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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE HIP HOP GENERATION
The August 2004 forum, Domestic Violence and the Hip Hop Generation, delved into challenges create barriers to positive facets of the hip hop movement. The forum further explored the potential of hip hop music as a vehicle through which to mitigate the violence facing this generation. We encourage you to keep an open mind about a musical genre that has - for better or worse - made a lasting impression on our culture. Focus on the positive energies that can be harnessed to bring about change, because at the end of the day, we'll need to have all segments of the population on board - including the hip hop generation - if we are to end the violence that is destroying the fabric of America.
For many years, various advocacy groups and politicians have been in an uproar over the music being created by the hip hop generation. These much maligned and often misunderstood individuals, typically African Americans between the ages of 15 and 38, have been on the receiving end of harsh criticism far and wide. The level of attention given to this genre of music begs the question, “So what's the big deal?”
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Mikve Discovery Tangible Proof of Jewish Civilization in Tzora
Samson was moved by the divine spirit between Tzora and Eshtaol.
Now the Israel Antiquities Authority has discovered the remains of a mikve( a ritual bath) from the Second Temple period (first century BCE-first century CE) as part of an archeological rescue dig prior to the installation of a water line by the Mekorot Company at an antiquities site, c. 2 kilometers north of Kibbutz Tzora.
The excavation revealed a square structure that has three walls treated with a thin layer of plaster that facilitated the storage of water. A channel used to drain water into the ritual bath was installed in a corner. In addition, a plaster floor and three stairs that descend from it to the west (toward the hewn openings in the bedrock) were exposed.
Archaeologist Pablo Betzer, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, is excited by the findings “This is the first time that any remains dating to the Second Temple period have been exposed in this region.
We know from the Talmud and from non-Jewish sources that on this ridge, as in most of the Judean coastal plain, there was an extensive Jewish community 2,000 years ago that existed until the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. Yet despite the many surveys and excavations that have been carried out to date no remains from this period have been discovered so far." | <urn:uuid:b385cb38-0344-45d5-a817-c671bd2bd865> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148686 | 2013-06-18T06:25:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962396 | 305 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
SOURCE: International Lottery & Totalizator Systems
VISTA, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 23, 2012) - INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY & TOTALIZATOR SYSTEMS, INC. (ILTS) (OTCBB: ITSI) announced that the Company has signed an Agreement with AKTIEBOLAGET TRAV OCH GALOPP (ATG) for the supply of new terminal hardware and associated services and support. The 2,300 new terminals will be deployed to ATG's Agent network throughout Sweden. The first delivery of terminal hardware is scheduled for the first quarter of 2013.
"ATG has been a loyal and appreciated customer of ours for over 30 years. Their technical and operational competencies have proven to be highly valuable as a long time business partner of ILTS," said ILTS President Jeff Johnson. "We are very excited to continue our long and successful relationship with ATG and we look forward to providing them with an excellent terminal hardware product and services that both ATG and their Agent population will be proud of. We are delighted with this latest order from ATG as it demonstrates their continued confidence in our products and services."
Mr. Remy Nilson, CEO of ATG, stated: "We have had a successful relation with ILTS for many years and are now developing our close cooperation even further when we are exchanging our agent terminals. We are looking forward to work together for launching a successful project next year."
International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc. provides computerized wagering systems, equipment and services to lottery and racing organizations worldwide. ILTS can be found on the worldwide web at http://www.ilts.com.
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This Act provides a "safe harbor" for forward−looking statements to encourage companies to provide prospective information about themselves so long as they identify these statements as forward looking and provide meaningful cautionary statements identifying important factors that could cause actual results to differ from the projected results. All statements other than statements of historical fact, including statements regarding industry prospects and future results of operations or financial position, made in this press release are forward−looking. We use words such as "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "future," "intend" and similar expressions to identify forward−looking statements. Forward−looking statements reflect management's current expectations, plans or projections and are inherently uncertain. Our actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations, plans or projections. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward−looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward−looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Readers are urged, however, to review the factors set forth in reports that we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. | <urn:uuid:c6b91ece-6aa8-4be6-abf5-6ec7aee6bf05> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/international-lottery-totalizator-systems-signs-agreement-with-aktiebolaget-trav-och-otcbb-itsi-1716496.htm | 2013-06-18T07:26:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955408 | 614 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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In Accreditation Proposals, Panel Pleases Neither Reformers Nor Status Quo Advocates
April 13, 2012
The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity began meeting more than a year ago to suggest ways that accreditation should change in the next reauthorization of the main federal higher-education law, which expires at the end of 2013. On Friday the panel approved its set of recommendations in a two-hour conference call. While an early draft of the recommendations floated far-reaching possibilities, such as removing accreditation as a condition of an institution's students receiving federal financial aid, most panelists showed little appetite for that degree of change. | <urn:uuid:30f7232e-ee81-46a1-a22e-ae50ed11f749> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.naicu.edu/news_room/news_detail.asp?id=14329 | 2013-06-18T06:38:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938643 | 219 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
New Year’s Eve, and I wasn’t going to blog at all tonight, but a couple of stories are too important to ignore.
Is there a time to kill? That question kept ringing in my mind as I read this painful article in today’s Times, the only paper that seems to have China’s corrupt and ineffective legal system firmly in its line of fire.
From the prison cell where he contemplated an executioner’s bullet, a migrant worker named Wang Binyu gave an anguished account of his wasted life. Unexpectedly, it rippled across China like a primal scream.
For three weeks, the brutal murders Mr. Wang committed after failing to collect unpaid wages were weighed on the Internet and in Chinese newspapers against the brutal treatment he had endured as a migrant worker. Public opinion shouted for mercy; lawyers debated the fairness of his death sentence. Others saw the case as a bloody symptom of the harsh inequities of Chinese life.
But then, in late September, the furor disappeared as suddenly as it had begun. Online discussion was censored and news media coverage was almost completely banned. Mr. Wang’s final appeal was rushed to court. His father, never notified, learned about the hearing only by accident. His chosen defense lawyer was forbidden from participating.
“All of you are on the same side,” Mr. Wang, 28, shouted during the hearing, his father said in an interview here in the family’s home village in northern Gansu Province. “If you want to kill me, just kill me.”
On Oct. 19, they did. Mr. Wang was executed so quickly, and quietly, that it took weeks for the word to fully trickle out that he was dead.
There’s not a word here that won’t infuriate you. The deck is so stacked against the defendant, especially when he’s a poor migrant worker, that I wonder why China even has a court system. The system is in many ways literally a joke, a kind of creepy parody of itself.
Wang was forced to fight against those who exploit and tread on the poor,” one person wrote at a Chinese Web site. “Why is the law always tough on the poor?”
Mr. Wang’s case also illustrates how a system built for convictions has few safeguards or protections for a defendant facing death. Officials in the High Court of Ningxia Autonomous Region, the area in western China where the case was heard, refused several requests for interviews. But Wu Shaozhi, the Beijing lawyer who tried to represent Mr. Wang, said the Ningxia courts obviously wanted fast results.
Before the appeal, the Wang family signed power of attorney to Mr. Wu. But Mr. Wu said court officials had initially lied, telling him the appeal was over. Then they refused to let him enter the case. Instead, Mr. Wang was represented by a lawyer approved by the court.
Meanwhile, Mr. Wu noted, the same judges who heard the appeal also concurrently handled a mandatory final review of the case. It meant that judges were reviewing their own ruling – a practice that legal experts said is not uncommon and provided little real check and balance on the use of the death penalty.
Wang followed all the rules, and tried to fight for his money using the legal system. The article details the Kafkaesque run-arounds and obstacles he faced, and how a good man seeking justice was turned into a killer. You have to read it.
Sometime when I post a story ike this, a commenter will ask, rather snidely, “So why don’t you do something constructive to help make the situation better?” Believe me, if I could do something to change China’s judiciary, I would. For now, writing about it is the only way I know how to make a difference. Knowledge is power, ignorance is impotence and silence is death.
I’ve been striving for balance and looking for something, anything at all, to praise about China’s leaders. So far, I’ve failed abysmally, and stories like this confirm my belief that it’s not a bad thing to point the spotlight on the CCP’s sins and crimes against humanities. In fact, it’s absolutely essential.
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Carrie Underwood at Boardwalk Hall
Who Is She: Carrie Underwood became the first country singer to win "American Idol" in 2005. Underwood is a five-time Grammy Award winner. She performs tonight in the arena at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
What To Expect: Underwood performed earlier this month in Charlotte, N.C. Her setlist included the songs "I Told You So," "Jesus Take The Wheel," "Get Out Of This Town," "Nobody Ever Told You," "Thank God For Home-towns," "Do You Think About Me," "Cupid's Got a Shotgun" and "I Know You Won't." Hunter Hayes will be the opening act.
Event Info: The concert starts 7:30 tonight. Tickets, priced at $44 and $63, are available at the Boardwalk Hall box office, Ticketmaster and
'The Importance of Being Earnest' in Vineland
What Is It: "The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a play by the late Oscar Wilde. It will be performed by the Cumberland Players tonight at The Little Theatre in Vineland.
What To Expect: A classic comedy of manners where two young men pretend their names are "Ernest," which the new women in their lives believe gives magic powers to the possessors. The witty dialogue and farce make it Wilde's most enduringly popular play. The cast for the play includes Bill Branin as Jack and D. Michael Farley as Algernon.
Event Info: The play will be performed 8 p.m. today, Nov. 10, 16 and 17 and 2 p.m. Nov. 18 at the theater at Sherman Avenue and the Boulevard. Tickets $13. Tickets are available at cumberlandplayers.com
Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show at Atlantic Club
What Is It: Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show has entertained people around the world and is unique in that it includes an actual link to the real Rat Pack with Buddy Hackett's son, Sandy, starring and producing. The show will be performed tonight and Saturday in the Showroom at Atlantic Club Casino Hotel.
What to Expect: Hackett plays the part of Joey Bishop. Lisa Dawn Miller, the daughter of Motown songwriter Ron Miller, also stars in the production. Hackett brings to life that nonstop party everyone wanted access to by making his comedy, wit and humor the foundation of the show. The musical is for those who enjoy the style and swagger of the original Rat Pack. It is a theatrical production that includes original songs. The show has a unique connection with the stars it highlights.
Event Info: The show begins at 9 tonight and 8 p.m. Saturday in the Atlantic Club. Tickets are $20 and are available at ticketmaster.com
Kozak the Magician, Tropicana, Comedy Stop, 6:30 p.m., dinner seating 5:30 p.m., $20 show only ($10 age 11 and younger); $30 dinner and show, mature PG-14 material. 609-348-0920.
Divas Do AC, Resorts Casino Hotel, Screening Room, 10 p.m. $25. 800-322-SHOW.
Legends in Concert, Bally's, Palace Theater, 8 p.m. $32.50. 609-340-2709.
William Shatner, Harrah's, The Showroom, 9 p.m. $55, $75, $105. 800-2-HARRAH.
Jodi Wiener, Joey Vega, Uncle Larry Reeb, Borgata Comedy Club, The Music Box, 9 p.m., $20.
Drew Thomas, Dan Grueter, Greg Vaccarello, Tropicana Comedy Stop, The Quarter, must be 18 or older, 9 p.m., $27; 11:15 p.m. $25.
N.J. Audubon's Cape May Bird Observatory, Research
& Education Center, 600 Route 47, Middle Township, and Northwood Center on Lily Lake, Cape May Point: Cape May Hawkwatch, dawn to dusk, Cape May Point State Park platform, free; Avalon Seawatch,
7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Seventh Street and ocean, Avalon, free.
Wetlands Institute, 1075 Stone Harbor Blvd., Stone Harbor, science program, 2:15 p.m., $8 adults, $6 ages 3 to 12, includes activities. 609-368-1211.
"Headliners" current events discussions, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Richard Stockton College, Campus Center lounge, top floor, main campus off Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway Township, open to community.
Pointe Blank Comedy Series, 9 p.m., Sandi Pointe Coastal Bistro, 908 Shore Road, Somers Point, seating 8 p.m., national headliners and local showcase, $15 advance, $20 door. acROCKsolid.com
Exit 0 International Jazz Festival, kickoff concerts 8 and 10:15 p.m., Convention Center, Beach Avenue, Cape May, live music, meet the artist receptions, wine tastings at club venues throughout the city. Tickets: exit0jazzfest.com or 609-849-9202 or 888-943-1864.
"Love, Lust, Fear and Freedom: The Music of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen," as performed by Lauren Fox and her trio, 8 p.m., Appel Farm at the Landis, Landis Theater, 830 East Landis Ave., Vineland, $22.50, $30, $50. 856-691-1121 or landistheater.com
"Sixteen Candelabras," dinner theater, 7:30 p.m., Elaine's Victorian Inn, 513 Lafayette St., Cape May, full course dinner and show, $44.95 adults, $34.95 teens, $24.95 children, reservations recommended. 609-884-4358 or 609-884-1199.
"Poe, Times Two," 8 p.m., Cape May Stage, Robert Shackleton Playhouse, Bank and Lafayette streets, Cape May, one-man stage adaptations of two works by Edgar Allan Poe, $35 adults $30 seniors, $15 students. 609-884-1341 or capemaystage.org
"Urinetown," 8 p.m., Second and Vine Players, Eagle Theater, 208 Vine St., Hammonton, 609-704-5012.
Annie, 8 p.m., Off Broad Street Players, Levoy Theatre, 126 N. High St., Millville, $20 adults, $14 seniors, students. 856-327-6400 or levoy.net
Atlantic Club Casino Hotel, 3400 Pacific Ave.: The Burger Bar, 609-340-4636 - Robert Ross, 9 p.m.; The Dizzy Dolphin, 609-340-4636 -
Flip N' Mickey's, 9 p.m.
Bally's Atlantic City, Park Place and Boardwalk: Harry's Oyster Bar & Seafood, 609-340-2000 - Live music, 7 p.m.; The Mountain Bar, 609-340-2000 - DJ Kyle Sweeny,
9 p.m., The Vixens, 10 p.m.
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa,
1 Borgata Way: Gypsy Bar, 609-317-1000 - Screaming Broccoli, 7 p.m.; mur.mur,
609-317-1000 - Eli Escobar, 10 p.m.
Caesars Atlantic City, 2100 Pacific Ave.: Dusk, 609-345-3875 - DJ Royale, 10 p.m.; Mia, 609-348-4411 - DJ Lu'AP, 10 p.m.; Toga Bar, 609-348-4411 - DJ April and Toga Dancers, 10 p.m.
Golden Nugget, Huron Avenue and Brigantine Boulevard: Live Bar, 800-777-8477 - B Street, 8 p.m.; Rush Lounge, 800-777-8477 - Richie Balin, 6 p.m.; Big House, 10 p.m.; The Deck, 800-777-8477 - DJ and Dancers,
Harrah's Resort, 777 Harrah's Blvd.: Eden Lounge, 609-441-5165 -Drop Dead Sexy,
9:15 p.m.; The Pool After Dark, 609-441-5165 - Three Loco, DJ R.O.B., DJ Whuteya, DJ Ed Smooth, 10 p.m.; Xhibition Bar, 800-242-7724 - DJ Hannah Rad, 11:30 p.m.
Resorts Casino Hotel, 1133 Boardwalk: 25 Hours, 800-336-6378 - Blanche, 4 p.m.; Juicy, 10 p.m.; ProBar, 800-336-6378 - Music Videos, 8 p.m.; DJ Zathan, 10 p.m.; Gogo Boys,
11 p.m.; Whiskey Bar, 800-336-6378 - Patty Blee, 7 p.m.
Revel, 500 Boardwalk: Ivan Kane's Royal Jelly Burlesque Nightclub, 609-225-9898 - DJs, Classic Burlesque 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m.; Rock 'n Roll Burlesque 2 a.m.; HQ, 855-348-0500 - AN21, 10 p.m.
Showboat Casino-Hotel, 801 Boardwalk: House of Blues Party Pit, 609-343-4000 - DJ Sonatra, 9 p.m.; Mayday Mayday and Dancers, 10 p.m.
Tropicana Casino and Resort, 2831 Boardwalk: Anthem, 609-576-5206 - DJ Luap and DJ B Easy, 10 p.m.; Boogie Nights, 888-940-7080 - Michael Jackson Returns - Wear a sequined glove for free admission before 11 p.m.; Red Square, The Quarter, 609-344-9100 - Siberian Night with DJ Sean M., 11 p.m.; Rumba Lounge, The Quarter, 609-340-4000 - Dancers and DJs,
10 p.m.; Cuba Libre, The Quarter, 609-348-6700 - Latin Floorshow, 11 p.m., 11:30 p.m. and midnight; Firewaters, 609-344-6699 - DJ Dance Party,
10 p.m.; Planet Rose Karaoke Lounge, The Quarter, 609-344-6565 - Karaoke, 8 p.m.
Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, 1000 Boardwalk at Virginia Avenue: Ego, 609-449-5138 - Almost Angels and DJ Chris Rivera, 10 p.m.
W.L.Goodfellows and Co., 310 E. White Horse Pike, 609-652-1942 - Karaoke, 8 p.m.
Tun Tavern, 2 Convention Blvd., 609-347-7800 - Kyle Campbell, 8 p.m.
The Princeton, 2008 Dune Drive, 215-725-8681 - DJ,
The Bridgewater Pub, 22 S. Laurel St., 856-455-9551 - DJs, 9 p.m.
Boiler Room, Congress Hall, 200 Congress Place, 609-884-8421 - Exit Zero Jazz Festival - DJ Soul Sister, 9 p.m.
Brown Room, Congress Hall, 200 Congress Place, 609-884-8421 - Wesley Ochs, 8 p.m.
Ebbitt Room, The Virginia Hotel, 25 Jackson St., 609-884-5700 - Paul Sottile, 6:30 p.m.
Hemingway's, Cape May Grand Hotel, Beach and Philadelphia avenues, 609-884-5611 - DJ, 9 p.m.
Mad Batter, 19 Jackson St., 609-884-5970 - Geno White Trio.
The Pilot House, 142 Decatur St., Washington Street Mall, Cape May, 609-884-3449 - Open mic hosted by Barry, 8 p.m.
The Ugly Mug, 462 Washington St., 609-884-3459 - Live music, 9 p.m.
Buck Tavern, 621 New Jersey 50, 609-628-3117 - Spencer Belz, 6 p.m.
Bulldog's Bar and Grill, 743 White Horse Pike, 609-965-4433 - DJ Dance Party, 10 p.m.
Assaggio!, 500 W. White Horse Pike, 609-965-3303 - Live piano music, 7 p.m.
DiDonato's Bowling Center and Cocktail Lounge, 1151 White Horse Pike, 609-561-3040 - Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.
Sofia, 9314 Amherst Ave., 609-822-9111 - Live music and piano, 7 p.m.
Steve and Cookie's By the Bay, Amherst Ave., 609-823-1163 - Lew London and Chris Sooy, 7 p.m.
The Dockside Grille, The Inn at Sugar Hill, 5704 Mays Landing Road, 609-625-2226 - Local musicians Rock The Dock, 6 p.m.
Testa's Good Guys Pub, 5698 Somers Point-Mays Landing Road, 609-625-1926 - DJ dance party, 10 p.m.
Watering Hole Cafe, 6494 Weymouth Road, 609-625-9300 - Shooters, 9 p.m.
Bogart's Books, 210 N. High St., 856-327-3714 - Dominic Mancini Duo, 7 p.m.
Old Oar House Irish Pub, 123 N. High St., 856-293-1200 - Live entertainment, 9 p.m.
Something Sweet, 206 N. High St., 856-765-3819 - Bill Gatier and Friends, 7 p.m.
Philippe Chin Bistro, 800 Bay Ave., 609-926-3500 - Jazz with Shawn Ashley, 8 p.m.
Sandi Pointe Coastal Bistro, 908 Shore Road, 609-927-2759 - Jack & Yvonne, 7 p.m.
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Dale Tiffany Buffet Aldridge Tiffany Buffet Lamp with Antique Bronze with Gold Finish Antique Bronze with Gold
Item #: 297TB101109TL-P$180 + FREE SHIPPING
Description: In this detailed Aldridge Tiffany buffet lamp with an antique bell bronze finish, we use the same high quality copper foil and leading technique that Louis Comfort Tiffany perfected in his original creations. His love of flowers and nature reflects in this beautiful lamp. The design and colors were updated to coordinate with home decor that is popular today.
- Collection: Buffet
- Brand: Dale Tiffany
- Material: Resin
- Bulb Type: E27
- Switch Type: On-Off
- Dimension: 30" H x 9" W
- Light Type: Table
- Available in the following sizes: 30" H x 9" W
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Taking a break from New Year's Eve dinner prep in L.A. to share the last countdown tip of 2012. Since drinks will figure into most people's evening, this is a particularly timely tip from chef Ming Tsai: Along with your alcohol, have some water.
"If I'm out partying, I will drink a full glass of water with every beverage I drink," the Blue Ginger chef and Simply Ming host told me when we spoke for my book. Doing so creates a pause in which to consider whether you want that second or third drink (and the second and third glass of water that will come with it).
With that, I raise a glass to you, and thank all the people who have been incredibly supportive of Smart Chefs in the past year, and also those who might be considering picking up the paperback edition, out today. | <urn:uuid:02b7f56c-4e88-4fad-8ec5-c102258e9d4e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.smart-chefs.com/blog/ | 2013-06-18T07:30:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966213 | 172 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Subject: I have found a DVD that I think you would enjoy
|TNA Wrestling Turning Point 2006|
Actors: Kurt Angle, Ron Killings, The Phenomenal AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Christian Cage
Genres: Television, Sports
TNA: TURNING POINT 2006 (DVD MOVIE)
Great Sports, Lacking Entertainment
D.P. | California | 10/02/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"It was around this time in TNA that the new booking team that was set into place in late September really changed the product into more of the "sports entertainment" enviroment instead of the pure "professional wrestling" product they had since their move to Flordia. It was heavily showcased on this PPV as you had more talk stuff that should have been saved for Impact than PPV.
Preshow: Lance Hoyt & Ron Killings vs. Serotonin - Nothing special here as it was the typical "warm up the crowd" match between all five...which is a shame since you know The Truth & Lance Hoyt are capable of so much more.
Senshi vs. Austin Star vs. Alex Shelley vs. Jay Lethal vs. Sonjay Dutt - The main point of this match was to put over the fued between Shelley & Star over being Nash's "teacher's pet" which came off well at the end here along with their "blind" tags during the match and each having a hand in each other's eliminations. The match itself was your typical X division multiman match which delivers every time. Nash's commentary is also funny at times.
Bikini Contest: Eric Young vs. Ms. Brooks - First of all, normally I don't comment on these things but watch their highlight package before the match & look out for the Don West line about Eric Young "looking like a baby about to be breast fed" when Ms. Brooks flashed him & Tenay's reaction to it. In fact, Tenay & West's commentary here resemble J.R. & King's commentary during a WWE divas match except you normally don't hear this from Tenay & West all the time so it is very comedic. The "match" itself was the only skit on here that was worth the time it was given as Ms. Brooks didn't have on a skimpy outfit but still looked hot while Eric Young was just comedic gold with his "bikini." This was just one of those segments that I just found absolutely funny.
X Division Champion Christopher Daniels vs. Chris Sabin with Jerry Lynn as the special referee - This match was exactly how I said their previous "Genesis" PPV was in that it was solid inring work from start to finish with Sabin constantly putting over his new attitude whenever he was in control. One of the best matches of the night once again by these two.
Here is skit #2 as they had the MVP of the World Series David Eckstein come out to promote some book he was coming out with while AJ Pierzynski & Dale Torborg from the previous World Series champions Chicago White Sox & the basebrawl last year came out as well but acted like heels in destroying his book & double teaming him until Lance Hoyt made the save. After the action in the previous match, we're given a heavily dry skit that went on too long & didn't involve anyone on the TNA roster to the point where fans were chanting "WE WANT WRESTLING!!!" Crap segment overall.
Rhino vs. AJ Styles - Boy, this was the most aggressive I've seen AJ Styles since I started watching TNA because he jumped Rhino during the prematch interview. They had a high impact wrestling match that resembled a fight/brawl at times with them going though the crowd & backstage. The ending was great to put over Styles as a heel but the match wasn't over yet & they continued to fight afterwards as well. This was a completely different AJ Styles match than you would expect...and that's a good thing in this case.
Flag Match: NWA Tag Team Champions LAX vs. AWM - If they would have cut out the last to segments/skits of this PPV, this match would have had more time to be something more special than it was. The match was alright as it had some good moments such as Gail Kim getting involved in the action & the ending that would lead to the eventual breakup of AMW. Again, the only downfall is that this match was short.
Thoughout the night, there were backstage segments that teased the idea that DX (Shawn Michaels & Triple H) were in the building along with their supporting players like Big D. Johnson (the fat oily stripper) but it turned out to just be the Voodoo Kin Mafia doing a DX paraody complete with imposters of the Spirit Squad & the Big Fat Oily Guy. Honestly, I found the skit more corny than funny but the punchline was to issue a $1 million challenge for DX to fight them...like WWE would really accept or even acknowledge it. Another waste of time.
NWA Champion Abyss vs. Sting vs. Christian Cage - This came off like they were more worried about putting over their current storylines with all three (five if you include Tomko & James Mitchell at ringside) than having a match. It's watchable & has some standout moments like Abyss being stomped face first into the thumbtacks. But besides that, it seems like a big cluster & the wrestlers seem lost at times.
Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe - This was the best out of their 3 match series as it lived up to the expectations that people had for their first encounter. This was a wrestling clinic complete them getting reciepts for what happened the previous month like Joe going face first into steel steps and a series of reversals between the Nikita Clutch & Ankle Lock. Again, my favorite match out of their three match series.
So overall, this PPV illistrates that TNA strong point is their "sports" with the in-ring wrestling action while they're "entertainment" isn't their strongest point with only 1 out of 3 segments worth watching over & over again which knocks down the rating for this PPV. I recommend, just skip the last two talk segments." | <urn:uuid:397768d6-3559-4112-b509-9f092115ca07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.swapadvd.com/TNA-Wrestling-Turning-Point-2006/dvd/166713/ | 2013-06-18T07:25:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980111 | 1,306 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
LAGUNA VISTA, TX (BURNET COUNTY)
LAGUNA VISTA, TEXAS (Burnet County). Laguna Vista is located off State Highway 29 about ten miles west of Burnet in western Burnet County. This community, situated downstream of Buchanan Dam and along the upper reaches of Inks Lake, was shown on tourist maps by the mid-1960s. In 2000, when the first population figures were available for Laguna Vista, the community reported forty-four residents.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Laurie E. Jasinski, "LAGUNA VISTA, TX (BURNET COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnl61), accessed June 18, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. | <urn:uuid:fc2507b5-ee98-4292-b120-342958ebdb7c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnl61 | 2013-06-18T06:32:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922843 | 190 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Grade 6 NAT – Monday March 14, 2011
1. Mass at the Main Chapel at 9:00 A.M. Subject teachers are asked to conduct the students to the said venue.
2. Orientation for the Grade 6 NAT will be conducted at the Class ’96 Conference Room at 3:15 P.M. today.
To be attended by:
3. Grade 6 assembly at the Upper Grades Covered Court during 3rd and 4th periods for a talk with Dr. Loredo and giving of final instructions for the NAT administration day. Subject teachers are requested to conduct the students to the said venue promptly.
Grade 9 NAT – Thursday, March 9, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
1st period - Distribution of the 3rd Quarter Honors Certificate followed by a PEP Talk by Dr. Loredo. Homeroom Advisers are requested to conduct the class to the UGCC right after the Reading of the bulletin.
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The Impacts of Ethiopia’s Invasion of Somalia
January 03 , 2008
US-backed Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia in December 2006. Meles Zenawi had then described his unjust invasion of Somalia as: “A military operation that was prompted by the menaces posed by the growing influence of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC)”. He also said: “The Ethiopian forces are waging a war against Islamists in Somalia in order to protect their nation’s sovereignty and also protect the internationally-recognized Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.”
Zenawi’s rationale for the invasion of a sovereign nation was vehemently contested by international scholars, political analysts and human rights activists, and dismissed by many conscientious Somali nationalists, scholars and politicians. His insistence to posit the Union of Islamic Courts as a terrorist organization that represents an existential threat to Ethiopia was nothing but an incendiary foolishness. Jumping on some naïve statement made by a leader within the Union of Islamic Courts, or making a fuss over this leader’s blithe declaration that the Somali Islamists would destroy Ethiopia together with its Abyssinian leadership, Meles Zenawi was being utterly disingenuous with very deadly intent
As I have previously argued, Meles Zenawi’s motive for occupying Somalia is consistent with Abyssinian’s obsession of weakening Somali irredentist hope for a Greater Somalia, and is in harmony with Ethiopia’s insistence to impede any conflict transformation efforts that aim at alleviating the suffering of the Somali people.(1)
One year has already elapsed since the US-backed Ethiopia’s occupation of Somalia began. This occupation has caused an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, and there is no sign that Meles Zenawi is willing to withdraw his occupying forces anytime soon. The regime in Addis Ababa has made it openly clear that its military might in Somalia is being extended – a move very much in line with Ethiopia’s determination to plunge Somalia into an irreversible coma.
I will attempt, in Part One of this paper, to assess the impact of Ethiopia’s occupation of Somalia – one year after. I will, at the outset, reiterate international community’s contention that Somalia is now considered to be Africa’s worst humanitarian catastrophe, despite the blatant denials of the leadership in Addis Ababa. The paper intends also to lay a foundation for further informed discussion and debate over “occupation – resource nexus” and Ethiopia’s long-term obsession of securing access to Somalia’s natural resource-based assets with the view to consolidating its hegemony in the Horn of Africa.
Part Two of the paper, which will appear soon, will look at, among other cogent issues, Ethiopia’s military intervention and the de-legitimation of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
Assessing the Impact of Ethiopia’s Occupation
- Humanitarian Impact
Somalia is worse off now than it has ever been since the start of the civil war. Occupation has fuelled catastrophic humanitarian and environmental disasters. Thousands of civilians in the capital city and in other parts of Somalia have been killed and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of others have been shattered. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recently stated that the number of displaced people is now one million.
According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the fighting waged by the TFG/Ethiopian troops against the forces of the resistance has led to “severely disrupted economic activities which is affecting poor urban households that rely on petty trade and casual labour as main sources of income”. The agencies have also disclosed that in host communities outside of Mogadishu, the inflows of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have increased competition for already overburdened social services, markets, housing, and employment opportunities. These early warnings reported by the UN and its specialized agencies, as dismal as they appear, are signs of a disaster that is now looming in Somalia.
Human Rights Watch has recently described the indiscriminate bombardment of the densely populated neighborhoods of the capital city of Somalia by the Ethiopian forces “as violations of the principles of the laws of war and suggest the commission of war crimes”. Ethiopian troops have deliberately targeted civilians and damaged their vital infrastructures. As the occupying Ethiopian troops were legally obliged to distinguish between the actual combatants of the Somali resistance movements and the civilians in order to avoid any collateral damage, they have opted to defy all international conventions and wreck havoc to innocent Somali women and children.
The passionate anger and fury that the Ethiopian military forces continue to evoke on the people of Mogadishu and its surroundings will undoubtedly bedevil feelings of compassion and love that the Somali people have harboured for their brothers and sisters in Ethiopia. Not only have the Ethiopian troops, with full blessings from their Prime Minister, unleashed a massive slaughter of innocent civilians, they have also desecrated the sanctity of mosques and other Islamic centres in Mogadishu.
While Somalis have every right to resist invasion/occupation, they must, however, equally audibly and unambiguously condemn the barbaric acts perpetrated by certain individuals in Mogadishu. The dragging of dead Ethiopian bodies through the streets of Mogadishu cannot be condoned – it is despicable, abhorrent, inhumane, and anathema to the Islamic and Somali values and convictions. Besides, the rising tide of intimidations, the murders of members of the Transitional Federal Institutions, and members of the Somali civil society organizations in Mogadishu and elsewhere in Somalia, allegedly by the resistance forces and the TFG soldiers, have only deepened hatred and heightened tension.
- Addis Ababa’s Denials and Defiance
In a recent interview with AlJazeera television, Meles Zenawi was asked about the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in Somalia and the thousands that have been killed, both Ethiopians and Somalis. His reaction was: “We are not responsible for the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in Mogadishu. We have responded to problems that were created by terrorists; we have responded at the request of the internationally-recognized government; and we have responded after the repetitive provocations of the Jihadists against us.”(2) And when told that his troops were accused of human right abuses, he defied reports of the international human rights organizations and described them as “flawed and baseless.” But when he was later told that there has been “video evidence linking his soldiers to killing, his response was “I did not see that.” Ostensibly, Meles Zenawi was not being honest. How could he possibly be so oblivious to the atrocities perpetrated by his soldiers in Somalia?
Likewise, Les Nouvelles D’Addis has recently interviewed Seyum Mesfin, the Foreign Minister of Ethiopia.(3) The Minister so defiantly asserted during such interview that the “situation has remarkably improved when compared to what Mogadishu and Somalia were in December of last year. Just a year ago, Somalia was a no-go area – today there is no any no-go area in Somalia.” Les Nouvelles D’Addis has also put the following question with regard to the rebuilding of Somalia and what this Ethiopian Blog refers to as “the fiction of a united Somalia”:
“The problem is that the international community wants to create a Somali government from the top. There is a building block theory, i.e. the formation of entities like Somaliland, Puntland, and Bay and Bakool. The paradox is that the UN has always maintained the fiction of a united Somalia which does not exist anymore. Another paradox is that Ethiopia has sent an Ambassador to Mogadishu, but not an Ambassador to Hargeisa…………………”
As biased and lopsided as the question appears, the response of the Minister is even more astounding. Assuming that the translation of what the Minister said was accurate, the Blog reported the following response:
“Let me indicate this: You are right. Somaliland has been an island of peace for over a decade. I accept that Somalia cannot be reconstituted in the old way. I agree with you that Somalia cannot be re-built in the old way. A new reality has emerged. The various regions of the country are insisting for decentralized state structures. Somaliland is pushing along a line of secession. So definitely there is a new reality in Somalia that the Somalis have to face.”
The Minister’s statements represent his government’s firm position vis-à-vis post-war Somalia. Addis Ababa has for some time now been paving the way for the introduction of its own version of post-civil war peacebuilding and conflict transformation strategies for Somalia. These strategies – not to be construed as being long-term social transformation designed to address structural imbalances from which the Somali conflict and violence have arisen – are geared toward the creation of a country that is dissipated, alienated, polarized in terms of its clan and regional differences, and permanently subdued and restrained. Commenting on Mesfin’s acknowledgement of the “new reality”, Dr. Michael A. Weinstein, in his latest report, said: “Ethiopia would be satisfied with a decentralized Somalia, which would eliminate the latter as a potential security threat and would allow Addis Ababa to gain influence through its traditional divide-and-rule strategy.”(4) Moreover, Ethiopia’s unwavering tenacity that “the reconstitution of Somalia to its pre-1991 status would not serve the national interest of Ethiopia” has been well-articulated in the policy proposal submitted to Meles Zenawi by his close aides.(5)
- Environmental Impacts
Conflict-induced forms of environmental degradation and resource depletion (e.g. deforestation, desertification, and soil erosion), particularly in countries where environmental governance structures are weak or lacking, can lead to an increase in displaced persons, a growing strain on resources, and eventually an escalated inter and intra-communal conflicts.
The protracted civil war in Somalia has unleashed unbearable stress on the country’s ecosystems. It has been a constant menace to the livelihoods of those who depend on these ecosystems for survival. The migration and displacement of the Somali populations to ecologically fragile areas, because of the factional fighting, has caused local resource depletion, poverty, and further displacement. Ethiopia’s invasion and the massacre unleashed by its troops have exacerbated the plight of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and have consequently heightened competition of the already scarce resources.
Ethiopia’s occupation of Somalia will ultimately have large scale impacts on the country’s natural resource wealth. Because the government in Ethiopia is desperately in need of immediate revenue to sustain its military activities in Somalia, it will continue to plunder these resources. Meles Zenawi has earlier said: “The presence of our troops in Somalia is a burden financially. Money for our Somalia operation was being “squeezed” out of our defense budget, with “not a single cent” from abroad. We have to bear this burden on our own. It cannot be sustained indefinitely.” Drawing on these revelations, which underscore the fact that keeping thousands of Ethiopia’s occupying troops in Somalia is an unbearable burden for a country wrestling with poverty and other economic and social ills, it is intuitively correct to conclude that the regime in Ethiopia will have to rely heavily on Somalia’s resource wealth to feed its soldiers to sustain occupation, and ultimately use it in the consolidation of its regional hegemony and its brutal oppression of the people inside Ethiopia.
- Occupation – Resource Nexus
Ethiopia’s determination to hold onto larger areas of Somalia by force has also a lot to do with control of resources. In the absence of effective governance structures capable of protecting the country’s resources coupled with lack of any environmental vision from the current Transitional Federal Institutions and its leaders, the conditions will be extremely propitious for the occupiers to loot and exploit resources. This exploitation and looting will in turn further degrade the ecosystems, destroy the resource base, and enhance the cycle of violence in the country.
The most telling example of the resource looting and extortion is the exportation of charcoal and other key primary commodities. Charcoal, now overtly exported from the Mogadishu Port with the tacit connivance of Ethiopian military generals and the TFG, continues to strip Somalia of its trees. The areas of the country that bear the brunt of this destructive lucrative business legalized by the TFG and the occupiers are the Shabelle and Juba Valley Regions.
The Ethiopian occupying forces are said to be also involved in the export of livestock, bananas, and in the issuance of fishing licenses to foreign maritime companies to undertake fishing and exploitation of the natural resources of the long Somali coast. The revenue accrued from these illegal activities will not only continue to feed the corrupt politicians and unscrupulous businessmen in Somalia, but also the Ethiopian government, which is desperately in need of cash for its military operations in Somalia.
Moreover, Somalia has recently witnessed an overwhelming number of Ethiopians moving into Somalia. The exodus is staggering – many estimate that hundreds of thousands if not already millions have so far poured into Puntland and Somaliland. Others are now drifting towards other regions to settle permanently and consequently induce not only a demographic change, which is part of a long-term strategy of Ethiopia, but also encroach on the fertile and untapped areas of the country.
The effects of deforestation, desertification, and species extinction engendered as a result of resource wealth looting and plundering know no regional or global boundaries. The social costs of such effects will initially be internalized by the people in Somalia, but eventually they will certainly spill way beyond Somalia’s borders. As I have mentioned above, the “occupation-resource nexus” part of this paper aims solely at eliciting discussion and debate – it does not intend at this juncture to put forth a detailed analysis on the gravity of the situation.
Somalia is now a colossal mess. Ethiopia’s occupation of Somalia has become a nightmare and has exacerbated the humanitarian and security situation in the entire country. The zero-sum approach employed to suppress violence in Mogadishu, in order to allegedly bring about a secure environment, has utterly proved to be a mockery. Ethiopian troops are responsible for the worsening of chaos. They have muddied the already murky water of the Somali politics, and have rendered clan politics more bestial, brutish, and uncivilized. Clan polarization is now worse than anytime before.
The US is perceived as being behind Ethiopia’s occupation of Somalia. It has been obsessed with terrorism and has favoured military action over diplomacy. This has nurtured and encouraged relationship with Meles Zenawi’s government that uses terrorism as a pretext to fulfill its sinister agenda in Somalia and in the Horn.
The deployment of the African peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) has not yet materialized. Only 1,400 Ugandans and a few Burundi peacekeepers are now in Somalia. The planned 8000 peacekeepers are yet to be deployed. This delay will provide more pretexts for the Ethiopians to prolong their presence in Somalia. And it is utterly a mythology and a recipe for more Ethiopia’s meddling to assume that the withdrawal of the occupiers’ forces prior to the full deployment of AMISOM peacekeepers will engender a vacuum and deteriorate security in the country. The security was relatively better before Ethiopia’s invasion. I argue that this “vacuum” may create a window of opportunity for the people to reconcile and quell their differences peacefully. I may sound a bit too optimistic here, and many of our readers will probably laugh at this very daring argument, but I reiterate: given the chance and if Somalis are left alone, they will be able to demonstrate a genuine commitment to peace and dialogue. But will Ethiopia and other external spoilers leave the country and its people alone?
*Buri M. Hamza is an independent researcher in peacebuilding and environmental governance. He can be reached at email@example.com
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Walters Family 1900
Walters Family, taken in Uniontown in 1900
Shown on the left is the father, John, and on the right, the mother, Mary Ada Bohnak is on Mary's lap.
The sons in the front L to R are Henry and Mike, in the back, is daughter, Mary, and son, Andy.
Another child, Helen, was not born yet.
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You know the time when you walked into McD or KFC, and you order a combo meal which costs you RM7.90… you’ll end up paying RM8.30. Ya’ know, you have to pay 5% gomen service tax. Ok right? Cause we are all used to it.
Now, imagine you walked into Kedai Kopi What-Fatt-What-Fatt, you order a “Char Kuey Teow” which usually costs RM4, and you end up paying RM4.20? How about that? Do you know it may be happening?
Now, a reader told me today that reading all my ‘serious’ entries made her ‘fall asleep’, she prefers my entries regarding my views on life. Fair enough, but before you fall asleep… imagine all the new blouse, new pants, new bras, new panties that you’re gonna buy may all be subject to tax? Would you like to know more?
Ladies and genitalmen (term stolen from Wingz), the name of the game is Goods and Services Tax (“GST”). Just a brief introduction, the gomen announced some time in Sept 2004 (during the 2005 Budget announcement), that GST will be implemented in this country. The supposed implementation date was 1 Jan 2007.
Why it is not implemented yet? Apa jadi? Well, the gomen announced some time in early 2006 that implementation of GST will be postponed. What’s the reason for this act of generosity? No one knows for sure. And for the sake of being a responsible blogger, I shall not speculate.
Now… the keyword there is ‘postponed’… the gomen didn’t say GST will be abolished. So there will be a time when you and I may need to pay tax for our ‘chee cheong fun’, roti canai, bak kut teh, condoms, vibrators, etc. The million dollar question is of course …. When?
Tax experts have dubbed GST as an ‘efficient tax collection’ tool. Ya’ know, all those fellas who don’t pay every year, those fellas who make money from those ‘cannot-see-light’ activities, all have to pay tax when GST is implemented. I mean… all have to eat roti canai and bak kut teh right? And all have to buy condoms also right?
Jokes aside… what does GST means? GST is a tax levied on ALL goods and services (except those exempted by law). Therefore, to me, GST means more money out of my pocket because every time I spend, I need to pay tax. GST means all those vultures out there who are looking for opportunities to increase prices of their goods will do so at a flash, because they have to pay tax when they buy their raw material. They may be able to able to claim back their ‘input tax’ but that’s too technical to be discussed here. In a nut shell, GST means poorer you and me, unless you are freaking rich already till you don’t care if you have to pay tax when you buy condoms.
Back to the million dollar question… when will GST be implemented? A story was once told about a guy who will treat his gf extra nice when he wanted sex. Basically, before he wanna screw his gf, he has to treat her nicely.
Last year, during the 2007 budget announcement, gomen announced that corporate income tax rate will be reduced from 28% to 27% and subsequently to 26%. Last month, gomen announced that RPGT will be abolished. Can you see any screwing coming? Well… maybe, maybe not.
On a related note, reducing corporate income tax means companies will have more money from tax savings and they are “supposed” to use those savings to pay better salary/bonus to their employees so that the employees can survive GST, if GST is implemented. Well, do you think companies will do that? Hmmm… employers are a different species from the guy that I mentioned earlier. That guy will treat his gf nicely before he screws… as for employers… they just screw us. Period.
On another related note, did you feel pissed when gomen increased toll charges? Every Tom, Dick and Harry and Mary, Jean and Jane were pissed, some even went and protests and shout vote out the gomen la, vote this vote that la. Judging by this, what do you think will happen when all of us have to pay tax for our roti canai, bak kut teh, chapatti and condoms? Who will you vote?
Therefore… perhaps, just perhaps, the gomen will not implement GST until election is over. And since gomen said election will not happen till 2008 or 2009, then I guess we are quite safe la. But… just but… if there is a snap election… get your ass ready for a royal screwing. | <urn:uuid:4db9678a-9341-4520-9ab6-eac091b12d0b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://zewt.blogspot.com/2007/04/whats-with-gst.html | 2013-06-18T06:19:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963737 | 1,056 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Obama's Failing Agenda Tour in Overland Park
Coming to Kansas...
Obama's Failing Agenda Tour
Saturday, September 29
3:00-6:00 PM CT: Parking Lot
12651 Metcalf Ave.
Overland Park, KS
Americans for Prosperity is going coast to coast via bus on the Obama’s Failing Agenda Tour to educate Americans about President Obama’s failing agenda, and to put grassroots pressure on him.
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Washington Redskins: The Under(rated) and the Over(rated)
This slideshow will highlight players on the Washington Redskins who I feel are overrated and underrated. While most will not agree with my selections, I stand by them.
I focus on players who have spent at last one season with Redskins. If I would have done this last season the overrated portion would have been way too long (Colt Brennan, Antwaan Randle El, Fred Smoot, Jason Campbell), so thank goodness I did not do this then.
Underrated: London Fletcher
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Where do I begin? In his 12-year career, Fletcher has amassed 1,458 tackles and a Super Bowl ring. Also, he has never missed a game in his career.
Fletcher has always played well, been a steady, consistent force on the field and led by example. He will be, at the very least, a candidate for the Hall of Fame one day.
Standing at only 5'10" from John Carroll University, he made the St. Louis Rams as an undrafted free agent. He won a Super Bowl there and established himself as a top defender in the league.
Unfortunately, he is still underappreciated around the league. In Washington he is the unquestioned leader of the defense, and some would argue the whole team. Listen to these quick notes on his career. Fletcher has led his team in tackles for 11 consecutive seasons (1999-2009), tallied more than 100 tackles in each of the past 11 seasons and has totaled the most tackles in the NFL this decade (1,244).
Despite all these accomplishments, Mr. Fletcher made his first pro bowl last season (as an alternate). He is all over the field, always making plays. I could go on.
He belongs on the All-Underrated Team for NFL.
Underrated: Phillip Daniels
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Another important piece to the Redskins defense that cannot be measured just in statistics is big Philip Daniels. Entering his 14th NFL season, Daniels has been with Washington for five seasons. He is known as an excellent run defender and seems like a natural fit to play end in a 3-4 defensive alignment.
Daniels is respected by everyone in the locker room and has taken on a type of spokesmen role on behalf of the players. He made controversial comments in the offseason regarding Albert Haynesworth and has also made himself available to Redskins fans on ExtremeSkins, where he has taken time to answers questions from diehards.
While his sack numbers have dropped off in the latter stages of his career, he has been an integral part of the defenses success the past five years and he will continue to be so in 2010.
All Redskins fans remember his four sack performance against Dallas in 2005, which pretty much signaled the end of Drew Bledsoe’s career in Dallas.
Underrated: Lorenzo Alexander
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Lorenzo Alexander is switching positions this year from defensive line to outside linebacker. Last season he switched from offensive line to defensive line. So if we follow the pattern he will probably go back to offense and become a tight end next year.
Regardless of where coaches have asked him to line up, Alexander has always played well and without complaint. He is an excellent special team’s player who finds himself involved in a number of big hits each season (see photo above).
Entering training camp he was neck-and-neck with Andre Carter for the starting outside linebacker spot, but it looks as though Carter will be atop the depth chart come Week 1. That may have more to do with Alexander’s increased role on special teams than the fact that Carter is that much better at the position.
Underrated: Rocky McIntosh
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While his statistics are not eye-popping, Rocky McIntosh is a pretty dependable player. Despite a history of knee injuries, McIntosh has no discernable weaknesses when he is on the football field; he is a very good tackler who makes the plays that are in front of him.
He is now the fourth member of the Redskins defense that I have listed as being underrated and it is because the entire defense had been underrated and underused the past few seasons. When I say underused I mean that former defensive coordinator, Greg Blache played man coverage on almost every down and rarely took chances. The defense still managed to finish in the top third in the league most seasons. Without a good offense controlling the clock or scoring points the defense probably overachieved the last few years, which speaks to the individual talent of the players.
This season McIntosh is switching to inside backer next to Fletcher in the 3-4. Ninety plus tackles is a very likely possibility for McIntosh in 2010. I expect the defense overall to finish in the Top 10 in the league.
Underrated: Chris Cooley
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Some may say that Cooley is not underrated, but I say he is. After a foot injury ended Cooley’s season prematurely last year, there was speculation among the fan base that he should be traded. With the emergence of Fred Davis in the second half of the year fans thought Cooley was expendable.
Fact is Captain Chaos is not expendable. He is a very valuable piece to the Redskins puzzle. He is a Pro Bowl-caliber tight end who is exceptional at gaining yards after the catch and has very good hands.
What cannot be discounted is that Cooley is a fan favorite in Washington. While the NFL is a business and players come and go, it would be wise of the Redskins to keep Cooley for the foreseeable future. Just eight months ago the fan base was in the midst of a tailspin unlike anything the franchise had seen in its history. Fans were sick of the crap, the prima donnas and Vinnie Cerrato. Everyone loves Cooley!
In 2008, his last full season, Cooley totaled 83 receptions for 849 yards while playing for a below average offense and earned a second Pro Bowl trip. After a limited number of preseason snaps it is clear that Cooley will be a big part of the Redskins passing game this year.
With a sad looking receiving core and an offensive line that still has lots of questions marks, Cooley will need to make big thins happen in 2010.
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Looking over the Redskins' roster, it is sad to say not many players are highly rated. I have found five that are at least rated highly in the eyes of some people around the league. Bare with me, for one or two of them you may laugh at the thought of them being rated highly.
Overrated: Carlos Rogers
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The guy simply cannot catch. He also finds himself on the wrong end of bad penalties time and again. Whenever he makes a mistake it is magnified by a big play. You know how some players have a knack for being in the right spot at the right time (Darren Sharper)? Carlos Rogers is the opposite; he has only six interceptions in 66 career games.
He was drafted ninth overall in 2005, two spots ahead of DeMarcus Ware and Shawne Merriman.
Overrated: Albert Haynesworth
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The epitome of all things wrong with the Cerrato era. You know why.
Overrated: Mike Sellers
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He is a physical monster; he fits the mold of a traditional fullback and has helped Clinton Portis to become the Redskins second all-time leading rusher. These are all facts. Mike Sellers can play football and I am glad he is on the Redskins.
Yet many still believe he is an All-Pro player and I just do not see it anymore. He looks slower than he used to be, the explosive blocks and collisions fans grew accustomed to seeing have been missing in recent seasons and his play has been getting progressively worse the past two years.
I know he rarely runs the ball, but five fumbles on 46 career carries is pretty bad.
He is still the team's best option at fullback, but Shanahan and Co. drafted a FB/TE in Dennis Morris and converted linebacker Darrel Young to fullback in hopes of adding depth to the position. Morris has been traded but Young made the final 53 as a backup fullback. Sellers just turned 35 years old. There are only so many more snaps before Washington needs to find a suitable replacement or upgrade for Big Mike.
Overrated: Devin Thomas
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This guy is getting drafted in fantasy football leagues. God help them.
Devin Thomas has been blessed with the speed, size and power to be an elite wide receiver in the NFL. He also has the desire to be an NFL diva and give himself a nickname. The only problem is that he is listed as the Redskins' fifth wide receiver. He is overrated in his own mind. In 30 career games he has 40 catches, and it is up to the Shanahans and Thomas himself to stop the “bust” train before it is too late.
He will most likely start the season at the team’s primary kickoff returner and play receiver sparingly. Hopefully, he will love up the depth chart, stop dropping passes and live up to his draft status (34th overall, second receiver drafted).
The potential is there, but let's see if the coaches can make him into a professional football player that prepares, contributes and makes more plays in 2010.
Overrated: LaRon Landry
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This is the toughest out of the slides because I believe that LaRon Landry's bad season in 2009 was not even half his fault. He is a strong safety and played 30 yards deep every play. Being the sixth overall pick gives you little room for error. He made a lot of errors in 2009, most notably the double move by Robert Meachem that made me want to throw up, allowing the Saints to tie Washington late in the fourth quarter.
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If you've been thinking about starting up an Internet radio show as part of your book marketing efforts, now is the time to do it. Global Talk Radio is offering a special opportunity to create your own Internet radio show and share in the advertising money generated by your show.
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Guided Publicity: Summer Season, Special!
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The weirdness of Bookfool, a meme
I was tagged for this meme by Joemmama at Life Happens While Books are Waiting. Weird? Me? I had to think about it, even though I know there's plenty of weirdness about me (but I'm used to my personal weirdness level). I've added my husband's opinion to a few of these, just for grins. He's sitting here laughing at me.
7 Weird Things About Me:
1- I am a creature of habit living in a house of chaos. My husband thinks I'm obsessive-compulsive. Personally, I think OCD is a "condition" created by drug companies for the sake of selling lifestyle prescriptions, but that's just me. The gist of it is that I believe there is a place for everything and everything should be in its place. So, I put my keys in the same location every time I walk in the door and my phone in the same slot in my purse and I must read before bed every night or I will surely die, etc. So, when something of mine turns up missing, I go completely ballistic. I know where it should be! But, I live with an absent-minded professor type and my home is bizarrely chaotic, in spite of my efforts. C'est la vie.
2- I have a high musical aptitude and play 4 instruments. But, I've never bothered to become skilled at any of them (although I was a pretty good flute player, way back when). That's just weird. I've always figured it's crazy to let a talent languish. Husband's opinion: "That's not weird; it's just lazy."
3- I spent one summer (as a teenager) completely addicted to soap operas and have been disinterested in television, ever since - to the point that I often forget to tune in, even when I like a show (like House, M.D.). I watched 5 hours' worth of soaps, every day, that particular summer; but, by the time school resumed I'd come to the realization that I hated "cliffhanger" endings. I love movies, though, as it seems to me that they tell a complete story in a way that television does not.
4- I didn't want to go to Hawaii; I wanted to stay home and do housework. Honest. But, I don't consider that completely weird, as my husband trashed the place while I was in Oklahoma and, knowing I have limited time before I have to return to OK, I just wanted to make the house livable. Husband's opinion: "Yep, that's weird, all right."
5- When I bought placemats for our new table, I got an extra one for the cat. They're plastic and wipe clean easily. It makes sense; she's a really messy eater. Husband's opinion: "Now you're really getting into the weird stuff."
6- I am completely unable to put my own needs ahead of those of my husband or children, to the point that I'm perpetually miserable and feel like I've wasted 25 years of my life. However, I'm an optimist and constantly look for the bright side of everything. And, I keep telling myself things will improve. Weird. Husband's opinion: "That's just sad."
7- I can't stop buying books, even though we're all tripping over them. And, I think hamburger is disgusting. And, I think it makes no logical sense to believe in a story that sounds like every other myth created by cultures that go back to the dawn of time, yet I still believe in Christ and am absolutely, firmly convinced there's a higher power. And, I think it's perfectly reasonable to "quote" my poppets. And, I can't stand the ridiculous, shiny-white perfection of all those movie stars' teeth. And, and, and . . . I could, unfortunately, probably go on all day. Darn. I'm weird.
All together, now: Ooooh. Aaaaah. (And, an anticipated comment from Mom: "Oh, my gosh, you're going to blind yourself.")
This is a busy time of year, so I'm going to go for the lazy and kind option, again - if you're interested in doing the weird meme, you've officially been tagged. Go for it.
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From Drew Carey, Host of The Price Is Right on CBS
Ha, that could easily be mistaken for some sort of bomb. You would think there would be an easier, and or less complicated way.
whoa, thats almost as old as I am!
I love this stuff. Thanks for sharing. One of my favorite memories was walking backstage on my way to another game show I was on and seeing the Cliff Hangers game just hanging out waiting to be used and the backsides of other games as we walked past.Ah, good times...
Wow! Give MacGyver a potato and some shoestrings and let's see if he can make it cook breakfast!
wow...that is great!...thanks for sharing!
So did you open that up yourself? Does it still work after opening? I'm sure you've got some electrical skillz.
wow, that'sa pretty simple, and it still works, cool!
Now that's cool.
There's something about classic technology that is always so exciting, especially in a beloved attraction such as that! Certainly a testament to its craftsmen if it is still in use some 37 years later without shorting out or failing. Thanks for sharing, Drew!
Gotta love it.
Certainly looks pretty well-aged, given the faded-to-the-point-of-illegibilty and yellowing paper.The instruction note seems to be a lot more recent. Too bad the person who printed it up couldn't be bothered to add that last space :P
Fantastic. I love the note card, that's probably been there for most of those 37 years..
Wow, that's really cool! The inner workings of that look so complex for a pricing game that has such a simple interface. Regardless of that, I still wouldn't want to play the Clock Game! Heck, I've always thought that if I played Lucky 7 I'd pull a $20 from my wallet...Drew, thanks for continuing to share all these great pics with us.
That's the handy work of Ted Cooper and his crew.The TPiR Plug-n-Play game came out today. Did you want any shots of the boxart for your blog?
Really cool! If it ain't broke, no need to fix it.
That is so cool. I'm really digging your photos and behind-the-scenes views from the set. It's really awesome. Can't wait for the season premiere. BTW, what's the story behind holding one episode from this season until Sept. 18?
Find something that works and stick with it! It's cool to see al the behind the scenes stuff, thanks man.
Thank you Drew. These pics are WONDERFUL! I would love to see the machine that controls the contestants row bids.
That. Is. Amazing.I thought my Apple IIe I lost last year to a destructive brother was the oldest piece of technology on the planet. This, however, is absolutely AMAZING! Thank you for sharing!(I'm way too big of a nerd. That's probably a testament to why I don't have a lady friend! ;o)Tyler
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.If it does break, pray there's somebody left in Television City to fix it.
Are there plans to update some of this stuff? Or do the people at TPIR take the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach?
Wait, the sound fx come from there and not the audio board? Had no idea.Are they still using the price-holders from 1972 as well?
That is so cool! TV always looks so fine and polished on the camera end, but I'll bet there's a lot of chewing gum and bailing wire holding it together behind the scenes.I was 5 and in the audience when T(N)PIR debuted in 1972!
Awesome! Love the word "Clock Game" done with a Dymo Label Maker. I'm such a geek for this stuff. Keep the pics coming. :)
Sweet!!! Thanks for sharing! :-)GO SOUNDERS!!!
WOW!!!!! Any more old props that still work, or is that the only one? What if it breaks? Then they'll be no more Clock Game! I'd hate for that to happen since it's one of my all-time favorite games.
That so cool. When it eventually gets replaced, it should be saved for the TPIR museum. Thanks for sharing that and I hope you show us more behind-the-scene photos.I saw Squeeze Play today and I have a few suggestions on how to make it visually better. I would suggest changing the removable numbers to gray and adding a sign in the back that says "Remove One". This will allow the game to be explained with one glance. Here's a graphic I did of what it would look like. http://twitpic.com/8yrv2
It's gonna 'splode!!!!!
It's a miracle that thing still works. If the police saw this thing laying by the side of the road I am confident that they would clear the area.
Drew:Any chance you could get into the old sound booth stuff too? I wonder if all those old Mackenzie Repeaters are still in there. I've seen pics from 20 years ago or so, but I am curious if they are still there.
More backstage photos please! Those are great close-ups.
I think you should find the person that built it and thank him for his fine work. Give him a clock game plaque or something. Give it to a surviving relative if they have past away. This is a wonderful piece of TV history
Next up: What's Yodely Guy up to when he's not climbing that mountain?
Jeez, that thing is older than me!
What I want to know is, if it ever DID break, is there anybody left who could FIX it?
This is really neat! Thanks Drew. What about the other games, can you tell us about them? What happened to "Barker's Bar?" You used to play it.
There's a newspaper writer, who on his personal blog has been making comments about early TPiR shows on his blog. There's two post about it up on the main page. Check it out at http://lileks.com/bleat/
Seriously (although this isn't related to the controller) why can't I find your stand up dvd online. Drew Carey Human Cartoon is my favorite of all time, and cannot be found. Do you have any idea where I can purchase it?Thanks
Love that!! lol..ps..your little boy looks just like you! same sweet smile;)
Um... no idea about Human Cartoon. If I ever find out I'll post about it. Thanks for even asking. Meanwhile, if you don't hear from me via here, it's probably not available. - dc
for a change, here are some brand new TPIR props... from the new French version starting Monday 27thhttp://videos.tf1.fr/le-juste-prix/interview-de-vincent-lagaf-je-ne-peux-travailler-que-dans-la-fidelite-4478362.html
Wow. It looks like the innerds of an old Atari Pong machine lol.
Dear Drew,On this day, June 30th, members of my church and I attended a taping of your show, and my pastor, Danny Maynard, made it to the Showcase. I was wondering, if you have time, would accept an invitation from me to attend a Sunday service at Liberty Temple Church? We love you, and we would be honored to have you and your fiance (and, of course, the baby) to join us one Sunday. Services start at 10:15am. If you agree, please surprise Pastor Dan. I would like to do this for him as much as for you. We would love to have you. Please consider it. We pray for you. We love you. Liberty Temple Church of God in Arleta, California. Please come. You would make his day. You will love our band!God bless you, Diana
Oh my gosh!! I love this!!! Can you show us more from backstage?
Working on more backstage stuff through priceisright.com. :)
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NCAAB Handicapping Contest: 5,000pts
contest runs from Jan 2nd- Jan 31st
All users must have an SBR Sportsbook account. Log into the SBR Sportsbook one time to activate your account to receive freeplay winnings.
1st. 1600pt FP
2nd. 900pt FP
3rd. 650pt FP
4th. 500pt FP
5th. 400pt FP
6th. 340pt FP
7th. 250pt FP
8th. 180pt FP
9th. 120pt FP
10th. 60pt FP
*All prizes are credited in the form of SBR Sportsbook freeplays.
1. All contestants must pay a 20 SBR point entry fee to enroll in the contest.
2. One account entry per household.
3. In the event of any tie, the following will be followed used as tiebreaker order: # of units, # of wins, win %, Action Points. If tied after all of these, prize amount will be split and combined equally.
4. Contestants may select between 1 and 3 units for each play.
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gerrit create-project - Create a new hosted project
Creates a new bare Git repository under gerrit.basePath, using the project name supplied. The newly created repository is empty (has no commits), but is registered in the Gerrit database so that the initial commit may be uploaded for review, or initial content can be pushed directly into a branch.
If replication is enabled, this command also connects to each of the configured remote systems over SSH and uses command line git on the remote system to create the empty repository.
Caller must be a member of the privileged Administrators group, or have been granted the Create Project global capability.
This command is intended to be used in scripts.
Required; name of the new project to create. If name ends with .git the suffix will be automatically removed.
Deprecated alias for the <NAME> argument. This option may be removed in a future release.
Name of the initial branch in the newly created project. Defaults to master.
Name of the group(s) which will initially own this repository. The specified group(s) must already be defined within Gerrit. Several groups can be specified on the command line.
Defaults to what is specified by repository.*.ownerGroup in gerrit.config.
Name of the parent project to inherit access rights through. If not specified, the parent is set to the default project All-Projects.
Suggest parent candidates. This option cannot be used with other arguments. Print out a list of projects that are already parents to other projects, thus it can help the user find a suitable parent for the new project.
Create the project only to serve as a parent for other projects. The new project’s Git repository will be initialized to have HEAD point to refs/meta/config.
Initial description of the project. If not specified, no description is stored.
Description values containing spaces should be quoted in single quotes ('). This most likely requires double quoting the value, for example --description "'A description string'".
Action used by Gerrit to submit an approved change to its destination branch. Supported options are:
FAST_FORWARD_ONLY: produces a strictly linear history.
MERGE_IF_NECESSARY: create a merge commit when required.
MERGE_ALWAYS: always create a merge commit.
CHERRY_PICK: always cherry-pick the commit.
Defaults to MERGE_IF_NECESSARY. For more details see Change Submit Actions.
If enabled, Gerrit will try to perform a 3-way merge of text file content when a file has been modified by both the destination branch and the change being submitted. This option only takes effect if submit type is not FAST_FORWARD_ONLY. Disabled by default.
If enabled, authors must complete a contributor agreement on the site before pushing any commits or changes to this project. Disabled by default.
--so: If enabled, each change must contain a Signed-off-by line from either the author or the uploader in the commit message. Disabled by default.
Require a valid Change-Id footer in any commit uploaded for review. This does not apply to commits pushed directly to a branch or tag.
Creates an initial empty commit for the Git repository of the project that is newly created.
Create a new project called tools/gerrit:
$ ssh -p 29418 review.example.com gerrit create-project tools/gerrit.git
Create a new project with a description:
$ ssh -p 29418 review.example.com gerrit create-project tool.git --description "'Tools used by build system'"
Note that it is necessary to quote the description twice. The local shell needs double quotes around the value to ensure the single quotes are passed through SSH as-is to the remote Gerrit server, which uses the single quotes to delimit the value.
The remote repository creation is performed by a Bourne shell script:
mkdir -p '/base/project.git' && cd '/base/project.git' && git init --bare && git update-ref HEAD refs/heads/master
For this to work successfully the remote system must be able to run arbitrary shell scripts, and must have git in the user’s PATH environment variable. Administrators could also run this command line by hand to establish a new empty repository.
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Question about winterizing a house.
10 September 2005
A. I am very reluctant to advocate winterizing a modern house the way we traditionally know and understand the term. Completely shutting down and draining a hot water heating system, plus the water heater and interior plumbing lines and, with a well, dra ining any well equipment that may be in danger of freezing, such as pressure tanks and conditioning system, to me is a sure recipe for trouble. Boilers, thatís what the water heating device supplying your baseboard heaters is called even though it doesní t produce steam, donít like to go cold. Metals shrink and gaskets get loose and they end up leaking. And even a teaspoon of water left in a water line in the wrong place can freeze and cause trouble that you only find when you turn things back on. That ís why when you enter a professionally and traditionally winterized house you see big red warning signs on all of the plumbing fixtures warning you that it has been turned off and drained down and returning it to service requires special attention.
Additionally, houses themselves donít like to get cold. It takes a while but all the construction materials get cold and some may begin to change shape. Shrinking and cracking of wood and drywall takes place and things donít necessarily return to their original condition when they warm back up. I told my thrifty sister this who has a vacation home in Vermont that she would close down between visits during the winter months. It wasnít so much the cracking materials that changed her mind but the experie nce of returning to a cold house and, even with the furnace going full blast, having it take up to six hours to finally warm the house all the way that finally got her attention. Now they drain the water system down, put antifreeze in the traps and toil ets and leave the furnace set at 48ļF. She tells me she can get back on line in about an hour now. Vermont winters routinely get well below zero so we can count ourselves lucky as zero is rare here but it does get cold. Houses begin to become at risk of interior freezing when the thermometer gets to about 25ļF and lower outside, assuming no wind.
Given what can go wrong by completely winterizing your house by turning the boiler off and draining it down versus the cost of keeping the system at a bare minimum is for me a no-brainer. The cost and hassle of repairing what may happen makes the cost o f oil look pretty cheap. And yes, you do need to keep supply water going to the boiler. The boiler probably has a low-water cut-off in the event its water level decreases for some reason and a malfunction is the only reason I can think that would cause that. Your ace in the hole is the neighbor who will be looking in from time to time. Make sure your neighbor has any of the contact numbers, such as you boiler service provider, plumber and especially you in the event calls need to be made. And when you come home remember to treat this friendly neighbor to dinner in appreciation. Thatís money well spent.
Q. I've been inspecting my 21 year old house as we prepare to put it on the market. I noticed that some of the copper water supply pipes are green at the solder joints. There does not appear to be any water leakage at those joints. Should I be worried ?
A. No. Thatís slight oxidization caused by the flux that the plumber applied to the pipe end prior to soldering to assist in a good joint. Itís normal. But if you see green spots about a quarter inch in diameter along the open run of pipe away from the joint that could be a pinhole leak thatís sealed itself. Look carefully for any wetness and donít scrape the green spot with a knife blade unless you have the replacement pipe in your hand ready to install. | <urn:uuid:3b3aae5c-3480-45ae-871b-abed93b2ef6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jimrooneyonthelevel.com/2005/0910.htm | 2013-05-19T05:06:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960734 | 804 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
What do you know about Bangladesh?
You will probably know that thousands of Bengalis now live in the UK and have made a huge contribution to our economy. And that Bangladeshi curry has become one of the UK’s favourite foods! But did you know that the Sundarbans in southern Bangladesh, which is home to the endangered Royal Bengali Tiger, is the largest single block of mangrove forest in the world? Or that the country is home to 160 million people, which means it has a larger population than Russia, despite being 120 times smaller? But what is everyday life like for ordinary people in Bangladesh? We invite you to cross the river, hop on a bicycle rickshaw and take a journey through the shimmering waters of southern Bangladesh to meet the energetic people of Kainmari (pronounced CAN_MAR_RE). They can’t wait to hear from you!
A day in the life of Kainmari
It’s a busy morning in Pobitra’s tea shop in Kainmari village, southern Bangladesh. Hot steam fills the small cluttered space that is filled with people sitting at wooden tables, sharing their morning news. Pobitra, who stands behind a tiny counter by the window, reaches over and grabs a kettle from the stove before pouring steaming hot tea into two glass cups. But two days before cyclone Aila hit in May 2009, it was a very different place. ‘When we heard a cyclone was coming, everyone from the warning group crowded into my tea shop to hear the latest bulletin on the radio’ he explains. ‘Then I raised the warning flag outside the shop and one of us used a megaphone to warn people more widely.’ Used to dealing with disaster, the people of Kainmari have a system for when cyclones are about to hit. They have organised themselves into groups that do everything from helping people to evacuate to providing first aid. At the centre of this is 45 year old Sabita, who helped to set up the disaster groups. ‘I lost everything when cyclone Sidr hit in 2007′ says Sabita. ‘It was a horrible night for all of us. I was soaked to the skin and had mud all over me.’
Sabita’s home was destroyed that night. But she was able to keep her identity documents safe thanks to advice from Caritas Bangladesh, our local Catholic partner. ‘I put the family’s documents in a polythene bag and buried them in the ground underneath the house. They were one of the few things that survived’ she says.
Making the difference in Kainmari
- All 250 families living in Kainmari are at risk from disasters that are happening more frequently, such as cyclones and floods
- The unpredictability of the climate means that people can no longer rely on traditional ways of making a living, like growing rice, and must adapt to find other ways of earning an income
- The density of the population, changes in climate, and difficulties that people face in making a living, mean that a lot of people may be forced to move to other areas.
The people of Kainmari believe they can adapt to their environment and create a secure and prosperous future with the help of CAFOD and our Catholic partner, Caritas Bangladesh. With your help, the people of Kainmari will:
- Learn which varieties of rice, vegetables and fruit grow well in local soil and how to preserve them for future use.
- Learn how to grow crops, vegetables and fruit in soil that has been affected by sea water, to eat and sell.
- Attend group sessions run by Caritas Bangladesh about how to react during a disaster and reduce the impact of disasters and the change in climate.
A special invitation
The people of Kainmari invite you to learn more about their lives. Extend a hand of friendship and solidarity to the people of Kainmari and hear from local people including Pobitra and Sabita as they work to care for their families and create a better life. You will also be able to share stories of life in your parish community with the people of Kainmari.
Why not bring your parish on a journey with one of our Connect2 communities in either; El Salvador, Brazil, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Rwanda or Bangladesh. For further information, visit www.cafod.org.uk/connect2 or contact the CAFOD Middlesbrough Office on (01904) 671767 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org
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From the continued reign of the cupcake to the rise of gluten-free sweets, the Food Channel unveiled the 2011 top ten dessert trends. The consumer website teamed with sister company CultureWaves, Mintel International and the International Food Futurists to compile a list of whatâs hot in the world of sweets.
Despite the feeling among some industry analysts that the cupcake may be past its prime, it ranked first on this yearâs list.
âWe tried to make them go away, but when we looked at the research, we saw that cupcakes are still trending upwards,â says Kay Logsdon, vice president and editor in chief of the Food Channel. As bakers continue to reinvent cupcakesâwhether by making them savory or unique in shape or sizeâthey remain a coveted indulgence. âAs long as you keep reinventing them, they will keep peopleâs attention,â she adds. âWhen people are coming out of a bad economy and say, âI am going to treat myself to a little dessert,â they want it to be fun.â
Second on the listâdesserts containing savory, spicy or tart elementsâreveals that Americans are experimenting with new flavors and telling their friends about them. âYou didnât used to find chile peppers or cumin in your desserts, and now you do. We keep looking for new combinations to give us something to talk about. [Consumers] like to have bragging rights about how adventurous their taste buds are.â
Also high on the list were protein-based desserts like cheese (4), as well as maturing American palates (5), demonstrating the influence of sophisticated, even European flavors. âFor years, our knowledge came from what we learned from our moms,â Logsdon says. âNow, thanks to food TV, the internet and greater access to food knowledge, we know more and have more things to try.â She adds that as more young adults spend time in Europe than ever before, they adopt European traditions, such as a cheese course in lieu of cake or pie for dessert.
Additionally, multiple items on the list demonstrate our cultureâs increased emphasis on wholesome, responsibly sourced ingredients. Among the trends are whole grain and gluten-free desserts (6) and raw and unprocessed sweets (7). The decline of wedding cakes (3), sweet little rewards (8), floral flavors in desserts (9) and dessert theatrics (10) round out the top ten. | <urn:uuid:ad14bc93-3d2c-497c-8ece-71b46b78aef7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://modern-baking.com/news/what-we-re-sweet-11 | 2013-05-19T05:14:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942323 | 519 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Although the scientific debate about evolution was settled more than 100 years ago, organized opposition to teaching the concept in U.S. science classrooms has been ongoing for decades. Religious groups and others continue to challenge school districts despite a steady accumulation of research that clearly points to evolution as the central organizing principle in biology.
The Academies have issued several publications that have played a critical role in ensuring that science education includes the principles of evolution. In 2005, for example, a U.S. district court judge struck down a Pennsylvania school board's requirement that "intelligent design" be taught as an alternative to evolution in local high school biology classes, citing the NAS as a source recognized by both sides of the dispute as the "most prestigious" scientific organization in the country. The judge who issued the decision adopted language from the Academy's 1998 publication Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science as his definition of science. And in 2008, NAS and IOM released an update to Science, Evolution, and Creationism, a publication first issued in 1984, which gives the public a comprehensive picture of the current scientific understanding of evolution and its importance in the science classroom. More than 250,000 copies of this book and its summary brochure have been distributed to civic groups, school boards, teachers, and individuals around the country. | <urn:uuid:8323a56e-6046-4105-9fd2-af988fb5a403> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nationalacademies.org/about/advice/evolution/index.html | 2013-05-19T05:36:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963874 | 262 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This portion of Obama’s address to the United Nations today covers climate change, corruption and open government. It may be a prelude to his defense if he is called to testify at the Solyndra hearings.
“Together we must work together to transform the energy that powers our economy” would be called a Bushism three years ago. Green energy initiatives have only empowered corruption in our “transparent government”. The Obama energy policy is only one to restrict our energy production, independence and exploration.
Open societies and economies mean one world order to ensure accountability. Does this apply to the Federal Reserve’s policy of using US dollars to shore up the world’s economy? | <urn:uuid:2433f253-8db8-480d-98eb-653ccb72f44a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/obamas-views-on-climate-change-corruption-and-open-government/ | 2013-05-19T05:21:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910918 | 144 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Yonkers schools to restore guidance counselors jobs in deal with teachers union
Galleries2012 Valedictorians in the Hudson Valley
Yonkers schools will reinstate 24 guidance and mental health counselor positions in 2013 as part of the district's new contract agreement with the Yonkers teachers union.
The administration and teachers reached agreement Friday on a new contract and a teacher evaluation plan. The evaluation plan must be approved by the state Education Department by Jan. 17 for the school district to receive... | <urn:uuid:48542690-c057-4596-aa05-ca905d091657> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newyork.newsday.com/westchester/yonkers-schools-to-restore-guidance-counselors-jobs-in-deal-with-teachers-union-1.4418068 | 2013-05-19T05:21:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937121 | 99 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
“Why would I want to read a children’s book?” Him Indoors remarked, smugly, quoting some comedian who also hasn’t read the books.
How many copies now? 450 million? That’s more than … well, almost anything. The Lord of the Rings has sold 150 million copies; A Tale of Two Cities over 200 million.
Harry Potter is, quite neatly, Dickens meets Tolkein, and not a lot else. Sure, it borrows heavily from ancient myths and has quite unsubtle anti-Nazi allegory running through it. It takes a bit here and there from Narnia and has the sly, off-beat humour of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. Mostly, though, it’s just Dickens’ David Copperfield with 20% more Sauron.
Sometimes – like David Bowie – the reason something’s popular is just because it’s good. | <urn:uuid:5892ba8a-1a43-43c0-963b-aae722bb4d19> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://reinspired.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/ | 2013-05-19T05:20:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930925 | 196 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This week, I want to review some of the highlights from the conference, which covers all of wireless. First up: a session I chaired on Mobile Broadband, which was intended to explore the rather vague and imprecise world of 4G. What is 4G? The panelists agreed that the term is indeed imprecise, unlike 3G, which actually has a formal definition related to throughput. Any wide-area wireless system capable of at least 144 Kbps to as much as 2 Mbps is 3G. Some extensions to 3G, such as High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA), have been defined with throughput above 2 Mbps, but today these are commonly referred to as 3.5G. 4G implies either much greater throughput, such as the 100 Mbps of UMTS's Long-Term Evolution (LTE), or up to 280 Mbps of Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) or, to me anyway, an all-IP mobile/wireless/broadband network with support for time-bounded traffic. My guess is that 4G technologies, beginning with WiMAX (at least, as soon as WiMAX provides voice service), will offer what is by comparison relatively modest throughput of perhaps 2-4 Mbps per user
A session on advanced technologies stressed a theme I've been promoting for some time, which is that no single radio technology can do it all. One speaker talked about multi-radio cooperation and the blurring of lines between application protocol stacks and specific radios built to handle specific traffic types. How about Bluetooth protocols on 802.11 WLANs? Wi-Fi as an RFID and location and tracking technology? Sure. And the concept of software-defined radio (SDR) also got quite an airing, with a discussion of how this technology is making progress against a number of technical challenges, most notably power consumption. It may very well be that the radio of the future is in fact a single radio that can take on multiple technological personalities across a broad range of frequencies at a moment's notice – a universal radio, if you will. This, too, is probably about five years in the future.
There was a lot of discussion of unified communications and convergence, again beginning with commentary on the lack of precision of these terms. In fact, the two are often used interchangeably, although I don't think that's the intention. I've been using unified to describe upper-layer interoperability between wireline and wireless – such as unified management and security. Convergence, on the other hand, implies the handoff of a given connection between dissimilar physical layers – as in fixed/mobile convergence, wherein a landline call is handed off to a cellular phone (and vice versa), or mobile/mobile convergence, wherein a connection is handed off between two different wireless technologies. Most at Interop were talking about convergence in terms of a single phone number and a single voicemail service; that's at the top of most people's wish list. But convergence also implies access to applications, with convergence services like the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) providing a platform for the provisioning of applications of all forms across a variety of wired and wireless networks, with seamless handoff included in the bargain. Speakers also noted that presence, as in an application knowing the whereabouts and status of a given user, will also play a big role in converged services going forward. Convergence is ultimately about a fundamental transformation in how we use networks and in fact do business -- with far-reaching impact.
On the security and management front, policy and regulatory compliance took center stage. Also noted were the need for network access control (NAC) to work across wired and wireless networks (NAC was a huge topic overall this year) and that authorization and application management need to be part of wireless network management solutions. This implies that a fundamental rollup of management capabilities is on the horizon, with fewer point products and more comprehensive management suites as wireless goes truly mainstream. I was also left with the impression that perimeter security, long the standard in the wired world, is now truly dead – or at least needs to be. With wireless, the perimeter could be in a parking lot!
All in all, I found Interop to be a very valuable event this year, and I got a number of favorable reports from attendees I spoke with. There's always talk about how the Web (even the Web delivered over mobile devices) will replace real-world events, but I don't think this will ever entirely be the case. Despite cramped airline seats and the ever-present general hassles of travel today, the face-to-face real world adds an element of personalization that the Web is still missing -- and may always lack.
About the author: Craig Mathias is a principal with Farpoint Group, an advisory firm based in Ashland, Mass., specializing in wireless networking and mobile computing. The firm works with manufacturers, enterprises, carriers, government, and the financial community on all aspects of wireless and mobile. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Commission criticizes Judge in Oswego County for public fight with girlfriend
Town of Mexico (WSYR-TV) – A state commission is publicly criticizing a town of Mexico judge who fought with his girlfriend in a restaurant.
The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct recommended that Judge Douglas Brian Horton be admonished after the public incident during a Mexico Town Volunteer Fire Department annual dinner at a local restaurant.
According to a release issued by the commission, Horton seized his girlfriend in the restaurant foyer and pushed her down onto the floor.
State Police responded when a person in the establishment called 911.
The woman was not injured in the incident.
A report indicated that both Horton and his girlfriend had consumed several alcoholic drinks.
No one was arrested during the incident.
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Other WA travel and tourist information
The following links are provided to assist people travelling in Western Australia to discover what the State has to offer and to assist with planning their travels.
Tourism Western Australia
is the official travel and tourism website for Western Australia.
Visitor centres are located throughout Western Australia. They provide advice and resources about local areas, service and things to do.
The accredited centres are grouped in the following regions:
Metropolitan public transport
Transperth operates Perth metropolitan public transport buses, trains and ferries.
Visit the Transperth website to download timetables, use the journey planner and find passenger information for people with disability.
Infoline: 13 62 13
TTY: 9428 1999
Regional public transport
Transwa operates regional rail and coach services in Western Australia.
Transwa trains travel to Northam and Toodyay (Avonlink), Kalgoorlie (Prospector) and Bunbury (Austalind). Transwa coach services operate from Kalbarri, Meekatharra, Esperance and Augusta.
Visit the Transwa website to find out more about the services offered, concessions, bookings and to use the journey planner.
To contact Transwa
Bookings: 1300 6622 05
People who use wheelchairs or mobility aids will be able to enjoy Western Australia’s iconic beach lifestyle at even more locations this summer.
A total of 31 beaches - 13 in the metropolitan area, including Rottnest and 18 regional beaches from Broome to Esperance - provide beach wheelchairs and/or beach matting over summer.
The Disability Services Commission has compiled a list of beaches which provides information about availability. It is best to call in advance where possible.
National Public Toilet map
The Australian Government has developed the National Public Toilet Map showing public toilets in Australian cities, towns, rural areas and on major travel routes.
For accessible toilet information in WA go to the link on the home page.
The Companion Card
Many transport operators, businesses and venues in WA are registered with the Companion Card program. A person with disability who presents a Companion Card when attending an event or venue with a companion is only required to pay for their own ticket or entry fee. The companion's ticket is issued at no charge.
For a full list of participating businesses and how to apply for a Companion Card visit the Companion Card website.
Contact Companion Card WA:
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And now, here is an opportunity for an accomplished writer to apostrophize calumny, to quote Virgil, and to show that he is acquainted with the most ingenious things which have been said on that subject in polite literature.
But what is opportunity to the man who can’t use it? An undefecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. So, as my memory is ill-furnished, and my notebook still worse, I am unable to show myself either erudite or eloquent apropos of the calumny whereof the Rev. Amos Barton was the victim. I can only ask my reader,—did you ever upset your ink-bottle, and watch, in helpless agony, the rapid spread of Stygian blackness over your fair manuscript or fairer table-cover? With a like inky swiftness did gossip now blacken the reputation of the Rev. Amos Barton, causing the unfriendly to scorn and even the friendly to stand aloof, at a time when difficulties of another kind were fast thickening around him.
One November morning, at least six months after the Countess Czerlaski had taken up her residence at the vicarage, Mrs. Hackit heard that her neighbour Mrs. Patten had an attack of her old complaint, vaguely called ‘the spasms’. Accordingly, about eleven o’clock, she put on her velvet bonnet and cloth cloak, with a long boa and muff large enough to stow a prize baby in; for Mrs. Hackit regulated her costume by the calendar, and brought out her furs on the first of November; whatever might be the temperature. She was not a woman weakly to accommodate herself to shilly-shally proceedings. If the season didn’t know what it ought to do, Mrs. Hackit did. In her best days, it was always sharp weather at ‘Gunpowder Plot’, and she didn’t like new fashions.
And this morning the weather was very rationally in accordance with her costume, for as she made her way through the fields to Cross Farm, the yellow leaves on the hedge-girt elms, which showed bright and golden against the long-hanging purple clouds, were being scattered across the grassy path by the coldest of November winds. ‘Ah,’ Mrs. Hackit thought to herself, ’I daresay we shall have a sharp pinch this winter, and if we do, I shouldn’t wonder if it takes the old lady off. They say a green Yule makes a fat churchyard; but so does a white Yule too, for that matter. When the stool’s rotten enough, no matter who sits on it.’
However, on her arrival at Cross Farm, the prospect of Mrs. Patten’s decease was again thrown into the dim distance in her imagination, for Miss Janet Gibbs met her with the news that Mrs. Patten was much better, and led her, without any preliminary announcement, to the old lady’s bedroom. Janet had scarcely reached the end of her circumstantial narrative how the attack came on and what were her aunt’s sensations—a narrative to which Mrs. Patten, in her neatly-plaited nightcap, seemed to listen with a contemptuous resignation | <urn:uuid:5022214e-f613-4120-baad-703d3c59cc2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/17780/36.html | 2013-05-19T05:07:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974921 | 707 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Bears Edged By Charleston Southern, 7-6
March 26, 2007
Charleston, SC - After falling behind 7-2 in the fourth, the Brown baseball team (4-9) responded with four runs in the fifth, but it wasn't enough, as the Bears dropped the last of a four-game series with Charleston Southern (13-18), 7-6. Junior Jeff Dietz (Altamonte Springs, FL) drove in four runs, three coming on a home run in the fifth, and four pitchers combined for five innings of scoreless relief for the Bears.
The Buccaneers opened with two runs in the first, but Brown tied it back up with runs in the second and third. Junior Dan Shapiro (Basking Ridge, NJ), who started at designated hitter, drove in sophomore shortstop Matt Nuzzo (Everett, MA) with a single to put Bruno on the board. Dietz followed in the third with his first RBI, as he brought junior left fielder J.J. Eno (Kahului, HI) all the way around on a single.
In the bottom of the fourth, CSU appeared to break the game open, as they touched starter Rob Wilcox (Columbia, SC) for five runs by stringing together five hits, culminating in a three-run home run by catcher Stephen Herzog. That inning would prove to be Wilcox's last, as the freshman finished with three strikeouts, giving up six earned runs on nine hits and no walks.
The Bears answered back in the top of the fifth. Sophomore Steve Daniels (Fox Point, WI) led off, reaching on an error by the shortstop, then stealing second and advancing to third on a wild pitch. After an Eno walk, senior catcher Devin Thomas (Gainesville, FL) singled to right, driving Daniels in. CSU changed pitchers, but Dietz took David Perkins' first pitch and drilled it over the fence, bringing the Bears within one. Perkins was able to settle down from there, retiring the next three hitters to end the rally.
The Brown bullpen did its part to keep the Bears in it, keeping the Bucs off the scoreboard the rest of the way. Senior Paul Costa (East Providence, RI) threw 1.2 hitless innings, followed by senior Anthony Vita (West Babylon, NY), who allowed one hit and struck out one in 1.1 innings in his season debut. Freshman Will Ellis (Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, FL) started the eighth, getting two outs before giving way to junior closer Rob Hallberg (River Edge, NJ), who got the final out. Unfortunately, the Bears could not get the tying run past second, taking the loss.
Each of the Bears' top five hitters scored at least a run, as number two hitter Eno scored twice and Daniels, Thomas, Dietz and Nuzzo all scored once.
With its series at Charleston Southern over, Brown will start a two-game series with another Charleston school, The Citadel, on Tuesday. That game, as well as Wednesday's will be at 6 p.m. | <urn:uuid:0d8b7d1a-8206-43ed-9209-8737a04359e3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brownbears.com/sports/m-basebl/recaps/032607aaa.html | 2013-05-19T05:22:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958943 | 642 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
We are pleased to celebrate the color and diversity of Albuquerque through the variety of photos displayed on our website. Many of the photos on this website were donated by local photographers and tourists. The City of Albuquerque is proud that such talented photographers are recording the face of our city.
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Joel D. Lusk
Marble Street Studio
Marble Street Studio has been long-time photographer for the City of Albuquerque and has generously donated many photos for use on our website. Visit the Marble Street Studio website. | <urn:uuid:91d844c4-bf5b-40d4-965f-9d7cd1ddff44> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cabq.gov/about/photo | 2013-05-19T05:00:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93285 | 181 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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SEATTLE — Brown Bear Car Washes here gave away “Bear Essential” carwashes for over 12 hours at 21 tunnel locations, and they ended up washing 27,125 cars, according to a press release.
The Sept. 5 release stated that the free carwashes were given away on Aug. 23, 2012. As PC&D reported, Brown Bear gave the washes away to customers as a way to celebrate the chain’s 55th anniversary.
“As always, the pace was fast and furious and it’s a tribute to our team that we were able to serve so many customers,” Vic Odermat, Brown Bear founder and owner, said in the release. “It’s our way of saying thank you to the communities we serve, and hopefully we introduced new customers to the kind of service and value we deliver year round.”
Odermat noted that the free promotion required a major commitment by Brown Bear employees, and he said they received bonus compensation for their work and service.
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Serve with smart side dishes, such as hot steamed broccoli and roasted potatoes.
Bake and slice meat as directed. Return meat to drippings in roasting pan. Refrigerate up to 2 days. When ready to serve, reheat, covered, in 350°F-oven for 1 hour or until heated through. Continue as directed.
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Universal Pictures has confirmed that 47 Ronin will be produced and released in 3D.
Keanu Reeves will star in the film, to be directed by Carl Rinsch. An epic period film, 47 Ronin is based on the true tale of a band of samurai swordsmen who avenged the death of their master in 18th century Japan.
Reeves will play one of the swordsmen; the group and their master are revered in Japan for their revenge attack on Dec. 14, 1702.
The film will tell a stylized version of the story, mixing fantasy elements of the sort seen in The Lord of the Rings films, with gritty battle scenes akin to those in films such as Gladiator. | <urn:uuid:6600d640-8568-48fd-b8a9-45e519b96238> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=72233&offset=10 | 2013-05-19T05:05:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955893 | 145 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Ă la carte restaurants and bars at El Dorado Maroma combine a selection of the finest and refreshing cuisine and drinks in extraordinary settings overlooking the celebrated Maroma Beach. As one of the most popular activities in the area is deep sea fishing, your catch of the day can be prepared in a variety of ways by our staff.
To ensure total comfort and maximum flexibility, none of our restaurants requires reservations.
A mystical combination of heaven and ocean… In this tasteful setting you will experience Asian-inspired cuisine served in the most creative ways. Sushi, Sashimi, and Teppanyaki are only some of the delicious main courses. Kiyoko provides its guests with a very intimate dining atmosphere as well as Chef interaction.
Providing intimate Italian dining using a traditional approach, Mio features creative cuisine from Italy's sunny coastal and island areas. Enjoy a variety of Ocean Fresh Fish Carpaccio, Fruti di Mare and exquisite pasta among other succulent dishes with authentic ingredients in a relaxing and romantic atmosphere.
This brand new restaurant features an interactive culinary experience in an open kitchen concept, offering for lunch and through the week: The Chef's Brochettes, Potato Festival, Taco Bar, Fish Market, BBQ, Spanish Paella and Mexican Flavors, while you enjoy our breath-taking ocean view.
This restaurant serves exceptional breakfasts that will keep you energized for an adventurous day. Irresistible Mexican and Caribbean specialties with international flair are served, as well as the most exclusive fresh seafood dishes caught daily for the traveling epicurean. Our Chef uses the latest culinary techniques to make every bite an unforgettable experience. Now guests can eat outside, underneath the new Palapa, located next to the restaurant.
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- Paris Flash
- Real Estate
By: GREG HIGGINS
By this time in their academic life, most Seniors are ready to graduate and move on to the next phase of life. Chance Kelley is not one of these Seniors. When asked if he was excited about being a Senior, he says “no” without any hesitation, because he knows that means no more high school football. Who can blame Kelley, though? The North Lamar running back has been quite impressive this season. In six games so far this season, Chance has scored 11 of the Panthers’ 22 touchdowns. He has accounted for 982 of the 1530 rushing yards the Panthers have accumulated.
Chance didn’t always run the ball. He started out playing football in seventh grade as a guard. During his eighth grade year, he was moved to running back. The next several years would catch Kelley playing on the B team, or being the backup running back for the Panthers. It wasn’t until his Junior year, that he would be given the chance to be a starter.
Chance Kelley was given his first start on the Varsity team against the cross town rival Paris High Wildcats. Kelley would make the most of the opportunity as well. He rushed for 139 yards and had two touchdowns in the game. Even though the Panthers lost that game, Chance would emerge as someone head coach Tommy Felty could rely on.
One of the things that is unique about Kelley is that he understands the importance of moving the chains in football. When asked about his approach, he responded, “[I] square up and get up field. Look for the hole and get up field.” He then proceeds to tell eParisExtra, “Four or five yards a carry isn’t bad.” He knows that averaging those kinds of yards per carry will help get first downs and ultimately allow his team to score, and that’s what it’s all about, right? Just ask Chance. He’ll tell you that his favorite part of the game is “lighting up the scoreboard.”
Chance loves the game of football. He’s hoping to get into college somewhere in which he can continue to play football. After college, he hopes to get into coaching. “I like football. I like to be around it. I like the energy,” he explains.
After the interview, Chance told me he hopes he continues to keep giving me something to write about. A couple days later, he did just that as he went out and had the best game of his young career. Against Pittsburg, Chance carried the ball 40 times for 285 yards and had three touchdowns. With games like that, opponents will have their hands full as they try to keep him from “lighting up the scoreboard” against them. | <urn:uuid:07fdaafc-2e16-4094-befa-a75b82c7c22f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eparisextra.com/panther-sports/2012/10/16/lighting-up-the-scoreboard-with-chance-kelley/ | 2013-05-19T04:58:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986159 | 586 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Are there any simmers here, living in Europe, with the following?
Win XP home edition
Trust ISDN PCI modem #11537
I am having trouble getting this to work, even with the latest XP drivers.
I thought I'd ask, since there seems to be quite a few European simmers here...any help would greatly be appreciated.
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Scantek, Inc. is a worldwide leader in sound and vibration instrumentation sales, service, calibration, and rental. They represent the finest products with expert support.
Scantek, Inc. founded in Rockville, MD in 1985, started business as wholly owned subsidiary of Norwegian Electronics, a/s. Now Scantek is a US, employee-owned company, and carries multiple lines. It increased its capability from sales to include all services, a separate NVLAP/NIST accredited calibration laboratory, instrument rental, and acoustical and vibration consulting.
- Interest free payments- Time payments are interest-free. 20% down in 30 days, remaining paid by credit card monthly for 11 additional months.
- Scantek, Inc. Cal Lab now calibrates tapping machines.
- Lower prices on tapping machine rental
- New calibration price structure
- Used instruments for sale. Almost all with full warranty and a full recent calibration. All rental instruments are offered for sale.
- Try an instrument with no obligation. Ask for a loaner. Scantek has loaners available for most instruments they sell. You can use it for about a week at no charge, you only pay for return shipping.
- Need help with systems? Call Scantek's expert staff. They know acoustics and vibrations and measurements. They can help you solve your measurement problem. It is part of their support on their instruments. | <urn:uuid:df4f57e4-88e7-4e8b-91aa-c471527f5bbe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.globalspec.com/Supplier/profile/SCANTEK | 2013-05-19T05:29:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92501 | 294 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Organised by The British Council Korea with the Korean Institute of Design Promotion
Seoul, whose Vice-Mayor is himself an industrial designer, was designated World Design Capital in 2010, and has celebrated with numerous design events, many with a focus on Design for All.
In 2009, the Helen Hamlyn Centre was invited by the British Council Korea and the Seoul Design Foundation to run the first 48 Hour Inclusive Design Challenge in Korea as part of the Design Olympiad. Held in the Jamsil Olympic Stadium, it was the largest to date, with eight teams of designers from across Asia, each led by UK.
It lead to an invitation from the Korean Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP,) the government body tasked with promoting design. The British Council organised the event. It was held at the Coex Hall in the World Trade Center Complex in Gangnam District in Seoul, as part of Design Korea, the country's annual design festival, where leading firms and organisations from Korea and abroad show their wares.
A bi-lingual version of the Trading Places exhibition, celebrating 10 years of the Challenge workshops, was also on show.
The brief linked sustainability to inclusivity and centred on leisure, pleasure and social interaction. The teams were asked to design something that could be low or high tech but had to be built around a sustainable present and future scenario and use of materials and/or technology.
British Council Korea Director Roland Davies chaired the event on stage in the Coex exhibition hall and the teams presented their ideas to the jury of four leading Korean design experts.
Team GTen led by Gavin Thomson of Gavin Thomson Design won Best Idea prize for Toi'let, an adjustable toilet concept that makes the intimate act easier to accomplish for everyone. Best presentation prize went to Team iPop led by Studiohead's Matt Harrison for a mainstream device and smart phone application inspired by their profoundly deaf design partner, that enhances the cinema experience for everyone by projecting subtitles on to a pair of glasses with an embedded transparent video screen. | <urn:uuid:e0b37d79-1446-426f-8f5b-96bfa005a85d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/3565/all/1/Seoul-2010.aspx | 2013-05-19T05:13:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963533 | 412 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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by Jacqueline Ruttimann
Google-like search tool links disease-related genes to possible drug treatments.
Scientists have begun connecting the dots between genes and diseases, but translating what they are learning into effective treatments has been difficult. Now, HHMI investigator Todd R. Golub and his colleagues have created what they dub a "connectivity map" to link diseases, genes, and small drug molecules.
"The problem is that the language typically used to describe diseases is based on signs and symptoms from the patient and on what disease cells look like under the microscope," says Golub, who is based at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. "Small molecules and drugs are described in a totally different language—the language of chemistry."
To dissolve that barrier, Golub's team has effectively created a computerized search engine—not unlike Google, says Golub. The "user," or investigator, first compiles a list of genes that are known to be important in the disease being studied. That list is used to query a database of drug-responsive genes, or genes that were turned on or off in cell lines that were individually treated with various drugs. The goal is to find a "hit," or gene match, between the disease genes and the drug-responsive genes.
In their work, described in the September 29, 2006, issue of Science, Golub's team confirmed known connections and found new ones, including possible drugs for prostate cancer and a particular form of childhood leukemia.
The map is far from complete, however. Only 164 drugs and biologicals were used in this study to represent a broad range of available drugs and compounds. They hope to soon add every drug that is approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In the long run, they hope to expand the database to include information from all the inhibitory RNAs that target each of the approximately 20,000 to 25,000 genes in the human genome.
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The holiday season is in full swing with the usual number of injuries reported in over zealous black Friday shopping. A Grand Rapids, Michigan man was trampled on November 26 while attempting to begin his holiday commerce activities at Wal-Mart. Meanwhile, a woman dove onto the floor of a Lincoln Nebraska Wal-Mart desperately clinging to a highly discounted laptop computer while other customers ran over her to reach the remaining sale computers.
In spite of increases to online activity and overall spending, human nature still prevails each holiday shopping season. According to a late October prediction published by Forrester Research, online expenditures will increase 25 percent and 2.5 million new households will discover online shopping this year.
Human nature is also accurately represented in search activity, and while most search initiatives are being refined, adapted and optimized to capitalize on this season's commerce festivities, marketers still struggle with the core of every search engine advertising program: finding the right keywords. Help in the form of advanced keyword selection is on the way with Hitwise's Search Intelligence Version 3.0, released today.
Buy me some traffic
Keywords initiate the interaction with any search activity, and while there are many tools to help you refine a search initiative, few if any focus on the untold gems that lie in undiscovered or "gap" keywords. While beating your fellow man senseless might be a neat way for some to kick off the season, finding new ways to reach online shoppers in the controlled online environment is paramount to executing a successful search initiative.
Hitwise monitors over 25 million internet users, as well as over 500,000 websites in 160 industry categories according to the firm's latest measurement statistics. Add search intelligence to that equation and you have a recipe for adding value to search initiatives beyond the scope of traditional existing data gathering.
"There are plenty of tools to help optimize, but sourcing information is something of a challenge," says Bill Tancer, general manager, global research at Hitwise. "We help our clients discover what terms they do not have."
You have to find it first
I took the new and improved Version 3.0 for a test drive this week. The first thing that struck me was how easy it was to use. With little or no training, a search marketer could reach inside competitive search data and discover all permutations of keywords that resulted in visits to competing sites and dissect the data by industry as well.
In the quest for search term intelligence, keyword suggestion tools offer combinations of words or phrases that users enter in the course of a search interaction, but without information that allows a marketer to see if that keyword or phrase resulted in a site visit the data is far less valuable.
Often, search sites will provide competitive intelligence about search activity within a category, but that information is habitually un-sourced and can be most aptly categorized as anecdotal and motivated by a desire to increase advertiser spending.
Site analytics information will provide keyword intelligence once visitors have found you, but that won't fill the gap. Match technologies -- if used in a progressive negative capacity when compared to site side data -- will also help bridge the gap, but it won't fill it.
Why you need this
Among the new developments in Hitwise Search Intelligence Version 3.0 is the ability to upload an entire keyword lexicon so an advertiser can compare existing keyword lists to keywords that resulted in site visits to competitor sites. This "Gap Analysis" report can then be exported and applied to a search initiative.
A word or two of caution in using this type of comparison: just because a keyword or phrase exists in a competitor's campaign or resulted in a visit to a competitor's site, this does not automatically qualify it for your initiative. In other words, don't abandon relevancy disciplines to add keywords: make sure these phrases belong in your search initiative first.
Other tools in the Hitwise service shed include category separation, which allows a comparison of shopping specific and industry specific search activity. There is also competitive charting of search behavior across time periods to allow an evaluation of purchase intent, buzz, viral initiative and public relations effort effectiveness -- activities that have become very popular in online marketing.
An advertiser can also develop keyword lists around seasonality and filter out brand names that might present a problem with regard to competing brands and trademarks. One can also compare terms across categories and websites, providing depth for comparing terms that generate traffic to competitor's sites.
It's not tool late
Holiday online shopping activity might be predictable using your existing data sources, but it is never too late to go after shoppers you may be missing. As we have learned over the years, almost anything can happen during the annual holiday gift shopping jamboree.
Historically, site traffic and online shopping daily revenue will peak in the week following Black Friday. For the first time in Hitwise recorded history, Walmart.com beat Amazon.com for site traffic in that peak time frame -- proving once again that it's anyone's game online and every little bit of competitive intelligence helps.
I leave you this week with my own spin on the ubiquitous adult beverage safety deus ex machina. With online shopping days quickly slipping away, please consume offline goods responsibly this season.
iMedia Search Editor Kevin Ryan's current and former client roster reads like a "who's who" in big brands; Rolex Watch, USA, State Farm Insurance, Farmers Insurance, Minolta Corporation, Samsung Electronics America, Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Panasonic Services, and the Hilton Hotels brands, to name a few. Ryan believes in sound guidance, creative thought, accountable actions and collaborative execution as applied to search, or any form of marketing. His principled approach and staunch commitment to the industry have made him one of the most sought after personalities in online marketing. Ryan volunteers his time with the Interactive Advertising Bureau, Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, and several regional non-profit organizations.
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|Visit the Inc. 500 site, which includes a fully searchable database of winners from 1982 to the present|
The founders of America's fastest-growing companies have plenty of smart ideas about taking your company to the next level. What really sets them apart, though, is more than that
Here you are, on the verge of meeting the nation's most accomplished company builders, and all you can think to ask is "What makes them so special?"
Sure, you've got a right to ask. And nobody's suggesting that this year's group--our 15th annual ranking of America's 500 fastest-growing private com-panies--is an unusually tight-lipped lot. Study their stories in the pages ahead, and you'll find answers to the kinds of questions every aspiring Inc. 500 founder asks: How do I know whether I have the resources to finance more growth? (Answer: If your kid's piggy bank still jingles, you're fine.) How do I know whether I have the right business idea? (Answer: Consult your current bosses; if they hate it, you're onto something.) Who can help me cope with the stress? (Answer: Unless you've got multiple spouses, meet regularly with other entrepreneurs.)
Those specific ideas are valuable, but it's only a matter of time before the patchwork you've stitched together from them begins to show holes. What shines through? The distance between your company and theirs. It's not enough simply to get smarter about marketing or operations or sales. What's still missing, as it turns out, is what you most wanted to know about Inc. 500 companies: What makes them so special?
The garrulous architects of these exemplary businesses couldn't tell you--and not because they're offended by the implicit suggestion that they have to justify their appearance among the entrepreneurial elite. They think they're answering you when they talk about what's worked for them. But look inside just about any Inc. 500 company, and you'll find much more than the sum of its smart practices. What makes these companies so special?
The founders of Inc. 500 companies may delight customers, energize employees, and outpace competitors, but they can't satisfy your basic craving for an answer. The reason is simple: they honestly don't know.
Soon, though, you're never going to have to ask that question again.
This special issue aims to ex-plore what really makes these fast growers different. Gathered here are 500 companies that together show what it takes to build a business that breaks through to the next level and beyond. Each of these breakthrough businesses points to some special attribute to explain its achievement: a distri-bution channel its competitors ignored, an uncommon closeness with its customers, a marked fierceness in its founder's need to prevail.
Learning about these businesses, you'll be tempted to think that all you have to do to take your company to the next level is implement the right breakthrough strategy. And that's not a bad idea. It's just backwards.
Why? Because the breakthroughs made by these 500 founders rarely came from some moment of crushing insight. What pushed these businesses through barriers that most companies never break wasn't a single strategy or tactic. It was something at once more vague and more powerful: their leaders' cast of mind. When entrepreneurs direct their disciplined intellectual energies toward figuring out how to grow, they end up reinventing products, or rethinking so many assumptions that they mold new industries. What they think up comes second. It's how they think that matters most.
It's what these founders do so naturally that they can't explain it. But place their stories in close proximity, and certain patterns leap out:
* They understand what their businesses need. When Kenny Troutt started Excel Communications (#80), he had no experience in the long-distance business. But instead of hiring someone who could compensate for that, he brought on Steve Smith, an expert in network marketing. Troutt just knew what would set Excel apart: its distribution channel. For more on fast-growing network marketers, see Susan Greco's "The Buddy System," on page 52.
* They're at ease making assumptions about the future. Wally Tsuha prepared auto supplier Saturn Electronics & Engineering (#392) to thrive amid the harshest shakeout in any industry. In doing so, he made Saturn "This Year's Model" for anybody feeling the vibrations of oncoming consolidators. The story, by Edward O. Welles, begins on page 28.
* They focus on grand ambitions, not big risks. Inc. 500 founders work relentlessly to keep their businesses moving in a direction that isn't always easy for onlookers to identify: ahead. Mike Mahmoodi needed to prove himself, so he started and built NIE International (#423). Mahmoodi's drive was so powerful that it enabled him to survive the enormous hardships he recounts in David Whitford's "Un-sentimental Journey," which starts on page 72.
* They're shrewd about using re-sources--including themselves. As future oriented as they are, Inc. 500 founders understand that their companies are measured by how well they execute in the present. Those who continue growing their businesses long past their arrival on the Inc. 500 have worked hard to figure out how they can best contribute on a day-to-day basis. Donna Fenn talks about just that in "Higher Ground," which begins on page 92. (One of their common strengths: a childlike curiosity that actually dates back to childhood. For proof, see "Are You Raising an Inc. 500 CEO?" by Alessandra Bianchi and Christopher Caggiano, page 152.)
Of course, you don't have to be an Inc. 500 founder to recognize elements of your own thinking in the pages ahead. You may be closer than you think to the breakthrough you want for your business, the one that will finally propel it onto the Inc. 500. So it may not be long before someone approaches you needing to know What makes you so special? That's your chance to offer that person the answer you really wanted yourself. -- Joshua Hyatt | <urn:uuid:b8bd982a-76cb-4404-9a9f-c5c552f8add7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inc.com/magazine/19961015/2040_Printer_Friendly.html | 2013-05-19T05:12:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969601 | 1,260 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Shining of country or visions or development should not be limited to the 25-30% population rather it must be more focused on 70 % population of any country. In present perspective of environment conditions and depleting natural resources, any indexes which represent development should be more focused and based on sustainability and environment friendly technologies. Development in a literal sense means uniform progress in all sectors. But keeping an eye on the recent development projects, be it the construction of a dam and generation of energy, or conservation of protected areas, it seems that a small section of population benefits from these projects directly however in true sense these projects harm everyone in long term. Also development should not infringe on the safety and basic human rights of people who are living in the margins of the society. | <urn:uuid:874a7675-84b8-4bb6-9a4e-29d933773830> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.iopsociety.org/blog/development-index | 2013-05-19T05:35:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929792 | 153 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The moto driver passes me a helmet and gestures for me to hop on. No problem, he says, the price is right. I climb on, feeling the machine shift under my weight. I slip the helmet on, unsurprisingly unable to tighten the broken strap. We make a slow turn onto the road and head off into town. Our destination is not far, only a brisk 10 minutes drive along a winding shoreline, honking and dodging cars, pedestrians, bicycles and other motos. The driver is calm, he does this so often you feel he could do it in his sleep. Me, I’m not so relaxed. My hands snake their way behind me to grip the bars just behind my backside. I note that I’m the only passenger who seems to be concerned. We pass mothers with their young children wrapped to their backs, men in suits who are lost in their SMS inboxes, women whose sense of balance is nothing short of impeccable. Not a single person is holding on for balance, for comfort or even (in my case) for the perception of safety. This is Africa. Everything is different here, so don’t bother holding onto your hat.
We pass by many people making the 5km walk between Rubona and Gisenyi, a seemingly endless stream of people who seem in no hurry, yet anyway walk with a slow purpose I couldn’t even begin to guess. Some are walking alone, others two-by-two, others push bicycles fully loaded with sacks or containers. Bicycle taxis also make their slow way up and down the hills, but the people here seem to prefer (or can only afford) to walk. Some bicycles are so heavily and awkwardly loaded with bizarre cargo – often it will be a bag of potatoes (or other crops), or containers of oil – but every so often you’ll see long sheets of corrugated steel or long planks of timber balancing precariously over both ends of the bicycle. At no time does anyone ever look twice, except of course at the bewildered mzungu (white person) hanging onto the back of their moto, as they speed along through the scene. The moto driver makes a continuous hymn-like hum as it speeds up and down the roads, punctuated only by the shifting of gears or the warning beep before overtaking. Anything is fair game for an overtake, it seems. Even the horn itself, a sound of annoyance or anger in Sydney, is used as a considerate warning for those on the side of the road. The driver beeps to let you know that he's coming past, and the people respond accordingly. It's all very natural.
I was surprised to discover the remarkably democratic approach to the concept of road. Unlike the roads of Sydney – where the cars rule the road and anyone else had better make space – here the roads are literally for everybody. People casually wander up the road, sharing the way with cyclists, cycle taxis, lots of motos, others carrying produce to market, the (very) occasional car or truck and the wonderfully irregular buses. There are no lanes, no footpath to speak of, no real sense of organisation and yet it still sings with a level of order I can only put down to culture. Everybody seems to just know what to do, and how much to worry about the heavy metal objects whizzing past. Which is to say: not a lot, it just works. I don't get the sense that there are many traffic accidents here. I would be interested to learn how accident prone these streets are, although of course it's also hard to say how much of it would go unreported. The people don't seem concerned though, which really is the most lasting impression.
We wind our way into Gisenyi, whistling past the football field, packed with young men jostling for the ball, for space to watch the game. It looks like a training session, or perhaps a tryout for the coming season. We pass the tiny supermarket (with both french and english signs), the much larger petrol station, the highly expensive lakefront hotel complete with guarded walls and spiked fences, the women lounging on the roadside presumably waiting for something to happen. The moto chugs up the road into town and I cast my glance up to the hillside hotel that we had initially booked before arriving in town. We'd cancelled almost immediately, noticing the place lacked character, light and most importantly, guests. One of the perils of traveling in places without Internet, or traveling with an absolutely sub-par guidebook (the East Africa Lonely Planet, I'm looking at you), is that you occasionally find yourself arriving in places that are less than ideal. You can never know this before you arrive, but you base your decisions on word of mouth. Recommendations are the same in person and online, only with the internet the element of chance is greatly reduced. The chances that you'll bump into someone who has been to your next destination, that you might happen to ask them about where they stayed, that they would have a recommendation and that you might actually manage to make a booking. The internet removes a lot of this happenstance, so in many ways that's helpful, but for now we're managing to just go with the flow.
We continue past the hotel, still curiously empty, and make the left-hand-bend turn into town. With this last turn my moto driver gives the bike one last spurt of gas and so it purrs down along the main street. We point to one of the five banks in town, and he pulls over to let us off, whilst simultaneously offering to bring us back to Rubona (it's quite normal, actually, for taxi drivers and moto riders to offer you their mobile numbers, for the return leg). We say "no" in Kinyarwanda, the local African language, and dismount. Aside from the barrage of people offering moto/taxi/hotel services, the main street is fairly friendly, with people sitting casually near the entrances of stores, banks, hotels and such. A few guards with large guns eye us suspiciously, but nothing much comes of it.
After we sort out our international finances, we head back down towards the lake. This is where the magic happens. The Africans we meet have Stoney faces, silent and unmoving as you approach. It's hard to read, it's hard to imagine what going on underneath. Aside from the occasional "mzungu" calls, or the offers from moto drivers, the Africans are inexpressive to the point of appearing annoyed or angry. That is, until you say hello.
The standard greeting in Kinyarwanda is "amakuru". It means 'how's the news?', and is appropriate at all times of the day. The standard greeting is "nimeza", meaning 'it's good'. You might sometimes get a "sawa sawa", which means "it's ok", if they're not having a good day, but this is much more rare. Especially when it's you saying hello. The Rwandan people approach you stone-faced, perhaps not really looking at you or paying much attention, until you say the right hello and everything changes. Their faces light up, dominated now by smiles larger than you thought possible and they chuckle their way through the response. Saying hello in Africa is so important, but before you do, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's not so important. A well timed amakuru will transform an unreadable and impassive face into an open and animated face, smiling and laughing at this unexpected and pleasant surprise. They love it, and it really does let you connect beyond cultural and language barriers, going someplace neither of you really expected to go. It's lovely.
We stroll on down the busy road out of town, towards the unusually good Thai restaurant on the lakeside, greeting as many people as we can. Not everyone responds the way we hope, some really do have no time for us, but those who do make up for that in style. Each new smile is like a match being lit right before your eyes, lighting up the space we share, in that brief moment of connection. | <urn:uuid:a6264b74-a779-4ccb-8c16-1d11bade0313> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jasonmcdermott.net/ | 2013-05-19T05:05:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968155 | 1,698 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 | 2 a.m.
IF YOU GO
What: Felix Hell, organ recital
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Where: UNLV’s Doc Rando Hall
Admission: Free, 895-2787
Also: Lecture and demonstration; 4 p.m. today; Doc Rando Hall; free
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Organist Felix Hell has much to consider when programming a concert.
It’s not as if he’s a violinist traveling with his trusty Stradivarius or a pianist approaching a familiar concert grand Steinway. He can’t plop down at just any organ and play a Bach fugue to his liking. Some organs simply aren’t suited for Bach.
“There isn’t one organ in the world that will perform any kind of music the way it’s supposed to be done,” Hell says, adding that playing Bach on a Silberman organ in eastern Germany is different from playing Bach on the organ at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Therefore, any details about the instrument provided ahead of time are invaluable. Even then, he has to acquaint himself with the reverberation and registration and toy with the sound.
That is precisely why on Tuesday, the 23-year-old virtuoso was trying to make the Rudolf von Beckerath organ at UNLV’s Doc Rando Recital Hall sound like a French Romantic instrument for his selection of Cesar Franck’s Chorale in A minor. Hell will perform the piece in a recital Friday along with compositions by Bach, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Enjott Schneider.
“Some of the sounds that Franck was looking for don’t exist on this organ,” Hell says during one of his six-hour practice sessions. “Our job is to recreate a certain sound that we find on the original instrument, asking, ‘How do I make this instrument sound like Bach’s instrument would.’ Some pieces require a big cathedral sound where the music can bloom and ring for a while.”
Hell says he’s never turned down a recital because of unfavorable conditions.
He’s performed on more than 600 organs since he was 8 years old and living in Frankenthal, Germany, where his father took him, against his wishes, to an organ recital. Hell enrolled in New York’s Juilliard School on full scholarship at age 14, and received a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and a master’s in music at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore.
Hell says his No. 1 priority as an organist is to advocate the instrument. His mission is to bring the organ “to the people” as a concert instrument, rather than a liturgical instrument known for weddings and funerals. Of particular concern is classical music’s struggle in the frenzied media age. The hope among many is that the friendly and approachable young organist will draw youthful fans to the instrument Hell describes as “powerful and versatile.”
“The organ is the only instrument that entire symphonies have been written for. The only instrument that can rival a symphony.”
So what does Hell think of UNLV’s von Beckerath organ, which has three manuals or keyboards, 38 stops and more than 3,000 pipes?
“Well built. Well voiced. It’s one of the finest concert hall organs I’ve heard.”
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Loved it! Good speed to dance, Great Music!
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Durham teen still in hospital after crash
MIDDLEFIELD — A Durham teen hurt in a crash Sunday is still being treated at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford.
Michael Mischke, 17, of 38 Royal Oak Dr., was seriously injured after he crashed his truck into a tree this weekend on Route 147, Troop F state police report.
Mishke was traveling west on Route 147 near Miller Road, when his car failed to make a right turn, according to state police.
Mishke struck a tree head-on on the north end and south end of the roadway, totaling his BMW 528i, authorities said.
The teen was taken via Life Star helicopter to Saint Francis Hospital for injuries sustained, state police said. Tina Varona, a media relations manager at Saint Francis, said Wednesday that she could not release Mishke's conditions as per the hospital policy.
The vehicle was towed by Untouchable Towing, police said.
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The McMaster Marauders took aim at the stars this past year, and for a time, it seemed that the program would be forced back to earth.
Head Coach Dave Preston embarked on a recruiting drive nearly a year ago with the stated mission of chasing down the very best.
The only problem: the best rarely stay north of the 49th parallel.
“I told our players that we were going after some blue chip guys this year,” explains Preston. “I warned them what that could mean.”
The “blue chip” class in question was headlined by Danny Demyanenko and Stephen Maar, two leading members of the vaunted Toronto Crush club team that successfully toured the United States before winning yet another national club title in May.
The pair earned virtually every accolade available to a Canadian youth player, be it a club title, beach championship or selection to provincial and national teams. Their accomplishments were such that Division I schools in the NCAA – who rarely mine Canada for talent – sat up and took notice.
Recruiters flocked to the Crush, particularly after the team swept a tournament in Southern California as the only Canuck entrant and earned a berth in the U.S. National Club Championship.
The offers rolled in from premier programs south of the border, and the Marauders increasingly resigned themselves to losing out on the stars they coveted. Competitive as McMaster is among CIS schools, it is a minnow when swimming with Division I sharks.
“They’re all really good players,” says McMaster middle Alex Elliot of his team’s targets on the Crush.
“We knew that if he (Preston) was going for all of these big names, hopefully we’d maybe get one of them. When they were all interested in going to the States, we thought, “Well, there goes those guys.””
UCLA – a perennially ranked powerhouse in Division I – took a keen interest in Demyanenko, while the University of Hawaii wooed Maar. The pair was forced into a difficult decision as their Ontarian roots clashed with the glamour and competitive edge offered elsewhere.
“After a few tournaments in the States, we got a little bit of hype and there was a lot of excitement over the schools in the States. It led me and a few of my teammates to wonder whether there was something better there,” Demyanenko admits.
“The conflict was really about how competitive things would be,” says Maar. “The OUA compared to the MPSF (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) – the conference Hawaii is in – there’s a pretty big difference.
“The weekly competition – playing Waterloo as opposed to UCLA – is really different.”
Maar’s painstaking selection process came to an end in May, and to the surprise of many, he turned aside Hawaii’s overtures and declared his intent to play at McMaster.
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Posted by Lotg on November 08, 2003
In Reply to: Re: Unicorns and Virgins posted by Paul on November 07, 2003
: In the Cloisters in New York City you can see all the tapestries of the story of the capturing of the Unicorn and one of the last Tapestries in the sequence, was of a virgin with the Unicorn sleeping on the virgin's lap after having suckled at her breast. It took a virgin to capture the Unicorn because the Unicorn symbolized masculine energy (the cornocupia) and was ever able to touch green Earth, otherwise, they would be magnetisized to the Earth and lose all their magical powers of flight, etc. Kind of allegorical to the alchemical elixir of turning the lead into gold. Love conquers all
: : In the mythology of unicorns, virgins play a number of interesting roles. Does anyone know the history of this relationship, and if it is English in origin or is part of the worldwide Unicorn myth?
Theoretically unicorns have been a part of ancient greek and chinese mythology and were supposedly first sighted in India. Ctesias first described the unicorn as a wild white Indian ass whose horn provided preventative medicines.
In Chinese mythology there were 2 kinds. One had a beautiful voice and announced the birth of children - Confucious being one of them. The other was a judgemental unicorn who pointed out the guilty and punished them. Apparently some Chinese courthouses still have unicorns on their buildings.
There have even been descriptions of unicorn-like animals in ancient versions of the bible. Although to my knowledge the actual name unicorn wasn't used.
Some say that Noah gets the blame for the fact that there are no more unicorns around (or are there???) cos he couldn't or didn't include them on the ark.
But their association with virgins does appear to have been more recent. In fact at some point they became inextricably linked. Supposedly the Romans discovered that unicorns were lovers of purity and innocence and as a sort of test, they placed a virgin at the feet of a unicorn. The unicorn was unavoidably attracted and fell asleep on her lap.
Later the act of standing a woman in front of a unicorn would prove to be a test of her virginity (this may have originated in England, I don't know). Frankly as tests go, this one's a bit rugged. Cos if the woman wasn't a virgin, the unicorn's horn would pierce her body and kill her. If she was a virgin, theoretically the horn would pass through her body unharmed.
Furthermore, it didn't always pay to be a virgin who associated with a unicorn, because they were very jealous and possessive. If the virgin took up with a suitor and married him, the unicorn would kill the husband and gut the virgin.
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Climate change is arguably one of the biggest threats to US and global security, but there wasn’t a word about it in last night’s presidential debate on foreign policy.
Anchor Marco Werman talks to journalist Mark Hertsgaard about why climate change has disappeared from the election conversation and what that says about the ability of our political system to seriously engage with the reality of global warming.
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Marco Werman: I’m Marco Werman and this is The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI, and WGBH-Boston. Today on the program we are shining a spotlight on what was missing from last night’s presidential debate on foreign policy. And one of the most glaring omissions from the final Obama-Romney debate was any mention of climate change. As our environment editor Peter Thompson reminded us earlier, climate change is creating a raft of potentially destabilizing problems around the world, from millions of climate refugees, to disruptions of global food and water supplies. Yet there’s been barely a peep about it in this year’s campaign from either the candidates or the media. Journalist Mark Hertsgaard covers climate change and the global environment for The Nation and Vanity Fair, among others, and is the author of the book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. He joins us now from San Francisco, and Mark, what do you think is going on here? Why this loud silence on climate in last night’s debate, and really the whole campaign?
Mark Hertsgaard: Yeah, you’re certainly putting your finger on it, Marco, and I think it’s important for people to realize how unusual this is. This is the first time since 1984, almost thirty years ago, that climate change has not been mentioned in any of the presidential and vice-presidential debates. All these other years it was recognized as a major issue. Back in 1988, and there was no hemming and hawing from the journalists, some scientists say it’s true, some don’t. It was look, here’s this problem, what are you guys going to do about it? And this year nothing, despite the fact that there have been calls both within the press and by people in the public and activists saying look, Governor Romney, President Obama, you need to face up to this. I’m reminded of a quote from the British magazine The Economist, which wrote last year that 100 years from now, looking back, the only important question about our historical moment will be, quote, whether or not we did anything to arrest climate change, unquote.
Werman: And it’s really hard to imagine the two candidates aren’t making the connections themselves, so you remind us, what are the major threats that climate change poses to US and global security?
Hertsgaard: The United States is an agricultural superpower. We heard a lot last night about its military superpower and its economic importance. We are also an agricultural superpower and we just came through the worst drought in 50 years, the hottest summer ever in the corn belt, in the farm belt. Our corn and soybean yields way, way down. We are already seeing prices rise around the world and what that’s going to mean is if you are a child and poor in Africa or Asia, a much greater chance of hunger, and food riots. That’s the direct security connection. The last time that food prices were this high, in 2007-2008, we had anywhere from 20 to 30 countries that had street riots because people cannot get enough to eat. And that is why, for example, the Pentagon, under the administration of George W. Bush, about eight years ago, said that climate change was a major national security issue because by the year 2020, when we’ve got these kinds of droughts and floods and so forth, we could even see countries like Pakistan and India and China going to war, the Pentagon said, going to war to secure river valleys and arable land. SO that’s the major concern here, that climate change and the kind of severe weather that we’ve seen just in recent months in the United States and around the world, that that can lead to the kinds of destabilizing street riots that we saw, for example, in the Arab spring. That was a lot kicked off by food price rises.
Werman: So Mark, what is the one question you would have asked the two candidates last night if you’d been with them on the stage in Florida?
Hertsgaard: I would have said, Governor Romney and President Obama, you are both parents. Your children are growing up in this superheated world. What are you going to do to protect our kids from climate change? It’s a pretty simple question. I was amazed and disappointed that neither of them took many opportunities to raise it. For example, when Bob Schieffer asked, what is the major threat to peace and security to the United States in the years ahead, certainly global warming would have to be up there in the top two or three. Of course terrorism, of course nuclear weapons. But climate change is something that the military calls a threat multiplier. It’s the kind of thing that can make all of those problems worse, because if you’ve got food riots, if you’ve got people who can’t feed themselves, they are going to be crossing over borders, they’re going to be migrating to places that do have food, and that means we’re going to have huge numbers of climate change refugees in the future, and the United States is going to have to deal with that. And luckily some of our military and security officers already are thinking about this, but it’s very disappointing to see that the two guys who want to be commander-in-chief don’t recognize that this is a major, major issue for the United States.
Werman: Right, now take political rhetoric out of the candidates’ responses, imagine for us what kind of answer you would have heard, or wanted to hear.
Hertsgaard: Well, we know what we would have heard from Governor Romney. He would have said that we don’t know if climate change is really happening, the scientists aren’t clear about it. He has backtracked on that from the position he held as the governor of Massachusetts. As Obama said last night, his positions now are all over the map, so his latest position is that climate change isn’t real, in keeping with the new Republican doctrine. As far as Mr. Obama, I think he probably would have said we are dealing with it, this is why we have to invest in clean energy. But, you know, that’s good as far as it goes, but it is so lacking in the commensurate scale to the degree of the problem. There was just a report that came out last week, there are 1,000 children a day around the world dying from climate change, essentially from, especially from, the hunger-related aspects of it. That’s 400,000 people a year dying from climate change and that number is going to go up, so I would like to hear President Obama talk about not just how we are going to reduce emissions and bring down the temperatures, but how are we going to deal with the fact that we’re going to have large sections of the planet burning up, in effect. They talked a lot about Pakistan. Two years in Pakistan, there was a climate change disaster, terrible monsoon rains and resulting floods that put 14 million Pakistanis out of their homes, made them homeless. If you want to know why there’s that kind of unrest in Pakistan, and unhappiness, these kinds of natural disasters are a perfect breeding ground for terrorists. Or Mali, the African nation of Mali was mentioned by Governor Romney. I reported from Mali for The World, and in the north of Mali, why is it that there’s this resurgence of terrorists and radicalism. It’s partly because nobody there can farm any more because the climate has become too inhospitable. And more and more of the planet is threatening to come under those conditions unless we really get serious about reducing not just the emissions but putting in place real adaptation programs to build the resilience in those places. And I didn’t hear any of that from either of the candidates.
Werman: Mark, let’s step back just a little bit here. I’m wondering if you see a larger void here, in terms of the kind of issues the candidates and the media have focused on. I mean, we’ve touched on three that seemed to be missing from last night today on our program, European economy, Mexico and the drug war there, and now climate change. When it comes to looking at our relationship with the rest of the world, what does this mean?
Hertsgaard: So much of what you saw last night on the debate was simply a reflection of the very narrow-minded, inside-the-beltway Washington consensus shared by both of the parties and, I’m sorry to say, by our colleagues in the media. There were times I thought that the only topic they were going to discuss was Israel, and that’s because that’s a big issue in Washington. You would have never thought, to listen to last night, that Israel isn’t 100 percent in the right all the time. Well, that looks very bizarre to the rest of the world which feels like the Palestinian point of view also needs a hearing. You scarcely heard the words George W. Bush, and yet so much of our foreign policy is still in response to the Bush presidency. That would seem strange to the rest of the world. And finally, climate change. The rest of the world has seen this as a reality for years, nobody questions the science any more. They are frantic to get a solution to this. They know that the real obstacle is in Washington. And yet you look and see, as I say, we have not got any kind of a consensus inside of Washington that this subject even matters, much less that it must be taken care of. So if you want to know the single reason why we didn’t hear any questions about climate change last night, I think it has to do with that very narrow minded Washington consensus shared by the press that climate change is just not a top-tier issue. And you heard this, by the way also, in the second presidential debate with Candy Crowley of CNN, who I thought did an excellent job of moderating, but later on when she was asked, why didn’t you have a question about climate change, she said, oh yeah, I got that question from you climate people. You climate people, I thought that was a very revealing phrase, because in that view climate change is this kind of special, boutique-y kind of interest. It’s like this special concern that is not really as important as Israel or Syria or Iran. And that just completely misses the point of everything that has happened, not just in climate science but out in the real world this year, as I say, during the worst drought and some of the hottest temperatures that North America has ever experienced, that the press and that the politicians can continue to be blind to climate change is, I think, a disgrace.
Werman: Journalist Mark Hertsgaard, the author of the book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. He’s also one of the organizers of Climate Parents, a campaign to enlist parents in the effort to move the political debate on climate change. Mark, thanks for speaking with us.
Hertsgaard: My pleasure, Marco.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Fort Wayne's third police shooting in as many months resulted in the death of one of two men who fled officers during a routine traffic stop, police said. The second man remained at large Sunday.
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A Totowa man was charged with one count of burglary and theft by the Wayne Police following an arrest conducted by Totowa Police in the City of Paterson based on an incident that initially occurred in Wayne, said Wayne Police Capt. James Clarke.
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FORT WAYNE - The Fort Wayne police shot and killed a man in a gunbattle Thursday in the city's second police-action shooting in five days and the fourth in just over 10 weeks.
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A 34-year-old Wayne man that authorities found sleeping in his car faces a slew charges in connection with drugs that police found after waking him up, a detective said.
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Text messages helped state police unravel the mystery surrounding a missing man whose body was found in Carter County last year.Click to Continue »
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Home is where the music is. Folk is where the family are.
A meeting of creative hearts and musical minds, where anything is possible. Creating unique musical occasions and events: from concept through creation to delivery, and with the guiding principle of New Folk Old Folk No Folk. Two For Joy Music, hatched in The Magpie's Nest, provides the tools for our musical extended family and collective to connect, expand and grow, to achieve our potential and spread our music far and wide. One for Sorrow, Two For Joy: together we stronger, welcome to the family. | <urn:uuid:1b2b2ade-6753-4c8a-8ef7-3d4523b684f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.twoforjoy.co.uk/ | 2013-05-19T05:28:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937634 | 116 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
What has become of Addie?
I have no idea.
She is still becoming.
I’m not the same person I was a year ago. Everything is different, the minutes, hours, days and months are nothing like they were. I have become accustomed to being adrift, but decided to trust.
Worst case scenarios playing out can make you feel bulletproof. It’s an illusion, it can always hurt more. I figured that out when I decided to trust again. Setting that fear aside has been difficult, but I had to, loss comes regardless of intent. To fear loss is to fear life.
Yep, that means I have a boyfriend.
Well, not really a boyfriend, we have decided to put off dating for a few years until we are eligible for the senior citizen’s discount at leading establishments. We’re not getting to know each other, we met nearly thirty years ago. He scared me to death back then.
He scares me to death now, but for entirely different reasons. Now I can handle his looks, his voice, his sweetness, his humor, but his love frightens me. I never planned on falling in love again. I wasn’t sure I would find it, I wasn’t sure I wanted it, I wasn’t sure I deserved it.
I always thought I was extremely lucky to have found one true love in my life. A second love didn’t seem likely.
My life has been a series of highly unlikely events. I’m going to roll with it.
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Order your Boulder Cycling Club Jersey today for $70.
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When re-directing a non-authenticated user, class AuthenticationProcessingFilterEntryPoint builds an absolute URL.
This leads to problems in a customer environment where our server (Weblogic, clustered) is behing a load-balancer and may NOT be accessed directly.
Theoretically the customer can configure the load balancer to overcome this but this is percieved as requiring configuration changes in an active web-farm because of a specific app. bad karma.
Does anyone have a clue why absolute redirection is used?
Are there any plans to make it relative?
I can change the code locally, but am worried that I am missing some major point.
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In December 2010, 23-year-old Zou Jinlian from southern China’s Hubei Province arrived at an island on Poyang Lake in northern Jiangxi Province, beginning her new life devoted to caring for more than 100 wounded white cranes. Before long, the locals were calling her the Crane Commander.
After graduating from Hubei Communications Technical College in 2009, Zou Jinlian was hired as an accountant in a large state-owned company.
One day, she happened upon an online video about Liu Wu, a businessman who achieved legendary status through looking after swans, cranes, and other birds. At first, he went broke by spending all his money on wild birds, but eventually he became a millionaire by raising cranes.
“I thought I knew what to expect,” recalls Zou, “but conditions were much worse than I could have imagined.” The natural paradise she has been dreaming of from her office desk was deep in the mountains, and she shared a house with rats constantly running across the roof.
Not long after her arrival, she left for Shaanxi Province to learn how to raise and train cranes as well as how to prevent disease and treat the birds. The training center is located in an isolated village without running water, and once, she endured 15 days without bathing.
Still, the lack of modern amenities wasn’t her biggest concern. She couldn’t bear that the birds never acted friendly towards her regardless of how much she helped them. “I still remember once when I was treating a wounded white crane with my colleagues,” she explains. “It struggled and pecked my jaw so badly that I bled all over the place.”
Occasionally, she considered giving up, but ultimately she persevered. Her relationship with the birds gradually improved each day as she spent more time with them, carefully observing their movements and habits.
The lake, which features a small island covered with trees, is a well-known spot for watching migrant birds in winter. The park serves as home to more than 100 cranes, the majority of which were found injured and sent there to recover.
“I assumed some wild animal protection experts were posted there,” Zou recalls, “and that I would serve as an assistant. But when I arrived, I realized that I was the lone ‘doctor’ for more than 30 sick white cranes.”
With the meager knowledge she had acquired over a few months, Zou soon evolved into a vet and managed to treat the sick birds. Later, an elderly man joined her cause ¨C forming a duo, young and old, working together to protect the swans and cranes.
According to Zou, over 100 migrant birds live in the area. The majority are cranes. Among them the red-crowned cranes, along with three Oriental storks, are under State Class I protection, while others, including five species of Gruidae birds, remain under State Class II protection.
“If you say ‘Come on’ in English, they will follow you,” Zou explained as she demonstrated to the visitors how to communicate with the birds.
“Cranes are extremely alert,” Zou added, “and they’re instinctively cautious around humans.”
Living with the birds around the clock, she has become familiar with their footwork, which she calls “dance steps.” She points to some rails. “Before these were built, cranes often came to my room and slept by my bed,” she reveals with glistening, emotional eyes.
“They are rare and precious,” she continues. “I need to learn more about how they live and reproduce as well as take more notes to help others to study these birds.”
Every evening, Zou makes notes of everything she has seen that day. Moreover, she has made up her mind to pursue a postgraduate degree in zoology. She is working extremely hard to prepare for the examination.
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Jonwayne has been submerging himself in the LA scene as of late. He’s telling LA promoters to get at him, he’s offering awesome rates for shows. He’s literally telling anyone in the LA area to get at him for house shows… I wish I fucking lived in LA.
Anyway this cut came straight from the Wayniac’s MPC 3k. Some bed time keys n smooth spitting. Zeroh shows up as usual with sophisticated bars. This my first time hearing Quell Chris though, definitely going to be looking for him in the future. Jonwayne usually knows how to pick ‘em, he’s not really fucking with any rappers that aren’t emcees…unless it’s Homeboy Sandman. | <urn:uuid:ed54734c-1018-4ecc-b0fa-afd6e5b4ad8f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://goldsweatshirt.com/2012/11/29/mp3-jonwayne-watching-me-feat-quell-chris-zeroh/ | 2013-05-22T03:18:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701233842/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104713-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953658 | 162 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Indiana Pacers made some nice moves over the summer to fortify their bench. D.J. Augustin, Gerald Green and Ian Mahinmi were good additions to the Pacers, who already have an outstanding starting five. I think the Pacers are going to take the next step in 2012-13, so I would take the over!
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Big Time Rush star recovering after motorcycle accident
Dec. 26, 2012, 12:57 PM EST
Big Time Rush star Logan Henderson is recovering after crashing his motorcycle in Los Angeles last week (begs17Dec12). The singer/actor was riding through the city when a car reportedly turned right in front of him at the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, prompting the 23 year old to swerve to avoid a head-on collision. Henderson lost control of his bike and was tossed to the ground, but he escaped major injury and walked away with only minor cuts and scrapes on his back - thanks to the designer Marc Jacobs jacket he was wearing. According to photographs obtained by TMZ.com, the hunk's vehicle was not as lucky - it was hauled off to a nearby repair shop. | <urn:uuid:10418cd6-37e1-4ea1-9e88-b9f6eee111bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=782004&affid=100055 | 2013-05-22T03:31:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701233842/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104713-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980155 | 160 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
PaulP's Radish, Cherry Belle x 4 Sprouting
PaulP's Radish, Cherry Belle Care Instructions
Try for a seed spacing of at approx. 0.5 inches (1.27 cm) and sow at a depth of around 0.3 inches (0.76 cm) if planning to sow direct.
Radish 'Cherry Belle' normally grows to a mature height of 15.0 cm (that's 5.85 inches imperial) so ensure you have enough space in your garden for this plant.
Your garden has full sun light which is ideal for Radish 'Cherry Belle'.
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Here is my review of Rick Perry's recent campaign ad.
I was going to say the same thing... :P
From what I heard on that thread was somwthing is wrong when gays can serve openly in the military but kids cant celebrate christmas and pray in school. Thats not meant to be anti gay but a problem with people and the hollidays and crist. He only meant that as an example of the disparity of what is acceptable.
For the benefit of non-Ameircans, what exactly ARE his positions (other than his campaign ad)? What stupid things did he say in debates and in general?
Chen, here you go.
That was funny :)
But what exactly are his stances? What does he promise to do when he's elected (does he remember what those are)?
He will probably get the whole government groupy thing to sit down in the big white colored house while many priests leads them in a prayer to make the gun battle in the middle-earth with the big scary men to go away and for everyone there to convert to Christianity. Once he solves that problem he will lead the world in a prayer to make the little economy arrow on the chart go up until we're all rich. Afterwards he probably imagines every tree, animal, and person getting together and performing a song of joy complete with dance choreography until Jesus comes down and appoints him king of the world and nobody ever makes fun of him for being an idiot again.
I'm sorry you probably don't know why I'm making fun of him. Back in the summer there was a drought in Texas (my home state) and he created this "Pray for Rain" weekend campaign thing where every day from Friday to Sunday the entire state would spend the day praying to whatever god they believed in for it to begin raining again. Seeing as I am an atheist I wasn't really sure who to pray to so I just prayed to Cthulhu. Now that I told you that you should just stop asking questions, assume his stances don't really matter, and quietly go away before he makes you hate everything.
I've heard that rain didn't come until a certain atheist convention came to town, is that true?
Well according to these guys thats how it all went down --> http://atheistallianceamerica.org/component/content/article/304-ath...
So what if he is religeous? What is the big deal if he asked the state to pray for rain? That didn't hurt anybody. He didn't say anything about gays.
I take great pleasure from following this guy, and other equally outlandish republican candidates, from the safe distance of my home, and I must say I can feel Abreo's shame all the way here;)
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Two sales tax referendums for school improvements and a host of municipal government posts are on ballots across Northeast Georgia today. Polls in all communities open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
Voters in Oglethorpe and Athens-Clarke counties will decide today whether to continue collection of 1 percent special-purpose, local-option sales taxes (SPLOSTs).
If the tax is approved in Athens-Clarke, it is expected to bring in $87 million over five years. A top priority for the tax revenue would be construction projects intended to replace 80 portable classrooms with regular classrooms.
Officials also hope to make major renovations at Alps Road Elementary, Gaines Elementary, Clarke Middle and Clarke Central schools. The last Clarke County SPLOST referendum, approved in March 1997, brought 15.8 percent of the county's registered voters to the polls. It is expected to raise $66 million before collection ends next year.
Mike Wooten, spokesman for the Clarke County School District, said he expects ''a very slim turnout because there's nothing else on the ballot.''
Polling places at cities and throughout two Northeast Georgia counties are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today for municipal and sales-tax elections. Questions about where to vote should be addressed to elections workers at the following telephone numbers:
Auburn: (770) 995-5998
Statham: (770) 725-5455
Clarke County School District sales tax: (706) 613-3150
Winterville: (706) 613-3150
Royston: (706) 245-7232
Braselton: (706) 654-3915
Commerce: (706) 335-3164
Hoschton: (706) 654-3034
Jefferson: (706) 367-5121
Comer: (706) 783-4552
Bogart: (770) 725-7386
North High Shoals: (706) 769-4289
Oglethorpe County School District sales tax: (706) 743-5350
A school SPLOST is also on the ballot in Oglethorpe County. If approved, the 1 percent tax would be collected from 2003-08. Revenue projections indicate the tax could bring $3.1 million to the school system.
If approved, Oglethorpe school SPLOST proceeds will be combined with funds from the existing SPLOST to repay a $5 million zero-interest bond the board hopes to take out this year to pay for school improvements. Oglethorpe County is eligible for the zero-interest bond due to its status as a low-wealth school district.
The bond would be used to finance upgrades to the roof, ceilings and facade at Oglethorpe County Primary School, and to install sprinkler systems at the county's primary, middle and high schools. The funds also would go to replace 17 trailers with new classrooms, and to add seven new classrooms in various schools.
''If we don't pass this (SPLOST), it's gonna really be a setback,'' said Oglethorpe County Schools Superintendent Jim Willis. ''We just can't afford to make these improvements without breaking the bank for property owners.''
Among the municipal elections set for today are the mayor and council seats in the Jackson County community of Nicholson. A six-candidate field is vying for four council seats, and Mayor Ronnie Maxwell is facing opposition from James Kesler.
Nicholson City Clerk Jennifer McNeil said Monday that candidates have ''been out hot and heavy'' with their campaigns. She expects a fair voter turnout today since the entire council is up for re-election.
In the Jackson County town of Commerce, a school board seat is up for election. In District 2, Curtis Stowe will challenge incumbent Mary Seabolt.
In Madison County, Comer residents will select a new mayor to replace Chris Nesmith, who decided not to run. In the running for the mayoral election are Billy Burroughs, Sue Carithers, Grady Mahaffey and Gene West.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Tuesday, November 6, 2001.
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An Empirical Analysis of Cost Recovery in Superfund Cases: Implications for Brownfields and Joint and Several Liability
Howard F. Chang
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Rutgers University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
July 13, 2010
U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-12
U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-23
Economic theory developed in the prior literature indicates that under the joint and several liability imposed by the federal Superfund statute, the government should recover more of its costs of cleaning up contaminated sites than it would under nonjoint liability, and the amount recovered should increase with the number of defendants and with the independence among defendants in trial outcomes. We test these predictions empirically using data on outcomes in federal Superfund cases. Theory also suggests that this increase in the amount recovered may discourage the sale and redevelopment of potentially contaminated sites (or “brownfields”). We find the increase to be substantial, which suggests that this implicit tax on sales may be an important deterrent for parties contemplating brownfields redevelopment.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 37
Keywords: Environmental Law, Torts, Litigation and Settlement, Real Estate, Economics
JEL Classification: K32, K41, Q53, Q58, R38working papers series
Date posted: July 17, 2010
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CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT EXPERT TO GIVE DARDEN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FELLOWS AWARD LECTURE NOV. 9
Arthur J. Reynolds, renowned childhood development professor from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, will give the 2007 Darden College of Education Fellows Award Lecture at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, in the Mills Godwin Jr. Building auditorium at Old Dominion University.
Titled "Post-Early Childhood Education: Successful Youth and Adults," the lecture is part of the college's celebration of American Education Week.
Reynolds is currently the director of the Chicago Longitudinal Study, an extensive project that tracks the development of 1,500 children who attended early childhood programs in Chicago's inner city. The main focus of the study is the effects of the Child-Parent Center program, a school-based intervention project that spans from preschool to the early elementary school grades. Another major goal of this ongoing, 21-year study is to understand how early childhood experiences affect development into adulthood.
Reynolds' expertise in the early childhood field includes early educational interventions, early childhood development, evaluation research, prevention science, and school and family influences on development.
The lecture is free and open to the public; reservations are encouraged. For more information or to RSVP, call 683-3938.
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CANADAYork University sues former over alleged invoice scam, Toronto Star
Former B.C. Mountie to be extradited to U.S. to face drug charges, Vancouver Sun
The final numbers for the Daily Bread Law Firm Challenge are in and, of the 41 law firms that participated, this year Blake Cassels and Graydon LLP is the overall winner, raising more than $40,000. This is the first time since the challenge started in 2003, that Blakes has won.
The winner for per-capita standings is Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP.
The top three firms in the overall standings are:
1. Blakes: $40,412.45
2. McCarthy Tétrault LLP: $39,168.05
3. Paliare Roland: $32,644.54
The top three firms in the per-capita standings are:
1. Paliare Roland: $480.07
2. Solmon Rothbart Goodman LLP: $380.94
3. Owens Wright LLP: $208.04
The Law Firm Challenge is Daily Bread’s largest employee drive of the holiday season and consistently raises close to $250,000 across the city.
Congratulations to all the participants who have been instrumental in helping Canada raise mo' than any other country in the world — for the second year in a row — during the Movember campaing for prostate cancer research and men's mental health.
This year’s intake of students in McGill’s faculty of law formed a team under the leadership of Tim Apedaile. The team, referred to as “Mo’tion to Dismiss” is comprised of 36 members, some of whom are pictured here.
The Canucks brigade from the University of Ottawa law school were motivated to grow some mos. Photo: Tim Tam.
These gentlemen law students from the University of Ottawa show us how to mo. Photo: Tim Tam.
The University of Manitoba’s Robson Hall had a team of 13 law students growing mos this year.
Second-year JD student at the University of Manitoba’s Robson Hall Michael Cashion is one of the top law student fundraisers in Canada.
First-year Windsor University law student Jason Sitt was crowned King of Movember at his school. Photo: Evan Bawks
Windsor Law student Mike Maher now has a bristly upper lip to go with his full head of hair. Photo: Evan Bawks
Mo bros and sistas at the University of Windsor sport their “moustaches” in support of Movember. Photo: Evan Bawks
Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP’s Mo Bros were split between its Kelowna and Vancouver offices. The Kelowna team sent along their photo but unfortunately the Vancouver bros were more camera shy.
The crew from Norton Rose Canada’s Calgary office ham it up for Movember.
McMillan LLP lawyers from across the country joined in to the facial hair-growing frenzy. Here's the Calgary section of the McStaches.
Alexandre Forest was the lone McStache at McMillan LLP's Montreal outpost.
There seems to be a theme going on with McMIllan's Ottawa McStaches.
The Toronto office McStaches seem to be pretty casual about the whole affair.
McMillan's Vancouver office with some serious Mos on their members of team McStaches.
Wagner is the son of Claude Wagner, a Quebec lawyer, prosecutor, judge, cabinet minister, federal Conservative leadership candidate, senator, who gave him much inspiration. He paid tribute to his father at yesterday's cermony.
“His generosity and noble spirit always inspired me to follow in his steps. He will always be my hero,” Wagner said at the formal gathering at the Supreme Court.
Wagner, 55, was elevated to the top court from Quebec Court of Appeal. He replaces Justice Marie Deschamps who retired in August.
As well check out the photo gallery of the students from law schools across the country who also participated. It'll be posted tomorrow.
Calgary’s Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP articling students Andrew Kuzma (left) and Brandon Holden (right) did it up right.
The BLG "Mo Bros" show theirs off!
The "Cassels Brock and Stachewell" team featuring (l to r) top: Geoff Breen, Ardy Mohajer, bottom: John McGowan, Lorne Silver, Chris Horkins and Patrick MacDonald.
The dapper team from Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP’s Montreal office.
London, Ont.'s Harrison Pensa lawyers show off their moustachioed selves.
Alex Shalashniy of the Regina firm Kanuka Thuringer LLP’s very bold mo.
Our colleague Tim Wilbur, Lexpert Magazine managing editor, sports one for the team.
The team from Mason Bennett Johncox in Whitby, Ont.
Celebrating their ’staches (l to r) are: Ryan Gelbart, Ben Bloom, David Ullmann, Andrew Zinman, Brad Good, Mark Freake and Edward Asmar of Toronto firm Minden Gross LLP.
A sterling mo effort from the team at Norton Rose Canada’s Toronto office. Photo: V. Summerfield.
The Honourable Justice Jamie W. S. Saunders Award is presented in Halifax annually to a Mo Bro or a Mo Sista or a team for their passion for and commitment to Movember. Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Justice Jamie W.S. Saunders presented this year’s to Rebecca L. Hiltz LeBlanc, a partner at Boyne Clarke LLP, and her husband Mitch Hiltz LeBlanc.
Sporting their ’staches at the Movember wrap up event held at the Halifax Law Courts on Nov. 29 are Nova Scotia Court of Appeal justices Peter M.S. Bryson, Pierre L. Muise, David P.S. Farrar, and Jamie W.S. Saunders, and Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Patrick J. Murray.
The Aird & Berlis LLP in Toronto team took their sexy moustaches up a notch, doing it Gangnam Style.
The very smiley bros from Oslers show off a solid set of mos.
Winnipeg law firm Pitblado’s team: Michael Puchniak, Seth Nerman, and Mark Wallace.
Daniel Strickland of Siskinds LLP in London gets a donation from Western University’s law dean Iain Scott.
Jean-Marc Leclerc of Sotos LLP sports his self-described “creepy” moustache.
The proud members of the Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP: (l to r): Kim Ferreira, Danny Nunes, Mark Donald, Kyle Plunkett, and Bob Thornton.
The MoTorys LLP team display their ’staches.
Ian Binnie was elevated to Companion of the Order of Canada for his enduring contributions to law in Canada. One of the few lawyers appointed directly from the bar to the Supreme Court, he served there with wisdom for 14 years. His public service, also included four years as associate deputy minister of Justice and as a constitutional expert, he has demonstrated an abiding concern for issues affecting Canada’s Aboriginal peoples and was instrumental in developing the country’s jurisprudence in this area. He continues to make important contributions to the law and Canadian society.
John Richard, who served as the chief justice of the Federal Court of Appeal for more than a decade, guiding the institution through a period of reorganization and improving access to justice, was elevated as an Officer of the Order of Canada. His personal commitment to society is also evident in his service with various institutions and charitable organizations, including Carleton University, Reach Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Receiving her Member of the Order of Canada medal, Aaju Peter is an ardent defender of the rights of Canada’s northern Indigenous people. An Inuk clothing designer, lawyer and activist who lives in Iqualuit, she is committed to preserving Inuit culture and language. Travelling internationally, she has raised global awareness of the challenges confronting Canada’s most northern inhabitants. She also speaks about issues related to sustainability and resources, and their impact on the traditional way of life.
Also a new Member, Saskatoon lawyer Henry Kloppenburg’s generosity reflects his passion for his community. He is a collector of Canadian and Native art, much of which he has donated for public display. From scholarships and art donations to the establishment of the Kloppenburg Wildlife Refuge, his contributions have enriched the educational and cultural landscape of his province. He has also provided leadership to many organizations, including the University of Saskatchewan’s Biomedical Ethics Committee, the Kidney Foundation of Canada (Saskatchewan), the Mendel Art Gallery and the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.
Photos: Sgt Ronald Duchesne, Rideau Hall © 2012 Office of the Secretary to the Governor General of Canada
Former Supreme Court of Canada justice Ian Binnie with Governor General David Johnston.
Former chief justice of the Federal Court of Appeal John Richard with Governor General David Johnston.
Nunavut lawyer Aaju Peter after her investiture as a Member of the Order of Canada with Governor General David Johnson.
Saskatoon lawyer Henry Kloppenburg after receiving his Order of Canada medal from Governor General David Johnson.
The Law Society’s governing body today approved a three-year pilot project that will allow lawyer licensing candidates to either article or complete a Law Practice Program, starting in the 2014-15 licensing year.
The pilot project will measure competence through a fair process which provides access to the profession and fosters access to justice, while protecting the public.
The new licensing pilot will be extended for up to an additional two years if there is sufficient evidence to properly evaluate the pilot after three years.
Convocation also approved an appropriate member contribution to help defray costs of the pilot project. The amount of the contribution will be recommended by the Law Society’s Professional Development and Competence Committee to Convocation.
The program reflects the views of the majority of the Articling Task Force and was developed following extensive consultation with the profession and other stakeholders throughout 2012.
“Convocation had a robust discussion and agreed that this is the best path to follow, recognizing the complexity of the issue and that there is no one tried and tested solution,” Law Society Treasurer Thomas G. Conway said.
“This project addresses the reality of the articling placement shortage and that the articling requirement should not be a barrier to licensing to eligible, competent candidates.”
Under the pilot project, candidates may either complete the traditional 10-month articling term, with enhanced documentation, or an approximately four-month long LPP, which will also include an additional four-month co-operative work placement.
The Law Society will outsource the LPP and the establishment of the work placements will be the responsibility of the third-party provider.
The Law Society will oversee the assessments of defined learning outcomes necessary for entry-level practice for all candidates.
The debate over creating this new two-tiered articling system went on for many hours this morning and was watched online by over 1,000 people about 500 people. The Twitterverse was also all over it with a variety of people live tweeting and debating the debate. For a time, the hashtag #articling was the top trending topic in Canada.
No matter what the outcome, interest in the future of articling is great and the profession and law students probably had more input and open discussion about this issue than any before at the LSUC.
However, there was a tremendous amount of displeasure on two from law students who were following the debate on Twitter: no student voices were heard during the debate itself and the outcome. Here’s a sampling of what they had to say:
@sweetcement: What a bad decision LSUC. Thank you for potentially creating a generation of under-qualified, indebted, unpaid lawyers. #articling
University of Ottawa’s @KatarinaGermani: disappointing decision by LSUC on the #articling crisis to move to a two-tier system, disregarding huge issues with access to the profession
@tomreidwilson in Toronto: Saddened by how little attention was paid to student voices in the recent #articling decision.
@JamesDBowie in Ottawa: LL.B’s like me who feel strongly about #articling still have the choice. I want to article, and I plan to.
@ErinDand: Sad that the #articling crisis has been ‘solved’ by a bandaid solution creating a 2tier system. LPP wont help the fact of too many lawyers
Ottawa’s @MichDoody: Well LSUC, we put an important decision in your hands... you just let down a lot of people.
@HopelessJD: my final thought is how screwed my future is by this decision
University of Toronto’s @Ella_Henry: Unpaid co-ops + higher fees is the opposite of helping students graduating w/ 100,000+ in debt
Some lawyers were behind the decision:
@dougferguson9, the director of Community Legal Services at Western Law: Congratulations to the benchers @LawsocietyLSUC for moving forward with change after a thorough debate.
@Joel_Welch: Thanks to the #36 #LUSC #Benchers who voted for changes to the licensing reqs. It gives many candidates a fighting chance.
Many were not:
@dforce66: I think our profession just made a huge mistake, but I guess only time will tell... #articling 36-20
Criminal lawyer @RHDefence: The proper solution to the articling crisis is known to everyone. The idea of a two tier licencing process is a sham
Ottawa’s @GalldinRoberts: #LSUC, hard to show young lawyers there is value to their work when we’re telling them to work for free #articling
@wiselaw: Wrong outcome, but cudos to the LSUC for the open process and live streaming of this important debate
@renattaaustin: LPP is now with us as an alternative to #articling. The ball is now in the law schools’ court to move to the Carnegie Model.
We’ll have more analysis and insight into the debate and its impact on Law Times and Canadian Lawyer 4Students next week.
|The first phase of B.C.’s Justicia Project will focus on national and large regional firms. (Photo: Liv Clark)|
B.C.’s program has two phases: one is directed at national law firms with offices in B.C. that are already participants in Justicia in Ontario and Alberta, as well as large regional firms who may be interested in the project. Phase two will be directed at all other B.C. firms.
Shayne Strukoff, managing partner of Gowlings’ Vancouver office, and Gowlings’ associate Helena Plecko volunteered to drive the initiative on behalf of the LSBC. Other members of the B.C. Justicia working group are Lisa Vogt, chairwoman of McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s national diversity committee, and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP Vancouver managing partner Bill Maclagan.
“We encourage law firms of all sizes to lend their support to this important project,” says Plecko. “We hope it will pave the way for systemic change in the legal profession that will address the realities women in private practice are facing.”
Today, Gowlings is hosting a managing partners summit to introduce the first phase of the project. Participating law firms will commit to achieving goals in four areas:
• tracking gender demographics;
• reviewing/introducing flexible work arrangements and parental leave policies;
• adopting initiatives to foster women’s networking and business development; and
• promoting leadership skills for women.
This latest Justicia project comes on the heels of the first-ever national survey of women’s initiatives in law firms from the U.S.-based NAWL Foundation, the research and charitable arm of the National Association of Women Lawyers. It found that despite a prevalence of women’s initiatives in law firms, many don’t have sufficient funding or articulated goals to make them successful.
The survey shows firms are not devoting enough resources to women’s initiatives, despite the positive effect they can have on law firms’ business. Although 97 per cent of large U.S. firms sponsor a women’s initiative, only 42 per cent report their women’s initiative is part of the firm’s strategic plan. Eighty per cent identify an objective for their women’s initiative, but it is unclear whether objectives are written and linked to specific goals, such as retention or advancement. And while a little more than half of firms sponsor firm-wide meetings of women partners, only 29 per cent of firms consider such events to be effective.
“These statistics confirm what women, particularly in large firms, already know, which is that women are not receiving the kind of support that translates into equity partnerships and true leadership positions,” American Bar Association President Laurel Bellows said in response to the report.
The survey also looked at how women’s initiatives can move to the next phase. Its recommendations included having fewer “soft” programs, such as networking functions, and more programs that target the factors that directly affect advancement in firms. The survey also found that women’s initiatives require more funding: The typical law firm spends far less on its women’s initiatives than on the salary of one first-year associate.
While focused on American firms, the NAWL Foundation report has some good analysis of what firms are and can be doing in order to make their initiatives more valuable and actually work to keep women in private practice. It would be worthwhile for everyone involved in the Justicia projects around the country to read it.
- Combination to go live in June 2013
|The combination with Fulbright & Jaworski completes a big part of the puzzle for Norton Rose, says John Coleman.|
“This has certainly been an import piece of the puzzle,” John Coleman, managing partner of Norton Rose in Canada, told Legal Feeds this morning. “The U.S. is a key market for around the world but particularly for the Canadian market. It completes us on a north-south basis.”
The firm is focusing on growing its operations with “boots on the ground” and not using referrals as a long-term strategy said Coleman. He noted the firm’s focus on six main industries in all of its mergers has meant there are also limited conflicts. “Remarkably this is not a combination rife with many conflicts.”
Since the former Ogilvy Renault announced its merger plans with Norton Rose in November 2010, the question of an American partner has been on everyone’s lips. Coleman noted it had a number of American suitors but Fulbright & Jaworski was the best fit culturally and in terms of strategic business growth.
“They complement and reinforce in Canada and around the world” Norton Rose’s primary industry focuses, says Coleman. “[Fulbright] matches all the things we need and want.”
Coleman particularly points to the U.S. firm’s expertise in energy, which dovetails with the strong energy practice of the former Calgary-based Macleod Dixon, which officially joined Norton Rose in January 2012 at the same time as a marriage with South African firm Deneys Reitz.
“This will consolidate our position as a global energy powerhouse,” said Bill Tuer, a Calgary-based member of Norton Rose Group’s executive committee and former managing partner of Macleod Dixon.
In addition to energy, the firm will be strong in the areas of litigation and dispute resolution; corporate; intellectual property; and banking and finance. Intellectual property, pharmaceuticals and life sciences (including healthcare) will also be key, said Coleman. Tapping into a growing market, the firm will be establishing a global regulatory and investigations practice.
Fulbright’s chairman elect Kenneth L. Stewart commented: “This is a smart combination of two groups whose geographic presence, capabilities and client service cultures are strongly complementary. The combined organization will provide the experience, insight and service our clients need everywhere they do business around the world.”
Coleman said the firm will continue to operate using the verein structure and operating under a global executive committee.
According to The Lawyer, the firms’ combined revenues will come to roughly $1.9B (£1.2B), with Norton Rose turning over $1.32M in 2011-12, according to The Lawyer UK 200 2012, while Fulbright’s 2011 income was roughly $580M.
Martyr will continue as CEO of Norton Rose Fulbright. Stewart will continue as U.S. managing partner of Fulbright and take a senior position on Norton Rose Fulbright’s global executive committee. Canadian Norman Steinberg is the global chairman of the firm.
|The three-way merger puts FMC 'into key markets that interest our clients,' says CEO Chris Pinnington.|
The firms are recommending the deal to their partners on Nov. 13. Subject to the vote, the combination will become effective in the first quarter of 2013.
The new firm will be known as Dentons but will incorporate the legacy firms’ brands for an intermediate period. After that the FMC name will name will disappear. Pinnington says the brand is “impactful and has a long legacy.” He adds the firms share similar firm cultures and values.
With 550 lawyers and legal professionals across six offices in Canada, FMC is already one of the nation’s largest law firms. It will also be the first law firm merger that gives a Canadian firm a substantial presence in the United States.
“This is about the globalizing economy,” says Pinnington. “By expanding our geographic reach, we will be able to work with our clients as they continue to expand their businesses overseas.”
Energy, mining, and infrastructure — all areas Pinnington calls FMC’s “pillars” — are central to the global economy, he says. The move, he adds, “puts us into key markets that interest our clients.”
SNR Denton, a 1,200-lawyer firm, has more than 60 locations worldwide, including in Britain, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific, and Africa. It was formed when American firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP and Britain’s Denton Wilde Sapte LLP merged in 2010.
Salans has more than 750 lawyers who serve clients in 17 countries and specialize in sectors such as the automotive, telecommunications, and financial industries.
The three firms are building a new one together, says Pinnington, who emphasizes that FMC is not “being acquired or taken over.” The amalgamation would follow a structure that doesn’t combine the firms’ finances.
FMC has offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary. Canada’s sixth-largest firm will take three of the 14 seats on the new firm’s global board.
“The combination is the most significant law firm combination not born out of the merger of a UK and US firm and the only combination involving firms with significant operations in Europe, Canada, the UK and the US,” says a statement from the firms.
Strategic planning for the merger began two years ago. A thorough consultation process followed, says Pinnington.
The new firm will be structured as a Swiss Verein with four separate limited liability partnerships and led by a global board and leadership team including:
- Elliott Portnoy, global chief executive officer, currently SNR Denton's global chief executive officer
- Joe Andrew, global chairman, currently SNR Denton's global chair
- Francois Chateau, global vice chairman, currently Salans' global board chairman
- Bill Jenkins, global vice chairman, currently FMC's national partnership board presiding member
- Chris Pinnington, Canada chief executive officer, currently FMC's chief executive officer
- Matthew Jones, U.K., Middle East, and Africa chief executive officer, currently SNR Denton's EMEA chief executive officer
- Dariusz Oleszczuk, Europe chief executive officer, currently Salans' global managing partner
- Peter Wolfson, U.S. chief executive officer, currently SNR Denton's U.S. chief executive officer
- Jana Cohen Barbe, currently SNR Denton's financial institutions and funds sector co-chairwoman
- Michael Barr, currently SNR Denton's U.S. senior partner
- Neil Cuthbert, currently SNR Denton's Middle East senior partner
- Mike Kaplan, currently managing partner of FMC's Toronto office
- Martin Kitchen, currently SNR Denton's U.K. senior partner
- Evan Lazar, currently Salans' global real estate co-chairman
Update: Nov 28, 2012: The partners of Salans, FMC and SNR Denton voted to combine to create Dentons. The new firm will launch in the first quarter of 2013. For more information, visit dentonscombination.com.
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Can you believe it’s already been eleven weeks since we were first introduced to the Grease contestants, some of whom NBC nicknamed Slacker Danny, Bellhop Danny, and Spiritual Sandy. I know, it seems like years to me, too, but tonight’s the night the curtain falls on this most recent reality television tidbit, so let’s get down to business, or should I say, show business.
As usual, tonight’s opening number is exciting and uplifting. The entire cast has rejoined our final four to sing a rousing rendition of We’ll Always Be Together. This is a fast-paced number where the lyrics are the equivalent of tongue twisters, and their dance moves and snappy hand movements are well synchronized. I’d love to know how many rehearsals there were to get everything just right because I can assure you, it doesn’t look easy.
It’s probably a good thing tonight is the finale, because it would appear Host Denise has run out of clothes, and has created a skirt out of tin foil. Perhaps realizing her stint on a weekly television show is about to end, I believe she’s opting for a position on the next season of Project Runway. If they have a challenge, Design a Dress Using Everyday Kitchen Items, she’ll definitely give her competitors a run for their money. In the meantime, she lovingly refers to the judges as the “completely powerless panel,” as they sit on their thrones ready to observe America’s voting results.
Judge David sums up the final two Danny’s as follows: Austin = Tom Cruise, Max = Ben Stiller. He elaborates further by saying that Austin is a fantastic professional performer whereas Max is a quirky comedian with bundles of heart. Hm, I probably agree with him about Austin being comparable to Tom Cruise, as I find Tom pretty smarmy, too. However I’m not quite feeling the Max/Ben Stiller comparison, but rather see Max as more of a Tom Hanks kind of character.
In comparing Ashley and Laura, Judge Jim says Ashley is more like the Sandy at the end of the show, whereas Laura is more like the Sandy as seen during the majority of the show. Judge Kathleen thinks Ashley is lovely and beautiful, and says there’s something rather “goddess” about her. She says Laura is a more down-to-earth type of Sandy. Basically, I think the judges are in agreement that no matter who is chosen as Danny and Sandy, they’ll all be quite happy.
What’s A Finale Without One Last Sappy Walk Down Memory Lane
You seasoned viewers know this is a 10-minute program that needs to be stretched to a full 60 minutes, so what better way to do that than with old footage from the “biggest open casting call in theater history.” There are lots of faces I don’t remember, but there are a few that we’ve come to recognize…jilted lover Matt, Juliana and of course Olivia Newton-John, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rob Marshall. We’re also shown clips of the 14 contestants as they were axed week after week: Matt, Ashley Anderson, Jason, Juliana, Kevin, Kate, Kathleen, Chad, Allie, and Derek. Ah, Derek, I pause the tape and get lost gazing into those gorgeous eyes of his…oh, oops, sorry. *sigh*
The Final Four - Max, Ashley, Austin and Laura
The Fab Four sing You’re The One That I Want with Ashley and Max paired up vs. Austin and Laura. I do love this music, and all four of them have such a great time performing, it’s easy to relax and enjoy their performance. I’m still amazed that there are people in the world who can dance down a flight of stairs while singing without so much as a glance at their feet, and our final four do just that with great skill. I have a tendency to get hung up on trivial details at times, and I wonder if they practice running up and down stairs, and/or if they count the number of stairs in their heads as they sing the lyrics. Am I the only one who appreciates their stair competence?
Judge Kathleen says she’s exceptionally proud of the growth each of them has shown, and says they’re all spectacular. Judge Jim says it’s been a real test of endurance for the competitors, and they’ve all handled it beautifully. Jim tell us that Barry Bostwick (perhaps best known as the bumbling Mayor Winston on Spin City) was the original Danny Zuko, and that he told Jim he never could have survived a grueling audition such as this. Judge David advises whoever is chosen for the roles should stay true to who they are and stay focused.
Buddies? When Did That Happen?
Week after week NBC has gone to great lengths to show the competitors taking swipes at each other behind their backs, but suddenly Billy informs us that Austin and Max are best buds. Austin conveys his sharp intellect by confirming only one will win the part of Danny, but he adds this show has given all of them good exposure for future possibilities. Max agrees saying it hasn’t come down to who will win or lose, but who will win or not win which elicits a huge laugh from Austin and the live audience.
Ashley sums up her experience by saying this has been extremely stressful, but having God in her life and being surrounded by such great people has made it easier. Laura says it’s now out of their control, and they’ve just got to hang on a little longer.
Back For A Final Curtain Call
The performers who have been previously given the heave-ho, return for a rousing version of Hand Jive, and I quickly scan the group for Derek -- ah, there he is. *sigh* As the song ends, the crowd goes wild showering them with applause and cheers. Me? I’m directing all my applause and cheers to you, Derek. *sigh*
It All Comes Down To This
In order to kill more time, Billy introduces another walk down the Ashley Memory Lane. We watch as fresh-as-a-daisy Ashley sings Hopelessly Devoted for her first audition song so many months ago. Judge Kathleen may talk about how much they’ve all grown, but it’s made abundantly clear simply by observing Ashley’s tape because she actually looks at least five years younger - or more specifically - four and a half years younger. Ashley realized early on they liked her look, but she also knew she’d need to impress them with her talent, so she worked hard at Grease Academy and feels she did well. However, when her Boots performance was criticized, she understood the need to “go big.” She tells Denise she’d be honored if America chose her as their Sandy.
Denise asks Ashley’s mom and dad, who are in the audience, why they feel their little girl deserves the role, and Mom says Ashley has been preparing to be a Broadway star all her life. Dad adds it’s been nerve-wracking to watch his little girl during this process, but at the same time it’s been a wonderful experience. Mom’s favorite performance was the duet Ashley shared with Max.
A quick flashback to Laura’s original audition, and she looks about three and three-quarter years younger. She says she was intimidated by the thinner, blonder (blonder? You’re a brunette, Laura) girls competing against her, and was especially nervous after hearing her competitors sing. When Judge David harshly critiqued one particular performance of hers, she says she was a little taken aback, but it also motivated her to do better. She tells us when she sang Jesus Christ, Superstar in front of Andrew Lloyd Webber, she knew she was going to have to stretch herself in order to do it justice. That performance is still a stand-out in my eyes, so I’d say she was more than successful. Judge Jim loves her expressions and the way she moves. Laura wants us to know she’d be honored to be chosen for the role of Sandy, and Denise checks in with Laura’s handsome fiancÚ in the audience. He mentions that he and Laura were supposed to be married yesterday, and when he’s asked how he feels about having to postpone the wedding, I’m not surprised to learn he’s mainly concerned about missing out on their honeymoon, heheh. He does add that they’ve postponed their wedding until May 11th, and I hope if she wins, NBC will kick in for some Egyptian sheets or something. Sadly for Laura’s mom, time’s up, and she doesn’t get an opportunity to voice her thoughts about her little girl.
And the Sandy Is…
Laura and Ashley are brought center stage for the big moment, and Billy gets the honors to announce that America has chosen Laura for the coveted role of Sandy on Broadway. Denise walks over to Ashley and asks the audience to give her a round of applause for all her efforts. She’s a gracious ‘loser,’ and is escorted over to her mom for some conciliatory hugs. Meanwhile, in Times Square, New York, the following banner is featured: “Grease, starring Laura Osnes as Sandy.” Between a mix of tears and laughter, Laura thanks everyone and says her dream has come true.
Who Is God Rooting for…Austin or Max?
As we watch the footage of Austin’s first audition, he lets us know he would have been embarrassed if he had been sent home early because of his many years of training. He says the days of Grease Academy were some of the most exhausting days he’s experienced during his entire career, and he never doubted his abilities, but was nervous about Link from Hairspray being sent home early. Even though the judges saw him as a front-runner, he says they gave him some tough assignments, and that he nearly passed out when he was presented the song Ease On Down the Road. He’s very proud of that performance, but he laughs as he acknowledges his version of Fun, Fun, Fun was terrible. I’ve given him a hard time, mainly because I can’t picture him in this role, but he is very talented, and there’s no doubt we’ll be seeing him again sometime in the near future, be it on Nickelodeon or as a member of The Wiggles. Judge Kathleen thinks he’s very manly and has leader-of-the-pack qualities, and Austin thinks winning this competition would be a great way to fulfill his decades of hard work. Austin’s mother and grandmother are here to cheer him on, and grandma says that God gave him the talent and he’s been pursuing this as his career ever since. Mom only has a few seconds to say she’s proud of her boy.
He says being the underdog of the competition has given him the opportunity to prove himself to the audience and judges. He’s always had a fire in his belly, and he’s grateful people have kept his shaggy head on the show. We discover at one point it was between Max and Matt, with Jim adamant about not liking either one. Max admits he resisted changing his hair in the beginning because he was lazy (not a smart admission on national television, I would think), and also because he wanted to make the statement that he should be accepted for who he is, but eventually he realized it was time, and he doesn’t regret it. As the others before him have said, he’s always dreamed of being on Broadway, and he’s ready. Denise hands a microphone to Max’s parents, and his mom is obviously the spokesperson for this group, and says it’s been a wild ride, but God has favored their family. Max’s charming six-year-old brother, Jack, shouts, “Slacker Backer Forever!” and everyone laughs. Denise tells us for weeks she’s been asking him a question, and she’s going to give it one more try -- will he marry her? Without hesitation Little Jack says no, as he grins ear to ear. Billy says it’s a good thing Max isn’t competing against his brother, and for once I agree with him.
And The Danny Is…
Austin and Max take their places center stage and Billy begins to make the announcement, then pulls a Ryan Seacrest and cuts to a commercial. After the break he wastes no time announcing that America has chosen Max. Austin and Max exchange a genuinely warm hug, as the audience erupts in applause. Jim and Kathleen are thrilled, but I notice David clearly says, “wow,” which can be interpreted in a myriad of ways. Does he mean wow as in “wow, the underdog won!” Or is it wow as in “Oh, hell, I’ll never sell tickets with him as Danny.” Laura is shown backstage grinning wildly as the announcement is made, so at least she is pleased. Austin runs off into the arms of his mom, and they both leave the stage.
Like I said earlier, I’ve given Austin a hard time, but he takes the loss like a man, and hopefully he’ll have many fine offers coming his way as a result of this exposure. When Max sees his name in lights over Times Square, it looks like his knees weaken, and he fights back tears of joy. Jim says he’s so happy with America’s choice that he feels like calling TicketMaster right now.
One More For The Road
As soon as Max is announced the winner, he runs offstage, and it’s no wonder because the final six guys and Max are immediately back onstage performing Greased Lightnin,’ and I’m thrilled to see Derek is right up front. *sigh* Those of you familiar with the song know it’s not exactly pg-13, so there is a slight modification of the lyrics, which reminds me of The Rolling Stones and The Doors being censored on The Ed Sullivan Show. Actually I should clarify -- the Stones changed their lyrics (with Mick rolling his eyes as he uttered the changed word), but The Doors had a last minute change of heart, and sang the song as written, infuriating Ed Sullivan. He banned them from performing on his show in the future, which must have crushed them. Only not. But I digress...
Laura gets her shining moment during the song, Hopelessly Devoted to You, then is joined onstage by her fellow Sandy wannabes and Max and the guys. The group sings Summer Nights, and it’s a joy to watch them all together. Suddenly a whole new group of singers come onstage, and Little Billy announces they’re the Broadway cast that Max and Laura will be joining. The song seamlessly flows into You’re The One That I Want with Max and Laura prominently featured. Confetti cascades down as Little Billy and Denise present large floral bouquets to Max and Laura, and there you have it kids. So, are any of you planning to see the Broadway play? I’m a huge live theater buff, and would definitely go at some point if I weren’t 3,000 miles away. But since it’s not likely that I’m moving any time soon, if any of you do get to see the play, you’re under strict orders to report back here. Got it? | <urn:uuid:7c19c106-7807-4d2a-a68d-340706656c73> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fansofrealitytv.com/forums/grease-youre-one-i-want/62410-grease-03-25-07-finale-recap-reign-over-broadway.html | 2013-05-22T03:24:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701233842/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104713-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975198 | 3,331 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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It’s noon on a weekday, and the cafeteria is loud and lively. Silverware clatters against plates filled with fried tilapia, peas, cornbread, and coleslaw. Large chocolate cupcakes donated by Central Market wait at the end of the line. Some people here look healthy while others are terribly thin and pale, missing teeth and missing hair. They are all races and ages. But here at Fort Worth’s Samaritan House, everyone has at least one thing in common: They are all HIV-positive.
“You can’t joke about having AIDS in public,” said Sterlyng. (Like all the Samaritan House residents interviewed for this story, he asked that only his first name be used.) “But here, we are able to laugh about it, and say, if we did it right we wouldn’t be here. People here are gay, straight, or kids born into HIV/AIDS. We all have that sense of spirit: We have the disease … and are coping with it.”
Ten years ago Sterlyng’s home was among Fort Worth’s well-heeled movers and shakers. He was a young socialite, throwing HIV fundraisers, donating to arts organizations, and campaigning in local politics. His elocution still rings of that world.
But last year, he landed in another world. His recreational drug use turned into addiction when he ended a relationship with an unfaithful partner of 10 years. He wound up broke, homeless, trying to survive on the streets, and sick with full-blown AIDS.
This August marked a milestone, his entry into a third world, you might say— he celebrated one year of sobriety. Life on the streets and his search for himself had led him to Union Gospel Mission and to God. From there, he found his way to Samaritan House, which he said is providing him the other tools he needs to start over.
Ironically, Samaritan House is the kind of place he used to support just a couple of years ago. “I’ve lived on both sides of this world,” he said.
Samaritan House provides a long list of services to HIV-positive folks and their families, including one that makes it unique among Fort Worth agencies: It gives HIV sufferers and their families a home.
Only 12 other nonprofits in the country provide HIV/AIDS clients with long-term shelter along with other services. It’s that total package of care that enables Samaritan House residents not only to survive much longer but to thrive.
“We call it ‘rescue, nurture, launch,’ ” said Steve Dutton, president and chief executive officer. “Rescue” refers to basic services such as food and housing, while “nurture” means counseling and medical case management that enables residents to understand and overcome problems like drug addiction. The final step in the process – the “launch” – provides life skills and job training that helps residents move out and lead independent, productive lives.
Not everyone who comes through the doors at Samaritan House ultimately succeeds, but the success rate is well over 50 percent. During its 20 years of operation, more than 2,000 people have been helped. And three-quarters of those people are still alive today, with many transitioning back into the workforce or returning to school.
The nonprofit’s first building was located on the north side of Fort Worth. For the past 10 years, Samaritan House’s main facility, offering housing and HIV-related care and services to about 100 people each year, has been at Hemphill and Rosedale streets. Additional facilities provide housing to another 300.
After an expansion project was scuttled last year due to neighborhood opposition, Samaritan House leaders partnered with another nonprofit agency in January. The move more than doubled Samaritan House’s capacity by adding two more apartment complexes to the program.
Success hasn’t made Samaritan House’s job any easier, however. Housing is an expensive service. Funding cutbacks, and growth in the HIV-positive population are increasing the pressures on the nonprofit to find more private funding. That’s a challenge, Dutton said, because of the bad economy and the fact that many people think that the HIV/AIDS crisis has faded due to the development of drugs to treat the disease.
Samaritan House is very good at diversifying its funding sources, said Jamie Schield, planning coordinator for the North Central Texas HIV Planning Council. He said the nonprofit has been a good model for other organizations in how it generates financial support for its programs and services.
For Sterlyng, six months at Samaritan House has allowed him to get his disease under control, build his confidence, and begin imagining a new future.
“It’s wonderful to think about the future when you realize you still have one,” he said. “The possibility of every day is endless.”
The three-story red brick apartment buildings along Hemphill could almost pass for a West 7th Street housing development. With enviable patios and green manicured grounds, the six-year-old buildings look fresh and relatively new. But the Villages at Samaritan House were designed with a specific set of residents in mind: people infected with HIV/AIDS, families affected by the disease (such as children, spouses, and partners) and people with other special needs, either medical or mental. The 66 apartments here provide one-, two-, or three-bedroom homes to singles, couples, and families. Right now, about 50 percent of its residents are HIV-positive. Dutton said the Villages were created to enable families to live together in a stable, affordable environment.
The city’s need for this type of housing is great. Three months after completion, the Villages at Samaritan House were already filled to capacity, and at any given time about five families are waiting to move in. But that’s not surprising, considering the apartments are nice and affordable, two adjectives that don’t always go together.
Located just across the street is the main Samaritan House facility. It’s a former nursing home that was converted to a 60 single-occupancy rooms building. Unlike the Villages, it houses only people infected with HIV/AIDS and only accepts residents who are homeless. Multi-colored, laminate floor tiles lead from the entryway door to a small receptionist desk. From there, long hallways split off like spider legs.
People are everywhere, coming and going. It’s a little crazy, loud, and unpredictable. But there is a sense of happiness and security for many residents, the result of knowing that they have a place to stay, something to eat, and someone to care for them. Near the front door, residents lounge around a television set playing an old horror movie. The sound of a screaming damsel in distress is momentarily drowned out by an announcement over the loudspeaker.
At the single-room facility, residents receive 24-hour care and services. The accommodations resemble college dorm rooms, and residents can stay as long as they like (the average residency is 18 months to two years).
Income is a qualifying factor at both facilities. At the main building, rents are on a sliding scale, based on residents’ income, with a minimum of $50 a month and an average of $200. The Fort Worth Housing Authority underwrites the rents in that facility only.
Expansion has always been a challenge, even when the nonprofit had the money to buy property. Last year, the nonprofit tried to buy and renovate an old motel in the Como community on Fort Worth’s West Side. But the community resisted. The idea was met with “a lot of fear,” said Dutton, so, the plan was scratched.
In January, Samaritan House found a different way to expand. When another nonprofit learned of the problems in Como, it offered to help. The two agencies worked out a partnership that allows Samaritan House to manage two additional apartment complexes on Fort Worth’s Near South Side. The additional 184 apartments doubled Samaritan’s capacity, to about 800 people.
The new units filled quickly, and there are still a couple of dozen people on a waiting list to get into a Samaritan House facility. With recent federal budget cuts, that list is expected to grow.
The Ryan White Treatment Extension Act provides HIV-related services to people without adequate healthcare coverage or income. Fort Worth’s funding under that law was cut by about 5 percent last year. According to the HIV Planning Council, the region as a whole received 12 percent less in overall funding than last year, and more cuts are expected in the future. Samaritan House’s total budget for 2011 was $1.7 million; next year it’s projected to be $1.8 million.
Those cuts won’t jeopardize Samaritan’s programs, at least not this year. But they did help shut the doors on another agency. AIDS Resources of Rural Texas, which served residents in 26 counties from offices in Weatherford and Abilene, closed in September, leaving its 350 clients looking for new sources of care and support.
AIDS is no longer a death sentence. That’s good news, but ironically, it’s also increasing the workload for groups like Samaritan House. New advances in HIV/AIDS medication can allow people to live a normal lifespan, if taken properly and consistently. Those people need long-term, specialized healthcare, which doesn’t come cheap.
At the same time, HIV/AIDS infection rates nationally are holding steady at around 50,000 new cases each year. In Texas, there are 4,500 new HIV diagnoses each year, which makes it the 4th highest state per capita for total HIV/AIDS diagnoses, behind New York, California, and Florida.
A small room inside the Samaritan House has been turned into a chapel, one wall bearing plaques with the names of former residents who died of AIDS. Joe and Julia sit beside each other on one of the couches. They have been living at the Samaritan House for more than five years. Julia, 57, is a petite woman with fair skin and a grandmotherly sweetness (and a grandmother she is). Joe, her partner of 19 years, is 48, tall and solid-looking, with intense blue eyes, a booming voice, bald head and thick blond mustache. Both are self-described drug addicts who have survived — just barely — since they were diagnosed with the disease in 2003.
“We were sick and tired of being sick and tired,” said Joe. “We made a decision that we weren’t going to use anymore. That’s what made going to Samaritan House so appealing — it gave us a chance to relearn how to live.”
When the couple arrived at Samaritan House in 2006, they were shadows of their former selves – Julia down to just 64 pounds and the now 240-pound, 6-foot-tall Joe weighed in at 190. They had come to Texas from California in 2001 to get away from drugs, but found that they couldn’t outrun their addictions. In Harlingen they hit rock bottom.
“We were doing so much dope that we prayed on our knees to get busted and go to jail,” said Joe.
And they did — “glory to God,” Julia said. That saved them for a while. After spending 30 days in prison for possession of stolen property (a tow chain they were trying to sell to get high), they moved to Brownsville and found a place to stay at a church.
After seven months they moved out, “and it wasn’t a couple of weeks until we were using again,” said Joe.
Everything went to feed their addiction. Their TV and the rest of their modest possessions were sold to buy drugs. When it was all gone, Julia began panhandling. It was Valley AIDS Council, a nonprofit serving HIV/AIDS residents in south Texas, that suggested they go get help at Dallas’ Homeward Bound.
After 100 days in rehabilitation at Homeward Bound, a substance abuse and mental health treatment agency, the couple came to Samaritan House.
Drug counseling is one of the many services that Samaritan House provides. There’s a zero-tolerance drug policy at the house, and AA and NA Narcotics Anonymous meetings are held every week to support and reinforce residents’ resolve to stay clean. But ultimately, it’s up to them.
Joe remembers what it was like when they arrived: “The first thing we did was spend every minute of everyday in recovery. Samaritan House supports you … they have a very good LCDC [licensed chemical dependency counselor]. We needed to learn to live our life without drugs — we didn’t know how to do it.”
During the interview for placement into the program, a counselor asked Julia what she wanted from Samaritan House. “I want to live,” she told him.
Living with AIDS is hard, even when you have medical support. In 2007, Julia was so sick with a lung infection that she wasn’t expected to live. Her lungs had almost shut down, and she stayed in a coma for 33 days.
“Samaritan House supported me 100 percent,” Joe said. He read her the Bible every day. “And the first thing she said to me when she woke up was, ‘I want a cigarette.’ ”
Each resident at Samaritan House has a medical case manager who coordinates with residents and their doctors. Those case managers also supervise residents’ medications, which in Julia’s case, is 13 different prescriptions that she takes each day. The goal is to enable residents to manage their own medications, explained Dutton. But many remain dependent upon case managers.
Samaritan House knows what it takes for residents to achieve independence and to live a life with their disease. Dutton said the residents who begin to take active roles in their own healthcare and well-being are usually the ones who do well. Those are the people most likely to take advantage of the nonprofit’s programs for relaunching residents into the wider world.
But moving back into the workforce can be hard for somebody infected with HIV/AIDS, even with the support of a strong organization.
“If you’ve got 20 people applying for the same job, are you going to consider hiring somebody living at the Samaritan House?” Dutton asked. He said that residents who can find jobs usually turn out to be excellent employees, working hard and showing up on time. But then they get sick. Maybe it’s just a cold or sore throat, but they have to be out of work for an unusually long time. “Rumors start,” said Dutton. “And when they go back to work, it’s not the same.” When that happens, the AIDS sufferers may end up leaving voluntarily or getting fired, Dutton said.
“Nobody is supposed to discriminate but everybody does,” Dutton said. When employers do hire people with HIV/AIDS, he said, they don’t want other employees to know about it.
To give Samaritan House residents an edge in re-entering the workforce, the nonprofit teamed up with a local restaurant and also started its own community garden. Z’s Café is a restaurant and catering service located in the Fort Worth Community Arts Center; working there gives residents a gentler transition back into the work force.
At Harvest of Hope community garden, residents grow food that they can keep for their own use, donate to Samaritan House, or sell to Z’s Café. “Our residents can adopt a plot and raise anything that’s legal — corn, lettuce, tomatoes. And they’re responsible for it,” said Dutton.
“Going back to work is a big step,” he said. That’s especially true for somebody who’s been seriously ill or recently homeless. Z’s Café gives residents something to put on their resumes so when they’re ready to start pounding the pavement they’ve got work history and confidence.
Today, Sterlyng is working two jobs and saving up as much money as he can. In April, he plans to move out of Samaritan House and move on with his life.
He wants to go back to working at high-end restaurants and bars as a waiter. “The night life,” he said, “I love the night life.” Sterlyng has always worked in the hospitality industry, but Dutton advises him and other residents to take it slow when they move out of Samaritan.
“Once they [residents] get their health back they get excited about life,” Dutton said, but they also need to be careful.
Sterlyng would also like to take film classes at Tarrant County College (he has an idea for a documentary that he’d like to produce). He still goes to counseling almost every day to learn more about himself and how to move past his last relationship.
Even though he’s doing great now, he worries about the future, including how to handle dating someone who isn’t HIV-positive. At 40, he doesn’t want to waste any more years living for someone else.
“Life is short,” Sterlyng said. “And when you have a chronic illness it’s even shorter.”
Tarrant County’s public hospital, the John Peter Smith health system, now tests all emergency room patients for the HIV virus. The reason for the policy: the county’s infection rate is going up.
Mike Parker, manager of Healing Wings Clinic, which specializes in caring for HIV/AIDS patients, said his clinic is seeing 50 percent more patients than it did three years ago. In the last few years, he said, he’s seen the infection rates among high-risk groups (such as gay men and drug users) go up from 1 or 2 percent of those tested to 2 or 3 percent.
Why the increases? Schield, the HIV council planner, said Tarrant County has a lower cost of housing and a lower cost of healthcare than many similarly sized cities, so people may be actually moving here for treatment and then staying on. Secondly, attitudes toward the disease have changed.
“In the gay community, a lot of young gay men will test positive and feel relieved — they thought they were going to catch it and now they have,” Parker said. He and Schield agree that many people, especially young gay men, are less terrified of the disease because they see it as less of a killer than it once was.
People think, “You just have to take a pill,” Parker said. “In general, there’s a complacency about it … not a fear like there used to be.”
The face of AIDS is also changing in other ways. In Tarrant County, black men, statistically, are being hit harder by AIDS and HIV than any other group — a development that’s not being seen in most other parts of the country. Black males make up 10 percent of the population but around 35 percent of the reported HIV and AIDS cases, a much higher percentage than in the past.
“It’s becoming an epidemic in the black community,” said Schield.
To cope with these changing demographics, Samaritan House is reaching out to educate the black community about the risks they face. And the nonprofit is encouraging young black leaders to get involved in the work that the Samaritan House is doing.
That education includes dispelling myths about how the virus is transmitted. Dutton said most people still think of it as a disease limited to gay men, one that can be transmitted by kissing, sneezing, or casual skin-to-skin contact. In reality, he said, it is passed by blood, sexual fluids, and breast milk, and anyone can get it — including, for instance, women who contract it from husbands or boyfriends who have gotten it from sharing needles in drug use or from other sex partners.
He also said young people are still not getting much information about AIDS. A Texas Christian University official said students there don’t seem very concerned about sexual health issues of any kind, and the college does little education on HIV/AIDS. And yet, at least one Samaritan House resident is a local college student.
Joe and Julia both say it’s taken them years to learn how to deal with their disease. Even today, when they wake up in the morning feeling bad, they don’t really know if it’s just a cold or something really serious. That aspect of their lives will never change.
Julia isn’t ready to even think about moving out of Samaritan House, which would mean facing the “black cloud of drugs” again by herself. “If I were to fall again … this time I would die,” she said. “Using drugs didn’t just go away. It’s in the back of my mind every day.”
Joe worries about the future of the nonprofit, afraid it will run short of resources to support people like him.
He readily credits Samaritan House with saving his life, providing help that he couldn’t have gotten from any other group in Fort Worth.
“It gives you back your life, and it gives you a home,” Joe said. “None of the others can do that. This place does both.”
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MCI works closely with UM scholars and experts in various fields, including Public Policy, Management, Education, Public Health, Engineering, Urban Planning, and English-Language Training. The University of Maryland colleges of Law, Medicine, and Social Work, located in Baltimore, also provide program support.
Located within the capital beltway, MCI enjoys close connections with federal government. The Departments of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, and Labor regularly contribute to MCI programs.
State and local institutions also play a major role in the success of MCI programs. The Maryland Secretary of State, Maryland Higher Education Commission, Maryland China Business Council, Prince George's and Montgomery Counties, the City of College Park and many other institutions often host MCI groups. | <urn:uuid:40c74421-2f5d-4799-bed1-8ce3bc34ce88> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.international.umd.edu/igca/5791 | 2013-05-22T03:11:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701233842/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104713-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946706 | 154 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
After years of struggling with your old, sluggish Windows PC, you’ve finally unwrapped a shiny new computer. Here’s how to get started tweaking your settings, installing programs, and beefing up security to keep it running like a dream.
Title image remixed from an original by Air0ne (Shutterstock).
Before you do anything, there are a few things you’ll want to set up first:
- Install Microsoft Security Essentials—Let’s not sugarcoat it: Because of its popularity, Windows is one of the more vulnerable operating systems, so before you do anything, you’ll want to put a few security measures in place. Microsoft Security Essentials is still the best darn antivirus we’ve used; it’s free, and it’s just as effective as anything you’d pay for. Head over to Microsoft’s site, download the suite, and set it to auto-scan and auto-update so you can stop fussing with it and get on to the fun stuff.
- Offload Your Computer’s Bloat—Unless you built your computer yourself, it’s likely the manufacturer’s stuck some unsightly, unnecessary, bloated crapware on your computer that will do nothing but slow your computer down from the start. To get rid of it, download previously mentioned Revo Uninstaller and uninstall the software that shipped with your machine.
- Change Up Your Theme—Okay, so it’s not entirely necessary to do this before anything else, but why stare at that bland Windows wallpaper when you could be watching a slideshow of different Ferraris as you set up the rest of your computer? Microsoft’s got some great themes over at its site, and there are quite a few others floating around the net as well. Grab some of our favorite wallpapers from our Wallpaper Wednesday series, and if you want to take it even further, check out our guide to fully customizing your desktop and setting up an attractive, customized desktop HUD with Rainmeter. Once you’ve got your desktop looking awesome, it’s time to get to know Windows 7.
Install Some Killer Programs
Now that you’re computer’s secure, speedy, and looking awesome, it’s time to install some great software. Here are a few places you can find our favorite Windows programs.
- Lifehacker Pack for Windows: Our List of the Best Free Windows Downloads—Looking for the best programs to keep you connected, get you organized, and amp up your productivity? Our annual Lifehacker Pack has a one-package installer for all our favorite Windows software.
- Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software—Before you go downloading Adobe Reader, iTunes, and the other “default” programs that everyone uses, check out our list of alternatives to crappy Windows software. You might be surprised at what other options are out there.
- Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2011—Apart from our list of essential programs, there are also some really neat pieces of software we’ve featured over the past year. If you want to know the cool programs everyone’s talking about, our 2011 list of the most popular free Windows downloads and tweaks is the place to look.
- 50 Free Apps We’re Most Thankful For—This Thanksgiving, you guys voted on the best free apps around. They’re not all Windows downloads (though many are cross-platform), and it’s a list to be reckoned with—so if you’ve still got a few holes after checking out the Pack and most popular, you’re sure to find what you’re looking for here.
Adjust Settings and Tweak Your System
While we’ve already done a handy list of the top 10 things to do with a new Windows 7 system, here are some of the other things you might want to check out to customize your new PC.
- Get to Know Windows 7′s Built-In Features Inside and Out—We’re pretty big fans of Microsoft’s newest OS here at Lifehacker, and we’ve spared no expense at digging into every corner of Windows 7. Check out our complete guide to Windows 7 to get the lowdown, and make sure to master Windows 7′s shortcuts and explore its underhyped features as well. We’ve also looked deeply into Windows 7′s jumplist, library, and taskbar, and system restore features, to if you want to be a true Windows ninja, you’ll want to read up on those too.
- Set Up an Automated, Bulletproof File Back Up Solution—If you didn’t have a backup before, there’s no better time than now to get one set up. Never lose your documents, photos, music, and other files again. Set it up now, and forget it.
- Five Best Windows Tweaking Applications—If you just want to jump right in and start tweaking the heck out of your system, we’ve rounded up some of the best programs to help you do just that.
- De-Crapify Your Printer or Scanner Setup—If you’ve already installed your printer, chances are it’s usurped your machine by installing loads of crapware and bloated apps. Check out our how-to for cleaning it up and freeing those resources.
- Speed Up Your Computer’s Boot Time—Even if you have a brand new machine, it may not be optimized for the fastest boot time. These are some of our favorite tips for speeding it up so you can get up and running in seconds.
- How to Run Windows, Mac, and Linux Side by Side and Pain-Free with VirtualBox—If you ever need to use software from other OSes (or just want to test other applications), you can run Windows, OS X, and Linux side by side without ever rebooting your computer. Of course, you could also dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in perfect harmony.
- How to Break into a Windows PC (And Prevent it from Happening to You)—It’s unlikely you’ll want to break into your shiny new Windows PC, but while you’re tweaking your system, you may want to read up on how potential thieves will try to break in—and tweak your passwords accordingly.
- Tweak the Heck Out of Your Registry—The Windows Registry is one of the most mysterious, yet coolest features of Windows. With a bit of knowledge and some guts, you can tweak your computer to do nearly anything you want. Our Top 10 list has all the Windows Registry tweaks you could ever want.
- The Cleverest Geeky Windows Tricks Everyone Should Know—After you’ve become an expert on Windows’ well-known features, delve into our guide about some of the best hidden Windows tricks to make getting around the OS much faster.
- Windows Maintenance Tips: The Good, Bad, and Useless—Now that you’ve got your system up and running, the last step is to make sure you keep it up and running (and running fast). We rounded up all the most popular Windows maintenance tips and showed you which ones really help (and hurt) your machine. For more Windows maintenance tips, you can check out our Ask Lifehacker on the subject, too.
- Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 8 Side By Side—We got our first peek at Microsoft’s upcoming version of Windows this year, and it looks awesome—not to mention fast. We later took an in-depth look at the OS, from the Metro UI (which isn’t great without touch, but it doesn’t matter) to the desktop to the new Windows Explorer and the improved task manager. If you really want to dig deep, check out its lesser-known features while you’re at it. It isn’t quite ready to be your primary operating system, but if you’re curious, it’s worth checking out. If you don’t want to dual boot, you can always install it in a virtual machine, too.
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There’s something about owning a home that makes me think I know how to coupon. Amirite?
You might remember this list of things I don’t do includes COUPONING. But, I have zero defenses against this draw now that I have a house and a place to stock pile a few things. Maybe it’s something about not having to move again in less than a year? Our last rental was a dream – the homeowners were amazing, the house perfect. Just … I knew it wasn’t gonna last. It wasn’t ours. So many things yanked around in my head and heart because of this.
So I’ve asked my mom to start saving me the coupons out of the Sunday Paper again. I’m going to work on Walgreen’s deals first to get the hang of things. I’d like to be able to get our toiletries and paper products for close to free. That’s my couponing goal – aside from that (and shopping sales for groceries) I’m not gonna get Extreme Couponer’s on my family.
Shelves of canned goods and cereal in my bedroom? NoThankYou.
But also? Confession? I am beyond obsessed with Pinterest. We all are, really. But I’m obsessed with DOING things off of Pinterest.
For instance … I tried this tub cleaner and yes, it’s true. A little bit of magic. Heat the vinegar, I think that’s the trick.
After seeing this floor treatment I promptly tore a wall out of our basement by myself (with help from my brother’s via phone and text) and then bought some vinyl 12X12 stick down tiles and laid me a new floor.
Remember the giant JENGA set we made? Me, too. It’s so fun. All because of Pinterest.
After seeing this pin for a face mask I gave it a whirl.
I used this pin’s information for a free RedBox rental. I’ll never pay for a movie rental again, happily!
Tried this out on my hair with little success. I have to figure out how to dirty up my hair to hold curl. Working on it.
After seeing this trash can turned bedside table I finally knew what to do with the black mesh trash can hanging out in the basement doing nothing. Voila!
I love having little projects going on and having access to all these ideas is priceless.
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The Mutual Fund industry started with the setting up of Unit Trust of India. The money market mutual fund segment has a total corpus of $1.48 trillion in the USA against a corpus of $100 million in India. The entry of private sector and foreign institutions in 1993 provided a boost to the Indian mutual fund industry in the form of different schemes launched. The Government of India took the initiative of developing mutual fund industry by offering various tax soaps in the budget and enabling it to play an important role in mobilization of savings and in the development of the financial market.
Till 1960s, the Indian mutual fund industry was not in existence. In 1963, the Government of India took the initiative by passing the UTI Act, under which the Unit Trust of India was set-up as a statutory body. The designated role of UTI was to act as a mutual fund. This was expanded in 1985 to make UTI a financial institution as well. UTI’s first scheme called the US-64 which was an open-end scheme was launched in 1964. It subsequently launched a number of schemes to suit the differing needs of the investors. Till 1987, UTI was the only mutual fund in the market since no one else was legally allowed to set-up mutual funds. In 1987, the public sector institutions like banks, financial institutions and insurance companies started establishing mutual funds, following the government’s decision to allow them to do so. State Bank of India became the second one to launch a mutual fund when it launched the SBI mutual fund in November, 1987. It was followed by Canara Bank Mutual Fund, LlC Mutual Fund, etc. In this regulated area, UTI was acting more as a vehicle for the implementation of the economic policies and the development activities of the Government than as an investment vehicle for the investors.
Finally in 1992, the Government allowed private sector players to set up mutual funds. Subsequent to this, a number of private sector mutual funds came up. As the number of mutual funds increased giving a choice to the investors, the competition in the industry has also increased, thus jolting the hitherto complacent public sector mutual funds into action. As a result, the investors not only had a wider choice regarding the kind of schemes and the sponsor of the mutual fund they started getting better service even from the old players. These private sector funds provided an added advantage to the investor. These were generally set-up in partnership with foreign mutual funds, with the latter providing the technology and the experience in managing funds. The investors could derive the consequent benefits by investing in these funds.
In India, both close-ended and open-ended investment companies are called mutual funds. Except the Unit Trust of India all mutual funds in India are organized and set-up under the Indian Trust Act as Trusts. Their role is to accept savings from the investors and invest the same as per the objectives incorporated in the next trust deed to manage diversified portfolio for the investors.
Role of Mutual Funds in Indian Financial Markets
Mutual funds play a significant role in the development of the financial market and this has been proved in the developed countries like United States, United Kingdom and Japan. India is at its first stage of a revolution that has already peaked in United States. In United States, the asset base of mutual funds is much higher than its bank deposits. In India, mutual funds assets are not even 10% of the bank deposits, but this trend is only at the beginning.
The mutual funds in India have emerged as strong financial intermediaries and are playing a very important role in bringing stability to the financial system and efficiency to resource allocation. Mutual funds help corporates in raising funds for their financial needs and provide an avenue of investment to investors by parking their savings. This leads to the overall growth of the economy. The major chunk of the household savings in India, which earlier went to bank deposit are now being taken by mutual funds. The active involvement of mutual funds in promoting economic development can be seen not only in terms of their participation in the savings market but also in their dominant presence in the money and the capital market.
A developed financial market is critical to build overall economic development and mutual funds play an active role in promoting an active healthy market. Mutual funds increase liquidity in the money market. The asset holding pattern of mutual fund in India indicates the dominant role of the mutual funds in the money and capital markets. The private corporate sector in India is a deficit sector and the gap between demand and supply of financial resources is met by funds raised through loans, advances and issuance of securities. However, the buoyancy in the capital market has increased the reliance of the corporate sector has more than doubled. The changing pattern of corporate financing indicates that the banking sector is loosing its prominence vis-a-vis the other financial sector. Direct financing by mutual funds to the corporate sector has substantially increased after SEBI guidelines allowed’ the corporate sector to reserve 20% of the public issues for Indian mutual funds.
Mutual funds have also widened the private placement market for corporate securities. Mutual funds have enabled the corporate sector to raise capital at reduced costs and have opened an avenue for alternate source of capital. Mutual funds in India have merged as a critical institutional linkage among various financial segments like savings, capital market and the corporate sector. As various tax incentives and benefits on mutual fund investment are offered by the Government, their role in the mobilization of savings and the development of the economy will assume more significance. They provide much needed impetus to the money market and the stock markets, in addition to direct and indirect support to the corporate sector.” Above all mutual funds have given a new direction to the flow of personal savings and semi-urban areas to reap benefits of stock market investments. Indian mutual funds are thus playing a very crucial development role in allocating resources in the emerging market economy.
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executive career services (ecs)
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boyd holk, ccm, ecs chairman
tel (617) 266-5600 fax (617) 266-5554
KIRKBRAE COUNTRY CLUB, LINCOLN, RI (POSTED 09/06/2006) GENERAL MANAGER/COO
Kirkbrae Country Club is a year round, private club with 546 memberships. The club is a family oriented, full service facility that features an 18-hole Championship golf course, 4 tennis courts, a recently renovated Olympic-sized swimming pool complex, full locker room services and amenities and a state of the art health facility. In addition, Kirkbrae has a 240 seat member dining room (that includes formal and informal dining areas) and a 480 seat banquet facility. Annual gross revenue exceeds $6.5 million ($2.0 MM in banquet sales, $1MM in member dining).
Qualified candidates should have a four-year business or hospitality degree and a minimum of 5 years experience managing a club of similar size and type. The GM/COO is the administrative head of the Club, and is directly responsible for the financial and operating results of the Club. He/she is responsible for the day to day operation of all club venues, but is not responsible for golf course maintenance or pro shop operations. Core duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Maintenance of all Standard Operating Procedures
- Responsible for Standards of F & B, Service and Quality
- Club Marketing and Advertising
- Membership Service Programs
- Budgets & Capital Expenses Proposals
- Hiring and Supervision of Management Staff
- Full Charge of the Financial Condition of the Club
- Community Relations
- Strategic Planning
- Safeguarding the Club’s Assets
- Oversee all Facility Maintenance
- Cooperation with Club Officers and Board of Governors
Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications, plus incentives. Employee benefits include medical insurance (health and dental), 401 K, group life insurance, and CMAA local and national dues (including attendance at National Conference).
Contact: To apply send a letter of interest, resumes and references to:
Kirkbrae Country Club
197 Old River Road
Lincoln, RI 02865
Questions regarding this job listing?
Please email NECMA Executive Career Services Chairperson at firstname.lastname@example.org.
This job listing courtesy of the New England Club Managers Association Executive Career Services (ECS) Committee.
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Excursion to volcanic White Island by boat (full day) or helicopter (half day)
Scuba Diving expeditions around the base of White Island – full day
Visit Te Urewera National Park – full day
Whale and dolphin watching cruise – half day
Tour wildlife sanctuary Whale Island – 4 hours
Spend all day lazing on the beach
Auckland – Ohope, 4 hours
Rotorua – Ohope, 1.5 hours
Hamilton – Ohope, 2.5 hours
Just a few minutes drive over the hill from the town of Whakatane, Ohope Beach is a quiet spot. The perfect place to take time out for a few days. It has 11 kilometres of beautiful white sand and is safe for swimming. It's an ideal playground for families and during the summer season, Whakatane Surf Lifesaving Club lifeguards patrol the beach. West End is a favourite with surfers and is also an access point to the beautiful Otarawairere Bay, one of the most picturesque beaches in the area. Many people come to this area to visit White Island, the active volcano just 48km off the coast. There are not many volcanoes in the world so easily accessible, making this one of the “must do’s” in the region.
History and Culture
The story of the coming of the Maori to the Whakatane area is shrouded in the mists of time, but the oral traditions of the tangata whenua (people of the land) make it clear that the region was settled by a series of migrations over several hundred years. The first inhabitant, more than 1,000 years ago, was Tiwakawaka, a grandson of Maui, the legendary voyageur and discoverer of Aotearoa. Tiwakawaka's people had lived in Kakahoroa (later to be named Whakatane) for some generations before the arrival of the famed Toi, founder of numerous tribes (Te Tini O Toi - the multitude of Toi) that occupied much of the North Island's East Coast, Taranaki and the Far North.
Toi's people married into the original settlers and from his stronghold - Kapu-te-rangi (one of the oldest known pa sites in New Zealand) - above Whakatane, his sons Rauru and Awanuiarangi in turn went forth to found tribes of their own. Some 200 years later came the waka Mataatua bringing the kumara.
Following the directions of his father, Irakewa, the Captain Toroa, his brothers Puhi and Taneatua, sister Muriwai, son Ruaihona, daughter Wairaka and other members of his family sailed to Kakahoroa, mooring in the river estuary near the town's current commercial centre. The men then climbed the hillside to Kapu-te-rangi, leaving Mataatua in the care of the small group consisting mainly of women. The outgoing tide was threatening to carry away the waka when Wairaka exclaimed: "E! Kia whakatane au i ahau" (let me act the part of a man). In breach of tradition, the women paddled the canoe back to safety and from this incident, Whakatane received its name.
Some time later, Toroa and Puhi fell into dispute over the planting of the kumara and Puhi and some of his followers departed in Mataatua for the Far North where he founded the Nga Puhi tribe. Again, Toroa's people intermarried with the Tangata Whenua and from them descend the Ngati Awa, Tuhoe and Te Whakatohea iwi, which remain the guardians of the mana whenua (spirit of the land) of the Eastern Bay of Plenty region to this day.
European settlement began in the 1830s when whalers, sealers and later missionaries and traders made their homes here. The area became a major shipbuilding centre and the vessels were used to carry maize, potatoes, wheat and flax to other northern population centres for sale or barter. Although most Eastern Bay of Plenty Maori took no active part, the area nevertheless became embroiled in the New Zealand land wars during the 1860’s and 70’s. In 1869, the famed fighting chieftain Te Kooti raided the town, razing its few buildings. This led to the stationing of a unit of armed constabulary in Whakatane and the construction of a defensive redoubt on the promontory above the town centre.
With the advent of more peaceful times, industrial and agricultural development continued, that process accelerating from 1910 onwards when work began to drain the swamplands of the Rangitaiki Plains. Reclamation in Whakatane also created new land for residential and commercial development.
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Common Answering Machine Messages
The owners of an answering machine often record messages which would play when they receive a call. There are a few common answering machines people tend to use. These messages are loaded and played in the absence of the receiver.
Sample common answering machine messages
- Hi guys!!!! Jane here. I am not being able to attend the phone right now. So please leave your name, number and message after the beep sound.
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I love looking at photographs of the Thousand Islands. In fact, I can never get enough of them, so when I learned that Doug Rombough, born and raised in Gananoque gave his collection of photographs to the Arthur Child Heritage Museum and to Queen’s University – I took notice.
Linda Mainse, executive director of Gananoque’s waterfront museum, showed me some of the photographs and I realized that once again, I had found “gold”.
Doug started collecting postcards in the 1970s when he was president of the Gananoque Historical Society. He made 35mm slides of the collection and travelled around taking photographs of similar scenes.
“Then,” he says, “I took the ‘then and now’ slide show to various service clubs in the area.”
For many reasons including moving to Toronto he decided to sell his collection to Queen’s University Archives. Then three or four years ago he started collecting again. He is not quite sure why, but it is safe to say, once a collector – always a collector. “With major changes in the ability to locate, acquire and relocate views (the IT equipment, scanners, computers and software), I was able to use technology to produce a more user-friendly collection.”
When I asked what was his first “unique” find. He pointed to the photograph of the Kingston.
“Although not a first, the photo of the R. & O. N. Co.’s steamer Kingston at the Gananoque’s wharf shown in my “Tour Boats, Steamers, Ferries & Hotels, Thousand Islands” collection is a rather unique ‘find’. Last year when searching through various boxes belonging to the former Gananoque Museum, I ran across the old photograph, unidentified and not categorized in any manner in the old photo collection. I scanned the photo to include in my presentation of old steamships hoping to determine at a later time the date it was taken and other pertinent historical facts.
I later found the photo shown in Adrian Ten Cate’s “Pictorial History of the Thousand Islands” with the description that it was the 1860 Royal visit by 18 year old Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British Throne, future King Edward VII upon the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. On close inspection of the photo I discovered that it showed the Swing Bridge in the background. Since I knew that the bridge had been constructed in 1884 (like many of our readers will remember seeing the date on the bridge while going up the Gananoque River) the 1860 date and royal tour details were in error.
I searched the web for royal tours to Ontario between 1884 (the date the bridge had been constructed and 1913 (when the Canada Steamship Lines had acquired and renamed the R. & O. N. Co. and its steamships) and found on page 130 of the text entitled “The Tour of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York through the Dominion of Canada in the year 1901” by Joseph Pope, C.M.G., Under-Secretary of State, Ottawa, 1903. It contained a brief description of the tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (became King George V and Queen Mary in 1910) and that the royals had arrived at the Gananoque wharf onboard the “Kingston” on September 15, 1901. The following is an excerpt from the article:
“From the College (viz. Royal Military College) Their Royal Highnesses returned to the city (viz. Kingston) and went onboard the Richelieu Company’s (viz. Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company – R. & O. N. Co.) steamer Kingston which had been chartered to convey the royal party to Brockville.”
“At Gananoque a surprising large number of people had assembled on the wharf, among whom was Mr. George Taylor, MP. The Duke was standing on the bridge at the time in the company of Mr. Gildersleeve (viz. president of the company) and Captain Esford and the crowd cheered his Royal Highness with the utmost good-will.”
If you look carefully you can see a regal looking person on the second deck of the steamer.
Doug explained some of the sources of his “finds”. For the most part he discovered material on eBay, in auction houses, antique stores and flea markets. He received permission to use material from the former Gananoque Museum, which is owned by the Town of Gananoque. He also collected material from Queen’s University Archives. Research behind each scene can be found in old newspapers, published books, pamphlets, articles from both his own library and in public libraries. He also appreciates the holdings of the Gananoque Historical Society Newsletters and best of all in discussions with “old timers”.
Since his collection is a work in progress, he periodically delivers an updated version to the Arthur Child Museum and Queen’s Archives on both a memory stick and a CD ( He reports “To maintain control to ensure they have the most recent version, I retrieve those previously delivered”)
Doug also provides the collection to those who have expressed an interest including Gananoque native John Nalon who is the current president of the Gananoque Historical Society who also has an extensive postcard collection.
“I prepared my slide collection with the view of contributing in a small way to the digitalization process facing organizations such as the local museum and Queen’s Archives and to provide another medium for persons interested in Gananoque’s past.
Doug is still looking for pictures/postcards with dates and historical information (pre 1950’s). In fact his list is long, “I am especially interested in Gananoque industries (manufacturing, saw mills, grist mills, etc.).” Then he goes on to suggest the subject of Ice cutting, storage and delivery. He is always look for drawings or photographs of the old canal that existed on west side of the Gananoque River used as source of waterpower. What about the industry along the waterfront (e.g. old Thousand Islands Railway station, warehouses, Shortall Coal yards, Sampson Coal yard, etc.); more steamers and ferries (e.g. Yennek, Missisquoi, etc.). Don’t forget the milk and bread delivery horse-drawn wagons, trucks; businesses and other structures on the north and south sides of King Street East between Charles and William Streets. And finally the hotels, the opera houses… I think he still has a lot of work to do…
The Steamer “Kingston”
Below is a sample of a collection compiled by Doug Rombough. There are 21 other slide shows available for viewing at the Arthur Child Heritage Museum in Gananoque or through the Queen’s University Archives. Most of the slides represent the history of Gananoque.
Click to Enlarge photos below, or view three slide shows on Steamships, Tour Boats and Hotels on our new TI Life Section on the Tab: Photos
View three more slide shows on Steamships, Tour Boats and Hotels on our new TI Life Section on the Tab: Photos
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Dick Cheney’s former chief spokeswoman testified on Thursday that she told the vice president and his chief of staff about Valerie Plame’s CIA status days before Libby claimed he learned the information. She also said the pair was intensely interested in Plame and her husband, Joe Wilson.
New York Times:
Her testimony under questioning from a federal prosecutor was damaging to Mr. Libby. She testified that both Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby were intensely interested in Ms. Wilson and her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, who had been sent on a mission to Africa by the C.I.A. to investigate reports that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium from Niger for his nuclear weapons program.
Ms. [Cathie] Martin’s testimony was damaging for Mr. Libby in two respects. She bolstered the prosecution’s assertion that Mr. Libby was fully aware of Ms. Wilson’s identity from a number of administration officials, and did not first learn about her from reporters, as he claims. Perhaps more important, she testified as a former close colleague of Mr. Libby’s, and demonstrated her familiarity with him by repeatedly referring to him by his nickname, “Scooter.”
Ms. Martin, who still works at the White House but no longer for Mr. Cheney, described how Mr. Libby had telephoned a senior C.I.A. official in her presence and asked about the Wilson trip. She said she was then put on the phone with Bill Harlow, the C.I.A.‘s spokesman, who told her that Mr. Wilson went to Africa on behalf of the agency and that his wife worked there.
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If you were bold enough to ask for the 1st date, then that was a vital step. Asking is step one of jumping into a dating relationship. If you are stressed out because you got a first date rejection, then continue reading this article to discover how you can cope with the situation.
Scenario: You like a girl in your college but when you asked her to join you to watch a movie you were turned down. This is what you should do;
Gauge the answer from the girl. If the girl says next time since she intends to spend some time with her family and friends then you should not give up. If she adamantly says no you’ll feel embarrassed and feel like vanishing. In such a case just say, “I will let you know if it is good.”
Scenario: You asked a woman from work to join you for dinner but she didn’t say yes. Do the following;
Gauge the answer again. Did she say she doesn’t like sea food? If she said no because she doesn’t like the restaurant you recommended, offer another recommendation. Tell her “I am not really good at selecting restaurants. I hope you do not mind picking the restaurant yourself.” If her reply is still no you’ve got to let her go and move on with your hunt for a girl to date.
Scenario: You asked a female college friend to join you at the beach, but she said no. Consider doing the following;
Gauge the answer by having a look at her body language and listening to her tone of voice. If she shows some disappointment this may mean that she has an interest in you but she may not like the recommendation of going to the beach. You ought to know that most girls fear exposing their bodies. They fear you seeing them half exposed.
Scenario: You asked a coworker to join you at a cafe for drinks unfortunately she said no. What do you do?
There are factors that should be considered when talking about office relationships. A coworker interested in you will worry about her job or fear workplace gossip so you shouldn’t force a colleague into a date. You can however ask for a date and go to a place that’s far away from the place of work to avoid being seen by your coworkers. Her plans should be considered before asking her out on a date. You should tell her about where to go out on a date early so that she can plan for it.
By now you know how you can handle first date rejection in the above mentioned scenarios. You however have to consider her response before giving up. If she does not give you hope of dating her, then you have to move on and find a different girl. The world has a lot of girls you can pick from to this day. | <urn:uuid:02438dfa-3ca3-4a38-a637-2249ef0a2597> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://xratedarticles.com/how-to-handle-first-date-rejection/ | 2013-05-22T03:33:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701233842/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104713-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979899 | 587 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Caught at the Fresh Market: Organic and Conventional Produce Mingling
At this point, we are all aware that eating organic produce, meats, and dairy products are better for us. Whether you choose to pay the extra money for these goods is another story. If you live an organic lifestyle, you might be surprised to learn that several so-called eco-groceries are putting your pesticide-free produce at risk.
|Photos by Jacquelynn D. Powers|
|Organic and nonorganic produce mingling at the Fresh Market in Coconut Grove.|
Alerted by an article in Consumer Reports magazine that all grocers are legally required to separately stack organic fruits and vegetables away from conventional produce, Short Order recalled that at The Fresh Market in Coconut Grove this was not always the case. Their produce section does in fact combine organic and non-organic products together, all under a misting system that allows water runoff from the conventional items to contaminate the supposedly all-natural ones. We saw at least three examples of this during a shopping expedition to the Coconut Grove location.
According to Drewry Sackett, PR/community relations manager for the Fresh Market, "The Fresh Market strives to provide our customers with a selection of both organic and conventional produce options, and to follow standards for adequate product separation. In our coolers and on the sales floor, our policy is that organic and conventional products do not touch or co-mingle and barriers should be present to separate conventional products from organic. We provide detailed instructions for our stores to follow and audit their compliance frequently. We are following up with our store in Coconut Grove to ensure they are storing and displaying produce according to our company's policy."
Note to the Fresh Market: Pictures don't lie.
The Fresh Market
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I am so excited to have finally gotten my little camera back from the shop. That was a long wait, but the camera seems good as new!!
Here is a quick little update on what’s happening in “blooming poppy land”.
I have begun the initial cutting and layout of my new design and am mulling over colors for a day or two before I start sewing anything together.
So far I love the design but am not completely sold on a couple of the blue shades. (One of the iPhone pics)
I am a little hesitant to start sewing and constructing as I’ve never designed a quilt this way before, at least not successfully. I am beginning with a concept that I drew up on the my primitive little program, and am going to attempt to stay on task! We’ll see if my finished quilt even remotely resembles this. (iPhone photo)
Anyway, the other project, is this lovely memo/organization board from Joel Dewberry’s Sewn Spaces. With all three girls starting back to school in a month or so, I’ve been feeling the need for a
bit lot more organization in my life.
I’ve had the board and staple gun ready for this very fun looking crafty type project for a while. Well it’s finally that time!! I’m not exactly sure how I’ll utilize it but it’s so pretty. Sadly it may take more than a pretty board to get me organized, but I can dream right?:-)
I’m happy to finally use this line of Sandi Henderson’s that I’ve been loving/hoarding for a long time too. I’m hoping to have this little board done by this weekend.
I also pulled some fabric, some of my favorites from this shop, for a couple of dresses I’ve been promising the “big” girls for weeks now.
I would love to send them to school in all things handmade, but alas, I must live in reality!! They may get one or two new dresses for the new school year–no promises, but I’ll try!!
Lastly for today, a sneak peek-full post soon-, at my finished “what’s for breakfast?” quilt!! I think it’s my second favorite so far, this one being the first favorite, of my very small collection so far.
I really love how this turned out.
and yes, I’m officially hooked on machine binding!
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The Poetics of Color: Natvar Bhavsar, A Painter's Journey (61m, Hong Kong, India, U S A)
Documentary - a celebration of the Asian contribution to American contemporary art.The film explores the life and work of the noted Indian painter Natvar Bhavsar. Born in Gujarat in 1934, Bhavsar settled in New York City, the very nerve center of the art world, in the mid-1960s where he still lives and works. The central theme of the film is the multicultural nature of Bhavsar's work and how that has influenced the trajectory of his career. Although it's common today for artists to work cross-culturally and find critical and commercial acceptance outside their own spheres of origin, Bhavsar was a pioneer who paved the way for subsequent generations of artists.
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1. Which was the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook you read?
This was Deathtrap Dungeon, illustrated by Ian McCaig – it was sent to me when I started my first FF cover Masks of Mayhem. I loved the illustrations and the set pieces in the story. I decided then that I would take on interior drawings for future titles if asked.
2. Did you read FF before illustrating it?
I knew of the series before illustrating them but had never read them as a punter.
3. Which is your favourite gamebook?
I don't have a favourite gamebook – I respond to the imagery and drama – the more visual elements. That was the thing with McCaig’s work – loads of movement and eerie stuff going on, and he could frame each scene like a scene in a movie.
4. How did you find the process of illustrating FF books? Was it an enjoyable experience? How did it compare to other illustration jobs? How did your work on Dungeoneer and the covers for the AFF series compare to illustrating a normal gamebook like Midnight Rogue?
I found it quite easy to create a style for the interior drawings – more than I expected really – and enjoyed the process of creating on-going characters for Dungeoneer*. I had to design their armour/clothes and general 'look' in a 360 degree viewpoint – including above and below. Some worked better than others. Midnight Rogue had a different approach. The reader became the thief character and their/your hands were seen manipulating locks and purses. I enjoyed doing this story as they were claustrophobic – more shadowy and closed in. I felt I inhabited this world while drawing them.
Each of the three book interiors were luckily completely different in tone, and although it could be pretty relentless churning out the drawings – and I had no time for any 'rough' sketches – now and again I look at the originals and am amazed at the work and detail involved.
5. What are working on now?
I spend a lot of time reconstructing fossil creatures and environments – dinosaur, pterosaurs, and human evolution – for museums, books and now and again TV. This year I have mostly commissioned paintings, after doing a lot of book illustration last year. I do the occasional fantasy project but there is not much of that out there for me at the moment.
6. How much did FF influence your career and what you are doing today?
FF gave me the opportunity to design a lot of scenarios in each book – you have to be consistent and able to dramatise the subjects listed – over 30 or so in each book plus vignetted text fillers. It gave me the confidence to do this, working fast, sometimes having to produce a drawing a day. I worked for Games Workshop at roughly the same time, and so the FF work helped me there – working on their larger book formats and model characters.
7. What is it that makes FF so special?
I think it is the parallel storylines, scary characters and situations, which is great for encouraging young kids in their reading and competing with friends at the same time. The multiple options and fantastic imagery makes them an original, affordable and quality product. (Sorry, sounds like an ad!)
8. How do you explain the gamebook resurgence of the last couple of years?
There is a lot of looking back in publishing and the generation that first read FF are very big on re-visiting their youth! The effort and quality put into gamebooks has not dated at all and movies have been influenced by them, especially Harry Potter, with scenes of varying danger and monsters cropping up every other scene!
9. What do you feel was the impact of video games on FF (both negative and positive)?
I'm not a fan of video games – I prefer print, but I can see that the FF imagery involves the viewer and the drama is directed at them in the same way as that on screen. The whole point is making decisions to avoid death (or worse) and can be re-run over and over to change the outcome. The difference with FF is the chance outcome with dice instead of skill at the controls.
10. Where is there left for gamebooks/FF to go?
Who knows? The original books are mainly small, with mono interiors to keep down the price. Maybe electronic books, or larger full-colour formats; 3D would take them onto another level.
11. Do you think people will still be talking about FF in another 30 years?
Of course – the concept is universal – safely going into places of danger and with the competitive drama element it cannot fail whatever the medium they are in.
Thanks again to John for taking time out of his schedule to answer my questions. You can find a lot of his work (especially his dinosaur paintings) here at his website.
And remember to check back again tomorrow to see who I'll be interviewing for the letter 'Y'.
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