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carriewhite @carriewhitenot recently active In reply to: Visitor-Q posted an update in the group Extreme Cinema A rape and revenge film told in reverse. Largely considered one the most disturbing films ever made, its also my choice for the most shocking movie I’ve […] View This movie was without a doubt the most shocking and disturbing piece of celluloid I have ever watched on the big screen. I was totally spechless afterwards, couldn’t pronounce my disgust and my anger after it. But on the other hand, this film is beautifully filmed and artfully executed. Noe isn’t just a dumb provocatuer, he masters doing excellent movies.

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After a painfully long hiatus, TJ and Adam are back to talk about what they’ve been playing, including Mass Effect, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Silent Hill: Downpour, and Syndicate. But that’s not all — you can also look forward to some The Dark Knight chatter, a few miscellaneous Final Fantasy and Mass Effect spoilers, and a little Justin Beiber sprinkled in for good measure. This isn’t the comeback episode you’ve wanted, it’s the comeback episode you need! Download it if you are subscribed, or listen HERE! Have you been chomping at the bits waiting to hear the new Dancing With Paris album, The Drought? Well wait no further! Bloody-Disgusting has the exclusive album stream all set to sex up your ears right after the jump! Check it out and let us know what you think! Make sure to head to Dancing With Paris’ Facebook to check out all upcoming tour dates! A few weeks ago when I went to go see Defeater and La Dispute I had the privilege of catching Former Thieves open up for the show. It was my first time seeing them and I can easily say I was very impressed and made me even more excited to interview guitarist Josh Parks (he’s the handsome gentleman all the way to the right in the picture). Their first full length The Language That We Speak was released back in April of this year on No Sleep Records and to be honest it would be in your best interest to give the album a spin. With that being said read past the break for my interview with Josh Parks! Enjoy! Bloody-Disgusting loves bringing you the goods. Especially the horror goods! So today we’re bringing you an exclusive track premiere of Mr. Sardonicus from horrorpunk band Blitzkid‘s upcoming album ‘Apparitional’! The album comes out digitally on March 29th and the physical copy comes out May 3rd. Check after the jump for the exclusive track premiere as well as info on the band. Bloody-Disgusting has scored an exclusive song premiere for you lovely readers from the awesome prog-metal band Clandestine. After the jump, you can hear their song ‘Fracture’, which comes off their upcoming full length debut album, ‘The Invalid’ (out Feb. 15th courtesy of Nightmare Records). Bloody-Disgusting brings yet another audio interview for all of you readers to sit back and enjoy. Today’s subject is Peter Charell, bassist of the platinum-selling rock band Trapt. We talked about the current tour with Papa Roach, Skillet and My Darkest Days as well as the new album, ‘No Apologies’. Check out after the jump for the full interview. I got the opportunity to chat with Eyal Levi, guitarist and songwriter for the metal band Daath, about the new self-titled album which came out just a few weeks ago. We discussed the sound of the new album, how Daath stands apart from other metal bands and horror and the influence of horror on Daath. Check out the interview after the jump! Heavy metal super-group Hellyeah is preparing to release their second album ‘Stampede’ July 13th. The band features Mudvayne vocalist Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett, Nothingface guitarist Tom Maxwell, Damageplan bassist Bob Zilla, and former Pantera, Rebel Meets Rebel, and Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul. If you read on you can listen in on a 30 second sample of each track from the upcoming album, which can be pre-ordered in various bundles here. Put on your muscle shirt right now and head over to AOL Music where you can stream Danzig’s latest album Deth Red Sabaoth. Don’t worry, no distorted vocals or weird industrial stuff ala Blackacidevil going on here, just straight up Danzig flavored rock and roll. Glen Danzig commented “I think that fans will really dig this new album, I’ve been told several times that the album has a cool vitality to it, that it sounds energized, and I got that feeling when I was recording it. I wanted to have an organic sound, bigger and thicker, so I went out and bought some 1970′s Kustom tuck ‘n roll bass amps to play some of the guitar parts through. You’ll hear real reverb, real tremolo on this album, which sounds completely different than the stuff that’s done with computer chips.” There are definitely a few stand out tracks that will appeal to classic Danzig fans including Juju Bone, Rebel Spirits, and Night Star Hell. Overall, me = not disappointed. Disturbed have released the single “Another Way to Die” off the upcoming album Asylum which comes out this August. You can grab the track on iTunes or check out the lyric video below from YouTube. It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Murderdolls, the glam/punk/rock project featuring Wednesday 13 and Slipknot’s Joey Jordison. The band’s first release Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls debuted in 2002, and now they’re back with a new album titled Women and Children Last which will be hitting store shelves in August. If you’re like many Murderdolls fans and need your fix NOW, you’re in luck because we have the premier of their latest track “My Dark Place Alone”. You can also catch the band TONIGHT at the Key Club in Hollywood, CA or at London’s O2 Arena on September 18th as part of Ozzfest UK. Read on to check out the new song! Connecticut Electronic group, Twitch The Ripper, have posted the first track off their upcoming LP Bodiless, called Disconnected. “We are proud to announce that on June 15th, TTR will debut “Disconnected” at twitchtheripper.com. Disconnected is the first track off the upcoming Bodiless LP and you can exclusively hear it first, right here! It has been a very long process creating Bodiless. With production that began in early February and post pro ending in late May, I’d like to thank you for being patient with us.” If you’re a fan of Depeche Mode, New Order, or Cocteau Twins head over and take a listen. The band also recently released the artwork for the soon to be released free Bodiless sampler, read on to take a look. READ MORE Avenged Sevenfold have been in the studio working hard on their latest album with drummer Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) filling in after the untimely death of Jimmy Sullivan. The first single “Nightmare” will be available on iTunes next Tuesday May 18th, but you can get an early listen right now. Mike Portnoy not only recorded drums on the new album, but he also announced that he’ll be joining A7X on tour duties. Read on to check out the track and let us know what you think. A demo track/video featuring the song “My Time” and KoRn in the studio seems to have been floating around the internet for a while, our friends at SMNnews posted a youtube copy and now recently we were sent this video from an anonymous user. It sort of oozes the old school dissonant noisy KoRn that some of you probably punched holes in your bedroom wall to after your parents took away your Super Nintendo, but I’m not sure Jonathan Davis is still angsty enough to pull it off. Read on to take a listen and let us know what you think. KoRn will be playing the main stage at this years Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival alongside Rob Zombie, Lamb of God, and Five Finger Death Punch. READ MORE Fear Factory just made their entire new album “Mechanize” available for streaming online. Just one small catch, you have to help spread the word in order to hear it. The album is up on a site called Plugd and the first track is ready to go no strings attached. If you want ot hear more you’ll have to rate or comment on the track which will be posted as an update to your facebook or twitter. Like A Storm lef their native New Zealand and moved to North America and pursue the rock n’ roll dream. After releasing thier debut album The End Of The Beginning they’ve toured with bands such as the recently reuined Creed, Staind, Shinedown, and Puddle of Mudd. The band strikes a balance between warm electronics and massive hard rock which Matt Brooks (vocals/guitar/programming) describes comprehensively. “It’s a big rock sound with a lot of different textures. Every time you listen to it, you’ll hear something new. It’s a combination of all of our favorite sounds – from heavy rock to electronic music.” Bloody Disgusting recently caught up with Like a Storm for an interview and we’re happy to offer an exclusive MP3 download of the band’s single “Chemical Infatuation”. Read on to grab the track and for our full interview with the band. READ MORE Taking Dawn released their new album “Time To Burn” today via Roadrunner Records. To mark the release Bloody Disgusting is happy to host a listening party for the album where you can stream it in it’s entirety. Mudvayne is releasing their upcoming self-titled album on December 21, but you can listen to each track early on Yahoo right now. It sounds like they’re trying to break free from their nu-metal label and make a name for themselves as a band that’s here to stay. As we reported last month, the album cover features artwork by tattoo artist Paul Booth and will only be visible under a black light. It’ll also be available in multiple versions including: - standard CD - glow-in-the-dark vinyl - a limited edition of 100,000 copies featuring a keychain-sized black light - a limited edition of 1,000 copies containing the album on CD, the vinyl version, a 24-inch black light, a black light reactive poster and a black light reactive decal READ MORE Releasing on November 18 via Regain Records, DARK FUNERAL is offering up a sample from each track of their new album “Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus”. The album features 9 new tracks and the band will also be releasing a special edition that includes a live DVD with 55 minutes of previously unreleased material filmed during the band’s 15th anniversary show at the Peace & Love festival on June 28, 2008 in Borlänge, Sweden. Read on for the CD and DVD track listing! READ MORE

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The release of Ben Affleck’s smart historical satire Argo, based loosely on the true extraction by the CIA and Canadian officials of six American Embassy staff members out of Tehran in 1980, made me reflect on the spy genre as a whole. The penumbral world of international double and triple agents, where there’s a poison-tipped umbrella in every cafe and a micro-dotted envelope in every office, is often the stuff of great movies. As a genre it peaked in the 1960s thanks to the exploits of superspy James Bond and the more down-to-earth escapades created by Adam Hall, Len Deighton and John le Carré. Despite the end of the Cold War the spy genre has flourished but changed to keep up with the shifts in the political landscape post 9/11. So here, submitted for Todd Mason’s Overlooked Movies meme over at his Sweet Freedom blog, is my list of favourites, and the reasons why, in chronological order, focusing mostly on the Cold War period … Dick Gordon: National Security Agency. Martin Bishop: Ah. You’re the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone. Dick Gordon: No, that’s the FBI. We’re not chartered for domestic surveillance. Martin Bishop: Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments. Set up friendly dictators. Dick Gordon: No, that’s the CIA. We protect our government’s communications, we try to break the other fella’s codes. We’re the good guys, Marty. Martin Bishop: Gee, I can’t tell you what a relief that is… Dick. - dialogue from SNEAKERS (1992) I love spy stories, topical and historical, whether at the cinema or on TV, radio and in print for their unrivalled ability in the mystery genre to reflect the existential malaise of their times and just for the sheer possibilities for excitement, atmosphere and surprise in the plots. The genre has attracted many serious writers (from Conrad to Greene to Banville to Pynchon) and many of my choices below are adaptations derived from previously published works. I have included three films by Hitchcock, which is a lot, but they all seem sufficiently different to merit inclusion (he made a great many spy thrillers) but it does mean that I have not included some quirky titles just because I ran out of space. In putting my selection together I have tried to be fairly narrow to try and keep the list contained. So for instance I have avoided titles that include surveillance but that do not involve espionage in the traditional sense of government agents and so on, thus excluding the wonderful The Conversation (1974) for instance and also the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others (2006), which although more clearly in the Cold War mould, is not really thought of as a spy movie – well, at least not by me … I have also excluded parodies and spoofs, though I do enjoy them – so you will look in vain here for films featuring Matt Helm, Derek Flint, Charles Vine, the Carry On team etc. The Man from UNCLE has been excluded for that reason but also because the cinema releases it generated were just TV episodes re-packaged and I plan on doing a top 20 TV list of my favourite spy shows soon. 1. THE 39 STEPS (1935) The Hitchcock version, adapted in collaboration with writer Charles Bennett, was merely the first of several takes on the John Buchan novel and far from being the most faithful. But it pretty much set up the template for the director’s celebrated innocent man on the run movies (see North By Northwest below for the US equivalent) and is full of humour and surprise. The unmasking of the villain, who has only been described by his missing half finger, is a classic moment of movie cinema and the sequence with the protagonists handcuffed together is a classic all its own, combining Hitch’s trademark erotic perversity with black humour. Copied endlessly, never truly equalled. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 2. CONTRABAND (1940) After the success of The Spy in Black the year before, the new writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made another spy movie starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson and in typical fashion, the hero is a German! The two make a smashing pair as they travel through London to stop a group of Nazis loose on British soil one night during the blackout (which is why it was released in the US as ‘Blackout’), trading barbed witticisms as they go. Available on DVD under its US title. 3. FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO (1943) Billy Wilder combines wartime news grabbed from the headlines (Rommel in the desert) to craft a superb tale of espionage, derring-do and hidden treasure. Erich Von Stroheim is Rommel, top-billed Franchot Tone is passable as a British soldier masquerading as a club-footed waiter and Anne Baxter is the plucky and self-sacrificing waitress. Overlooked in comparison with the writer-director’s later and better-known classics, this one is particularly unjustly neglected in my view for its well-drawn characters and well-crafted plot. Available on DVD. 4. MASK OF DIMITRIOS (1944) This adaptation of the classic Eric Ambler novel, sadly AWOL on DVD at present, offers a stunning rogue’s gallery of character actors (including Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) and is meticulously structured as a series of interlocking flashbacks, all handled with great style by debut director Jean Negulesco. Ambler after Maugham and more or less concurrent with Graham Greene probably did more than anyone to make the spy genre respectable in literary circles and also to make it topical and realistic. But he also told some great stories. Orson Welles’ production of Journey Into Fear from Ambler’s book is sadly chaotic in the version that was released by RKO but almost made this list none the less – at least you can get that one on DVD without trying too hard … 5. NOTORIOUS (1946) One of Hitchcock’s finest movies, with Cary Grant as the CIA controller falling in love with his agent Ingrid Bergman, who has gone undercover to find out what Claude Rains and other neo-Nazis are up to in South America. A sexy and suspenseful picture, its plot was shamelessly stolen without credit for Mission impossible 2. The original is infinitely preferable and also has one of the director’s best MacGuffins too. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 6. THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (1956) ‘Operation Mincemeat’ really happened and this film, scripted by Nigel Balchin, is comparatively faithful to the facts as they were known at the time. It was an attempt by the Allies to fool the Nazis into believing that they were not going to invade Sicily in 1943 but land in Greece and Sardinia instead. Clifton Webb gives a highly restrained performance as the intelligence officer who comes up with the ghoulish plan of dropping a recently dead body with fake documentation int he hope that the Nazis will pick it up. Stephen Boyd is the Irish agent who comes to London to check the story which provides plenty of irony and excitement (and is the part fo the script that is the most clearly fictional). A fascinating true story now available on DVD and Blu-ray too (in the UK). 7. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Clever script concocted by Ernest Lehman – the hunt for a spy in which as executive Cary Grant gets mistaken for a spy, who doesn’t exists – great set-pieces (the crop duster sequence, the chase across Mount Rushmore, the assassination at the UN), a wonderful music score by Bernard Herrmann and a great henchman in Martin Landau – its wonderful stuff. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 8. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Adapted from the book by Richard Condon, this story of brainwashing and political assassination is a true cinema classic. Angela Lansbury plays the scariest screen mother ever and director John Frankenheimer was never better – a cruel, nightmarish movie with a wicked satirical edge. Simply one of the best films ever made – not to be confused with the disappointing remake starring Denzel Washington. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 9. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) Not my favourite Bond movie but probably the best plotted of the early films and the most successful in terms of combining action, intrigue and espionage. Len Deighton worked on an early draft of the script and John Barry provides a pounding score while the fabulous supporting cast includes Lotte Lenya, Pedro Armendariz and Robert Shaw. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 10. THE IPCRESS FILE (1965) Len Deighton combined the private eye hardboiled style with the modern spy story with brilliant results – the movie, wonderfully scored by John Barry and directed in a fussy, febrile and dynamic Film Noir fashion by Sidney J. Furie, changed the book quite a bit but Michael Caine is brilliant as the protagonist (here named ‘Harry Palmer’) and this may be the greatest of all 60s spy movies for its clever story, brilliant acting and high style. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 11. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1965) The le Carré anti-Bond par-excellence, shot in contrasty black and white, this has enough twists for two movies but is anchored in a quartet of excellent performances led by Richard Burton as the disillusioned protagonist, Oskar Werner as his cold opposite number, Cyril Cusack as the devious head of British Intelligence and Claire Bloom as the innocent caught in between. Unforgettable. Available on DVD. 12. THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM (1966) An almost fairy tale atmosphere permeates this classic story of neo-Nazis in 1960s Berlin. George Segal is much too young as Quiller but is otherwise very good in the role and Max von Sydow is, as always, a fine villain (he even got to play Blofeld once). Senta Berger is the gorgeous damsel in distress and the memorable score is by John Barry, who truly provided the soundtrack to 1960s espionage cinema. I reviewed the film separately here. Available on DVD. 13. WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968) War movie-cum-spy thriller in this men on a mission movie written by Alistair MacLean and starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and the late Ingrid Pitt. Utterly preposterous and remembered mainly for its huge action scenes, it also has a wonderfully convoluted spy plot in the middle and has a nice twist at the end too – and a classic score by Ron Goodwin – what’s not to like? Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 14. THE THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975) This low-key piece of espionage, a kind of 39 Steps (see above) brought up to date, inadvertently caught the post-Watergate zeitgeist with its cynical view of government and the intelligence community. Redford is the low level CIA operative on the run from he known not whom, Faye Dunaway the girl he meets and Max von Sydow the cool killer for hire. Meticulously directed by the late Sidney Pollack, this is a thriller that still works extremely well, its central distrust of large organisations continuing to chime with the times … Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 15. NO WAY OUT (1987) This very clever adaptation of Kenneth Fearing’s The Big Clock is relocated to the Pentagon with Kevin Costner set to unmask a mole by murderous politician Gene Hackman. Highly suspenseful and with a humdinger of a final twist. I previously reviewed the film here. Available on DVD. 16. THE RUSSIA HOUSE (1991) Adapted by Tom Stoppard from the novel by John le Carre, this is one of the last, great Cold War thrillers made just as the East-West thaw was settling. The supporting cast is wonderfully – especially Roy Scheider as the scabrous CIA chief, along with the likes of JT Walsh, John Mahoney, James Fox, Michael Kitchen and the great Klaus Maria Brandauer, all serving the unlikely but ultimately winning star team of Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer. Shot on location in Moscow this film also has a wonderful music score by Jerry Goldsmith, played by Branford Marsalis. Available on DVD and Blu-ray (in France at least). 17. SNEAKERS (1992) Branford Marsalis is also the soloist for this film (scored by James Horner), which was originally designed as a sequel to the 1983 Matthew Broderick cyber thriller Wargames. What ultimately emerged however was perhaps more caper movie than espionage, a film that affects a light tone but knows how to interject real jeopardy at the halfway mark to up the stakes in the search for the ultimate secret encryption decoding machine. Beautifully played by a great cast of new and old faces, with Redford and Poitier holding up the rear while the likes of River Phoenix and Dan Aykroyd steal all the scenes, which delight in building one paradox after another (a blind man drives a getaway car, a theft has to undertaken as slowly as possibly, an empty box that proves to have all the answers and so on). Really worth rediscovering. Available on DVD. 18. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) I love Brian De Palma and his take on the 1960s and 70s TV series was typically subversive, wiping out the team in the opening sequence and turning heroes into outcasts. Of the four Tom Cruise movies made in this series (so far) this is the only one that really stands up as a spy movie. Along with the celebrated Langley break-in (with Cruise hanging on wires) there are spectacular and small bits of business that prove endlessly intriguing, such as the revelation of the second IMF team at the restaurant and the sequences in which one character relates how he escaped death and the visualisation by the hero in his mind that directly contradicts it – all much cleverer than your average Summer movie. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 19. THE BOURNE SUPREMACY (2004) Having found the original underwhelming, this sequel was much more impressive with director Paul Greengrass’ kinetic style immediately impressing to create a truly breathless story of cross and double cross and Bourne tries to outwit various intelligence agencies and discover his real identity. Only the exit of the leading lady seems misjudged – for me the best of the Bourne series, by far. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. 20. TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (2011) A movie that stands on its own without ignoring both its literary origins in the le Carré novel and the 1979 BBC TV mini-series starring Alec Guinness as spymaster George Smiley. Most of the people I know who claim to have not been able to follow this movie properly were those that did not know the story from previous incarnations, and I can see how the final revelation of the mole in British intelligence is perhaps a little bit too oblique – and the final death a bit too convenient-seeming (unless you’re read the book, where it is made clear that the parties in question had a pre-arranged rendezvous). This may be considered a bit of a failing from a story-telling standpoint and the subplot involving Tom hardy’s Ricky Tarr is perhaps made too prominent at the expense of clarity. Additionally one could argue that Oldman is perhaps too beholden at times to Alec Guinness’ TV portrayal but this movie has virtues all its own, especially in its masterly use of flashback. And the 70s atmosphere is brilliantly caught, the final use of a Julio Iglesias recording brilliantly judged in my view. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. With the exception of the Bourne film I have deliberately excluded the many, many films dealing with international terrorism since the World Trade Center Attack, purely for reasons of space. This means that really fine films like David Mamet’s Spartan (2004) have been omitted though it is well worth looking for. The same goes for Traitor (2008), a fascinating little movie starring Don Cheadle based on a story by comedian Steve Martin, though the best of them so far may well be Syriana (2005) starring George Clooney. But there are plenty more I have left out – do let me know what you think …

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Lets see if my friends younger brother can take it to the bank! Dont forget to tune in this Wed. at 8pm on Fox to find out! Chris Rene is the youngest brother of my good friends from High School. Both Gabe and Gina Rene have been working in music for over a decade. They have success on their own merit due to the quality and just plain good grooves of their material. Gabe has been an original member of Soulstice who is on OM’s Record label. Gina has begun an adventure in solo artistry so watch for all 3 of the Rene clan to fill our ear and air waves!!

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February 8th, 2008 by Bob Bly Lord Kelvin, inventor of the Kelvin temperature scale, once said, “When you can measure something in numbers, then you know something about it.” No where does his lesson have more meaning than in advertising. A case in point: a recent column in DM News noted that the Sales Genie ad in the 2007 Superbowl was a success, generating 25,000 visits to the company’s Web site. Well, assuming the company spent $1 million on the spot, that comes to $40 per visit. That compares poorly to the cost per click of Google Adwords and other common methods of generating traffic. When you apply metrics to the presidential campaign, the results are even more embarrassing for NYC’s former mayor. According to an article in Newsweek, Rudy Giuliani spent $60 million on his failed run for the White House, collecting only a single delegate in the process. That’s a marketing cost of $60 million per delegate — perhaps a record. This entry was posted on Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 3:53 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. 246. $14.95 (pb). ISBN-0-8014-8091-4. Reviewed by Jennifer Dellner, Reed College. Sorkin Rabinowitz presents a provocative and ultimately unsettling analysis of the phenomenon of "the traffic in women" in eight tragedies of Euripides. The phrase "traffic in women" in the subtitle of the book derives from an article written in 1975 by Gayle Rubin, which has since become the locus classicus of feminist literary and anthropological theory of women and exchange. The prominence of Rubin highlights other theoretical choices and exclusions which reveal a deeper agenda.1 In the conclusion of this study, S.R. recounts the following incident: "When I presented my work at a conference several years ago, someone in the audience asked me why we should continue to teach and read this material. I admit that this is a problem for me, given the competition for scarce resources in the curriculum, for example." S.R. continues, "It is possible for feminist readers to use these texts..." (220). Her own ambiguity vis-à-vis the value of her subject matter produces what I consider to be the book's most dominant flaw: the assumption of the monolithic feminist "we" in a premise of despair over what tragedy means to "us" (women). Indeed, in her Introduction, S.R. speaks of adapting Althusser for "deployment in the feminist arsenal" (12), while I am left wondering why I need weaponry to approach these texts. S.R.'s assumptions are "up-front," in that they are explained at the outset and embedded in her interpretation. In what follows, I have noted several theoretical moves which may make even a feminist reader uneasy; since they often account for S.R.'s acceptance or rejection of a certain understanding of the tragedies, I present them as I move through the text. In spite of an introductory section which traces out a by now well-known route from Mauss to Gernet to Levi-Strauss to Rubin on the exchange of gifts, women, and signs, S.R.'s analysis is more Freudian than Marxist, and it is this approach which will generate the most controversy. Her segue from Marxism to Freudian psychoanalysis relies on their shared vocabulary of "the fetish." Fetishism ties together the economy of (masculine) desire (Freud), and the social construction of commodities (Marx), and allows S.R. to "attend to the maculinity of Athens and stress tragedy's ideological function" (9), i.e. to examine the "cultural work" tragedy does when it makes its female characters "discursive practices" (12) in its form(ul)ation of masculine desire qua Athenian ideology. S.R.'s examination of the cultural practice of Euripidean tragedy comes to a view of tragedy as "comforting to men" (168), a far cry from recent views of tragedy as a destabilizing or questioning influence on Athenian life and politics (e.g. Goldhill's term, "fractive").2 All in all, S.R.'s reading yields the following triangle: the two species of commodified women are "Fetishized Victims," (Part I), who are either "sacrificial" virgins or wives, and "Vengeful Destoyers" (Part II), Matres Dolorosae, who become, in opposition to their fetishized counterparts, unheimlich or "uncanny"; both of these serve to produce "Men United" (Part III). S.R.'s reliance on the Freudian concept of the unheimlich to balance vengeful mothers with fetishized young women clearly inclines her analysis toward a psychoanalytic theory of male wish-fulfillment. S.R. makes good use of Freudian-based feminist film criticism (Doane, deLauretis, Mulvey) in her reading of female characters as projections of male fantasy. It is in this concept of "public art" that S.R. uses MacKinnon's work on ideology to relate the notions of male sexual desire and commodified fantasy to the production of epistemology (196). Iphigenia (at Aulis) and Alcestis are S.R.'s main models for the "sacrificial" women of Part I, though an examination of Polyxena and Macaria supports S.R.'s reading of Iphigenia in the first chapter. In the first section, S.R. opposes the supposed "subject" status of women who sacrifice their lives (their seeming volition and possible power) with the male glorification ("fetishization") of them which seeks to control it. In this section, S.R. wishes to produce a "grammar of the plays of sacrifice," where she argues that sacrifice is a form of gift-exchange with the gods (31). She turns to work by Vernant and Foley to make a further analogy between sacrifice and marriage as comparable forms of exchange. Both marriage and sacrifice, according to S.R., re-organize "natural" phenomena (reproduction, meat-eating) into social, hierarchized behaviors which advantage the male: "In sum," she writes, "marriage is like sacrifice because in marriage woman is the offering through which culture is constituted" (34). Iphigenia, Polyxena, and Makaria are marked by their "oscillation" between states as volunteering subjects and idolized objects. S.R. has apparently borrowed the term "oscillation" from Doane, and uses it five times in Part I -- pages 54,71, 83, 98, 99 -- to mark the sense of movement between the women's gestures at subjectivity/power, which marks them as "uncanny," and their only act as subjects (submission), which leads to their glorification and maintains the masculine-dominant status-quo. Fetishism, according to S.R., "oscillates between mutilation and adoration" (83), an explanation which has little to do with Marxist theory, and much more to do with Sorkin-Rabinowitz's use of "castration anxiety" to explain the attempts of Athenian males to control their potentially threatening women. Herein lies a tension in S.R.'s analysis between the universalizing tendencies of Freudian criticism and her attempt to formulate a specifically Athenian male ideology. S.R.'s reliance on psychoanalytic explanation often feels superfluous in the face of her acute and perceptive readings of the plays themselves, and many notions of what is specifically Athenian in the plays is obscured by her discussion of what is male/Euripidean. For example, it is not clear, in her final and excellent analysis of Kreousa in the Ion, whether any male could have written a different play:Psychoanalytic theory speculates that the infant, denied the milk of the mother (either because he is biting and hurting her or because another child has come along to take his place), responds with aggressive fantasies of destroying her but justifies his own hostility by imagining that she is harming him. Euripides, taking the part of the son, creates a scenario in which the mother does harm to the infant first. Euripides justifies Ion's attack on Kreousa by depicting her as an aggressor. (202-203)Her analysis of the Ion and the Hippolytus in Part III argues for this scenario (or primal scene) as the governing fantasy of all the Euripidean tragedies under consideration. The idolized women are merely the solution to the "Vengeful Destroyers" (Hekabe, Alcmene, Medea and Phaidra) whom she discusses in Part II. Unable to re-incorporate the power of older powerful women under the rubric of fetished glory/virtue, Euripidean tragedy manages their potential threat by pairing them off with their younger, sacrificial counterparts, demonstrating that these older women are indeed destructive of the social order. As she writes of Hekabe, "In the beginning, she is associated with the human realm as it faces the unheimlich, but by the end she is instead viewed as a manifestation of the uncanny itself" (116). S.R. views this association as purely recuperative on the part of Athenian males, but with implications which "can be positive" (105) for "us." Athenian men "displace" their anxieties "aroused by and on behalf of masculine civilization onto the female" by making the female cede to the male spatially in the plots' narratives (Hekabe, Hippolytus), and in general by using displacement to deflect "audience attention from systemic failings to [the women's] violence" (108). These women become a "screen" for the projection of masculine anxieties about their own (male) violence. However, "we" "can look for [positive] traces of female subjectivity, but let us not fool ourselves that Euripides applauds it" (154). S.R. is at her best in this central section, perhaps because, although psychoanalytic film theory lends her the notion of displacement onto the screen of female characters, she lets go of her tendency to use Freud to provide proof of what she finds, and instead performs very acute and nuanced readings of the tragedies which argue well for her findings. In Parts I and III, she seems much more concerned with establishing the plays' cohesion with Freudian paradigms than she is in Part II, where her use of theory backgrounds, and never overshadows, her own interpretive work. Yet even here, her own findings often make S.R. nervous, and prevent her from drawing certain conclusions, as she attempts to quash any heroizing emotional response the women's strength produces in her by retreating to a contemporary moral agenda. She says of Medea's solution to her problems: "Given the realities of child abuse in our own time, however, I find it problematic to simply applaud Medea's infanticide and escape" (154). S.R.'s objections make plain what some feel to be a difficulty of reading as a feminist theorist: the notion that to be a feminist, one must find something positive in these women, must be able to identify with their strength and their choices. Because S.R. finds such choices (whether submission or murder) to be morally unacceptable, she cannot accept that a real woman would make these choices; only a construct in a collective male fantasy would: "the murder of the children is his [Euripides'] choice, not Medea's" (153). Her uneasiness denies the fact that women have chosen to kill and been heroized for it (Bonnie and Clyde, for example, evoke similar emotions in some, as do Thelma and Louise). Granted the presence of difficulties such as these, S.R.'s analyses of the final two plays (the Hippolytus again from the Father-Son vantage point, and the Ion) with the "arsenal" fully deployed -- all terms operational -- are well worth foregoing one's qualms. Although it may be jarring for a classicist of the non-Freudian persuasion to encounter the phrase, "The pre-Oedipal phase of Ion's life" (193), a reliance on Freudian scenarios is nicely counterbalanced in Part III by S.R.'s articulation of what may be a historically specific psychology of the influence of repressed homoerotic desire between Athenian men. She states as a general principle that "The possibility or probability of an erotic charge between father and son was denied in antiquity because that relationship founded the social order. Horizontal desire for one like oneself is the repressed, unconscious desire of this text [Hippolytus]; it is gratified by being transformed into a vertical (asexual) desire of father for son" (174). This dynamic of desire is demonstrated in the Ion as well, and it is in S.R.'s smart and well-supported readings of the texts themselves that readers will find well-founded provocation toward more exploration and research. S.R. has undertaken some risks by exposing, in our own terms, the psychic and moral dilemmas which may underlie the tragedies' exposition of the so many powerful, brave, and troubling women who are at the core of Athenian thought as we know it. Instead of arguing that the Greeks existed in a realm "Before Sexuality," Sorkin-Rabinowitz concludes that the insurgent power of women arises from a strong, historically situated, pre-Oedipal drive (220-221), of which Athenian men were only too aware, and had to constantly attempt to manage in a public realm where their most repressed fears could be rendered safe by a particular mechanism of fantasy. There are places where recent work on exchange which she has excluded could be used to bolster her argument. For example: Jean-Joseph Goux. tr. Curtiss Cage (1990) Symbolic Economies after Marx and Freud Cornell U. Press; Marilyn Strathern (1988) The Gender of the Gift U. of CA Press; Annette B. Weiner (1992) Inalienable Possessions U. of CA Press. Simon Goldhill (1986) Reading Greek Tragedy Cambridge U.Press.

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Game based on the traditional Middle-Eastern game of Okey. You try to get rid of all your tiles by forming numbers into runs of 3 or more, or groups of 3-4 of a kind. Played tiles become communal and can be rearranged and added to by any player. (2-4 players, 30 minutes) My newly bought, first-hand game of Rummikub (from Philos) came with a die. However, the game doesn't seem to use a die. Is there any variant that uses a die, if so, what for? In rummikub, how exactly does the 30-point rule work? Is it: The very first move of each player must be independent of existing stones and with a value of at least 30. There is no 30-point rule in ... I have to code a program that suggests what to do depending on the situation of a Rummikub game. More about Rummikub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummikub In Wikipedia's explanation, I quote: ... I don't have the paper rules here as a reference, but I grew up playing Rummikub with the rule that, if you replaced a joker on the table you must immediately replay the joker in a run or set with at ...

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This past weekend I needed to rent a car for four days. The cheapest I found was Hertz with their advertised $14.99/day at participating locations. Not bad at all considering this was about $50 less in total than any other company I was finding. As I was taking the Hertz shuttle to the airport location, I was looking through my email to try to find my Hertz number. While I couldn’t find this anywhere, I did come across an email where hertz was advertising $10 off a day up to $40 in total. I gave the promotional code number it to the representative, and what do you know, an additional $10 a day off my rental. After looking at my receipt, it looks like the taxes and service charges stayed the same (which really do add up at an airport location), but my per day cost ended up being $4.99! In total I paid $52.04 including taxes/fees for my four day rental which is SUPER cheap! Now the caveat is when you enter both the $14.99/day code plus the $10 off/day code it will not work. Actually the $14.99/day rate will not even appear. I tried replicating the rental on many different days in the future and it did not work. The best is to book at the $14.99 rate and when checking in giving the representative the additional $10 off promotional code. Now, I cannot guarantee this will work everywhere, but I do not see why not. The representative I spoke to didn’t make any magic happen and the computer system accepted the code with ease. Hertz $14.99 weekend rates - For participating airport and non-airport locations in the U.S. (not including NY Metro and HI), Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico, you can get a car rental for $14.99 per day (for Economy and Compact cars) - Valid for rental Thursday (noon) through Monday (noon) - Unlimited miles - Valid through January 31, 2013 - Check rates and make reservations here (use RQ code: FRDM) Additional $10 off coupon code - Valid for weekend or weekly rental from any Hertz airport location - Save $10 per day, up to $40 per rental - Valid through November 14, 2012 - Use promotional code (PC) # 173946 Let me know if you have any success!

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Anyone missing Heap? Posted 03 October 2012 - 05:33 PM on NFL's website, which is basically an analysis of the breakout players this far in the season, where Gil Brandt has been mentioning Dennis Pitta as one of the breakout players. He was showing some of his star ability late last season, especially in the playoffs. This made me think, has he been THE replacement for Heap, and is it true what Gil Brandt says, are we better on TE than we were when Heap was here? No disrespect to Heap, but I have to say, I really don't miss him all that much, and my personal opinion is that Pitta has been an incredible addition. "It's all for Ray Lewis" - Ray Rice Posted 03 October 2012 - 05:46 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:08 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:15 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:26 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:57 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:22 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:27 PM That always sounded so sweet. He was great, no question about it but I agree we have a better offense now. "Animals want to learn how to talk so they can hang out with me." Ray Lewis Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:28 PM But if you're referring to the Heap we cut prior to last year, no I don't miss him. He was injured more than he was healthy and we have rising stars in Pitta and Dickson. Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:46 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:49 PM Heap came to Art Modell's funeral, that says a lot for him - he will always be a Raven! Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:53 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 08:02 PM I don't know how many young dudes are in this thread, but for about 5 years Heap and Jamal Lewis were literally the only players on the team that could score points. And Heap took an absolute licking trying to make plays for Kyle Boller. If Heap had Flacco throwing to him his whole career Heap would still be playing at a high level. If we're talking about the here and now, then obviously the FO made the right decision to go with young legs. Edited by Bltravens, 03 October 2012 - 08:03 PM. Posted 03 October 2012 - 09:44 PM I don't miss Heap at all because I am reminded of how often he got injured. Maybe because he was blocking 300lb defensive linemen on every down as his time here came to a close? I dont miss him. Pitta is the new Heap Posted 03 October 2012 - 09:49 PM Plus I'll always respect the letter he wrote to Ravens fans when he left. Dude is class and should def be in the Ravens ROH. "No weapon. No weapon formed against this team shall prosper.” #GoRavens Win or lose, I believe. Posted 03 October 2012 - 09:50 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 09:54 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 10:01 PM Posted 03 October 2012 - 10:24 PM Welcome to the Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens, Matt Elam, #32nd overall, 1st round pick! Welcome to the Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens, Arthur Brown #56th overall, 2nd round pick! Welcome to the Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens, Brandon Williams, #94th overall, 3rd round pick! Posted 03 October 2012 - 10:42 PM 0 user(s) are reading this topic 0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users

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I have to put in a new laminate floor. There are already a set of sliding mirror doors in the closet. The closet doors have a bottom track in which the doors click into to move smoothly. I'm not sure how to do the flooring around the track. Should I remove the track and lay the flooring underneath the track and then screw the track into the flooring once it's in? Should I cut the flooring so it butts up against the track, at which point the track would be slightly lower than the flooring? The closet has a cheap outdoor carpet on the closet floor that I stapled in. Another option I was thinking was that I remove the track, put another piece of the outdoor carpet underneath the track and then screw the track in on top of this new piece of carpet. Just looking for any suggestions on how to do this. I've looked online and searched for advice but everything I find includes videos on how to lay down flooring, which after the 5th video, just reiterates the same thing. Not quite sure I understand your question... But Will try. If this is a floating floor it must have room to expand, this means no nails or screws should be used. It this floor is stapled or nailed, then the track can be laid on top. Basically, my laminate flooring is going to be a floating floor install. My closet doors have a bottom track. What do people do when the flooring butts up against the bottom track of the closet doors? If I cut the laminate flooring with a circular saw, it's going to look like an unfinished edge on the flooring. Post a picture. Is this a bifold door, or a bipass door? I've never seen either with a track at the bottom. May have to go with a trasition stip on the laminite side of the door. For general message board help, click the tab labeled "Tools," and choose "Help" from the dropdown menu.

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EXCERPTS FROM EXTERNAL NEWS ARTICLES REGARDING THE NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS ARE POSTED UNDER THEIR SOURCES. MISCELLANEOUS SPORTS ARTICLES ARE POSTED UNDER THE "MISCELLANEOUS" SECTION AT THE END OF THE THREAD. LINKS FOR ALL LISTED SOURCES ARE INCLUDED TO ALLOW MEMBERS TO INDEPENDENTLY BROWSE AT THEIR LEISURE. NEWARK STAR LEDGER Victor Cruz Calls Redskins "Team To Beat" In NFC Playoffs Excerpt: "It's not easy to pick a favorite in the NFC playoff race. There are teams that got hot down the stretch -- the Redskins, Vikings and Seahawks -- and a favorite like No. 1 seed Atlanta. Victor Cruz's pick? The Giants played four of the conference's six playoff teams this year, but Cruz likes their divisional rival Redskins this postseason. "It’s tough for me to say this because we play in the same division as them, but I think Washington is having a good year," the Giants receiver said on WFAN Radio yesterday. "They’re having a year similar to us last year where they’re kicking up at the right time. They’re playing some good football. Typically the team that is playing the best towards the end of the year is the team that is going to potentially win it all." Read more... NY DAILY NEWS Cruz "Positive" About New Contract With Giants Excerpt: "Victor Cruz feels he’s proven his worth to the Giants both on and off the field, and he remains “positive” that he’ll soon get the long-term contract he’s been seeking.THE NEW YORK POST Though it didn’t get done before the end of the regular season as he had wanted, Cruz reiterated his hope on Wednesday that the “tabled” negotiations will soon re-open. In an interview on WFAN, he said he’s “comfortable” with where the talks stand and added “I feel positive that I’m going to be in New York for a very long time.” “I feel comfortable where we’re at," Cruz said. “I think I’ve done enough to show them I’m a good guy on and off the field, and that I’ve done everything positive up until this point to prove that I’m somebody that the organization will want to keep around for a long time. “So I’m comfortable in that. I’m positive things will come around and a positive outcome will come out of all this.’’ Cruz, who followed up his record-setting 2011 (1,536 receiving yards) with a Pro Bowl season in 2012 (86 catches, 1,092 yards, 10 touchdowns) is due to become a restricted free agent when the signing period opens on March 12. If he doesn’t have a new deal in place by then, the Giants almost certainly will use give him a “first-round” tender offer, which would guarantee him nearly $3 million in 2013. That would also give the Giants the right to match any offer he receives as a restricted free agent, and the right to a first-round pick as compensation from the team that signs him if they don’t match. The two sides would appear to prefer to reach a long-term agreement before then, and talks were opened during the regular season. At one point Cruz said the “structure” of a deal was in place, but clearly there was more work to be done. “It got tabled for a couple weeks, mainly because of the two sides agreeing to disagree at the same time," Cruz said. "But now that the season’s over and the statistics are what they are, I think we’re going to get back and pick up the pen again and see what we can do." Read more... Bradshaw Runs Into Doubts Excerpt: "Ahmad Bradshaw says he’ll be “a Giant forever.” But he can’t say for sure that he’ll be in a Giants uniform next season. Bradshaw rushed for more than 1,000 yards for the second time in his career, and he says he’s entering the offseason in relatively good health. But to hear him talk about it, his reward for that performance could be a dismissal from the only team he’s ever known. “You just never know who won’t be back next year,” Bradshaw said as he cleaned out his locker earlier this week. “Including me.” The statement may have seemed odd, especially since Bradshaw has two years remaining on the four-year extension that he signed in the summer of 2011. But the 26-year-old running back clearly doesn’t believe that his role in New York is secure. He spoke the same way immediately after Sunday’s season finale, saying that “this was going to be the last ride for a lot of guys to be Giants” and “it could be me by the same token.” Read more... Victor Cruz Expected to Seek $8 - 10 Million Per Season Excerpt: "Victor Cruz has done enough to convince the Giants he deserves to be wearing his No. 80 jersey and doing his salsa in the end zone for a long time. It is going to cost the Giants dearly, though, to get him locked up with a multi-year deal. Cruz is set to become a restricted free agent and he’s not going anywhere, as the Giants know they cannot operate their offense without his skills at receiver. They would likely tender him on a one-year deal if they cannot agree on a long-term contract.After playing for the NFL minimums the past three years, Cruz won’t come cheap, not after two outstanding seasons by a 26-year-old on the upside of his career. His asking price is expected to be somewhere between $8 million and $10 million per year. Cruz made $540,000 this season and the last two years he has been the greatest bargain in the league. “I think I feel comfortable where we’re at,’’ Cruz said yesterday on his weekly WFAN spot. “I think I’ve done enough to show them I’m a good guy on and off the field and I’ve done everything positive up until this point to prove that I’m somebody the organization will want to keep around for a long time. I’m positive things will come around and a positive outcome will come out of all this.’’ Cruz has previously said he wanted a new deal in place before the end of the season and revealed weeks ago that he believed the structure for such a deal was in place. Talks, he reported, “got tabled for a couple weeks mainly because the two sides agreeing to disagree at the same time. Now that the season is over and the statistics are what they are I think we’re gonna get back and pick up the pen again and see what we can do.’’Cruz is one of 22 free agents for the Giants to sort through but he figures to be a top priority. Fellow receiver Hakeem Nicks was slowed all season with foot and ankle issues, allowing opposing defenses to swing the attention to Cruz. Still, he caught 86 passes for 1,092 yards and 10 touchdowns, all team highs. He hasn’t missed a game in two years. A year ago, the free agent market produced some hefty salaries for receivers and Cruz will benefit from that spending spree. After all, he compares favorably to DeSean Jackson (five years, $47 million), Robert Meachem (four years, $25.9 million) and Pierre Garcon (five years, $42.5 million). Cruz’ two-year totals (168 catches, 2,628 yards, 19 touchdowns) are better than any two seasons put together by Vincent Jackson and he signed a five year, $55.6 million mega deal with the Buccaneers." Read more... Giants Hope To Avoid Brownout With Young Safety Excerpt: "Stevie Brown is set to become a restricted free agent and, given the season he just gave the Giants, how can they move forward without re-signing him? The season is over and done with for the Giants, but the hits keep coming for Brown, who yesterday was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week, the first Giants safety to receive that honor twice in a season.Brown, 25, finished up a breakthrough first year with the Giants in style. On the fifth play of last Sunday’s 42-7 victory over the Eagles, Brown intercepted a Michael Vick pass and returned it 48 yards, setting up the Giants’ first touchdown. Brown also had six solo tackles, matching Chase Blackburn for the team lead. Signed as primarily a special teams player, Brown started 11 games, as Kenny Phillips was mostly out of the lineup with knee issues. Brown made the most of his playing time, leading the team with eight interceptions, second in the NFL behind Tim Jennings of the Bears, who had nine. The eight interceptions were the most by a Giant since Willie Williams had 10 in 1968. Brown previously played for the Raiders and Colts and in 23 career games did not have any interceptions. “Stevie had an outstanding season and became a ball-hawk for us,’’ Antrel Rolle said on WFAN. “It just seemed like he had a magnet for the ball. It was crazy. ’’What happens next with Brown is probably tied to what the Giants do with Phillips, who after five seasons is an unrestricted free agent and seems headed elsewhere. Asked if he thinks he needs a change of scenery, Phillips laughed and said, “I just got to wait and see what happens.’’ Read more... THE BERGEN RECORD NEW YORK TIMES WALL STREET JOURNAL Maybe they would finally be able to break out of their shell, play with consistency and become perennial title contenders. Maybe Eli Manning would take another step towards solidifying a place in Canton. Maybe Jason Pierre-Paul would emerge as the next Lawrence Taylor and maybe this team could repeat as Super Bowl champions. Giants' Antrel Rolle" "Just Want To Apologize For A Letdown" Excerpt: "Talent. It's what makes the NFL go 'round. Every team wants it, not every team has it, and even some who are fortunate enough to acquire it still find a way to fall flat on their face. Talent is one of many words that can be used to describe the 2012 New York Giants, and it is also what gave fans hope heading into the season that this team would be different. None of those "maybe's" came to fruition this year. Today, safety Antrel Rolle apologized on behalf of his teammates for the colossal failure that was the 2012 season. "Just want to apologize for a letdown," Rolle said on WFAN. "Unfortunately, we came up a little bit short this year. Something that pretty much caught all of us by surprise." Rolle was the leader of a secondary that ranked 28th in the league in yards given up through the air. It's hard to pin the blame on any one player, because there were breakdowns throughout the entire unit. The pass rush was non-existent, Corey Webster was atrocious and Kenny Phillips missed over half the season with a knee injury. This unit was rarely, if ever, at full strength and there was not enough depth to account for any shortcomings." Read more... Giants' Marc Ross To Interview For San Diego Chargers' GM Position Excerpt: "Director of College Scouting, Marc Ross, has been a valuable member of the New York Giants staff since 2007. He has helped the Giants earn the reputation for being one of the top drafting teams in the NFL, and has helped General Manager Jerry Reese become one of the top GM's in the league. His keen eye for talent has earned him interviews for several open GM positions, the latest being the San Diego Chargers, as reported by Mike Garafolo." Read more... Cruz: Contract Talks Tabled During Season Excerpt: "Victor Cruz remains positive that he will receive a new deal from the New York Giants. But the wide receiver said during his weekly spot on WFAN that both sides opted to put contract talks aside during the season after "agreeing to disagree." "It got tabled for a couple weeks, mainly because of the two sides agreeing to disagree at the same time," Cruz said. "So it had been tabled for a couple weeks, but now that the season’s over and the statistics are what they are, I think we’re going to get back and pick up the pen again and see what we can do." Cruz had said earlier in the season that parameters of an extension were in place. But neither side could come to an agreement on an extension. Cruz finished the season with 86 receptions for 1,092 yards and 10 touchdowns and is heading to the Pro Bowl. He will be a restricted free agent in 2013 but remains positive about a long-term deal." Read more... Eli Says He "Needed To Play Better" Excerpt: "Eli Manning had two of the best games he has ever had this season. He set career-highs of 510 yards passing against Tampa Bay and threw for five touchdowns in the season finale against Philadelphia. But overall, 2012 was a bit of a step back for Manning. Coming off his best season ever in 2011, Manning failed to throw for 4,000 yards and 27 touchdowns for the first time since 2008. “I don’t think it was as good as it needed to be,” Manning said on his weekly appearance on WFAN radio of his play this past season. “I think there were a couple of games where (I) wasn’t as on and I needed to play better.” As hot as Manning got in the Tampa and Philadelphia wins, he also went ice cold at times. He had a three-game touchdown drought in the middle of the season -– the worst stretch since his rookie season which sparked speculation of a tired arm –- and threw for one touchdown or less in 10 games this season. Manning admitted that Hakeem Nicks’ knee injury robbed the offense of a lot. “Not having Hakeem 100 percent for most of the season really the last 10 weeks can hurt,” Manning said. “He is out there playing hurt and you love that toughness about him. “It just made it tough when you are starting a receiver who’s got to win those one-on-one matchups and is your deep threat and playmaker,” Manning continued. “It can be tough to adjust to that and timing was off on a number of things.” Not having a consistent third receiving threat also hurt as the Giants struggled to replace Mario Manningham. Manning said having the stability of the same head coach and offensive coordinator beside him will help in the offseason." Read more... BIG BLUE VIEW Giants 42, Eagles 7: Hits Misses, And Musings Excerpt: "I spent the better part of my ride home from Sunday night’s game trying to think of a fitting analogy to best describe the Giants’ 2012 season. I finally settled on a childhood favorite of mine, the fable of The Tortoise and the Hare by Aesop, which, if you’re not familiar, you can read here.Of if you’d rather have the condensed version of the tale, the gist of the story is that the hare, thinking he had all the time in the world to beat the tortoise in a race, decided to slack off only to awaken when it was too late – and to find that the tortoise, whom no one would have even imagined could beat a hare in a footrace, had indeed won. So what does this have to do with the Giants’ 2012 season? Repeatedly, we heard the players say after a loss that they weren’t worried, that the season was a marathon and not a sprint.It was almost as though they were shrugging off that, like the hare in the fable, they had perhaps grown fat with their positive press clippings that came with being the defending Super Bowl champions or that perhaps someone would stumble, and all would be right again. It didn’t work out that way, and the Giants, after a disappointing second half of the season that saw two uninspired and forgettable losses to the Falcons and the Ravens, awoke from their slumber to thump the Eagles into oblivion.But it was too late. Gone was having destiny in their hand. And with that, gone was their chance of defending their world title.It’s a harsh lesson, but one that the Giants faithful can only hope that, whichever players are back next year, remembers and passes down to any of the new players who are coming in via free agency or the draft. There are many hits to be handed out despite the Giants failed to get into the playoffs. Here are a few that stick out the most to me. There must be something to playing against the Eagles for linebacker Chase Blackburn, who earlier in the season had one of his best games against Philly and who had yet another good game in the regular season finale. The Giants’ best pass rusher, Blackburn was all over the place, very nearly sacking quarterback Michael Vick., And when he wasn’t harassing Vick, he was limiting the damage LeSean McCoy and Bryce Brown tried to inflict against the Giants run defense.What was particularly impressive with Blackburn is that of his seven tackles, the majority came at or near the line of scrimmage and not seven or more yards down field, as we had seen from others on the defense in previous weeks. I don’t know what the future holds for Blackburn, an unrestricted free agent, but he’s definitely one of the most underappreciated linebackers out there. Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride split the carries between David Wilson and Ahmad Bradshaw, and guess what? both were effective, especially Bradshaw, who has operated on one leg almost all season. by reducing the workload, he was kept fresh, and boy did he look pretty good in the process. Assuming he returns next season – right now it’s probably 50/50 as he’ll likely have to take a pay cut – I hope that he considers following his lead blocking a bit better than he did at times this year. A solid showing from Martellus Bennett, who mostly blocked in this one and did so effectively. He spoke the day after about how he hoped to be back next year – he’s an unrestricted free agent – because he believes that another year in this offense will put him and Eli Manning together on the same page, something that wasn’t always evident this year. People like to pick on offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride – why I honestly don’t know – but give him and the rest of the staff credit for aggressively going after the Eagles’ defense’s weak link, the linebackers, who were at fault for a couple of big Giants pass gains, including one of Manning’s five touchdown throws that came on a wheel route. I thought both Giants offensive tackles turned in good games. David Diehl, who went up against DE Brandon Graham, needed very little help and while Graham was successful with some early game pressures, credit Diehl for tightening his bootstraps and shutting the youngster down. Will Beatty was almost spotless in his showing. I don’t think we heard Trent Cole’s name uttered once – and that’s saying a lot considering Cole is one of the Eagles’ best pass rusher, if not their best. While Beatty appeared to be the guilty part who yielded the Eagles’ lone sack, it was hard to tell if Philip Hunt, the linebacker was supposed to be blocked by Kevin Boothe. And how can I forget the entire organization for reaching out to the Sandy Hook Elementary School community? The Giants hosted roughly 200 teachers, parents, students, and administrators, making them a big part of the pregame ceremony and it was just one of the most touching things I’ve witnessed. To see all those little bundled up children — well let’s just say I didn’t need my binoculars to take note of how wide their eyes were in getting the opportunity to mingle with their heroes. It was simply an awesome way to pay tribute to a community that was rocked to its core by a senseless act of violence that we might never understand. And along those lines, kudos to the Eagles, who were just as responsive as when they ran out of the tunnel trough the group assembled on their side, their players stopped to high-five all the children. As one of my colleagues had said at the time, that was a sure-fired way to stop the crowd from booing, and sure enough, the Giants fans, always classy, did just that. Finally, love him or hate him, former Eagles head coach Andy Reid had a tough season, both personally and professionally. Perhaps the most devastating blow to him was losing his son Garrett back in August, an occurrence that no parent should have to go through.Yet Reid somehow found the strength to carry on and continue to coach, even as the team around him was falling apart. Sure, he’s gotten the better of the Giants these past few years, but I think we can all agree that what he went through what with losing his son puts everything into perspective." Read more... THE RED ZONE. NFL Trade Rumors - NFL CAP Space Excerpt: "Here’s a look at the NFL cap space for each team. Remember that these numbers are very fluid which is why it’s so hard to get a concrete total at a given time. This information was provided by Pro Football Talk. These totals are as of November 1st, 2012. NFC East:" Read more... Cowboys: $3.7 million Giants: $2.2 million Eagles: $20.1 million Redskins: $3.3 million Raven's Lews To Retire Andy Reid To Cardinals?

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Have read numerous articles that teams are supposedly lining up to make Cruz an offer once FA starts. Public knowledge indicates the GMen will put a first round tender on him so if a team makes him an offer we don't match. We get their 1st round pick. Because the Rams have 2 first round draft picks, I've been hearing they very well use one of those picks to make Cruz a substantial long term offer. Obviously tampering allegations would be enforced if a team publicly expressed the interest to make an offer to an RFA prior to the FA period, so this all could be a smoke screen being produced by Cruz's agent to create some urgency from the Giants FO, so no one really knows. But the past 2 days I've been hearing more and more of this. Personally, I would love to give Cruz up for a 1st round pick. He's 26 years old, we have Nicks and Randle is looking to break out this year. We could lock down a stud OL and LB/CB with 2 picks in the first round, get considerably younger and have more cap space to sign Nicks to a long term deal. If Cruz does indeed leave for a 1st round pick, 3 picks within the first 2 rounds would do wonders for us. Just my opinion, but with Eli at the helm, he makes everyone around him better. And with a beast, young OL and running game, Eli will have even more time to pick apart defenses. And if Cruz leaves, I can't see him having the success he has had in NY elsewhere....because of Eli.

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Since we live in FL we have no basement. I'm finding it more difficult, pain in the be hind, to bring things up and down the attic for decorating at Christmas and all the other decorating holidays. Where do you store your stuff if you don't have a basement?, I need ideas!!! Guest room closet. Best way in northeast Texas to ruin something is to put it in the attic. Other ideas - flat rubbermaid-type storage boxes that will fit under the bed (which was a no-no from my mother while we were growing up, but it works for me). A friend of mine...when she was in her late 30s fell down the attic stairs...broke a leg and really messed up an elbow. Does this hat make my butt look big? Garage? Off-site storage facility? Extra bedroom? HAHA We did not take down the Christmas light decorating the family room for 2 years. We told everyone they were movie lights! My extra bedrooms, which I really have to clean out and organize! Well, no basement here although we do have a crawl space WITH lights - owner who built this house was afraid of spiders! We also have an attic with access via the master bedroom closet BUT not really a storage option! I climbed it once when we bought to see the insulation, etc. NOT a place I would ever store things - can't even imagine doing that dance on the ladder while hauling up boxes! Storage really isn't an issue for us now but, boy, it used to be at our old home so I do hear you. Do you have a garage? If so, mount reinforced shelving (use Molly bolts) all around about 6 feet up. Garage is still useable for parking cars AND lots of room of storage on shelves. I even have one area on the back wall where I mounted double-shelfs for things stored in flatter boxes... Hope this helps! If not in the garage, I'd get one of those storage sheds from one of those hardware stores. I think you can get a really nice one, installed, for under 2k. You are my hero Under the bed storage bins are your obvious solution. This is typically dead space and under utilized. Adding extra selves to closets and behind the door storage racks are other areas that are usually wasted space and can be called into duty for seldom used decorations. If space and budget permits, invest in a large wardrobe or armoire w/ shelves. These can be handsome pieces of furniture that conceal items such as decorations. Also, look for areas in your home where you can add high shelves and use decorative boxes to contain decorations. Such places as laundry rooms, office spaces, craft spaces, game rooms, large pantries or even cabinetry in family rooms are typical candidates. Christmas time is a nightmare with the tree and all the heavy boxes to put in the attic. We gave up last year and now we are renting a storage unit for the last few years of our decorating. I am ready though to sell all the Christmas decorations and go to a tiny tree, etc. I also think it is a danger to go up and down those rickity attic stairs with huge boxes. Our Christmas stuff is in the attic over the garage. DH almost took a tumble this past Christmas while putting stuff back up there. We did break it down into smaller boxes, but still..... Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain. With no basement and no attic, most of our "stuff" has to live in the garage or spare rooms. Having said that, most furniture we bring in to the house does double-duty (night stands are chests for storage or clothes). Under the bed storage boxes and as many bureaus as possible. We have no garage. After 15 years of paying for a storage unit we had a 10 x 12 barn style shed built. It has a half loft which expands storage and is used for long term storage- the lower part is for tools, garden supplies, bikes, and pantry overflow (like when we stock up at the warehouse store). We can also store a ton of wood pellets under the work bench along the back wall. It rains a lot here but the stuff in the shed stays dry. The truth of the matter is that eventually any amount of storage space (garage/attic/basement/shelfs/cupboards/closets) etc will become full if additions are continuously made to possessions. We have a full attic with regular walk up stairs, a full basement (no garage) four bedrooms each with a closet, a very large linen closet, 2 additional spaces (like the small computer room I am in now) Besides the regular rooms. Of course some spaces are much more challenging than others to store things in esp very small apts. One solutions Spanish Revival is not to decorate for holidays. That is extreme, but it is what we do (or don't do) now. We have a ton of Xmas decorations in the attic and never use them anymore. Or I might buy something say, for Halloween and then discard it right afterwards. I collect china (among other things) and large shallow bowls (like vintage and antique wash bowls) can hold a lot and easily fit under pieces of furniture, (like this desk in my d.r.) I also have these bowls under the china closet and another piece of furniture. Napkin rings are kept in a glass jar under a piece of furniture. People often do not utilize space that is high up in their rooms. A friend keeps all her Xmas decorations on a sort of shelf like projection in a room that has a vaulted ceiling. Maybe a new piece of cabinetry can be purchased to esp hold the ornaments and decorations. About alternative storage - we have a large walk-in closet off our master bath. ALL of our clothes are in there - well all of hubs' clothes and my in-season clothes - including underclothes. Everything. That leaves a rather large dresser with lots of storage space...bed linens and kitchen linens. Each "kitchen" drawer has a season's placemats, tablerunners, napkins, cup towels, wall hanging, etc. One drawer has hand embroidered and crocheted scarves from my mother, aunt, grandmother, and great grandmother. Etc. Does this hat make my butt look big? Never having a basement, large seasonal decorations are boxed & labled then placed in the garage rafters. Family heirlooms & items that might be compromised by heat cold or humidity are stored indoors (closet) = large table cloths/linens on padded clothes hangers, smaller items wrapped in non acid tissue & boxed. We rarely decorate for quasi holidays.... the winter-theme wreath (front door) has been replaced with spring flowers This message has been edited. Last edited by: tessa89, Thank-you everyone for responding and giving me a bunch of great ideas that I can really put to good use. Everyone had at least one idea I can put into effect, in fact we started today with categorizing and getting everything in plastic stackable bins. Everything is looking better already! Thanks Again! In my garage we installed those loft shelf things for camping gear and they hold quite a lot. I really like them. From time spent living in the south I learned that anything stored for any length of time HAD to be in closed containers...palmetto bugs (roaches, to northerners), tree frogs and lizards can find their way into just about anything. Plastic boxes with tight fitting lids are a must! We had a pull down ladder to the attic which wasn't so bad...we went up there all the time (in the winter...too darn hot the other 9 months of the year ) **Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain** A lot of "secret storage"... ottomans that open up, containers that slide under couches. If there isn't a place to hide a container, I use a "pretty" container or basket that matches the decor of the room. I don't know if you could use a window seat or bench, but I've seen them made out of trunks, using pretty cushions that sit on top. I have no attic, basement or garage.. but I do have a beautifully built shed- with a loft. Long term storage is in the back of the loft. Christmas decorations are in the front. Tools, bikes, pantry overflow- below. Since we built our own house & I drew it...I included plenty of storage. But we also floored most of the attic. We have a pull down stair for it and DH rigged a pulley with a large basket on it that I can take things up/down without carrying them up/down the stairs...it works for me! You could attach lots of different things, like a tote, for taking things up/down. "The soil is the source of life, creativity, culture and real independence." David Ben-Gurion |Powered by Social Strata|

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I'm the son of Clarence Evans George from his second marriage. I always knew he had 3 other children, my half brothers and sister, but I've never had the opportunity to meet them. Thanks for posting your Prosser tree. It has allowed me to fill in some missing blanks in my father's past. I have a few rough copies of his birth, death, and military records that I plan on posting to my tree in the near future.

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Vader did the equivalent of a sucker punch to Sids - he snuck up from behind, grabbed him and tossed him down a shaft..barely. He fell to his knees immediately after letting go of Sids. This only shows Vader had to get Sids while distracted b/c if not Sids would have fried him into a piece of burnt toast. May I remind you that when Vader was picking up Palpatine to toss him down the shaft, the latter was in the process of using Force lightning? Gee, I guess that's why Vader ended up being affected. And may I ask this question? If the loss of limbs had diminished Anakin's connection to the Force, why did he become more powerful after losing a right arm to Dooku's lightsaber in AOTC?

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Yeah, that thread got buried along w/ many others, so here is a new one. With all the novels set to come out on the horizon, I felt it was very important to get this thing running again. We now have Clone Wars Novels, Prequel Novels, Post NJO Novels and a few more EU Novels coming out all over the place. As part of my revamping the Obroa-Skai website, I wanted to get some input from everyone as to how to do that, what to include, how you'd like to see it broke down and any other ideas (within reason) for the new site design. Also, we have some news this week that I believe most of us missed... Dark Nest I: The Joiner King by Troy Denning came out last Tuesday... This is the first of the Post NJO titles, so it will be interesting to see what happens. At CIII we were being told to expect some serious surprises.

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by Bob Mackreth Shunning human contact, the brooding, bearded man retreated to the woods, hiding himself away in a tiny cabin devoid of comforts. No one knew for sure what private demons pursued him- some said that he nursed a wounded heart, others hinted that he hoarded an ill-gotten treasure. Many thought him uncouth, but others described him as a gentleman, well educated. Just about everyone agreed it was best to keep far away from him, though. "He was sullen and ugly," one writer recalls, "and on several occasions it is said that he used his gun to drive away unwelcome meddlers." He refused to pay taxes, and once greeted a visiting sheriff with a loaded rifle. A character from today's headlines? No, the long-ago hermit of Hermit Island. The tale of the Hermit is a story filled with violence, romance, and wealth. Or maybe not- it's hard to say. You see, since there was nothing written about the Hermit during his lifetime, writers and tale spinners over the ensuing century-and-a-half have felt free to make things up as they went along. As one writer confessed, "There are a number of different versions to this tale. The author has chosen the one which most appealed to him." The Hermit's name was William Wilson or maybe it wasn't. Some accounts claim that his name was anything but Wilson, and that the pseudonym concealed a dark past. "Nothing is known of his early life," says one writer, "He came from no one knew where." Not so, says another: "He was born in Canada of Scottish parents," confidently adding that the year was 1792, and the place was Sault Ste. Marie. Most sources agree that Wilson was a fur trader in his youth, and roamed the mountains as far as the Pacific Ocean. Tiring of the wandering life, one account tells how he walked cross-country, hoping to return to the land of his birth. Arriving there, he found his parents dead, his former sweetheart married. It seems that few writers could resist the temptation to place a woman at the center of the Hermit's story. An 1890's account describes a mysterious moment: One day a friend found him sleeping beside the cabin. He did not disturb him. But out of his dreams he awoke, and in an agonizing cry he uttered one word "Estelle!" Hmmm who might this mysterious lady have been? Perhaps she was a woman wronged: one source says that at the age of 18, "he ran away from home, deserting a young French girl he was to have married." Not true, says another account: "He had a wife and daughter at L'Anse, in upper Michigan, who he took out to the Columbia River and there deserted. Later, repenting of this cruelty, he sought to reclaim them and found they had been murdered." Perhaps there was no wife, no French girl, no "Estelle." Who can be certain? But surely we must know more about his life once he appeared in the Apostle Islands country! Indeed, the stories do grow more detailed, the tellers more confident. He came to LaPointe in 1841, we are told, and worked as a cooper, or barrel maker. His employer, John Bell, was every bit as fierce as Wilson, and just a bit tougher, it seems. The two men came to blows one day in 1847, and we hear that Bell laid Wilson out with one punch. Humiliated, Wilson vowed he would never stay on an island where he was not the best man, and so loaded a canoe with provisions and set off to an island where no man would ever be his better. There, on what is now called Hermit Island, Wilson built a log cabin, planted a garden, and raised chickens. To earn a few dollars, he kept up his work as a cooper. Fishermen would stop by to purchase barrels for their catch, but the Hermit did not encourage them to linger. Yet some writers say he had no need to raise cash. They say that on his rare trips to town, he attracted attention by paying for supplies from a purse filled with silver Mexican coins. Others whispered of a store of gold, buried somewhere near his cabin. Perhaps this rumor of hidden wealth led to the Hermit's death. In 1861, he was found "dead in his cabin, where he had undoubtedly been murdered evidently by parties in search of his wealth." There was "evidence of a violent death struggle, crude furniture broken, the trunk empty, money bags missing." "Not exactly," says another story: it was whiskey that laid him low. "Wilson had died of delirium tremens as misshapen monsters appeared against the mud-lined walls of his lonely cabin, he forced his trembling old body to go after them until life wrenched from it in a final, violent convulsion." Oh, my! Amid all this embellishment, what do we really know about Wilson the hermit? We can be confident that he did exist- that in the decade before the Civil War, a tormented man spent his declining years all but shut-off from human society on a lonely island in Lake Superior. Beyond that, it seems that the Hermit will forever remain a man of mystery. One suspects he would have preferred it that way. To learn about... Please note: the Scrapbook articles are presented here for public information and education only. Written for the National Park Service, they are in the public domain. (Though if you borrow them for your own web page, please be honest and give proper credit- okay? Thanks.)

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Almost like AdLib, but in different colors! And I just loved AdLib!! Adore the stamps and chipboard. Love the colors! LOVE ALORA! Can't wait to buy this line and the stamp. Pretty and fun! This collection is absolutely a WINNER!!! I LOVE this line! So bright and fun and the cute little birds! I already have ideas on how i'll use it!! The birdhouse paper is just too cute!! Wow, love the colours and design. Cute birdhouses. This line says to me - Spring and summer is coming! I love the colors and fun patterns!Jeannine H. Love the bright bold colours and the fun motifs. Loveeeeeeeeeee this collection!! Those colors are AMAZING :):):):):):):):):):):):) I cannot believe how much I love this line! Every new piece I saw as I scrolled through was a surprise in some way. Just great! This I love!!!! It is so my style! Can't wait til my LSS gets it in! PS love how it was named after a special person in the Bo Bunny family of employees! This collection is gorgeous...I love the colors and all the flowers. By far my MOST FAVORITE!!!! Can't wait to start creating with it :) fun and cheerful! This new line is so sweet. Love the little house album. So playful and great for spring. Love this line! This collection is ME! bright, bold and sassy... that's how I like my pages - and I LOVE the mini - a must have! Love this range The patterns are adorable! Love the colors too! Is it true it might be made into fabric?? Amy did a great job with this. :D Love the cheerfulness of this sweet collection! I love the little birds! So fun and whimsical! Very cute! Post a Comment

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It seems to be the season of "Top 10" in blogland. Both FilmiGirl and the Post-Punk Cinema Club have put up their selection of top 10 songs for various decades. Never having done a top 10 of anything before, I promptly and shamelessly decided to copy the idea. However, to weed out Top 10 songs from literally hundreds of songs every decade is a Herculean task and a beginner like me needs something much simpler. After much cogitation I settled on Top 10 Comedies simply because great comedies in Bollywood appear but rarely and it shouldnt be hard to select 10. Having committed myself to the task, I realised that Bollywood has way too many great comedies to make this any easier than top 10 songs! What you see here is the result of sheer hard work and days of frantic weeding and ruthless trimming - I've even managed to limit myself to only two comedies each from directors Basu Chatterji and Hrishikesh Mukherji who between them were responsible for most of the great comedies in the 70s and 80s! If jest be the food of life, read on... and dont forget to tell me about your favorite comedies. 10. Andaz Apna Apna (1994) - Yaallah!! Two bumbling young men meet up on the path of get-rich-quick by attempting to marry the same rich girl. Alternately collaborating and competing with each other for their heiress, they run into bizarre villains, confusing look-alikes and every possible situation that a hero of a successful 70s masala block-buster could look forward to. From these trials they emerge triumphant, with their love-lives and fortunes made. What makes it especially amusing is its use of cliches to create a hilarious parody of masala movies. Salman Khan and Aamir Khan as the aspiring fortune-hunters are uproariously funny and ably supported by their heroines - Raveena Tandon and Karishma Kapoor - their villains - Shakti Kapoor, Shehzad Khan and Viju Khote - and the goody-baddy lookalikes played by Paresh Rawal. Raj Kumar Santoshi's tongue-in-cheek nod to 70s Bollywood still has me in splits everytime I watch it, though I havent watched it as often as Veracious seems to have! 9. Hungama (2003) - chaos in the midst of chaos An insane comedy in the best tradition of screwball comedies - this one would do P. G. Wodehouse proud. Two strangers - Nandu (Aftab Shivdasani) and Anjali (Rimi Sen) - arriving in Mumbai to make their fortunes, pretend to be a married couple to rent a cheap apartment. Anjali is mistaken for reclusive millionaire Radheshyam Tiwari's (Paresh Rawal) daughter by the mercenary Jeetu (Akshaye Khanna) who proceeds to woo her. Tiwari's wife (Shoma Anand) suspects him of having an affair with Anjali while Tiwari himself suspects that his wife is sweet on Jeetu. Throw in a few more misunderstandings and co-incidences, several more zany characters and you have a laughathon on your hands! 8. Yahan Wahan (1984) - beguiling bluffs A lighthearted romantic comedy starring Farooq Shaikh and Surinder Kaur (you've seen her as Saif's Mom in Parineeta). Boy meets girl and the girl sets out to impress him with her wealth by lending him her luxurious apartment. The only problem is that the apartment isnt hers - she's been given the contract to decorate it for the rich absentee owner who just happens to be her new boyfriend! (I saw this one years ago and am still looking for its DVD.) 7. Pasand Apni Apni (1983) - a miss-understanding An insane misunderstanding that leads to love. Here, an almost-out-of-work actress - Geeta (Rati Agnihotri) - accepts a ride from the chauffeur of wealthy industrialist Sandeep Anand. She is seen descending from Sandeep's limo and assumed to be his fiancé, all unbeknownst to herself. As a result, wonderful things begin to happen to her - her theatre company makes her the leading lady of all their productions, she is courted and fêted wherever she goes and a journalist (Mithun Chakraborty) becomes her constant shadow. She finds herself falling for him only to find out that he is none other than Sandeep Anand! Directed by Basu Chatterji, this fun comedy also stars Utpal Dutt, Ashok Kumar, Subbiraj, Javed Khan and several of my favorite 80s TV stars. 6. Miss Mary (1957) - mirth and melody Meena Kumari in a rare comedic role while she was still unaffected by alcohol and melancholia - that alone makes this movie worth watching. But that isnt all. She plays Mary, an out-of-work teacher unsuccessfully looking for a job. When fellow teacher Arun (Gemini Ganeshan) suggests that they pretend to be married for a job advertised for married couples, she reluctantly agrees. They get the job and land-up having to live as man and wife with a wacko private eye (Kishore Kumar) watching over them while a beautiful student falls for Arun. Throw in some lost-and-found daughters, comic villains and some of 50s best loved songs and you have an entertaining comedy to while away the hours! Check out MemsaabStory's excellent write-up for a comprehensive review. 5. Angoor (1982) - pandemonium personified An adaptation of Shakespeare's Comedy Of Errors, the movie involves two sets of identical twins - a pair of Ashoks and their pair of twin servants named Bahadur - with one of each pair separated in childhood. They are brought up in different cities and while one Ashok and his Bahadur are married to Sudha (Moushumi Chatterji) and Prema (Aruna Irani), respectively, the other Ashok-Bahadur pair is unmarried. Chance brings the bachelors to the city of their married twins and utter chaos ensues with nobody (including themselves and their wives) realising that there are two Ashoks and Bahadurs. In the comedy of errors that ensues, the unmarried Ashok finds himself falling for Sudha's beautiful sister Tanu (Deepti Naval) who thinks he is married to her sister! The resulting situations are hilarious and milked for all their humor by the excellent dialogue and screenplay written by director Gulzar. Caution: a side effects of watching this movie is severe stitch-in-the-side from laughing too much. 4. Naram Garam (1981) - a convoluted story One of director Hrishikesh Mukherji's lesser known comedies, this one is the story of an enterprising young man who manages to please everybody while serving his own ends. Ramprasad (Amol Palekar) is the enterprising young man who houses his lady-love Kusum (Swaroop Sampat) and her father (A. K. Hangal) in an old house owned by his employer Bhavani Shankar (Utpal Dutt). The comedy derives from his attempts to prevent their discovery and ultimate eviction from the property. Ramprasad cleverly exploits the very human weaknesses of his employer and fellow colleagues to bring about his own happily-ever-after. Apart from Amol Palekar and Utpal Dutt's expectedly brilliant performances, the other memorable performance is that of Shatrughan Sinha as Babua - Bhavani Shankar's younger brother who is keen on body-building and avoiding women but promptly forgets these in the light of Kusum's beauty! 3. Chameli Ki Shaadi (1986) - droll diversion An off-beat comedy by Basu Chatterji starring Anil Kapoor, Amrita Singh and Amjad Khan that takes a humorous look at life and romance in a small-town. Chameli (Amrita Singh) is the grown up daughter of coal-seller Nathilal (Pankaj Kapoor). Her scholarly ambitions make her stick to high school inspite of failing multiple times and her romanic disposition makes her pursue Charandas (Anil Kapoor) an unemployed chela (disciple) of the local pehelwaan (wrestler) Ustaad Mastram (Om Prakash). Charandas succumbs to Chameli's charms and the romance is helped along by Charandas's guru in matters of romance - Advocate Harish (Amjad Khan in a rare comedic role). Their hilarious romance and its amusingly filmi aftermath is brilliantly utilised to sketch a picture of small-town life. The performance of the principals and the rest of the cast (which also includes several TV and stage actors of the day) is superb and the movie never fails to tickle my funny bone. 2. Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958) - flippant fun A Marx-brothers-meet-Bollywood-masala type of comedy that has entertained people for half a century. Three brothers Brijmohan, Jagmohan, and Manmohan (real-life brothers Ashok Kumar, Anup Kumar, and Kishore Kumar, respectively) run a garage that does not cater to customers of the female sex. When Renu (Madhubala) turns up at the garage one night to get her car repaired, she triggers a storm in this bastion of masculinity. Manmohan falls for her and flouts elder brother Brijmohan's diktat against women. Apart from facing Brijmohan's misogynism, the young lovers have to battle murderers masquerading as princes, they need to don funny disguises, go on hilarious car-chases and help Manmohan's two elder brothers find love, too. (Check out Filmi Geek's excellent write-up for an in-depth review) An old favorite, this is a fast-paced laugh-riot that never fails to bring on he laughs even after several re-watches! 1. Chupke Chupke (1975) - a jest in time An all-time favorite, this Hrishikesh Mukherji-directed film is a delicious blend of witty dialogues and insane situations that come together in a wacky comedy (fellow-blogizens Beth and Carla agree!). After a comic whirlwind romance, famous botanist Dr. Parimal Tripathi (Dharmendra) marries botany-fangirl Sulekha (Sharmila Tagore) only to be regaled endlessly with praises of her brother-in-law Raghav (Om Prakash) whom he's never met. To take his rightful position as numero uno in Sulekha's esteem, he decides to play a practical joke on Raghav. He takes up a job as Raghav's driver and manages to *seduce* Raghav's visiting sister-in-law (and his wife) Sulekha. Enter Sulekha's pretend husband - Parimal's English-teaching friend Sukumar (Amitabh Bachchan) - and poor Raghav's plight is pitiable. Throw in a love interest - Vasudha (Jaya Bhaduri) - for Sukumar and you have all the characters caught in a comical charade with only the viewer completely in the know. The dialogues are especially witty and include a play on English phonetics and Hindi words that still has me in splits after more than a dozen re-watches! Other comedies that I love but which did not make it to the top 10: Sur Asur which stars Rohan Kapoor (and others whom I cant remember) and is a great parody of Bollywood masala. All of Basu Chatterji's comedies, but especially Chhoti Si Baat (1975), Hamari Bahu Alka (1982) , Dillagi (1978) and Kiraydaar (1986). Hrishikesh Mukherji's satire on married life - Rang Birangi (1983), and the hilarious Golmaal (1979). Prem Deewaane (1992) - a tongue-in-cheek send up of Bollywood - masala which stars masala-queen Madhuri Dixit along with Jackie Shroff, Puja Bhatt and Vivek Mushran. Edited Aug 12, 2008 Readers' choice #1: Jaanne Bhi Do Yaaron (1983) - a black comedy Director Kundan Shah's wonderful satire on the ways of the world in early 80s India is perhaps the only dark comedy in Bollywood. It involves two struggling photographers - Vinod (Nasseeruddin Shah) and Sudhir (Ravi Baswani) - who inadvertently photograph the commission of a murder. They don the hats of private investigators and their investigations lead them into the murky world of Bombay real-estate. Their bumbling attempts to find the murderer and expose the scandals in the real-estate business make for hilarious situations. The movie comes complete with impeccable pedigree - apart from Nasseer and Baswani, the cast includes Om Puri, Pankaj Kapoor, Satish Shah, Satish Kaushik, Neena Gupta and Vidhu Vinod Chopra (according to imdb), plus several other leading theatre and TV actors of the day. Needless to say, the performances are superb! A movie that successfully combines slapstick with biting satire and doesnt fail to bring on the laughs.

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Here is a UT article on Merriman: Latest Merriman News Hello. I have a new Chargers site that sells Chargers gear. Could I link to your site? Here is my site: They have a ton of CHEAP jerseys here: Hi. I'm new here on this forum. I'm a long time Chargers fan who recently moved out of the Country and now has to deal with Charger withdrawals. I'm... Separate names with a comma.

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Cashman bows out on big-money outfielders Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said on Tuesday that a big-money outfielder does not fit into his budget plan for 2010, a statement which would effectively take New York out of the running for a player like Jason Bay or Matt Holliday. “I will continue to look at any remaining piece, but it won’t be a big piece,” Cashman said, on a conference call to discuss the Javier Vazquez trade. “Any speculation about some high-end player who has big ability and dollars attached on a large scale would be inappropriate.” If the season started today, the Yankees’ outfield would be comprised of Brett Gardner and Jamie Hoffmann in left field, Curtis Granderson in center field and Nick Swisher in right field.

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I've been having a hard time getting dressed lately. There are several contributing factors which include, in no particular order: * boredom with what's in my closet * a desire for separates when all I seem to have are dresses * the weather's inability to get its act together (it's summer for goodness sake - the high should not top out at 65 degrees) So I did what I always do when stumped as to what to wear: pull out one favorite piece and build an outfit around it. The favorite piece here is the red & white striped tee. Followed closely by my new earrings, picked up at a really fantastic boutique in Athens, GA. It's called Entourage and, although it does not carry plus size clothes, they do carry a plethora of accessories that are funky and affordable. If you live near Athens, definitely check out Entourage. Black ruffled bolero- Lane Bryant. Red & white striped tee- Gap Denim skirt- Old Navy Nude sandals- Jessica London

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Last Halloween I received a set of werewolf gloves and headpiece to review, and although we all loved the costume, none of us ended up wearing it for Halloween. This year I decided to use it so I wouldn't have to buy or sew anything. At first I thought of wearing it with jeans and a red plaid shirt -- the classic werewolf getup -- but it was just too Meh. Besides, I like to dress up as female characters. I don't know where the inspiration came to dress up as the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, but I'm glad it came, because I can already tell that this is going to be one of my best Halloween costumes ever. You would not believe how many friends I had to ask to find one with a long-sleeved granny nightgown I could borrow! I must have really cool friends who either sleep in Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie or in their birthday suits. I happen to already own a Mrs.Claus bonnet, so I removed the red poinsettia and cut two slits on either side to fit the wolf ears through. I'll switch out my regular glasses for my old wire-rimmed ones (if I can find them), and there you have it: Bonggamom dressed up as a wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandma. Now all I have to figure out is, should I carry around a plastic axe or a rubber hand? |Share this :|

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But there is another game that publishers and authors sometimes play that is every bit as dishonest as a tainted review: the use of meaningless book blurbs written by friends who trade rave blurbs about each others' books in an attempt to increase sales for both. We've all seen them, and seasoned readers learn to recognize them for what they are pretty quickly, but they probably do work more times than not. The New York Times Sunday Book Review talks about the practice in today's issue: The endorsements on books aren’t entirely impartial. Unbeknownst to the average reader, blurbs are more often than not from the writer’s best friends, colleagues or teachers, or from authors who share the same editor, publisher or agent. They represent a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith. There’s some debate about whether blurbs actually help sell books, but publishers agree they can’t hurt. Often, agents try to solicit blurbs even before a publisher buys a book.... For writers, to blurb or not to blurb can be a tricky matter. Blurb too little and you’ll have a hard time drumming up the requisite superlatives when your turn comes. Blurb too often, or include too many blurbs on your book, and you might get called a blurb whore.The article goes on to separate "blurbing" into the three subsets of "blurbing down," "blurbing up," and "lateral blurbing," all based on the industry reputation of the author providing the dust jacket quote. Blurbing up occurs when a lesser known writer provides a blurb for an author better known than himself (something he will jump at the chance to do, of course), blurbing down is the opposite (and, I suspect, is the source of the most honest blurbs being used), and blurbing laterally is likely to be the source of countless back-scratching blurbs that are especially meaningless. Whatever you think about blurbs, and whether or not they influence you in the least, this is an interesting article. Take a look.

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Campanile Mulhouse - Illzach Ile Napoleon is located in Illzach, close to Musee du Papier Peint, Parc Expo de Mulhouse, and Musee de l'Impression sur Etoffes. Nearby points of interest also include Mulhouse Hotel de Ville and Temple Saint Etienne. Read More About Campanile Mulhouse - Illzach Ile Napoleon - FREE Parking (+) = Additional fees may apply for the use of these amenities. (*) = Free, some restrictions may apply.

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Lucky Apartment Linguang is located close to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 101, and Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. Nearby points of interest also include Taipei World Trade Center and Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall. Read More About Lucky Apartment Linguang - Laundry Services/Laundry Facility - Room Service - Shuttle To Airport (surcharge) (+) = Additional fees may apply for the use of these amenities. (*) = Free, some restrictions may apply.

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by Bruce TierneyMay, 2007 Looking into a cold case Best-selling author Harlan Coben returns with a high-drama slasher thriller, The Woods. Twenty years back, four teenagers ducked out of their summer camp dorm rooms for a night of merrymaking in the forest. Two of them were discovered the following day, their throats slashed. The other two were never found. Fast-forward two decades: Paul Copeland, whose sister Camille was one of the two never found, is now the prosecutor for Essex County, New Jersey. In the final days of a high-profile rape trial, he is hit with a bombshell the other supposed victim has turned up. He is dead, but only recently so, leading Paul to wonder if his sister could also have survived. Before he finds out, he will have to tangle with the elite of his city, the state governor and even the Russian mob. The answers he finds will not be what he (or the reader) expects!

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After the waters pass Set aside your spring chores and cancel the rest of your plans when you pick up The Winter Vault. Thirteen years after her first novel, Fugitive Pieces, Canadian writer Anne Michaels unfolds the unforgettable story of Avery and Jean, who meet near land flooded by the St. Lawrence Seaway project. After their marriage, they live in Egypt, where Avery is an engineer responsible for rescuing the temples at Abu Simbel from the floodwaters of the Nile, as part of the Aswan High Dam construction in the mid-1960s. In both projects, lives and memories are uprooted with the landscape as entire communities are relocated. Michaels uses the structure of the novel to portray this displacement and this dislocation, juxtaposing water against desert, flow against flood, showing some of the ways people respond to emotional and physical dislocation. In Egypt, Avery works with old sandstone and modern plans, while Jean observes the locals and tries to understand their lives. When their first child dies in utero, their relationship breaks. Their loss is the stone in the river that a Nubian friend describes as the one that splits the waters. Back in Canada, Avery does not know how to help Jean—or himself—grieve, and leaves her. She becomes involved with Lucjan, an older man who survived the war as a Jewish orphan in Warsaw, and is now known as the Caveman because of the paintings he creates on Toronto fences late at night. He draws Jean, and they become lovers. It is Lucjan’s stories—and his challenges—that help Jean start to return to life. A year after their daughter’s death, Jean and Avery meet, unplanned, at her grave, and begin to walk back to each other. Michaels is the author of three books of poetry, and her phrases and images echo back and forth through the novel. The title refers to the buildings where bodies wait until the ground thaws and graves can be dug, a metaphor for the temporary holding place we all visit in our lives, but rarely name. The Winter Vault requires close reading, but when you finish, you’ll want to turn back and read it all again. Leslie Budewitz lives and writes near Flathead Lake in western Montana.

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You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny (Paperback) New and completely updated edition Hilarious and addictive, this chronicle of a small-town girl’s stint as a celebrity nanny reveals what really happens in the diaper trenches of Hollywood. When Oregon native Suzanne Hansen becomes a live-in nanny to the children of Hollywood über-agent Michael Ovitz, she thinks she’s found the job of her dreams. But Hansen’s behind-the-scenes access soon gets her much more than she bargained for: working twenty-four hours a day, juggling the shifting demands of the Hollywood elite, and struggling to comprehend wealth unimaginable to most Americans, not to mention dealing with the expected tantrums and the unexpected tense–and intense–atmosphere in the house where she lives with her employers. When the thankless drudgery takes its toll and Hansen finally quits, her boss threatens to blackball her from ever nannying in Hollywood again. Discouraged but determined, Hansen manages to land gigs with Debra Winger and then Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. Attentive, welcoming parents with a relaxed attitude toward celebrity–looks like Hansen’s fallen into a real-life happy ending. But the round-the-clock workdays continue, rubbing some of the glitter off L.A. living, and Hansen’s not sure how much longer she can pretend to be Mary Poppins. Even bosses who treat her like family can’t help as she struggles to find meaning in her work while living in a town that seems to lack respect for nannies and everyone else who comes in the employee’s entrance–but without whom many showbiz households would grind to a halt. Peppering her own journey with true stories and high drama experienced by other nannies to the stars, Hansen offers an intriguing, entertaining mix of tales from the cribs of the rich and famous. You’ll Never Nanny in This Town Again is a treat for everyone who is fascinated by the skewed priorities of Tinseltown, for anyone who has wondered how high-wattage supermoms do it all, and for readers who love peeking behind the curtains of celebrity, all of whom will devour this unparalleled–and unabashedly true–account of one girl’s tour of duty as Hollywood’s hired help. About the Author Suzanne Hansen has been a high-risk labor and delivery nurse, lactation consultant, and childbirth educator. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children. Praise for You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny… "Filled with juicy little tidbits that will be enjoyed by anyone who loves to read about the bad behavior...of the rich and famous." —LA Times "[A] story that Hansen tells with real comic energy, sparing no unlibelous detail." —Boston Globe "After the publication of Hollywood nanny Suzanne Hansen's memoir, former employer and hardballing Uber-agent, Michael Ovitz might swear bitterly: You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again." —Vanity Fair, January 2006 "Think The Nanny Diaries, but juicier—and it's all true! Suzanne Hansen's tell-all book about her real-life adventures in Tinseltown babysitting (she was the nanny to the kids of super-scary super-agent Michael Ovitz) will have you howling with laughter—and rage." —Marie Claire magazine "Veterans of the serving class ourselves, we thought we'd seen it all, but You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again offers an intriguing peek into the never-before-revealed family lives of Hollywood's elite. Hansen's memoir poignantly proves that truth can be more powerful than fiction." —Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey, authors of The Perfect Manhattan "A funny, absorbing true tale that will once again leave readers wondering why anyone would want to work in the insane asylum that is Hollywood." —Robin Lynn Williams, author of The Assistants "Funny and engaging enough to be a novel, that You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again is true takes it to another level—a stunning exposé of our culture's impossible expectations of mothers." —Ariel Gore, author of The Hip Mama Survival Guide and The Mother Trip "A jolly holiday with Mary it most certainly was not. At 18 years old, long before Nanny 911, Suzanne Hansen left the WiIlamette Valley of Cottage Grove to pair her au with late-'80s Hollywood excess... Hansen's just-released tell-all You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again chronicles her caregiving escapades with Debra Winger, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, and especially the Ovitz clan." —Portland Monthly magazine “Veterans of the serving class ourselves, we thought we’d seen it all, but You’ll Never Nanny in This Town Again offers an intriguing peek into the never-before-revealed family lives of Hollywood’s elite. Hansen’s memoir poignantly proves that truth can be more powerful than fiction.” —Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey, authors of The Perfect Manhattan “Just when you think you’ve heard everything about the behind-the-scenes world of celebrities, along comes You’ll Never Nanny in This Town Again, a humorous yet down-to-earth account of the vagaries of warped Hollywood parenting. Author Suzanne Hansen’s experiences as an L.A. nanny expose the absurd–and yet achingly funny–differences between the rich and famous and the rest of us.” —Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner, authors of Hollywood, Interrupted “A funny, absorbing true tale that will once again leave readers wondering why anyone would want to work in the insane asylum that is Hollywood.” —Robin Lynn Williams, author of The Assistants

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Wilmington auhtor John Jeremiah Sullivan — whose book “Blood Horses” was published in 2004 — has joined the staff of The Paris Review. Sullivan appears on the masthead of the venerable journal’s Fall 2010 issue as “Southern editor.” The issue also includes Sullivan’s essay “Mister Lytle” about Andrew Lytle (1902-1995), the Tennessee-born novelist and dramatist who was one of the Nashville Agrarians and a contibutor to its famous manifesto, “I’ll Take My Stand.” Sullivan, a 1997 graduate of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., lived with the aged author for about a year when he was 20 yeasrs old. A native of Louisville, Ky., Sullivan was a former editor for Harper’s and The Oxford American and was a writer-at-large for GQ magazine. In 2004, he won the Whiting Award for emerging writers. Other honors include a 2003 National Magazine Award for feature writing and a 2003 Eclipse Award for writing about horse racing. He was also a PEN Literary Award finalist. A complex book, “Blood Horses” combines memoir — the author’s father was a longtime sportswriter for the Louisville Courier-Journal — with the history, lore and breeding of thoroughbred race horses, aong with a look at Kentucky’s geology, heritage and agri-business milieu. Sullivan’s current book project is a non-fiction treatise on an 18th century Utopian who lived in what is now Tennessee before the Revolutionary War. Co-founed in 1953 by George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes, The Paris Review was famed for its long interviews with such authors as William Faulkner, Seamus Heaney, Vladimir Nabokov and Joan Didion. It published early works by V.S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Adrienne Rich, Edward P. Jones and Rick Moody. For more about The Paris Review, click here: http://www.theparisreview.org/. The magazine recently acquired a new editor, Lorin Stein, formerly of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Sullivan has taught in the UNCW creative writing department, and was one of the speakers for its 2008 fall Writers Week.

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Myself and other more important matters Amacom Books, 2006 - 213 halaman The book was selected as one of STRATEGY + BUSINESS Best Business Books of 2008. The book was also selected by Leadershipnow.com as one of The Best Leadership Books of 2008. One of the world's most influential living management thinkers, Charles Handy has year-after-year been listed alongside business gurus including Peter Drucker and Tom Peters in the prestigious Thinkers 50 list. His views on management and life have inspired and enlightened others for decades. Now, in Myself and Other More Important Matters, the bestselling author of books including The Age of Unreason shares his special brand of wisdom, giving readers uncommon insight into business and careers...as well as the choices we all have to make in our lives. Handy draws on the lessons of his own experience to help readers move beyond the facts they learned in business school and reflect on their own individual management style. With the philosophical elegance and eloquence Warren Bennis has described as his trademark, Handy discusses how one should develop one's career goals in line with personal values and sense of ethics. Handy entertainingly recounts what he's discovered along his own international journey: from lessons his father taught him growing up in Ireland to what he learned in Borneo in his days working for Royal Dutch Shell to Italy, where he bought and fixed up an old house in Tuscany all the way to America, where recent corporate scandals have shaken our understanding of what is ethical and acceptable. Throughout the book, Handy asks us to look at the role of work in our life, and what we truly find fulfilling. It is hard to imagine a better or wiser guide to work and life's big questions.

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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20001 NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance. Support for this project was provided by the National Academies. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project. International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0309-13901-4 International Standard Book Number-10: 0-309-13901-5 Additional copies of this report are available from the National Academies Press, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Lockbox 285, Washington, DC 20055; (800) 624-6242 or (202) 334-3313 (in the Washington metropolitan area); Internet, http://www.nap.edu. For more information about the Institute of Medicine, visit the IOM home page at: www.iom.edu. Copyright 2009 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America The serpent has been a symbol of long life, healing, and knowledge among almost all cultures and religions since the beginning of recorded history. The serpent adopted as a logotype by the Institute of Medicine is a relief carving from ancient Greece, now held by the Staatliche Museen in Berlin. Suggested citation: IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2009. Integrative medicine and the health of the public: A summary of the February 2009 summit. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Online Textbook Ordering Information On this web site we try to provide the most accurate information available regarding textbooks and course materials. The site information is updated daily as we receive new orders from faculty and shipments from publishers. However, this information is subject to change at any time based on faculty changes; publisher upgrades; canceled classes, etc. We are not responsible for information used from this site for purchase of textbooks from outside vendors. Students purchasing from our site who request refunds will receive refunds based on our posted Refund Policy. PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING REGARDING ONLINE TEXTBOOK ORDERING: - If you choose to have your order shipped, it will be sent via FedEx within 2-3 business days. Shipping charges are non-refundable. We do NOT ship to PO Boxes!! YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR SHIPPING INFORMATION. Please verify your shipping information before submitting your order. WE DO NOT REFUND YOUR ORDER IF YOU GAVE US INCORRECT INFORMATION AND YOUR BOOKS ARE LOST. - If you choose in-store pick up your order will be ready within 1-2 business days. We strongly encourage you to choose in-store pickup due to the small window between quarters. - You will receive an email confirmation once your order is packed and ready to ship or to be picked up. The email will say your order is “packed” regardless of shipping choice. - **IF WE DO NOT HAVE A TEXTBOOK YOU HAVE ORDERED, THAT TITLE WILL BE BACKORDERED AND YOU CAN PICK IT UP AT A LATER DATE. YOU WILL RECEIVE NOTIFICATION WHEN IT IS READY TO PICK UP. If you do not want a book on back order, it is your responsibility to notify us to cancel the backorder. RENTAL TEXTBOOKS: Please read carefully your options to rent textbooks. Keep in mind you will have to return the rental textbook at the end of the Quarter, and you will not be able to sell it at Buyback. PRICING DISCLAIMER: Pricing is subject to change without notice. All totals are calculated using the most recent new book prices, as we cannot guarantee the availability of used books. REFUNDS: New or used books purchased from us for Spring Quarter 2013 may be returned for a refund with the original sales receipt until Friday, April 5, 2013. New textbooks must be in original condition, shrink-wrap intact if sold that way. No returns on software or access codes that have been opened. AFTER FRIDAY, April 5, 2013 ALL TEXTBOOKS SALES ARE FINAL.

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Social Media can help unite us in times of crisis. Within moments, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube connect the world with the voices and images on the ground as well our own global reactions. We give you here one more reason that you should be participating in social media if you aren’t yet, as well as important links to information and ways to help the tragic situation in Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami. Our first alert in Kauai to the huge, tragic Japan earthquake was at 9PM Thursday night, March 10. We attended first to preparations for a tsunami predicted for 3AM our time. There was little sleep for everyone on Kauai and the rest of the state of Hawaii with tsunami warning sirens going off every hour from 10PM through 3AM with a bonus at 2:30AM. Residents from homes and vacation rentals directly at the coast needed to evacuate and we supported that effort by taking in a few people. As it turned out, the tsunami effect in Hawaii was very limited but given the magnitude of the quake and tsunami in Japan, it was certainly better to be safe than sorry. We immediately got on Twitter @KauaiTalk @LindaSherman @RayJGordon and Facebook to make sure that our local friends in Hawaii were aware of the warnings and were taking precautions. We passed on news and responded to questions using the hash tag# created for the local event: #HITsunami. All night, we watched the first shocking, horrifying and heartbreaking images that CNN could get a hold of. CNN didn’t have many that first night and kept running them over and over but we kept coming back to watch. My husband Ray and I lived in Japan for more than 13 years beginning in late 1993. (I was there for an additional 8 years before that). We were very worried about our friends in Japan. We checked for whatever social media we could find and also bothered them with emails. At times of humanitarian crisis or when a nation or the world is focused on a special event, social media brings us together. Twitter in particular is very immediate. I wrote about this phenomenon calling it the Twitter Shared Experience. Facebook Pages that are open to updates can also be very useful. Blogs follow and allow us to share stories that support all of us. Information shared through social media is helpful to those in need and it links us all together, in all of our humanity. Social Media for Social Good Social media can be used for Social Good. You may have seen stories written about “social influencers” people whose voices carry to many thousands of listeners through their followers on Twitter, Facebook and blogs. In these times of crisis, these influencers can be a positive force. But so can each and everyone of us. You can share your voice on Twitter by including a # in your tweet such as #HelpJapan. People who use Twitter search can create a stream of information by putting that # in their Twitter search bar.* You can contribute your voice to the Facebook Pages I have listed here. You can comment on relevant websites and blogs or post a blog yourself. I worked in Japan as an executive and was one of the few foreign participants in the Nihon Keizai Doyukai (Japan Associate of Corporate Executives). The Keizai Doyukai produces white papers for consideration by the Japanese government. There are few foreigners in this organization because it is conducted entirely in Japanese and requires the ability to not only speak Japanese but read Japanese in order to fully participate. I participated in several committees that touched on the image of Japan to the world. Japan is a huge international aid contributor but they never talk about it. Japanese are humble by nature and do not brag about what they do. I am hoping that this crisis ultimately drags more English capable Japanese onto social media to communicate with the rest of the world about Japan. This will be part of an overall change from a rather insular society to one that is more fully linked with the rest of the world. We can help Japan financially and emotionally through our support delivered through social media platforms. Following is the list of links* that I have collected so far. This has been a labor of love and I hope you find it useful. You are invited to add useful links that I have missed in the comments. Social Good – Giving List of Local Japanese Organizations Providing Direct Support Links to their English pages selected as trustworthy by Todd Wassel and his Japanese wife who are both professional aid and recovery workers with the United Nations Tokyo IS Support Tokyo International School & TEDxTokyo communities have partnered with Second Harvest Japan to receive needed supplies at Tokyo International School for immediate delivery to the disaster areas (local donations) Seven Ways to Help from Mashable a leader in Social Media news and analysis South by SouthWest SXSW Giving SXSW* – Use your social media influence to help Japan message – Red Cross Time Magazine – Five Ways You Can Help How You Can Help from Tokyo Time Out USAID.gov links to this Interaction list of charities There are additional references to charities within many of the links on this page. Celebrities are making major contributions, some direct and some collecting donations through fans such as Lady Gaga with a Pray for Japan wristband. On corporate or non-profit giving: some people have objected to requests for passing forward the word on Twitter through retweets (Microsoft for Bing) or joining Fan Pages to raise money but Charlie Weingarten at Dog Bless You smartly replied: Some people ask why I don’t just give the money. Because together we are far stronger than working alone. Others are suggesting that Apple is taking a cut of contributions through iTunes (they are not!). I have to admit that I personally didn’t like a 2009 cancer campaign on Twitter that appeared to be all about breaking a guinness record so that a particular PR agency could show they had clout (without acknowledging major players that had helped them along the way). But while using caution to only contribute through organizations you trust, we need not be stingy with our Facebook likes and our Twitter RT’s (retweets). Microsoft quickly decided to just donate the $100,000 instead of continuing their RT campaign but ultimately, continuing to spread the word is good for everyone and … why is it that we need to begrudge these organizations some positive PR? Useful Japan Disaster Dedicated Sites Google Crisis Response includes flight cancellation status and other useful updated information (English) Wikipedia current disaster page filled with useful links and updates Press Releases from the Prime Minister of Japan related to Measures Being Taken Olive – Advice Wiki for emergency areas in English and Japanese by @_nosigner Wiki for Earthquake Info American Embassy in Japan Fukushima International Association Live News Streams from Japan – English NHK World (Japan’s national TV station) has is providing livestream with full earthquake/tsunami coverage on this NHK Ustream Link Live News Streams from Japan – Japanese TBS Channel on UStream. Useful Sites About Japan Providing Updates Yokoso – Japan Culture, Lifestyle and Entertainment based in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan Entertainment Magazine in Japan – Time Out Tokyo Japan Times – English Language Newspaper in Japan Tokyo Post Online News Magazine Japan Today Online News Magazine Gaijin Pot Online Live, Work, Play Magazine for Foreigners in Japan Google People Finder Useful Facebook Pages in English – includes Giving eJournal USA published by the United States Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs Help Save Japan at SXSW Prayer for Tsunami Victims in Japan (fortunately has non-prayer related info as well) Rescue Dog Organization: Explore Dogs Tokyo International School Emergency Supply Center Twitter Corporate Produced (in both Japanese and English) helpful links and useful hash tags. Search for essential local Japan earthquake crisis information in English on Twitter Twitter #Hash Tags* I am seeing tweets that say ‘instead of #PrayforJapan please use #HelpJapan’ and I agree! However, #PrayforJapan is still going strong, so if you want to get a message to all on the English channels you should use both tags. In Japan they are using #jishin (earthquake) and others you can see listed in the Twitter blog at the top of this section. #EQJP has become an accepted format from recent earthquakes in Equador and New Zealand. The #j_j_helpme hash tag reminds us that Twitter can be used to save your life. We wrote about this in our Your Cell Phone Can Save Your Life article. Tweets From Japan Tweets From Japan 60 volunteers translating tweets in Japanese into 12 languages – Google Doc Earthquake and Relief live tweet streams on Twimpact this system by Matthias Jugel, owner of Twimpact (in Germany) searches tweets by keywords and #tags and includes cloud of active twitter accounts providing information. This is generally designed to capture Japanese tweets because of the keywords used. You can choose the translation language for your country. In English (curating news) @Tzarimas Helen Tzarimas from Sydney (update – Mar 15 – exhausted – passed to her Japan twitter list) @seacorro Zoe Daniel from Bangkok @Colvinius Mark Colvin from Sydney @HiroTag Hiroko MD from Cardiff, Wales, UK @Bunguman Yoshi Suzuki from Minneapolis, Minn @MarianSteinbeck from Cologne, Germany @MarcySensei Marcy Sensei, from Mexico City Thought Leaders Not Currently in Japan @Joi Joi Itoh from wherever he is in the world Tweeting From Japan Personal Experience and Information @YankeeReview Darren in Fukushima, Japan @UnusualOlive Rika Oshima in Yokohama, Japan @DanielKahl public personality, born in California, in Japan @audreybenten Usually in Shinjuku, Japan – in Austin for SXSW conference @tokyoreporter Brett Bull in Tokyo @Matt_Alt Matt Alt in Tokyo @tamegoeswild Joseph Tame in Tokyo @1rick Rick Martin in Tokyo @survivingnjapan Ashley Thompson in Shizuoka @sandrajapandra Sandra Barron in Tokyo @HidekiOnda in Tokyo @Gen Gen Kanai @MutantFrogInc Roy Berman @KenMogi in Tokyo @OurManinAbiko in Abiko, Japan @Shioyama in Tokyo @Tom_Vincent in Tokyo @gakuranman Michael Gakuran in Nagoya, Japan @SteveNagata in Tokyo News Bureau Related People Tweeting from Japan @martyn_williams in Tokyo @HirokoTabuchi in Tokyo @W7VOA Steve Herman @JNatsuko Natsuko Fukue @jtmasami Masami Ito @Ularainblack Ulara Nakagawa @fieldproducer Neal Mann (free lance) @sanchanta Mariko Sanchanta @dicklp Richard Lloyd Parry @kzinagata Kazuaki Nagata @Daiwaka Daisuke Wakabayashi Japan News Sites in English @Norishikata Noriyuki Shikata, PR Prime Minister’s Office Updates and Rescue Information in Japanese Accurate Nuclear News @BraveNewClimate Barry Brook author Brave new Climate Japan Status Accurate radiation level information @JapanStatus March 17 Obama Public Address: USA Not Threatened by Nuclear Fallout from CNN Why I Am Not Fleeing Japan – Washington Post I have created a Japan Crisis Twitter List on my @KauaiTalk account and am doing related tweeting from both @LindaSherman and @KauaiTalk but no longer in the format of a constant stream of information that you will find most of the time on the twitter accounts I have collected for this article. How to Pronounce Japanese Japanese pronunciation is flat with no emphasis on the second syllable that you are used to in English, so please stop putting emphasis on the dai in Sendai. The vowels in Japanese are the same as in Spanish so it is relatively simple to pronounce Japanese words. I produced this little Japanese pronunciation tutorial with audio during a raft of news anchor mispronunciations of the word karaoke during the holiday season. Failure of Closed Social Media Systems – American Chamber of Commerce ACCJ (American Chamber of Commerce) should be an important resource to American companies doing business in Japan. They have recently put up a Facebook Page and Twitter feed. Unfortunately, they have set their Facebook Page as a fairly closed system that does not encourage others to update. Their LinkedIn Group moderates comments (slowly!) so there is little activity there as well. Why Japan Will Emerge Stronger After the Earthquake We were in Japan during the Kobe (Hanshin/Awaji) earthquake in January 1995. Japan refused international assistance during that disaster which proved to be a regrettable decision. The spirit of cooperation both internally and internationally during this horrible tragedy and in the rebuilding to follow should be a positive force. *Boomer Tech Talk Guide to Technical Words Used in this Article: Hashtag: Used in Twitter, written #. This is used to create a stream in Twitter of all tweets that include that #. Using the hashtag allows Twitter uses to follow particular topics and events using the search bar in Twitter without needing to go to any particular one source. Twitter refers to some of these hashtags as “trending topics”. You can search for a key word with using the hashtag but the # encourages people to use the same word, making it easy to find a stream of information or commentary on one topic. SXSW: Stands for South by Southwest. A huge annual music/film/social media conference held in Austin (this year March 11 – March 20, starting shortly after the earthquake hit Japan) Links: You can click on a live link to get to a website, including a Facebook Page. I have not made the Twitter profiles into live links so when you see @name you need to enter http://Twitter.com/name to get to the link. We hope that if you are not yet participating in social media, this article has given you one more reason to take that step. Social media can help you cope with a crisis in your personal or business life with immediate information and emotional support. I would greatly appreciate it if you add useful links that I may have missed in the comments.

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Media Monday: Spring Training Begins Throughout the season we will have features that we run each day of the week, one of them will be Media Monday. We hope to bring you all the best pictures, audio, and video (where allowed by MLB) from the past week. Obviously everyone is very excited about Spring training getting underway, please enjoy the content below. On Deck – Daily reports and opinion pieces from Spring Training. Games start on March 4th, we will have game recaps, previews, and lots of media. Stay tuned to the blog, thanks for reading. - George Cotugno

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Looks like Scar Jo and her supple cakes have found a new boo: Scarlett Johansson was spotted making out with 50/50 star Joseph Gordon-Levitt in NYC last month. “They were kissing,” an eyewitness tells the new Us Weekly, on stands Friday. “They were very lovey.” It wasn’t the first time Johansson, 26, and Gordon-Levitt, 30, hit the town together. The duo dined at Hundred Acres in NYC’s SoHo area in late July. Although a source tells Us that Ryan Reynolds’ ex and Gordon-Levitt have been “discussing a project for a while [but] have never kissed,” another insider explains, “They first met about a film they wanted to do together, but it’s gone beyond that now.” Well he’s one lucky son-of-a-gun if the rumors are true…

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Is Tamar finally ready to pop out a Vince Jr ? Tamar Braxton Pregnant? According to SandraRose: According to a close family member, Tamar Braxton is pregnant with her first child. Tamar is not a friend of the blog, in case you were wondering. According to a confidential source, Tamar, who is barren, was artificially inseminated by in vitro fertilization. Congrats to Tamar’s husband, Vince Herbert, who has struggled to get Tamar pregnant. Tamar and Vince are in Las Vegas attending the 2012 Soul Train Awards. According to my source, Vince recently underwent lap band surgery, and as a result he has lost a ton of weight. From divorce rumors to baby rumblings, these two sure do know how to stay in the headlines. We don’t know if these rumors are true but we know another season of Tamar & Vince will be around to document the drama.

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Internet: the Best Place to Find Commercial Real Estate Listings If you want to buy commercial properties then one of the best mediums available to look for a property of your choice is the Internet. Whether you wish to buy a shop, show room, an office or an office building, there is an availability of wide commercial real estate listings online. The kinds of properties available listed in commercial real estate listings include retail, industrial, R&D and flex. There are also sections on commercial real estate property on lease and commercial real estate property on sale, including properties like office space, executive suites, vacant land, mixed use, medical office and investment properties. The commercial real estate listings online include detailed information on the available properties, such as details on the physical status of the property, information about its neighborhood, estimated cost, the person to be contacted and information on the real estate broker who is dealing with the property. One of the best features is that these listings are available for free and one can search for the best property available as per the requirements and preferences. All you have to do is to enter the type and size of properties you are looking for and select the best one out of the search results. The commercial real estate listings online are regularly updated thereby providing latest information on the commercial real estate properties available. If you are not able to figure out which would be the right kind of commercial property suitable for your business purpose, there are services of professional real estate broker available that can make your efforts easier. One can search for the right kind of a real estate agent through the availability of real estate broker listing online. The real estate broker listing offered online provides brokers as per specialization in the types of properties. Being expert in the field, the real estate agent will make your selection simpler perfectly matching your needs. If you also confused to decide what size of shop or office will be right for your business meeting your budget then the services of real estate agent available via real estate broker listing would serve your purpose the best. Myself webmaster of http://www.real-estate-directories.com/ which is an online real estate guide that provide all information related to real estate and properties, like real estate broker listing and commercial real estate listings online.

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Filed underPolitical Blog Progressive Last night, Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan addressed the Republican National Convention. After a shaky start, Ryan became comfortable with the TelePrompter and delivered a talking points filled speech that was well received in the Convention Hall and drew positive reviews. But if Paul Ryan tried to submit his speech as a school paper he would draw a F for failing to do even the most basic checking of his facts. If Paul Ryan turned that speech in to an editor it would be either covered in corrective red ink or unrecognizable if the editor chose to use track changes and emailed it back. Or they would simply reply: start over. If a CEO received a paper from his staff full of such glairing inaccuracies Paul Ryan would be looking for a new job this morning. While Paul Ryan is entitled to his own opinions, he is not entitled to his own facts. Maybe if he spent less time doing P90X and more time doing the most basic research his speech would not have been filled with little white lies. He lied to America about Medicare. He lied to America about the debt commission. He really lied to America about the stimulus and America’s debt rating. He went out of his way to lie and blame President Obama for a plant closing that happened when George W. Bush was President. That is a bold lie to tell America when your boss wrote an op-ed that demanded that we “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”. Across the Midwest auto plants are adding jobs, like in Lordstown, Ohio where they make the Chevy Cruise and keep adding shifts. If W. Mitt Romney had his way those jobs would not be in Lordstown or anywhere else in the US. When it comes to the stimulus, Ryan likes to call it “a case of political patronage, corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst.” He lied to a reporter’s face about requesting stimulus money and he lied to America about it last night. Ryan also lied when he said the “American people were cut off” from the benefits. The payroll tax reduction that put dollars in people’s pockets hardly left them cut off from the stimulus. The stimulus built and repaired roads and bridges they use every day don’t leave them cut off. Just another Paul Ryan little white lie to America. The fact is, that Paul Ryan requested tens of millions in stimulus dollars, voted for an alternate stimulus in 2009 and spoke on the House floor of the benefits of stimulus and borrowing money to boost the economy, when George W. Bush was President. Paul Ryan’s white lie to America on the Debt Commission is that he voted against it. He failed to mention that when he criticized Obama for not acting urgently on the recommendations that Ryan, himself, opposes. That is a cleaver little lie to America for a deceitful person. Paul Ryan blamed Obama for the decline in America’s credit rating. That is a big lie coming from the leader of the Tea Party House that scuttled a budget deal and threatened to throw America into default as a temper tantrum. But Paul Ryan does not want America to know about his tantrums or his record. The kid has a lot to learn. But the biggest of Paul Ryan’s little white lies to America was saved for Medicare. Ryan criticized Obama for reductions in Medicare and lied when he said benefits were cut. The fact is, and Paul Ryan knows it, that the cuts are in fees for services and those reductions are used to create efficiencies in the way we deliver health care. That helps the economy and improves the long-term outlook for Medicare. Raul Ryan, if he were an honest man, would tell you that in his budget roadmap he kept the Obama Medicare payment reductions but used the savings to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, not to reduce our national health care costs. He also failed to tout his couponing scheme that ends Medicare and raises the cost of health care for seniors while lining the pockets of the health insurance industry. But Paul Ryan knows that the truth is politically toxic. So instead he tells lie after lie to America about Medicare, the debt, the auto recovery, the economy and the stimulus. But mostly he lies about his record. There is a reason that the Obama campaign, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wanted to make the Ryan Budget the focus of this election. First, it is the most detailed policy outline of the Republican Party and every Republican has voted for a version of it or promised to support it. Second, it is a political loser. It is the skunk at the garden party. And that is why Republican House and Senate candidates are not happy with a Romney-Ryan ticket (and Democratic candidates were, to say the least, overjoyed). It is why those Republican candidates have run as fast as they can away from their record of supporting Paul Ryan and his radical plan to end Medicare. Even W. Mitt Romney immediately tried to distance himself from his running mate. He clearly believed that he could pick Paul Ryan to be a heartbeat away from the presidency but expect everyone to ignore the Ryan record. A monumentally dumb belief. About Bill Buck Bill Buck is a Democratic strategist, President of the Buck Communications Group, a media relations and new media strategies consulting business based in Washington, DC, and Managing Director of the online ad firm Influence DSP. He has over twenty years of international and national communications experience. The views and opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CBS Local.

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September 11th, 2006 Because Q, Denton, et al say it far better than I can… America the Beautiful…Land that I love.. This entry was posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 12:30 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. On this September 12th, the day after…I am still somber. Stay well. Be safe. Thank you for the very kind words. I was touched you said them. Your welcome Q..I hope you are doing ok… It was a tough and emotional day on Monday, but I got through it. Thanks again for your concern and support, Christine. Mail (will not be published) (required) Subscribe to Boston Red Thoughts Alliance Tickets is your source watching your favorite team live and all MLB Tickets We carry a huge selection of cheap Boston Red Sox Tickets Copyright 2006-2013 Averni Interactive, Inc. - All Rights Reserved

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Mars Science Laboratory arrived at its destination Sunday night at 11:31 p.m. The MSL team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's control center in Pasadena was ecstatic; the mission control room was flooded with jubilant pandemonium. According to NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, who was there along with Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren, "Everybody in the morning should be sticking their chests out saying, 'That's MY Curiosity rover on Mars!'" The rover is checking out in perfect shape so far, and soon the science will begin. Progress reports rolled in last night at a rate of about one per minute. Each time a milestone in the intricate system was transmitted home, the team clapped and broke out in spontaneous laughter. Read more at Ars Technica.

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Efforts to incorporate Bowmanstown as a borough occurred as early as 1892. The village contained about 300 inhabitants in 1896 but the nearby New Jersey Zinc Company soon added to its growth. Bowmanstown was incorporated as a Borough on November 29, 1913 for the purpose of providing general local government services to residents of the community. Upon incorporation of Bowmanstown as a borough its boundaries encompassed lands measuring 0.75 square mile. The borough's assessed valuation in 1918 was $279,000.00. The population of 834 in 1920 remained relatively constant for decades. The Bowmanstown Borough Municipal Building (Borough Hall) is a converted school building that was constructed in 1903 to serve the youths of the community. In 1958, the Palmerton School District was established and combined several local schools in order to create a regional school thus making the Bowmanstown campus obsolete. In 1964, the Borough acquired the old brick school building and has been using it as offices ever since. The borough kept the building in its original condition. The Bowmanstown Borough Authority was incorporated August 24, 1997 and was created for the purpose of owning and operating the Bowmanstown Public Water System. On February 11, 2002 the Authority began construction of its water system improvement project which included a new chlorine building, looping numerous water mains, installing new services, erection of a new 250,000 gallon Standpipe and a new liner to the one Reservoir. In 2009, the Authority replaced their two roofs at the Reservoirs with metal roofs. Ongoing water projects will continue to transpire throughout the years.

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A TWENTY-year-old Yanuca villager survived a shark attack off an island near Taveuni yesterday. Tevita Naborisi was spearfishing at Matacucu Reef when he was attacked. According to his cousin, William Bukarau, Mr Naborisi went spearfishing with a group but strayed from the rest of his group. He was attacked twice by the shark. “He had speared a donu when the shark attacked him from his right side,” said Mr Bukarau. “The shark bit his head but he managed to fend the shark away. “The shark had bitten into the right side of Tevita’s temple in the first attack. The shark came around a second time but Tevita managed to push the shark away,” said Mr Bukarau.

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|Business Phone:||922 750 912 / 629 323 156||Business Fax:||n/a| Mcreform is a renovation company located in the South of Tenerife. For almost ten years we have been offering building services to our customers for a sole purpose: their total satisfaction. Since we cover all imaginable fields of building and renovation we feel qualified to carry out a very complete service assuring our customers of our reliability and an extremely high quality of work. |Business Category:||Builders in Tenerife| |Business Address:||Amercica Shopping Center local 33| |Playa de las americas ,, Arona, Tenerife| Clear & High 72°F / Low 63°F. Partly Cloudy & High 70°F / Low 64°F. Mostly Sunny & High 71°F / Low 65°F.

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I recently released a novelette to e-book. Sejal and the Walk for Water is available from Amazon Kindle (click here) for 99 cents, or can be purchased as a PDF directly from my author website here. The third-world water crisis is a topic that is very dear to me. In 2011, I rode my bike across Ohio in three days to raise money to drill wells in India, and started a zero-overhead non-profit organization called The Water Cycle Project. Sejal and the Walk for Water follows one young Indian woman, Sejal, and the way that water can change her life, and give hope to a village. I hope you enjoy it! Happy holidays from Brad Pauquette Design! Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, enjoy it! I’ll be here when you get back from all of your merrymaking. Need a New Year’s Resolution? How about finally getting that website started or updated? Enjoy your holidays. :-) The new and improved BradPauquetteDesign.com has officially been launched! I’ve still got some bugs to work out, some proofreading to do and a lot of housekeeping, but the meat and potatoes are here. If I don’t put it up now, I’ll never get to it. Please leave your thoughts for me in the comments section.

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JW: How are you doing tonight? EKS: I'm . . . just getting ready to, um, thrill old London, Ontario, with our particular talents. JW: So this is the second night of this tour . . . EKS: Uh huh. JW: How was the first night -- how was your opening show? EKS: Well, it was . . . It was hard, because it's a new set that we're playing and so there's a lot of things to iron out. And we had quite a tense time in the days before it in that we arrived in Ontario but our equipment didn't and, um, it finally turned up just a little while before the show. So it was an enormous relief for everybody, but I think the tension worked its way into all of us. So, yeah, we did it. The crowd liked it but, you know, we were quite critical of ourselves. You know, we usually know it can be a lot better. JW: I heard a lot of positive things about your performance as well as Mark Spybey and Dead Voices on Air. EKS: Oh, that's excellent. Yeah, I thought Dead Voices were superb, actually. JW: Yeah? How long has each of your sets been? EKS: Well, um, the actual Pink Dots set tends to be around an hour at the moment - it may extend. But the encores are long, because we've resurrected the "9 Shades to the Circle," and "Premonition 13," yeah. JW: Excellent. Yeah, the last time I saw you do those two was in 1995, on that tour. EKS: Yeah, I mean, we missed it a lot. And then Martijn rejoined the band it was high time to bring it back. There are certain differences in the Pink Dots -- to start, Marti is playing the violin here or there as well, so it's -- you know -- he's not the virtuoso that Patrick was, but he's actually really very good. There's a lot of odd little twists and turns this time, but we're still working on live versions of the new songs from A Perfect Mystery. JW: Yeah, how many tracks are you playing from the brand new album? EKS: What was it . . . I think it's 4 or 5, um, it's 5 with a possibility of another 2 that we're still busy with, but they're in their very embryonic stage. So, potentially, you could play a lot, but, um, some things have to pass a certain quality area before we make some public. JW: So how about A Perfect Mystery? What are we to expect from the brand new album? EKS: Uh . . (chuckles) . . to be honest I think it's the best album we've ever made. And I don't say that lightly. You know, I really feel strange after 27 albums and making such a cliched comment (mockingly), "and, yeah, but this one's the best!" But, you know, I honestly believe it this time. I've listened to it quite relentlessly since we finished it, which is rare. You know, normally I have to stay away for a month -- but this one, not -- there's a certain spring in its step. There's a joy in this album. JW: Right. Now is, uh, Raymond -- was he working on this album? EKS: No, Frank. JW: Oh, Frank -- Frank was producing this album again. OK. We have somebody else here in the studio who has a few questions -- Danny? Say hi, Danny. EKS: Hullo, Danny. Daniel McKernan: Hello, Edward. Can you hear me? EKS: Uh huh. DM: OK, just making sure. Uh, yeah, I just wanted to ask you about some of your new techniques that you were using on this album -- just, like, you've evolved a lot over the past 27 albums, and just what we should look forward to in the sound in this one? EKS: Now, well, there's a lot of live playing on this album. And a lot of processing -- almost three-way processing. In terms of producing, a very live sound in the studio where musicians are playing together and simply committing it straight to tape. You know, you'd have Phil working on sounds that I was making or he was making, and then you'd have Ryan processing the totality of the sound and what you get is a lot of things that never, in fact, could be repeated. And maybe that's why I like it so much: it feels very spontaneous. And, basically, that's what it was. You know, I'd say at least 75-80% of the album has this spontaneous feeling about it. the band wrote it together -- every song, fully, playing a big part in it. And what we have is, actually, I think, quite a different sort of album. DM: How long did it take you to record it, overall? EKS: Ummm, I think it was two months. It always takes longer than you think it's going to take. But, umm, it was about two months. DM: Did Mark Spybey work with you at all on this or what he just, uh, doing his own thing? EKS: Oh, yeah, he was busy with his own music during this album. We wanted to, but it just never worked out. Our schedules, you know. In spirit, it would have been perfect, but it just couldn't work out. DM: Is he going to be doing anything with you, on stage, with the Pink Dots' set? EKS: Ummm, we're talking about that. I don't know that it'll be as early as Boston because we're still working things out ourselves at the moment. When, I think, the set becomes settled and we know exactly what we want to play, because it always changes over the early part of a tour. And there is an idea, indeed, to maybe bring Mark into it as well, you know, for a song or something like that because it would be just a bit of a perfect marriage I think. JW: Now let me ask about another project. You have a new Tear Garden album coming out later this year? Now how was that, recording that again? EKS: That was a very long distance recording, really, I mean -- there was a lot of jetting back and forth from L.A. to Holland. When it was first finished . . . I wasn't completely sure, but now, I've heard it more, and, actually, it's a bit like Angel Blind. It took a while, but when it got there I actually think it's a nice album, yeah. JW: OK. And there are still rumors about that Tear Garden tour . . . EKS: Yeah, it should happen. Yeah, November is the plan. DM: Will that be throughout the US and other European dates? EKS: There's just a handful of European shows planned. The first two are actually about 90% there, in Yena(?), Germany, and Raymond(?), Germany. That's at the beginning of September. And, yeah, the US months is for November. About November the 4th, onwards. JW: We also have the brand new solo album from you, Red Letters, which has been getting some great reviews as well, too. How do you decide what songs become Edward Ka-Spel solo songs and what songs become Legendary Pink Dots? EKS: Well, Red Letters was a bit of an exception to all the others in that it was recorded over a very short space of time. In the middle of last year -- I was home alone and just plowed in to making a new album, beginning to end. Because normally I'm taking bits and pieces from everywhere over a space of a couple of years and some things wind up as Pink Dots songs and others solo pieces, and there isn't really a . . . hard and fast way of deciding. It depends on how the rest of the band maybe reacts to a piece of mine. But all of these pieces were conceived as solo pieces and executed as solo pieces. And I think the whole thing took maybe three weeks to a month. And it's a very very focused recording -- and album I had to make, really. It very much summed up my feelings during that period. JW: It's a different album from a lot of your other things. A lot of new electronic things on there that I'd never heard you use before on your solo project. EKS: Uh huh, yeah, there's actually quite a lot of synths in now as well. And I'm busy on another solo album which goes quite far in an experimental direction. JW: Is this that ultra-limited LP only thing that's coming out later this year? EKS: There is, um, elements of that in that album, but the actual focus is on a new CD -- possibly even a double CD. JW: Oh, wow. Well, I don't want to keep you very much longer because I know you have sound check to do. I understand that you guys have a lot, a whole ton, of merchandise this time around. You've got a lot of CD's and a lot of special things with you? EKS: Yeah, if it all gets delivered in time, yeah. I mean, is A Perfect Mystery in the stores there yet, by any chance? JW: I haven't seen it, no. EKS: It wasn't in Toronto last night, and, well, we had forty of them (laughs). They all went. JW: How about the Farewell, Milky Way? EKS: That should be in Boston. That should be the first show where it's available, if everything goes to plan. You can never quite tell, but if it goes to plan, that will be there. DM: I heard that you weren't doing very many old things from your albums. What's the oldest that you go back on this tour? EKS: Oh . . . .I think "Evolution" might be the oldest song that we're playing this tour. Um, or "Disturbance" as well. DM: Is it more because you're doing more of the live thing now with all the five members? EKS: There's a lot of improvisation. We tend to call upon songs that can develop and change, uh, because that keeps it fresh and alive. To play at song like "The More It Changes," which is a fine song in itself, but play it forty times, and really, you wind up going through the motions or something like that and that's not really what it's about. Just leave it to the CD and enjoy it for what it is there, you know. JW: I like the way you sometimes revisit old things and make them new and make them modern in part of the new band. I really like that. EKS: Yeah, me too. And we have been working on an arrangement of "Poppy Day," with violin, which I don't know if it will be ready for Boston. We've only tried it once. But it sounded very pleasing when we did it. And so, like, that's something that's wading in the winds -- there are a lot of songs that are wading in the winds at the moment. Hopefully we'll get a chance to pull them together in sound checks. It was unfortunate last night since we were under such pressure that we didn't really get that chance to, you know, stretch ourselves before the show itself, with the equipment turning up late. And the next few nights maybe we do . . . stuff that will happen in the sound checks. DM: Also I heard that there's a book coming out, Love and Loud Colors, that's going to be a lot of your prose and poetry. Do you have a lot involved with that or are you mainly just handing things over? And are you writing new material for it or is it going to be a lot of older . . . ? EKS: Oh, well, Kirsten, who is making the book -- we're in touch a lot. But I very much leave it in her hands, how she presents it, because I've seen her work and it's really very tasteful, and very good. And I just know it's in good hands. JW: So speaking of things in hands and stuff like that, I have a question about the -- it might be a tender subject, if you don't want to talk about it that's OK -- the old Play It Again Sam catalog. Is it coming out soon? Is it going to be released through Soleilmoon or is there anything holding it back? EKS: Oh, there's nothing holding it back. The plan is to begin reissuing in the States after the tour. You know, because there is so much around at the moment -- like the new album, and the Farewell, Milky Way album -- and this takes a lot of preparation and a lot of work. And Charles at Soleilmoon likes to take time with each project. A lot of them just rush something out. Which, [taking time] I believe is the right way. Otherwise it becomes a bit of an overload. I mean, it's also all coming out on SPD Poland as well with different covers, and hopefully Polish translations of the lyrics as well. But it all should become available, again. I mean, it needs to be because there are certain albums that are just completely unavailable now for some time. Like The Tower, and . . . . JW: And Crushed Velvet Apocalypse, I know people are searching long and hard for that. EKS: Yeah, The Golden Age as well -- The Lovers -- I mean, they've all disappeared. So it's, yeah, the will come out again. I'm sure. JW: So it's been twenty years since you've started. EKS: Almost, yeah. JW: Yeah, I mean, what does that feel like -- do you feel as fresh? I mean, it's just an amazing thing to think about. Twenty years, I mean, that's incredible. EKS: Oh, it feels great. I mean, I still absolutely love it and enjoy it. And I'm still discovering things, and as long as I'm discovering things, that's what counts, I think. If it was a case of everything intending to sound the same, or if I was repeating myself a little too much without -- I mean, sometimes I repeat myself but it's quite a deliberate ploy. But if I found that I was doing it accidentally, that would really be the time to ask questions. It feels good. The band feels very good at the moment. I'm enjoying this line-up. JW: Right. Are there any more future plans for any more Edward Ka-Spel solo sets, or Silverman solo sets, or even Twilight Circus solo sets in the upcoming future? EKS: Ummm, I'm leaving that a little bit to, uh, the moment, really. There's a possibility in that last show on San Mon Island that there'll be a Silverman set. Possibly an Edward and Silverman improvisation of special things. That's something I'd like, but then it would be an improvisation. It wouldn't be a solo set of solo songs. It would be, let's see where this takes us -- let's set up and play and find out where we go because that's actually the most glorious feeling of all. JW: Alright, well it sounds like people are starting to play the drums behind you. EKS: Oh, they've been doing it quite some time. DM: What are some of your favorite cities to show up in? To do shows in? EKS: Ooooo, ummm . . . JW: Remember you're on the radio with Boston right now. EKS: (Laughing) Oh, Boston, absolutely, yeah . . . DM: (Laughing) And I'm from New Orleans. EKS: Oh, and New Orleans, yeah. Actually I do like New Orleans, wonderful. Actually I do; I am fond of that place. Umm, Austin. I always like playing in Austin. Umm, I think Denver, Seattle . . . DM: Do you find that the crowd is a little bit different here than in Europe? EKS: Yeah, well, you can't really say Europe, really, because within Europe each country is so remarkably different from another. I mean, I love playing in a country like Poland, in Europe -- it's just, the thrill . . . The people are great. JW: Yeah, you guys are pop stars in Poland. EKS: Oh, we aren't pop stars but we have a very dedicated following that seems to understand us very very well there. We just connect somehow with Poland. JW: Do you think that any of your international success over the last few years has been in part due to all the people connecting on the various mailing lists and the newsgroups and the websites and all those things? EKS: Absolutely. Beyond any measure of a doubt. You know, we've noticed our popularity go up in places like England. Quite markedly. And it's not to do with any type of publicity in England, it's to do with basically more and more people getting online there. In fact our London shows last year were the best shows of the year. JW: That's pretty strange because you haven't played London in a long time. A very tough crowd. EKS: They were marvelous. It was so emotional. We could have played forever in front of these people. It was just so . . uh . . I almost cried, especially at that first London show. It was like . . . coming home. JW: Are there other places that have been traditionally very difficult to play that you've found to be absolutely amazing now or maybe were great before and just have sort of changed or something -- any big changes in places? EKS: Paris isn't what it was. I mean, still a big crowd comes along but it's just not what it was. Brussels is excellent. The odd little Dutch show that we played, which, I mean, even playing once or twice in Holland, I used to really dislike it because we'd have this rather bored audience that just wouldn't even notice you. They'd just be talking about, uh, what they bought in the supermarket during the week. That's changed now, to, actually, a very supportive audience. Uh, some places just always are great: Prague, that's another city that -- I don't know, we mean something there. A lot of people turn out and they get so much behind it. JW: Well it's a great experience, I mean you're very personal . . . . 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Friday, July 27, 2012 Petra Anderson is a name landing in headlines as the young woman appears to be making an amazing full recovery after being shot multiple times during the Aurora, Colorado shooting. Anderson, age 22, was at the midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises," when James Holmes opened fire, shooting the aspiring music professor four times in the crowded theater, the Associated Press reports. Three shotgun pellets hit Anderson's arm and another went through her nose, riding up the back of her cranium and hitting the back of her skull. "Her injuries were severe, and her condition was critical…The doctors prior to surgery were concerned because so much of the brain had been traversed by the bullet," Anderson's pastor, Brad Strait, wrote in his blog. Strait, who was in the hospital during the young woman's surgery, added that doctors were worried that Anderson's injuries could impair her speech, motor and cognitive abilities. But incredibly, during the five-hour surgery, doctors soon found that Anderson's brain sustained very little damage and the pellet was removed cleanly. According to Strait, Anderson was saved by a miracle birth "defect" that no one could have anticipated. The doctor explains that Petra’s brain has had from birth a small “defect” in it. It is a tiny channel of fluid running through her skull…Only a CAT scan would catch it, and Petra would have never noticed it.But in Petra’s case, the shotgun buck shot…enters her brain from the exact point of this defect. Like a marble through a small tube, the defect channels the bullet from Petra’s nose through her brain. It turns slightly several times, and comes to rest at the rear of her brain. And in the process, the bullet misses all the vital areas of the brain. Anderson has already started to speak and walk again -- is expected to make a full recovery. "She could have lost all kinds of function (if) the bullet traversed her brain," her mother Kim Anderson told the Sacramento Bee. "I believe that she was not only protected by God, but that she was actually prepared for it." To support the young woman and her family, the Hope Rises Relief Fund has started a campaign for the Andersons. So far, more than $32,000 has been raised. Anderson's injury has come at a difficult time for the young woman's family. Her mother is battling terminal breast cancer and the cost of medical bills for both women has proven to be a daunting challenge. “If the pellet had wavered a millimeter, really in any direction from what it actually took, then she would have likely either died or been severely injured,” said Dr. Michael Rauzzino, a neurosurgeon at The Medical Center of Aurora who operated on Anderson to remove the pellet. “I would say this is definitely a miracle,” he said, while showing an MRI of Anderson’s brain. The MRI reveals a faint trace of the pellet’s path after it entered the left side of Petra's nose, broke through the front

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I’m really not a vain person, I promise, but yes I am going to post a picture of my new haircut. This blog isn’t supposed to be about me and my hair, my clothes, etc but I am so happy with it and the way it makes me feel, I couldn’t help but want to share it with you haha. I was really sick of how my hair looked before; dry, dead, straight and poofy. It looked awful even though it was hard to get it to go that way. I have naturally wavy hair but my hair was so heavy, thick and yuck, that it wasn’t really waving. I found a picture on a website of a really nice, layered hair cut with BANGS *plays creepy music* I haven’t had bangs since I was 10 and I looked absolutely horrible with them then. I was definitely nervous. I thought I would take a really, really big chance and hand the printed off photo to the hairstylist and hold my breath. Honestly, I had no idea how it would come out. It took me thirty minutes to find the photo and voila, I liked it so I went for it. I am really very happy with the outcome, thank goodness. I don’t have to do anything but wash my hair and it naturally does what it does. I don’t even have to brush it now, yay! Before I had to constantly brush my yuck poof-hair to make it poof. Now, I do nothing and it looks really nice. I actually look like I’m 19, I look put together and ‘clean’. So anyway, I just wanted to share with you that little happy rant and a picture of my new haircut. I’m so glad it came out as well as it did. Honestly, I am happy about myself and I am much more confident. I didn’t know a haircut could make you feel so good;I feel like I’m on top to the world!

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Monday, November 16, 2009 Potato skins are fairly easy to make. I had some potatoes that I had gotten from the farmer's market that I nearly forgot about in the vegetable compartment. I say nearly as I knew they were there, it was figuring out when I was going to use them Again my absentmindedness took over and I had left the potato skins a bit longer that i should have in the broiler. Thus cooking the cheese. Other than that it was still nice and crisp and most definitely delicious. What did I do with the scooped potato pieces? I made some mashed baked potato wit pats of butter and shredded cheese. Yum yum!! Makes 4 skins Crisp Potato Skin 2 medium Yukon or russet potatoes extra virgin olive oil 1/3 c shredded cheese - your choice 2 green onion - chopped bacon bits - optional sour cream - optional Preheat your oven 450˚F Half each potato length wise. Coat each half with some olive oil, place on a baking pan lined with foil and bake for 30-40 minutes. Let the potatoes cool before scooping out the inside. Coat one more time with a little olive oil and bake for another 10 minutes. Then turn on your broiler. Top the potato skins with some of the shredded cheese and transfer the baking pan to the broiler. Broil for 5 minutes. Let cool for a couple of minutes, then top with some sour cream, bacon bits, and green onion.

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Check out upcoming events by this organizer, or organize your very own event. Breaking Creative Barriers in Design Workshop Thursday, July 28, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT) New York, United States Breaking Creative Barriers in Design Workshop // BUSINESS 341, DESIGN 685 Adrian Cabrero, Multimedia Designer, ENK International Thursday, July 28th from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, then meets at same time the following week. Art school may have shown you how to be a designer, but working with clients is an experience unlike any other in the design world. Whether you're a freelancer, a designer within a large team or just beginning to promote yourself, wouldn't it be helpful to have a social circle of professionals available to critique and share current work? This class goes beyond posting work to online forums and websites, where 80% of feedback is from unknowns. We will be a group of experienced professionals coming together, sharing creative ideas and breaking down roadblocks. During each of the sessions there will be a focus on professional feedback from your peers in the design field and a brief breakdown of 3 important stages of design: Conceptual R/D, Design execution and Finalization. We encourage everyone to bring in designs that are works in progress or that have hit a creative roadblock. You can look forward to meeting designers from different backgrounds in many stages of their career. Session I: 7/14 Session II: 7/21 Session III: 7/28 Note: To allow ample time for individual critique, group brainstorming and an environment of positive reinforcement, this class is capped at 10 people, on a first come-first serve basis. Adrian Cabrero is a multimedia designer based in New York City. He graduated Highest Honors from Pratt Institute in 2006 with a degree in Digital Design & Interactive Media. Adrian has a background in many areas of design including motion graphics, print design and web/interactive. Most recently he has become the lead web developer for ENK International, the largest fashion trade show company in the US. In his personal time he pursues freelance work and an active creative lifestyle as a multimedia designer, artist and photographer. Adrian's goal through design is to create meaningful experiences which deliver a clear message accross all mediums. Use the hashtag #gabreakingcreativebarriers to ask follow-up questions and continue the conversation. Can't make it? Sign up at http://generalassemb.ly to stay in the loop on future events and classes. General Assembly is a campus for technology, design, and entrepreneurship. We provide educational programming, space, and support to facilitate collaborative practices and learning opportunities across a community inspired by the entrepreneurial experience. Your message has been sent! In order to purchase these tickets in installments, you'll need an Eventbrite account. Log in or sign up for a free account to continue.

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I've had this book on my reading list for a couple of years and finally got to it. I've never read anything but good about it, but actually struggled at about 100 pages over whether or not I wanted to finish it. There are a lot of characters, all with Russian and Czech names, and the author makes the assumption that you know something about what happened in Siberia in the first World War. I thought that I would probably give it a not-so-good review. But now that I've finished, I have to say that I liked the book and I'm glad I read it. I wish I had read it at a time when I could really dedicate some time to sorting out all the characters and maybe looking into some background information about what happened in this time period in Siberia. Most of my negative reactions are probably my own fault. Still, combine a freaky religious sect (apparently based on the truth) with a squadron of Czech soldiers.. lay on top of that the town widow and her son who have past connections with certain characters in the town. Pretty fascinating. And then, out of the forest walks a convict with a story about cannibalism that turns the town upside down. All in all, it requires some patience to read but it's a very good story. You'll learn some things -- and you might just enjoy yourself!

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Baby bump watch has started for Beyoncé. The A-list singer has stayed mum on the reports that she’s having baby number 2 but it looks like her friend Russell … READ ON With widespread reports Beyonce and Jay-Z are expecting their second child, the A-list diva canceled Tuesday’s show in Belgium due to dehydration and exhaustion, then wrote an open letter to… READ ON Beyonce has rescheduled a concert in Belgium under doctor’s orders, citing dehydration and exhaustion. The move comes less than 24 hours after The New York Post reported that ex-Destiny’s Child… READ ON Beyonce has yet to confirm the rumors that she’s pregnant with her second child, but she could already be eating for two. After last night’s concert in Dublin, Ireland,… READ ON Beyonce and Jay-Z are expecting their second child, according to music industry sources, and we’ve got the details for you right here on RadarOnline.com. Insiders tell the NY Post the… READ ON An unexpected (but totally welcome) side effect of the ongoing political fracas surrounding Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s recent trip to Cuba: a brand new Pitbull track. That’s right, Mr. Worldwide — who’s got two Cuban parents and a whole bunch of [...] April 16, 2013 Jay-Z is upping the stakes when it comes to what should be part of the backstage rider. British tabloid newspaper, the Sun, is reporting that the rapper has invited a professional cigar roller – and we didn’t know such a [...] March 27, 2013 The battle of the bros is getting bad! When Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake announced that they would be performing together, Kanye West let loose, ripping into the tour saying:… READ ON Beyonce’s arms are full of love! The gorgeous mama was cradling her daughter Blue Ivy Carter in her arms and RadarOnline.com has the photo of her little lady’s fun… READ ON Justin Timberlake finished up his week on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on a high note. After teasing that they couldn’t possibly do another rap medley, the singer and… READ ON

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You might remember Best Pick Reports by their former name…Beacon Reports. Through thousands of yearly telephone interviews, EBSCO Research tracks the performance of businesses in dozens of categories, then showcases companies that have qualified as “Best Picks.” They do not accept company references, ratings from other sources, or self-initiated reviews in their research database, but instead insist on initiating and conducting their own interviews through their research centers. Each “Best Pick” Company featured in their annual reports have earned their A-rating based on a minimum of 100 telephone interviews conducted by EBSCO’s own research staff. All companies listed are also required to maintain proper insurance and professional licenses. Best Pick Reports is a recognized and trusted name due to its advanced research system that has been refined over a 14-year period. The research methodology and screening processes employed by EBSCO are proven as independent, unbiased, rigorous, and extremely reliable. Brick Doctor is pleased to be featured again in the 2012 edition as a “Best Pick” under the “Masonry-Brick & Stone” category.

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As immigration reform moves forward in the Senate, the success of any legislation will depend on the cooperation of conservative lawmakers with troubling histories on the issue. However, it is not only their past policy positions and quotes that are disturbing. These key conservative senators also share a history of campaign contributors who also fund extremist anti-immigrant organizations. Karl Rove has a dangerous habit of misleading the American public on matters of national security – just to score political points. From selling the war in Iraq, fudging intelligence, Valerie Plame, and the new Crossroads ad on Benghazi, Rove has been deceiving Americans for more than a decade. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. Given that Susan B. Anthony List defended Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock after their extreme comments on pregnancy in cases of rape last year, it’s no surprise they also support Ken Cuccinelli's extreme advocacy for unnecessary and burdensome regulations that could force many of the state's 23 abortion clinics to close.

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We’ve just finished our half-term break, and for various random reasons I spent the week North of the Watford Gap, an exhilarating experience for a southerner. Due praise, before anything else, to the Victorian engineers and railway men whose vision and graft allowed me to travel from London to Elgin (near Inverness) on – in effect – an unbroken piece of track, via Lancaster, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Leuchars (for St Andrews), Dundee and Aberdeen. You could tell I was in that trainspotter’s twilight zone by the wad of rail tickets stuffed into my wallet. There was a magic moment in Lancaster when I was sorting through them to find the time of the next train to Manchester, and one of my friends who would be on the ‘danger zone’ end of the geekiness scale when it comes to all things public transport couldn’t resist swanning up beside me to note how many journeys I had timetabled for one holiday trip. I impressed myself that I managed to impress him. Anyway, it wasn’t for love of trains that I set off, but – more or less – for love of the faith. Last Saturday, as I wrote about earlier, was the ordination of John Millar, one of our seminarians, at Lancaster Cathedral; with a great crowd of friends, family, parishioners, priests and fellow seminarians. That afternoon I got to Leeds, via Manchester, for the evening event of the ‘Love@Leeds’ Youth 2000 retreat for young adults. It was the first time a Youth 2000 retreat had been held in the city, and by all accounts it was a huge success. Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College proved to be a great venue. The school hall provided a dignified place for the worship and services (the chapel would have been far too small), and the dining room was a place not just to eat but to socialise and talk the night away. For the Reconciliation Service (with individual confessions) and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament that evening there were over 200 young people there, mainly of university age; and I’d guess that a good 150 stayed over for the talks and Mass the following day. After a couple of days to myself in Edinburgh (I’d never been before) I went to St Andrews as a guest of the Catholic Chaplaincy. I did all the touristy stuff, and went down on one knee to pat the 18th green (it’s all public). I’m not big into golf, but I wanted to experience the moment and have something to tell my golfing friends. It was great to be in the chaplaincy there, and to meet the students and Fr Andrew the chaplain and parish priest. It has been a powerhouse for vocations over the years, as well as being just a friendly and solid formative environment for young Catholics; and I have known many priests who studied at St Andrews and identify it as the place where their vocation really crystallised. My talk was entitled, ‘Is there a difference between human happiness and Christian joy?’ I’ll try to post about my reflections sometime soon. Then, after a huge cooked breakfast in my B&B, I got the train to Aberdeen, had time for a brief look at the Catholic Cathedral, where Abbot Hugh Gilbert has recently been installed as bishop; and ended my journey at Pluscarden Abbey, where Bishop Hugh was from, to catch up with two old friends who are now ‘juniors’ in the monastery. It was my first visit, and I want to post about that later as well, to give it some proper space on the blog. So that’s my week! Praise to the rail network, which was cheap, and mostly on time. And praise, above all, to the vitality of Catholic life in this country – which is the main reason for posting. An ordination of a man in his young twenties in Lancaster, giving his life to the Lord and to the service of God’s people. A powerful retreat for university students in the heart of Leeds, who chose to be there to deepen their faith when there are so many other pulls on their time and attention. A Catholic chaplaincy, forming its students, sustaining them, as it has done for many years. And a thriving Benedictine monastery in a place of breathtaking beauty that is simply doing what it has always done, and for that reason attracting young men to join it. Thank God for these wonderful signs of faith in Britain!

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Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download the transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group. Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you're listening to BriefingsDirect. Today, we present a sponsored podcast discussion, coming to you from The Open Group Conference last week in Boston. We've assembled a panel to explore a new military aircraft systems interoperability consortium and effort, the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE), which aims to promote and better support interoperability and standardization among future military avionics platforms across several branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. We will define FACE, how it came about, and examine the consortium's basic goals under the tutelage of The Open Group. Here to help better understand the promise and potential for FACE to improve costs, spur upgrades, flexibility, and accelerate the components' development agility is our panel. We are here with David Lounsbury, Vice President for Collaboration Services at The Open Group. Welcome. David Lounsbury: Hi, Dana. How are you? Gardner: I'm great. We're also here with Mike Williamson, Deputy Program Manager for Mission Systems with the Navy's Air Combat Electronics Program Office. Welcome to the show. Mike Williamson: Dana, thanks, it’s good to be here. Gardner: Mike, tell us a little bit about what FACE is, and the history that led up to it? Williamson: Sometimes it’s easier to describe a program by saying what it’s not. FACE is not a program. FACE is not a computer. FACE is not a software package. FACE is an environment, and it’s specifically set up as an environment. It was an idea that came about to try to reduce costs, improve interoperability across naval aircraft, and to get capabilities out to the fleet faster and quicker, as best we can. FACE started out as a Navy program. As we started looking around to see what other services were doing, we found that the Army and the Air Force were also doing similar things and trying to go down that same path. The Army had a program called Integrated Data Modem (IDM). The Air Force was doing a program called Universal Network Interface (UNI). We got together with them and are now teaming up to put this consortium together and go forward to define standards for what FACE will be. Gardner: In general terms, what are the problems that we need to solve here? Williamson: The primary problems are cost and schedule. The costs of getting systems to the fleet today are going up. Primarily, it's driven by testing and by the fact that the systems that we have on aircraft today are not open. As for schedule, it takes a minimum of two years, once a new capability is defined, to get it fielded on our aircraft today. We need to reduce that timeline. Gardner: For the benefit of our listeners, we're talking about the avionic systems. Can you tell us a little bit more about the actual systems and some of the capabilities that we're addressing with this program? Williamson: We're really addressing all of the capabilities and all of the systems onboard the aircraft. In the past, we identified a requirement and usually developed a system to meet that requirement. What we are trying to do with FACE now is to develop a computer environment that’s on the aircraft already. As we define new capabilities and new things that we want to put out into the fleet, we can host software in the computer environment that’s already there, rather than building a brand new box, software, or program for every single capability that we put out there. Gardner: Dave, I think The Open Group has seen this issue before, right? Lounsbury: Yeah. It’s very interesting. We've got a number of activities that are on this government-industry boundary, where some of the lessons that industry learned about how open standards can bring agility and help control your cost can benefit military systems like this. I want to pick up on a thread that you mentioned about schedule, because there’s two sides to that coin. The testing and deployment schedule is a real issue for agility for our forces. The one thing we know is that threats change all of the time, and we need the ability to field new capabilities quickly, both as the mission changes and also as the technology evolves. We really need that modularity within the necessary structures of testing for things that are going to be used, and be able to get those new capabilities in the cycle quickly and get them out to the war fighters. Gardner: So how did The Open Group become involved, and what do you expect to be doing vis-à-vis the FACE effort? Lounsbury: The Open Group has a couple of areas similar to this. We've got our Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum for some of the fundamental standards. We've been running a consortium called DirectNet, which is very similar to FACE in the sense that it is principally focused on a defense need, but in the context of open systems. Through connections developed there, Mike found us and we talked about what we can do to organize. Typically, what The Open Group does is provide a structure. Members come in, they bring their business expertise, their subject matter expertise, and operate. What we provide is the framework, where we can have an open consortium that has a balance of interest between the suppliers of components, all government agency programs doing procurement, and the integrators who put it all together. We've got the proven process at The Open Group to make sure that we have that openness that's important for protecting all of the parties. Gardner: Mike, tell me about milestones and timelines? How far into this effort are we, and what might the fruits of this labor be over time? Williamson: This idea really started about a year ago in the Navy, within PMA-209, the program office that I represent here, the Combat Electronics Program Office, at the Naval Air Systems Command. We started looking at what we could do and what we needed to do. The timeline is very, very tight. We're looking at having some kind of standards defined by first quarter of calendar year 2011 -- next year. By the end of March, we're looking to have defined a set of standards on what the FACE environment will look like, because we have procurements coming out at that time that we intend to have FACE be part of those requests for proposals (RFPs) that are going to be coming out. Gardner: And for you, Dave, at The Open Group, what do you see as some of the existing efforts that have taken place that you could look to for some guidance? Are there processes, standards, or technologies that will already be available for FACE? Lounsbury: It's very early, and we're just starting to learn the technical requirements. There are a few that we know that we are going to need. We've talked about the need for operating system kernels that keep the various levels of information to various levels of sensitivity separate. And, there's an active program in our Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum called MILS that's addressing that. I think there will be many that we will discover going forward. There is also a good background. The Open Group has worked with some other government activities -- the Modular Open Systems Architecture folk. We've got quite a reservoir of expertise there. What we're going to be doing principally is marshaling, as always, the expertise of the members to address various parts of the problem. Gardner: Let's look to some commonality, Mike, between the commercial world and the efforts for your avionics platforms, this notion of modular and the right balance between components, silos, and an overarching system. Tell us where you expect this to go, not only in terms of your agility, but into better architecture. Williamson: One of the things that we have looked at is the fact that commercial industry is doing this. Commercial aviation is already doing a lot of this. We've not been able to do that within naval aviation to date, and primarily that's been driven by safety-of-flight issues, issues within our operability, and issues with how we contract for things. We need to get beyond that. We're actually using the model of what commercial aviation has done, with open systems, open source software, licensed software, and those kinds of things, to ask how we can bring that into our platforms. We need to have an environment that we can have a library of software applications that can be used across multiple platforms in the same environment. That solves two problems for us. One, it gets capabilities to the fleet cheaper and faster. And two, it solves the interoperability issues that we have today, where even sometimes when we have the same standards, two different platforms implement the same standards in two different ways and they can't talk to each other. They are not interoperable. Those are the things that we are trying to solve with this. Lounsbury: I want to pick up on something you mentioned there about following the commercial world, and you articulated a few business drivers in there, like cost, time to market, and things like that. One of the explicit goals of FACE, and we performed a business work group to address these, is to talk about the business-model issues. What does open licensing mean in a government context? What would be appropriate ways of sharing intellectual property rights (IPR) in the run up to this? These are all things that commercial people are familiar with through years of standards activity, but it's kind of new to some of the players in the government space. So, we're going to make sure that those things are explicitly addressed. It’s not just the technological solution, though that’s the critical part, but the fact that people can actually buy -- and that we will have a marketplace of -- components that can be licensed and reused. It's early on how we are going to do that, but it’s a very active topic inside the consortium. Gardner: Do you see an extensibility that this effort with FACE might have some bearing on where you could go in other areas of either the military or government? Lounsbury: Certainly. Obviously, we started FACE. The Navy came to The Open Group, but once the word got out, the Army and Air Force are on board. So, we've started to branch out into agencies. The government is a complex place, and there are lot of programs, so principal growth will be different programs inside the government. But, we do envision that some of the things that will be developed here may be applicable to other systems. Part of the vision is, in fact, how does this start to overlap with the commercial avionics practice that Mike mentioned earlier. Gardner: And, we've got our timeline. We understand that there are going to be some improvements pretty rapidly. Is there anything about the standardization process, Mike, that is perhaps different than you expected? Is there any learning process so far? Williamson: There have been a lot of things that I've learned, having The Open Group come along and take a lead on all of this and developing the standards. The Navy and the Department of Defense (DoD) aren't real good at developing standards ourselves. We've tried to do it in the past and we've failed miserably with some of the attempts that we have had. Having The Open Group come and join us, and then bringing industry in, was the right thing to do. Having this consortium with industry, Navy, Army, and Air Force acquisition teams, and fleet participation, has been the right way to go. It’s the only way we can really define the standards and get in place the standards that we really need to get at, with all those inputs coming together. Gardner: We've been discussing a new military aircraft systems interoperability effort and consortium, the Future Airborne Capability Environment or FACE effort, and how it promises to improve costs, spur upgrades, flexibility, and accelerate avionics components' development agility. I'd like to thank our guests. We've been joined by David Lounsbury, Vice President of Collaboration Services at The Open Group. Thanks, Dave. Lounsbury: Thank you, Dana. Gardner: And, we've been joined by Mike Williamson, Deputy Program Manager for Mission Systems, with the Navy’s Air Combat Electronics Program Office. Thank you. Williamson: Thank you, Dana. Gardner: This sponsored podcast discussion is coming to you from The Open Group Conference in Boston the week of July 19, 2010. This is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. You've been listening to a sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast. Thanks for joining, and come back next time. Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download the transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group. Transcript of a sponsored podcast discussion on the US military's work with The Open Group to develop a computing environment that will smooth cost and schedule issues for new systems. Copyright Interarbor Solutions, LLC, 2005-2010. All rights reserved. You may also be interested in: - Three new Open Group white papers help make for a peaceful leap to cloud computing - The State of Enterprise Architecture: Vast Promise or Lost Opportunity?

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While I quit WOW awhile ago I still find it necessary to come out swinging to defend it from its many detractors now and again. I just saw a video bashing WOW for ruining MMOs entirely and while the video was amusing and made some good points I think there was far too much silly misinformation there. There are lots of things people criticize about WOW legitimately but here are some of the more common but incorrect ones: Hotbar Based Combat Hotbar based combat has two primarily components. First we have the mechanic that hitting a button does something. You hit R and your character casts Divine Shield. You hit 2 and your character casts Judgement. This is NOT a WOW mechanic, it is a 'using a computer' mechanic. The second component of hotbar based combat is having these linkages between keystrokes and game actions represented on the screen for player reference. Is anyone really upset that there is a small corner of the screen devoted to letting me know which buttons do which things, or are they upset because hitting buttons does things? Either answer is ridiculous. Quests and Quest Hubs Saying that WOW quests suck and aren't interesting is fair. Most of them are 'Kill 10 Rats' or some variation on that theme. However, we aren't comparing WOW quests to some undefined game nirvana but rather to other realistic options. WOW tried in depth quests with tons of story, cinematics, phasing, etc. to make quests less about killing rats and more about saving the world in Cataclysm and guess what... they sucked worse. How about removing quests entirely? Then you get endless hours grinding the same mobs over and over, which was a constant complaint about the games before WOW, and also about WOW at launch. People want quests, they don't want quests that are too cinematic / interesting / hard, and they want to be able to easily find those quests. Oh look, we are back to 'Kill 10 Rats'. Player Freedom aka The Sandbox People talk about wanting extremely freedom to build their own world - the sandbox experience. The trouble is what they actually want is freedom for themselves and no freedom for other people. Note what happens in Eve, the flagship of sandbox games: People nearly all hide in perfectly safe places doing missions and mining that barely ever interact with other players and build nothing of consequence except a bankroll. When they aren't being boring and they go out into the dangerous part of the world they get scammed, PKed, and their stuff gets stolen or destroyed for lols. Do you know what happens in a sandbox where there aren't any adults protecting the kids from each other? Bullies run around smashing everybody's castles to bits just for fun. Imagine if WOW let people build things. The first thing they would build is giant walls to block off the newb areas so new players couldn't escape. Then they would wall off class trainers, blockade cities, and do all manner of other disruptive things. That is, of course, unless player built things could be destroyed in which case everything that was built would be torn down by others in a fit of spite. Sandbox type gameplay combined with Massively Multiplayer results in endless griefing and (surprise!) no subscribers. An Ill Defined Paradise My challenge to all those who claim WOW ruined everything is this: Come up with better alternatives. Precise alternatives. Not "I would do things better." because that is just mental masturbation with a hubris sauce. You don't like quests? Cool, tell me how exactly you would run things. It is nearly certain that your solution would be either completely impractical or straight up worse. (Worse for the majority, of course, since you can find a couple of people who will sign on to any damn fool thing.) Is WOW perfect? HELL no. However, the claim that WOW ruined everything is spurious at best. Games copied WOW because of its financial success and failed because they did it worse. The reason so many games that are kinda like WOW get made and so many other games don't get made is because investors want to get paid and WOW clones, sad as it seems, are more likely to make money than MMOs that try something completely different.

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Know a good lawyer? We do. There are times when legal assistance is necessary. Whether you are buying or selling a home, starting a business, going through a divorce or need a will, you should find the right attorney to answer your questions and help solve your legal problems. Each day, the Bristol County Bar Association LRS representatives carefully screen numerous calls from the public. Regardless of the direction of the referral, LRS representatives treat all callers with dignity and respect. March 15, 2008

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died Aug. 28, 1818, St. Charles, Mo., U.S. black pioneer trader and founder of the settlement that later became the city of Chicago. Du Sable, whose French father had moved to Haiti and married a black woman there, is believed to have been a freeborn. At some time in the 1770s he went to the Great Lakes area of North America, settling on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Chicago River, with his Potawatomi wife, Kittihawa (Catherine). His loyalty to the French and the Americans led to his arrest in 1779 by the British, who took him to Fort Mackinac. From 1780 to 1783 or 1784 he managed for his captors a trading post called the Pinery on the St. Clair River in present-day Michigan, after which he returned to the site of Chicago. By 1790 Du Sable's establishment there had become an important link in the region's fur and grain trade. In 1800 he sold out and moved to Missouri, where he continued as a farmer and trader until his death. But his 20-year residence on the shores of Lake Michigan had established his title as Father of Chicago.

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Which contains the several parishes of St. Martin, St. Mary, and St. Michael; and first of (134) St. Martin in Coslany, Commonly called St. Martin at the Oak, from a large oak with the image of our Lady, in it, which stood in its churchyard; it stands on the east side of Coslany-street leading to St. Martin's-gates; the steeple is square, and hath three bells, the nave, chancel, south porch, and south isle, are all covered with lead; and it appears by the following inscription on a brass plate, lying at the very entrance of the chancel, that the isle was built by Thomas Wilkyns, Alderman of Norwich, who died in 1491. Orate pro anima Thome Wilkyns nuper Cibis et Aldermanni Nar lnici, qui istam clam sumptibus suis propriis de novo in ommbus fieri fabricabit, et idem Thomas obiit xxviijo die Januarii Ao Dni. MoCCCColxxxxj. cuius Anime propicietur Deus. In the south porch there is a stone for Tho. Cady Senior, who died 4 Sept. 1708, aged 58, and Rebecca his wife Jan. 11, 1722, 72. I find the following persons interred in the south isle, beginning at the west end. Mary Dr. of Christopher and Frances Richardson, 26 Febr. 1631. Anne their Dr. 20 Mar. 1632, Chris. Richardson 20 Sept. 1733, 24. Frances Richardson March 24, 1734, 3. On a brass plate, Orate pro anima Agnetis Wylkyns quondam Uroris Radulphi Wylkyns que obiit xxo die Mensis Nobembris Ao Dni. M CCCCCiio. Margery, nebulé a fess, impales Manfield, or, two bars sab. on the first a wyvern arg. James Margery Gent. March 5, 1720, 80. Eliz. his wife, Dr. of Nic. Manfield, Aug. 14, 1725, 71. & their 10 Children, James, Samuel, Sarah, Easter, Nathaniel, Henry, Henry, Barbary, Joseph, Margaret Dewing 23 Apr. 1690, 42. In the nave beginning at the west end, On the font there are eight shields, England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Norwich deanery, Norwich city, St. George, and a cross On an old brass, Orate pro animabus Nicholai Heylakke et Margarete Uroris sue nui obiit xxviijodie Mensis Januarii AoDni. MovCrri. quorum animabus propicietur Deus. Orate pro anima Bricii Skow (fn. 1) cuius anime propicietur Deus Tho. Tawell Esq; 5 May 1724, 52. Next lies a flat stone over the Revd. Mr. Jeremiah Revans, and Mary his wife, for whom there is a large monument erected against the north wall, upon the altar part of which, is placed a desk, with their effigies in white marble on each side, a book lying before each of them; on the wall opposite to the woman who is placed on the east side, is this, Over them is this, Memoriâ Æternâ Justi erunt. In hope of a happy Resurrection, in the Ile lie interr'd the Bodies of Abra the affectionate Mother, Feb. 16, 1691. George the indulgent Father, Sept. 9, 1700. Mary Dr. of James Margery Gent. the most loving, pious, vertuous, and meek wife of Jeremiah Revans Clerk, Oct. 1st, 1711, who in Honour to her blessed Memory, hath given three Pounds per Annum, for the Education of poor Girles, with other charitable Donations. O chara Maria! nil nisi longior defuit Vita; Ævum præsens te laudat, laudabit futurum. The said Mr. Revans died Oct. 25, 1727, aged 63, and lies buried by his wife, he was a pious good Man, a kind Benefactor to this Parish, to East-Tuddenham and Barford, and all his Relations. Beatus Servus ille, quem cum venerit Dominus ejus invenerit ita Orate pro anima Alicia Wattys quondam Uroris Johannis Wattys que obiit bicessimo die Mensis Januarii Ao Dni. Mo bC rii. Mary wife of John Girling, 5 April, 1687, 23. waighting for the second Coming of the Lord. Eliz. their Dr. 7 April 1686, an Infant. Martha Girling 20 March 1687. Ann 28 July 1688. Mary, Aug. 10, 1691. Mary, March 27, 1692. Mr. John Girling 27 Oct. 1715, 57. On the north side of the chancel, hangs a table with the names of the benefactors to the parish inscribed thereon, viz. Mrs. Agnes Bungey, died July 11, 1582, and gave a house and ground in this parish to repair the church. She lies buried on the north side of the chancel, and hath a large brass plate fixed in the wall to her memory, on which is this, Under this Stone lieth buried the Bodyes of Mr. John Bungen, and of Agnes his Wife, which John departing this Life, yelded his Soul to God the bith of December Anno 1557, after that he had libed lbiii Yeres fower Meclis, one Day, and and his Wief Agnes lybing after him rrb Peres FFF Weekes, Yelded her Soule also to God, the rith of Julye Ao 1582, being 96 Yeres and 24 Wekes old, who in her last Will and Testament, did gyhe and bequeath to the Parishyoners of this Parish, a Tenement sometymes Robert Derrolds, to have and to hold to them and to their Assignes, upon these Conditions following; that is, if the yerely Rebeneme and Profit thereof, rising a growing, shal and man be employed toward the Maintenance and repayring of the saide Church, so long as the same shall contyneme a Parishe Church, and a Sermon to be made by a learned Preacher for eber, upon the riith of Tulye, being the Day in the which she mas buried; and also, that then do repayer from Time to Time sufficientlie, the said Vowse, with th' Appurtenances, otherwise to reberte to her right heires for eber. Blessed be then, which oye in the Lord. 1648, Mr. John Warnes gave 10s. yearly to the poor. 1702, 29 Sept. Robert Bene, Esq. gave the branch, and paved the altar with black and white marble. Mr. Jeremiah Revans, rector of East-Tuddenham, gave 4l. 10s. for ever, towards educating six poor girls of this parish, and for a yearly commemoration sermon for his wife, and for bread to the poor There is an estate in the parish tied for the payment of it. Mr. John Demee, grocer, died Dec. 28, 1706, tied an estate for 3l. per annum to the poor. James Demee, Gent, died Sept. 11, 1718, and gave 5l. per annum to the poor, and an estate in St. Andrew's parish is tied for the payment of it. Mr. William Nockells of London, Gent. in his lifetime gave 15l. 5s towards erecting the altar-piece; 10l. for communion plate; a purple communion cloth; 100l. towards procuring Queen Anne's bounty o the curacy of this parish; and another 100l. raised by the parishioners of this parish, and other well-disposed people's contributions, procured the said augmentation in 1723, which was On the south side of the chancel, on a mural monument of white Sacred to the Memory of ROB. BENE Esq; who was born and died as mentioned on the Marble near this place, which covers his These two periods of Life are common to him and all Men, but he had many Vertues, in which he had not many Partners; his Industry render'd him wealthy; his Integrity, Liberality & Munificence. esteem'd; his Affection to his Friends, and his Benevolence to all Men belov'd; and his Death lamented; these excellent Qualities which adorn'd his Life, recommended him to the Favour of his Fellow Citizens, and he was elected one of the Sheriffs in the Year 1694, Alderman 1708, Mayor of this City, and one of the Representatives in Parliament 1710. As his Example is worthy Imitation, let this short but true Remembrance, excite latest Posterity to follow so good a Pattern. BOB. BENE Esq; died 27 May, 1733, aged 80. To the memory of THO. BENE, who died 23 Oct. 1680. Rebecca his Wife Aug. 30, 1700, 84. Nihil sic revocat a peccato, quam frequens mortis Meditatio. Remember thine End, and thou shalt never do amiss. Lord teach us to number our Days, that we may apply our Hearts John Tompson Gent: 27 Febr. 1732, 89. Hester his wife, 8 March, 17 0, 65. Henry Tompson July 1677. John Nall the Elder, 28 Aug. 1699. Juxta Cineres Parentum depositæ sunt Reliquiæ Matthei Nall Armigeri, qui jute municipali ex Ephebis Exercitatus, rerum Prudentiam morum Integritati conjunxit, unde Civium Suffragijs in Senatorum ordinem cooptatus, Tribunitia potestate & Prætoris Officio Functus, Vitam deinde egit modestam, placidam, quietam, morte' ec absimih supremum diem clausit, natus Ao. 1655, denatus John Toll, Jan. 18, 1671, the Year that he was Sheriff of this City. John Molcar, March 7, 1678. On a mural monument in the churchyard, on the north side, John Hale Senior, 25 Nov. 1706, and 5 young Children. Also the Body of the ingenious Hen. Hale, master of the Mathematicks, Son of the said John Hale, 15 Nov. 1723, 28. The Phenix of his Time, Lies here but sordid Clay, His thoughts were most sublime, His Soul is sprung away. Then lett this Grave keep in Protection, His Ashes, untill the Resurrection. There is a hatchment in the church for Thomas Newton, Esq. Newton, sab. two shin-bones in saltier arg. impaling Tawell, az. on a chevron between three annulets arg. five cinquefoils gul. And the same arms are on a mural monument against the south chancel wall; Newton's crest is, on a torce sab. and arg. a blackmoor clad in blue, kneeling; in his right hand a scymitar drawn or, his left hand by his side on his scymitar's scabbard, which hangs on a belt or, on his head is a crown or. Sacred to the memory of THOMAS NEWTON Esq; and REBECCA his affectionate wife, who lived many Years the principal Inhabitants of this Parish, and whose Remains are deposited in a Vault between the Rails of the Communion Table and the Wall, to which this Monument is affixed. He was a Man well and deservedly beloved, and as a mark of it, successively elected Sheriff and Alderman, and in the year 1722, Mayor of this City; which Offices he discharged with Integrity and peculiar Generosity; Nor is she less to be remembred in her Station, being endowed with all social Vertues, and a Pattern of conjugal and parental Affections: She died the eighth Day of February, and he did not long survive the Loss, exchanging this Life for a better, the eleventh Day of July 1738. Not out of Ostentation, nor to flatter the Deceased, is this Marble erected, and this Inscription recorded, but this short commemorative Recitall, to testifye the Duty and Gratitude of the Living, to their indulgent Parents. There is a stone in the south isle, under which Sam. Ridgewell Gent. was interred in 1742, aged 23. and another by the font for John Lyng, 1740, 67. on which is this, Although I am mouldering here to Dust, In Christ is all my Hope and Trust, My Change was sudden, without Surprise, By my Example, learn to be wise. There is a headstone in the churchyard for, John Brooks, who departed this Life all in a watery grave, Sept. 1, 1742, 21. and Isaac Wolfery with him, they being both drowned in Fuller's hole. (fn. 2) The Young, the Strong, the Rich, the Wise, To Death, must all become a Sacrifice. Persons buried in this church, for whom there are no memorials remaining, are, Joan Clerk, widow, who was buried by John Clerk, her husband, in 1466. John Reynolds in 1503, who gave 40s. towards new leading the church, and two silver candlesticks for the altar. Tho. Richeman, worsted weaver, he gave 40s. a pair of silver chalices, and a vestment of 4 marks value, and had this on a brass, formerly to be seen here, Orate pro anima Thome Richman, nuper Cibis Norbici, Dursted Weeber, et Alice Consartis sue, qui quidem Thomas obiit bi. Ja nuarii, Ao Dni: 1505. In 1513, John Buxton, worsted weaver, (fn. 3) was buried in the churchyard "before the image of our Lady in the Oke, and gave to our Lady in the Oke 6d. This was a famous image of the Virgin Mary, placed in the oak, which grew in the churchyard, so as it was seen by all that passed in the street; from whence the church took the name of St. Martin at the Oak, it being always before, called St. Martin in Coste-lane, or Coselany, (fn. 4) the whole part of the city from Blackfriars-bridge, or New bridge, to St. Martin at the Oak-gates, being so called, because it lies on the coste of the river: now it seems this oak and image began to be of remark about the time of Edward II. for then I find it first called ate the Oke. What particular virtue, this good lady had, I do not know, but certain it is, she was much visited by the populace, who left many gifts in their wills, to dress, paint, and repair her; at the coming of Edw. VI. to the crown, she was dismounted, and I am apt to believe the poor oak, also cut down, least that should be visited for her ladyship's sake, for the present oak, which now grows in the place, hath not been planted a hundred years, as appears by the parish register in these words, "I John Tabor, constable and overseer, did bring the Oak from Rannerhall near Horning ferry, before me on my horse, and set it in the churchyard of St. Martin of Coselany, I set it March 9. 1656." Then also the rich vestments and plate, were sold, and the money laid out to fye the river. (fn. 5) 1534, Will. Alleyn, worsted weaver, gave a pall This rectory was appropriated to the infirmary of Norwich priory, and paid 3d. synodals, was exempt from the archdeacon of Norwich, being valued at 12s. and taxed at half a mark. The tithes of Basset's close, and a third part of the tithes of that part of Gilden-croft, lying within the bounds of this parish, were due to the rector here and the mortuary was the best beast; it seems to have been appropriated by Bishop Blundeville, with the consent of Ric. de Redham, the last rector, who had a grant of it for life, paying 10s. per annum to the infirmary, which was confirmed by the Bishop and the Pope. And from that time, it hath been a perpetual curacy or donative, and is now in the donation of the dean and chapter of Norwich. It was returned formerly into the Exchequer, to be "an appropriation of the dean and chapter, the curate's stipend being 20 marks;" but now the curate hath only the income of the estate purchased with the augmentation money, and the surplice fees and voluntary contributions, amounting in the whole to about 40l. per annum. In 1460, Sir John Feltwell was parish chaplain. 1492, Sir Thomas Cawne, alias Plowman, D. D. was buried in the chancel, and had a stone laid over him with the sacramental cup and wafer upon it, with the name of Jesus inscribed thereon, and under it this, Orate pro anima Thome Plawman Capellani ruius anime propicietur John Prentis, chaplain here, was also buried with this, Orate pro anima Johannis Prentis Capellani i will Prentis. 1638, Robt. Kent, S. T. B. (fn. 6) who had been minister here 45 years, died 3 June, and was succeeded by Henry Spendlove, (a relation of Prebend Spendlove,) (fn. 7) he was ejected, and after two or three intruders, at the Restoration, Mr. Pew was appointed curate, and after him Mr. Studd, who was succeeded by Mr. Peter Burgess, and he by Dr. Will. Herring, at whose resignation it was given to The Rev. Mr. Ephraim Megoe, (fn. 8) the present curate, who holds it with St. John Sepulchre in Berstreet. (See p. 138.) There were images with lights, either lamps or wax tapers, burning before them, of St. Martin, St. Thomas, our Lady of Pity, St. John Baptist, St. Christopher, St. Anthony, and a chapel, altar, image, and light of St. Mary at the east end of the south isle. The religious concerned here were, the Prior of Norwich, who had a messuage held by Sir John Norwich, Knt. (fn. 9) and after by Sir John Fastolf, and was called Stone-Hall. The Prioress of Carrow, the Master of St. Giles's hospital; the Prior of Walsingham had two messuages and gardens granted to John Peckover, and Will. Wood. The Prioress of Symplyngham's temporals were taxed at 10s. In 1637, a dwelling-house under the walls, was granted to Marg. Gibson, widow, searcher of the infected poor, to hold during the pleasure of the court, and not otherwise, because it is intended, that that house shall continue for the only dwelling of such a searcher, when need shall be. 1343, Sir Barth. de Heylesden gave 6d. a year out of his messuage here, to the city to maintain Coslany-bridge, which had many other rents appropriated for that purpose. Directly opposite to the lane on the north side of St. Martin's churchyard, called anciently Whores-lane, was the Mill-lane, which led directly to Calk-mill; which mill, with the fishery thereto belonging, from the Conquest, belonged to the manor of Horseford; one of the ancient lords of which, granted a yearly rent out of it to the Prioress of Carrow, before 1287, for that year, the Prioress received 40s. for arrears of rent due from it. In Edward the Third's time, Sir Robert de Benhale, Knt. held the 3d part of the mills and manor of Horsford, in right of the lady Eve, daughter of Eve de Clavering, his then wife. (fn. 10) In 1394, the tithes of this mill were paid to the keeper of the Infirmary, in right of the appropriated rectory of St. Martin. In 1518, Lord D'acres, lord of Horsford, owned it, and was then seized of the fishery belonging to the mill, which was then set out by them and the corporation, and it extended from the mill to the bank of the close late of Rob. Thorp; before that of Gregory Clerk, after of Edm. Clerk, and late of Hamond Linsted; and in 1539, the lord of Horsford granted that fishery to be held of his manor of Horsford, to Alderman Nic. Sywatt (who then owned the closes) and his heirs, for ever; and in 1637, the jury for Horsford manor returned, "that they had credibly heard Calk-mill to be seated at or next the house called the Crown, in St. Martin in (135) St. Mary in Coslany Was a rectory appropriated to the prior and convent of Cokesford in Norfolk, who received all the profits, and found a secular canon belonging to their house to serve the cure. He resided generally in the parsonage-house, which stood against the north-east part of the churchyard, and after the appropriation became the city house of the priors and canons of that monastery, to resort to, when either business or pleasure called them hither; the garden which belonged to it was very large, (fn. 11) and abutted on Whores-lane north; it was valued at 5 marks and an half, taxed at 20s. first paid 3d. and afterwards 6d. synodals. At the Dissolution, the advowson of the rectory, and all the great garden and house, were granted to Thomas Duke of Norfolk and his heirs, from which time it hath been a donative, and it is now in the donation of the Lord Townesend. It hath no certain endowment, other than the 200l. of Queen Anne's bounty, which, with the voluntary contributions, surplice fees, &c. do not exceed 20l. a year in 1366, John Howes, chaplain. Sir Jeffry Baniard, who was buried before the font in 1416. Robert Mayo, on whose brass is this, Orate pro anima Domini Roberti Maya, quondam huius Ecclesie Capellani Parachialis, qui obiit rrii die Aug. Ao Christi. 1503. By will dated 1502, he ordered to be buried in the chancel, and gave 4 large wax tapers to burn about his herse, and then to be given to the alderman and brethren of Corpus Christi gild; and each brother present at his dirige, to have 4d. and gave a vestment of blue silk, another of white damask, with a cross of rich red or blue tissue. 1518, Henry Mowndford, was buried in the chancel, and gave a gilt silver chalice, two silver paxbredes, his best corporas with a red velvet case bordered with ihesvs in gold letters, and a printed mass-book and little processionary; and 9 marks a year for two years, and founded a certain for seven years, "I will that my Place lying in the Church-yard of the said Parishe of St. Marie, (fn. 12) the Churche Wardens for the Tyme beyng for ever, shall receyve the yerely Profites & Fermes of the said Place, upon this Condicion folowyng, that is to say, that yerely for evyr, the Churche Wardens shall kepe, or do to be kepte, in the said Churche of St. Marie, myn Obyte Day, and that they shall with the Profightes cummyng of the same Place yearly, pay to the Curate of the saide Churche for his Labor, seyinge Dirige & Masse for my Sowle, the Sowles of my Father and Mother, and all Cristen Sewles, 5d." (fn. 13) a candie of wax weighing 4 ounces, to be set yearly upon his herse on his obit day, and to 5 poor men to sit that day about his herse, 1d. each, and to the parish clerk and sexton, to ring a peal on his obit or yereday, 8d, and if this be not duly performed, the prior of the monastery of our Lady at Coxford was to have the premises, and perform it; "provided alway, that the seyd Church-Wardeyns for the Tyme beying, and x or xii honest Men of the said Parishe of St. Mary, shall stond enfeffid in the said Mese to the eutent before rehersyd, and at every xxti Yere end, a new Astate, to be taken in maner and Forme aforeseid." "Item, I will have a Stone of Marble with j Epitaphy in Verses, which I have wretyn in a Bil, to the Price of 46s. 8d. or more, to lye upon my Grave;" and it is still there with the verses on a Henrici Tumulum Mounteforth, Precor, aspice tutum, Ouisquis eris, qui transieris, sta, perlege, Plora, Sum, quod eris, fueram, quod es, pro me, pcecor, Ora, Et Deus Dmnipotens, qui verbo cuncta creasti, Sis memor, Oro, tui Famuli fragilis sine fine. Oui dictus Nericus fuit in Cecretis Doctor, et istius Ecclesiæ Curatus, obiitque ultimo die Mensis Septembris Ao Dni: Mille 1555, Mr. John Elwyn, late chantry priest in St. Michael of Coslany. 1604, Will. Inman, curate, by donation of the Earl of Berkeley. 1625, Will. Allenson, licensed curate, on the donation of Sir Roger Townsend. 1662, Gabriel Wright. The Rev. Mr. Stephen Norris is the present curate, who is rector of Felthorp, vicar of Felmingham, and curate of St. Miles at Thorn. The church stands in the midst of a large churchyard, and hath a round steeple and six bells, on two of which, are these inscriptions, Dulcis cisto melis, campana vocor Michaelis. In multis annis resonet campana Johannis. The present nave was rebuilt in 1477, and the two transept chapels or isles much about the same time, as also the north vestry and chancel, which are all leaded. In the chancel, on a mural monument. Crest, a bull's head. Hic iacent una Martinus ban kurnbeck, Artium et Medicine, Doctor, et Joanna Uror sua, de Parochia et Cibitate hac nuper defuncti, qui Martinus obiit rro Februarii 1578, et Johanna ter tio Septembris 1579. In quorum Memoriam Fidelis sibi Men Regine Eraminator, crecutor Testamenti dicte Johanne, opus culum hoc fieri fecit. Quorum animabus propicietur deus Amen. On a mural monument on the south side of the chancel, are the effigies of a man with two sons behind him, and a woman with one daughter behind her, with a faldstool between them, and a book before each of them, and the arms and crest of Herne, or, three bars gemels gul. on a canton arg. five lozenges in saltier gul. Crest, a talbot passant sab. lingued gul. collared and chained or. Norwich, and the fishmongers. Sic fuit exorsû primo, Natura Pusilla, Sic fuit auspicijs serpens, sic parvulus Hyrnus, Mox fuit erectus, ut pinea Tæda corruscans, Altus, Honoratus, Firmus, sic Pinus in Hortis; Nunc jacet immotus, quem vestit terra quiescens, Sed vestit Cœlum melius Christus que, Precator. Here lyeth buried the Body of Clement Hyrne, late Citisen and Alderman of this Citty of NORWICH, who had bene once Maior of this Citty, he dyed 23 Sept. 1596. He had issue by Margaret his first Wife, 2 Sonnes, Thomas and Xpofer; and one Dr. named Susan. He was a good benefactor to the Poore of this Parish. The said Margaret died the 13 of June, 1584. He gave a tenement which stands directly opposite to the Millpassage-gate in Coslany-street, (now in the possession of Mr. John de la Hay,) to be let to farm by the church-wardens, 30s. of which is divided among the poor every Christmas and Easter, the one half of the residue is to repair the church, and the other half the houses. Part of this house to the value of 40s. per annum, was given by Jane Here leyethe Johnhn herne I Cecilie his Wyfe, the whiche John depertid the xix Daye of September in the Yer of our Lord God xvC and xlviijo. on whose Soules Jesu have Mercy. Orate pro anima Isabelle Western quondam Uroris Johannis Western, cuius tr. Tho. Westwood 1699, 60. Abraham his Son 1699, 31. Alderman Henry Brady 1688, 55. Mary his Wife 1714, 78, he left one Daughter married to Rob. Schuldham, M. D. of Kettleston in Norf. in a Vault lie Mary Wife of Thomas Postle, Grandaughter of the said Henry & Mary Brady, & Daughter of the said Doctor Rob. Schuldham. 1730, 49. Mr. Thomas Postle 1739, 59. Francis Pyke 1681. In the rails are buried Mat. Coates, he died 1703, 33, & 2 children. Mary Wife of Joseph Parker 1685, 60. There is a handsome gilt cup and cover, on which, Saynct Marye of Coselanye Ao 1569. A neat patin Ao 1736. On a fine large chalice, Deo optimo Maximo, humillimè dicatur, in usum Stæ Eucharistæ in Ecclesiâ Sanctæ Mariæ in Norvico Ao Dni. 1444, Alice late Wife of John Alderford, was buried by her husband's tomb in the church. 1464, Gregory Draper Alderman, was buried in the south transept, which was then not quite finished, towards perfecting of which, he gave 26s. 8d. His stone hath this on a brass, and their effigies, and 7 sons and 5 daughters. He gave a house in this parish, to John Norman, Esq. Ecce sub hoc Lapide Gregorius crtat humatus, Quondam Merrator pius, ar tnupum Kelebator, Consensu Turbe, Maior bis, in hac fuit urbe, Annis Mo Co quarter, decies ser, bis quoque binis, Serto kalendarum fuit Aprilis sibi finis; vic quisquis steteris ipsum precibus memor eris, Sponsam definctam simul Aliciam sibi Functam. 1464, Rob. Wood, buried before the Virgin of Pity, and was a benefactor to the south cross isle, which was called the Chapel of the Virgin Mary. 1466, Alice Nyche, gave a legacy to lead the vestry, which was then new built; and was buried in the church by Walter Nyche her late husband. 1465, Henry Toke was buried in the north cross isle, on his brass is this, Orate pro anima Denici Johe, Libis Norwici, Cooke, cuius anima propicieur Deus. He founded a candle to burn before the Holy Sepulchre, from Good Friday to the Resurrection, as the use and custom is, of 5l. weight; a candle before 'the Pyte,' another before the principal image of our Lady, and another before St. Thomas the Secundary, of the said church, to burn yearly at service time, as custom is; he gave x. marks towards finishing St. Thomas chapel, or the north cross-isle. 1466, John Hall buried in the porch, 1467, Will. Reyner buried by his father's tomb. 1479, Margaret, Wid. of Ric, Courdon. 1482, John Howard, buried in the churchyard, and gave a legacy to make a door into the chancel. 1493, Eliz. widow of John Knowte, buried in the church by her husband, and gave 5l. to make a silver foot to the cross that her husband gave; she was buried by St. Anne's altar, a priest to sing at that altar 4 years, the first year for her own soul, the 2d for John Ellis her son, the third for the soul of Tho. Elys, her husband, and the 4th for John Knowte, her husband. 1497, Edw. Howse, gave a damask vestment. There is a loose brass which came off a stone in the nave, on which is this, Die iacet corpus Agnetis Franceys Vidue, quondam Filie Johannis Dentom cruis anima propcietur Deus. By will dated 1501, she desired to be buried by her mother Margaret Denton, and ordered John Franceys her husband to buy a jewel of 20 marks value, for the church. 1505, Geffrey Whitlake, Barker, ordered a glass window of 40s. value, to be made by Mary Mawdelyn, on the south side of the church. 1511, John Norman, alderman. Tho. Chaunte was buried by the font, whose brass, though much worn, hath this, Orate pro animabus Thome Chaunte Aldermanni istius Cibitatis, ac Johanne Uroris sue prime, qui quidem Thomas obiit iiiio die Octob. Ao Dni. Mo hC ri. quorum animabus propicietur deus. 1522, Will. Philip, Baker, gave 5 marks to repair the church, and a ship of silver. 1524, John Moone gave x. marks for a vestment. 1531, John Halston 5l. There were in this church, the principal image of the Virgin Mary, in its usual place, viz. north of the altar, at the east end, and in the north wall was the sepulchre of our Lord, as usual in most churches, the image of St. Thomas the Secundary, or second patron of the church, was in his chapel, as also the image of St. John Baptist; in our Lady's chapel, on the south side was the image and altar of St. Mary, and the images of Mary Magdalen, St. Anne, and the Virgin of Pite; these had all lights before them, as well as the image and altar of the Holy Trinity, which stood at the west end of the nave on the north side; over which is the following inscription cut in stone: That is, Ie Thomas de Lingcole a done a cel Auter Sirge e un Laumpe e la Rente de Colegate. I Thomas de Lincoln, have given to this Altar, a Wax Taper and a Lamp, out of the Rent of Colegate. I find this Tho. de Lincolnia or Lincoln, was a wealthy tanner that lived in this parish, and was owner of a house in St. George of Colegate in the year 1292. In 1275, he was one of the bailiffs of the city, and again in 1281; he died about 1298, and is buried before On a brass against the east side of the north chapel, Mrs. ANNE CLAXTON here inter'd doth lye, Whose Vertuous Lyfe, a livinge Prayes did merrit, Hir Faith, Religion, Grace, & Charritye, Hath crownde hir Sowle, with what the Sayntes inherit, Full fower-score Years, She lived exempte from Blame, Preserving safe her Reputation's Name, From Worshippe's Race She did at first descend, And Claxton's Name did well that Worthe adorne, By whom whilst Heaven unto her, Lyfe did lend, Nine Sonnes, five Daughters, to this Worlde were borne, The first of August, one thousande, six hundred, & five, She dyed, let still hir Virtues Prayes survive. Claxton, gul. a bend between three porcupines arg. on a demishield by way of canton, another coat born also by the name of Claxton, barruly arg. and az. on a canton gul. three martlets or, Clarke of Somersetshire, or, two bars az. in chief three escalops Other persons buried here are, Philp Dyball 1712, 57. Sarah his wife 1741, 77. Sam. Watson, 1695, 46. James son of Peter Verbeeke merchant 1633, and Peter Verbeeke merchant 1629, 44. Alice Kinge a virgin, Dr. of John and Kath. Kinge 1570. Tho. Dowe Frances his wife 1521, on whose souls Jesus have mercy. A hatchment hath, 1st Claxton's arms. 2d ar. a fess quarterly az. and gul. between three mascles gul. 3d az three piles wavy ar. 4th, gul. a bend vair impaling Clark as before. In a glass window. er. a saltier ingrailed betwen four croslets gul. On the roof, Rookwood, with a mullet for difference. Er. on a chevron sab. two lions combatant or and sab. a chevron between three lions rampant ar. On the pulpit, Herne impales Davy. On the font are the arms of England, France, Scotland. Ireland, St. George, Norwich city, and gul. a cross floré parted per cross arg. and sab.; and anciently an anchoress called St. Anne's anchoress resided in this Thomas Malby, alderman, died in 1558, (see Pt. I. p. 272, 8.) "Item, I will that the Mayor of the said Cittye for the Tyme beyng, withe the too Shreves, and certeyne of the Aldermen, shall ones in the Year, cawse an Obyte to be Songe in St. Maryes Church in Coslany, where my Body lyethe buried, to pray for my Soul and all my Frends, and that the Chamberlains of the City for the Time being, shall bestowe 20s. every yere at the Day appointed, by the Advice of the Mayor, Shereves, and the more part of the Aldermen, and this to be continued for ever, for the Welthe of my Soul to God's most high Pleasure." 3s. used to be distributed to St. Martin's at Oak, 2s. to St. Michael Coslany, and 5s. to the poor of Cecily Wingfield, widow, about 1586, gave her arable close of ten acres by Norwich walls adjoining to the city, extending from St. Martin's to St. Austin's-gates, "To the Use and Behoof, Relief and Comfort of the poor People, from Time to Time, being in the said Parish of St. Mary, for ever." It is copyhold of Tolthorp cum Felthorp manor, which belongs to the see. In 1725, Mr. Mathew Bretingham, paid the sum of 30l. (fn. 14) to the parish, for which the feoffees surrendered the premises to him and his heirs, chargeable for ever, with a clear annual rentcharge of 6l. 10s. to the parish, to be applied to the use of her will; and now he hath built a new house upon it, with convenient gardens, &c. Part of the new-mills are in this parish, and were sometimes called Gregory's mills, for which see p. 256, and Pt. I. p. 432. The religious concerned here were, the Prior of Weybrigge, the Prior of Norwich, who had divers houses and rents given to the almoner, by Ric. de Horsted, Joceline de Norwich, chaplain Ralf de Heynford, and others. (136) The Church of St. Michael in Coslany, Commonly called St. Miles in Coslany, stands more south in the same street, and is a rectory valued at 13l. 6s. 8d. in the King's Books, and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 11l. 12s. 2d. it is discharged of first fruits and tenths. Dr. Prideaux valued it at 14l. endowment, and 20l. voluntary contribution, in his time: there is a parsonage-house, and garden, not far from the north side of the churchyard, the houses which stand between them, belong to Caius college, (fn. 15) and the house, voluntary contributions, augmentation, (fn. 16) &c. is said to amount to about 70l. per annum. 1300, Edward Oram of Acle (or Ocle-market in Norfolk.) 1304, Will. Sare of Horseford. Will. Over-Dam of Acle, in right of Gundelf's half acre in Acre-field. 1332, Henry son of Jeffry atte Churche. John son of Bartholomew de Acle. 1339, Edward III. licensed the rector to receive land for a garden to his house. 1352, Henry Limpenhowe. Tho. Hobbe of Acle. He exchanged for Holkham in 1353, with John de Merston, who was buried in the chancel in 1387. 1387, Tho. de Wrotham, presented by John Frythe, vicar of St. Stephen's, trustee to John and Walter Daniel, who exchanged it for 1387, with James Whitwell, who was presented by the same patron. 1393, John Reed. Ditto: he died rector. Daniel's right was set aside, and John Ocle recovered. 1395, William atte Fen, he died rector. John Ocle, citizen of 1414, John Faukes was presented by John and Walter Daniel, citizens of Norwich, who purchased of John Ocle, half an acre of ground called Gundell's half acre in Ocle-field, to which this patronage is appendant, and John Frythe, vicar, was named in the deed. 1418, John Daniel, by will desired, this church might be appropriated, to find a chantry priest in St. Stephen's for their three souls, but the vicar could not bring it to bear. John Prince, priest, for whom the following epitaph, which was on a brass in this chancel, is preserved by Mr. Weever, fo. 803. Orate pro animabus Thome Chaunte Aldermanni istius Cibitatis, ac Johanne Uroris sue prime, qui quidem Thomas obiit iiiio die Octob. Ao Dni. Mo hC ri. quorum animabus propicietur deus. 1522, Will. Anno Milleno C quater, totque ad et X quoque bino: Altari summo Tabulam prebet er alabastro, De precio Magno, cupiens Laus hinc fore Christo, Orridui Parte Fenestram fecit honeste, Ordinis Angelici, nec non ter Nomine Trini. 1421, John Barsham, rector, was buried in the chancel. 1421, John Riche, he was buried by him in 1426. Walter 1426, Tho. Lynes, buried in the chancel, in 1463. Sir John Erpingham, and Sir Will. Phelip, Knts. John Schotesham, &c. 1464, Tho. Drantale or Drantall, A. M. who was buried in the chancel in 1501. He was presented by Sir Thomas Boleyn, or Bollen, divine, master or warden of Gonvile-hall in Cambridge. Geffry Chaumpeneys, vicar of St. Stephen's, Thomas Boleyn, junr. John Burgeyn and George Munford, and this Sir Thomas it was, that after much trouble, got the advowson settled on the college, for in 1501, 12 Jan. John Barly or Barlie, S. T. P. though he was then master of Gonvile hall, was presented by the master and scholars of Gunwile hall in Cambridge, and died rector in 1503, and was succeeded in 1504, by Edmund Stubbs, D. D. who succeeded him in his mastership, as well as living, and was presented as before. 1513, William Bokenham, S. T. P. succeeded to the rectory and mastership, and was a great benefactor to the college and living, for he rebuilt the parsonage-house, adorned the church, &c. He was vice-chancellor in 1509, and died here in the 81st year of his age, Ao 1540, having resigned his mastership to John Skypp, D. D. in 1536. Nic. Bokenham, his brother, was a great benefactor to the 1540, Roger Overey. He was deprived. 1556, Edmund Harrocke, by lapse. 1561, John Elwyn, the last chantry priest here, was presented, by John Caius, the master, and fellows of Gonvile and Caius college in Cambridge, who presented all the following rectors, the patronage being in that college at this day. Elwyn was buried here. 1569, Humfry Beshby or Busby, res. 1570, Will. Botwine, ob. 1572, John Staller. 1580, Tho. Plombe, senr. 1591, Tho. Plombe, ob. 1600, Richard Stockdale. 1601, Will. Batho, S. T. P. ob. 1625, Rob. King. 1676, Will. Cecill. 1715, Rob. Cory, A. B. 1724, Will. Selth, A. M. United to Melton-Magna, ob. 1740. 1741, The Rev. Mr. Charles Tucke, A. M. the present rector, who holds it united to the consolidated parishes of Melton-Magna, St. Mary's, and All-Saints in Norfolk. The tower is tall, and square, having a clock, chimes, and musical peal of eight bells, on which, 3d. Per Thome Meritis mereamur gandia Lucis 5th. Uirginis egregie, Uocor Campana Marie, 6th. Munere Baptiste Benedictus sit Chorus iste. The south porch and isle are leaded, and were built by Gregory Clerk, citizen and alderman of Norwich, who lies interred in it with Orate pro animabus Gregorii Clerk, quondam Cibis t Aldermanni Norwici, qui obiit rrviio die Oct. Ao. Dni. Moccccolrriro et pro anima Agnetis quondam Uroris eiusdem Gregorii, postea Uroris Roberti Thorp Cibis et Aldermanni Norwici que quidem Agnes obiit rvo die Oct. Ao Dni. Mocccccoiiio. On a stone in this isle with two effigies, is this imperfect inscription, over Gregory Clerk, junior citizen and alderman of this Cyte, off qwose Soule Thu. have Mercy, the qwyche seyd Gregory depertyd from thys World the rrvi day off the monythe off January, in the Yere off owr Lord God, a thowsand ffyyffe (1516) He was Mayor 1514, and perfected this isle, which was begun by his father. Orate pro anima Johanne Clerk, nuper Uroris Gregorii Clerk Junioris, Civis et Aldermanni Norwici, que quidem Johanna obiit xxio die Sept. Ao. ri. Mo. vC xiijo. cuius anime propicietur deus On a stone covered with a seat, are the arms of Ferrour, arg. on a bend gul. cotized sab. three bezants impaling Garnish. Orate pro anima Margarete Ferrore nuper Uroris Rici. Ferrore Civis et Aldermanni Norwici que obiit xixo die Maii Ao. Dni Mo ccccoiio, cuius anime propicietur deus Amen. At the east end of this isle, is a chapel of beautiful workmanship, made with freestone and black flints; this is the chantry chapel of the Virgin Mary, which was built and endowed with lands and houses, in Norwich, Barnham-Broom, Hunningham, Sprowston, Heigham, and Wood-Dallyng, by Robert Thorp, (fn. 17) the founder, in the time of Hen. VII. He lies buried here, under a stone which hath his own effigies, and those of his three wives, and three boys and two girls, but the inscription is lost, though the most part of it is preserved by Mr. Weever, fo. 803. It had the arms of Thorp, az. three crescents arg. on the first shield, and the same arms impaled with those of his three wives, his second wife's arms remain, viz. a fess nebulé between three wolves head's erased. Pray for the Sowl of Robart Thorp Gentilman, Citezen and Alderman of Norwich, Founder of this Chappyll and Ile, with a Chantrie Prest; be to sing perpetually for the Soul of Robart Thorp, the Sowls of Elyzabeth, Emme, and Agnes Sowls, his Wyfls; the sowl of John Thorp, his kindryd sowls, and al Cristen sowls: the which Robart th yer M. ccccc. The several chantry priests that served here, are buried in this chapel, the first of which was Sir Richard Walloure, or Waller, by his will dated 1505, (fn. 18) he ordered these lines to be fixed to a marble, and laid over him, as they now remain: Ossa Magistri cuncta Ricardi Walleour ista Urna tenet primi terrea Presbiteri, Er Cantaria, Ueniam sibi posre Maria. Nunc anime cuius propiciare Deus. MD. que quinquies J. Anno Christique sepulti. Good Frends, prey for Thomas Warnys Master of Arte, here the seronde Chauntry Prist, departed this Worlde on St. Mihil Evyn 1508. (Weever, fo. 803.) Ao. 1524, Robert Long, citizen of Norwich, and Agnes his wife, gave to Gonvile-hall in Cambridge, the perpetual donation to this chantry, on condition, they constantly nominated an honest priest, or fellow of their college, to reside constantly in the house belonging to Thorp's chantry priest in Norwich, (fn. 19) and daily to serve the said Orate pro anima Johannis Mebber, Arcium Magistri et can- tarie huius Ecclesie quondam Cappellani qui obiit Ao. Dni. Mo. vC. xxviio cuius anime propicietur deus. Sir John Elwyn, who afterwards became rector here, was the last chantry priest, and had a pension for life of 6l. 13s. 4d. out of the revenues of his chantry, all which were granted by Edw. VI. Ao 1547, to Sir Edward Warner, Knt. (fn. 20) and Ric. Catline, Gent. and their heirs, who in 1549, sold the whole to John Welsh. It was valued to the tax at 8l. 2s. 6d. per annum. Weever, fo. 803, hath this which, is now lost. As I am, so sall yee be, Prey for Margery Hore of Cherite. In 1540, Tho. Atkin, vicar of Mutford, and Margery Hore of the same town, gave 48l. apiece, to Gonvile-hall, to buy lands of the value of 4l. per annum, the same Thomas gave also Pain's close in Worlingham in Suffolk, of 40s. per annum for stipends for three scholars of the diocese of Norwich, 35s. per annum, who are to be chosen by the master and two senior fellows. "Now hear a Word or two (saith Weever) of the Name Hore. I find saith Verstegan this antiently written Hure, and I find Hure to be also written for the word Hire; and because that such incontinent Women do often lett their Bodies to Hire, this Name was therefore aptly applied unto them. It is in the Netherlands written Hoer, but pronounced Hoor, as wee yet pronounce it, tho' in our later English Ortography (I know not with what Reason) some write it Whore. I find many of this Sirname of good Note, and speciall Regard, in many Places in this Kingdom." The nave is covered with lead, and is said to have been rebuilt by John Stalon, who was sheriff in 1511, and Stephen Stalon, who served that office in 1512, and lies buried at the west end, with this, Orate pro anima Stephani Stalon, quondam Uiceromitis Civi- tatis Norwici, gue obiit iiiio die Februarii Ao Dni: 1527, cuius anime propicietur deus Amen. Alderman Henry Scolhouse, is also said to have been a benefactor, who lies buried in the nave with this, Orate pro animabus Kenrici Scolows, quondam Aldermanni Cibi tatis Norwici, et Alice consortis sue, quidem Henricus obiit xxv die Der. Ao. dni. Mo. hC xvo. This on a loose brass, (fn. 21) Of your charyte pray for the soules of Mr. Rafe Dylkyns, sum tyme Maner of this Cyte, which dyed in the yere of our Lorde 1535, And also of Mr. Brayan Tailor sumtyme one of the Auditors of the King's Erchequer, which also dyed in the Yere of Lorde 1555. and Anne sumtyme Wyfe to them both. Of ther Fathers and Mothers Souls, and all Christen Souls, God have mercy, Amen. Orate pro animabus Johannis Dulman I Katerine Uroris cius quorum animabus propicietur Deus Amen. Hic iaret Willus: Erasham Ao Dni. Mill: ccccxlij.o Orate pro animabus Johis: Swaloi Domine Clizabethe Mor- ley t Alicie Ur. Orate pro anima Margarete Bacton, cuius anime propicietur Hic iacet Willus: Jselham nuper Civis et Mercator Norwici, cuius anime propicietur Deus. Round the brass eagle, which weighs above 200 weight, is this, Orate pro animabus Willmi: Wesrbrok, Rose et Johanne Urorum eius Ao Dni. Mocccclxxxxiij. Orate pro anima Edmundi Laws, cuius anime propicietur deus Amen. (By the Font.) 1497, John Bishop, Esq. buried in the church, gave 10l. towards rebuilding it. In 1373, Will. Plommer, and in 1469, Walter Blake, mercer, were buried here. The north isle and chantry chapel of St. John the Baptist, were built by Will. Ramsey, who lies buried in his chapel under a large altar tomb robbed of all its brasses, except his merchant's mark, and the initial letters of his name on each side it, and on the window are two rams and an A, as a rebus for Ramsa or Ramsey; he was sheriff in 1498, and mayor in 1502 and 1508, in which year the chapel was finished; in 1504, Will. Herte, chaplain here, desired to be buried on the north side of the church, within the precinct of the new ele, there to be edified, and ordered a gravestone to be laid over him, which is now disrobed of its brasses. In 1505, Agnes Parker was buried in this chapel, by John Ebbes, her late husband, and settled a rent charge out of her tenement to find a lamp before the rood. In 1513, Sir John Cleyton was chantry priest and curate here. (fn. 22) Orate pro anima Roberti Harridans Arcium Magistri in Medicinis Bachalarii, Merceri et Cibis Norwici, qui obiit Anno Domini 1513, et die Mensis Februarii iio This Robert Harridans, who is said to be master of arts, bachelor of physick, mercer and citizen of Norwich, was a physician of note in those days, and was not a mercer by trade, but only free of the mercers company in London. Orate pro animabus Helene et Elizabethe Godfrey Filiarum Willi: Godfrey Uicecomitis Civitatis Norwici, quarum animabus propicietur deus. Ao. Dni: xvC. xxxo. (In the north isle.) Sponsa facet talis, Welyam Roo que fuit alis, Sed sibi non ite, rogo, dices, Christe venite. (In the nave.) (In the nave.) Hier licht begran. ven Franchoys Vander Bekefs Huberts Van Ypre wyt Vlandren Staf Den xviii Dach May Anno Mccccclxxvij. A griffin holds a shield, on which, a chevron between two stars in chief, and a crescent in base. The chancel, as well as the north isle, and chapel and vestry at the east end of it, are all covered with lead. The carpet at the altar formerly belonged to the altar of the north chapel, and had a crucifix, and Mary and John on it, though now picked out, and there are several angels with labels, on which, Da Gloriam Deo. Credo quod Redemptor meus vivit. Mortui venite ad Judicium. Anne the 2d Dr. of Henry and Mary Plombe, Anno 1596, 16. Tho. Fen 1596, 59. Mr. Henry Fawcett (fn. 23) that great benefactor to the city, and this parish, (see Pt. I. p. 368, 9,) died 1619, and was buried in the north chapel; his tomb is now broken through to make a passage into the vestry; his arms on a bend three dolphins with a crescent gul. for difference, still remain. There is an inscription on a board standing in the vestry, which formerly hung by Fawcet's tomb, round which is a vine springing from the bottom, with leaves and bunches of grapes, between which are 24 labels, with inscriptions on them: A deserved Memorial upon the worshipfull and worthy Benefactor to this City and Country, Mr. Henry Fawcet, who departed this Life, the 21 of Jan. 1619. Stay Reader here, and e're a Foot thou pass, See what thou art, and what once Fawcit was, Whose Body resteth in the Earthly Bed, But heavenly Soule, to Heaven it's home, is fled: What in his Life he did, Behold! the Root, Body, Branches, and afterward the Fruit, Of him that lived by his Godly care, Of him that died with a heavenly fear, For look, how many Branches here you see, So many Hands imagine, hath this Tree, Not dealing Pence, unto the poor around, But Royally imparting, by the Pound, Oh! England, might in every City be, So brave a Vine, so beautifull a Tree, To check the base, and viler Shrubs below, Who now on Earth, unprofitable grow, But Fawcit, now thou art in lasting Fame, Let Rich admire thee, Poor, will bless thy Name, In Earth thy Body Sleep, thy Soul above, With Angeis rest, in Charity and Love, And Norwich mourn thy loss, not like to See, Hereafter, such another, like to thee. 1. To all his Godchildren 10s. a piece. 2. To a Widow and her Infant 8s. 8d. 3. 10l. for a Stock for 2 Joiners, for three Years, Gratis. 4. 10l. for a Stock of Coals for the Poor of St. Michael in 5. For the mending of a Bridge at Hustangill 20l. 6. 20l. to the French for a Stock for their Poor. 7. 20l. for a Stock for 6 Darnick Weavers, to last for ever. 8. 40l. to set poor Masons to Work in Winter, Stock to last 9. 6l. Annualty for 2 poor Women during their lives. 10. 10l. a Year to maintain a School Master, at Haughlin-hall 11. For the Preachers at the Common Place in Norwich, for 12. 300l. for a stock among 10 Poor Worsted Weavers for ever. 13. 15l. a Year to keep Worsted Weavers in St. Giles's Hospital. 14. 100l. to the Hospital of this City for Orphants. 15. 10l. p. Ann. to Cloath 10 naked Worsted Weavers in Fibridge Ward. 16. Unto 2 Poor Maidens Marriages 60l. 17. 33l. 6s. 8d. for a Stock for ever for the Poor in Fybridge 18. 20l. to be lent to 4 Shoemakers for 4 Years, the Stock for 19. 20l. for the Dutch for a Stock for their Poor. 20. 23s. 8d. for an Annual Commemoration here. 21. 10l. for a Stock for Blacksmiths, for 3 Years. 22. To the City Poor, presently to be distributed 10l. 23. To the Prisoners in the Castle or Guild-hall 10 Chaldrons 24. To every Lazer House to be distributed presently 10s. a-piece. On a stone covered, a fess between two chevrons, a de-lis for difference, quartering 1st, a frette. 2d, on a bend three mullets pierced. In the east window of the south isle, a bear's head erased sab. muzzled arg. a crescent or, Ao Dni. 1577. In the east window of the north isle, the deanery impales a castle, on a chief sab. a mitre or, between three snakes or, and a cinquefoil for difference. This was the arms and rebus of Dean Castleton; see Pt. I. p 617. At the west end, are the arms of Gonvile and Caius College. There were in this church, before the Dissolution, the altar and light of St. William of Norwich before his image. The lights of St. Catherine, St. Margaret, St. Michael, St. Mary Magdalen, St. Anne, St. Christopher, St. John, St. Thomas, and that in the basin before the sacrament, the rood or perke light, the sepulchre light; and those before the images of the Virgin Mary in Thorp's chantry, and of St. John Baptist in Ramsey's chantry. 1498, July 8, it was decreed by the Bishop, that whereas the feast of the dedication of this church (fn. 24) used to be kept the same day with that of the dedication of the cathedral; it should now be altered to Monday after Relique Sunday. Henry Playford gave 20s. yearly to the rector, to find a lamp continually burning in the chancel before the high-altar; and 31 Henry VIII. Thomas Morley, who owned the tenement that was tied for it, In the beginning of Edw. I. Richard de Brekles, chaplain founded St. Saviour's Hospital in Coselany, And in 1297, Richard de Coselany, fishmonger, conveyed to the founder, a stall in the bread-market, by the stall of the fraternity of St. Mary and St. Augustine. And in 1304, the said King confirmed the foundation, and granted license to hold all the revenues in FrankAlmoign. After which I have met with nothing concerning this The religious concerned here were the Priors of Mendham, whose temporals were taxed at 12d.; of Binham 12d.; of Mungè, Mountjoy, or Haverlond 3s. 4d.; of Ixworth 2s.; of Hickling 5s. 11d.; of Westacre 5s.; the Abbots of Holm 2s. 4d.; of Saveyne 18s. 8d.; the Prioress of Carrowe 10s. 8d.; the Prior of Norwich at 7s. The altar here is lately fitted up handsomely, being laid with the black and white marble which came out of the Earl of Yarmouth's private chapel at Oxnead, and was given by Mr. William Tuck of St. Peter's in Hungate, who purchased it. There are the four Evangelists at length, and a piece of the resurrection, painted by Mr. Heins. In the south chantry, John Buller, Son of John and Sarah Balderstone 1733. Nic. Vipond Gent. Attorney at Law, 13 May, 60. In the chancel, Will. Cockman Esq; Mayor in 1711, died 1733, 82. Sarah his Relict 1735, 75. Anna-Maria Dr. of Charles and Anne Harwood 1723, 3. so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. Maria-Anna another Dr. 1726. Mary their Dr. 1730. Salter their Son 1723. Alice their Dr. 1731. Salter's arms and crest, impaling sab. a fess parted per pale, indented gul. and erm. between three cross-croslets ar. Roger Salter, Gent. 1698, 76. Mary his wife 1706, 76. Crest, an armed arm in pale, holding an arrow. Dover, three arrows, the points meeting as piles in point, on a chief three rocks, impaling Salter Francis Dover 1720, 46. In the north chapel: Hic jacet Maria Uxor Johannis Annyson, quæ obijt 24 die Julij A°. Æt. 29, et Sal. Humanæ 1700. John Annyson her Husband, 1715, 43, and 3 of their children. Sarah his 2d Wife 1738, 56. Daniel son of John Masingbard, Gent. 1701, 25. Mark Masingbard 1704, both born at Thorney Abby in the Isle of Ely. Moulton, arg. three bars gul. eight escalops sab. 3, 2, 2, 1, impaling three doves. Crest, a dove standing on a stone. M. S. Elizabetha Johannis Moulton Uxor, Arnoldi Wallen Filia, utriusq; dilectissima, ad plures abijt 18° Sept. 1703, æt. 22. Browne per bend A. S. three mascles counterchanged, impaling three castles. Crest, a demi-griffin displayed, with a snake twined about its neck. Hic sitæ sunt exuviæ Stephani Browne, cohortis Armigeræ apud Norvicenses, Ducis, qui obijt 14 Maij A. D. 1723. natus annos 37. Juxtaque ejusdem Liberi Quatuor. John Wigget 1720, 76. Abigail his Wife 1719, 66. James their son late of Calthorp, 1734, 53. Tho. Andrews, merchant, 1709, 67. In the north isle, Mary wife of John Rudsdell 1743, 34. John Whetewr 1655. Anne Dr. of Will. and Jane Maltby of Orston in Nottinghamshire 1717, 29. Mary Hallewijck widow 1661. Richard Skeeles, Gent. and Eliz his wife, dr. of Ric. Drury, Esq. of Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire 1723, 20. Ben. Cobb 1720, 79. Christian 1719, 70. In the nave, Robert Mitchell, 20 Years a faithfull Servant to the Salter's of this parish, 1723, 34. John Son of John and Eliz. Richardson 1742, 1. Nathaniel Ragge 1713, 69, Anne his Wife 1734, 77. Charles Verbeeke 1648. Sarah Cook 1707. Susanna Master 1733, 72. Samuel Hasbert late of Stoke Holy Cross, and Lydia his wife, he died 1703, 36, she 1731, 70. Eliz. their Dr. 1733, 43. John Fremoult M. D. 1711, 28. Samuel Fremoult Brewer, 1727, 48. Joel Fremoult Attorney at Law 1728, 56. Resurgemus. By the font, Joel Freemoult, born in this Parish, and Judith Dr. of John Shoulder his Wife, born at Canterbury, where they had Issue, 5 Sons and 4 Daughters, 7 whereof do still Survive them, and are living monuments of their paternal Care and Industry, he died 1708, 66, She 1706, 56. Eliz. wife of Sam. son of Sam. Fremoult Brewer, 1743, 25. Sarah wife of John Day, Dr. of William & Christian Jackson of Carlton Scroop in Lincolnshire 1737, 33. Sarah their Dr. 1732, Bridget their Dr. 1737, 4. Eliz. Filia Josephi Alanson Clerici & Annæ Uxoris 1701. The said Joseph is buried by her, and was Rector of St. Simon & Jude, & died in 1736, æt. 82. See p. 355. Dover's arms as before, with a bear's paw erased for a crest. Motto, NIHIL UTILE QUOD NON HONESTUM. H. S. E. Samuel Dover Generosus, ob Legum peritiam, Morumque Probitatem, undique notus obijt xvi° Nov. A° Sal. MDCCXXXVI. æt. LXVII°. I find by the register these persons were buried in this church. 1559, Mr. Leonard Sotherton. 1571, Serjeant John Mason. 1583, Mrs. Sotherton. 1600, Alderman Christopher Soame & Anne his Wife in 1581. In 1568, Mary Dr. of Mr. Ralph Shelton, and in 1569, Kat. Dr. of Roger Wodehouse Esq. were baptised here. Queen Elizabeth's mausoleum is painted over the south door, and this on the east side of it, Stay Passenger, who e're thou art, retard thy Pace, View here the Mem'ry, of a Majestick Race, See here the Emblem of a dying State, Proves clear, that all alike, must stoop to Fate, This Urn, no common Ashes doth contain, The enclosed Majesty, seems Still to Reign, Only being wearied, with the World's Contest, Tamely Retires, here to take it's Rest: And 'tis but Just, that She, who made Religion shine Should in her Temple, still retain a shrine, But least this Monument, Should not display, The greatness of the Jewele, which doth lay Within it, stay yet further, & thou wilt see, The true Import of this Effigie. On the west side, Here lies Elizabeth, whose Royal breath, Gave true Religion Life, & false one Death, Whose Zeal & Power join'd, alike to advance, God's Honour, Christians Glory, and Church Ordinance. To say no more; she liv'd, she reign'd, she dy'd, A Christian Queen, fit to be Canoniz'd. Queen Elizabeth came in progress to Norwich 16 Aug. 1578, and died on the eve of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary 1602. The tradition is, that she lodged in a house in this parish; which is false, for she lodged during the whole time she was here, at the Bishop's palace. (See Pt. I. p. 332.) There is a mural monument in the churchyard, against the west steeple wall, for Tho. Mason 1708, 69. Jane his Wife 1700, 66. David his Son 1703, 30. Eliz. his Daughter 1672, 12. On the south side of the churchyard are two altar tombs, for Mary Dr. of Mr. John Pecke, and Mary his Wife 1718, 31. And Mr. John Pecke 1715, 58. Mr. John Pecke his Son 1716, 23. There are memorials also, for John Cornish, Martha Wife of Geo. Wilson 1730, 56. Ambrose, Mary & Anne, their Children. George their Son, who successfully applied himself to Philosophical Inquiries, 1735, 28. John Wignall 1737, 52. Eliz. his Wife 1722, 35. And And now having gone through the whole city, I shall proceed by ANCIENTLY CALLED HELLE-GATES, (fn. 25) From their low situation, and the odd appearance that the street leading to these gates hath, to any one that looks down it, from Charyng-Cross; it being a prodigious chasm and declivity, like the entrance of the ancient poets' hell. This was a postern only, till lately, when it was taken down to be made a passage for carriages, since which time it hath never been built, but lies open and in As soon as you are out of this gate, you enter the parish of Heham, Eeham, or, as it is now called,

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easyDCP allows for easy generation and play-out of digital cinema packages and offers a high quality, cost-effect way to create a variety of distribution formats Las Vegas – April 16, 2012 (Booth #C8444)- Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, the world’s renowned source for audio and multimedia technologies, announces today its partnership with Digital Film Technology (DFT), the supplier of professional solutions for postproduction, motion picture and TV industries. The new partnership integrates Fraunhofer IIS’s easyDCP into DFT’s FLEXXITY workflow, providing a more cost-effective way to create digital cinema packages (DCP) as a master format. Though notoriously expensive to create, DCPs are highly regarded as the best replacement for film reels due to its high quality and ability to create a wide variety of distribution formats. DFT chose Fraunhofer IIS’s easyDCP due to its software-base that does not require costly additional hardware. In addition, the organization’s easyDCP cinema packages are compliant with the latest standards and can be used with all DCI-compliant cinema server systems. The solution also enables DCPs to be created and used for theater play-out and master format for the creation of further distribution formats through FLEXXITY, such as H.264. Fraunhofer IIS scientists extended the functionalities of its easyDCP technology to enable the integration into host applications, for easy generation and play-out of digital cinema packages (DCP) in real time. ”With DFT we have gained a globally renowned partner who recognizes and relies on our expertise to enhance its products”, explains Heiko Sparenberg, head of the digital cinema group. “In order to integrate our software, core functionalities were bundled and extended to provide access for external systems. This required developing a new library to enable communication between our easyDCP and DFT’s FLEXXITY system.” With more than 20 years of experience, Fraunhofer IIS is a trusted expert in digital cinema standardization and creation development. More than 500 customers already use its easyDCP software package worldwide, including the 2012 Berlinale International Film Festival, that relied on IIS software developments to support the technical quality control of all submissions. Fraunhofer IIS will present its easyDCP software developments as well as camera and data compression developments at NAB 2012, booth #C8444. DFT will also showcase the integrated easyDCP software in the FLEXXITY workflow at C11145. For more information, please visit www.iis.fraunhofer.de. About Fraunhofer IIS Founded in 1985 the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, today with more than 750 staff members, ranks first among the Fraunhofer Institutes concerning headcount and revenues. As the main inventor of mp3 and universally credited with the co-development of AAC audio coding standard, Fraunhofer IIS has reached worldwide recognition. It provides research services on contract basis and technology licensing. The research topics are: Audio and video source coding, multimedia realtimesystems, digital radio broadcasting and digital cinema systems, integrated circuits and sensor systems, design automation, wireless, wired and optical networks, localization and navigation, imaging systems and nanofocus X-ray technology, high-speed cameras, medical sensor solutions and supply chain services. The budget of more than 95 million Euro is mainly financed by projects from industry, the service sector and public authorities. Less than 25 percent of the budget is subsidized by federal and state funds. For more information, contact Heiko Sparenberg at [email protected] or Angela Raguse at [email protected]. About Digital Film Technology DFT Digital Film Technology Weiterstadt Holding GmbH provides high-end film and digital post production solutions for a variety of commercial media, film and content markets including; film studios, broadcast operations, and post production facilities. DFT products include the SCANITYTM Film Scanner, Spirit family of DataCines® and Telecines, Shadow Telecine, Scream grain reducer, LUTher color calibration tool, FLEXXITY specialized software for dailies, archive, and play-out applications, and BONES software tools for dailies, transfers, and play-out. The entire DFT team is highly regarded within the industry and is dedicated to uncompromised product and technology development, as well as superior sales and support services. DFT Digital Film Technology is headquartered in Weiterstadt, Germany and has regional offices in London, Paris, Sydney, Bangkok and Los Angeles. DFT is independently owned by PARTER Capital Group, a Frankfurt, Germany private equity investment group. # # #

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BWW TV: First Look at BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL - Show Highlights! Broadway World TV's Los Angeles Correspondent and Co-Producer Michael Sterling, with Associate Producer Jerry Evans of the JLE Media Group, Inc. joined the opening weekend festivities for Bring It On: The Musical, which premiered Friday, November 11 at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre. On stage now through December 10th, "Bring It On: The Musical" unites some of the top creative minds on Broadway for an explosive new musical comedy that raises the stakes on over-the-top high school rivalries. Set against the world of competitive cheerleading, this powerhouse new show hilariously proves that that winning isn't everything when it means losing something - or someone - you really care about. The original musical comedy features libretto by Tony Award®-winner Jeff Whitty, music and lyrics by Tony Award®-winning composer Lin-Manuel Miranda ("In the Heights"), music by Pulitzer and Tony Award®-winning composer Tom Kitt ("Next to Normal"), lyrics by Broadway lyricist Amanda Green ("High Fidelity") and music supervision by Tony® and Grammy® Award-winner Alex Lacamoire ("In the Heights"). The production is directed and choreographed by Tony Award® -winner Andy Blankenbuehler ("In the Heights"). The cast features Taylor Louderman, Adrienne Warren, Ryann Redmond, Elle McLemore, Jason Gotay, Ariana DeBose, Gregory Haney, Neil Haskell, Janet Krupin, Kate Rockwell, Nick Womack, Calli Alden, Nikki Bohne, Dexter Carr, Shonica Gooden, Haley Hannah, Rod Harrelson, Casey Jamerson, Dominique Johnson, Michael Mindlin, Adrianna Parson and Bettis Richardson. The ensemble also features some of the nation's most skilled competitive cheerleaders. Their combined achievements include over 25 national and 50 team titles in gymnastics and choreography. Those members include Antwan Bethea, Danielle Carlacci, Michael Naone-Carter, Courtney Corbeille, Dahlston Delgado, Brooklyn Alexis Freitag, Melody Mills, David Ranck, Billie Sue Roe, ShelDon Tucker and Lauren Whitt. Tickets for "Bring It On: The Musical" are available by calling (213) 972-4400 or online at www.CenterTheatreGroup.org or in person at the CTG box office located at the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center. "Bring It On: The Musical" is produced by Universal Pictures Stage Productions / Glenn Ross; Beacon Communications /Armyan Bernstein and Charlie Lyons; and Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson, Executive Producers. Click Here to Play! VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE vs. LUCKY GUY for Best Play and More... Past Articles by This Author: MICHAEL STERLING is a successful entrepreneur of public relations and stage productions. Throughout the years, he has represented such icons as Elizabeth Taylor, Lance Armstrong, Scott Hamilton, Robert Goulet, Joan Collins, George Harrison, the Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, Donny and Marie Osmond and the Osmond Brothers, and Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager. He has also represented numerous theatre productions including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Andy Gibb on Broadway, the 30th Anniversary U.S. National Tour of The Fantasticks starring Robert Goulet, Broadway on Ice starring Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill, Concert on Ice starring Dorothy Hamill, and Festival on Ice starring Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner. In 2006, Sterling opened the award-winning cabaret Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's in Studio City, CA dedicated to presenting the best of Broadway musical theatre performers in concert. The popular supper club is the most award-winning critically acclaimed such venue in the greater Los Angeles area. In October, 2009, Mr. Sterling created an alliance with Broadway World.com TV to co-produce and co-host television packages about select Los Angeles theatre. In May, 2010, he co-created the State of the Arts radio series for broadcast by LA Talk Radio.com, one of the world wide web's most successful and innovative radio sites. Presented by Breakdown Services, State of the Arts has become a popular weekly series co-produced and co-hosted by Mr. Sterling and actor Paul Stroili. www.msapr.net| JERRY EVANS has worked as a dancer, choreographer and director for over 28 years. The beginning of his career was highlighted by dancing in a Mikhail Baryshnikov television special. Today, Mr. Evans can now proudly boast of having worked with every major awards show, with every television network, and in every medium in which a dancer can work. With a successful professional dance career as his foundation, Evans then launched a stunning career in choreography that has been more than two decades in the making. Having choreographed numerous consecutive world tours for such artists as Reba McIntyre, Paula Abdul, and Chayenne, Evans has earned industry wide. With more than 20 feature films, 15 music videos, and 50 commercials to his choreography credentials, Jerry's reputation as the "commercial king" precedes him throughout the entertainment industry. In recognition of his achievements and contributions in dance, choreography, and production, Jerry has been honored with numerous, major industry and peer awards alike. In more recent years, Mr. Evans assembled a comprehensive knowledge of film and television camera directing based on his years of choreography experience. Whether on a set that requires single or multiple camera direction, Jerry is known for bringing his wealth of experience in film, television (both commercial and episodic), music videos, and live stage to any production. He is also the founder of JLE Media Group Inc. which specializes in hi-definition video production from conception to post-production. www.jlemediagroup.com More Articles by This Author...

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Just a few monogram styles :) I have to say that a lot of these are more modern than I’ve ever seen. And embroidery may be the traditional method, but I sense a lot of stenciling in my future. I’d love a monogrammed pillow or seven! What’s your favorite? I’m an oval three letters or a vine girl myself.

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My pal Jamie sings and plays bass in The Moanin Dove. He also plays bass in almost every other good band in San Francisco. And I don’t mean just wimpy regular bass that anyone can play (I can’t), but the super-manly upright bass. That’s basically (BASSically!) the largest instrument you can play. Ok, fine, really that would be the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, but the upright bass is the biggest “I’m in a cool band” instrument you can play, so it’s still pretty impressive. It’s even impressive when Jamie plays the wussy normal bass. Basssssssssssss. The Moanin Dove is having their record release show this Thursday, July 7th, at Bottom of the Hill. I caught up with Jamie to talk SF, music, movies, the golden era of 1985, and, as usual, money money money. My name is James Riotto and I play bass and sing in The Moanin Dove. Describe your sound in five words (or less). Electric swamp lounge music. Tell us about your band name. We stole our name from one of our favorite bars in rural Western MA. We were on our way to California and we still didn’t have a name, so we settled on that cause we figured no one would realize where it came from. I guess I just let the proverbial cat out of the bag. Favorite thing about San Francisco? This city is so amazing! The incredible food is definitely at the top of the list. Also the fact that I can go ten miles in any direction and find some amazing hiking. Oh, and Golden Gate Park. Favorite SF restaurant? Shalomar, El Metate. Favorite SF bar? I truly love beer, but I don’t often go out to bars at this point. I’d rather get a bottle of Lagunitas IPA and hang in Alamo Square Park with some friends. How do you prepare for a big show? What will you be doing the night before? I usually have one last rehearsal so we can run through the whole set and work out any kinks. Then I go home and read. What can people expect at your shows? It’s pretty important to me that our shows are different every time. We work with so many amazing musicians in other projects, so there are often guests sharing the stage with us. Also, we all come from a kind of free improvisation background, so we definitely like to stretch out a bit when we perform live. What do you do during downtime on tour? Every time I leave for tour, I tell myself that I am going to be productive with all the down time on the road. I always start really well, but at a certain point I realize that it’s just more fun to hang out and act like a 15 year old with my bandmates than it is to write music or practice. I do try to read a lot, for sure. What’s next for the band? (i.e. plug your next show!) We actually have our EP release show coming up at Bottom of the Hill on July 7th. I set up a really amazing bill with Beep! and Audio Out Send supporting us, and I’m super excited about it. We’ll be releasing our brand new EP, Broken Light Parade. Also, we’re backing up our friend, Mohsen Namjoo, at Herbst Theater on July 1st. He is an absolutely incredible musician from Iran, and we’re stoked to play another show with him. We’ll be making a record together in October. Three things you’d take to a desert island? I’m gonna have to pass on this. I just can’t ever imagine myself being stranded on a desert island. I mean, I know that’s not the point of your question, but I’ve just got nothing here. What movie can you watch over and over and never get sick of? Back to the Future, Spaceballs, Indiana Jones. I think I’m stuck in 1985. Favorite season or time of year (and why)? Autumn in New England is incredible. I’ll never stop missing it. Three things that are in your fridge right now? Eggs, Almond Milk, Strawberries. I pretty much eat breakfast food whenever possible. Anything in your sock drawer besides socks? I have a pair of new shoelaces that have been in my drawer for about five years. I’m never going to use them, but I just can’t bring myself to get rid of them. Now let’s get down to the nitty gritty, i.e. money: It’s very difficult to be a musician in San Francisco. I work as a recording engineer at Tiny Telephone, and I also play as a session musician on a lot of other people’s records. I’m just getting to a point where I can live a very modest life doing what I love. I guess I’m just going to keep that ball rolling for as long as I can. Have any tips for aspiring musicians trying to make it on their craft? The only thing you can do is work ridiculously hard. I’m still trying to figure it out. I’ll let you know the secret once I’ve learned it myself! Best money saving tip in general? Where do you live now and what are some good cheap/fun things to do in that area? I live right around the corner from the Full House house on Alamo Square Park. I think the best thing to do is hang out in Golden Gate Park. It’s so huge, and there’s just so much to explore there. What do you refuse to spend money on? Sex. I’ll spend it on the pursuit of sex, but not on sex itself. I hope that makes sense. What is the most expensive thing you’ve ever bought and how did that feel? My upright bass. It’s a hundred year old Bohemian bass and it’s really beautiful. I’m so glad that I bought it. What’s the best deal you’ve ever gotten? $1.50 tacos at Vallarta. You just can’t beat that. What is your favorite free thing to do? Hiking. I’ll never tire of the incredible hiking in the Bay Area. If you woke up a millionaire, what’s the first thing you’d buy? The homemade corned beef hash at Aunt Mary’s Cafe in Oakland. Seriously, it’s that good. What’s one GOOD thing about not having a ton of money? None of my friends have a ton of money, and there’s a certain amount of camaraderie to that. We’re all in this together. Any last words? Please come out to the Bottom of the Hill on July 7th! It’s going to be a really special show. *photos by Joshua Uziel, via Facebook

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I am under the firm belief that the B sides of records are far superior to A sides and that we need education reform in America. I've eaten an exorbitant amount of donuts in my life. Sometimes I blog about my clothes, but mostly I post about my failed customer service escapades and the three most important things in my life: education, equality, and eating. Oh, and and I just got married. Lifestyle blog like what!

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Bears Tie Clarkson, 3-3, Finish in Fifth Place in the ECAC March 1, 2003 PROVIDENCE, RI - Sophomore Gerry Burke (Milton, MA) scored the game-tying goal with 8:06 remaining in the game, while junior Yann Danis (Saint-Jerome, QUE) stopped 46 shots as Brown (12-11-5, 10-8-4) and Clarkson (12-18-3, 9-10-3) skated to a 3-3 tie, the second tie in a row for both teams, in an ECAC men,s ice hockey contest Saturday evening at Meehan Auditorium. The Golden Knights took a 2-0 lead into the second period after scoring two goals in a span of 1:30, with a power-play goal at 12:31 and an even strength goal at 14:01. With the Bears still trailing 2-0 late in the first period, junior Brent Robinson (Pointe Claire, QUE) and sophomore Chris Swon (Mendham, NJ) combined for a two-on-one rush, but Clarkson,s Mike Walsh saved Swon,s scoring attempt, keeping Brown off the board. The Bears got on the board just 4:34 into the second period with a power-play goal of their own, cutting into Clarkson,s lead. Senior Paul Esdale (Edmonton, ALB) sent the puck to junior Scott Ford (Fort St. John, BC) at the right point. Ford ripped a slap-shot to the left pst and sophomore Les Haggett (Norwood, NY) tipped the puck in for his 12th goal of the season. The Bears started the third period with 2:48 remaining on a Keith Kirley (Leverett, MA) five minute penalty and came 17 seconds shy of successfully killing the penalty when Clarkson took a 3-1 lead with a goal just 2:31 into the final period. Brown continued to fight and played its second overtime game in a row, scoring the game,s final two goals to earn the point. Swon started the comeback with a power-play goal at 7:07 of the period. Haggett won the face-off back to Ford on the left point. Ford fired a slap-shot that went to the right of the net and Swon lefted the puck into the partially open net for his second goal of the season. With momentum picking up for both teams, Burke scored his second goal of the season to knot the game at 3-3 with 8:06 left to play. Juniors Pascal Denis (Magog, QUE) and Shane Mudryk (Leduc, ALB) took two quick shots on Walsh but the rebound kicked out to Burke on the left point. His slap-shot made its way through three Clarkson defenders along with Walsh and into the back of the net as the Bears salvaged one point. The two teams played a scoreless overtime with Danis stopping four of his 46 shots in overtime and Walsh making one save for the Golden Knights, finishing the game with 26. With the tie, Brown finishes the season in fifth place with 24 points. The Bears will host 12th place Princeton in a best-of-three series next weekend in Meehan Auditorium. All games begin at 7:00 p.m., Friday, Saturday, and if needed, Sunday. CLARKSON 2 0 1 0 - 3 BROWN 0 1 2 0 -- 3 First period - C (PPG), Matt Syroczynski (Tristan Lush, Chris Bahen), 12:31; C, Randy Jones (Mac Faulkner), 14:01. Penalties - BR, 2-4; C, 1-2. Third period - C (PPG), Chris Blight (Tristan Lush, Dave Reid), 2:31; B (PPG), Chris Swon (Scott Ford, Les Haggett), 7:07; B, Gerry Burke (Pascal Denis, Shane Mudryk), 11:54. Penalties - BR, 0-0; C, 1-2. Overtime - No Scoring. No Penalties. BR, Yann Danis, 12-13-16-5 - 46 (65:00); C, Mike Walsh, 9-5-11-1 - 26 (65:00). Records - BR, 12-11-5, 10-8-4; C, 12-18-3, 9-10-3. Attendance - 1,104 (Meehan Auditorium).

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The Grand Champion Steer was exhibited by Bailey Dent of Rolla. The 1,325-pound Crossbred steer sold for $20,000 to Edward Jones & Associates, according to a news release issued by the Missouri State Fair. The steer was donated to the University of Missouri-Columbia. Youth in Agriculture and hometown supporters participated in all of the Sale of Champions purchases. The 274-pound Crossbred Grand Champion Barrow, exhibited by Emily Tallman of Archie, was purchased for $19,000 by Monsanto and Farmland Foods. The barrow was donated to the Missouri 4-H Foundation. Troy Sloan of Cameron exhibited the 137-pound Hampshire Grand Champion Market Lamb and sold it for $14,000 to Edward Jones & Associates, the Missouri State Fair Concessionaires and Commercial Exhibitors. The Grand Champion Pen of Meat Rabbits was exhibited by Ty Coats of Braymer. The New Zealand rabbits were purchased by the Missouri State Rabbit Producers Association and Lewis Hybrids of Ursa, IL, for $1,900. The rabbits were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association. Codi Coats of Braymer sold the Grand Champion Pen of Chickens. Her Cornish Cross broilers were sold to the MU Independent Aggies for $1,900. The chickens were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association. The Grand Champion Meat Goat was exhibited by Kayla Morrow of Bronaugh. The Boer meat goat sold for $5,000 to the Missouri Meat Goat Producers Association with the animal being donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association. Evan Kempker of Jefferson City exhibited the Reserve Grand Champion Steer. The 1,295-pound steer was purchased for $17,250 by MFA Incorporated. Marlena Long from Paris showed the Reserve Grand Champion Barrow. The 263-pound Crossbred barrow was purchased for $15,500 by Wheeler Auctions and Real Estate and MU Independent Aggies. Brady Minear from Livonia showed the Reserve Champion Market Lamb. The Hampshire lamb weighed 136 pounds and was purchased for $11,500 by ADM Alliance Nutrition/MoorMan’s ShowTec. The lamb was donated to the University of Missouri-Columbia. The Reserve Champion Pen of Meat Rabbits was exhibited by Codi Coats of Braymer. Her New Zealand rabbits sold for $1,200 to American Family Insurance and Heimer & Associates. The rabbits were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association. Ty Coats of Braymer showed the Reserve Champion Pen of Chickens. The Cornish cross broilers weighed an average of 6.6 pounds and sold for $1,200 to Lewis Hybrids of Ursa, IL. The birds were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association. ADM Alliance Nutrition/MoorMan’s ShowTec, RIBUS, Inc. of St. Louis purchased the Reserve Grand Champion Meat Goat for $2,400. The 94-pound Boer meat goat was exhibited by Spencer Scotten of Nevada, and was donated to the University of Missouri-Columbia. The last lot of the sale was the Limited Edition State Fair Commemorative Belt Buckle purchased by Dr. Curtis Long, Briarwood Angus Farm of Butler, for a record $3,200. Wayne Yokley, Chairman of the Missouri State Fair Youth in Agriculture Committee, and Superintendent of the Sale of Champions, said the Sale’s success is possible because of support from Youth in Agriculture sponsors. Proceeds from the sale go to the exhibitors and to Youth in Agriculture scholarships. Since 1992, the Youth in Agriculture Committee has awarded scholarships totaling close to $300,000.

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Red Sox remembrances of 9/11 It is a day none of us will ever forget. Here is what the Red Sox remember. The Red Sox were in New York getting ready to face Roger Clemens the night of 9/10, but that game was rained out, enabling the team to fly to Tampa a little earlier than planned for their series that was scheduled to begin in St. Petersburg — ironically where the Sox are right now — on 9/11/01. Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield: “[My girlfriend and now wife Stacy] was actually in New York with me. She got out because we got rained out. She got the last flight out and beat me [to Tampa] so when we got in at 4 in the morning, she was already sleeping. She was up when all this was taking place and woke me up and said, ‘hey, you need to wake up.’ I started watching it and like 10 minutes later, we saw the second plane hit and we were like, ‘oh god, something bad is happening right now.”’ “To watch stuff on television now, the documentaries about how everything unfolded and how whoever was in charge of grounding all the airplanes made the hardest, right decision anyone could have made. Knowing it would costs the airlines millions and millions of dollars if they stopped all flights immediately, they’d have to ground the planes and all the passengers would have to switch flights. That’s when they found out about United 93. The game was meaningless [compared to what was going on] but we needed to get back playing.” Wakefield on Ground Zero: “In 2002, I drove by. I took a cab and jus drove by. I didn’t want to get out. in ’05, we went and opened the stock market, me, trot and somebody else, we rang the bell at the American Stock Exchange. We went to somebody’s office that overlooked Ground Zero. He was part of that whole thing. He kept telling us how the building was shaking and all that stuff. The chaos.” Jason Varitek was out for the remainder of 2001 with a fractured right elbow. “Actually I didn’t arrive in Tampa. I was on the DL, I was in rehab. I actually arrived that morning to rehab when it all happened. It’s like, once you realize what happened, everybody dropped what they were doing and took off and left.” “There’s a heightened awareness to everything that goes on around you for one. Appreciation for the people that tried to save lives and to do those things and you reach out to those people who have lost family, friends, etc., in the most tragic thing that’s ever happened here.” Jacoby Ellsbury, now an All-Star and an MVP candidate, turned 18 years old on Sept. 11, 2001. He was a junior at Madras (Oregon) High School. “I just remember going to school and waking up that morning and hearing something happened. At school, we turned on all the TV’s and saw everything unfold. At the beginning, I don’t think anyone really knew what was going on. But yeah, I just remember watching things unfold from Madras (ore.) High. I was on my way to school when I kind of heard everything. It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years.” The 2001 season was basically the only year of Terry Francona’s youth or adult life that he wasn’t wearing a baseball uniform. Francona was a scout for the Indians in 2001, and was on assignment in Pittsburgh when the terrorist attacks happened. His best friend Brad Mills was also scouting for the Cubs at that time, and was in Pittsburgh, at the same hotel as Francona when everything happened. “I was in Pittsburgh scouting and coincidentally Millsy was scouting for the Cubs. He was advancing. He was upstairs in the concierge room because he never pays for coffee. So he called me and he was like, ‘hey, you need to come up here, man. I went upstairs and I sat there with him. Kind of watched it and then rented a car and drove back to Philly because obviously there weren’t going to be games. I remember driving by Shanksville (Pennsylvania) on the turnpike. The exit was closed. I remember being glad I was with Millsy. Times like that, it’s nice to have maybe your best friend in the whole world with you.” Francona is glad that soldiers can take some enjoyment out of being around baseball: “I hope it does. If you like baseball, I don’t know that it matters what you do. obviously I hope what we do, people get enjoyment out of it. I think it’s cool that they bring soldiers and people like that around and they honor them at the ballparks. I think everybody enjoys that. I think it’s a really neat thing. If they get some enjoyment out of what we’re doing, that’s terrific.” Of course, perhaps nobody affiliated with the Red Sox had a more compelling 9/11 story than Trot Nixon, whose wife Kathryn gave birth to the couple’s first son on 9/11/01. Today, Chase Nixon turned 10 years old. Here is an in-depth story I did with Trot and Kathryn back in 2002.

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Norway is a long, thin country in northern Europe that is known for its fjords, glaciers, fishing villages and huge pine forests. Norway is a big and very mountainous country with only 4.5 million inhabitants. The landscape is mainly dominated by huge forests. The climate is mild on the coast, and the best time to visit is between May and September. It can be bitterly cold in the interior during the winter. Oslo is a magnificent city, and architecturally, it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

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Angola is a giant jigsaw puzzle of different climates, landscapes, cultures and colors. From mountains to vast open plains, wide white beaches to thick tropical rainforest, Angola has it all, as if each of its eighteen provinces were a different country. Lubango has a mild temperate climate, Luanda is hot and dry, while Cabinda is steamy and tropical. Much of the landscape is dramatic, with plunging waterfalls, bizarre rock formations and deep gorges. With an Atlantic coastline stretching for over 1.650 kms, Angola has mighty rivers flowing into wide estuaries depositing sediments from the high plateaus to form numerous small islands, bays and sandbanks. In Angola, you can encounter a diversity of wild animals: lions, hyenas, elephants and antelopes. Apes, hippopotamuses and crocodiles are also indigenous to this country. In the Namib Desert, which is situated in the south-west, you can find the tumboa, a unique plant with two wide leaves that are several metres long and lie on the ground of the desert. Although the climate is such that the beaches can be visited all year round, it is in fact during the hot season that they are most frequented. The bars all filled and the local music and dancing provide an animated and exotic atmosphere that mixes well with the mystery of the African nights.

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Summer at the library First, congratulations to the 500+ new graduates of Bluefield State College! Second, our summer library hours begin this week -- we're open from 8 AM to 4 PM Monday through Friday, and closed on weekends. Third, our Fourth Friday Book Club meeting is scheduled at noon this Friday, May 20th. Join us for a lively discussion, and to pick up a copy of our next book.

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Do what you will, always Walk where you like your steps Do as you please, I’ll back you up (432): There’re making snowcones with the leftover vodka from last night. This is not the time to be making up excuses! sup guys just going to the petrol station in my racesuit like always

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Album of the year? dadrocks: I don’t know about that, but these people think it’s one of the best this year. I’m flattered! The 405 (Please, please follow the link and vote for the album on the webpage!) Glasgow Podcart Extinguish Aye Tunes Lazy Acre Records It’s Raining Planes and Helicopters And Marcus Gilmer at The A.V. club really liked it too :-) Sweet! Happy Christmas from Banquet → It’s our day on the awesome Banquet Records advent calendar. 25 free CDs online, 10 giftwrapped (by me! Took bloody ages!) free CDs in store, free 11 track MP3 sampler to all, a competition to win all of our 2011 releases AND a picture of me with Ron Jeremy. Seriously, what more could you ask for?! Click the above link to get at it.

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Tom Grubisich wrote a great piece on the failure of local news sites to capture the boom in revenue happening in local online. He made a great point on the news market not capturing this local revenue. ”The issue that no one seems know the answer to is how to channel even a small fraction of the billions of dollars that flow to local non-news digital into news. I have spent a lot of time trying to understand why ads worked in newspapers before. I mean, of course, people read the paper to get the news not to find out about wedding dresses at Macy’s. But the surprising thing is that a lot of people get the newspaper not to read the news but to find information about just that same wedding dress in a marketplace the newspapers have created that gets delivered with the paper. In other words, over the last 50 years, newspapers created a market place for local shopping that they owned. - You are never going to make an effective local ad by sticking ads in online news stories - You have to create new market local market places online - No matter how much local news a digital news business like Patch creates, it will never be successful financially without taking that audience and creating a set of commercial marketplaces.

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The white single knuckle head from Duas Caras Cycles is probabbly the sickest bike I've seen this year. I would give my right long for that bike... Found on Suck my shovel. Check the link for much more sweet stuff swiss cheese dirt moto3 bruce brown snowflakes digger zebra candy flake dust speed master rigid k180 smiley firestone barn find swap meet junk tempter ape 2 stroke soup magneto sumo triple dubble white wall twin garage build amal webco roses beehive bates sissy air head bahnburner bacon slicer baloney bob bone shaker bonnie continental circus cowhorn dog bone hole shot mouse trap new york steak pancake rice rocket sharkfin trumpet

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By Patrick J. Buchanan “In May 1866, a little group of young men in the Tennessee village of Pulaski, finding their time hang heavily on their hands after the excitement of the field, so lately abandoned, formed a secret club for the mere pleasure of association, for private amusement — for anything that might break the monotony of the too quiet place, as their wits might work upon the matter, and one of their number suggested that they call themselves the Kuklos, the Circle.” This prettified depiction of the founding of the Ku Klux Klan is from “A History of the American People” by Princeton professor and future President Woodrow Wilson. The main activities of the Klan, wrote Wilson, were “pranks,” “mischief” and “frolicking.” Occasionally they did prey upon blacks, Wilson conceded, but black fears of the Klan were “comic.” In “Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past,” Bruce Bartlett relates countless such anecdotes to show that while the Republican Party is endlessly smeared as racist, at its worst, it could not hold a candle to the party of Wilson and FDR. What brings this history up is the media assault on Gov. Haley Barbour for his answer to an interviewer’s question as to why his hometown, Yazoo City, avoided the violence that attended the desegregation of other cities in the Mississippi of his youth. Haley’s reply: “You heard of the Citizens’ Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City, they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their a– run out of town. If you had a job, you’d lose it. If you had a store, they’d see nobody shopped there. We didn’t have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City.” No one has contradicted the facts as stated by Haley, that the Citizens’ Council of Yazoo City consisted of “town leaders” who did not want any Klan violence ripping their town apart. But if Haley had meant to leave the impression that the White Citizens’ Councils were promoting peaceful integration, that would have been laughable. Like almost all the U.S. senators from the 11 states of the Old Confederacy who signed the Dixie Manifesto opposing the Brown decision, the White Citizens’ Councils believed in massive resistance to integration. After 24 hours of media bashing, Haley sought to silence his tormenters with this clarification: “My point was my town rejected the Ku Klux Klan, but nobody should construe that to mean the town leadership were saints, either. Their vehicle, called the ‘Citizens’ Council,’ is totally indefensible, as is segregation. It was a difficult and painful era for Mississippi, the rest of the country and especially African-Americans who were persecuted in that time.” Thus did Haley throw the town fathers of Yazoo City, many of whom he must have come to know as friends, under the bus to restore his acceptability to media elites, some of whom he probably detests. Such are the demands of political advancement in America. Yet, as Voltaire observed, history is a pack of lies agreed upon. Undeniably, across the South in the 1950s and 1960s, there was broad and deep resistance to integration. But it is also true that all the Senate signers of the Dixie Manifesto and all but two of the House signers were Democrats in good standing in the party of JFK and LBJ. And while civil right workers and others were brutally killed in the 1960s, the real racial violence occurred in the North — in the Harlem riot of 1964, the Watts riot of 1965, the Detroit and Newark riots of 1967 and the wave of riots that broke out in scores of cities after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. There were days of looting and burning in Washington, D.C. Who was responsible for that wave of racial violence? Was it the black rioters themselves? The Democratic machines and mayors that ran almost all of the Northern cities? The Johnson administration? Because it was surely not Republicans, who in the 1960s were nonexistent in the South and shut out of power in Washington and most major cities and state capitals after JFK’s victory and LBJ’s landslide. The Nixon White House is endlessly denounced for a “Southern Strategy” that captured all 11 states of the Old Confederacy in 1972. But Nixon’s vice president was a pro-civil rights governor, Spiro Agnew of Maryland, who had defeated George P. (“your-home-is-your-castle”) Mahoney, a Democrat who ran in 1966 on his opposition to open housing. In the six presidential elections in which Wilson and FDR topped the ticket, Democrats carried all 11 Southern states every time. Outside of Missouri, Deep South states were the only ones Adlai Stevenson carried in 1956. The sainted Adlai balanced both his tickets with Dixiecrats: John Sparkman of Alabama and Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. As Haley Barbour can attest, liberal hypocrisy is exceeded only by liberal amnesia about who kept them in power from 1933 to 1968.

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According to Buddhist tradition, the disciple Devadatta was the Buddha's cousin and also brother to the Buddha's wife, Yasodhara. Devadatta is said to have caused a split in the sangha by persuading 500 monks to leave the Buddha and follow him instead. This story of Devadatta is preserved in the Pali Tipitika. In this story, Devadatta entered the order of Buddhist monks at the same time as Ananda and other noble youths of the Shakya clan, the clan of the historical Buddha. Devadatta applied himself to practice. But he became frustrated when he failed to progress toward becoming an arhat. So, instead, he applied his practice toward developing supernatural power instead of the realization of enlightenment. It was said he also became driven by jealousy of his kinsman, the Buddha. Devadatta believed he should be the World-Honored One and the leader of the order of monks. One day he approached the Buddha and pointed out that the Buddha was growing older. He proposed that he be put in charge of the order to relieve the Buddha of the burden. The Buddha rebuked Devadatta harshly and said he was not worthy. Thus Devadatta became the Buddha's enemy. Later, the Buddha was questioned how his harsh response to Devadatta was justified as Right Speech. I'll come back to this a bit later. Devadatta had gained the favor of Prince Ajatasattu of Magadha. Ajatasattu's father, King Bimbisara, was a devoted patron of the Buddha. Devadatta persuaded the prince to murder his father and assume the throne of Magadha. At the same time, Devadatta vowed to have the Buddha murdered so he could take over the sangha. So that the deed could not be traced back to Devadatta, the plan was to send a second group of "hit men" to assassinate the first one, and then a third group to take out the second one, and so on for some time. But when the would-be assassins approached the Buddha they couldn't carry out the order. Then Devadatta tried to do the job himself, by dropping a rock on the Buddha. The rock bounced off the mountain side and broke into pieces. The next attempt involved a large bull elephant in a drug-induced fury, but the elephant was gentled in the Buddha's presence. Finally Devadatta attempted to split the sangha by claiming superior moral rectitude. He proposed a list of austerities and asked that they become mandatory for all monks and nuns. These were: - Monks must live all their lives in the forest. - Monks must live only on alms obtained by begging, and should not accept invitations to dine with others. - Monks must wear robes made only from rags collected from rubbish heaps and cremation grounds. They must not accept donations of cloth at any time. (See Kathina.) - Monks must sleep at the foot of trees and not under a roof. - Monks must refrain from eating fish or meat throughout their lives. The Buddha responded as Devadatta had predicted he would. He said that monks could follow the first four austerities if they wished, but he refused to make them mandatory. And he rejected the fifth austerity entirely. (See Buddhism and Vegetarianism.) Devadatta persuaded 500 monks that his Super Austerity Plan was a surer path to enlightenment than the Buddha's, and they followed Devadatta to become his disciples. In response, the Buddha sent two of his disciples, Sariputra and Mahamaudgayalyana, to teach the dharma to the wayward monks. Upon hearing the dharma explained correctly, the 500 monks returned to the Buddha. Devadatta was now a sorry and broken man, and he soon fell mortally ill. On his deathbed he repented of his misdeeds and wished to see the Buddha one more time, but Devadatta died before his liter-bearers could reach him. Life of Devadatta, Alternate Version The lives of the Buddha and his disciples were preserved in several oral recitation traditions before they were written down. The Pali tradition, which is the foundation of Theravada Buddhism, is the best known. Another oral tradition was preserved by the Mahasanghika sect, which was formed about 320 BCE. Mahasanghika is an important forerunner of Mahayana. Mahasanghika remembered Devadatta as a devout and saintly monk. No trace of the "evil Devadatta" story can be found in their version of the canon. This has led some scholars to speculate that the story of the renegade Devadatta is a later invention. The Abhaya Sutta, on Right Speech If we assume the Pali version of Devadatta's story is the more accurate one, however, we can find an interesting footnote in the Abhava Sutta of the Pali Tipitika (Majjhima Nikaya 58). In brief, the Buddha was questioned about the harsh words he said to Devadatta that caused him to turn against the Buddha. The Buddha justified his criticisms of Devadatta by comparing him to a small child who had taken a pebble into his mouth and was about to swallow it. Adults would naturally do whatever it took to get the pebble out of the child. Even if extracting the pebble drew blood, it must be done. The moral appears to be that it is better to hurt someone's feelings than to let them dwell in deceitfulness.

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Hi everyone. Long story short, I had to uninstall Wordpress and Buddypress. After re-installing Wordpress, I created a dummy account, and recieved the confirmation email. (see below) [Florida Beauties in HD] Your username […] Hi everyone. Forgive me if this subject has already been addressed. I can’t find the topic anywhere here. My site is new and still being set up. As part of this process, I’ve had friends attempt to sign up and build profiles. […] @floridabeautiesinhd active 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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These are "every bite is better than the last one" good. They're so good that they make you wonder why other food even exists when flavors this bright and vibrant are possible. ...and thats what I was thinking when eating the reheated leftovers a minute ago. So, can you imagine how good they were fresh? Probably not. It's unimaginable. You have to experience it. Anyway, enough gushing. Onto the important stuff. First - This recipe makes a HUGE batch, so feel free to half it. I wouldn't suggest trying to half a raw egg, instead just add more than half breadcrumbs (probably 3/4 cup) to make up for the extra moisture. Second - These are fried. You'll just have to accept that. I tried to bake some and they were horrid. Dry, poor texture, just not good. If you're brave enough to try baking them yourself and actually have success, please share your technique... because I just couldn't make it work. Third - I demand that you to try these. Sweet Potato Corn Cakes with Garlic Dipping Sauce Total Recipe cost: $5.96 Servings Per Recipe: 10 (two cakes each appetizer/side) Cost per serving: $0.60 Prep time: 20 min. Refrigerate Time: 30 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes min. Total time: 1 hr. 20 min. |3 lbs.||sweet potatoes||$3.17| |1 cup||frozen corn kernels||$0.30| |1/4 bunch||cilantro (divided)||$0.21| |1/4 tsp||cayenne pepper||$0.02| |1/3 cup||yellow cornmeal||$0.19| |1 cup||plain breadcrumbs||$0.50| |1/2 cup||vegetable oil (for frying)||$0.43| |1 cup||plain yogurt||$0.55| STEP 1: Begin by cooking the sweet potatoes. The fastest way to do this is in the microwave. Prick the skin of each potato with a fork. Wrap one potato in a paper towel, place it on a plate, and microwave on high for 5 minutes. Carefully remove it from the microwave, squeeze it to make sure it's soft in the center, and the allow it cool as you cook the next one. When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, cut them open and scoop the flesh into a large bowl. STEP 2: Slice the green onions and roughly chop a handful of cilantro (about 1/8th of a bunch). Add the green onions, cilantro, frozen corn kernels, salt, cumin, and cayenne pepper to the bowl with the cooked sweet potatoes. Stir until well combined. You can taste it at this point and adjust the seasoning as desired. STEP 3: Add the breadcrumbs, cornmeal, and egg to the bowl. These ingredients will bind the mixture together and keep it from falling apart while cooking. Stir until evenly combined. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for 30 minutes to allow the breadcrumbs to absorb moisture. STEP 4: While the sweet potato mixture is refrigerating, mix up the garlic sauce. In a small bowl combine the yogurt, one clove of well minced garlic, and a handful of cilantro leaves (roughly chopped). Stir until combined and then refrigerate until ready to serve. STEP 5: After the sweet potato mixture has refrigerated, it's time to cook. Add enough vegetable oil to fully cover the bottom of a medium skillet. Heat the oil over medium-high heat until the surface appears wavy (if it begins to smoke, remove it from the burner immediately and turn down the heat). Shape the sweet potato mixture into small patties (about 2-3 Tbsp each) and cook about 4 at a time in the hot oil. Cook until golden brown on each side; about 2 minutes per side. After cooking, place on a paper towel covered plate to drain. Add more oil to the skillet as needed. Serve warm with the garlic yogurt dipping sauce. Step By Step Photos Start by pricking the skin of each sweet potato to allow steam to escape as they cook. No one wants to clean exploded sweet potato out of their microwave. Wrap one potato in a paper towel and microwave on high for 5 minutes. Carefully squeeze it to make sure it's soft in the center and then cook the next one. I used one paper towel for all four sweet potatoes. They'll be super hot when they come out of the microwave, so let them cool just a bit before cutting into them. Slice it open and scoop out the cooked flesh. Place the cooked sweet potato in a bowl and add the frozen corn kernels (they'll help cool the sweet potato the rest of the way), sliced green onions, roughly chopped cilantro, salt, cumin, and cayenne pepper. Stir it all together. Now it's time to add the binders. I used one egg, 1/3 cup of cornmeal (it helps bind and gives more texture than just breadcrumbs) and one cup of breadcrumbs. The breadcrumbs are not in the picture (don't ask). Stir it all together and then refrigerate for 30 minutes. While the sweet potato mix is refrigerating, make the garlic yogurt sauce. Finely mince a clove of garlic and roughly chop another handful of cilantro. Stir those into a cup of plain yogurt. You can add a pinch of salt if you'd like. Refrigerate the sauce until you're ready to serve. After the mixture has chilled, it's time to cook. Take about 2 Tbsp of sweet potato mix and shape it into a small patty. My mixture was still pretty wet/sticky, but it was shape-able. Heat some vegetable oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. You want the oil to be quite hot before adding the cakes. It should look wavy on the surface. You can take a pinch of the sweet potato mixture and add it to the skillet to test it. It should sizzle heavily. Add about four patties to the skillet and cook until deep golden brown on one side, then flip. Cook on the other side in the same manner. It should only take about two minutes per side. Try not to make your patties too thick otherwise the inside won't heat through before the outside browns. About a half inch thick is good. Place the cooked sweet potato cakes on a paper towel lined plate and cook the next batch. Add more oil as needed, always allowing it to heat up before adding more sweet potato cakes. Why, hello there little warm, delicious sweet potato cake...

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Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996. 1&1 internet packaged hosting, mail and eCommerce solutions owned by United Internet and incorporating Schlund and Partners. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. A contextual advertising solution for delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages. DoubleClick enables agencies, marketers and publishers to work together successfully and profit from their digital marketing investments. Provides conversion tracking for adword campaigns. Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers. Allows a user to make a website more sociable and connected with integrations from the hugely popular Facebook website. Google+ API functionality. Google+ +1 Button implementation. Allows users to Like items they find on the web, similar to how you Like items within Facebook. The use of a fan page Like box Facebook page integration. A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites. The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content. Meta tag containing keywords related to the page. This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages. SEO Meta Description SEO Meta Keywords Last profiled 16th May. Profile will be refreshed on 13th June. Profile for sprachenlernen24.de. Link to this page. Download lists of websites using particular web technologies for lead generation and research at BuiltWith TrendsPro. Download the BuiltWith Google Chrome Extension and get website lookups directly in your browser. Download the BuiltWith Safari Extension and get website lookups directly in your browser. Download the BuiltWith Firefox Addon and get website lookups directly in your browser. Stay in the loop on website technology trends, sign up to the monthly update - Apply this information and improve your websites Search Engine Optimization, Web Technologies and Document Standards with the BuiltWith Website Optimizer. Free SEO and Technology Report Score Is this profile missing a technology? Suggest a Technology to be added to our database.

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Report of Capt. John S. Langhorne, Thirtieth Virginia Cavalry O.R.– SERIES I–VOLUME 2 [S# 2] — CHAPTER IX, pp. 552-553 CAMP NEAR CENTREVILLE, July 25, 1861 SIR: I have to report at the battle of the 21st July my company was detailed as a support to the first section of the Loudoun Artillery, when they were exposed to the heavy fire (cross-fire) from the enemy’s batteries. We were not relieved from that duty until a late hour of the day, when, with several squadrons of cavalry, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Munford, of Radford’s regiment, we were ordered to intercept and charge the retreating column of the enemy. This was done with spirit and alacrity by my command, and resulted in the capture of thirty-two prisoners, ten horses, three wagons, one wagon of ammunition, a large and valuable assortment of surgical instruments, thirty-six muskets, a number of pistols, all of which, with the exception of the pistols, one wagon, and two horses have been delivered to the proper authorities at Manassas. My command lost two horses, and two men wounded from the accidental discharge of their own guns; also six shot-guns in the charge. I hope some effort will be made to remount my men and supply those with arms who have lost them through an order given by the commander of the squadron when the charge was made. JOHN S. LANGHORNE, Captain Company B, Radford’s Regiment MEM.–As to the number killed by my command I decline speaking. I know it was very considerable. J. S. L., Captain, &c. Col. P. ST. GEORGE COCKE, Commanding Fifth Brigade, Virginia Volunteers

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“I am sending you these little incidents as I hear them well authenticated. They form, to the friends of the parties, part of the history of the glorious 21st. More anon.” Hello! I’m Harry Smeltzer and welcome to Bull Runnings, where you'll find my digital history project on the First Battle of Bull Run which is organized under the Bull Run Resources section. I'll also post my thoughts on the processes behind the project and commentary on the campaign, but pretty much all things Civil War are fair game. You'll only find musings on my “real job” or my personal life when they relate to this project. My mother always told me "never discuss politics or religion in mixed company”, and that's sound advice where current events are concerned. This site is more than a blog. Bull Runnings also hosts digitized material pertaining to First Bull Run. In the Bull Run Resources link in the masthead and also listed below are links to Orders of Battle, After Action Reports, Official Correspondence, Biographical Sketches, Diaries, Letters, Memoirs, Newspaper Accounts and much, much more. Take some time to surf thourgh the material. This is a work in process with no end in sight, so check back often!

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Craigslist Curiosities: Own the Entire Town from 'It's A Wonderful Life' in Miniature Here's a sampling of the wonderful and weird that we found this week on Craigslist in Burnsville. If you buy the Enesco It's a Wonderful Life Village you really can own the whole town, lock, stock and barrel, from Ma Baily's House to Bedford Falls Bridge. The seller normally would ask $1,520 but will accept $1,100 if the buyer opts for the entire set at once. Got mixed feelings for someone on your gift list? The ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IMMATURITY, Volume 2 ($9) is where it's at. A sampling of the table fo contents: Air Guitar, Dog Couture, Be Amazing and Still Be Lazy, Completely Armless Jacket Fights and last, but certainly not least, How to Hypnotize a Chicken. Live rock combo set with Green submersible LED light—$75—Works best in the corner of tank. Three separate rocks. Made with crushed oyster shells, white portland cement and coarse rock salt. This mixture allows once cured to be a porous which provides natural filtration. I have 7 personally made rocks in my 100g saltwater reef tank. All have been in for about a year and are accepting live coral and coralline algae. The combination of changing elevations and man made to look natural make this live rock worth the money. This vintage doctor's bag is made of leather with a very strong leather handle. We used it to hold our clowning items a lot of years ago. Since then, it has just been stored away in a closet. Lot of 16 L Ron Hubbard Books Hardcover Scientology & Dianetics, $60: Dianetics the Evolution of Science Dianetics The Original Thesis Dianetics 55! The Compete Manual of Human Communication Scientology The Fundamentals of Thought Advanced Procedure and Axioms The Creation of Human Ability The Way to Happiness Scientology A History of Man The Problems of Work Introduction to Scientology Ethics Handbook for Preclears Scientology of a New Slant on Life Scientology 0-8 The Book of Basics

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CBA Development and Alumni Affairs Team Still Growing M.G. Bailey has joined the college’s development and alumni affairs team as one of two assistant directors of development. He comes to us from Duke Athletics where he served as assistant director of the Iron Dukes Annual Fund. Bailey grew up in Carthage, Tennessee, where his family currently resides. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies and went on to receive a master’s degree in college student personnel in 2007. During his time in graduate school, Bailey worked with the UT Knoxville College of Law, UT Athletics, and Florida State University as an intern. Please join us in welcoming the newest member of the development and alumni affairs team! Also joining the department is Lance Taylor, a Kingston, Tennessee, native and recent graduate of the College of Business Administration. Serving as annual giving coordinator for the college, he joins us from Kimberly-Clark, where he worked as an intern on the Global Transportation team. While a student at UT, Taylor worked for both UT Athletics and as an Ambassador Scholar for Undergraduate Admissions. He earned the university’s highest student award, the Torchbearer, for serving UT with excellence and the CBA Bank of America Leadership Award; was an orientation leader; and was president of the College of Business Administration’s Dean’s Student Advisory Council. Please join us in welcoming them to the college!

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Public Papers - 1991 White House Fact Sheet on The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) Today, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. This treaty marks the first agreement between the two countries in which the number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons will actually be reduced. Reductions will take place over a period of 7 years, and will result in parity between the strategic nuclear forces of the two sides at levels approximately 30 percent below currently deployed forces. Deeper cuts are required in the most dangerous and destabilizing systems. START provisions are designed to strengthen strategic stability at lower levels and to encourage the restructuring of strategic forces in ways that make them more stable and less threatening. The treaty includes a wide variety of very demanding verification measures designed to ensure compliance and build confidence. The treaty sets equal ceilings on the number of strategic nuclear forces that can be deployed by either side. In addition, the treaty establishes an equal ceiling on ballistic missile throw-weight (a measure of overall capability for ballistic missiles). Each side is limited to no more than: -- 1600 strategic nuclear delivery vehicles (deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles [ICBM's], submarine launched ballistic missiles [SLBM's], and heavy bombers), a limit that is 36 percent below the Soviet level declared in September 1990 and 29 percent below the U.S. level. -- 6000 total accountable warheads, about 41 percent below the current Soviet level and 43 percent below the current U.S. level. -- 4900 accountable warheads deployed on ICBM's or SLBM's, about 48 percent below the current Soviet level and 40 percent below the current U.S. level. -- 1540 accountable warheads deployed on 154 heavy ICBM's, a 50-percent reduction in current Soviet forces. The U.S. has no heavy ICBM's. -- 1100 accountable warheads deployed on mobile ICBM's. -- Aggregate throw-weight of deployed ICBM's and SLBM's equal to about 54 percent of the current Soviet aggregate throw-weight. Ballistic Missile Warhead Accountability The treaty uses detailed counting rules to ensure the accurate accounting of the number of warheads attributed to each type of ballistic missile. -- Each deployed ballistic missile warhead counts as 1 under the 4900 ceiling and 1 under the 6000 overall warhead ceiling. -- Each side is allowed 10 on-site inspections each year to verify that deployed ballistic missiles contain no more warheads than the number that is attributed to them under the treaty. Downloading Ballistic Missile Warheads The treaty also allows for a reduction in the number of warheads on certain ballistic missiles, which will help the sides transition their existing forces to the new regime. Such downloading is permitted in a carefully structured and limited fashion. -- The U.S. may download its three-warhead Minuteman III ICBM by either one or two warheads. The Soviet Union has already downloaded it's seven warhead SS - N - 18 SLBM by four warheads. -- In addition, each side may download up to 500 warheads on two other existing types of ballistic missiles, as long as the total number of warheads removed from downloaded missiles does not exceed 1250 at any one time. The treaty places constraints on the characteristics of new types of ballistic missiles to ensure the accuracy of counting rules and prevent undercounting of missile warheads. -- The number of warheads attributed to a new type of ballistic missile must be no less than the number determined by dividing 40 percent of the missile's total throw-weight by the weight of the lightest RV tested on that missile. -- The throw-weight attributed to a new type must be no less than the missile's throw-weight capability at specified reference ranges (11,000 km for ICBM's and 9,500 km for SLBM's). START places significant restrictions on the Soviet SS - 18 heavy ICBM. -- A 50-percent reduction in the number of Soviet SS - 18 ICBM's; a total reduction of 154 of these Soviet missiles. -- New types of heavy ICBM's are banned. -- Downloading of heavy ICBM's is banned. -- Heavy SLBM's and heavy mobile ICBM's are banned. -- Heavy ICBM's will be reduced on a more stringent schedule than other strategic arms. Because mobile missiles are more difficult to verify than other types of ballistic missiles, START incorporates a number of special restrictions and notifications with regard to these missiles. These measures will significantly improve our confidence that START will be effectively verifiable. -- Nondeployed mobile missiles and non-deployed mobile launchers are numerically and geographically limited so as to limit the possibility for reload and refire. -- The verification regime includes continuous monitoring of mobile ICBM production, restrictions on movements, on-site inspections, and cooperative measures to improve the effectiveness of national technical means of intelligence collection. Because heavy bombers are stabilizing strategic systems (e.g., they are less capable of a short-warning attack than ballistic missiles), START counting rules for weapons on bombers are different than those for ballistic missile warheads. -- Each heavy bomber counts as one strategic nuclear delivery vehicle. -- Each heavy bomber equipped to carry only short-range missiles or gravity bombs is counted as one warhead under the 6000 limit. -- Each U.S. heavy bomber equipped to carry long-range nuclear ALCM's (up to a maximum of 150 bombers) is counted as 10 warheads even though it may be equipped to carry up to 20 ALCM's. -- A similar discount applies to Soviet heavy bombers equipped to carry long-range nuclear ALCM's. Each such Soviet heavy bomber (up to a maximum of 180) is counted as 8 warheads even though it may be equipped to carry up to 16 ALCM's. -- Any heavy bomber equipped for long-range nuclear ALCM's deployed in excess of 150 for the U.S. or 180 for the Soviet Union will be accountable by the number of ALCM's the heavy bomber is actually equipped to carry. Building on recent arms control agreements, START includes extensive and unprecedented verification provisions. This comprehensive verification regime greatly reduces the likelihood that violations would go undetected. -- START bans the encryption and encapsulation of telemetric information and other forms of information denial on flight tests of ballistic missiles. However, strictly limited exemptions to this ban are granted sufficient to protect the flight-testing of sensitive research projects. -- START allows 12 different types of on-site inspections and requires roughly 60 different types of notifications covering production, testing, movement, deployment, and destruction of strategic offensive arms. START will have a duration of 15 years, unless it is superseded by a subsequent agreement. If the sides agree, the treaty may be extended for successive 5-year periods beyond the 15 years. Noncircumvention and Third Countries START prohibits the transfer of strategic offensive arms to third countries, except that the treaty will not interfere with existing patterns of cooperation. In addition, the treaty prohibits the permanent basing of strategic offensive arms outside the national territory of each side. Air-Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCM's) START does not directly count or limit ALCM's. ALCM's are limited indirectly through their association with heavy bombers. -- Only nuclear-armed ALCM's with a range in excess of 600 km are covered by START. -- Long-range, conventionally armed ALCM's that are distinguishable from nuclear-armed ALCM's are not affected. -- Long-range nuclear-armed ALCM's may not be located at air bases for heavy bombers not accountable as being equipped for such ALCM's. -- Multiple warhead long-range nuclear ALCM's are banned. Sea Launched Cruise Missiles (SLCM's) SLCMs are not constrained by the treaty. However, each side has made a politically binding declaration as to its plans for the deployment of nuclear-armed SLCM's. Conventionally-armed SLCM's are not subject to such a declaration. -- Each side will make an annual declaration of the maximum number of nuclear-armed SLCM's with a range greater than 600 km that it plans to deploy for each of the following 5 years. -- This number will not be greater than 880 long-range nuclear-armed SLCM's. -- In addition, as a confidence building measure, nuclear-armed SLCM's with a range of 300 - 600 km will be the subject of a confidential annual data exchange. The Soviet Backfire bomber is not constrained by the treaty. However, the Soviet side has made a politically binding declaration that it will not deploy more than 800 air force and 200 naval Backfire bombers, and that these bombers will not be given intercontinental capability. The START agreement consists of the treaty document itself and a number of associated documents. Together they total more than 700 pages. The treaty was signed in a public ceremony by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev in St. Vladimir's Hall in the Kremlin. The associated documents were signed in a private ceremony at Novo Ogaryevo, President Gorbachev's weekend dacha. Seven of these documents were signed by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev. Three associated agreements were signed by Secretary Baker and Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh. In addition, the START negotiators, Ambassadors Brooks and Nazarkin, exchanged seven letters related to START in a separate event at the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. Magnitude of START -- Accountable Reductions Following is the aggregate data from the Memorandum of Understanding, based upon agreed counting rules in START. (Because of those counting rules, the number of heavy bomber weapons actually deployed may be higher than the number shown in the aggregate.) This data is effective as of September 1990 (TABLE START)and will be updated at entry into force: Delivery Vehicles .... 2,246 .... 2,500 Warheads .... 10,563 .... 10,271 Ballistic Missile Warheads .... 8,210 .... 9,416 Heavy ICBM's/Warheads .... None .... 308/3080 Throw-weight (metric tons) .... 2,361.3 .... 6,626.3 As a result of the treaty, the above values will be reduced by the following percentages: Delivery Vehicles .... 29 percent .... 36 percent Warheads .... 43 percent .... 41 percent Ballistic Missile Warheads .... 40 percent .... 48 percent Heavy ICBM's/Warheads .... None .... 50 percent Throw-weight (metric tons) .... None .... 46 percent

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TrendingTelus-Mobilicity | Gold | REITs | BlackBerry | CMHC | Keystone | Housing market | Earnings | Loblaw's Joe Fresh | BCE-Astral hearings | Poll: Do you like the new $5 and $10 bills? | Air Canada | RBC | Samsung Galaxy S4 | Target Canada | ‘Can’t make it to your wedding, I’ll catch your next one’ Matthew Goldstein, Jennifer Ablan and Lauren Tara LaCapra, Reuters | 12/07/20 4:41 PM ET More from Reuters Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive Donald Mullen, one of the architects of the subprime mortgage trade, is trying to raise at least US$500-million for a fund that will buy foreclosed homes with an eye toward renting them out. Mullen, who until January was head of the credit and mortgage business inside Goldman’s securities division, began marketing his Fundamental REO Access fund in earnest about a month ago, said seven people familiar with the matter, but who did not want to be identified because they do not work for the upstart fund. Several sources said Goldman Sachs is serving as the placement agent for the fund and will market it to wealthy investors, including some of its own clients. Goldman and other investment firms that serve as placement agents can collect fees that range from 1% to 2% of the total sum raised from investors. The new fund is part of a growing move by former Wall Street traders, hedge funds and private equity shops to profit from acquiring foreclosed homes and turning them into rental properties for their steady stream of cash. Two sources familiar with the foreclosed home market said Mullen has told people the fund could raise as much as US$1-billion. Mullen did not return requests for comment. A Goldman Sachs spokesman declined to comment. Mullen announced he was leaving Goldman in January, after 11 years at the firm. He joined the bank as a partner in July 2001 to head leveraged finance. As a senior mortgage executive at Goldman, Mullen was actively engaged in derivatives trades that became widely known on Wall Street as “the big short.” The deals provided a way for traders and hedge funds to bet against the housing market in the run-up to the mortgage bust. Before joining Goldman in 2001, Mullen had held top jobs at Bear Stearns, Salomon Brothers and Drexel Burnham Lambert. The sources familiar with Mullen’s fund said it will raise money to go after homes being sold at foreclosure or taken over by banks. The fund will target homes that are selling for between US$70,000 and US$190,000 and mainly in the southeastern and southwestern regions of the United States. Money managers are being drawn to the foreclosed home market because the rental market for single-family homes has become lucrative. The goal for many foreclosed home funds is to eventually sell the homes even in blocks, or as part of real-estate investment trust. The foreclosed home market is attracting interest from individual investors, who are seeking higher income in an environment where 10-year Treasury notes yield a paltry 1.5%. The market got a big shot in the arm earlier this year when the U.S. government announced a trial project to sell-off a big pool of 2,500 single-family homes that Fannie Mae currently owns in some of the hardest-hit housing markets. On Wednesday, private equity firm Blackstone Group LP said it has spent more than US$300-million to purchase over 2,000 foreclosed home across the United States with an eye toward renting them out until the housing market recovers. Asset management firm TCW, which specializes in fixed-income securities and oversees US$128-billion in assets, recently launched the TCW Home Place Partners fund, as an opportunity for wealthy investors to invest in the “housing turnaround” by buying foreclosed homes from banks and federal government agencies. And in May, Beazer Homes USA, Inc announced it was partnering with private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. to buy foreclosed homes.

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Stocks are flat after surprise drop in unemployment claims, upbeat retail sales; Dow near 11KBy Stephen Bernard, AP Thursday, October 7, 2010 Stocks mixed after positive job news; Dow near 11K NEW YORK — Stocks seesawed Thursday as traders balanced slightly better news on jobs against mixed results from PepsiCo Inc. The Dow Jones industrial average came within two points of 11,000 before turning slightly lower. The Labor Department said first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell last week, a better result than analysts were expecting. Retailers including Macy’s Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch and Limited Brands Inc. reported better-than-expected monthly sales. Many traders were holding back ahead of the release Friday of the government’s closely watched monthly employment report, which is the most important event on the economic calendar and very often determines which way stocks and bonds will trade. Economists expect the unemployment rate climbed to 9.7 percent last month from 9.6 percent in August. Claims for unemployment insurance have been falling steadily in recent weeks, but still indicate that employers aren’t ramping up hiring. Payroll company ADP said Wednesday that private employers slashed jobs in September for the first time in seven months. High unemployment remains a main obstacle to stronger economic growth. Worries about jobs had been keeping a lid on spending in recent months, though retailers reported Thursday that sales improved modestly in September. The Dow fell 21.04, or 0.2 percent, to 10,946.53 in midday trading, after having been up as much as 31 points shortly after the open. The Dow hasn’t traded above 11,000 since May 4, shortly before the “flash crash” that sent indexes on a harrowing but brief plunge. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 2.28, or 0.2 percent, to 1,157.69, while the Nasdaq composite rose 2.38, or 0.1 percent, to 2,383.04. PepsiCo said its third-quarter profit jumped in part on revenue gains following its acquisition of its two largest bottlers earlier this year. Earnings matched expectations, but the company narrowed its earnings outlook to a level below analysts’ forecasts. Alcoa Inc. will be the first component of the Dow Jones industrial average to report earnings when it releases results after the market closes. PepsiCo and Alcoa provide a glimpse into how companies were able to deal with slowing economic growth over the summer and provide insight into where corporate executives believe the economy is headed. Analysts have said earnings outlooks and revenue growth will be vital to propelling stocks higher in the next few weeks as hundreds of companies report results. Stocks are coming off a historically strong performances in September, and analysts say the market will need significant doses of positive news on the economy, corporate earnings or preferably both before heading decisively higher again. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 10.4 percent in September, but is still 2.1 percent below its 2010 high reached on April 26. Falling stocks narrowly outpaced those that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 357.5 million shares. PepsiCo fell $2.32, or 3.4 percent, to $65.79. Limited Brands shares rose $1.08, or 3.9 percent, to $28.67, while Abercrombie & Fitch jumped $3.60, or 9.4 percent, to $42.19. Macy’s fell 21 cents to $23.49 after rising earlier in the day. Bond yields remained near their lowest levels since January 2009 as traders expect the Federal Reserve to step up its purchases of Treasurys in order lower interest rates and encourage borrowing. Cliff Draughn, president and chief investment officer at Excelsia Investment Advisors, said the Fed could act as early as its next meeting that wraps up Nov. 3. The timing of the Fed re-entering the Treasury market hinges on how the investors react to election results Nov 2. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, was unchanged at 2.39 percent compared with late Wednesday. Its yield helps set interest rates on a variety of loans including mortgages. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said rates on traditional 30-year fixed-rate mortgages reached their lowest level on records dating back to 1971. The dollar continued to fall against other major currencies as traders expect U.S. interest rates to fall further. Currencies with higher interest rates become more attractive to foreign exchange traders when U.S. rates fall. Gold, which is considered a safe alternative to the dollar, hit another record of $1,366.00 an ounce early Thursday before pulling back to $1,336.00 an ounce. Overseas, Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.3 percent, Germany’s DAX index gained 0.1 percent, and France’s CAC-40 rose 0.2 percent. Japan’s Nikkei stock average fell 0.1 percent. Tags: Labor Economy, Labor Issues, New York, North America, Personal Finance, Personal Loans, Real Estate, Unemployment Insurance, United States

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University of Stellenbosch economics professor Servaas van der Berg is the latest academic to attack recruitment firm Adcorp’s employment statistics, describing them as "dangerous fictions". The Adcorp Employment index is published monthly. Unlike figures from Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), it is not based on surveys and relies upon its own data gathered in interviews with job recruits. It also uses a controversial methodology to estimate the size of the informal sector to arrive at an estimate of total employment. › Adcorp job figures fiction - Prof › Eurozone slips deeper into recession In an article on Econ3x3, a new online policy forum, Prof van der Berg writes that Adcorp’s data "is so clearly wrong that it does not even warrant paying their methodologies serious attention". He urges people to consider the "obvious inconsistencies" in Adcorp’s numbers by juxtaposing its unemployment figure - which it put at 1-million people in 2011 - with the number of unemployed graduates, which it estimated to be 600 000 at the time. This would mean, Prof van der Berg writes, that based on a labour force of 20-million and a graduate population of 1.1-million, unemployment was 5% for the population and 54% for graduates. In contrast, the last quarterly labour force survey compiled by Stats SA put unemployment at 25.5% and in 2011 found that broad graduate unemployment ( for all tertiary qualifications ) was 340 000. The Adcorp employment index estimates the informal sector to be much larger than estimates from other organisations. It uses the currency demand method to arrive at its estimate, which takes the amount of cash circulating to estimate the size of the activity not recorded in the formal economy. The result is a much higher number of employed : 19-million according to Adcorp and 13.5-million according to Stats SA. This methodology has been criticised in detail by University of Cape Town academics Andrew Kerr and Martin Wittenberg, in two papers written last year. "The Adcorp employment and unemployment figures are dangerous fictions - and need to be exposed as such," Prof van der Berg writes. "It is unfortunate that the news media publish them as if they come from a credible source. That feeds at least two contradictory and mistaken beliefs: that unemployment is not a problem of great consequence, and that graduate unemployment is a problem of grandiose proportions. "Neither of these two conclusions could be further from the truth." Adcorp economist Loane Sharp said Prof van der Berg’s criticisms were "parochial" while his methodology enjoyed international recognition. He said he would not debate the size of the informal economy - as he had done it before - and won. Mr Sharp said the apparent anomalies in the number of unemployed graduates compared to the rest of the population was because "there is a problem with Stats SA data". He believed Prof van der Berg had incorrectly read Stats SA figures on graduate unemployment. Statistician-general Pali Lehohla, who has been arguing with Adcorp over its employment numbers for years, said on Thursday the company’s objectivity was compromised. "They are an employment agency. That compromises them severely. To collect statistics, you need to be policy neutral. You can’t measure statistics when you have an interest, especially where the benefits are financial."

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The National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) has selected the University of Notre Dame as lead academic sponsor for the 2010 Conference & Career Expo. The conference will take place in Chicago on October 21 - 23, 2010 and expects to draw over 8,000 Hispanic MBA professionals, students and academics, and more than 300 companies who embrace diversity and seek the best talent. Although the competition was close, the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame was chosen based on its long-standing commitment to the Hispanic community and tradition of supporting diversity. 'It is inspiring when two great organizations can come together to support a common goal,' said Lourdes M. Hassler, NSHMBA CEO. 'The Mendoza College and NSHMBA have similar goals to develop diverse business leaders that will make a positive difference in their professional and civic lives, while inspiring others to pursue their dreams of higher education.' 'We have matching missions,' said Carolyn Woo, Martin J. Gillen Dean of the Mendoza College of Business. 'Both the Mendoza College and NSHMBA seek to develop business leaders who have a concern for the greater good of society as well as their organizations. The conference is an exciting opportunity for us to support their vision.' As lead academic sponsor, the Mendoza College will host NSHMBA's corporate Advisory Board meeting, provide conference speakers and organize clinics in job-seeking skills during the conference. NSHMBA planners have already seen an increased demand in corporate participation in anticipation of this strong partnering. For more information on corporate and academic sponsorship, please contact the National Society of Hispanic MBAs at 1-877-467-4622. About theNotre Dame MBA: The Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame offers one-year and two-year MBA programs. Both programs feature immersions in Asia, Latin America and Europe. Through 'live case' classroom experiences, students analyze, investigate and offer solutions for real-life problems presented by executives from some of the largest global organizations, including Coca-Cola, GE, Hewlett-Packard and OfficeMax. The program ranked No. 5 on the Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a biennial ranking and survey of top U.S. business schools' incorporation of social and environmental stewardship into their curricula and research. BusinessWeek's 'The Best B-Schools MBA Programs (2006)' rated the Notre Dame MBA as No. 26 among the top 30 programs and No. 6 in fastest return on investment. The National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) was created in 1988 as a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization. Widely known as the 'Premier Hispanic Organization,' NSHMBA serves 32 chapters and 8,000 members in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. It exists to foster Hispanic leadership through graduate management education and professional development. NSHMBA works to prepare Hispanics for leadership positions throughout the U.S., so that they can provide the cultural awareness and sensitivity vital in the management of the nation's diverse workforce.

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I’m a 17 year old white guy living in middle class America. I’ve never exactly been a supporter of feminism because that kind of thing has never really affected me personally. I don’t notice it and I don’t care about it. But in nine minutes this video has made what is truly a serious problem extremely apparent. Those “why I need feminism” posts or those slut-shaming or rape culture campaigns never convince me of anything. But this video actually did I think. tl;dr This video kicks ass, just watch it. Public schools can get a free copy-worthwhile viewing! Join Demi and paint your pinkies blue to show you’re against girl-to-girl bullying. Share your pic using the submit button on the right or by just tagging your pic with #BluePinkyChallenge on Instagram. Want to spread the #BluePinkyChallenge? Watch our web series, HOW A DIFFERENCE IS MADE, for tips on getting your friends to join you: http://on.mtv.com/YW6Um7

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BW is Recognized as a Yellow Ribbon College Lauded for its role in supporting veterans, BW has been designated a Yellow Ribbon institution by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This honor enables qualifying Post-9/11 veterans to attend Baldwin Wallace University tuition free. How do I know which benefits I am eligible for? How do I choose between the Post-911 benefits and the Montgomery GI Bill? Each veteran's benefits differ based on type and length of service and whether you have already used the Montgomery GI Bill. Talk with an Education Case Worker/ Veteran's Benefits Counselor in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Educational Benefits for Veterans Receiving VA Benefits - VA Form 22-1990 Your first step in receiving educational benefits for your military service is to submit VA Form 22-1990 (Application for VA Education Benefits) - either by paper or online. The Veteran's Online Application (VONAPP) allows you to submit your request online. If applying online, you must send the VA a signature card - they will not process any application without a signature. A number of web links and contacts are listed on the right side of this page to assist you. In addition, a good resource is www.TodaysGIBill.org, a web site designed to assist service members and veterans with clear, comprehensive guidance on the steps to making the most out of their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits. Enrollment Certification at BW Once you have applied and been admitted to Baldwin Wallace University, you will need to work with Baldwin Wallace to certify your enrollment to the Veteran's Administration (VA). Each semester, BW must report how many hours you will be enrolled during that term. To have your enrollment certified at BW each semester, contact: Registration & Records, Bonds Hall Enrollment verification is done by the student at the end of each month to let the VA know that your enrollment information has not changed. Your enrollment can be verified starting on the last calendar day of the month online by using WAVE - the Web Automated Verification of Enrollment at https://www.gibill.va.gov/wave or by calling toll free 1-877-823-2378. The VA will send you a Certificate of Eligibility that states your remaining entitlement and monthly disbursement amounts. Your GI Bill check will normally be mailed to you at the beginning of each month for the previous month. (For example, the check you receive in October covers your eligibility from the month of September). If you have questions, call 1-800-827-1000 to speak with a Veteran's Benefits Counselor in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Regarding Financial Aid: In addition to GI Bill or other VA educational benefits, most veteran students may be eligible for financial aid such as federal or state grants and Federal Direct student loans. Veteran students may also be eligible to receive a BW scholarship or merit award, as determined through the admission process. However, if a veteran receives 100% in tuition benefits through the GI Bill or other VA education benefits, they will not receive additional financial aid or scholarships above the cost of tuition. Submitting the FAFSA and determining financial aid eligibility can assist in helping veterans pay for college once their GI Bill or other VA education benefits have been exhausted. Our web site gives lots of information on Financial Aid, or to talk with a financial aid counselor, contact: Financial Aid Office, Bonds Hall Ohio National Guard Scholarships If you are receiving a scholarship from the Ohio National Guard, contact Carolyn McCluskey in Financial Aid to make sure that BW has a copy of your scholarship approval through the Ohio National Guard. VA Form 28-1905 If your eligibility for benefits includes submitting the VA Form 28-1905 (Authorization and Certification of Entrance/Re-entrance into Rehabilitation and Certification of Status), please contact: Marcia Shaffer, Bursar's Office

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Warchant TV: Greg Reid on the Miami win When Florida State punt returner Greg Reid drops back it's always an adventure. During Saturday's 23-19 win over Miami, Reid's adventure was of epic proportions. In the second corner Reid fielded a punt on his own goaline. He made a few Hurricanes miss as he made it out the 11-yard line, but a personal foul pushed FSU back to its own six. On his next punt return attempt Reid fielded the ball on a hop, made one move and sprinted 83 yards to the house for a touchdown just before halftime. "Greg thinks every play is a touchdown," head coach Jimbo Fisher said after the game. "That's what makes him great, but also he has to be smart in some situations and he almost had another one Greg's mentality is like that and I'd rather say whoa than giddy up any day of the week." Reid finished the game with 106 yards on three punt returns, an average of 35.3 yards per return. The 83-yard score was the longest of Reid's career and the fourth longest in school history. It Reid's his first score since taking a punt back against Samford in the 2010 season opener. Reid looked like he might have had one earlier in the year against Maryland, but was called for an illegal fair catch signal and the play was whistled dead. Saturday Reid said he felt a sense of relief as he turned around after the score and didn't see any flags down, but the return opened up for him once the kick bounced. "I think he kind of shanked the kick a little bit and it gave me the one-hop and I took it," Reid said. "I looked up and I was just looking for somebody to give a move to and it was just there." The 5-foot-8, 186-pound junior said he tries to attack every punt, so he didn't dwell on his mistake earlier in the quarter. He did recognize it was a mistake after the game though. "I had my heels on the 11 yard line, I just kept going back," he said of the miscue. "I actually thought he had out-kicked his coverage, but then again we were playing against Miami, all those guys run about a 4.3. That was just a dumb decision by me, but I made up for it so in the film room I won't get it that bad." While Reid's up and down performance may be agonizing for fans to watch at times, it is also one the most electric parts of each FSU game. Even his teammates can't take their eyes of the field when he's deep to return. "It definitely is fun to sit back and watch him make plays," receiver Christian Green said of Reid. "He's an explosive returner. I feel like he's one the best in the country so you feel like a fan in the stands watching when we see him return kicks." Powell pins the 'Canes After not being named a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award on Friday afternoon, senior punter Shawn Powell turned in one the best performances of his career. Powell punted four times, all four punts were over 50 yards and had a net average of 47.4 yards. Twice he pinned Miami inside it's own 10-yard line. His first punt of the game went 51 yards and was marked out of bounds at the Hurricane one-yard line. "I think it was," Powell said when asked if it was the best punt of his career. "For a regular punt that was probably the best punt I've hit." The two punts inside the Miami 10-yard line gave Powell and ACC-best nine punts inside the 10 this season. "He had a breakout game, his first punt inside the one," kicker Dustin Hopkins saif after the game. "It kind of beats down the spirits of the team when you're inside your own endzone. He's up for player of the game and rightfully so, because it is such hidden yardage and momentum that a lot of people overlook." While Powell admitted being left off the Ray Guy list was disappointing, a solid performance in his final game against rival Miami helped erase the disappointment. "It was great," Powell said of his career day. "I had some setbacks this week, but I let those things go past me with the Ray Guy thing. I just have to do what's best for my team and if I can continue to contribute for my team then that's all that matters." With less than two minutes left in the game and Miami driving to get back into the game, linebacker Nigel Bradham was ejected from the game for launching himself into Hurricanes' receiver LaRon Byrd at the FSU 21-yard line. Bradham appeared to hit Bryd with his shoulder, not his helmet, but was still ejected for launching himself at a defenseless receiver. "It looked like he hit him with a shoulder and he hit him in the ribs or chest in my opinion," Fisher said after the game. "And I can't see it-but they said he launched, I don't know. I guess that's the rule, then that's the rule. I'll have to clarify it tomorrow and look at it on film." Because he was ejected from the game, Bradham and Fisher both feared that the senior linebacker would be suspend for part of or all of next week's final home against Virginia. Atlantic Coast Conference Associate Commissioner Michael Kelly told Warchant.com after the game that a player can only be suspended mandatory if he is ejected for fighting, which obviously Bradham was not. Florida State receiver Rashad Greene took the field in the second quarter, his first game action since the Wake Forest game on Oct. 8. Greene had collected more than 450 receiving yards in the Seminoles' first five games. With field goals of 21 and 38 yard Dustin Hopkins moved into fifth-place all-time for career points with 310. He passed Gary Cismesia (308 points) on Saturday. Next up is Sebastian Janikowski who ranks fourth with 323 career points. It was star-studded event along the sidelines of Doak Campbell Stadium Saturday night. Former Seminoles Drew Weatherford, Dexter Carter, Craphonso Thorpe, and Matt Henshaw were among the former players in attendance. Members of the Tampa Bay Rays were also in attendance Saturday including ace pitcher David Price and outfielder B.J. Upton. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial

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