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TORONTO, July 13, 2015 /CNW/ - Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) have issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for interested parties to design, build, finance and maintain the Highway 427 expansion project.
The Highway 427 expansion project includes:
The Highway 427 project is part of the largest infrastructure investment in Ontario's history. The Province's 10-year, $130 billion commitment is supported by a number of initiatives, including unlocking the value of public assets to help support investments in transit, transportation and other priority infrastructure projects.
Expansion of Ontario's highway infrastructure spurs economic growth through development opportunities, provides congestion relief, and reduces commute and travel times on critical links, highway corridors and to international gateways.
Extending Highway 427 north of Highway 7 was noted as a priority in the 2006 Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe and provides economic benefits to the province by offering an enhanced freeway route into York Region, the Vaughan Business area and the CPR Vaughan Intermodal Facility.
The RFQ is the first step in the procurement process to select a team to deliver the project. Submissions will be evaluated to prequalify project teams with the relevant design and construction experience, and the capacity to finance and deliver a project of this size and complexity. Teams who qualify will be invited to respond to a request for proposals, expected to be issued in fall 2015.
The project is being delivered under Infrastructure Ontario's Alternative Financing and Procurement model, which transfers risks associated with design, construction, financing and maintenance of the project to the private sector.
IO and MTO are working together to develop the project, which will remain publicly owned and controlled.
Steven Del Duca, Minister of Transportation
"Expanding Highway 427 will create jobs, strengthen the economy and help keep goods and people moving for years to come. This new expansion project is proof of our commitment to making the daily commute and quality of life better for all Ontario families."
Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure
"Our government is committed to building a stronger, more prosperous province through the largest infrastructure investment in Ontario's history. The Highway 427 expansion project will enhance our transportation network, stimulate employment opportunities during construction and help support future development along the highway corridor."
IO is a Crown agency of the Province of Ontario that works to deliver public benefits through partnerships with the private sector. IO delivers large, complex public infrastructure projects using a made-in-Ontario modern procurement and project management practice called Alternative Financing and Procurement (AFP). IO also partners with the private sector to manage one of the largest real estate portfolios in Canada, provides municipalities and eligible public-sector clients with loans to renew public infrastructure, and leverages its private-sector expertise to advise the provincial public-sector clients on commercial transactions.
Visit www.infrastructureontario.ca for more information.
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With a central yet quiet location in Maranza, Hotel Ambet is set at an altitude of 1400 metres. Located directly on the Gitschberg Jochtal ski slopes, it offers an indoor swimming pool and Finnish sauna. The Ambet Hotel has a 500 m² garden with a children's playground. Indoors, there is a games room with table tennis and card games for both adults and children. Offering views of the surrounding mountains, the rooms offer a HD LCD TV with satellite channels and a private bathroom with free toiletries. The breakfast buffet includes both sweet and savoury items. The hotel also provides free parking and free Wi-Fi in public areas. A free ski deposit with boot warmer is available. During summer, you have free use of the 3 cable cars nearby. These lead to various mountains for hiking such as Mühlbach, Gitschberg and Jochtal.

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AM and PL Bundle of the ACL: Radiographic findings with regard to tunnel positioning
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Introduction: Palmer described in 1938 the ACL to consist out of two functional bundles, namely the anteromedial (AM) and the posterolateral (PL) bundle. When the knee is extended, the PL bundle is tight and the AM bundle is moderately lax. Interestingly, only little is known about the anatomy and the radiological description of the PL bundle. However, a detailed anatomical knowledge of the surgeon is necessary to have the optimal outcome after ACL reconstruction. Aim of the current study was to provide more insight into the anatomy of the ACL with regard to its two functional bundles thereby giving guideline for tunnel positioning in anatomical ACL reconstructions.
Methods: In a total of 20 human cadaveric knees (range 45-87 years) AM and PL bundle of the ACL were identified by their tensioning of the fibres throughout passive flexion and extension. The distances of the centre of AM to the Linea intercondylaris and the PL bundle to the articular cartilage were measured. Radiographic analyses were performed using ap, lateral and Rosenberg views of the femur and ap and lateral views of the tibia and the centre of the bundles described by the techniques of Bernard and Hertel and Harner as well as Harner and Staubli and Rauschning at the femur and the tibia, respectively.
Results: The center of the PL bundle was more shallow and inferior when compared to the center of the AM bundle with a distance of 6.5 mm and a mean of 5.8 mm to the shallow and inferior cartilage margin, respectively. On the tibia, the center of the AM bundle is aligned with the anterior horn of the lateral meniscus, while the PL bundle is 11.2 mm posterior to the anterior horn of the lateral meniscus. According to Bernard and Hertel the center of the AM bundle is at 18.5% and 22.3% and the PL bundle at 29.3% and 53.6%. At the tibia, the centre of the AM bundle is at 30% and the PL bundle is located at 44% according to Stäubli and Rauschning.
Conclusion: From the anatomical view a double bundle reconstruction mimics the normal structure of the ACL more closely than a single tunnel technique. To reproduce the anatomy, it is mandatory to place the tunnels exactly within the femoral origin and tibial insertion of the ACL.


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U of M GIS Student Group Plans 7th Annual Career Fair By Erik Olson, Vice President, GIS Student Organization
The Geographic Information Science Student Organization (GISSO) at the University of Minnesota wishes to extend to you and your organization an invitation to GISSO's 7th Annual GIS Career Fair 2008. GISSO's annual Career and Networking Fair introduces students to employers in the GIS field.
This event is not solely about job opportunities; GISSO hopes that the event will continue to establish new relationships and open lines of communication between current and future GIS professionals. For the enrichment of the GIS community, we will have presentations by GIS professionals and refreshments. Attendees are also invited to come to the first annual MGIS Speaker Series, featuring Jack Dangermond, founder and president of ESRI. Regardless of your hiring needs, GISSO welcomes you, and hopes that you will attend.
The GIS Career and Networking Fair will be held:
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It's a mantra repeated by parents all across Britain: "Clean your plate – or you'll be having it for breakfast."
But now experts claim the stern words may be fuelling an obesity epidemic.
In research that is bound to leave put-upon mums and dads slapping their foreheads in despair, dieticians in America said parents may be to blame for overweight children.
They say ever-growing portion sizes mean children are being pressurised into eating more than they need which means they don't know when to stop.
I might be missing something here, but surely the issue is about putting too much on your children's plate in the first place, rather than insisting they should finish it?
Anyway, Katie Loth, a dietician at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, U.S., told HealthDay: "I was surprised at some of the parent behaviours, like feeling that their children should clean their plates and not waste food.
"In the 1950s, cleaning your plate meant something different.
"Portion sizes have got bigger over time, and if you encourage kids to rely on environmental indicators, like how much food is on their plates or the time of day, they'll lose the ability to rely on internal cues to know whether they're hungry or full."
Ms Loth studied data about 2,200 teenagers and 3,500 parents. She found that fathers were more likely to pressurise their children into eating all of their food than mothers were.
She also discovered that teenage boys were more likely to be put under pressure to finish their food than teenage girls.
In another groundbreaking (sic!) revelation, Dr Brian Wansink, of Cornell University, in New York, suggested that the key to avoiding over-eating at all-you-can-eat buffets is to take a smaller plate.
He observed the behaviour of slim people at buffets and compared it to the behaviour of larger people. He noticed that thin people were seven times more likely to take a small plate and that the thinner diners tended to look at all of the food on offer before choosing what to have. By contrast, larger diners tended to consider each item individually.
He told HealthDay: "Skinny people are more likely to scout out the food. They're more likely to look at the different alternatives before they pounce on something.
"Heavy people just tend to pick up a plate and look at each item and say, 'Do I want it? Yes or no'."
More on Parentdish: Are we over-feeding our children?
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Construction season begins
Major projects include work on Twin Bridges, Latham Circle
Updated 7:08 am, Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Now that the nicer weather is here, the dreaded road construction season has started.
This year, however, it should really be called bridge construction season.
Several major bridge projects have started or are about to begin around the Capital Region that motorists will encounter driving to work or getting around on the weekends.
The most significant is the continuing work on the $29 million replacement of the decks on the Thaddeus Kosciuszko Bridge, better known as the Twin Bridges, spanning the Mohawk River on the Northway.
This week, work will begin on the southbound deck, leading to its closure on weekends. The northbound deck was completed last year. Starting at 10 p.m. Friday, the southbound deck on the Twin Bridges will be closed, with two lanes on the northbound deck dedicated to traffic heading south. One lane on the northbound deck will be dedicated to traffic going north. The southbound deck will be reopened Monday morning in time for the rush hour commute.
More than 100,000 motorists use the two-span bridge each day. During weekends until the deck replacement is done, drivers are being encouraged to use Route 9 as an alternative.
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Department of Transportation spokeswoman Carol Breen says the work is expected to be completed by Memorial Day, when traffic going north to Saratoga Springs, Lake George and destinations in the Adirondacks picks up on the weekends.
"We are going out of our way this year to minimize the impact on motorists," Breen said.
The DOT has nine traffic cameras between Northway exits 6 and 15, as well as six temporary cameras along the same section of Route 9, so that motorists can check conditions on the department's website before heading out. There also are 13 message signs along the same stretch of the Northway to alert motorists.
Meanwhile, the bridges that make up Latham Circle and carry traffic on Route 2 over Route 9 are being replaced in a $7.4 million project. Work on that project started last week. But because of what the state calls its Drivers First initiative, the work is being scheduled in concert with the Twin Bridges project to minimize their effect on one another. Until Memorial Day, lane closures around Latham Circle will be limited to weekdays and work will be done at night also to minimize the impact on both motorists and businesses. Route 2, which is Troy Schenectady Road, and Route 9, which is New Loudon Road, are major commercial corridors. Lane closures on Route 2 will only occur during off-peak hours.
After the Twin Bridges work is completed, the Latham Circle project will implement a 60-day accelerated schedule that will include reducing Route 2 to one lane in each direction, including the traffic circle itself. The DOT is hoping to have that project done by the end of August before the new school year begins.
Breen said that much of the road and bridge work that the state has been doing since last year is part of the state's NY Works economic development initiative that is funded with 80 percent federal money and 20 percent from the state. Other bridge projects that will affect local travel include continuing work on the Congress Street Bridge over the Hudson River between Watervliet and Troy; the eastbound bridge that carries Interstate 90 over the Moordenerkill in Schodack, and the Western Gateway Bridge that spans the Mohawk between Schenectady and Scotia.
Breen says this road construction season will be busier than in previous years. She said the key to survive it is to be patient, plan ahead and budget extra time for travel.
Last week, work began on a $2.5 million project to replace the ramp that takes traffic from Crossgates Mall to the Northway going north. The ramp will still be open but at a reduced width, although it will be closed entirely to traffic overnight on as many up to a dozen occasions. All of those closures, which will occur between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., will be announced in advance, DOT says.
Work will also continue through the end of the summer on the Thruway's addition of additional lanes in each direction between exits 23 and 24. New traffic patterns with lane shifts took effect March 14 at the start of the third phase of the three-year, $99.7 million project.
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Group gives vets a free ride to WWII memorial in D.C.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
By Jonathan Barnes
Lydian Fisher has had a few moving moments while volunteering with a group that takes veterans to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. But none, she said, was more powerful than when an Army chaplain, during a routine memorial service, asked WWII veterans in the audience to invoke the memory of their fallen comrades.
"If any of you want to remember your buddies, feel free to call out their names," Mrs. Fisher remembered the chaplain saying to the group, gathered in the shadow of the memorial.
One by one, raising their hands and waiting to be called on like good soldiers, the men remembered their comrades by calling out their names. Some of the veterans were grizzled and stooped from old age, but their memories were vivid and tears rolled down their cheeks.
It was a fitting moment to cap a long bus ride from Pittsburgh for members of the Greatest Generation to see for the first time the memorial honoring their service.
Mrs. Fisher, 67, a retired coronary and critical care nurse from Brighton, Beaver County, has been volunteering with the 3-year-old grass-roots veteran service organization that has hosted the day trips since its inception.
The group is the brainchild of Jim Hilts, 62, of Coraopolis, a Vietnam War veteran who retired from the Army in 1989 after serving for 17 years and attaining the rank of major. His father, Loren, was a WWII veteran who had been a 20 mm gunner and Petty Officer Third Class who served in the Atlantic and Pacific. Loren Hilts was 17 when he went into the military, his son said.
Mr. Hilts' father always wanted to see the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., but he died before he got the chance.
"He was planning to attend the dedication but died before it. So I went down in his place," Mr. Hilts said. "It dawned on me a couple years later that most WWII vets would never see the memorial."
So, in November 2006, Mr. Hilts' company, Coraopolis-based Kingsway Engineering Services, paid for the first bus trip of 40-some veterans to the memorial. Fifty people in total attended, including volunteers, all on one bus.
Since then, more than 1,000 WWII veterans have made the trip to the memorial through the help of the World War II Memorial Bus Trip Committee, which Mr. Hilts leads.
On Oct. 6, the group will board buses to the nation's capital. The vets and volunteers leave Pittsburgh in the morning and visit the WWII Memorial. Then they head to the FDR Memorial, which is a favorite destination of the WWII vets, Mr. Hilts said.
About 16 million men and women served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II. Those veterans are dying at a rate of about 1,000 per day, with 3 million to 4 million still alive, Mr. Hilts said.
For Al Quaye, a native of Moon and the owner of a startup information technology company in Arlington, Va., outside of Washington, D.C., the chance to rub shoulders with the WWII vets is an honor.
"What these people accomplished was nothing short of incredible. The whole world was on fire, with everybody fighting to the death, and they fought a war on two fronts," Mr. Quaye, 43, said, adding that the veterans got out of the service and went home back to work, without complaint. "Maybe I look for positive reinforcement from them, too."
To help, Mr. Quaye organizes the delivery of 10 to 15 wheelchairs for the veterans to use on the trip. Active service Marines regularly volunteer to push the veterans who use wheelchairs.
A former Army captain who served from 1991 to 1995 and saw action during Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, Mr. Quaye's admiration for the WWII vets is based in part on his experience.
"You don't know how you're going to react to a bullet being shot at you until it happens," he said.
Costs for the trip are $50 per sponsored veteran. Total expenses for each bus are $2,500, Mr. Hilts said. The group runs entirely on donations from private sources.
To donate to the Bus Trip Committee, send checks in care of Kingsway Engineering Services, 1331 State Ave., Coraopolis 15108.
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December 14-18, 2015: Shot some of SESAME STREET's 47th season
December 11, 2015: Performed in the second edition of THE LOVERS, THE DREAMERS AND JIM at Urban Stages as part of their Winter Rhythms Festival
December 3, 2015: Did an interesting little puppetry gig
November 22, 2015: Performed Stunk, the Steampunk Skunk mascot on the Season 2 finale of LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
It was only about a minute in front of the camera, tops. Still, the most challenging thing I have ever done, partially due to the fact that this mascot was built/fitted for someone taller/stronger than me and there were some issues with the head.
But I'd do anything for this show, because I love it so much, and am always thrilled to be even the tiniest part of it. And I think I proved it.
November 9, 2015: Was a guest judge at TUNE IN TIME at the York Theatre
October 23, 2015: Voiced a few more characters for NATURE CAT
October 18, 2015: Co-hosted the Second Muppet Trivia Spectacular at the Museum of the Moving Image
October 15, 2015: Performed in a NAMT Cabaret slot for Kim Sherman and Darrah Cloud
Fall, 2015: Did even more educational voiceovers for Scholastic
September 20, 2015: Performed in BROADWAY BACK TO SCHOOL at 54 Below
Summer, 2015: Edited a lot of video for an upcoming exhibit the new Henson exhibit at the Center for Puppetry Arts
Late August, 2015: CHIMPY AND PANSY made their big-screen debut at the Greenville Drive-In in Greenville, NY:
This drive-in was re-opened in 2015 by our pals Dwight Grimm and Leigh Van Swall. They actually reached out to me and requested to show the episodes as part of their programming, which touches me greatly. Who wouldn't want to have her silly monkeys be seen 35 feet high on the big screen? www.drivein32.com
August 27, 2015: Voiced even more little characters for various episodes of NATURE CAT
August 13, 2015: Voiced a bunch of radio spots for BevMo
June and July, 2015: Performed a handful of educational voiceovers for Scholastic
June 25, 2015: Voiced a radio spot for A GENTLEMEN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER ON BROADWAY
June 22, 2015: Did some puppy voices for a Nick, Jr. promo
June 8, 2015: Launched CHIMPY AND PANSY, my little animated series
May 18-22, June 1-5, 2015: Shot some more material for SESAME STREET's 46th Season
May 25, 2015: Performed Kami and was the voice announcer at the Sesame Workshop Gala
May 10, 2015: Performed a full-body mascot of Hoots, the NSA Owl, (who wants to know whooo you're talking to) on LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
My first professional mascot job, and I'm lucky that it took place in a safe, loving environment.
This gig was scary and amazing and sweaty and so very, very odd; basically, just another day in the life of a working actor... for me, that is.
May 7, 2015: Performed in a special, swanky NYMF 2015 Festival Patron Preview
May 1, 2015: Performed in BOLIN, SCHMOLIN: THE SONGS OF ELI BOLIN at 54 Below
April 14, 2015 - May 1, 2015: Shooting SESAME STREET's 46th season
April 12-13, 2015: Performed in the 24 HOUR MUSICALS at the Gramercy Theatre
Holy crap, this was so mentally exhausting, but incredibly fun. I was so lucky to get to do this for the second time.
April 2, 2015: Hosted SONGWRITER'S SALON at Times Square Arts Center for the 5th time
Early April, 2015: Spent a surprisingly small number of hours in post for that little personal project CHIMPY AND PANSY
Possibly launching this summer... It's up! It's up! Go find it!
March 30, 2015: Performed in 100 MUSICALS IN MUFTI for the York Theatre
March, 2015: Spent far fewer hours actually producing that little personal project animating CHIMPY AND PANSY
Stay tuned…
Winter, 2015: Spent a ridiculous number of hours on pre-production for a little personal project CHIMPY AND PANSY
February 22, 2015: Performed a goat puppet in the Chinese New Year segment of LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
What a great program, chock-full of great people at every level of production. It's an honor just to walk through the door.
February 10, 2015: Voiced a few more little characters for the new PBS animated series NATURE CAT
February 2-6, 2015: Shot some elements for SESAME STREET's 46th season
I guess I can officially say that I am playing Prairie Dawn now. It is a bit daunting but oh, so fun.
January 26, 2015: Voiced a guest character for the new PBS animated series NATURE CAT
This is a Spiffy Pictures production, and I am thrilled to have recorded a handful of fun little characters for it so far. It's gonna be good, and not just because Spiffy Pictures folk are the very best folk.
January 24, 2015: Did Josh Accardo's Slam Pig Podcast, available on iTunes:
January 11, 2015: Was a guest monologist at ASSSSCAT 3000 at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
January 8, 2015: Hosted the 6th installation of SONGWRITER'S SALON at Times Square Arts Center
December 21, 2014: Performed in the STEPHEN SCHWARTZ-A-THON at 54 Below
December 13, 2014: Performed in THE LOVERS, THE DREAMERS, AND JIM concert as part of Urban Stages' Winter Rhythms
December 4, 2014: Hosted the 5th installation of SONGWRITER'S SALON at Times Square Arts Center
My third time hosting, and this series gets better and better with each show.
December 3, 2014: Voiced a couple of demos
December 2, 2014: Voiced a few more minor characters for the same yet-to-be-announced animated show I worked on in October and November NATURE CAT.
November 27, 2014: Performed on the SESAME STREET float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
I was Prairie Dawn. It was a special day.
November 20, 2014: Performed in UNSUNG CAROLYN LEIGH VOL. 2 at 54 Below
November 9, 2014: Performed the little girl puppet from the Prison Reform segment once again, in the first season finale of LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
Lucky, lucky, lucky me… I absolutely loved being back with those wonderful people. Thank you again, Tim Carvell and John Oliver.
November 8, 2014: Sang some "ooh-aahs" in the background of a theme song that will only be heard on an app
This is what we do, kids. This is what we do.
November 6, 2014: Hosted another installation of SONGWRITER'S SALON at Times Square Arts Center
November 3, 2014: Voiced a few more minor characters for the same yet-to-be-announced animated show I worked on in October NATURE CAT
October 30-31, 2014: Taught some puppetry and a presented a seminar about the uniqueness of creating puppet and Muppet characters at Syracuse University
October 20, 2014: Performed in LANCE AND THE LADIES at Birdland
October 15, 2014: Puppeteered (but did not voice) a couple of characters for something the non-disclosure agreement says I can't tell you about but it's a very small thing so don't get all excited
October, 2014: Did a couple of little voiceovers, one for a yet-to-be announced animated show NATURE CAT
September 29-October 1, 2014: Worked on a couple of SESAME STREET thingys
Seriously, there's no better word for these than "thingys."
September 21, 2014: Performed in SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED at 54 Below
September 5-7, 2014: Performed a cookie in the Public Theatre's Public Works production of A WINTER'S TALE at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park (as part of the cast of SESAME STREET)
Yes, you read that right. I performed a cookie.
September 1, 2014: Performed in Tim Realbuto's WUNDERKIND show at the Triad
July & August, 2014: Edited some compilations for the Jim Henson Legacy / Wrote something that may never see the light of day / Aged horribly
August 28, 2014: Did voiceovers for a couple of industrials
August 7, 2014: Hosted the first ever SONGWRITER'S SALON at the new Celebrity Club Cabaret at Times Square Arts Center
July 22, 2014: Recorded another episode of WALLYKAZAM!
This time I only went "meow" and "bloop." In the future, other people will be replaced by robots. I will be replaced by a "The Farmer Says" toy.
July 20, 2014: Performed a little girl puppet on LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER in a segment about prison reform
Not only was it an amazing experience to be a part of this show (I was already a huge fan), but everyone -- everyone -- there was so good to us. Thank you, Tim Carvell and John Oliver.
July 14, 2014: Found out I won my first writing prize since high school: a one-year subscription to New York Magazine in their biweekly competition (Competition #25)
Competition #25's theme was "Seuss For Our Times," in which readers were asked for "a contemporary verse, unbound by taste, in the manner of Theodor Seuss Geisel." My entry, which I tweeted, was:
I cannot go for drinks tonight
I cannot "throw it down"
I cannot play in any way
My mother is in town
June 11-July 13, 2014: The journey of ACADEMIA NUTS (for the New York Musical Theatre Festival)
An intense four weeks, but what a great group of people. I will miss them.
June 9, 2014: Recorded another episode of WALLYKAZAM!
Barbara the Baker returns with more lines than ever...
June 3-6, 2014: Shot a few inserts for SESAME STREET
May 4, 2014: Performed with other AVENUE Q original cast members to honor Robyn Goodman's Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lortels at NYU's Skirball Center
May 1, 2014: Did two presentational readings of HELEN OF TROY
March 3-April 19, 2014: The journey of the Off-Broadway run of GREED: A MUSICAL FOR OUR TIMES
April 16, 2014: Did a radio spot for Roundabout Theatre Company's JUST JIM DALE
April 6-7, 2014: Performed in the 24 HOUR MUSICALS at Irving Plaza
This was an amazing, exhausting experience, and one that I can't wait to do again.
March 23, 2014: Performed in TOO LEGIT TO QUIT 3 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
February 24, 2014: Performed in BROADWAY BY THE YEAR: THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1915-1939
I've always wanted to do a BROADWAY BY THE YEAR, and this was a special one to be part of.
February 12, 2014: Did another voiceover for the New York Botanical Garden
It's the beginning of my third smash year working with them!
January 2 - February 5, 2014: The journey of the showcase run of GREED: A MUSICAL FOR OUR TIMES
January 29, 2014: Performed one of the many Muppets for the final broadcast of LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON (which aired February 7, 2014)
The song was shot in several pieces, and I did a couple of little background-y, right-hand-y things, but some of it was trimmed in post, so the only thing I can say for sure that I did that made it to air was Robin* in the final shot (who was so close to the lower right edge that some TVs might not have even showed him).
By the way, that final shot (where Jimmy gets up and walks down the hallway into his future at THE TONIGHT SHOW) was done in one take, and none of us Muppet Performers knew what was happening - we'd only been told that he was getting up after the last note was sung. It was an incredible, touching moment to witness firsthand.
*I don't think I need to say it, but you all know I do NOT voice any of these Muppet characters, yes?
January 27, 2014: Did another voiceover for Manhattan Theatre Club's OUTSIDE MULLINGAR on Broadway
Congratulations to the show for all the swell notices... (I'm grateful for them, too, since it led to the second spot and another gig!)
January 7, 2014: Recorded few lines for a double episode of WALLYKAZAM!
December 19, 2013: Did a voiceover for Manhattan Theatre Club's OUTSIDE MULLINGAR on Broadway
The VO was for the show's commercial, not the show itself. Grammar.
December 13, 2013: Wrapped production on Season 45 of SESAME STREET
November 28, 2013: Performed on the SESAME STREET float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
This year I wiggled Bert. Sadly, I was sealed inside before Jimmy Fallon and the Roots boarded.
November 5, 2013: Did another voiceover for the New York Botanical Garden
October 20, 2013: Performed in SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED at 54 Below
October 17 & 18, 2013: Performed in presentations of COME FROM AWAY at NAMT
You will be hearing about this show someday. It is so special.
September 30, 2013: Started production on Season 45 of SESAME STREET
September 26-27, 2013: Shot some more Crumby Pictures Presents inserts for SESAME STREET
September 25, 2013: Did another voiceover for the New York Botanical Garden
August 21, 2013: Recorded another episode of WALLYKAZAM! as the same character I did in May. Still teeny, but still fun. I also meowed a little in it, but that's just a regular day for me.
July 24, 2013: Voiced an Internet spot for Geico
July 21, 2013: Was part of a San Diego Comic Con panel that followed the world premiere of SCOOBY DOO ADVENTURES: THE MYSTERY MAP
The panel and screening and signing were a blast.
BUT - I never figured out how to get one of those cool WB bags, and the 1966 Batusi figure from Mattel was long sold out, so my husband was ultimately let down. Things were looking up when I passed Nathan Fillion, but all I could do was shout out "howdy! I enjoy your work, sir!"
I think I failed Comic Con.
June 24, 2013: Voiced a radio spot for Chase
June 12, 2013: Performed in KAPOW!, a one-night presentational reading of two chapters of the 1940s comic book "The Green Lama" with Sympho at the Rubin Museum
It's always fun to play clueless thugs and loud little 1940s kids... but it was really lovely to share the stage with the incredible Sympho musicians, as well as Eliiott Forrest, Linus Roache, Max Gordon Moore, Sonam Wangdue, and the great Tony Roberts.
Late April-May 2013: Worked on a handful of various SESAME STREET inserts here and there
May 13, 2013: Recorded a eensy-teensy (but fun) character for one episode of the new Nickelodeon series WALLYKAZAM!
May 9, 2013: Did another voiceover for the New York Botanical Garden
May 4, 2013: Performed in a benefit for Zani's Furry Friends at Birdland
May 2, 2013: Voiced two radio spots for Emipre City Casino
Mid-January to late March, 2013: Made a 2D stop-motion video for my pals The Mighty Weaklings
It was my first venture into animation (other than playing with the stop-motion kiosks at the Museum of the Moving Image) and it was the first video project I'd conceived, directed, and fully executed since college. You can watch it here.
I might do another one tomorrow, or never again.
March 18, 2013: Performed in the Vineyard Theatre's Gala at the Edison Ballroom
It was fantastic and very special to have a little AVENUE Q reunion the night before our 10th anniversary of our Vineyard opening.
March 8, 9, 15 and 16, 2013: Performed in THE AMANDA MCBROOM PROJECT at the Laurie Beechman
March 15, 2013: Joined Twitter (@DAbruzzoTweets)
Oh, shut up.
February 26, 2013: Did another voiceover for the New York Botanical Garden
February 17, 2013: Was the announcer for the Writer's Guild Awards in New York
February 13, 2013: Did a chamber reading of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at a private Manhattan club
January 14-18, 2013 and December 16-21, 2012: Worked on a super-fun, super-secret puppet shoot in Chicago all-puppet version of Scooby Doo, called SCOOBY DOO ADVENTURES: THE MYSTERY MAP.
One word: VELMA.
January 6, 2013: Co-hosted SALON at Etcetera Etcetera
December 14, 2012: Wrapped production on SESAME STREET'S 44th season
November 25, 2012: Performed in SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED at 54 Below
November 22, 2012: Performed on the SESAME STREET float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
This year, I puppeteered Zoe. The parade is the only time I enjoy global warming.
November 7, 2012: Did another voiceover for the New York Botanical Garden
October 25, 2012: Did a benefit reading of an adaptation of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at the Society of the Colonial Dames
October 18, 2012: Voiced a couple more characters for the videogame I recorded in March Bioshock Infinite
And I got to violently die again! But less.
October 3, 2012: Did another voiceover for the New York Botanical Garden
September 10, 2012: Started taping the second half of Season 43 and all of Season 44 of SESAME STREET
September 10, 2012: Performed at the National Asian American Theatre Company's concert honoring Alan Muraoka
July 21-September 1, 2012: The adventure of LOVE AND REAL ESTATE in the Summer Shorts 2012 Festival
August 10, 2012: Performed in a reading/workshop of AMANDINE
July 29, 2012: Performed in 3 CHOICES AWAY benefit for METHTACULAR!
June 21, 2012: Shot some more material for an upcoming SESAME STREET interactive product
Late May, 2012: Assistant puppeteer for 11 days of SESAME STREET "Word on the Street" inserts
We were on location all around New York City, and I will never forget the day we found ourselves huddling under the Washington Square Arch, shooting with torrential downpours surrounding us. It was a twisted kind of fun.
May 10, 2012: Performed in BROADWAY BALLYHOO at Feinstein's at the Regency
May 3, 2012: Did another voiceover for New York Botanical Garden
Late April, 2012: Shot some SESAME STREET bits
April 14, 2012: Performed in JIM HENSON'S MUSICAL WORLD at Carnegie Hall
There are no words to describe how amazing it is to be onstage at Carnegie Hall with Muppets, Fraggles, the Sesame Street cast and puppets, Rachel Dratch, Paul Williams, Johnny T, and the New York Pops... and to get to play with all my pals as a live performer, a puppeteer, and a fake violinist.
March, 2012: A couple of voiceover gigs
This included a video game (Bioshock Infinite) that trashed my voice for a couple of days. It occurs to me that in order to be in a video game, you have to really know how to violently die.
March 29, 2012: Recorded a demo for PRINCESSES
March 27, 2012: Performed in a reading of PRINCESSES (working title)
March 12, 2012: Performed in the Vineyard Theatre's Gala and salute to Linda Lavin
February 19, 2012: Was the announcer for the Writer's Guild Awards in New York
I was an emergency replacement for Nancy Giles. Had fun, but missed her.
January-February, 2012: Worked on some new SESAME STREET ELMO THE MUSICAL inserts
January 21, 2012: Performed in BROADWAY SPECTRUM at the Engeman Theatre in Northport, Long Island
November 1-30, 2011: Wrote daily posts as part of my first-ever-and-only Horribly Local Blogging Month (HoLoBloMo) on my web...blah...log
Because I sure as hell wasn't going to do National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
November 21-23; 28-29, 2011: Did some work on an upcoming SESAME STREET interactive project
November 24, 2011: Performed on the SESAME STREET float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
This year I puppeteered Grover, and it was a truly wonderful, if chilly, day.
November 20, 2011: Performed in a benefit for The Actor's Temple
November 2, 2011: Performed in a presentational benefit reading of A.R. Gurney's THE DINING ROOM at the Society of the Colonial Dames
October 24-30, 2011: The journey of TOMFOOLERY at the York Theatre
October 17, 2011: Performed in LIVING FOR TODAY 4: FIRST NAME BASIS at Joe's Pub
September 12, 2011: Performed a 4-song mini-cabaret set in BROADWAY ON 22nd STREET at the Metropolitan Room
August 10 & 24, 2011: Performed in SIMPLY STREISAND at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
July 25-31, 2011: The journey of THE MAD SHOW at the York Theatre
July 25, 2011: Performed in SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
June 27, 2011: Performed in BROADWAY SINGS TORI: A BENEFIT FOR RAINN at New World Stages
I sang "Baltimore," a very little-known song Tori Amos wrote and recorded when she was 17, as proof that there is a shiny happy song in her catalog.
May 23-24, 2011: Shot a few inserts and outreach elements for SESAME STREET
Nothing like saying goodbye to folks at Friday's wrap party only to see them on set again on Monday.
May 23, 2011: Took part in a panel following a screening of SHOW BUSINESS: THE ROAD TO BROADWAY with Dori Berinstein, Jeanine Tesori, and Raul Esparza at the Times Square Visitor's Center and Mini-Museum
Damn time and its proclivity to pass. Oh sure, it's great when you're in high school, but...
May 20, 2011: Wrapped production on Season 42 (and half of 43) of SESAME STREET
April 14, 2011: Performed in DREW BRODY: SONGS I DREW at Joe's Pub
April 4, 2011: Performed in NEW YORK, NU YORK! at the Hudson Theatre for Northwestern University
I love Northwestern, but seeing all the younger alums perform always makes me realize I couldn't get accepted there now. Of course, seeing the older alums who are legends makes me grateful I applied there while the football team was hopeless.
February 28, 2011: Performed in SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
February 8, 2011: Started shooting Season 42 (and half of 43) of SESAME STREET
But my first day of school wasn't until February 10.
Fall, 2010 - Winter, 2011: Auditioned for a lot of voiceovers I didn't get.
December 3, 2010: Performed in SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
November 29, 2010: GRAVID WATER at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
My 14th appearance, but my first doing a musical scene.
November 28, 2010: Performed in a presentational reading of Joyce Carol Oates' I STAND BEFORE YOU NAKED at John Jay College's Gerald Lynch Theatre, a benefit for Safe Horizon
November 25, 2010: Performed on the SESAME STREET float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
I got to puppeteer Cookie Monster again... what fun to see (through the scrim curtains on the windows) the huge response he gets from the crowd. The best part is connecting with a particular person, pointing or blowing him/her a kiss, saluting a soldier or sailor, posing for a photo...
And I am so thankful it did not rain.
November 13, 2010: Recorded a couple of songs for a demo of THE MUSIC BOYS
November 1, 2010: Performed in IT GETS BETTER: BROADWAY SUPPORTS THE TREVOR PROJECT at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
October 26-29, 2010: Shot a fun little puppet pilot project for Spiffy Pictures
October 24, 2010: Performed in LIVING FOR TODAY at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
October 21 & 22, 2010: Performed in HEARTBREAKERS at NAMT
October 21, 2010: Performed in a presentational reading of A.R. Gurney's A CHEEVER EVENING at the New York Society Library
October 17, 2010: Performed in BROADWAY ORIGINALS as part of the Sixth Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival at Town Hall
Wish I hadn't had that phlegm creep up when I started my song... fmeh.
August 3-September 26, 2010: The journey of IT MUST BE HIM at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
September 26, 2010: Did the Celebrity Autograph Table at the Broadway Cares Flea Market
Thanks for the egg cream, Junior's!
September 22, 2010: Performed in a so-far-secret, soon-to-be-viral SESAME STREET internet promo: the Grover Old Spice commercial parody.
I played the cow... and I also whipped off Grover's towel. Hell yeah I did.
September 1, 2010: Appeared on Seth Rudetsky's "Live On Broadway" on Sirius XM
I joined Kenny Solmes, Peter Scolari, and John Treacy Egan to promote IT MUST BE HIM, which opened that night. By the way, when I sang, I couldn't hear a thing.
August 23, 2010: Recorded the Original Cast Album of KNUFFLE BUNNY: A CAUTIONARY MUSICAL
Yes, my gibberish has been captured for the ages. It should be out in a couple of months the spring of 2011... I have no idea why its release is so delayed. Oh, well.
Oh, and I flew down to DC to record this the day after the dress rehearsal of IT MUST BE HIM and the day before our first preview. I would not recommend that anyone else ever do this.
August 2, 2010: Performed in FREE TO DREAM at Joe's Pub
July 16, 2010: Recorded a couple of songs for a demo of THE SCOTTISH MUSICAL
July 7, 2010: Recorded a McDonald's radio commerial
June 28, 2010: GRAVID WATER at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
June 16-19 and June 24-26: My scary but fun personal journey of STUFFED AND UNSTRUNG at the Union Square Theatre
June 22 -23, 2010: Shot a SESAME STREET Military Outreach video
June 7, 2010: Reading of NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE for the WGAE
May 30, 2010: Performed at Barry Wood's Retirement Gala back in my hometown
May 28, 2010: Performed at my alma mater for Peters Township High School's 39th Annual Theatre Awards Night
April 5, 2010-May 26, 2010: The journey of KNUFFLE BUNNY: A CAUTIONARY MUSICAL at the Kennedy Center
I miss BGR The Burger Joint at Dupont Circle most of all, Scarecrow.
May 21, 2010: Reading of THE FLEA AND THE PROFESSOR at the Kennedy Center
April 19, 2010: Reading of THE MUMBLINGS
Yes, I flew home to NYC on a day off to do this. I got to see my beloved city, my beloved husband, and I also got to play, among other characters, a 22 year-old cokehead gigolo, alongside David Wilson Barnes, who is super-lucky-best amazing.
Also, Delta has its share of problems, but the Shuttle forgives many of its sins.
March 29, 2010: GRAVID WATER at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
You know how they say you should never work with kids or animals? I would add to that list the lethal combination of candles and an air vent.
February 20, 2010: Performed at the WGAE Awards
Michael Delaney and I did a scene from the recently departed New York fixture GUIDING LIGHT in the style of GRAVID WATER.
December 28, 2009-February 7, 2010: The journey of [title of show] at St. Louis Rep
December 16, 2009: DREAM ROLE at 92YTribeca
Instead of belting something predictable, I did a monologue from AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN by Douglas Carter Beene.
December 14, 2009: Performed at Broadway in South Africa's Holiday Party at the Minskoff
December 4, 2009: Finished shooting season 41 of SESAME STREET
I got to be a human extra this season. I also got to do a show with the fabulous Michael McKean.
November 30, 2009: GRAVID WATER at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
November 26, 2009: Performed on the SESAME STREET float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
My 11th year on the SESAME float. I was under Cookie Monster this time around.
November 9, 2009: Reading of THE RELATIONSHIP THING
November 7, 2009: Performed at Women's Event for the Center for LGBT honoring Robyn Goodman
October 26, 2009: CAKE BOSS comes to SESAME STREET
That cake was massive. And surprisingly delicious. And the Rice Krispie treats that made the buildings were the softest, yummiest treats I have ever had. Oh, and I puppeteered Ernie that day. That's why, if you see the episode, Ernie is uncharacteristically quiet.
October 14-16, 2009: Shot a SESAME STREET Military Outreach video during one of Sesame's many hiatus weeks... parts of it will be used in a PBS primetime special called WHEN FAMILIES GRIEVE
September 28, 2009: Started shooting Season 41 of SESAME STREET
September 14-17, 2009: Workshop of KNUFFLE BUNNY: A CAUTIONARY MUSICAL at the Kennedy Center
August 31, 2009: GRAVID WATER at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
August 11, 2009: Puppeteered and voiced three blank Anything Monsters for the "Elmo's Monster Maker" iPhone/iTouch app
July 21, 2009- August 27, 2009: The journey of DON'T SAY ANOTHER WORD for Summer Shorts 3 at 59E59 Theatre
June 29, 2009: GRAVID WATER at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
June 22, 2009: Reading of DICK CAVETT RUINED MY LIFE for the WGAE
The Writer's Guild East has a nifty program where they present readings of segments of screenplays and television projects. My husband, Craig Shemin, was selected to have 20 pages of his screenplay read, which was very exciting. I got to play an assortment of female characters, which was also exciting. Most exciting of all was the fact that the one and only Mr. Richard Cavett played himself! What an incredible man. What incredible stories he told. This was a special night for Craig and me.
June 5, 2009: Sang backup on Jerry Nelson's TRURO DAYDREAMS album at Nola
Jerry Nelson is a longtime Muppet Performer, whose characters include the Count, Herry Monster, Robin the Frog, Floyd Pepper, Emmet Otter, and a gazillion others. He is a gifted singer-songwriter and the sweetest man, and I was so touched that he asked me to be part of this project. I was one of a trio of "Sweet Potatoes" on three songs. But I spent most of the session videotaping the band and Jerry, along with my husband. It was an amazing day.
June 1, 2009: Performed at Red Bull Theatre's "Running of the Bulls" Benefit
May 25, 2009: GRAVID WATER at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
May 11, 2009: New York Theatre Barn's UNTITLED 3D event, performing cutting from GROUP THERAPY
May 6, 7, 12, and 14, 2009: Readings of a couple of one-acts for NYU grad students.
May 5, 2009: Taped a Michelle Obama insert for SESAME STREET
I was the tomato. She was stunning.
April 30, 2009: Recorded a voiceover for a Nivea commercial
That was me extolling the virtues Nivea's My Silhouette lotion in the summer of 2009.
April 27, 2009: GRAVID WATER at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
April 20, 2009: Staged reading of PANOPHOBIA by Craig Shemin
A play by my husband about what happens when someone decides he wants to use his wealth to try to cure fear. This was the very first reading. I hope it is not the last.
April 17, 2009: LANCE HORNE, OR WHAT YOU WILL at Ars Nova
Sang a song Lance wrote at age 12 with lyrics based on Maya Angelou's poem "Caged Bird." I don't say this about too many people, but I believe that Lance has genius in him. More important, he is a wonderful person.
March 20-April 7, 2009: Learned the Henson Performance Control System for an animation test.
If you do not know what this is, the simplest way to put it is that I learned how to animate a CG character through real-time puppetry. I am not an animator by trade, nor am I a computer programmer (why else would I use iWeb?) and I suck at video games, and yet these elements were a major part of the gig. My brain broke several times.
Next time you see some big-name actor doing a junket for an animated film they were in "because they thought it would be neat for their kids" and they say that even though they just stood in a recording booth for a few weeks or months and did endless hours of voiceovers, it was the most challenging job they've ever had because they could only use their voices to emote, please don't shed too many tears for them. I wish I could have just done that instead of spending endless hours obsessing about how to create realistic mouth shapes and when to blink and at what angle the eyebrows should raise and coordinating several controls just right to make a character say "how are you" with just the right eye line and emotion while coordinating with a motion capture performer who's controlling the rest of the body. And oh yeah, also using my voice to emote.
It's amazing technology. The people who can do it effortlessly are superhuman.
Winter, 2009: Auditioned for stuff I didn't get.
February 26, 2009: Finished shooting Season 40 of SESAME STREET
Sigh. The only song I got to sing all season wound up being looped. By Carrie Underwood.
February 23, 2009: GRAVID WATER at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
January 26, 2009: Hosted LOVE, NY Concert at New World Stages
I loved doing a solid for my pal Rob Rokicki, but hosting a really fun musical that you don't get to sing in much is a lot like finding one's self in front of a Cinnabon while being weighed by Richard Simmons.
January 19, 2009: BYE GEORGE! THE END OF AN ERROR at Joe's Pub
I sang a parody of "Popular" from WICKED: "Nu-cu-lar." You can imagine the fun, thanks to Lance Horne's brilliant lyrics.
December 1, 2008: Started shooting Season 40 of SESAME STREET
November 13, 2008: The Muppets take over the TODAY SHOW
besides snacking, pounding the pavement,
and waiting by the phone
what have I been up to?


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Violin I part from J. Dowland - If My Complaints Could Passions Move (arranged for string quartet), Op. 8
I have arranged John Dowland?s song "If My Complaints could passions Move" in its four-part version plus transcription from the lute tablature, making a setting for string quartet with harpsichord (or, optionally, piano) as the accompanying instrument.
My source is the original edition, printed (moveable type, five lines per stave), in "table book" layout, with soloist voice and lute tablature on the one hand, and three vocal parts on the other. This is the fourth in a series of songs (all for one voice and lute, or four voices, by the same composer), published in "The Firste Booke of Songes and Ayres of Foure Partes with Tableture for the Lute" (London, 1597).
Original note-values have been halved. The single flat key signature ("one flat short" type) in upper parts, and two-flat key signature in the bass, are all consistent with, and replaced by, the modern key signature of G minor.
Original barlines in cantus are metric and have been retained. Missing barlines in altus, tenor and bassus have been added. The clefs have all been modernised. Time signatures (omitted in the cantus" part) are written in the original as a figure 3, indicating triple time. A modern equivalent would be 3/2, but I have adopted 3/4 because of the halving of note duration.
The lute tablature has been realised as a keyboard part with the chords interpreted polyphonically. To complete my arrangement, the original part names: cantus, altus, tenor and unnamed (bassus) have been converted into string quartet parts with the addition of slurs at my discretion. In addition, first and second time "terrace dynamics" for each repeat section, and additional tempo markings, have been added. In case a piano is used, I have included dynamics for the keyboard part. These can be omitted for the harpsichord.
Overall, the emphasis has been to keep things simple and make a version that is as faithful to the original as possible. This is done out of major respect for the music of this great composer, hoping that this presentation will help divulge his great songs for the benefit of many.
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Tomorrow my little brother – 6 ft. 3″ little brother, gets married. My heart is consumed with joy because not only do I truly believe he has chosen the right girl to have and to hold till death do they part, but tomorrow I officially gain another sister. She is as beautiful on the outside as she is within her soul; I couldn't think of a more perfect fit for my "little" brother. I remember the day he brought her home; mind you she is the first and only girl he has chosen to introduce to our family.
I have watched their relationship grow and change – ebb and flow as both learned the meaning of the word compromise and what the word LOVE in its purest form means.
Tomorrow they will vow to love one another as family and friends look on in support of this new union. I am sure each person will ponder on the vows that were taken in their past and quietly send thoughts of well wishes and guidance from their own personal experiences.
They have asked my Rebekah to read a passage from the bible about Love~
Love is patient,
love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.
Love never fails.
This is love in its purest form, yet I am not sure if any one of us has attained such a heightened form of love as this. That being said if you take each portion on its own then piece them together one by one I believe that this kind of LOVE is possible between two fallible human beings. God is love – he created us in his likeness- we are love and though it may be hard to love in this manner it is what God intended. I will be praying for my brother James and his new bride Adrienne's marriage. I will pray that they will remember each line of this passage they chose to be read at their wedding, for if they do, they will have achieved something most marriages have not.
May God bless both of you. I love you to the moon and back….. I can't wait to see all the amazing things life has in store for you both!


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Good morning everyone...
this is my first post for Love to Craft & Create.
I'm so addicted to making Memory Books so today I want to share with you one of my 8"x8" albums.
I've covered it in beautiful papers called As if in a dream II by Galeria Papieru.
For photo mats journaling cards I used single 4"x6" papers from the same collection.
To decorate my album I used gorgeous 20mm white lace and flat back white pearl trimming.
I've used white card stock to make the waterfall, flip out pages and pockets.
I'm so passionate about my memory books and hope I inspired you all.
An album this size can take me up to 3 weeks but I love it
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Make no mistake: Christian Wiman's poetic endeavors are ambitious. From the personal lyrics of solitude and loss to "Being Serious," the long poem that concludes Hard Night, his poems examine emotions clearly, without sentimentality. A profound reverence for form and passion for poetry are evident in these artfully shaped poems that contain and find meaning in the unwieldy and inexplicable. Just as he is doing as the new editor of Poetry, Wiman makes intellectually and emotionally engaged writing accessible to an expanding audience of readers.
Christian Wiman is the author of two books and a widely published essayist and critic. He lives in Chicago, where he is editor of Poetry magazine.
About Christian WimanSee more books from this Author
Known as the active, controversial editor of Poetry magazine (a post he assumed in 2003), Wiman is also a maker of careful, accomplished verse in his own right;May 30 2005 | Read Full Review of Hard Night
As if to mock his own outlook, Wiman (The Long Home ) concludes with a disquieting 23-part poem called "Being Serious," an abbreviated verse-biography (from womb to afterlife) for a prematurely jaded, frequently frustrated man called Serious.| Read Full Review of Hard Night


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Most Romantic Destinations for your Honeymoon
Here we are shared some information about Most Romantic Destinations for your Honeymoon. Many places in the world some are famous for visit, some are famous for romance and some are famous for shopping and many more. So here we are give some information about best destinations for Honeymoon in the world. Some couple go or select some romantic destinations after marriage for honeymoon so we mentioned some place in our list given below.
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- Hawaii
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- The Maldives
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A fifth grader is starting her first day of school. She wants to look really special so she asks her mom if she can buy some mascara so she will look better. Her mom warns her that many girls do not wear makeup at the age of eleven. The girl guarantees that everyone else is going to be wearing makeup, and that she will be the only one not wearing makeup. The mom unwillingly agrees, but tells the girl that she needs to remember to love herself for who she is, and not to hide her flaws under a mask of superficial cover-ups. When the girl shows up to school for the first day of school, she is wearing a conservative amount of makeup. To her surprise all of the girls are wearing loads of makeup, scandalous clothes, and their hair has arrays of highlights. The girl goes home and explains to the mom that she looks so plain compared to the other girls and begs her mom to go shopping for clothes and goes to the salon. Her mom again reminds the girl that she is beautiful the way she is and does not need all these things so she can fit in. The girl rightfully agrees with the mom, but she says that she needs all these things to fit in with everyone else. The mom somewhat agrees and lets the girl get one highlight, and lets her buy some tighter jeans. The little eleven year old that had no clue how to use mascara, is now able to take on the world with a new and approved appearance. She her new look she can take on the world any that is thrown at her.
Trends or not Tremendous?
November 11, 2009
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Nicolioliolsterz_1 said...
Nov. 21, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Nov. 21, 2009 at 6:35 pm
I kind of don't understand the point of this.What are you trying to persuade people to do?, let their little fifth graders look like high schoolers?a little more explanation por favor.
ShernayB. replied...
Nov. 30, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Nov. 30, 2009 at 2:51 pm
It is a persuasive article. Its very good. I believe anyone should have the freedom of choosing what they want to wear or have, but if parents want to exhibit class, letting their child carry such scandalous appearances is not the way.


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The Forest Region
( Originally Published Early 1900's )
WHEN British and French and Dutch colonized North America in the seventeenth century, the region which they entered was a continuous forest extending northward to the tree line of Labrador and Hudson's Bay west, southward to the foot-hills of the mountains and the shores of the Gulf, and westward to about the longitude of the Mississippi River. This vast region was inhabited by numerous tribes of a race new to white men. The Norse, during their brief stay in Vin-land, on the northern borders of the forest lands, had heard, through the Skraelings, of men who wore fringed garments, carried long spears, and whooped loudly; but they had not seen those people, whom it had remained for Columbus first to encounter. These men — "Indians" Columbus had called them — were, in respect to polity, organized into small tribal groups; but these groups, usually following relationship in speech and natural proximity, were, in turn, loosely bound together in " confederacies" or "nations." Even beyond these limits affinity of speech delimited certain major groups, or linguistic stocks, normally representing consanguineous races; and, indeed, the whole forest region, from the realm of the Eskimo in the north to the alluvial and coastal lands bordering on the Gulf, was dominated by two great linguistic stocks, the Algonquian and the Iroquoian, whose tribes were the first aborigines encountered by the white colonists.
The Algonquians, when the whites appeared, were by far the more numerous and wide-spread of the two peoples.
Their tribes included, along the Atlantic coast, the Micmac of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the Abnaki, Pennacook, Massachuset, Nauset, Narraganset, Pequot, etc., of New England, the Mahican and Montauk of New York, the Delaware of New Jersey, and the Nanticoke and Powhatan of Virginia and North Carolina. North of the St. Lawrence were the Montagnais and Algonquin tribes, while westward were the Chippewa and Cree, mainly between the Great Lakes and Hudson's Bay. The Potawatomi, Menominee, Sauk and Fox, Miami, Illinois, and Shawnee occupied territory extending from the western lakes southward to Tennessee and westward to the Mississippi. On the Great Plains the Arapaho and Cheyenne and in the Rocky Mountains the Siksika, or Blackfeet, were remote representatives of this vast family of tribes. In contrast, the Iroquoian peoples were compact and little divided. The two centres of their power were the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario and the upper St. Lawrence, southward through central New York and Pennsylvania, and the mountainous region of the Carolina and Virginia colonies. Of the northern tribes the Five Nations, or Iroquois Confederacy, of New York, and the Canadian Huron, with whom they were perpetually at war, were the most important; of the southern, the Tuscarora and Cherokee. In all the wide territory occupied by these two great stocks the only considerable intrusion was that of the Catawba, an offshoot of the famed Siouan stock of the Plains, which had established itself between the Iroquoian Cherokee and the Algonquian Powhatan.
As the territories of the forest tribes were similar — heavily wooded, whether on mountain or plain, copiously watered, abounding in game and natural fruits — so were their modes of life and thought cast to the same pattern. Every man was a hunter; but, except in the Canadian north, agriculture was practised by the women, with maize for the principal crop, and the villages were accordingly permanent. Industries were of the Stone Age, though not without art, especially where the ceremonial of life was concerned. The tribes were organized for war as for peace, and indeed, if hunting was the vocation, war was the avocation of every Indian man: warlike prowess was his crowning glory, and stoical fortitude under the most terrible of tortures his supreme virtue; the cruelty of the North American Indian — and few peoples have been more consciously cruel—can be properly understood only as the reflection of his intense esteem for personal courage, to the proof of which his whole life was subjected. For the rest, a love of ritual song and dance, of oratory and the counsel of elders, a fine courtesy, a subtle code of honour, an impeccable pride, were all traits which the Forest Tribes had developed to the full, and which gave to the Indian that aloofness of mien and austerity of character which were the white man's first and most vivid impression of him. In the possession of these traits, as in their mode of life and the ideas to which it gave birth, the forest Indians were as one people; the Algonquians were perhaps the more poetical, the more given to song and prophecy, the Iroquoians the more politic and the better tacticians; but their differences were slight in contrast to an essential unity of character which was to form, during the first two centuries of the white men's contact with the new-found race, the European's indelible impression of the Red Man.


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Plucky Strum weaves together intimate musical story lines that combine jazz, classical, latin, and pop music. This all acoustic guitar and bass duo explores the joy of creative improvisation through lush harmonies, beautiful melodic lines, and capitvating rhtyhms.
Highly interactive, joyful jazz! It's a sound with a backbone, with a soul, with verve and resilience: a quartet dynamic born of a perfect confluence of disparate personalities gelling toward a common goal—getting to the idea.
Internationally acclaimed debut album of bassist and composer Mark Wade.
This all acoustic group recasts highly electric '70s jazz-rock classicswith "astonishing results." Down Beat
CROSSINGS: New Music for Cello, performed by Kate Dillingham, cellist, and AmirKhosrowpour, pianist, is a collection of contemporary compositions for solo cello andcello and piano.
Chamber music written in the last decade featuring the Vega String Quartet, Robin Kani, flute, Oren Fader, guitar, Deborah Andrus, bass clarinet, Leslie Johnson, soprano, and Yunah Lee, soprano.


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Based on the popular kids' toy, this mediocre, off-the-cuff robo-flick is a cliché-ridden 'Short Circuit' wannabe. But it's got one decent feature – a cute knee-high talking android that kids will really warm to. Dismayed at the prospect of having his highly intelligent creation used for illicit purposes, a nerdy inventor (David Eigenberg) hightails it with the robot, setting in motion a chain of events that leads Robosapien to the door of bright kid Henry (Bobby Coleman) and his dysfunctional single-parent family. The little robot is an instant hit, transforming the family's fortunes and giving Henry a new lease of life. But the corporation's bruisers are only a few steps behind…Despite the tissue-thin plot, slipshod performances and predictable single-mum family dynamics 'Robosapien' is surprisingly easy to endure – a freewheeling kids' film. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Penelope Ann Miller
Joaquim de Almeida
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Bullying Research: Its History, Findings and Comparison to a Personal Narrative
This research paper explores the current attitudes of teachers towards the bullying—or "peer victimization"—of children and compare with the attitudes teachers held thirty years ago. At that and prior times, the attitude was that peer victimization was considered a part of the childhood experience.
This author examines the previous attitude through research on the documentation of the period before the research conducted by Norwegian psychologist Dan Olweus, who began to study the phenomenon in Norwegian schoolchildren in the 1970's. This author will also provide a summary of Olweus' work, which led him to developthe Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), which the author will explain.
The author then presents reviews of articles that detail the long-term effects of peer victimization on victims, such as emotional problems and isolation, with emphasis on the victims' adaptations to later life, such as secondary schools, universities and the employment world, and the feelings of victimization being carried over to situations where peer victimization does not exist.
Finally, the author, as a victim of peer victimization, will detail the explanation behind his interest in this topic, provide his experiences, analyze what the research has verified to be accurate and what things in the research and interview has facilitated the author's reconciliation about his past experiences. This author will also discuss his abortive endeavor to secure an interview with an educator who worked in the author's schools during his childhood, with an explanation of the roles these two educators had in the author's education and the questions that this author wanted to raise.


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MLB All-Star Voting 2014: Projecting Leaders and Final ResultsJuly 6, 2014
The unique twist when it comes to fan voting for the MLB All-Star Game is the fact that it's an exhibition game that actually matters. Since home-field advantage for the World Series is decided by the winner, fans of contending teams are best off supporting the top players instead of just their favorite team.
Although there are always some cases where players enjoying great seasons are passed over, the fans tend to do a solid job overall. Based on the updated vote totals provided by ESPN (American League and National League), it seems that will be the case again this time around.
The All-Star selection show will air Sunday night at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. The game will take place at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 15. Knowing that, let's check out the projected lineups and top selections for both teams.
Predicted Starters
|2014 MLB All-Star Game Lineups
|Derek Norris
|Jonathan Lucroy
|1st Base
|Miguel Cabrera
|Paul Goldschmidt
|2nd Base
|Robinson Cano
|Chase Utley
|Derek Jeter
|Troy Tulowitzki
|3rd Base
|Josh Donaldson
|Aramis Ramirez
|Mike Trout
|Andrew McCutchen
|Jose Bautista
|Carlos Gomez
|Yoenis Cespedes
|Giancarlo Stanton
|Designated Hitter
|Nelson Cruz
Projected Leading Vote-Getters
American League: Mike Trout, OF, Los Angeles Angels
If not for two outstanding seasons by Miguel Cabrera, we would be talking about Trout as a 22-year-old two-time defending Most Valuable Player in the American League. It would have put him on track to become one of the most decorated players in baseball history.
While he fell short, the Angels outfielder is well on his way to taking the crown away from Cabrera this season. His speed numbers are down, perhaps in an effort to keep him healthy, but his power numbers are on pace to be his best yet and he leads the majors in WAR, according to FanGraphs.
Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times passed along comments from Trout earlier in the voting process. He was thankful for the support and looked forward to his third chance to represent the American League:
It feels good to get all the support from my fans. It feels good to be up at the top. To be No. 1 is something special, for sure. It means a lot. [...]
I'm going out there and playing with some passion and some fun. I had a lot of fun at the last two All-Star games, so it would be a blast to go this year.
Trout is a perfect example of the widespread support of fans. The voting trends don't show any type of major Angels push, but anybody who watches the game understands he's the new standard and deserves to headline the AL squad.
Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays actually had the inside edge on him for the most votes heading into the final days. There's usually a surge in ballots leading up to the deadline, however, giving Trout a chance to make up the difference.
National League: Troy Tulowitzki, SS, Colorado Rockies
There has never been any doubt about Tulowitzki's talent. The Rockies star is one of the best pure hitters in baseball. Unfortunately, injuries have held him back. He's appeared in more than 130 games just once over the past four years, appearing in just 47 in 2012.
The shortstop has been able to avoid the major injury bug so far this season. As a result, his numbers are terrific. He's leading the league in batting average to go along with a pace that would put him on target for around 35 home runs and 30 doubles.
One reason he's been such a tough out is because he covers the plate so well. Even if the plan is to nibble at the corners and attempt to pitch around him, he's dangerous. Mark Simon of ESPN passed along a stat to illustrate that point:
An argument can be made that Coors Field helps inflate Tulowitzki's overall numbers. It's impossible to say it doesn't help, but he still has a solid .830 OPS with seven homers away from home. So he's having a good season no matter how you slice it.
He had opened up a pretty solid lead in the overall NL voting. That's mostly because he's the clear choice at his position, while there are some pretty tight races elsewhere. It should allow him to finish atop the heap in the Senior Circuit with relative ease.


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Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton 'most admired' in USBy ANI
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
MELBOURNE - President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were the "most admired" man and woman in the United States for 2010, a new survey has revealed.
Obama, who has held the title since 2008, led the field of male candidates with 22 per cent.
He was followed by former presidents George W. Bush (five per cent) and Bill Clinton (four per cent).
They were followed by post-Apartheid South African leader Nelson Mandela and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, each with two per cent, reports News.com.au.
Hillary Clinton held onto the title of "most admired" woman for the ninth straight year after largely dominating the poll over the last two decades.
This year she led with 17 per cent, followed by conservative former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin with 12 per cent and TV titan Oprah Winfrey with 11 per cent.
They were trailed by First Lady Michelle Obama with five per cent and former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice with two per cent.
The poll was conducted with a random sample of 1019 adults living in the continental United States. (ANI)


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The Hemet man who was a consultant to an anti-Muslim film that has sparked rioting in nearly 20 countries said he has received multiple death threats.
"I'm really tired," Steven Klein said when he answered the door of his home Friday, Sept. 14, with a pistol in his hand and clad only in a pair of white shorts stained with what appeared to be ink spots.
Klein, an ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, appeared agitated.
While waving the gun, he said he was standing up for his First Amendment rights in helping with the film.
He said he is prepared to die for those rights.
Klein was a script adviser for "Innocence of Muslims," which mocks the Prophet Mohammad and presents him as a womanizer, pedophile and thug.
Muslims have attacked U.S. and European embassies and consulates in several countries to express outrage over the video. A 14-minute trailer of the video has gone viral on YouTube.
The filmmaker, a Cerritos man named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, has gone into hiding. But Klein has given interviews to a number of media outlets this week, including The Press-Enterprise.
On Friday, Klein at first agreed to another interview but changed his mind.
Klein, who owns a Hemet insurance agency, said Wednesday he has been an anti-Islam activist for more than a decade.
He has a satellite-television show in which he has discussed his disdain for Islam.
"I hate Islam," Klein said in an Aug. 30 broadcast of his "Wake up America" show on The Way TV, an Arab Christian station based in the San Gabriel Valley city of Duarte. "I don't ever want to see it (Islam) again."
Klein and his supporters have distributed virulently anti-Islam leaflets outside mosques throughout California and at dozens of Southern California high schools, including campuses in Temecula, Murrieta, Corona, Norco and Menifee.
The handouts say Mohammad had sex with children, committed incest and participated in genocide.
Officials at some of the schools where Klein and other members of a group he founded, Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, distributed his literature said they didn't remember any problems or objections to his presence on public property outside the school.
During the Aug. 30 "Wake up America" episode, Klein talked of the "courage and vision" of Joseph Nasrallah, the president of Media for Christ, which produces The Way TV.
"Innocence of Muslims" was shot at Media for Christ offices, the chief electrician for the video told The Associated Press.
Media for Christ was listed as the production company for the film.
The Aug. 30 "Wake up America" episode opens with scenes in Egypt, where the minority Coptic Christians have faced persecution, including deadly attacks on their churches. The clips include a Muslim religious figure cursing Christians and Jews and a woman who said Muslims kidnapped her 5daughter.
"This is what we can expect to see in America in the next two or three, four generations, what this poor lady is going through, and the Muslims wanting to kill everybody," Klein said on the program. "That's just how Islam works. They're power, money and sex."
Later in the broadcast, Klein brags that he has multiple guns in his home and office.
"All the Muslims know that," he said. "They never mess with me."
He then introduces a video clip of a man shooting guns while country music plays in the background.
"This is going to be the ultimate solution to the Muslims," Klein said as he introduced the clip.
Klein talks of how his son was blown up by a suicide bomber — Matthew Klein was seriously injured in Iraq in 2007, according to the Army Human Resources Command — and said, "The Lord Jesus Christ has caused me to be a terrorist to the terrorists."
Steven Klein's mother said Friday she is worried someone may try to hurt her son.
"He's a wonderful American and he's pouring his heart out for America," Shirley Klein said from her home near Carson City, Nev.
It was unclear whether Klein has reported threats against him to Hemet police, which did not return phone calls Friday.
In addition to receiving threats, Steven Klein said Friday that "the FBI is all over me."
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller declined to confirm whether the agency has interviewed Klein. But she said the FBI is following leads in the United States and abroad as part of its investigation of Tuesday's murder of four U.S. diplomats, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, during an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
The assault on the consulate occurred during protests against the video.
Jim Horn, a Menifee man who helped Klein pass out the anti-Muslim leaflets at high schools and spoke out against a new mosque in Temecula, said Klein told him this week that the FBI advised him to leave his Hemet home. But Klein is not intimidated by the death threats, said Horn, who last spoke with Klein on Friday morning, Sept. 14.
Horn, 70, said Klein told him that Nakoula — whom Horn and Klein know by the pseudonym "Sam Bacile" — had gone into hiding.
Nakoula is worried about being questioned by the FBI, because the FBI has Arab Muslim employees who would then divulge his whereabouts to a Muslim organization, Horn said. That group would then contact someone who would likely kill Nakoula, he said.
"He has no confidence in the FBI protecting him, and that's understandable," Horn said.
Klein said Wednesday he has never assaulted anyone during his anti-Muslim activism.
But according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, Klein runs militia drills at the Church of Kaweah in the Central California community of Three Rivers.
Although the church has attempted to distance itself from Klein, Heidi Beirich said the information about his training there came from the church's website and its radio show.
Those references did not appear on the websites Friday.
According to the center, Klein runs the drills with the Christian Guardians, a San Francisco-based group.
"The trainings are preparation for what the organizers say is a pending war with Muslim sleeper cells," Beirich said.
An email message to Christian Guardians and a phone call to the church's pastor, Warren Mark Campbell, were not returned Friday.
Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said he has been aware of Klein's anti-Muslim activities for several years.
Ayloush lives in Corona and said his daughter was handed an anti-Muslim leaflet while outside Santiago High School.
He said he knew Klein and others had been distributing anti-Islam leaflets at mosques and high schools in the Inland area and elsewhere. He believes Klein's leafleting at mosques — which Klein said was to educate Muslims about the truth of Islam — was intended to provoke Muslims to react violently. Ayloush said he is unaware of any violence.
He said he opted to not publicize Klein's actions, to avoid giving attention to his cause. Ayloush's photo appears on one of the leaflets, which link Ayloush and the council to the Muslim Brotherhood. Ayloush said the allegation is false.
He drew parallels between Klein and those who killed the U.S. diplomats. They are extremists who believe in violent inter-religious battles rather than the goal of interfaith harmony, he said.
"They both exploit our patriotism, our nationalism, our religious feelings," Ayloush said. "They are part of a tiny minority who believe in a clash of civilizations. They need each other. Without each other, their reason for existence goes away."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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