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Life begins and also falls apart at 60 in the cinematic collaborations of director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette). In 2003, they sensitively explored the spiky issue of romance across the generational divide between grandmother (Anne Reid) and her grown-up daughter’s hunky beau (Daniel Craig) in The Mother. There was a similar lightness of touch in the Oscar nominated 2006 film, Venus, in which a septuagenarian thesp (Peter O’Toole) gets a twinkle in his eye around his twenty-something carer (Jodie Whittaker). Laughter and heartbreak walk hand in clammy hand in Michell and Kureishi’s latest confection, Le Week-end, an elegiac portrait of a married couple testing the robustness of their relationship during a celebratory weekend in Paris. Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, who played onscreen spouses in the 2006 TV movie Longford, spare themselves and each other few blushes as the husband and wife, who have watched their brood fly the nest. They must now contemplate spending their twilight years solely in each other’s company.
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Supercomputer-Brain !!!// “Brain Augmentation via nano robots”!!! “Brain Augmentation via nano robots” To return to nanotechnology, I want to explore how we will augment our own minds using nanotechnology. At this time, crude experiments using surgery are able to implant sensors onto the surface of a human brain and extract signals to control the cursor of a computer. We would like to go further and connect additional memory, add functionality and enable a visual and auditory connection to the Internet. How else would we do that without using nanotechnology? If your spine is damaged at the neck, and you are confined to a bed for the rest of your life, then brain surgery is a risky, but important, thing to do. For the rest of us, it goes too far mearly to get a better internet connection. Nanotechnology will allow us to add hardware to our brains without the expense and danger of brain surgery. Of course we will still be taking a risk – perhaps a large one in the early years of augmentation. One suggestion I’ve heard but don’t remember who said it, is to slowly replace brain cells one by one with a chunk of hardware much smaller than the original brain cell. The hardware would simulate all the functions of a brain neuron. If we can come up with a safe replacement module that runs off the chemical energy in the blood and has a predicted lifetime greater than 20 years then it will be time to start the conversion. Take a pill each day to supply the hardware to your body and let the nanorobots install them over a six month period, one brain cell at a time. Six months later, you would never know any thing had changed yet you would be running on a hardware platform with amazing capability. It could run a million times faster than your old biological brain. It would have room for a thousand times more memory. And it would be your own brain. Not a computer in the sense of the thing on your desk, but an exact copy of the structure and personality that existed before the conversion. And it would have an operating system that would allow you to control the speed of processing. Jump it from the biological 100 millisecond response time to something like 50 nanoseconds. That is 20 million times faster. What that means is that for a short period ( limited, most likely, by the power dissipation limits of your blood and skull) you could slow the world down by a factor of 20 million. Your perceptions speed up but ordinary physics will limit how fast your body can move so, to you, the world slows down as your brain speeds up. But think about what you could do in an emergency. You would have time to think, to plan for hours during the first tenth of a second. And you could slow your brain down in small steps to ramp the world activity back up to a rate where you can interact with the world and accomplish a goal. Since the hardware brain cells are smaller than the organic version, there’s a lot of room left over. That allows the nanorobots to install additional cells that can be added as needed for new memory, new skills, new interfaces – like that wireless internet. Also, it allows backup units to replace a failing unit with little or no impact on the overall memory or awareness. The hardware is almost indestructible compared to the organic brain. Say an augmented person is involved in an accident and dies. The body may be a total loss, but the brain could be in perfect condition. An organic brain dies about three minutes after the heart stops. These hardware brains only turn off until they get a new power supply. All memories are intact. The brain is removed from the dead body. An organic body is regrown without a brain and the hardware brain is installed in the clone. It boots up as soon as the blood supply brings a new supply of energy. The person wakes up and learns to use the slightly different body. In fact when hardware brains are common, the idea of life extension is a sure thing. Trade in your old body and get a new version that looks just like your old one but comes with all the latest mods. Things like intelligent immune systems, diamond reinforced bones, skin art ala a chameleon or cuttlefish, sensors that did not come with the original, and the list goes on. One main issue is that a lot of people will see this as a distortion of what is human. And will not want to associate with the “cybogs” who will be seen as evil. It is good that you can have a fully hardware based brain that is installed in a perfectly human body. Who can tell without an X-ray? The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a number of technologies that tap into the brain’s ability to detect threats before the conscious mind is able to process the information. Already, there is Pentagon-sponsored work on using the brain’s pattern detection capabilities for enhanced gogglesand super-fast satellite imagery analysis. What happens, however, when the Pentagon ultimately uses this enhanced capability for targeting weapons? This question has led Stephen White to write a fascinating article exploring the implications of a soldiers’ legal culpability for weapons that may someday tap into this “pre-conscious” brain activity. Like theMinority Report notion of “pre-crime,” where someone is convicted for contemplating a criminal act they haven’t yet acted upon, this article raises the intriguing question of whether a soldier could be convicted for the mistake made by a pre-conscious brain wave. One of the justifications for employing a brain-machine interface is that the human brain can perform image calculations in parallel and can thus recognize items, such as targets, and classify them in 200 milliseconds, a rate orders of magnitude faster than computers can perform such operations. In fact, the image processing occurs faster than the subject can become conscious of what he or she sees. Studies of patients with damage to the striate cortex possess what neuropsychologists term “blindsight,” an ability to predict accurately where objects are positioned, even when they are placed outside these patients’ field of vision. The existence of this ability suggests the operation of an unconscious visual perception system in the human brain. These blindsight patients often exhibit “levels of accuracy well beyond the performance of normal observers making judgments close to the threshold of awareness,” particularly with regard to locating ‘unseen’ objects. The speed of visual recognition varies depending on its degree of the perceived object’s multivalence; ambiguous objects take more time to process. If neuralinterfaced weapons were designed to fire at the time of recognition rather than after the disambiguation process, a process that would likely need to occur for the pilot to differentiate between combatants and protected persons, the pilot firing them presumably would lack criminal accountability for the act implicit in willful killing. Because of the way brain-interfaced weapons may interrupt the biology of consciousness, reasonable doubt may exist as to whether an actor performed a conscious act in the event of a contested incident.
Home \| News Archive \| June 2008 Atom boards aplenty at Computex June 05, 2008 Intel Atom powered Mini-ITX boards from Intel, Foxconn, Gigabyte, J&W, MSI and Jetway are making appearances on stands at Computex 2008 in Taipei this week. Intel's D945GCLF 'Little Falls' board started the ball rolling and is already available to purchase. Despite baby-rearing duties keeping our intrepid reporters away from trade shows this year, we've put together a gallery of Atom boards from various sources. We'll add more as and when they are spotted. Many thanks to Hexus, Tweaktown and Bit-Tech. Most of the Atom boards so far have 2x SATA II ports due to the ICH7M chipset, though VIA announces new Mini-ITX 2.0 standard June 05, 2008 VIA Technologies today announced a new minimum specification for Mini-ITX motherboards. Mini-ITX 2.0 keeps the 17 x 17cm form factor we know and love, but updates several key areas. - Processor: High-performance, power efficient x86 processor, such as the VIA Nano processor - Memory: Support for minimum 2GB DDR2 SDRAM - Graphics: DirectX 9.0 integrated (IGP); DirectX 10 through an add-in card - Display: 1 VGA port for LCD display; 1 HDMI port on add-in card - HD Audio: 3 Audio jacks for up to 6-channel surround sound - Broadband Connectivity: 1 Gigabit LAN port - Storage: 2 Serial ATA II slots + 1 IDE (PATA) slot - Peripheral Connectivity: Minimum 4 USB2.0 ports - Expansion: 1 PCI Express 16-lane slot - Size: 17cm x 17cm - O/S Support: Microsoft® Windows Vista®; Microsoft Windows Vista Premium (through an add-in graphics card); Microsoft Windows® XP, and major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Suse Linux and gOS The first Mini-ITX boards hit the streets in early 2002 and since then many manufacturers have produced boards using their own interpretation of the specifications. None of the Mini-ITX 2.0 features are particularly ground breaking in 2008 but they do set a new baseline, one that hasn't been set in a long time. A "Mini-ITX 2.0" board will bring a guarantee of Vista support, DX10 expandability, Gigabit LAN, SATA 2.0 and a PCI Express slot. VIA expect motherboards and systems based around the Mini-ITX 2.0 standard to be available from leading vendors in the fourth quarter of 2008. VIA's Mini-ITX 2.0 page * Back to Mini-ITX.com *
“Leonard Lord, the somewhat autocratic head of BMC, reportedly decreed: ‘God damn these bloody awful Bubble Cars. We must drive them off the road by designing a proper miniature car’. ” – Wikipedia Without the rise of the “bloody awful bubble car”, we might never have seen the birth of the Mini! This post is a tribute to the unsensible awfulness of the bubble car.
MARQUETTE - As the ball danced along the sidelines, nearly kissing the thick, white line of chalk, Northern Michigan University senior offensive lineman Jace Daniels of Escanaba sprinted toward the ball, scooped it up and dived over the pylon for the score. The hustle of the 6-foot-5, 303-pounder drew laughter from his teammates on the sideline during practice that day, however, that laughter turned to cheers Saturday when Daniels found himself in the end zone, for real. With the Wildcats down two to Saginaw Valley State in the fourth quarter at the Superior Dome, NMU junior quarterback Cody Scepaniak rushed 27 yards to the Cardinals' 2 yard line before the ball was popped from his grasp. Northern?Michigan University senior offensive lineman Jace Daniels (74) of Escanaba awaits the snap against Ashland on Sept. 22 at the Superior Dome in Marquette. Daniels is one of 12 Wildcat seniors and four Upper Peninsula natives playing in their final collegiate game at 1 p.m. Saturday against Ferris State in Marquette. (Journal file photo by Zach Jay) There to fall on the ball in the end zone was Daniels for the game-winning touchdown with 5:03 to play, giving Northern it's fourth win of the season and third in four games heading into Saturday's 1 p.m. season finale against Ferris State in Marquette. "It surprised me. When I saw that ball come out, I just jumped right on there," Daniels said. "When I looked up, I was in the end zone and couldn't have been any happier. That's the biggest dream for an O-lineman. "I think now I can talk a little crap to my brother because he was an O-lineman and never scored a touchdown. Now I have a little dirt on him." Daniels, whose brother Nick played on the Wildcat offensive line from 1997-2000, lettered three times under retired Eskymos coach Dan Flynn before arriving at Northern in 2009. Daniels is one 12 seniors and four Upper Peninsula natives - along with defensive lineman Zach Anderson of Sault Ste. Marie, linebacker Josh Droese of Kingsford and tight end Brent Parrett of Stephenson - who will play their final football games in the Upper Peninsula when NMU attempts to knock off the 6-4 Bulldogs. Other seniors include kicker Rockne Belmonte, defensive linemen James Brito-White and Weston McIntosh, receiver Sam Celentino, linebacker Eddie Knoblock, offensive lineman Chad Pepper, defensive back Joe Vezina and running back Prince Young, who returned from a four-game suspension to play against SVSU. Daniels said for seniors like him, and especially the Yoopers, Saturday will be a special day. "Saturday means a whole lot and not just to me, but to my family, all my friends and everyone that has supported me and people like that," Daniels said. "Starting out the season, we weren't doing too hot. Ever since we switched it around at the middle of the season, things have gone great. I couldn't ask for a better ending to the season with these guys." NMU (4-6 overall, 3-6 in the GLIAC) began its first season under head coach Chris Ostrowsky - who was the Wildcats' offensive coordinator the two previous seasons - 1-5 overall and 0-5 in the GLIAC with the lone win coming against NCAA Division III Wisconsin-La Crosse in Marquette. In what many of the seniors like Daniels described as the biggest win of their collegiate career, NMU dominated Grand Valley State in Marquette, 38-10, on Nov. 13. Since then, NMU has beaten Northwood and SVSU, and the 'Cats were a throw away from taking Wayne State to overtime in Detroit. "It's been different because we're trying to get some momentum going into next year," said Daniels, whose collegiate record stands at 23-23. "It's big for us to have a big week here and finish out with a W." In each of the Wildcats four previous seasons, the team has finished the year on a down note, winning only one of its last four games. The last time NMU finished with a winning record in its final five contests was 2007 (3-2) and the only time Northern won its season finale in the last half decade was in 2009 against Indianapolis in Marquette, 41-14. "I think we've been a different team these last four or five games," Knoblock said. "It's been a breath of fresh air. We've been practicing at the same tempo every week. The tempo of practice hasn't changed much. We kind of clicked against Grand Valley where that tempo finally carried over to a game 100 percent." Ferris State, at 5-4 in the GLIAC after losing to Northwood last week, has been nearly as hot at NMU, winning three of its last five games having defeated GVSU and WSU on the road and Michigan Tech in Big Rapids. The Bulldogs, who also have a rookie head coach in Tony Annese out of Grand Rapids Community College, lead the GLIAC in rushing and sit sixth in Division II with an average of 309 yards per game. Redshirt freshman quarterback Jason Vander Laan guides the FSU offense that is averaging 479.20 yards per game by rushing (1,217) for nearly as many yards as he gains passing (1,355) the ball. He has 14 rushing touchdowns and 12 passing TDs. "For us, we've had an extraordinary end here," Ostrowsky said. "We've beaten two top 20 teams in America. We haven't played a (Div. II) team that hasn't won five games this year. I would be hard pressed to say when was the last time anyone has had to go through that. We feel like we've already accomplished some great things." Matt Wellens can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 252.
Monte Reiner, Minot Individual citizens, most who have not benefited from the oil boom, should be on top of the list to receive energy impact assistance. This boom has busted many families in the region who built these cities with years of sweat and blood. They have been thrown out on the street to find another place to live that they can afford. It is time for the Republican-dominated state government to remember this is a nation of the people. It is not a nation of the oil industry, by the businesses, and for the cronies. The real priorities were fully missed in this last session of our Legislature, one which is considered the worst trainwrecks in our state's history. This was at at time when a real vision and direction could have been set, but ran off the tracks time and again with failed last minute attempts to correct misguided legislation. Teddy Roosevelt is turning in his grave. Forgive me if I missed some of what our Minot legislators accomplished for us, but the flood victims came home empty-handed again from the state except funding for apartment owners to help rebuild. This is a group of folks who can charge what they want for rent and did not need assistance, but had the influence to further fill their pockets. I noticed their one photo op with the governor to try to document they actually did something. This group you elected has no clout in Bismarck. Some grants coming from the Feds are assisting low income folks, but those in the middle who have had to take out loans and spend their savings to exist have been forgotten. Money for the arts, money for parking ramps for investors, money for a struggling university's stadium, money for the State Fair. Take a clear look at who has the influence and the legitimate projects that could have benefit impacted people that have been pushed under the pile. It is time for all of us to stand up to this misappropriation of our funds. All of these slush funds with billions of dollars in them cannot be entrusted to the Republicans to manage. It is time to demand these funds go back to the citizens. Citizens does not mean oil companies, it does not mean to subsidize businesses that are thriving, it does not mean to conservation interests, it does not mean to airports. Citizens have Social Security numbers and pay individual income tax. As the oil companies whine about oil extraction taxes being too high, remind them of the infrastructure they have destroyed that we are paying for. Also remind them of the negligence and intentional environmental damage we will be left to clean up when they are gone. City leaders from the Bakken are crying for more funding from the state to finance progress. I suggest they find ways to pay for this progress from those benefiting from the progress. North Dakota Oil Can needs to portray the industry as it is, not the clean and pristine images in their ads. They missed the spills, the dust, the dumping, the deaths, the crime, and the unending truck traffic. I strongly support energy development, but don't try to cover up the pain it causes and don't ask for us to subsidize this industry. Dear residents of North Dakota: It is time to speak up and stop the subsidizing of those entities that do not deserve the tax dollars we pay. Challenge your elected officials to wake up and understand who has been impacted by energy development and that these are the folks who deserve impact grants. Let's drop the North Dakota state income tax to help impacted residents pay the inflated rents, inflated cost of living, and inflated property taxes coming their way. Let them know that their current process of paying for development by going to our Bismarck slush funds is not right. Let them know developers need to pay for the infrastructure not taxpayers. Let them know that oil companies need to pay for the roads they destroy, not taxpayers. Let them know that the benefactors of this progress need to pay a larger share of the costs of this progress. Fixed income North Dakotans can't afford higher taxes to pay for the results of this progress. Smart North Dakotans don't want to subsidize something they don't benefit from while their quality of life is stripped from them. Take your legislator to the wood shed and help them understand whose cash it is in the treasury. Let them know that you the citizen of North Dakota deserve your piece of the pie to offset the added costs you are paying to make a go of it in North Dakota. Make them understand that you would like to decide how your tax dollars are spent and that you have lost trust in their ability to do what is right. I call that progress!
The Velocity of Money Why the economy moves at the speed of money. First, let's look at the adjusted monetary base, or plain old cash plus bank reserves (remember that fact) held at the Federal Reserve. That's the only part of the money supply the Fed has any real direct control of. Until recently, there was very little year-over-year growth. The monetary base grew along a rather predictable long-term trend line, with some variance from time to time, but always coming back to the mean. But in the last few months the monetary base has grown by a staggering amount - over 1400% on an annual basis, as shown in the next chart from my friend Dr. Lacy Hunt at Hoisington Asset Management. And when you see the "J-curve" in the monetary base (which is likely to rise even more!) it does demand an explanation. There are those who suggest this is an indication of a Federal Reserve gone wild and that 2,000-dollar gold and a plummeting dollar are just around the corner. They are looking at that graph and leaping to conclusions. But it is what you don't see that is important. Click here to enlarge. Now, the same graph but in percentage terms: Click here to enlarge. Several of my readers have sent me questions related to the chart below, which compares the above graph to the value of the US dollar, as measured in the trade-weighted dollar index. If the Fed is flooding the market with dollars, does that not mean a crash in the dollar is imminent? What foreign government or investor would want to hold dollars when the Fed is debasing the currency so rapidly? Click to enlarge. Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Illiquid The answer is that the Fed is not creating money in the sense of monetizing the national debt. Remember that the adjusted monetary base is cash plus bank reserves on deposit at the Fed. Banks have to hold a certain portion of their assets as liquid assets in order to meet potential demand from depositors for their money. If they go below that required number, the regulators come in and demand they increase their liquid assets immediately. Various assets have been getting a "haircut" as to their ability to count as liquid reserves. With more and more assets becoming illiquid, the amount of money held in the liquid asset portion of many US banks assets has been dwindling. What to do? The Fed decided to take these assets and trade them (temporarily) for US treasuries, which are quite liquid. The information on this website solely reflects the analysis of or opinion about the performance of securities and financial markets by the writers whose articles appear on the site. The views expressed by the writers are not necessarily the views of Minyanville Media, Inc. or members of its management. Nothing contained on the website is intended to constitute a recommendation or advice addressed to an individual investor or category of investors to purchase, sell or hold any security, or to take any action with respect to the prospective movement of the securities markets or to solicit the purchase or sale of any security. Any investment decisions must be made by the reader either individually or in consultation with his or her investment professional. Minyanville writers and staff may trade or hold positions in securities that are discussed in articles appearing on the website. Writers of articles are required to disclose whether they have a position in any stock or fund discussed in an article, but are not permitted to disclose the size or direction of the position. Nothing on this website is intended to solicit business of any kind for a writer's business or fund. Minyanville management and staff as well as contributing writers will not respond to emails or other communications requesting investment advice. Copyright 2011 Minyanville Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Daily Recap Newsletter
A textile worker’s fingers were crushed in a yarn processing machine as she reached under the rollers. The 59-year-old woman was left with lasting damage to her hands after her fingers were caught in the machinery. Now the owners of the Ravensthorpe factory have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Kirklees Magistrates’ Court heard today (Wednesday) that the woman had been trying to retrieve fibres beneath the rollers of a carding machine at Lawton Yarns Limited on March 7 last year. Three fingers on her right hand were badly crushed and she needed multiple hospital visits for operations and physiotherapy. She has not regained full use of her hand. The HSE found the firm had failed to fully assess the risks of the secondhand miniature carding machine. It had fitted guards and developed safe systems of work, but did not take into account the risk of access to the rollers from the underside. The failings meant that part of the machine was not guarded and there was nothing to prevent workers getting too close to moving parts. The firm, of Raven Ing Mills, Huddersfield Road, admitted two counts of breaching health and safety regulations. It was given a £5,000 fine and ordered to pay £648 costs. HSE inspector Neil Hope-Collins said: “Lawton Yarns’ key failing was not to assess the risks adequately in the first place. “The assessment is the platform for informing you of the controls and measures you need. “If the former is lacking, then so are the controls. “In this case, a vital risk was missed and an employee now has to live with the serious consequences.”
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Five municipalities have joined together to share a new administrative building, the Regional Municipal Plaza, to conduct business and hold council meetings © Mickey Djuric Minister of Government Relations, Jim Reiter, attends the grand opening of the Regional Municipal Plaza in Moose Jaw, along with other dignitaries. Times-Herald photo by Mickey Djuric The Rural Municipalities of Moose Jaw, Baildon, Rodgers, Caron and Hillsborough will all use the building located at 1410 Caribou St. W. for administrative purposes. "This does my heart good," said Jim Reiter, minister of government relations. "The cooperation between municipalities is so important for the economic growth of our province." The new building will open up efficiencies for all municipalities and have boardrooms for all RMs to use. "It will offer better service toward rate-payers. For instance some farmers are rate-payers to more than one municipality. This is an opportunity to go to one office instead of several," said Reiter. "In the long run this is just going to benefit all of you and directly benefit all your rate-payers." This is the first time in the province five municipalities have come together to use one facility. "This is really cutting edge," said David Marit, president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities. "They've done something here that's going to represent local government for a long time but it also is a great initiative for the citizens and residents in and around Moose Jaw. All of the rate-payers can use this facility and it is here for them."
On this date in 2002, the Mets claimed a 26-year-old shortstop off waivers from the Brewers. He had just posted a .295/.382/.432 batting line in Triple-A Indianapolis a year prior, and would go on to make his Major League debut for the Mets that season. The infielder would bat just .216/.299/.351 in 129 plate appearances for the Mets over the next two years before being plucked off waivers again — this time by the A's. Marco Scutaro would eventually cement himself as a late bloomer and ultimately help the Giants to a World Series title before inking a three-year, $20MM contract this offseason. Here are some links from around the league as we enter the season's first full weekend… - Vladimir Guerrero turned down offers to play in Taiwan and in Quebec to sign with the Long Island Ducks, writes ESPN's Jerry Crasnick. Crasnick goes on to explain that Guerrero's goal is to get back into Major League Baseball and chase the 500-homer plateau. He's currently 51 long balls shy with 449 in his career. - There have been no serious extension talks between David Murphy and the Rangers, tweets Anthony Andro of FOX Sports Southwest. Murphy plans to play out the season and think about his next deal in the offseason. - Nolan Ryan will be at the Rangers home opener today, and he's taking a "wait-and-see" approach as he decides his future with the team, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. - Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe writes that a rebound campaign from Red Sox lefty Jon Lester will likely result in a mega-deal that's comparable to some of the "silly money" deals doled out to starting pitchers around the game recently. Cafardo breaks down the track records of pitchers like Zack Greinke, Matt Cain, Cole Hamels and others and compares them to Lester.
FREQUENTLY REFRESH this page for the latest. If you're viewing this on our mobile app, click here for updates and to comment. FINAL: Syracuse 77, Western Michigan 53 Syracuse 77, Western Michigan 53 (Final): Syracuse wins its matchup against Western Michigan easily, using its 2-3 zone defense to shutdown the Broncos' offense. David Brown finished with nine points on 2-of-12 shooting for the Broncos. Syracuse's Cooney, Ennis, Grant and Fair scored 18, 16, 16 and 14 points, respectively. Whittington and Tucker Haymond scored 11 points each for the Broncos. Syracuse advances to face Dayton on Saturday. Syracuse 70, Western Michigan 43 (3:54): Despite being down 27 points, Western Michigan continues to battle on both ends of the floor. CBS' Bill Rafferty says "they're still plugging away. That's what I like," about the Broncos' effort. Syracuse's Tyler Ennis drained a jumper from just inside the 3-point line and WMU's Austin Richie fouled him. Ennis will shoot one free throw coming out of the TV timeout. Syracuse 61, Western Michigan 38 (7:58): Both teams are struggling a bit offensively. WMU's David Brown picked up his fourth foul on a Syracuse offensive rebound. CJ Fair drained a mid-range jumper and Brown got him on the shot. Fair connected from the free-throw line to complete the 3-point play. Syracuse winning the rebound battle 30-17. Syracuse 56, Western Michigan 35 (11:41): CBS sums it up pretty well saying "they have too many guys who can gather and finish," referring to Syracuse. Orange's athleticism is evident and they have numerous powerful finishes at the rim. WMU David Brown drains a 3-pointer, but the Broncos' deficit is quite large and they are running out of time. CBS says Brown is limping, possibly from the first half. Syracuse 50, Western Michigan 28 (15:06): Western Michigan started the second half with nice ball movement on offense, but Syracuse responded. The Orange's Cooney hit a deep 3-pointer and was fouled. Cooney connected from the free-throw lineand WMU responded with a turnover on its next possession. WMU struggling to finish in the lane and Syracuse's efficient ball movement has provided the Orange with numerous easy finishing, including some thunderous dunks. Orange with 13 assists on 19 field goals.
LEONI TWP., MI – The former Hostess store in Leoni Township is one of more than 130 properties across the country that is being put up for sale as part of the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Hilco Real Estate, LLC in Northbrook, Ill., is seeking offers in the sale of the properties that used to be home to Hostess Brands and affiliated companies. Out of those properties, there are seven in Michigan, including facilities in Cadillac, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Livonia, Marysville and Romulus. The Irving, Texas-based maker, best known for the Twinkie snack cake and other baked goods, announced in November that it will lay off its 18,500 employees and attempt to sell its brands and facilities. Hostess entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2012. As of May, Hostess employed 381 people at 20 locations in Michigan. All locations are either retail outlets, distribution centers or a combination of both. That month, Hostess sent out letters about potential layoffs to more than a dozen Michigan communities in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN) Act. The letter about the Leoni Township Branch said 13 employees could be impacted by the possible layoffs. The 8,472-square-foot building, which was built in 1960, is located at 3791 Ann Arbor Road. The storefront sold Hostess products. “The buildings offer a number of structural and location-related attributes that will be very attractive to a wide variety of potential buyers,” Joel Schneider, senior vice president of Hilco Real Estate, said in a statement. “As such, we expect this sale to attract active interest from a broad spectrum of real estate investors, developers and end users."
Loose Center, located at 707 North in Linden offers numerous ongoing programs for those 50 and older who reside in the southern end of Genesee County and beyond. Each day, Monday - Friday, lunch is served at the Center, people gather to exercise, play cards or games, learn a new skill, share of themselves, make new friends and seek out for themselves a more enriched life. Loose’s friendly and welcoming environment equals a very special place for people to share their time. For questions about or to sign up for any Loose programs, please call 810-735-9406 or visit the Loose website at www.loosecenter.org. Join us for our ongoing and special events. Some highlights in April include: Wednesday, April 3, 9:30 am - Free Breakfast followed by a “Peace of Mind” presentation sponsored by Sharp Funeral Home. Wednesday, April 10, 10 am - FireKeepers Casino Thursday, April 11, 10 am - Free Vision Screening Tuesday, April 16, 5 pm - Catered dinner with guest speaker Michael Heberling, who will share great information on “Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes”. Wednesday, April 17, 12 noon - Juicing demonstration, MSU Extension Friday, April 19, 1:30 - Whiting’s “Entertainment Express”, an afternoon with Johnny Cash. Wednesday, April 24, 10:30 am Medicare Made Simple Thursday, April 25, 11:30 - Windsor Casino Friday, April 26, 5 pm - Euchre Tournament Monday, April 29, 9:30 am - Trip to Turkeyville, Lunch and Show (“Steel Magnolias”)
GRAND RAPIDS – Kent County Republicans today said Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will present the keynote address at the party's Feb. 20 Lincoln Day Dinner, joining political analyst Frank Luntz at the 125th annual event. McDonnell, who was elected in 2009 and has led his state to two consecutive budget surpluses, is a 21-year U.S. Army veteran, a former prosecutor and attorney general and served as a state legislator. Prior to elected office, McDonnell also worked as the business manager of a Fortune 500 health care company. His success in the governor's seat has earned him the slot of chairman of the Republican Governor's Association. The Virginian-Pilot, in a 2005 story, praised McDonnell saying, “his fingerprints are all over major pieces of legislation from welfare reform, to judicial performance evaluations, to juvenile justice and parole reform, to tort revisions. Few legislators can duplicate his track record of involvement and success.” McDonnell's appearance adds to the presence of Luntz at the dinner. Luntz is a political commentator, analyst and pollster who regularly makes national television appearances. He is also a frequent moderator of GOP presidential debates and forums. The local party's 125th annual Lincoln Day Dinner will be at the Amway Grand Plaza's Ambassador Ballroom. Event tickets are $100 and can be purchased online at www.kentgop.org. Follow Nate Reens on Twitter at www.twitter.com/natereens
Homelessness spurred Grand Rapids Community College student to turn his life around GRAND RAPIDS -- He went without warm water and heat during the winter, lived without luxuries in a fixer-upper home and learned to live on one meal a day. Yet, when his parents kicked him out of their Reed City home and Brad Pifher found himself in a Grand Rapids homeless shelter, he was terrified. "I'd never been to a big city and, for a farm boy to get here ..., there were a lot of drug addicts and alcoholics. I was scared out of my mind," said Pifher, 19. "I didn't sleep a wink that (first) night." Despite his homelessness -- and with plenty of help from Thornapple Community Church and Guiding Light Mission -- Pifher graduated last spring from Forest Hills Northern High School. Now, he attends Grand Rapids Community College and has applied to several four-year schools. He hopes to transfer to Mount Aloysius College in Cresson, Penn. "It's more of a rural setting. I'll do well there," he said. Losing a home, family Pifher's unusual path to education started when he found his home life intolerable and eventually was kicked out. He spent his first homeless night in a sleeping bag on the front porch of a home in the middle of the woods. Too old to become a ward of the state, he was helped by a church minister who set him up to move to Grand Rapids. A Cascade Township family took him in and helped him enroll at Forest Hills Northern High School. Pifher said his lingering feelings toward his family soured his relationship with that family, too. "I was so angry, so resentful, I took it out on them," he said. After a while, he found himself back at a homeless shelter -- this time, at Guiding Light Mission. Intake coordinator Ernie Long said Pifher, unlike most residents, did not have an addiction, which initially made him -- and others -- feel he didn't fit in. "He just had a lot of issues with family and people turning their backs on him. He felt abandoned," Long said. But Pifher was determined to get through high school. Every morning, he had breakfast at the shelter before taking two city buses to get to his school bus stop. After school, back at the shelter, he would study in the chapel. A school support group of counselors and teachers gave him the help he needed, and a part-time job at a restaurant provided him with cash and a discounted dinner before heading back to the shelter. While it sounds rough, Pifher said, it was the first time in his life he was able to focus on his education. "(Back home), the problems outside school -- in my life -- were so overpowering ..., teachers described me as a zombie," he said. "When I got everything else out of the way, I did well." A college career After Pifher became Guiding Light's first teen to graduate from high school, Long intervened. "He was existing instead of living," Long said. Pifher was admitted to the Guiding Light residence program, which provides help and counseling to men trying to rebuild their lives. He enrolled in college, where he is doing well. The way he sees it, it was all part of the plan. "God has already built a plan for me. My life has inspired so many people. I really feel I was led here for a reason," he said. "His relationship with Christ was broken and, through Guiding Light, he was able to find Jesus and it was a beautiful thing to see that kid light up," Long said. "He got closer to God and, then, Bradley really began to shine."
SCHOOLCRAFT, MI – A team from Schoolcraft High School was all business in winning the eighth annual Junior Achievement of Southwest Michigan “Titan of Industry” competition. The Eagles team of Matt Abel, Sam Ebersberger, Luke Johnston and Evan Pratt were among 31 teams from eight area high schools -- Battle Creek Central, Climax Scotts, Comstock, Galesburg-Augusta, Gull Lake, Portage Central and Schoolcraft – to take part in the JA Titan Challenge at Davenport University in Kalamazoo. “We are proud of our team,” said Lori Pelton, Schoolcraft High business instructor. The Schoolcraft foursome beat 15 other teams in two rounds and in doing so will each receive a $250 college scholarship and other prizes. Their competition mission was to make strategic decisions about their product’s price, production levels, marketing expense, research and development expense, capital improvement expenses and charitable giving amount in the virtual marketplace. Other winners from the student event included the second-place winners in the Gold Medal round “CC Pride” from Comstock High School and third place in the Gold Medal round went to “Dynasty” from Comstock. The Silver Medal went to the “Ivy League” from Comstock and the Bronze Medal winners were the “Last Ones In” from Schoolcraft High School. Previous competitions’ top winners have been teams from Mattawan, Portage, Comstock and Schoolcraft. The event was sponsored by Davenport University, Pfizer CentreSource, the Wiser Financial Group, Chemical Bank, CTS Telecom, and Treat Street. Additionally, several local companies sponsored individual student teams for the event including BDO, Climax Rotary Club, Cole Gavlas, Fifth Third Bank, Huntington Bank, Keystone Community Bank, Marshall Community Credit Union, OMNI Community Credit Union and Seelye Wright Automotive Group. The JA Titan is a Junior Achievement educational program for high school students designed to teach them about running a successful business and the decisions that are important to maintain that success in the face of stiff competition. Players serve as the “CEO” of a virtual company and make six key decisions including setting the product’s price, production levels, marketing expenses, research and development expenses, capital improvement expenses, and charitable giving amount. The product is fictional and the simulation is set in the year 2030. The six decisions made per quarter during the simulation result in the success or failure of each virtual company. Junior Achievement is the world’s largest organization dedicated to inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in a global economy. Through a volunteer network, JA provides in-school and after-school programs for students in grades K-12. It also offers educational programs that focus on three key content areas: entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy. JA of Southwest Michigan involves thousands of students in Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren counties each year. For more information, visit swmichigan.ja.org.
My daughter is graduating Monday from Kalamazoo Central High School. My son is graduating next week from Kalamazoo College. Unlike my children, I don’t feel much sense of accomplishment about my experience. No wistfulness about moving on. No lingering over memories of the good times. Chemo is not a good time. In October, a malignant tumor was discovered in my colon. In November, when the tumor was removed, two flecks of cancer were found in my abdomen. In December, I was told that I needed chemo “just to be sure” of knocking out any other cancer cells lurking around my vital organs. My various doctors all were in agreement about the need for chemo. Still, there was an ominous side to their advice. “I wouldn’t worry about the cancer if I were you,” one doctor said. “I’d worry about the chemo.” He then proceeded to tell me about patients who ended up disabled from the regimen that I was about to undergo. That gave me pause. I wondered whether I was letting myself in on the 21st-century version of bloodletting. But what choice did I have? As grumpy as I was about chemo, I was even grumpier about the prospect of metastasized colon cancer. To be sure, the chemo was less awful than expected. Thanks to a flexible work schedule, I never took a sick day. Thanks to good pharmaceuticals, I never had issues with nausea. I didn’t lose my hair, because that wasn’t a side effect of my particular chemo cocktail. My family, friends and colleagues frequently commented that I didn’t look sick, didn’t act sick. Still, my body definitely has been out of whack for the past six months. At various points, the skin was peeling off the soles of my feet; my tongue couldn’t tolerate anything remotely spicy; the palms of my hands were so sensitive that clapping was out of the question; touching anything cold felt like an electric shock. There were days when I got home from work and went straight to bed. Some Saturdays I spent in pajamas. My cute little “diploma” aside, finishing up chemo doesn’t feel as much like a graduation as it does a prison break. My oncoologist credits me with a “good attitude” about chemo, but I don’t know if that’s true. So many cancer patients use the disease as an opportunity for personal growth — they re-evaluate their priorities or deepen their spiritual beliefs or find new appreciation of life. By contrast, my strategy, for better or worse, has been to ignore the whole situation as much as possible. Personal growth got shoved aside in favor of trying to minimize the impact of cancer and chemo on my daily doings. Perhaps it was just a classic case of denial, but I didn’t spend much time thinking about it — outside of using my cancer diagnosis to rationalize the purchase of an overpriced dessert or the booking of a spring-break trip to Mexico or telling my kids to fix their own dinner. The end of chemo means that I can’t play the cancer card anymore. But that’s fine with me. I’m ready to move on. Goodbye, cancer. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Julie Mack’s column appears each Saturday in the Kalamazoo Gazette. Contact her at [email protected] or 269-388-8578.
After taking a tie game into the second intermission, the Spirit gave up three goals to the Kitchener Rangers in a 5-2 loss in their season opener. The Spirit answered the Rangers' first two goals, both from Gabriel Landeskog, to keep the score knotted at two. But starting eight minutes into the third period, the Rangers scored three goals in a nine-minute stretch to seal the win. Josh Shalla scored Saginaw's first goal, and finished with a goal and an assist. Michael Sgarbossa scored the Spirit's other goal. Jordan Szwarz, Vincent Trocheck and Brad Walch also recorded assists. Landeskog finished with a hat trick for the Rangers. Mavric Parks, making his Spirit debut in goal, gave up five goals and made 40 saves. Brandon Maxwell made 35 saves for Kitchener. The Rangers out-shot the Spirit, 45-37. The Spirit continue their two-game season-opening road trip with a 7 p.m. game Saturday night in Erie.
FLUSHING, MI -- It came down to one last kick at the Punt, Pass & Kick national competition in Atlanta, Ga., to decide the 14- 15-year-old boys winner. Grant Steinborn could only look on as Minnesota's Jay Small took his second of two kicks to try and grab the championship on Saturday, Jan. 12. Small's kick went far enough to overtake Steinborn, a 15-year-old Flushing resident and sophomore at New Lothrop, knocking Steinborn down to second place. Still, after local and state competitions, placing second in the nation in the NFL-sponsored Punt, Pass & Kick program is nothing to look down on. "Although I was disappointed about placing second, when you look at the big picture, placing second is pretty good," Steinborn said. "The level of competition at nationals was very high, so you had to perform at your best to win and I had a great time there." Steinborn finished with a combined 410 feet after all three parts of the competition. Each athlete got two chances to record their farthest punt, pass and kick. Steinborn punted 44 yards, passed for 48 yards and had the longest kick of the day with 44 yards. To qualify for the national competition, Steinborn won the local competition in October in Bridgeport before taking first at the statewide competition on Dec. 2 at Ford Field in Detroit. Only the top four athletes in each age group qualified for the national finals, with Matthew Talsky, representing the Carolina Panthers, finishing third in the 14-15 group and Bridger Beus, representing the Denver Broncos, taking fourth. All the competitors and their family members also got to attend the NFC playoff game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Jan. 13. Steinborn and his family sat in the fifth row on the 13-yardline during the game, which the Falcons won, 30-28. Contact Josh at [email protected] or 810-247-7928 and follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKGordon.
DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers have not scored many runs in recent days. They scored just enough Thursday night. Jhonny Peralta hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Tigers pulled out a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox. The Tigers scored their only other two runs on a bases-loaded single by Torii Hunter in the fifth inning. Phil Coke retired the first batter he faced for the final out of the seventh inning, then started the eighth inning with nine consecutive balls while walking a pair of right-handed hitters. The first strike he threw in the inning -- a 1-0 fastball to David Ortiz -- was ripped into right field for a run-scoring single to give the Red Sox a 3-2 lead. Alvarez pitched well in place of the injured Anibal Sanchez in his second career start. He allowed two runs in five innings of work and certainly pitched well enough to give the Tigers a chance to win the game. KEY TO THE GAME Drew Smyly struck out the side in the ninth inning and finished with four strikeouts in two innings of work. His two shutout innings helped bridge the gap and set up Peralta for his heroics. -- Jacoby Ellsbury hit the second pitch of the game from Alvarez to the wall in right field, but Torii Hunter tracked it down and made the catch as he bumped into the wall. -- The Tigers put together a nice two-out rally in the fifth inning. They had a runner on first with two outs when Brayan Pena, Austin Jackson and Hunter strung singles together. Two runs scored on the third of those three singles, a blooper to right field by Hunter, to tie the game at 2-2. -- Will Middlebrooks made a bid for extra bases to lead off the seventh inning in a tie game, but Jackson made an over-the-shoulder basket catch on a ball hit to straightaway center for the first out of the inning. -- With two outs in the third inning, Alvarez threw nine consecutive balls and walked two batters in the process. He then threw two strikes to Shane Victorino before hitting him with a pitch on the foot to load the bases. Dustin Pedroia flied out to right field to end the inning. -- David Ortiz hit the first pitch of the fourth inning over the wall in right field to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead. The home run was the 15th of the season for Ortiz. -- Hunter took a bad line on a base hit by Jose Iglesias in the fifth inning and essentially turned a single into a triple after the ball got by him and went to the warning track. Iglesias then trotted home on a single to center by Ellsbury to give the Red Sox a 2-0 lead. OTHER GAME NOTES -- The final pitching line for Alvarez: 5IP, 5H, 2R, 2ER, 2BB, 3SO. He threw 85 pitches, 49 for strikes. -- Luke Putkonen retired all five batters he faced in relief of Alvarez. -- The final pitching line for Red Sox starter John Lackey: 7IP, 7H, 2R, 2ER, 1BB, 5SO. He threw 98 pitches, 64 for strikes. -- Like MLive's Detroit Tigers Facebook page.
Sporting Kansas City vs. Houston Dynamo \| MLS Match Preview SPORTING KANSAS CITY vs HOUSTON DYNAMO SPORTING PARK, Kansas City, Kan. Aug. 29, 2014 (WEEK 25, MLS Game #232) 7 p.m. CT (NBCSN) Familiar playoff foes, Sporting Kansas City and the Houston Dynamo meet for the second time this season with the clubs having very different outlooks as they clash Friday evening at Sporting Park before an NBC Sports Network audience. Sporting fell out of the top spot in the East last weekend, following a 3-0 home loss to D.C. United, who moved into the point position. The Dynamo suffered their seventh consecutive defeat away from home, dropping a 3-0 decision at the Columbus Crew, leaving them five points out of the final playoff position in the conference. REFEREE: Mark Geiger. AR1 (bench): Adam Wienckowski; AR2 (opposite): C.J. Morgante; 4th: Ted Unkel MLS Career: 122 games; FC/gm: 26.6; Y/gm: 3.5; R: 30; pens: 42 SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: KC: Dom Dwyer, Benny Feilhaber, Paulo Nagamura … HOU: Kofi Sarkodie SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: KC: Antonio Dovale, Eric Kronberg, Kevin Ellis, Lawrence Olum, Seth Sinovic, Igor Juliao … HOU: Will Bruin, Ricardo Clark DISABLED LIST: KC: Peterson Joseph, Ike Opara, Chance Myers (season-ending injury) ALL-TIME (19 meetings): Sporting 5 wins, 21 goals … Dynamo 6 wins, 22 goals … Ties 8 AT KANSAS CITY (9 meetings): Sporting 2 wins, 11 goals … Dynamo 3 wins, 10 goals … Ties 4 6/6: HOU 0, KC 2 (Saad 45; Dwyer 70) - The teams are meeting for the second time this season. Soony Saad and Dom Dwyer netted goals in Sporting KC’s 2-0 victory, June 6 at BBVA Compass Stadium. - In league play, the last three meetings at Sporting Park have ended in draws. Sporting has come away with points on their last three league visits to BBVA Compass Stadium, with two wins and a draw. - The teams have met each of the last three years in the MLS Cup Playoffs, with Sporting winning the Eastern Conference Championship matchup a year ago 2-1 on aggregate. The Dynamo had advanced each of the two previous years, including in 2011 at Sporting Park with a trip to MLS Cup on the line. - Coaches record: Peter Vermes vs. HOU: P12 W4 L2 D6… Dominic Kinnear vs. KC: P21 W8 L3 D10 LAST MEETING (MLS) - Sporting went a man down in the 21st minute when Toni Dovale was sent off by referee Juan Guzman for an apparent off-the-ball elbow against Dynamo midfielder Alex Lopez. - But the visitors took the lead just before the halftime break. Just minutes after clearing a ball off the line, Dynamo defender Eric Brunner miscontrolled the ball on the edge of his box and it fell to Soony Saad, who coolly stroked a low shot into the far corner. - Sporting doubled their despite the manpower disadvantage in the 70th minute after rookie center back A.J. Cochran was adjudged to have handled in the penalty area and Dom Dwyer converted the spot kick. - HOUSTON DYNAMO (4-2-3-1): Tyler Deric - Kofi Sarkodie, David Horst (Eric Brunner 9 / Warren Creavalle 57), A.J. Cochran, Jermaine Taylor - Alexander Lopez, Servando Carrasco - Omar Cummings (Jason Johnson 68), Giles Barnes, Andrew Driver - Will Bruin. - SPORTING KANSAS CITY (4-1-2-3): Eric Kronberg - Igor Juliao (Jacob Peterson 46), Erik Palmer-Brown, Kevin Ellis, Seth Sinovic - Lawrence Olum - Benny Feilhaber (Sal Zizzo 46), Paulo Nagamura (Alex Martinez 7) - Antonio Dovale (ejected 21), Dom Dwyer, Soony Saad. SPORTING KANSAS CITY Sporting Kansas City suffered their second loss in three matches in a matchup of the top two in the Eastern Conference, falling 3-0 to D.C. United on Saturday evening at Sporting Park. Sporting are in second place in the Eastern Conference with 42 points from 25 games. - The game's three goals came in a seven-minute span right at the half-hour mark. United opened the scoring in the 24th minute when Fabian Espindola took Luis Silva's pass, found space at the top left of Kansas City's penalty area, and slotted a low shot just past a diving Jon Kempin and inside the far post. - The visitors doubled the lead just four minutes later, again with an assist to Silva. Chris Rolfe made a perfectly timed run to slip behind Sporting's back line, finishing his 1-v-1 past Kempin from the top of the box. - Three minutes after that, it was 3-0. This time, it was Rolfe's turn to play provider, his through ball springing Perry Kitchen with plenty of space to operate behind the back line. He drove into the upper left of the penalty area, made a quick cutback to avoid charging center back Aurelien Collin, and slotted the ball near post.Sporting manager Peter Vermes made no changes to the team that rolled to a 4-1 win against Toronto FC at Sporting Park. - SPORTING KANSAS CITY (4-1-2-3): Jon Kempin - Igor Juliao, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Seth Sinovic - Lawrence Olum - Graham Zusi, Benny Feilhaber (Claudio Bieler 70) - Sal Zizzo (C.J. Sapong 37), Dom Dwyer, Soony Saad (Antonio Dovale 79). - Sporting suffered their heaviest home defeat since the 2010 season in the loss to D.C. United, conceding three goals in a game for the first time this season. - “There's been a lot of credit given to our back four over a long period of time. But the way that they performed tonight, they also are going to get some credit, too – and that's for giving up three goals,” SKC manager Peter Vermes said. “ … The number of goals that we've given up in our place, and the way we gave them up – and we've done this a couple of times now, not a number of them, but different counterattack-type goals like this.” - Said defender Matt Besler: “I'm not going to stand here and get into tactics too much. We gave up three goals. We gave up three breakaways at home, and it's unacceptable.” - Goalkeeper Jon Kempin suffered the loss for the first time since taking over the No. 1 goalkeeping duties with injuries to Andy Gruenebaum and Eric Kronberg. - “Give them credit, they made us pay and finished their chances. But we weren't good enough tonight. We knew what to expect from them, and at times we made it easy for them. We were sloppy in our distribution; we were caught out of position. Like I said, we want the next game to come fast because this just isn't acceptable,” Besler said. - For the first time this season, Vermes ran out the same starting XI in back-to-back league games. Seven of the starters had also been in the first team at midweek in the CONCACAF Champions League match at Real Estelí of Nicaragua, a 1-1 draw. - “D.C. was good on three counters, which our back four was absolutely horrendous on. It's one of those days where they came down on three routine plays and they scored three goals because of the way we were organized at the back,” Vermes said. “… But this has nothing to do with playing against Real Estelí.” - Claudio Bieler made a second consecutive substitute appearance, coming off the bench for the final 20 minutes, after not featuring in 12 consecutive league matches from May 23. - Sporting were shut out at the attacking end for the second time in three matches, and the sixth time this season. It was their second blanking at Kansas City, the first coming in a scoreless draw April 5 vs. Real Salt Lake. - “It's been a strange year. It's not like we've gone out with our consistent style, and there have been a lot of disruptions. So it's a difficult thing to evaluate,” Vermes said. “I couldn't care less about the games up until (the last one). This is the one I have to evaluate.” The Houston Dynamo saw their club-record road losing streak hit seven matches, falling 3-0 to the Columbus Crew on Saturday evening at Crew Stadium. The Dynamo are in ninth place in the Eastern Conference with 25 points from 24 games. - The Crew took the lead after 35 minutes. Justin Meram benefitted from a poor touch from a Houston defender and gathered the ball near the top of the penalty box, then took a few touches before firing a left-footed shot past goalkeeper Tally Hall. - The lead was doubled in the 59th minute as Meram this time played provider. Cleaning up a long corner, Meram turned and swung in a perfectly placed cross to the head of Adam Bedell, who outmuscled his marker and glanced a header past a helpless Hall and into the far corner. - Columbus added a third goal in the 64th minute, when fullback Waylon Francis found streaking substitute Aaron Schoenfeld with a perfect cross to head home from the heart of the area to seal the match. - Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear made one change to the team that defeated Philadelphia Union 2-0 at BBVA Compass Stadium. Corey Ashe came in at left back in place of DaMarcus Beasley. - HOUSTON DYNAMO (4-4-2): Tally Hall - Kofi Sarkodie, Jermaine Taylor, David Horst, Corey Ashe - Boniek Garcia (Andrew Driver 71), Luis Garrido (Brian Ownby 61), Ricardo Clark, Brad Davis (Jason Johnson 83) - Giles Barnes, Will Bruin. - The Dynamo had their club-record road losing streak extended to seven games in the loss at Columbus. The Dynamo are 1-10-1 on their travels, having scored just seven road goals, fewest in MLS this season. - The Dynamo have conceded the opening goal 13 times this season, tied for fifth-most in the league. But they have won just once after allowing the opening goal, their .077 winning percentage better than just the Montréal Impact (0-11-1, .042). - “I thought up until the goal we looked pretty good,” Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear said. “I thought that first goal took the wind out of us.” - After starting three consecutive matches at left back following his acquisition, DaMarcus Beasley did not feature against the Crew after suffering hamstring tightness. - Corey Ashe made his first start since July 20, coming back into the back four at left back to replace Beasley. - “I don’t think there’s anything anyone could question Corey about,” said forward Giles Barnes. “Ever since the day he knew he might not be starting he’s been out here working and doing his thing and that’s Corey all over. I can’t praise Corey enough. He’s a good player as well. He’s accepted what’s happened, and he’s working hard day-in-and-day-out.” - Beasley had not returned to full training sessions as the buildup to the Sporting match began. “He’s out as of now and we’ll see,” Kinnear said. “He went out jogging [Monday], and we have until Friday to see if he can play or not. [Corey’s] training well, and when he’s been asked to play he’s ready. He’s been very professional about it.” - The Dynamo were shut out at the attacking end for a 10th time this season, nine of those coming away from BBVA Compass Stadium. The New York Red Bulls were shut out 12 times in away matches in 2009 when they set the MLS record for fewest goals scored in road games for the season (3). - “I don’t think it was one thing in particular,” Kinnear said. “I don’t think we had a good night. They played pretty well, and you give them credit for that.”
Were you in full guard or half???? What he means by bring your outer arm around is ........Say he is choking you with his right arm you bring your right arm behind his head and press your sholder against his neck......Then you work the leg just be careful because you wont hve your left arm to bridge with while doing that... Oh and as far as the pain yeah that comes with the game my friend....Try stretching a little better and doing some exercises before rolling that will help....but as far as the pain now????ice and heat are your friends As far as shields and those wrasslers go....if you notice they change levels first then shoot with their head up.....not bent at the waste
What game(s) are you playing? View Single Post 11-24-2013, 04:20 AM It's Hammer Time! Join Date: Jun 2009 M.C, did you have to choose one faction to play with the whole time or can you switch between factions for each of your characters? MMAF Member of the Month 2015 Edition Rookie Hammer Squad 2015 Frankie Edgar - Dominick Cruz - Jorge Masvidal - Cat Zingano - Holly Holm View Public Profile Send a private message to Hammerlock2.0 Find More Posts by Hammerlock2.0
Originally Posted by dontazo cuz u have many attachments . try to upload pics I went to upload file from comp, clicked on browse and then selected the pic from my desktop.....usually when I hit upload it displays the pic.....am i doin somthin wrong??? lol hmmm seems i can only do 1 at a time.....
If you have come across an MMA news item in your travels that was worth a read then this is the place to post it to share it with the community. This will also add it to the MMA News area of the website. Please read the guidelines carefully before posting. - And so it begins... MMAPlayground.com Inaugural Season Greetings and welcome Pride and UFC MMA fans! MMAPlayground.com's first fight season is about to begin! This inaugural season will kick off with UFC 67 and will span through the next 9 Pride or UFC... - Just a few updates... We have 2 more confirmed fights for the season opening UFC 67 event: Hoger vs Lyoto and Frankie Edgar vs Tyson Griffin. Make sure you get your picks in before fight night on the My Upcoming Events... - Website updates yet again! If you noticed that the website was down for a few minutes today, here's why! The fantasy wager system has undergone an overhaul as per numerous feedback requests from our members. You may now... - Kevin Randleman Hopitalized! Kevin Randleman Hospitalized! - Article by: Bal K. Things just seem to keep going down hill for Kevin "The Monster" Randleman. Internet forums were on fire today, with rumors of "The Monster" being... - Four blockbuster matchups officially added to Pride 33! Frank Trigg, Nick Diaz, Takanori Gomi, Kazuhiro Nakamura and more! Four blockbuster matchups officially added to Pride 33! Frank Trigg, Nick Diaz, Takanori Gomi, Kazuhiro Nakamura and more! Four blockbuster matchups have been announced for Pride FC's next show,... - Site updates con't 1) NEW FEATURE - My Wager Finder If are having trouble finding enough people to place wagers with either on the MMA Fantasy Game Talk forum or from within your fight camp then perhaps this new... - HDNet Showing Live MMA Again With the UFC buying WEC HDNet will no longer be showing their live fights. They will continue to show repeats. But this is the best part: (Towards the end of the story) Linky Loo - Site updates, 1/27/07 Let's see... what do we have going on here at the moment.... UFC 67 , inaugural season event #1, coming up on Saturday. Make sure you have your picks and wagers in place a few hours before the PPV... - More Good News for MMA Another news org. jumps on the bandwagon: Lets Get It On - UFC 67: The Introduction of a Star – Mirko is Here Article by: Lars B. All hail Cro-Cop! This Saturday will mark the day that many hardcore American MMA fans have waited for a long time; the debut of Mirko "Cro-Cop" Filipovic on US soil (and... - Overeem vs Shogun confirmed! Alistair Overeem and Shogun Rua has been confirmed for the next Pride. This wiil be another great match up, Overeem had Rua in trouble in the first one. I cant wait to see the second one.... - 2/1/07 - Website updates and new features Event point scoring and the new "Hot" events To help further distinguish the "Pro's from the Joe's" here in our picks game we've implemented a new feature called "Hot" events. In a nutshell: At... - VERY IMPORTANT: Updates from today continued One VERY IMPORTANT update that was not mentioned earlier today has now been implimented on the site. This update affects the game pretty drastically, so we felt it was important to get it added to... - Lutter 2 Pounds Over Travis Lutter came in two pounds over weight at the UFC 67 weigh-in. The Nevada State Athletic Commission will give him two hours to drop the weight,or he will lose his title shot. - Mixed martial arts notebook UFC makes move toward domination - The Votes Are In! With about one hour left until voting closes for mmaplayground's inaugrual event, UFC 67: All or Nothing, it seems as though most of the participants have made their final picks. 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And in regards to Gross’s question about the Korean TV station paying more money for... - UK cash heist suspect appears in Morocco court (Lee Murray) LINK Part II of the story. UK cash heist suspect Lee Murray appears in Morocco court (the even stranger part of this story is that Britain reportedly is giving up a suspected terrorist in exchange... - Five ounces of pain: Just appreciate Cro Cop's fighting - Full-Time Fighter: Sean Salmon’s Debut Column - New bout added to Pride 33 - database server TKO'd Pride has confirmed via their website another match for their upcoming February 24th event in the US: Hellboy vs Jason Ireland. Make sure you get in your picks! 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THQ is working on a unique exercise game. The publisher confirmed at E3 this week that it is working on a UFC-inspired fitness game for Kinect, PS Move, and Wii. Unlike other games in the genre the game will be targeted primarily at men, MCV understands. (Men aspiring to be massive man-mountains with necks thicker than their heads - just like the best UFC fighters - we assume.) But like other exercise games THQ expects it to do well in the post-Christmas season when consumers think about getting in shape and shaving kilograms of mince pies from their physiques. The game is due in January and is called UFC Trainer. It's a spin-off of THQ's surprise success UFC, the Ultimate Fighting Championship game that debuted strongly last year - a sequel was released just last month. But the new game is not on show at E3 - THQ only revealed the game during an investors meeting. THQ's core games boss Danny Bilson said he wants to demo it only when the game ready for the market. "We want this thing tuned to perfection without lag," GameSpot quotes him as saying - which suggests THQ's developers are also still getting used to perfecting making content for Kinect. "And I'm not going to ship it until it's the coolest fighting thing in the world."Link
UFC 173 takes place on May 24 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and features middleweight champion Chris Weidman putting his belt on the line against Vitor Belfort in the night’s main event. Varner and Krause are both enter this fight coming off of a loss in their most recent bouts. Varner (21-9-1, 2 NC) is a former WEC champion, but has had a rough time since returning to the UFC. He is 2-3 during his current Octagon stint, losing to Abel Trujillo in a Fight of the Night performance in his most recent bout. That loss followed a split decision loss to Gleison Tibau. Krause (20-5) is only two fights into his first trip to the UFC. He won his debut fight by submitting Sam Stout last summer, but lost his follow-up effort to Bobby Green in November. The loss to Green ended an eight-fight winning streak. Krause will try to get back on course against Varner, who is in desperate need of a victory after suffering back-to-back losses.
One FC held their debut event in Singapore on Saturday with main event fighter Eduard Folayang and former UFC welterweight Yoshiyuki Yoshida both coming away with victories. The main event on the inaugural event featured one of the best up and coming fighters out of Asia as Eduard Folayang took on Heat FC champion A Sol Kwon. Folayang was able to outpoint Kwon for the better part of their 15-minute bout, despite the Korean breaking his nose early in the fight. While the damage done was good for Kwon’s offense, the end result didn’t help him out. Following the fight, MMAWeekly.com learned that Kwon likely broke his hand when giving Folayang the broken nose, and rendered him with one less weapon for the rest of the fight. A mix of kicks and pressure kept Folayang ahead for the majority of the fight, and he was given the unanimous decision win. Former UFC welterweight Yoshiyuki Yoshida said he had a new found confidence heading into his bout with Phil Baroni, and he also learned from past mistakes by employing a much smarter strategy. Three straight losses had Yoshida considering retirement, but he bounced back strong with a TKO win in his last fight, and he showed more improvement when facing Baroni. The Japanese judoka used superior takedowns and wrestling to put Baroni on the mat, and never let him get his hands loose. The fight was so frustrating for Baroni that after the fight ended and Yoshida was given the win, he refused to shake hands or give his opponent credit. The Singapore crowd let Baroni hear it, and he eventually relented and gave Yoshida his due. Gregor Gracie picked up his 4th straight win while fighting at One FC, but for the first time in his last four bouts, he actually didn’t end it in the first round. Gracie had finished 3 straight opponents in the first round, but he found his opponent in Singapore Seok Mo Kim to be tougher than expected. Gracie dominated the fight, but Kim was able to stave off submissions and make it all three rounds. Former ‘Ultimate Fighter’ competitor Andy Wang was the only fighter on the One FC card to miss making weight, and he paid for it with a part of his purse going to opponent Zorobabel Moreira, and then he paid for it in the fight as well. Moreira finished off Wang with strikes in the 2nd round earning the blistering TKO win. FULL RESULTS FOR ONE FC: CHAMPION VS. CHAMPION Eduard Folayang def. A Sol Kwon by unanimous decision Yoshiyuki Yoshida def. Phil Baroni by unanimous decision Eric Kelly def. Mitch Chilson by submission (rear naked choke) at 3:10, R1 Gregor Gracie def. Seok Mo Kim by unanimous decision Zorobabel Moreira def. Andy Wang by TKO (strikes) at 1:59, R2 Eddie Ng def. Chun Bo Yuan by KO at :45, R1 Radeem Rahman def. Susovan Ghosh by TKO (strikes) at 3:18, R1 Vuyisile Colassa def. Xing Yu Ma by TKO (strikes) at :14, R2 Leandro Issa def. Soo Chul Kim by unanimous decision
by Ivan Trembow – MMAWeekly.com Episode Eight of The Ultimate Fighter 4 drew a disappointing 1.1 overall rating on Thursday, October 5th. This ties the all-time series low for a regularly scheduled episode of TUF, which was previously set by Episode Nine of the second season and by Episode Four of this season just a few weeks ago. Compared to the previous week’s disappointing ratings, Episode Eight was down from 1.3 overall to 1.1 overall. In the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, it was down from 1.6 to 1.4. In the 18-to-34-year-old male demographic, it was down from 2.1 to 1.7, which is the second-lowest rating that TUF has ever drawn in the most advertiser-coveted demographic TUF 4 is Least-Watched Season to Date On a larger scale than one week of disappointing ratings, the general public’s interest level in TUF has never been lower, based on all of the Neilsen data. In the 18-to-49-year-old male demographic, TUF 4 has averaged a 1.7 rating through its first eight episodes, which is down from Season Three’s 2.2 average at the same point. Even more significantly, in the advertiser-friendly 18-to-34-year-old male demographic, TUF 4 has averaged a 2.2 rating through its first eight episodes, which is down significantly from Season Three’s 2.9 average. It’s natural for one to think that this is merely because TUF 3 was such a ratings sensation, but the unflattering comparisons do not end with TUF 3. Through eight episodes, TUF 4 is averaging a 1.3 overall rating. This average of 1.3 is down from the first season’s average of 1.7 through eight episodes; it’s down from the first season’s 1.6 average at the same point in the season; and yes, it’s even down from the much-maligned second season’s average of 1.5 at the same point in the season. Competition for Male Viewers Smaller for TUF 4 Than it Was for TUF 2 There is a perception that TUF 4 is going up against stiffer competition than previous seasons of TUF when it comes to male-oriented programming, but that is not actually the case. The fourth season of TUF has had to go head-to-head with a regular season NFL game exactly one time (on September 7th). On the other hand, The Ultimate Fighter 2 went head-to-head with ratings powerhouse Monday Night Football on ABC for all but three weeks of its entire season, and yet TUF 2 still drew better ratings than TUF 4 has drawn up to this point. In addition, TUF 2 aired in a worse timeslot (11:00 PM) when the total amount of people watching television is significantly smaller. The Monday Night Football broadcasts that went head-on with TUF 2 drew an average rating of 10.0 overall, a significant percentage of which were the young adult male viewers that watch the UFC. Other than one week of NFL football, TUF 4 has faced nothing of the sort, instead going up against baseball games with overall ratings in the 4’s and 5’s, as well as college football games with ratings in the 2’s. UFC Unleashed Generating Just as Much or More Interest than TUF It is becoming more and more apparent with each passing week that a significant number of viewers, first numbering in the thousands and now well into the six figures, consider themselves to be “UFC fans” or “MMA fans,” but are not interested in watching this season of TUF for whatever reason. This point is demonstrated week after week by the fact that replays of old fights that have already been replayed numerous times on Spike TV have been generating just as much viewer interest as brand new episodes of The Ultimate Fighter. The repeat of UFC Unleashed that aired immediately before Episode Eight of TUF 4 drew the same overall rating as TUF: 1.1. In a somewhat alarming sign, several hundred thousand television viewers who had been watching UFC Unleashed actually changed the channel at 10:00 PM when UFC Unleashed ended and TUF started. The rating normally darts upward right at 10:00 PM, as one would expect when a repeat is ending and a new episode of an original series is just starting, but the opposite was true in this case. The quarter-hour rating for the end of UFC Unleashed was 1.3 overall, and this number actually decreased to 1.0 for the beginning of TUF. The amount of people who were watching TUF did not increase all that much from there, as the show-closing fight between Patrick Cote and Jorge Rivera averaged a 1.2 rating. This could indicate that more viewers are interested in actual fights, or that many viewers may have soured on the general concept of watching a reality show about MMA (because they would rather just watch the fights), or that some specific elements of TUF 4 have turned off viewers and have made them not want to watch the show anymore. More than likely, it’s a combination of these factors, but whatever the reason, this has to cause concern for the ratings of the already-ordered TUF 5, TUF 6, and TUF 7. On a broader scale, only two of the last six repeat airings of UFC Unleashed have drawn lower ratings than the 1.1 overall rating that a new episode of TUF drew on October 5th, and even those two Unleashed repeats drew overall ratings of 1.0. There has never been a regularly scheduled new episode of TUF that has drawn a 1.0 overall rating, but with the way the ratings have been going this season, it could very well happen at some point in the coming weeks unless there is a major change in momentum. Network Competition on October 5th, and Octagon Girl Search Ratings Airing head-to-head with The Ultimate Fighter on Thursday, October 5th from 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM, ABC’s Six Degrees continued its steady decline in viewership, as it drew an overall rating of just 6.6, which will eventually get the show cancelled if there is no ratings improvement. Six Degrees no longer approaches Shark on CBS, which drew a 9.2 overall rating. Also, while ER is nowhere near the ratings force that it was once, the veteran drama series won the hour with a 9.6 overall rating on NBC. Airing head-to-head with UFC Unleashed in the 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM hour, Grey’s Anatomy out-drew CSI for the third consecutive week, as Grey’s Anatomy drew a 14.8 overall rating and CSI drew a 13.3 overall rating. Within the TV industry, the realization is starting to sink in that it was not a one-time aberration, and the show that was previously the most-watched show on television really has been dethroned by the up-and-coming medical drama. Also in this hour, NBC’s Deal or No Deal drew a 6.3 overall rating (solid considering the overwhelming competition), and the Major League Baseball Playoffs drew a disappointing 4.1 overall rating on Fox. Airing in primetime on Monday, October 2nd at 10:00 PM, the UFC Octagon Girl Search bombed with a 0.6 overall rating. The show didn’t fare much better in the advertiser-targeted demographics, as it drew a rating of just 0.8 in the 18-to-34-year-old male demographic, and a rating of just 0.6 in the 18-to-49-year-old male demographic. Airing immediately after The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV on October 5th was the pro wrestling show TNA Impact, which drew a 0.8 overall rating.
We had boots on the ground during the recent EVE Online Fanfest and we've got the full report about what the CCP team has in mind for the iconic game. See what's in store! If Crucible was an apology to legions of disgruntled space-adventurers, then CCP's latest addition to Eve Online, Inferno, is a love letter. Following a traumatic 2011, the Icelandic developer is like a husband shamed by infidelity - it had a brief flirtation with micro transactions, but now they are back, flowers in hand, head hung, and ready to call the couch a bed until the players are ready to allow them back into their affections. Read more of Adam Tingle's EVE Online: The Road to Inferno and Beyond.
The official Zentia blog here at MMORPG.com has been updated. In the ongoing Culture Corner series, Zentia devs give players the lore behind the in-game events and festivals. This time, the Qingming Festival is detailed. Check it out! One curious thing about the Qingming Festival is that it actually always takes place concurrently with a second holiday known as the Cold Food Festival. The general gist of the Cold Food Festival is that no one is allowed to light any fires, so all food has to be eaten cold. This may sound like a weird basis for a holiday, and you’d be right. It does, however, have a reason for existing in the first place. Read more here.
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Mobile bar code scanning triples on Black Friday versus a normal day December 1, 2010 Scanbuy seeks to connect the physical world to the digital world The growing popularity of mobile bar codes has been magnified over the last week with the official start of the holiday shopping season. Scanbuy claims it saw about 30 times more scans this past weekend than it did a year ago. It is also seeing a great mix of UPC and QR code scanning, which shows that both consumers and retailers are really embracing the technology. We have heard from actual users over the past week with some really compelling use cases, said Mike Wehrs, CEO of Scanbuy, New York. One woman scanned a UPC code, saw a lower price online, and the retailer she was in actually matched the price. Another woman reported that her son used her iPhone with the ScanLife QR codes in the Target toy catalog to get a video on a new Bigfoot toy, he said. Bar code scanning on the rise Bar code scanning via mobile devices has grown tenfold in 2010, per Scanbuy. Thanksgiving Day saw twice the average number of daily scans by consumers. Scanbuy mobilizes retail tags During the Black Friday shopping extravaganza, bar code scans shot up by 20 times the daily average when compared to last year, per Mr. Wehrs. And, overall for the weekend shopping it was three times more than a normal weekend, making it more than 30 times last years ScanLife traffic. Mobile bar codes play a pivotal role in helping savvy shoppers compare prices and choose the best gifts. Bar codes offer the capability to extend consumers' purchasing decision far beyond the small product placard on the store shelf. There are many ways bar codes can give shoppers a distinct advantage this holiday shopping season: Shoppers find a popular item at their local store, but notice the price is too high. By scanning a bar code at the store, they will be sent a list of online retailers that are selling the same product at a lower price. They can use this information as leverage in the store to price-match. Sometimes shoppers want the hot product, the one that is nearly impossible to find. Scanning a bar code will send the shopper a list of retailers selling that product with inventory in the area. This feature is ideal for those last-minute shoppers who do not want to use the same excuse as last year. Books and DVDs are always popular gifts, but what are people saying about the latest releases? Simply scan a bar code and see instantly whether "The Expendables" or "Eat, Pray, Love" is the better stocking-stuffer this year. For shoppers who love to brag about an amazing deal or sale they found, scanning a bar code will enable them to share it with friends on Facebook or email in a snap. UPC codes make it really simple to get a wide variety of information that is relevant to that specific product, Mr. Wehrs said. The consumer doesnt have to search across multiple sites when they have limited time to do so in the store. This is really acting like a targeted search engine from actual products, he said. The 2D codes are also giving consumers direct links to information, but can be more controlled by the marketer. The codes that offer value back to the consumer are seeing results in five and six figures. The technology is empowering the consumer to get more information from their mobile device in the store environment like never before." Dan Butcher, associate editor of Mobile Marketer, talks about how mobile bar coes activate traditional media. - Trackback url: http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/trackback/8281-4
Long answer, "no." Sony has not provided any enhancements and since so few people use it as a music player that has not been an area of development among the hackers. Direct page navigation and a clock were more desired features and they received the development time. One of the great features of the Sony was the extremely long battery life. Often a few weeks between charges. When you play music the battery gets eaten up very fast. I keep no music files on the Sony and have a Creative Zen for my music needs.
One of the questions I've put to iRiver was whether there were any specifications as to what would work to display a DOC file on a Story. I'm unhappy at the prospect of having to specially reformat every single document before it can even be read on the thing, but if that's what I need to do, then at least I'd know. If they'd said something like "Make every page A5 in size, and use font size 24 pt", then at least that would be something. It would be utterly ridiculous, because you'd get about three sentences to a page that way, but at least we'd know. I also attempted to highlight the fact that if the device doesn't display DOC files in any way that they can even be read, then there's no way to justify a claim that it "supports" the DOC format. They didn't get it. They just flatly stated that DOC files don't reflow, and there's no way to embed fonts in the document or change the font size in the on-screen display. As if that was news. As if that answered the question. As if they didn't even stop to realise that that made the format unusable.
\|12-19-2009, 10:48 AM\|\|#1\| Join Date: Oct 2008 Bailey, Arthur Scott: The Tale of Old Dog Spot v1 19 dec 2009 Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children's books. He was born on November 15, 1877, in St. Albans, Vermont, United States, the second child of Winfield Scott Bailey and Harriet Sarah Goodhue (a girl, Ellen was born in 1876). Winfield Bailey owned a dry goods shop that was stated to be "one of the most reputable of St. Albans mercantile concerns" and specialized in furs; namely ladies' fur coats, muffs and scarves. Bailey attended St. Albans Academy and graduated in 1896, in a class of only eleven other students. He then went on to the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, where he became involved in a fraternal organization, Sigma Phi (with which he was very active through at least 1915; he joined the organization's Catalogue Committee in 1914 as a vice chairman, after the resignation of Dr. Alexander Duane). However, he left UVM in 1901 and transferred to Harvard, where he earned his bachelor's degree. After graduating Harvard in 1902, Bailey traveled to Chicago and put his knowledge of growing up in his father's store to good use, becoming a wholesale grocery merchant. This lasted until 1904, when Bailey travelled to New York City and became an editor for various publishers. Which publishers these were is unknown, with the exception of the Macaulay Company, where he was working in early 1915. He was married around this time (on September 14, 1913) to Estella W. Goodspeed, a St. Albans woman; the wedding was held in his hometown. Estella Goodspeed, whose maiden name had been Crampton, had been married once before to an unknown Mr. Nelson Allen Goodspeed, and had a son, Allen Wright Goodspeed and daughter, Estella Joanne Goodspeed. Allen Goodspeed was born on August 5, 1906, and would have been nine when the first Sleepy-Time Tales were written (Estella was born in 1908.) As Bailey did not write prior to his marriage to Estella, it can be surmised that he first started crafting his stories for Allen and Estella, whom he treated as his own children. Estella Joanne later married a Mr. Lennox Stuart and moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio. Bailey's writing has been thus described by the Newark Evening News: "Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural history into the stories in a way that won educator's approval without arousing the suspicions of his young readers. He made it a habit to never 'write down' to children and frequently used words beyond the average juvenile vocabulary, believing that youngsters respond to the stimulus of the unfamiliar." His work also includes the comic strip Animal Whys, which was syndicated in 1937. Bailey was also known for being an intellectual, and was a member of the Salamagundi Club of New York. When it came to religion, Bailey was a Unitarian (who have long had a presence in St. Albans) and politically, he was a Republican of the old school. Bailey died on October 17, 1949, at 71 years of age. Made with Sigil \|Thread Tools\|\|Search this Thread\| \|Thread\|\|Thread Starter\|\|Forum\|\|Replies\|\|Last Post\| \|Fantasy Bailey, Arthur Scott: The Tale of Cuffy Bear. 20 Oct 07\|\|RWood\|\|BBeB/LRF Books (offline)\|\|0\|\|10-20-2007 04:01 PM\| \|Fantasy Bailey, Arthur Scott: The Tale of Freddie Firefly. 19 Oct 07\|\|RWood\|\|Kindle Books (offline)\|\|0\|\|10-19-2007 05:43 PM\| \|Fantasy Bailey, Arthur Scott: The Tale of Old Mr. Crow. 18 Oct 07\|\|RWood\|\|Kindle Books (offline)\|\|0\|\|10-18-2007 10:00 PM\| \|Fantasy Bailey, Arthur Scott: The Tale of Old Mr. Crow. 18 Oct 07\|\|RWood\|\|BBeB/LRF Books (offline)\|\|0\|\|10-18-2007 09:59 PM\| \|Fantasy Bailey, Arthur Scott: The Tale of Fatty Coon. 18 Oct 07\|\|RWood\|\|BBeB/LRF Books (offline)\|\|0\|\|10-18-2007 09:21 PM\|
Rockstar After Party game controls fire = na;jump = na;movement = na; Oh, no! Those nasty rockstars wrecked the green room! Now you're going to have to clean it up. But don't worry, you've been practicing your guitar riffs. You may be cleaning up their cigarette butts and empty bottles now, but pretty soon you'll have an awesome music career and you can hire these rockstars as your roadies!
This is my 1st Creation the Masakari mini, sorry about crappy pics i used my phone About this creation My personal variant features the 4 ER-PPCs but removes all missles and back up weapons in favor of 2 ER Large Pulse Lasers. I removed 4 of its 20 heat sinks so i could add armor and an ECM unit , i also removed 2 sinks and added LAMS, I converted all of the other 14 into clan double heat sinks. And somehow i accidentally put in the arms on hinge tools just right to where theyre posable, but hey it works right. Currently im working on a mini Hollander 2 model its going ok but it only stands if the legs are completely straight.
The HGV-1 could carry 8 cargo pallettes, with a Tarren Trade Authourity standard attachment on top. On this side it is carrying a standard container (with extra life-support fittings), a palette of black & yellow canisters, a palette of 4 "Blackbird" self-defence missles and a standard container at the rear. About this creation The crew compartment could be accessed by the fold-down front ramp or the hinged canopy on the cockpit. The gantries from the crew compartment to the engine pod carried the 8 cargo palettes and also mounted a search radar and a twin laser cannon mount for use against pirates and space debris. Being a freighter, the HGV-1 didn't have particularly impressive looking engines. The engine pod also powered VTOL lift thrusters under itself & the crew compartment, as well as the manoeuvring thrusters. Here we see the HGV-1 on the ground on the barren and backward planet of Bala II. The HGV-1 could only land on planets with a thin atmosphere and low gravity. The crew compartment contained a bed and seat, along with some storage space. Occasionally the HGV-1 would operate on longer sectors with two crew or carry a paying passenger or hitch-hiker. At the end of its working life, the HGV-1 worked in the backward systems of the western spiral arm of the galaxy. Here the spaceports were using modified vehicles from the "Classic Space" era of 30 years ago. Aha! So that is why a container has life-support systems! The pilot is engaged in the very illegal but highly profitable trade in exoctic pet birds. The spaceport's CC-TV has spotted him selling a rare Danish Bley. He is one of the notorious Budgie Smugglers! Note also the "Blackbird" missiles for defending his expensive cargo from pirates AND the authorities. The HGV-1 makes a run for it but the authourities have been alerted. Here we see the Budgie Smugglers being intercepted by a pair of Y-Fronts.
Dana N HodgesHair Stylist Female Port Jefferson, New York, US My MM URL: http://www.modelmayhem.com/DanaNHodges Mayhem # 1529246 About MeI am a professional and fast working Hair Stylist. I have experience in photo shoots and have also placed third in Eufora's Stylist of the Year Award for the Avante-Garde 2009 category. My style is pretty widely ranged;I can go contemporary or commercial to bold and edgy, and anything in between! I try to suit the model and atmosphere for the look. I am full of passion and love what I do. I am always looking to expand my career and push it to the next level! So check out my photos and contact me for any photo shoots, video work, fashion show, etc. I like to get involved in everything! Email me at [email protected]
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Tragically AdornedClothing Designer Female Portland, Oregon, US My Website: Tragically Adorned on EtsyMy MM URL: http://www.modelmayhem.com/tragicallyadorned Mayhem # 2742774 About MeIf you wish to view more of my work, please visit me at www.facebook.com/tragicallyadorned I have relocated to Portland, Oregon!! If you live in the area and wish to work with me, feel free to send me a message! The shop is up and running! Tragically Adorned began in 2010, with a vision to bring romantic and Victorian/Fantasy styles into modern fashion. I am self-taught and driven with my jewelry creations and small clothing accessories. I have worked with some wonderful people in the industry, (such as Vivid Vivka, and Kato of Steampunk Couture) and hope to continue collaborating with such amazing artists who share a similar passion. The work that greatly interests me in a collaboration is anything artistic, fashionable in a surreal way, and fantasy based. I prefer to get a feel for a story within the images created between us. If you wish to work with me, please contact me for my current schedule and what you would like done. I currently do not have a direct list of photographers or models to work with, so please take into consideration of building the shoot on your own to incorporate my designs. If you are in the area and would like to work with my designs, contact me for my schedule as I would love to be there to help style the models with my designs. CreditsMM Models worked with: Miss Morgan Serah #1804413 Elena Chapman #1664218 Anne Gwendalyn #1723769 Kato of SteampunkCouture.com #1173679 Ulorin Vex #2178 MM Photographers worked with: Porcelain Poet #239674 Kin Photo #2413841 Keri Petitt #1675424 Allan Amato Photography #254223
Loredana FModel Female New York, New York, US My Website: LoredanaMy MM URL: http://www.modelmayhem.com/Loredana Mayhem # 694819 Currently I am available for PAID ASSIGNMENTS ONLY and I am willing to travel with PAID EXPENSES. I will do TFP/TFCD with published photographers only if we both feel that the work is needed in both portfolios. My rates are negotiable by content, shoot length and usage, with a minimum of three hours shooting time. Please be specific with details including dates, time, type of shoot, intended usage, etc. No nudes, sorry. With that said "LETS SHOOT"
Canon 5D (original) for sale. With EED focusing screen, battery charger and (2) BP 511A lithium batteries. Camera has 20,000 actuations, and was cleaned and checked by Canon in September 2013. (Also have 24-105 f/4L IS lens available... Will discount if bought together.) Jun 19 13 03:48 pm Link Los Angeles, California, US How much for just the body and batts and grip and charger? Don't really even want the grip, but I expect you won't find a buyer for just that. Jun 19 13 10:05 pm Link Innovative Imagery wrote: The research I've done shows me the used 5D goes for anywhere from $600-$1000, and the grip $50-$75. As far as I know, this camera's in perfect shape. (I can have it cleaned and checked again by Canon before selling it.) B+H is asking $750 for the body (sans grip) in good shape. So I figure this one has to be worth $900 with the grip and extra batteries. Jun 20 13 09:22 am Link Jun 24 13 05:41 am Link Albany, New York, US "Sounds like a very good deal"....lol I can say, Ira is a truly great guy... Buy his gear in confidence! Jul 03 13 06:13 am Link Ira Meyer wrote: I sold the 17-35 today... Jul 09 13 05:07 pm Link I've sold the BG-E4 grip... And am now asking $775 for the 5D with focusing screen, battery charger and two batteries. Jul 23 13 01:33 pm Link Aug 15 13 07:10 pm Link
Don’t change Muslim dress to Party “T’ shirts -Chief Imam Sheikh Abdul Moumin Haroun, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Chief Imam has warned Muslim youth not to change their Muslim dress to party “T” shirts and indulge in activities that would create confusion in the society. He said after the 30 days fast and prayers, there was the need for them to remain holy, cautious in their activities and pray to God so that he would continue to shower his blessings on the nation for a peaceful election. Sheikh Haroun gave the advice after leading thousands of Muslims including the Regional Chief Imam, Alhaji Imurana Musah, Sari kin Zongo, other Chief Imams and Ullemams in an open air prayer at the Central Mosque at Akwatialine in Kumasi on Tuesday to mark the Eid-Ul-Fitr festival. The prayer was under the theme “Unity, Peace and Violent-Free Election”. The Deputy Chief Imam emphasised that politics was all about the development and welfare of the people, and stressed that, nothing debarred Muslims from involving themselves in it, but they should think about what they could do to ensure free, fair and successful election devoid of conflicts, confrontations, fighting and blood shed. Sheikh Haroun urged them to take education serious, which he said would be a blessing to them and their children, and also work hard to be able to become useful citizens in the society and support the needy and the afflicted. Mr Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah, the Ashanti Regional Minister and MP for Kwabre West who joined in the Muslims noted that 30 days of fasting to ask for God's forgiveness, blessings and development of the nation by Muslims was a good thing that all Ghanaians much cherish. He said at the end of the fast, there was the need for them to work on it so that they get blessings for themselves, their families and the nation as a whole. Touching on the December Elections, the Regional Minister indicated that since there were choices in their dress, so it is in politics that every body would have a choice but that does not mean that the person is an enemy. He emphasized that “if the person is not on your side what to do was to woo him or her to your side and not a matter of fight,” adding that, “when trouble or fights erupts, it is the women and the children who suffer most”. Mr Owusu-Ansah admonished that they ensured peaceful and mutual co-existence with their neighbours, and pray so that the fast would be beneficial to them in their lives.
It seems like lately a lot of bloggers are enabling comment moderation on their blogs. If you moderate your comments, what are the benefits of doing that? Does it reduce spam that much? Do you think it makes your readers write a more honest response? Are you heading off any negativity that may arise? I don't have comment moderation on my blog but I was just wondering what the benefits are. I turned it on because I was getting spammy comments, like, "great review and come and see this new book published by (publisher) at (link), or even a good comment with a link to some shopping site. I felt uncomfortable with some of the links. I have put out a few of these, but I want the majority of the comments to be noncommercial. I have comments moderated on a couple of blogs, an unmoderated on a couple of others. Depends on how hard I'm getting hit with spam. So far, the problem really has only been at one, and that has been for our ranch. I am also getting to the point where I moderate comments on profiles. I don't want people coming to my profile, just to tell me what they have to offer. I want to get to know you, personally, not your business, first. I know this may sound harsh, but I get so tired of "come check out my opportunity, I'll make you rich". It gets out of hand. I do need to go back through my profiles and inform visitors, so that visitors to my profiles will take note (hopefully). On my personal family blog I do have comment moderation enabled. The reason for this is my parents, grandmother, aunts, cousins and friends all read this blog and possibly the comments to. I don't want them having to read comments from nasty people and spam ... not that I get very much, but it's one less thing I have to deal with. I see that some people who have commented here have the option to only moderate the first comment made by a person, I'm guessing you don't use Blogger b/c I can't seem to find that option, but I'd definitely rather do that than moderate every comment. On my crafting and party planning blogs I don't enable comment moderation b/c 99% of comments that have been posted have been solely about my blog posts ... so far, fingers crossed.
I was in disbelief watching the news last month about a fatal home invasion robbery in my neighborhood. The victim had surveillance cameras outside his house and after I watched how he and his wife were forced into their house at gunpoint, I was very alarmed and terrified. I see myself vulnerable too because whenever I walk to my house leading up to my front door, I don't look around and do a quick scan of my sides or back. I just walk to my door. In the video, you can see one suspect walking back and forth in front of their targeted house a couple of times, clearly casing the place. Once the gunman forced the couple inside their house, the victim tried to run upstairs and was shot by one of the suspects. Another unbelievable thing that was shown in the video was a pedestrian lurking outside was noticed by the robbers from inside the house and one of them went out, walked the guy in at gunpoint and tied him up. From this tragedy, I learned to change my ways about certain things. I'm more diligent about my surrounding as I walk to my door. I make sure I'm not distracted and not talking on my phone when I'm opening my door. The victim was talking on his phone while walking up to his front door. I've talked to my kids, friends and family about this awareness when walking in the streets, going to their cars whether in the streets or garage, and walking to their house or other people's house. I hope to encourage everyone to practice the same safety precautions and if you have any more to add, please comment about it. You can watch the surveillance footage here
Vote Like Your Future Depends on It This election season is extracting an enormous toll from candidates and citizens alike. Pressure is always intense in a Presidential year, but this year is different. Airwaves and Internet hammer away with news of poll after poll, minute campaign details and endless tit for tat. The presidential race, Senate and House races — even local campaigns — all occupy space in national media. Twenty e-mails appear in my inbox by noon each day, all URGENT and all pleading for funds. The money flow is mind boggling. According to followthemoney.org, state races alone have raised almost $1.2 Billion. OpenSecrets.org reports that each presidential campaign has raised and spent almost a billion dollars. And of course, this doesn’t include the biggest spenders of all, the super PACs. The world watches in wonder and dismay, and my sense is most Americans just want it to be over. It’s understandable that people might block out the noise and ignore politics altogether in an attempt to restore balance and sanity to their lives. For those ready to run screaming from the computer or TV, sit out the election and withhold their vote, I have two words: Politicians come and go, but ultimately the strength of our democracy and the breadth of our freedom depend on these nine lawyers. Questions of end-of-life choice provide a good measure of the power of these individuals to either invade — or respect — the autonomy and dignity we enjoy as Americans. - In 1990 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Nancy Cruzan should be relieved of her feeding tube if clear evidence was that she would not want it. It could have ruled otherwise. - In 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court let a Ninth Circuit ruling stand, essentially telling litigants from National Right to Life they had no standing to block Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. (Lee v. Oregon) Right to Life lawyer James Bopp failed to persuade the Court that Oregon’s law represented a risk or injury to his client. Yet the Court could have been persuaded otherwise, and our law could have been enjoined forever. - Four times in 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Schiavo case. Refusing to grant certiorari, the Court left intact Florida rulings that Terri Schiavo’s husband acted according to her wish not to be maintained in an unconscious state. But it could have ruled otherwise, and stepped in as Congress did to meddle in an intensely private decision. - In 2006, with Justices Roberts, Scalia and Thomas dissenting, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oregon’s right as a sovereign state to regulate doctors and determine the boundaries of legitimate medical practice. Six Justices Blocked U.S. Attorneys General Ashcroft And Gonzales in their quest to stop Oregon’s Death with Dignity law. It could have been otherwise, and the federal government could easily have usurped state authority over medical use of controlled drugs. This would have given the party in federal power the ability to intrude in every State’s medical practice standards. If you are disgusted at the sorry condition of our political contests and tempted to let this Election Day pass without registering a vote, please don’t. Think on your sacred freedoms and know how fragile they are. Vote as though your future depends on it. It does.
After putting five miles behind me on the stationary bike, I headed for the showers and my favorite part of my workout: the whirlpool. As I eased into the hot, swirling water, I moaned approvingly to no one in particular. And, as the dancing water massaged my body, I thought about how blessed we are to have such a wonderful resource available to us as the Monroe Family YMCA. I’d been a member off and on for years and always appreciated the myriad opportunities it affords, but the changes I’ve seen in the last few years have elevated the Y to its highest level yet. And while any company is only as good as its board of directors, it’s obvious their “new” executive director is making things happen. I had an immediate connection with Kristin Irwin the moment she said, “I do” to husband Ryan as his family and mine have been lifelong friends through church. I also was quite impressed with the resume of the former Hillsdale College, Ohio Northern University and Central Michigan University women’s basketball coach who holds a master’s degree from Bowling Green State University and bachelor’s from Grand Valley State University. Add to that nearly a decade’s experience running the Romulus Parks and Recreation Department and it’s easy to see why this mother of two has become such a shining star in our YMCA sky. However, as a man of faith, what has impressed me most is how she has accentuated the original focus of the YMCA’s founding from way back in 1844. According to the Y Web site, that year Englishman George Williams was troubled by the “bleak landscape of tenement housing and dangerous influences awaiting young men who migrated to the city from rural areas to find jobs in industrialized London.” Mr. Williams helped organize the first Young Men’s Christian Association to become “a refuge of Bible study and prayer for young men seeking escape from the hazards of life on the streets.” In 1851, Bostonian Thomas Sullivan noticed a similar need and helped organize America’s first YMCA. As we continue to deal locally with decadence and death from drugs and their associated crimes, I can’t imagine the “dangerous influences and hazards of life on the streets” in the 1800s being any worse than what they are right here in good ol’ Monroe, Michigan, in 2012. That’s why I’m grateful for our YMCA and the re-emphasis of its original purpose. Even greater than for my own personal use, when my grandsons are engaged in the Y’s swimming or latch-key programs, I know they’re not hanging in places where local drug dealers can lure them with their magic candy. That emphasis hasn’t always been this prominent. Years ago — in what I realize now was the beginning of America’s “politically correct era” — I was sitting in the men’s locker room one day singing “Amazing Grace” as I dressed for my daily workout. Suddenly a gentleman poked his head around the corner and said, “I had to come see who was singing so boldly about my Savior.” That gentleman was the Rev. Al Overstreet, a daily fixture at the Y and current member of the board of directors. Because of our shared faith, we became fast friends. I looked forward to seeing him each day and we began timing the end of our workouts in order to meet in the sauna where we’d discuss daily life and pray together. Eventually, I brought a Bible and we’d sweat in the overbearing heat of that sauna studying the Scriptures together. It wasn’t long before others asked to join us and before long we had that tiny room crammed with men fellowshipping in faith. Because of that overcrowding in the sauna, “Brother Al” and I made an appointment with the then-executive director to inquire about transferring our prayer meetings to the Y’s conference room; we were rather shocked by his response. As politely as he could, he let us know he was not happy we had been using the sauna for such use and also refused us usage of the conference room. My response was, “Isn’t this the Young Men’s CHRISTIAN Association?” He agreed but made it clear he didn’t want the Y offending anyone and even asked us to discontinue our prayer meetings in the sauna. Fast forward to the arrival of Ms. Irwin in March, 2010, and it wasn’t long before we began to see changes, beginning with fresh paint everywhere. Exercise equipment was improved along with employee attitudes and simple problems — like whirlpool water not being hot half the time — were corrected. The Y assumed a greater role in our community as a partner by such things as collaborating with city and local schools to reopen the Arborwood swimming pool. The Y also hosts a monthly after-hours party for the Arthur Lesow Community Center kids. Officials have made the facility more universally accessible in order to cater to any demographic. They work with the Monroe County Intermediate School District to assist older kids with job training and have a swimming class for autistic children. They’ve become more socially responsible and are changing their lights to more efficient ones in order to reduce their carbon footprint. They also added a recycling bin and volunteer program among many other new aspects. But what I noticed most was the change in spiritual emphasis. Now when visitors enter, they find Scriptures emboldened on the walls and scrawled on small strips of paper in a bowl full of encouraging “Spiritual Vitamins” on the counter. Local enthusiast Jacob Goins has been hired as the new Christian emphasis coordinator and helps oversee a wide range of programs focused on helping adults — and especially our youth — seek healthy living and social responsibility. The Y also partners with area churches and this year held its first vacation Bible school with 70 children attending. Now instead of Bible study and prayer meetings being frowned upon, there are multiple weekly ones from which to choose that are promoted as part of the regular programming. The YMCA core values of faith, responsibility, respect, honesty and caring for others also are promoted and on what better path could we be guiding our children and leaders of tomorrow? “Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, creed, color or religion!” Ms. Irwin emphatically shared with me. “While we don’t turn anyone away, still the YMCA is founded on Christian principles. “In 2010, the national Y changed our logo and there was uproar that the Y was taking “Christian” out of it; that wasn’t the case at all. We’re still the Young Men’s Christian Association, and while we are solid in our faith, we treat people fairly, especially those who are non-Christian. “If I can impact one life here,” she concluded, “then that’s more than I was able to do in all my other jobs.” Finally, with last week’s launch of our highly anticipated holiday season, I can’t think of a better Christmas gift to suggest we give than a membership to the Monroe Family YMCA. If you’re considering that gift, today is your lucky day! Beginning today and ending Friday, in promotional conjunction with the Salvation Army, the Monroe Family YMCA will waive the regular $75 membership joining fee when you donate a new or gently used coat. What a deal! For more information call the Y at 241-2606. I believe we go wrong in life because we refuse to discipline ourselves physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally and morally and we miss the boat by ignoring people and places — like our YMCA — that help us deal with those issues. But, what do I know? Readers can e-mail Tom Treece at [email protected].
(above photo courtesy of Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Police) Bald eagles are protected under state and federal law, and it is a Class A misdemeanor if a person kills one. On top of the federal law, the Washington state law also deems killing bald eagles illegal and brings a maximum penalty of $1,000 and 90 days in jail. The state also adds a $2,000 fine per eagle, upon conviction. According to a post on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, on January 10th, officers retrieved four dead eagles floating in a lake just outside of Granite Falls, Washington. The post states that “Initial observations suggest at least three of the birds were killed using a small caliber rifle.” The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is asking for your help in catching the poachers. They have teamed up with the Humane Society of the United States and Conservation Northwest to offer a $3,750 cash reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the poacher. Contact The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Police confidenitally: via TIP line: 877.933.9847 via Email: [email protected]
The typeface is reminiscent of many of the advertisement fonts of the first half of the 20th century. I think it’s really romantically nostalgic, and makes me think of the privileged upper classes in 1930s Paris, sophisticated and elegant and impeccably dressed at all times. About the designers MOO Designs is a collaborative creative effort from the design team at MOO. All our designers have an individual style that we love, but are also brilliant at working as a team towards a single goal. We’ll give them any theme or idea, and they’ll meld their minds together to produce a series of beautiful card designs.
Never malign your competitors. If it weren't for them you'd be either self-satisfied or broke. They keep you alert to your faults and aware of your mistakes. They force you to do continually better work at lower cost. They serve as efficiency experts and charge you no fee. They're your friends in disguise. Don't curse them. Thank them—and show your gratitude by giving them even more to sweat about than they give you.—S F C Spotlight The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.—W. Allston, Lutheran Digest A new baby arrived at a house. A little girl—now fifteen—had been the pet of the family. Every one made much of her, but when there was a new baby she felt rather neglected. "How are you, Mary?" a visitor asked of her one afternoon. "Oh, I'm all right," she said, "except that I think there is too much competition in this world." A farmer during a long-continued drought invented a machine for watering his fields. The very first day while he was trying it there suddenly came a downpour of rain. He put away his machine. "It's no use," he said; "you can do nothing nowadays without competition."
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Definitions of collier n. - One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal. n. - A vessel employed in the coal trade. The word "collier" uses 7 letters: C E I L L O R. No direct anagrams for collier found in this word list. Words formed by adding one letter before or after collier (in bold), or to ceillor in any order: a - rocaille d - collider s - colliers y - colliery Shorter words found within collier: ceil cel cell celli cello ceorl cero cire coil coiler coir col cole collie cor core el ell er ice ill iller ire lei li lice lie lier lire lo loci lore ocelli oe oil oiler ole oleic or orc ore oriel orle re rec recoil rei relic reoil rice riel rile rill rille roc roe roil role roll List shorter words within collier, sorted by length Words formed from any letters in collier, plus an optional blank or existing letter List all words starting with collier, words containing collier or words ending with collier All words formed from collier by changing one letter Other words with the same letter pairs: co ol ll li ie er Browse words starting with collier by next letter Previous word in list: collied Next word in list: collieries Some random words: aoudad
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Chaplain Berge A. Hoogasian departed Earth for his home in heaven this week. He died of natural causes at the age of 87. A born again Christian and Baptist Minister, Chaplain Hoogasian led a distinguished military career spanning several decades of service. He began his service as an Army Private in the infantry in World War II in Europe. He later served as an Air Force Chaplain in Viet Nam, and retired from the USAF in 1977. He continued the Lord’s work as a pastor for many years afterwards. An accomplished writer, he was featured in multiple periodicals, and additionally authored a book in 2010 about his experiences as a Chaplain in Viet Nam. Chaplain Hoogasian was married for over 55 years to his wife Alicia before her passing in 2006. He is survived by his two sons, Stephen and Timothy. His burial service will be held at 10:30 am, Tuesday Aug 2, 2011 at the Mt Green cemetery. Donations in his memory may be made at www.uso.org, or www.lam.org.
It's a Living Snow Fence kind of winter There probably can't be a better time than the dead of a blustery Minnesota winter to promote the use of Living Snow Fences in rural areas of Stevens County. And recently, Stevens County Soil and Water Conservation and the Minnesota Department of Transportation teamed up to make the offer to land owners fairly lucrative. The Living Snow Fence program began more than 10 years ago and encourages land owners in rural areas along roadways to plant rows of trees, shrubs and native grasses to catch snow and help keep roads clear. But it's difficult to convince farmers to take any land out of production, so now the SWCD and MnDOT are attempting to make it a deal they can't refuse. Previously, farmers would get CRP payments for the land taken out of production, and they had to kick in a little money to pay for the plants in the fence. Now, they get the CRP money, MnDOT pays for all the plants, SWCD provides the labor to plant, and the farmers also receive a 20-cent per foot maintenance fee. Once the plants and grasses are established, there's very little maintenance needed, said Ron Feigum, SWCD District Technician. Feigum estimated Living Snow Fence payments between $170 and $300 per acre. "It's a pretty lucrative thing to get into," Feigum said. "It's better than cash rent," said SWCD Administrator Matt Solemsaas. This winter has provided prime examples of why the program needs more land owners to sign up, Solemsaas said. Snowfall has been substantial and steady, and the topography and land uses in Minnesota leave it susceptible to blowing and drifting. The program addresses public safety issues and improves wildlife habitat while also helping to mitigate significant economic losses that come with road closures, he said. MnDOT estimated that closing Minnesota's transportation corridors for a 24 hour period results in $118 million of unrecoverable losses in wages and salaries, taxes and retail sales. Dennis Garoutte, of rural Chokio, had a Living Snow Fence installed on his property last year. His three-quarter of a mile fence takes about 10 acres out of production but he's pleased with the results. "It pays pretty good, that's the main thing," Garoutte said. The stretch of Highway 28 along Garoutte's property, which is two miles west of Chokio, has had less drifting this year and it likely will improve more as the plants mature. The two-year-old fence has captured a ridge of snow that is three to four feet high, he said. "It's made a big difference so far," said Garoutte, who added that he's seen many more pheasants on his property since the fence was installed. "There are quite a few places between (his home) and Chokio that get drifted in pretty good, and I think this would help," he said. Feigum said the condition of the road along Garoutte's property before and after the fence installation "is like night and day. It's so much better." Solemsaas said he understands farmers' reluctance to sign up for the program. But he stressed that while it takes land out of production, they receive good payments and it does not take control of the property out of their hands. "It's really a public safety issue," Solemsaas said. "We're not trying to take anything out of production. They're giving up a few hundred feet but they're going to get paid."
Rising inflation heaps stress on consumers Today's announcement by the Bank of England that inflation hit 5.2% in September, the highest level for three years, adds further pressure to the many households across the UK. Research from MoneySupermarket.com has revealed that 71% of British consumers will need to turn to their savings, credit cards or overdraft to fund rising bills. As we come into the colder months, most consumers will be feeling the impact of recent energy price rises which added an average 17.4% to the cost of gas and 10.8% to the cost of electricity, resulting in average annual standard bills of £1,287. Additional research found that UK adults are so stretched financially due to the rising cost of living that a quarter (26%), almost 13 million people, say they now instantly get stressed or worried whenever they receive a bill. Of those that feel stressed and worried about opening their bills, over half (54%) said the biggest cause was the simple fact that bills just keep rising, meaning they struggle to know how much they will be and how to deal with them. Nearly a third of those worried (31%) panic because they have more money going out of their current account than they have coming in every month. Commenting, David Miller, partner at Cheviot Asset Management, said: "This is not a re-run of the 1970s – Britain is not going back to the days of endemic high inflation. While these numbers are slightly worse than expected they are not shocking. "If you strip out higher taxes, energy bills and food prices, Britain's inflation would be about the same as Germany's. As these factors work their way out of the equation over the next year we can expect to see inflation coming down." - Advisers account for 88pc of equity release sales - Identity fraud most virulent being committed - Brokers stuns onlookers in Sinclair C5 - Aviva enhances CI cover with new conditions - Consultation on the future role of the FRC - HSBC slammed by intermediaries - Mayfair Bridging appoints Colin Ranshaw to the board Have Your Say
Best Coast Release ‘This Lonely Morning’ From New Mini Album ‘Fade Away’ Written by Mike Hohnen on 10th October, 2013 Best Coast have today fired the first warning shot from their highly anticipated forthcoming mini-album Fade Away. Titled This Lonely Morning, the track is a smooth, well-polished introduction to the surf punk vibes Fade Away will dabble in. Best Coast is a totally different, much faster beast than the days of their debut Crazy For You, but the deeply personal subject matter draped over the loosey-goosey drums and stoner guitar work on This Lonely Morning should make longtime fans feel right at home. The track shows growth in both front lady Bethany Cosentino and her master-of-all-trades partner-in-crime Bobb Bruno. Working with the band in the studio was iTunes Original sessions master Wally Gagel, who worked previously with the band in 2011. Fade Away will be released Friday, 18th October with Best Coast heading back into the studio this November to work on a new normal-sized album, expected to drop next year. Watch: Best Coast – This Lonely Morning
The case has good looks as you can see right off the bat, we got the brushed steel looking one and it looks great on the outside from first glance. The smooth cool silver lends a big hand in how the case feels and with no rough edges and clean lines it will suit many a PC builders visual approval. The Front panel offers a few I/O options as well as the start/restart buttons with everything being easily accessible. Ergonomically I feel the USB ports and the FireWire ports should be on top the case as I put my PC on the floor next to my desk, but this is a personal opinion and one that may not matter to some users at all. The Poseidon offers a removable rear I/O shield, and you can see the fans lights when they are lit up at night. The pre-made vent holes offer rubber edged washers to give your liquid hoses a non abrasive surface. This is to help ensure they do not get damaged or cut by metal edged surfaces causing leakage and eventual system failure. All the edges of the top and sides have been machined and buffed as well making the steel safe to the touch. All the side panels come off via thumb screws that allow for a tool-less environment and make removable and reattachment simple. The case comes with an optional clear panel window that you can use to replace the steel grill side that is installed standard on the case coming out of the box. This looks good if you are planning on tricking out the inside of your vase with neon lights and such.
Paper Mosaics: Inspired by glass art she saw in Venice, Italy, Arizona artist Sandy Schimmel Gold created a new art form that mimics a mosaic—and recycles waste. Schimmel Gold first paints a portrait in acrylic, then glues colorful paper bits from junk mail and greeting cards directly on top. The paint shows between the squares of paper, creating the effect of grout and mosaic. Calling All Colors: Schimmel Gold is particular about the paper she uses; magazine pages are too thin, for example. Postcards and junk mail, she says, are perfect. "I get mail from the cruise line Holland America, and if I need a deep turquoise blue, I use a lot of their stuff. Macy’s has great red, and Jamba Juice has great orange and lime green." That ’60s Ethic: "I’m a crazy recycler," Schimmel Gold says. "I am compelled to utilize unusual resources to create my art. It serves two purposes—to reuse the junk that arrives in the mail and to give images and words a new life or meaning." Schimmel Gold scours garage sales in search of recyclable material. "A lot of the canvases I use are recycled too," she says. "I’ll take a painting of someone else’s and paint over it." Start Saving: Schimmel Gold is hosting workshops to help others create. When participants sign up, she tells them to start saving their mail. "People don’t believe how much junk they get." But the benefit, Schimmel Gold says, is there are plenty of resources to work with. Online Gallery: www.SchimmelArt.com
Well I never thought I'd be here again, but after a bit, I am expecting dear child #3 in Jan 2011. I had a vaginal hospital birth with DD, then my son was a planned Home birth. My son flipped at 40 weeks and was full breech during labor and after my water broke, so there was no way my midwife would deliver him at home. I had a mentally traumatic, but physically pretty routine, c-section. The whole thing left me with a bad taste in my mouth. All that preparation, only to end up back at the damn hospital. Well fast forward almost two years and now I am looking at options. I went to my first "nurse visit" today at the M.D.'s and I was so not excited about going back. The doc is ok, I guess, but the whole experience was depersonalizing. And honestly even the "best" hospital birth turns me off. I'm resentful about the hospital owning the process and taking control of my experience. I'm already irritated and I'm not even 8 weeks preg! Imagine how this is going to build as I go on through the pregnancy. So I came to say Hi, chat and maybe learn something. I could go through the whole hospital business, and then just, stay home during labor and see how hard it is... I guess unattended birth after a c-sec is irresponsible. Uterine rupture and all that. But I'm already dreading it and I am thinking that way. Sane alternatives, anyone? I wonder if I can still have the homebirth of my dreams. Good luck, you do have options!!! Wife to DH 8/2003; Momma to DS 5/2007 ; DD 5/1/2010 ! I would love to hear your birth story. Thanks for the resources and support. I think I know what the right thing to do is, but it's hard to find people who agree. Hospitals, generally speaking are not VBAC friendly. Another reason to avoid... I don't see why you shouldn't have a homebirth. Based upon your feelings towards hospitals (which I agree with ), it sounds like your best shot for a peaceful birth is at home. Utilizing the above mentioned resources, I would also look for a MW that is experienced in vaginal breech birth. An auto c/s for breech presentation is an outdated policy that is based on a bad study. More info here. However, I am concerned about the MW not being willing to catch breech, or find someone else who could. I may be spoiled by having one of the most experienced MWs in the area as my MW, but I feel like MWs should be catching breeches, twins, etc. I'm so sorry yours wouldn't do it. Perhaps there are other midwives in your area who may be a good fit? HeatherB ~ mama to 3 wonderful boys: 03/02; 09/04; 09/07 - and Eliana, 11/13/10! Founder of Houston Birth Alternatives: Be Informed, Encouraged, Supported birth support group and aspiring midwife. Kaiti, in with Shane, astrological mama to Sophie 12.27.05, Maya 09.25.07, Phoenix 08.23.09 & due 12.04.11 Having a after 3 cesareans! SAHM to Kaylynn 12, Alec 10, Gideon 5 and Silas my hba2c baby born 4/12/10! I had a lovely HBAC in November with a CPM. It can be done! I am with you on the 'bad taste' from the hospital experience. The homebirth was easy and very mellow and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I had a bit of shadow care from a local Dr. but for the most part, care was with the m/w. It was nice to avoid all the pointless pee-on-a-stick appointments that lasted all of two minutes. ETA: I'm 36, almost 37 (FWIW) and here's my HBAC birthstory: http://www.mothering.com/discussions....php?t=1169909 I came back after a period of time and saw all these supportive messages. Since then I've had another discouraging visit with an OB. He is actually quite reasonable, encourages "trying" a VBAC, but I know how these things usually go. I'm already cringing. Did I mention that I hate the damn hospital? I will be in the process of finding a midwife, I think. I'll post back to this thread and let you know how it goes. The section was such a disappointment, you know. That had been a picture-perfect pregnancy and DS's positioning was ideal right until 3 days before launch. If I had had a different midwife, I wouldn't be going through these spasms of anxiety right now. However, I did and still do like my midwife and think she provided excellent support and prenatal care. Even so, I will be looking around for other HBAC options. I do so appreciate these thoughtful responses. You are all so encouraging. You put heart back in me. Thank you. This time, we are HBACing, after interviewing 9 MWs (which I did in a matter of about 3 weeks) I chose a CPM who had an HBAC with her second after a CS with her first for the same reasons we did. It's all about trusting your body and baby and really listening to what is going on (even with uterine rupture). I had to have a stern talk with my baby and body a few times and to tell them that they know how to do this and they are going to do everything right as far as positioning goes, etc. I also do Chiro care, which I hear helps TONS with breech babies. It's really about putting your mind at ease and feeling secure that your birth is going to go the way it's supposed to, and that's not a huge medical procedure and not an accident waiting to happen either. Canadian mom of Myron born in Japan, March 2007. Our second son born at home, wonderful HBAC in July 2010. I am a jeweller, I love creating things! 1*510152025303540***45, Due June 10th, 2014 I am 40 and expecting #4; this pregnancy is sandwiched between dc3 (who is 4) and a very emotionally draining m/c in 08. My dc3 was an unplanned, emergency C-section. I had an infection two days after birthing and ran a temp of 105; had a horrible time after birth, healing. UGH. My first visit with my OB left me almost in tears, as he told me that he prefers to do scheduled c-section. NO way. To be fair I am expecting to get my tubes tied after this baby, so it would be easier for HIM. I told him how opposed I am to the whole scheduled c thing, and he said, "well, I'm open to discussing a VBAC, but you tend to have big babies and if that scar ruptures, it's a mess for you and the baby." Wha? It's been a long time since I've researched birthing and safety but I'm pretty the rupture scenario is remote (I have a bikini scar). Dh is hesitant to have hb, and I honor and respect that; however, I am wanting to do anything I can in order to avoid another c-section. Will be contacting the midwives group here (CNMs) and talk with them in a couple of weeks. An update- it took some time and some hunting around, but I found out that a fantastic midwife and her apprentice - who helped me the first time around are now doing primary HBACs. So I'm back on track. What a relief. I was never happy during the whole pregnancy, dreading the hospital experience. It isn't impossible that I won't end up back there, but I'm a great candidate for VBAC and I think it's unlikely. In any case, I'll post back in Jan. 2011 when baby arrives. It's interesting to note that they (this team of CNMs) are also now willing to take on the risk of delivering (frank, uncomplicated) breech births at home. I think my previous experience had something to do with the investigation of this possibility. To all of you still trying to figure out this riddle, keep looking for a safe HB option. My midwife and her apprentice provide a standard of care that improves wellness for my whole family. And I'm so relieved to know I don't have to grab a suitcase and head out into a Wisconsin blizzard when I'm in labor, that I'm sure labor will go much smoother. Wish me luck Mamas! And thanks for the kind words and support last summer! How is everyone else doing with their decision and options? BEST WISHES TO YOU! Hooray! We welcomed DS2 yesterday morning in our own home. It was a terrific, wonderful, happy, healing HBAC and I am so glad we did it this way. Our two oldest got to watch their brother be born, I labored in the tub (for 6 hours, only) and baby brother was caught by his Papa. It was fantastic. We are going back to bed now for a babymoon but I thought I'd tell you all a happy story. Everyone is delighted with the outcome, especially me! Definately the most comfortable birth and best birth I've had, out of the three, and if I would have #4 I would do this again! 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Chadwick Martin Bailey study on smartphone & tablet usage habits, May 2011Enlarge Photo We've been expecting this funeral for some time. Google Maps' debut on smartphones was a bad omen, and each new travel app has been another nail in the standalone's coffin. We've bade a long, lingering goodbye to hardware from manufacturers like Garmin and TomTom, and it's about time to call up the pallbearers. The death knell for GPS units has officially been sounded by marketing powerhouse Chadwick Martin Bailey. CMB asked 1,461 adults across the U.S. about their technology habits. What researchers found was that owners of smartphones and tablet computers are using them in place of many devices they've traditionally relied on. For example, nearly half of all tablet owners said they now watch movies on their tablets, instead laptops, notebooks, or portable DVD players. (More alarming for cinema owners: 34% said they'd stopped going to the movies altogether.) The statistics are equally grim for standalone GPS units: among people who own smartphones or tablets, 80% said that they use those devices for getting around. And nearly all -- 89% -- said that they're using other mapping and directional resources less. Specifically, among people who own a GPS unit as well as a smartphone and/or tablet, 38% said that they were using the GPS unit less than in the past because they preferred to use their mobile devices. Add to that the booming rate of smartphone adoption and the fact that over 25% of U.S. adults are considering a tablet purchase, and the future looks bleak, indeed. But this shouldn't be too surprising. After all, standalone GPS units are very limited. Like CD players, portable DVD units, and other single-function items, GPS units serve one purpose, and one purpose only. It only makes sense that such devices would be supplanted by roving computers capable of doing many things -- and of being adapted to do others. This news might indirectly offer a few more clues as to what Garmin is unleashing this Wednesday. We'd almost bet the farm that it has something to do with app expansion or a new concierge service, since that's clearly what's trending in the marketplace. We'll give you the full report later this week.
Weather: Sunny and clear Date: Friday, November 14, 2008 Farfus quickest again in first practice Augusto Farfus followed up his fastest time from Thursday's test session for the FIA World Touring Car Championship finale in Macau by topping ... Weather: Sunny and clear Date: Friday, November 14, 2008 Farfus quickest again in first practice Augusto Farfus followed up his fastest time from Thursday's test session for the FIA World Touring Car Championship finale in Macau by topping the timesheets again during Friday morning's first official free practice session. The BMW driver proved that his German car manufacturer would likely be the marque to beat around the famous Guia streets as he just edged out his teammate Jorg Muller from Germany. Muller had been fastest in the early stages of the session, before a lengthy red flag stoppage caused when independent runner Sergio Hernandez from Spain clouted the wall at Faraway after getting out of shape on the entry to the sequence of bends. His Scuderia Proteam Motorsport car was left stranded on the track and race officials felt it was too dangerous for the session to continue without it being retrieved. After a delay, the session resumed with Chevrolet's Nicola Larini briefly topping the timesheets, before first Muller and then Farfus set the quickest times in the closing minutes. In the end the two BMW drivers were separated by 0.234 seconds. N.Technology's James Thompson maintained the strong form he showed on Thursday to set the third quickest time, with FIA WTCC championship leader Yvan Muller happy with how his session had gone as he focuses his efforts on the title. "The car feels very good," said Muller, who was fourth fastest. "We are taking things step by step and not taking any risks. Of course I have to be conservative this weekend. I am not here to win the race, I am here to win the championship." Outgoing FIA WTCC champion Andy Priaulx was fifth fastest after a quick lap late on, with Larini sixth quickest ahead of Menu and the other title contender, SEAT's Gabriele Tarquini. -credit: macau gp
Tea Details :: Ceylon Supreme Flowery Orange Pekoe Supreme Pekoe This black tea originates in Uva, Sri Lanka. Ceylon supreme flowery orange has a rolled and round curly leaf, which provides a brew with a heavy body and dark liquor The most precious gourmet black tea is grown in the western areas of the island of Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon). Here are some things you should know about Ceylon Supreme Flowery orange. Do not expect an orange flavor in this tea; its name refers to the fact that these leaves have a golden orange hue when freshly picked. The term Pekoe suggests that this grade of tea has many single, whole tea-leaves of a specific size. Flowery orange pekoe means that this is a high quality tea with a long leaf and few tips. Sri Lanka has several different grading scales and their standards set the bar for tea sorting and selection. Ceylon Supreme flowery orange peoke, black, loose-leaf tea is an exceptional gourmet tea. It's bright, mild and a long lasting aroma is sure to please you. Discover for yourself why so many customers keep coming back for more!
Engagements from June 2007 Shank to wed Kortright James and Valery Jewell of Mountain Home have announced the upcoming wedding of their daughter., Sarah L. Shank., to TSgt. Michael G. Kortright, son of Gary and Sharon Kortright of Neversink, N.Y. Sarah is employed with Lochsa Engineering in Boise. Michael, recently returned from a military deployment to Afghanistan, has been with the 391st Fighter Squadron (Bold Tigers) at MHAFB for the past 11 years... Hamilton to wed Tyler Robin and Cindy Hamilton have announced the engagement of their daughter, Kim Rae, to Anthony Tyler, son of Teresa Bowen of West Virginia. Kim is a 2007 graduate of Mountain Home High School. Tyler is in the United States Air Force, currently stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base... Van Peursem to wed Stutzke Rod Van Peursem of Mountain Home has announced the engagement of his daughter, Crystal Van Peursem to Nathan Stutzke. Crystal is a 1998 Mountain Home High School graduate and a graduate of Boise State University, with a degree in Biochemistry. She currently works for a biotech company in Denver, Colo... Wilson, Stone to tie knot Darlene Wilson and Scott Stone, both of Mountain Home, have announced their engagement. Darlene is formerly from New Hampshire, and is employed with Marathon Cheese Corporation as a Quality Assurance Technician. Scott recently moved to Mountain Home from Tennessee, and is employed with Building Components of Idaho as a framer... VanMeer to marry McCune Tony VanMeer of Mountain Home, and Dawn Reed of Winthrop, Wash., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Treana Ann VanMeer, to Mathew Ryan McCune. the son of Mathew McCune and Diane McCune of Mountain Home. Treana is a 2007 graduate of Idaho State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. She is currently employed at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls as a graduate nurse... Garmendia to wed Miller Bud Garmendia of Mountain Home and Nancy Grafton of Winston-Salem, N.C., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Brianne Garmendia, to Mick Miller of Boise, the son of Mike and Louise Miller of Deer Park, Wash. Brianne is a 2006 graduate of Stevens-Henager College with an AAS in Medical Specialties, and is currently employed as an Emergency Medical Technician with Northwest Paramedics in Mountain Home...
\|\|Ice, 1 pitch, 60' \|Consensus: \|\|WI4 [details]\| \|Page Views: \|\|1,529\| \|Submitted By: \|\|jtwalter on Jan 10, 2010\| Your todo list: Your rating: -none- Your ticklist: [add new tick] Your opinion of this PAGE: [0 people like this page.] Climbing on Playmate Playmate is the left pillar of ice in this area. The first half of this route is steep and sustained and is probably the technical crux. The angle eases off a little at the top of the pillar before reaching a ledge that takes you to 20 ft bulge of ice above the pillar. In an area that sees little traffic, Playmate can be a respite from the crowds at Stairway to Heaven and Bridal Veil Falls, if you're willing to hike for it. Located about 400 yards west of Stairway to Heaven, the approach is the crux of this climb. Park as for Stairway and walk west on the trail to Hope Campground until you get to the drainage that contains this route, then slog up the drainage for 40-60 mins. Knee to thigh deep trail breaking can be expected if you're the first to head up after the last storm. Gaiters and shell pants would be a good idea when heading up here. Alternatively you could park on the south side of the highway just below the drainage and head up from there. Don't park in the pullout on the north side and try to cross the highway. That would be a good way to get killed. 4-6 ice screws. Rappel from slinged tree at the top. Playmate is on the left. Icemate is on the right. Playmate and Icemate as seen from the highway. Some climbers call this area "Little Ouray&qu...
This was our last family meal - on our last night of service at El Bulli this season. Penne bolognese - with three kinds of cheese - we were clearing out the walk-in - parmesan, emmental, and a very blue bleu; with rosemary roasted chicken and potatoes; and as a special treat - pinwheel plates of paper-thin jamon. At the very top of the picture, you can barely make out the bar that holds up the bull's head - the infamous carved wood bull's head in the kitchen - I think you can see the bull's chin. My family dinner table was the pass - we covered it in black fabric to protect the wood. I could almost never finish my serving of family dinner food - very generous helpings which we pre-plated if we were on dinner duty. But some of the guys would go back for thirds - sometimes fourths. The two most popular family meals were probably tied at hamburgers and egg rolls - served with sweet and sour sauce. The least favourite - cabrito - kid/baby goat. Amazing quality - trimmings from the menu's sous-vide cooked kid that seared to finish with a crispy skin. Ours was usually served up as a simple, saucy stew. Very tasty but we had it maybe twice a week. We discussed how ironic it was that most people would never even taste meat of that quality once in their lives.
Top 30 Best New Movies Of 20141.12.13 # Top Ten # 17 Comments Let’s take a look at the top 30 best new movies of 2014. This year sees the return of the biblical epic, highly talented directors turning to detective mysteries, and some comic book movies potentially falling back into camp. What do you think will end up being 2014’s best movies? Let us know in the comments. 30th – Dumb And Dumber To Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Laurie Holden, Rachel Melvin, Kathleen Turner Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly Released: November 14th, 2014 (U.S. Release Dates) Good-hearted yet dimwitted best friends, Harry and Lloyd, head out on a road trip to find one of their long lost children, in the hopes of gaining a new kidney. Directors the Farrelly brothers are back for this follow-up to the 1994 smash and, since Warners wouldn’t make it, have raised $35 million through an outside financer. Rob Riggle plays twins: a handyman named Travis and his unstable brother, Captain Lippencott. Laurie Holden (‘The Mist’) is a villain seeking to use the pair as scapegoats for her evil scheme. Kathleen Turner plays Fraida Felcher, the “babe who worked for the tractor company” that Harry and Lloyd both courted, and uber-fan Jennifer Laurence cameos as the younger Fraida. The leads are of course far too old to be doing this (Carrey is a 51 year old grandfather and Jeff Daniels is nearly 60) which means it could be a delight or a cripplingly embarrassing spectacle. There’s a lot of good will behind the project so I’m hoping for the former. 29th – Robocop Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Sam Jackson, Abbie Cornish Director: José Padilha Released: February 12th, 2014 Joel Kinnaman (TV’s ‘The Killing’) is the new Alex Murphy and the plot’s still about a crime-ridden city, this time in 2046, where a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg, haunted by submerged memories. However Robocop himself will look and act very differently to the 1987 original – for one, there will be no twitchy robotic moves. This version focuses much more on the transitional phase, about a man becoming part-machine. Oldman plays the scientist overseeing the transformation, Michael Keaton is the possibly-villainous CEO, Jackson is a powerful TV mogul, Cornish is Murphy’s wife who’s led to believe her husband is dead. From the director of Brazil’s highest grossing movie of all time ‘Elite Squad’. It’s a solid effort made with the right intentions, and definitely more intelligent than it looks. Although it’s still not as satisfying as the original. 28th – Locke Starring: Tom Hardy, (voices) Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Tom Holland Director: Steven Knight Released: April 25th, 2014 A man’s life unravels in real-time over the course of a 90 minute car ride via a series of nail-biting phone calls. This is a highly experimental, minimalistic film that arrives with strong buzz. Hardy is the only actor on screen throughout. There are no car chases or crashes. It was shot in 5 days by the director of ‘Hummingbird’ (who also wrote ‘Eastern Promises’), with a script so organic that Hardy had to read it off autocues hidden around the car. Hardy’s performance is remarkable, a reminder of what a powerhouse presence he is. The premise won’t be for everyone, but expect a tense race against time and dramatic complexity around an ethical dilemma that resonates. 27th – Exodus Starring: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, Aaron Paul Director: Ridley Scott Released: December 12th, 2014 Ridley Scott’s biblical epic follows Moses (Christian Bale) leading the Israelites out of Egypt into the Sinai desert and eventually to their Promised Land. Joel Edgerton plays Ramses. John Turturro and Sigourney Weaver play Ramses’ parents, while Aaron Paul (‘Breaking Bad’) will play Hebrew slave Joshua. There’s something I never thought I’d write. Co-scripted by A-list writer Steven Zaillian (‘Moneyball’, ‘American Gangster’), Scott has been misjudging project after project in recent years, from ‘Robin Hood’ to ‘Prometheus’ to ‘The Counsellor’. He’s also been critical of religion in the past, and Bale says expect ‘Exodus’ to be “shocking”. This should be fascinating …however it turns out. 26th – Maleficent Starring: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Imelda Staunton Director: Robert Stromberg Released: May 30th, 2014 Prequel and remake of Disney’s 1959 ‘Sleeping Beauty’ re-telling the story from the perspective of the villain, the self-proclaimed “Mistress of All Evil” (Jolie). Maleficent enjoys an idyllic early life, growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom as a beautiful young woman, until an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be its fiercest protector, but suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realises that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well. The directorial debut of production designer Stromberg (‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘Avatar’). Elle Fanning seems miscast as Sleeping Beauty, but Jolie should be memorable in the role. 25th – Edge Of Tomorrow Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Jeremy Piven Director: Doug Liman Released: June 6th, 2014 A conscript (Cruise) fighting in the United Defense Force against the mysterious ‘Mimic’ aliens laying siege to Earth, finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day of battle – becoming better skilled as he repeats it. He fights alongside a special forces solider (Blunt) who is highly decorated and peerless in battle, seen as a hero by the entire world, but is she hiding something? The script adapts the Japanese novella ‘All You Need Is Kill’ and was on the Black List (an industry rundown of the best unproduced screenplays). It’s a sci-fi ‘Groundhog Day’ (as was ‘Source Code’), with a touch of ‘Starship Troopers’. Director Doug Liman (‘The Bourne Identity’) is solid, and was unfairly bashed for his inventive ‘Jumper’. Cruise’s sci-fi effort last year, ‘Oblivion’, was very capable, expect him to be just as committed here.
The lead roles are played by Ed Westwick (Jonny) and someone I’ve never seen before, Felicity Jones (Kim). Both leads were delightful in this romantic comedy which I think is best described as “cute”. Kim is an ex skateborder champion who quit after her mom’s death. She lives with her dad, taking on the role as parent rather than daughter. The job offer as a chalet girl in Austria, away from her father, will change her life as she knows it. It’s while cooking and cleaning for a wealthy family who holiday in Austria that she learns to snow board, a sport “same same but different” to skateboarding. The family she ‘waits on’ is mom and dad played by Brooke Shields and Bill Nighy but it’s their son Jonny who grabs Kim’s attention. The fun really begins when Kim and fellow-chalet girl, Georgie (Tamsin Egerton) hit it off. It’s at the ski resort and on the slopes that Kim sheds her responsibilities and starts to live again as she should. The scenic views are breathtaking, the script is great with some really funny moments, the cast is endearing and overall a ‘feel good’ movie. This delightful, light-hearted comedy is sure to leave a smile on your face. The above author's byline must be attached to the work if being distributed.
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Rodolphe Marconi writes, directs, and stars in the coming-out drama Rodolphe Marconi (Rodolphe Marconi). Marconi plays Bruce, a young student from Paris who accepts a fellowship in Rome. He takes a flat at the Villa Medicis and writes full...more 28 out of 100 Metascore® Generally unfavorable reviews All Love Forbidden cast + crew photos Movies.com, the ultimate source for everything movies, is your destination for new movie trailers, reviews, photos, times, tickets + more! Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at Movies.com. Copyright © 2015 FANDANGO MOVIES.
Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nick Stoller and producer Judd Apatow looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt), keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. The decision to create a screenplay about a seemingly perfect couple who can’t quite make it to the altar took root in Stoller’s imagination four years ago. He was in Hawaii and close to wrapping principal photography on his directorial debut, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” Segel began to flesh out the idea of an engaged-way-too-long couple, and the writing partners began the process of crafting their next film, “The Five-Year Engagement.” MoviesOnline sat down at a roundtable interview with Apatow and Stoller to talk about “The Five-Year Engagement” which marks the third film on which they have worked with one another. They told us about their collaborative process, how the best storylines for comedies often come from real-life events, and why they like comedies that are truthful, where people reveal something personal about themselves. They discussed how they visualize characters, which romantic comedies inspired them, how they kept the narrative moving forward over a long span of time, and how NBC’s Thursday night line-up factored into the casting process. They also discussed their upcoming projects: Apatow’s “This is 40” and Stoller’s “Muppets 2.” Q: In the Apatow universe, what makes a great comedy? JA: We like comedies that are truthful and when people reveal something personal. NS: Like Jason’s penis. JA: Like Jason’s penis or his pain. In any type of art or music or movie, I always connect when someone’s telling me something that I know means a lot to them – whether it’s a song where you think “Oh, that person’s not kidding around. Kurt Cobain means that.” I think it’s the same for comedy. You can tell when people are passionate about something. And then, there’s a quality to it when someone’s just funny and knows what they’re doing. That’s hard to define why things work, but originality also. Q: Do you think you’re good at easily identifying when trying to find those moments of truth are getting a little too overworked? JA: I’m a fan of television and movies and I’ve seen a lot, so when we’re kicking around ideas, there’s always a moment where we’ll say “Oh I saw that in that Salma Hayek movie. Let’s not do that. Let’s see if we can think of something different, even if we liked it in the Salma Hayek movie. What’s a new way to do this?” Q: You came up with Salma Hayek very quickly. JA: (laughs) She’s always in the forefront of my mind. NS: We always start with a Salma Hayek movie and then we kind of build from there. Q: How would you describe how you guys work together in developing the concepts and the story and navigating the bumps in the road along the way? JA: I just look for problems, so I try to stay out of the way on any project and let people express themselves. And then, at some point, they say “What do you think?” and then I just say “Well, I don’t understand this” or “I’m really responding to that,” and then I try to get out of the way again because you want people to be able to go with their gut on it. Working with Nick is like holding a bird. (laughs) I don’t want to crush the bird. I think about what I’d want people to do to me. So, you want encouragement. You want to know that they understand. You want an honest discourse. But, you also want them to leave so you can do your thing. NS: For this movie, Jason and I batted the movie around and worked from the outline and re-outlined it and then wrote the script and all that. Also, in the early part of the process, I’d come to Judd, and Rodney Rothman, the other producer, and the three of us all got together and pitched a million ideas. It’s like an all-day spew where we’re all pitching different stuff and a lot of that stuff ends up in the outline and then most of it in the script. And then, as you get more successful, there are more and more ‘yes’ people around and Judd isn’t one. He’s very hard on stuff which is what you need. Jason and I work really hard on this stuff, then we do the table read, and then Judd’s really hard on stuff. You can’t ever be happy with anything. I’m always happily surprised when people enjoy the film. JA: We invite a lot of writers to come to early table reads. Our whole world is about everybody being allowed to be as critical as they want to be within our bubble. NS: Because you know you’ll get to do it to them later. (laughs) That’s all you’re thinking. JA: And so, we want people to just be very frank and vicious to us, and then sometimes we get back in another room and go “That guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about!” (laughs) “Did you read his last script?! Don’t listen to him!” And then, every once in a while, someone else will say… NS: We’ll be like “Shit! They’re right!” Q: Where did the idea for this movie come from? NS: After “Sarah Marshall,” Jason and I wanted to do another romantic comedy. We’re both obsessed with long relationships that aren’t headed towards marriage, but aren’t necessarily headed towards breaking up, which seems to be something that’s happening a lot these days. I was sitting in my office and the words “the five-year engagement” popped into my head, and I wrote it down and got excited, and I called Jason up. He was like “Oh yeah, that sounds awesome.” And then, it went from there. Q: So you had the title first? NS: I wanted to explore…I love the long romantic comedy movies that take place over a long period of time like “When Harry Met Sally” or “Annie Hall” or “Broadcast News” and “Terms of Endearment.” And so, this was a way to make a low concept movie seem high concept. Q: Was it difficult to deal with a long span of time and how did you guys find the narrative through-line? NS: Well, I watched all the movies I just mentioned, and I very nerdily graphed out how they did it and then I ripped them off. (laughs) Basically, it’s a lot like telling the story. You cut and suddenly it’s a year later. That’s the way that you keep the audience engaged. “Annie Hall” cuts back and forth in time so that’s different, but “When Harry Met Sally” has a brilliant way of cutting forward in time and then back and you’re like “Where are they now? Who are they dating now?” We kind of copied that sort of trope. And, we were pretty hard on the story, that even if it feels as if it’s kind of wandering, it never is. It’s always charging forward and charging towards certain important plot points. Q: Was it challenging to keep Emily’s character likeable because she puts Jason’s character through the ringer so many times? JA: That’s why we hire likeable people and we make them do unlikable things. We talked a lot about that. For all of our work, what we try to do is to show people in their good moments and their worst moments and to not obsess over making everybody likeable or do the right thing. And if everyone is a mess, then it’s okay. She means well. She got a great job and it’s the only job she’s been offered. So, on one level, you could say that’s kind of brutal to have him come with you, but those are the big decisions you make in life. Who’s going to sacrifice in which moment? NS: She’s so likeable as a person that if we’d had someone that wasn’t… but if you look at the great romantic comedies, Harry and Sally on the page are pretty irritating people. JA: It wouldn’t have worked with Christoph Waltz in that part. (imitating Waltz) “Would you like some pecan pie?” NS: In the great romantic comedies, it’s funny to see these two people fight. It’s funny to watch Harry and Sally fight. It’s funny to watch Seth and Hibo fight. That’s what’s funny about it. If it’s not funny, you’ve cast the wrong person. Q: Was Emily always going to be British in the movie? NS: Yes, she was always going to be British. I broke this rule, but I don’t love to have people do an accent that isn’t theirs, although we had Alison (Brie) do an accent that wasn’t hers. JA: She was great at it though. NS: Yeah, she was awesome at it. But just because we’re doing a lot of improv and it’s easier. But Alison nailed it. We did have long conversations about could Alison be her sister and be somehow American? JA: Or her half-sister? NS: Her half-sister. JA: Like the Nolan brothers. NS: That’s what you kept saying. “Like the Nolan brothers.” I don’t know if that will work. JA: One’s from Chicago and one was raised in England. NS: It’s like there’s this weird pipe in the middle. Q: When you were casting, did you just watch Thursday night TV? NS: That’s it. Yeah. That was it. Unfortunately, Aziz (Ansari) wasn’t available. I didn’t even realize until after we cast it that we had the cast of NBC’s Thursday night line-up. JA: I didn’t even know who Alison Brie was at the table (read). I am such a fan of “Mad Men,” and then I saw her at the table and I said “Alison Brie is great.” I had no idea who she was. I thought she was from England. I didn’t know it was someone doing an accent. And then afterwards, someone said she’s on “Mad Men” and I thought “What is the matter with me?” How much cholesterol medication am I on that I didn’t notice that the entire time. NS: She’s got a lot of range. JA: She’s so great. She’s just an amazing actress. Q: She and Chris (Pratt) steal a lot of their scenes. Is that their own doing or is it set up so that supporting people get to come in and deliver these big punches? How does it work for you guys when you’re visualizing these characters? NS: They’re just so funny, Chris Pratt and Alison Brie. They’re crazy funny and so that certainly added to that. There’s also a long tradition of supporting characters – especially when you think of Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher in “When Harry Met Sally” – that really do steal a lot of that movie. It’s their role to comment on what’s happening. They can also do more outlandish things because you’re not as romantically invested in what’s happening between them. Q: At any point, did you start writing in Emily’s voice or were you just writing the character and hoping she’d bring her own flair? NS: From the beginning, we wanted it to be her. I don’t know what we would’ve done if she had said no. And then, in one of these long work sessions, where Judd, Rodney, Jason and I speak in kind of a riff, we had Emily come to it and sit with us for many, many hours over the course of a few days and basically have long weird therapy sessions that were like “When you break up with someone, how do you do it?” “When you’re mad at someone, what do you say? How do you behave?” It’s all that stuff. We’re trying to get to know her. It’s basically a very lazy form of creating a character. (laughs) We just form it around the actor. Q: Are these characters drawn from people you know in your life or is it drawn more from a familiar concept? NS: They’re amalgamations of people. Jason and I have a similar outlook on life which is why we like to collaborate. It’s a big combination of things. It’s not any one person. Q: What inspired Jason’s character’s transformation into a mountain man? NS: I think that was during one of those work sessions. It might’ve been Rodney. They do a lot of hunting in Michigan and he said “He should become a mountain man.” Rodney calls that his anger beard. That seemed like a funny way for him to be incredibly passive aggressive and there’s no one funnier having a mental breakdown than Jason. He’s really good at that. Q: How did you come up with the weird psychology experiments? NS: I consulted with Dr. Benjamin Karney at UCLA and had a few meetings with him. It started originally as a behavioral economist and no one understood. After the hundredth time that we explained what that was to someone, we were like maybe we should change it to psychology. And then, you brought up the marshmallow experiment. JA: I had seen that because I’m fascinated by it with my kids. They do all these experiments where they say if a kid can’t delay gratification, their life is going to be really hard. My kids have not shown that ability. I’m always fascinated by those experiments. I’ll say to my kids “You need to learn how to delay gratification or your life is going to be terrible!” NS: (laughs) While they’re eating donuts! And then, once we put that experiment in, it was like “Oh this should become part of the story.” Q: I love the Food Network so I enjoyed how Jason had his Julia Child/Meryl Streep moment with all the cooking. NS: If you watch the movie, you’ll see his hands change four different times as we use different hand models. JA: There’s Filipino hands. NS: The chef, this guy named Zack who we consulted, had tiny, weird hands. He was just a tiny guy and he had tiny hands, but he was Jason’s double in the close-ups. I am Jason’s hands during the wedding ceremony when they get married. Q: Did Jason make the sandwiches himself in the film? NS: When you’re cutting to hands, it’s not Jason. But he was good, he took classes and there are a lot of wide shots of him cooking. He got into it. He likes cooking outside of the movies. Q: Was there a temptation to not have things work out in the end or did you know that the engagement would lead to happiness? NS: At the very beginning, we were like maybe it doesn’t, but that didn’t feel like the story we were telling. And, with Audrey as played by the hilarious Dakota Johnson, we didn’t realize how funny she was and we’d shot the break-up which is crazy funny, and then on one of our days of re-shoots, we were like we have to bring her back. So we shot that whole sequence where she’s having sex with him and making him do Zumba. JA: Something which I pitched but do not do because it requires exercise. That’s Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson’s daughter who was in “The Social Network.” She’s really, really funny. NS: Crazy funny. And she has the same kind of lack of self-awareness that Jason has. She just commits hard. Q: You mentioned earlier Jason’s penis. I understand it was supposed to make another appearance, but did it become a question of ‘been there, done that’? JA: We didn’t want his penis to jump the shark. NS: He gets one to two more showings of his penis in his career and we didn’t want to use it in this. JA: Yes, we’re saving his penis for when a Coen Brothers movie comes along. We don’t want to overuse it. NS: Or a comeback. JA: Yes, or a comeback. Q: Can you tell us what each of you have coming up next? NS: I’ve started writing the second “Muppets” with James Bobin. We’ve outlined it and we started writing this week. It’s a comedy caper and it’s fun. JA: I’m just finishing up “This is 40” which is the sequel to “Knocked Up.” It stars Leslie (Mann), Paul (Rudd), Albert Brooks, John Lithgow, Megan Fox and my kids, and Jason’s in it and Melissa McCarthy. Q: Is it cool to be working with your kids? JA: It’s really fun to work with them. It’s harder afterwards because then they say “I want to be in something else.” And then I have to tell them “No, you only get to be in stuff with me. I’m not just going to drop you off at the “Fast Five” set so they can do with you what they will.” NS: It’s that instant gratification thing. JA: Exactly. “Don’t I get to be in everyone’s movies?” “No, just Daddy’s because Daddy doesn’t want to meet other kids.” “The Five-Year Engagement” opens in theaters on April 27th.
Ive purchased a laptop to usb adapter for me dvd Rom. It works fin for fil transfers and burning cds, but the sound waulity when i play a cd SUCKS. Its not just bad it is really bad. The bass in the songs is terrible . Anyone else experience this problem?
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- Category: Community - Published on 30 September 2013 - Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald Advanced registration for the 26th annual CountryFest 42 Tournament is now underway at any of the bank’s four locations no later than 5 p.m. Friday, October 11. Locations include the bank’s main location and downtown branch, both on the square, Brookshire’s Branch, and Cypress Springs Branch. For more details about the annual event, see the Sept. 26 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.
The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) is an in-college, officer-commissioning program that adds a layer of military training to your education. Upon successful completion of the AFROTC training program and receipt of at least a bachelor's degree, you will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. Once on active duty, you will receive specialized training in a career field. The AFROTC, an academic department at over 1,100 civilian colleges and universities, is one of three commissioning sources for the United States Air Force, along with the Academy and Officer Training School. Cadets take ROTC classes in addition to their normal degree course work. What makes an officer? (held by 20 percent of the Air Force) - Presidential commission via ROTC, Officer Training School, or a service academy - A bachelor’s degree or higher - Training to lead, supervise, manage, and become policy/decision makers - Consideration for a flight career (Only officers can become pilots, and candidate selection takes place in the spring prior to graduation.) - Higher standards of conduct on and off duty
So when MTV News caught up with Dutch DJ/producer Martin Garrix after his set at the Firefly Music Festival, we weren’t surprised to learn he too experienced a wild night with the singer/songwriter after a recording session in the Netherlands. The duo teamed up for a track entitled “Rewind Repeated,” after meeting in Los Angeles. Upon expressing interest in working together, Garrix shared a chord progression he’d been working on during an earlier flight, and Sheeran took it from there. “Like, one or two days later he sent me a WhatsApp message with a voice note, like, ’Do you like this?’ and I was like, ’Oh, this is amazing.’ And before I knew it he wrote the complete top line on it and, yeah, right now I’m working on the track around the top line,” the 18-year-old explained. So when can we finally hear this collaboration? According to Garrix, it will be available for your listening pleasure very soon. “Almost finished, we’re just tweaking, I’m tweaking the little things right now, he already delivered an amazing vocal and there are plans to work on a lot more tracks as well,” he said. “I’m thinking about making two versions, one more sweet, and one really for the festivals, like, it’s going to be fun, I’m excited.”
Executive Director, Des Moines Social Club After a road-trip from NYC to 22 cities around the country, I settled in Des Moines in the fall of 2007 to found the Des Moines Social Club, an arts and educational non-profit. Focused on the retention and recruitment of young people, DMSC uses the arts as a catalyst to create unprecedented community engagement. Since opening its doors in 2009, DMSC has hosted over 500 arts related events and seen over 150,000 patrons. Founding the non-profit from scratch, I raised over $3,000,000 in my time in Des Moines towards the downtown project, for which I am the Executive Director. I have taught and lectured at NYU, Central College and Wagner College and have had articles and essays published in: The New York Theater Review and American Theater Magazine, and my theatrical works have been featured in Time Magazine, USA Today, The Village Voice, The New York Times and The Des Moines Register. I have also directed and/or produced over 25 pieces of professional theatre and outdoor festivals. Recently, I was awarded the 2011 Des Moines Citizen of the Year Award, 40 under 40 in Des Moines’ Business Record, 40 under 40 for the national New Leaders Council, The Iowa Governor’s Volunteer Award, and the DSM Young Professional of the Year Award in 2009. In addition to my non-profit work, I own and operate Proof Restaurant, a Mediterranean lunch and dinner spot in downtown's Gateway District. Muhlenberg taught me to try. Try anything. I always wanted to do tons of theater and strangely, no one ever said no. Even when the idea was ridiculous and the show never should have seen the light of day (there were several of these), my professors and friends always encouraged me to keep moving forward. Additionally, the theater department's ability to teach how and why you can make theater from scratch, and to give you the tools to operate in the professional world are unmatched. My time at Muhlenberg was always challenging because the community never let us fall lax. I learned how to fail at Muhlenberg, and that is what has helped me succeed.
The collections are constantly growing as archaeological digs yield new discoveries, and contemporary objects are acquired to ensure we have a record of life in 21st century London. The collections include: - 25,000 items of fashion and textiles - 150,000 paintings, prints and photographs of London - Europe’s largest archaeological archive including 17,000 skeletons - 50,000 objects from prehistoric and Roman London - 15,000 objects from Saxon and medieval London - 55,000 objects from Tudor and Stuart London - 110,000 objects from modern London (the 18th century to today) - 1800 life stories from individual Londoners - Half a million historic documents, including the archives of the Port of London Authority and Sainsbury’s supermarket. Not everything is online, but we are working hard to improve digital access.
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The paradigm of the 'can' and the 'should', introduced in a previous article to illustrate the Muslim community’s general concern (or rather, lack of concern) towards organic food, provides a convenient framework to showcase another widely neglected issue: the illegal downloading of entertainment or computer software. A deeply insightful brother recently questioned if it’s really worth the time writing about such a menial issue when, indeed, the Muslim community has a plethora of other concerns which need to be addressed. By and large, I fully agree with the brother’s criticism; nevertheless, although illegal downloads may well sit on the bottom rung of the ladder of needs, I would argue that the underlying mentality which steadily encourages the activity ranks it near the top, for it highlights once again how Muslims would rather neglect self-reflection (the should) in favor of scholarly dependence of cans and cannots. Indeed, the prevalence of illegal downloading among Muslims appears to reflect that of wider society and so - in the same light of the ‘cans’ and the ‘shoulds’ - I would like to discuss the mentality which underlies its popularity. The keyword, mentality - i.e. the attitudes and philosophies which promote illegal downloading – will be the primary focus of this article; thus, rather than discussing the scholarly traditions that allow or prohibit illegal downloads (for which I’m not suited), we’ll examine instead why illegal downloads have become so prevalent. Specifically, we'll examine how the dismissal of the ‘should’ develops blind conformism in thought and action – to no relinquishment of personal responsibility, unfortunately. The morality of the many Watching the news one morning, a CBC reporter stationed in front of the Supreme Court in California was discussing the monumental occasion of an impending ruling regarding the legality of gay marriage. Although the issue itself is irrelevant, the reporter’s commentary, on the other hand, is not: “will the supreme court rule in favor of what the majority population holds to be true or not?” In other words, with the increasing prevalence of a popular opinion on a matter, will the law thus follow suit? This is but a drop in the ocean of examples one can cite to highlight the dominant moral framework of today’s society – majority rules. As long as the majority agree that a certain behaviour is correct, it is given the weight of law, and who dares question popular opinion? Naturally, this moral relativism is an acute result of the Renaissance movement in which the vertical hierarchy (God – man relationship) was replaced with a horizontal plane upon which all humans supposedly stand equally (man – man relationship); or, according to the German philosopher Nietzsche, “God is dead” and man has taken his place. What’s fascinating however is that, although for Muslims God is very much ‘alive/never dying’ and the vertical supremacy of divine law remains unquestionable, Muslims are not immune to the subtle encroachment of the dominant paradigm of morality. Conformism is an interesting phenomenon, if only because its subtlety is trumped only by its prevalence. Even its etymology sheds insight into the phenomenon: ‘to conform’ originates from an old Latin word which means ‘to shape’. Thus, the one who conforms has their shape determined by something other than themselves, or as some philosophers put it, simply doing what others do. A wide range of scholars have examined the issue conformity in detail but we need not look much further than the acclaimed Viktor Frankl - if only to call upon one of my favourites - to appreciate how this topic is so intimately intertwined with the ‘cans’ and the ‘shoulds’. Essentially, Frankl argues that modern man (referring to modern Western society) is in a pickle: our traditions no longer tell us what we should be doing. As such, people rely on others to dictate behaviour and consequently determine what is right from wrong. In line with Frankl’s thoughts, we notice a similar predicament among Muslims today: in the aftershock of globalization, novel issues have arisen that scholars have yet to address individually – ex: significance of organic food, or the widespread proliferation of illegal downloads. Within this vacuum of scholarly feedback, most of us don’t even think twice when downloading things illegally - a behaviour that is considered typical of today’s society. Why don’t we think about it? Because conformity breeds a false sense of security, displacing the responsibility of our personal choices unto others – we don’t feel responsible for our actions if we’re simply emulating everyone else. Yet again, it is precisely this over-reliance on scholarly opinions which has allowed conformity to arise; notice that Frankl observed how traditions (read: scholars) no longer dictate what one should do - in my rhetoric, the cans and cannots. This dependency has created generations of people who are unable to think on their own; unaccustomed to critical thought, they then inadvertently adopt conformity as a way of life. Thus, we must learn to think about our selves as unique individuals, appreciating the ‘should’ as a function of our specific traits and blessings. Only then will the responsibilities attached to our everyday decisions not be so readily dismissed, and every single decision we make will hopefully inspire the ‘should’ despite the absence of scholarly opinion. The ancient Arabs lived by a proverb: ‘send a wise man and do not advice him’. We will inevitably face novel and unexpected situations in life for which we’ve have received no training however, if we adhere to our principles, we can always strive to figure out the appropriate course of action. Indeed, a person who adheres to their principles (“thou shall not steal”) yet thinks critically in every situation is considered wise and is no need for detailed instructions (“do not download illegally”); instead, with a little bit of honest effort, that person will navigate each situation accordingly. Illegal downloads: a critical discussion Since scholars have yet to speak out on the topic; the ‘should’, then, becomes necessary. Again, the ‘should’ implies a critical self-reflection towards excellence beyond our dependency on scholars to tell us what’s right and wrong. Let’s briefly examine the ‘should’ with regards to illegal downloads, not only as an exercise of critical thinking, but also as an example of how to protect our moral standards. This, of course, will not be a lecture that people can cite as proof against the proliferation of illegal downloads in the Muslim community; it merely intends to begin a discussion on the subject. Should we be downloading things illegally? I would argue that we should not, based upon the simple premise that if someone worked on a product with the intention of getting paid for its sale, then breaching infringes upon the rights of said individuals, regardless if the person is rich, dishonest, or oppressive. The ‘should’ requires us to reflect on the personal reasons regarding our choices - and the resulting existential and social ramifications – without the need for someone to explicitly outline what’s right and wrong. While I cannot speak for everyone, here are several examples either myself or friends have used to justify this behaviour in the past. “It’s too expensive to purchase otherwise.” While often true for those who can’t afford the product, it presents an interesting dilemma within the process of self-reflection: should I allow myself to take what I’m unable to afford? Let’s not forget, we’re not talking about bread and water here but rather the products we download have little to do with survival, and hardly qualify as basic needs. Thus, although it can be understood how a street child is forced to snatch an apple in a bustling marketplace, the ‘should’ demands that we reflect upon the necessity of an action which breaches a fundament of all religions – thou shall not steal. If exceptions were to arise from this fundamental rule, it would be binding upon the personal ‘should,’ and cannot be generalized towards society at large. “I don’t want to support that industry.” Of course, notwithstanding the irony that downloading a product supports the industry regardless, either statistically – it’s known that the movie industry keeps tabs on torrents, for example – or in spirit, this statement begs a simple question: why download an item from an industry you don’t support? Your time is more precious than your money, so the irony here is quite piercing. “It doesn’t really affect anyone, the rich stay rich, I get my download - everyone’s happy!” I especially like this argument, not necessarily because it’s true – it isn’t, of course, as many struggling artists have spoken out against it – but because I like to consider the scenario as if it were true. It’s an interesting exercise, only because the philosophical principle underlying this thought process is perhaps the most common form of moral relativism permeating society today: the cause can only be deemed evil if there are perceivable negative consequences. The keywords here are ‘negative’ and ‘perceivable.’ In a morally deterministic world, as long as the results of an action have perceivable (read: quantifiable, available to statistical scrutiny) harmful repercussions, based on a subjective definition of what harmful is (i.e. rich stay rich, so where’s the harm in stealing from them?), then the action carries no moral value. I won’t spend any more time discussing this one. And finally, “I believe that downloading is actually legal based on X and Y reasons.” These are the people who have contemplated this subject in-depth. Such people raise interesting concerns regarding copyright law, highlighting supposed fallacies in the notion of intellectual property, among other things; “supposed,” only because I’ve yet to review the authenticity of these arguments from a legal perspective. This line of thinking perhaps holds the most merit, however it also begs a very interesting question as well: if something is legal, i.e. it’s a ‘can’ within secular jurisprudence, does that automatically determine it’s a ‘can’ or a ‘should’ within an Islamic worldview? As an intellectual exercise, one can think about alcohol in such a matter and see what conclusions we arrive at. Thus, once again, the purpose of this article isn’t to tackle the legality of illegal downloads – it’s to spark an investigation as to why we do it. Although we often paint the world - and Muslims - as black and white, we need to slowly foster a self-critical outlook that looks beyond good and evil, or halal and haram. We will all be judged in front of Allah by merit of our intentions and best efforts; two phenomena that, when you boil them down to their essential elements, are purely results of a sound self-reflection regarding one’s blessings, trials, and potential. If not for self-reflection, one’s behaviours serve only to mimic one’s surroundings, much like sheep in a herd and lead to blind conformity. This article was edited and enriched by Arssal Shahabuddin. Furthermore, I’ll end this article with two disclaimers. First of all, I reiterate that this is a topic of discussion; in other words, as fallible as I am, it’s necessary to respond and share one’s divergent point-of-view so that we may learn from it as well. You may do so in the comments below. Second of all, in light of the prevalence of the issue at hand, this article has no intention of making anyone feeling guilty. It merely attempts to put back on the table a topic that is so often brushed under the rug.
<< -- 2 -- Robert Anderson A DAZZLING 'TOUR DE FORCE' The castrato Senesino was Handel's Caesar. At one performance 'A Piece of the Machinery tumbled down from the Roof of the Theatre upon the Stage' just as Senesino had denied in Act 2 any knowledge of fear. The hero is then said to have trembled, lost his voice, and wept. It would take at least the whole roof to silence this Caesar. Graham Pushee sings with utmost bravura, fire and clarity at Handel's alto pitch, somehow managing to seem a Roman conqueror in the midst of the composer's most testing divisions. It is a dazzling tour de force and deserves every decibel of applause the Sydney audience gives him. Here he reacts at the gift of Pompey's severed [listen -- DVD 1 track 8, 0:17-1:24, 'Empio, dirò, tu sei' (Act I)]. Rosemary Gunn (Cornelia, left) and Elizabeth Campbell (Sesto) in the duet 'Son nata a lagrimar' at the end of Act I. DVD screenshot © EuroArts Music International GmbH Cornelia has a wretched time. Having lost her husband, she is so pursued by suitors whether castrated or not that suicide repeatedly seems her only resource. It is a wonder indeed that she survives till curtain-down. At the end of Act 1, she and Sesto (Rosemary Gunn and Elizabeth Campbell) are united in the dumps, the one as heavy in voice as mood, the other giving no sign that, despite a certain reluctance to negotiate Richard Hickox's brisk speeds in coloratura, eventually he will do the odious Ptolemy in [listen -- DVD 1 track 30, 0:26-1:40, 'Son nata a lagrimar']. Cornelia in captivity has yet to do a stint as Ptolemy's gardener. Copyright © 4 May 2005 Robert Anderson, London UK
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Paying your first rent check after graduation is a great feeling — until you realize what it really means. You may be doing this for the rest of your adult life: signing away a substantial portion of your hard-earned money every month just to have a roof over your head. College prepares you for everything except, maybe, this terrible injustice we all suffer. If you are like many millennials who moved back in with Mom and Dad after graduating, consider yourself lucky. That’s how bad paying rent is, especially the high rents so many young people are subjected to in the best job markets in the country. According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard, in 2013 there were 43 million renter households in the U.S., representing 35 percent of all households. In fact, rates of renting in 2013 were at their highest in more than a decade for all age groups — and at their peak for those aged 25-54 — since record keeping began in the 1970s. According to the study, rental housing is home to a disproportionate share of the nation’s lower-income households, with nearly half of all renters earning incomes below $30,000. If those statistics have left you wary of renting and eager to avoid paying rent altogether, you’re not alone. After all, who could blame you for not wanting to write expensive rent checks to stay in a cramped apartment, fighting to use the washer and dryer, and having to deal with loud neighbors? You’ll have to get creative, but there are a number of living and employment situations that offer relief housing benefits. Here are a few: The World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms program allows adventurous and environmentally-conscious people to visit farms all over the world, and trade their labor for accommodations and food. It has chapters on every continent, so you can work in Australia, Cameroon, Portugal, China, West Virginia — really almost anywhere. In fact, some backpackers use WWOOF as a way to travel around the globe on a shoestring. All you need to do is pay for passage from one place to another, which can be quite cheap in less developed corners of the world. But you don’t need to travel far to be a WWOOFer, because there are opportunities available right here in the United States. There are nearly 300 WWOOF farms in California alone. And some farmers let guests stay for up to a year. It costs just $30 for access to the U.S. chapter’s online directory, and you can start contacting farmers yourself. You won’t technically save any money when you work for free on a farm, but you’ll likely learn a whole lot more than you would as an entry-level claims adjuster. Also, you will almost certainly be happier than you might be, spending your most able-bodied years in a dimly lit cubicle, paying high rent. 2. Yellowstone National Park While plenty of resorts likely offer house to their employees — see No. 3, below — few are as majestic as Yellowstone, with its geyser, waterfalls, bears, and basalt formations. And Yellowstone, which straddles three states and is unimaginably massive, offers housing benefits to its employees. According to the website, housing is not quite free. The cost is based on hours worked, but it cannot exceed $42 in a two week period — so, at a maximum of $3 per night, it’s basically free. That’s insanely cheap, even in Wyoming. Meals don’t come free at Yellowstone, however. Again, the cost of your dining plan is based on the number of hours you work, but it cannot exceed $151 for every two weeks for all-you-can-eat three meals a day. At $14 a day, maximum for room and board on top of a presumably decent paycheck, it’s not bad for living on one of the most beautiful nature reserves in the world. Look out for that caldera, though. 3. Cruise Ships (and resorts in general) If David Foster Wallace’s essay on the despair-inducing aspects of cruise ships hasn’t turned you off, cruise ships offer a non-Navy way for you to see the world, get fed, and get a room. Of course you’ll have to wear your professional smile at all times, and probably put up with a bunch of corporate service employee nonsense. But if Wallace’s story is still accurate, you should have the chance to meet people from all corners of the globe, while traveling the world. There are very few jobs like that, so the professional smile is a small cost. It’s certainly not the best way to see the Mediterranean or the Caribbean, but it beats never seeing either sea at all because your entry-level data job hardly pays the bills for your bedbug-infested studio. Think about it. Similarly, you could probably find work at a summer camp, yoga retreat, casino or resort as a caretaker in the offseason. These jobs likely go to locals, so it might be helpful if you’re, say, from Hawaii. But it’s been known to happen for out-of-towners. 4. Intergenerational Housing/Group Homes This option is the least mercenary of all. It will require an actual commitment to helping others who cannot take care of themselves, are infirm due to their age, or come from broken homes. It likely attracts those that, for religious reasons or a sense of societal obligation, want to help out — not just those seeking a free bed. That said, as an employee of intergenerational housing or a group home, you’ll certainly have the opportunity to learn from the residents, and, yes, you’ll have a free room. This is not a choice to take lightly; it would likely be trying for those not totally committed to the cause. That said, for those who are committed, it’s likely an incredibly fulfilling work life. That’s better than you can say for an entry level job cold-calling people about their cable packages. 5. Peace Corps Maybe you don’t want to live in this country at all, but would like to export two of its greatest resources: iodine and literacy. Then the Peace Corps is for you, friend. All you need to do is be ready to give up everything you’ve ever known and loved for two years, including (probably) indoor plumbing, (maybe) the Internet, and (definitely) reasonably-sized insects and spiders. It’s certainly not a gig for the faint of heart — indeed, heart conditions will preclude your ability to serve in the Peace Corps, along with a list of other ailments. You’ll come back a better person. Representing our nation’s interests in the Third World in a fashion that involves neither guns nor hamburgers is incredibly rare in the 21st century, so relish that experience. You’ll see a completely different mode of living, and you’ll have your living and housing expenses covered by Uncle Sam — in all likelihood monthly rent on a small house in rural Burkina Faso is quite cheap, if not practically free. After your 27 months of service are up, you’ll get a bonus stipend of $7,425 (pre-tax!) for getting transitioned back to the States. That would be a paltry sum for more than two years of service to your neighborhood Ralph’s or whatever, but it’ll help you pay rent for a few months when you move back home. 6. Crew a yacht Much like working on a cruise ship, manning a yacht is a cheap way to see the world from the deck of a boat. But unlike working on a cruise ship, you won’t be surrounded by hundreds of tourists and will have to partake in some manual labor. In general, knowledge of seamanship is necessary, but even if you just possess culinary, navigational or mechanical skills you might be able to score a paid position on board. Of course, with great opportunities come costs. A six-month membership at the website CrewSeekers, for instance, will cost you more than $100. Still, that beats paying high rent and working a thankless job back home. Plus, you can set sail for several months at a time, helping you see the world at an affordable cost. 7. Get a fellowship or scholarship OK. Technically applying for fellowships or scholarships isn’t a job — but it can certainly feel that way if you’ve got to fill out a ton of paperwork. You might have applied for scholarships to help pay for college, so why not apply for more when you leave? There’s a lot of funding out there, you just have to find a fellowship or scholarship that you qualify for and apply. Of course, you’ll be competing with potentially thousands of other students for the award so don’t count on receiving any funding just yet. Ideally, you’d be awarded a scholarship that will help pay for your housing costs so you can avoid paying for lodging yourself. But even if you’re awarded a scholarship for only $2,000 — that’s money that can go towards your post-graduation expenses. Remember: Sallie Mae might soon come knocking on your door looking for you to pay off your student loans, so every little bit helps. If you love taking care of kids and helping around the house, you’ll love being an au-pair. An au-pair is a young foreign person who helps a family with childcare or housework in exchange for food and accommodation and a monetary allowance. It can come with incredible perks — traveling around the world, staying in fancy homes, and time off to explore among them. Plus, you won’t have to pay rent or worry about finding work for the time being. Start saving money in under a minute. See how much you can save in just a few steps.Get Started But make no mistake about it, becoming an au-pair isn’t all roses and daisies. Taking care of kids can be a lot of hard work and you will be spending an awful lot of time with your host family. So you want to be sure that you choose a host family that you get along with and whose values match your own. If you think you’re cut out for the au-pair life, there are a ton of websites available where you can get an idea of the opportunities available to you. As suggested by some of our readers, the military is certainly a job that will help you avoid paying for rent. Of course, if you’re thinking of joining the military, avoiding rent is probably the last thing on your mind. Eligibility requirements can be a little confusing and there are different rules for enlisting and for officer programs. Visit a local recruiter if you’re thinking of enlisting. If you’re lucky enough and talented enough you could work at Google. Now, while officially you aren’t supposed to live at the office, some Google employees have decided staying overnight might be better than shelling out rent checks. The thing is, Google offers so many amazing perks and amenities (like laundry, gym, showers, cafeteria) that there is almost no reason to ever leave. As a result, some Google employees simply go to work, do their laundry, eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the cafeteria, shower in the gym, and spend the night in their cars before doing it all again. The balmy weather of Silicone Valley means that you could pretty much sleep comfortably in your car all year round. And to top it all off, you’ll never be late to work again. Of course, you’re probably wondering that if this isn’t Google official policy, how are these people getting away with this? Well according to Ben Discoe, he was only ever bothered by security once. Once he proved he was an actual Google employee the guard left him alone — Discoe never had an issue again. So, if you’re lucky enough to work at Google you might as well live there as well. Find the best bank account for you now. 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Last week, La Cienega Design Quarter , the main thoroughfare for design showrooms in Los Angeles, held its annual Legends Week , a three-day celebration of design and style that invites interior designers to create elaborate window vignettes. This year's theme, Novel Interiors: Storytelling by Design , encouraged designers to choose a literary work as the inspiration for their show-stopping window displays, and showroom passersby and spectators visiting from near and far took in over-the-top-displays inspired by celebrated tomes like Sherlock Holmes , Valley of the Dolls, and Memoirs of a Geisha . We hate to pick favorites, but, well, we're going to. Here are a few stunning vignettes that truly made us want to pick up a book (or a chair). \|\|Designer: Kelly Sutton Showroom: Antique Rug Co. Novel: The Great Gatsby Vignette: Antiques, a real zebra hide, and tufted chairs recall the opulence of the flapper era, while mustard fabric hangings echo the original book's vivid yellow hue. \|\|Designer: Catherine Kwong Showroom: George Smith Novel: Mrs. Dalloway Vignette: A trail of red paper flowers was inspired by the first line of Virginia Woolf's novel: "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." \|\|Designer: Thomas Callaway Novel: A Moveable Feast Vignette: Cardboard blowups of Ernest Hemingway and his compatriots, a well-stocked bar cart, and early 20th century paintings recall Hemingway's years spent hanging in Paris with fellow ex-pats like Gertrude Stein. \|\|Designer: Martyn Lawrence Bullard Showroom: Nathan Turner Vignette: A chicly outfitted four-poster bed is prepped for a man on the go -- James Bond -- with a suitcase full of black leather accessories. \|\|Designer: Tyler Dawson Showroom: Ralf's Antiques Novel: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Vignette: A curvy modernist wooden side chair mimics the shape of the iconic yellow brick road, while a luxe Louis Vuitton trunk suggests the voyage to Oz will be stylish. \|\|Designer: Christian May Showroom: Woven Accents Novel: One Thousand and One Nights Vignette: Flying carpets looked and piles of gilded books looked nothing short of magical in this rug store vignette. For a good laugh and a few meaningful design lessons, be sure to check out the best quotes from the Million Dollar Decorators' panel during LCDQ Legends Week Photographs: Grey Crawford
Newsflash: the stimulus did not work. What's the solution? How about more of the same? If it didn't work once, the second time will surely produce the desired result. The Democrats are going to continue underestimating the stupidity of the American people. It's what's what and office. It's what got much of their liberal agenda passed. The Democrats just cannot get enough of how elitists they are and how stupid the rest of America is. It shows in their work. In February, President Obama urged Americans to urge their congressperson to pass a stimulus bill. And against the will of the people who actually had some forethoughts about what this was actually going to do, it was passed. Now, after four months with no economic recovery, the Democrats are even wising up enough to see that the stimulus bill did not work. It did not put America back to work. Most of the money that did get dispersed went to states to make up for the overspending that they did. Witness Wisconsin. The money is gone and jobs have not been created or saved. So now, a second stimulus bill is being bandied about. Does the government wanted to add another trillion dollars to the annual deficit for fiscal year 2009? Apparently it does. VP Joe Biden has said that the administration underestimated the severity of the economic crisis. They called it the worst economic prices since the Great Depression. Would Americans have felt better if they had called it the greatest economic crisis ever? Was that the difference? They did not believe their own spin? It's what got them elected. Barack Obama continued to campaign while John McCain suspended his campaign to fix the economic crisis. Neither turned out to be a good idea. So where will the shovel ready jobs becoming from? Are there enough shovels? Will there be more money available for tattoo removal? I'm sure there are plenty of tax-and-spend liberals who want to get inked. This will be occurring while the other taxpayers are getting [taken to the cleaners.]
April Is Poetry Month April 02, 2013 Students tend to turn up their noses at the idea of poetry. Their experiences are limited to Hallmark cards and trite rhymes. And, they don’t think they have what it takes to write something others would want to read or something that could be published. That changed when I was teaching middle school. I shared some of my favorite writers of poetry. One of those was Jack Prelutsky. Mr. Prelutsky has been writing for more than 40 years. In 2006, he was named the first Children’s Poet Laureate in the United States. There are many of his books in the MCPL system. While putting away nonfiction, I found a "how to" book by Mr. Prelutsky. It was called Pizza, Pigs and Poetry: How to Write a Poem. He suggested that you carry a notebook at all times and write down your ideas. Another suggestion was to make lists about an object or event. Nothing was off limits, and things familiar to you were easier to write about. Mr. Prelutsky gave several examples of poems he wrote, from the beginning idea to the finished product. He exaggerated to keep the poem upbeat and humorous. I found some of his books in the Juvenile Easy section. Dog Days had a rhyme for each month of the year. Behold the Bold Ubrellaphant and Other Poems had collage pictures of animals. The Ballpoint Penguins,The Pop-up Toadsters, and Me, I Am! are other JE examples. If you’re interested in a collection of poems, try looking in the 811.54 P section of Juvenile Nonfiction. There I found Something Big Has Been Here and The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders. One book in particular caught my eye, Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face and Other Poems. It includes activities at the end of each of its five sections and a bonus CD. The illustrations in Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face and Other Poems were by Brandon Dorman. They were very colorful and grabbed my attention. Wouldn’t that one be a great starting point for homeschoolers? But my favorite Prelutsky book is Awful Ogre’s Awful Day. That one, in particular, dispels the notion that all poetry is nice and sweet. On the contrary, I think boys would especially like the scary animal pictures of rattlesnakes, leeches, rats, and maggots. So, if you’re browsing the shelves on a Saturday afternoon, pick up a book of poetry and settle onto the comfortable seating area. Reading a poem or two or three is sure to make you smile and brighten up your day.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, I thought I'd put together a collection of some of my favorite love photography around. These aren't your traditional lovey dovey pictures, rather they're of couples who look like they were lost in a moment. A moment of pure happiness or excitement when the world's troubles were washed away. Some are just pure while others are filled with passion, but they all have one thing in common...they remind us that true love should be treasured. And finally a personal picture of me and my husband, Sam. Taken by Jessica Claire
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SEPANG, Dec 4 (Bernama) -- The government today launched the Graduate Employability Blueprint for 2012-2017 that will focus on boosting the level of graduate marketability as well as fulfilling the needs of the professional and skilled manpower towards national development. Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the plan would be a paradigm shift in confronting the issues of graduate marketability in the country and was proof that the government was addressing the issue seriously. "We developed the blueprint to ensure that we overcome all matters raised by the industry and to meet industry needs and requirements," he told reporters after launching the plan here. Earlier, in his speech, Mohamed Khaled said four core issues in the plan included a strategy to create a higher education system which could produce quality human capital; global competitiveness; meeting national needs; as well as creating a higher education system which could provide graduates their dream careers. Mohamed Khaled said a committee has been set up to monitor the plan's implementation as well as the issues encountered. He said an evaluation would be carried out six years after the implementation of the plan. Mohamed Khaled also said that to ensure the smooth implementation of the blueprint, several programmes on graduate marketability and employability would be carried out, including the Industry Centre of Excellence (ICoE) in collaboration with universities and industries. "To date, the six ICoEs set up in the automotive, electrical, electronic, wholesaling and retailing fields are ICoE-Infineon with Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), ICoE-Infineon with Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), ICoE-Sapura with Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), ICoE-Miyazu with UMP, ICoE-Mydin with Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) and Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), and ICoE-MRCA with UUM and Segi University College," he said.

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