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Artist Spotlight: Sara-Vide Ericson
Paintings by artist Sara-Vide Ericson from Hälsingland, Sweden. Love the looseness in these. See more images below.
Paintings by artist Sara-Vide Ericson from Hälsingland, Sweden. Love the looseness in these. See more images below.
A bunch of funny drawings by illustrator Ted Parker. More images below.
A selection of paintings by New York City-based artist Elliott Chambers, originally from Bath, UK. More images below.
A selection of images by illustrator Sara Andreasson. More images below.
Warsaw-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Ilona Szwarc documents young Texan rodeo competitors, an arena traditionally dominated by men. See more images from "Rodeo Girls" below.
Artist Joel Daniel Phillips examines San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighbourhood through three friends and deeply-rooted residents. Defined by the Hunters Point Shipyard (a shuttered naval base closed due to extensive environmental contamination), the men work as recyclers within daily proximity to hazardous waste. Click here for previous posts of Phillips' work. See more images from "Hazards May Be Present" below.
Colorado-based artist Heidi Annalise creates impressionistic landscapes inside the lids of old mint tins, using the base to mix her paints. See more images below. Read More
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In 2014-2015 Oklahoma used the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Tests (OCCT) to test students in grades 3 through 8 in reading and math, and grades 5 and 8 in science and writing. The OCCT is a standards-based test, which means it measures specific skills defined for each grade by the state of Oklahoma. The goal is for all students to score at or above the satisfactory level on the test.
Source: Oklahoma State Department of Education
Schools that are well organized, safe, and supportive are much more likely to be successful.
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text: This unique program based in Paris offers unforgettable insights into French art from the 1700s to present. Led by Frances Charteris, classes are held in museums, gardens, on the streets of Paris, and during excursions to Brussels, Giverny, Nancy and Metz. You will be encouraged to experience French life by going to open air markets, jazz clubs, neighborhood cafés and festivals. Interest meeting: Thursday, Feb. 21, from 4-5 p.m. in the C4C room S435.


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January 26, 2013
Steamboat's Dane Koepfer puts the squeeze on his opponent Saturday during a wrestling tournament in Steamboat Springs. The Sailors shared first-place honors in the event with Middle Park. Koepfer finished second in his weight class.
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For the first time in five years, Steamboat Springs High School was filled Saturday with the whistles and cheers, groans and celebrations of a high school wrestling tournament.
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Career Resources for Students with DisabilitiesBinghamton University's Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development provides a broad array of services and programs for all BU students in the areas of career exploration and job searching, including students with disabilities. The staff of the Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development are committed to serving and assisting all students at the university.
Throughout this website, you will find useful information and resources in regards to gaining experience while in college, the job search itself, and beginning your professional career. Take advantage of the resources available in the Career Resource Area located in the Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development, UU 133 as well as the Career Counselors who can assist throughout the process. Also, please visit the Services for Students with Disabilities website here at Binghamton.


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Pretty spirals filled with thin-sliced turkey from the deli, fresh greens, peppers, and creamy dressing, roll up fast for a quick lunch or appetizer.
Look for pepperoncini, sometimes called Tuscan peppers, in the pickle section of your supermarket. These peppers range in "heat" from medium to medium-hot.
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A vast range of cultural, educational, athletic and social activities are available to Princeton students, faculty and staff. Getting involved in campus life is the quickest way to become a part of the University community, and to create one's own Princeton experience. Campus life activities are built around the concepts of encouraging each community member to express his or her talents and to respect all members of our pluralistic community.
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It only takes 15 minutes to create a bold new tasty appetizer you might only find in restaurants.
Canned crabmeat comes in different styles and varieties, including lump (most expensive), white and claw (least expensive). We chose the white for the best appearance in this elegant appetizer. Frozen crabmeat can be used instead of the canned, if desired.
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Host Rams, GHS fall hard; Hornets, Rock pick up wins
Published: Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 12:03 a.m.
The final two games of the Sixth Annual Dante Anderson Memorial Invitational on Saturday didn't go well for Gainesville High and host Eastside.
Saturday's scores
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Hawthorne 57, Miami Southridge 53
The Rock 54, Jacksonville North Florida Educational 48
Lake Minneola 76, Williston 69
Lake Wales 70, Gainesville 51
Miami Norland 57, Eastside 22
Leesburg 75, Deltona 57
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In the fifth game of the six-game slate, Lake Wales, the defending Class 5A state champions, hammered the Hurricanes, 70-51. The Rams also had a rough night as they were thumped by Miami Norland, the 2012 Class 6A state champs, 57-22.
The event, which is hosted by Eastside and floridaprospects.com, is named after Dante Anderson, the fallen Eastside star who died in a single-car accident on southwest 13th Street in May 2007.
"It was great. It gives the fans a chance to see other basketball around when we bring these teams in here," said Eastside coach Pop Williams. "This is something that we're going to always have here.
"Norland is a great team. I think we could have at least played a little better than what we did, but this can make us better."
The Vikings (13-3), ranked No. 1 in Class 6A by SourceHoops.com, led Eastside 14-8 after the first quarter and 25-10 at halftime. Zach Johnson netted 17 points to lead Norland, which outscored the Rams (5-8) 32-12 in the second half. Mal McCrea added 12 points for Norland while Thomas Lundy and Brandon King each had five points to lead Eastside.
Prior to the finale, tournament director Robert Sumpter, also the director of Florida Prospects, introduced Anderson's mother, Sheila Baker, who briefly addressed the crowd. Anderson was a 6-foot-4 swingman who was named the MVP of the FHSAA Class 5A final four in 2006, when as a sophomore, he led the Rams to their only state championship in basketball.
Lake Wales (7-5), ranked No. 2 in Class 5A by SourceHoops.com, used its full court press to cause GHS, No. 10 in Class 6A, problems.
The Highlanders, fueled by Doug Brooks' 13 points, enjoyed a 42-16 halftime cushion. Kevin Bolen scored all 14 of his points in the second half for GHS (10-6). Isaiah Jackson followed with 13 points for GHS, which trailed 70-31 early in the fourth quarter.
"What they do best is trap and rotate very well and take advantage of our weakness, that is our weakness, is pressure," said GHS coach Kelly Beckham. "What you have to take out of this is for us, we have to be ready to play when we tip it up."
In the the event's earlier games, Lake Minneola downed Williston 76-69. Earl Brown led the Red Devils (9-5) with 18 points, while Tre Wilson had 15 points, eight rebounds and six assists. Leesburg, Class 6A state runners-up a year ago, downed Deltona 75-57. The Rock's Pape Diatta finished with 15 points, nine rebounds and three assists as the Lions (15-3) edged Jacksonville North Florida Educational 54-48.
Sophomore Ed Porter posted 24 points and nine rebounds as Hawthorne, Class 1A state runners-up last season, topped Miami Southridge 57-53. Nick Chisholm tossed in 14 points for the Hornets (15-1), who are ranked No. 2 in Class 1A by SourceHoops.com.
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Five ingredients and a few hours in the slow cooker will give you twelve delicious garlic-cheese turkey sandwiches.
Look for garlic-and-herb spreadable cheese in the dairy case. It's available in several flavor variations, so experiment to discover which one you like best in this recipe.
Add a New Orleans twist by sprinkling sliced pimiento-stuffed green olives over the sandwiches to give them the taste of the Crescent City's famous muffuletta sandwich.
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You may send your MDC application to any admissions office of Miami Dade College. Applications for admission may also be filled out on line at http://www.mdc.edu.
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Remove Jitter 3D Track + footage
Hi there,
Maybe its a stupid question but what is the best way to remove jitter from a solved 3D camera track and get the same result on the backplate, so they both match in the end.
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u could.....comp the whole thing, then stabilise after...
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Home care devices market to reach $1.21bn in 2016
Singapore: An analysis conducted by Frost & Sullivan regarding the Asia Pacific Home Care Devices Market, has revealed that the market earned approximately $967 million in 2012 and estimates this to reach $1.21 billion in 2016. It covers the mobility aids, respiratory, intravenous (IV) therapy and incontinence management segments across Australia, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The study acknowledged the rapidly aging population in Asia Pacific and also pointed out that the governments are encouraging patients to opt for home care by offering incentives, subsidies and tax cuts. While improving patients' quality of life, home care also reduces the burden on the healthcare infrastructure, workforce and expenditure in chronic care settings.
Apart from financial considerations, patients are also opting for home care due to technological advancements and convenience in mobility aids and incontinence devices. Product and technology improvements have also resulted in innovative mobility aids including motorized vehicles such as electric wheelchairs and electric scooters; non-motorized vehicles such as manual wheelchairs; and other equipment like crutches and walkers.
Despite its multiple advantages, home care devices' market penetration in Asia Pacific is hampered by reimbursement issues. While some developed countries provide reimbursement in the form of cash or subsidies, developing countries have no established reimbursement schemes. Many Asia Pacific countries have rigid reimbursement policies regarding home care products and the introduction and pricing of the products are decided by the government.
Therefore, it is vital that stakeholders and end users are educated by companies about their products' cost-effectiveness, ability to improve the patient's quality of life and need to revamp reimbursement policies. Device manufacturers could also design and introduce cost-effective products customized to the needs of the region to enhance penetration and revenue growth.
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WWS panelists to discuss November election, Oct. 6
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Seymour is co-winner of Polya PrizeA panel discussion focusing on "Election 2004" is set for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The panel will feature faculty members from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs who are experts on topics ranging from voting behavior to economic policy. The session will be moderated by David Lewis, assistant professor of politics and public affairs and the author of "Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design" (Stanford University Press, 2003).
Panelists will be: Larry Bartels, the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics; Mickey Edwards, lecturer in public and international affairs and a Republican member of Congress from Oklahoma from 1977-93; and Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs and columnist for The New York Times.
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I recorded The Battle of Britain from Turner Classic Movies (TCM) the other day thinking it was part of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" documentary series from 1943 (which is what the satellite guide said). Once I started watching it, it turned out to be the '69 film. Good show though, lots of aerial combat with real vintage planes.
The Eagle Has Landed is an enjoyable film. Donald Sutherland steals the show as an Irish expatriate with no love for the British who aids the Germans in their plot of kidnap Churchill. I can watch The Dirty Dozen again and again. A Bridge Too Far is fine once in a blue moon.
I'm not a big fan of Clint Eastwood's Kelly's Heroes. I just watched Where Eagles Dare, which is a much better film with Eastwood, although it's really a vehicle for Richard Burton. I know I've seen Where Eagles Dare before, but have forgotten it over the years. It was like watching it again for the first time.
When it comes to WWII movies, I typically enjoy stories about the main combatants or "our" troops but I sometimes like to see things from another perspective, so I watched this French film yesterday afternoon. I think it was on Independent Film Channel (IFC) -
Africans from French colonies and elsewhere are recruited by the Free French government-in-exile under Charles de Gaulle to help liberate the mother country from German occupation but face constant discrimination from their French comrades and endure unfair treatment from their superiors and government (even decades later) in the watchable 2006 French war movie Days of Glory.
In the late 1950s, due to so many former French colonies being in open rebellion fighting for independence, the French government cut the pensions of WWII veterans from those former colonies. They were reinstated in the early 2000s, but payments were put off again. Since that generation is becoming fewer in number anyway, it's doubtful there will be any veterans left to claim their pension anyway.
From yesterday evening:
After a plane crash that claims the life of his wife, a 1920s pilot (Cliff Robertson - Peter Parker's Uncle Ben in Spiderman) and his young son rebuild his biplane and take to the air, flying to small towns giving airplane rides, enjoying their celebrity status, and having occasional trysts with local women in the avoidable 1973 action adventure film Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies. Seventies mainstay Bernadette Peters plays a small town prostitute in this film, which is based on a story by obscure director Steven Spielberg.
And the late show last night:
After a centuries-old group known as the Illuminati kidnaps four cardinals and threatens to destroy the Vatican using stolen anti-matter, university professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is called in to help track down those responsible and prevent the calamity in Ron Howard's okay 2009 adventure thriller Angels and Demons. Ewan Macgregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels) plays a Vatican priest and Stellan Skarsgard (Bootstrap Bill in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies) is head of the elite Swiss Guard.


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Whether he's singing about a NASCAR driver's sexual orientation or doing commercials for Big O Tires, Tim Wilson can't be mistaken for someone else. The Georgia native's distinctive baritone twang has an edge of roughness - like most of his comedy material. Wilson's comic commentary covers subjects such as blind dates, cell phones and annoying relatives. Topics such as sex, politics and religion are not only addressed, they are dissected with a meticulous eye for detail and a somewhat-skewed worldview. Along with being a longtime regular guest on nationally syndicated radio programs such as "The Bob & Tom Show" and "John Boy & Billy," Wilson also has some impressive TV credits, including appearances on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," "Evening at the Improv" and "Grace Under Fire".
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• Keith Crain, chairman of Detroit-based Crain Communications Inc. and editor-in-chief of Crain's Detroit Business, Automotive News and Autoweek, was elected to the Automotive Hall of Fame. He will join three other inductees at a ceremony July 24 at The Inn at St. John's in Plymouth.
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Del Mar Saturday
Hosted by Scott Kaplan and Britney Eurton with Felix Taverna and Tom Quigley from 9-10 a.m. every Saturday on The Mighty 1090.
Race & Sports Radio
Hosted by Felix Taverna with Anthony "The Captain" Theodore and Scott Shapiro streams from 8-10 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays live on www.wsradio.com.
Inside Racing
Hosted by JASON LEVIN airs at 7:00 a.m. PDT Saturdays on KTLK AM 1150 (Los Angeles) as well as at www.racingjason.com.
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With Ralph Siraco, streams live Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PDT and Saturday/Sunday 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. PDT.
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Hosted by JAY PRIVMAN on Saturdays, MIKE WILLMAN and KURT HOOVER on Sundays – 9-10 a.m. Sundays live from Del Mar on Los Angeles KLAA – 830 AM and ESPN Radio 800 in San Diego.
Down the Stretch
Hosted by BILL FINLEY and DAVE JOHNSON - Saturdays 7-10 a.m., with the Del Mar Report at 8:20 a.m. from TOM QUIGLEY - Sirius 93...XM 209.
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Hosted by ROGER STEIN – 8-9 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, live from Del Mar on Los Angeles KLAA – 830 AM. and San Diego XTRA Sports 1360 AM, as well as www.rogerstein.com.
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Discover everything you've wanted to know about horse racing ownership. Join Billy Koch, Founder and Managing Partner of the Little Red Feather Racing Club, and HRTV Analyst, Michelle Yu as they discuss the secrets to becoming an owner in the Sport of Kings. OWN IT! Listen Live Tuesday at 12:00PM (PST) on www.latalkradio.com
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Commencement events to occur May 30-June 1--UPDATED 6/1/10
Posted May 18, 2010; 03:44 p.m.
**Commencement on Tuesday, June 1, will take place outdoors on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall as planned.**
Several University activities for undergraduate and graduate degree candidates and their families are planned for Sunday through Tuesday, May 30-June 1:
• The Baccalaureate service will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30, in the University Chapel. Guests must be seated by 1:30 p.m. The speaker will be Jeff Bezos, a 1986 Princeton alumnus and founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com.
• The Pan-African Graduation will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 30, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. Imani Perry, professor of African American studies at Princeton, will deliver the keynote address.
• The Latino Graduation is set for 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 30, on the Frist Campus Center South Lawn. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, senior lecturer in sociology at Princeton, will deliver the keynote address.
• The Class Day ceremony for seniors is set for 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 31, on Cannon Green (Jadwin Gym in case of severe weather). The speaker will be Charles Gibson, a 1965 Princeton alumnus and former anchor for ABC's "World News."
• The Hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates will begin at 5 p.m. Monday, May 31, in McCarter Theatre. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman and Graduate School Dean William Russel will preside.
• The University's 263rd Commencement ceremony is slated for 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 1, on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall (Jadwin Gym in case of severe weather). Guests must be seated by 10:15 a.m. President Tilghman will preside and address the graduates.
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Expected, unexpected voices heard at Warren County murder trial
Jurors hear recording of defendant Thor Frey
BELVIDERE, N.J. - Voices from the past -- expected and unexpected -- were heard at the retrial of a man convicted in the murder of a Warren County woman seven years ago.
Tuesday afternoon, jurors listened to a 43-minute tape recording of Thor Frey, after he was taken into custody on Aug. 24, 2006, outside the Motor Inn Hotel in Plainfield Township, Northampton Co., less than a week after the suffocation death of 75-year-old Mary Bostian.
Jurors also heard from two people who had close contact with Frey in the days after Bostian's death, when prosecutor Kelly Shelton unexpectedly called to the stand a tattoo artist who showed police where Frey and his accomplice left a safe stolen from Bostian's home and Frey's ex-girlfriend.
Frey gave his taped statement to a now-retired investigator from the Warren County Prosecutor's Office, Stephen B. Speirs, who was on the witness stand while the recording was played.
On the tape, Frey tells Speirs he had been drinking and smoking pot on his birthday, Aug. 17, and that he was passed out on the grass outside Bostian's home while his friend, Donald O'Grady Jr., broke into the house in the early morning hours of Aug. 18 and stole a safe owned by Bostian's son with $25,000 in cash and coins in it.
Although Frey admits to helping load the safe into O'Grady's car and driving it to a wooded area, Frey tells Speirs, "I didn't see nothin' and I didn't know nothin'." The next day, Frey says, "I heard this lady was dead."
Frey says on the tape that he hid out at the Motor Inn Hotel because he believed he was being set up to take the fall for the crime -- "I'm always the easy mark," Frey says at one point -- adding that O'Grady gave him a couple of thousand dollars "because I made the comment, 'I'll tell on you if I get caught.' "
The jurors also heard from two unscheduled prosecution witnesses -- Daniel Stracquadine and Robin O'Grady, Donald O'Grady's ex-wife -- after Judge Ann R. Bartlett ruled both could testify.
Stracquadine, who now lives in Washington, N.J., testified that he met Frey and O'Grady while he was staying at the Motor Inn Hotel and drove them to the location where they had hidden the safe.
Stracquadine said he said got to know Frey and O'Grady after striking up a conversation about tattoos with them. He said he was paid a total of $600 by the men after giving Frey a pirate/Viking tattoo and O'Grady a dragon tattoo.
After police stopped him in the Motor Inn parking lot with O'Grady in his Camaro, Stracquadine said he showed them the location of the safe.
Under cross-examination from defense attorney Michael Priarone, Stracquadine admitted he had drugs in his car, but was never charged by police.
At a hearing without the jurors present, Stracquadine also admitted that he is facing charges of second-degree robbery and domestic abuse in Brooklyn, and that testifying at Frey's retrial "might be something to help" his case.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the day was the testimony of Frey's ex- girlfriend, Robin O'Grady.
O'Grady testified -- often tearfully -- for almost an hour Tuesday morning about what Frey told her concerning the robbery and Bostian's death.
O'Grady testified that when Frey returned to their home on Market Street in Bangor, Northampton Co., in the early morning hours of Aug. 18, 2006 -- the day of Bostian's murder -- he gave her about $800 in cash and told her he had robbed for it.
She said she told Frey she did not want to know anything about the crime, to avoid becoming involved. But as Frey watched a newscast about Bostian's death later in the day, O'Grady said Frey told her he had robbed Bostian's home, but "did not hurt the lady."
O'Grady said she turned over the $800 to police on Aug. 25, and allowed her home to be searched.
Under cross-examination by Priarone, O'Grady admitted she has served three years in state prison on drugs charges, and became emotional answering no after Priarone asked if her son, Donald O'Grady III, was "in some kind of trouble now."
O'Grady also denied Priarone's suggestion that she turned over the
$800 to investigators on Aug. 25 only because police were reading her her Miranda rights. "How was I culpable?" she asked.
O'Grady admitted, however, that she began to drink after Frey returned home on Aug. 18, and that her Aug. 25 statement to police was, in Priarone's words, "a montage of rumors on the street and other statements," as well as what she was told by Frey.
After Priarone finished, Shelton asked O'Grady why she was so upset.
"Because I loved him [Frey]," she replied, fighting back the tears. "We were supposed to be together, and then all of this happened."
Because Shelton delayed announcing O'Grady's appearance Tuesday morning until just after court convened, the jury had to wait for almost two hours in a small room until a hearing was held to determine what O'Grady could say.
After the 15-minute hearing with O'Grady in the witness box, Judge Bartlett decided the jury could hear her testimony. The judge also gave Priarone some time to confer in private with Frey.
Before O'Grady took the stand again, Judge Bartlett told the prosecution that the jury should be treated "with more respect," rather than be made to wait for hours past the time they were told to report.
Shelton apologized for the delay, but said O'Grady's appearance was kept under wraps because "the witness had concerns for her safety."
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Patty and me
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - I am a Patty Duke nerd.
I'm not ashamed to admit it, either. I first saw the actress when she was just a teenager, on re-runs of the Patty Duke Show on Nick at Nite. My sister and I watched the show so much, the theme song is still part of our regular vernacular ("But they're cousins! Identical cousins, all the way!").
I still remember vividly the first time I watched The Miracle Worker and was blown away by Patty's performance as Hellen Keller. I was about the same age she was in the movie when I saw it; I couldn't believe someone my age could pull off a performance like that.
So, imagine how I felt last Friday, walking into Patty Duke's Coeur d'Alene home. Then, imagine how incredible it was when the woman I grew up watching gave me a hug when I walked out the door.Patty's Third Act
Yes, I took advantage of my job to meet someone I've always admired. But, there's a news hook, I swear. Patty, whose real name is Anna, won her Oscar for The Miracle Worker 50 years ago. She's celebrating a milestone and it's the perfect lead story for our post-Oscar special on KXLY.
Over the years, Patty (Anna) has become much more than an iconic actress. She's a mom, a grandma, a community volunteer and, most notably, an advocate for mental health awareness. She's had her own very public struggles, to be sure, but thanks medication for helping her control the extreme ups and downs that come with bi-polar disorder. She was the first celebrity to go public with such a disorder and, though she says she still asks herself "why me?" she knows her struggle is helping others.
"Lots of times, I wonder why I was put here. [One morning], the sun was out, it was a beautiful day and all of the sudden, I had this sensation of - I know why I'm here," she told me, looking wistfully out the back window of her Coeur d'Alene home. "It wasn't to be an actress. Being an actress has led to being able to get this information out about mental illness. Oh my, pat myself on the back, it felt so good!"
When she moved to North Idaho with her husband Mike, she expected it would just be for a few years; she thought of it as a logical escape from Los Angeles. 23 and a half years later, she's still here. And, she's not a recluse living on a hill, surrounded by awards (though, she does have plenty of awards to go with that Oscar.) She's involved in community events and speak about mental illness, she acts in community theater - and, she loves every minute of it.
I can't wait to share our full interview with Patty (Anna) on Sunday night. You can watch it right after the Oscars. And, Patty will be watching that Oscar special, too, remembering that night all those years ago - when she grabbed that statue and made history.
"I love the emotion I see in that little girl, I hate the hair - and, I hate the dress," she says, thinking of that night in 1963.
So, if you're asking, "What was she like?" She was amazing. She held nothing back in our interview, she and her husband Mike welcomed us into their home and they've been gracious with follow-up pictures and information in the days since.
I told her about my sister and I watching her show, so when we were done with the interview, she leaned over and said, "We should call your sister." Then, the Oscar winner called my sister in Montana and left her a voicemail to say hello.
When I walked out of her home, she gave me a hug and said, "You're so good at your job."
You think I was a Patty Duke nerd before? I'm head-over-heels for her now.
Watch Patty's Third Act, Sunday night after the Oscars on KXLY4.
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Milton Lukken
MT.HOREB/MIDDLETON-Milton A. Lukken age 91, passed away on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at Girlies Manor in Mt. Horeb. He was born on a farm in Mt. Horeb to Albert and Grace Mabel (Offerdahl) Lukken on October 28, 1921. He attended a one room country school house and graduated from Mt. Horeb High School in 1935. Milton was united in marriage to Alice Garfoot on May 15, 1943 in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Cross Plains. He was inducted into the U.S. Army on July 20, 1942. Milton was a decorated combat infantry veteran, serving in the Third U.S. Army during the liberation of Europe, participating in the Ardennes, Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns. During this time he made assaults across four major rivers in Europe, three of them 1st wave and the fourth, the Rhine. He was in a 40 man patrol that crossed the night before under the cover of darkness. During the central Europe campaign his unit captured the first concentration camp discovered in Germany at Ordruff. He was Past Commander of the Cross Plains American Legion Post 245 and a life time member of the prestige's Combat Infantrymen's Association of North Carolina.
Milton is survived by five children, Eileen Vassau, Verona; Dr. Kathleen Lukken, Ogden, Utah; Joyce Lukken, Mt. Horeb; Gary Lukken, Middleton and Terry Lukken , Monument, Colorado; a sister, Joyce Kiekhaefer, Middleton; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Alice in 2000.
It was Milton's wishes that no services be held. He was interred in St. Francis Cemetery, Cross Plains.
The family wishes to extend a special thank you to Lance and all his staff at Girlies Manor in Mt. Horeb and Agrace HospiceCare, Inc. for all their care, compassion and patience.
It was Milton's wishes that no services be held
It was Milton's wishes that no services be held
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Business plan contest, Feb. 23
Posted February 21, 2002; 04:26 p.m.
The Princeton University Entrepreneurship Club will hold its fourth annual business plan contest Saturday, Feb. 23. The final round of the contest is open to the public and will be held 12:30 p.m. in Room 006 of the Friend Center for Engineering.
This year, seven teams of students have entered business plans in the contest, hoping to win a share of $10,000 in prizes. Judges will select the four best plans in a morning round of judging. At the afternoon session in the Friend Center, judges will pick the winners. The first-place team will win $5,000, the second-place team will win $3,000, and the third-place team will win $2,000.
Audience members at the afternoon event will have a chance to guess the top three finalists, and those who choose correctly will be entered in a raffle for a Microsoft Xbox video-game console.
Nine entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and investors will serve as judges. Howard Cox, a general partner in the Greylock venture capital firm and member of the class of 1964, donated cash prizes and funds for expenses, and the U-Store provided additional support.
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Hey, who ya callin' olde?
Eug is just seasoned.
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You really gotta be careful about how high a pedestal you put your method, your accomplishments, your dog on. There's usually someone who's done more, somewhere. And they may have used a different method than you did! Chris Atkinson 2013
get your dog out and TRAIN! caryalsobrook 2013
I'm afraid I don't know of Keith Mathews or Copperbirch Labradors.
The adult sires (2) on his website are well enough bred and have very good hip scores, but neither has ever won a Trial or been made up to Field Trial Champion. The pedigrees show a strong representation of Irish dogs as you'd expect, plus some well regarded names from the rest of the UK. One sidelight might be the dog mentioned by Kirk; the full title should read "Copperbirch Paddy of Leadburn". This implies that the Leadburn kennel bought the pup and made it up to FTCh. If Billy Steele sees Copperbirch as having that sort of potential there isn't much too wrong.
I'm always griping on about the modern non collar method being poorly represented in the literature; if the DVDs go some way towards rectifying that, well and good. However £100 seems a biggish price to pay for something unreviewed or having a few trailer clips.
Jennifer I'm confused as to wether you admire "seasoned" men for their savoir faire and experience, or because they are too old and knackered to deploy either and thus won't give a girl any bother!
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Thank you, very kind, Mine's a pint.
Eug, I see Paddy made his way back into the IGL this year. Have you ever had the opportunity to see him run?
I'm not really in to Trialling these days so I don't go out of my way to attend them, other than a few local efforts. So regretfully ..
Thank you, very kind, Mine's a pint.
Just sent a message to Keith Mathews, the guy in the video and asked about his Field Trial credentials. Will let you know what he says.
Eug: Been a fan of older men since way back, for too many reasons to list!
Ok, here is a snippet from Keith Mathews resume:
Trainer of Field Trial Champions
In 2008 Keith won the most prestigious title on the Irish Field Trial calendar the "Irish Kennel Clubs Retriever of the Year title" and his FTCH bitch was declared "National Supreme Champion".
Keith attributes his success to his ability to use his dog behavioural background and understanding of the canine mind to train his Labradors to Field Champion standard.
He is totally opposed to the traditional methods of gundog breaking and uses only positive training methods and his unique "Calmness Leads to Reward" dog training and behaviour method which he applies to his gundog training.
As an international Field trial judge, Keith has judged, competed and lectured and held workshops on gundog training and pet dog behaviour all over the world. He works his gundog's fulltime on a variety of different terrains throughout the hunting season in Ireland.
Breeder of Champions
As a breeder, Keith's Copperbirch Labrador line is one of the most sought after Irish working lines in the world and has been the Top Producing Labrador Kennel in Ireland for the last decade.
At the time of printing , Keith has bred The Irish Retriever of the Year. The three times winner of the Icelandic Championship. The Australian Retriever of the Year, FTCH's who have been placed in the Irish Championship as well as FTCH's who have qualified for the IGL British Retriever Championship. He has bred numerous FTCH's as well as a further 27 dogs who have gained Field Trial awards in several different countries around the world.
And apparently, he has a hit TV show on BBC as the British version of the Dog Whisperer - but he is called the Dog GURU. For what it's worth.


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Saxophonist Oliver Lake to perform, Nov. 11
Posted November 10, 2000; 02:54 p.m.
Oliver Lake, playing his big band music as part of the Princeton University Jazz Ensembles Concert, will perform Saturday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. in Richardson Hall on the Princeton campus. Tickets are $10 for students and senior citizens, $20 for regular admission, and $5 for kids under 12. For more information please visit the Princeton University Jazz Ensembles web site.
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Me and the lady would like to go to Florida in the next month for a few days of relaxation in the sun and sand.
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Me and the lady would like to go to Florida in the next month for a few days of relaxation in the sun and sand.
Let me say, that the destinations I had in mind for my drive north were great: both CA missions (San Miguel & Soledad), the Nat'l Steinbeck Center, the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, and the San Jose St. library's Steinbeck Room (and workshop); and the drive up and weather were fabulous. However, if I never go to the city of San Jose again, I would not be saddened. Salinas deserves a return trip to spend more time there.
So, with my Spring Break, I didn't really relax all that much (only got to sleep in 3 of the mornings :( ), but did quite a bit:
- read 6 books (possibly a 7th, if I can finish it today)
- drove over 800 miles on one trip, with locations above
- cleaned up some files and room piles
- got my taxes done
- got some car repairs and maintenance completed
- was able to watch much of the NCAA b-ball tourney
- finished all my grading early on :thumbsup:
- in process of renewing my teaching credential
I'll be out of the area, the Pacific time zone, the state, and even the country for vacation this summer. Will likely have pics once the return has commenced. Fun is on the itinerary. :D
Central time zone?
Nope; Alaskan. And Pacific ST for the int'l locale (Vancouver, eh). Not as cold there as I'd have expected (lows only in the low-40s, checking recent weather reports) even in summer, but I'll still have gear in case.
In days passed, my dad was supposed to be transferred to Anchorage for his job. Instead, we made a left turn at Albuquerque and ended up in New Orleans, of all places! I still hope to make it to Alaska one day. Safe trip, sir!
Hmm... what to post for my 10,000th SSG post? How about an Alaskan cruise! :D :thumbsup: :)
The natural and architectural sights were awesome and amazing. Everywhere we went, people constantly were saying "this weather isn't normal," as we frequently got little rain, winds, or clouds. Started on land in central Alaska (Fairbanks, Denali Nat'l Park), then down to the coast (Anchorage, Seward) to the cruise ship. Sailed down into Vancouver, where it was back on land. Saw massive amounts of wildlife (grizzly bears, caribou, reindeer, squirrels, moose, bald and golden eagles, herons), awe-inspiring formations (several glaciers, including LANDING ON one; Mt. McKinley NOT covered up by clouds; forests; flower gardens; river valleys; train trips up and along passages), great buildings. I was among the best times I've ever had on a vacation. More to follow about the ugh! and grr! and are-you-kidding-me?!? aspects.
Now, paperwork? By far, the worst trip ever! :mad: First: wrong names everywhere, wrong bed arrangements in all but one location, switched my gender once, sent one of my bags BACK on the cruise ship instead of moving it into the hotel room in Vancouver. :frus: Worst part? The terminal was less than a block away from the hotel; if I'd have known it was that close, I would've taken it myself. Nice trying to shove too much stuff into a small bag, with the big one enjoying a boat ride away from me... oh well. I'll be waiting for a big FedEx box tomorrow.
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Colour & Concept
International Colour Photography
Sean Scully Omaha Snow Door 2000 Type C colour photograph, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
Colour + Concept has been mounted to coincide with the National Gallery of Australia's 20th birthday celebrations and presents the work of 20 photographers who explore abstract or conceptual themes in their work and who might be described as 'colourists' for the passion they have for colour work. Several photographers in the exhibition, such as Ernst Haas, are recognised as innovators in the field, many trained as painters before turning to photography, and some – Saul Leiter and Sean Scully – work in both mediums. A number of the photographers in the exhibition create worlds of a heightened reality beyond everyday appearances and others demonstrate the duality of their medium which, on one hand can be relentlessly descriptive, and on the other can express complex philosophical or spiritual values.
The exhibition draws on the Gallery's extensive holdings of over 400 colour photographs, in particular acquisitions from the 1980s and from the past five years; both are periods when an increased representation of significant colour photographers was sought for the collection. The works date from the mid-1930s to the present, however, the focus of the exhibition is on the last 30 years when the affordability of colour materials and improved ease of production opened the medium to a broader range of photographers.
Until the 60s, colour was complicated and expensive to develop and print and also reproduce in magazines or books. The finest colour processes were largely the province of the top commercial photographers and were primarily employed in advertising and fashion. From the 30s to the 50s, advertising photographers in America in particular, such as Anton Bruehl, became masters of sophisticated, elaborately lit, meticulously composed studio colour photography.1 Nearly 200 of Bruehl's colour photographs appeared in Vogue between 1932 and 1934. Colour became aligned closely with consumerism.
Due to the slow speed of colour films before the 60s and the unpredictability of natural lighting, action shots were rare. Therefore few photographers took their cameras in to the streets to capture action. As a result, the first generations of colour photographers are associated with studio photography and high artifice rather than spontaneity and the everyday.
The view in popular culture that colour represented fantasy was affirmed in 1939 in the pioneering colour film The Wizard of Oz, in which Dorothy and her faithful pet, Toto, escaped the monochrome reality of Kansas and literally burst into the hyper-real Technicolor dream world of Oz. Although the Land of Oz was beautiful it was also deceptive. The wizard turned out to be a charlatan who relied on cheap tricks to evoke wonder and mystery. The film proposed that colour equates with the unsettling world of the imagination and that such realms are good places to visit (like the cinema) but not to live in.
Neal Slavin K & P Distributors Inc. Sabrett Food Products Corporation, New York, N.Y. c.1974 Type C colour photograph Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
Black and white photography has dominated the critical histories of fine art photography. In the mid-20th century photographers found the results of shooting in colour unpredictable. Critic Max Kozloff noted that early Kodachrome (the first colour process widely available to the public) would show 'a scarlet bathing suit wearing the woman instead of the other way around,' meaning that the dominant form in a composition in black and white will not necessarily dominate a colour image.2 Photographers had to learn how to think in colour.
In the same way that coloured fantasies featured in films during the darkest days of the Depression, some photographers also looked to colour to lighten the social mood. Photo-journalists Ernst Haas and Saul Leiter took their cameras into the streets. Haas in particular is acclaimed for his pioneering techniques, such as panning with the camera, which overcame the limitations of slow films and created action shots.
Born in Austria, Haas witnessed the horrors of war directly. For him the post-war years were bleak and made him desire colour. 'I was longing for it, needed it, I was ready for it. I wanted to celebrate in colour the new times, filled with new hope.'3 As early as 1953, just two years after he had migrated to America, Life published his seminal colour photo essay on New York. 'Images of a Magic City' ran to 24 pages over two issues and to that date was the longest colour story that the magazine had ever carried. Reflections – Third Avenue from the photo essay is an unmanipulated photograph made abstract by the unusual choice of angle. For Haas, America was something to be celebrated and his adopted city appears mysterious, dynamic and organic.
Saul Leiter, who worked in fashion advertising in New York in the 50s, has said that colour was as much the subject of his photographs as any other component.4 Leiter exploited the sub-dued palette of the available colour films, using the painterly, delicate and sometimes murky quality to great advantage. His photographs are structured with immaculate care, resulting in richly layered compositions. In Leiter's work the world is often approached obliquely – seen through windows or reflected in mirrors. Figures are either partially hidden or in shadow, sometimes his subject is looking inward as if lost in thought. The world that Leiter creates is a quiet one, contemplative and dream-like. This reverie dematerialises the subjects suggesting perhaps an influence from his spiritual beliefs. Leiter was the son of a distinguished Talmudic scholar and studied theology before moving to New York when he was 23 to pursue a career as an Abstract Expressionist painter.
Haas had a strong influence on his contemporaries and younger photo-journalists alike. Haas's colleague at the magnum agency, New Zealander, Brian Brake (whose moody impressionistic 1960 photo essay Monsoon was shot for Life magazine and the subject of a 1999 exhibition at the NGA) owed much to Haas's precedent and was in turn highly influential in the early 60s.
Ernst Haas Albuquerque, New Mexico 1969 dye-transfer colour photograph, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
Indian photojournalist Raghubir Singh was also influenced by these pioneering photojournalists' use of colour. Pavement Mirror Shop, Howrah, West Bengal from 1991 is an extra-ordinary maze of oblique angles and reflected images. The photograph demonstrates Singh's ability to meld the 'decisive moment' and the documentary traditions of photography with the formal complexity of composing in colour. Neither approach dominates the image, rather they are mutually dependent.
In general, colour was distrusted by many photojournalists. Its association with advertising was difficult for many to reconcile and they doubted its capacity to represent thought-provoking subject matter. Serious subjects seemed to demand the bluntness of black and white. American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan stated: 'I've never made a combat picture in colour – ever. And I never will. It violates too many of the human decencies and the great privacy of the battlefield'.5 Not until the Vietnam War would photographers show how iconic images of war could be taken in colour. British photojournalist Larry Burrows studied the Old Masters and the paintings of Goya and these models appear in his photographs of the Vietnam War. Near Dong Ha, South Vietnam (1966) is a modern version of 19th-century history paintings, and in Hue, South Vietnam (1969), the woman mourning the death of her husband is like a Gothic pietà.
The 60s saw the widespread ownership – -especially in the United States – of colour television sets, improvements in colour processes, and publishing in colour becoming economically viable. By the end of the decade magazines were full of sharp colour photographs and it had become the medium of choice for the family snapshot. So that when popular song writer Paul Simon wrote Kodachrome in 1973, colour photography was ubiquitous. He sang that they 'give us those nice bright colors, they give us the greens of summers, makes you think all the world's a sunny day'. For Simon 'everything looks worse in black and white' and he does not want to return to the dull, real world.6
The work of the New Color Photographers of the 70s and 80s – William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Neal Slavin and Joel Meyerowitz, among others – reveals a fascination with the signifiers of modern consumer culture: street signs, neon lights, and shopping centres. Although the super-intense colour is highly seductive, there is also a feeling of urban gaudiness and isolation in many of their photographs. This sense of the photographer standing apart from his surroundings is a key element in the work of Stephen Shore. Max Kozloff wrote at the time, 'if his art illustrates anything, it is the theme of being alone in colour, a solitary in a lavishly rendered brick, grassroots, and plastic America.'7
Ernst Haas Reflections – Third Avenue 1952 dye-transfer colour photograph printed 1990 Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
The New Color Photographers' work is more carefully structured than was acknowledged at the time. Stephen Shore, for instance, divided his compositions horizontally into halves or thirds. From 1974 he used an 8 x 10 inch camera and contact printed the photographs from the negatives. Of his working method, Shore has written: 'Outside the controlled confines of the studio, a photographer is confronted with a complex web of visual juxtapositions that realign themselves with each step. In bringing order to this situation, a photographer solves a picture, more than composes one'.8
Neal Slavin and Joel Meyerowitz both began their careers in commercial photography and, like Stephen Shore, photographs by Meyerowitz in the exhibition are taken with an 8 x 10 inch view camera. Such a camera, weighing over 20 kilos, demands a certain formality in taking a photograph, and produces a result rich in detail and nuance.
Colour photography was also employed in the 70s by a generation of conceptual artists. Many of these artists were interested in perception. Dutch artist Jan Dibbets began his career as a painter in the 1960s before adopting photography as an integral part of his minimalist assemblages. Dibbets is interested in the ways that we find it necessary to structure the world in order to understand it. Comet Horizon 6˚–72˚, sky/sea/sky (1973) reorders the Dutch landscape into an abstract formation by subtly changing the angle of the camera to the horizon in each shot. 'I want to say something about abstraction and about the fact that abstraction can be present in a figurative image – and that this doesn't have to look like a Mondrian'.89
American photographer John Pfahl explored similar ideas of perception and representation in images of landscapes altered by the addition of geometric lines. Pfahl's Moonrise over pie pan, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah (1977) plays with the similarity in appearance between the moon and a mundane dish on the ground.
It seems a witty comment on Ansel Adams's famous moonrise pictures from the 1940s–1960s.
Irish painter Sean Scully became internationally renowned for his textured and gridded abstract paintings in the 80s and 90s. In 1997, he began exhibiting photographs alongside his paintings. Art Horizon (2001) is his largest and most ambitious work in this genre.
It is made up of 10 images of enlarged close-ups of his own paintings. The title intrigues; is it suggesting that art is a world created by the artist? By mining his own abstract paintings Scully challenges the idea that art is grounded in nature or reality. Yet Scully's art references both the real world and the world of art. Most of Scully's photographs are of walls or doorways shot from directly in front thus eliminating any spatial perspective. His images show repairs and layers of aged paint. They are concerned with notions of decay and loss, and how we try to counter these things.
Raghubir Singh Pavement mirror shop, Howrah, West Bengal 1991 Type C colour photograph Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
Scully speaks of his early childhood education in Catholic schools as 'something very exotic and difficult, but rich and full of mystery' and that there was 'the belief in another reality, in a reality that we couldn't see, that we could only imagine'.10
Scully's comments could be used to describe many of the images in Colour + Concept. The photographs can be read as abstract patterns or as information. They illustrate how photography produces images which can be read on many levels simultaneously.
Anne O'Hehir
Assistant Curator of Photography National Gallery of Australia
1Bonnie Yochelson; Anton Bruehl, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York 1998 p5
2Max Kozloff; 'Photography: The Coming to Age of Color', Artforum vol 13 no 5 January 1975 p31
3Bryn Campbell The Great Photographers: Ernst Haas William Collins & Co, London, 1983 p5
4Martin Harrison Appearances: Fashion Photography since 1945 Jonathan Cape, London 1991 p116
5Quoted in Max Kozloff 'Photography: The Coming to Age of Color', Artforum vol 13 no 5 January 1975 p34
6Words and music by Paul Simon from the album There goes Rhymin' Simon Columbia 1973
7Max Kozloff 'Photography: The Coming to Age of Color', Artforum vol 13 no 5 January 1975 p35
8Quoted in Thomas Weski and Heinz Leisbrock How you look at it: photographs of the 20th century Thames & Hudson, London 2000 p503
9Quoted in Rudi Fuchs 'Spotlight – Jan Dibbets' Artnews vol 86 September 1987 p67
10R. Eric Davis 'Interview with Sean Scully' Journal of Contemporary Art online 1999


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K-1 on Bas Boon's Statement: Tanikawa and Ishii Are Not Involved
- Written by Dave Walsh
Earlier today, Bas Boon of Golden Glory, GLORY International and other affiliated Glory properties issued a statement addressed to Zach Arnold of FightOpinion. It was your standard Bas Boon statement, which means that it made a lot of accusations and Bas expressed his opinion while discussing some of the issues that he has been dealing with over the past year or so. If you have been following the saga, you understand that Bas Boon and Glory were looking to purchase K-1 but the deal fell through when Mr. Kim of EMCOM went ahead and purchased the rights to the K-1 brand, likeness and library from Ishii and Barbizon, leaving FEG and Glory out on their own.
Simon Rutz has been serving as an advisor to the new K-1 Global organization for European events, which has helped take the Bas Boon and Simon Rutz rivalry to new levels. This includes back and forth shots over the bow, both publicly and behind-the-scenes, including accustations from Boon of Rutz in collusion with Mr. Kim, who is in turn in collusion with Kazuyoshi Ishii and Sadaharu Tanikawa in secretly running K-1.
We reached out to K-1 Global's head of operations, Doug Kaplan for a statement, and his message is a strong one that fans and industry insiders have needed to hear; Tanikawa and Ishii are no longer involved in K-1 in any way.
"K1G is organizing great events in the US, Europe and Asia," Kaplan said in a statement to LiverKick.com today. He continued that "Mike" Kim, himself and the whole team are working to bring together the best fighters for the fans and have been doing exactly that.
As for the issues of the ghosts of K-1's past, he is very clear; "Tanikawasan and Ishiisan are not involved. I know this because I am involved and know what is going on intimately." This lines up with the conversations that LiverKick has had in the past week with Mr. Kaplan in regards to K-1 Global's future, as well as the involvement of Ishii and Tanikawa.
When it comes to Bas Boon's statement and how outspoken he is, Kaplan was to the point that K-1 Global is working hard for the fans and are not concerned with fighting battles through the press. "I don't know why Bas Boon is spending so much time in the press but we are busy focused on delivering the fans what they want, incredible K1 events."


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David Chang's inept martial arts comedy confirms the genius of Jackie Chan. In film after film Chan has played a bumptious, sweet, and astoundingly athletic hero engaged in some of the most brilliant sight gags since Buster Keaton. Double Trouble, on the other hand, involves lots of mugging, screaming, clumsy action, and a tinge of xenophobia and misogyny. The fact that it stars Chan's son Jaycee makes the comparison all the more invidious. He plays Jay, one of the troubled doubles of the title, a moody guard protecting a painting at a Taiwan art museum. He's paired with Ocean (Xia Yu), also a security guard, but from Peking; he's in Taipei as a tourist and is even dumber than Jay. After various witless misadventures, Ocean ends up helping Jay recover the painting when it's stolen by "foreigners." So, China united against the West? Only with the goofy outtakes at the end does the film measure up to the classics of Chan the elder.
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Although I am only in the first year of the graduate degree program in history, Rhode Island College has offered me vital opportunities as a student and graduate assistant. As a student, while working with faculty and peers in intimate and highly conversational seminars, I am developing the skills needed to master complex historical themes and perspectives. The courses and assignments are thought provoking and engaging. The professors are extremely accessible and knowledgeable and they continuously encourage students to be creative and innovative in their research and writing.
Working as a graduate assistant compares to 'on the job training' for anyone pursuing the craft of teaching. As a graduate assistant, I work closely with undergraduates as a liaison, coach, and tutor. I provided group and individual coaching sessions to help undergraduates develop their reading and writing skills. I have designed class presentations that explain the process of historical research, as well as data organization and interpretation. Each time I met with students presented new challenges and opportunities to shape my teaching techniques and style.
I have also had the opportunity to shadow professors; sitting in on history courses and observing the various teaching methods used by Rhode Island College history professors. This past semester, I observed three sections of History 200 taught by different professors. I have learned how the professors build curriculums that offer students context, themes, and perspectives on a particular historical topic. The experience also revealed how to present the same skill sets in different ways. I also learn from observing other classes; Dr. Oppenheim's Western Civilization taught me how to make connections between the topic and contemporary issues and everyday life and, in this case, keep students interested in classical history.
Overall, I could not be more pleased with my journey towards obtaining my master's degree in history. Because I hope to teach someday in a college setting, these experiences are instrumental for the future. I feel I am receiving a multi-faceted education that is not only increasing my historical knowledge and skills, but also building the foundation for my teaching methods. This program has enriched my personal and professional character, intellect, and passion to achieve my career goals.


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as it took me the better part of a year to track these down for me, i thought i would point these auctions out for anyone who may be interested in acquiring these tail end x-rays.
x-ray sets I-IV were released in great quantities here in the u.s., however, sets V, VI, and VII were only released in europe, and not in large quantities at that
here's an auction for set VI set VI contains luke's landspeeder, and a tie fighter
here's an auction for sets I, II, III, V, and VII set V contains a b-wing and a tie bomber (this set is the best of all 7!), set VII contains a snowspeeder, and a at-st, also these sets are on the original packing cards! i have never seen the last three sets on anything other than the later issued striped cards
here's an auction for set V
and here's an auction for set VII this one is also on the original non-striped packing card
funny, i've never seen so many auctions at one time which contain any of these last three x-ray sets


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I saw Cad Bane last week. Really skinny figure (as most of the CW figures seem to be). I'm still waiting for the Target Rancor to go on clearance.
Havnt picked up too much by way of figures. I have a TON of high-end projects going on. Almost too much.


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Japan confirmed the deaths of seven Japanese nationals and Canada's government said it was looking into an assertion by Sellal that two of the attackers were Canadian, the reports said.
The United States had confirmed the death of one American hostage, but on Monday the State Department said two other Americans had also been killed, bringing the total to three. Seven Americans also survived.
In a televised news conference, Sellal corroborated claims made by other Algerian officials and by freed hostages that the militants planned to destroy the gas complex, and had wired explosives to some of their captives.
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I absolutely detest all numeric non-ISO date formats, M/D/Y probably most of all. So when I encountered the Kingdom of Loathing calendar some benevolent (albeit calendrally challenged) person had published, I did not track down said person to tell him how glad I was at finding what I was looking for and how I felt about the format in which it was published. The meld of feelings would just not make any sense, and after all, the information was both there and fairly easily deciphered. I just strongly feel that deciphering is best left to computers.
Enter today's bookmarklet (feel free to bookmark it). It will ask you which (numeric) date format to convert from, harvest all frames for dates on that format and reformat them to readable ISO YYYY-MM-DD dates. If you go with the default M/D/Y, it will find 3/2/5, being sillyspeak for yesterday, and turn it into 2005-03-02. Short dates in the future (such as 3 / 3 / 6) will be assumed to mean the corresponding date from last century. Run it a year from now you will see 2006-03-03, though. Unless your clock is off, by a lot.
Upon googling for date tables to try it out on, I found a hilarious hallmark of stupidity - an excel sheet featuring the column "Employee Start date", "m/d/y or y/m/d e.g. 5/17/2 or 2002/5/17". The web is a silly place. Let's not go there.


text: I thought Bonaly definitely should have won the 93 Worlds or atleast beaten Baiul (I think Chen also has a case for winning those Worlds). That is why I was surprised when Bonaly made a mistake and didnt skate as well as the 1993 Worlds and beat Baiul who had improved artistically since 93 and jumped similarily to the 93 Worlds. I think you are right on why the European Championships judging seemed more favorable towards Bonaly than the World judging though, although many of those judges were still the same. I didnt think Bonaly was that great at the 94 Worlds though. I think even her jumping display there is overrated, she had to put her hand down and step out of the triple loop to keep from falling, and the triple toe of her triple flip-triple toe was so cheated it was barely more than a bad double with a three turn. Sato didnt have a triple-triple attempt or 2nd triple lutz but actually landed 1 more clean triple than Bonaly, and all her attempted jumps were clean. I never understood the belief of anyone Bonaly should have won those particular Worlds, nor her four 1st place votes.


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Why Some Comic Adaptations Failed: 'Iron Man 2,' 'Punisher: War Zone,' 'Superman Returns,' 'Hulk'
Actor Tom Hiddleston wrote an eloquent essay yesterday for The Guardian basically praising and defending the sub-genre known as the superhero picture. Plenty of disdain for the genre comes from the very notion that it's big-budget entertainment based on literature that was technically intended for children that gobbles up production dollars and screen space that otherwise might be allotted for more explicitly grown-up fare. But at least some of the alleged weariness of this specific type of film (the superhero comic book adaptation) comes from a feeling that all-too many of them are basically telling the same story. You've generally got the standard origin story which (let's be honest) basically takes Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie and pours it into a different color bottle (I say that as a big fan of Spider-Man and Captain America). Then you have the sequels, which are quite often merely a case of escalation and/or the hero dealing with self-doubt often while in combat with a 'bigger/badder' version of himself (again, thank you Superman II). But over the last twenty years or so, there have been a handful of high-profile comic book films that have attempted to play around with the formula but have artistically failed anyway. As a rebuttal to the idea that 'all superhero movies are the same' as well as a reaffirmation of the idea that 'it's not what it's about, but how it's about it', let's take a look at five comic book adaptations that didn't play it safe, but didn't come out on top either.


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Hawaii Five-0 Review: New Year, Same Five-0Jim Garner at . Comments
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In our first offering of 2012, Steve and Five-0 took on a complex case that ended up being about more than was initially believed. I really enjoyed the twist and turns that it took, as I kept changing who I suspected and never saw the truth coming.
Sadly, that was the majority of my enjoyment for this episode, as there were some moments that forced me to yell at the TV is disbelief.
To start, I'm really done with Shelburn. I was hopeful that when Joe and Chin Ho were in the car after the Yakuza drove by, we would get some sort of information. Sadly, nothing. Then, at the end when Steve pointed out he was tortured and Jena Kaye died and he wanted answers, I thought we might finally get the next bread crumb . Nope, nadda. I'm so tired of the show bringing up Shelburn but not moving the plot forward that I'm at the point where I simply don't care anymore.
Wait, we did learn that Joe help Hiro fake his death. Is this connected to Shelburn? Who knows?!? Joe got out of the car and walked away. Then again, Joe did a lot of walking out in this episode. At the police station, for example. Since when can the suspect be the one who decides when he is done and strolls out? I guess if the head of Five-0 is working as you're personal chauffeur you can. Really, are you kidding me?
Then again, Steve had his fair share of beyond believable moments as well. First, he decided that Joe's method of getting answers was a good one when he kidnapped the replacement jury member to get answers out of him by pretending to hold him off a cliff edge, then arrested him afterwards for the answers he gave. Really, are you kidding me?
Afterwards, he decided to go solo into a Yakuza compound to rescue Joe. I'm not what I was more shocked by on this one: That he did a commando style raid, that he went alone or that he didn't just arrest them all for kidnapping. After all, he had no problems arresting a guy he dangled off a rock ledge with a bag over his head.
Okay, to be fair, I did enjoy Lori and Kono at the school, especially Lori's reaction to the kid trying to run. While they seem to still be trying to figure out what image they want for Lori, I think she and Kono made a pretty nice team and hope we see them do more "girl power" scenes together.
In closing, I fully acknowledge that this series is a work of fiction and that many shows take liberties in the name of entertainment. However, that doesn't give the writers carte blanche to assume the viewing audience knows nothing about the subject material or that we would believe anything they write. How about this: if you're going to take reality off the table, could you write in some light sabers, phasers or an elf or two? Just to keep things interesting.
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