The Sixth Annual Music City Brewers Festival will take place on Saturday, July 28th, 2007 from 2pm - 8pm at the scenic Hilton Park, on the lawn of the Hilton Nashville Downtown. Sample beer from over 30 local, regional and national breweries. This one-day event is in celebration of American Beer Month, presented by the Institute for Brewing Studies. Local bands will perform all day, including the San Rafael Band and HoneyBaked. Food from area restaurants will be available as well. And since it'll be nice and toasty in Nashville in July, be sure to bring your camping chairs and shade umbrellas! Admission is $30 in advance or $40 at the door (if there's any left), and includes a souvenir mug and all beer samples.

Music City Brewer's Festival in Nashville, TN (Saturday, June 28th) American Beer Month!

Last week NBC quietly released a learning tool called iCue in conjunction with MIT. See coverage on CNET TV s Loaded. It s been designed as a learning environment using a large collection of news clips taken from NBC s video archives to enable anyone to catch up on news coverage and current events. This archived footage is put into context, as long as viewers are willing to acknowledge that the content is coming only from one source NBC , and for now only with the focus on the U.S. presidential elections.

To get going, users can simply wander around the site, viewing various footage that s been meticulously categorized and DOCUMENTed complete with transcripts . They can also put their knowledge to the test with a smattering of editor-created mini games that require both a contextual understanding of what was going on at the time of the clip, along with whatever other bits of historical insight are found in the one- to two-minute segments. There s a whole lot going on, and I m betting the casual user is going to get lost very easily.

Check it out good idea... Kind of a web oddity ....

Can NBC s iCue teach you anything new?

MTARS HAMFEST. Saturday March 15th, 2008
Directly behind the 1st Methodist Church, at Lauderdale and Jackson St., in
Tullahoma.
Street address is 208 W. Lauderdale St., Tullahoma.

Doors open at 8 AM.... main prize drawing at 2 PM

Talkin on 146.70 (minus offset).... secondary / backup on 147.195 (plus
offset)

Hourly doorprizes.

Several vendors already signed up to come.

VE testing at 9 AM. (for info, contact Bradley Brake W4BB (Email
bbrake@charter.net)

Lots of good food on site, featuring locally cooked, Award winning BBQ,
plate lunches and sandwiches, deserts, drinks, etc.

Admission $5. Children 15 and under free

Vendor tables with limited electricity $10. (Vendor setup, Friday, 5 to 8 PM
and Saturday 6 AM.)
For table info, contact Bill Holt (Email n0euu@hotmail.com)

For more info, contact Ed Hohenthaner W7LGD, Cowan Tn. phone
#(931)967-0545 Email W7LGD@yahoo.com

MTARS HAMFEST 2008

"His press corps is bigger than mine. And we both have trouble answering questions in English. "
U.S. President George W Bush, during a meeting with Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka at the White House. (Kyodo)

Whoa where did Bush w/ wit come from... :) Haha LOL!

Bush Quote Of The Day

I never thought I would ever see an emergency plan for a space
object re-entry but attached is the emergency guide announced by the
Department of Defense.

In addition... below are two interesting links from FEMA...

Public Health Emergency Response: A Guide for Leaders and
Responders.

Department of Health and Human Services. Public Health Emergency
Response: A Guide for Leaders and Responders. Washington, DC: HHS,
August 2007, pdf files updated October 2007, 129 pages.

http://www.hhs.gov/disasters/press/newsroom/leadersguide/freo-full-print.pdf

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created
this guide to provide public officials (e.g., mayors, governors, county executives, emergency managers) and first responders."

Bibliography of Emergency Management & Related References On-Hand:

Since the last post relating to the Bibliography, a revised version
has been posted to the FEMA EM Hi-Ed Program website - EM References
section

http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu/highref.asp

and an update of that version will soon be provided to the webmaster to upload to the website sometime next week.

Here are the links to the files:
http://lite.myfabrik.com/get/0001004aePjcEW/FEMAERGResponderGuide-SpaceObject-FINAL-02-14-2008.pdf
http://lite.myfabrik.com/get/0001004aAW4NGn/First-Responder-GuideMemo_FINAL_02-14-0822.doc
http://lite.myfabrik.com/get/0001004aZ5R62S/SpaceObjectConOps_FINAL-02-14-08.doc

I thought everyone might like to see some of these....

Space Object Re-entry Materials Guide and More... (HHS, FEMA, DOD,

PodCamp Nashville (PCN) is brought to you by Dave Delaney and Marcus Whitney of BarCamp Nashville (BCN). Kelly Stewart, BCN’s Sponsor and Speaker Relations leader returns to help manage PCN.

PCN will bring together Nashville’s Podcasting, Blogging, Digital Music, and New Media communities. Everyone from novices to experts, content creators, listeners, sponsors, educators, and businesses interested in Web 2.0 should attend this important event. PCN is free to attend.

Join us February 9th at The Cannery Ballroom. Be sure to register for free today.

If your a new media person or podcaster all day Saturday is Podcamp Nashville. It's free and their keynote speakers are C.C. Chapman of The Advance Guard and Joseph Jaffe from crayon, llc.

Hey Nick if your thinking about going let me know as there is a deadline for registration... and I think that this would be a great event.

PodCamp Nashville

For all intents and purposes, Bill and Hillary Clinton should be my candidates. On the political spectrum I consider myself center-left, and the Clintons have been center-left politicians since, well, they became politicians. You can call it centrist, or “Blue Dog,” or what have you, but they are political dealmakers in a system designed for compromise. However, the system seems to work well when those who are forced to compromise also have a set of core values that are different from the opposition. The whole notion of compromise might be a foreign thought to our ears after enduring the reign of W. and his contingent of “no compromise” congressmen and women; however, during Bill Clinton’s tenure as President, he frustrated the hell out of many Democrats by making whatever deal he could to insure that he would survive politically — even if that meant walking and talking like a Republican.

During his presidency, it seemed whenever Clinton decided to undertake a policy initiative designed to help middle-to-lower-middle class folks who elected him, he wound up doing more harm than good. From health care, to gays in the military, to reforming the social welfare system, to the Telecommunications Act, to the Defense of Marriage Act, it all seemed so antithetical to what Democrats supposedly stood for. Sure, he said he was trying to chart a “third way” in politics that would transcend the ideological clashes between New Deal Democrats and Reagan Republicans, but it seemed the only politically viable “third way” out of this clash was for him to support the party of Bill Clinton. Since Clinton is more like a “Rockefeller Republican” than a political leftie, it was easier for him to make deals with the current crop of Republicans (who became a majority in 1994) than it was with Democrats. The result of his impressive political acumen and tepid political ideology was a presidency that, at bottom, stood for one thing: political survival.

If elected, Hillary may be a different kind of President than Bill, but currently he’s dominating her campaign by doing what Bill Clinton does best: making it all about Bill. Sure, he artfully weaves Hillary’s name into his speeches, but if Hillary becomes president, I think the ’90s redux of Clintonism is bound to flounder due to the following realities:

1. We’re mired in an expensive war with no exit strategy.
2. We’re headed for (or already in) an economic recession.
3. A large majority of the Democratic base wants universal health care.
4. And if you read Dw. Dunphy’s excellent piece, Americans and the government need to get out from under the piles of debt we’ve accumulated. For the working stiff that means better paying jobs. For the government, it means stop decreasing taxes while going on a deficit spending spree. And for American businesses, it means stop boosting your profits on the backs of slave labor overseas.

If we’ve learned anything from Clintonism, or Third Way politics, it’s that it seems to do well in times of peace, ideological insouciance, and when members of your political party are not particularly united around a set of core issues. Just surveying the political attitudes of Democrats today will make it clear that having the Party of Bill back in office is the wrong way to go.

Amen...

Why Bill Clinton Is a Douchebag

A Belmont University dorm was locked down at about 11 p.m. after a student reported that there were two armed men on campus.

Metro police Capt. David Imhof said a female student reported that the men were near Thrailkill Hall. The dorm is in a gated section of the campus that requires a student identification card for entry.

Police searched the area and the dorm, going floor to floor, room to room, and did not find any weapons, Imhof said.

The lockdown was initially reported to The Tennessean by Belmont students who were unable to return to their rooms in the dorm and neighboring housing.

Police and Belmont security officers were ending the lockdown before midnight.
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“We don’t think there was any malice or harm intended,” Imhof said. “We don’t even know where she heard it from or what she heard. We think her imagination got the best of her.”

Belmont has a text message system to alert students in case of an emergency on campus. The system was not used during this incident

Belmont dorm put on lockdown

We apologize for postponing the original date of the Open House, but given the winter weather concerns across portions of the Tennessee Valley, it was the most prudent decision. We have decided on a new date, and hopefully temperatures will be a little warmer in March. The details of the original Open House still hold true, and they follow below.

As part of the five year anniversary of the Huntsville National Weather Service Office, we are hosting an Open House on Saturday, March 8th.

This event, which is free and open to the public, will give you a chance to tour our Operations Area, where we make all our forecasts and warnings. Tour space is limited, so arrive early to pick up your free tour tickets.

Additionally, we will have a childrens area with a bean bag toss, coloring activites, videos, and a hands-on hurricane activity. Nearby, there will be a full size weather safety miniature golf course hole.

Other fun activites include a weather forecasting contest, putting you in charge of making a forecast for Huntsville. In fact, the best forecast will win one of several prizes--ranging from a job shadow with one of our forecasters, to an official NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio.

We will also have a whole area dedicated to hydrology, climatology, and cooperative weather observations. If you've ever wondered how we acquire data, or how we use it, you'll certainly want to pay a visit to this section.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday March 8th, and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Saturday, March 8th, 10 AM to 3 PM

National Weather Service Huntsville, AL - 5th Anniversary Open House

The laptop computer hard drives stolen from the Davidson County Election Commission office are in the hands of Metro police.

It doesn't appear that sensitive information was accessed, police reported.

Investigators found the computer hardware at The Muse, a club in the 800 block of Fourth Avenue South. The business features concerts, tattoos and an exercise studio.

Tax records show that an investor group owns the building.

Police said 45-year-old Robert Osbourne admitted to selling the computers at the business for cash.

Metro's Code Enforcement department shut down the building Thursday due to violations.

Metro police said other parts of the stolen computers were found at a home in Goodlettsville.

Stolen Laptops Recovered