Wrote Valentina Zannoni in the November 20, 2009 Financial Times, "For the ultimate stab-proof, flame-proof, nuclear-disaster proof footwear... look no further than Oakley's Elite Assault Boots. The brand famous for sunglasses has been supplying the armed forces with equipment, including combat-ready boots, since the 1980s and" [...]
From the Daily Progress:
A man who was the treasurer of the Mill Creek Homeowners Association for about 10 years has been charged with embezzlement.
Kevin O’Connor was arrested earlier this month, police said.
Neal Grandy, president of the homeowners association, said the organization hasn’t determined exactly how [...]
All Homes in Murray School District
(below are recent listings in the Murray School District, as of this post. For a complete list of homes, click on the link above)
$4,250,000 1200 ZACK LN, CHARLOTTESVILLE
$3,695,000 1410 [...] Courtesy of the Free Enterprise Forum:
Last Wednesday (11/4), the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors received a briefing titled “Survey of DIA Personnel Moving to Rivanna Station”. The survey, conducted by the Center For Regional Economic Competitiveness, a non-profit research organization affiliated with George Mason University, provides [...]
I was at OpenSQL Camp 2009 in Portland last weekend. I thought the event was very well done. On Friday we had a pizza party at Old Town Pizza, which was awesome. Saturday and Sunday were breakfast, sessions, lunch (yum), and sessions and hacking. These were held at [...]
All Homes in Murray School District (below are recent listings in the Murray School District, as of this post. For a complete list of homes, click on the link above)
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The Virtual Shoe Museum was initiated by Liza Snook in 2004. Once the idea was born, a long search began for designers, photographers and publishers connected to shoes. New friendships developed and our mailbox filled with loads of material on [...]
Free Speech or Disruption:
Balancing the Rights to Speak and to Hear
Sunday, November 15, 2009
3:00-5:00 PM
Dickinson Auditorium
Piedmont Virginia Community College
(Free and open to the public)
Several times during the July 4, 2008 naturalization ceremony at Monticello, protestors disrupted President George W. Bush’s address to the crowd of brand new U.S. citizens, guests, [...]
Created by Italian designer Lodovico Bernardi, who wrote,
"Table © é realizzato con un unico pannello di
compensato marino mediante un unico taglio. Il suo particolare design
permette una netta riduzione di sprechi e energia in fase di
produzione."
"Il tavolo chiuso ha" [...]
Optimizing Oracle Performance
Optimizing Oracle Performance. By Cary Millsap, O’Reilly 2003. Page count: about 375 pages with appendices. (Here’s a link to the publisher’s site.)
This is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read on performance optimization. I’ve just finished reading [...]
Zee Avi
Zee Avi was Melissa Goode’s guest at WNRN this afternoon before her show that night at the Tea Bazaar. She talked about her tour and played a few songs with her band from her self-titled album. Videos are up at www.youtube.com/wnrnradio
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Band of Heathens
Band of Heathens came into the WNRN studios before their show at The Tea Bazaar. Check out the video of the interview at www.youtube.com/wnrnradio
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Yowza, that's one steep learning curve for off-pump cardiac bypass surgeon Dr. Nirav Patel, of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City who "... estimated that he's now done more than 1,400 off-pump operations...," wrote Gina Kolata in today's New York Times story about a [...]
The November issue of The Short Review is up, and it's got a fresh new look and logo. Very nice! 
Elizabeth Strout is a fine, fine writer, and I’m not just saying that because she wrote a nice blurb for my book, In an Uncharted Country. Her recent book, Olive Kitteridge, won the Pulitzer Prize this year, and deservedly so. It’s a finely crafted novel [...] There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart. >>>
Are Liberals smarter than Conservatives? An interesting discussion. >>>
In what is perhaps the first project of its kind, the Van Gogh [...]
Democrats have won all of the Charlottesville elections, unsurprisingly. Delegate David Toscano easily defeated independent challenger R.B. Smith, James E. Brown bested independent Paul Best in the sheriff’s race, and Mayor Dave Norris secured reelection while ticket-mate Kristin Szakos joined him in defeating independents Bob Fenwick and Paul Long. [...]
Last night I went to a grownups Halloween party with my daughter. The girl was one of three friends the daughter of the grownups having the party was allowed to invite. I was one of 80 grownups the parents invited. The husband left me hanging; such is his disdain for [...]
