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The Helio Ocean 2 has gone on sale, with Virgin Mobile offering the dual-sliding 3G feature-phone for $149 with a new subscription. Alternatively, existing users still within their contract can buy the Ocean 2 for its MRSP of $400.
There are three “All In” plans on offer, each with inclusive text and video messaging, data access, GPS Buddy Beacon and MySpace/YouTube access, priced from $65 per month to $99 per month (varying with the number of included minutes). Meanwhile the “A la carte” plans start from $40 per month but you’ll be paying extra for data and accessing services, both likely pastimes with the Ocean 2. Both sets of plans include unlimited mobile to mobile calls and unlimited evening (after 7pm) and weekend calls.
You can see our first impressions and a video unboxing and hardware walkaround of the Virgin Mobile Helio Ocean 2 here. We’ll be reviewing the handset over the next week or so, to see whether it’s the double-sliding Messiah for Virgin Mobile subscribers or too little, too late given the state of the mobile market.
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ShoWest 2010: Pixar to Screen ‘Toy Story 3′; Receive Special ‘Big Ten’ Award
The ShoWest Big Ten Award will be presented to Pixar Animation Studios for their extraordinary achievement of creating ten beloved blockbusters in a row, it was announced today by Robert Sunshine, managing director of ShoWest, which will be held March 15 – 18, 2010, in Las Vegas. Pixar Animation Studios will be presented with the ShoWest Big Ten Award at ShoWest on Tuesday, March 16, at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas.
Disney/Pixar will also screen Toy Story 3 for ShoWest attendees on Tuesday, March 16.
“Since bringing the first-ever computer-animated feature film to moviegoing audiences with 1995’s Toy Story, Pixar Animation Studios has continued to thrill audiences with outstanding stories on film that have captivated people of all ages all over the world, bringing us such memorable characters as Woody, Buzz, Nemo, Remy and WALL-E just to name a few,” noted Sunshine. “It is with great pleasure that we present Pixar Animation Studios the ShoWest Big Ten Award.” | <urn:uuid:1e77efac-2009-4186-abfb-5cdf037050cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-showest-2010-pixar-screen-toy-story-3-receive-special-big-ten-award-7887/ | 2013-05-24T11:31:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935687 | 242 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Chan Lowe's 2008 Campaign Portfolio
Chan Lowe, the editorial page cartoonist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, loves this time of year. Democrats, Republicans, special interests, individual voters -- nobody's spared in this special gallery of electioneering politics, and the campaign season is still young.
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Harvest Festival wound up for the year in Brisbane's Botanic Gardens. Heath Carney braved the rain, hail, lightning and sunshine to capture it for us. Pictured: The Dandy Warhols.
Pictured: Mike Patton's Mondo Cane.
Getting set to play Harvest Festival later this year, Angus from Liars, who have been absent from our shores since 2006, caught up with Larry Heath to talk about their new record and their long awaited return...
We named Harvest Festival our favourite festival of 2011, and after a slight bit of worry that the Brisbane leg could be culled due to council concerns...well, to say we were thankful to hear that it would be back in all cities in 2012!
The lineup was announced on Triple J, and boy howdy...well, let's just get to it. It's out of this damn world.
This week’s releases are a varied bunch – there’s everything from Hip-Hop, dance, dubstep to hard rock. Releases from Marina and the Diamonds, Flo Rida, Nicki Minaj, Keane, Jason Mraz, B.o.B and Missy Higgins keep it rolling along. It’s an interesting mix, make sure you have a look for yourself! | <urn:uuid:8a01500d-1726-4d46-a8d5-21cc0d901b56> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theaureview.com/artist/liars | 2013-05-24T11:45:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961291 | 264 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Business Process Automation Featured Article
AuraPortal Sets Free Webinar about the Automation of Processes Through a BPMS
AuraPortal, a global provider of Business Process Management (BPM) delivering a solution that creates, without the need of IT programming, Business Process Workflow Execution Models, has announced the availability of a free Webinar on July 19th at 10 a.m. (EST).
According to the company, the Webinar will discuss Process Automation with BPMS, offering insight into automating management through processes using a next-generation BPM Suite with the goal of maximizing time, savings and costs, while at the same time, providing security in the execution of business processes.
An objective of the Webinar is to show the range of the activities that can be executed directly by the system through the process engines, without human intervention. These actions can have a tremendous impact on company management.
According to AuraPortal, the most important facets and practices of BPMS will be revealed during the Webinar, with two perspectives:
Theoretical view of the concepts presented in the agenda.
Practical view through a real exercise illustrating the features of the AuraPortal application, as a prime example of innovation in the world of BPM.
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John Lahtinen is Community Development Editor for TMCnet. He has more than 15 years of combined professional and educational experience involving news, education, and marketing. John holds a master's degree in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a bachelor's degree in English from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
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Published: June 20th 2012June 20th 2012
The ladies jumped out to watch the whales playing in the fjord
Our days are so busy that time for blogging is little. Right now (June 19) we are at a guesthouse in the middle of nowhere near a the cliffs of Latrabjarg. The beach is shell-sand, almost white. The arctic terns nest outside our windows, the plovers can be heard, the wagtails twitter, nature and hardly anything but nature.
Yesterday was full of activities. First we went to a museum on fishing in Osvor. Then to have view over Isafjordur at the old ski-restaurant, that is not in use any more after the avalanche back 1994. The holiday home area suffered from that when quite many little cottages where completely destroyed one night in April. Now for a hike up to the waterfall and the forest where you can almost get lost. Lunch is at our little cottage. How we enjoy our little house! But we haven't finished the activities of the day - the highlight of the day is the sail to the island of Vigur. Happy chappies who came back to Isafjordur that afternoon! Dinner was at one of the oldest houses in the town, has been turned into a restaurant now. Only 60 years ago 4 families lived
in the building.We set off at 9 o'clock
in the morning, through the tunnel over to the western part of the west fjords. Our first drive was through the village of Flateyri. The destruction after the avalanches of 1995 - that was a year of avalanches indeed - shows everywhere. Monument of that event has been established in the town' s square.We had a short stop at the birthplace of Jon Sigurdsson who fought for Iceland's independency in the end of the 19th century. But on we need to go if we are to see everything. The waterfall cascading down the steep hill, the hot tub with the arctic terns all around and the highlight of our day: the cliff with all the seabirds, Latrabjarg. Fantastic! In the evening some went down to the seaside. A good ended with good dinner in our remote hotel.
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A group calling itself the Youth Congress of Beraban Village, Kediri District held a meeting on Sunday, March 27, 2011, declaring their solidarity in a fight for a larger share of the profits derived from millions of visitors to Bali's Tanah Lot. According to the Bali Post, the meeting, attended by more than 1,000 young people, declared its unanimous support for moves to assume local control and management of the popular Tanah Lot tourist destination. The group wants the traditional village of Beraban and the regional government of Tabanan to share management of the Tanah Lot starting from April 1, 2011.
The meeting was attended by youths from 15 surrounding banjars in Kediri: Bandar Ulundesa, Gegelang, Batanbuah Kaja, Batanbuah, Beraban, Batugaing Kaja, Batugaing, Dukuh, Enjung Pura, Sinjuana Kelod, Sinjuana Tengah, Sinjuana Kaja, Nyanyi, Kebon and Banjar Pasti.
The congress was initiated by the Gaspera Youth Committee (Karang Taruna Gaspera) of Beraban Village, chaired by I Made Putra Wijaya and attended by a group named the "Team of Struggle for Control of the Tanah Lot Tourism Destination at Beraban Village" comprised of Beraban officials, including dr. I Wayan Arwata, I Made Sumawa, Drh INGP Putra Astawa and I Made Sujana.
The Congress was called to demonstrate the solidarity of Beraban's youth in the struggle and urge the regional government to come to a rapid decision on the future management of Tanah Lot.
The meeting also saw a declaration issued demanding, as a "matter of life and death," shared management control by the government of Tabanan and the village of Beraban of Tanah Lots as a tourism object.
The same message was also placed on a large banner paraded by the group and installed at a busy intersection at Beraban.
On the evening of the same day of the declaration the meeting continued with additional statements of solidarity issued by a political coalition between the three leading political parties who urged a speedy decision by the Tabanan regency establish joint control of the Tanah Lot tourism object with the village of Beraban.
On April 1st the crowds from Beraban convened again reissuing their demand for a say and a share in the management of Tanah Lot had. Their number, according to press reports, had swelled to thousands who participated in a March on the Regent's office in Tabanan. Vowing a puputan, or a traditional Balinese "fight to the death," the demonstrators were unsuccessful in their quest to meet with the regent or vice-regent.
The protesters then convened en masse near Tanah Lot where they threatened to set up their own toll stations charging visitors calling on Bali's popular spiritual and tourist destination.
Tanah Lot as a Bali Tourism Destination
The beach area surround the iconic Tanah Lot Temple in Bali is visited by an estimated 2.1 million tourists every year. Hundreds of traders and stand-holders sell their merchandise to visitors.
In 2010 admissions and fees from the operation of Tanah Lot produced Rp. 18 billion (US$2 million) in revenues netting an income of Rp. 12 billion (US$1.3 million). The lion's share of the this income is disbursed to the regional government of Tabanan.
According to Bisnis Bali, 55% of the income or Rp. 6 billion (US$666,000) is distributed to the Tabanan government, 20% or Rp. 2 billion (US$222,000) is given to the village of Beraban, 15% or Rp. 1.8 billion (US$200,000) is retained by the tourism sites current operator CV Ari Jasa Wisata, 5 % or Rp. 900 million (US$100,000) is divided among 8 religious temples surrounding Tanah Lot and the remaining 5% to 22 village units in the Kediri district.
Calls from local community members for control of the Tanah Lot Tourism Area is based on the the region's 2001 law on traditional villages.
The Youth Congress of Beraban Village is accusing the regency's administration of being "late and less than serious" in naming the future operators of Tanah Lot after the expiration of the current management contract with CV Ari Jasa Wisata that expired on April 1, 2011. Members of the Congress are also blaming the current protests and growing danger of horizontal conflict within the community on the Tabanan administration's failure to deal with the tourist object's future management.
The 6.5 hectare tourism area is comprised of a 4.5 hectare plot owned by village as "temple lands" and the remaining 3 hectares held by the Tabanan government.
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It’s been a long time since our resident chef made a guest appearance on the blog. It was not that we did not have culinary experiments during that time, it is simply that we did not bother to take pictures and write up recipes.
Correcting that oversight, here is rather modestly named chicken with shrimp (it sounds more sophisticated in French: Poulet aux Crevettes). Trust me, there is nothing bland about this dish.
- 3 pound chicken, cut into 8-10 pieces
- 2 tsp vegetable oil
- 12-14 large shrimp or live crayfish, with heads if possible
- 1 small onion, halved and sliced
- 2 tbsp flour
- ¾ cup dry white wine
- 2 tbsp brandy
- 1 ¼- 1 ½ cup chicken broth
- 3 medium tomatoes, cored and quartered
- 1 or 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- bouquet garni (bunch of herbs such as bay leaf, thyme sprigs, parsley stalks)
- 6 tbsp heavy cream
- salt, pepper
- fresh parsley, to garnish
Here is what it looks like in the pan when ready:
- Wash the chicken pieces, then pat dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper.
- Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole and cook the shrimp or crayfish over high heat until they turn a bright color. Remove the shrimp or crayfish, cool slightly and then peel away the heads and shells and reserve. Chill the peeled tails.
- Add the chicken to the casserole, skin side down, and cook over medium until golden brown, turning to color evenly and cooking in batches if necessary. Transfer the chicken to a plate and pour off all but 1 tbsp of the fat.
- In the same casserole, cook the onion over medium-high heat until golden, stirring frequently, then add the wine and brandy and bring to the boil, stirring constantly.
- Add the broth, shrimp or crayfish heads and shells, tomatoes, garlic and bouquet garni with the chicken pieces and any juices. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to very low. Cover the casserole and simmer for 20-25 minutes until the chicken is tender and the juices run clear when the thickest part of the meat is pierced with a knife.
- Remove the chicken pieces from the casserole and strain the cooking liquid, pressing down on the shells and vegetables to extract as much liquid as possible. Skim off the fat from the cooking liquid and return liquid to the pan. Add the cream and boil until it is reduced by one-third and slightly thickened.
- Return the chicken pieces to the pan and simmer for 5 minutes. Just before serving, add the shrimp or crayfish tails and heat through. Arrange on warmed plates, pour over some of the sauce and garnish with fresh parsley.
Here is what it looks like served on a plate:
Have pieces of bread prepared to wipe off the sauce from your plate! You will not be able to resist!
It occurred to me that my girls now possess skates signed not only by the Olympic silver medalists, but an Olympic champion as well. Becky participated in a 2004 edition of Stars Stripes and Skates gala with Nancy Kerrigan. Next year, she attended a skating clinic in NYC’s Central Park hosted by Sasha Cohen. Now, Kimmy has Oksana Baiul’s autograph.
Not that I am big on autographs, but it is a pretty cool little collection that has a chance to grow.
Remember the pond in our backyard and the story associated with it?
The funny thing is, we were assured repeatedly by the previous owners and their landscaper that there was fish in that pond. But we did not see a single fish after we had moved in.
Until now. Here are the residents of the famous water body. They must have been hibernating already in the cool September of 2009, finally waking up in the nice weather of last week.
Today’s Russian word is захолустье. Most closely translated as “a God-forsaken place”, it means a backwater, marginal, more likely than not unattractive, sparsely-populated periphery town or village with rudimentary, if any, modern infrastructure and nothing to be proud about. (To pronounce it, start with “z” as in “zoo”, followed by “ah”, followed by “ho” as in “horse”, followed by “loost”, which is exactly like combining the vowel sound in “loose” with the consonant ending in “lost”, finally followed by “yeh”. To make it sound really Russian, you need to soften the “t”, which I do not believe has an English phonetic equivalent.)
The area of New Jersey where we live can hardly be called a захолустье on merit. It is well built-up, has all of the attributes of modern infrastructure aside from local public transportation, provides for quite a number of diversions, and some townships even have their own theatrical societies. And yet, the City commuter lot that resides in this area chooses it precisely for its comparative sleepiness in the shadow of the Big Apple.
A celebrity appearance at a low-key local event is what brings the backwater-ness of Central Jersey into focus. “What might she be doing in our захолустье?” is the understandable reaction.
We had precisely that reaction when, upon arriving at the local ice arena for the end-of-season children skating competition, we learned that the 1994 Olympic champion Oksana Baiul was in attendance and scheduled to skate a couple of exhibition programs.
The incongruity of a non-resident, non-native Olympic champion making an appearance in “God-forsaken” Old Bridge was easily explained. A local skater is part of Ms Baiul’s ice-skating Broadway musical, and he arranged her appearance as a sort of a promotional stint. She signed programs and skates, posed for pictures with kids, and performed both a current number from the musical and a simplified version of her Olympic gold medal winning “Swan Lake” routine. I have no doubt that at least a dozen families who would otherwise not bother to go see Cold as Ice will now do so.
Baiul is still very graceful on the ice and a pleasure to watch, even though her most challenging jumps these days are mere doubles.
She tried her very best to charm the public, who gave her a thunderous reception, but her infamous temper almost got the best of her precisely at the moment when it was my little girl’s turn to get her skate signed. Without going into much detail on the unfortunate mishap, Kimmy still got the autograph, but no personal picture with the star. This shot was taken seconds before Ms Baiul got temporarily put off by a child’s behavior.
When it was her turn to perform, Kimmy coolly skated a clean and composed program. From this un-objective spectator’s perspective, she was hands down the best in her skill-level/age group. The judges agreed.
It turns out that even in this age of DIY web-enabled travel planning, a good old travel agent has its uses.
Case in point. Natasha is planning a half-week getaway for the two of us and, as always, she has spent considerable time online figuring out the most enticing place for us to stay at (and by “enticing”, I mean “not expensive, clean, conveniently located”). After she identified the target, she decided to call the travel agent that we periodically used in years past to see if she had any deals that we could take advantage of.
And what do you know!? The online promotion listed on the property’s website was reduced by a whopping third through whatever agency discount the woman was able to obtain. The rate went from being in the upper reaches of what we consider “not expensive” to being decidedly cheap.
One for the services industry.
I love stepping out into the bright sunlight at the end of a long workday. I love even more getting off the bus at the end of my lengthy trip home and still having daylight to enjoy.
I am a big fan of Daylight Savings for that, if nothing else.
Russian language has a vast trove of colorful gems that remain on the fringes of literary norms. On different levels of obscurity even in the street vernacular, these nouns and adjectives often sound out-of-place in a refined discourse among educated adults. Yet, they often provide the most eloquent and brilliant descriptions for some commonplace phenomena.
Take, for instance, лахудра. Pronounced luh-WHO-druh (try “lump” without “m” and “p”, followed by stressed-syllable “who”, followed by “drug” without “g”), it means a slovenly, uncombed, unkempt woman. It is a derisive term, not meant to convey any degree of destitution, but rather an advance state of neglect of personal appearances. Which, astonishingly, can be glimpsed quite frequently in our environs.
Taking the kids to various activities, Natasha regularly comes in contact with other mothers bringing their children. A surprising portion of said mothers look like they just got out of bed, put on random outer garments and left their houses without given any thought to what they look like. Wearing what appears to be rumpled sleeping garments (or, at best, less-than-fresh track suits), their hair not having been touched by a brush for seemingly weeks, their faces showing not the slightest hint of make-up.
Ok, I’ll give it to you feminists out there that somewhere in your hard-core credo it is postulated that a woman is not truly emancipated until she is free from the make-up that the sexist society forced on her for untold generations. I’m sure if you subscribe to that you’re in a minority.
There is obviously a varying need “to impress” in the corporate world, and you are not likely to show up bedraggled and disheveled at a social event. In those instances, you either want to look good or you have to look good, but the bottom line is you will most probably choose to look good one way or another.
But, is making yourself presentable to an outside world something you do for other people or something you do for yourself? Away from business world or social occasions, why wouldn’t you go at least part of the way to keep a pleasant appearance. Even if you don’t care about others looking at you and thinking “what a лахудра!”, doesn’t your inner voice scream the same at you?
We don’t seem to recall seeing much of the kind in Europe. Nobody puts on a ball-gown every time they get out of the house, obviously, but when people do appear in public, whether for work, social occasion, or for a mundane trip to the supermarket, they tend to wear something other than pajamas or sweat-suits and at the very least have their hair combed.
Must be some new levels of the world-famous American self-confidence that now excludes any notion of self-regard.
All houses but three on our street lost power on Saturday, and it is yet to be restored. Ours is one of the three lucky ones.
Becky says more than half of her friends said today that they had flooded basements. We found one single glass doorway that had water seeping through when the wind and the rain were at their strongest.
Our neighborhood was thoroughly decorated with fallen trees on Sunday morning. Our most troublesome tree was kind enough to break on earlier occasions.
We did lose cable services and, because we are on Optimum Triple Play, did not have phone service, TV or internet connection for roughly 48 hours. Mobile phones sufficed, and while it is hard to live without the other two in this day and age, it was not nearly a true hardship. We were told at some point that the service could not be restored until power came back to all houses on the street, but I just drove down the street: Our neighbors are still without power; we already have cable back.
No wonder I can never win a lottery. I’m using up all of my luck elsewhere. (Well, that, and I don’t buy tickets…)
Don’t tell my younger daughter, but I am awfully late with what she surely expects will be my gift to her on her next birthday. Given that the similar enterprise for the benefit of her older sister six years ago took me roughly nine months to finish, I shouldn’t have waited until March to start something that I need to complete in June.
One thing works for me: I do not have to digitize hundreds of hours of 8mm video recordings this time around. Also, I now have a considerably more powerful hardware than I had then. And I am undoubtedly more skillful with the various media software. On the other hand, I haven’t done much movie-making since before our England years; I could be rusty, for all I know.
My activity log so far has a couple of hours for photo prep and about the same amount for introductory slideshow. I expect the total time to be in the vicinity of 150 hours. I better get on with that.
The children and I went to see Alice in Wonderland on Sunday. We are all big aficionados of Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece, and anything coming out in 3D these days has a strong attraction for us anyway.
We weren’t disappointed. The 3D experience is quite rewarding, special effects and amalgamation of live action and CGI continues to amaze, Johnny Depp is brilliant, other members of the cast were all quite good, Tim Burton’s take on the familiar story is appropriately dark and hilarious by turns. Kimmy, who is normally easily scared by on-screen monsters and startling action cuts, did not find the proceedings too scary.
My only problem was with Mad Hatter falling into Scottish accent during his rants. It must have been too long since I left UK – I had a bit of trouble deciphering his speech. Becky, on the other hand, had no such problem.
A solid on my scale.
NBC pissed me off with their atrocious Olympics coverage. ABC then decided to get on my bad side by making me miss Oscars.
I was almost expecting the looping “important message from Cablevision” that blamed all ills on ABC throughout the day on Sunday to be replaced by live Oscar feed just in time for the ceremony. That the feed was restored about an hour into the broadcast partially mitigated my displeasure with both ABC and Cablevision (which, I’ve no doubt, was shared by the 3 million Cablevision subscribers residing in WABC-7 broadcast area), but it still does not excuse either company. The Dolan family, cheapskates extraodinaire, seem to have positioned me and other subscribers as potential hostages in any dispute with content providers (which, judging by the fact that this is the second time this year that a popular channel was taken off the air, may become a regular happenstance). In this particular case, the little I understand about TV content economics does suggest that ABC is more at fault; I can’t imagine why a local affiliate in one specific region of the country, who produces very little of original content beyond local news broadcasts, would be suddenly worth 20% more than before, especially since it is, in effect, a free channel. (And I do know several friends who bought themselves digital antennas to ensure that they could watch Oscars even if the dispute was not resolved in time.)
The outcome will undoubtedly be higher rates for my cable subscription. The Dolans will quote-unquote apologize and blame it on the greedy networks, but that hardly makes me any happier.
As it were, we missed only the opening part of the ceremony, which might have been one of its more entertaining parts. We seemingly did not miss any of the actual awards, joining in when the Best Supporting Actor – which, I believe, is traditionally one of the very first categories to be awarded – was up.
There were surprisingly few entertaining bits in the rest of the broadcast. Only one production number, with brilliant street dancing to the nominated Best Original Scores. No live performances of the nominated Best Songs, which must be the newest trend. Several presenter routines were clever (Ben Stiller, or Diaz and Carell), while quite a few people looked uncomfortable and camera-shy. I liked the recently adopted practice of giving each of the Best Actor/Actress nominees a personal panegyric by a co-star; some of those salutations were quite charming. The Martin/Baldwin duo, conversely, was not at all funny and looked out of place – I can barely recall a joke of theirs that I laughed at (ok, the Paranormal Activity spoof wasn’t half bad); overall, IMHO, they were a huge downgrade from Hugh Jackman’s performance last year.
A number of acceptance speeches for “lesser” awards was quite rudely cut off, which may have helped to move things forward (nonetheless, the broadcast lasted a bit over 4 hours), but also probably contributed to there being very few good ones – I think Sandra Bullock’s was the only one that managed to be both funny and heart-felt without sounding arrogant or patronizing; I can only recall a couple of others (the French guy who won the Best Animated Short, the winner for the Best Score) who stayed away from the tired formula of “I couldn’t imagine this X years ago – Look at me now! – Thank you the managers and the agents and the members of the crew [and James Cameron the Visionary]“.
The Hurt Locker looks like a great movie that I definitely want to see, but its haul of Oscars and especially its Best Picture award look to me a bit of a stretch. Ever since Shakespeare in Love won over Saving Private Ryan in ’98, the Academy has been trying to over-compensate in favor of the socially- or politically-profound movies, and this must have been the case of the voters being biased towards a current-events, touches-the-nerve story over a fantastic allegory. Still, I felt that a ground-breaking movie a decade in the making, and one that so effortlessly became the most widely seen movie in the entire history, was slam-dunk deserving of the Best Picture Oscar. Makes it even more of an anomaly that The Return of the King cleaned up in ’03.
Also, the Best Picture award provided a single exception that I noticed this year to the trend of the same people winning all awards during the season. Jeff Bridges won a Golden Globe, a SAG Award and an Oscar for his role. Sandra Bullock did likewise. So did Christoph Waltz. So did Mo’Nique. I can’t imagine that their performances are such stand-outs compared to those of their fellow nominees that different voting bodies would each agree. Only when it came to the best movie, did the Academy of Motion Pictures vote differently from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Weird.
In any case, Oscars always rekindle my interest in watching movies. That, and the sight of gorgeous women in beautiful gowns – hey, I’m secure enough in my masculinity to admit that I enjoy that sight tremendously! – makes the Oscar night one of the most important TV nights in my viewing calendar. Good thing ABC and Cablevision came to their senses before it was too late.
Spent a few days in Chicago on business. The schedule was fairly packed, but I managed to squeeze in an evening with the little brother and his family. Did not manage to find much time for idle city-seeing, although I did try to take different routes between the hotel and the office, as I aways do.
From a point of view of an architecture lover, Chicago must be one of the most impressive American cities. All over the Loop, there are gorgeous examples of a wide variety of architectural styles. The concept of uniformity was seemingly paid no heed whatsoever when Chicago was built up in 19th-20th centuries, so there are literally no two like buildings in any proximity of one another. On a bright, sunny day, even the heart of the city’s concrete jungle is rather pleasing to the eye.
I’ve been to Chicago quite a few times in the past, and yet I never knew that many streets in its Downtown area exist on two levels, with the lower level providing a quicker driving route between various points; much fewer cars use those lower streets. When you walk around Chicago on foot, you may never realize that a wide thoroughfare such as North Michigan Ave is, in fact, an elevated roadway, with the ground-level street directly underneath it. When a taxicab suddenly took me along the lower-level route, I was stunned by the discovery.
I also feel like I should have been familiar with that before.
Having had been a comparatively frequent business traveler prior to the family move to England, I have not been on a business trip for nearly three years. The shaving cream can felt victim to my lack of recent exposure to traveling without checked-in luggage. It was a large container, well above the 100g limit allowed in the carry-on these days. The TSA agent looked at me with barely concealed disdain and my pride took a serious hit for being publicly nailed in an attempt to break the law, however inadvertently, especially as I was unable to conceal my incredulity and duly attracted the attention of everyone behind me in the security check line. It all makes sense, I suppose: Idiotic rules make you feel like an idiot.
On the other hand, I consoled myself, at least I can hope that a truly dangerous object would not escape TSA folks’ scrutiny, seeing how successful they were in preventing various bottles, cans and containers to accompany their hapless owners. My shaving cream joined a pile of at least 50 similar objects…
I am getting into a car to go pick up my teenage daughter and a couple of her friends from a trip to the mall. Because I’ve been volunteered to deliver those kids to their homes, and because one of them lives as far as is geographically possible from us while still technically residing in the same township, I am looking at 45-50 minutes of total driving. I want to have some music playing while I’m driving, and not of the kind that kids these days prefer.
My little problem: I don’t want to embarrass my kid. I want to be a cool Dad. And yet, 90% of music on my iPod is in languages other than English and hardly any is in genres that teenagers would appreciate. The rest falls into the “oldies” category, with a good chance of appearing too dated to the kids.
My only safe choice seems to be in going with my 50-song Beatles playlist. The Beatles are kinda undissable; even if the other kids don’t like it, I can’t imagine them giving my daughter hard time about her old man being a Beatles’ fan.
At some point after the kids get in the car, Hello Goodbye comes up in the shuffle. Suddenly, they all start singing along from the backseat1. Becky notices my apparent surprise of that and remarks: “See, Daddy, my friends are cool!”
If they are cool singing to it, I must be cool playing it.
Whew! Aced it!
1 It came up in a conversation afterwards that the teens know the song mostly because of Jonas Brothers’ cover, but they all agreed that they hated that and that the original version was much much better… | <urn:uuid:704cc52d-1fd7-4ee8-8906-842593b9d555> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://burlaki.com/blog/2010/03/ | 2013-06-19T01:34:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968092 | 5,111 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Centre for Visual Methodologies and Social Change is a research, teaching and community outreach unit located at the Edgewood Campus in the School of Language, Literacies, Media and Drama Education, in the Faculty of Education of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). It was established in 2004 through two research grants - a Competitive Grant of the University which made it possible to purchase video cameras, digital cameras and editing suites, and the NRF Learning Together grant, which focused on community-based HIV education and prevention research in a rural KZN district, and involved teachers, community health care workers and learners.
The Centre aims to promote a cultural production approach to Media Education not only in the context of teacher development, but also within community outreach. Based on our work we see a strong empowerment component that we would like to study further as part of the process of democratising research through the use of visual modes of inquiry and representation.
Click here for details about the CVM Staff.
The Centre for Visual Methodologies and Social Change has several main purposes:
(1) to advance the study of visual methodologies (photovoice, video documentary, radio documentary, digital technology, dress and other forms of material culture, including artistic representation and performance) within social action research;
(2) to promote a cultural production approach to media education not only in the context of teacher development but also within community outreach involving youth, community health workers, teachers, etc;
(3) to ensure appropriate training opportunities for staff and students who wish to incorporate visual methodologies into their research.
The CVMSC is committed to engaging in research, teaching, and community outreach activities that explore issues of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, and social inequalities both in southern Africa and abroad. The funded research projects of the CVMSC - Learning Together, Seeing for Ourselves, Taking IT Global, as well as the newly funded Youth as Knowledge Producers and elements of Every Voice Counts - take up these important issues in an arts-based framework, using the visual to give voice to the lived experiences of individuals and communities.
There are countless other important programs and organizations working to combat gender-based violence and reduce the spread of HIV, some of which we would like to highlight here.
Taking IT Global - HIV/AIDS
Youth as Knowledge Producers
Arts-based approaches to HIV and AIDS prevention and education in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
Every Voice Counts
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Hi everyone! It’s Dakota, and this is my first time participating in Blog the Change for animals. Normally, my brother Cody from Cat Chat participates, but this time he passed it on to me. Why? Because I am here to tell you about a special event coming up on July 23rd.
Many of you are probably shaking your head wondering why a pure breed dog would be promoting Dog Rescue. I’ll tell you why. If my parents had a Sheltie rescue near their home, that is where they would have gotten me. Not that they regret having me, NEVER! It’s just that when they wanted to get a Sheltie, my Mom wasn’t blogging, she didn’t know that there are pet transport services such as Pilots N Paws that could have flown a Sheltie to HER!!
All my parents knew then, was that the Sheltie rescues that they searched online for were much too far for them to visit. They do not regret purchasing me from a RESPONSIBLE breeder at all. Mom and Dad love the breeder where I came from and still keep in touch with her. It is just their first choice would have been to help a dog in need.
One important reason is from http://btc4animals.com
“Millions of dogs are euthanized each year because not enough people are adopting dogs through local rescue groups and shelters. Instead, many people purchase from pet stores not knowing that most come from puppy mills – read more at: http://www.aspca.org/fight-animal-cruelty/puppy-mills/puppy-scams-cons.aspx: Additionally, many people underestimate the time and dedication it takes to become a responsible pet owner, and surrender their dogs, or worse.”
So, on July 23rd we are going to be joining other dog bloggers in helping to spread the word about Dog Rescue.
How can YOU help?
- You can blog about a Dog Rescue related topic on July 23rd, 2012
- Adopting a companion: http://theshelterpetproject.org/
- Donating to a local dog rescue organization
- Fostering a dog
- Volunteering at a local shelter or rescue organization
- Sharing this post across all forms of social media and encourage others to participate!
Be sure to join us and all of our dog blogging buddies on July 23rd and help us to spread the word about the importance of
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Good Harmonics to Soothe the Mind…
I always do my best to find soothing, relaxing, or just interesting background music for my work (videos, rhymes, blogposts, etc.) – music that either puts the listener in more of a meditative state or something they can just vibe out to.
——— ON THE HIP-HOP SIDE ———
For more of the uptempo, jazzy stuff, just do YouTube searches for the following…these are lesser known producers (most from Japan or the Phillipines, actually) who I think are holding it down for hip-hop more so then we are over here. Check it:
FAT JON ————
& NUJABES ————
Also try producers Uyamo Hiroto, Nomak or Freddie Joachim.
——— ON THE DEEPER-SIDE ———
For the deeper tunes that’ll make you want to meditate or go into “reflection-mode” (what one of my ex-girlfriends calls “Nature Music” lol), it gets a little harder, because these artists tend to be VERY diverse…
You’ll probably like several joints from each person, but have trouble finding someone you like all the time. The only producer (or composer, really) I like universally is Yasunori Mitsuda. He’s dope.
Do YouTube searches for cats like:
YASUNORI MITSUDA ————
& YOKO KANNO ————
You can also search for songs by Naohito Uchiyama, Origa or Italian singer Illaria Graziano.
Hope this helps,
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Eastern Enlargement of the EU : A Comprehensive Welfare Assessment
AbstractThis paper takes a welfare-view on eastern enlargement of the EU, focusing on incumbent countries. Enlargement is decomposed into three elements: Single-market integration on commodity markets, budgetary costs from EU-expenditure policies, and singlemarket- induced migration from new to present member countries. I first use an analytical model to derive a welfare equation that identifies the principle channels for incumbent country welfare gains and losses from enlargement, including product differentiation, capital accumulation, and unemployment due to search-costs. I then propose a method that allows to extend welfare results obtained from a detailed calibrated version of this model for Germany to other incumbent countries. The approach relies on model elasticities extracted from the German model which are then applied to other countries´ idiosyncratic "enlargement-shocks". Constructing detailed indices for such country specific "enlargement-shocks", I arrive at characteristic inter-country pattern of enlargement- induced welfare effects for all EU15 countries. Aggregating these across countries reveals enlargement to be beneficial for the union as a whole, although several countries stand to suffer welfare losses. --
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For a while, Jorge De La Rosa seemed likely to wait on fellow free-agent lefty Cliff Lee, delaying his decision until the losers of the Lee sweepstakes could bid along with other clubs.
As it turns out, De La Rosa will act sooner rather than later.
The Rockies are close to re-signing De La Rosa to a three-year contract worth between $32 million and $33 million, according to major-league sources.
De La Rosa's represented by Paul Cohen and Bobby Barad, the same agents who handle Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, who's agreed to a contract extension through 2020, sources said.
The Rockies and Nationals had made offers to De La Rosa, and one or two other clubs were expected to submit proposals within the next 24 hours.
However, De La Rosa's comfortable in Colorado and works well with pitching coach Bob Apodaca. His desire to stay with the team – combined with a strong financial offer – apparently convinced him to stay.
The Pirates and Orioles are among the other teams that have expressed interest in De La Rosa, who played for the Pirates' new manager, Clint Hurdle, when Hurdle managed the Rockies.
The Yankees also have checked in, as they do on most prominent free agents, but their priority is Lee.
The Nationals' pursuit of De La Rosa was complicated by their efforts to sign hitters, most notably free-agent first baseman Carlos Pena. The Orioles, too, were working on parallel tracks for hitters.
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Same problem here. After getting fed up with lag spikes and constant disconnects (read: every pvp match), I repaired the game. After repair, I encountered several bug splat errors. I figured may as well try to repair again. After repairing the second time, still the bug splat. Finally, after uninstalling and reinstalling, the game is in a playable condition. Although there's still lag spikes and occasionally a disconnect (it's not quite as bad as before, but wtf..).
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Judith C. Aragona
2-26-1946 – 2-15-2010
Judith C. Aragona was born on February 26, 1946 in Bronx, NY. She passed away peacefully on February 15, 2010.
She is survived by her loving husband of 44 years, Vincent L. Aragona, Sr.; three children, Vincent Jr., John, and Deborah; daughter-in-laws, Lisa and Stacey; and five grandchildren, Ashley, Kyle, Brittany, Samantha and Matthew.
Judith married Vincent on July 9th 1965 and lived in East Patchogue, NY for 33 years and retired from the South Country School District.
After retiring in NY, Judy moved down to be with her children and grandchildren. Judy enjoyed photography, crafts and projects with her grandchildren.
A visitation will be held 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at McEwen Pineville Chapel, 10500 Park Road, Charlotte, NC 28210.
A funeral service will be held 10:00 AM Thursday, February 18, 2010 at McEwen Pineville Chapel.
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Earlier I posted about all the makeup and nails from Day 1 of MBFWA 2012 and here are my pics of the best hair from MBFWA Day 1…
1. Hair by Dmitri Papas for Goldwell at Dylan Cooper MBFWA show.
The inspiration for the gorgeous up-dos at Dylan Cooper MBFAW were inspired by James Dean! Hairstylist Dmitri Papas explained;
“What we wanted to do was make long hair look short and create an androgynous look for the females and make it look really strong and striking.”
Goldwell hair products used: Goldwell Stylesign Power Whip mousse
2. Hair by Joh Bailey for TRESemme for Whitney Eve & We by Whitney Eve MBFWA 2012
I absolute love the braided mohawks created by Joh Bailey at the Whitney Eve & We by Whitney Eve show.
Joh Bailey explained:
“To create the look, we’ve teased down the centre and used a lot of Dry Shampoo to create a dry look, and then we’ve braided over the teasing, tucked it under and created two flat braids on the side. The only two products used were the Dry Shampoo and Hairspray”
3. Hair by Jon Pulitano for Redken at Gail Sorronda MBFWA 2012
I’m not sure about the wear-ability of this super-slick hairstyle created by Jon Pulitano for Redken at the Gail Sorronda show, but it certainly is catwalk-worthy!
Redkin hair products used: Redken Forceful 23 and Redkin Shine Flash
4. Hair by Maria Ardino for Redken at Lisa Maree MBFWA
The super-slick ponytails by Maria Ardino for Redken at the Lisa Marie show are just stunning! And I think as well as being lovely to look at, this style is definitely achievable at home!
Maria Ardino explained:
“Today’s show is all about ‘Lucid Dreaming’, so it’s all about fantasy and a little bit magical. With this look, we’ve created a two-tiered twisted ponytail. What we’ve done is create the two contrasting colours with the human hair hairpiece in the ponytail.”
Redkin hair products used: Redkin Argan Oil 06, Redkin Rootful 06 and Redkin Forceful 23.
5. Hair by Sharon Blain for Goldwell at Camilla MBFWA
Sharon Blain created seven different hairstyles for the Camilla show, all with a bun on the top of the head paired with seven variations of ponytails or braids for the back of the hair, created with hair pieces.
Goldwell StyleSign hair product used: Hot Form, Diamond Gloss and a strong hairspray, the Magic Finish Hairspray.
6. Hair by Craig Smith for Schwarzkopf at Miss Unkon MBFWA
I love this classy version of the Shoreditch topknot Craig Smith created for Miss Unkon, and similarly to those lovely sleek ponytails at Lisa Marie, this is a style that would be really easily achievable at home.
OSIS+ products from Schwarzkopf Professional were used to create the look.
7. Hair by Alan White for ghd at Manning Cartell MBFWA 2012
The hair at Manning Cartell was influenced by Frida Kahlo and her love of texture, colour, flowers and the earth. Craig Smith created twisted up-does accented with pops of colour.
ghd hair products used: ghd Smoothing Finish Serum
8. Hair by Lee Preston for Goldwell at Aurelio Costarella MBFWA
Lee Preston created a cute twist on the classic ponytail by using two ponytails and tying them together in a knot.
9. Hair by Alan White for ghd at Ginger and Smart MBFWWA 2012
The models at Ginger and Smart wore braided mohawks, similar to those at Whitney and Eve, but much more sleek and structured and with bright pops of fluro colour to compliment the Ginger and Smart collection.
Alan White explained:
“What I did was take swatches of the outfits and then made those colours on weaves – and they’ve all got a fluoro tip to them.”
ghd hair products used: ghd Smooth and Finish serum, ghd Total Volume Foam and ghd Curl Hold Hairspray
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New York, NY (PressExposure) April 22, 2012 -- HR software developer Halfpricesoft.com (http://www.halfpricesoft.com) believe business owners should spend less time tracking employee time and more time ensuring their business succeed. Halfpricesoft.com recently updated ezTimeSheet time tracking software with new vacation and leave plan options to give small businesses more versatility when tracking vacation time, sick time and paid time off for employees. They hope this new edition of time sheet software can save user's more time and money on employee management.
The latest version of the software, Version 2.0.7, was released in early March and allows HR managers or employers to set up multiple accrual plans for vacation, paid time off, and sick time. Plans can then be assigned to employees based on their status. Businesses can assign different plans to employees and contractors, or one plan for veteran employees and another plan for new employees.
"Employee attendance tracking is important for any business and organization; however employee attendance and vacation time tracking can be very time-consuming. We believe small business should focus their time and energy on running their businesses, not trying to track attendance and PTO," explains Dr. Ge, President and Founder of halfpricesoft.com. "We intentionally engineered ezTimeSheet software for those end-employees who are not IT GURU and HR expert, so small businesses can set up ezTimeSheet quickly and easily."
Halfpricesoft.com is a Louisville, Ky.-based software developer specializing in accounting software for small- and medium-sized businesses. EzTimeSheet and the firm's other software titles are designed to be affordable and incredibly easy to use while still delivering the diverse features and functions necessary in today's business environment. New user can download and try this software for free with no obligation and no cost at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/time-tracking-time-sheet-download.asp.
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Without the manic intensity of me trying to liveblog every set of a 27-hour concert as it was happening, this year's Bang On A Can Marathon felt a lot more chill. Of course, it was also considerably shorter, clocking in at a mere 12 hours and change. Perhaps inevitably, it was also less diverse, with just four artists representing from outside of "new classical" circles (Karsh Kale, Owen Pallett, Marnie Stern and Dan Deacon). So yeah, evidently nobody from the jazz team made the cut this year. (The 2007 Marathon had sets by Vijay Iyer, Don Byron, and the World Sax Quartet.) However, the out-of-towners included Ireland's Crash Ensemble, Israel's Ensemble Nikel, and my peeps from the Soviet Socialst Republic of Canuckistan, Contact.
Alarm Will Sound played John Adams's Son of Chamber Symphony (3rd mvt.), Harrison Birtwistle's Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, and (much later in the night) Matt Marks's arrangement of The Beatles' (by which we really mean John Lennon's) Revolution #9.
The Adams is actually a reincarnation of a piece originally written for Kronos Quartet, later retrofitted for the Alarmists. It's a brisk amusement-park ride and they pretty much slayed it. It has some 4-on-the-floor bass drum that works infinitely better than that infamous orchestral "techno" section in Thomas Adès's Asyla -- although to be fair, I would probably like piece that a lot more if it was ever played with Alarm-level rhythmic authority.
AWS brought the same precision and intensity to the Birtwistle, a piece that is a very good example of the kind of fractured, disjunct, big-M Modernist aesthetic I basically cannot hang with. The individual moments here are often really striking -- we occasionally get a little taste of a cool little angular bass line -- but that's all Birtwistle will ever allow us, just a taste. Then he interrupts it with a few seconds of dissonant long tones, and even that quickly splinters off, motivic shards flying off in every direction. The performance was tight and they made a great case for it, but this cocktail of two parts solemnity to one part ADD is not really my drink of choice.
Carmen Arcadiae… actually makes musique concrète's all-time biggest hit, Revolution #9, sound positively linear by comparison. Matt gave a very entertaining introduction to his arrangement, wherein he likened Alarm Will Sound's penchant for creating acoustic reinterpretations of electronic music to Harry Potter fanfic: "Basically, we're giant geeks." So yeah, it's pretty much straight-up fanservice for the small but obsessive subset of Beatles fans who were actually intrigued by the White Album's penultimate, ah, "tune." (A Venn diagram would probably show considerable overlap between that set and the set of people who show up at the Bang On A Can Marathon.) Anyway, this painstaking recreation is wholly absurd and I loved it -- Matt's chart is wildly entertaining and theatrical, with members of the band honking car horns, screaming into mutes, imitating backwards tape loops, and screaming in each other's faces. ("Hold that line! Block that kick!") Does my fanboyish enjoyment of this arrangement make me a giant hypocrite? Yeah, probably. So what else is new?
Pamela Z played and sang Chalky Crystal Liquid Cave. I love Pamela Z. This time, she did not use her customary BodySynth, but a motion-sensitive theremin-like controller she called a "Swearingen" (named after the gadget's inventor, not Al.) Pamela went second (in between the first two AWS pieces) and, in an uncomfortable echo of last year's Juana Molina fiasco, her performance was delayed by tech gremlins. I dunno if the tsuris caused her to have to abbreviate her set, but whatever the reason, it was too damn short.
Lisa Moore played Annie Goslfield's Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers, for piano and keyboard-triggered sampler.
Gosfield explained that "Lightning Slingers" is old-school slang for "telegraph operators," and "dead ringers" refers to how the acoustic piano sounds are sampled and transformed into sounds that recall analog synths, slide guitar, and such like. I liked the moody, resonant middle section, and Lisa Moore is always impressive.
The Crash Ensemble played Donnacha Dennehy's Grá agus Bás, Terry Riley's Loops for Ancient Giant Nude Hairy Warriors Racing Down the Slopes of Battle (3rd mvt.), and later on, Arnold Dreyblatt's Resonant Relations.
Dennehy is an Irish composer, in case you couldn't tell. He is also the artistic director of the Crash Ensemble. If you are Irish, it must really suck to know that there is basically no aspect of your traditional culture that has not been commodified and kitschified for global export, to the point where now all it takes is a single pennywhistle appoggiatura or a mournful celtic fiddle slide to make people want to stab a shilelagh into their ear canal. This is to say that Dennehy has a tough row to hoe, trying to bring old-style Irish sean nós singing into a new music context, without stumbling into cliché -- and you know what, for the most part, he succeeded. While I did find the piece a wee bit meandering, the closing gesture, with Iarla Ó Lionáird's sweet voice riding atop the ensemble's furiously cascading arpeggios made for an ecstatic release.
Alarm Will Sound conductor Alan Pierson was pulling double duty last night, conducting Crash as well as his own band, but he left the Celts to their own devices for Terry Riley's Loops for Giant Nude Hairy Warriors etc. I enjoyed this drumset-driven, odd-meter aggro romp immensely.
I wanted to enjoy Arnold Dreyblatt's Resonant Relations -- it used an intriguing tuning system and contained some fun, oddball synth-harpsicord ostinatos -- but the music felt very stiff and episodic, without much apparent momentum or direction. I just wasn't feeling it.
Karsh Kale (tabla) and Raj Maddela (drum kit) played Timeline, which is basically a collection of sick beats, with occasional electronic pads underneath. Their hookup was great and the Hinustani-meets-hiphop beats were, I believe I mentioned, sick, but man cannot live by sick beats alone. I wanted to hear a proper band over top of those grooves.
Caleb Burhans sang no.
His sweet, ethereal countertenor sang out over a simple looped wash. The phrasing was irregular but flowing and organic, and Caleb's melodic instincts are unerringly sound. The performance had a spontaneous feel to it, so I asked Caleb later if it was improvised. He told me it was transcribed from an improvisation he'd recorded.
The Hartt Bass Band played Julia Wolfe's Strong Hold.
A Masada-inspired (no, not, Zorn's band... the actual fortification) epic for eight basses. I was struck by the huge range spanned -- lots of harmonics and off- the-fingerboard playing along with the low-end -- and also the almost complete absence of pizzicato playing. One bit felt almost like a concerto grosso, with frantic, piercing solo tremolos interrupted by weighty tutti arrivals. Unfortunately, though, the microphones were also picking up the click track, which was bleeding over from the players' headphones -- being able to hear that faint click throughout robbed the piece of some of its magic. (Next time, use in-ear monitors.)
Ensemble Nikel played Chaya Czernowin's Sahaf, and later, Sivan Cohen Elias's Riba and Ruben Seroussi's Nikel.
I'm afraid I wasn't really convinced by any of this music. Sahaf came closest -- it had some nice flittering gestures and I liked the spinning ratchets. But Riba, a sax guitar duet, sounded like it was composed by someone who had maybe read about improv in a couple of back issues The Wire without ever having listened to it, and thought it might be fun to try to elaborately notate what he imagined that sort of thing sounded like. Some drunk asshole actually cat-called the group during their performance of Nikel, shouting out a sarcastic "Wooo!" a few moments into the piece. I unequivocally denounce and reject this outrageous and unacceptable behavior -- just not the underlying sentiment. This piece managed to combine pointless meandering with timid bloodlessness, a combination that is guaranteed to be lethal in 100% of cases.
The Young People's Chorus of New York City sang Michael Gordon's Every Stop On The F Train
The F train is my train, and the text sung by the chorus is literally what it says in the title, from Jamaica-179th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue. The setting is inventive and charming -- it needs to be, obviously -- if perhaps not quite as memorable as the kids' selection from last year, Meredith Monk's "Three Heavens and Hells." (I still get little snippets of that one creeping into my brain at odd moments.)
The Bang on a Can All-Stars played selections from Evan Ziporyn's ShadowBang, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's Convex-Concave-Concord, and a bit later, Lukas Ligeti's Glamour Girl.
Ziporyn's piece gradually developed outward from a spare and hypnotic core into a joyous, swaggering, vaguely Frisellian metametric groove. Some Googling reveals that the recording apparently also involves a Balinese singer/shadow puppeteer... I should really check that out.
Very near the end of Convex-Concave-Concord -- after a spending a good long while suspended in quiet reflection amidst softly fluttertongued clarinet notes, indistinct guitar harmonics, and a spare simple woodblock pattern -- there is a sweet arrival point on what sounds like the work's first proper, you know, chord. Things begin to pick up from there. Moments later brings the appearance of what sounds an awful lot like a IV chord, and you begin to suspect something might be up. Soon, there's no escaping it -- you've been gradually drawn into a hazy, slow-mo blues progression. Okay -- that, I did not see coming. But when it hit, it felt improbably right -- I would love to hear it again so I can pay attention to what kind of hints may or may not have been dropped along the way. Regardless, I think this work can comfortably join Rzewski's Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues in that very, very short list of blues-inspired classical works that do not suck.
Lukas Ligeti -- yes, György's kid -- built Glamour Girl around a slightly skewed Afro-Pop sensibility and his drummer's-eye-view of music. I really enjoyed the conversational guitar lines, the blissed-out 3/4 groove in the middle and the abrupt drumroll ending. These three pieces were probably the closest in spirit and concept to my own compositions.
Violinist and singer/songwriter Owen Pallett played some of his songs, then the BOAC All-Stars joined him for Twelve Polearms.
There was a nice NYT feature on Owen ("The Return of the One-Man Band") not long ago, in which he expressed his abiding hatred of drummers. ("'Drummers ruin bands,' he said simply, as if the fact were common knowledge.") I think I understand where he is coming from -- his play-sample-loop-and-layer methodology is wholly unforgiving. It's true that lots of people are doing that now -- that was, after all, the hook for the article -- but Owen's approach to sampling is notably risky and complex, with no room for error. He's clearly spent a lot of work developing his own internal clock and does not want a drummer trying to tell him where he thinks the time is. But perhaps as a consequence, Owen's aesthetic does not exactly embrace the concept of "groove" with open arms. Obviously, a lot of people who are very smart about music are wholly besotten with Owen's playing and songwriting. So far, I find myself more in the "admire and respect" camp, but there's no question that he is a hell of a musician, and an excellent choice for a BOAC collaboration.
Anyway, after a short solo set, the All-Starts retook the stage and Owen gave a long, tongue-in-cheek preface to his commissioned work, Twelve Polearms, spinning an elaborate yarn about a "great interdimensional conflict" and the musical culture of an alien race of one-dimensional beings. The piece seemed to hang from an omnipresent undulating two-note figure that ran like a suspension wire through the work. It ended with the BOAC players laying out while Owen manipulated their sounds via captured loops.
Electronic artist Bora Yoon played ( ((PHONATION)) ), with live visuals by Luke DuBois.
I missed this. I needed a break, and needed to get some food in me.
SIGNAL (conducted by Brad Lubman) played Steve Reich's Daniel Variations.
SIGNAL is a new new music supergroup containing members poached from Alarm Will Sound, So Percussion, Gutbucket, and NewSpeak, and conducted by Brad Lubman (last seen by me conducting Johnny Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver at a Wordless Music hit back in January). This is the NYC debut for the group but they are meant to be a going concern. In his intro, Reich emphasized that his music needs an ensemble (i.e., a collection of players who are emotionally invested in both the group and the music they play), not an orchestra (i.e., an ensemble from which "indifferent professionalism" is pretty much the best you can hope for), and talked up SIGNAL as an American counterpoint to the great European new music powerhouses like the Ensemble Modern and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. (There are lots of small new music bands in the US, but few large ones, other than Alarm Will Sound.)
SIGNAL is dominated by younger players because, with a handful of notable exceptions, older generations of classical musicians just flat-out do not get rhythm. They do not believe it is, at minimum, a co-equal element to pitch, and consequently, they just do not spend that much time on rhythm. A singing, fluid rubato line is their comfort zone (which is great for Romantic music, not so much anything else), and they cannot make the conceptual leap to music that requires a strong, steady pulse. (Often they are disdainful of such music.) They are unable to take personal responsibility for the time. They can't distinguish between playing on top of the beat vs. rushing, or playing behind the beat vs. dragging. They don't get what a profound impact such tiny rhythmic nuances have on the music. They don't know how to lock in with other players. They do not know what a full-body groove feels like. They lack an emotional connection to rhythm.
Everyone in SIGNAL has an undeniable emotional connection to rhythm.
So Percussion played David Lang's the so called laws of nature
They did this one on the steps at the back (see pics below fold), making the already cavernous Winter Garden sound even more like an aircraft hangar -- Alan Pierson said the walnut planks sounded like crickets. For the second movement, the percussionists moved up a stage to the toms and kick drums. For the third, they moved down to tables where they played on teacups and tuned flowerpots, the sound of which was oddly mesmerizing.
Marnie Stern played guitar.
At every Bang On A Can Marathon, there is always one artist whose job it is to do everything they can to signal "What the hell am I doing here?" short of actually coming out and saying it. Last year that band was the rap-metal band Dälek. This year, it was scruffy shredhead Marnie Stern, who normally plays and sings with an actual, you know, band. Instead, for the Marathon, she came out alone, set up a wall of squall with her pedals, and only occasionally pierced the veil with some scrabbly double-tapping or a pair of klunky power chords.
Dan Deacon wrote the electronic parts for Ultimate Reality Part 3. He pressed "play," and then I think he probably left the stage and got his groove on down on the dance floor (and there was a dance floor for Dan's set), but I can't be sure. Kevin Omeara and Jeremy Hyman played the live drum parts.
Kids these days, they love the conservatory-trained Baltimore-based electronic dance guru Dan Deacon. His sound palette is bright and supersaturated with analog warmth. I don't know if he normally uses live drummers, but Omeara and Hyman were both on fire. Jimmy Roe Roche's entertaining video accompaniment mirrored and distorted many of the Governator's greatest cinematic moments. (It struck me that many in the audience were not even born when The Terminator was first released.) Deacon's rapid-fire synth arpeggios sounded a bit like a dance-pop remix of Music in 12 Parts. Good clean fun (with crowd-surfing, even), but seriously, this was way too short -- one 15-minute tune, and that's the whole set? Those kids came down to the Winter Garden at 4 AM to party -- what were they supposed to do now?
Contact played Allison Cameron's 3rds, 4ths, & 5ths and Brian Eno's Discreet Music (arr. Jerry Pergolesi).
Well, one option for the Deaconites was to stick around for the Toronto-based new music band Contact, and actually, a fair number of them decided to sit tight. (Although some of them appeared to be under the impression that Brian Eno himself would be showing up.) Anyway, Allison Cameron's piece for Contact was a pretty postminimalist ballad, after which they geared down even further into Eno's gauzy dreamscape. I really enjoyed Suzanne Bocanegra's simple but effective video, which involved a hand stacking olive-colored pieces of cardboard. The arrangement didn't quite draw me in the way the All-Stars' version of Airport Music did last year, but it did make for a pleasant bit of sunrise-music. (I think Stimmung was supposed to be the sunrise piece but the Marathon was running a bit late.)
Toby Twining Music sang Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung. Sonically, it's an incredibly striking piece, constructed almost entirely from overtone singing. (If you've heard Tuvan throat singing, you've heard overtone singing.) It's built from a single, unvarying sonority -- a Bb9 chord, in just intonation (on account of the vocal overtones). It involves "magic names," words and phonemes in multiple languages, and the passing around and transformation of material. You can actually get a pretty good basic sense of the processes that fuel the piece from the work's Wikipedia entry, but if you want the long version, with score excerpts, go here.
Stimmung is a very beautiful and original and transfixing piece of music. The performance was outstanding. (One of the singers was Sylvie Jensen of the M6, a vocal group I have raved about previously, and she was a powerful and charismatic force throughout.) It is also, I feel I should point out, almost 80 minutes long. This was about 20 minutes past the expiration of my patience, at least at that point in the Marathon. Honestly, programming it immediately following the similarly quiet, tranquil, static Brian Eno piece seems a little bit perverse.
I say this only because for the first hour or so, I was completely under the spell of Stockhausen's remarkable work. I didn't want that fugue state to end, but unfortunately, I ran out of gas before the piece did. I stuck it out, of course, but mentally I was spent. I felt like the runner who collapses 400 meters shy of the finish line, and has to drag himself across on his hands and knees.
Maybe I oughta train for these things.
Pictures are below the fold.
Bruce Hodges (Monotonous Forest) also went the distance.
Lauren Cartelli (Notes From a Subway Journal) [hearts] Owen Pallett.
Alex Ross is ill, but stuck it out until half-time.
Guest of a Guest does amateur sociology.
(Pics below the fold... )
Alarm Will Sound
Raj Maddela (of Karsh Kale duo)
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We're slowly but surely getting our first round of patterns in the Vintage Pattern Lending Library's 1912 Project. Technically, my group hasn't gotten their pattern yet, but the pattern pictured here was issued as a special challenge pattern, to be sewn at our choosing. Challenge patterns are either more difficult than the other patterns, or have special or more time-consuming techniques.
With this much insertion lace, this pattern definitely falls under "time-consuming," but I think it also falls under "gorgeous," "fabulous" and "I want a waist small enough to wear that."
Which I do not have, but I don't think many women do - even back then. That's why they wore corsets. And this beauty was meant to be worn over the corset, which was in turn worn over some kind of combination chemise/underdrawers garment. So this is actually the third layer of getting dressed.
No wonder these women felt faint all the time.
After I printed and taped the pattern together and laid it out on the living room floor (do I need to tell you how many pictures I erased before I got one without a cat in the frame?), I flat measured the waist seam, which is marked. Sorry the markings are so faint - they're pretty light in reality and no matter how I tweaked, I couldn't get them to come up any darker.
I'll be making this up to fit me, but it's going to take some maneuvering. Just looking at it, I know I'm going to have to lengthen it from shoulder to bust, and then again from bust to waist. Waist to hip I might be okay, and the fit isn't as specific there anyway.
The slip, by the way, takes 3 yards or so of lawn for the garment itself, 12.5 yards of 1" lace for the insertion (or 8.5 if you don't add it to the pleated ruffle), and an additional 1.5 yards for said ruffle. There's also 2" lace for the top, and eyelet that gets threaded with ribbon. That's a lot of work for underwear.
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July 24, 2012
Wood Text Styles
Here's another set of ASL.file Photoshop Text Styles, this one contains 15 various types
of wood, hopefully they may be of some use to you. Like most text styles, best if used on
large text or bold type.
I've been trying my hand at different things within Photoshop, styles is the latest,
but there will be other things to follow, and yes I haven't forgotten about textures,
just giving myself a break from them, while learning new things.
DOWNLOAD ZIPPED FILE HERE;
OR DOWNLOAD HERE
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If it were me I'd get him evaluated, for several reasons. The first is just magical thinking, which is that I'd figure that by the time I got through all the hoop-jumping to get the eval, he'd probably have moved on to the next phase. But I'd also rather do the eval and find out it was nothing than spend more months worrying about it. If it isn't bothering you that much, then maybe you don't want to get him evaluated. But since you took the trouble to email me about it, I'm guessing it's bugging you enough to initiate the process to rules things out for your own peace of mind.
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Bellevue City Council OKs Sound Transit tunnel
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BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) -- The Bellevue City Council unanimously approved the Sound Transit plan to run light rail trains across the Interstate 90 floating bridge and tunnel under Bellevue into Redmond.
The $2.7 billion project will extend light rail 14 miles from Seattle. Trains are scheduled to be running east of Lake Washington in 2023.
KIRO-FM reports (http://bit.ly/vf8qcT) the tunnel could cost the city $160 million.
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Incoming Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson will make $60,000 more in base pay his first year than Allan Gilmour is collecting his last year at the same post, and he will get a $50,000 bonus just for staying in office five years, under an employment contract he signed with the university last week.
Iron Chef Michael Symon
bet big on Detroit when he opened Roast in the Westin Book Cadillac in 2008.
Charlie Knoll started out in the motorcycle business washing bikes at his family's Harley-Davidson dealership in Burlington, Iowa, at age 9. Now, at 28, he is opening the first Michigan dealership to sell exclusively high-end Ducati motorcycles.
Most members of the board of trustees at Oakland University
aren't talking about President Gary Russi
's retirement or the university's decision to fire his wife, Beckie Francis
, the women's basketball coach. And there looks to be a reason for that.
The spigot has been opened for a new regional authority to take over the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
Part of the United Way for Southeastern Michigan
's theory of change was to fund academic turnaround consultants for each school.
Whether the Wayne County Consolidated Jail project ends up being a textbook-definition 'boondoggle' remains to be seen, but Michigan has a rich history of bungled projects.
A source says Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr plans to offer Detroit creditors 10 percent of what they are owed; Whole Foods opens its doors in Midtown; Compuware makes changes at the top; musician Jack White paid the back taxes bill for the historic Masonic Temple.
In a departure from its typical grant-making operations, Ford Motor Co. Fund
is on site at a new southwest Detroit community center, helping to direct renovations and select the programs and nonprofits it will support there for the next five years with $10 million in grants.
Workers are busy putting the finishing touches on $1 million in capital improvements at Freedom Hill Amphitheatre as the outdoor venue prepares for its first concert in three years. A new promoter, sponsors and renovations help concert venue book 32 shows.
06/02/13 LA Fitness
could invest more than $40 million and add more than 100 local jobs in the region over the next year under a corporate plan to add six new locations in metro Detroit -- including two on the sites of closed auto dealerships.
06/02/13 DTE Energy Co.
is embarking on a major capital maintenance program this year for its 2.1 million customers in Southeast Michigan to improve service reliability and reduce the average time homes and businesses are without power during outages, officials told Crain's
Talent -- finding and keeping it -- was one of the main themes at the Mackinac Policy Conference. If you are involved in hiring decisions -- or have college-age offspring -- you may be interested in three homegrown resources:
Yes, there were some big stories over the past few days -- the biggest was Pulte announcing it would move its headquarters to Atlanta. Here are some of the other things that happened in business over the past week.
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There are signs of hope for millennials who entered the labor market during the recession and have since remained underemployed. This special report delves into the state of talent as Michigan's business and government leaders tackle the issue this week as well.
Special Report: Talent & Retention
In early May, Crain's
and Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
convened a panel of executives for a discussion about how metro Detroit and Michigan can develop and retain talent. The following is an edited transcript. In some cases, comments have been reordered to preserve the conversational thread.
Special Report: Talent & Retention
Even though they may be doing much of their hiring from the same pool of résumés, a growing roster of metro Detroit employers are working together to find talent.
A series of disagreements over major policy and operational issues appears to have led to the breakup of merger talks between Beaumont Health System
and Henry Ford Health System
05/26/13 St. John Providence Health System
, a Warren-based Catholic system with five hospitals in Southeast Michigan, is expected to lay off an unspecified number of employees by June 30, according to a letter to employees by interim CEO Jean Meyer, Crain's
Two metro Detroit companies announced last week that they have filed registration statements for initial public offerings. Plymouth Township-based Esperion Therapeutics Inc.
said Tuesday that it had filed for a $70 million IPO and plans to be listed on Nasdaq under the symbol ESPR. Credit Suisse AG
and Citigroup Inc.
are the lead managers.
05/19/13 Ralco Industries Inc.
has submitted plans to build a new 125,000-square-foot world headquarters and manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills. The total investment is $13.5 million.
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, Henry Ford Hospital
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In celebration of the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles screenings at Sunset Gower Studios this month, we're conducting a series of Q&A Features and this week we're bringing you our featured Filmmaker Spotlight:
Name/Position: Seif Abdalla/ Writer & Director
Tell us a little bit about your project and how long you’ve been working on it.
Fragments is a film about the idea of escaping time and to live in a fantasy realm of past memories. I’ve always been interested in the concept of time and the relationship it has with memories and then by August last year, I decided that I wanted to write a short story about it. The story was merely just a novella, but then it turned into a short screenplay and I wanted to make it into a short film. After several drafts I had a locked script and then began pre-production. The actual shooting took five days. Then, the finished product was done by March of this year.
Is there anyone you'd like to thank for helping out with this film?
I’d like to thank the producer who is also the lead actress in the film, Sandra Seeling Lipski. She’s been really supportive in the process in the fruition of the film.
Also I’d like to thank the director of photography Rainer Lipski, who is very talented and experienced in the field and has been a remarkable collaborator.
Also Tommy Dietrick who is the music composer, he made a magnificent soundtrack using live instruments in his studio and also Abhi Malhotra, the sound designer who truly captured the feeling and mood of the film and also the feeling of drowning, which is a common element in the film. Finally Mahmoud Awad, my partner in Ber-Waz Films.
How does it feel to have your film part of the NewFilmmakers Screening at Sunset Gower Studios?
I’m incredibly excited and honored to be a part of this prestigious festival, it’s such a great feeling to have your work appreciated and acknowledged.
What inspires you?
Books, music and films. I find for a filmmaker, reading feeds your creativity and fuels your imagination.
Who are your influences and who do you admire?
-The great Japanese author, Haruki Murakami whose work I admire very much. I relate to his surreal and abstract style in his fictional stories.
-The writer/director Christopher Nolan whose films have been a great inspiration for my work especially this film.
-The writer/director Terrence Malick whose meditative and surreal style is right in my alley.
What lessons have you learned from the industry so far?
The power of collaboration can truly inspire miracles and combined visions that transcends into a synthesis. Be extremely prepared for production yet flexible for new ideas on set. Patience is main key for any project to come to fruition.
If you could collaborate with anybody, who would it be?
I would love to collaborate with my favorite filmmaker Christopher Nolan [since] I can relate and understand the abstractions and the narrative freedoms he possess in his films.
What is the toughest experience you've ever had to overcome?
A challenging experience in this project would be the editing itself. Since the film doesn’t follow a conventional narrative structure, we had to come up with a specific editing style that could reward the film’s themes and also keep a narrative flow that the audience can follow and not feel lost. To reach such a point, it took incredible effort and patience.
What is the best piece of advice someone has given to you?
You must have a unique voice.
What advice would you give to new filmmakers starting out in the industry?
Making films is an obsession; it takes belief and courage to be a filmmaker.
Where can we expect to see you next?
I’ll be in Egypt shooting my first feature film that would take about six months.
Let our readers know where they can find more information about you and your projects.
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By Frank Ceresi and Carol McMains
Literally millions of people worldwide either currently collect or have collected baseball cards sometime during their lives. Most of us who grew up in the 50's and 60's fondly recall the heyday of bubble gum card collecting when the Topps Company reigned supreme. What many people don't realize is that baseball card collecting didn't start out as a fun and leisurely pastime for Little Leaguers but was originally part of a corporate marketing strategy to sell tobacco products. The decision to use images of ballplayers to sell tobacco over a century ago made sound business sense then and, incredibly, the cards remain extremely popular even today. For even in the current market, although collectors still attempt to assemble sets from card companies that flourished after 1950, there is a very strong collectible market for the "granddaddy cards" . . . tobacco baseball cards which were originally produced over 125 years ago! We predict that interest in the cards will even get stronger. Read on!
The Birth of the Card Industry
Card collecting was introduced in this country by tobacco companies as long ago as the 1870's. There were several card sets produced during that time period that featured not only baseball players but other sportsmen and women of the time. Between 1887 and 1890, the Goodwin and Company of New York produced the first true series of baseball cards, numbering several hundred which featured sepia toned photographs of baseball players. The series, popularly called The Old Judge cards, were quite popular with a public that was increasingly interested in the game of baseball. Baseball was, after all, entrenched as our national pastime.
It was no coincidence that the popularity of tobacco cards grew as the country was becoming a premier industrial nation. By and large, Americans worked hard, leisure activities flourished, and cigarettes became not only socially accepted but, at least for men, smoking was "the thing to do." By 1912 there existed a full-fledged card collecting frenzy with nearly 75 different baseball series issued. Additionally, hundreds of non- sport cards series were issued as tobacco companies executed mass advertising campaigns to capture the burgeoning market.
The T -206 and T -205 Tobacco Card Sets
In 1909 the stage was set for the release by the American Tobacco Company of America's famous T -206 series of baseball major and minor leaguers. The set received its designation from the American Card Catalogue years ago and it is still considered by far the most popular card tobacco set of the 20th century. Even today as we cruise various online auctions we see many cards offered from this antique set even though it was issued nearly a century ago. Although millions of T -206 cards were originally issued worldwide, of the 524 different cards in the series it is estimated that only a modest number of cards survive today because of their age (after all, many people threw out the cards as they fished out of the pack the commodity they really wanted -- the cigarette), and because of the massive paper drives during the two world wars. However, even today there are still plenty of cards available for what is considered fertile territory for the discerning collector.
Following the success of the T-206 white bordered set, the American Tobacco Company issued another set in 1911, designated T-205 in the American Card Catalogue, that is also still extremely popular. To contrast the two sets of cards, the T-206's are nicknamed the "white bordered" set and their cousins, the T-205's, are called the "gold borders." While the cards are approximately the same size, they are quite different in appearance. The main difference is, as the name suggests, that the T-205 cards have delicate gold leaf borders. The borders are quite attractive but because of their fragile consistency, today's collector should be aware that the comers and edges of the cards are often chipped or cracked.
Similar to their white bordered counterparts, the T-205 set advertised on the backs of the cards several different producers of tobacco, all of them being under the American Tobacco Company Umbrella. Romantic sounding tobacco company names like Carolina Brights, Hindu, Drum, Sweet Caporal and American Beauty elegantly adorned the backs of the cards. As with the T-206's, some of the advertisements on the backs of the gold bordered set are much rarer and tougher to find than others. There are dozens of variations of tobacco advertisements on the back of both card sets which, as expected, serve to even further entice the hoards of collectors and enhance their collectibility. The chase, after all, is in the hunt and what better way to enjoy the hunt is to search for collectibles with dozens of variations!
Why are the cards still so collectible in today's market? Both the T-206 white bordered set and the T-205 gold borders have several advantages over other collectibles that has kept collecting interest in them strong. We predict with the excitement generated by the Wagner auction (see below) interest will continue to grow.
- First and foremost, they are extremely attractive and have much eye appeal. Even though mothers and grandmothers everywhere thought they were worthless junk decades ago, the front of these nifty cards feature colorful and poignant studio or action poses of the various ballplayers.
- Second, because the cards were printed on thick string-mulch pressboard paper stock, even though they shared space with cigarettes crammed into a pack, today's marketplace abounds with tobacco cards that are remarkably clean and clear. Simply put, they remain relatively sturdy considering their age.
- The cards have remained popular also because they are a convenient compact collectible in that both cards measure about 1 1/2 inches wide and 2 1/2 inches high. They don't take up much space and fit nicely in notebooks, scrapbooks and other similar holders.
- The sets have remained popular not only because of their stunning and colorful fronts but because the various different backs are, as mentioned, quite interesting. Because the backs advertised the various cigarettes, collecting examples from the many cigarette brands is challenging yet rewarding whether the collector is a novice or expert.
- Finally, the cards enjoy continued popularity because the sets feature some of the greatest ballplayers of the deadball era. Namely, Hall of Famers like Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, Frank Chance (who were the subject of the wildly popular baseball poem featuring the double play prowess of "Tinkers to Evers to Chance"), Ty Cobb and, of course, Honus Wagner.
The Wagner Card
The T -206 card set will always generate enormous collecting interest because it contains the famous Honus Wagner card. We believe this interest will increase the public's awareness of the classic tobacco sets and new fans of these little gems will abound. First, let us tell you about the famous T -206 Honus Wagner card.
Estimates are that only 20 or so Wagners still exist today and even superstar collectors such as Wayne Gretzky consider the card their premier collectible. The Wagner card is undoubtedly the most prized of all baseball cards in the world because of its controversy and rarity. Some have called it "the Mona Lisa" of baseball cards and as you study Honus' bemused expression and gaze at the portrait's vivid colors on the card, you can readily see why.
Why is the card so rare and controversial? We know that it was mysteriously and without fanfare pulled from general circulation by the American Tobacco Company shortly after its release, but why? Many have speculated that the company was sensitive to Honus Wagner's own objection to the production of the card because, it is commonly believed, he was reluctant to allow his image to be associated with any tobacco-related products. He did not, the legend continues, believe in promoting tobacco consumption that might unduly influence impressionable children.
However, this perception has been challenged by baseball historians who have posited that Honus had a more commercial reason to complain to the card manufacturer and ultimately force the card's virtual disappearance. Because there have been examples where Wagner actually advertised for tobacco products prior to the production date of the card and several photographs have been unearthed that show the great ballplayer enjoying a clump of tobacco chaw at the ballpark in full view of his adoring public, children included, the more cynical view is that Wagner's public disdain for tobacco consumption was merely a cover for his anger at not receiving compensation for the use of his image to promote cigarettes as a popular product. He was, after all, known to be a sharp business negotiator.
Was Wagner anti-tobacco long before his time or did he simply have a sharp business sense? Who knows but the controversy continues and, as expected, has served to only increase the card's allure and charm. Gretzky bought his card at auction for over $400,000. It was purchased and subsequently auctioned again for over $600,000. It will shortly be auctioned again in July by Rob Lifson, of Robert Edward Auctions, a division of Mastronet.com. What will it bring? Will it be the first million dollar baseball card? Stay tuned!
Tips for Today's Collector
Okay, we all can't own the Wagner card but what about some of the less expensive examples from these great card sets? What is their value in today's market and are they sound investment items? We generally are loathe to call any collectible a sound investment . . . it's too risky. But we make an exception here. Actually, despite the Wagner card and a few extremely rare and expensive card variations, we believe that the T-205 and T-206 cards are actually undervalued and under-appreciated by the general collecting public. They are terrific items to collect!
First, let us explain to you why we believe tobacco baseball cards are currently under-appreciated. Though cards of the major stars in both the T-205 and T-206 sets can cost several hundred dollars in great condition, non-stars (commons) can be purchased, even in great shape, for as low as $25 to $50 a piece. Believe me, that is a bargain when one considers the exorbitant prices being charged for this year's "chase" cards in any of the major baseball card sets. Does anyone seriously believe the "rookie" card of a major league ballplayer who started their career within the last five years is a sound investment item? We doubt it. That's like picking a winning horse in a race with a blindfold on!
Next, we'll tell you why we believe the cards are undervalued in today's ever- increasing collectibles market. First, the modem cards are, by anyone's estimate, overabundant and will therefore always be plentiful, especially when today's hotshot becomes yesterday's news. That is certainly not true of the classic tobacco cards of the past. Sure there are still thousands around but many are closely held onto by experienced collectors and remember that they were produced en masse when your grandfather's father was around. Now is the time to wisely begin to build up a tobacco card collection. Second, at least to us, the T -205's and 6's are extremely attractive whereas most modem cards are garish looking, not very creatively designed and considered "old" and "out of date" after only a year or two. That certainly is not true for the classic tobacco cards from a hundred years ago. | <urn:uuid:46145f89-6965-40b8-91d3-6204db4e0f72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fcassociates.com/nttobacco.htm | 2013-06-19T01:32:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976013 | 2,332 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Guest post written by David Borowski
Studies of outsourcing buyer sentiment commonly find that over 50% of outsourcing relationships are considered unsuccessful. At best, this results in non-renewal of an expiring agreement; at worst, early termination and, in some cases, litigation. In any case, disentanglement results in high costs and significant business continuity risks – whether transitioning services to an alternative provider or bringing them back in-house – and is a decision that should be made only after all mitigation and reconciliation options have been exhausted.
Address the real issues, but walk only as a last resort
A thorough diagnostic is essential for identifying the true root causes of any performance issues; replacing a provider won’t necessarily improve the situation if that provider didn’t cause the problems. In many cases, buyer behavior contributes to outsourcing failure through poor oversight, changing priorities, ineffective communication and inconsistent support. Buyers who practice poor governance throughout the relationship and fail to work proactively with their providers to address disappointing service will likely experience suboptimal results, regardless of the specific provider.
Even when issues are directly attributable to vendor performance, the decision to walk away from an outsourcing relationship should not be taken lightly. The level of frustration with provider performance must be overwhelming to justify the hard and soft costs associated with the termination and resulting transition. The provider should first be given sufficient opportunity to cure any issues. A termination notice should not be the first time the provider learns of service dissatisfaction.
Know the contract inside and out
In cases when all remedies have been exhausted it is essential to study the outsourcing agreement’s termination and disentanglement related sections to fully understand options, risks and costs. This is not only to validate termination rights, but also to simultaneously identify any conditions associated with those rights and assess the implications of exercising them. For example, having the right to terminate for cause does not necessarily mean a contractually legitimate basis or the fact base necessary to prove cause exists.
For some events, such as a vendor change of control or gross negligence, termination rights are often clearly defined in the contract and more straightforward to justify. However, in general, termination conditions are far more difficult to diagnose as they straddle the line between convenience and cause. General dissatisfaction with provider performance is typically insufficient justification for a cause-related termination unless it is substantiated by service level violations that are pre-defined as breaches that specifically allow termination for cause. Even then, the provider must have had an opportunity to resolve the issues. Without a clear cause-based right to terminate, a customer’s justification and ability to terminate is usually limited to convenience, however, in most cases, this will entail non-trivial termination-related charges.
Evaluate costs and risks
Regardless of whether terminating for cause or convenience, the transition will likely result in significant costs to migrate from an incumbent provider. Buyers will need to evaluate multiple future-state options, which may include bringing the services back in house, sole sourcing to another vendor, or conducting a competitive sourcing event. A business case should assess the costs associated with termination and disengagement, as well as the costs of transitioning services to an in-house or alternative provider. Such costs may include termination fees, third party services, parallel processing costs during ramp-up/ramp-down, and allocations for internal support resources. | <urn:uuid:af9c0eda-75ec-4f41-a591-bea46c4319ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/09/18/irreconcilable-differences-when-to-end-an-outsourcing-deal/ | 2013-06-19T01:33:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938662 | 682 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Family Bee is an industrial strength family tree viewer. It allows viewing of all details for individuals and families in GEDCOM genealogy files. View all individuals, family information, individual bio information, pedigree trees, descendant lists, notes, etc.
Lets you annotate your tree with on-site notes, including photos (graves, primary docs, etc.), and send them to your home machine via GMail.
The App is fast, robust, and complete. It has been tested on files up to 20MB (65,000 names).
This trial version is fully functional. However, it is time-limited to two weeks use. The full version is available for $10. (Find it on the Market by scrolling down to "View more applications".) | <urn:uuid:cc6eccd0-d1b9-4660-9cee-53012d14a9bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.freenew.net/android/com-beekeeper-android-familybee-trial/575643.htm | 2013-06-19T01:41:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919095 | 157 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Did you read the New Year's resolutions on the editorial page two weeks ago? I had wanted to say my resolution was to be able to get into my skinny jeans standing up, but I realized a lot of people wouldn't get it because they hadn't read my column.
Half of the people reading those resolutions only read the front page, the obituaries and the editorial page. It's been seven years since the Post switched my column from the editorial page to the Lifestyle section and I still run into people who ask me why I stopped writing.
Which brings me to Post editor Todd Cline's resolution: To get more people to write letters to the editor.
I must admit I'm surprised that so few people write letters to the editor when it's such an easy way to have their say and these days doesn't even cost a stamp! And it's not just that LTEs are so popular locally. They are read by people everywhere.
When I was a LTE writer, a talk show host in New Orleans called me about a letter I'd written concerning an issue at Stone Mountain Park. When I wrote about a Gwinnett teacher abusing the moment of silence, CBS called and interviewed me for a possible feature on "60 Minutes."
When Pulitzer Prize writer Rick Bragg spoke at a Gwinnett Public Library function, he said the first thing he does when he comes to a new town is read all the letters in the local paper to get a feel for the community. A lot of politicians do the same.
Now with news tracking services hooked up to the Internet, letters are scanned right along with columns and news stories. The name Baby Noor in my Dec. 10 column brought in e-mails from New York and Texas, because subscribers requested links to anything that contained her name, which would include LTEs.
Hobnobbing with other writers has given me other insights into the value of LTEs. When I was at a writing conference in Athens, historians told me they read LTEs to find out what the real people thought. Historical novelists said they read old LTEs to find inspiration for more genuine characters and settings.
So, for anyone out there with an opinion to express, a simple LTE puts your name on the most popular page, gives you worldwide visibility through tracking services and a chance to make history. I'd say that's plenty of reason to start writing. And if my words aren't enough, then I'll conclude with words written by Abraham Lincoln:
"Writing is the greatest invention of the world. Great in the astonishing range of analysis and combination ... great, very great in enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, the unborn, at all distances of time and space."
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My girlfriend and I are both Vegan and when i searched the Quad City area, where i'm originally from, Downtown Central Perk came up as the only vegetarian restaurant in town so we were optimistic that it might have more dining options for us than we could find elsewhere. sadly, we were wrong.
somehow for a vegetarian restaurant they manage have about as many vegan options as most regular restaurants we go to. worse yet, they're really poor options. i mean, of the 9 vegan options on a menu of well over 60 choices, they offer hummus and pita chips, a hummus wrap, and a hummus sandwich (the same as the wrap only on bread). seriously? is hummus all we eat? the remainder of their inspired opions include bruschetta (on pita chips also), oat meal (yes just plain oat meal), and their signature vegan option 'The Elvis'. we tried the elvis which, granted, was fairly tasty, but it's just a plain peanut butter and banana sandwich that's fried. but even this effort wreaks of lack of effort because if you actually know what an elvis is, (google "define: elvis sandwich" and it will literally tell you) it should be peanut butter, bananas and BACON. now i know bacon isn't an option here but seriouslsy i've had more than a few types of very good vegan bacon and that little extra bit of giving-a-shit that throwing a slice of facon in the mix would would have provided would go a long way to their credibility.
frankly, i felt strangely out of place there. the girl working there seemed a bit annoyed to have to serve us even thought it seemed like we were about the only people in the place, and when we asked common questions about substitutions and ingredients to see what items could be ordered vegan she acted just as befuddled if not more so than i'm used to getting from typical wait staff in any restaurant. when we asked if any of the dozen or more veggie burger's patties were vegan she responded "i dunno, maybe the boca?" seriously. I know it's just a vegetarian place but she acted like she'd never encountered a vegan before.
i'm sure this place is great for vegetarians with all the creative burger options, and if that's your thing you should surely check it out, but if you're vegan they really don't have much to offer. they definitely don't give much thought to the vegan demographic here so until they drop the 'let them eat hummus' attitude, they're not gonna be getting much business from us.Pros: good location
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Album Remarks & Appraisals:
Steve Lewis presents his new album Shaky Floors - a twisted ride through a musical landscape marked by tricksters, bad girls, magical hats, guerrilla revolutionaries, and dirty rock. While straddling the rock, funk, and folk worlds, Steve's many influences converge in a way that is unique and endearing, with flashes of Beck, T. Rex, Pixies, and Tom Waits. "Steve Lewis plays winningly stripped-down guitar pop, pitched somewhere between Elvis Costello and Tom Petty." -Time Out New York
Personnel: Steve Lewis (vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards).
Audio Mixer: Bil Emmons.
Recording information: Think Tank Studio, Hoboken, NJ.
Photographer: Jay Frederick. | <urn:uuid:8a1a2a24-97b2-4557-a952-cd6b059d9a62> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hbdirect.com/album/2208491-steve-lewis-shaky-floors-digipak.html | 2013-06-19T01:40:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.831985 | 166 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
My sons were down from school for Easter weekend and I had a nice chat about "the future" with Alex, my eldest, who will be graduating from the University of Florida this summer. Alex is a bright, hardworking young man, so I struggle to maintain that fine line between giving him my sage fatherly counsel and making him cringe.
With his graduation around the corner, and his plans for graduate school, I felt compelled to brief him on a lot of the global economic realities visible most clearly to those of us addicted to the Wall Street Journal. He listened, and it is notable that the older he gets, the more he knows what he does not know. As I told him about the barrage of clerkship requests we are getting from law students who are trying to get SOMETHING relating to law on their resumes before the finish law school, I painted a superficial but, I think, accurate picture of the impact of the economic realities of today on graduating students. Alex, of course, is a U.S. citizen. He doesn't have to worry about things like OPT, H-1Bs, PERM and the like. In comparison to a graduating F-1 student who wants to live and work in the U.S., Alex has it easy.
Or does he?
What ARE the long term employment prospects for those graduating today from U.S. universities? Bright? Bleak?
I don't pretend to know. But I DO know that my sons peers in F-1 status face significant issues in planning their post-college lives in the United States. In addition to facing the realities of this still-reeling job market, they will be competing for jobs amongst employers who, more than ever, view the additional responsibilities associated with hiring a foreign worker with increased disdain and adversity. This is going to affect TONS of kids in the next few years, among them the best and brightest who made it to America to pursue their studies.
In response to this, Melissa and I are beginning our research for a publication designed for these graduating F-1 students. In it, we will explore:
- tactical planning for seeking employment via Optional
Practical Training (OPT)
- how to present your "international-ness" as
a plus and not a minus to prospective employers
- post-graduation OPT strategies
to optimize H-1B employment opportunities
- making PERM an intelligent
investment in the eyes of your U.S. employer
- what to do if your employer's
immigration attorney is terrible
- elimination of the "H-1B
entrepreneur" option by USCIS and what you can do about it
immigration options for apparently starving graduates.
Stay tuned folks, and keep your seat belts on, it's going to get bumpy...(-; | <urn:uuid:985df6b0-288e-4bb4-9c1a-db5e1a3dc9c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.immigrationinsider.com/2010/04/graduating-f-1-dilemna-taking-charge-of.html | 2013-06-19T01:46:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973004 | 576 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
ISBN13 / Product Code:9780340746769
Presents a collection of four Kipper picture books: "Kipper", "Kipper's Toybox", "Kipper's Birthday", and "Kipper's Snowy Day".
In this delightful story collection, you will find the four classic Kipper picture books: Kipper, Kipper's Toybox, Kipper's Birthday and Kipper's Snowy Day. It is the perfect gift for old and new Kipper fans!
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Monkeys love to get their drink on. In Darwin’s eyes, we are natural born, evolved and fit drinkers. Humans have been making alcohol since they could raise a glass with the Missing Link, so get primal with your drinking and order these five ancient alcoholic beverages in your modern bar.
Mead. On the African continent more than 40,000 years ago, feral bees would nest in the dry season. The wet season came around and filled those nests with water, and over time, the honey-water mixture turned into wine. Bees were then kept not only for honey, but for the rudimentary booze. Mead is this wine made with honey rather than grapes, and mead-making has been refined for 40 centuries. Your high end wine bar is likely to carry a variety of mead.
Cachaca. Many believe Cachaca to be the first refined hard liquor. Developed hundreds of years ago in Central and South America, Cachaca has become one of the favorite liquors of Brazil, but is relatively unknown in North America. Cachaca is made from sugar cane, which is similar to rum (made from molasses). Order a Caipirihna, which is a like a Mojito on steroids, and enjoy this ancient liquor.
Pulque. Pulque got a bad name in Central America because it was the drink of choice for peasant farmers. Pulque is made from the agave plant, just like tequila or mezcal, but the distilling process is stopped short to create a carbonated, low alcohol content, beer-like liquid. Boutique pulque brewers have started to pop up, and the ancient Central American brew is beginning to make a resurgence in swanky bars. | <urn:uuid:7e0eaa03-949b-40d3-b15a-6093c81152be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mademan.com/5-ancient-drinks-you-can-order-at-a-modern-bar/ | 2013-06-19T01:40:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966105 | 354 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Kookaburras midfielder Simon Orchard scored a goal and a bronze on the same day at London 2012 as he became the first Olympic medallist from Maitland for more than a decade.
Equestrian Matt Ryan was the last from Maitland to achieve the feat in Sydney 2000 when he collected the third of his Olympic gold medals.
Before that the city had produced a host of representatives including cyclist Olivia Gollan (2004), sailor Robert Thornton (1972) and swimmer Harry Hay (1920).
But it is believed only Ryan and runner Dave Power, who clinched a bronze in the 10,000m at Rome in 1960, have stood on the podium previously representing the Maitland region at Olympic Games.
Orchard has added his name to that list following the Kookaburras’ 3-1 victory against host nation Great Britain in the bronze medal play-off at a packed and parochial Riverbank Arena on Saturday.
And while it might not have been the sort of medal Orchard and the tournament favourites had wanted or expected, it was the best the world’s number one ranked team could do following a 4-2 semi-final loss to eventual Olympic champions Germany on Thursday.
But the disappointment of 48 hours earlier was hard to detect post-match in the Australian men’s hockey team, and the 2008 Maitland Sportsperson of the Year simply soaked in Olympic success.
It was impossible wipe the smile off Orchard’s face and he rated this as the pinnacle of an international career that has already included gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, World Cup and Champions Trophy.
“To win a bonze medal at the Olympics is awesome,” Orchard told the Mercury.
“This is the best of all because the Olympics has always been my ultimate goal and to win a medal representing everyone back home is awesome.”
The 26-year-old gave those at home, and in the crowd, plenty to cheer about when he scored the opening goal of the encounter.
It was a superb strike from the top of the circle in the 17th minute that burst through the keeper’s outstretched glove and into the back of the net to give the Kookaburras an early advantage.
Orchard followed this up with his now trademark Ram celebration, a call out to the mascot of his former club in Maitland, and it was the second time this tournament.
“It was wicked,” Orchard said.
“I’ve had a lot of chances this tournament and I was really glad I knocked it in and scored a goal on such a big occasion.
“I was really pumped and I was able to celebrate with another Ram, which was awesome.”
Overall, it was an impressive showing from Orchard and the Kookaburras in the bronze medal play-off after such a quick turnaround from the semi-final, which they had led 2-1.
“It [the game against Great Britain] was probably one of our more polished displays,” he said.
“We played for 70 minutes, we really ground it out, everyone ran hard, the basics were good and we knocked three goals in.
“We all contributed, I think all the boys were dead set on getting that bronze medal.
“We were obviously really disappointed after that semi-final loss and a few guys had been in that position before so they knew how to deal with it.
“Our coaches and leaders of the group talked about the ability to turn it around and prepare for today’s [Saturday] game.
“We definitely didn’t want to go away with fourth, I think it was a credit to our group and to our coaching staff that we played really well today.
“We didn’t give them any chances and to win a bronze medal, well, I’m over the moon and really, really excited.”
Also on Saturday the Opals, featuring Newcastle pair Suzy Batkovic and Jenni Screen, claimed bronze in the women’s basketball competition after an 83-74 win against Russia.
It was bitter sweet for both the Opals and Kookaburras with both expected to feature in the gold medal matches at the Games of the XXX Olympiad.
However, it extends the successful strike rate of both national teams for medals at successive Olympic Games to five (Opals) and six (Kookaburras).
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Griffins’ QB Dickinson looking forward to senior season
Dickinson has played as quarterback in the Springville program since seventh grade. He returns this year as a starter, to help lead the Griffins to what he said he feels will be another successful season.
Dickinson added that he is hoping to exact some revenge for the Griffins, this year.
“We’re going to do what we have to do to make it a great season,” said Dickinson, who will replace last year’s starting quarterback Matt Wolcott.
On the radar screen is Eden, whom S-GI will face in week two of the regular season. With a playoff berth in Class B on the line, host Eden handed Springville a 40 – 6 loss in cold, windy and rainy conditions.
“We have got to get back at them,” Dickinson said, adding that Springville’s loss last year to Eden was a “tough pill to swallow. We just weren’t ready to play, when we played them.”
Other upcoming games Dickinson called “important” include rival Salamanca and Class B South Division champion Pioneer. The latter matchup will be Springville’s homecoming game.
Dickinson said that he and his teammates will be considering every game equally important, especially when it comes to making their coach proud.
Dickinson said he has thrived in Sopko’s run-first offense, which incorporates the triple option. “He’s a great coach, who teaches us a lot of things,” Dickinson said.
This year’s starting team quarterback said he believes the Griffins are focused and on track. As a team captain, he called it “an honor” to help steer his team in the right direction.
He said the coaching staff has implemented some changes for the upcoming season, including incorporating a few surprises for their opponents. “But I don’t want to give any of that away,” he said, with a laugh.
As a senior, Dickinson said he has been thinking a lot about his future, and noted that football may not fit into the equation.
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SunTrust EF Hires Three Direct Client Marketing VPs
SunTrust has hired Destry Toney, Shawn Passman and Steve Kueppers as marketing vice presidents of the Direct Client Group for SunTrust Equipment Finance & Leasing, the company’s subsidiary that provides essential-use equipment financing for businesses, municipalities, colleges and universities. Each is responsible for equipment finance activity in his respective territories.
Toney will be based in the greater Seattle, WA area covering Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and parts of Northern California. He comes to SunTrust after having spent several years with GE Capital Commercial Finance, and more recently, as a principal with Blue Diamond Capital. Passman will cover New Jersey and the greater metropolitan New York area. He has over 18 years of experience with Royal Bank America and GE Capital Commercial Finance. Kueppers joins SunTrust from GE Capital and will be based in Minneapolis, MN. He will cover Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa. | <urn:uuid:5f5383bc-718d-4b52-8de7-eb12a8ea48db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.monitordaily.com/suntrust-ef-hires-three-direct-client-marketing-vps/ | 2013-06-19T01:47:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933839 | 202 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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16 S is the distance between the edgeline and the obstacles on centerline marking for lighting both high-speed and low-speed the inside curve in meters, and exits. This method had not yet been adopted in the United N is the required minimum number of markers visible to the States because of concern over the possibility of mistaking a road user; a minimum N of 5 is recommended. low-speed exit for a high-speed exit. To address these concerns, the author recommended: (1) modifying the type L-829 signs Bringing all of these principles together, the Dutch provide located at exits from the runway to increase their conspicuous- a detailed example application for a horizontal curve section. ness, (2) improved shielding to taxiway edge lights, (3) use of The reader is referred to the original citation for details (Rec- asymmetric instead of symmetric lenses on straight stretches, ommendation . . . 2005). (4) dimming of taxiway edge lights to reduce the "sea-of-blue" effect, and (5) use of high-efficiency retroreflective paint to Finally, the Dutch developed a multistep decision tree to mark the turn-offs to the exit taxiway to improve nighttime support implementation decisions related to IPM systems. In guidance. A system of pulsating blue lights at the entrance to summary, this multistep process the exit taxiway throat also showed promise (Douglas 1978). · Distinguishes between roads that are already lit and unlit, More than 15 years later, Katz and Paprocki (1994) devel- · Investigates the potential to remove or omit conven- oped and tested the performance of a prototype enhanced vi- tional lighting if IPM systems are installed, sual taxiway identification system, consisting of a segment of · Investigates the potential to reduce the energy consump- green lights imbedded within the conventional runway cen- tion and environmental interference if IPM systems are terline lighting system at the FAA William J. Hughes Tech- installed, nical Center. Results of the effort indicated that the system · Determines the cost-effectiveness of the IPM system and may be expected to provide enhanced and effective identifi- determines acceptability, and cation of taxiway exit locations at minimal cost. · Investigates the potential to "switch off" conventional lighting under favorable traffic and weather circum- At the same facility, Gallagher (2001) evaluated the use of stances (i.e., as a cost-effective alternative to IPM sys- LED light strips with a focus on pilot and lighting personnel tem installation). perceptions. The LED light strips augmented painted surface markings, which were still deemed necessary for daytime and inclement weather conditions. Gallagher found that all HISTORICAL APPLICATIONS but one participant rated the LED light strips as a valuable augmentation to the painted surface markings. As mentioned previously, IPM systems were first used to provide path guidance for airport runways and taxiways and Most recently, Patterson (2004) reported specific opera- later emerged as an enhanced warning tool for pedestrian tional problems attributable the use of runway guard lights crosswalks. Although the technology characteristics and sub- installed at hold lines at the Chicago O'Hare International sequent costs of IPM systems have changed significantly Airport. In this application, a series of alternate flashing, yel- since these earlier applications, a review of experiences re- low, unidirectional, in-pavement lighting fixtures are equally lated to IPM system installation and maintenance may provide spaced along a runway holding position. These markings are valuable precautionary information for new system installa- intended to be visible only to aircraft approaching the hold tions. In addition, a review of observed IPM system effective- position from the taxiway. In some instances, however, pilots ness may support decision making for related applications. have reported that the lights are visible from the opposite side For instance, it might be inferred that intersection stop bars of the fixtures (i.e., to aircraft exiting the runway) resulting in equipped with IPM systems may experience similar benefits false guidance information to the pilots. No information was related to reduced vehicle approach speeds and increased ve- provided regarding how this issue was resolved. hicle compliance as those observed for pedestrian crosswalks. These limited reported experiences suggest important find- ings related to directional illumination, luminous intensity, Airport Runways and Taxiways and supplemental use of surface markings. Installation, main- Published information related to the use of IPM systems on tenance, and cost information was not uncovered (except for airport runways and taxiways focused predominantly on the the earliest types of IPM systems). The transferability of this evolution of technology from tungsten bulbs, which were latter information is likely more limited given differences in expensive to install and maintain, to LED light sources, which vehicles and vehicle operating characteristics between road- were found to be less expensive to install and operate. A few way and airport environments. studies were uncovered that focused on the performance of IPM systems in airport applications. Pedestrian Crosswalks As early as 1978, Douglas investigated the use of green Commonly referred to as "flashing crosswalks," IPM sys- lights installed in the runway surface on the extended taxiway tems for pedestrian crosswalk applications include the basic
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17 reportedly experienced frequent water condensation and bro- ken filaments. Applying more generally to all IPM system marker types, recessed markers require frequent cleaning to eliminate dirt and debris from the lens surface. In-pavement markers that protrude above the ground have experienced damage by street cleaners and snowplows (in at least one application, the damage did not prevent the light from re- maining operational) (Malek 2001). Manufacturers moved to aluminum or stainless steel housing materials to address this issue. Activities such as street repair or resurfacing require the IPM system to be removed and reinstalled or lost. Challenges related to system settlement have also been reported; over time and under traffic load, the markers are pressed further into the pavement, eventually damaging the power supply conduit and causing system failure (Ericksen FIGURE 4 "Smart crosswalk system" (Courtesy: LightGuard 2007). City officials in Santa Monica suggest that the use of Systems, Inc.). portland concrete cement instead of asphalt concrete pave- ment would address this challenge (Ericksen 2007). components of: (1) IPMs, (2) an AC or solar power source, and (3) a manual push-button or passive activation system City officials in Santa Monica, California, also report (see Figure 4). Over time, and with expanded IPM system significant delays in receiving system parts (e.g., replace- implementation, various installation, operation, and mainte- ment lights) when system failures do occur. These reported nance challenges have been identified. delays differ between independent suppliers. One supplier at- tributed delays to the discontinuance of the product, whereas As noted previously, some passive activation systems, par- another attributed delays to pending product improvements ticularly those relying on microwave detectors, have experi- that would result in a brighter, and more robust, marker and enced higher rates of false positives and misses. A passive a backlog of replacement orders resulting from a minor engi- activation bollard system in San Jose, California, malfunc- neering design change (Ericksen 2007). tioned as a result of vandalism (Malek 2001). Of more con- cern, citizens in Santa Monica, California, are reporting a For pedestrian crosswalk applications, IPM system costs false sense of pedestrian security, which, when combined have ranged from $5,000 to $100,000 per application. Factors with a high rate of system malfunction, has purportedly led to affecting cost include the length and layout of the application multiple pedestrianvehicles crashes and one resulting death and the subsequent number of markers required; specific fea- (Ericksen 2007). tures of the IPM system (e.g., unidirectional or bidirectional dis- plays and operational modes); the availability and nature (e.g., A greater variety of maintenance challenges have been solar) of power at the site; the condition of the pavement and identified. Specific to halogen light sources, halogen lamps any remedial actions required before IPM system installation; TABLE 2 BENEFITS OF IN-PAVEMENT WARNING LIGHTS AT CROSSWALKS Measure Author Comments Enhanced Driver Huang et al. (1999) Actuated flashing provides an advantage over Awareness continuous flashing Malek (2001) More effective than overhead beacon, especially at night Boyce and Van Derlofske (2002) Whitlock and Weinburger (1998) Particularly beneficial during adverse weather Increased Vehicle Huang et al. (1999) Yielding Reduced Vehicle Huang et al. (1999) Speeds Boyce and Van Derlofske (2002) Prevedouros (2000) 17.8% to 16.2% reduction in maximum speed 27.2% to 25.2% reduction in average speed 16.3% to 14.0% reduction in 85th percentile speed Reduced Vehicle/ Huang et al. (1999) Pedestrian Conflicts Boyce and Van Derlofske (2002) Reduced number of vehicles entering crosswalk while pedestrian waiting Lower Pedestrian Prevedouros (2000) 50.5% reduction (26.7 s to 13.2 s) Wait Times
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This is written from the point of view of Myself, and describes a game I played with one of the submissives I sometimes play with. Parts of this are true, and parts of it have been heightened for effect. Enjoy!
I come home from work and open the door, and there she is, sitting in My chair. My chair! What nerve! I trained her better than that, she knows that pets are not allowed on the furniture. The TV is on very loud so she hasn't heard me come in yet, I quietly sneak to the kitchen and look around. Dirty dishes still in the sink, milk left out, and the glass of My cum that she is supposed to finish with her breakfast every morning only half gone. I had taken great pains to train this bitch well, but obviously it was past time for a little reminder of Who was in charge....
I kick her food bowl across the kitchen, knowing she's heard the loud crash of it hitting the wall as I yell "PET! GET IN HERE! NOW!" Abruptly the sound from the TV stops and I hear a quick scuffling sound as My pet runs into the kitchen, forgetting herself and appearing before me standing on two feet. I glare at her and look meaningfully at the floor, making her gasp softly and quickly drop to her knees.
"Now, explain to Me, exactly what is going on here, and MAYBE I won't turn you out on the corner tonight", I say. At these words she cringes and whimpers a little, remembering the last time I was angry enough to punish her that way. Any time she's made me truly angry, I use the punishment of locking her out of the house with nothing but the most whorish outfit she has, not allowing her back in until she has earned a certain amount of money using the only thing she has, her body. Usually this is a realatively small amount, say $500. This usually takes her one night to earn, and she's back in the house by the next morning. This is still a very terrible punishment for her though because she is a truly loyal pet and can't stand being sent away from Me.
"Please Master, please don't make me do that again, please!" she begins to whimper.
I glare down at her, the anger building on my face, practically growling out "I said explain, not beg you fucking retarded cunt." Silence, she goes completely quiet, her body trembling slightly as she looks at my shoes and says in a tiny voice, "i...i don't have an explanation...". My eyes flash and I take off my belt, folding it over and slapping it loudly against the wall. My little pet gasps at the loud crack and quickly says "i mean I don't have an explanation Sir."
I shake my head in disgust and speak in a disappointed tone, "pet, pet, pet...I thought after the last time W/we went through this your training was going to stick, but obviously it's time for a refresher..."
Now on all fours she comes forward, leaning down to kiss my feet until I take a step backward, snapping my fingers loudly, "No pet, that's not going to make up for this, I found you in My chair, MY CHAIR!" I swing the belt again, bringing it down on her back this time, making her scream and begin to beg again, "PLEASE MASTER!". I hit her back again, speaking to her in a cold, dead voice "Do NOT speak to Me unless I say otherwise. Do NOT move. Do NOT beg. Do NOT do anything except EXACTLY what I tell you to!"
My belt comes down again, cracking loudly against her back and leaving an angry red mark. I grab a handful of her hair and pull on it hard, not even bothering to look down at her as I begin walking down the hallway, simply saying to her "Follow."
W/we reach the play room and I walk inside, throwing her up against one of the walls and pointing "Stay there and don't move." A whimper, but she obeys, looking down at the ground and seeming as if she is near tears.
I quickly pick out the needed items for her punishment; A tiny black skirt, no longer than a pair of short shorts, a black latex bra with splits in the middle of the cups, allowing her nipples to poke through, leash, collar, and a large buttplug with a tail on it.
I throw the whole bundle across the room at her and clap my hands "Hurry up, get it all on, now, we're going to the dog park for a walk."
Quickly she puts the outfit and accessories on, whimpering slightly, little tears forming in her eyes, but also a wet spot beginning to form underneath her. I smile at seeing that, knowing that no matter what she says, she secretly loves the abuse and humiliation I am about to put her through.
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Vibrio anguillarum - any must have book on it? (Jul/05/2009 )
I am doing some literature review on Vibrio anguillarum and the disease Vibrosis and I was wondering if anyone here has a must have book or article in mind that is really important to have.
There is a lot of info out there, but maybe someone here has an important must have title, book, article, website in mind.
I cant seem to edit the topic, but I wanted to add: vibriosis in general.
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This lesson plan aims to engage pupils with looking at and finding out about the past by investigating things that have changed since 1930. This includes looking at developments in transport, engineering, electronics and education. Through writing a letter to a child from the 1930s, pupils are able to think about and understand what changes have taken place in their lifetimes and compare how we live now to how people lived in the past.
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Brent Cook is editor of the Exploration Insights newsletter. His focus is on junior mining stocks and commodities.
Virginia has been a long time holding of mine since it was spun out of Virginia Gold, when Goldcorp purchased the 8-million-ounce Elenore gold deposit in Quebec. Virginia Mines retained a variable royalty on Elenore of between 2.2% and 3.5%, which currently pays $100,000 per month and should kick in around $35-million annually at $1,500 gold when in production in late 2015. The royalty alone is worth more than the company, plus there are a number of exploration projects that are demonstrating economic potential.
Lydian completed a feasibility study on the 3-million-ounce Amulsar gold deposit in Armenia earlier this month. The study looked at mining 2.3 million ounces and showed a pretax net present value at $1,500 gold of $1.05-billion and internal rate of return of 38%. The company is currently being valued at $270-million. Amulsar is a low capital and operating cost deposit that should be a priority acquisition target for a mid-tier gold producer.
Duluth Metals is developing the massive Twin Metal copper/nickel/platinum group metals deposit in Minnesota in a joint venture with Antofagasta plc. They are carried 60% through feasibility and have the option of financing their portion of capital via a call option to Antofagasta on DM stock. They are currently testing a deep, very high potential high-grade “feeder” target that if successful could be worth multiples of their current share price. The Twin Metals resource more than accounts for their current valuation and the exploration target is essentially free.
Past Picks: Sept. 15, 2011
Alderon Resource Corp.
Total return: -44.44%
Total return: -15.14%
Total return: -10.00%
Total Return Average: -23.19%
A global rush toward currency debasement suggests precious metal prices are more likely to rise than fall over the foreseeable future. Fortunately, debasing gold via new discoveries and production is a very slow process as evidenced by the decrease in gold discoveries over the past decade, in spite of higher prices. This lack of economic discoveries means the very few new high margin deposits will be extremely valuable to mining companies that are finding it difficult to replace their production over the long term. Although there is good money to be made investing in profitable mining companies as their share prices catch up with the gold price, the real money will be made in recognizing and investing in the select few junior explorers that find the deposits to feed the larger mining companies. That I believe will be the story for 2013.
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How do we learn to come out from that cloud?
We need to eat more Swiss cheese!
Ok, now I don’t want you to go off and gorge yourself on Swiss Cheese thinking it will magically remove all the woes and cares you have. It might actually add a few more pounds of them!
I want you to ponder on Swiss Cheese. The one, just like us, with all the holes in it.
What I am talking about is the Swiss Cheese Model of Human Error. This is a model that is used to understand how the weaknesses in our layers of protection can lead to some serious mistakes happening.
Just imagine you have a block of Swiss Cheese.
You slice it into thin layers. Now if you wanted to, you could line up the layers of cheese so that you could pass a pencil through the holes. You just have to have the slices lined up in the right way.
The Swiss Cheese Model was developed by James Reason (what a great name) to describe how you create many different layers to stop serious errors occurring. Each layer or slice of cheese has a hole in it, a weakness. No system of prevention is perfect.
How does this help with forgiveness?
Well, take a serious look over a mistake you have made, maybe get a friend to help you with this who can be objective about it all.
Take a look at all the things that led up to the mistake happening.
Often it will be a combination of holes aligning to let that error through. Some of the holes may not have been anything to do with you. It may have been the responsibility of someone else. All that you can be responsible for is what you did, your layer.
Ok, here is an example.
A road worker dies when a car hits him on the side of the road. You were the one driving the car. This memory haunts you day and night.
An investigation is done of the accident. The investigation looks at all the factors of the crash. They go through every layer of protection that was there to protect this man from being hit.
They discover that all the signs were not put out warning you of road works being ahead. They discover that the road was wet and it was dark making it difficult for you to see. They discover that your brakes were slightly faulty and that the mechanic who just checked them over wasn’t qualified to do so. They discover that your car hit a nail just as you came around the bend towards the road works. The list goes on and on of discovering layers of protection that had holes in them, but when they all lined up then catastrophe was inevitable.
Who or what was to blame for his death. It was a combination of faults.
After the investigation is complete there are new rules made about signage for road works, mechanic training, etc.
How does this help with self forgiveness?
I think its vitally important to analyse out those big mistakes you may have made. Look for all the layers that could have prevented it from happening.
We can't go back and change things, we can only go forward with new learning's.
Experience is not the best teacher;evaluated experience is the best teacher.
Forgive yourself for your part in the error. Forgive others for their part in the error. Allow God to reveal to you that no human system is perfect. Be forgiving.
Learn to let it go.
How does understanding that there are multiple reasons for mistakes, help you?
Is it easier to ‘let it go’ when you don’t have to carry as much of a load? Why?
Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.
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Have you had a chance to check out www.tacticalarcherysystems.com? Well if you haven’t take a look because they have a new sight out called the S.A.B.O Gen 2 Holographic sight. The way this works is very similar to how most new sights with fiber optics work. It gathers light through the fiber optics and sends it to a housing at the rear of the sight and projects your sight pins onto the glass. It is a very cool technology much like what is used by today military for target acquisition. It produces a clear objective helping to eliminate hand torque on the bow, it does this by forcing the shooter to align the holographic dots onto a permanently-fused fluorescent alignment triangle line that is on the sight housing, when the dot are aligned it is time to make that great shot. Also there is no electronics needed to make this the best sight you have ever shot while archery hunting, or target shooting in competition or for fun.
With the new Tactical Archery Systems S.A.B.O Gen 2 bow sight you also eliminate the need for a peep sight as well. The sight gives you a huge sight picture and helps you to focus the dot exactly on the target you want. There is a spot on the side of the sight much like traditional bow sights that allow you add a light for indoor shooting. I recommend the Truglo Tru-Lite Xtreme Adjustable Sight Light sight package that has the adapter/reducer spacers in it due to the larger size threaded holes for the light on the S.A.B.O Gen 2 sight housing. I also found that the white light works best when using this sight
I got my new TAS S.A.B.O Gen 2 sight last week and have been using it in a couple of shoots so here is the good the bad and the ugly scoop on it.
- Eliminates Bow Torque
- Easy to install and sight in
- light weight and durable
- crystal clear sight picture
- No Need for a Peep Sight
- Has four sight points.
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- Nothing, this sight has huge features that make it a winner and nothing that says not to buy
You can check this out at www.tacticalarcherysystems.com, www.cableas.com. Take a look you will be surprise at how this can turn you into a better target shooter or hunter….More at Tactical Archery Systems New S.A.B.O GEN 2 SIGHT (review) | <urn:uuid:dbf23ac9-c0d9-401d-a90d-1594e0f7ea18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.winhuntinggear.com/sabo-gen-2-vs-pin-sight.html | 2013-06-19T01:47:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925665 | 537 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
July 3, 2012, early pm, Moscow, Russia: as I write this, I am at a building supply company in the middle of a meeting of players in the green building industry including Guy Eames, CEO and Co-Founder of the Russian Green Building Council (RuGBC - http://www.rugbc.org/en ). As of 4pm, I’m now in a conference room of about 90 attendees at business summit in a tsarist palace, and once again, the theme of ecologically-friendly building and green standards is at least getting lip service.
How substantive and sustainable is the green building movement here? RuGBC revenue doubled from its first to its second full year of operations (from 2010 to 2011). While AIG originally suggested the formation of RuGBC (apparently as a way to enhance the long-term value of its real estate investments here) and the impetus for adopting green building is to some extent based on the corporate policies of foreign companies and investors, there is clearly some nascent, local demand for progress in building standards. Notwithstanding widespread perceptions that interests in the oil and gas and mining industries will never tolerate progress in the arena of sustainability, those with whom I’ve spoken today state that there is both market demand and government support for adopting greener construction standards. Though the terms green building and sustainability may not be used a lot (or perhaps at all, or with a smirk in some circles in which I’ve broached the topic), the term “energy efficiency technology” has currency and credibility. If I had not reviewed and discussed the finances and annual activities report of RuGBC and seen the products of the building supply company (including solar panels, a windmill, skylights, and appliance control technologies) I might be more skeptical and cynical about the words I’m hearing. After today, I’m looking forward to seeing how the green building movement develops here: will it amount to the modern equivalent of a Potemkin village or a substantive shift in standards? | <urn:uuid:21f7446b-5828-486e-8759-b1d4cd5c5b10> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://adamsulkowski.com/2012/07/03/russian-green-building-potemkin-village-or-nascent-phase-6/ | 2013-05-19T13:28:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961643 | 419 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Margaret Haney, PH.D.
Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
Director of Marijuana Research Laboratory,
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Associate Director of the Substance Use Research Center,
Dr. Margaret (Meg) Haney is a Professor of Clinical Neurobiology, and Co-Director of the Substance Use Research Center at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the consequences of chronic marijuana use, as well as the development of novel approaches for the treatment of cocaine and marijuana dependence. She and her colleagues were one of the first to demonstrate that marijuana produces a time-dependent, pharmacologically-specific withdrawal syndrome . An additional interest is the potential therapeutic effects of marijuana and other cannabinoids. Dr. Haney is an author of more than 110 articles in peer-reviewed journals, acts as an advisory editor for Psychopharmacology, and has been a member of NIH review groups.
Undergraduate: Rutgers College, B.S., 1981-1985
Graduate: Tufts University, M.A., Ph.D., 1985-1992
• Drug Dependence
I am interested in characterizing and developing treatments for marijuana dependence as well as cocaine dependence.
1. Haney M, Bedi G, Cooper ZD, Glass A, Vosburg SK, Comer SD, Foltin RW: Predictors of Marijuana Relapse in the Human Laboratory: Robust Impact of Tobacco Cigarette
Smoking Status. Biological Psychiatry in press
2. Haney M, Gunderson EW, Jiang H, Collins ED, Foltin RW: Cocaine-specific antibodies blunt the subjective effects of smoked cocaine in humans. Biological Psychiatry 2010;67: 59-65
3. Haney M, Spealman R: Controversies in translational research: Drug self-administration, Invited Review. Psychopharmacology 2008;199: 403-419
4. Haney M: Neurobiology of Stimulants, M Galanter, HD Kleber (Eds.), Textbook of Substance Abuse: 4th Edition., Washington, DC, USA, 2008
5. Haney M, Gunderson EW, Rabkin J, Hart CL, Vosburg SK, Comer SD, Foltin RW: Dronabinol and marijuana in HIV+ marijuana smokers: Caloric intake, mood and sleep. JAIDS 2007;32: 1391-1403 | <urn:uuid:bef81001-acd7-47aa-a5cd-1a65a26e9e3d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.asp?uni=mh235&DepAffil=Psychiatry | 2013-05-19T13:16:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.840908 | 490 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land posted an article about how Google is violating it’s own rules about sponsored posts, link buying, and content spam to promote Google Chrome. I find it amazing that Google would sanction these efforts considering the well documented brand bias in their search results. Google places their products and listings where users “expect” to find them anyway, so why would they need a pay per post campaign? Apparently they are trying to create more social buzz to get more people to adopt Chrome as their browser.
Google is paying for blog posts which link back to Google Chrome’s download page via a text link and a video link. The blog posts are generally poor quality and the videos don’t have a lot to do with Google Chrome. Google is sponsoring posts that link back to their Chrome download page without nofollow tags (clear violations) and the blog posts they are sponsoring have very little to do with the subject. Both the content and the video are very low quality which should anger the Panda.
How did this happen? Google is paying a company called Unruly to promote Chrome on social networks and one tactic of Unruly is to run vast pay-per-post link spam campaigns. Google for Google, they can throw Unruly under the bus and go on their merry way.
What will Matt Cutts do? We’ll see, but my guess is he’ll do what he’s told. If it were you or me, we’d be banned for a year.
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The International Monetary Fund appeared to warn the European Central Bank on Monday against further interest rate increases, saying that the euro area is still in a fragile state. The warning may not have much effect, though. The European bank’s president, Jean-Claude Trichet, emphasized last week that the central bank will not be swayed by outside pressure.
In its World Economic Outlook published Monday, the I.M.F. suggested that there is no reason to raise the benchmark interest rate “as long as inflation pressures remain subdued.”
That is in fact the case, the report said. In most countries, factories are still not operating at capacity, while higher prices for oil and other commodities are likely to be temporary.
“This argues for low policy rates for now to support the recovery and help offset the dampening short-term effects of fiscal consolidation on domestic demand,” the report said.
Because of “financial fragilities” in the euro area, it added, the European bank should move slowly to raise official interest rates from historic lows to more normal levels.
The fund has more than an academic interest in the matter. Increases feed through to borrowing costs for Greece and Ireland, which are receiving I.M.F. aid as they try to avoid defaulting on their government debt.
The European Central Bank has already begun nudging up rates to fight nascent signs of inflation, despite widespread criticism from investors and professional economists. Last week the bank raised its benchmark rate to 1.25 percent from 1 percent.
Mr. Trichet, however, seems to almost take pride in defying the consensus and remaining true to the bank’s mandate to fight inflation above all else.
“We are used to having our own analysis and it does not necessary coincide with the analysis of some observers, some market participants, some economists and even some international institutions,” Mr. Trichet said at a news conference shortly after the bank’s governing council meeting on April 7.
Mr. Trichet maintained that the bank’s contrarian stance has served it well in the past.
“I can remember decisions we took to increase interest rates which were not recommended by any international institution,” he said. “Very fortunately now, with the benefit of hindsight, they would say: ‘Yes, you did well.’”
On Tuesday, a member of the bank’s executive board refuted one of the I.M.F.’s main justifications for keeping rates low. Jürgen Stark, who is the European bank’s de facto chief economist, was dismissive of the argument that there is no reason to worry about inflation as long as factories are operating at below capacity and there is still slack in the economy.
“Output gaps are ill-defined objects and are subject to a great deal of measurement error,” Mr. Stark said in Hong Kong, according to an official transcript of his remarks.
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Aztec (video game)
|This article relies on references to primary sources. (December 2008)|
The tomb's many levels are filled with traps, dangerous animals, Aztec guards and other hazards. Equipped with a machete, a pistol and sticks of dynamite, the player must recover the jade idol and escape the tomb. The player encounters snakes on occasion as well as a giant octopus if he keeps going to lower levels.
Before beginning play, the game prompts the player to select a difficulty level from one to eight. Increasing the game's difficulty boosts the number and aggressiveness of the enemies the player will face, but also increases the reward they'll gain from retrieving the idol.
Each level in the tomb is shown from the side, with steps often connecting the levels and piles of bones and debris scattered along the floor. Searching these piles, or occasional boxes or chests, may discover and yield useful items such as a pistol or ammunition, a machete, dynamite, health potions, remains of the Prof. Von Forster, or the idol. Once the idol has been found, the player must make it back up all the way, and escape outside. If the player dies, the game allows them to resume from the last level they were in. It also allows them to resume a game from a previous session. Every new game features a different set of random-created levels.
The dynamite sticks may either be used as a weapon or to blow up walls and floors (it's also possible to inadvertently break part of a staircase which is critical to climb back out). Interesting artefacts of the game design allow the player to place and lit a dynamite stick in a room and then switch to another room, for it to be located around the same location, to one's advantage or demise. | <urn:uuid:16b47786-e6b1-4138-a802-ff3dc383058e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_(computer_game) | 2013-05-19T13:52:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92663 | 372 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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This site was designed to showcase the historic Delano neighborhood of Wichita, KS.
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Welcome to Historic Delano, one of Wichita's oldest neighborhoods.
Delano sprang up as a cowtown at the end of the Chisholm Trail and quickly gained a reputation as a place where trail-weary cowboys could take their rest and recreation in the many saloons and brothels. Learn more about Delano's colorful history here.
Today Delano is home to dozens of unique shops, art galleries and restaurants. Nightlife includes several well-known watering holes, as well as weekly events like the Thursday Night Pub Pedal and monthly events like the First Friday Music Crawl and the Final Friday Art Crawl.
Annual events like our St. Patrick's Parade, Bicycle Block Party, Ghost Stories of Historic Delano Ghost Tour and Christmas in Historic Delano attract thousands of visitors from across the region to the district.
Due to it's close proximity to the downtown Convention Center and hotels, Delano's commercial district sees a lot of business from out-of-town visitors. They appreciate the nearby convenience of Delano's merchants and restaurants.
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Historic Delano, Inc. was created to allow us to showcase our unique little neighborhood to the rest of Wichita and beyond. One way to do that is to hold events - like ghost tours and parades.
In 2007 some of us wanted to bring a St. Patrick's Parade to Delano. It had been a number of years since Wichita had held a St. Pat's Parade and we felt that it was time. The parade was very well received and has grown every year since.
In 2008 we created the Ghost Stories of Historic Delano ghost tour. In 2009 we added the Christmas Parade and gave assistance to several outside groups holding events in Delano.
HistoricDelano.com was created as a vehicle to publicize not just the events that happen in Delano, but also the trendy shops, night spots and other things that give Delano it's unique character. Things that out-of-town guests (or people new to Delano) would want to know.
One of the ways we acheive this is by offering an online directory of Delano businesses and services. Any Delano business may take advantage of a free listing. Our directory has evolved a couple of times, and the next (interactive) version is on the way.
In addition to this web site we also produce a printed Historic Delano Visitor's Guide which is distributed through the Greater Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau as well as local businesses including the downtown hotels. The guide includes highlights of Delano's colorful history and a map with a business directory.
We're not just about visitors and out-of-towners, though. Historic Delano maintains a strong connection to the local community and we are proud to support the Delano Community Garden and the Delano Community Farmers' Market.
We are glad to be working with the other Delano groups to create the new Delano CDC and look forward to what that can do for the district.
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Here is the final part of the legend of Flannigan's lost gold:
Panic in the Gila Mountain Wilderness
After Flannigan's discovery of a rich placer and two substantial gold veins in the heart of the Gila River Mountains, the 3 soldiers gathered up as much gold as they could carry, stuffing the yellow metal into every pocket, crook, and cranny of their saddles and gear. They then filled their canteens and headed back the way they had come.Costplustools
However, after hours of following what they thought was the circuitous route they had taken deep inside the Gila River Mountain wilderness, Crossthwaite, Flannigan, and Wormley realized they were hopelessly lost. Fearful that they would be discovered by Apaches, the 3 men did the worst thing possible under the circumstances. They panicked.
Mutiny in the Ranks
They soon found themselves bickering and arguing about what to do and which direction they should follow. Crossthwaite tried to pull his sergeant's rank on the 2 privates but Wormley drew his side arm and threatened to kill him.
Cursing Wormley and Flannigan and threatening to have them both court martialed if the men ever made it back safely to Gila Bend, Crossthwaite galloped off on his own. He was never seen again.
On the Verge of Breakdown
After days of fruitless wandering in exceptionally high temperatures, Flannigan and Wormley ran out of water. Dehydrated and exhausted, both men were on the verge of breaking down physically and mentally, with Wormley babbling incoherently and hallucinating.
The only thing that saved both men was Flannigan's resolve to survive and to ensure Wormley's survival as well. Through sheer determination and a bit of luck both soldiers eventually made it back to Gila Bend, but Wormley had lost his mind by this point. He never recovered.
Search Expeditions Draw a Blank
The gold the men carried back with them created a huge stir but the Apache threat at the time was so serious that even those with the worst cases of gold fever were fearful of leaving the safety of Gila Bend. It wasn't until many years later that ex-cavalry private Flannigan organized an expedition to search for his lost gold.
That expedition drew a blank, as did a number of subsequent attempts by Flannigan to locate the rich placer and ledges of gold the 3 soldiers had found in the Gila River Mountains. Over the intervening years many others tried to find Flannigan's Lost Mine but were also unsuccessful.
A Variant Legend Near Yuma?
This lost mine legend has its merits and further research should establish whether the key players (Sergeant Crossthwaite and Privates Flannigan and Wormley) ever existed and were on U.S. Army records. Ditto for Abner McKeever and his daughter Belle whose abduction by an Apache raiding party started the whole mess (by the way, as far as I can determine Belle was never found).
One variant of the legend of the Lost Flannigan Mine has Sergeant Crossthwaite eventually making his way out of the Gila River Mountains and across the Colorado Desert to a location just outside Yuma, Arizona where he expired. Taking this a step further, some believe the entire legend is based in the desert mountains outside Yuma and along the Colorado River, where many rich gold placers and lode mines were later discovered.
However, this is speculation only and I tend to doubt this one. Why?
I used to work dry gold placer claims on both sides of the Colorado River near Yuma and once you are away from the river itself there is virtually no above-ground water of any consequence to be found in the nearby hills and mountains, which have the overall appearance of a moonscape since they are so harsh and barren. A running stream and a large pool of water (key components to the Lost Flannigan Mine legend) just don't fit the local topography.
However, it is possible that Sergeant Crossthwaite could have become dazed and disoriented enough to head toward Yuma and the Colorado River across many miles of searing desert. If so, there's small fortune in gold buried alongside human and horse bones....
Good hunting out there.
If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Arizona's Lost Flannigan Mine (Part 2)"
(c) J.R. 2009
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Meet the winner of Motorcycle USA's Fantasy Racing VIP Vacation Contest winner, Chaun Wang, a self-described huge racing fan. Wang will be watching the US MotoGP round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in person and get the full VIP treatment as our contest winner. Congrats, Chaun! | <urn:uuid:9014b93c-0c34-4f82-ab79-a0b8d026eb2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.1888pressrelease.com/motorcycle-usa-86544-company-pr.html | 2013-05-19T13:16:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.856412 | 155 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Achieve Results™ Academy utilizes highly trained instructors, and partners with state-certified teachers, to create an optimal learning environment for students, where cutting-edge, online instruction is blended with innovative, live classroom instruction. Achieve Results™ Academy is proudly affiliated with Georgia Cyber Academy (GCA), one of Georgia's premiere online/virtual public charter schools. Achieve Results™ Academy provides a structured, yet flexible learning environment, where instructors guide students through the state-of-the-art K-12 Curriculum, aligned to the Georgia Common Core Standards.
Students who need additional time and extra academic support receive intensive help from our instructors, while advanced learners have the opportunity to access and engage in developmentally-appropriate, challenging learning tasks, and are encouraged and supported in advancing through the curriculum, as mastery is attained. As such, students do not spend critical time reviewing skills already mastered, when that time can be better spent learning new, advanced concepts and skills, at a deeper level of understanding, which cuts across grade levels. At Achieve Results™ Academy, each student thrives and excels academically, and we equip them with confidence, competence, and essential skills for achieving life-longsuccess!
Achieve Results™ Academy & Community Learning Center is conveniently located in Chamblee-Tucker, close toGwinnett, DeKalb, and Fulton counties, with easy access to interstate highways I-85 and I-285. We invite you and your family to schedule a tour of our facility. Check out our Calendar for upcoming events! | <urn:uuid:5a49fd20-7aa7-42a1-a71f-71116ac4992b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.achieveresults.org/ | 2013-05-19T13:50:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930744 | 314 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Atchison, KS USA
Width: 12" Length: 9"
Materials/Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted.
Artist Statement: I hope to help find a cure.
Dedication: For Maxine, my mother-in-law, who suffered from Alzheimer's.
This quilt has Fast Finish Triangles.
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Kevin was upset when it dawned on him that he probably wouldn’t see Molly for a long, long time. Molly also cried bitterly. She had been eight when he was born and she had helped her mother bring him up. Though he was a nuisance at times, as little brothers go he wasn’t bad, and she loved him to bits.
‘I will be working next year, Kevin,’ she told the child. ‘I will come back when I am sixteen and we will be together again, you’ll see’.
‘Do you promise?’ Kevin said.
Molly looked at Kevin’s eyes, sparkling with tears, and said firmly,
‘Course I do’.
‘What if our grandmother don’t let you?’
‘She won’t be able to stop me when I’m sixteen,’ Molly declared. ‘Anyroad, she can just go boil her head.’ She saw the ghost of a smile at the corners of Kevin’s mouth. ‘Look,’ she said, and she licked her index finger and chanted, ‘See it wet, see it dry,’ then drew the finger across her neck, ‘cut my throat if I tell a lie.’ She saw Kevin sigh with relief. ‘Three years, that’s all, Kevin,’ Molly said. ‘And I promise we will be a family again.’ | <urn:uuid:6cbc0fee-5dfd-4ea5-8d3b-54ad9b00c6ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.annebennett.co.uk/a-sisters-promise/4534045673 | 2013-05-19T13:37:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976116 | 322 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
the AroVideo archives!
USA 2010, 149 minutesDir. Ridley ScottIn English, German, TurkishRating: [M] Genres: Action/Adventure
Feat. Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max von Sydow, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkins, Mark Addy, Matthew MacFadyen
Synopsis: Reuniting GLADIATOR director Ridley Scott with star Russell Crowe, this brawnier, grittier update of the Sherwood forest legend surveys the origins of the famed archer and his merry posse.
Average rating (Very Good). Showing 1-3 of 3 member reviews.
3 stars (Good Enough) Shows Robin Hood as a good thinker and slightly witty but his actions are too slow. His feelings dominate the story. ~jovijova
5 stars (Exceptional) ~normfilmbuff
4 stars (Very Good) This is a great new portrayal of the Sherwood Forest hero and legend, with action, adventure, drama, and a few laughs. ~Tom H
Keywords Period - 1500s, Swashbuckler.
Prices in $NZD (incl. GST)
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|Track & Field Profile - Embed| Suggest a Correction AllHigh School
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Eco-friendlier hair dyes exist!
Avoid ammonia, petrochemicals, sulfates, phthalates, parabens and P-phenylenediamine (PPD). It's hard to find permanent colours that don't contain PPD. PPD-free products often use aminophenols—people allergic or sensitive to PPD may react to those, too. Find a hairdresser educated in the prefixes of these chemicals.
Before you book, ask the salon about ingredients. The more of us that ask, the quicker they'll catch on! It's for their own good — PPD can cause cancer and be contaminated with heavy metals toxic to the brain.
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Many eco-friendlier dyes are henna- or vegetable-based (from roots and fruits), others are oil-based. Some are paired with hydrogen peroxide to help the colour last longer.
Note: Many hennas don't disclose ingredients, but labels may list leaves of aslawsonia inermis and indigoferae tinctoria, walnut, or pure indigo. So-called "black henna" may be derived from indigo (from the plant indogoferae tinctoria), but may also contain PPD. Those sensitive to PPD should avoid black henna.
Most vegetable-based colours are called "stains"—they coat the hair but aren't absorbed below the cuticle of the shaft. Ingredients will be similar to henna but may contain dispersed inks (like pigments used in tattoos).
Greys need a small percentage of chemicals to have true permanent coverage. Most '"natural" colours are grey-blending more than grey-covering.
DIY-ers can find nontoxic options in health food stores or organic grocers. If you like bright reds, violets or gold and have naturally lighter hair; lily stamens or belladonna flower, turmeric or even beet juice can do a wonderful job of tinting the hair and even refresh older highlights. Always wear gloves! | <urn:uuid:048b815d-8379-4309-9520-a7002ef0c455> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/queen-of-green/faqs/toxics/choose-hair-dye-without-PPD/ | 2013-05-19T13:50:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921593 | 438 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Melbourne Conversations is a City of Melbourne initiative that uses the forum of free public discussion and debate on popular themes to speak with Melbourne's various communities. We seek to engage with challenging ideas and influence Melbourne's intellectual culture, creativity, liveability, and sustainability.
By City of Melbourne
Connecticut Network is the citizens source for complete and balanced television and webcast coverage of Connecticut state government and public policy. Capitol Report gives you highlights of the debates, decisions and developments at the State Capitol, pulled from our award-winning gavel-to-gavel coverage of state government and public affairs. Capitol Report can help you understand the basics of state government-in-progress and capture important moments you may have missed during the week.
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e-Institute provides convenient and reliable access to the latest developments in topics, which address complex, real-world issues in priority areas such as governance, health, cities, climate change and public private partnerships.
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Welcome to the San Francisco Zoo's podcast! The historic San Francisco Zoo, Northern California's largest zoological park, is connecting viewers to wildlife, putting us at the forefront of zoos worldwide. This gives you an opportunity to learn more about what's happening here at the Zoo, including our exciting animals and exhibits, our growing education and conservation efforts, latest developments, and upcoming events. The mission of the San Francisco Zoo is to connect people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature and advance conservation action.
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Join foster parents T and W as they discuss foster care. With humor, insight and Christian faith, they share their everyday ups and downs as a foster family hoping to adopt. Get your questions answered about the foster and fost adopt system while following T and W's journey through the process. What's it like to deal with the system? Are all social workers really jaded? How intrusive is it on your life? All these questions and more will be answered from T and Ws real-life perspective. Watch out! You may find yourself thinking about fostering or adopting too! If you're only going to listen to one episode, we recommend Episode 4
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Water official gives grim drought report
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Northwest Colorado has become a region of severe drought during the past month, a state water official said Wednesday.
Based on that and other indicators such as surface water supply levels, a task force has asked Gov. John Hickenlooper to elevate the response level for the Colorado, Gunnison and Yampa/White river basins under Colorado’s drought response plan.
Veva Deheza, manager of the Colorado Water Conservation Board Office of Water Conservation and Drought Planning, gave an update on state drought conditions at a board meeting in Glenwood Wednesday.
The data she presented reflected not only the worst Colorado snowpack conditions in the last decade, but a forecast of continuing below-average precipitation in northwest Colorado through July.
Temperatures are expected to be hotter than normal statewide during that same time frame, after also having been above average in April and early May.
“This is pretty shocking,” Deheza said in showing the board a graphic depicting temperatures in some places as much as 6 to 10 degrees above normal over the past month, particularly in eastern Colorado.
Snowpacks in many basins reached their peak as much as six weeks ahead of normal, in some cases by March 2, Deheza said.
Some river basins, including the Colorado and Yampa/White River, had average snowpacks in early May that were even lower than during the 2002 drought year. Daily flows into Blue Mesa Reservoir and Lake Powell are close to minimum levels for this time of year.
However, Deheza noted that State Climatologist Nolan Doesken has said Colorado is transitioning out of a La Niña weather cycle.
“What that means is you’re transitioning toward normal or toward an El Niño. The question is how far are we going?” she said.
While there can be differences from basin to basin, Deheza said Colorado is typically drier during La Niña than during El Niño weather patterns.
A new state drought plan enacted in 2010 provides for three response phases to droughts. Deheza said the difference between the first two phases involves the amount of monitoring that occurs. Under the third phase, which Deheza said might involve situations such as communities facing the prospect of running out of water, the governor issues an official drought declaration.
The San Luis Valley also is in a severe drought, and a Phase 2 response has been in place there and for southeast Colorado for the last year.
Deheza said that besides boosting monitoring, a Phase 2 response entails the CWCB coordinating with Farm Service Agency officials to determine if counties will be requesting a federal disaster declaration that could make financial assistance available to farmers and ranchers. The CWCB is “talking to folks on the ground” to make sure farmers and ranchers have the resources they need, and also will be coordinating with the Colorado Tourism Office to consider how industries like rafting and fishing might be affected.
“We’re quantifying those impacts, we’re tracking those impacts, we’ve got communication pathways set up,” she said. | <urn:uuid:686d0adb-5ee9-4bee-84e3-5619791ffa4b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/water-official-gives-grim-drought-report | 2013-05-19T13:51:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962608 | 649 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
July 25, 2012
By Silvana Longo
Last night, HD&R dined in southern Italy. No, wait a minute — we were at a fabulous media event dinner at the fine food Italian emporium Alimento on King West. I know living well means different things to different people but for an Italo-phile, food-loving person like me, all I can say is that Alimento is a little piece of heaven in downtown Toronto. Here’s why.
It’s a grocery store filled with authentic Italian products, “a cathedral of cheese” is how it was described to us last night, in fact 90 per cent of the cheeses are imported from Italy, (the rest are made in-house), a variety of olives, different breads and deli meats. They had me at prosciutto.
It’s also a bakery with well-known Italian baked goodies and other delicious ones that aren’t as well diffused. It’s a full-service restaurant and cafe’ (Bar Mozza) that offers authentic Italian cuisine, in fact tried-and-true recipes from the owners’ family — the Contardi family who also are the owners of the six Grande Cheese shops in and around the GTA. With this King West opening, Marco, Joe, Albert Jr., and Anthony Contardi are filling a much-needed gap as it doesn’t get this authentically Italian until you’re in the inner city’s suburbs or the 905. Thank you for a wonderful evening and authentically Italian food experience. I am missing Italy a lot this summer as I am not making it over unfortunately but I know exactly where to go to get my food fix and alleviate my nostalgia somewhat. Mille grazie e salute!
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On the other side, Apple claims its subsidiary attained from Proview the rights to the iPad name years ago but that Proview did not register the change in trademark ownership. The trademark dispute has been taken to court in several locations by Proview, most notably in Shanghai. Just this week the Shangai Pudong New Area People's court suspended the case stating they would not make a ruling because there is a similar pending case between the two parties in the Guangdong Province.
Apple welcomed this result, given the fact that Proview has successfully blocked iPad sales in several small cities in the country. Apple is looking to not lose any momentum on the sale of their entire range of products as they are growing in popularity throughout China. The filing of the case in Shanghai likely stood as measure to establish how much the company could disrupt iPad sales in one of the biggest markets.
This situation clearly illustrates how companies become more vulnerable when they operate in new locations. Companies open themselves up to such battles when they enter new territories both inside and out of their own countries, but especially internationally. According to The New York Times, Proview is facing bankruptcy and has indicated the company is trying to drive Apple to ultimately pay compensation. This is a lesson for companies in any industry expanding their operations, taking any steps possible to limit their risk of such circumstances and the litigation that follows.
During expansion, companies can benefit from expert consultants that can advise decision-makers on how to best navigate new regulatory and legal circumstances. In the online environment, SEO companies perform the same functions assisting businesses not with regulatory or legal advice but on how to get the most out of their web presence when expanding internationally. During this time of transition, there is much change including the target audience which will often require SEO based on language and cultural specifications. Transition across borders is not easy but can bring unprecedented opportunity and growth when you have the appropriate assistance along the way. | <urn:uuid:f222a100-8dbf-4ae4-b840-3e304883d911> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ibtimes.com/apples-ipad-sales-see-disruptions-ok-shanghai-now-415992 | 2013-05-19T13:46:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970606 | 385 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Microsoft announced on its Windows Phone blog that it will no longer update its Where’s My Phone Update? web site. The site was the place to go to find out about specific updates for individual phones and carriers. Instead of posting info to Where’s My Phone Update?, Microsoft will post news to its Windows Phone blog and it won’t be posting it as often. Windows Phone owners can find out about updates when the notification hits their handset. No reason was given for this change, all we know is that it’s going to happen effective now.
The Redmond company also confirmed the Windows Phone 8107 update will begin rolling out soon. This maintenance release will fix the on-screen keyboard issue; an annoying bug that causes the keyboard to disappear while typing. It also fixes a few bugs in email, location, security and voicemail. | <urn:uuid:5ddecefa-a3f1-4ea7-a8d0-cf8c972082e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.intomobile.com/2012/01/06/microsoft-shelving-wheres-my-phone-update-website/ | 2013-05-19T13:28:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938054 | 174 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
u are ready for a lesson, not a training kite.
stop delaying, don't waste money on a little foil.
Make it real and do it on the water.
If you really want a training kite though, this one is the best we've found.
Here at Bellingham Kiteboarding we teach land and deep water lessons.
Its simple, flies great in lite winds and has enough traction to let you "feel"
where the kite is at. This is the goal when you are on the water with a full size
traction kite...not to look at the kite, but to feel the kite and focus on riding.
here is a short video of me flying the senseii.
its very smooth and has really helped me worked on my form for handle passes.
do 500 handle passes with one of these and you don't have to think about what your body
has to do anymore...it just does it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OB-hD4Ttn0
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Scientists have created the first genetically modified human embryo.
What does this mean to you?
Led by Nikica Zaninovic, researchers at Cornell University added a green fluorescent protein to an embryo left over from assisted reproduction. They destroyed the embryo five days later. It is believed to be the first documented genetic modification of a human embryo.
British newspaper The Times reports that Zaninovic's feat was announced at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine annual meeting in 2007, but was only publicized recently when the United Kingdom's reproductive technology regulators reviewed the research. The House of Commons is about to consider legislation permitting this and other controversial reproductive technologies, such as the creation of chimeras -- human-animal hybrid embryos.
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Hello everyone! I just recently moved up to Oregon via a company transfer for a large biotech company and while moving is never easy, I'm really enjoying my fresh start in a new place.
I was born and raised in California and I've lived in Orange County, San Diego, and the Bay Area. My favorite place would definitely be San Diego and I do plan on returning down there at some point. For now though, I can still get out and go surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding when I have free time. I really enjoy meeting new people and making new friends and I'm really happy that people in the Pacific Northwest are really nice and genuine.
I guess the main reason I'm on here is because I am not living anywhere near a mid-singles adult ward (yes I'm 31 now), and I figure the next best thing is to try out the dating the websites to see what's out there.
My brother actually met his wife online so I'm optimistic I can at least find someone that may work out for ... 'gasp' ... marriage ;) Anyhow I'm open minded and optimistic that I could find a date or two here so feel free to message me.
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I realize that the bond committee worked long hours in trying to craft several bond proposals that they felt would benefit the town. I want to comment on one issue that I did not support.
The street bond proposal had two items that ran contrary to a state plan that the town has signed on to and supported: The Smart Growth concept.
1. The back entrance to Wal-Mart -- This street would not provide more safety, would not limit the use of automobiles or increase pedestrian traffic in the area and it would increase vehicle traffic in a residential block. It would solely benefit the automobile. And to what extent? By saving one minute off the travel time from McLane to Hwy 87 (from either feeder street and with the lights being with you).
2. The Mud Springs extension -- This extension would cause a light to be built on Hwy 260 which would mean that there would be four lights in less than two miles of roadway, from Highway 87 to Mud Springs Road. This would not add to safety, it would cause more congestion when Highway 260 is busy, it would cause more high speed traffic in a school and residential block.
I find it irresponsible that the Community Development Department did not make the voters aware of these conflicts with the Growing Smarter Act, an act that the town and the department said they supported.
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The California Supreme Court ruled Aug. 16 that arbitration clauses can be used to resolve construction defect claims filed against builders of common interest developments.
San Diego City Councilman and mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio announced Thursday he had sufficient City Council support to ensure Proposition B’s five-year pensionable pay freeze would be enacted in full. He’s nearly half right.
San Diegans are invited to Tijuana’s massive-sized housewarming party this fall to potentially open up lines of business, culture and communication.
Construction has begun on an upscale apartment complex in the Carlsbad community of La Costa.
The commander of Naval Medical Center San Diego and Navy Medicine West is now a two-star admiral.
Federal regulators have slapped the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in California with a violation for a lapse in plant security.
Sally Ride Science, a science education company, named Sheryle Bolton as chief executive officer.
The $800 million purchase of the San Diego Padres by a group including the family of former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley and golfer Phil Mickelson gained final approval from Major League Baseball.
Third-party video game accessory provider Mad Catz Interactive Inc. (NYSE: MCZ) announced the release of its Tritton Pro+ True 5.1 Surround Sound Headset, the upgrade to its Tritton AX Pro.
Vista-based Eco Building Products Inc. (OTC: ECOB) said it was awarded the lumber and labor framing contract to build "The West End Apartments" in Los Angeles.
Envision Solar International Inc. (OTCBB: EVSI) announced it has successfully completed the engineering and manufacturing of its first run of pre-cast concrete columns for its Solar Tree arrays.
There's a well established manufacturing base in San Diego, with contract manufacturers that supply not just local companies but also national customers across a broad spectrum of industries, including electronics, medical, consumer and industrial products.
Eco Building Products Inc. announced it has been awarded the lumber and labor framing contract to build The West End Apartments in Los Angeles, and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. announced its SAT Corporation subsidiary has received a multi-million dollar order to supply its Monics carrier system to Space Systems/Loral in support of one of its customers, the name of which was not disclosed, according to company announcements, SEC filings and Bloomberg News.
The following "Local Notes" appeared in The Daily Transcript's Aug. 17, 1925 issue:
McCarthy Building Companies Inc. construction crews recently completed the last concrete pour on the Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility, at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla.
The four street-level, retail Blue Water Villas condominium units in Pacific Beach -- at 4105, 4125, 4155 and 4175 Mission Blvd., San Diego 92109 -- have been sold for $1.85 million, cash.
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WebDAV is a great way of accessing files over the Internet. It’s essentially FTP, but not so archaic and fragile. It works well through firewalls, can be encrypted, and is just generally a nice, modern, useful protocol.
I’ll show you a couple WebDAV tricks in a moment, but first, I’m going to show you how to set up WebDAV on your own Windows machine. It’s one of the best ways of accessing files remotely – free, easy, and highly compatible. I’ll assume you’re using Windows 7, because if you’re a tech enthusiast, there’s no reason you should be using anything else at this point. WebDAV works under pretty much everywhere, but it’s not always this easy to set up.
So, the first thing to do is to install IIS, if you haven’t already done so. IIS is included in all versions of Windows 7, although it’s not turned on by default. Click Start, type “Windows features”, and click enter. This will get you to the Windows Features dialog (which you can also access through Add/Remove Programs):
Turn on IIS, and make sure you select at least the following:
- Internet Information Services
- IIS Management Console
- WebDAV Publishing
- Windows Authentication
You might want to read through everything else there and make your own decisions about what you’d like to install. If you don’t know what something is, just leave it off – it’s easy to change later. Then, you’ll need to open port 80 on your router and firewall (assuming you want to access this server from elsewhere on the Internet).
Now, start IIS Manager. You’ll need to configure authentication, so select Default Web Site and double-click the Authentication icon:
Depending on what options you chose earlier, you might have other types of authentication available here (such as basic, Kerberos, or certificate-based). I’d suggest you disable Anonymous and enable Windows authentication.
Next, go to WebDAV Authoring Rules, and click Enable on the right:
This turns on WebDAV for this web. Now, you’ll need to add an authoring rule (essentially, permissions for WebDAV). Click ‘Add Authoring Rule’ from the right, and you’ll see this:
The easiest thing to do here is to select all content, all users, and all permissions. Clearly, you may want to change this to suit your requirements.
Once you click OK, your server will be running WebDAV! This is great if you just want access to the files on your Default web site, but if you want general access to other places on your computer, you’ll want to add some virtual directories. To do this, right-click the Default Web Site, and choose ‘Add New Virtual Directory’:
Type an alias and provide a path to the folder you’d like to share. Then click OK. Just like that, you’ve set up a ‘Share’ under WebDAV.
Now, I’ll show you a great trick for using WebDAV. This will also let us test to see if everything is working properly. Open a command prompt, and type something like this:
net use * http://mobile1/projects
That should map a network drive to your WebDAV folder:
As you can see, it’s a pretty easy way of accessing your files remotely. You get all the rich tools of working with files straight through Windows, and since WebDAV works over simple HTTP, this will work through all but the strictest of firewalls. As this is running through IIS, you can also take full advantage of the rich security and administration tools IIS provides – including HTTPS, if you’re worried about encrypting your transfers (while your password will be encrypted if you use Windows Authentication, the rest of your session is sent in the clear if you choose to use normal HTTP).
By the way… if you have Directory Browsing turned on, you can type that same URL into a browser, authenticate as required, and you’ll see a listing of your files that you can download directly. This might not be as slick as WebDAV, but it’s guaranteed to work everywhere.
Here are some things you may run into trouble with:
- You can’t use Basic authentication with HTTP. This is a good thing: in such a scenario, your password would be sent in plain text. Either use HTTPS or turn on Windows Authentication.
- Don’t forget that IIS runs under an account that won’t have access to certain places (like your desktop) by default, so you may have to adjust file permissions accordingly.
- To use WebDAV, three permission checks will all have to succeed: the WebDAV authoring rule, your IIS permission settings, and your Windows permission settings. If you’re having trouble, start at the bottom and work your way up. Can you access the file through IIS using a browser? If not, you won’t be able to get at the file through WebDAV, either.
Because of the flexibility offered through IIS, you can use this for much more than simply accessing your documents remotely:
- Let others edit a web site you’re hosting.
- Set up a public read only ‘tools’ folder where you can easily get at common tools and documents you find yourself wishing were available on other people’s machines.
- Create a web-accessible team folder, granting read-only access to some users and full access to others.
- Publish web pages from within Microsoft Office! Just choose ‘web page’ as the file type when you click Save, and save the document to a public WebDAV folder.
There’s a tremendous amount of helpful information on WebDAV under IIS 7 at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/357/webdav-for-iis-70/ if you want to learn more.
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2010-2011 Chapman High School List of Accomplishments
· Coach Rebecca Pack was selected to coach in the 2A/3A North-South Softball all-star game this past summer.
· Coach Jerry Waters was honored as the 2010 SC Basketball Official’s Coach of the Year for the upstate.
· The new athletic website (www.thepanthernation.com) was launched September 1st.
· Fall Sports Athletes visited IES and helped with their writing skills during “Paws to Write”.
· The Lady Panthers Tennis Team finished their best season ever, ending the year 14-4.
· The CHS Volleyball Team took the Region III-3A title .
· The Girls’Golf team finished 2nd place this year in the region.
· Boys and Girls Cross Country teams finished 3rd at the region meet which qualified them to the upper state meet.
· The varsity Competition Cheer Team took first place at the Rebel Cheer Challenge and the JV team finished 3rd.
· The following students were named Fall Sports All-Region
o Competition Cheer: Jennie Garrett, Lindsay Dobbins, and Lauren Trout
o Football: Josh Henderson and Preston Durham
o Volleyball: Shelby Hollifield, Sarah Keever, and Tanae Copeland
o Girls’ Tennis: Stacy Simpkins and Ashley Gage
o Boys’Cross Country: Aaron Tate
o Girls’ Cross Country: Angela Krechko
o Girls’Golf: Maggie Elsey
· All-State Honors
o Tanae Copeland – Volleyball
o Sarah Keever- Volleyball
· Preston Durham was selected for the Max Preps Air Force Junior All-American Team for football. Preston is one of only 22 players in the nation to be selected to the team.
· The wrestling team finished 3rd in the Spartanburg County meet which is their best finish in school history.
· Ivan Korneychuk was selected to the North-South wrestling team.
· Jalen Nesbitt was selected to participate at the North-South All-Star basketball game.
· The following students were named Palmetto Fellows: Hamilton Bonds, Dalton Fowler, Austin Hedrick, Elizabeth Ward, Kortney Schuman, Adam Taylor, and Jared Snider.
· Tanae Copeland (volleyball), Jalen Nesbitt (Boy’s Basketball), and Caroline Hill were 2010-2011 Region Players of the Year in their respective sports.
· Pancakes with the Panthers were held at Fatz Café .
· Jalen Nesbitt was named to the All-State basketball team.
· The Chapman High School football was broadcasted live on Charter Cable Channel 36.
· The football team was also featured as the game of the week on TV 40.
· Congratulations to the Athletes of the Week
o Emily Brown- Girls Tennis
o Kenny Hutchinson- Football
o Shelby Hollifield- Volleyball
o Dayton Ayers- Football
o Angela Krechko- Cross Country
o Derrick Brian- Football
o Racheli Gist- Volleyball
o Josh Henderson- Football
o Lety Good- Tennis
o Mike Stone- Cross Country
o Sarah Nix- Volleyball
o Josh Roberson- Football
o Erin Stepp- Competitive Cheer
o DJ Lynch- Football
o Tierhane Huff- Competitive Cheer
o Scott Gregory- Football
o Lauren Trout- Competitive Cheer
o Austin West- Football
o Summer Skinner- Competitive Cheer
o Austin Hedrick- Basketball
o Brandon Loftis- Wrestling
o Tanae Copeland- Basketball
o Jalen Nesbitt- Basketball
o Boo Bradley- Competitive Cheer
o Zy Henderson- Basketball
o Allen Hicks- Basketball
o Jasmine Fowler- Basketball
o James Deal- Wrestling
o Stephanie Fortner- Basketball
o Andrew Brown- Wrestling
o Jamal Wilkins- Football
o Sarah Keever- Volleyball
o Samantha McMillin- Golf
o Aaron Tate- Cross Country
o Tesha Fields- Basketball
o Ivan Korneychuk- Wrestling
o Christi Fowler-Basketball
o Billy Pres- Wrestling
o Charles Ashmore- Baseball
o Caroline Hill- Softball
o Stephanie Rincon- Track
o Spencer Baron- Tennis
o Katelyn Lanford- Girl’s Soccer
o Carlos Villanueva- Boy’s Soccer
o Cua Scott- Girl’s Track
o Benjamin Zieglar- Baseball
o Brianna Dawkins- Girl’s Track
o Luke Burrell- Golf
o Kody Stewart- Baseball
o Victoria Bobo- Girl’s Soccer
o Edgar Resendiz-Boy’s Soccer
o Angel Hollon- Girl’s Soccer
o Kanisha McDowell- Girl’s Track
o Ben VanderMuelen- Boys Soccer
· JV Volleyball beat out 10 teams to capture the Bing Bang Boom Tournament.
· Competition Cheer took 1st place in the AAA division at the Gaffney Invitational.
· Competitive Cheer team captured 1st place in the AAA division in the Panther Prowl tournament.
· Competitive Cheer team won the Rebel Cheer Challenge in their division.
· The boys and girls cross country teams finished second at the region meet.
· Aaron Tate qualified to the State Cross Country meet in Columbia.
· The competition cheerleaders were state qualifiers.
· Dalton Fowler was honored s the Founders Federal Credit Union Scholar Athlete of the Week by the Spartanburg Touchdown Club.
· Congratulations to Liza West on signing an athletic scholarship to attend Erskine College
· JV wrestlers dominated the Hillcrest HS Tournament. Taking 1st place in their weight classes were Dylan Cogdill, James Deal, Michael Scott, Austin Kilpatrick, and Alex LeCroy. 2nd place finishers were David Korneychuk and Justin Stewart.
· Varsity boys’ basketball team won the Fatz Café Tip-Off Tournament. Seniors Stephen Golightly and Allen Hicks were named to the All-Tournament team, and Jalen Nesbitt was awarded the Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player Award.
· The girls’ tennis team sponsored 2 children for Christmas as their Community Service Project.
· The Boy’s Basketball team finished second in the Battle at the Border Christmas Tournament. Jalen Nesbitt and Allen Hicks were named to the All-Tournament team
· The varsity girls won the consolation Championship at the Battle at the Border Christmas Tournament.
· Congratulations to Jalen Nesbitt, Allen Hicks, Dalton Fowler, Tanae Copeland, and Zykeya Henderson for making All –Region in Basketball.
· The wrestling team clinched the Region 3- AAA Championship and closed out a perfect 13-0 regular season.
· Congratulations to the following for being individual Champions at the Region, which earned them All-Region honors.
o James Deal
o David Korneychuk
o Jacob Unger
o Ivan Korneychuk
o Preston Durham
· The Varsity Boy’s Soccer Team won the Region Championship.
· Caroline Hill was selected for the All-State softball team.
· Varsity Girl’s Soccer Team were co champions in the Region.
· Girls Track finished 2nd in the Region.
· Boys Track finished 3rd in the Region.
· Spartanburg Herald Journal All Area Team
o Jalen Nesbitt (Basketball)
o Ivan Korneychuk (Wrestling)
o Preston Durham (Wrestling)
· Spartanburg Herald Journal All-Academic Team
o Boys Basketball- Austin Hedrick, Dalton Fowler and Ryan Gaddy
o Wrestling- Preston Durham and Brandon Loftis
o Girls Basketball- Katrina Burgess
· Austin Hedrick received the Wendy’s Heisman Award.
· Jennifer Allen (Volleyball), David Bush (Wrestling), Will Maley (Boy’s Soccer), and Cayce Wampole-Lell (Girl’s Soccer) were Region 3-AAA Coaches of the Year. All four teams were region champions.
· The following athletes were named All Region in the spring.
o Softball- Caroline Hill, Cara Jamerson, Eliza West, and Caitlyn Cheek
o Girl’s Track- Stephanie Rincon was All Region in the 400 hurdles and pole vault.
o Boy’s Track- Jamar Wilkins in the long jump
o Boy’s Tennis- Spencer Baron and Dakota Johnson
o Baseball- Kody Stewart and Brandon Painter
o Girl’s Soccer- Caitlyn Johnson, Katelyn Lanford, Linde Weissenberger, Samantha McMillin, Hannah Phillips, and Kendall Griswold
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Warren Hall put on a show at Village Bowl this week, firing a 300 game in the Semi Classic Doubles League.
But after that, the spotlight fell squarely on SAFB South Lanes.
Steve Hauk had the week's high series, a 777, in the Tuesday Night Youth-Adult League.
Amanda McGlinn had a big 262 game and 722 series in the Wednesday Nite Summer Combo.
Other top scores of the week were:
At Village Bowl: Warren Hall had the high series with 699 in the Semi Classic Doubles. Kyle Flax had runner-up game, 253, and James Hoffman had second-best series, 683, in the Columbia 300.
Francene Neff's 205 game in the Tuesday Combo and Pat McGhee's 574 series in the senior Generation Gap led the women. Runners-ups were Ronda Kisinger's 204 in the Tuesday Combo and Lisa Stephens-Musick's 559 in the Semi Classic Doubles.
Richard Lacher had a 583 series to lead the senior men. Pat McGhee had the top game for senior women with 200. Both were in the Generation Gap.
The top youth scores were:
Majors: David Shults 185 and 492.
Juniors: Tom Smith 204 and 505.
Preps: Sheridan Allen 82 and 206 series; Tommy Barnet 70 and 163 series.
Bantams: Connor Smith 149 and 354; Jackie June Martin 75 and 217 series.
At SAFB South Lanes: Steve Hauk had game with 268 in the Wednesday Nite Summer Combo, and Dave Gass was just one pin behind with a runner-up 267 in the same league.
Dori Nicholson's 255 and 619 on Wednesday night were second-best women's scores.
Leading the youth were Demetrius Stevenson with 226 and 565 and Kaylee Glenn with 169 and 408. | <urn:uuid:77ed394c-7953-4e75-a8bd-2ded8faa8f90> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2012/jul/13/hall-bowls-perfect-game-in-semi-classic/ | 2013-05-19T13:17:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959788 | 395 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Kinky Boots and Matilda cleaned up.
Also: Selena Gomez and Katy Perry.
As does The Amazing Race.
"Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer."
The movie took home the top prize at the Producer's Guild Awards.
Followed by Life of Pi and Les Misérables.
David O. Russell = snubbed.
Amour and more Matthew McConaughey!
Yes: Looper and The Master. No: Django and Les Miz.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen?
Oh, hello, award season.
Matthew McConaughey for Best Supporting Actor: all right, all right, all right.
For Best Feature.
Beating out Junot Díaz and Dave Eggers.
Hanging out with the actor as he flies into Los Angeles for an awards screening of Magic Mike.
Let's see Jonathan Franzen decapitate a zombie.
He also doesn't love that DiCaprio took his place.
For Bring Up the Bodies.
It's called reading, guys.
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Afternoon, EQs! We've got an exciting little interview to share with you today that has taken me far too long to post for various reasons. Regardless, recently I was lucky enough to have a short virtual interview with upcoming pop wonderkid and all around nicest-guy-you'll-ever-meet Asher Monroe! We've had our eyes on him for quite a while now and still have Here With You on repeat constantly (and you should, too).
We had some questions of our own and also opened it up to some fans on Twitter and gave them a chance to ask their own questions.
a solo artist, things have undoubtedly been different from your days in a boy
band. What are the biggest advantages and disadvantages of being solo now,
opposed to being in a group?
Being a solo artist allows me to have true creative freedom I want. I write all my music now (which wasn't something I had the opportunity to do before). There's not really a disadvantage to going solo... I see the transition as an upside that allows me to get closer to what I was born to do. | <urn:uuid:a8cd1c01-7b28-49c4-8064-0af8f96c45c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://zxlcreative.blogs.com/electroqueer/electroqueer_spotlight/ | 2013-05-19T13:28:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986725 | 229 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
FAIRFIELD — It was time to find out a few things about Central Connecticut's football team.
Could the Blue Devils make do without most of their starting offensive backfield? Could they survive without their top player, defensive tackle Steve Konopka? Could they come from behind? Could they create ways to win?
Coach Sal Cintorino got affirmation across the board Saturday, and the Blue Devils left Sacred Heart University with a 38-31 victory.
``I had to see how we were going to respond,'' Cintorino said. ``Were we going to come out fighting in the second half, or just sit through 30 minutes? I think it was pretty exciting.''
Trailing 28-13, the Blue Devils (3- 4) came up with 24 points in a row. But not until O.B. Lomotey cradled an onside kick with 1 minute, 4 seconds left (after a 28-yard field goal by Sacred Heart's Lou Monaco) was the outcome assured in this first meeting between the schools.
``I don't know if this is our turnaround game,'' Lomotey said. ``But we're 3-4 now, and we want to finish 6-4.''
Lomotey's 80-yard touchdown catch, on which he raced the last 60 yards after Keith Toolan's pass, was the play that turned the game around. With a two-point conversion run by James Furey, Central cut it to 28-21 with 6:22 left in the third quarter. Two blocked punts by Garfield White set up the next 10 points for Central.
Sacred Heart is 1-6. ``We're a growing program,'' coach Tom Radulski said. ``Baby steps, but we are getting better.''
With a depleted backfield, Cintorino moved cornerback Dino Harrison to tailback. Harrison gained 52 yards on five carries on the opening series, scoring on an 11-yard run to give Central a 6-0 lead.
Konopka, the 300-pound force in the middle considered a serious NFL prospect, sprained his right ankle on Central's first defensive series. This left the Devils vulnerable to Sacred Heart's wing-T; the Pioneers rushed for 190 yards.
``I saw some fear in kids' eyes,'' Cintorino said. ``It was the first time all year we were playing without [Konopka], and there was an acclimation period.''
Brandon Graham finished two long drives with 1-yard touchdown runs, and a bizzare two-point conversion -- after a bad snap, holder Chris Petitti threw it up for grabs and lineman Marty Weimann took the deflected pass and bulled over the goal line -- gave Sacred Heart a 15-6 lead. After Furey's 22-yard run made it 15-13, Sacred Heart got its first TD pass in two years, Steve Ladd to Chris Wilkinson for 8 yards, and Kiheme Cowan scored on a 6- yard run to make it 28-13.
Following Lomotey's big play in the third quarter, White's blocks on successive punts allowed Central to start fourth-quarter possessions at the Sacred Heart 44 and 20. The blocks set up Furey's second touchdown, a 1-yard run, and Charles Eger's 32-yard field goal.
By then, Central's offensive line was in control. Harrison finished with 16 carries for 91 yards; Furey, a freshman, with 18 for 77. Kevin Hatcher (9 for 45) had an 8-yard touchdown run with 2:44 left. | <urn:uuid:6d366eb4-96dc-461a-ab0e-45d1b7d3ecf5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.courant.com/1998-10-25/sports/9810250320_1_blue-devils-central-connecticut-blocks | 2013-05-22T10:37:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701577515/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105257-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968764 | 751 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
All About Uncle Buck
Technicals are not the be all and end all. Unc could shrug this off at any time and light a fire in the casino. But the technicals are the technicals, and the technicals say this breakdown projects much lower. In the buck's favor is slight bullish divergence. | <urn:uuid:d8d015be-9b0f-4865-aeea-646906bedb18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://biiwii.blogspot.com/2010/09/all-about-uncle-buck.html | 2013-05-22T10:24:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701577515/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105257-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957749 | 69 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
ASHEBORO — Randolph County commissioners approved the 2012-13 budget Monday with no property tax increase and few changes to the document proposed at the beginning of the process.
The county’s tax rate will stay the same at 58 cents per $100 dollar valuation. The budget is balanced at $112,074,939.
However, in order to balance the budget, commissioners had to appropriate $5,752,884 from the county’s fund balance, sometimes called the county’s “savings account.” Will Massie, county finance officer, said 5 percent of the next year’s budget will be made up from the fund balance.
Commissioners did vote to give the sheriff’s department an additional $161,764 for a legal deputy, an investigation clerk and to upgrade a part-time maintenance person at the county jail to full-time status. The funds approved will also cover the cost of equipping the new employees.
Commissioners voted to appropriate $13,220 for the Day Reporting Center to keep the facility operating for two months while the state works out its budget. Without the allotment, officials said the center would have had to shut down all operations for two months until the state’s budget takes effect.
County employees did not receive a raise. However, commissioners did vote to authorize an increase in vacation time by five days for each eligible employee. The move will not increase the budget, said Commissioner Darrell Frye.
Frye also said this budget comes with a warning. He said commissioners have worked to be frugal with the county’s dollars, citing the construction of two new high schools for less than what neighboring Guilford County paid to rebuild one high school.
He said the county has been living off its fund balance for the last four years. He said that is due to the hard work and savings accrued by the county’s employees. He said the employees took on the extra work and made cuts to their own departments so that the savings could go into the fund balance.
Frye said this could not continue.
“(Using the fund balance) doesn’t make the problems go away,” he said. “They will have to be addressed.”
Commissioners approved Asheboro City School and Archdale/Trinity School tax rates at existing levels. County fee schedules, such as building permit fees and tipping fees at the landfill, will all remain the same.
Seven out of 19 fire districts requested tax rate increases. Only six received increases; some at less than what was requested.
Frye commented that representatives from Bennett Fire District never came to present a case for why that district’s rate should go from 7 cents to 8 cents. The request was unanimously denied.
Commissioner Arnold Lanier was the lone dissenting vote in the next six votes to hike fire district taxes.
Climax Fire District representatives had asked for that rate to go from 10 cents to 12.5 cents. Commissioners Frye, Stan Haywood, Phil Kemp and Harold Holmes voted to approve an increase to 12 cents.
The same commissioners voted to increase East Side Fire District tax from 8 cents to 9 cents; Fairgrove Fire District from 6.5 cents to 8 cents; Franklinville Fire District from 8.5 cents to 10 cents; Guil-Rand Fire District from 10 cents to 12 cents and West Side Fire District from 9 cents to 10 cents.
For the past five years, each budget discussion has ended with commissioners mulling over how to pay for needs not addressed by their actions.
Haywood and Lanier each said the county needs to add more ambulance stations in remote areas of the county. Lanier said leaving taxpayers in outlying areas without coverage is not fair. Haywood suggested an in-depth budget study might turn up additional savings that could be put toward this need.
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The other day I stumbled on a remix on YouTube of two songs that led me down a rabbit hole of remixes, and then all afternoon I was like, “Jon, just one more. ONE MORE.” And he indulged me until finally he was like, “You said the last one you played was really, this time, going to be the last one, but you’re asking me if I’d like to hear another one. What is the correct answer to this question?” And then I reminded him of how many times he’s forced me to listen to his geek podcasts while we’re driving somewhere, podcasts that have made me so nuts with all the “but the button is two centimeters too far to the right” bullshit that goes on when some new piece of hardware comes out that I almost jumped out of the car in the middle of the freeway. YOU CAN BROWSE THE INTERNET ON YOUR PHONE, DUDE. SHOW UP TO MY HOUSE AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHERE YOU CAN PUT YOUR DAMN BUTTON.
I’m not going to feature all the ones I found the other day, but I will share my favorite three, all from YouTube user thriftshopxl. First up, “Toxic” by Britney Spears remixed with “Love Shack” by the B52′s.
Next, and this one is beyond brilliant and I wish I could favorite it sixteen hundred times, “Mama Said Knock You Out” by LL Cool J remixed with “Come on Eileen” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
And finally, two of my most favorite songs ever both in line together: “No Scrubs” by TLC and “Close to Me” by The Cure.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform into the path of a train because she has hated Muslims since Sept. 11 and thought he was one was charged Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said.
Erika Menendez was charged in the death of Sunando Sen, who was crushed by a 7 train in Queens on Thursday night, the second time this month a commuter has died in such a nightmarish fashion.
Menendez, 31, was awaiting arraignment on the charge Saturday evening, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said. She could face 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
Menendez, who was arrested after a tip by a passer-by who saw her on a street and thought she looked like the woman in a surveillance video released by police, admitted shoving Sen, who was pushed from behind, authorities said.
“I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up,” Menendez told police, according to the district attorney’s office.
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We love our little Will, he is so much fun to have around the house. His little personality is so silly and goofy and naughty and sweet. He is going to be the baby of the house for only a couple more weeks, I think the real terrible two's are about to hit!
Friday, February 25, 2011
In other news, Tyson had an emergency appendectomy in the wee hours on Monday morning. He is doing good. I am still pregnant and getting bigger by the day. I was going to post a pic of my belly, but after I took the picture, it just made me depressed, I looked yuuucky.
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Brooklyn at her Preschool Halloween Party.
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We took the kids hiking up Ogden Canyon on Saturday. We had planned a really fun hike a little bit further away, but it was supposed to rain so we did a smaller one. It never rained.
Zach, Brooklyn, and their friend Jezne
Will is saying "cheese" for the camera
We saw a baby rattlesnake on the side of the trail. It coiled up inside a log and had its mouth open.
We talked to some guys on the trail who had seen a bigger one. Brooklyn was really scared. So she got to ride in the baby backpack. | <urn:uuid:a7e5f95b-1238-4af8-8489-14793e832a12> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jenniebartlett.blogspot.com/ | 2013-05-22T10:23:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701577515/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105257-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988525 | 314 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
You know what I like? Games that make it easy to get into but then go deep over the long haul. I've mentioned in the past how both Eberron and S. John Ross' Uresia both make it super-easy for D&D people to hop on board. You can create a bog standard surly dwarf or axe-wielding viking for either campaign and then let the GM spoonfeed you the deeper weirdness of the two settings. Similarly, you can play Traveller without knowing much about sci fi other than what you can get out of watching Star Wars, yet there is so much more under the surface.
Low Impact High Weirdness is my new catchphrase for these kinds of games. The big thing about these games is that you don't need a PhD in the setting to whip up a PC, or for the player to know what to do with that PC. There are a lot of rich, wondrous games out there I simply will never play because I don't want to spend umpteen hours conveying the setting to the players so they can make appropriate characters. Most versions of Tékumel, for instance. Or Fading Suns. At its most basic, I don't want to tell players why the setting is cool, I want get them into the game and then show them.
Example: at my Eberron game this last Tuesday the PCs met up with Ms. Johnson in an abandoned tower. Since the party is composed of despicable sky pirates, she brought some back-up. When I described the kobold mercenaries perched on the tower, wearing ewok-style hang-gliders, one of the players nearly jumped out of his seat. This was something new and weird for him. He was startled with the idea of hang-gliding kobolds, pulling quasi-legit merc work in a human city. I loved that reaction.
The player was Jon, who does the same thing to me all the time in his awesome World of Alidor campaign. You can make a regular D&D character for that campaign, and go on regular adventures. Someone with no knowledge of the setting can show up and play cold, but the campaign is chock full of awesome memorable stuff. Hell, after the first session I wrote up a list of things I wanted to do in his campaign, just 'cause it was so loaded with coolness. (Hmm, I've only got three items crossed off that list. Looks like I need to get to work.)
Many games set in the modern world do a good job of being Low Impact High Weirdness. With its easy premise ('occult investigation in the Roaring 20s'), D&D style stats, and percentage skills, Call of Cthulhu is extremely newbie friendly. At least when you don't make the mistake of fetishizing the source material. Most other horror, spy, or action movie games work that way as well. Feng Shui has a boatload of wacky setting info, but actually works better if you only dole it out to the players in bitesized morsels. You start out in a stock action movie and only later see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Most White Wolf games don't work for me precisely because I need to grok too much at the beginning of a campaign. If the Storyteller has to explain the difference between a Tremere and a Brujah before I can make my PC, then I just don't really want to play. Is that fair, considering that back in the day I had to learn the difference between an elf and a dwarf? Not really. But nowadays I just don't have the time to absorb vast amounts of setting info prior to starting a game. Put me in the game now, and freak me out later.
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Once Upon a Time‘s second season is quite a bit more cryptic in its episode titles, causing us to think deeper to find the connection.
This episode was very different from previous episodes because the parallel stories tie into each other. So we didn’t segregate our conversation as much.
Hook stole the protective counter spell from Cora. Since he later learned how to take a heart (Aurora’s), has he been learning other magic, too? He has been around for about as long as Rumplestiltskin has (about 300 years).
Speaking of age, how old is Cora? She was the Miller’s daughter, but we never saw how she looked when Henry Sr. married her.
What worlds did Cora cross and when? If she’s the Queen of Hearts, could she have infused magic into one of Jefferson’s hats (or several) that took her from world to world?
Why did Hook challenge Cora to “try” to kill him? Is there more to this? Maybe something that prevents it, like Jacob from Lost? Cora expected she and Hook would climb the beanstalk together.
Cora had a traveling chest for heart boxes. They looked the same as in “The Doctor,” but not the same as the vault in Wonderland from “Hat Trick.”
Cora collects hearts even if they’re dead. It’s as if she’s the queen of hearts! Cora blew on the non-glowing heart and it caused several others to star glowing. This seemed like a temporary “breath of life” to dead hearts, raising a small army of the undead.
Mr. Gold has a complicated relationship with Granny, many people, and even ketchup!
What was the previous battle that involved Cora against Regina and Rumplestiltskin? This seems like it would’ve happened before the curse was pronounced and after Snow was on the run.
The nightmare was burning Aurora because she was holding on to the dream. Maybe it was burning Henry because he’s a kid and his mind isn’t strong enough.
“Into the Deep” includes—we think—the first time we hear the phrase, “Once Upon a Time” in the TV show.
Why so much trouble to point out that it was the ink, not the quill, that imprisoned Rumplestiltskin? In “The Price of Gold,” Grumpy said that the Blue Fairy had cast a spell on the quill.
We think the ink is irrelevant and maybe even nonexistent. Maybe it’s just a trap for Cora, if Mr. Gold perceives that Cora will find out and go to Rumple’s jail cell first.
That Henry knew of Rumplestiltskin’s capture seems our first confirmation that Rumplestiltskin definitely is in the storybook.
The ink comes from the “rarest species of squid” that comes from the “bottom of a bottomless ocean,” reachable only by a mermaid or Rumplestiltskin. This could be another Little Mermaid reference on several points.
Just thought I’d mention that Ursala also gets Ariel to sign a contract with a quill (well kind of a fish skeleton thing) in Disney’s Little Mermaid. I think this supports the theory that the squid the ink comes from may be referring to Ursala. I’m wondering if you guys think there might be something there? Thanks for the awesome podcast, you guys help me get through the entire week I have to wait between episodes.
Mulan was smart and cut off the head of an undead to kill it.
Aurora is getting gutsy! Cora called her “Plucky” several times because of this.
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I know Cora’s been stated to be the Miller’s daughter and that many people believe that Cora herself is the queen of hearts but I believe she may represent yet another character (such as how Rumpelstiltskin is a composite of many characters).
If you’ve ever seen any of the Hayao Miyazaki films, you may have seen a movie known as “Howl’s Moving Castle” which is actually based on a piece of literature. Maybe it’s a minute detail, but I couldn’t help but notice Cora’s use of the word “plucky” when speaking to Aurora. It was very similar to how the Witch of the Waste addressed Sophie (the story’s protagonist) with the same use of the word. On top of it, the witch seeks to take Howl’s heart both physically and metaphorically, so like Cora, she has an obsession with hearts. It’s a small similarity, but I thought it would be interesting to mention. The film is dubbed and released by Disney, so it is entirely possible that this theory could hold true.
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* If you want any info on the Witch of the Waste, you can go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl’s_Moving_Castlehttp://howlscastle.wikia.com/wiki/Witch_of_the_Waste
We think Cora is partially lying about where Philip’s soul went. But we’ve always believed that Philip was still alive. This planted that idea in Aurora’s mind, so we’ll probably see her try to “find” Philip.
Was Aurora actually hoping to go to Storybrooke?
Was Cora’s locket necklace anything special?
The one poppy that Mulan found on the edge of the Woods of the Dead glowed.
We couldn’t find any specific references to “Woods of the Dead” other than from role-playing games (RPG).
We felt it was a little too convenient and maybe even “forced” that Snow and Charming ended up in the nightmare. Chris from New York called in to agree.
Mark Isham did a beautiful job with the emotional music in “Into the Deep.” We look forward to the second-season soundtrack!
When David found the red room, he broke the locket and it was broken in Storybrooke, too.
Kitsis and Horowitz explained in the official podcast that the locket was starting to crack the more it was used.
Regina seemed to believe that Cora could actually be more powerful than Rumplestiltskin. Will Regina turn back to magic when Cora comes to Storybrooke?
Mulan is protecting Aurora because it’s the “last bit of Philip” she has left. This could still be a hint that Aurora had feelings for Philip.
Where is Hook’s true allegiance? He’s certainly working for himself.
Snow might have been detecting Cora vibes coming through Aurora.
How is David going to be woken up? Why did the spindle have to be spinning for the sleeping curse to transfer? “It’s magic, not science.” As Galloway said.
We love that Once Upon a Time keeps answering questions while raising more of them.
Big thanks to Bill and Anne Marie from Greetings from Storybrooke for helping support voting for us in the Podcast Awards! We’ll learn the results at the awards ceremony at New Media Expo in Las Vegas on January 7.
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What if Henry turns evil or gets into magic?
Hey, guys, love the podcast! I just wanted to send in a couple thoughts I had about tonight’s episode.
First of all, there was some interesting stuff going on in this episode involving Henry and magic. He seemed a little too fascinated with the whole process. For example, when he was looking at his arm after Rumple healed it, and when he was asking Regina all those questions as she was making the sleeping curse. It makes me think that at some point in the series, Henry will be faced with a choice of whether or not to use magic. Will he give in to the temptation of magical power, or will he take a step back, see what magic has done to Regina, Rumple, and others, and realize that magic should be avoided? It would be interesting to see something like that play out in the show.
Second, Hook took Aurora’s heart! Obviously I have a lot of questions about how he did it and whether or not she realizes she is being controlled, but there is also something else I’m wondering about. Up until now I had always assumed that after Emma and Snow return to Storybrooke, Aurora and Mulan will immediately begin the quest to bring back Phillip’s soul, but now I’m not so sure. It seems to me that they will have to find some way to get back Aurora’s heart before they even consider Phillip. Can a heart be returned once it’s been taken? If not, will Aurora have to live without a heart for the rest of her life?
Well, that’s all I’ve got and I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Great job with the podcast!
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New interview with Sleeping at Last from @PattinsonPost
Our friends over at Pattinson Post have an excellent new follow-up interview with Ryan O’Neal of Sleeping at Last who is responsible for the beautiful song “Turning Page” from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 soundtrack!
Pattinson Post: When did you first know where in the movie your song played?
Sleeping At Last: A little while before the film was released, I was told that it looked like “Turning Page” might play somewhere around the wedding, as well as during the honeymoon. I was obviously ecstatic to hear that, but the word “might” stuck out. So, I had no clue how long the song would play or if it would actually end up being in both scenes. From what I’ve heard, changes and edits in film happen up to the last minute; so, it’s not that uncommon for things to get switched around. Then, finally mid-November rolled around and I had the incredible honor of being able to attend the official Breaking Dawn – Part 1 premiere. I saw the film for the very first time and I was absolutely blown away! I couldn’t believe how gorgeous the scenes turned out. I couldn’t have dreamt of better moments for the song to play. I definitely feel very blessed and grateful to be a part of the film.
PP: You toured with some of the other soundtrack artists and some of the actors from BD1. What was that like?
SAL: It was absurdly fun! It started in San Francisco, where I met Lucy Schwartz and Matt Hales (Aqualung), and their lovely band members. They were all such sweet, fun people to be around. So, I knew right away that the whole mini-tour was going to be a favorite experience of mine and it absolutely was! My good friend Matt came along as well and played guitar in my set, so I felt very lucky to have such great company throughout the entire Twilight Tour adventure.
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Ok, I have been laughing so hard at my friend Alicia’s post on her new sofa (she ordered a Big Butt Sofa) that I just had to share it with you. I laugh because she is not the only one who contemplates such issues. I have my own little story to share along those lines.
I have been thinking lately about getting Big Butt Dining Room Chairs and an Ample Bodied Table. I have the most adorable antique dining table and chairs, but whenever we have guests of NORMAL sized (i.e. ample) derrières and modern day wider load bodies I cringe a little. I brace myself when I watch them aiming their behinds for those chairs that almost look like doll furniture. Then they pull the chair up to the table built for people 4″6 and they bump their knees. Awkward hostessing moments.
Here is what it is like when you come to my house for a sit-down dinner (it is no coincidence that we usually serve potluck in the kitchen and avoid our dining table). I say things like this: “Welcome, friend, right over here…” [i.e. you are in the bigger butt category so I have to usher you over to a big-butt chair]…and “So glad you are here, have a seat” [pulling out a small-butt chair].Once I even thought ahead and made place cards (I am totally serious, and so embarrassed to admit this) according to butt-size. That backfired when I noticed people switching their place cards and I had to grab small-butt chairs out from under them and swiftly replace them with sturdy big-butt benches before they sat down. SO embarrassing. Reminds me of my son, who has been known to tape signs to my rear end “CAUTION: WIDE LOAD”. Obviously, I myself need the wider load benches.
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Hudson Legal’s Mark Yacano Joins OLP C-Level Advisory Group
LOS ANGELES, September 23, 2010 –
The Organization of Legal Professionals, an industry group that includes some of the most respected eDiscovery thought leaders in the field, announced today that Mark Yacano, Executive Vice President of Hudson Legal, a leading document review and project management services firm, has joined the organization’s C-Level Advisory Group. This group includes document management and litigation support executives who provide input and feedback to the OLP’s Board of Governors, Advisory Council and membership about growing trends and continuing needs as seen by legal service providers.
“We are honored to serve the OLP in an advisory capacity as a participating member of their C-Level Team,” said Yacano. “I believe sharing our experiences and expertise in the field of e-discovery will be invaluable as the organization shapes its thinking about new standards and certification for this rapidly-evolving industry.”
Other members of the C-Level group include Ron Friedmann, Vice President, Integreon; Nigel Murrary, CEO, Trilantic; Chris Olsson, CEO, Cricket Technologies; Eddie Sheehy, CEO, Nuix; Vicki Hill, CEO, Norcross Group; Nick Hariton, Managing Director, IPP-LLC; Warwick Sharpe, Vice President, Equivio; Bill Gallivan, GGO, LLC; and David S. Cochran, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Planet Data Solutions, Inc.
Yacano is responsible for the strategic direction and profitable growth of Hudson’s industry-leading legal staffing and discovery solutions business in
. A member of the Virginia State Bar, Yacano founded the Discovery Solutions practice at Wright, Robinson, Osthimer and Tatum, one of the first law firms in the
to develop a specialized document review and discovery practice. Under his leadership, that business grew steadily year-over-year. He joined Hudson Legal this April.
“I welcome Mark to our C-Level Advisory Group and anticipate the many ways the OLP can utilize his expertise,” said Chere Estrin, who chairs the OLP Board of Directors. “Mark’s credentials are among the best in the business, and his background as a practicing lawyer with vast eDiscovery knowledge will enhance our ability to educate eDiscovery professionals.”
About The Organization of Legal Professionals (OLP)
The OLP drives education and best practices and provides certification for those involved in complex litigation support. Through its programs, the OLP ensures the requisite level of competency in complicated disciplines -- including trial support and eDiscovery -- is met. It is the only organization whose members represent all sectors of the eDiscovery profession: attorneys, paralegals, technical support staff, litigation support professionals, consultants, vendors, software developers and the judiciary. For more information, log on to www.theolp.org.
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