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Most car buffs have personal favorites amongst the many, long-gone classics. Whether valued for style or performance, classics became timeless because they were so right. But updating and reintroducing certain classics might also bring present day success. The continued popularity of Ford's Mustang, Chevrolet's Camaro, and the MINI Cooper has proven such revivals can work.
It's interesting to speculate on what other classic cars might attract customers today.
Buick's stunning new Riviera brought the brand a range-topping halo car for 1963. With launch ads that promised "a great new international classic" and chiseled styling that delivered on the boast, it became a favorite that still looks stunning today. Buick has crawled back from the brink of GM's near collapse with some competitive new sedans, but a car with the Riviera's head-turning elegance would do much to liven up the division's sizzle factor. A revived Riviera could be based on GM's Cadillac CTS platform, making this idea real world achievable.
During its briefly interrupted death spiral under Dutch supercar builder Spyker's leadership, Saab CEO Victor Muller dropped hints the company might introduce a MINI Cooper competitor based on the teardrop-shaped Saab 92, the company's first car. The little coupe's wind-cheating efficiency, quirky styling, sporty handling, and compact dimensions might have proven popular in today's market. Fiat's 500 has found a little niche as a city car; the Saab would fit in perfectly. But when Spyker lost the company, it was bought by a Chinese concern that announced plans to introduce a new, all-electric Saab. To style their new electric after the classic little teardrop-shaped 92 would seem to be a no-brainer, but hope is a cheap thing.
One iconic classic looked all set to return just a few years back when Chevrolet announced plans for an all-new Corvette. When I spoke with GM design chief Ed Welburn previous to its launch, he insisted their new 'Vette was inspired by the company's gorgeous 1963 Sting Ray split-window coupe. My fingers were crossed, but my eyes were disappointed when the car finally appeared. Totally lacking any retro cues apart from its fancy new Stingray logo, you had to stretch your imagination to spot any original Sting Ray DNA in the new 'Vette's busy, super aero design.
Ford revived its beloved two-seater Thunderbird in 2002 and discontinued it just three years later. The new 'Bird was a decent effort if a bit bland, and its interior was better suited to an economy car. It quickly faded in the marketplace, leaving a market niche unfilled. Why not revive the four-seater Thunderbird? There's an existing market for four seat luxury coupes that's been abandoned to the Germans--BMW, Audi, and Mercedes. Ford might also wish to be ready with an answer to Buick's freshly revived Riviera (see above).
In terms of pure practicality, Volvo used to own the market for simple, pragmatic cars. Its modestly styled, safety-first sedans were a favorite of tweedy professors and smarty pants everywhere. Volvo's durable, no-nonsense244 was the automotive equivalent of Birkenstock sandals. No one saw them as beauty queens, but they got you where you were going with a minimum of fuss. Nowadays Volvo's image is muddled, coming off as yet another near luxury, Audi/BMW competitor without the German's cache. Brand definition is a terrible thing to lose. Bringing back the iconic Volvo 244 as a simple, rugged, even boxy-looking car, would set the brand apart while it revived the company's valuable legacy. While they're at it, Volvo might take a look at reviving their elegant little P-1800 sports coupe as well.
Lincoln's award-winning 1961 Continental saved the brand from extinction as it set the division's style for a decade. Its timeless slab-side body and all-American swagger still turns heads today. Reviving it as the brand's top line car could have brought the struggling brand much needed credibility as a homegrown luxury classic. But unfortunately, Lincoln division cheapened out and built the all new 2016 Continental on Ford Taurus mechanicals draped in a Bentley-derived suit.
Ford's Bronco remains a perennial favorites of the off-road set. Built simply, with "hose-it-out" interiors, their blocky, box-like style fit the simple, rugged mechanicals perfectly. Restored originals bring ever-escalating auction prices as their popularity continues to grow. In a world of soft, overly civilized off-roaders, updated versions of Ford's original rock-climber could prove a smash success.
Finally, a bold proposal: why not revive Chevrolet's long gone Corvair as a pure electric? The second-generation styling was so drop-dead pretty, it defines timelessness. The sleek little revival coupe would require very little updating to work as a contemporary car. With its grille-less front end and aerodynamic body, a sporty, electric Corvair could prove to be a sensation. And the motor could be put anywhere.
These are just a few ideas for reviving some of my favorite classics. Please feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments section below.
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Denver Students Protest Proposed Curriculum 'Censorship'
Hundreds of students have walked out of classrooms in Jefferson County, Colorado to protest potential curriculum changes in history that claim would be revisionist and a form of censorship, according to the Los Angeles Times.
As many as 700 students have been involved, according to KDVR-TV. Protests started at the Evergreen High School on Monday and then spread to the Alameda International High School and Chatfield and Dakota Ridge high schools.
The acts of civil disobedience are meant to be in contrast to the planned review of a new Advanced Placement History curriculum that could reduce or remove information about civil disobedience and civil disorder. The curriculum changes are intended to address an overhaul in the AP History test that the New Jersey-based College Board has instituted, according to Colorado Public Radio. The College Board wants to move toward measuring how well students can develop critical analyses and away from pure memorization of facts.
What sparked the protests was a proposal by new school board member Julie Williams, according to CPR. The review criteria, as published by the school board, were what upset many students and their parents.
Although calling for factual treatment, the criteria seem to list non-fact-based biases that would be encouraged. Colorado Public Radio reported that a subsequent draft by school board member John Newkirk "removed the most controversial sections of the proposal." CPR said that the new language has not been formally introduced and that Newkirk claimed Williams had accepted the changes, although the news organization had not been able to verify the statement.
Review criteria shall include the following: instructional materials should present the most current factual information accurately and objectively. Theories should be distinguished from fact. Materials should promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights. Materials should not encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law. Instructional materials should present positive aspects of the United States and its heritage. Content pertaining to political and social movements in history should present balanced and factual treatment of the
Social networks have been busy with largely negative reactions toward the school board's actions, often coaching the criticisms in ways of interpreting history that they say the more "positive" approach could engender.
Indian Reservations were a prime real estate deal. #JeffCoSchoolBoardHistory
- Lacy wilhelm (@lacyswisdom) September 25, 2014
Those African American protestors had dog treats in their pockets. #JeffCoSchoolBoardHistory
- TJ Fry (@tjdrives) September 25, 2014
The Statue Of #Liberty was welded by the founding fathers. It's green because so is money. #JeffCoSchoolBoardHistorypic.twitter.com/FFV4FFuWXP
- Alex C (@mralexchavez) September 25, 2014
Ken Witt, president of the school board, has claimed that the protests were not the idea of the students, as he said to the Denver Post.
The Republican National Committee has adopted a resolution calling the proposed changes "a radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation's history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects."
It's a shame we see kids on the streets instead of in classrooms," he said. "It is never OK to use kids as pawns, and it's exactly what I think is happening here. And I'm disappointed in the actors in this - the union message coming down through the teachers to get kids to deliberately get out and protest something they don't have any facts about whatsoever."
Williams, Newkirk, and Witt had all run and won as a Republican slate last fall, taking three open seats and gaining a majority, according to the Denver Post. At the time, Witt said that Jefferson County residents "are looking for meaningful reform in the county."
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Picking my next read is a task brimming with possibilities. So many things to consider, so much to gain from a good choice, so much disappointment from a bad one.
I've been thinking about what I want from my next reading experience, but am torn in several directions. One of my goals this year is to read more difficult but rewarding books, a bill that was filled by my previous two very different reads Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and The Iron Council by China Mieville. Both definitely work to get through, but both were amazing in their own unique ways.
I also want to read more unique post apocalyptic novels, because 1) I enjoy them, and 2) I'm writing in that genre and need to scope out the competition. I've read a few post apocalyptic books in the past (my favorites being The Road by Cormac McCarthy, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, and is Roadside Picnic considered post apocalyptic(?)).
I've narrowed my next book down to four very different choices, and I want your input. Pick from one of the options below, click on the tweet thingy and fill in your choice of book with one reason why. It can be any reason, even if you think it just has the best cover.
The choices are: Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Pulp by Charles Bukowski, Stoner by John Williams, or My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Let me know what I should read next by filling in the blanks in the tweet below:You should read -FILL IN BOOK- next #scbarrusreads Click To Tweet
Why these books?
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
I first heard about Station Eleven while googling for "best post apocalyptic novels" or "best dystopian novels" or something like that. I saw it mentioned more than once, thought that was a good sign (though I have read terrible books from 'best of…' lists, so you never know).
This came up and I mentioned it to my wife. "I've only heard great things about that book" she said, and then, "Read it 'cause I want to read it and we should read it together!" But she's currently reading something else so it'll be a while before we can read this together? Should I get started early? Probably because she reads SO MUCH FASTER than me.
Really, that's all I know about Station Eleven. I haven't looked at its goodreads page, I haven't even cracked it open. All I know is it's supposed to be good and it shares the genre that I'm currently writing in. Should I read it?You should read Station Eleven by @EmilyMandel #scbarrusreads Click To Tweet
You can follow her on twitter @EmilyMandel
Pulp by Charles Bukowski
I've never read a Charles Bukowski book. I think many people consider that a crime. I don't know much about him except that he's highly regarded and wrote books with titles like Ham on Rye. To be honest, I don't know what's kept me away from Bukowski for so long.
Anyway, I only own one of his books, Pulp. I have a feeling that it's not the Bukowski book you're 'supposed' to start with, but it's the one I own. So there.
For some reason I put Charles Bukowski in the same camp as Kurt Vonnegut (one of my all time favorites), but I don't know if that's accurate or not. They just seem to exude similar vibes. Am I wrong? Should I read it next?You should read Pulp by Charles Bukowski #scbarrusreads Click To Tweet
Stoner by John Williams
Stoner, I have heard, is one of the best American novels ever written. This is a novel that's been floating around my periphery for years. I think I heard about it first from an article from a publication like The Guardian or something. It wasn't this article but it was a similar one to this.
I forgot about it for a while, then rediscovered it through this YouTube video by Better Than Food, the book recommendation channel by Clifford Lee Sargent @BksBtrThnFood. He gives it about as high of a recommendation possible, which has me intrigued. Should I listen to Clifford and read it next?You should read Stoner by John Williams because @BksBtrThnFood told you to #scbarrusreads Click To Tweet
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
I only recently heard about My Struggle. This one I also learned about from Clifford Lee Sargent (there, I think I linked to all of his things, lol) while bingeing his channel. The same day I watched this video I went to Half Price Books and found the book in the staff recommendations section. It felt like a fatey type of thing, so I bought it.
It's been a few months since then and the details as to what makes this book great are escaping me now. All I know is that some people who I think have decent taste like it, so hopefully I'll like it too. Should I read it next though?You should read My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard because @BksBtrThnFood told you to #scbarrusreads Click To Tweet
So which should it be. They all seem to be very different books. Let me know your thoughts in the comments or on twitter @scbarrus


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Robert Lindsay
Sales Consultant Robert Lindsay has a passion for real estate that stretches far beyond his thirty years experience buying and selling property. He also maintains a great passion for design and construction and has designed, built and sold units in the local area for more than forty years.
The key to Robert's success lies in his inventive and creative side, which once led him to work as an Arts & Crafts teacher. Now as a highly experiences Sales Consultant, he teams his enterprising and innovation with his sympathetic nature, good sense of humour and hard working business ethos, which makes for a rich and rewarding real estate journey for all his clients.
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Charlotte Bankruptcy Lawyer Bryan W. Stone of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question "What is a bankruptcy discharge ?"
Though many people may believe that debt is debt, the reality is that all debt is not created equal. Differences between secured and unsecured debts are important and can impact a North Carolina bankruptcy filing. To find out more about how various debts are classified in bankruptcy, continue reading.
Secured debts include anything that has a lien against your property and which allows the creditor to repossess or foreclose on the property should you fail to make your scheduled payments. The debt is "secured" with rights to some piece of property which acts as collateral for the loan. A common example of secured debt is a mortgage on a home or loans on a car. In both cases, lenders are permitted to foreclose on or repossess property that has not been paid.
Unsecured debts
Given that secured debts include those things that have property attached as collateral, unsecured debts include loans that do not include rights of repossession or foreclosure. If these debts are not paid, lenders have no ability to take any items of the debtor's property in return. Unsecured debts are further subdivided into priority debts and non-priority debts.
Priority debts
Priority debts are important in the context of bankruptcy because they are often non-dischargeable. This means that they cannot be wiped out by bankruptcy and they must be paid before other debts. Examples of priority debts include some back taxes, child support or alimony arrearages.
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The least important category of debt, at least according to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, are those that are non-priority general unsecured debts. These debts receive no special treatment and are the last to get paid during a bankruptcy filing. In fact, many non-priority general unsecured debts are discharged without any repayment. Examples of this include things like credit cards, unsecured personal loans or, most commonly, medical bills.
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Monash University Chancellery Decant Project
We have been engaged to undertake this major decant project for Monash University. This project is required to relocate approximately 220 high level executive university staff including the Vice Chancellor. This project required our team to undertake numerous mapping and planning exercises across 7 university buildings. This aided the university in their understanding of the multitude of different possible options and opportunities and their associated costs. We worked closely with the university executive in developing these planning options, where clear communication, efficient planning and diligence was of the utmost importance. We have investigated options for staff accommodation, car parking analysis, building mass studies, sun shadow studies and executive meeting spaces. We have undertaken existing conditions audit of all 7 buildings, including existing furniture and structural analysis. The total area of our investigations was over 7,500m2. Designing a new home for a Vice Chancellor and her staff is a rare opportunity and the highest quality design outcome is the only option.
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I went out to my happy place, the greenhouse, this morning.
Then I wandered around the yard a bit...
and the warmth of the creeping thyme got me thinking...
maybe it's time to plant something!
The soil in our cold frame is warm,
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The Nizams and Qutb Shahi rulers were great patrons of pearls and pearl jewellery. They brought in craftsmen from all over the world to make exquisite pearl jewellery. The pearls mainly came from Basara in Persian Gulf. Slowly the craftsmen settled in Hyderabad and this city became the main center of pearl jewellery making.
The laborers making pearl jewellery are highly skilled and this art is passed on from one generation to the next. There are two types of pearls, which are natural and cultured. Natural pearls are imported from Japan and the cultured peals are from China and Japan. About 90% of the pearls used are cultures ones.
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Welcome to Texas on the Potomac's "The Week Ahead," a preview of events to come on Capitol Hill and at the White House this week.
This week's report was written by William K. Moore of ViaNovo.
Hurtling themselves into deeper irrelevance, Congress and President Barack Obama took no action to prevent sequestration's across-the-board spending cuts from taking effect on Friday.
Investors shrugged at Washington, sending Wall Street to near record highs. The latest Pew poll found only one-quarter of Americans paying a lot of attention to the controversy, about half the interest they reported in the 2011 debt limit debate.
Agencies won't begin furloughs for 30 days, perhaps leaving a first impression that the White House exaggerated sequestration's horrors, making future spending restraint more likely and higher taxes more difficult. Should the cuts cause real hardship, though, Republicans are more likely to get the blame. The hardship issue will determine whether Congress is forced to replace spending cuts later this spring. For now, the cuts look likely to remain in place for a while.
The next fiscal crisis arrives March 27 when fiscal 2013 spending authority expires. Partisans differ on how much to spend – Republicans favor $972 billion and Democrats $1.043 billion – and whether to extend current authority or write new law. A muted public reaction to sequestration could embolden partisans to greater brinksmanship and a possible government shutdown.
Republican leaders don't want a shutdown now. They hope the President's popularity and leverage erode over the next few months, giving them an upper hand when the next fiscal crisis comes as the debt limit expires this summer. Should President Obama be weakened, Republicans hope to be in a better position to drive through entitlement cuts without tax increases.
Representatives plan votes this week on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded until September, lock in the sequester cuts and grant the Pentagon greater spending flexibility. Senators plan to confirm judicial nominees and begin an omnibus appropriations debate featuring higher spending than the House.


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Police issue arrest warrant for wanted Middletown man charged with indecent assault of a minor
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa.– Police have issued a felony arrest warrant for a Middletown man charged with indecent assault of a minor.
Miguel Angel Bones, 40, of the first block of Nelson Manor Lane is charged with one count of unlawful contact with a minor, one count of indecent assault of a person less than 16-years of age, and one count of corruption of minors.
Bones was charged as a result of incidents that took place in 2017 and 2018.
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Police make arrests in fatal attack of Ecudoran immigrant ...
Mistakenly believed to be gay.
Baseball-wielding thug "laughed" after attack.
NAACP, Julian Bond call for overturn of Prop 8.
Crystal meth use increasing among black gay men.
Tyler Perry will buy his own "private" island. Ha!
Senate votes to give DC vote in House.
Deranged man sends HIV-infected blood to Obama.
Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black ...
And actor Sean Penn win Academy Awards.
Hotness: Linebacker Dhani Jones strips and travels.
RNC Chair Steele: GOP needs "hip hop makeover...
And says civil unions are "crazy".
Log Cabin (thankfully) criticizes Steele.
Jindal rejects $98 million in recovery funds.
Shawn Sutton and Dominique Holington for Diesel.
Polls find broad support for Obama.
Simmie Williams' murder: One year later, no arrests.
Bow Wow butches it up in new video.
Durbin says Burris should resign.
Kobe Bryant covers Complex.
Oscar-Nominated Viola Davis: Gay men "demonized"
Most released inmates delay HIV treatment.
Hotness: New black male physique book.
Hawaii senate committee deadlocked on civil unions.
Tributes to black gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
Obama: Tax fund increase to fund health care.
Holder says raids on marijuana dispensaries to end.
Sexy wide receiver Laveranues Coles a free agent.
Hateful anti-gay Dobson to step down ...
Evil homophobic dictator Mugabe celebrates his birthday.
Hot (and bulging) model Nate Gill featured in Out.
After Elton and Rod 2.0's:
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San Francisco Marina waterfront has always been a spiffy place, one of the world's most scenic locations with sweeping views of the bay, the Golden Gate and the Marin Headlands. Now, it's an award winner.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has named the Marina Yacht Harbor Renovation its 2014 project of the year, the Recreation and Park Department announced Thursday.
Despite its natural beauty, the marina had not had a major upgrade since 1963. Its floating docks, made of wood, had decayed over time, and the utilities serving the boats were outdated and deteriorated.
The $27.3 million renovation project focused on the West Harbor, and included removal of part of the existing breakwater, construction of two new breakwater segments, extensive dredging, reconstruction of rip-rap slopes, replacement and reconfiguration of gates, gangways, docks and slips, and upgrading utilities. On the land, the project included renovation of the harbor office building and improved public access.


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I know, i know, were a little late to the Carpenter game here. But who dies anymore really!? If you happened to be a major player in the entertainment business there is a good chance your soul is indelibly immortalized within the very fabric of the internet. Since he passed away i've been learning all sorts of things about the Master of Horror. For some reason i thought the actor Jennifer Carpenter was his daughter, to my dismay this is not the case. Shes still hot though and her performance in Quarantine was exceptional. She can scream a block down though, that's certain!
Reading through his filmography its difficult not to assume that this man was a babysitter. I know he was for me when i was a brat. No he didn't come to my house and he certainly did not tuck me into bed, the opposite really. He kept me very awake at night. So it seems he was the worst babysitter of all time, but his films left me dreaming. Which is the greatest gift of all.
Also he was a badass music producer. He created many of the film scores of the projects he Directed and Wrote. This i had just discovered today and it deserves a listening to. Its a lost mix of scores he never released. I don't typically do this but "Thanks internet. Today you have been good to me."
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Newyorská diva indického původu Shilpa Ray se vrací do Brna s novým albem.
Shilpa Ray is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York with a blues punk sound led by singer-songwriterShilpa Ray. Her music has been compared to Blondie, The Cramps and Screamin' Jay Hawkins and her singing has been compared to the style of Patti Smith, Nick Cave,and Ella Fitzgerald.Ray is notable for combining an Indianharmonium with a "big-voiced blues-rock howler" vocal approach. The band signed a record contract with Northern Spy Records and


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Check out THE MAKERS MARKET, Sycamore's RETAIL POP-UP of LoCaL ArTiSts!!
A diverse selection of talented artists and vendors will be in The Lodge at Sycamore for the next three Wednesdays (11/29, 12/6 and 12/13 from 6 - 11pm) to get all cozy mid-week and in the mood for the holidays. Tarot reading, henna, local crafts and loads of cool stuff for your viewing and shopping pleasure.
Come get some retail therapy, enjoy a beverage and meet some awesome local vendors, The Makers. We don't mind if you have a drink in hand while you shop :-)
ALSO....donate a coat (on Wednesdays 11/29 and 12/6) and get a free pint from Sycamore!


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Here I am dipping my rear wheel in a pool of Missouri River water. There wasn't an easy access point in Sergeant Bluff to get to the river itself.
And here I am ready to ride.
This is the first breakfast stop on the route from Sergeant Bluff to Ida Grove — lots of people stopped, and it gives an idea of how many riders there are.
Ida Grove had the theme "One Royal Knight", because it has a lot of buildings made to look like castles. Jeremy says that these are the work of an eccentric millionaire who lived there. His name was Byron Godberson, and apparently he really liked castles. Anyway, this kid was riding around town in a knight's getup.
And here I am at my campsite.
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Coarsegold company wins EPA award for its water-saving showerheads
A Coarsegold company that got its start making irrigation sprinklers won a national award from the Environmental Protection Agency for its water-saving showerheads.
High Sierra Showerheads, a family-run business, received the 2016 Watersense Excellence Award for Strategic Collaboration for being a leader in water conservation.
The award was presented at the annual WaterSmart Innovations Conference on Oct. 6 in Las Vegas.
Company founder David Malcolm said he was honored to receive the award.
"We have worked very hard to develop unique, built-in-the-USA, high efficiency low-low shower heads that not only save water, but deliver a superior performance over and beyond the original 2.5 gpm low-flow shower heads introduced by the industry in 1992," Malcolm said. "We greatly appreciate the EPA's recognition of our efforts."
High Sierra's patented design sends water through an unimpeded, straight path, splitting water into two streams just before the large exit opening and colliding them back together, to make a spray of large, heavy droplets.
The small company got its start making low-flow irrigation sprinklers, but branched out into water-saving showerheads. Sales took off several years ago after a severe drought descended on the state and conserving water became critical.
As water conservation continues to be a priority, High Sierra Showerheads has sold thousands of its products to consumers, prisons and other institutions throughout California and Colorado.
The showerheads are used by the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, the Fresno Housing Authority and the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Robert Rodriguez: 559-441-6327, @FresnoBeeBob


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You can now take advantage of the convenience of mobile boarding passes when you depart from all airports served by Air Canada in the USA.
Good news! You can now take advantage of the convenience of mobile boarding passes when you depart from all airports served by
Air Canada in the USA.
In conjunction with this initiative, Air Canada's participation in the TSA Pre-Check program has also been expanded to include web or mobile
boarding passes. This means that you will no longer be required to reprint your boarding pass with an agent or kiosk at US airports.
More information on cities offering expedited security screening through the TSA Pre-Check program may be found here.
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Those moments when you see a favourite writer's work, suddenly and fleetingly, in a stranger's hands! In the lineup at the post office the young woman turned a page and looked up from her book. I said: "Nadine Gordimer." She smiled and said: "I am going to read every one of her books this summer. Two so far."
Searching for Bobby Orr spotted on the subway... Hemingway beside the seat of a student/taxi driver. "Class is hard, the language is hard for me," he said, and grinned. "But exciting."
Three strangers, our carry-ons being combed through at a tiny Caribbean airport, had packed Cheryl Strayed's memoir, Wild. Our paperbacks slapped onto a long steel table, from a knapsack, a briefcase and a tote bag. We saw each other on the island and chatted about Wild each time we did. Hammock, pool, lunch. "Finished yet?" "Those blisters, her feet -- I Googled her feet -- they healed!"
Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes in coffee shops. Lisa Moore at the dentist; in a medical waiting room, Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, distracting a fellow patient.
The room used to make me cry a little -- they're all sick, damnit, damnit. "I don't want this book to end," she told me. Her face was strained when she broke away from the book and it softened as she went back to it, back to Atkinson's Ursula Todd, who lives life after fraught and dangerous life. I hope the worried woman is herself living far from whatever brought her there. I hope she has begun again.


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Welcome to the 'roads' website
This is the project website designed for a study which prepares the ground for the revision of the EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for "Road construction". The study is carried out by the Joint Research Centre's Dir.B - Growth and Innovation (JRC). The work is being developed for the European Commission's Directorate General for the Environment.
The GPP criteria will be based on the requirements addressed in EU Communication COM(2008) 400 "Public Procurement for a better Environment". The purpose of this project is to revise the EU GPP criteria to have updated, clear and ambitious environmental criteria, based on a life-cycle approach and scientific evidence base. Several environmental, safety, technical and functional aspects will be considered.
Moreover, during the GPP criteria revision and development continuous wide consultation is foreseen with experts and stakeholders of manufacturers, supply chain industry, consumer organizations and NGOs. The evidence base uses available scientific information and data, adopts a life-cycle approach and engages participants to discuss the issues and develop consensus. Two types of criteria will be proposed: the core criteria that are those suitable for use by any contracting authority across the Member States and address the key environmental impacts and the comprehensive criteria for those who wish to purchase the best environmental products available on the market.
Stakeholder involvement is a crucial part of this study. If you would like to be involved in the consultation process, you can do so through the website, by registering as a stakeholder. The registered stakeholders will be regularly informed about the progress of the study, have access to preliminary results and draft documents and can respond to questionnaires and/or participate at stakeholder meetings.If you would like to contact us directly, we refer to the contact details of the project team.


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The Nueces County Record Star won three awards at Friday's 2008 South Texas Press Association Better Newspaper Contest held in Corpus Christi.
News editor Tim Olmeda won first place in Division 2 for serious column writing. Contest judge Russ McDermott of the Texarkana Gazette wrote that Olmeda took on two "touchy issues."
The submitted columns were about selling beer at the opening of the Nueces County Junior Livestock Show that was published Oct. 4 and another column about the rights of sex offender parents with children attending Calallen schools that was published Dec. 20.
"The writer shows his case and takes a stand," McDermott said. "Good job."
Managing editor Jeff Tucker won second place in Division 2 feature writing for a special section feature about 2007 Nueces County Record Star essay contest winner Cassidy Heflin that was published Jan. 11, 2007.
"You really tell us about this girl," wrote judge Louie Graves of the Nashville Leader. "A lot of work (raising lambs) for just 15 minutes in the ring."
Olmeda and Tucker also received an honorable mention in Division 2 news coverage for two stories.
Olmeda's March 22, 2007 story reported that about 1,400 Nueces Electric Cooperative customers had to be re-billed after a meter reader was fired after punching in faulty meter readings from his home.
"The Nueces Electric Cooperative story is interesting," wrote judge Christy Busby of the Texarkana Gazette. "A meter reader punching it in from home-how frightening."
The other news coverage entry was the Sept. 6 Record Star which detailed an online story the newspaper broke a week earlier about a large outlet mall coming to the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds.
"On the fairgrounds, that's always big news when retail comes and you did a good job," Busby wrote.
The newspaper's general manager said he was pleased with the awards.
"It is very nice to be recognized by your peers," said general manager John Bowers. "The Record Star is one of the finest newspapers in South Texas in my opinion and I am very proud of the staff we have here."


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Would you like to join us FOR A TEAM TRIP?
WHAT ARE team trips ABOUT
Team Trips are designed to bring together groups of people that have a heart to share their time and talents to help the impoverished country and people in Haiti.
To become a member of any team - SIGN UP, by contacting us at the telephone number listed below to secure your space.
Space or team size will be limited to approx. 20 team members total. Exceptions can be made depending on the individual team focus and travel plans.
Please note, you are not required to have previous medical or dental, although it is required to serve as a team leader. Please pray for guidance and have a willingness to serve in various areas of ministry as needed. We always need prayer warriors that are willing to "watch & pray" during our clinics each day.
Do you have a heart for ministry? You may need to spend time volunteering on the evangelism team that ministers and prays with every patient that attends our clinics.
Would you like to join us? If so, reserve your "place" today by contacting us!
2019 TEAM TRIPs
Spring Clinic Trip April 20 - 27, 2019 — TRIP CANCELLED
This trip focus will include medical, dental and chiropractic clinics. As with all trips, Evangelism will be a large ministry focus during this trip!
No Experience? No problem. If you are flexible and eager to learn, we can train you to serve in various capacities.
Prayer partners are encouraged to joy this trip as well. We need you to serve alongside the evangelism team.
Summer Trip July 31 - August 5, 2019 — TRIP CANCELLED
This trip focus is to visit Hope Orphanage located in Fontamara, Haiti
Daily visit to the orphanage to have fun and "hang out" with the children at Hope.
Trip will also include other light duty work activities and possible outings with the children.
Make plans to join the Riverside Church group and be a team member!! It will be exciting for you and the children of Hope!
FALL 2019 Trip Dates: Exact dates to be advised later.
This trip focus will include medical, dental and chiropractic clinics. As with all trips, Evangelism will be a large ministry focus during this trip!
No Experience? No problem. If you are flexible and eager to learn, we can train you to serve in various capacities.
Prayer partners are encouraged to joy this trip as well. We need you to serve alongside the evangelism team.
Sign up by emailing or calling us at the below listed email and/or phone numbers
Volunteer Team Member Information:
Each team member is required to complete our volunteer application form and submit to us prior to trip leave date. The application form is on our website page.
Our 7 night, 8 day team trip cost is $550.00 per team member. This includes 7 nights lodging fees, 2 meals per day, and "on the ground" transportation while serving with the team in Haiti. (If your team trip dates are less than 7 nights, the above rate can be prorated to accommodate your specific team needs.) Please note: this above cost does not include your airfare, $10.00 Haiti tourism fee (required for all non-residence of Haiti at time of entrance into the country), overseas travel insurance or any cost(s) for your recreation day, such as beach site daily entrance fees, souvenirs, etc.
Please note: If the total team trip members count is less than 10 and the total trip dates are less than 7, JWM - Haiti Missions reserves the right to pro-rate or quote a separate trip rate, due to the cost of guest house and transportation operation costs. Please contact us for more details and/or a trip rate estimate.
Internet service is usually available at our guest house location, for a small additional fee. (This service subject to change and internet availability is limited)
An overseas travel insurance is required by each team member and the coverage must be for the entire trip "out of country" dates. To check your travel-medical insurance trip coverage cost, you can visit this website: www.sevencorners.com/travel-medical-insurance#/quote
Please contact us for any additional team member trip information, details and how to secure your reservation.
Send your email request to: firstname.lastname@example.com / call & leave a message 770-718-9263 / or send a text to 770-540-8033
We are now available for your team bookings. We offer a very comfortable guest house with two large dorm style rooms with air conditioning, lots of outdoor seating & meeting space for you and your team to rest from a day of hard work!
*Please note: secure dates by applying for a reservation booking. Call to discuss and confirm more details. 770-718-9263 or 770-540-8033
Please note, team bookings require a minimum of a 5 night team stay and minimum of 10 total team members. Maximum team size is 20 team members. A small security deposit may be required to "hold" your reservation dates. (Amount can be applied to your booking expenses, if dates are not changed or cancelled.)
Bus transportation service is also available at an affordable daily/weekly rental rate.
Contact us at the email address or telephone numbers listed above.
- Small backpack -- to carry your lunch food, water bottle, and other items during daily travel
- Small LED flashlight - don't forget extra batteries! Rechargeable type is best.
- Comfortable shoes – tennis or walking shoes are best
- Clothing: 100% cotton is recommended. No sleeveless clothing please.
- For women: skirts and short sleeve blouses or dresses. T-shirts are OK as well. Scrubs are fine to be worn during clinic service days.
- For men: Pants, long walking or cargo type shorts, cotton shirts, T-shirts
- Bandanas (red is not a preferred color)
- Sunglasses
- Hat or cap for sun protection
- Sunscreen lotion or spray, Sport type with SPF 50
- Bug repellent – with a high DEET level
- Hand sanitizer, several of the smaller size is best
- Antibacterial wipes, packed in a plastic container/package
- Rubbing Alcohol, 1 pint size, unopened, please tape the lid as well
- Packaged food items (individual/small size servings is best)
- Please plan to pack a lunch each work day for yourself & one Haitian volunteer that will be working with us. Suggestions: Vienna sausage, packaged meats, canned beans, snack crackers, cookies, raisins, peanut butter, trail/nut mixes. A stick of summer sausage with saltine crackers will feed several people too. Bottled or good drinking water will be provided.
- Sodas and other bottled drinks can be purchased during daily travel or at the guest house.
- No hair dryers, curling or flattening irons please.
- Any valuables, such as expensive jewelry, watches, etc. should not be taken on your trip.
- Small Bible - (come prepared to share a morning devotion)
- Journal – You are encouraged to journal your trip; before, during, and after travel.
- Camera - You're going to want to take a lot of pictures!
- Personal Items to bring or consider:
- 1 small roll of toilet tissue
- Small/travel size Kleenex packets
- 1- roll paper towels
- Any/all medications that you take regularly
- Small hand and bath towel (optional)
- Bed Pillows (optional)


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Technology must partner not serve mathematics learning
Media release
Monday, 16 Aug 2010
For immediate release Monday August 16 2010
Technology must partner not serve mathematics learning
Digital technology should be a partner to learning mathematics rather than a servant by becoming a substitute for work done with a pencil and paper according to a University of Queensland academic.
In her address to the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) annual conference in Melbourne on Monday, Professor Merrilyn Goos will discuss the ways in which research, classroom practice and curriculum policy in the use of digital technologies line up with each other and inform each other.
"For learners, mathematical knowledge is not fixed but fluid, constantly being created as the learners interact with ideas, people and their environment," Professor Goos says.
"Technology, when part of the learning environment, can change the nature of school mathematics by engaging students in more active mathematical practices such as experimenting, investigating and problem solving, that bring depth to their learning and encourage them to ask questions rather than only looking for answers."
Professor Goos argues that there is room for improvement in the in the draft K-10 and senior secondary national curriculum for mathematics as technology appears to be treated as an add-on that replicates by-hand methods of learning.
"Although the technology messages contained in the Australian curriculum – Mathematics do not do justice to what research tells us about effective teaching and learning of mathematics, it is almost inevitable that there are gaps between an intended curriculum and the curriculum enacted by teachers and students in the classroom," Professor Goos says.
"Many teachers are already using technology effectively to enhance students' understanding and enjoyment of mathematics. In their hands lies the tasks of enacting a truly futures-oriented curriculum that will prepare students for intelligent, adaptive and critical citizenship in a technology-rich world."
Merrilyn Goos is Director of the Teaching and Educational Development Institute at the University of Queensland and President of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia.
ACER Research Conference 2010, Teaching Mathematics? Make it count, takes place at the Crown Conference Centre, Melbourne on 16 and 17 August. Further information is available from http://research.acer.edu.au/research_conference/RC2010/
Media enquiries:
Louise Reynolds – ACER Corporate Communications
Phone: (03) 9277 5582 or 0419 340 058


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This list is a non-exhaustive list of content warnings. Please note that we are including a wide array of content warnings for each film, even if some warnings are not central themes in the film. The festival is an inclusive safe-space and we acknowledge that many of these films can/will affect each person differently. Please feel free to contact any of the festival organizers with questions via email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Lo Sum Choe Sum: This film addresses or alludes to sexual violence against women and/or children, sex work, prison, trauma, disassociation and mental health issues.
Doubles With Slight Pepper: This film addresses health issues, abandonment, casteism, and classism.
Valley of Saints: This film addresses or displays issues of war, occupation, related violence, death and abandonment.
Placebo: This film addresses issues of mental health, anxiety, self-harm, suicide, isolation, abandonment, and drug use
The World Before Her: This film addresses issues of body image, sizeism, colorism, various forms of sexism and both physical and emotional violence, in particular towards women.
Red Monsoon: This film addresses or displays issues related to infidelity, relationship trauma, violence, physical and emotional abuse, .
Hyphen-American: This film addresses issues of mental health and xenophobia/racism.
Cry Out Loud: This film addresses xenophobia, anti-blackness, mental health issues.
Udhao: This film displays various forms of violence related to political corruption, domestic violence, emotional manipulation, blackmailing, and death.
Appaal: This film addresses body image issues and body dysphoria.
Mardistan: This film addresses toxic masculinity, catcalling/street harassment, violence against women, body issues, homophobia, body image.
Lyari Notes: This film addresses war, restricted access to resources for women, other sexism, strong/explicit language, and includes flashing lights (at approximately 26 minutes).
Lahore Landing: This film addresses war, sexism, acts of terrorism and death/murder (in particular the Peshawar school massacre of 2014).


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Charles Day is Wave Hill's Ruth Rea Howell Senior Horticultural Interpreter.
Pelargoniums—familiarly called "geraniums"—come in many shapes and sizes. Almost all are native to Southern Africa and some of them come from surprisingly dry habitats.
The sturdy-looking, samphire-leaved pelargonium (Pelargonium crithmifolium) is one of the largest of all pelargoniums. It can grow to nearly four feet high, and is very well adapted to the conditions of its homelands in the Northern and Western Cape of South Africa.
It has thick, succulent stems and a drought-deciduous habit, both features that enable survival during hot and dry summers. By shedding its leaves before the onset of drought, moisture loss is kept to a minimum and the thickened stems function as water-storage devices.
Although devoid of foliage during its dormant period, it is able to continue photosynthesis thanks to the presence of chlorophyll in its green-tinged bark.
The mild winters bring rain and the possibility of growth. New leaves unfurl in late autumn and flowers appear by early spring—as can be seen this week in the Cactus and Succulent House, the left-hand wing of the Marco Polo Stufano Conservatory.
If this piques your interest, plan to visit on Scented Geranium Day, Sunday, July 8. We'll be looking at the astounding varieties and fragrances of Pelargonium species and hybrids in Wave Hill's gardens, learning how to cook with geraniums and making soap using geranium oil.


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Pure Religion
This is from the book "Reckless Devotion" which I've mentioned a couple times before. I LOVE this book. And I wanted to remember what authors and missionaries Heidi and Rolland Baker wrote about Pure Religion:
What is pure religion? What is pure Christianity? What is pure love? What is this life all about? Is it about how many people we lead to Jesus or how many churches we plant or how good we are as people? Or is it about being so hidden in the heart of our awesome, eternal God of love that we are swallowed up in Him until it is no longer we who live, but Christ living in us?
"And the King will answer and say to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me'" (Matthew 25:40)
The reason I am in Africa, the reason I have come to serve here, the reason I am alive, is for this purpose and this purpose alone: to learn to love as Jesus loved.
Every day Jesus meets me in unexpected ways. Sometimes He is an orphan looking for love and unconditional acceptance. Sometimes He is a widow desperately begging for a simple job in order to provide the basic necessities of life for her hungry children. Sometimes He is another lost and broken person who just needs a hug and someone to listen. But every day I see Him in a new way.
What matters most is love. Jesus living inside us is happy to use our hands to heal the sick, our arms to hug the lost, our feet and our mouths to go and speak about the Kingdom to all who need to hear it.
This is "faith working through love." (Galatians 5:6)
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So following on from my last blog post I'm going to do a series of blog post on the photographs that I did for Visit Brighton (the tourist office of Brighton Council). Where I was commissioned to take iconic images of Brighton to be used in a stock library for anyone promoting Brighton.
From a photography point of view it was great to be told to shoot your home town that you love in a way that will show it off to it's best.
So I won't go on for too long about it, but this is the first in a load of themed posts, this one being on the Brighton Seafront.


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UEFA Futsal EURO 2014 did not begin well for Italy or their captain Gabriel Lima. But he took inspiration from the country's footballers 32 years earlier and ended up lifting the trophy.
When the tournament started in Antwerp, Spain were looking for a fifth straight title having taken the honours every time since Italy won at home in 2003. A 3-2 opening defeat by outsiders Slovenia made it look unlikely that the Azzurri would break that run, but 11 days later they were champions.
They were given a hand by Azerbaijan dramatically beating Slovenia 7-6 in the second Group C game. That meant Italy were able to win the section, thrashing Azerbaijan 7-0, and avoid Spain in the quarter-finals.
Still, Croatia – who had held Spain 3-3 – were not easy opponents in the last eight, and Lima himself needed to find form despite having scored against Azerbaijan. The skipper showed his all-round ability by troubling Croatia's defence and marshalling Italy's own rearguard in a 2-1 victory.
The 26-year-old Lima, who took over as Italy captain from Marcio Forte in 2012, was now into his stride and struck within seconds in the semi-final against Portugal, later making one and adding another in a 4-3 success. Then, facing Spain's last-four conquerors Russia for the title, Lima again scored first for Italy and created one for Murilo as the Azzurri triumphed 3-1 – the skipper himself receiving the Bronze Ball as second top scorer.
"I improved my performances in the final stages of the tournament," Lima told UEFA.com. "I understood my team-mates needed me to play better and I did."
As for the team themselves, he added: "The history of Italian football is like this. Just think about the 1982 FIFA World Cup when Italy started with three draws and then became champions. By playing with the right fighting spirit and heart we can reach any objective."
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Squad news
03 Dec 2010
Little by little Lotina is recovering his injured players; in this occasion the Basque coach has big doubts on the attacking line that should play against Hercules.
Coach Miguel Ángel Lotina has been happy during the week, because he is recovering players ahead of the last liga matches on the year. For the game against Hércules FC (Riazor, Monday 21h00 CET) he will only miss playmaker Michel (knee), defensive midfielder Juca (thigh), striker Riki (appendicitis) and left winger Andrés Guardado (hamstring).
There are even good news with these four men, because Michel is evolving and his return could take place sooner than it was expected (Lotina said that it could be in January); Juca is already training and the problem of Riki is just a normal precaution after a surgery. Guardado is closer to return; the Mexican is even fit to play on Monday, but the coach prefers to reserve him for the visit to Atletico Madrid.
On Wednesday left-back Knut Rindarøy and central defender Ze Castro skipped the session due to a virus, but the Portuguese was already fine by Thursday and the Norwegian will join the team on Friday. In the end the Basque coach has twenty-one men available for Mondays match, which in the end is creating doubts about how to face the challenge.
And its that Lotina has admitted doubts in the composition of the attacking line against Hércules; Pablo Álvarez and Yves Desmarets had a disappointing performance against Racing Santander, and it could open the door for the return of Saúl Fernandez and Jonathan Urreta; the Asturian winger has been out of the starting eleven within the last two matches, while the Uruguayan played on Sunday his first minutes since September after sustaining an ankle sprain.
Theres even the chance to see Adrian performing as the playmaker towards the left, position that the ex-Oviedo has usually covered since the switch in the system. In that case the strikers role will be for Lassad Nouioui or even for Fabrils attacker Dionisio Emanuel Villalba ´Dioni as Lotina himself admitted it.
Another doubt is if Lotina will keep playing with Manuel Pablo and Diego Seoane at the sides; it has been commented that the Basque man is thinking in allowing the entry of Rindarøy on the left, which could sent Seoane back to Fabril, while another possibility is to switch the youngster to the right his natural position- and put Manuel Pablo on the bench. Anyhow, Lotina has said that he will make his final decision until the weekend as he wants to see all the training sessions of this week.
Meanwhile, Hércules is relaxed after achieving an important victory over UD Levante (3-1), result that has put them one point above Deportivo. The team coached by Esteban Vigo only has the doubt of Royston Drenthe, the Dutch has missed the last two games after suffering a couple of ulcers in the esophagus, however its expected that he will be fit to play at the Riazor.
But on this week the player that has been on the spotlight is David Trézéguet, the French striker is the Pichichi of the team and his seven goals in liga are calling the attention of Inter Milan, it has been mentioned that his agent is already negotiating his return to Italy for the next campaign.
And the former Juventus star clearly explained his intentions during an interview with ESPN Radio, My goal is to keep playing in Europe, because this may be an important opportunity to try to achieve certain goals that I still missing. Now I'm on a team that, probably, is a less known club than Juventus, and my goal is to show myself and in this way, next year, I will be able to join a team with major ambitions. "


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This women's life group, led by Stephanie Klinger & Linda Ford meets on the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Wednesdays of each month from 7-9pm at the home of Linda Ford. We are studying and discussing the book of Philippians. The purpose of this group is to grow disciples by becoming deeply rooted in God's Word, while offering prayer support and encouragement, and to reach out to those in need around us. The environment will be that of acceptance of where we are, and through love, laughter and discipleship, to see transformation take place in each one of us.
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Earlier Event: January 14Westampton Life Group
Later Event: January 17Identity Youth


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Preview of Lewiston at Long Wharf Theatre
Martin Moran is back at the Long Wharf where he has acted before some years ago and also work-shopped one of his own plays. An actor who has appeared in a wide variety of parts in over thirty years in theater, Moran has achieved renown as a memoirist able to recreate personal experience as enthralling monologues on the stage. His first effort, The Tricky Part, based on his prose memoir of the same name, won an Obie Award and two Drama Desk nominations in 2004. It's a play about a seduction that occurred while he was a youth at a camp and then, years later, his path to confrontation with his abuser, who had been jailed for his sex crimes. Tricky stuff, indeed, but Moran has shown himself capable of finding the human dimension in uncomfortable material. His subsequent play, All the Rage, opened Off-Broadway in 2013 and investigates the problem of anger in a quest to understand his own lack of anger toward his abuser.
Moran first began writing for the stage in his thirties, finding "an imperative to tell certain stories." His stories tend to draw on themes of forgiveness and redemption that derive their spirit from his Catholic upbringing, while his interest in writing comes from his father, a journalist in Denver where Moran grew up. He was, he says, "always in love with storytelling" and was very conscious of performing as an aspect of storytelling, realizing that "if you can talk it and walk it, you can write it." Having the confidence that comes with building a successful acting career, Moran found himself able to write parts based on his own experience that he could bring to life on stage. He's at work now on a commissioned play that, far from being a monologue, has 11 characters, none of which he's the right age to play.
At Long Wharf he's in rehearsals for the world premiere of a new play by MacArthur prize-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter, perhaps best known for his play The Whale which won a Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play in 2013. Lewiston, Hunter's new play, is set in Idaho, and Moran says the mid-west setting is one he feels very familiar with. Alice, an older woman, and Connor, her younger male roommate, played by Moran, live on a farm where they run a fireworks stand and are visited by the woman's grand-daughter. With Alice and Connor willing to sell off their land for a condo in a new development, one of the issues in the play becomes a generational clash over land and the question of how to develop a plot that dates back to Lewis and Clark's famed expedition.
Moran attended a reading of Hunter's script in New York and loved it immediately. "Sam is a wonderful writer for the theater," Moran said, with characters that "are very complex human beings" drawn with "compassion and empathy." Long Wharf Artistic Director Gorden Edelstein likened Hunter's work to staples of American theater such as William Inge and Tennessee Williams "in his delicate empathy with all the characters in his stories."
The cast had been in rehearsals for a week when I spoke to Moran. When I asked if things were going as he expected, he replied that he expected the cast to dig deep into the characters and that's exactly what they were doing, led by director Eric Ting who "understands the play and its characters so very well." When I asked about surprises, Moran cited the presence and input of the fire marshal since there is considerable use of fireworks in the show. He also expressed surprise about which lines get laughs. "It's a very funny play, very human," but the laughs aren't easily predictable.
Moran finds the fate of his character Connor "exciting and frightening." "A day arrives—and everything changes," he says. And that's one of the lasting points of plays like Hunter's that Moran finds so admirable: they let us see how people change.
Drawing upon the changes he has experienced in his changing career as both actor and writer, Moran, now in his mid-fifties, is well poised to portray the kind of change that gives a new lease on life in middle-age. Lewiston is about the kinds of challenges that come from family and from those around us, and about the kinds of challenges the future presents to the legacy of America.
By Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by Eric Ting
Cast: Randy Danson (Alice), Arielle Goldman (Marnie), Martin Moran (Connor), and Lucy Owen (Female Voice). The creative team includes Wilson Chin (sets), Paloma Young (costumes), Matthew Richards (lighting), Brandon Wolcott (sound), and Charles M. Turner III (stage manager). Casting is by Calleri Casting. The production is sponsored by Whitney Center and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The production runs from April 6 to May 1, 2016 on Stage II. Tickets are $26 to $85. Press opening takes place April 13 at 7:30 p.m.


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Fintan O'Toole: Kevin Myers broke the only rule that matters
If he had stuck with straight misogyny, he would have been fine
When it is hard to say whether the anti-Semitic tropes are more appalling than the misogynistic stereotypes, the actual construction of the sentences in Kevin Myers's column in Sunday's Irish edition of the Sunday Times seem rather a moot point. But there is a relationship between stupid ideas and bad writing, and it is striking that the column is unusually badly written. Myers can write well – sometimes extremely so. The abysmal quality of some of the prose therefore suggests that he wasn't really thinking about it. The column has an accidental quality. He didn't notice that he was doing something he generally avoids: insulting people who can answer back.
The point about this awful writing, though, is that Myers can do much better
Forgive me for inflicting some of this bad prose on you. I'll keep the examples to two. Here's an egregiously painful sentence: "Meanwhile, the print media generally have been wrathfully chewing the righteousness carpet." And here's an idiotic nonsequitur: "Meanwhile, other broadcasting managers, almost in cultural compensation, have reduced the once majestic BBC Radio 3 to a populist jingoistic travesty, all Elgar, Holst and Williams. The Brexit vote was, in part, a conscious rejection of the largely irrelevant agenda of that depraved and self-regarding metropolitan elite." The first reads like it was assembled by a computer given a random selection of words, too many of which were adverbs. The second, with its claim that Leave voters were partly motivated by rage at being forced by depraved BBC managers to listen to too much Elgar is as surreal as it is risible.
The point about this awful writing, though, is that Myers can do much better. This suggests to me that he hardly bothered to read over what he had written – and that his editors hadn't the heart to do more than glance at it either. And this in turn points to something larger: in the age of Trump, far-right insult has become a kind of automatic writing. What matters is what it is not, which is "politically correct", aka in line with the most basic standards of decency and good manners. So long as it is not PC, you can sell it by the yard. It's a generic, mass-produced commodity.
Licence to thrill
It has to be acknowledged that the Murdoch press – where, until Sunday, Myers had a very comfortable berth – is not alone in this. For many years, The Irish Times gave Myers a licence to thrill its broadly liberal readership with the forbidden delights of contrariness. The paper did him no favours when it decided in February 2005, under the influence of a misplaced anxiety about being seen to censor dissenting views, to publish his column calling single mothers "mothers of bastards" and was then very slow to apologise for this gratuitous kick at the weak. What Myers learned from the episode was not to mind his words but that he would be indulged and rewarded for inverting the usual journalistic imperatives and using his formidable talents to afflict the afflicted.
The occupant of the well-upholstered pulpit imagines himself as a valiant voice in the wilderness
The joy of this career choice is that there are so many groups to afflict. All you have to do is make sure your targets are people who have less power than a well-paid male star columnist. You can take your pick of who to pick on: women in general, immigrants, Africans, poor people, Travellers. And while you are doing so you can see yourself, not as a bully, but as a victim, a heroic resister of the PC oppressors. That "mothers of bastards" column begins with Myers dramatising himself as "sitting outside the warm tepee of political correctness, and in the howling blizzard of reality". The occupant of the well-upholstered pulpit imagines himself as a valiant voice in the wilderness.
Acceptable drivel
Let's not kid ourselves: Myers would still be in that pulpit if he had stuck with straight misogyny. The keynotes of his column on Sunday were on familiar themes – that women are to blame for the discrimination they suffer because they work less hard than men, are less charismatic and driven and have the bad taste to have babies. This drivel is perfectly acceptable, especially when it is seasoned, as Myers's column was, with sycophantic signals to Rupert Murdoch: Sky TV wonderful, BBC "depraved", Brexit good, equality nonsense, rich white men great.
Jewish people have learned to be alert to the tropes of anti-Semitism and to call them out when they see them. It's a matter of survival
Myers's problem, though, is that this stuff is everywhere now. It is no longer contrarian: the president of the United States spouts it. Far-right rhetoric runs on automatic pilot. You don't have to think about it. And it is obvious that Myers didn't and nor did his editors. It was just standard-issue bile. Even those who trade in it are bored by it.
But they failed to notice they were sleepwalking across a line. They broke the only rule that matters – don't pick on people who can answer back. Jewish people have learned from the most abysmal experiences to be alert to the tropes of anti-Semitism and to call them out when they see them. It's a matter of survival. Myers was probably half asleep and wholly bored when he threw in some of those tropes to try to enliven the corpse of a moribund column. He woke up out in the cold he has so long pretended to enjoy inhabiting.


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Business App of the Week: Zamurai Whiteboard in the Workflow/
Recently, our own Michael Maxwell utilized Zamurai, our App of the Week a couple weeks back, to create a professional network topography diagram on the fly. 3n1media was in the process of building out a technology infrastructure for a client's new office, and our systems engineers needed to visualize the new network before installing its components. Michael was able to use his iPad to create the network diagram you see pictured to the left in under 10 minutes--a process that would have taken longer in the more expensive (albeit more robust) Microsoft Visio desktop program.
Again, this is a great example of how tablets do indeed facilitate real work when business users employ the right apps. And, even more than that, it shows how tablet apps can help users go beyond desktop functionality in certain instances.
Stay tuned to the blog for more on great business apps and practical examples of how they can help you get work done!


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Immersive Cocoon: NAU
The difference of a a script behind a motion graphics job is determinant. It may seem as a short piece, maybe others say is kind of easy to replicate, but the truth is, works like these deserve to be seen widely, not easy to execute and totally hard to visualize before production. Great results, great compositng. Everything is about light, about illumination.
Besides the piece, go take a look to the contemporary working model for creatives. The collective or coworking station. Good things happen when different ingredients are put together. Do you think this model works for you? NAU an LA and NY based design collaboration project.
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How To Find A Ramblas Hotel In Barcelona City Centre
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This page makes it easy for you to find a Las Ramblas Hotel in Barcelona. We've listed many of the popular hotels on Las Ramblas below.
|The foot of Las Ramblas boulevard. Columbus monument can be seen in the background.
In addition the map below shows you where the hotels are along the Ramblas. Each hotel has been marked with a number. The number corresponds to the hotel in the text to the left of the Ramblas map.You can read further information on each of the Las Ramblas hotels by simply clicking on either the number on the map or on the hotel name. Each of the links will take you to a page that includes photos, descriptions, pricing and even the ability to reserve the hotel.
Barcelona Las Ramblas Hotel Map
1 Internacional Cool Hotel
(3 Star hotel)
2 Nouvel Hotel
(3 Star Hotel)
3 Royal Hotel
(4 Star Hotel)
4 Serhs Rivoli Rambla Hotel
(4 Star Hotel)
5 Le Meridien
(5 Star Hotel)
6 Arc la Rambla
(3 Star Hotel)
|Barcelona Ramblas - one of the many cafe/bars along the Ramblas in Barcelona
(4 Star Hotel)
9 Citadines Aparthotel
(3 Star Hotel)
10 Flor Parks
(3 Star Hotel)
11 Oriente Atiram Hotel
(3 Star Hotel)
|Teatre Principal on Las Ramblas
( 5 Star Luxury Hotel)
13 1898 Hotel
(4 Star Hotel)
14 Pulitzer Hotel
(4 Star Hotel)
15 Monegal Hotel
(2 Star Hotel)
16 Olivia Plaza hotel
(4 Star Hotel)
All of the hotels listed are either directly on Las Rambla or within a few minutes easy walk of La Rambla.
Remember if you choose accommodation near Las Ramblas be prepared for street noise. There is no getting away from it if you choose to stay on the busiest street in Barcelona. However nowadays many of the hotels have invested in sound proofing to help ensure you have a quieter stay.
The main advantage of staying in a hotel on Las Ramblas is that you will be right in the heart of the city centre, within easy walking distance of many of the main attractions. You also have first class access to Barcelona's transport network including buses, metro and trains along with the Aerobus (Express airport bus) which operate from Plaça de Catalunya which is at the top of Las Ramblas.
In the evening time you can simply leave your hotel and within a few minutes walk visit a host of some of Barcelona's best nightlife. Bars, Cafés and restaurants are in abundance in this area. You are also within a few minutes walk of Barcelona Cathedral, the historic quarter (Barri Gòtic) and Plaça Reial. There is no question that Las Ramblas is one of the top locations to consider your accommodation when visiting Barcelona.
How to get to Las Ramblas
There are three metro stops along Las Rambla which makes it a great transport point to see other parts of the city. These stops are:
Metro: Liceu (Green Line, L3), Drassanes (Green Line, L3) and Catalunya (Green Line, L3) and (Red Line, L1)
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One Only Advice For Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship. When I first became an entrepreneur, I didn't even know I was one. I didn't even know there's a name "entrepreneur" to call people that have their own businesses and be their own bosses. But one thing that I've learned, and I will always tell people, is do what you love, and do it with what the fairytale story Cinderella told you, have courage and be kind.
Entrepreneurship is not just about having a business of your own, but about doing what you love, loving what you do, changing the world for the better with the talent that you have. One of the greatest examples, and you know, one of my favorite examples is Steve Jobs, who always tell us "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." He had a vision, so do you. It doesn't matter if you're actually having your own business, or working for someone else, you are still exercising entrepreneurship. Entrepreneur is a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. So why did I say you're still exercising entrepreneurship if you're actually working for someone else? Entrepreneurship is about develop, organize, and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit. Entrepreneurship is about the relationships between people, businesses to businesses, and a mix of all of those. You're exercising entrepreneurship by working hard, brainstorming ideas on how to make a business better, or even how to do so to make the world better.
One of my favorite advices is what Richie has taught that we should be fit financially, physically, and spiritually. We should live our lives like we have always wanted to be, and we should always treat people the way it should be — have courage and be kind. Treat a person with the potential that he/she could be, not who he/she is right now. That includes you!
If you are an entrepreneur now, or if you want to become one, now is the time to do it, to take actions, to be better, and to start changing the world now. The world doesn't just change overnight, but with consistency of goodness, and hard work. There's no better time than now, and there's certainly no better way to do it than do what you love.
With my perspective of knowing that we are all children of God, I know that God loves us, and that He wants us to have true happiness, and to share our talents with the people around us. Use our talents wisely, and to be our brothers' keepers, to help the ones in need. May we all exercise entrepreneurship now, and to make the world a better place, now!


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Lowest note: C3(forced A2)
Highest belt: G#5
Highest note: C#7
Exclamation: D7
Vocal range: 4 octaves 1 semitone
Vocal grade: B
Vocal positives:
Her low notes are smooth and velvety down to a C3(See I got Trouble) and is reached with relative ease. Her mid-range is weighty and sturdy(F3-G5). Her notes are sung with a more open throat with allows them t be powerful and resonant. Her head voice is bright and piercing.
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Her voice has gone flat and cracked at D5 before, and criticisms have targeted at her technique because her belted notes at Eb5 sounds forced and coarse. Her whistle notes(C6-C#7) are rarely whistles, but are mostly just falsetto reached with unhealthy technique. She is not comfortable holding notes as high as E5 live. Her low notes at C3-E3 occasionally loses its clarity