Drama to your summer'. The juxtaposition of these dramatic moments and daily life in China gave us a lot of scope to play with the campaign.
Using Coca-Cola packaging at the heart of the campaign, Isobar's 'Quote Coke' featured 49 different labels on the Coke bottles showcasing the most popular quotes from famous movies, popular local TV shows and cartoons.
The first TVC was aired in June to support the launch of the 'Quote' bottle. The three-month campaign engaged youths through a campaign mini-site, web videos, mobile interactions, social media communications and a strategic partnership with Youku, including print and retail point-of-sale materials.


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UW Regents approve proposal to provide raises
The regents of the University of Wisconsin System have approved a proposal that could eventually lead to pay raises for all UW System employees.
The board of regents voted Friday, the second day of a two-day meeting at UW-Milwaukee.
The proposal involves requests the UW System would make of the Office of State Employment Relations, and a recommendation for the legislative committee that oversees employment relations.
It involved asking that UW System employees be included in any salary hikes given to all state employees. It also involved requesting that the UW System be given autonomy to provide further salary increases from its own resources.
Regent John Drew said UW staff members have gone too long without a pay raise, and they need to know they have the board's full support.


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European Game Day: 3/1/11
Elitserien Regular Season
Brynas 3 @ Sodertalje 2 (SO)
Riku Helenius, Sodertalje, DNP
Season totals: 18 GP, 4-11-0, 0 SO, 3.03 GAA, .884 sv%
If Sodertalje misses the postseason and/or has to enter this year's promotion/relegation round, they'll be kicking themselves over the missed opportunities of the last two games. One game removed from a disheartening overtime loss, Sodertalje coughed up a late lead against Brynas and fell in the shootout to lose a critical 2 points in the standings. Ottawa draft pick Jakub Silfverberg scored on a 2-man advantage with the goaltender pulled with 1:10 left in regulation to force overtime and was the only successful shooter in the shootout to lead Brynas to the win. Sodertalje now finds themselves 2 points out of the final playoff spot in the Elitserien and 1 point out of 10th, which is the last spot in the league that avoids the promotion/relegation round, with 2 regular season games remaining. However, due to their league-worst -33 goal differential, none of the tiebreak scenarios are in Sodertalje's favor right now. Their final 2 games are against Timra (9th) and HV 71 (3rd). Given their proximity in the standings, that game against Timra on Thursday is shaping up to be a must-win for Sodertalje.
KHL Western Conference Quarterfinals
(2)Dynamo Moscow 3 @ (7)Dynamo Riga 1
Dynamo Riga Leads the Series 3-2
Martins Karsums, Dynamo Riga, 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM, 1 SOG
Season totals: 52 GP, 17-15-32, -3, 46 PIM
Playoff totals: 5 GP, 0-2-2, +1, 6 PIM
Martins Karsums was scoreless in 18:21 in Riga's 3-1 Game Five loss to Dynamo Moscow. Moscow forces a Game Six with the victory. Riga will try again to close out the series on Thursday.
(4)Mytischi 2 @ (5)Cherepovets 1
Mytischi Leads the Series 3-2
Vasily Koshechkin, Cherepovets, Loss, 31/33, 2.04 GAA, .939 sv%
Season totals: 32 GP, 18-14-0, 2 SO, 2.92 GAA, .906 sv%
Playoff totals: 5 GP, 2-2-1, 0 SO, 2.47 GAA, .941 sv%
Ex-Lightning draft pick Fedor Fedorov had 1 goal and 1 assist and ex-NHLer Jan Bulis also scored to lead Mytischi to a critical Game Five win over Cherepovets, assuming a 3-2 series lead. The series will continue on Thursday with Vasily Koshechkin trying to help his team stave off elimination.
Elsewhere, Yaroslavl defeated Dynamo Minsk 2-1 in overtime to assume a 3-2 lead in the other active Western Conference playoff series. St. Petersburg is already through after a 4-0 sweep of Spartak Moscow.
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Last week, Stephanie Benoit went to the Essence Magazine Empowerment Conference in Chicago, and I suggested she take her Flip camcorderand interview attendees to get their tips on improving her public speaking. You'll recall that among Stephanie's goals is creating a women's empowerment conference of her own. She put the interviews together into a "movie" format with titles, something that's easy to do with the software built into the Flip camcorders. And I noticed that some of her interview subjects called her confident, which is a wonderful reflection of her progress in our Step Up Your Speaking online coaching. Thanks, Stephanie, for being our reporter on the scene! If readers have suggestions, ideas or encouragement for Stephanie, please leave them in the comments.
This week, our coaching will look at what I call the double-edged swords of speaking for women, all of which have to do with appearance: Wardrobe, jewelry, and most important, the image or presence you convey, which goes beyond your outfit. They're all areas that can give women a great advantage--or trip them up. Here's some reading for you--and Stephanie--to do while we put this week's coaching posts together.
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Our man in Baghdad has made his mark on Iraq. And that is to be expected, since Andy Martin always makes his mark -- even if sometimes he's the only one who can see it.
Martin, a U.S. Senate candidate who calls Fort Lauderdale home, claims he has all but found Saddam Hussein. During three visits to Iraq, the 57-year-old Martin says he searched city streets, bomb craters, and the countryside for the fallen dictator. He was a one-man task force, though he had the help of a couple of feral Iraqi dogs that he tamed and trained while staying at the Palestine Hotel.
He says he's determined Hussein's location with 90 percent certainty (he has already made a claim for the $25 million reward on the dictator's head), and he expects the Bush administration to finally take heed of his efforts. "I went through the whole city and down as far as Najaf and Karbala," says Martin, an unorthodox Republican running for the seat held by presidential candidate Bob Graham. "I sniffed a little bit in the Sunni triangle [between Baghdad and Tikrit], but I didn't think he was there. Saddam is in Baghdad, I'm convinced of that fact."
After a few weeks in the country during his most recent trip, the graying but game Martin left Baghdad, traversed the Highway of Death to Amman, and, before flying home to South Florida, stopped in Israel to give a rousing speech. "Tear down this wall, Mr. Sharon!" he said at a largely unattended July 3 press conference near a checkpoint as Israeli bulldozers powered up behind him.
As if that weren't enough, Martin produced local headlines at the same time. The Florida Elections Commission ruled that Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty had broken laws in her unseemly bid to unseat three Florida Supreme Court justices who voted to allow a vote recount in the 2000 presidential election. McCarty, a rabid Republican, could be fined as much as $450,000 for her transgressions.
The man who dug up the facts and filed the original complaint against McCarty: Andy Martin.
And there you have it. Our man in Baghdad is an American hero. How many of you have left your living rooms to personally search for Saddam? Or made a courageous political statement on the world's stage? Or fought political corruption in your own party?
Ah, but there is a dark cast to the brilliance. Martin, of course, is mad. Quite mad. He's an enigma wrapped in a riddle who probably should be wrapped in a straitjacket. The would-be senator is one of the most prolific and compulsive lawsuit filers in the United States, a first-class shadow-dwelling fugitive from justice, and a perennial also-ran political candidate whose stance on the issues has changed about as often as Michael Jackson's proboscis.
So he fits right into the South Florida political scene, where he's been a phantom presence for about 20 years.
We begin his story with the great film director David Lean, naturally. Remember Lawrence of Arabia? Well, Martin claims his English grandfather fought with T.E. Lawrence against the Turks before joining a British military intelligence unit and disappearing for good. Should you believe that? Probably not, but I do.
Martin himself was born in 1945 in Connecticut to mother Helen, a college English teacher, and Ralph, an absentee father. He doesn't talk much about his late father, but Martin, whose actual name is Anthony Robert Martin-Trigona, is very close to his now-retired mother. While she taught at the University of Illinois, he attended the school and graduated from its law school in 1970.
The Illinois Supreme Court, however, refused to admit him to the bar, pointing to a military psychiatric exam that allegedly found him to have personality defects that include delusions involving both paranoia and grandeur. The test results sound about right, but the snubbing by the state court does seem a bit overboard. Martin, in his grandiloquent fashion, insists the exam was all trumped-up nonsense created by judges and lawyers whom he was exposing as corrupt bribe-takers.
"I helped start Operation Greylord," he explains, referring to the landmark federal corruption case in Chicago that netted some 13 judges and 51 attorneys in the 1980s.
Cast out of the legal community, Martin began filing lawsuits -- and he has yet to stop. He's responsible for hundreds of them during the past three decades, against governmental entities, companies, and personal enemies. Many are true public interest lawsuits, but others are for just plain revenge (he once filed court papers to try to be appointed legal guardian of the children of a judge he was feuding with).
Numerous courts have sanctioned Martin for his efforts, including the Florida Supreme Court, which called him one of Florida's most "active, as well as abusive," litigants. He often responds to sanctions by filing suits against the judges who rule against him.
Martin has been a very busy man but rarely holds an actual job. At one time, he brokered real estate in Chicago, but one deal ended with a 1980 mail-fraud conviction, which was later overturned.
Through the years, he made the ballot for numerous local and federal races in Illinois, New York, and Connecticut. After following his mother down to Florida, he's been as busy as ever, running for governor twice, the state Senate, a couple of flings for the presidency, and three times for the U.S. Senate.
Martin never won a race, but he made some headlines. In 1994, he was found to have broken election laws when he accepted a $50,000 campaign loan from Mom. While Martin is cagey about his finances, I think that loan, plus a courtroom admission that Mom pays his rent and telephone bills, gives a clue about who finances his many far-flung ventures. When I asked him about his net worth, he said it's about zero.
His most high-profile campaign came in 1996, when it was alleged that he'd run anti-Semitic campaigns in the past, including authorization of a committee in 1986 called "The Anthony R. Martin-Trigona Congressional Campaign to Exterminate Jew Power in America."
Martin denies involvement, though he allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks in a bankruptcy case in 1983. While he touts a two-state solution for the Middle East in his "Andy Martin Peace Plan," says he's close to the peace movement in Israel, and has proposed increased compensation for Holocaust victims, the candidate also called for the Bush administration to attack Israel instead of Iraq. He has compared Ariel Sharon to Adolf Hitler and has written in defense of Hamas suicide bombers. He's skating the edge, but then, someone needs to offset the neocon hawks in the Bush administration.
The 1996 allegations led the Republican Party to renounce him, and the negative publicity may have gotten to him: Just before the election, he went after two WPTV-Channel 5 cameramen in West Palm Beach, knocking one camera to the floor and breaking a microphone off the other. He didn't feel like being interviewed, apparently.
Awaiting trial on charges of criminal mischief related to his outburst, he spent two months in jail, where he staged a hunger strike and often refused to wear clothes. He was convicted in 1997 and sentenced to a year in jail -- another stiff penalty (hell, some Hollywood stars break a camera or two every time they leave the house). "Judges just love to demonize me," Martin says.
He was freed pending an appeal but was ordered right back to jail -- this time for seven months -- for contempt of court when he turned to television cameras inside a civil courtroom to say that the sitting judge was "bought and paid for" and a "psychiatric case."
After Martin served the first month, deputies released him prematurely by accident. Martin didn't look back, so a warrant was put out for his arrest. After losing his appeal on the criminal charges, he owes Palm Beach County about 16 months in jail. "The warrant is active," Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Det. Clayton Ginn told me. "Do you have any information on him?"
Though I'd go to jail myself before turning him in, Martin always found an excuse never to meet with me face to face. He uses a toll-free number and, when he's not in Iraq, spends his time in New York City (where he occasionally gives street-corner "press conferences"), Washington, D.C., and Florida. "I'm not avoiding the police -- I think they are avoiding me," Martin says before alleging that deputies are conspiring with a local law firm to kidnap him. He promised that a future multimillion-dollar lawsuit would explain the entire mess.
As a fugitive, Martin still managed to run for Senate in 1998, do a regular radio show on WPBR-1300 AM in West Palm Beach, and make a quick fling in the 2000 presidential race, during which he ran a controversial television ad in Connecticut accusing George W. Bush of using cocaine. Martin, needless to say, is no party loyalist.
In fact, he has no business in either party. During the early days, he was a Democrat running on a pro-life agenda. Today, he's a Republican running on a pro-choice stance. Martin has called himself the "anti-Bush." He says he's anti-death penalty, pro-gay rights, anti-Patriot Act, and anti-Bush tax cut. He also opposed the Iraq War. "I'm a progressive Republican," he says. "I'm really a traditional conservative. I'll stay out of your bedroom if you stay out of mine. I tend toward the Libertarian. If you said I was a McCain Republican, I wouldn't argue. Neither one of us can stand the hypocrisy or the bullshit. But where I've been putting my mental energy for the past six months is foreign policy."
Back to Iraq. During his three visits since April, he has written columns for a West Palm Beach-based Internet media site called Out2.com., where he serves as the unpaid "Baghdad Bureau Chief."
"We need to get Paul Bremer off his ass and on the street talking to normal Iraqis," Martin says. American soldiers and civilian administrators "need to take off their bullet-proof vests like they want to be friends instead of acting like enemies. Bremer doesn't know what he's doing. He's isolated in the old Saddam palace complex. We should call it the Emerald City, because that's about as much substance as it has."
While staying in the Palestine Hotel, Martin became enamored of a couple of wild dogs, whom he named Lucy and Jake. He says he had a special "code" he used to call the dogs. Jake, sadly, was killed by a car while Martin was out of Baghdad. Lucy, however, is now a fixture with U.S. armed forces in the city and can be found happily guarding tanks. "I became the unofficial veterinarian for the First Armored Division," Martin says. "I brought medicines with me and gave neighborhood dogs shots."
The dogs helped him in his search for Saddam.
"In my claim to the government, I actually pinpointed the neighborhood where Saddam is," he says, "but I can't tell you where that is now, because that is in the claim."
Of course, he hasn't really found Hussein (and he had no idea that the dictator's now-dead sons were in Mosul). But that's classic Martin. I asked Cheryl Wells, his long-time friend and companion, if she thought he was really delusional. "I think anyone who runs for office has that personality defect in general," said Wells, who lives in an upscale beach condo in Fort Lauderdale that Martin calls his "temporary headquarters."
"I don't think he's any stranger than the other people running for office. I think you have to be somewhat delusional to run."
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Good point. Look at two of the more high-profile politicians running for the same Senate seat, Republican Mark Foley and Democrat Peter Deutsch. Foley is a closeted gay man in the party of Rick Santorum who has been appealing to the Christian Right -- the same people who believe people like him should be imprisoned or executed -- across the state.
As for Deutsch, he's an ultra-Zionist who is just as one-sided for Israel as Martin is for the Arabs. Deutsch, a big backer of the Iraq War, has trotted about the political landscape with a suicide bomber's vest, a piece of propaganda meant to rile up animosity toward Palestinians.
In their company, Martin would seem right at home. And if the stars are in some bizarre alignment, he could actually make a decent run of it. In the 1998 Senate race against current Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist, he won Miami-Dade County and received a third of the statewide vote. Some 184,621 Floridians punched the ballot for the fugitive.
But don't expect to see much of him on the campaign trail -- and not just because the law is after him but because he's still after Hussein. Our man is planning to head back to Baghdad in September.


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Coming this spring: Adobe Creative Cloud
This spring will see the release of Adobe's much-anticipated Creative Cloud service, a new subscription service where you can create, publish, and share your work using Adobe Creative Suite applications, Adobe Touch Apps, and services. We're excited to announce that a Typekit plan will be included with every Creative Cloud subscription.
What does this mean for you? If you choose to subscribe to Creative Cloud, you'll receive a Typekit Portfolio plan along with your subscription. You will get all the applications that come with Creative Suite and a Typekit account with access to our full library — all for just $49.99 a month.
If you are an existing Typekit user on the Personal, Portfolio, or Performance plan, you will be able to upgrade to a Creative Cloud subscription. When you do so, you'll receive a prorated refund for the time remaining on your current Typekit plan. But this upgrade is entirely optional: if you prefer, you can stick with your current Typekit plan just as it is. All of Typekit's plans will continue to be available as standalone accounts.
As we get closer to the Creative Cloud release, we'll provide more detail about how you can upgrade. In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or write email@example.com.
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Intriguing! So, should I infer that a Typekit subscription would work with the other CS products (InDesign, Illustrator)?? Because that would be awesome.
As an Art Director, I need my work to be faster and lighter, not more bloated. Thank you for keeping TypeKit separate, still.
This is the kind of crap I was worried about when Adobe acquired you. Synergy! Screw that – I just want Typekit to stay exactly as it is.
OK, maybe I'd like you to add one thing: HF&J fonts.
Crap? Bloated? I see it as a first step towards a better integration of webfont services in the design process. In my opinion, that's a Good Thing (yes, with capitals). Please leave your preconceptions about Adobe at the door!
As was made clear in the post, Typekit will remain a standalone product. That means you can maintain the same Typekit account you have today. You will not be required to move to Creative Cloud, nor will you be required to use Typekit with any other application.
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Ah, I see where you're coming from now. I do agree with what you say in the context of Dreamweaver. Developers shoud learn to code manually instead of using WYSIWYG editors and whatnot.
I was alluding to the integration of webfonts in *design software*, i.e. Photoshop or Fireworks. I imagine Adobe will be offering cloud software in which webfonts are available for website design/mockups. That would, IMO, be very useful, also for experiencend devs (or, indeed, Art Directors).
There are probably many problems to be solved, both on the technical and the licensing front, but my point is: if it's ever going to happen, this is the first step.
For the record: I'm not an Adobe employee — ouch! 😉
I just recently had an experience where I went to my InDesign font list looking for a font that is on Typekit…but I don't have on my machine. I had just kind of forgot that I didn't have immediate access to lovely fonts the moment I thought to use them if I didn't already own them. It was sort of surreal because it was a complete flip-flop from the old days, when we could use whatever fonts we wanted for print design and were severely limited on the web. My point is, this could be really exciting – I can't wait to see what the future holds in this area.
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When faced with a dark night of the soul, the powerful often seek the sustenance of subordinates. Such juicy, on-the-cusp moments — real or merely possible — are hard for playwrights to resist. Thus just as "Nixon's Nixon" memorably imagined the disgraced president on the eve of his resignation yakking with Henry Kissinger, and just as some future savvy dramatist may come up with a play about the Blagojevichs talking on the night before the disgraced former governor's sentencing, so Timothy Findley's "Elizabeth Rex" imagines the Virgin Queen the night before the politicized (weren't they all?) beheading of the Earl of Essex, for whom she had a special but, alas, ill-timed and professionally incompatible, affection.
It's 1601 and our pale-faced madam is hanging out with actors, surely better company that Kissinger for anyone's rough night.
In Findley's clever, juicy play, written in 2000 and first produced at the Stratford Festival in Canada just a couple of years before Findley's death, the Lord Chamberlain's Men are conveniently located for that royal purpose in a nearby barn (actors have long been abused), having just finished a command court performance of "Much Ado About Nothing" and finding themselves under a postshow curfew. A performance before the queen actually did take place, the historical record shows, even if the after-party is a figment of Findley's imagination. But the setup remains possible, at least. The house scribe, William Shakespeare, played in Barbara Gaines' lively and happily theatrical production by Kevin Gudahl, is browsing his well-thumbed copy of Plutarch and coming up with some potential dialogue for his upcoming attraction, "Antony and Cleopatra." Various other theatrical types are messing around with props, costumes and the troupe's house bear (as in "exit, pursued by"), which, in a well-met challenge for the Chicago Shakespeare designers, makes several personal appearances.
But although he allows for some back-and-forth riposte between Lizzy and a proud Irish actor very much disinclined to sup with the queen of England, Findley's main interest here is a dying, gay actor named Ned Lowenscroft (Steven Sutcliffe), known for his distinguished performances in skirts, even after the age when the typical male must retire such parts. He is dying from syphilis — which Findlay clearly intends us to see as a metaphor for AIDS — contracted from a man he loves. And although the unlikely willingness of these apparently fearless actors to tell it like it is to this dangerous but oft-romanticized queen is one of the conceits of this play for which one must suspend some disbelief, Ned is inoculated from both deference and expediency by his impending death.
First, Shakespeare and Company try to pull a play's-the-thing "Mousetrap" and persuade the queen to put personal integrity and moral rectitude above political duty (she is not amused). Then Ned makes a deal with Her Majesty, famous for her complex relationship with traditional gender. He'll teach her to mourn the death of her lover like a real, fleshed-out woman, Beatrice-style, if she can teach him how to exit from life's painful stage like a courageous man, with a stoicism for which the queen herself could be proud.
The terms, necessity and resonance of that deal are reiterated at great and circuitous length in Act 2, when the otherwise gripping "Elizabeth Rex" runs out of gas and gets stuck in the same repetitive groove, with diminishing credibility and returns, just as you want it to reach for Stoppardian, prismatic complexity. At that point, alas, the script forgoes the witty sensibility it so carefully established and becomes shrill and, well, a tad tiring in the enthusiasm of its authorial didacticism. The show starts to wear its theme on its sleeve, and one feels pushed from truth, a problem that this production can't fully cure. So that you will have to abide, in the stoic mode of the Earl of Essex.
Nonetheless, one warms throughout to the play's intelligence, passion and moral determination — the stakes for the writer were clearly personal and formidable — and some exceedingly powerful acting in Gaines' deftly forged production mitigates the limitations of the script. In a role she first created some 11 years ago — long before Cate Blanchett essayed her most intriguing highness — the fine Canadian actress Diane D'Aquila is a formidable Queen Elizabeth, at once guttural, riven and wholly cliche-free. It's a strikingly raw and complex performance, ably matched by Sutcliffe, a fellow Canadian star, whose work is similarly complex: warm-blooded, persistent and intensely affecting. The supporting players, including Gudahl as a wry Shakespeare, Torrey Hanson as an aptly irritating Lord Robert Cecil and Brenda Barrie as the queen's bemused but loyal assistant, generously help focus events on the main matter at hand. And, throughout, Gaines uses Daniel Ostling's textured set and Mariann S. Verheyen's unpretentious costumes to paint a careful picture of a moment when the greatest playwright ever to live was just doing the Elizabethan equivalent of hanging out in the bar.
"I wish I were an actor," the queen says at one point, anxious to escape the cost of her responsibilities. "Some say you are," comes the reply from those who work in the theater and understand a double identity when they see one.
When: Through Jan. 22
Where: Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, 800 E. Grand Ave.
Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Tickets: $44-$75 at 312-595-5600 and chicagoshakes.com


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Healthy Recipes for Seasonal Fall and Winter Foods
Eating seasonally and locally are two great ways to stretch your food budget and be environmentally friendly. Here, we've compiled several healthy recipes using fall and winter ingredients.
Mike Jensen
Health benefits: Squash is high in vitamins A and C, which aid your body's metabolic functioning and help ward off chronic illnesses. However, some winter varieties, like butternut squash, contain more sugar than others, such as acorn and spaghetti squashes, so be knowledgeable about which kind you're buying if you're watching your calorie count.
Nutrition: Acorn squash (1 cup, raw): 56 calories, 0.1g fat, 14.6g carbohydrates, 2.1g fiber, 1.1g protein. Butternut squash (1 cup, raw): 63 calories, 0.1g fat, 16.4g carbohydrates, 2.8g fiber, 1.4g protein
Recipes to try:
Scott Little
Sweet Potato
Health benefits: Bursting with vitamin A (377 percent of your daily recommended intake per cup!) and high in potassium and fiber, this versatile vegetable can be worked into a variety of dishes, from sides to desserts. One point to note: Its high sugar content translates into a fair number of calories, so consider this ingredient more like a starch than a vegetable.
Nutrition: (1 cup, raw) 114 calories, 0.1g fat, 26.8g carbohydrates, 4g fiber, 2.1g protein
Recipes to try:
Warm Sweet Potato, Apple, and Sausage Salad
Curried Sweet Potato "Fries"
Sweet Potato Soup
Sarah Kehoe
Health benefits: High in vitamin C and dietary fiber, apples are an easy way to fill up on relatively few calories. Tote one as a portable snack — the USDA recommends 2 cups of fruit per day for women.
Nutrition: (1 medium apple) 72 calories, 0.2g fat, 19.1g carbohydrates, 3.3g fiber, 0.4g protein
Recipes to try:
Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Apple-Thyme Sauce
Apple Phyllo Tart
Baked Apples with Cinnamon and Walnuts
Amy Haskell
Health benefits: Boasting high levels of a variety of vitamins and minerals, including iron, magnesium, niacin, potassium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, pumpkin is a nutritional powerhouse vegetable. The only bad point is that also contains a fair amount of natural sugar (1.6g per cup), so beware the calorie count when making it into an even sweeter dessert.
Nutrition: (1 cup, raw): 30 calories, 0.1g fat (0.1g saturated), 7.5g carbohydrates, 0.6g fiber, 1.2g protein
Recipes to try:
Spicy Pumpkin and Shrimp Soup
Pumpkin-Date Muffins
Bacon and Pumpkin Soup
Blaine Moats
Health benefits: Forget its reputation as a worthless fungus — mushrooms are high in vitamin C, iron, potassium, and zinc. With no cholesterol and low levels of sodium, they also pack a good amount of protein for a veggie.
Nutrition: (1 cup, raw) 15 calories, 0.2g fat, 2.3g carbohydrates, 0.7g fiber, 2.2g protein
Recipes to try:
Mushroom and Asparagus Fettuccine
Pan-Roasted Chicken Breasts with Mushrooms and Leeks
Mushroom Soup
Shrimp and Mushroom Risotto
Andy Lyons
Health benefits: Tired of apples already? Try their oblong sister fruits. Pears are high in fiber and vitamin C — 12 percent of your daily recommended intake, in fact. However, they're also pretty high in sugar (16.3g), so treat them as a sweet snack or even a dessert.
Nutrition: (1 pear, medium) 96 calories, 0.2g fat, 25.7g carbohydrates, 5.1g fiber, 0.6g protein
Recipes to try:
Pork Tenderloin with Caramelized Pears
Baked Pears with Almond Crunch
Arugula-Fennel Salad with Pear Vinaigrette
Andy Lyons
Health benefits: Though figs are naturally high in sugar, they earn points for being high in dietary fiber.
Nutrition: (1 fig, medium) 37 calories, 0.2g fat, 9.6g carbohydrates, 1.5g fiber, 0.4g protein
Recipes to try:
Banana, Fig, and Walnut Bread
Endive, Radicchio, and Poached Figs with Buttermilk Blue Cheese Dressing
Chocolate-Covered Figs
Andy Lyons
Health benefits: High in fiber, iron, potassium, and vitamin C, these vegetables are sweet as a roasted side dish or as a colorful salad add-in.
Nutrition: (1 beet, raw) 35 calories, 0.1g fat, 7.8g carbohydrates, 2.3g fiber, 1.3g protein
Recipes to try:
Beets with Blue Cheese and Candied Walnuts
Mixed Greens with Roasted Vegetables and Goat Cheese
Scarlet Salad
Jason Donnelly
Health benefits: Perhaps considered the ugly stepsister of its more popular veggie sister broccoli, cauliflower is bursting with vitamin B6, potassium, and vitamin C — 77 percent of your recommended allowance per cup! As if that weren't enough, the veggie also happens to be low in calories and high in fiber, so eat up!
Nutrition: (1 cup) 25 calories, 0.1g fat, 5.3g carbohydrates, 2.5g fiber, 2g protein
Recipes to try:
Curried Chickpeas and Cauliflower with Brown Rice
Seared Scallops with Orange Sauce and Broccoli-Cauliflower Saute
Wheat Penne with Roasted Vegetables and Shrimp
Blaine Moats
Health benefits: Cabbage is way too versatile to be used for just coleslaw filler. High in vitamins C and B6, the winter green also boasts a good amount of potassium, magnesium, thiamin, and dietary fiber for very few calories.
Nutrition: (1 cup, raw) 22 calories, 0.1g fat, 5.2g carbohydrates, 2.2g fiber, 1.1g protein
Recipes to try:
Savoy Cabbage Salad with Salt-and-Pepper Chicken
Grilled Chicken and Rice Salad
Asian Chopped Salad
Blaine Moats
Health benefits: Not just rabbit food, one cup of carrots provides an astounding 428 percent of one's daily recommended amount of vitamin A. The veggie is also high in vitamins C and B6, as well as potassium, thiamin, and fiber.
Nutrition: (1 cup, chopped) 52 calories, 0.3g fat, 12.3g carbohydrates, 3.6g fiber, 1.2g protein
Recipes to try:
Roasted Salmon with Carrots, Molasses, and Chili
Stir-Fried Vegetables in Thai Peanut Sauce
Wheat Germ Carrot Muffins
Andy Lyons
Winter Citrus Fruit
Health benefits: Like their sister summer citrus fruits, winter citrus fruits — mandarin oranges, tangerines, blood oranges, and clementines — are very high in vitamin C, which helps boost immunity to fight off pesky colds and flu. They're high in fiber, to boot.
Nutrition: (1 tangerine, medium) 50 calories, 0.5g fat, 3g fiber, 1g protein
Recipes to try:
Papaya and Tangerine Sorbet
Fennel, Red Onion, and Blood Orange Salad with Miso-Lime Vinaigrette
Health benefits: We're not talking fries or a sliver of skin drowning in cheese and sour cream. In their most basic form, potatoes provide an abundance of vitamins C and B6, as well as potassium. With the skin, a large potato also provides 32 percent of your daily fiber intake.
Nutrition: (1 potato, large) 284 calories, 0.3g fat (0.1 saturated), 64.5 carbohydrates, 8.1g fiber, 7.5g protein
Recipes to try:
Rosemary New Potatoes
Warm Tarragon Potato Salad
Twice-Baked Potato with Melted Cheese and Broccoli
Health benefits: Yes, you may have hated it as a kid, but broccoli is a power vegetable that you should try to grow to like. High in vitamins A, B6, and C, these little green trees are a very versatile ingredient. Being very high in potassium, manganese, and dietary fiber is just icing on the proverbial cake.
Nutrition: (1 cup, raw) 30 calories, 0.3g fat, 5.8g carbohydrates, 2.3g fiber, 2.5g protein
Recipes to try:
Stir-Fried Beef, Broccoli, and Tofu
Broccoli Frittata
Broccoli and Cheddar Soup


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Living tissue is the key for biomaterials. As such, multiscale modeling is very complex. The structure-property relationships for biomaterials can be thought of from animal/human and vegetation information. Both modeling/simulations for the human body and bio-inspired design ideas are important for extracting information from the biomaterials database. Most biological materials are much stronger than the individual constituents they are made of. They typically have a low density, contain no metals, and have hierarchical organization inherent in their design of both structure and material. Most are multifunctional, self-healing, self-organizing, and self-assembling. They also have a broad range of both Young's moduli and strength, both varying over several orders of magnitude[1]. Additional data is included within the CI and also at the following links:
Bio-inspired Design
Biological materials present many examples of unique structures, which provide numerous sources for novel structural material designs. In order to mimic structure and design of biological material, some animals, plants, or human organs are observed and simulated using computational modeling at different length scales. Compared to man-made materials, biological materials have three characteristics. First, biological materials are designed to be function-oriented; therefore, their structures are optimized for their function. Second, biological materials are manufactured from the lowest length scales in a cell. Third, they are organized hierarchically down to the nanoscale. With regard to these characteristics, ICME can be a proper tool to model and simulate biological materials, which can be more complex than man-made materials are. ICME enables to catch up the properties of biological materials from the nanoscale to macroscale and to bring meaningful data with low uncertainty to the tissue level model. Studying these materials at different length scales allows the determination of the hierarchical structure interaction. Several examples of successful bio-inspired designs include velcro, modeled after seed burrs, and hexagonal armor plates modeled after abalone nacre.
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text: Before I met the man who became my husband, I had never heard the term "bush league." (Being from the South, I was familiar with NASCAR's Busch League, but I hadn't heard the term used to describe something as amateurish or cheap.)From Serena Williams' outbursts and Kyle Busch's arrogance (no pun intended) to Usain Bolt's disrespect, athletes don't hesitate to indulge in bush league behavior. But the sport most closely associated with the term is baseball; the OED links the two as far back as 1906. Once meaning just the minor leagues, the phrase is now a favorite of adjectivally challenged commentators to describe unprofessional play or players.So when José Reyes left the season's last game after successfully bunting a first-inning single, the Mets shortstop knew what was coming. In addition to being booed by the crowd, called a "chump" by CBS New York and publicly scolded by Jerry Seinfeld, the beloved Reyes was immediately branded bush league, a label that will haunt him if he's ever on the Hall of Fame ballot. But what choice did he have?Getting on the ballot is a big "if." The 28-year-old Reyes knows better than anyone that he has a lot of hurdles to clear if he wants to make it on that ballot. Plagued by inconsistency and injury, Reyes usually starts seasons like a superstar only to collapse. And a career batting average of .292 is far from impressive. Though considered by many, including CBS NY, as the best player in New York, if Reyes wants to make the Hall, adding to his list of accomplishments is his best strategy.By leaving the game, Reyes ended the season with a .337 batting average and ensured his place as the National League Batting Champion. Had he stayed in, he ran the risk of striking out– and since he was only two points ahead of Brewer Ryan Braun, it was a risk he couldn't take for himself or his team.If the Mets were headed for the post-season, the outrage might be understandable, but they weren't. Are baseball fans and the sports media so small-minded that they can't see Reyes did the Mets a favor? His early exit made him the first Met ever to win the NL batting title, which, considering how the Mets have performed lately, is the only jewel in their crown. If Reyes had played those last eight innings, Braun might have won the title, and CBS NY would have labeled Reyes something more unsavory than "chump."So Reyes' exit wasn't exactly honorable. If baseball fans cared about honor, they wouldn't cite Ted Williams as the ideal batting champion. A phenomenal hitter he may have been, but Williams is probably tied with Ty Cobb for the World's Worst Attitude Award. Jose Reyes is (was) known a good guy. He loves(ed) baseball, he loves(ed) the fans and he inspires(ed) passion in his teammates. But he was in a no-win situation: whether he stayed in the game or left early, he was going to disappoint somebody and probably hurt his reputation in the process.Reyes wasn't bush league; he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. If anything about the situation is bush league, it's that CBS NY and everyone else who called Reyes "genuine," "electric," "passionate," and "caring" are heaping opprobrium on him now, rather than acknowledging how difficult the decision must have been for the man they were so proud to call "New York's best player."~Juanita Giles lives on a farm in Charlotte County with her husband, son, and many dogs.


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text: 100% Polyester, 60'' wideAre you feeling a little wild! Let your animal side out with this wonderfully soft, easy care charmeuse satin in animal prints. You have your choice of giraffe, leopard and zebra. This is perfect for blouses, dresses, skirts- especially on the bias. Create trendy lingerie or bind a baby blanket. Let your imagination be your guide!


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Boardwalk Empire's upcoming fifth season will be its last, HBO announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.
"We're thrilled to get the go-ahead for a fifth season of Boardwalk Empire," series creator Terence Winter said in a statement. "After much discussion with my creative team and HBO, we've decided to wrap up the series after such a great run and look forward to bringing it to a powerful and exciting conclusion." The fifth and final season of Boardwalk Empire will bow this fall.
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Additionally, HBO announced the premiere dates for Game of Thrones, Veep and new half-hour comedy Silicon Valley. Game of Thrones' fourth season returns April 6 at 9/8c followed by the premiere of Veep's third season at 10/9c. Mike Judge's new comedy Silicon Valley will debut the same night at 10:30/9:30c. HBO will release the first trailer for Game of Thrones ahead of Sunday's True Detective premiere at 9/8c.
New comedy series Doll & Em, starring Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells, will premiere Wednesday, March 19 at 10/9c.
Additionally, the network announced that Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of The Normal Heart, starring Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo, will debut in May. The new drama series from Lost's Damon Lindelof, The Leftovers, will launch this summer.
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Are you ready to rumble? The attention signal has been sounded for the 2012 sailing season. That's right, it's time to pick up the Assn. of Orange Coast Yacht Clubs (AOCYC) 2012 racing calendar and start marking down which events you plan on sailing in this year.
I would like to give a shoutout to the people in our harbor who are managing our winter races. If you are like me and say "I do not sail in the rain," you have to give these people a big thank you for doing race committee work, because no matter what the weather is like, they cannot call in sick.
The first person I need to thank is Paul DeCapua and his crew from Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club in running the Hot Rum Series, and starting the Bogart Series for our harbor's PHRF boats.
The next person who comes to mind is Balboa Yacht Club's Pinky Green, for running the inside Sunkist Series and the Super Sabot Saturdays.
Next up is BYC's John Lee and his crew for running the Outside Sunkist Series. Make sure you ask John who his mark set people are and give them a thank you (outside mark set is not an easy job this time of year).
Next we have Newport Harbor Yacht Club's Fleet Captain Robert Kenny, who is running this year's Winter Series. By the time the Winter Series is complete, he would have started and finished 12 races with as many as 56 boats entered.
Well done to all our harbor's PROs this winter season, and thank you.
Our top sailors this winter have been: Gale Pickey, Lee Sutherland and Kurt Wiese, in the NHYC Winter Series Harbor 20 A Fleet; Harbor 20 B Rolly Pulaski, Len Connelly and Jack Cannon are leading B Fleet, with Tom Corkett and Nic Froehlich taking a commanding lead after the next three races and receiving their third throw out for the series. With one point separating Nic and Tom going into the last three races, it should be a good race.
In the Harbor 20 C Fleet, Jonathan Cheadle appears to be holding a strong lead over the fleet. Overall Winners of BCYC "Hot Rum Series" are John Szalay, Dan Rossen and Beverly Evans. In BYC's Sunkist Series Outside, there is a close battle in PHRF A between It's OK, Amante and Dare.
In class B, Doubletime has a solid lead. Over in Class C, Legacy seems to have the advantage, and in Class D, Violetta de la Mare has a comfortable lead. Class E will come down to the last race between Whisper, Campaign II and Pussycat.
BYC Inside Sunkist has been well attended, with Bob Larzelere and Brian Mason duking it out in the Thistle fleet. In the Harbor 20 As, Gary Thorne and Guy Doran are going into the last two races tied for first place. In Harbor 20 B, Rolly Pulaski appears to have this series wrapped up. That's no easy task with more than 18 boats signed up in Harbor 20 B fleet in this series.
In the Harbor 20 C fleet Jonathan Cheadle appears to be ready to move up to B Fleet. Next are thosefrostbitten Laser sailors with Gator Cook trying to keep Steve Kent and Alan Andrews behind him. Of the fleet of 14 Sabot A fleet sailors signed up, Molly Lynch has closed the deal, but there appears to be a good race for second place between Terese Ivory and Lyn Acosta.
For those of you who did not want to sail in the rain last Saturday, BCYC hosted the start of the Bogart Series. I sailed with Dan Rossen aboard his boat, Problem Child, and I can describe the race in one word: epic.
We had 24 knots of breeze when we headed downwind and surfed the whole way home from Long Beach.
On Jan. 29, don't miss out on at BCYC "Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing" given by Mr. Harbor 20, Peter Haynes.
In my next column, I will go over which events to attend in 2012.
Sea ya!
LEN BOSE is an experienced boater, yacht broker and boating columnist.


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The 48th Annual Beauty Review was held at North Sunflower Academy on Jan. 26 and was a smashing success, according to event organizers. Pictured on top are the varsity beauties and beaus, Parker Beck, Jaden Robinson, Kaid King, Karleigh Phillips, Most Beautiful Carson Robinette, Most Handsome Dakota Dawson, Preslie McCool, Jacob Henley, Avery Whatley and Steven Abney. Pictured on bottom are the junior varsity beauties and beaus, Gauge Gordon, Christian Ray, Kalob Arbuckle, Kallie Sumner, Most Beautiful Sterlynn Luna, Most Handsome Logan Nicholson, Meridyth Scallion, Michael Melton, Kaitlyn Smithers and Tristan Parks.
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By doing a google search, using the key words, Schrambling and Lincoln provided a really great clue. FindAGrave came up with a William Schrambling, even though I didn't know his first name, this person was buried in Lincoln, Nebraska and died on September 19, 1933, just the day before the newspaper article was printed. There were no other Schramblings listed in the town, but I expected that, since the article said he was in the town for three weeks. There was no birth date, nor a cemetery photo.
The article stated his daughter was Mrs. Agnes Sage and Mrs. Eli Sage. Google searches brought up a nice, unsourced, family group sheet. Not only does it list her father as Washington Scrambling, instead of William, but had his parents, both of whom I had in my tree.
The next thing I thought of was, fellow blogger, Susan Petersen of Long Lost Relatives who lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
TheLincoln Star newspaper stated his name as William W. Scrambling for the county court filings notification.
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"Injuries Fatal to Schrambling
Struck by Car While
Walking in Road.
William Schrambling, 85, an inmate of the county farm was injured fatally when he stepped into the path of an automobile driven by Walton G. Roberts, 1515 L Street, about 7 o'clock Tuesday evening, while walking on the highway near the farm, about seven miles north of here.
County attorney, Max Towle, announced Wednesday morning that no inquest will be held in the death.
The injured man was brought to the
and died a few minutes after, death probably caused by a concussion of the brain. He suffered a fractured left leg, fractures of the skull and numerous lacerations about the head. Medical attention was given by Dr. R. H. Sawyer. Lincoln General Hospital
Mr. Schrambling with Albert Tulley, another county inmate, was talking toward
on the west side of the road. Mr. Roberts and his wife, driving north, saw the men approaching and slowed down, he stated. Just as he came even with the men, he said Schrambling suddenly appeared in front of his car. He swerved in an attempt to avoid an impact, but the car had already struck the aged man. Lincoln
It seemed that Schrambling apparently became excited and ran directly into the car after being safely on one side of the grade, according to information obtained by Deputy County Sheriff C. A. Hughart who investigated the accident. Tulley told officials that he tried vainly to pull Schrambling out of the way.
Mr. Schrambling has been at the farm about three weeks this fall, said Mrs. W. W. Scofield, farm matron. He spent the summer on a farm east of
. He was cared for at the farm last winter after being discovered living in a boxlike hut in an old building excavation at Ninth and O streets. Lincoln
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Agnes Sagenuk of Soulian, Mont. The body is at Roberts."
The Lincoln Star, Wednesday, September 20, 1933 (Page 6)
World-Herald Newspaper, Omaha, Nebraska September 24, 1933 (Page 6)
The Lincoln Star, Wednesday, September 20, 1933 (Page 17)