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The Journal: Your third album Later…When The TV Turns To Static is set for release this summer, what can we expect?
Rab Allan:You can expect ten shiny, little pop nuggets, similar to the last two records. It’s like a continuation from where we left the second record, but it’s a little more live sounding and not as produced as the second album. It’s pretty much the same Glasvegas sound.
TJ: It was originally called Whoever Shouts The Loudest, what made you change it?
RA: That was a funny story. NME printed that it was originally called that, but James just decided to change it for that interview, it was never going to be that. It was always going to be Later…When The TV Turns To Static.
TJ: Later… is self-produced, how was that compared to your first two albums?
RA: James co-produced the first album with Rich Costey, who has produced records for Muse and Franz Ferdinand. Our second record was produced by Flood, who has worked with U2 and The Killers.
However, the band all thought that James did enough on the first record and that he could produce the third by himself. He’s produced all the demos in the past, so it was never in any doubt that he could do it.
TJ: How disappointing was the reception of your second album and then parting way with Columbia Records as a result?
RA: That happened so long ago now. It was just a really strange thing. The second record, in my eyes, was just as good as the first. Nearly all the reviews it received were four or five stars out of five, but if something doesn’t connect and people don’t buy it then there’s nothing you can do, you know? It was just one of those things. You’ve just got to pick yourself up and move on. Whether that was with Columbia Records or independently, we were always going to continue making music. We never set out to be the biggest band in the world, that’s not why we make music, we just make music because that’s what we enjoy doing.
TJ: What are your plans for this summer after the album release?
RA:We’ve got quite a lot of festivals coming up. There are some festivals in Europe and I know that we’ll be doing a tour. That’s not been announced yet, but it will be in the next couple of weeks.
TJ: You played King Tut’s a couple of weeks ago. What was it like to return there?
RA: King Tut’s was awesome. We’ve not played there since 2007, so it was pretty cool to play a venue of that size again. We went on first as a Beatles tribute act, The Savage Stage Bells, and that was a lot of fun. The Savage Stage Bells was an anagram of The Beatles and Glasvegas, which no one got and we played four Beatles songs (Help, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, I Gotta Feeling, and Twist & Shout).
It was actually Paul’s (Donoghue) idea (bass guitar). The tickets were quite expensive as it was a charity gig, so we thought we should have some fun out there and take the piss out of ourselves a little bit. So we got the Sgt. Pepper’s outfits and just had a laugh.
TJ: Are you listening to any Scottish bands at the moment?
RA: We quite like Chvrches at the moment. They’re quite good. That’s quite an obvious one as they are so big already. Holy Esque are really good as well.
TJ: How did Glasvegas come about?
RA: Me and James are cousins, our mums are twin sisters, so we grew up together. I was always into music while James was always into football. We realised that we both liked music, so we started playing guitars. I went to school with Paul and we were friends all through school and I knew he could play bass. We had a friend, Carly, who could play drums, so we all got together. It took about three years to get all the songs together and then we were on our way.
TJ: I read last year that Lady Gaga wanted to collaborate with the band, what was that all about?
RA: That was a weird one. We did T in the Park in 2009 when she was there too and one of our crew was friends with her, so we got to meet her. Her and James swapped emails and kept in touch for a while. She did a chat show in America and was asked what her favourite band was. She said Glasvegas and said that she wanted to collaborate with us. It was just one of those really cool things. I don’t think it will ever happen, but it would be really cool if it did. | <urn:uuid:5903f174-73b8-4d98-92ff-a4a3d1a95a56> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://glasvegas.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-21T10:14:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989763 | 1,050 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A conversation between a Hieromonk and Elder Ephraim of Katounakia on the Priesthood:
Hieromonk: Regarding the tears you spoke about, how can someone have tears like that during the Divine Liturgy?
Elder: Let me tell you, it has been about a year since I stopped [liturgizing], because I cannot see, but all day I pre-prepared for the Divine Liturgy. Do not confine yourself, my child, to the Prayers for Receiving Holy Communion, because these prayers are even read by the laity, the priest, the bishop and the patriarch. But all are not one. The people receive the Gifts ready. But the priest is a butcher. He sacrifices Christ and transmits Him in turn to all the people. There is a big difference; they are not the same. For this reason, my child, if you want to have a situation, do not limit yourself to the Prayers for Receiving Holy Communion, because you are a butcher. You slaughter and sacrifice, while the other person takes the Holy Bread prepared. For this reason supplicate the Panagia all day, whom you have near: “My Panagia, make me worthy to see what I am sacrificing, what function God has given me. Let me feel it.” And the Panagia will give it to you. Yes. If you liturgize and do not tear, you are a little at fault, you are under condemnation.
Hieromonk: I am saddened.
Elder: Yes. But, if you weep during the Liturgy, you will understand that you have liturgized, that you ate spiritual meat, if you will. If, however, you did not weep neither in your prayers, nor during the Liturgy, it is like you ate hot water. But if you weep, you will understand that you ate spiritual meat.
Hieromonk: Elder, no one tries to prepare as much as they can, but they see that the enemy does not sit, that is, he brings thoughts that are sometimes obscene, blasphemous, or foul. Then what should he do, or let us say, how should he deal with them?
Elder: Listen, we are people. We are people, not angels. He brings obscene thoughts, as well as thoughts of pride and thoughts of judgmentalism, everything. We will struggle.
One time someone came here and as we talked we fell into judgmentalism. I then went to liturgize and couldn’t say the prayers. “Man, what did I do?” I said. “Forward! Such and such neighbor came and we condemned some bishops.” During the Liturgy, as I liturgized, I said: “My God, forgive me. Forgive me, my God. I erred, my God. Of whom is the error, my God? It is even a forgiveness prayer for me.” Finally, I pacified and said: “If you want to go through this again, judge!”
It is a major thing, a great evil, to judge. Well, as people we will err, my child. But what? Confession is also a mystery, my child.
I only finished high school, I did not go higher. I wrote down the names of all my classmates, all my professors, my teachers from the first year of grade school until the last year of high school. And when I commemorate them, how much joy I feel! Do you know how much joy I receive because I commemorate those who made me into a good man? Now, since I have one year to attend Liturgy, because I cannot hear, and I want to commemorate those names again, and once again bit by bit I remember them, those people are benefiting. For this reason, my child, do you want to have you soul saved as a gift? As much as you can, commemorate more names.
The stole has great boldness, great boldness. For this reason, my child, do you want to acquire a situation? If you liturgize and do not weep, somewhere you are at fault, somewhere you did something wrong. All day I pre-prepared myself for the time of the Liturgy. And when I entered the Liturgy, I could not stop the tears. Yes! That is, many times I saw on the Holy Altar a dead body, let us say, as if in ecstasy, a dead body!
Hieromonk: Elder, for twenty years I was a simple monk. And it is true, when I became a priest, I struggled. I could not get used to that I was a priest. And from the day after I became a priest, the devil battled against me with thoughts, with anguish, with fear. He fought much against me with these things.
Elder: Well, he’s doing his job. But we will also do our job. To the Panagia, supplicate to the Panagia, my child, because all the saints supplicated the Panagia. A gift is not given to man by God, unless it is through the Panagia. The Panagia distributes the gifts to humanity, the Panagia distributes.
Hieromonk: It left me in amazement. I said to myself, the devil does not even fear the Divine Liturgy, with his thoughts, with his obscenities, with one thing and another?
Elder: Those things aren’t missing, my child, they are not missing.
Hieromonk: Contempt is needed.
Elder: Contempt. Well, he’s doing his job, my child. He’s doing his job. But us, let us do our job, our job. | <urn:uuid:1f13aad1-e135-49e9-b91f-2947a708827d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/12/14/on-the-priesthood-2/ | 2013-05-21T10:07:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977122 | 1,223 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Sometimes we almost have it too good...
When I met with Frank O’Connor, my would-be boss at Bungie, he told me that my interview with him was going to be unlike anything I’d ever experienced. Frank wasn’t one of the shock troopers sent in to shine a blinding light into my eyes and grill me with a series of hypothetical questions, as I was pretty certain he would be. It turned out the Frankie portion of my day-long loop was designed to relax me. The apparatus he employed to keep my nerves in check?
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.
Like it should be, Capcom’s Street Fighter series is a pretty big deal here at Bungie. There’s a group of guys who play regularly at lunch, occasionally snagging games during the day. And there’s even an email alias at Bungie, specifically crafted to contact those interested in “Fighting Games.” Like a bunch of our other internal lists (Music Aficionados, Spam, Ideas, Parents, et cetera), this alias has all kinds of fighting game related news posted to it: character reveals, new art, techniques, game balancing changes and other assorted information and discussion.
When Joe Tung asked Capcom’s Senior Director of Communications and Community Chris Kramer, and Capcom Community Manager Seth Killian (peep Capcom’s Community site
) to come out to the Pentathlon and bring a version of Street Fighter IV for the studio to check out, the ask was, for lack of a better term, tall.
Yet, last Friday at the Pentathlon, the annual Street Fighter Tournament, usually played on our 3rd Strike machine, was played on a 360 build of Street Fighter IV courtesy of Chris and Seth, who hand carried builds up to Seattle to hang out with us.
And before you ask, we played with sticks, not joypads.
During the Barrython (the moniker given to the Street Fighter tournament), the crowd was bigger than usual. We projected the signal onto a wall in one of our conference rooms. Our general enthusiasm for the game – some of us were pretty enamored with SFIV – begat curiosity: Who did the particle effects? What are you doing for networking? When is it my turn at the sticks?
The Barrython is an annual test of might in Street Fighter. On the fighting gamers mailing list, we’re now trying to figure out how we’re going to get the best possible set-up for Street Fighter IV when it arrives next year.
Today, Tom Doyle, 3D Artist and Barrython Commissioner, answered a handful of quick questions about the Barrython via electronic mail:
How was the Barrython named and what started the Barrython?
Barrython was named after our own Chris Barrett (mangod art director on project X). He bought the Third Strike cab when we moved out of Redmond. Think of it as a celebration of independence in kumite form.
How is the Barrython tourney structured?
Single elimination tree with random seeding.
What maintenance work is required to keep the Third Strike machine in working order?
A servitor team of Ugnaughts from the Bespin Cloud City and a few junior Animators.
How is the “Final Boss” determined?
Final Boss? I don’t know what you are talking about. This is a fighting tournament, not some stupid videogame.
Why Street Fighter?
Because Time Killers and Clay Fighters machines are hard to come by.
Who won this year?
Richard Lico but…. he got the bad ending. Better luck next year Lico!
Special thanks to Seth, Chris, Capcom and the folks at Capcom-Unity for letting us fangasm over Street Fighter IV. It was awesome and folks should check it out when it comes out in February. | <urn:uuid:b7802998-5b59-41a3-a971-6978233f6338> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://halo.bungie.net/news/Blog.aspx?filter=&mode=&tag=&dfilter=date022008&page=3 | 2013-05-21T10:28:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944575 | 815 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Kids' Court at the S.J. Quinney College of Law
Kids' Court is an afterschool program founded by the 2008 — 2009 Minority Law Caucus Board at the S.J. College of Law at the University of Utah. Essentially, law student volunteers teach 5th and 6th grade students from under-served populations in Salt Lake City about the law and civic engagement through a weekly afterschool program.
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Kids’ Court 2011-2012 is coming to a close. There are several more lessons before the Kids’ Court Graduation, including a final mock trial. In order to prepare the students for the final production, the students needed to try out for roles and show the law student volunteers that they could be dramatic and act. As a group, we came up with motions to demonstrate key words from the story of the Three Little Pigs. The students were told to conduct the action whenever it was read aloud from the story. Since this is Kids’ Court, and we’re learning about the law and the legal profession, we added a legal spin! The students were read to versions of the Three Little Pigs: the Pigs’ side and the Wolf’s side. The students learned that the Pigs had brought suit against the Wolf for destroying their homes. As we read through each side of the stories, the students acted out the words, as well as learned the facts to support each party of the lawsuit. After the stories were finished, the students were asked to write opening statements for the prosecution and the defense. Since this was practice for our final trial, the students presented their opening statements in front of their classmates.
The students had a great time acting out the motions for the Three Little Pigs. But they loved to prepare and present their own argument to support either the Pigs or the Wolf. Anyone can be an actor, but it takes something special to be a lawyer. I think I have a lot of little lawyers at both Rose Park and Parley’s Park!
As we get closer to the end of the year mock trial, the lessons are beginning to focus on what it is like to be a real lawyer. This lesson helped to teach the students that there is a difference between the writing style they have learned in school and legal writing. As a law student, I have to admit that learning how to make a legal argument was one of the most difficult aspects of my first year, so I knew that this was not going to be an easy lesson. But as always, the students took me by surprise and understood the concept in no time!
I created a simple formula using addition and to make a legal argument. In a worksheet with 4 boxes, the students compiled different pieces of their legal argument in each box and solved the equation to create their legal argument. I created scenarios based on the Kids’ Court Constitution to make the legal aspect applicable to the students. The scenarios showed a past student of Kids’ Court breaking all of the laws that we created to keep our community running smoothly. The students made the argument that the student should go to the principle using the law from the Kids’ Court Constitution and the facts from the scenarios. I was so excited that the students understood the process and all created great legal arguments. This was a great lesson!
The immigration lesson is an important lesson because the some of the students have been affected directly by immigration. This lesson often evokes strong emotions in the students who have seen family members sent back to Mexico or have heard stories about loved ones being lost as a result of political conflict in their country of origin. The goal of this lesson was to teach the students that there have been periods of time in American history when the country considered immigration a benefit, and other periods of time when there has been extreme xenophobia. By explaining the different waves of immigration beginning in the late 18th century to today, the students began to see the ways that politics and economics affect the country’s view on immigration. The teachers were open to have side conversations with individual students if they had questions or wanted to discuss their own stories.
We wanted to end the lesson with an art project to bring the students together and encourage creativity so we decided to make mini-pinatas. The project was relatively simple, but was much more time consuming than I had anticipated. I would recommend saving at least 45 minutes to an hour for this project; but it was worth it!
• hole punch
• brown lunch sacks
• brightly colored tissue paper (Try to use a variety of colors.)
• heavy yarn or string
• candy or small prizes
Cut the tissue paper into 4″ (10 cm) strips. (If you place several sheets of tissue one
on top of the other and fold in half twice, you can cut more strips at a time. Use a sturdy pair of scissors.) Next, fringe the tissue strips by making many cuts along the edge of the strips. Be sure to leave a 1″ (2.54 cm) uncut edge at the top of the strips.
Glue a tissue strip around the outside of paper bag, starting at the bottom of one side of the bag and continuing around each side until you meet the place where you began. Cut the tissue and start a new layer. Position the next strip so the fringe hangs down and covers the glued area of the first layer. Glue this next strip around the bag as you did the first. Continue adding each layer until you reach the top of the bag.
Use the hole punch to punch holes about 2″ (5 cm) apart around the top of the bag. Weave the yarn or string through the holes, as shown in the picture. Next, fill the piñata with candy or prizes, pull the string or yarn so the bag is closed tightly, and secure it with a knot.
Glue colorful streamers to the bottom of the bag for a more festive look! Hang your piñata in a place where you can play the piñata game. Blindfold the players and have each, in turn, hit the piñata with a yardstick or rolled up newspaper until it is broken and all the goodies fall out. Enjoy!
This post covers Kids’ Court sessions from the past two weeks. These sessions were both about the art of communication and the role that communication plays in a lawyer’s life. In several weeks, Kids’ Court will conduct a second mock trial in which the students will have an active role in creating some aspects. Thus, it was important for the students to learn how to present a speech with confidence and skill. However, an integral part of being a good speaker is being a good listener and therefore we started these lessons with learning about Alternative Conflict Resolution.
The first exercise was the Bitten Dog/Beaten Dog scenario in which students were put in pairs and each was given information about the same conflict. However, the students were on opposite sides of the conflict and were instructed to talk at the other student–preventing communication. The classroom got very loud and no one could hear anything but a general rumble. Following that exercise, we had a discussion about communication and how the students resolve conflict in their lives. Next, I explained the different methods that lawyers use to resolve conflict. These included: Mediation, Arbitration, Litigation, Communication, and Legislation. The students were given a vocabulary sheet and a scenarios worksheet to help reinforce the definitions.
The second week of this series began with a Mock Mediation. I chose two students to prepare a mediation based on the Bitten Dog/Beaten Dog scenario from the previous week. I asked the students to write down the steps to a mediation before the demonstration so they could follow along and prepare to be the mediator in the next exercise. The “guinea pig” students did a great job in front of the class and everyone was excited to try to be the mediator. This exercise was really fun and all of the students had a great time!
Next we shifted gears and discussed the importance of public speaking. The law student volunteers performed a Public Speaking Rap (see below).
Public speaking, don’t be freaking
Just listen to the RRR technique in… (×3)
Public speaking, don’t be freaking
Just listen to the RRR technique in public speaking
Have you ever seen a hip hop show
Where the emcee’s completely locked into the flow?
His words are clear, his voice is loud
And she really knows how to interact with the crowd
In public speaking you need the same types of things
It’s important to keep the audience engaged
So use eye contact, make sure you look around
Don’t just stare at the page or the sky or the ground
Keep a steady pace, make sure you don’t rush
Project your voice, don’t let it be hushed
‘Cause you could have some great points to convey
But they mean nothing if we can’t hear what you say
Humor is a great way to break the ice
And to emphasize your points, hand gestures are nice
And you can make your talk stronger with visual aids
Like a PowerPoint®, photo, or a graph that you made
Public speaking’s easier when you feel refreshed
So the night before, make sure you get plenty of rest
And it’s always critical that you know your audience
When it comes to this, just use some common sense
If you’re talking to a panel for college admissions
Use vocab. that shows intellect and ambition
But if you’re talking is a group of third graders instead
All those big words would go over their heads
Be sure to use voice inflection when you speak
‘Cause if you talk in monotone you’ll put the people to sleep
And the best way to master all of these tactics?
Practice, practice, practice!
Practice with your family, practice in front of a mirror
Practice so that every word is clearer
Practice builds confidence and makes you less nervous
Following the rap, we played the “A, B, C Game.” This game is a public speaking lesson in disguise. The students were asked to incorporate the do’s and don’ts that they learned through the Public Speaking Rap, and recite the “A, B, C’s” as if it was a speech. The students had so much fun with this exercise! Many of them added questions and pauses as they recited the “A. B, C’s” through their intonation. Some of the students got into character and recited emotionally stirring “A, B, C’s” as a Call to Action for some unknown cause. All of the students made eye-contact with their classmates and paced around the room to keep their audience engaged.
Lastly, there was a Kids’ Court debate! The students were split into two teams and asked to send one teammate from each team to the front of the class. The individuals were given a topic, such as, “Recess should be extended to three hours per day,” and asked to debate the pro’s and con’s. The teachers chose which side of the issue that the students had to argue for and this forced the students to think on their feet and create a well-spoken argument regardless of their personal point of view. This was difficult for some of the students, but they asked their teammates for ideas and worked together to create the best argument. The students enjoyed the debate and because we ran out of time, I think we’ll try to have another debate in the coming weeks.
This week we followed up on the previous lesson’s emphasis on Civic Participation and the importance of voting and the students were asked to think about what they would change in their communities and the United States if they were elected president. After we brainstormed as a group, I asked the students to create a collage Public Service Announcement to present their platform for change. I gave the students a few examples of collages that I had made, including one entitled: No More Hunger. This collage had pictures of families and a bowl of spaghetti and sparked a conversation about homelessness and people who cannot afford food in our community. The students were really excited to begin work on their own Public Service Announcements and came up with some incredibly moving pictures.
Evelyn created a PSA to campaign that all people help each other.
Evelyn Q's "Help People PSA"
Alejandro created his campaign platform on the importance of exercise. He found plenty of pictures that he liked, so created a double-sided PSA.
Alejandro's "Exercise is Cool" PSA: part one
Alejandro's "Exercise is Cool" PSA: part two
Roxanna’s campaign was to guarantee equal pay for all people.
Roxanna's "Equal Pay for All People" PSA
Evelyn wants all people to learn to eat healthfully. Her campaign platform was to encourage eating the fruits and vegetables instead of burgers and chili cheese fries.
Evelyn's "Eat Healthy" PSA
Alejandro B and I had a long discussion on bullying when he was discussing his idea for a campaign platform PSA. Alejandro is a shy student who vowed to make sure no one gets bullied in his presence. There is text in pencil underneath the glued on words: “No Bully” and it reads: “I want no Bullying because bullys will hurt studints. Thats what I think no bullying in school or outside or at home.”
Alejandro A's "No Bullying" PSA
Lastly, the whole class got together to create a “No Deportation” PSA. Several students were gravitating towards this theme, but none of them felt comfortable creating it by themselves. Together, our community talked about some of the sad experiences of the students and their families who have been personally affected by deportation. The images and words that the students compiled were very powerful and our discussion was one I will never forget.
Kids' Court Community "No Deportation" PSA
This week the students learned about civic responsibility and the importance of voting. The students loved this lesson! The lesson was split into three parts. The first part was a lesson to convey the importance of participating in one’s community and the chaos that ensues when no one participates. The students arrived to their classroom and found the tables overturned and the chairs thrown across the floor:
The students were told to “have a seat” without much more direction. Some of the students turned over the chairs and sat down, while others sat on the floor near the chairs or even tried to sit on the bottom of the tables. We told the students to throw their trash on the floor and that the lesson was going to be writing for one full hour about the Constitution. The students were told they could not speak or ask questions and if they did they would be sent to the principal’s office! Needless to say, the students sat quietly, albeit confused, and began to write. (They are such good students!) After a few minutes we stopped the unhappy and confused writers and began to discuss what had occurred in our Kids’ Court community. The students understood the benefit of being able to participate and agreed that they could have improved our community by picking up the tables and trash. We asked the students what we could have done to improve the community and they all agreed that we should have answered their questions about the room and helped to clean up too.
After a short discussion of ways the students thought they could participate in their community, we began a conversation about voting. The students were asked if they could define words such as, “Platform,” “Parties,” “Debate,” “Booth,” “Ballot,” and several more. They had some great ideas and eventually we worked together to define all of the words. Once the students understood the process of an election, the law student teachers stood up to run for the position of Kids’ Court President! One of the teachers taught the students to applaud what they liked in each candidate’s platform and be silent for what they didn’t like. My favorite part of this process was when one of the candidates explained that his goal was that all of the students in Kids’ Court would go to college and so he was going to ask them to do more writing — every student applauded with such excitement because they want to go to college too! It was such a great moment.
The catch for the election was that only one person was “allowed” to vote. The students realized immediately that this was unfair and that they all should be allowed to vote (even though they aren’t 18, the students felt that by 8 years old, people should be able to vote!) . The student who voted considered the candidates very carefully and she took into consideration what each candidate was going to do to improve the Kids’ Court community. Her one vote was well spent and the best candidate won. After seeing the law student teachers go through the election process, the students are excited to have an election of their own. Next week, we are going to help the students create platforms and campaign to ultimately have an election of their own.
The final portion of the lesson was a word scramble of all of the vocabulary words we had discussed about elections. The students worked together and were able to figure out all of the words. It is so wonderful to see how bright and engaged the students are. This lesson was so much fun for both the students and the teachers!
Hello and welcome back!
Kids’ Court is back at it and we are beginning our lessons for Spring 2012. We have many exciting things planned for this Spring such as a field trip to Matheson Courthouse, a lawsuit against a teacher (or their student coordinator– an idea from one of our Park City students), and much more! This week the lesson consisted of a review of the Foundations Unit in the form of the game show Jeopardy! Many of the students had not heard of the game show, so it was wonderful to watch them excel as they answered the questions in standard Jeopardy fashion. The students were very excited to be back in Kids’ Court after a few weeks off and they are looking forward to another semester of fun. We asked the students to write a paragraph about their experience last semester with Kids’ Court and I will update the blog with some of those creative answers very soon.
Thanks for checking in with Kids’ Court! Here’s to another incredible semester with some of the smartest and brightest 4th, 5th and 6th graders I know!
Since we reached the end of the Foundations Unit, all we had left to do for this semester’s Kids’ Court was have a party! This week at Kids’ Court the students’ semester of hard work was celebrated by cake and games. The students at Rose Park really enjoy playing Simon Says so there was plenty of that, but we introduced another game to them: the Banana Olympics! Much like a relay race, the Banana Olympics have relays that all include a team banana. The students were split into teams of 8 and had to complete the Banana Toss (throwing the banana back and forth across the room), the Banana Shuffle (shuffling across the room with the banana held between the knees); the Banana Balance (walking across the room as fast as possible with the banana balanced on your head) among other events. The students had a great time at the Banana Olympics, eating cake and having a party with their friends and the law student teachers. What a great party to end the semester!
Banana Olympics -- the Banana Balance!
Got milk? Or is that a milk mustache?
Me and the students after we had our fill of cake
Thanksgiving Day is an opportunity to reflect on the joy and many blessings in one’s life and express those thoughts of gratitude to those for which we are grateful. I am thankful for the students in Kids’ Court who have affected me profoundly with their excitement for life and learning. The students’ joy is infectious and one cannot help but leave a lesson feeling enthusiastic about the goals of our project and the future of our country. I am thankful to the partners who are the heart of this project and lead with passion and a vision of a better world. I am thankful for Kids’ Court. BG
Some other thoughts of gratitude for Kids’ Court:
“Kids’ Court is the most enjoyable Pro Bono volunteer opportunity available at S.J. Quinney College of Law. Prior to Kid’s Court, I did not think I was good with kids. However, Kids’ Court has softened me up. And for this I am grateful.” — Michelle, Law Student
“I’m thankful for the ability to teach kids stuff I’m learned. It’s not everyday that I get to feel like everything I learn in law school is useful but showing kids they have the ability to be an active participant in the government is really encouraging as a law school – that all of education isn’t being done in vain.” — Shehnoor, Law Student
“Kids Court is an amazing opportunity to help shape the lives of the younger generation. I have gained so much from my time with the children, teaching them about our Constitution and the court system. Once a week, I get to forget all about the pressures of law school and recall why I decided to become an attorney, to help others!” — Karina, Law Student
“I am thankful for Kids’ Court because, I have the chance to work with a program that empowers as much as it instructs, emboldened by a mission that inspires service, particularly to the most vulnerable. I have the chance to work with amazing, dedicated, caring, and courageous individuals who are committed to the future of our community and our state. The truth is, it is just plain fun.”– Dr. Theresa Martinez, Founding Partner
“I am grateful for the renewed, continuing, and developing relationships of Kids’ Court, all of which are working for common goals of respect, education, and service. I am thankful for the abiding love for the rule of law and hope in civic engagement that we share, teach, and practice in our Kids’ Court efforts. I appreciate the opportunity to be part of a program, like Kids’ Court, which inspires the best parts of who we are to be like the children we teach – passionate, curious, interested, and hopeful.” –Michelle Oldroyd, Founding Partner
“I’m thankful for people who care enough to get involved. I’m thankful for the infectious energy of youth. I am thankful for green chile chicken enchiladas.” –Reyes Aguilar, Founding Partner
Last week marked the end of our Foundations Unit at both Park City and Rose Park Kids’ Courts! The mock trial is the capstone of the Foundations Unit because the students are required to incorporate all of the knowledge they have learned about the court system while having a great time playing the roles of a judge, lawyer, defendant or plaintiff! The trial is based on the children’s story of Goldy Locks and the Three Bears and Gold E. Locks is being sued for bad manners. The students are given scripts and read aloud with one another as the lawyers examine Gold E. Locks and her mother, as well as each one of the three bears: Mom A. Bear, Pop A. Bear and Babe E. Bear. We have several props for the students that they admit into evidence such as a bowl of porridge and a pillow covered in yellow hair. This lesson is so much fun for both the students and the law student teachers who get to watch the scene. We end the lesson without a script for the verdict– the students must use the evidence presented by both sides to come to a unanimous decision about Goldy’s guilt. The students at Park City were divided, but ultimately found Gold E. guilty of bad manners. Her sentence? Making porridge for the bears for the next three years!
The Honorable Jazmin
Mom A. Bear Under Oath
Gold E. Locks Swearing-In
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Pop A. Bear Takes the Stand
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ConEdison Energy Efficiency and Alternative Energy Programs
ConEdison can help you lower your energy usage by offering a variety of energy efficiency programs for homes and businesses. From free equipment upgrades to rebates, recycling programs that pay, and personalized energy saving strategies, they have something for everyone.
ConEdison also has green energy alternatives, under the Power Your Way program, which lets you choose your energy provider (though ConEdison will remain your energy supplier).
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GoGreen Cooking Oil Recycling Program
The GoGreen Cooking Oil Recycling Program is a free, tax-deductible cooking oil collection and recycling service offered through a partnership between the Lower East Side Ecology Center, the Manhattan Borough President's GoGreen Initiative, and RWA Resource Recovery. Student groups trained by the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s EcoBizNYC Program will help participating businesses reduce their waste hauling fees, protect NYC waterways, and reduce rodent populations by recycling their cooking oil. The GoGreen Cooking Oil Recycling Program is open to restaurants, bakeries, hotels, and other food establishments.
www.rwaresourcerecovery.org or (718) 993-5369
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How do you save a game franchise from dying? The developers at Los Angeles-based Lab Zero Games determined the only way to keep its game growing was to harness the power of fans.
In the face of brutal challenges, Lab Zero Games has won the power to continue its work on its 2012 tournament-grade 2D fighting game Skullgirls. A potent mix of Japanese anime and 1940s Old Hollywood noir, the independent 2D fighter immediately endeared itself to fans with its high-definition looks and customizable combos.
And finally, after nearly a year in suspended animation, the game will finally come alive again — thanks to the dedication of its fans and the rousing success of an ongoing IndieGoGo campaign to bring more action into the Skullgirls universe.
“It's such a weird situation, and we had no expectation that it would even work,” says Peter Bartholow, CEO of Lab Zero Games.
Mashable spoke with Bartholow on Skullgirls’ death and fan-led rebirth — and the exciting things fans will get to see in a few short months.
Skullgirls Cut Short
The production of Skullgirls happened serendipitously. Well-known competitive fighting gamer Mike “Mike Z” Zaimont had been working on a tournament-grade fighting engine by himself, and illustrator Alex “o_8” Ahad began development on the world that would become Skullgirls. Together, the two brought the project to game development company Reverge Labs in 2010, then to publishers Autumn Games and Konami to release a tournament fighting game for tournament fighting enthusiasts.
Set in the mysterious, steampunk-influenced world of Canopy Kingdom, Skullgirls boasts an all-female cast — each one fighting her way to get her hands on the mysterious Skull Heart, which will grant any wish. The game evokes a lot of 2D fighting classics, such as Street Fighter, but remains challenging enough to keep even the most experienced gamers on their toes.
Immediately after the game was released in April 2012 on the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, the Skullgirls team began teasing even more content for the game: new voice packs, color palettes and even DLC characters with their own story modes and stages. However, a few months later, Autumn Games was slapped with a series of lawsuits related to a separate game property — Def Jam Rapstar — and found itself interminably broke.
“The lawsuit has gummed up everything related to Autumn's funding,” Bartholow explains. “They had to lay off the core team.”
After months out of the job, the team reformed, intent on picking up the franchise where they left off. They had the blessing from Autumn to continue creating new content for the franchise (and would get the ability to publish their work) — but they'd have to do it with a stripped-down budget with very little wiggle room.
Bartholow says the ultimate push to crowdfunding came after a promising round of funding the team raised in an attempt to nab the eighth and final slot at international fighting tournament EVO 2013. Lab Zero Games started its own stream on TwitchTV and held a large-scale donation drive, raising more than $78,000 for breast cancer research and reaching second place overall.
Bolstered by the overwhelming support, the team decided to bite the bullet and try an IndieGoGo fundraiser for the game, to produce the first (and partially completed) DLC character, which the team announced after the drive. The undead opera singer named Squigly has a powerful singing voice and a parasitic demon, Leviathan, living within her.
“We felt pretty okay that we would be able to fund her in 30 days,” Bartholow says.
What the team didn’t expect was such a major response: In just 24 hours, fans fully funded the $150,000 needed to produce Squigly. As of this writing, the campaign has just under two weeks left to go and has raised over $397,000 — enough to produce Skullgirls’ first male character, Big Band.
The campaign is now staring down the barrel of another major reach goal: a Mystery DLC character from the Skullgirls universe that will be produced based on fan vote. Bartholow says that the team was shocked by the response, but couldn’t deny that the fans wanted to see success.
“We had no expectation to fund it in 24 hours,” he says. “It blows us away that we'll be funding Big Band.”
The Future of The Canopy Kingdom
With ample time left to go in the campaign, the Lab Zero Games team has already pushed full steam ahead with Squigly, and will fund Big Band later in the fall. Those eager to get their hands on Squigly before the projected summer release date will have the opportunity to do so during the beta test of Skullgirls on PC — one of the tiered rewards in the game’s campaign.
“Play testing is usually done in Japan in secrecy, and American players outside of that group have never gotten to get that experience,” Bartholow says. “This time, they’ll be able to send us feedback.”
In addition to working on the DLC, Bartholow says that Lab Zero games is hoping to sell new properties to publishers in the meantime and establish itself as a development company. And, though they didn’t win the fundraiser, Lab Zero Games’ efforts resulted in a featured Skullgirls exhibition tournament at EVO 2013 in July.
As for Skullgirls 2, which has gained buzz as the campaign steadily releases concept art of the many characters Ahad has stored up over the years, Bartholow says that the team hopes the wave of popularity from the game’s resurrection, the game’s current success in Japan and the subsequent PC sales later this year will carry the ideas to fruition.
Whatever happens, Bartholow says it couldn’t be done without the support of gamers.
“I just want to thank all of our fans for supporting us.”
Do you think second-chance funding could be viable for many game franchises beyond Skullgirls? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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Want Some Sci-Fi, Little Viewer? The First Nine Minutes Are Free!
This is pretty cool: The first nine minutes of Serenity are available to view for free online. So if you're trying to decide whether you want to go and see the movie or not, well, now you can sample before you buy! (Note: Yes, it does get much less exposition-y as it goes on. Trust me.) | <urn:uuid:544216d3-1f42-465c-830c-6b2a14110081> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://maximumverbosit.blogspot.com/2005/10/want-some-sci-fi-little-viewer-first.html | 2013-05-21T09:59:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942094 | 89 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Venerated from the early centuries of Christianity, Saint Christopher—whose name means "Christ-bearer"—was honored as the protector of travelers. According to "The Golden Legend," Christopher ferried a small child across a river. As he did so, the child's weight grew increasingly heavy. When Christopher complained that it seemed as if he had carried the weight of the world, the child replied, "Wonder not, Christopher, for not only has thou borne the whole world upon thy shoulders, but Him who created the world. For I am Christ thy King." In this imposing statuette-reliquary, Christopher strides through the water, twisting as he turns to look at the Christ Child, who holds an orb in reference to his dominion. The small leaves sprouting from the top of Christopher's staff are a harbinger of the miracle promised by Christ—that if the saint, upon his return home, planted the staff in the ground, it would bear leaves and fruit in the morning.The hallmarks stamped on the hem of the saint's cloak and on the statue's base indicate that this piece was made by a goldsmith in Toulouse. The reliquary, excellently preserved, reveals a masterful treatment of the material. The soft, rich folds of the saint's cloak belie their metal substance. The ungilded surfaces of the faces are framed by the crisp design of the hair. The engraving of the short curls of the Christ Child, the hair and flowing beard of the saint, and the fish in the turbulent water are accented by the juxtaposition of large areas of silver with bright flashes of gilding. A now-lost relic of the saint was placed in the small box covered with crystal on the statue's base, through which the relic could be seen. | <urn:uuid:55ed2eb8-2776-44f6-ae73-380c74e9b789> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/170004216?high=on&rpp=15&pg=4&rndkey=20121119&ft=*&where=Europe&what=Metal&pos=58 | 2013-05-21T10:27:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967413 | 367 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This mostly-forgotten, Beach-Boys-in-flannel-shirts tribute to the North Star State debuted at number 98 on Billboard’s Hot 100 on May 10, 1975. It stayed on the national charts for five weeks, getting as high as 88. Northern Light was not a band as such—it was basically a group of local musicians who came together in the old Sound 80 studios in Minneapolis to create a home-grown version of the California Sound. (The group’s front man, David Sandler, had worked closely with the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson.) By the way: That loon you hear at the beginning of the record? It was recorded in Wisconsin.
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Jimi Hendrix, St. Paul, MN, 1970
Hendrix played St. Paul on May 3, 1970, but there seems to be some confusion about the venue. Nearly every reference you’ll find on the Internet says the concert took place at the St. Paul Civic Center. Just one problem: the Civic Center didn’t open until 1973. So where did he play? Most likely the St. Paul Auditorium. A review of Hendrix’s “Band of Gypsys” album in the May 1, 1970, Minnesota Daily indicates he was scheduled to appear at the Auditorium that weekend. Let the revision of Hendrix history commence!
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Prince, For You (1978) and The Suburbs, The Suburbs (1978)
Both these debut recordings were released on April 17, 1978. Some days are just better than others…
Led Zeppelin, Met Center, Bloomington, MN, 1977
In a rare feat, rock gods John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin played both sides of the river on consecutive nights in April 1977. (Minneapolis Tribune critic Michael Anthony claimed that only one other act, the anti-Zep “Up With People,” had ever bothered to try.) Zeppelin played the Met Center on April 12, and the St. Paul Civic Center on April 13. The Met Center show got off to a rocky start when the band showed up 75 minutes late. The official explanation: the boys’ private plane was delayed by bad weather. So don’t even try to suggest that it had anything to do with illicit substances…
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The designs are free, but you have to make the shirts :) Don't worry - it's SUPER easy!!! All you need are white t-shirts and t-shirt transfer paper. I got a pack of three heavyweight t-shirts at Michaels. I used a coupon and just paid a few bucks. You can get the transfer paper at Walmart, Target, Staples, etc....
I have the images all ready to print onto the transfer paper - the images have to be flipped (mirror image) to transfer properly so print them out just the way they are! I teach First grade but I added some Kindergarten, Second and Third grade designs too!
Click on the image below to download the printable:
If you don't want to make a shirt, these would be great on totebags, aprons, etc!
After I made these, my daughter and her BFF wanted me to make them matching Volleyball outfits so I thought I'd post a picture of that for fun :)
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Fountain Square starts Thanksgiving early with yet another wacky event! We bowl frozen turkeys on the Fountain Square ice rink, because it’s silly and fun and supports a good cause. The person who knocks down the most bowling pins in three throws will win $50 cash, a a copy of the WTUR Turkeyopoly Board Game, and a trophy. To play, participants must bring two non-perishable food items* or $5 cash to the Fountain Square ice rink.
*Suggested food items: canned meat products (tuna, chicken, ham, spaghetti with meatballs, chili with meat and beans, beef stew, beans and hot dogs, etc.), peanut butter, canned vegetables and fruits, canned soups, and boxed macaroni and cheese. No glass, please. | <urn:uuid:26067513-a6d2-4806-a36f-023379b897c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://myfountainsquare.com/event/turkey-bowl-2/ | 2013-05-21T09:59:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888738 | 162 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By John Irish and Pinar Aydinli
PARIS/ANKARA — French lawmakers appealed to their country’s highest court on Tuesday to overturn a law that makes it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide.
The move raises the possibility that the law, which sparked an angry reaction in Turkey, will be dismissed as unconstitutional.
The legislation, which received final parliamentary approval on Jan. 23, prompted Ankara to cancel all economic, political and military meetings with Paris.
More than 130 French lawmakers from both houses of parliament and across the political divide, who had originally voted against the bill, appealed to the Constitutional Council.
The court has one month to make its decision.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who branded the legislation “discriminatory and racist,” thanked the lawmakers who opposed it.
“On behalf of my country, I am declaring our heartfelt gratitude to the senators and deputies who gave their signatures,” he said. “I believe they have done what needed to be done.”
The lawmakers argued in their appeal that the event was still the subject of historical contention, and therefore the legislation infringed on the freedoms of historians, analysts and others to debate it, ultimately violating the right to free speech.
They insisted their move did not aim to deny “the suffering of our compatriots of Armenian origin and of all Armenians across the world.”
Last week, Erdogan said Turkey was in a “period of patience” as it considered what measures to take.
As a member of NATO and the World Trade Organisation, Turkey may be limited in its response by its international obligations. However, newspapers have listed possible measures that Ankara might take against France.
These included recalling its ambassador in Paris and expelling the French ambassador in Ankara, thus reducing diplomatic ties to charge d’affaires level, and closing Turkish airspace and waters to French military aircraft and vessels.
President Nicolas Sarkozy must still ratify the law, a move now on hold pending the court’s decision.
Mostly Muslim Turkey accuses Sarkozy of trying to win the votes of 500,000 ethnic Armenians in France in the two-round presidential vote on April 22 and May 6. France’s Socialist Party, which has a majority in the upper house, and Sarkozy’s UMP party, which put forward the bill, supported the legislation.
Armenia, backed by many historians and parliaments, says about 1.5 million Christian Armenians were killed in what is now eastern Turkey during World War One in a deliberate policy of genocide ordered by the Ottoman government.
The Ottoman empire was dissolved after the end of the war, but successive Turkish governments and the vast majority of Turks feel the charge of genocide is a direct insult to their nation. Ankara argues there was heavy loss of life on both sides during fighting in the area.
“French companies in Turkey … wanted the Constitutional Council to be involved because it’s the best solution to calm the Turks,” said Dorothee Schmid, head of the Turkish programme at the French Foreign Relations Institute in Paris.
“The Turkish government accused the French government of being racist and discriminatory, yet this matter stems from the inability of the Turks to handle the genocide case. Now there is a discussion on it.”
France is Turkey’s fifth biggest export market and sixth biggest supplier of imports of goods and services, and bilateral trade was $13.5-billion in the first 10 months of last year.
© Thomson Reuters 2012
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Strippit/LVD Names Neil Campbell Sales Manager for Canada
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Press release date: February 9, 2007
Akron, NY- Neil Campbell has been promoted to the position of Sales Manager-Canada for Strippit/LVD, a leading manufacturer of metalforming equipment, including turret punch presses, laser cutting machines, press brakes, shears, automated systems and programming software.
In this newly created position, Mr. Campbell will manage Strippit/LVD's Direct Sales Engineers and Marketing Representatives located throughout Canada. He will be responsible for sales activities in Canada for all Strippit/LVD products.
Mr. Campbell has more than 16 years of capital goods sales experience. He has served as Laser Sales Manager, Canada for Strippit/LVD since 2005.
Mr. Campbell holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from York University. He resides in the Toronto area.
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A no-fear, mix-anything approach is one of several themes likely to emerge at New York Fashion Week, which kicks off today. So if you've been hesitating to mix stripes with florals, there are new ways to jump in on the trend.
With more than 280 designers presenting their visions, the trends in New York will hardly be monolithic. But sketches from a dozen collections suggest a few of the looks likely to emerge for fall 2013.
Fashion Week: Fall/Winter 2013
New York Fashion Week Preview
Building on the opposites-attract style that emerged in recent seasons, designer Ann Yee says she was inspired to use "unexpected combinations" in her collection. Manuela Arcari, designer of Italian fashion brand Hache, which is bringing its swingy, street-ready looks in New York for the second time, notes, "I have flirted with grunge influences to give Hache's aesthetic a new subtle twist and making it contemporary and relevant for today's sensitivity."
Expect more of recent seasons' ladylike silhouettes—with a sense of ease—from a pleated skirt, with a sweatshirt tossed over it, to slim ankle pants and sleek, linear gowns. There is little fear of opulence, as long as it is elegant and not cheesy.
Camouflage—made fresh with non-battle-fatigue colors—continues to work its way up from the streets for men and women. Menswear is getting more attention at New York Fashion Week—and designers are pushing for big statements on the runway, just as in women's fashions.
But there is more to the monthlong frenzy quaintly known as "Fashion Week" than the trends. New York and London have taken their places on the global stage as the cities most friendly to new talent, and there are plenty of fresh faces fighting for the spotlight.
Among New York's offerings will be the second showing for Holmes & Yang, a luxe-comfort label launched in September by actress Katie Holmes and her longtime stylist Jeanne Yang. Katie Ermilio, a rising newcomer whose luxe-priced ladylike looks have garnered attention from Forbes as well as Vogue, has grabbed a spot at the heart of New York fashion week, showing on Wed., Feb. 13.
The week will also allow some old hands to take a bow or look to a comeback. Dennis Basso, a longtime furrier to ladies who lunch, will celebrate his 30th anniversary with a tribute to his favorite fashion icons.
In creating his collection, Oscar de la Renta invited disgraced Parisian couturier John Galliano to participate in a three-week "residency," where he shared ideas in Mr. de la Renta's workshop. Coming two years after Mr. Galliano was fired from Christian Dior for making anti-Semitic remarks, the move is seen as part of a wider effort to rehabilitate Mr. Galliano's image, which could presage a return to work in fashion.
As the shows move on to Europe, first up is London, an increasingly influential fashion center, where all eyes are on Christopher Kane, who recently left his job on Versus, the secondary label from Versace, to focus on his eponymous label. He recently sold a controlling stake to luxury giant PPR, and it will be interesting to see how he wields the extra juice from his rich backer. (Something I will be on the lookout for in London, given the fascination with the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge: maternity-inspired fashions.)
Then come Milan's 61 shows, which won't include Versus. Without Mr. Kane's direction, Versus won't show a collection this season. Instead, the Italian label will show a "J.W. Anderson Capsule collection," by the provocative British designer, and other collaborative efforts off the normal runway calendar, says a spokeswoman.
The big luxury houses will dominate Paris's fashion week, with 99 shows, where attention will turn to Christian Dior's Raf Simons and Saint Laurent's Hedi Slimane. While the fashion industry hypes a rivalry between the two, the designers appear to be carving out very different styles—one very uptown, the other so, so downtown. Little wonder: Mr. Simons lives in Antwerp, Mr. Slimane in Los Angeles.
There will be another sideshow off the runway. While Europe's show calendars are controlled by industry oversight groups, a polite power battle is breaking out among New York's show organizers. IMG still asks attendees to refer to the shows as "Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week," with a nod to its big longtime sponsor. Many of New York's stalwarts show at IMG's Lincoln Center tents, including Michael Kors, Diane von Furstenberg and Carolina Herrera.
But these days, Milk Studios has its own schedule of shows, sponsored by Lexus and dubbed "MADE Fashion Week." The shows will take place in trendy venues around West 14th St. Sophie Theallet, Public School, and Patrick Ervell will show with Milk.
This season, a third player, Jennifer Blumin, is moving to turn her Skylight Group into a fashion-show hub. She is behind the shows at midtown and gallery-district venues such as Moynihan Station, an old post office where Theyskens' Theory will show in a mail-sorting room and Rag & Bone will show on a postal dock.
The jockeying is beginning to spill over to Europe. MADE is moving into Paris Fashion Week, where it will show a slate of European designers at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild. MADE enlisted the support of the French Fédération Française de la Couture to ensure that its entrants would make the official calendar.
American sponsors are following. Google has become a partner in the MADE effort, creating a Google+ hub for live streams of MADE shows, videos and chats with designers, and other networking. Google has seen heavy social-media action around fashion on its platforms, says Steve Grove, who leads Google+ community partnerships. "We've seen a lot of these communities bubble up in fashion," he says. | <urn:uuid:42514b4f-dd44-462c-ae66-efef35204b8a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324900204578286442236938914.html?mod=WSJ_comments_MoreIn_Fashion | 2013-05-21T10:14:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954291 | 1,278 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Why do you need Positivity Mentors? To let you know you’re not alone when you’re struggling on finding positivity in the hard times. To give you different perspectives on positivity that open your mind up to new ideas. I definitely advocate having multiple mentors, though… getting many perspectives and influences helps keep me from getting bored with one idea or another.
Each person has to figure out their own Positivity Mentors, but here are mine, and the reasons why they click with me. Feel free to check them out and let me know your Positivity Mentors in the comments.
Gretchen Rubin – Reading Rubin’s The Happiness Project (inspired by Luci Furious’ review) at the end of last year was definitely one of the main inspirations in starting this Positivity Challenge. I’m drawn to Rubin’s voice because of the accessibility of the advice she offers; anyone can follow her suggestions and adapt them to their own practices.
Amy Ippolitti – While searching through GaiamTV for some new yoga one day, I stumbled upon one called Happiness Flow. Little did I know that I was about to discover someone who has quickly become one of my favorite yoga instructors. I couldn’t help but leave that practice feeling lighter and even smiling, and Ippolitti brings that energy into her website and Facebook presence, too. I can only hope that I have to opportunity to take a class in person with her someday.
Sarah Kay – Kay’s blockbuster (1.6million views and counting) TED presentation of her poems “B” and “Hiroshima,” left me sobbing with joy after watching them for the first time. Unlike so many spoken word poets who rage against the world through their art, the positivty she expresses is so refreshing. She spreads that positivity through Project VOICE, an organization she founded, bringing educational programs about the power of writing into schools. You can catch her in a Samsung Galaxy commercial that’s running in the US at the moment, too, which is neat.
Phoebe Buffay – Like I said last week, Phoebe takes every challenge that life throws at her and hits it out of the park with a smile on her face. But the thing I love most about Phoebe? The fact that she unabashedly embraces silliness.
This Week’s Challenge
So those are my mentors… find some mentors of your own. Let me know who your Positivity Mentors are in the comments.
This Week’s Mantra
Because this post about Mentors got me thinking about Sarah Kay and her way with words, here’s one of my favorite quotes from “B” (which is also available as a hardcover book and should be bought for all daughters everywhere ever.)
“Don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining. Your voice is small, but don’t ever stop singing.”
If you want a reminder of your mantra for the next week, feel free to click the image above to download the full-size version suitable for desktop wallpapers, printing, or framing.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional or mental health expert, and there are problems that positivity cannot overcome, so please do not take this advice in lieu of a doctor’s care.
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Oct. 13, 2010 -- The idiom “a dog’s life” suggests that pooches have it made when it comes to happiness, but new research indicates that the emotional states of dogs can be as varied as the moods of their owners.
Dogs can see their food bowls as half empty rather than half full, just as human pessimists see a glass of water as half empty instead of half full.
British researchers who tested separation reactions of dogs say they found that some dogs are more likely than others to become depressed and anxious when left alone, causing them to bark, scratch at doors, chew on furniture, and generally misbehave.
On the other hand, optimistic dogs are more likely to behave better and become more relaxed when left alone.
Mike Mendl, PhD, head of animal welfare and behavioral research at the University of Bristol, and colleagues, studied 24 dogs, males and females, that had been sent to two animal centers.
Each dog was tested beforehand for separation anxiety-related behaviors. A researcher played with each dog in an isolated room for 20 minutes.
The next day the dogs were taken back to their rooms and left alone for five minutes while video cameras recorded their behavior.
Some of the dogs barked, jumped on furniture, and scratched at the door, but the “optimistic” ones did not -- or didn’t do it as much.
To study optimistic or pessimistic tendencies, the dogs were trained so that when a bowl was placed at one location in a room, it contained food, but when put somewhere else, it didn’t. Then the bowls were placed at ambiguous locations between the positive and negative positions.
“Dogs that ran fast to these ambiguous locations as if expecting the positive food reward were classed as making relatively ‘optimistic’ decisions,” Mendl says in a news release. "Interestingly, these dogs tended to be the ones who also showed least anxiety-like behavior when left alone for a short time.”
He says about half of dogs may at some point engage in behaviors related to separation anxiety, such as barking, scratching, or tearing things up when separated from owners.
“Our study suggests that dogs showing these types of behavior also appear to make more pessimistic judgments generally,” he says.
“We all have a tendency to think that our pets and other animals experience emotions similar to our own, but we have no way of knowing directly because emotions are essentially private,” he says. “However, we can use findings from human psychology research to develop new ways of measuring animal emotion.”
It’s known that the emotional states of people affect their judgments, and that happy people are more likely to judge an ambiguous situation in a positive way. And it’s apparently the same with dogs.
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It’s that time of the week again. I feel I should thank the entire gaming industry for coughing up interesting news regularly since I started this column! Especially since all news in the UK has been postponed until next Thursday because of the election.
Bungie signs soul away for 10 years to Activision
Activision will be have been pleased to distract investors from the continuing saga of Infinity Ward (can we start calling it Finite Ward yet?) by announcing that the highly respected studio – best known for the Halo franchise, as well as Myth and Marathon – has inked the deal on a 10 year exclusive worldwide partnership.
Bungie were however careful to retain ownership of their IP. And this is all good news for PS3 owners because future games are likely to be multi-platform.
But lest we forget about Infinity Ward, this week 38 members of the Modern Warfare 2 team launched a lawsuit against Activision in respect of unpaid bonuses.
More Obstacles for Starcraft 2
As if it wasn’t bad enough that SC2 was rated 18+ in Korea, Blizzard is now in dispute with KeSPA (the Korean e-Sports Players Association) about which organisation is in charge of managing the sport of SC2 in Korea.
I think this is likely a bigger story than it seems, and that we’ll hear more about this one. It also sheds some light on the tricky relationship between a developer and the third party organisation responsible for organised player events.
Blizzard sets up a Cataclysm in the WoW Raiding Scene
Blizzard has also switched into full-on information mode about Cataclysm recently. As well as the well publicised announcement about raiding changes, they’ve also started to release screenshots such as the one above.
The substance of the planned raid changes is:
- 10 and 25 man versions of all raid encounters. They will drop the same loot, and offer approximately the same difficulty.
- 10 and 25 man locks will be exclusive, players will not be able to run both on the same character. Instead they will have to choose.
- The aim is to make 10 man raiding seem like a stronger option rather than the lesser and easier way to go.
- Class designers will also be tweaking classes to make 10 man groups easier to form (that means spreading out raid buffs and abilities even further). So if you are deciding what class to play in Cataclysm, at least wait a couple of months until they’ve announced all the details because they may yet surprise you.
A lot of bloggers came out either in favour or against the changes, and you can see from the comments on my post how strongly people feel about their raiding. I’ve been most surprised by the number of people who feel that they’re carrying half the members of their current 25 man raid and can’t wait to ditch them. Really? But if you feel like that, why don’t you just go apply to a more hardcore raid guild yourself that will do a better job at winnowing the chaff than your current leadership? I thought that was how it worked.
And also at the people who think that if people flock to 10 man raids it must mean that they hated the other ones. It might, but more likely it just means that players will always take the easiest available route to the rewards. If Blizzard decided to put the same loot on 5 man instances, they’d do that instead.
Still, the jury is still out about whether this change will actually make the raid game more accessible or not. Bearing in mind that any group of friends who just want to run 10 mans can do that right now. And that to my mind depends a lot on the accessibility of PUGs.
EQ2 cuts out a starting zone
The new EQ2 producer, Dave Georgeson, has already started to make his mark at SOE. A couple of recent changes in the latest test-patch have riled up the player base because they’re removing content rather than replacing or updating it.
If anyone tried the EQ2 trial, you might remember the Trial of the Isle. This starting zone involved players learning their trade on an island zone, before graduating and being transported to their respective capital city. Well, treasure those memories because that zone is due for a Catac^D^D^D^D^D to be removed.
As a former (albeit brief) player, my reaction is that they could have just nuked Qeynos from orbit and left the harmless newbie zone (which really wasn’t at all bad) to drift under its own steam towards happier waters. Ysharros claims that some players loved the saccharine Wood Elf village in Qeynos. I agree 100% with her view which is that the districts were poky little racial ghettoes and when I tried playing a (ugh, can’t remember the name of the race, slender bald magic using humanoids) I quit the character in disgust at how awful the city was. Say what you will about WoW, it has awesome racial starting zones.
And I think the EQ2 devs made the right call here, their newer starting areas are SO MUCH BETTER than those tedious old cities with the constant zoning. I still think an actual nuking would be the way to go.
Level up in your sleep in Age of Conan
Funcom announced a new feature this week for Age of Conan, which is a variant of rested xp.
With this new feature you will get additional levels gained over time that can be allocated to characters in the character selection screen if you wish. It is designed to earn and allocate additional levels to gain over time even while being offline and it’s only available to put on characters that are at least level 30.
Again, the blogosphere has exploded with collective outrage at the notion that you might be able to level up a character without playing it (*coff* WoW register-a-friend *coff*).
I actually think it’s a pretty good idea. Probably a super turbo charged rested xp bonus would have done the same job without ruffling as many feathers but if I’ve been playing a game for long enough to have accumulated lots of offline xp then I probably do want the option to skip any levels or zones I didn’t much like the first time.
Now if AoC wasn’t so boobs and blood oriented I’d be tempted to give it another look. I keep hearing good things about improvements that the team has made since last year, and they have an expansion due out on May 11th.
Fallen Earth Dev cuts staff
Icarus Studios announced a restructuring this week which involved laying off 75% of the original staff. That’s not good news whichever way you cut it.
And if you get bored of the real election, why not vote for William the Conqueror instead?
This is a great story. A teacher in Northamptonshire decided to use the election as part of a history lesson. He set up a 1066 election between Harold Godwinson, Harald of Norway and William of Normandy (guess they didn’t want to call him William the Bastard). Connoisseurs of English history will remember that what actually happened was that Harold beat Harald at Stamford Bridge before marching down to Hastings to take an arrow through the eye from one of William’s men.
Anyhow, he took the whole thing onto twitter and that’s where the rest of the universe got involved.
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How to do just that particularly in the Virgin Islands was on display Tuesday at Good Hope School as the St. Croix Environmental Association sponsored its second Environmental Science Career Expo in partnership with the V.I. Network of Environmental Educators.
The goal of the event was to enable middle school and high school students to learn about the career path choices, work experience and skills required to attain jobs in science and technological fields with representatives from private enterprises, government and nonprofit agencies participated.
“We want to get kids excited about science. We live on a small piece of land and are surrounded by the ocean and we have to take care of it,” said St. Croix Environmental Association spokeswoman Lynnea Roberts.
“Beyond that, we want kids to be excited about college and going to study science,” she said. “There is a lot of science going on around the island that is sort of undercover and a lot of people don’t know about it.”
Roberts said she hopes to put on two more of these career fairs later this year at both Central and Complex High Schools.
Marcia Taylor of the University of the Virgin Islands’ Center for Marine and Environmental Studies said she was there to recruit the future.
“We want more young people going into careers related to the marine environment,” Taylor said. “We want to get more local students trained so they can take the jobs here in their home.”
“There are a lot of opportunities down here and it would be great if people that lived here could benefit from that,” Taylor said.
She said graduates of the program, if they’ve wanted to stay and work in the territory, have had success in finding careers here.
She also noted the same marine issues Roberts mentioned — overfishing and ocean acidification. She said future job prospects in these fields would be plentiful for those interested in learning how to manage those problems and mitigate the effects of them, especially as they pertain to the V.I. coral reef systems.
“There are more federal dollars being spent down here because we realize we’re on the brink of losing an incredible resource. There’s more grants related to that, more people studying it and that’s an area where there’s more money being pumped in all the time.”
As students wandered from booth to booth learning about the work of those participating organizations, some teachers were even collaborating with agency representatives in the hopes of doing hands on work inside the classroom at a later date.
Leila Muller of the V.I. Energy Office and teacher Sarah Christiansen of AZ Academy were just one example as they were planning renewable energy demonstrations for Christiansen’s fifth- and eighth-grade science students.
“This is the future, right here,” Christiansen said, pointing at some solar energy demonstrations. “Kids need to know what the future is going to be like and need to prepare for the future and what types of jobs and careers will be available.”
Muller said, “We’re also going to be doing more sustainable buildings and green buildings,” adding that’s where the future is. “And we want the young minds to know what opportunities there are in the field of energy.”
AZ Academy sophomores Conrad Yanez and Rick Beggs said they came away from the event with more environmental knowledge of how to protect St. Croix and with a possible goal to attain in the future.
“I might be interested in the science part of it,” Beggs said. “Maybe one day I’ll come up with a new way to protect corals.”
“I think I might be a marine biologist, maybe mangroves or something like that,” Yanez added. “I like working in places like Salt River. It’s pretty interesting.” | <urn:uuid:856f7292-cbb4-4f99-891f-b70d8fb34f56> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stcroixsource.com/content/news/local-news/2012/10/16/recruiting-environmentalists-future | 2013-05-21T10:13:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967979 | 828 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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TM has a sneak peek to the following letter from Karen Fondu, President of L’Oréal Paris, announcing Liya Kebede as the brand’s latest spokesperson.
June 21, 2011. ”I am pleased to announce Liya Kebede, international model, actress and entrepreneur, as our latest global brand ambassador. A strong, inspiring woman and true humanitarian, we are proud to welcome Liya into the L’Oréal Paris family.
PARIS, June 20, 2011– Liya Kebede, an international model, entrepreneur, actress, humanitarian and true advocate for mothers and children as well as a mother herself, today joins L’Oreal Paris.
“Liya is a very strong, inspiring, and courageous woman, with an extremely refined and enchanting beauty. Her generous commitment to the cause of women’s wellbeing is also remarkable,” says Cyril Chapuy, Global Brand President of L’Oreal Paris.
Fashion’s Night Out (FNO) is retuning on September 10th, 2010! The limited edition Fashion’s Night Out charity tee was a huge seller for stores in NYC last year and THIS year, retailers nationwide will get the opportunity to sell them in their stores too! Due to overwhelming demand, the tee has now been expanded to a limited edition capsule collection that will be available for purchase this August.
Photo: Liya Kebede and Raquel Zimmermann
Photo credit: Patrick Demarchelier
The FNO collection includes pima cotton short and long sleeve t-shirts, tanks, and unisex hoodies emblazoned with the FNO logo and an abstract cityscape print. Forty percent of the proceeds raised from the sales of these style-savvy shirts will go to the NYC AIDS fund. | <urn:uuid:649d5cd3-2796-4095-ac31-b3a00c560bed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://talkingmakeup.com/tag/liya-kebede/ | 2013-05-21T10:27:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89532 | 395 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By Anjum Altaf
Veena Malik has provided Indians and Pakistanis something to talk about – to, at, and across each other. There is much that can be ignored but a few strands strike me as promising and worth pursuing.
Most of the outpouring, at least on the blogs, is a voicing of individual personal opinions for and against Ms. Malik’s act. That, to me at least, is the least interesting aspect of the fallout. Why should my personal opinion carry significance for anyone besides myself? If the objective were to run an opinion poll, people could vote yes or no anonymously and be done with it.
It would be different if the person offering the opinion were a public figure. Take Imran Khan, for example: his opinion on the incident could provide a clue where he might lead the nation if given the opportunity. How would his yuppie fan base respond if he took the line of the born-again Muslim? And how would his conservative supporters react if he came out in favor of individual choice? It could be useful to know how he might negotiate this cultural minefield. No wonder Imran Khan is keeping his lips sealed while those who have less at stake shout themselves hoarse.
Individuals voicing their opinions do believe they are supporting them with arguments. But these are nothing more than reiterations of the cultural positions that give rise to their opinions. Those against consider the act irreligious, immoral, contrary to social values and dishonorable to the family and the nation. Those for consider it an expression of free choice and individual right. The hard line separating family-value waalas from individual-choice waalas leaves hardly any grey area for meaningful discussion.
It is noticeable that there is barely any attempt by either side to try and understand the reasons for the conflicting opinions. The immediate recourse is to resort to name calling: the disapprovers consider the others depraved; the approvers deem the others backward or apologists for social oppression.
It is equally remarkable that individuals simply assume their social and cultural norms to be the touchstones for the rest of the world. Any deviation from their values is taken to be a deviation from propriety or common sense. Why that should be the case is not considered worth discussing.
Five issues seem worth exploring. First, does it make sense to judge a subset of society by norms relevant to another? Second, can problems in a subset be attributed primarily to social and cultural norms? Third, what is it that gives rise to the notion of a moral order used to judge individual acts? Fourth, how do moral orders change and evolve? And fifth, what should be the strategy for those working for change within heterogeneous societies?
The answer to the first question is that it is always possible to pass a verdict on one subset of society from the vantage point of another. If something doesn’t raise an eyebrow on a beach in Sydney, why should it be such a big issue in Pakistan? One answer, most often found on blogs, is that Pakistan is socially and culturally backward compared to Australia and should strive to be more like the latter if it wants to be part of the advanced, civilized world. This is hardly a useful answer and of little help in suggesting what should be done in the real Pakistan of today given that there is no magic wand that can transform the terrible is to the wonderful ought. If the objective is not just to score points but to suggest a concrete strategy for change there is no alternative to understanding a social subset of society on its own terms. This is not an argument for cultural relativism in which everything is considered right; it is to recognize the difference between explanation and approval, between finding a way forward and passing judgment.
The second question speaks to the charge that there are horrible things going on in Pakistan that stem from its notion of family values and family honor. This may be true, but surely one is not arguing that horrible things of a different nature are not taking place in Australia or the US. What is to be gained by attributing all those horrible things to an unmitigated individualism? Once again, the vacuous desire to score points overwhelms any serious attempt to get at the bottom of what drives the ills that plague various societies or subsets of societies and what they should be doing at the margin to move in the desired direction.
The third question actually begins to provide the conceptual apparatus needed for concrete analysis and action. Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist, has made a useful contribution by identifying five psychological drivers of our sense of morality. These comprise our attitudes to fairness, protection (of the vulnerable), loyalty (to one’s group), respect (for authority), and purity (or sanctity). According to Haidt, liberals place more value on the first two while conservatives stress the last three more. Every society has its mix of liberals and conservatives (how they get to be either is a separate question of much interest) and not much is to be gained by talking past each other. What is needed is a way for the two sides to engage and figure out the concerns that motivate moral judgments rather than to pass judgments of right and wrong. Thus, if Haidt argues that every subset has to be understood on its own terms, one needs to understand the rationale of his argument (and oppose it if warranted on grounds of logic) rather than to label him an apologist for patriarchal oppression.
The fourth question points to the fact that almost all societies are in a state of cultural change. Every society has its fundamentalists, conservatives, liberals and radicals. Every society, at least in recent times, has cultural tension across generations. Acts like those of Veena Malik push at the margins of the acceptable and set off a chain of reactions. How the equilibrium shifts and where it settles temporarily is very much a factor of the strength of the various subsets at any given point in time. Cultural change is not always in one direction; there have been many examples of severe cultural backlashes in the world – from Weimar to Nazi Germany being a particularly egregious recent example.
The fifth question brings us to the nitty-gritty of what is to be done to fight the widespread gender discrimination in countries like Pakistan. I doubt if Veena Malik’s act was spurred by a desire to strike one for oppressed women but it certainly provides an opening to take another look at the phenomenon. And this connects back with the strategic assessment of the balance of forces in society and the tactical need to understand rather than judge contrary moral standpoints. Those involved in this struggle in Pakistan have noted that the number of radical feminists has not increased much over the last many decades. The feminists who have felt it necessary to make a point of their individualism (say by smoking in public) have simply alienated a lot of women who might otherwise have been receptive to arguments that relied on a more familiar point of departure. As a result, it is actually the conservatives who have been gaining ground to the surprise and frustration of the liberals and radicals.
To castigate this trend without trying to understand it is to miss the point entirely. Veena Malik has given us one more opportunity to fathom the emotions that circumscribe our moral judgments and to tailor our strategies accordingly.
Jonathan Haidt, Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion.
Jonathan Haidt, What Makes People Vote Republican.
Ellen Willis, Escape from Freedom.
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Cocktail Inspired Desserts
When you think of a strawberry daiquiri, a blended cocktail with a little umbrella may come to mind. Baking instructor, Nancy Burgeson, goes outside the glass with some cocktail inspired sweets!
Nancy’s Lime Margarita Fluff
1 small box lime Jello
1 bottle or homemade Margarita mix
1 8-ounce container of Cool Whip
1 package colored mini marshmallows
1 large can crushed pineapple
Drain fruit-set aside. Mix Jello with 1-1/4 cups of Lime Margarita mix and ¼ cup of the reserved pineapple juice. Stir in marshmallows to coat. Add drained fruit and cool whip stirring until well mixed. Chill for several hours.
Margaritaville Sugar Cookies
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup powdered sugar
½ cup butter
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup. Pre-made Margarita
zest of one lime
1 tsp fresh lime juice
½ tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
dash of salt
3 Tbsp granulated sugar
1 tbsp lime jello
Refrigerate for several hours. Roll into small balls and dip in a mix of lime Jello and granulated sugar.
Pina Colada cupcakes
1 package of you favorite cake mix. Follow direction on package but replace water with equal amount of Pina Colada.
Bake as directed in cupcake pan. When completely cooled frost with Nancy’s buttercream icing and trim with toasted coconut.
STRAWBERRY DAIQUIRI CHIFFON CAKE
2 cups flour
1-1/3 cups sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
5 large egg yolks at room temp
¾ cup Strawberry Daiquiri pre-mixed
½ cup oil
2 Tbsp fresh lime juice
1 Tbsp grated lime zest
12 large egg whites at room temp
½ tsp cream of tartar
Pre-heat oven to 350°. In a large bowl sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Make a well in the center of flour mixture.
In a medium bowl, whisk together egg yolks, Daiquiri, lime juice and zest, oil. Pour into the center of flour mixture and mix until smooth.
In a large bowl, beat egg whites with electric mixer until foamy. Add cream of tartar and beat until stiff peaks forms.
Fold into the Daiquiri mixture. Turn batter into an ungreased 10- inch tube pan.
Bake 55-60 minutes or until cake springs back when touched gently. Immediately invert pan onto a funnel or bottle. Let cool completely before removing from pan.
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
2 tbsp Strawberry Daiquiri
zest from a lime, lemon or orange if desired.
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Breaking the cycle of poverty
More than one-third of the 242 counties in the Southeastern persistent poverty region are located in Georgia. Spanning from Athens-Clarke county to Miller to Troup, these counties are defined by statistics that boggle the mind, especially against the backdrop of Georgia's economic strength over the past decade:
- 20.9 percent of the total population and 27.4 percent of children live below poverty level (defined as an income of $17,650 for a family of four);
- 29.5 percent of residents age 25 and above do not have a high school diploma;
- the unemployment rate is 7.1 percent, 40 percent higher than other Georgia counties;
- the rate of low birth-weight babies is 25 percent higher than the national rate.
"The data confirmed what I already knew about the region, but it was still startling to see the unevenness of growth and development," said Art Dunning, vice president for public service and outreach at UGA. "This is an economic issue, pure and simple."
"What was a complete surprise to me was the disparity between rural Georgia and metropolitan Georgia," said Jim Ledbetter, director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at UGA, which conducted the study. "These problems have persisted for decades. We need both a body of knowledge and a set of programs built over the years to address these issues."
U.S. Senator Zell Miller secured $250,000 in federal funding to help start the data collection on poverty in Georgia and other Southern states. Macon businessman Benjy Griffith matched that with a $250,000 gift to the UGA Foundation in support of the study. The year-long study, completed in December 2002, paints a stark picture of a region not only separated from the economic boom that metro Atlanta has enjoyed, but of a region which also threatens to draw the rest of Georgia into the cycle of poverty.
"I've seen this problem up close," said Griffith, whose timberland and real estate business stretches from Georgia to Texas. "I believe UGA research can help develop a plan to address poverty in this state. Somebody has to do something."
"We need a population which can fully participate in the 21st century and a community infrastructure which supports that population," said Ledbetter, looking ahead to the next phase of the study. "Then we can craft a set of policies and programs to address these issues."
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By Steve Jones, USA TODAY
When Miley Cyrus hit the road two years ago, many of her young fans' parents were outraged that they couldn't get tickets without paying exorbitant prices to scalpers or resellers. Cyrus hopes to fight that inflation this time around by going paperless with her 45-city Wonder World tour that kicks off tonight in Portland, Ore.
The paperless tickets, which are purchased online through Ticketmaster, require the buyer to provide ID at the venue and swipe the same credit card for entry. The method has been tried out by other tours in recent months, but hers is the first arena tour to admit all concert-goers using the system.
Cyrus' 2007-08 Best of Both Worlds tour grossed $55 million and sold 1 million tickets, according to Billboard Boxscore.
"Miley's (management) thought it was a great way for real Miley fans to get original tickets and pay face value," says David Butler, president of Ticketmaster North America. "That's something she wanted to do for her fans to keep the price reasonable," in the $40 to $80 range.
Ticketmaster started offering the service about four years ago to sports teams. Acts such as AC/DC and Bruce Springsteen have used it recently for high-end seating. In all, Butler says more than 300,000 paperless tickets have been sold this year.
"We started it as a convenience for the fans, similar to the model the airlines follow," Butler says.
It has worked so well at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock that the venue had the equipment permanently installed. "We've done eight or nine concerts," including Brad Paisley and Kenny Chesney, says general manager Michael Marion, who says response has been largely positive. "We've used it only for the prime seats, but it works well."
Gary Bongiovanni, editor of the concert trade publication Pollstar, says it remains to be seen how fans will react as the practice becomes widespread. He says paperless doesn't allow tickets to be sold or transferred, which is a problem for people who need to unload them at the last minute, or must take their kids to the show to get them in.
"There are some less-than-friendly customer aspects to it, and there (could) be some blow-back from that," he says.
And there's anecdotal evidence that resellers aren't being frozen out entirely.
"I've heard stories of ticket brokers throwing (pre-show) parties, then walking everybody to the arena and getting them in with the credit card they used," Bongiovanni says. "If there's a way to game the system, the brokers are going to find it."
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Last year, close to 1,000 people traveled from around the country to pack the walls of a 30,000-square-foot warehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. They came to talk with over fifty Midwest entrepreneurs and around one hundred business investors at The Innovation Showcase, an annual conference that combines a startup tradeshow with a 50-startup pitch competition.
Why This Startup Tradeshow Works
“We’re coming away with twelve highly-qualified investors who get what we do and have a genuine enthusiasm to explore a deeper relationship.” said Angel Morales, founder of Smarter Remarketer. As one of the fifty showcasing entrepreneurs at last year’s event, Morales had over five hours with interested investors, potential partners, and top startup talent.
Venture firms and angels from around the Midwest converged upon the recently-opened DeveloperTown to take in the entrepreneurial energy from the trade show atmosphere and find some of the most fundable deals.
“There are real deals going down here,”said Brad Wisler, co-founder at SproutBox. Even firms like DC-based Fortify VC and Michigan’s Detroit Venture Partners caught flights out to Indy to get in on the action and connect with the the Midwest’s most promising funding opportunities.
This year’s showcase will deliver even more of what investors and attendees want (plus some added surprises) as Verge and the Venture Club team up again to plan and host. Keep an eye out for more news and registration to go live at the end of May. You can sign up for updates and early-bird tickets as well as apply to showcase your company.
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Liberal-tarianism: Or why liberal-libertarian alliances are so important and how to build bridges to advance liberty
In an examination of the liberal/libertarian overlap, Zach will discuss both the specific issues where he sees potential for collaboration and coalition building as well as general philosophical agreements (and differences!) between the two schools of thought. Further, he hopes to facilitate discussion about both the role government plays in correcting market failures and what exactly this ubiquitous phrase, "market failures," actually means to real people. Finally, he'll talk with his fellow students about the best ways of leveraging what power we have, both as voters and as young people, to advance the cause of liberty.
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Maine is a place apart from the mainstream of American society. Beginning early in Maine’s history, settlers, merchants, visitors, artists, and writers brought images of Maine to the rest of the world that shaped the State's economy, identity, and heritage. The history behind the image of Maine remains a vital part of how we and those from away view Maine today.
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Michelle Southern, 10am-2pm M-F
(bio as of 4.12.2012)
Hi, I'm Michelle! I've been in Baton Rouge my entire life and my childhood dream was to be a famous DJ on the radio. Well, the DJ part has been true enough. Haha. I love what I do and I think that's important. :-)
I'll be in Baton Rouge my entire life. I love Louisiana and I'm one of those stubborn "never gonna leave" people. I can't imagine not being right down the street from Tiger Stadium. I am a huge LSU fan and I've been going to football games since I was 2 years old. I've started bringing Henry to games and he LOVES them. He used to say they were too loud but he got over it. | <urn:uuid:f99f0959-d089-488e-ba9a-9004a3ac0e84> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.961theriver.com/pages/michelle.html?article=10687224 | 2013-05-21T10:26:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986722 | 170 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Aluminum Bahrain Reports Increase in Production
Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), one of the Middle East's biggest smelters, said its output rose 1.8 percent to 509,690 tons in 2000, and that its new coke calcining plant was due to come on line in the summer.
Reuters quoted Alba's chairman, Oil Minister Sheikh Issa bin Ali Al Khalifa, as saying in an annual report that production of aluminum was 8,769 tons above the 1999 level of 500,921 tons.
He said work to build a 450,000 tons per year coke calcining plant, a water desalination plant and upgraded jetty facilities was had made significant progress, with commissioning expected in the summer of 2001. The project will cost around $400 million.
Bahrain in November approved in principle a $1.7 billion expansion project to raise the smelter's annual production capacity by 250,000 tons to 750,000 tons a year, according to the report.
Production began in 1971 as a 120,000 tons per year smelter, and the company has now grown to its current capacity of 500,000 tonnes per year, making it one of the largest smelters in the world.
There are three shareholders of Alba: the Government of Bahrain (77%); the Saudi Public Investment Fund (20%) and Breton Investments (3%).
Smelting is a power-intensive process, so Alba has developed a highly efficient power plant, utilizing combined-cycle technology, and has a capacity of 1,504 megawatts.
The company now supplies the national grid with up to 275MW of electricity during peak demand, says the company’s website – Albawaba.com
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Jazz and the musicians that play it have a long, colorful history worth celebrating. That’s why the Smithsonian took it upon itself to keep the legend alive by creating custom lapel pins in anticipation of Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) which takes place during the month of April. The museum also encourages others to create special programs that focus on Jazz during the month. This allows people unfamiliar with this style of music to experience it on a personal level. It also gives modern and classic musicians the recognition that they deserve for the talent that they share with the world.
JAM was started because there was a need to stimulate the current jazz scene. Organizers want people of all ages to participate in programs and special events centered on this exciting style of music. The Smithsonian’s website states that there are a number of ways to do just that. Some suggestions include studying the music, attending concerts, listening to jazz on radios and recordings, reading books about jazz, and supporting institutional jazz programs.
The custom pins created for this year’s events deliver a simple but meaningful message. “Celebrate Jazz” is written on each pin. An image of musician is also included in the design making the custom made lapel pins classic and appropriate for people of all ages. The square shape adds dimension and attractiveness to the Smithsonian’s JAM pins.
A popular way to shed light on a cause or initiative, awareness lapel pins are being introduced into programs around the world. They are used to gather support on a variety of issues and are effective tools for soliciting donations, recruiting volunteers, rewarding employees, and changing the way in which people see the world around them. Small but meaningful, lapel pins are a very effective form of advertising.
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Inner Siege - Kingdom of shadows 4.5/5
2. Fight on
3. Dragon rider
4. Children of winter
9. What kind of love
10. Ultimate sacrifice
From the heart of America - Peoria, Illinois, comes one of the best debuts we’ve heard in a while, representing the greatest traditions of U.S. metal in a powerfully polished and memorable package.
For people like me, Queensryche’s arrival on the metal scene in the early 80s was a transformative act, and while proudly founded on the basis of Judas Priest’s greatness, Geoff Tate’s majestic vocals conjured a new dimension in metal glory. There followed magnificent lesser known bands like Lethal, Hittman, Kamelot, Crimson Glory and Heir Apparent, that in their own way captured the same spirit and power, and was later picked up by singers in other countries like Michael Kiske and Andre Matos. It was the birth of a classic American metal sound. As of late, however, it’s not a style we’ve heard from many bands, as the strong traditional metal leanings in Europe have long evolved their own voice and power metal sound. Inner Siege arrives to bring a glorious rebirth to that genre and sound, with deftly constructed songs and masterfully played instruments, all drenched in an excellent production that makes it feel fresh at the same time it’s powerful and familiar. Fans of some of the more direct European metal bands, like Hammerfall and especially Dream Evil, will also find much to love in the direct metal stylings of ‘Kingdom of shadows’.
Jeremy Ray’s vocals carry on the mesmerizing tradition of the singers mentioned above, not only bringing stunning vocal abilities but that all important emotion that drives the songs and listeners, and puts the power into moderate tempo songs. “Children of winter”, my favorite song of the CD, is an example of that, with the chorus vocals lifting your heart up while the underlying metal music gives you its satisfying metal crunch. It’s a magical feeling that drives this CD, and will feel so great to people who loved CDs like Heir Apparent’s ‘One small voice’ and Lethal’s ‘Programmed’. The guitarists, Kevin Grose and J.L. Prater, bring the sharp metal edge to the music, delivering tight palm muted riffs through the verses and choruses, with precise rhythm, and offering up great leads and solos. “Ravn”, the bassist, who brings some European metal credibility from Norway to the U.S., lays down the pulsing, driving flow of the rhythm for the CD. Wade Helm on drums does a great job not just providing a solid, roaring, metal back-beat, but incorporates fantastic rhythms within the overall tempo that gives the drums a quasi-melody, a powerful voice that is more than just speed. It’s something you hear from really skillful drummers like Dave Lombardo, especially on those songs when they slow down.
Finally, the band has released a surprisingly professional sounding CD for a debut, with Fredrik Nordstrom from Dream Evil mastering the disc, and the end results stand up against any of the bigger metal releases these days, especially because it focuses on the clear, sharp, full metal sound people like me love. Also, as you can see above, the cover art is a great painting from Gustavo Sazes, who has done covers for Firewind, Arch Enemy, Angra and Morbid Angel.
From top to bottom, ‘Kingdom of shadows’ is a stunning debut CD, and those who love the clean, classic U.S. metal sound referenced above, should rush to purchase it.
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After their son was born, Brooklynites Sarah and Todd Norwood realized a longstanding dream and bought a vacation home in upstate New York. They ended up creating their dream home and now live there full time.
The house is welcoming and eclectic, with design-savvy surprises in every room, from the peacock-blue kitchen to the Murano glass chandelier in the studio. Their work as artists — Sarah is a former fashion stylist turned fine artist and Todd is a photographer — clearly informs the artsy, warm space. It's no wonder they ended up living in the home full time, since the time and love they put into it is evident in every room.
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EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2013
Attention: Applicants, Contractors, Travelers and Consultants
Beebe Medical Center’s (BMC) mission is to make Sussex County the healthiest county in Delaware. BMC wants to continue to promote the health and wellness of our community and our team members.
With that in mind, BMC (including Beebe Physician Network) will no longer hire applicants (including contractors, travelers, consultants) who use tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars and chewing or smokeless tobacco starting with job offers dated January 1, 2013 and after.
Applicants will be screened for nicotine as part of the pre-employment physical process. Nicotine will be part of the urine drug screen. Applicants who test positive for nicotine will not be offered employment. Applicants who test positive may re-apply for jobs with Beebe in six months, but must go through the pre-employment process again, including screening for nicotine.
Please follow the instructions below to complete and submit a Beebe Employment Application Form online. If you have trouble opening the form, please check to be sure that you have Adobe Reader 9 installed on your computer. Older versions of Adobe Reader may not be compatible with this form.
- Download and open the Beebe Employment Application Form.*
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to submit your completed employment application form.
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LITERAL ADDICTION and Book Monster Reviews are very pleased to welcome Carrie Ann Ryan to our sites today.
Carrie Ann is a bestselling paranormal and contemporary romance author and the proud creator of the REDWOOD PACK, DANTE’S CIRCLE, HOLIDAY MONTANA and KEYS OF FATE series.
After spending too much time behind a lab bench, she decided to dive into the romance world and find her werewolf mate – even if it’s just in her books. Happy endings are always near – even if you have to get over the challenges of falling in love first.
She’s also an avid reader and lover of romance and fiction novels. She loves meeting new authors and new worlds. Any recommendations you have are appreciated.
Carrie Ann lives in New England with her husband and two kittens.
You can find Carrie Ann online at the following places: Website, Blog, GoodReads, Facebook and Twitter.
We’re here today to help Carrie Ann promote and celebrate the latest release in her REDWOOD PACK series, “Enforcer’s Redemption”, which was just dropped on 10/30/12.
For those of you new to the REDWOOD PACK series, we thought we’d give you the book synopses for the full length novels in the series to get you up to speed…
“An Alpha’s Path”
Melanie is a twenty-five year old chemist who has spent all of her adult life slaving at school. With her PhD in hand, she's to start her dream job, but before she does, her friend persuades her to relax and try to live again. A blind date set up through her friends seems like the perfect solution. Melanie can take one night away from the lab and let her inner vixen out on a fixed blind date - a chance to get crazy with a perfect stranger. The gorgeous hunk she's to meet exceeds her wildest dreams – but he is more than what he appears and Melanie's analytical mind goes into overdrive.
Kade, a slightly older werewolf (at over one hundred years), needs a night way from the Pack. Too many responsibilities and one near miss with a potential mate made Kade hide in his work, the only peace he can find. His brother convinces him to meet the sexy woman for a one night of fun. What could it hurt? But when he finds this woman could be his mate, can he convince her to leave her orderly, sane world and be with him and his wolf-half, for life?
“A Taste for a Mate”
Jasper Jamenson’s only responsibility to being the Beta of the Redwood Pack, second son of the Alpha, is to protect the Pack from themselves and the human world. After a century of selfless service, his brother’s new found mating forced him into taking a good look into his life. He isn’t sure he wants a mate, but fate may have other ideas.
Willow Delton is a skinny, bakery owner – the type most woman love to hate. Being without family, she finds herself alone to the Greek god with green eyes who saunters into her bakery every morning. Her desire to follow him, to be with him, overrides every rational sense she possessed.
Jasper and Willow are drawn together, despite every nuisance that works against them. But evil beyond even Jasper’s supernatural compensation will make war against him, by going after the only thing in his eternal life he desires – Willow. Is Willow’s heart enough to overcome Jasper’s soul to save her life? A fight he cannot win, but to save her life – he must.
Hannah Lewis, a rare earth witch, is taken from the only life she’s ever known. Held at her will by a sadistic wolf, she almost gives up hope that she’d ever see her real life again. But as her fellow captive, a werewolf named Reed, tries to calm her fears, she begins to feel a spark of something she never thought she’d feel – love. But is Reed, alone, enough to get her out of this dark basement so she can move on with her life?
Reed Jamenson, the artist of a werewolf Pack of Alpha males, knows instinctually that Hannah is his mate. Thus, despite their imprisonment, he will do all to protect her and then worry about their hearts. But is he strong enough to find a way for both of them to escape? And why does he feel as though something else is missing?
Josh Kolb, an ex-military human, stumbles upon Reed and Hannah and finds he must trust this new world of supernatural beings to survive. But that desire will lead the three to a triangle of attraction that will test the boundaries they all possess and its consequences in defeating the enemy. Can they all trust one another to save themselves and life as they know it? Even at the cost of their own hearts?
Adam Jamenson has suffered through the worst loss known to man. The only reason he lives day-to-day is to ensure the safety of his Pack. As the Enforcer of the Redwood Pack, it is his job to protect all in his path, though he was unable to protect the ones he held dear. The war with the Centrals is heating up and Adam must try and grit through it in order to survive. Though the broken man inside of him may not want to…
Bay Milton is a werewolf with a past. And a secret. She’s met the Redwood’s Enforcer only once, but it left a lasting effect. Now she needs to find him or everything he had thought he lost, may be lost again.
Together, they must struggle and find a way to fight their pasts and present in order to protect their future. But the Centrals have a plan that might make their path one of loss and destruction.
Now that we’ve sufficiently caught you up and have you all adding more books to your TBR and scoping out your favorite book seller how about we get to the Interview and learn some more about Carrie Ann and her books?
LITERAL ADDICTION/Book Monster Reviews: Hi Carrie Ann! Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to come and chat with us today, and to let our followers and members get to know you and your books a little bit better.
Carrie Ann: [Opening Statements…] Hi! Thank you so much for having me! Your blog is amazing!
LITERAL ADDICTION/Book Monster Reviews: We always start by getting to know our guest author a little bit better…
Q1): Can you tell us 3 things about yourself that we can't find out easily on the internet?
Carrie Ann: I have goldish colored eyes from an accident. (Almost like Twilight LOL). I’m addicted to LEGO video games that I can play with my hubby, and I hate wine. LOL
Q2): What are 2 things that always make you smile, and 2 things that never fail to piss you off?
Carrie Ann: Smiling – my cats when they try to act like dogs and play fetch. And seeing a promo for a new book that I’ve been waiting on. Piss me off – people who text and drive and are in front of me and make me miss a light and being late.
Q3): If you could spend the day with anyone – alive, dead, fictional, etc – who would you want it to be, why, and what would you want to do?
Carrie Ann: Hmm….I would say Chris Helmsworth and its private what we’d do tee hee, but I’m happily married. So how about my family? I never get to see them anymore because we live so far away!
Q4): What is a typical writing day like for you? Do you have something you can’t do without, interesting writing quirks, something you need to get the creative juices flowing, etc?
Carrie Ann: I usually wake up late (like 10 am LOL) shower, get ready, have coffee, then work on admin things, then write until dinner at 7. Then eat, hang out with the hubby, do more admin work, and edit or read until like 3 or 4 am. Yes, I’m kind of boring!
Q5): If you could have any super power, what would you want it to be and why?
Carrie Ann: Flying. I’ve always wanted wings.
Q6): Are there any specific authors and/or titles that you feel inspired you to become the writer you are today?
Carrie Ann: Um, I think that many authors are so amazing that I’d like to have their talent, but I’m at the point where I’m trying to inspire myself. Though I will say that Rebecca Royce was the one who encouraged me to start writing. Love that lady.
Q7): What are the best and worst parts of writing for you?
Carrie Ann: Best parts: plotting. Yes, I’m weird. That’s where I really get to see where my story can go and try to add as much of “me” and my craziness to it. Twists and turns pop up in wiring all the time, but I love that outline. The worst? Waiting for feedback from readers LOL. I’m always scared to death. To the point where I turn off the internet and work on the next book.
Q8): Was there any specific inspiration behind the creation of the REDWOOD PACK series?
Carrie Ann: Not really actually. I just had Kade, the hero from An Alpha’s Path, in my head and apparently he had 5 sexy brothers and a hot sister who all wanted their story told!
Q9): What about DANTE’S CIRCLE or HOLIDAY, MONTANA?
Carrie Ann: Dante’s Circle came from Rebecca Royce, ironically. She gave me a tiny little plot bunny about dust that I turned into a seven book series, complete with angels, a dragon, and a bear shifter LOL.
For the Holiday, Montana series, I wanted to write a Christmas book, but it didn’t fit inside my other two series, so I made up a whole new one. Each book centers around a different holiday and a different sexy Cooper brother. J
Q10): How many books do you have planned for REDWOOD PACK?
Carrie Ann: 7 novels, and 5 after-the-HEA novellas. Though there maybe me more in the future….tee hee. The next novella is BLURRED EXPECTATIONS, out in Jan, and is Reed, Hannah, and Josh’s story from TRINITY BOUND. Then next full novel is SHATTERED EMOTIONS, which is Maddox and Ellie’s story, out in June. Though there is another novella in May called FORGIVENESS and is Adam and Bay’s. Tee hee
Q11): What’s up next for the other 2 series and KEYS OF FATE?
Carrie Ann: Next up in the Dante’s Circle series is HER WARRIORS’ THREE WISHES, which is Ambrose, Jamie, and Balin’s story. Yep, a ménage with an angel, a demon, and whatever Jamie turns into. No, I’m not telling LOL! That comes out in April! There will be seven total books in that series.
For the Holiday, Montana series, SANTA’S EXECUTIVE, Justin’s story, comes out Dec 4th. Soon! Then after that, FINDING ABIGAIL comes out in Feb and is Tyler and Abby’s story. Then HER LUCKY LOVE in March and is Brayden’s story. Of course, the eldest and darkest brother, Jackson, will get a story in the summer of 2013 called Dreams of Ivory.
The Keys of Fate series is a four book series about angels that I’m co-writing with my BFF Lia Davis. The first book, Fated Tranquility, will be out Dec 2013. It’s a different take on angels and centers around two types of families as well.
Q12): Has there been an instance of your career so far that you’re exceptionally proud of? Why?
Carrie Ann: So many times! I think getting my first fan email, seeing my first fan at a book signing, SIGNING those books, or making it into the top 60 on Amazon and B&N at the same time was amazing for me.
Q13): What were the biggest challenges in bringing the REDWOOD PACK series to life?
Carrie Ann: Keeping it lighter than it could be. It’s a really dark series and the Redwoods don’t win often because they don’t have the demonic powers the Centrals do. Don’t worry, the Redwoods get stronger, but the first few books, the Redwoods are on the losing side. For now.
Q14): Do you have anything in the works outside of the series that we’ve featured today that you’d like to tell us about?
Carrie Ann: Oh so much! LOL. I’ve told you must of it already, but SANTA’S EXECUTIVE comes out Dec 4th and I can’t wait for people to read Justin and Rina’s sexy and cute story!
Q15): Is there anything special that you’d like to say to your readers and fans while we have you here today?
Carrie Ann: Just THANK YOU. OMG I love you guys. You guys are the reason I do this.
LITERAL ADDICTION/Book Monster Reviews: Carrie Ann, we’ve thoroughly enjoyed having you with us today and are excited to turn some new readers on to your work. We would love to have you back again for your next big release if you’re interested!
Carrie Ann: [Closing thoughts…] Oh you guys are amazing!!! I’ll be back ANY time you want me. You guys are so supportive. Thank you!
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DALLAS -- Kevin Durant hardly seemed bothered by O.J. Mayo's tying 3-pointer in the final seconds of regulation.
It just gave the Oklahoma City star a chance for a career high and the first 50-point game in the NBA this season.
Durant scored 52 points, including the go-ahead basket with 16.9 seconds remaining in overtime, and the Thunder turned away a big Dallas rally for a 117-114 victory that extended their winning streak to six games and ended the Mavericks' season-best run of four straight.
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A night after being voted a starter for the All-Star game, Durant had a little trouble from the field, going 13 of 31. But he was 21 of 21 from the foul line, and the Thunder made all 12 of their free throws in the fourth quarter.
That looked as though it would be enough to hold off the Mavericks until Mayo hit his tying 3-pointer with two defenders in his face with 2.3 seconds left in regulation.
Vince Carter, who kept the Mavericks close when Oklahoma City threatened to blow them out in the first half, had a season-high 29 points. He hit three free throws to start overtime when he was fouled on a 3-pointer, but Durant answered with a pair of freebies on the other end.
Durant went on to score nine of Oklahoma City's 12 points in overtime and had three go-ahead buckets to help the Thunder avoid losing for the first time in 28 games when leading after three quarters. The Thunder blew a 14-point lead in the second half.
"Experience has helped me a lot," said Durant, whose previous career high was 51 against Denver last February. "If I look like I'm out there panicking, my teammates will look at me and feel the same way. I've got to be cool. If I miss a shot, so be it. I'm sure opportunity will come back around sooner or later."
Dirk Nowitzki bounced back from a dreadful shooting night to score 12 in the fourth quarter, but the Mavericks couldn't get him the ball trailing by two in the final seconds of overtime. Mike James, who came in shooting less than 20 percent but had hit a go-ahead 3 earlier in the extra period, ended up with the ball well behind the arc with the shot clock dwindling. His shot barely hit the front of the rim.
Russell Westbrook, who scored 31, missed a free throw to give the Mavericks one more chance to tie, but Carter's desperation 3 at the buzzer was short.
"The play blew up and Mike ended up with it, and it was unfair to him," Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. "It was a play that didn't work, and it was my responsibility."
Nowitzki finished with 18 points after starting 1 of 11 from the field, salvaging his 10th straight double-figure game after scoring in single digits the first four games following his return from missing 27 games after right knee surgery.
The Mavericks had six players in double figures for the fourth straight game. Mayo had 18 points and seven assists, and Darren Collison scored 15.
Durant put Oklahoma City ahead 99-98 on a pair of free throws after he was fouled on a drive with 1:32 left in regulation. He hit two more after he was fouled following a rebound of a miss by Nowitzki, and Oklahoma City kept the lead until Mayo's tying 3-pointer.
"There are some things that we obviously could have done to limit him," Carlisle said of Durant. "He had a great game, and he is the best shooter on the planet."
Neither team led by more than three in the final 6 minutes of regulation and overtime.
The Mavericks, who earlier this season tied an NBA record with their 10th straight overtime loss, fell to 1-8 in overtime games this season. Two of the losses have been to the Thunder, who improved to 4-0 in overtime.
"It always seems to be a fourth-quarter game or overtime game this year," Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said. "Both teams did not want to lose this game."
The Mavericks trailed 87-79 when Carter hit a free throw and Nowitzki had a tip-in to start a 13-2 run that gave Dallas its first lead since the first quarter. Nowitzki's free throws gave the Mavericks the lead at 90-89 with 6:41 left.
|Kevin Durant scores a career-high 52 points, lifting the Thunder to their sixth straight victory. (AP)|
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|OKC:K. Durant 52 Pts
OKC:S. Ibaka 14 Reb
OKC:R. Westbrook 6 Ast
|DAL:V. Carter 29 Pts
DAL:E. Brand 13 Reb
DAL:O. Mayo 7 Ast
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|S. Ibaka, PF||45||5-13||1-2||14||0||4||11|
|R. Westbrook, PG||45||12-26||7-9||6||6||1||31|
|K. Perkins, C||30||1-3||0-0||9||1||5||2|
|T. Sefolosha, SF||25||0-4||0-0||5||3||2||0|
|K. Martin, SG||31||3-10||4-4||1||0||1||11|
|N. Collison, PF||22||4-6||0-0||5||0||5||8|
|D. Liggins, SG||9||0-0||0-0||2||1||3||0|
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|E. Maynor, PG||Did Not Play|
|H. Thabeet, C||Did Not Play|
|D. Orton, C||Did Not Play|
|P. Jones, SF||Did Not Play|
|J. Lamb, SG||Did Not Play|
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|O. Mayo, SG||45||6-16||5-6||3||7||2||18|
|D. Nowitzki, PF||41||5-19||8-9||9||1||0||18|
|D. Collison, PG||31||5-8||5-6||4||6||2||15|
|S. Marion, PF||28||4-5||0-0||7||2||5||8|
|C. Kaman, C||16||3-5||0-0||3||2||2||6|
|E. Brand, PF||36||4-11||2-2||13||1||5||10|
|V. Carter, SG||32||10-17||5-7||3||2||3||29|
|M. James, PG||22||4-7||0-0||2||2||2||10|
|J. Crowder, SF||9||0-1||0-0||1||1||2||0|
|D. Jones, SG||5||0-2||0-0||1||0||0||0|
|B. Wright, PF||Did Not Play|
|R. Beaubois, PG||Did Not Play|
|D. Jones, SG||Did Not Play|
|J. Cunningham, SG||Did Not Play|
|B. James, C||Did Not Play|
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The Prescribed Drug Guide - A Holistic Perspective (9780952218944)
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Interviewing Children About Past Events: Evaluating the NICHD Interview Protocol
This study, conducted by the NICHD in collaboration with Lancaster University in Lancaster, England, will evaluate the accuracy of information obtained from children using AN ADAPTED VERSION OF NICHD's interview protocol. The NICHD protocol was developed to help forensic interviewers OBTAIN INFORMATION FROM children who may be victims of or witnesses to a crime ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES. This study does not involve forensic interviews, but is DESIGNED TO OBTAIN INFORMATION FROM children ABOUT an event that takes place at their school. The study will examine how children report a brief interaction with an unfamiliar adult, how the memory of the event changes over time, and how the use of different interview techniques can help children give a fuller and more accurate accounts of past experiences.
Children 5 and 6 years of age who attend local schools in the Lancaster, England, area may be eligible for this study. Participants will be told that they are going to have their pictures taken and will be escorted by a researcher to a room at the school with another researcher who is posing as a photographer. The "photographer" and the child will put on a costume, such as a pirate's outfit, over their street clothes, helping each other put on pieces of the costume. The photographer will take pictures of the child in the costume. They will each take off the costumes and the child will be told that he or she will receive the photographs at a later time. Another researcher posing as a photographer will come into the room, interrupting the event, and begin to argue with the first photographer about who had booked the equipment. They will resolve the argument and apologize to the child for the interruption.
About 6 weeks after the event, the children will be interviewed using the ADAPTED VERSION OF NICHD interview protocol. Half will be interviewed first about the staged event (the photo session), followed by an interview about a fictitious event (e.g., a class visit to the fire station) that could plausibly have happened but did not. The other half of the children will be interviewed first about the fictitious event and then about the staged event. The children will be interviewed according to one of the following three procedures:
- The NICHD protocol preceded by a rapport-building phase that includes the rules of the interview and open-ended questions about the child and a recently experienced event
- The NICHD protocol preceded by a rapport-building phase that includes the rules of the interview and direct questions about the child and a recently experienced event, or
- The NICHD protocol preceded by the rules of the interview and open-ended questions about the child, but no opportunity to practice talking about a recently experienced event.
After the interviewer has elicited as much information as is likely to be gained from verbal questions, he or she will present the child with a line drawing of a gender neutral person and ask the child to indicate where the child was touched by the photographer and where the child touched the photographer. Any child who provides a report of the fictitious event will be interviewed in the same way about the fictitious event. After 1 year, the children will be interviewed again in the same manner as the 6-week interview.
The interviews will be audio- and videotaped to record the kind of information the children talk about and compare it to what actually happened in the event.
|Official Title:||Evaluating the NICHD Interview Protocol in an Analog Study|
|Study Start Date:||January 2004|
|Estimated Study Completion Date:||October 2006|
The NICHD interview protocol was designed to aid forensic interviewers in adhering to best standards of practice when interviewing children. Field studies evaluating its use have demonstrated improvements in both interviewer behavior, and the amount and quality of information obtained from children, compared to interviews conducted prior to its implementation in test sites. Because field studies were conducted in forensic settings, however, it has not been possible to evaluate the protocol's effect on the accuracy of information reported by children. This present study therefore aims to evaluate the accuracy of information obtained using the NICHD interview protocol in an analog study. In addition the study is designed to explore children's willingness to provide details of a suggested, non-experienced event, and the effectiveness of including a human figure drawing as an auxiliary technique for eliciting further information. Furthermore, we will explore the importance of the pre-substantive/rapport-building phase of interviews, and the impact this has on children's reports of experienced and suggested events. Finally, we will explore the effectiveness of the interview protocol with children when a long delay has occurred between the event and the interview.
Children will take part, individually, in a staged event at their school, and approximately six weeks later, be interviewed at the university about what they experienced. In addition, children will be asked to talk about a suggested fictitious event (one that has not happened). The order of the interviews will be counter-balanced across children and rapport-building conditions. Some children will be interviewed with an open-ended script that includes practice in episodic memory, some with a script made up of direct questions, including a practice in episodic memory, and some with one that uses open-ended questions but does not provide practice in talking about an event from episodic memory. Approximately one year later children will be interviewed again, so that we can examine children's reports in protocol interviews over a long delay. Children's reports will be analyzed for both overall amount and accuracy of information reported, as well as in response to the different cues and props given in the course of the interview. It is not anticipated that the study will pose any risks to the children involved, and we expect that both the staged event and the interviews will be enjoyable and stimulating. We expect that the results of the study will provide further support for the use of NICHD interview as a safe and effective means of interviewing children about past experiences. In addition to general information on children's eyewitness capabilities, the study is expected to supplement field studies by contributing knowledge about the accuracy of children's memory using the NICHD interview protocol.
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'Right to die' can become a 'duty to die'
Imagine that you have lung cancer. It has been in remission, but tests show the cancer has returned and is likely to be terminal. Still, there is some hope. Chemotherapy could extend your life, if not save it. You ask to begin treatment. But you soon receive more devastating news. A letter from the government informs you that the cost of chemotherapy is deemed an unjustified expense for the limited extra time it would provide.
However, the government is not without compassion. You are informed that whenever you are ready, it will gladly pay for your assisted suicide.
Think that's an alarmist scenario to scare you away from supporting "death with dignity"? Wrong. That is exactly what happened last year to two cancer patients in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal.
Barbara Wagner had recurrent lung cancer and Randy Stroup had prostate cancer. Both were on Medicaid, the state's health insurance plan for the poor that, like some NHS services, is rationed. The state denied both treatment, but told them it would pay for their assisted suicide. "It dropped my chin to the floor," Stroup told the media. "[How could they] not pay for medication that would help my life, and yet offer to pay to end my life?" (Wagner eventually received free medication from the drug manufacturer. She has since died. The denial of chemotherapy to Stroup was reversed on appeal after his story hit the media.) | <urn:uuid:9a454737-926b-420e-9e2d-a7b63a1a05ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.conservativeunderground.com/forum505/showthread.php?11706-quot-When-Dying-Becomes-Your-Duty-You-Have-a-Duty-to-Die-!-quot&p=117432&viewfull=1 | 2013-05-21T10:13:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983431 | 304 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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I am sure they would not cancel the port if they didn't feel it was necessary. Cabo is supposed to be much nicer than Mazatlan, guess I'll find out in December. You're so right that every country has unrest, but most of them aren't killing tourists. I'm sorry you're not getting to go, and we might not either, but I am glad that Princess is trying to keep their passengers out of harms way as much as possible.
Who knows, they may re-instate the port by April 9th, they may not. But from what I have heard, Cabo is much better.
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Ellen Pau was interviewed by Keith Whittle at Videotage in Hong Kong on 2 September 2005. She answers questions on the subjects of: global exchange and local art scenes; moving from lens media to new media; workshop and educational models; the roles of artist or director; and popular culture. Thanks to Teresa Kwong for helping set up the interview.
Keith Whittle: I was interested in speaking with you because obviously you have a wide range of experience of working in the local art-scene in Hong Kong, and you are representative both of what is going on here from the point of view of being an artist, but also as someone who has been specifically involved in the management and development of Videotage in Hong Kong. The first thing that I would like to kind of know is maybe if you could describe a little bit about your background; your involvement with Videotage and how you work both as an artist producing your own work and how that fits in with this organisation that you effectively set up. That’s quite a big question, I know.
Ellen Pau: Actually I started off working with many different media when I studied at Polytechnic, and I was a stage actor. I was also an organiser of pop concerts and an editor of pop music magazines. I had many different experiences at Polytechnic and then, in my final year, I started to make my own Super8 films (I had done photography at Secondary school). But I wanted to meet people or do things together with other people, so I started to play with other media. After working with Super8, I decided I wouldn’t do drama again, but after my graduation I joined Zuni Icosahedron where I began to do experimental drama, or rather visual theatre. At the same time I explored a lot of experimental film, trying to understand what the medium is, what the concept is, and I started to realise that there’s a whole bunch of visual artists that have moved to another field doing experimental film, like Louis Bunuel – those kind of people who were doing painting, sculpture etc.
So then I realised that there’s no definite field that you have to stay in. You can cross over. But the most attractive thing for me – and this was the first encounter of my art experience - was the accidents occurring through experimenting a lot and the accidents in re-forming yourself. All these ideas on one hand were very romantic for me, but on the other hand they were also very appealing because the process was very inspiring. So I had this on my mind all the time and that is actually the motive why I opened this group called Videotage, so that other people can enjoy the creativity during the production – a real hands-on experience of enjoying the production – and also get support from each other, and keep the idea that we have to re-form and experiment. Keeping the idea that we, as artists, collectively help each other. Also, having a collective we can do a lot of lobbying or bargaining with the government or whatever art body. So I felt this was an advantage when I first started Videotage. Of course the vision can be very big, because there’s only one person concerned – the person doing it. So not a lot of higher goal lobbying has been done, but we can manage an annual screening, or showcase what is happening in Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong market’s response to products is harsh: in those times Super8 went down rapidly within one year and then suddenly there was a gap in the market (now, the increased speed means there would not be that gap). I bought my first video camera in a shop for tourists so it was an American standard video camera. There is a domestic video market now, but at that time we didn’t have any domestic video recorders and cameras because the middle-class was a small proportion of society. I guess right now about 40 or 50 percent of the people are middle-class and so we have an abundance of all this hardware. Back then, I used a tourist camera, and the first moment I picked it up, I already viewed Hong Kong at a distance – like a tourist – because I needed to do conversion. It all reinforced the idea that I am a tourist and doing video. This was a very important point.
But at the same time, when I did video I also did a lot of exchange because I was sending my works to overseas and international events to showcase them. My understanding was that the international community was better at networking, even though it was not very effective or efficient because there was no Internet at that time – in ’85 it was quite primitive. Then a lot of things were done still via the fax and so the information flow is not like now. It was old fashioned then. Because I had this experience of going abroad to see my work, I saw the development of a lot of Super8 or video festivals changed to become New Media Festivals. I don’t really care whether I should stay in the same media. For me, I only explore what is experimental. Naturally I followed the trend and then my attention was drawn to new media. So that is why at Videotage, when we first started out, we only managed to do an annual showcase and in the middle years we had public funding and we managed to do much exchanging with other people, and now in recent years we are doing much more of the new media stuff.
KW: When you established Videotage, was that out of necessity because no one else was doing that, or was it because you wanted to create an independent organisation and you didn’t want this affiliated with an existing institution?
EP: There was no organisation that I wanted to affiliate with. There were none. Yes, so I tried to run a one-person organisation at that time. This is extra!
KW: So you seem to have two different roles. One is that you are an artist and you have your own practice, but also you were an art director as well and you established Videotage?
KW: What would you call yourself first and foremost? An artist or...?
EP: An artistic director. I always think that an artistic director is better than an artist, maybe because an artistic director is more sensible to talk to, I don’t know! Well, of course an artistic director can always become an artist. It’s like a bagatelle. So I really like to be called an artistic director rather than an artist, but most people like to be called an artist, I think.
KW: Could describe your primary goal or main objective as an art director?
EP: Well actually we have a goal to re-form. Last year we had a re-form and we do now have an artistic director, but during the period when I was the artistic director I was trying to... well first I was very keen in looking at all the designs that the group is generating. I would be very keen on the quality control, like which artists are coming into our programmes and selecting work: sort of like a semi-curator role, but together also as a mentor for a lot of artists that are coming to work here and trying to be friendly to them. I won’t say that I am really a mentor, but trying to talk to them, to share what I have done. Even like giving a printer, if I have one that I can spare, I will just give them a printer. It’s that kind of help that I can provide. So, yes my role is really more businesslike: it’s more the image to nurture each new generation.
KW: Can you talk a little bit to describe the type of activities and the programme Videotage run?
EP: Yes. We have tried many different things, like we have tried to provide six months of lectures, and a series of workshops for the public to understand what new media art is. Every week we will have public lectures in the Visual Art Centre. We will have definite course content and we will have definite hands-on workshops for the people, so they can enjoy the practical side of doing new media work, but at the same time understanding the theory behind it and understanding how to appreciate new media art. I guess that is a very impressive programme for me because it’s long and substantial lectures done by a lot of good people, and also the standard of the workshops are very high. I see it as the first dedicated new-media workshop for the public and I guess the School of Creative Media, which is doing a lot of new media stuff in Hong Kong; it opened only in 1999, so it’s a fairly new institution. So actually before that we were doing a lot of preparation. Before that we are like other groups, that we organised Microwave and the International New Media Art Festival.
Microwave has gone through several phases of development. For the first two years of Microwave, because the budget was so small, we only managed to do a screening programme in CD-ROM exhibitions. Now it’s getting bigger and bigger including for example a seminar or a conference, or the artists will give talks at the conference. We will have school tours and we will bring kids to the exhibition space and tell them how to look at the work. Of course we have resident artists during the festival that will hold one or two workshops for the public. So actually the programme has expanded. The exhibition part has expanded quite a lot. They are not only presenting computer work: CD-ROM work – now they are also presenting more installation-type work that require higher technology skills. So Microwave has developed through phases up to the point it is now, and now we have decided we had to work harder in our curatorial techniques and so now we are trying to reform Microwave to see whether we should hire an artistic director or a curatorial director so that we will have very clear and complete ideas for curatorial processes. We are still having these kinds of discussion, but you know discussions can go on for a long time. But anyway, we are having this kind of discussion and I think that it will happen maybe this year or next year that we will definitely reform the whole Festival. The programme may not only fit to only what I have already told you of.
KW: And Videotage itself, is it currently government funded?
EP: Yes, it’s 99% government funded.
KW: What about the 1%?
EP: Actually, it is 90% government funded and 10% director funded.
KW: Okay. So how many years was the organisation in existence before it received government funding?
EP: Almost ten years and then we have had ten years funding.
KW: So before that it was self-financing?
EP: Yes for the first ten years. But it was quite easy because there were not many people doing things so you just had a short phone list – you just called people to go to any of the screenings or asked people whether they had some new work. It wasn’t much to do then. Actually, at that time most of the venues were not equipped with projectors and I don’t think even our centre had a media projector ...
KW: The work that you do both as an artist and also with your involvement with Videotage, and more generally the art scene in Hong Kong; do you undertake that work in relation to a growing body of knowledge which is research related, new-media art related, curating or looking at theories of media? Or is it just your personal endeavours, in that you are interested in actually making things happen?
EP: As I said before, I had organised these 6-month workshops and lectures. I guess a project like that is responding to the quest of knowledge and doing research, but at the same time I am very clear that I am not trying to compete or try to place myself in any academic network. So it will be more of a loose discussion and a loose encounter with artists so that we can generate new ideas. I prefer to have new ideas, rather than just gaining new knowledge because for me, I appreciate developing the ideas with other people, rather than just studying. Actually, Hong Kong has, from the 80s when I first started Videotage, undergone quite a big change. Even though economically the change started from the 60s, it applies to media art, technology, or even to the domestic technology market – it’s like what I said about starting from VHS/BETAMAX to Video8, Super8, High8 and then it goes on to the computer. So actually you see the change in technology over the last 20 years. The Internet plays a very, very important role and all these changes are something that Videotage – and even me – is quite aware of. Then politically Hong Kong has changed too – there was a very important change in ’97.
So it has had so many changes that we are responding to and I don’t think that we are only driven by the idea in media art or academic studies, or theoretical ideas. We want to get engaged in the social and political climate in Hong Kong. Of course with the change of artistic practice – we all want to respond to these changes.
KW: So do you find that, for example with the Microwave Festival, do you find that you are increasingly having an international audience that is attending the Festival and not just from say mainland China, Japan or Korea?
EP: Definitely. I want to see Microwave have more of an international audience, but I don’t see it happening right now. It’s very difficult to draw international audiences to come to the Microwave Festival usually because the budgets are really, really small. It’s difficult to bring overseas artists. It’s not enough to commission. Also the people who are doing presentable, international standard work in Hong Kong in new media are only a handful. So if you are presenting one artist this year, then you have to look – you will be repeating artists work every three or four years. So I don’t think that we have such big resources right now for an international show, but I also see from what’s happened before, is that if Microwave had the vision to show Asia Pacific or even Chinese new media art, then this kind of work also would have to draw national audiences. But the money is being cut every year. We have the vision to do that, but we don’t have the money-people right now. So we are still waiting. The reason why we are trying to improve our curatorial ideas is to try to write very good explanations of how people can appreciate the artwork so that more business sponsors will come in once they understand what is being presented or what the show is about. When they are more interested in being presented as sponsors of a show then we will have extra money. Then if we have extra money, we will manage to find a person who would do research in those kinds of areas and then bring artists to Hong Kong – but that will take a long, long time and now I think we are starting on the first step only, trying to target and reach businesses.
KW: Having spent time visiting those festivals you mention outside of Hong Kong, has that given you a sense of the differences between the media art that has been created in other countries and what’s being created in Hong Kong. Do you see there being a distinct difference?
EP: I see too much difference, and a difference of the budget. Yes, for people who are doing animation... yes, I think their skills are more or less the same, whether they are talking about the content, or content-wise. Usually Hong Kong people are very good in working with technology – the hardware really – but with the software, and the content for instance, then maybe they’re a little bit weak. I would say technology wise or the visual outputs and concerns, or the quick response to what’s happening in the technology world, all these are really amazing things that Hong Kong people can learn. Yes, so I guess there is a special difference … even with movies, if you compare Hong Kong style, then it is very callous and ruthless. Those kinds of people are not gangsters, but they are very free-spirited, anti-hero type of people and I guess this is happening in the new media world also. You won’t see people talking very high culture, but low pop culture, with very loose ideas. They like to mock people and they like to criticise people – this is the attitude, and I guess you can hate us, but at the same time that is more interesting than people who behave very well, like in Singapore or Japan. Those people have their own characters, but Hong Kong people have this ‘pop culture character’.
KW: I was interested in asking, the Videotage is in its 20th year this year? What are your ambitions for both Videotage and also your own practice for the next 5 years?
EP: Not too long, because I have to think about my retirement. No, but I guess it is very important to sustain the practice in Hong Kong because, as I said to you, if you stop working here, then nobody really can find a window to see and find new media art in Hong Kong. So I guess it’s a very important practice. Videotage for the next 10 years will be maturing. We will do more work there, more substantial work. For example, we definitely won’t do glamorous openings and those kinds of thing. We are not too keen to do this. For me, I don’t believe that art openings are really for art – but for the sponsor. I think I have to learn what other people are doing in promotion and administration. What Videotage needs most in the next 10 years, is to do a really good art promotion and administration. But we are also having to do more grounded work such as building up a very good media library with artists’ catalogues, with festival catalogues, academic books or fun books. We try to change ourselves and every year we will try to complete some work. Before, in the early Videotage years, we could use the The Best of Videotage, which is a video compilation. Actually there are one or two versions and we will have a definite curatorial statement, but some of them are really loose in choosing the work that we collect in the two years. We then put it into a compilation, but because we have done six compilations – you will see it in our catalogue – it actually demonstrates a change and also you see the great diversity of styles that we have collected. But that is only for video and right now we really want to do more groundwork for new media explorations.
Actually, going back to your last question about the difference between Hong Kong new media art and international work is that usually the Hong Kong work is really, really cheap. The production fee is really low. But for overseas work, which is usually being funded or sponsored by a University or a research centre, usually we can’t compete with that. We don’t have a great big budget like the institutions.
So, the five-year plan. The groundwork will be the workshop – a very important workshop – and the artists exchange. It is our goal to do something that really represents new media art in Hong Kong. Also, to get in touch with overseas and international art practices is very important for Hong Kong people. It is so interesting, always touching the edge of the international, but at the same time at the edge of the primitive (laughter).
KW: How about yourself?
EP: For me, actually for the last two years I have really hated teaching, but I think I really want to get more academic knowledge so that I can be a better curator. But at the same time, I really want to learn marketing skills and how to do better parties. Actually we have a plan that has not yet been approved by the directors, that we turn this space into a launch. So every Friday night of the first week of the month, we have a new media launch and then we have a sort of party, but at the same time we need the artists to share ideas. It hasn’t yet been approved but for me, the programme gives me a lot of opportunities to host the work as a moderator for the workshop. So I guess, I feel that I want more knowledge so that I can be a better moderator. | <urn:uuid:53817d5b-4c77-4c11-8a4e-863880dfb414> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crumbweb.org/getInterviewDetail.php?id=25&ts=1336802875&sublink=12&op=3 | 2013-05-21T10:14:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980674 | 4,279 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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I am a little confused over my echo results. I was told that all 4 valves are leaky and that the right side is slighly enlarged. I was told that it is uncommon for someone my age and that maybe the smoking caused the enlargment. The treatment plan is to monitor it in the future. Was wondering if I could get some help with my echo results and any advice for treatment.
Sclerotic aortic valve with no restriction
Normal mitral valve
Normal aortic root
Normal left atruim
Normal left ventricular systolic function
Left ventricular ejection fraction 60-65% by visualization; 64% by Simpson's
No intracardiac thrombi or pericardial effusion demonstrated
Dilated right-sided cardiac chamber dimensions
Mild mitral regurgitation
Mild aortic regurgiation with a pressure half time of 661 msec
Mild tricuspid and pulmonic regurgitation with mild pulmonary hypertension with and right ventricular systolic pressure of 31 mmHg
Normal mitral valve inflow pattern
| John Kenyon, CNA
- Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:52 pm
Hello -- While some of this could have been caused or at least aggravated by smoking (and is a really good reason to start working on smoking cessation, something I don't usually stress too much to people who don't have any chronic or potentially serious disease because they already know and don't want to hear it again) I suspect there may be something else going on here as well. Again, smoking can only make this worse, the real challenge is to figure out what "this" is. It would seem either you have a congenital multiple valve problem, mostly mild, which is going to be exacerbated by smoking, but may also not be genetic and may have been caused by some other factor. What often is in the background when this sort of thing is seen is use of the once-popular weight-loss medication combo called Phen-fen. This has been known to cause both multiple valve problems and pulmonary hypertension which can vary from very mild to progressive and quite serious. It is otherwise pretty unusual. I would, therefore, be certain to have this followed, and hopefully it is just a genetic oddity and not progressive. If Phen-fen is anywhere in your background please let us know, however, as that is a whole different ballgame. If it is not, this is probably either genetic or a very rare disease process and just follow it, but by all means, and I don't usually say this, but I'm saying it now with good reason: Stop smoking. That and regular followup should keep you in good shape. So far so good. Let's keep it that way. This may wind up being a big nothing, but it is just unusual enough to warrant some healthy concern without undue anxiety.
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Is there ANYTHING good about Gianvi?
- 17 May 2011 by tiffynoelle
- birth control, generic, yaz, gianvi
I am reading these reviews - just picked up one pack for the month, and I'm thinking of switching to YAZ ... there's nothing good I've heard about Gianvi! What should I do? I thought generic was supposed to be the same..
5 Jan 2012
Hello tiffynoelle. It varies, generic, non-generic from one individual to another. Sometimes what works for one will not for another. Its a very old debate, and both sides have thier pros and cons. People usually go generic for the price. Best of wishes,pledge
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My question involves civil rights in the State of: Minnesota
I have recently moved from out of state to be with my fiance. After the move, I no longer have access to a shooting partner (with two of us, we would usually just rent or use one of his).
So I applied for a permit to purchase.
I am 24.
I have no criminal background or psychological issues what-so-ever.
I hold a MN state drivers license.
My company has registered my earnings for taxes with the state.
This request was denied by the city police on the grounds that my move was "less than 1 year ago", that I was not a registered leaser in the city (as I moved into a house already leased by my fiance), and that my MN state ID was recently provided.
I did provide a very detailed past-address listing, so that my criminal record (or lack there of) could indeed be verified as clean from my previous state.
Is there any grounds to this denial?
I was not aware of an in-state residency length requirement to purchase firearms.
If so, what does the statute/law look like, and how long will I have to wait?
I understand that being denied flags you as an increased risk, and can increase the probability for denial again.
After the required time has passed (if any), should I expect this to still hinder my ability to purchase?
(As it was still a legal request. I realize that attempted to apply for a firearm that you are not allowed to own is a felony.)
If it isn't grounds for denial (as the only reason), what is my recourse with the city?
** I have no desire to bring anything against the city, I just want to be able to resume my hobby/sport.
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The Spooner Album
This was originally a photograph album of the Festiniog Railway put together by the Spooner family in the 1880's. There may have been more than one copy but an original is now in the Gwynedd Archives.
It was a wish of the late Michael Seymour (former FR Archivist) that the contents of the Spooner Album be made available, in large format, for the benefit of all and he left a legacy for this purpose. His wish has come true with the publication of a new, revised, edition. Not only does this contain high quality reproductions of all the original album photographs accompanied by informative captions but, in addition, extra contemporary material has been sought out to provide a perfect accompaniment. The highest of production standards have been applied to the new volume of which there was only one printing.
Besides the forty plus large format reproductions (in sepia) of the original album photographs taken by R H Bleasdale during August 1887, four or five of his photos which are not in the album have been included, plus at least one not even included in his own list! Detailed captions for the photographs themselves have been compiled by FR Archivist Adrian Gray, using extensive notes left by his predecessor, Michael Seymour. More historic images, carefully selected from the FR Archives, have been added to further inform and delight on every aspect of the railway.
The Album photographs themselves have been laser scanned for absolute fidelity and are printed in sepia tones. The book is in A4 landscape format printed on heavyweight (170gsm) art paper. 120 pages, casebound with glazed paper jacket. Supplied complete with matching portrait slip case, title embossed on the spine, for protection and easy storage on the bookshelf..
The album is highly recommended and available from Amazon, the FR's online shop or of course the shop at Harbour Station. A proportion of the profits from this book will go towards further Heritage Group projects. A selection of images from the album (but not by Bleasdale) are shown below, others (not shown here) have been used to illustrate pages for Merddin Emrys and Little Giant.
- Gray, Adrian C.; Roy C Link. The Spooner Album. Garndolbenmaen: RCL Publications. ISBN 0-953876349. OCLC 60837572. | <urn:uuid:cbd94828-3c8a-4561-bdf6-0a380ae872ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/The_Spooner_Album | 2013-05-21T10:20:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940198 | 486 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Flag and Coat of Arms - Ireland
Flag and Coat of Arms - Co. Kerry
Día Dhuit agus céad míle failte go dí mo website.
Hello and welcome to my website.
My name is Gerard and I am very happy to have you visit my website. I hope you will have a look around and maybe find something of interest to you.
If you want to know a bit about me have a look in the 'about me' page.
Feel free to sign my guest book OR leave your comments and ratings.
If you have any family photos you would like me to post on the website please forward to firstname.lastname@example.org I will insert photos/articles only with your permission and my discretion.
If you see any postings or listing especially in the guest book that you feel should not be there please e-mail me at email@example.com and I will rectify the matter ASAP if need be. I will not tolerate advertising, porno ads, site promotion (except family or geneology related sites) etc. etc. These will be deleted immediately. Thanks for your co-operation.
Music: There's a little bit of Irish in everybody's heart ( from "Memories of Home" album)
Sung by Rose Marie.
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Student Records: Grades
Grade reports are not mailed. Students may access their grades online by logging in to their MyGWC site. Students also have the option of printing their own GWC unofficial transcript from their MyGWC. Semester grades are available online approximately 10 working days after the end of the semester (excluding holiday periods).
Student performance in courses is indicated by one of 10 grades. Grades which carry point value, and which are used in determining the grade point average (GPA), are as follows:
- A - Excellent - 4 grade points per unit
- B - Good - 3 grade points per unit
- C - Satisfactory - 2 grade points per unit
- D - Passing, less than satisfactory - 1 grade point per unit
- F - Failing 0 - grade points per unit
To determine your GPA, divide the total number of grade points by the total number of units attempted for the grades of A, B, C, D and F (P and NP are not used in this calculation).
Pass/No Pass classes are not computed into GPA, but successful completion gives additional units of credit.
The following grades are not part of the GPA computation:
- P - Pass, at least satisfactory - Unit credit granted (See Grading options)
- NP – No Pass, less than satisfactory or failing - No units granted (See Grading options)
- W - Withdrawal - No units granted
- I - Incomplete - No units granted
- IP - In Progress - No units granted
- MW - Military Withdrawal - No units granted/No penalty
- NG - Non-Graded - No units granted
- RD - Report Delayed - No units granted
1. GRADE OPTION SELECTION DEADLINE HAS CHANGED EFFECTIVE FALL 2012
The deadline for the selection of the Pass/No Pass option in courses designated with an optional grading method has changed. In accordance with Title 5 of the Education Code and the policy of the Coast District Colleges, students must select the pass/no-pass option no later than the end of the second week of a semester length course or before the completion of the first 20% of other length courses. For specific course deadlines, students should refer to their “Student Class Program, Web Schedule Bill”. This can be printed by via a student’s MyGWC account, on the student tab in the “Other Student Resources” channel.
2. "Pass/No Pass" grading option: Students selecting this grading option must submit the Pass/No Pass Option Request Form to the Records office by the specified deadline for each course. Requests can be submitted in-person or by mail. If mailing, make sure the request is postmarked on or before the deadline date. Requests received after the deadline will not be processed. Once the Pass/No Pass grading option has been requested, it can’t be reversed. Therefore, before selecting this option, students should consult with a counselor.
NOTE: In classes graded on this basis, students are held to attendance regulations and academic standards expected in the standard graded courses.
Students are advised to read the following statements before deciding to pursue a course on a graded ("A" to "F") or Pass/No Pass basis.
- A grade of "Pass" or "No Pass" does not affect a student's grade point average at Golden West College.
- "NP", "W", and "I" grades are utilized by Golden West College in the determination of academic probation and disqualification. (Refer to college regulations concerning "Probation/Disqualification.")
- Courses taken at Golden West College to remedy an admissions deficiency for the University of California due to poor or incomplete high school preparation are not acceptable if completed on a "Pass/No Pass" basis.
- Students required to complete 60 units of course work with a grade point average of 2.4 prior to transfer to a University of California campus, such as Irvine , must complete at least 42 of these units on a graded ("A" through "F") basis.
- Some universities may specify that courses required for a major be completed on a standard grade basis ("A" through "F").
- Some universities specify that courses taken to satisfy general education breadth requirements be completed on a standard grade basis ("A" through "F").
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Is performing about more than just musicianship?
In the often all too slender sliver of silence squashed up between the final notes of a piece and the start of the ensuing applause, musicians have to engage in a somewhat hasty transition from the role of player to that of purely performer. It is a journey that can be hard to achieve smoothly by those who find it a long way to travel. Of course the whole concert has been a performance, but one through the cloak of the composer’s music, and the nudity of engaging with the audience without that shield can be psychologically problematic.
Most people don’t start learning an instrument because they want to perform. As musicians have to begin far too young for this aspect of their character to be fully realised, the original impulse is rarely about sharing music with others. Talent and passion lead towards the profession rather than any particularly outgoing personality. There are exceptions, but classical musicians tend to go into music first and performance second whilst in pop music it’s the other way around. To watch Lady Gaga is to be aware of extraordinary efforts affecting the nature of performance. Whatever you think about her music, (I confess that I don’t), you cannot help but be impressed by her commitment to sharing it.
The Suzuki method of teaching starts each lesson with a bow. It seems bowing comes before bowing! This may appear merely charming, but to be able to accept applause with grace and gratitude, avoiding false modesty or hubris, is an important part of 'performing', and for those for whom this might not come naturally, disregarding its significance can easily be misinterpreted. What arises out of shyness can in fact come across as diffidence - especially to audiences who might be surprised to witness a performer’s change in personality once the music has stopped. But it’s perfectly possible to be uninhibited for as long as the music sounds, yet feel a need to retreat into a shell when it’s over. The charisma that can express extremely private emotions within music is not necessarily the same as that which can deal with the public reality of an audience. For conductors, an added complication is that they accept applause on behalf of everyone. Though most orchestras now turn to face the auditorium when they stand, it’s still only the conductor who actually bows, and it is not always straightforward to want to share the approbation without appearing overly self-deprecating.
Some musicians thrill audiences simply by walking on stage. This is not normally disingenuous showmanship but a sincere and infectious love of performing. A composer’s genius needs no salesmanship as advocate. Nevertheless most pieces are supposed to be played in public and the practicalities of that are more than formal bookends to the music itself. In today's crowded entertainment market, it would be a shame if musicians who find it challenging to perform in the fullest sense of the word alienate themselves from the opportunity of doing so at all.
Leading conductor Mark Wigglesworth is equally at home in the opera house as in the concert hall – and, indeed, the studio, where his acclaimed Shostakovich symphony cycle for BIS is nearing completion. In 'Shaping the invisible' Mark shares his passion for music and his fascination with the philosophies and psychologies that lie behind it. (Photo: Ben Ealovega) | <urn:uuid:1cb6dc18-dc6c-4018-aec6-85d06577e896> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gramophone.co.uk/blog/shaping-the-invisible/blowing-your-own-trumpet | 2013-05-21T10:20:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958959 | 691 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Smitten by the staggering beauty of a high-bank property overlooking Brentwood Bay, with distant views of Satellite Channel, two world-travelling executives decided this was the perfect spot to build their full-time home.
To design it, they hired Keith Baker, who has been "going coastal" for more than 32 years, designing custom homes and additions to harmonize with their natural environ-
"What I love most is realizing the potential of a site and having a creative collaboration with the owners," Baker said this week. "In this case we were 100 feet off the ocean and up a hillside, so marrying the clients' requirements with the practical realities of the site, without taking out more trees than absolutely necessary, was a challenge."
Another challenge was taking advantage of the views while bringing enough light into the house - since the back of the property faces south.
"Light is one of the most important things in any building," explained Baker, owner of KB Design. "You get a great feeling when a space is beautifully, naturally lit."
Rather than adding rows of skylights, he solved the problem by angling up the roof. The result is beams of light that slice through the house like spears, giving the space a soaring, expansive feel.
"The thing we like best about the house is the light," said the owner, who asked that her name not be revealed.
'Regardless of the time of year or the weather, it's always filled with light, and so tranquil you can't help but feel rejuvenated. It's the perfect place to come home to," the owner said.
The only thing she wishes she had done differently was to recruit an interior designer sooner. Instead, they started working with Baker, then brought in builder Gordon Hemsworth, and later asked interior designer Sandy Nygaard to join the team.
But once they were all working together, the synergies began.
"We had spent years clipping photos from magazines and had collected two binders' full," the owner said. "A photo is indeed worth a thousand words."
Having lived in small spaces in Asia, the owners wanted ample storage. They also craved interiors that were simple, organized and clutter-free. "Sandy did an amazing job of helping create that and used storage spaces to provide an element of design."
The wall unit in their bedroom is a case in point. When Nygaard first suggested it, the owners thought it would be too imposing.
"Now I find quite the opposite," said the owner. "It gives the room a cosiness and warmth, as well as being incredibly useful. Sandy also convinced me to raise the fire up high so that it could be seen from the bed, and again she was absolutely right."
The master suite extends along the east side of the house, with the bedroom facing the view. The walk-in closet is in the middle and a large bathroom is at the back. Light pours into the tub from a huge skylight and also filters through an adjacent walled garden with an Asian theme. The meditative space can also be enjoyed through the shower window.
"The owners have a hectic life and wanted their home to be a relaxing retreat," Baker said.
"The whole feeling is one of calm. Nothing is overly ornate or stimulating."
They also wanted a family home away from the city, where their three children (ages 13, 10 and eight) could enjoy green space and water, and they wanted a place to entertain friends and relatives.
"Having spent time abroad, we wanted to merge the simplicity of modern Asian architecture with the West Coast contemporary look," said the owner. "The house design does that beautifully - It has lots of zones, so it never feels crowded, even with larger groups."
Yet the space is not overwhelming. "You can sit on a chair and not feel diminished or insignificant in the space," Baker said.
With its West Coast contemporary vibe, the home is an organic expression of the land it rests on. "We used a lot of rock and cedar in the exterior - authentic materials that give it a sense of place."
But Baker also revels in juxtapositions and asymmetry. The horizontal cedar, treated with marine oil to show the grain and to blend with the earth and greenery, is contrasted with vertical, corrugated metal siding.
'It also gives this bright feeling, without using any white on the exterior," Baker said. Light plays on it beautifully. It also adds texture and is part of the asymmetric approach."
Stucco on the fascia is a practical touch.
"If you put metal around the fascia, you get an oil-can effect," said Baker. "It puckers in and out. It doesn't lie flat, so you can't do it in a long, straight, simple line. It never looks clean to me, and wood is fairly expensive in large sizes like this."
Inside, the colours, textures and masses were just as judiciously chosen by designer Nygaard, who added many special elements, such as her custom, cold-rolled steel hood fan.
Downstairs is a large entertainment room, bedrooms for the children, a control room that "holds the brains of the house" (the computer and entertainment systems) and a long, wide hall. One side of this clever, dual-purpose space opens to reveal a vast linear laundry area, as a series of doors slides away.
One of the downstairs bathrooms also opens onto a path leading to the dock and hot tub, so bathers can dash in and shower, or towel off.
The builder, president of Hemsworth Master Builders, said the home took 16 months to complete and construction included a "complicated steel framework" to ensure it can withstand an earthquake.
"We put steel on all the outside corners," he said of the 6,400-square-foot, two-level home. (That figure includes garage, guest suite and basement.)
He noted plenty of blasting was needed to create garage space for two cars and a boat, and it was "a bit of a challenge getting down to the wharf" because of the steep slope.
The house, finished in 2010, did well at the 2011 provincial Georgie awards for residential construction, winning gold for best single-family detached residence in the $1-million to $2-million range; best kitchen between $40,000 and $100,000; and best interior design in a custom residence. The year before, it took home three gold CARE awards - for residential construction on Vancouver Island - for best single-family detached custom house built for $1 million to $2 million and best master suite larger than 500 square feet, and won the award for indoor environmental achievement and energy efficiency.
A CELEBRATION OF STYLE ON THE HOME FRONT
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The C&Q COP is a dynamic forum with about 2,500 professional members working in commissioning and qualification who are seeking relevant and timely information on issues of common interest. The C&Q COP has produced numerous educational programs as part of conferences and local educational events that benefit C&Q professionals around the world.
The C&Q COP aims to align the processes of commissioning and qualification with a science and risk based approach, provide input and guidance into other documents, and to facilitate understanding and organizational change necessary to implement this approach. This will be accomplished through: discussion and communications forums; education and training; guidelines and standards review; and facilitating links to other groups with common interests.
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This is something that Mr. Fancy Anonymous pants would probably take a chill pill for. Where is my medication?
Hahaha Barry....Yes YOU would!!
It's all part of showbiz - they want it and they get it.Notice the flabby belly was showing. Flash flash, click, click!!
Ah, even those hollywood types get stretch marks...for some odd reason, that just makes me feel warm all over:)
Pulllleeeeeeeeeeze!!! NO MORE Tom Cruise anything!! Why aren't these two MARRIED?
I totally agree with you 9:40 and I wonder if Scientology no longer recognizes marriage, but sanctions living together and having a baby out of wedlock?I'm sick of these two also. Who gives a flip?
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I did quickly read some books, maybe this one
My question still remains - I need full list of
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Peverley Becomes 12th Admiral to Win the Cup
Jun 15, 2011
Milwaukee, WI—Rich Peverley became the 12th former Milwaukee Admiral to hoist the Stanley Cup after the Boston Bruins won hockey’s ultimate prize with a 4-0 victory over Vancouver in game seven on Wednesday night.
Peverley elevated his game in the finals against the Canucks, averaging over 16 minutes of ice-time per game, while scoring a pair of goals and adding two assists. The 28-year old center won at least 60% of his face-offs in six of the seven games during the series and he was promoted to the Bruins top line when Nathan Horton went down with an injury.
The Guelph, ON native played in 176 games over three seasons from 2005-2008 for the Admirals. He helped Milwaukee to the Calder Cup Finals in his rookie campaign and led the team in scoring during the 2006-07 season, averaging more than a point per game with 68 points in 66 contests. Peverley was traded from the Atlanta Thrashers to the Bruins this season and totaled seven points on four goals and three assists with Boston in 23 regular season contests to go with 12 points (4g-8a) in 25 contests in Boston’s march to the Cup.
Peverley is the first former Admiral to win the Stanley Cup since Mark Eaton did it with the Pittsburgh Penguins back in 2009.
Season tickets for the Admirals 2011-12 season are on sale now for as little as $135. For more information, or to purchase season tickets, fans should call the Admirals office at (414) 227-0550. Don’t forget to follow the Admirals on Twitter (@mkeadmirals) and on Facebook! | <urn:uuid:9ec06e13-2d62-4184-9089-12300281e57f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.milwaukeeadmirals.com/home/news/2011/06/0615cup.html | 2013-05-21T10:14:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976115 | 364 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Stephen Strasburg signs autographs following a workout last spring.
Yes, it's time for the annual Nats Insider Spring Training Fan Guide. Also known as Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Spring Training but Were Afraid to Ask.
Those of you who have been to Viera know there may not be a more fan-friendly experience in either the Grapefruit or Cactus Leagues. The up-close access to players is unparalleled, the atmosphere is laid-back and the weather is ... well, it's usually better than what you'd get in Washington that time of year, though be forewarned that it's often legitimately chilly down there, especially when the wind kicks up.
We'll spend today talking about the daily drill at Space Coast Stadium and its adjacent practice fields. Tomorrow we'll turn our attention to the surrounding area, where to stay, where to eat and where to play.
If you haven't made the trek down to Viera before, you might want to make every possible effort to do it this spring. This could be your last chance to see the Nationals in this location, with the franchise hoping to relocate to Fort Myers (or perhaps Kissimmee) as soon as next spring.
The club has a valid reason for wanting to move: Viera is the most remote location in either Florida or Arizona, a full hour from the next-closest spring training site. But from a fan perspective, a relocation could actually be a negative development, because odds are the Nationals' next spring home won't be as welcoming to fans as their current one.
This is especially true when it comes to first week of camp, before the games begin. The Nationals spend those days holding morning workouts at the facility adjacent to Space Coast Stadium, and the access for fans is spectacular.
The first official pitchers and catchers workout is scheduled for Feb. 15. Position players are scheduled to join them on the fields beginning Feb. 18, though you'll still find plenty of early arrivals prior to that date. Workouts (and parking) are free to the public and generally run from about 9 a.m. through noon.
The practice facility includes four full-size fields arranged in a cloverleaf pattern, plus a half-field used for baserunning and infield drills and a huge bullpen where as many as 10 pitchers can throw off a mound at the same time. Players rotate from field to field during the course of the workout with a specialized drill being taught at each station (pitchers' fielding practice, pickoff moves, bunts, baserunning, batting practice).
Pitchers typically throw off the mound every other day for about 10 minutes at a time, and you can watch it all right from the bullpen fence, a few feet away from the players. Trust me, if you've never seen a big-league pitcher throw from that point-blank range, you're in for a treat.
You can also watch the other drills from behind the fences that surround each field and co-mingle with players as they jog between stations. (Just don't be offended if they won't sign autographs at those moments. Most everyone is happy to do it after the workout ends.)
The daily workouts continue through Feb. 22, after which the Grapefruit League season commences and the center of attention becomes Space Coast Stadium. The team still holds a full morning workout prior to those games (in addition to the regular batting practice they'll take during the regular season, they also spend extra time in the morning working on defensive and baserunning fundamentals) but unfortunately those aren't open to the public. Stadium gates open one hour before first pitch, though spring season ticket holders are allowed in two hours before first pitch.
The games themselves are low-key affairs, and you may find yourself surprised just how relaxed they are, especially early in camp when most starting position players are done after four or five innings and most starting pitchers are done after two or three innings. If you're coming to games in late-February or early-March, be prepared to see a whole lot of backups, minor leaguers and anonymous players called up from minor-league camp for the day.
Also be prepared to see plenty of backups and minor leaguers from the opposing teams. Yes, a team wearing Cardinals jerseys and caps will make two trips to Viera this spring, but don't count on seeing Matt Holliday, Yadier Molina and Carlos Beltran. Veterans usually don't make many road trips, especially the longer ones to remote locales like Viera.
The same theory applies when the Nationals go on the road. You'll get to see a regular member of the starting rotation and a couple of big-name position players, but you certainly won't see all of them at the same time. Most stay back in Viera for a morning workout inside the stadium (closed to the public, unfortunately).
You can still watch some live baseball in Viera even on days when the Nationals are playing elsewhere. Those workout fields the club used during the first two weeks of camp are used for minor-league camp and games beginning in early-March. Those intrasquad games (often played in front of less than a dozen fans) can be fun to watch themselves, especially when a rehabbing big leaguer is sent over for the day to get some extra work.
There you have it, spring training in Viera in a nutshell. Check back tomorrow for Part 2 of the Fan Guide to Spring Training, focusing on what you can do with your time when there is no baseball to watch. Until then, I'd love to hear from those of you who have attended camp before. Please feel free to share your stories and tips for anyone who is planning to make the trip this spring. | <urn:uuid:579b707b-0b31-4e21-9afd-5c583e927aef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.natsinsider.com/2013/01/spring-training-guide-complex.html?showComment=1359041778337 | 2013-05-21T10:15:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966729 | 1,187 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
(Asheville, NC) – The Market Place Restaurant will be hosting a four course dinner with four beer pairings as a fundraiser for the documentary Crafting a Nation. The event will feature one beer from Southern Appalachian Brewery, one from Highland Brewing Company and two complementary beers from the filmmakerʼs home state of Colorado: Upslope Brewing Company which is nestled up against the Rocky Mountains, and Wynkoop Brewing Company which was co-founded by Coloradoʼs current Governor John Hickenlooper.
(Sylva, NC) – On April 24, 2004, Heinzelmannchen Brewery opened its doors to the public in Downtown Sylva. Beginning with 4 flavors of handcrafted beer and 2 sodas, Head Brewer Dieter Kuhn has expanded their selection to all grain beers choosing from a list of 18 flavors.
(Hickory, NC) – After months of being cloaked in secrecy, The Skull Coast Brewing Company, Inc. (“Skull Coast”), is pleased to announce that it will be setting up its brewing operations in the former “Hollar Hosiery Mill” in Hickory, North Carolina.
(Charlotte, NC) – NoDa Brewing Company is pleased to announce after 120 days of operations, it is expanding its brewing capacity by 120% with the purchase of three – 30 barrel fermenters.
“We have been absolutely pleased and amazed with the tremendous reception our beer has received in the Charlotte market since we opened our doors on October 29, 2011,” says Todd Ford, Owner and Brewery Manager of NoDa Brewing Company. “Our beer is currently available in over 80 local establishments, and that number is growing each week. To keep up with production, we needed additional fermentation vessels.” Continue Reading » | <urn:uuid:d623bffb-bb9b-45dd-bcf9-5e5a5666d10b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ncbrewing.org/category/nc-brewing/ | 2013-05-21T10:12:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954241 | 365 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Rubio, on Mideast trip, says Jerusalem is Israel's capital
Sen. Marco Rubio told Israeli leaders Wednesday he was glad President Barack Obama would be visiting the Jewish state this spring, and waded into the politically sensitive subject of Jerusalem's status as the capital of Israel.
Ahead of his meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, Rubio said of the city, "Of course the capital of your country but the spiritual capital of million around the world."
American policy has long been intentionally vague on the status of Jerusalem. A U.S. law passed in 1995 designates Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and stipulates the American embassy should move to the city from Tel Aviv. The past three presidents, however, have signed waivers suspending the law, citing security and diplomatic concerns.
Israelis consider Jerusalem the capital of their country, but Palestinians also claim rights to the city as the capital of a future independent state. The status of the city is designated for final negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
On Wednesday, Rubio stressed the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and said both Democrats and Republicans were united in supporting the country.
"At a time when few things unite Democrats and Republicans in Washington, I'm pleased that Israel is one of them and excited about the fact that the president will visit here in March and it will be a very productive visit," Rubio said.
In a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Rubio also hailed the relationship between the United States and Israel.
"You live in a challenging neighborhood, but the Israeli-American relationship is one of the most important ones we have, and certainly our commitment to that partnership is bipartisan and it should remain that way," the Florida Republican told Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in Jerusalem. "And that's why I'm pleased the president is coming here in March."
Netanyahu told Rubio that he appreciated "the tremendous support of the American people, bipartisan support for our security and our quest for peace."
"It's a daunting task, both security and the quest for peace, but we know we have your support and we appreciate it. I look forward to talking with you about our challenges," Netanyahu continued.
The prime minster's office posted a video with the brief exchange between the two politicians on its official YouTube page.
Rubio is midway through a trip through the region that started in Jordan. In addition to meeting with Netanyahu, Rubio was also slated to sit down with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. In Jordan, he will meet with King Abdullah.
Rubio serves on both the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations committees and said before his trip that he planned to speak with the Israeli leaders about the peace process with Palestinians and Egypt.
"America's friendship with Israel is a truly special one, and we must continue to do all we can to support this beacon of democracy, religious freedom and free enterprise in the heart of an unstable region," Rubio said in a statement on Saturday announcing his trip. "As Iran continues its pursuit of a nuclear weapon, we must continue to apply pressure through every possible means in order to prevent a nuclear Iran."
In Jordan, he is "interested in learning more firsthand about the impact the Syrian civil war and how the humanitarian crisis that has resulted is impacting Jordan and the region."
Rubio said his wife Jeanette would accompany him on the trip but not at taxpayer expense. He has previously visited Israel.
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Citing league sources, Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Long's three-day visit with the St. Louis Rams will come to an end Friday afternoon minus a deal in place. Sources told Thomas the Rams have competition, with "multiple teams" showing interest in the four-time Pro Bowl selection.
With Miami signing weapons on both sides of the ball, the Dolphins -- reportedly with $17 million in cap space after signing tight end Dustin Keller -- can still make a push to re-sign Long. The Rams reportedly were "hammering out a deal" with the tackle, but that process grew lengthy, partly because of Long's injury history. How much do you fork over to a player with a trail of back, shoulder, biceps, triceps and knee maladies?
Long was cleared medically by the Rams, but the Dolphins haven't given up on re-signing him, and likely can come closer than the competition to the reported $11 million per year being sought by the tackle.
With St. Louis having burned through the first three days of free agency in hopes of landing Long, they now watch as the lineman exits on a jet. This should get interesting.
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Beckman's softball team took out its frustrations on University Friday, defeating the Trojans, 18-0, at Lower Peters Canyon Park in a Pacific Coast League game called after four and a half innings because of the mercy rule.
The Patriots (3-6, 2-2) had suffered two tough losses in league to Laguna Hills and Corona del Mar.
But Friday, they took charge early, scoring two runs in the first inning and eight more in the second.
Jasmin Harrell pitched a no-hitter against University (0-4, 6-6-1) to improve her record to 3-3. Harrell struck out eight and walked two.
"We had the hitting going and the girls hit the pitches they were supposed to hit," said Beckman Coach Pete Harrell. "It's good to keep our momentum going. We didn't play bad in the other games. But to lose a couple of tough ones and come back and do what we figure we should do is good to see."
Beckman had 15 hits, but University also hurt its cause by making five errors.
University Coach Ed Gonzalez said he's lost a few starters with injuries.
"We don't have the luxury of making errors," Gonzalez said. "We have to play better than perfect just to compete and we have to play out of our socks to win."
Beckman set the tone in the first inning. Samantha Dollarhide and Kindra Bennett had RBI doubles.
Then in the second inning, the Patriots hit around. Alison Kaprielian had a two-run triple to highlight the inning. There were also three errors and two walks.
Dollarhide was 2 for 3 with two runs scored while leadoff hitter Megan Denio was 2 for 3 with three runs scored.
Kaprielian was 2 for 3 with two RBI and a run scored.
Katie Heldreth also drove home two runs with a double.
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The fourth annual Pagosa Folk ‘N Bluegrass Festival returns to Reservoir Hill June 4 and 5, with the traditional Free Friday kickoff concert on Friday, June 3 beginning at 4 p.m. in Town Park.
On the lineup this year are 12 phenomenal bands: Eddie From Ohio, Solas, Crooked Still, Joy Kills Sorrow, MilkDrive, Warren Hood and the Goods, The Grant Farm, Rockin’ Acoustic Circus, Spring Creek, Finnders and Youngberg and this week’s featured bands, The Dixie Bee-Liners and Town Mountain.
In 2008, The Dixie Bee-Liners quickly garnered praise for their ground-breaking album “Ripe,” which dazzled critics and fans alike and earned the band four No. 1’s on the bluegrass charts. Later that year, The Bee-Liners were named Roots Music Association’s Bluegrass Artist of the Year, plucked from among such luminaries as Alison Krauss and Merle Haggard, who also shared the nomination.
Building on the tremendous success of their debut CD, The Bee-Liners are blazing a bold new trail with the latest release, “Susanville” — a concept album that takes listeners on a musical road trip along America’s highways and byways. The band’s second full-length work, “Susanville” peers into the cars and trucks in America’s cities and towns, bringing to life 19 breathtaking musical moments along America’s interstates and byways. The band employs its signature blend of hooks and harmonies, exploring themes such as escape, adventure, memory, and regret.
Known equally for her golden pipes and lead foot, the Bee-Liners’ dulcet-throated lead singer Brandi Hart is a native of the Bluegrass State. She grew up singing and playing music in Southern Baptist church choirs, where she got her start at the tender age of 2. Her thoughtfully penned originals cover a surprisingly broad range, from hard-driving bluesy scorchers to ancient-toned instrumentals. A prolific songwriter, Brandi is currently at work on three distinct bluegrass concept albums. She was featured in the official ASCAP/IBMA Songwriters’ Showcase at World of Bluegrass 2006 in Nashville. She plays rhythm guitar, Nashville guitar, fiddle, and mountain dulcimer and has been known to moonlight in theater, dance, and voiceover acting.
Bluegrass veteran Buddy Woodward was a founding member of seminal ’90s alt-country whiz kids The Ghost Rockets, and NYC honkytonkers Buddy Woodward and The Nitro Express and was a featured performer on Greg Garing’s Alphabet City Opry. Throughout much of 2005 and 2006, Buddy appeared in the Barter Theater’s smash hit play, “Man of Constant Sorrow: The Story of the Stanley Brothers,” playing the roles of George Shuffler, Pee-Wee Lambert, Bill Monroe, and a Primitive Baptist preacher. He also moonlights as a voiceover actor for cartoons, including Pokemon, Boogie Pop Phantom, and The Ping Pong Club. A gifted songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Buddy plays the mandolin, guitar, banjo, bass, and drums, as well as handling production chores for the band.
Sav Sankaran is a crackerjack vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. Originally from Altoona, Pa., Sav now makes his home in Asheville, N.C. His soaring vocals and rock-solid downbeat on the bass are an ovation-inspiring highlight of DBL performances. On the fiddle and vocals is the lovely Sara Needham. A graduate of East Tennessee State University, where she studied with the legendary Clarence “Tater” Tate and performed with ETSU’s beloved Pride Band, Sara’s warm, earthy touch on the fiddle and alluring vocals bring an intriguing edge to the DBL sound. In the banjo chair is Zachary Mongan. Zach currently attends ETSU with a Public Performance scholarship awarded by the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music program. In 2008, he was awarded the Grey Fox Bill Vernon Scholarship, which is given annually to talented and motivated students who are involved in bluegrass music. Fittingly for The Dixie Bee-Liners, his playing style is an engaging blend of traditional and contemporary influences.
Together, these accomplished musicians contribute dynamic improvisational styles and add jaw-dropping grit, humor, and emotion to The Dixie Bee-Liners’ live performances.
You can catch DBL on the Folk ‘N Bluegrass main stage on Sunday, June 5, at 3 p.m.
Imagine the band that occupies the common ground between traditional bluegrass, outlaw country, and pure old time mountain music. A group that harnesses the frantic energy of the modern punk string band, yet still remains respectfully rooted in the tradition of Bill Monroe. Imagine a band with one foot proudly planted in the path of traditional bluegrass, and one foot stepping out into the unknown forefront of American string music.
This is Town Mountain, the exciting new sound from Asheville, N.C. Born out of the all night jam sessions and fertile picking scene of western North Carolina, Town Mountain has emerged as one of the premiere young American bluegrass bands. Great original, tight vocal harmonies, a charismatic stage presence, and instrumental expertise place this group in the upper tier of contemporary acoustic bands. But, in the end, despite these qualities, it’s always the undeniable, irresistible energy of a live Town Mountain show that truly sets this group apart.
This unique energy has had Town Mountain winning over audiences in theatres, clubs, house concerts, and festivals across the country for almost three years now, from Oregon to Maine to California and back home to Carolina. It all started in 2005, when the guys decided to take their homegrown sound on its first national tour. That summer was spent swaggering across the country, sharing their music in smoky bars and hometown honkytonks nightly. The tour ended with a bang in Colorado, where Town Mountain joined the ranks of Steep Canyon Rangers, Chatham County Line and Yonder Mountain String Band by winning the prestigious Rockygrass Band Competition. The tour and the win kicked the Town Mountain experience into high gear, establishing the group as a force among American string bands, and as a live show that is not to be missed.
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it is that gives Town Mountain its unique, contagious energy. It could be the visual performance that accompanies their great music. The guys bob and weave around each other, to and from the microphones, in order to facilitate their surprisingly sophisticated vocal and instrumental arrangements. The result is a natural choreography, an exciting visual performance that makes the band almost as fun to watch as it is to listen to.
Almost. Town Mountain is monumentally fun to listen to. This is the hard-driving, no nonsense, slammin’ bluegrass that makes you whoop and holler and stomp your feet. Yet it’s mixed with just enough slow country crooning to keep it balanced. Just enough outlaw swagger to give it a honkytonk edge. Just enough contemporary, alt-whatever elements to make it equally appealing to non-bluegrass fans — and it’s mostly original music.
Robert Greer, Jesse Langlais, and Phil Barker have all proven themselves to be prominent American songwriters worth keeping an eye on. Town Mountain will provide music lovers to come out and enjoy a group that is standing firmly on the shoulders of Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe, and Hank Williams, yet still manages to bring a unique, irresistibly infectious energy that rivals that of any modern rock and roll band. You can catch their set on Sunday, June 5, at 1:30 p.m.
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- Cons Storyline feels forced. Awkward integration with stylus.
Everyone's favorite little purple dragon still has a lot of fight left.
After the almost universally abysmal reviews heaped upon last year's Spyro: Shadow Legacy, the pint-sized purple dragon has returned for another two-screen adventure, forsaking his franchise's traditionally heavy story-leanings for some good old-fashion fire-breathing/tail-whipping combat. With its three-quarter over head view and fairly traditional gameplay, A New Beginning looks and feels like a traditional real-time battle RPG, but plotlines and world-exploration are little more than incidental, taking a major backseat to butt-kicking. It's perhaps not the most welcome change for fans of the series, invested in characters, but once the gameplay startswith the exception of a bit of awkward integration with the DS's stylusthe lure of a scrappy purple dragon taking on a room full of evil is tough to resist.
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Yes, I'm late I know but does anyone know any good sites to send a Fathers Day E Card
Myself and rellies in the UK use this website for e-cards most of the time
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place...
If you get a chance,take it, If it changes your life,let it. Nobody said it would be easy they just said it would be worth it...
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To celebrate the iconic A110's 50th, Renault introduces Alpine A110-50, a concept translating the most characteristic design features of the original A110 in a modern way. The concept also features elements from Renault's new design language, launched by Laurens van den Acker on concept DeZiR, and which will soon be rolled out in the company’s future models. Thus,Alpine A110-50 adopts the new front-end look, with the upright, confident diamond, adapted for this very low and wide car.
The Renault Alpine A110-50 concept car translates the most characteristic design features of the original A110 in with:
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- the half-domed additional lamps, with a technical but nostalgic interpretation, thanks to full LED yellow lighting – as it should be!
- a characteristic 3D rear window, which reveals the mid-rear engine.
- air intakes on each side echo the ducts on the rear wheel arches of the Berlinette. The right-hand opening is for gearbox cooling, the left is for the engine bay.
The carbon-fibre bodywork features a new shade of blue which refreshes and reinterprets the famous original ‘Alpine Blue’. Every opening panel does so with dynamics worthy of the finest GTs, with the bonnet hinged at the front and the engine bay cover opening towards the rear. The doors feature a scissor motion. | <urn:uuid:e54a301a-72d1-42ee-b953-95ac3f18dec8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.renault.com/en/innovation/l-univers-du-design/pages/concept-car-alpine-a110-50.aspx | 2013-05-21T10:00:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919115 | 325 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Emerging pathways and future targets for the molecular therapy of pancreatic cancer.
ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Pancreatic cancer treatment remains a challenge for clinicians and researchers. Despite undisputable advances in the comprehension of the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer development and progression, early disease detection and clinical management of patients has made little, if any, progress in the past 20 years. Clinical development of targeted agents directed against validated pathways, such as the EGF/EGF receptor axis, the mutant KRAS protein, MMPs, and VEGF-mediated angiogenesis, alone or in combination with gemcitabine-based standard chemotherapy, has been disappointing. AREAS COVERED: This review explores the preclinical rationale for clinical approaches aimed at targeting the TGF-β, IGF, Hedgehog, Notch and NF-κB signaling pathways, to develop innovative therapeutic strategies for pancreatic cancer. EXPERT OPINION: Although some of the already clinically explored approaches (particularly EGFR and KRAS targeting) deserve further clinical consideration, by employing more innovative and creative clinical trial designs than the gemcitabine-targeted agent paradigm that has thus far invariably failed, the targeting of emerging and relatively unexplored signaling pathways holds great promise to increase our understanding of the complex molecular biology and to advance the clinical management of pancreatic cancer. | <urn:uuid:e02d44d7-0bf4-4460-b889-79d39379c5d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.researchgate.net/publication/51549833_Emerging_pathways_and_future_targets_for_the_molecular_therapy_of_pancreatic_cancer | 2013-05-21T10:01:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912598 | 272 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Suspect named in Las Vegas shooting that killed aspiring rapper
(Reuters) - Police have identified a suspect in the fatal shooting of an aspiring rapper as he drove on the Las Vegas Strip in a Maserati before dawn on Thursday, sparking a fiery crash that also killed a cab driver and his passenger.
Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, described as armed and dangerous, was still at large on Saturday, but the black Range Rover from which he is suspected of opening fire had been impounded, Las Vegas police said.
Authorities said a gunman in a Range Rover opened fire early on Thursday on the silver Maserati being driven by 27-year-old Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., who performed under the name "Kenny Clutch."
Cherry was slain and his car veered out of control and smashed into a taxi, which exploded into flames in an intersection on the Las Vegas Strip in front of several casino resorts, killing the driver and a passenger and triggering another multi-car crash.
Authorities believe the confrontation started in the valet parking lot of a nearby hotel, the Aria Resort and Casino. But police did not identify a motive for the shooting or the altercation.
Police identified Harris, 26, as the driver of the apparently brand-new luxury sport utility vehicle, and said he had also opened fire. Police said in a statement that he had an "extensive and violent criminal history."
Killed in the cab were driver Michael Bolden, 62, and a passenger who has not been identified by authorities. Las Vegas television station KTNV identified the passenger killed as Sandi Sutton, a Washington state woman who worked for a Seattle-area chamber of commerce.
A passenger in Cherry's vehicle suffered a minor injury and cooperated with police, authorities said. Three other people were also injured in the melee, which took place near the Bellagio and Caesars Palace hotels.
The incident occurred less than a mile from where rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in September 1996 while riding in a BMW with Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight after the two men had attended a Mike Tyson boxing match.
Shakur, 25, was hit by gunfire from at least one assailant in a Cadillac while sitting in Knight's car at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane and died six days later at a hospital. His murder remains unsolved.
(Reporting by Karen Brooks in Austin, Texas; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Peter Cooney)
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Vermicular ver-MIK-yuh-ler (adjective) Resembling a worm in form or motion; of, relating to or caused by worms - www.merriam-webster.com
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Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
As we approach Martin Luther King Jr. Day, take a moment to learn more about the great American leader. This site collects all kinds of documents pertaining to King, lists the latest news and much more.
Number to Know
1983: Year when President Ronald Reagan signed Martin Luther King Jr. Day into law.
This Day in History
Jan. 16, 2003: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107, which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
Today’s Featured Birthday
Baseball star Albert Pujols (33)
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Parents as Teachers
Parents As Teachers (PAT) believes that parents are their children’s first and best teachers. PAT is a home visiting program designed to provide all parents of children from before birth to age three with the information and support they need to give their child the best possible start in life. These services are without charge and are provided by trained and certified parent educators.
Parents can learn to help their children with a solid foundation for school success, understand child development, and promote strong family relationships. Parents will also have a means for early detection and treatment of potential learning problems. Join other parents in playgroups, parent group meetings and learn the importance of play for parents and children. Any parents interested in becoming involved in this fun and rewarding program may join. | <urn:uuid:6fc2a031-9567-483e-9731-11e649f75e76> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ristatepirc.org/pat.php | 2013-05-21T10:13:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976993 | 155 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Exorcist, arguably one of the scariest films of all time, is treading the boards . A new adaptation of the 1971 horror classic (it was a novel before becoming a film) had its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse on July 3 and will run until August 12. The show is directed by Tony Award winner John Doyle and was adapted for the stage by playwright John Pielmeier. The star-studded cast includes Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain.
Serbia's Exit Festival is coming to the country's second largest city from Thursday until next Sunday. This year's event features a bizarre mash-up of artists. It's doubtful whether Erykah Badu (above) ever thought she'd perform on the same bill as Guns N' Roses. Duran Duran will also make an appearance alongside New Order, Knife Party, Little Dragon and Felix Da Housecat.
The third annual Beirut Art Fair ends today in the Lebanese capital. The gathering focuses on contemporary art and design from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, and represents a collaboration of 40 international art galleries. It also offered talks, cultural events, opportunities for collectors to meet with dealers and gallery representatives, and of course, happenings.
Running until September 9 at Chicago's Smart Museum of Art is 'From the Land of the Morning Calm: Traditions of Korean Art'. The exhibition spans more than 1,000 years of the nation's art and explores the subject in terms of cross-cultural exchange and assimilation. The show also features talks, teas and, on August 4, a family day at which children can experiment with Korean clay.
American actor Andy Griffith died last Tuesday at his home in North Carolina. He is best known for playing Sheriff Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show and later as a defence lawyer on Matlock. Griffith came to represent a more gentle kind of American archetype, the plain-spoken, well-meaning small-town man with a heart of gold.
'Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style', now on until September 5 at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, celebrates the James Bond franchise by shedding light on the behind-the-scenes design and look of the world's most famous spy. The exhibition explore every facet of the Bond aesthetic from tailoring to automobiles and, of course, there will be a martini bar. | <urn:uuid:2a4d565d-ccdc-4856-8abe-6204b758d28e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scmp.com/article/1006165/globetrotting | 2013-05-21T10:36:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951831 | 486 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The John Murray Radio Show popped in to Scoil Ursula last week and talked to some of our 1st Class pupils about Halloween and Sligo. The children dressed up in their costumes and chatted to Colm, the show's interviewer. The show was broadcast on Friday during the Sligo Live Show and you can listen back by clicking on the link below. The kids are on at around the 35 minute mark.http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A10067691%3A4502%3A26%2D10%2D2012%3A
As part of their Educational Outreach programme Lyric FM presenters
Lorcan Murray and Eamonn Lenihan brought a mobile radio studio to Scoil
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I’ve never been one to get into arguments over whether we should be teaching the classics exclusively in schools or if we should let some young adult fiction jump into the curriculum mix. It always seemed like a no-brainer and a waste of our time to argue the point, because to me if a student is reading she’s already in the game. I’m focused on getting kids to pick up a book in the first place. Once that happens, then I’ll tackle getting them to delve into Shakespeare or Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
But, even though I’ve said these things and learned a great deal about the use of YA lit successfully in classrooms (my methods teacher during my licensure program was a big proponent of using YA lit), I’ve never really read any of it on my own. I’m not sure what was keeping me from cracking open one of these quick and often fulfilling reads, but I never had before this week. I taught a bit of Lawrence Yep to some sixth graders while working as a long-term substitute – we were reading Dragonwings – and Monster by Walter Dean Myers for my methods class, but that’s about it. My knowledge of YA lit was limited to big names like Laurie Halse Anderson and of course Harry Potter and Twilight. Then there was the mountain of YA titles. If I decided to read something, where would I even start?
A group of teachers I follow on Twitter instituted a #bookaday hashtag on Twitter where they would tackle reading, as you guessed, a book a day during their holiday breaks. I’m a slow reader and didn’t want to dedicate myself to a book a day since I would be planted on the couch for half of each day. Sure, I already do that sometimes since I’m not working (yet), but I try to avoid it.
One title I haven’t been able to avoid through tweets and blog posts is The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. I decided to read the first in the three-part series late last week and breezed through it. I felt that sense of wonder and suspense and connection to the characters, something I rarely experience in reading. The last time I felt this compelled by a book was my first time reading A Confederacy of Dunces. Something about Ignatius J. Reilly still tugs at my heart and leaves me thinking and I read the book nearly ten years ago. Sure, there are books I get into and can’t put down, but a true connection to a characters is something very rare for me in reading. I felt this with Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist of The Hunger Games. I’ve only read the first book and am making myself read a “grown up” book in between this and the next part in the series. (I just started White Teeth by Zadie Smith, which given its nearly 500 pages of luscious wordsmithery means it will probably be a little while before I allow myself to tackle the second Hunger Games book Catching Fire.)
I don’t know why I feel this way, but even though Collins’ book is full of serious and teachable themes, such as the influence of reality television on our lives, poverty, and class struggles to name a few, I felt a little tinge of guilt in reading the book. I enjoyed it so much and it falls under that addictive category of young adult fantasy lit that I suppose I felt guilty about not challenging myself with a tougher read. But why do I feel this way? I can’t help but think this comes from years of education where the classics were elevated to royal status and only those that read them could feel proud and “well-read.” Beach reads, chick lit, fantasy, sci-fi, those were never considered “literature.” Now, don’t get me wrong. I definitely see a difference between The Devil Wears Prada and Ulysses – not everything is literature. But I hate the shame that has been tacked onto understanding the difference. If I feel this way, even after leaving high school nearly 10 years ago, how do our students feel?
There was a lively debate on The English Companion Ning recently about “kids reading junk,” and the junk being things like Harry Potter and Twilight. Sure, Harry Potter may not be comparable to 100 Years of Solitude, but shame on the person that sees thousands of children picking up and reading 400+ page books as a bad thing. Reading begets reading and results in learning. We all have our different avenues we ventured down that brought us to avid reading and very rarely were we pre-teens flipping through Dante’s Inferno. I got into serious reading (meaning I did it every day) when I started picking up R.L. Stine books. They were quick, thrilling reads and my 11-year-old self felt quite accomplished as I counted the number of “whole books” I’d read. From there, as I got older, I wanted to pick up “the classics” and read them. I purchased an old copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare and read “As You Like It.” I didn’t really understand all of it, but I was 15 and trying my best. Then I went on to Catcher in the Rye, considered one of the first YA books. I was mesmerized that this could be considered a classic – something with the same compelling characters I’d learned to love in all of that other “junk” I’d read as a kid. Holden Caulfield wasn’t battling an old ghost sent to kill the cheerleading theme, as was the case with many R.L. Stine books, but he was battling real things that I felt, like worrying about my younger sibling as I grew into role-model status and dealing with adolescent angst. I was hooked into how reading could allow me to escape and relate with characters while working through my own issues and it only grew from there.
I’m intrigued by the idea of teaching The Hunger Games. Eric T. MacKnight, an international teacher I follow on Twitter (@ericmacknight), has his students *read books independently and blog their reactions and analyses. One student’s response to The Hunger Games generated an interesting comments discussion. Check out the student’s blog response to the book and the ensuing discussion in the comments to see what I mean. There are so many avenues one could take, using the books as a jump-off point for projects and discussions. Communist regimes, poverty, class struggles, the increasingly public nature of our private lives, reality TV, even feminism. Katniss Everdeen is, by societal standards, quite a “tomboy.” How does her portrayal differ from female protagonists in other novels? What makes her strong? I appreciated that Collins wrote Katniss in this way because even though I am happy to see kids reading, even if it is Twilight, I can’t help but have a distaste for the boy-crazy damsel in distress portrayed by Bella in Stephanie Myers’s series.
I’m quite the novice when it comes to YA lit, but it doesn’t take a genius to see how these titles can be used as gateways to life-long reading and learning in the classroom and beyond. Thanks to my network on Twitter, I have a great resource of people well-read in YA lit I can turn to for recommendations, but a wonderful resource is the blog YA Lit – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly written by Sara Fuller (@yagoodbadugly). I’ve also been checking out the Goodreads shelves of Donalyn Miller (@donalynbooks), author of The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, which is still high on my to-read list.
If you’re a YA noob like myself, I encourage you to give it a spin and consider how you might work such a title into your curriculum. It’s not much of a stretch. I did a lesson in my methods class tying an Edgar Allen Poe short story to Monster through the concept of unreliable narrators and their effects on readers. It’s easy and you might just snag some of those reluctant readers.
* My apologies to Eric! I thought he taught the book in class, but it turns out one student just read it as an independent reading assignment and blogged her reactions.
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"The Steele Wolf," by Chanda Hahn
Ages: Young adult
Synopsis: After finally settling into her new life at the Citadel, Thalia is reunited with her father, who is disturbed at the changes within her. Risking banishment, Thalia must work to prove to her clan and herself that she is still capable of leading them. The problem is, her memories haven’t returned, and she cannot shake the feeling that she doesn’t belong. Thalia discovers that betrayal runs deep within her clan, just as she sets out to join Joss and Kael in doing the one thing she fears most: track the Septori to save Joss’ kidnapped sister. Along the way, she must confront her own fears on a journey of self-discovery that will take her deep into the stronghold of Denai; as they travel to the ancient floating city of Skyfell.
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Sometimes, when it all seems a little too complicated, you have to get back to basics.
Listen to The Beatles.
Go for a walk to clear the demons from your head.
Spend time with people who don’t drag you down.
Be a better friend to yourself.
As things were getting a little hostile on my Facebook page, I called a necessary time out.
The family gathered around our DVD player, circa 1907, and watched “Driving Miss Daisy.”
Filmed on a shoe-string budget, this series of vignettes that show the development of a relationship between a wealthy elderly woman and her chauffeur, is anti-Hollywood at its best.
Nothing explodes, but the implied violence — such as a bombed synagogue and a subsequent reflection about a racist lynching — is felt, and seems more real, because of the strong character development.
There are no love scenes, but the platonic love is in the air.
There is one specific exchange — among the many memorable gems — that rang true in the wake of all the current animosity among Americans over gun control, that struck me.
Miss Daisy (the late Jessica Tandy) tells Hoke he shouldn’t be driving anymore because of his vision.
The response by Hoke, wonderfully portrayed by Morgan Freeman, was: “How do you know how I can see unless you can look out of my eyes?”
This all-time favorite line, which I have deployed in past columns and surely will again in the future, can be cut and pasted into our daily lives.
Right now, we can take this and apply it to the ongoing divisive gun debate that got even more tense this week.
Perhaps there is a light at the end of this seemingly endless tunnel, strewn with detour signs and spinning wheels.
While an ABC News-Washington Post poll found that 65 percent of your fellow Americans supported banning high capacity ammunition magazines while 58 percent favored banning the sale of so-called assault weapons, we know that can plummet to 50-50 as the average Joe The Plumber and Joanne The Soccer Mom settle back into their lives as happy wanderers largely unaffected by the dark side of life.
Perhaps the only voices that we should listen to on the subject are those directly in the literal line of fire, the survivors of mass shootings and/or the loved ones of the lost.
How will we form a post-Newtown vision without trying to understand how they see it from their eyes?
Wednesday, we heard from one of the most well-known shooting victims, former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
She spoke in Washington, at the hearings, her voice slow and halting from the brain injury suffered during a mass shooting in Tucson in 2011.
Because of her affected speech, her deliberate words packed a wallop.
“Speaking is difficult, but I need to say something important,” she began. “Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. It will be hard, but the time is now. You must act. Be bold, be courageous. Americans are counting on you. Thank you.”
No, Gabrielle, thank you.
This woman once supported some gun rights — probably for votes — and received a C from the NRA, which is a pretty high grade for a Democrat.
She knows better now.
And we should take heed and follow her lead.
Giffords and husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, recently launched an organization — Americans for Responsible Solutions — that takes aim at the curious lack of universal background checks and limits on high capacity magazine weaponry.
The same day — in Phoenix, her home state — a fatal shooting took place at an office building.
After Giffords spoke, NRA mouthpiece Wayne LaPierre took the mic and stuck his moldy script of mocking the viability of background checks and reiterating the unrealistic, sound-good notion of armed guards in schools.
He continued that violent criminals are going to do what they do no matter what, and that law-abiding citizens — as if one can tell that without a system that would include background checks — should not be disarmed as a consequence.
It is a bleak view, offering little to nothing in terms of stepping toward the middle with a workable solution that polls show Americans want.
It brings to mind a post I saw on Faceback by Americans Against the Tea Party: Why do conservatives seem to believe that outlawing guns won’t prevent gun violence but outlawing abortion will prevent abortion?
While you ponder that, which shouldn’t take too long, let’s move on to understanding the type of people who march lockstep in the NRA army and decide if you would rather be with them or the likes of Giffords.
In Connecticut, at a similar legislative hearing, the father of child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary spoke and was actually heckled by crazies shouting “second amendment” when he said “I still can’t see why any civilian, anybody in this room in fact, needs weapons of that sort. You’re not going to use them for hunting, even for home protection.”
Watching the video, Neil Heslin — probably still too numb and grief-stricken at the loss of his 6-year-old “best buddy,” Jesse, to respond to the ignorance the way you or I would have — remained undaunted and continued to speak.
Afterwards, when asked, he explained that he didn’t let it bother him.
That’s because he has been to a place — a hell on earth — that most of us, on either side of the debate, will never know or understand.
And how will they, or anyone else, ever understand how he sees unless they look out of his eyes?
All we can do is try.
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TWU announces 2011 Founders' Award recipients
DENTON — TWU President Emerita Mary Evelyn Blagg Huey and the United Way of Denton County will be honored for their exceptional service to the community and to Texas Woman’s University during the annual TWU Founders’ Awards Scholarship Luncheon.
Reservations are required by Friday, March 25. The event will be held at noon Thursday, April 7 in Hubbard Hall on TWU’s Denton campus. Seats for the luncheon are $35 per person. Patron seats are available for $75. Benefactor tables for eight are available for $750. For information on sponsorship opportunities, contact Patrice Benfield Frisby at (940) 898-3867.
Proceeds from the luncheon benefit the TWU Chancellor’s Endowed Scholarships, the most prestigious scholarships awarded by the university. Established by Chancellor Stuart and other donors in 2000, these scholarships are the largest awarded by TWU, and the only academic scholarships that offer a stipend to recipients in addition to paying tuition and fees. They are awarded to TWU students on the basis of outstanding academic achievement, leadership and service in school and community activities.
The Denton Record-Chronicle and Hester Capital Management, L.L.C. are the presenting sponsors of the TWU Founders’ Awards Scholarship Luncheon. As of March 18, sponsors of the luncheon include: PointBank and Verizon. Table sponsors include TWU Regent Sue S. Bancroft; BBVA Compass; Chancellor and President, TWU; DATCU Credit Union; Bill DeBerry Funeral Directors; City of Denton; Denton Regional Medical Center; First State Bank; First United Bank; Meridian Bank Texas; Bettye B. Myers, Ph.D.; Ramey & King Insurance; Major General Mary L. Saunders, USAF, retired; Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton; the TWU College of Nursing; the TWU Former Students Association; and the TWU Foundation.
Judith McFarlane, Dr.PH., TWU Cornaro Professor of Nursing and the Parry Nursing Chair in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, will serve as the keynote speaker for the luncheon. Her speech is titled, “Empowerment of Women for Global Development: TWU Making a Difference in Karachi, Pakistan.”
Mary Evelyn Blagg Huey, Ph.D.
When Dr. Huey was appointed TWU’s president in 1976, she was the first woman president of TWU and was only the second woman ever to serve as the president of a Texas state university at the time. A university alumna, Dr. Huey served as TWU’s president for 10 years until 1986. She also served as the dean of the TWU Graduate School and a professor of government.
Dr. Huey was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for her contributions as chair of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. She received the Outstanding Women of Texas Award from the Texas Division, American Association of University Women, and the Otis Fowler Citizen of the Year Award from the Denton Chamber of Commerce. Her various areas of service include membership on the Board of Trustees of the National Commission for Cooperative Education and the Governor’s Task Force on Higher Education.
Dr. Huey was responsible for bringing back TWU’s celebration of Founders’ Day in 1978, when she asked the Former Students Association to revive the event.
United Way of Denton County
Since 1951, the United Way of Denton County has worked to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health. Through the work of its partner agencies, the United Way helps families have financial stability, builds healthy communities and helps children and youth achieve their potential.
The United Way of Denton County has an administrative cost of nine percent of all funds raised for administrative expenses – one of the lowest overhead costs for a non-profit organization in America. The goal of the United Way of Denton County is to maximize and add value to the amount of dollars going to community needs.
The United Way of Denton County offers a resource distribution system highly regarded as an effective and efficient means for allocating funds to provide the greatest impact on community needs and issues.
The first Founders’ Awards were presented in 1998 to honor organizations and individuals who have supported TWU. TWU celebrates Founders’ Day to commemorate the date the university was established by the state of Texas — April 6, 1901. TWU, the TWU Foundation and the TWU Former Students Association host the annual TWU Founders’ Awards Scholarship Luncheon.
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Voicing Slavery: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Prince
25 October 2011
Professor Catherine Hall (UCL History)
Women's voices were central to the struggle against slavery in the early 19th century. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of Britain's greatest poets, was the daughter of a slaveowner and the family money came from their Jamaican plantations. She sympathised with the cause of antislavery - but that sympathy was complicated by her family connections. Mary Prince was an enslaved woman who was brought by her 'owner' to Britain, escaped, and recorded her narrative. It was published and provided a moving testimony of the cruelties of slavery and a significant weapon in the war against it. Both these women had close connections with Bloomsbury, and this lecture, in conjunction with the exhibition 'The Slave Owners of Gower Street' will explore their lives and writings and the place of slavery in 19th century Britain.
This lecture marks Black History Month in October. There is also an exhibition in UCL’s South Cloisters on the main campus entitled ‘The Slave Owners of Gower Street’
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By Robin Edwards
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The action of Hamlet all hinges on an injunction by the ghost of Hamlet's father, who appears on a bitter cold night to tell the prince he must kill his murderous and usurping uncle. Everything that happens in Something Is Rotten is also set in motion by a ghost -- in this case, the ghost of a pink-striped sock that insists the three performers mount a production of the Shakespeare play.
Julius, the weirdly smiling, dim-witted but steel-willed owner of the sock, who's played by Evan Weissman, bullies two friends, Harold and George, into fulfilling the command. But Harold is doubtful. Erik Edborg gives Harold the stern expression and deep, haunted eyes of Samuel Beckett, though not the intellect. He's basically puzzled and resentful through the entire evening. The cast is rounded out by the star of the play, Brian Colonna's George, a temperamental, hypermanic Hamlet whose approach offers a telling contrast to the subdued -- though very different -- performances of the other two. That is, when he's not dropping into sudden narcoleptic trances.
We never really know exactly who these men are or why they're on stage. George is clearly an actor -- or at least someone who wants to act -- but Julius and Harold are stumbling amateurs. They discuss their roles and argue about how to act them, bicker, shush each other and improvise when panicked.
Since this is a Buntport Theater production, the show is as ingenious as it is low-tech, and a lot of intensely clever and hilarious things happen. Edborg plays both King Claudius and Queen Gertrude, often at the same time. For the king, he wears a huge mask, the mouth of which he's forced to manipulate with his hands. This means that Weissman has to provide his gestures, pulling on a pair of elbow-length gloves to do it. For the queen, Edborg undergoes a costume change that you simply have to see for yourself.
Ophelia is played by a goldfish -- a real goldfish in a bowl -- which makes the queen's line "Your sister's drowned, Laertes" particularly poignant. Ophelia's father, Polonius, is a Teddy Ruxpin bear with a tape of the lines in his furry back. The family scenes can get tricky. "Sometimes the fish doesn't look at the bear," one of the actors complains, and for the next several minutes, we in the audience twist our necks to see which way Ophelia is facing. This is hard to do, since she's quite a small fish and does a lot of aimless circling.
Laertes is a Tonka truck. A bright-yellow Tonka truck. There's a forklift in the front that comes in handy when Laertes is forced into a duel with Hamlet.
Though only three Buntporters appear on stage, Something Is Rottenwas written by all seven company members -- Matt Petraglia, Erin Rollman, Hannah Duggan and SamAnTha Schmitz, as well as Edborg, Weissman and Colonna -- and they are as agile with words as with their visual jokes. There's also a pre-play warmup by Janice Haversham, who looks and sounds exactly like Hannah Duggan but cannot, in fact, be Duggan, because we all know she left for New York some months ago. Haversham shows off her musical instruments, which include a tambourine and a triangle, and provides smooth, folksy singing and an introduction to Shakespeare for those of us who have trouble understanding his work -- an introduction that includes the information that ants are known to count their steps and it's hard to make a pie crust.
You'll be reassured to know that the requisite catharsis-providing pity and terror aren't absent from this interpretation. The shrieks of grief and rage that rend the final scene would move a statue to tears -- albeit tears of laughter.
Thaddeus Phillips of Lucidity Suitcase, who trained at Colorado College with the Buntporters and shares their anarchic humor and innovative relationship with objects, has also tackled Shakespeare, but took a different approach. Phillips used his versions of King Lear, The Tempestand Henry Vto illuminate cultural or political issues or to tell us something we might not have thought of about the play itself (although in a strange, eccentric and sideways manner). In earlier seasons, Buntport staged Titus Andronicus and Macbeth with the primary goal of provoking laughter, and they do it again here, sending waves of giggles and belly laughs rippling through the house, punctuated by the occasional surprised snort.
But Something Is Rottenisn't just great entertainment. It also tells us something about the process of making theater. The Buntporters go about their work in the same way that a four-year-old creates a game -- focused, intense, playful, pursuing an idea until it dead-ends, then making a swift turn and dashing off down another pathway. Or just hanging on and babbling until something new springs to mind. Except that these players are highly sophisticated, and the apparent artlessness of the production masks the meticulous work that shaped the final version.
There's not a boring moment in Something Is Rotten, even though the company is unconcerned with narrative and forward momentum, at least in a conventional sense. The play mocks these elements. An actor stands on the stage and stares at us as he tries to figure out what to do next. Two of the performers rush off stage to buy ice cream. It's clear from the pace of the show the relaxed tension of the actors that Buntport has mastered its medium. These guys don't have to hit you over the head with what they're doing, get loud and jittery, try to underline the cleverness of their inventions. They're not worried about losing the audience. They take their time, and they know exactly what they're doing. On an almost empty stage, using nothing but their minds, voices, bodies and a few props, they're making theater magic right in front of your eyes.
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A Major League catcher is thrown a curveball on a Wisconsin interstate.
His wife delivered their daughter herself on the way to the hospital.
A.J. Ellis, catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, missed the birth of his two older children, Ainsley and Luke, because of baseball.
So when his wife, Cindy, was due to give birth to their third child near her hometown of Milwaukee after the season ended -- he couldn't wait to be there in person -- seems like little Audrey couldn't wait, either.
"We get on the interstate and I'm driving, picking up speed, and she says to me 'how much further?' I said 'about 18 miles away' and she said 'we're not going to make it,' and the whole time she's screaming 'this is not normal,' and I'm thinking 'this is labor, this is normal' -- like I know," Ellis said.
Cindy was giving birth to Audrey in the car.
"She slid onto the seat, and I just picked her up. I don't even remember, really, it happened so fast, I just picked her up and turned her around and was just glad that it was over," Cindy said.
"At that point, on a scale of 1 to 10, I'm about a 15 or 20, and I glance to my right and Audrey's glancing right at me, with her big eyes wide open, and my panic level dropped to a 9.5," Ellis said.
The pro athlete said he was shaking so badly here along Interstate 43 while trying to call the hospital at the same time to let them know what was happening and where they were, since there were no other ERs in the area, the hospital told him to keep driving.
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credit: Foreclosure On Your Credit Report - 04/11/11 09:49 PM
A foreclosure on your credit report will have an impact on your ability to purchase a new home. The amount of time you have to wait will depend on the type of financing you are looking for and the amount of your down payment and the rest of your credit rating. The first thing you should know is that a foreclosure (or any public record ie, bankruptcy, judgement, foreclosure) can negatively impact your credit score between 100-200 points. You can plan on that foreclosure being on your credit report for the next 10 years. Under today's guidelines, a new purchase is (0 comments)
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It was a wonderful weekend. Friday night found us at the Settler's Village Festival of Trees. The highlight of the night was definitely when the roaming men's choir dressed in top hats performed a private concert for the kids. Poppy spent the rest of the evening following them from one cabin to the next. Finally she found the tiny church where their voices floated out onto the cool night air. She walked in without hesitation and found a pew as though she had done it a hundred times before. The church was dimly lit by lanterns and smelled of kerosene oil. I can't quite describe what happened next, but it was a magical moment of sorts. She gazed up at the choir in their top hats and her face became full of awe and purpose as she suddenly began "singing" with her whole heart. Her mouth opened wide and her little voice went up and down just as the choir's did. Now she enjoys the odd song and loves to dance, but will often become annoyed when I sing. It was like an ancient memory had enveloped her in that sweet little church filled with lamp light and song; as though she was remembering so many Christmases of past. When it was time to leave, instead of heading for the door, she walked to the front of the church and one the gentlemen gave her some bells to jingle. She turned to me and exclaimed "Santa's coming!" so they sang Santa Claus is Coming to Town while she rang the bells. She then said thank you and waved goodbye; we were off to see the rest of the village.
The rest of the weekend was spent at home moving wood, organizing, and cleaning until we ventured into our woods to collect some pine boughs. With sticky, pine scented hands we attached pine boughs to our front porch and then strung some white twinkle lights into the tangled branches. As I thought of how it might look with some soft snow falling I was filled with the electric warmth of the season. I thought about how sweet it is to go into our own backyard to collect everything we need to do our winter decorating. I thought about how we will celebrate this Winter Solstice as it has never been a tradition in either of our families. I thought about tobogganing down our gentle slopes with bellies full of warm oats and cinnamon.
Yes, our most favourite season has begun.
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I am trying to create this video using adobe premier pro.
In each slide, I will have 3 different images slides in with different effect and timing.
However, it is a bit complex for me and I found difficult to change photos in slide, as I need to cater the motion effect, size, of other two images in the timeline.
I had tried window movie maker, it is very simple but it seems that it only allows transition of one whole image. I can't freely adjust the 3 different images to slide in with different angle, speed, stay on time, and fading effect, and stay on one screen.
May I know is there any other software that can produce the similar effect as in the video? | <urn:uuid:e26ac80e-0921-4d80-8f90-ccdb621bdd1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://avp.stackexchange.com/questions/5394/what-software-can-we-use-to-create-this-slideshow-video?answertab=votes | 2013-05-23T18:37:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969714 | 148 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director intensified the opposition to CIA-directed drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Drones, by the way, are unmanned aerial vehicles either controlled from the ground or increasingly, autonomously following a pre-programmed mission. Unlike manned aircraft they can stay aloft for many hours. For example, Zephyr, a British drone under development, broke the world record by flying over 82 hours nonstop. Also, Drones are much cheaper than military aircraft and, because they are flown remotely, there is no danger to a flight crew.
Drone strikes have dramatically increased during the Obama administration. As of September 2012, Obama had authorized 238 drone strikes in Pakistan, six times more than during President George W. Bush's eight years in office, resulting in between 1,494 and 2,618 estimated deaths with only about 13 percent of them of a militant leader. The remainder of the deaths were "collateral damage," seemingly acceptable to the Obama administration
In September 2011, a drone strike in Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a militant cleric with al-Qaeda, and Samir Khan, an accused al-Qaeda propagandist. Both men were American citizens and had not been indicted or charged with any crime. In October 2011, a drone strike killed al-Awlaki's son Abdulrahman. According to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, drone strikes in Yemen have killed between 72 to 178 civilians, including 27 to 37 children. Between 2004 and 2013, CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have killed 473 to 893 civilians, including 176 children, and between 2007-2013, drone strikes in Somalia have killed 11 to 57 civilians, including 1 to 3 children.
In addition to the death and injury caused by drone strikes, a Stanford/NYU Report found that drones hovering twenty-four hours a day over communities in northwest Pakistan, striking homes, vehicles, and public spaces without warning, terrorizes men, women, and children, giving rise to anxiety and psychological trauma among civilian communities. Drone strikes then are making the U.S. few friends and provide a recruitment tool for Taliban and al-Qaeda.
These killings, of course, raises the question of whether the U.S. government has the power to kill Americans who have not been indicted or charged with any crimes. It also raises the larger question as to whether the U.S. has the legal authority to target for assassination any non-American.
In June 2012, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were given an undated confidential "Department of Justice White Paper entitled “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force.” This White Paper was recently obtained by MSNBC. The White Paper is a strained legal justification for targeting for assassination Americans abroad. It sets out a three-prong test: First, the suspect must be an imminent threat. Secondly, capture of the target must be “infeasible." And thirdly, the strike must be conducted according to “law of war principles.” According to the White Paper, U.S. officials may consider whether an attempted capture of a suspect would pose an “undue risk” to U.S. personnel involved in such an operation. If so, U.S. officials could determine that the capture operation of the targeted American would not be feasible, making it lawful for the U.S. government to order a killing instead, the White Paper concludes.
But as the ACLU points out, "This sweeping authority is said to exist even if the threat presented isn't imminent in any ordinary sense of that word, even if the target has never been charged with a crime or informed of the allegations against him, and even if the target is not located anywhere near an actual battlefield. The white paper purports to recognize some limits on the authority it sets out, but the limits are so vague and elastic that they will be easily manipulated.“ Basically, what the government is saying is that, "it has the right to carry out the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen. … It recognizes some limits on the authority it sets out, but the limits are elastic and vaguely defined, and it’s easy to see how they could be manipulated.” In particular, the ACLU concludes, the White Paper “redefines the word imminence in a way that deprives the word of its ordinary meaning.”
According to the White paper, the government has the authority to carry out targeted killings of U.S. citizens without presenting evidence to a judge before the fact or after, and indeed without even acknowledging to the courts or to the public that the authority has been exercised. Without saying so explicitly, the government claims the authority to kill terrorism suspects, including Americans, in secret.
At the February 7, 2013, Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended attacks by unmanned drones, claiming that such strikes are used only against targets planning to carry out attacks against the U.S, never in retribution for an earlier one, including Americans. Mr. Brennan is playing fast and loose with the facts. Clearly, if Brennan becomes CIA Director, the drone strikes will continue. And Congress seems unlikely to stop these drone strikes. That puts the ball in Obama's court.
Obama must stop these extrajudicial targeted assassinations. Obama cannot serve as judge, jury and executioner. These assassinations are not only illegal; they create a dangerous precedent, which could be used by others to justify targeted killings of U.S. leaders. | <urn:uuid:32c9e89d-2e1c-4f1f-a44d-46fefd744c09> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2013-02-08/article/40772?headline=ECLECTIC-RANT-Obama-End-CIA-Directed-Drone-Strikes-Now--By-Ralph-E.-Stone | 2013-05-23T18:32:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960758 | 1,162 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
With only six contestants left, three performance shows to go, and $5 million to be awarded, the competition heated up on last night's THE X FACTOR on FOX. This week the Top 6 performed twice, an unplugged song and The Pepsi Challenge song which was chosen for them by fans.
Broadway's Carly Rose Sonenclar chose to take on Justin Bieber's "As Long as You Love Me" for her unplugged number and wowed the judges with her vocal abilities. "I love you so much," said L.A. Demi concurred saying, "you sang it better than Justin did." Simon predicted, "I am seeing a star emerge," and Britney was proud with a capital "P!
For her Pepsi Challenge song, the young singer performed Beyonce's "If I Were a Boy". Said L.A., "every time you step onstage I get nervous because I know you're going to be very, very good." Demi's only criticism was that she would have preferred something more 'up-tempo' but Simon quickly countered, "Don't listen to a single word that this one [Demi] just said."
Check out both performances below!
Tune in tonight at 8/7c on FOX to find out which two acts will go home and for live performances by Ke$ha and Melanie Amaro.
Sonenclar has appeared on Broadway in Les Miserables and Wonderland, and has also taken the stage in NYMF's The Night of the Hunter (2006) and the national tour of Little House on the Prairie the Musical.
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With all the talk of Greece’s impending exit from the euro zone, debt is once again in the headlines. Greece’s massive public sector debt, coupled with its inability to devalue its currency, has put the country at risk of default. But the global economy is straining under the weight of more than just public sector debt. In the developed world, consumers, financial institutions, and other corporations have each accumulated unprecedented levels of debt — and how that total debt is managed will ultimately determine the economic fate of the global economy going forward. The following is a look at the total debt of the world’s largest mature economies — in ascending order of indebtedness — drawn from a recent presentation by Jeffery Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Funds. | <urn:uuid:3d703874-f48e-40b7-a5ce-0d43963731c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://business.time.com/2012/05/23/which-advanced-economy-has-the-most-total-debt/?iid=biz-article-mostpop1 | 2013-05-23T18:50:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92549 | 155 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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16.4 Suggested Reading
Axilrod, Stephen H. Inside the Fed: Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin Through Greenspan to Bernanke. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
Hetzel, Robert L. The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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