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Osprey CareerLink is an online registration, job posting system exclusively available for UNF students and graduates. Students register, create a profile, and upload a resume and other job search documents. Employers post full-time and part-time jobs, co-op and internships, and volunteer positions. The system facilitates contact online on a 24/7 basis. Positions are posted on a daily basis.
Getting to Osprey CareerLink just got easier and you can now connect through your MyWings Account. On your MyWings Home Page look for the "Osprey CareerLink" link. Use your UNF Login (N Number) and password.
Any problems with the system, contact Career Services.
Participate in UNF Career Services On-campus Recruiting and Resume Referral Programs
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If you can NOT keep your scheduled interview, you must contact Career Services at least twenty-four hours in advance. If an emergency arises on the day of your scheduled interview, making it impossible for you to make the appointment, you must advise Career Services immediately. If you fail to show without cancellation, the following policy will be enforced:
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The organizations that come to the University of North Florida campus have made an equally serious commitment. Each recruiting organization has sent one or more of their representatives to meet with you, having spent money and considerable travel time to meet those of you who have requested an interview. They have every right to expect that you will keep your appointment.
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You may have prevented another qualified candidate from meeting with the employer.
You may be depriving future students of the right to interview with that organization because universities and colleges with a high rate of "no shows" for appointments often get dropped from the list of campuses that the organization is willing to visit.
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ORLANDO -- Idle Smart has improved the idle reduction system it announced earlier this year, many as the result of customer feedback, CEO Jeff Lynch explained at the American Trucking Associations' Annual Management Conference & Exhibition.
Idle Smart continuously monitors interior and ambient temperatures and efficiently starts and stops a vehicle to maintain desired cabin temperature and reduce fuel consumption for a 50% to 70% average reduction in fuel expense, according to Lynch. Customizable and password protected, programming temperature and timer settings are done via an intuitive display and menu driven format.
New features make it simpler to install in every 2005 and newer truck make and model. A jumper for automatic transmissions saves time during installation, and a redesigned hood switch and a temperature sensor standardize the location on every truck.
The other improvement is a new algorithm that determines when to automatically turn off the Idle Smart unit, saving unnecessary idling if the system is left on when the driver is not in the vehicle for extended periods of time, like over a weekend.
Idle Smart remembers user settings and will operate automatically in Temperature mode. In Timer Mode, Idle Smart runs the engine for a programmed amount of time when the cabin temperature is outside the pre-set comfort range. The programmable timer, a standard feature, also helps ensure compliance with idle restriction laws.
The Idle Smart solution only weighs about 5.5 points. It includes under dash and display units, the Idle Smart ProSmart Harness for ECM communication, Idle Smart Fuel Optimization Software and all necessary system installation components. The unit can be quickly and easily installed and is transferable between vehicles.

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China Using Net Censorship As a Trade Weapon? 111
angry tapir writes "The Chinese government is using Internet censorship as a trade weapon against U.S. tech companies trying to do business there. China's ongoing censorship of the Internet is applied unevenly, with foreign companies often facing stricter rules than their Chinese counterparts, said Ed Black, president and CEO of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, to the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China. (Of course, a lot of countries aren't thrilled by U.S. net censorship efforts.)"


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|2009-04-11, 23:58
|Link #201
Join Date: Jan 2009
That was an awesome 1st episode.everything about it was good,the animation, op,ed,characters.The two leads especially were great and had good chemistry. and most importantly the show was entertaining from begining to end.Bring on ep 2 and more johnny flashing.
|2009-04-12, 02:28
|Link #202
Dancing Madly
Join Date: Nov 2006
What a great first episode.
Definitely requires suspension of belief, but don't most anime series? Even Ghost in the Shell.
This is clearly a near future sort of thing, so I'm willing to let it go provided it doesn't just become convenient excuses.
Beautiful animation, music, and two very likable main characters. I'm with this for the whole ride.
|2009-04-12, 05:03
|Link #204
Join Date: Nov 2003
|2009-04-12, 05:03
|Link #205
Gone for Good
Join Date: Apr 2004
I came because I hear they used an Oasis song for the OP. The last time I ever saw an anime used a Brit-rock song for its OP or ED was Do You Want To by Franz Ferdinand.
The studio being Production IG and the character designer being Umino Chika of H&C helps as well.
Upon seeing Akira having some secret organization contacts and yet he himself having no memory of who he is, and seeing him with multiple passports, first thing I thought was the Jason Bourne movies. Though Akira himself making a reference to Bourne probably means that's where the similarities end.
Finally, English-speaking voice actors playing characters that actually speak normal English instead of Engrish, or worse still, cheesy English dialogue (think Nanoha).
The spinning icon on Akira's phone reminds me of the Laughing Man in GITS, must be a Production IG thing for them to do such flashy spinning icons. (Same thing in the OP of Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations)
A good first episode.
|2009-04-12, 05:51
|Link #207
Part-Time TTK & Master
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Iwakawa base and Chaldea
Age: 38
This was a terribly exciting episode. I am surprised by the nice use of english VAs, and boy it did set the tone right. Not to mention the movie references. I did think the Bourne movies as soon as the male lead shuffled through his passports. The leads are likeable, the production value is how I love it when I.G Production gives it all, and the script is intriguing enough to leave you wanting for more.
From looking at the OP, I can't help but wonder if it is a hint about amnesiac guy being a messiah figure, or close to it, or not at all.
|2009-04-12, 06:25
|Link #208
~*Eternal Bakaness*~
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cheesecake wonderland
I laugh at myself who doesn't know Oasis was a british band (I live in the UK )...I told my friend that some band from manchester did the opening then she told me they're famous and we sung a a song from them back at year 7...I do indeed live under a rock.
Why didn't they use a song from an American band? Since this anime is more or less based on America.
|2009-04-12, 06:47
|Link #211
At the end of this world
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Hungary, Europe
Age: 33
Well yeah, there are certain illogical flaws throughout the episode (the lack of security around WH, the female police officer's unwillingness of a through investigation -I'm sure showing evidence in such a way isn't part of the modern procedures -, the reference to a 33 year old movie from an amnesiac teenager o_O , and how he's running around naked without anyone apprehending him in the middle of DC). But I reckon they still paid more attention trying to represent genuineness than any other shows out there so far.
|2009-04-12, 08:31
|Link #213
Join Date: Sep 2006
That was an excellent first episode, from the wonderfully stylised OP (where have I seen that kind of isometric style before?) with its religious themed text to the imaginative paper cutouts and pencil missiles ED.
Where do the religious themes come in? Is the organisation behind 'Akira' seeking to immanentize the eschaton? Did the phones remind anyone else of Global Frequency?
Fantastic. Looking forward to the next episode.
|2009-04-12, 08:45
|Link #214
Tsukkomi power!
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: For great justice!
I can only think of Ergo Proxy and Paradise Kiss in terms of other anime which have had Western artists for the OP or ED.
|2009-04-12, 09:44
|Link #216
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: God only knows
They do it, right?
|2009-04-12, 12:52
|Link #218
Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 28
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|2009-04-12, 12:53
|Link #219
Waiting for more taiyuki!
Join Date: Jan 2004
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NTCC Culinary Arts to host Thursday Buffet Nights
The Northeast Texas Community College Culinary Arts Program will host three special Buffet Nights on Thursdays this Spring. These will be held at the NTCC Culinary School in historic downtown Pittsburg and are open to the public.
Dinners will be held at 6:00 p.m. on February 6th, February 20th, and March 6th. Seating is restaurant-style and to-go orders will be available by calling ahead to 903-434-8333 The cost is $10 per person. Seating is limited and reservations will not be taken. Parties will be seated on a first-come-first-served basis.
"Our students are excited to put all they have learned over they last few semesters into practice for the community; they have devised great menus and we cannot wait to see the results" Culinary Instructor, Chef Bren Young, said.
The buffet is prepared and served by students enrolled in the culinary arts catering course. The February 6th theme is "February is Love," and will feature tomato basil soup, chicken cordon blue with supreme sauce, Duchesse potatoes, glazed maple carrots, and a Devil's food chocolate cake with double chocolate butter-cream for dessert. This is an alcohol-free event.
The February 20th theme will be a "Mediterranean Nights" and will include: Garlic and herb flat bread with hummus, caprese style salad, and Mediterranean pork kabobs with lemon herb couscous. The March 6th buffet will be an "Italian Villa " that includes minestrone soup with foccocia, stuffed beef braciole with a balsamic reduction sauce, roasted red potato fans, and a bread pudding with rum sauce. For more details about these events or to learn more about the culinary program at NTCC, visit www.ntcc.edu/culinary.
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Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell refers to the start two years ago of the reformation of local public education as "chaos and confusion."
With the merger of the county's two public school systems now about to become a demerger to seven school systems, Luttrell said there is more change to come. But he also believes most of the uncertainty is in the past.
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell appeared on "Behind The Headlines" to discuss schools funding.
And the remaining funding questions revolve around timing.
"I'm pleased to see that we are getting this whole discussion kind of out of the political arena. We are now getting it in the hands of the professionals in education," Luttrell said on the WKNO-TV program "Behind The Headlines." "We're in a heckuva a lot better shape than we could have been. … I think this transition is going to take a few years before it gets really settled."
The program, hosted by Eric Barnes, publisher of The Daily News, can be seen on The Daily News Video page, video.memphisdailynews.com.
Shelby County government is the sole source of local funding to Shelby County Schools. It, along with the respective suburban governments, will provide local funding to the six suburban school systems currently taking shape.
Of the county's $4.38 property tax rate, $1.91 goes to education funding that will be spread across the county's seven school systems based on the average daily attendance in each system.
With open-enrollment agreements among the school systems, all are competing for students and the share of government funding from the state and Shelby County government that comes with those students.
Beyond that, Luttrell said startup costs for the new suburban school systems remains an open question that he is discussing with suburban leaders.
"But we don't have a lot of flexibility in county government for advancing money. We're on a pretty tight schedule ourselves based on when the revenue starts coming in from the property tax," he said. "We're going to look at where we can help the municipalities. It's been my objective from the very beginning that it's our responsibility in county government to see what we can do to help."
Each of the six suburban towns and cities raised their local sales tax rates specifically to fund the new school systems, and all also have their own property taxes.
Luttrell said the issue of startup costs is one of timing.
"About the first of the school year, we'll start making payments to those school systems," Luttrell said of the $382 million in funding county government will provide across all seven school systems. "Many of these funding sources won't start hitting the municipalities until this summer. But (the school systems) are ramping up now. … They've got about six months to ramp up and be ready to go."
Luttrell said he and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. continue discussions about whether the city's plan for a Tourism Development Zone to pay for Mid-South Fairgrounds renovations would mean a loss of sales tax revenue that would otherwise go to fund local public education.
The zone is an area where incremental sales tax revenue is captured and dedicated to financing the cost of improvements for a given project within the zone.
Wharton and his administration contend the three-square-mile zone would not reduce or impact the portion of the sales tax that goes to local schools.
Luttrell said his reading is that the answer is not that clear-cut, even though the baseline in the state formula ensures a portion still goes to education.
"The area for discussion is the increase in sales tax revenue from the improvements in the TDZ that are in question," he added. "If the TDZ is going to generate more sales tax, then we want to make sure that that formula for ensuring that education gets its share of the sales tax is still in place. There seems to be some ambiguity in the law."
Shelby County Commissioners are considering a resolution urging the Tennessee Building Commission to reject the city's application for a Fairgrounds Tourism Development Zone that is on its way to Nashville. The commission delayed a vote on the resolution after Luttrell asked for time to talk with Wharton.
"This is where county government and city government have got to be very careful that we don't step on each other's toes," Luttrell said. "What Memphis hopes to do with that property is really a Memphis decision. Where the county has an interest is the sales tax."
Watch Luttrell's "Behind the Headlines" interview: http://bit.ly/1f93CFQ


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EDA Outlines Funding Cycle Deadlines for FY 2013 and FY 2014 Economic Development Assistance Programs
The Economic Development Agency (EDA) provides strategic investments that foster job creation and attract private investment to support development in economically distressed areas of the United States., EDA solicits applications from both rural and urban areas to provide investments that support construction, non-construction, technical assistance, and revolving loan fund projects under EDA's Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance programs. Grants made under these programs are designed to leverage existing regional assets to support the implementation of economic development strategies that advance new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities.
The Economic Development Administration has published on www.grants.gov the deadlines for the remaining funding cycles of FY 2013 and the first funding cycle of FY 2014.
The next four funding cycle deadlines are:
- December 13, 2012 for funding cycle 2 of FY 2013
- March 13, 2013 for funding cycle 3 of FY 2013
- June 13, 2013 for funding cycle 4 of FY 2013
- September 13, 2013 for funding cycle 1 of FY 2014
See http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=RNbvQ0JZyJyv5v0MpsvvhvNT2TrBThFlxv3F2QTQckgZHWz65RHp!-1052363440?oppId=208353&mode=VIEW
ETA Seeks Comments on Extension of Occupational Code Assignment Form
The Occupational Code Assignment form (ETA 741) was developed as a public service to the users of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), in an effort to help them in obtaining occupational codes and titles for jobs that they are unable to locate in O*NET. The O*NET system classifies nearly all jobs in the United States economy. However, new specialties are constantly evolving and emerging. The use of the OCA is voluntary and is provided: (1) as a uniform format to the public and private sector to submit information in order to receive assistance in identifying an occupational code, (2) to provide input to a database of alternative (lay) titles to facilitate searches for occupational information in the O*NET Web sites including O*NET OnLine (http://online.onetcenter.org), My Next Move (www.MyNextMove.gov) and My Next Move for Veterans (www.MyNextMove.org/vets) O*NET Code Connector (www.onetcodeconnector.org), as well as America's Career InfoNet (www.acinet.org), and (3) to assist the O*NET system in identifying potential occupations that may need to be included in future O*NET data collection efforts.
The OCA process is designed to help the occupational information user relate an occupational specialty or a job title to an occupational code and title within the framework of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) based O*NET system. The O*NET-SOC system consists of a database that organizes the work done by individuals into approximately 1,000 occupational categories. In addition, O*NET occupation have associated data on the importance and level of a range of occupational characteristics and requirements, including Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Tasks and Work Activities. Since the O*NET-SOC system is based on the 2010 SOC system, identifying an O*NET-SOC code and title also facilitates linkage to national, state, and local occupational employment and wage estimates.
The Employment and Training Administration is currently seeking comments on the extension of this form. Click here for full background and instructions for comment submission. Comments are due by January 22, 2013.
SSTI Announces 'Excellence in Technology-Based Economic Development Awards'; UEDA Honors Universities Engaged in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Talent Development
The State Science & Technology Institute (SSTI) announced its Excellence in Technology-Based Economic Development Awards in October 2012. The six winners serve as national models for states and regions investing in science, technology and innovation to grow their economies and create high-paying jobs. Among the winners, a newer program was selected as the Most Promising TBED Initiative, recognized for a transferable technology commercialization model and a creative funding approach.
The five categories:
- Building Entrepreneurial Capacity
- Improving Competitiveness of Existing Industries
- Increasing Access to Capital
- Expanding the Research Capacity
- Commercializing Research
- Most Promising TBED Initiative
Additional Background / Listing of Winners by Category
The University Economic Development Association (UEDA) also announced in October its Awards of Excellence winners during the Annual Summit in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Awards of Excellence Program recognizes UEDA members who are transforming their campuses into engines of economic prosperity through leading edge initiatives in five categories:
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship: initiatives designed to support startups, high- growth companies and clusters within a region;
- Talent Development: initiatives that promote the development of 21st-century skills;
- Research and Analysis: initiatives that enhance the capacity of colleges and universities to provide new forms of research and tools for community, economic and workforce development practitioners;
- Community Connected Campus: initiatives that promote the physical development of quality connected campuses and their surrounding communities; and,
- Leadership and Collaboration: initiatives that support the development of collaborative economic development strategies and the leaders required to implement them.


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SEMI Announces Quarterly Press / Member Webcast: June 21, 2005
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Status; China Market Update
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 17, 2005 -- SEMI, a global industry association, is conducting regular webcasts about current industry trends as a service to its membership. Representatives of business and trade media are invited to join the upcoming member webcast, which will review the current status of the semiconductor equipment and materials industry and highlights of the China Capital Equipment and Electronic Materials Market Outlook, a recently-completed comprehensive market research report.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
11:00 a.m. Pacific / 2:00 p.m. Eastern
Victoria Hadfield, president, SEMI North America and Industry Advocacy
Lara Chamness, senior market analyst, SEMI
Dan Tracy, Ph.D., senior director of industry research, SEMI
To participate in this event, you must register at:
The webcast is conducted entirely via the internet. To hear the audio presentation, your PC/laptop must have appropriate audio capability (speakers or headphone and soundcard). Participants are advised to register and test their systems prior to start of the webcast. Also, you will need to set your popup blocking software to accept popup windows from the webcast website to access the presentation.
If you require additional assistance, please contact Jennifer Blatt at: +1.408.943.7988.


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CLEVELAND — Alex Gordon homered on the game's first pitch, James Shields dominated after a shaky first inning, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Cleveland Indians 6-2 today in a matchup of teams fighting for an American League playoff spot.
Kansas City took two of three in the series between clubs that are in contention for the second wild card spot in the AL. The Royals, who entered today trailing Tampa Bay by three games, moved a game closer to the Indians. Cleveland was 1½ games behind the Rays.
The Royals had a home run, a triple and a single on the game's first seven pitches to take a 2-0 lead. Kansas City added a run in the first inning.
Shields (11-9) gave up two runs, two hits, and hit a batter in the bottom half before taking control.
Michael Brantley had a two-run single in the first, but Shields didn't allow another hit until Jason Kipnis' leadoff single in the ninth. He retired 16 of 17 going into the ninth, but was removed after allowing singles to Kipnis and Carlos Santana.
Shields allowed four hits, struck out seven and walked one. Greg Holland retired the last three hitters for his 42nd save.
Gordon jumped on a 90 mph fastball from Scott Kazmir (8-8) and lined it into the seats in right field for his 13th career leadoff homer. Eric Hosmer and Lorenzo Cain added RBI singles.
The Indians won the first game of the series and finished 5-4 on their homestand, but failed to gain ground in the playoff chase for the second straight day. Cleveland will begin a seven-game trip in Chicago on Thursday. The Indians and Royals meet again in Kansas City for a three-game series next week.
Kansas City went 26-18 in a stretch of 44 games in 44 days.
Emilio Bonifacio followed Gordon's homer with a triple. Right fielder Drew Stubbs attempted to make a diving catch, but the ball rolled past him, allowing Bonifacio to end up at third. Hosmer singled to center to make it 2-0.
Kazmir retired the next two hitters, but Justin Maxwell singled and Cain lined a single to center for the third run. The Royals then pulled off a double steal, but Jamey Carroll popped up to end the inning.
Shields also struggled in the first. Michael Bourn walked and Mike Aviles was hit by a pitch. The runners moved up on a groundout, and Brantley singled to center with two out.
Shields got the start following his shortest outing of the season, a start against Detroit on Friday in which he matched career worsts by allowing 10 runs and 14 hits in 3 2-3 innings in a 16-2 loss.
He bounced back today and improved to 2-5 in 13 career starts against Cleveland. Shields had no-decisions in his first three starts against the Indians this season, allowing nine earned runs in 16 1-3 innings.
After the first, Shields pitched like the ace the Royals envisioned he would be when they acquired him from the Rays for outfielder Wil Myers, one of baseball's top prospects. The right-hander leads the AL with 207 2-3 innings pitched.
Shields' biggest problem came with his own defense when he made two errors in the third. He dropped a throw from Hosmer at first base, allowing Kipnis to reach safely. He then threw wildly to first trying to pick off Kipnis, but retired Santana to end the inning.
Kazmir allowed four runs and nine hits in four innings. He struck out a season-high 12 over six scoreless innings in an 8-1 victory over the New York Mets in his last outing.
NOTES: The Royals will skip LHP Danny Duffy's next start, which was scheduled to be Friday in Detroit. LHP Bruce Chen will pitch that game. Right-handers Ervin Santana and Jeremy Guthrie will pitch Saturday and Sunday, respectively. ... Indians 1B Nick Swisher wasn't in the lineup. He is batting .167 (8 for 48) with 15 strikeouts against Shields, including three hits in his last 25 at-bats. ... SS Asdrubal Cabrera, in a 3-for-26 slump, was also out of the lineup. He pinch-hit in the ninth and struck out. ... Kansas City's off day on Thursday is its first since Aug. 19. ... RHP Corey Kluber (8-5) faces LHP John Danks (4-12) in the series opener against the White Sox.


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Iowa Lakes Community College Success Center faculty Colleen Peltz and Lynn Dodge told Estherville Rotarians Thursday how the center helps students put their best foot forward - to succeed in their college careers.
Introducing Peltz and Dodge, Estherville campus dean Scott Stokes said Iowa Lakes was the only Iowa college to be certified in all three area of developmental education - among just 61 colleges in the country receiving that certification.
Dodge said the typical developmental student could be anyone. The student may have not really been interested in school in high school, for example.
Peltz said the center helps underprepared students prepare and prepared student advance.
The way that's done, said Dodge, is through a variety of delivery systems - independent study, in the classroom or online.
The need for developmental education is apparent by the fact that 33 percent of Iowa high-school students need developmental classes, Dodge said.
Peltz said the center has developed rigor by increasing credits for writing and math strategies from two to three credits. They've also piloted various instructor methods to improve success rates in writing and math courses.
Dodge said the center has presented a lot of their information to area high-school superintendents.
"I believe the partnership between our schools and our college is very strong," she said, adding that Estherville Lincoln Central students had an added advantage by having a college in their hometown.
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Jennifer Kurtz is a Specialist in the Decorative Arts Department at Bonhams in Los Angeles. In her current position at the company, her responsibilities include appraising European decorative arts and acquiring property for Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts sales in the US.
Kurtz has lended her expertise to such single owner sales as The Collection of Sir Daniel Donohue, Property from the Estate of Maria Helen Smith, Property from the Estate of Elizabeth Colyear Vincent and The Estate of Jean Perkins Stuart.
Prior to her current position, Kurtz worked within Bonhams in various roles, including serving as its Junior Specialist/Cataloger and Business Manager/Cataloger in the Furniture and Decorative Arts Department. Before she joined Bonhams in 2001, Kurtz was a Contract Museum Educator at the San Diego Museum of Art, where she assisted with the museum's Art School Youth programmes.
Kurtz holds an MA in History and Museum Studies, Art History from the University of Central Oklahoma and a BA in European History.


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Doesn't reading about "feminist porn" in this column every month make you want to make some of your very own?
Yes—I am absolutely encouraging you to make porn. But not just any porn: the feminist kind. If you're a loyal V-Spot reader, you already know about feminist porn. If not, the long of it can be found here ("Feminist Porn," May 5, 2011) but the short of it is all about authenticity —real people with real bodies showing us their real, chemistry-packed sex featuring real orgasms, in the hopes that it'll really get us off.
Female XXX directors like Tristan Taormino (PuckerUp.com), Courtney Trouble (NoFauxxx.com), Joanna Angel (Burning Angel.com), Shine Louise Houston (PinkWhiteBiz.com), Madison Young (MadisonBound.com) and their talented performers all make starring in porn look so consensual, safe, hot and fun that curious exhibitionists, adventurous couples and even feminist-majoring graduate students are all asking me how to join the pornographic party.
First, stop mentally preparing yourself to go into a creepster's basement to "audition with the director." Sick. The audition process for these feminist porn sites is safe, consensual, tailored to your preferences and freakishly normal.
On the site, you'll find a model application requesting your basic information and some (usually nude) snapshots.The better sites will also ask about your performance preferences—how do you identify your sexuality? What kind of sex do you want to model? Do you want to use sex toys? Would you like to perform solo, with your real-life partner, or with a known star? Can you female-ejaculate? Tie a rope like a sailor? Fist your girlfriend? Now's the time to brag about it!
Don't check every application box. Feminist porn thrives on diversity in both casting and sex acts, so be honest about what you're comfortable doing on camera. These directors are open to it all—straight, queer and trans performers doing it all, from a vanilla masturbation scene to a kinkster's paradise of whips and orgies. Besides, your on-screen comfort level isn't just about you—nobody wants to watch awkward porn.
Sample each director's porn to determine which is moaning your name. Pink & White Productions (of Crash Pad Series fame) and NoFauxxx.com require travel to San Francisco. They both seek diverse casting and are extremely GLBTQ-friendly. Madison Young is seeking female performers for two new projects: FemFist.com, a new site dedicated to fisting pros (nudge, nudge, Westie Wonder) and TheWomansPOV.com, which will feature girl-on-girl home videos filmed from a first-person perspective.
BurningAngel.com is a straight- and gay-friendly punk porn empire. Not only is it accepting submissions for XXX-rated videos and photos, but you can send your music clips to firstname.lastname@example.com to debut your very own bow-chicka-bowow soundtrack.
If you'd rather see a closeup of your vagina on the big screen for one night only, you can make your Freudian dreams come true by submitting to any one of these awesome amateur porn festivals:
The Petra Joy Awards (joyawards.com) is accepting erotic short films by aspiring female filmmakers until August 31.
HUMP! (slog.thestranger.com) wants strangers to judge your five-minute raunchy reels. Selected competitors will be screened in Seattle, Portland and Olympia in November before being destroyed. Maybe you'll win a cash prize. Maybe your old boss will see your rear entrance up close. Anything (legal) goes and anything could happen. Just submit by October 5.
Good Vibrations' (gv-ixff.org) indie fest The Quickies gives you less than seven minutes to get off and pays out a $1,500 first prize. The June deadline has, sadly, passed, so look out for next year's.
Lastly, you probably won't get rich starring in feminist porn. But with its promotion of performer safety and authentic sexual pleasure, you'll probably get off trying.


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After more than 40 years as a commercial architect, Vincent Tai designed his first single-family residence–for himself. The result is modern, open and original.
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Photography by Olivier KoningVincent Tai's playful use of primary colors balances out a stark, modernist exterior.
In the course of a productive 40-year career as a commercial architect in California, Tai had designed libraries, condos and parking garages, but had never designed a single-family residence. "It never interested me," he said. "I just didn't want to deal with the clients." But a do-it-yourself project sounded intriguing. Tai even studied for and received a general contractor's license so he could oversee as much of the construction as possible.
He bought the land in 2003, a long, thin, steep lot up on Round Top Drive that still managed to look promising to Tai. "I'm from San Francisco," he says, "so it looked almost flat to me."
He went with an open, modern design—a three-story pile of geometric shapes that fits tightly along the side of the hill, fronted by a 20-meter saltwater lap pool. "It was a technical challenge to fit everything into the space," Tai says. "Every foot means so much. If I had extended the house back into the hill, it would have probably cost me another $200,000, because the retaining wall would have had to be much higher."
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Inside, though, there's no sense of being cramped. Not only do the indoor public areas flow freely into the expansive outdoor lanai and pool areas, but all the interior spaces have been united with an open floor plan. There are virtually no interior doors in the house; rooms are divided with floor-to-ceiling shoji screens, which are normally left open.
"It's just me and my wife," Tai says.
Tai's relative inexperience in the field of residential architecture allowed him to design with a clean slate. In addition to creating a loftlike environment inside, he stripped away anything he didn't need: fancy foyers, sculpted columns, moldings. In fact, the house doesn't even have a front door, in the traditional sense. Instead, visitors ascend the stairs and walk right into the kitchen on the second floor. "A house, to me, should be as simple as possible. If you look at the floor plans, there's not much to it," he says.


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PRINCETON, N.J. – Junior Tatiana Saunders of the Dartmouth women's soccer team was named the Ivy League Co-Player of the Week, sharing the award with Columbia's Chelsea Ryan, as announced by the conference office on Monday morning.
Saunders has started all six games this season for the Big Green with two shutouts and posts a 1.47 goals against average. This past week, Saunders played in all 200 minutes for the Big Green, a scoreless tie with St. John's and a 1-0 win over Maine.
Against the Red Storm on Friday, the junior netminder made eight saves, four coming off the foot of SJU leading scorer Rachel Daly. On Sunday, Saunders picked up her second clean sheet of the week and faced four shots in the win over the Black Bears.
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I'm back home after a lovely week in Lofoten. I met a lot of nice people, some old friends and some new friends. I've always felt that the school in Norway is my own little secret place. It's this place I went away to for two years and it's always been tricky to explain what kind of life I lived there.
It's this funny little bubble with 100 young people where you laugh until you cry every day and every day feels like one wonderful week of fun because things happen all the time. The environment is of course not for everyone, it can especially be tricky if you're not a very social person. Then you can end up feeling lonely instead of being a part of this big grouphang.
I'm however not very good at small talk. If I meet someone who's the friend or the sibling of someone I know I immediately talk to them as if I've known them for a long time. Sometimes this works out... and sometimes it doesn't. Haha, not everyone appreciates my weird sense of humor.
One amazing thing that happened while I was away last week is that I really has time to clear my head and make a really big decision for the future. When people ask me if I'll dig deeper into photography, illustration or design I've always been like ooh you know...I don't know... I can't make up my mind.
But now I know, I have to give photography a chance. So, as from june (when school is over) I'll pour my heart into trying to get my foot into the freelance world. And lucky for you, you'll just be able to sit back and follow me while I'll fail or succeed... haha.
I've noticed that studying design has only turned me really bitter and all our ecological studies have really made my stomach turn by the thought that I might have to be a part of developing products that help build our garbage piles in the world. But it's not just that, design has never really made me happy. But photography has, for over 10 years! So I'm not gonna throw it away before I at least give it a try.
So I've finally piled it up, a plan for the rest of 2012. Photography will be work. Illustration will be my hobby. Design will be my fall back. I'm excited, I always feel nervous about everything but I don't really feel nervous about this, so I think that means I've made the right choice.


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The Connecticut General Assembly is scheduled to close out the legislative session Wednesday night. How did they do? Some would say it's a remarkable session, with historic gun controls passed and such firsts as legislation to label genetically modified foods. Others would say that the budget is a shell game of gimmicks to cover over serious financial problems in the state, and that such things as driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants are distractions from the state's deeper woes. What's your view?
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text: British Crime Survey, 1988 (ICPSR 9850) Published: Jan 12, 2006 Cite this Study | Share this study × Citation Great Britain Home Office Research and Planning Unit. British Crime Survey, 1988. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09850.v1 Export Citation: RIS (generic format for RefWorks, EndNote, etc.) EndNote Principal Investigator(s): Great Britain Home Office Research and Planning Unit Series: British Crime Survey Series https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09850.v1 Version V1 Analyze Online Slide tabs to view more At A Glance Data & Documentation Variables Publications Export Metadata Staff Project Description Summary This 1988 survey, the third in a series of surveys instituted by the Home Office in 1982, examines levels of victimization in Great Britain and offers attitudinal data on issues relating to crime. The 1988 survey was intended to replicate the 1982 and 1984 surveys (ICPSR 8672 and 8685) as much as possible. However, in 1988 an additional sample of ethnic minority respondents was included. Respondents were asked a series of screening questions to establish whether they had been the victims of crime during the reference period, and another series of detailed questions about the incidents they reported. Basic descriptive background information, such as sex, age, employment, education, and number of children, was also collected on the respondents and their households. Other information was collected on fear of crime, contact with the police, lifestyle, and self-reported offending. Part 1 consists of data captured on the Demographic Questionnaire. Parts 2 and 3 represent data collected via Follow-Up Questionnaire A and Follow-Up Questionnaire B, respectively. Each respondent completed one of the two Follow-Up Questionnaires, with all respondents in the ethnic minority sample completing Follow-Up Questionnaire B. Part 4 consists of data from the Main Questionnaire. Each respondent completed a Main Questionnaire that included a large number of screening questions to identify crime victims, and some attitudinal questions. Data in Part 5 were collected from the Victim Form. Only respondents reporting incidents of victimization on the Main Questionnaire have Victim Forms, with up to four Victim Forms per respondent. The unit of analysis for this collection is the individual. Citation Great Britain Home Office Research and Planning Unit. British Crime Survey, 1988. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09850.v1 Export Citation: RIS (generic format for RefWorks, EndNote, etc.) EndNote Subject Terms crime crime costs crime patterns crime reporting fear of crime lifestyles police citizen police citizen interactions police response reactions to crime victimization victims Geographic Coverage Great Britain Wales England Global Scope of Project Time Period(s) 1987 Date of Collection 1988-01 -- 1988-04 Data Collection Notes The SAS and SPSS data definition statements provided with this collection are incomplete. SAS Proc Format Statements, SAS Format Statements, and SPSS Value Label Statements are not supplied. Methodology Sample Multistage probability sample using electoral registers as the frame. Universe Individuals aged 16 and over living in private households in England and Wales whose addresses appear in the electoral registers. Data Source personal interviews Data Type(s) survey data Version(s) Original Release Date 1993-04-03 Version Date 2006-01-12 Version History 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 11 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads. Notes Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions. The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.


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Christmas is coming, the season has been brutal, last thing we need to do is turn on each other.
I don't like Ed and it has nothing to do with the fact that he was a fireman. It has to do with the fact that he was a fraud. We are allowed to disagree.
ok, if Jetman's wife posts nekkid pictures of herself, I will cast my vote for Jetman.
Keep in mind that like 99.999% of us here, I have no clue who the hell this Jetman clown is.
shakin you can get to know a little more about Jetman on the facebook page. I can vouch he is a great guy and if you are going to be at the game on Sunday come by the tailgate at L5 and hang with all of us. Maybe he'll win you over?
I'm sure he's a great guy, thing is, we don't want a "real life human being" to be our mascot. We want a stuffed animal like everyone else. These real people have real issues and they make us all look bad when they come to light. I'm sure your friend is very nice, but unless he wants to don a costume tell him not to bother.
Shakin' has no influence on this site, you're sucking up to the wrong guy.
Thank you.
I have no idea. Many other teams don't have one, we don't either. We have cheerleaders and flag boys, that's enough.
But if we have to have a mascot, give us a stuffed farm animal like everyone else, don't give me another grumpy old man leading a stupid old chant that is about as cool as 'the wave'.
How will the crowd know when (in unison) to start the J-E-T-S chant? Yes, I know its a little lame, but its what we've got and what we are known for as a fan base. Do you all boycott cheering J-E-T-S on kickoffs @ the games?
I think its great we have an actual face/person leading the cheers versus a "FUZZY MASCOT' as SAR is calling for. The alternative is to have the scoreboard start the chants which I think is pretty weak.
I don't know guys, I hear your opinions and say what you will (and most have) about Fireman Ed, but it is a unique part of attending a Jets game to have him on the jumbotron leading the J-E-T-S chants on kickoffs. I personally believe it would be ashame to lose that aspect of attending games in lieu of his "quitting" (dont get me started on that topic). Especially for those bringing kids/ families etc.
So amidst the disaster of a season we can mostly agree it has been to date (culminated so far imo with Sanchez's face plant into Moores ass on Thanksgiving), why not have a positive story of a good guy who helped his neighbors in need post-Sandy and that is a diehard fan taking over the reigns for Ed and continuing the tradition of leading the fans in cheering?
My two cents, you certainly dont have to agree and it sounds like most don't. I guess we will see what Sunday brings vs the Cards..
PS - The NY post is running an article on Jetman Sunday for those interested
Better than Ed....
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Ferdinand was in the middle of negotiating a new deal, but photographs taken of him with then Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon had caused furious speculation about his future.
The masked gang, calling themselves the 'United Boys', found Ferdinand and demanded that he sign a new deal with the Red Devils.
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"[I] jump on the side of the wall and I'm just about to scream 'raaaah!' when I see there's a massive group of people, with hoodies and caps covering their faces.
"I just thought, 'I'm going to get served up in a moment, so go bananas and they'll think you're a nutter!'
"Then one of them said, 'We're the United boys, sign your contract,' and I was like, 'What you talking about? I've only just started negotiating two months ago, what you worrying about?"'
Ferdinand was forced to explain the background of his meeting with Kenyon to the band of hooded fans, and reassure them that he was committed to Manchester United.
"Basically I went to see my agent for half an hour and Kenyon was with him,' he added.
"Someone's taken a picture and made out like we're having a meal together. So I'm saying to these guys, 'If I'm going to do a deal with another club, do you think I'd be doing it in broad daylight?'
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The latest crash in Greenville involving an elderly driver and a building is prompting talk about whether older drivers need to take a road driver test.
In the last six weeks, three drivers have mistakingly crashed their vehicles into local businesses in Greenville.
The most recent accident happened at Hooters Monday afternoon when police say a 94-year-old woman crashed her car into the porch area after witnesses say she pulled into the restaurant parking lot to turn around, pulled out and she was struck by an oncoming SUV. That caused her vehicle to spin around and hit the restaurant.
According to reports, this is the third senior citizen to accidentally crash into a business.
Driver June Thompson told us, "I don't think it's just age related, i think it's a health factor that makes these accidents, either they get confused or if they're diabetic or something else that they might have like a disease or whatever."
A dew weeks ago a 75-year-old woman crashed her car into the Ulta Beauty Salon on Evans Street after police say she accidentally hit the gas pedal while trying to park. A similar situation happened in July when another senior citizen drove her car into the Greenville Mall. Authorities say, she too, was trying to park.
Driver Rosemarie Grinder says, "There is a time I think where you have to hang up your keys, because it's for your own safety."
Eva Hudgin says tells us she did that years ago when her health started to decline. She says staying out of the driver's seat was the safest decision. She says, "If you can't do it right, you don't need to be out there, especially with children and everybody running all around you, it's bad for them."
Both Grinder and Thompson say they're careful drivers. but they share a theory that they believe could prevent future accidents like these.
Grinder says, "I really think they should be tested on the road at this point to see how alert they are."
i think they should have tests at certain age groups as you get older and eye tests too.
currently in north carolina, if you're between the ages of 18-53 your license is good for eight years. if you're 54 or older your license is good for five years. now, in order to renew your driver's license you must pass a sign and vision test and of course pay a fee if your license is expired.
You can add Hooters to the list of Greenville businesses that have been hit by vehicles driven by elderly women this summer.
The crash on Greenville Boulevard happened around 4:30 p.m.
The vehicle struck the restaurant's patio, plowing through the fence and taking out a support post for the awning.
Witnesses say the woman, who is in her 90s, pulled into the restaurant parking lot to turn around. When she pulled out, she was struck by an oncoming SUV.
Her vehicle spun around, and hit the restaurant. A Hooters manager says one man was on the patio, saw the car coming at him and was able to get inside before the crash.
Witnesses say it didn't appear the woman was seriously injured. The restaurant remained open, but the patio was closed.
In July, an elderly woman's car ran into the Greenville Mall, while just two weeks ago another elderly woman ran her car into the Ulta Beauty store on Evans Street.


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Overmyer joins 1000-point clubFebruary 9, 2002
The Bluffton College 1000-point club added its newest member on Saturday afternoon as senior Rod Overmyer (Payne/Wayne Trace H.S.) scored the 1000th point of his career.
The 6-3 wing entered Saturday's game at Transylvania University just 14 points away from the 1000-point mark, and he reached that milestone on a free throw with 1:12 left in regulation of Bluffton's 87-78 overtime victory over the Pioneers in Lexington, Kentucky.
Overmyer will be honored in a ceremony at approximately 7:25 p.m. Wednesday night in Founders Hall prior to Bluffton's game against Defiance, which tips-off at 7:30.
Overmyer scored 241 points (11.0 ppg) as a sophomore and scored 341 points (14.2 ppg) last year as a junior when he was named first team All-HCAC. He had scored 404 points (18.4 ppg) heading into Saturday's game for a career total of 986 points.
He led the HCAC in 3-pointers as a sophomore with 56, and he ranked second last year with 55. He has already hit 57 treys this season, which leads the league, and his 168 career 3-pointers are the third most in BC history.
In addition to leading the HCAC in scoring so far this season, Overmyer ranks tenth in rebounding (5.1 rpg) and sixth in free throw percentage (81.7%). His career free throw percentage of 83.0% (166-200) is the second-best in school history.
Overmyer has scored in double-figures 52 times in 71 career games played, and he has scored 20 or more points 20 times. He scored a career-high 30 points in Bluffton's 96-90 win over Mount St. Joseph earlier this season.
In his career, Overmyer has added 275 rebounds, 100 assists and 48 steals.


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Deep listening
Listening is essential....all of the comments given(attention, respect, approval of an individual's self-worth, etc) are very good supporting tools to listening, even on the surface level as well as a level slightly beneath what words are said. Listening with the Presence of NOW....that means surrendering the past, surrendering desired outcomes.. focusing on the soul-level and listening to the human needs ...It opens the heart to more compassion; and with deep listening, a flow of listening happens ...rather than a static "technique" of "me" to "me" or even a "trying to get this active listening thing right"....Deep listening is a natural communing.
It seems to need to be re-taught...but even an intention of deep listening seems to bring the joyous soul to the forefront and those times of listening with that intention, build up strength, courage and devotion of the "We" ...any opportunity to practice listening is an opportunity for genuine love, tenderness and devotion. It becomes an experience of shared creativity in innate connection. We "practice" listening to strengthen the living ---fully living---our shared life. Deep listening is as natural as breathing.
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The Most Important Marriage Tip
Mazel Tov on the wedding!
Really listening, not just hearing, is the key to a long and happy marriage and not just with newly-weds. As we are in a marriage longer we sometimes don't really hear what are spouses are saying AND what is their feelings behind what they said. Sometimes the fact that you are REALLY paying attention to them can make the difference between a happy marriage and divorce. Shabbat Shalom.
(9) Avi Sachs, January 16, 2014 11:14 PM
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(8) Anonymous, January 16, 2014 10:32 PM
This is something that I have been working on in myself. I am not a good listener, especially with my spouse. I am trying to pay attention when he speaks and not think about all the "stuff" I want to get done. When I do take the time to really listen, I find it so interesting and will sometimes comment and then it opens up a wonderful discussion. Thank you.
(7) Maureen of the Hero Family, January 16, 2014 5:38 PM
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A $500 million-plus upgrade and expansion of the country's four major trading banks' premises is in full swing.
Better premises are being created for ASB, ANZ, Westpac and BNZ staff and customers as the banks, fresh from making almost $3.5 billion for 2011/12, compete for more business.
Fletcher Construction is nearing completion of ASB's $132.1 million North Wharf headquarters in Auckland, owned by Kiwi Income Property Trust and to be leased by the bank.
ANZ has revealed a $170 million office upgrade in Auckland, Wellington, Tauranga and regional centres in the next four years, on top of the $100 million it has already committed to a branch upgrade, after Westpac's Queen St store took on a beach-style theme in the past few weeks.
ANZ New Zealand chief operating officer Craig Sims said the bank was working closely with NZX listed Precinct Properties on the upgrade of Auckland's ANZ Centre on the corner of Albert St and Swanson St.
In Wellington, the bank will leave nine buildings and move into four, signing a new lease for 171 Featherston St which was HP Tower. That will become ANZ Centre Wellington and be refitted. ANZ has leased a Tory St building and next month, it will begin moving about 1200 support service staff from the contact centre, collections, recoveries, banking operations and Eftpos teams.
In Tauranga, the bank has leased a building at 247 Cameron Rd and staff will move next March.
Sims said ANZ would be upgrading its property portfolio in other centres in the next four years but further details are yet to be finalised. New ANZ branches have opened in Glenfield Mall, Royal Oak, Manukau, The Base in Hamilton, Grey Lynn, Takanini and Silverdale and a new Rotorua branch will open next April.
Sims said the bank wanted to have New Zealand's biggest branch network.
"Over the next two years, we'll increase our branch presence from 75 per cent of where New Zealanders live to almost 90 per cent, with 15 new communities getting new branches," Sims said.
Westpac is changing the interior of 50 larger branches but has not revealed how much it is spending.
Two years ago, the BNZ announced a national branch facelift worth about $100 million. It said then it would refurbish half of its 179 branches and relocate the rest.


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Parents of seniors: Bookstores sponsor Grad Finale
The CSB and SJU Bookstores will host Grad Finale 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, for SJU seniors, and 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Thursday, March 24, for CSB seniors. This is a one-day, one-location event where seniors pick up their cap and gown, as well as finalize all their graduation needs with campus departments. You will receive a letter the end of February explaining the Grad Finale details. You can also visit our website for additional information. Diploma frames will be 20 percent off the week of Grad Finale, March 20-27. Class rings will be on sale. Save $50, $100 or $150 the day of Grad Finale only. All purchases can be made using student ID, credit card, cash or check at the Grad Finale or by phone 800-420-4509. Please specify if you are ordering for a CSB graduate or an SJU graduate. Visit the bookstore online.


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Since this is a forum specifically for Garth Brooks, I will only address my feelings towards him here.
Personally, I do not feel as though he owes me anything. He gave me MUCH in terms of music, perfomances and goodwill from his career. He gave me 12 years of hard work, intensity and ultimate showmanship. I feel like I am owed nothing. I am also quite gracious for what he did give us.
I'm thankful. I'm content.
....And I am damn proud to call myself a fan.


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After -- and sometimes during -- the Centennial Hall mainstage concerts, the JACC and the downtown bars heat up with live music. Here's a look at what's going on after 9 p.m. this week.
Rumblefish, 9 p.m., Rendezvous
Chelsea Karthauser, 9 p.m.; Jake Chavez and Nicole Swenson, 10 p.m., Rockwell
Friday Pastor Lunchmeat & The Primentoes featuring Olive Loaf (aka Collette Costa), 10:30 p.m., Red Dog Saloon
Danger Town of Anchorage, 10 p.m., Alaskan Hotel & Bar
Raisin Holy Hell, 9 p.m. Rendezvous
The Pimentos, 9 p.m, Rockwell
Shawn McCole Trio , 9:30 p.m. Red Dog Saloon
Great Alaska Bluegrass Band, 10 p.m. Alaskan Hotel & Bar
Stringband 213, 8 p.m. Rockwell
Informal pickers gathering, 4 p.m., Alaskan Hotel & Bar
7-7:50 p.m.: JDHS Jazz Ensemble
8:10-9 p.m.: C Note Swing Band, of Anchorage (Danny Consenstein, Bob Banghart, John Hartle, Mike Stanley, Doug Bridges, Adrian Minne, Clay Good, Nate May)
9:20-10:10 p.m.: Lunchmeat and the Pimentos, of Haines (Eric Holle, Kip Kermoian, Gregg Bigsby, Keedo Da Burf, Dick Nixon, Gower Champion)
10:30-11:20 p.m.: Salsa Borealis (Russell Sandstrom, Alejandro Soria, Humberto Hernandez, Eric Ocasio, Miguel Reina, Marc Ramonda, Mike Stenley, Mike Bucy, Conrad Ebona)
11:40 p.m.-12:30 a.m.: Julia Scott & The PBR's... The Perpetual Beer Run (Jimmy Lampkins, Dennis Durr, Julia Scott)
7-7:50 p.m.: Mad Robin, of Springfield, Ore., with caller Tom Paul (Victor Fiore, Art Morris, Cecily Morris)
8:10-9 p.m.: North Country Cajun Club (Erin Hanson, Sergei Morosan, Maridon Boario, Andrew Heist, Clay Good, Jack Fontanella)
9:20-10:10 p.m.: guest dance band the Macrae Sisters, of Portland, Ore., with guest caller Caroline Oakley (Sophie Vitells, Gabrielle Macrae, Joanna Macrae, Brian Bagadonis)
10:30-11:20 p.m.: The Bevels, with caller Odette Edgar (Kathy Fanning, Nene Wolfe, Wendy Parker, Terry Hoskinson, Sally Donaldson, Henry Hopkins)
11:40 p.m.-12:30 a.m.: Sweet Sunny North, of Haines, with caller Lynn Basham (Len Feldman, Jim Wolfe, Katya Kirsch, Carol Ann Wolfe)
Other events:
Friday: 21st Annual All-Day Coffee & Jam, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., JACC
Saturday: Family Concert, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Sheffield Ballroom, Centennial Hall
Family Square Dance with guest dance band the Macrae Sisters and guest caller Caroline Oakley, 3-4:30 p.m., JACC
Annual Liars and Fiddlers Consort, 2 to 4 p.m., Alaska State Museum.
Saturday-Sunday: Songwriters Showcase, 3-6 p.m., Back Room at the Silverbow


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DIXON – There was a Dixon High School reunion Thursday at Sauk Valley Community College.
Former Dixon standouts Catie Cox, Becca Hendley and Holly Nicklaus were together again. Hendley and Nicklaus are Sauk Valley teammates, while Cox is a freshman at Kishwaukee.
Cox and company got the better of things, as the Kougars, who were donning pink uniforms, rolled to a 58-37 Arrowhead Conference win. It was the second time this season the trio met on the hardwood, as Kishwaukee (22-6, 10-0), ranked eighth among Division II programs, thumped the Skyhawks 77-46 on Jan. 24.
"I had to tell myself that Catie's not on my team anymore," said Hendley, who did not score but had a team-high six rebounds. "The first time we played, there were a couple times I almost passed her the ball. It's just instinct."
"It's always nice playing against somebody you grew up playing with," said Nicklaus, who scored a team-high 14 points. "It kind of stinks, though, because they know what you're going to do. But, it was really nice to play with both of them again."
Cox came off the bench for the Kougars. She did not score. Hendley and Cox are 2012 Dixon grads, and Nicklaus is a 2011 grad.
"I got a little used to it because we played them already at home, but it was interesting," Cox said of facing her former schoolmates. "It was definitely weird being opponents instead of teammates."
Sauk (13-12) was without leading scorer Lydia Box, who suffered a concussion in Tuesday's game. The Skyhawks also lost Sheldeen Joseph to ejection, when she was whistled for her second technical foul, for taunting with 7:14 remaining.
Brianna Richardson scored 11 points for Sauk, which trailed 23-13 at the half.
Tami Morice scored a game-high 31 points for Kishwaukee, going 18-for-20 at the free-throw line. Teammate Sinclair Cunningham had 11 points.
Star of the game: Tami Morice, Kishwaukee, 31 points, 18-for-20 FTs
Key performers: Holly Nicklaus, Sauk, 14 points; Sinclair Cunningham, Kishwaukee, 11 points; Brianna Richardson, Sauk, 11 points
Up next: Kankakee at Sauk Valley, 5 p.m. Saturday


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Boston College wants a federal appeals court to throw out a ruling that orders the university to turn over audiotaped interviews with former members of the Irish Republican Army, citing the death of a key figure in the legal battle.
In a motion filed Monday with the First US Circuit Court of Appeals, lawyers for Boston College said the death last week of IRA veteran Dolours Price means that she can no longer be the subject of any prosecution by police in Northern Ireland.
The college is asking that a ruling last year by US District Judge William Young ordering BC to turn over interviews with seven other former IRA members be tossed out. BC is also asking that its own appeal of Young's ruling be dismissed as moot because of Price's death.
Since 2011, police in Northern Ireland have been waging a battle with BC to get audiotaped interviews of Price describing her IRA career.
Authorities want to see if the tapes contain evidence relating to unsolved crimes, particularly the 1972 kidnapping and slaying of a Belfast widow, Jean McConville.
The interviews were conducted as part of the Belfast Project, an oral history project by BC researchers.
In a statement, BC spokesman Jack Dunn said Price's death ''should bring a close to the pending case regarding the subpoenas for the confidential oral history materials from the Belfast Project.''
Dunn said the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty on Criminal Matters invoked by the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom ''provides that the treaty does not pertain to matters in which the government anticipates that no prosecution will take place. ''
''Given that Dolours Price has died, the university believes that the case should be dismissed,'' Dunn said.
Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, declined to comment. She said prosecutors plan to file a response with the court.


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Marketplace Morning Report for Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Though cigarette usage is dropping, the tobacco industry is expected to post profits. We take a look at their new product lines. Does the U.S. stand to benefit from Japan's territorial dispute with China? And, what does the word 'welfare' mean to you?


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New Delhi: Union Bank of India expects fund infusion of about Rs 1,000 crore as part of recapitalization plan of the government. Latest News from Business News Desk
"We have applied and we are expecting about Rs 950-1000 crore (capital infusion during the current fiscal)," Union Bank of India Chairman and Managing Director D Sarkar said.
"The government has agreed in-principle to infuse the capital and may be in weeks time we will be getting information from the government," he added.
Last fiscal, the state-owned bank got capital support of Rs 280 crore.
With the infusion, Tier I capital of the bank will go up, he said, adding, it was 8.17 percent as on September 2012. The capital infusion will help the bank to enhance lending to productive sectors.
The government has made budget provision of Rs 15,000 crore for recapitalisation of public sector banks in the current fiscal.
In 2010-11, the government pumped Rs 20,157 crore in public sector banks to maintain Tier I capital at 8 percent and increase the government equity in some banks to 58 percent.
In the following fiscal, public sector banks got Rs 12,000 crore for improving their capital adequacy ratio.
On the stressed assets, Sarkar said, rise in NPA is reflection of economic situation. With improvement in the economy, things would get better.
"We aim to bring down the gross NPA to 3 percent of the total advances by March 2013," he added. Gross NPA of the bank stood at 3.66 percent at the end of first half of the current fiscal.
Asked about the expectations from upcoming mid-quarter review of monetary policy by RBI, Sarkar said: "As a banker I expect that there should be some reduction in the policy rates. It will boost up the sentiment and economic sentiment."
There is expectation that repo rate or CRR could come down by about 25 basis points, he said.
On concerns of sticky inflation, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left key policy rates unchanged in its last quarterly review of the monetary policy in October.
New Delhi: Union Bank of India expects fund infusion of about Rs 1,000 crore as part of recapitalization plan of the government.
Latest News from Business News Desk


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Regional parks and green spaces formed a backdrop of my childhood, from Girl Scout campouts to family cookouts. One verdant preserve along the Los Angeles River even launched my directorial debut. Wielding a Super 8 camera through marshland and native grasses, I filmed a prehistoric caveman drama that "starred" my siblings and cousins.
Ideas for Urban AdventuresJune 12, 2012
Savings on car rentals, cruises, hotels, flights, and more.
Looking back, I've hardly ever returned to those local settings, but that's going to change. I've rediscovered that urban adventures await all around us, thanks to city, county and regional programs nationwide. Hiking, biking, boating and fishing are but a few of the activities within easy reach of even the densest urban areas.
Los Angeles, California
In my own backyard, the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation manages some 65,000 acres of parks, trails and natural areas, the world's largest public golf course system, plus 25 miles of beaches.
I set off one recent morning to check out some of the county's urban adventure offerings. Leaving the stress of the L.A. freeways behind, I soon encountered a wilderness of blooming yuccas, purple and yellow wildflowers, graceful egrets and stumbling goslings waddling after their mom. I cast for catfish, biked on an antique Italian Surrey bike built for four and took a paddleboat past serene islands in a lake fed by an artesian well. Lifeguard stations lined the lake's sandy beach, soon to be bustling with summertime swimmers.
My location? Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, a 30-minute drive from the skyscrapers of downtown, though it felt like a world away. At $10 per car, the entrance fee is a small price to pay for a weekday urban escape along quiet nature trails at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. And it sure beats the price of an amusement park if you're planning a weekend adventure trip with the grandkids.
San Antonio, Texas
Family, fitness and fun are major themes of the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department. Those who haven't spent much time in local parks since their own kids were young should take a second look, says Parks and Recreation Department spokeswoman Kelly Irwin. "Yesterday's quaint playgrounds may be today's dog parks and fitness courses. We even have skate parks that your grandkids would love for you to take them to."
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Welcome to the premier arts events calendar for the greater Puget Sound area. Music, dance, theater – whatever your spirit craves. Take Part in Art, presented by ArtsFund, has it all.
Sunday, May 20, 2012: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm
Feel the heat as you watch art come alive! Every day, artists demonstrate the intriguing process of creating works of art from molten glass on the amphitheater stage, giving visitors a birds-eye view of their activities. Expert commentary and a state-of-the-art audiovisual system enhance the experience by providing insight into the glassblowing process as well as the science, culture and historical aspects of glass.
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Change starts within, a single spark spiraling outward. This is the model of transformation espoused by IONS as a map of how shifts in consciousness can significantly impact the way people perceive and shape their realities.
What happens once you arrive at the outer reaches of that spiral? With IONS Next Gen, we hope to not only raise awareness about the relevance of noetics to social evolutions, but to also host space for those elevating connections to take root and grow.


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Gordo, a two-year-old, 52-pound Jack Russell terrier mix, seemed to be un-adoptable and was scheduled to be euthanized at the shelter last week, but at the last hour, a Pulaski woman saved his life.
Gordo returned the favor by saving the woman, Tanya Miner, and her other pets from a house fire early last Tuesday morning.
About midnight, a bag of dog food that had been placed on top of a stove caught fire from the oven light, and Gordo woke Miner and all the animals in the house. When Miner woke up, black smoke filled the house, and there were three-foot high flames leaping from the stove. Quickly, Miner began throwing buckets of water on the fire, knowing that the house would burn down before volunteer firefighters could get to the rural farm.
"I don't know if he was trying to save our lives or save the food," said Miner, jokingly.
Miner operates the non-profit animal rescue organization Miner Menagerie Animal Rescue and Sanctuary.
"I rescue animals that nobody would want to take in," she says, noting that she has placed six animals in homes recently.
In addition to dogs and cats, she rescues horses, but also currently has a mule with cancer. Miner funds the rescue primarily, but it also depends on donations.
Miner has recently undergone back surgery, and a friend of hers stated that she could use some volunteers to help at the sanctuary. The rescue website may be found at www.loveanimalsanctuary.com
Donations may be mailed to Miner Menagerie, 1351 Sumac Road, Pulaski, TN, 38478. Donations are tax deductible.


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|Tuesday, 01 June 2004
There are some films that you see and can barely remember afterwards. 'Protocol' fits into this category--and rewatching it 15 years after its initial release, this is perfectly understandable. The movie was lightweight fluff masquerading as political comedy at the time it was made. Seen in 1999, its principal value would seem to be as an illustration of what big-budget '80s fluff looked like.
Goldie Hawn plays Sunny Davis, a Washington, D.C. cocktail waitress who happens to be in the right place at the right time to foil an assassination attempt on a visiting Arab head of state. The na•ve, straightforward Sunny becomes an instant media darling. The Emir is also much taken with her and, since his tiny country is of strategic importance to U.S. foreign policy, employees of the State Department seek to lure Sunny into the Emir's reach by offering her a job in with the Office of Protocol.
Apart from the dismal stereotyping of Arabs (it is to the shame of other movies, not to the credit of this one, that far worse has been seen elsewhere), 'Protocol' is inoffensive but mostly uninspired. Screenwriter Buck Henry has shown genius elsewhere but seems to be treading water here--once in awhile, someone gets an amusing line, but the movie is so eager to appear nonpartisan that it can't talk about anything real. Director Herb Ross knows how to make women look glamorous and the swank soirees glitter appropriately, but his grasp of working-class life is so sketchy that the contrast between Sunny's old and new worlds doesn't play. Nobody here believes in the heart-of-gold squalor she lives in or the bucolic storybook home she hails from anyway.
The DVD faithfully captures the film's glossy, pretty look throughout, but the sound mix is a bit odd in places. In Chapter 7, for example, no sooner do we turn up the volume in order to hear the soft-spoken dialogue than we're blasted by a marching band.
Hawn plays pretty much the same character she essayed in 'Private Benjamin'--ditzy but capable of gutsiness and seriousness when the chips are down, able to assert herself without (heaven forfend) ever appearing anything other than 120% feminine. When Sunny starts quoting the U.S. Constitution in the finale, it's a shock. We can agree with Sunny and the filmmakers that the Constitution is indeed a document worthy of respect--but nothing 'Protocol' does justifies invoking it.


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Stepping into an elevator after seeing Mistwalker and I.T. Planning's upcoming Xbox 360 RPG Lost Odyssey, another member of the gaming press asked what it was like, explaining he hadn't gotten to see it yet. "Have you played Final Fantasy?" I responded, eliciting a few nods and chuckles from those who had also attended the presentation.
With Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi handling the design of the game and Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu behind the music, it should come as little surprise that Lost Odyssey bears a striking resemblance to the duo's past work. As a Microsoft representative outlined the game's basic features, it was hard to shake the feeling that I've seen it all before.
Lost Odyssey stars Kaim, an immortal who has lived for over 1000 years, and in true RPG fashion, can't remember any of it. As the game progresses, he'll recall more and more of his past exploits while dreaming. These repressed memories are presented in the form of short stories penned by Japanese novelist Kiyoshi Shigematsu, and once unlocked are available to read at any time under the "A Thousand Years of Dreams" menu option.
Across the game's story, which is set in the midst of a world revolutionized by the sudden appearance of magic, Kaim will run across three other immortals like himself, as well as five mortals. A straight playthrough of this adventure is said to last between 40 and 50 hours.
In terms of battle, Lost Odyssey operates on the same turn-based principles as Final Fantasy. A turn indicator in the lower left-hand corner of the screen displays the order in which the characters will attack. Certain attacks, such as a powerful magic spell, will take a bit longer to charge than a standard physical attack. During a battle atop a moving train, for example, main character Kaim was able to attack with his sword multiple times while the busty spellcaster Sarah prepared a fiery magical assault.
Disappointingly, most of the battles in Lost Odyssey will be of the random encounter variety, with players lunged into battle against previously invisible foes without warning.
However, there are a few slight twists to the otherwise standard battle system. Since Kaim and a few of the other party members are immortal, they automatically revive after a few turns if they lose all of their HP. However, the mortal members will still need to be manually revived, either through spell or item. If the entire party happens passes out at the same time, it's game over.
Another twist brings an action element to the otherwise turn-based proceedings. When a physical attack is executed, pulling the right trigger will boost the damage a character deals out, the exact bonus depending on the timing of the pull.
Certain battles will also require the use of surrounding objects during battle. While fighting a mammoth black monster reminiscent of something from Iria: Zeriam the Animation, the party could target a nearby crane that coincidentally held a number of explosives suspended above the monster. After sustaining enough damage, the crane released its payload and the battle was over. The Microsoft representative claimed that strategic battles such as this would occur about once an hour during normal gameplay.
On a personal note, I have to say that I'm a bit unsure about the character designs, which seem so sexually charged that it is almost excessive. Three female characters were shown throughout the presentation, each displaying an ample abundance of cleavage. One in particular, a princess, appears to be wearing crotchless pants, calling emphasis to her bikini bottom panties.
While Lost Odyssey's apparent resemblance to Final Fantasy is far from a bad thing--the Xbox 360 could certainly use an RPG of that franchise's caliber--it's certainly disappointing for those hoping for an evolution of Sakaguchi's past work. Still, what I've seen is only a small glimpse of the overall game, and I'm willing to give Lost Odyssey the benefit of the doubt as its winter release draws closer.


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Mash Bash Blood Drive Slated for This Week
It's summertime and that must mean Mash Bash Blood Drive time in Texarkana.
LifeShare is hosting the 27th Annual MASH BASH July 9 and 10 from 10 a.m. to 8p.m. at LifeShare Blood Centers, 1321 College Dr, Texarkana, TX. All donors will receive a limited edition MASH BASH t-shirt and complimentary hot dogs and hamburgers.
"Our annual MASH BASH Blood Drive helps ensure the stability of the local blood supply during the summer. A time when we often see the blood supply drop to a critical level. The volunteer donors that give during MASH BASH help to make sure our community has a stable blood supply through this season," says Karen Siefert, spokesperson for LifeShare Blood Centers.
Each year 4.5 million Americans need blood to save their life or improve their health. The blood used for these medical needs can only come from volunteer blood donors. Donors must be at least 16 years old to give blood and there is no maximum age limit. Donors should bring a list of medications, eat a good meal and be well hydrated prior to donating. The goal can only be accomplished by asking the community to roll up their sleeves and give blood.
About 1 in 7 people entering a hospital need blood. One blood donation, approximately one pint of blood, can save up to three lives. Every donation has the potential to save someone's life.
For more information, go to www.lifeshare.org or call 903-794-3173.
LifeShare Blood Centers regularly supplies blood components to 117 medical facilities throughout Louisiana, East Texas and South Arkansas. Founded in Shreveport, La. in 1942, it is a nonprofit community service provider governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees. LifeShare is a member of America's Blood Centers and the American Rare Donor Program, is licensed by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and accredited by AABB.


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