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schoppenhauer wrote:Common Lisp is an old language which has a lot of Code and Research. Why just throwing it away?
Ok, this would also just produce a "new common lisp" which may have the same problems in 20 years but then one could just do the same again.
I don't think any Lisp has ever just thrown anything away. Sheesh, every Lisp I know of still has CAR, CDR, and CONS.
Seriously, every Lisp ever designed learns from the experiences of its predecessors (except the first, obviously). IMO, Scheme is a good example of a "reformed" Lisp, which tried to be very true to the spirit of what had gone on before, but also left a lot of the cruft behind. Clojure does something similar, I think, but is more radical in some respects. The problem is that Scheme is minimalist and therefore it's hard to write "real" programs in standard or RxRS Scheme. You can certainly do it in a specific implementation such as MzScheme or Scheme48, but then you're bound to that implementation. CL has some of the same problems when you get to the fringes (networking, threading, etc.), but the fringes with Scheme start pretty quickly.
IMO, a group of interested Lisp folks need to come together and create the spec and reference implementation for a new version of Lisp that leverages the experiences of the past, but cleans things up. I always have this vision of a clean spec, like Scheme, that is also expansive enough to write real programs, like CL but even more so by creating standard behavior around modern requirements like threading and networking, for instance. Clojure is a good example of that, but I'm always turned off by the use of the JVM. Maybe that's just me and I need to spend more time with it. I'm not negative on Clojure generally, and I respect many of the things that Rich has done with it. The pure-functional data structures are very cool (though I haven't seen any good benchmarks about performance), and I can even appreciate the use of the JVM in those environments where your only choice is to run on the JVM (Google AppEngine just announced support for the JVM and my first thought was, "Oh, you could probably run Clojure on that. That's cool!").
The big problem is that nobody with enough "weight" in the Lisp community has the stomach for standards work any more. Everybody reacts like a dog that has been kicked daily for 3 years whenever anybody mentions Lisp standards. There is a big "don't go there" reaction. As a result, CL just stagnates, which is I think what Dan is reacting to.
Lisp seems to be getting more interest in recent years, coming out of the AI Winter. That's good. The problem is that while everybody is interested, when they go to look at the reality of things, they find that Lisp has been static since the early 1990s and doesn't match up well versus the full-featured programming languages being introduced today (things like Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.). It isn't that Lisp can't do the same things, it's that the implementations and libraries are very spotty and it's hard to assemble the environment that you want. Perl is full featured as a base language and it has CPAN if you want more. Python is too, and it has eggs. Ruby, likewise, and it has gems. CL doesn't even have a standard networking layer, and ASDF-INSTALL is brittle and while there are other options (Mudballs, etc.), none yet have critical mass.


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America's favorite small car.
Honda Civic is one of the most popular compacts sold in the U.S. Many of us grew up with them because the Civic has been a Honda trademark for more than 30 years.
Clever engineering, Honda's renowned assembly quality and all the conveniences create an entry-level car that provides more than basic transportation. Honda makes a Civic to suit many types of people. Sedan, coupe and hatchback models available with a choice of engines tuned for performance or economy enable buyers to choose a sports coupe, a luxury sedan or a highly efficient, practical and environmentally conscious runabout.
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Civic interiors are well-designed, neatly executed and more functional than ostentatious. Interior materials seem to have been selected with durability rather than maximum eye appeal in mind. Monochrome interiors - available in gray, dark gray or beige - border on the monotonous and could benefit from more contrast.
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Oh, and the new poison vs. magic resistance interaction is also something that's been mentioned plenty of times, I'm quite glad to see it happen.
I'm wondering though - was making magic resistance not prevent utility glyphs ever considered? Would golems and goats be lacklustre if you could use wheytwut, imawal and wonnafyt on them reliably?
(as a joke, immagine them causing cydstepp to fail at random )


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The headline-grabbing efforts of AIDS-awareness/advocacy protest group ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) didn't happen all that long ago. But, thanks in large part to the effectiveness of their controversial tactics (nonviolent but aggressive marches, sit-ins, obstructions, and shut-downs) and the ultimate successful attainment of their political aims, ACT-UP's most active years -- from 1987, when the group was founded, to the mid-1990s, when combination-drug "cocktail" therapy began prolonging the lives of persons with HIV, often all the way back to normal life spans -- are now settled enough in the past to qualify as history of the sort that can be surveyed in a film like David France's Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague. France, a renowned journalist and author who was himself on the ACT-UP beat for New York magazine, has gone back into the archives of national and local media and, especially, into the video footage made by individual ACT-UP members and under the organization's own confrontational but savvy public-relations auspices, to tell the story of its parlaying the inchoate anger of a decimated, reviled population of those who contracted AIDS (a great many of whom were already-marginalized gay men) into a potent political machine. It's a story that's clearly well worth telling, and France has undertaken to use the lifetime of the group as a year-by-year chronological narrative, from 1987 to 1996, around which to organize and offer up a cornucopia of archival footage from those years, presenting a broad, non-monolithic view of people with AIDS, of course, but also of our nation's political climate in what seemed, to those on the left in general and those facing the urgent, life-or-death matter of AIDS (Reagan, notoriously, wouldn't utter the name of the syndrome until he couldn't possibly ignore the matter any longer) very specifically -- a climate in which fighting or dying (or "silence=death," as the famous ACT-UP slogan put it) were the only two options available.
The individual faces of ACT-UP presented here -- the "characters" France has chosen to focus on -- are varied: The principal protagonists, whose involvement with the group France most consistently and completely follows from '87 to the present (in the cases where they have survived), are former stockbroker Peter Staley, who felt he was given a death sentence when diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1986, realized the FDA and drug companies were ignorant and/or dragging their feet, and had a personal/political awakening that brought him well away from Wall Street to go for broke in a different milieu altogether; film archivist Mark Harrington, who became a sort of de facto video spokesperson for the group, articulating succinct and provocative communiqués for broadcast; avant-grade playwright Jim Eiger; and the late Bob Rafsky, a man who came out of the closet later in his life only to be stricken with the dread disease and who, perhaps because of his own rich personal experience (snippets from annual home videos of him celebrating successive birthdays with his ex-wife and daughter punctuate the film), became ACT-UP's most passionate and articulate speechmaker and chant-leader (at one point midway through the film, circa 1992, we see footage of him heckling and confronting candidate/future president Bill Clinton about governmental homophobia and inaction).
These central figures give us recurrent points of reference (we can recognize them frequently in the generous swathes of meeting/protest footage France has curated, and Paley, Harrington, and Eiger -- though, sadly, not Rafsky -- have been interviewed in the present, too) around which far-flung constellations of other activist's experiences and stories can revolve. A host of voices in addition to the central ones speaks to us both from the past (as recorded on video in the thick of the melee), and also sometimes in the present day, in interviews conducted by France for the film: Researchers from Merck, the first drug company to cooperate with AIDS activists; representatives of the National Institute of Health, which, along with the FDA, was the frequent target of ACT-UP protest and resistance for its lackadaisical approach to approving treatments while people were dying; and the anonymous bulk of the group who never rose to prominence or official leadership, the diverse rank and file, which encompassed everyone from Garance Frank-Ruth, a wannabe-bohemian teenager when she got involved in ACT-UP who became one of the most steadfast and bold protestors, to the late performance artist Ray Navarro and his campy, irreverent implorations to safer sex, to a housewife/retired chemist called Iris Long, who planted the seeds of what became an impressive medical/scientific self-education on the part of the AIDS community, to the point that they were eventually able to speak to the "experts" in the government and at the drug companies in their own language, seeing through any evasion tactics. (Of course, no delve into the history of the AIDS crisis would be complete without playwright/novelist/agitator extraordinaire Larry Kramer, and so that perpetual curmudgeon, conscience of the gay community, and co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, the first institution to take note of and address the rise of HIV, makes an unusually lucid appearance, as well.) With this chorus of voices harmonizing and sometimes becoming a cacophony (France doesn't shy away from some internecine conflicts in the group -- disagreements over tactics and negotiations, resistance to any "elitism" that would make one faction's voice more powerful than any other's), the film becomes a varied patchwork of distinctive personalities from widespread factions and levels of the organization whose connections one to another are clear enough to make for a comprehensible (if not comprehensive) whole -- a good cross-section of those who were concerned or, more often, righteously angry enough to get out in the streets (often getting arrested for their civil disobedience) and invade the corridors of power to fight the good fight.
France wisely focuses much more on immediate exposure to the chaotic history with all of its heated meetings and dynamic protest actions than on the becalmed, reflective present-day remembrances; there's probably a good three-to-one ratio of moments that put us back in the late '80s and early '90s, in the thick of ACT-UP's struggle, to ones that that give us lucid, encapsulating (and, sometimes, quite moving) backward glances and ruminations. In addition to selecting the several aforementioned long-term and prominent founders/organizers as an anchor around which to let the other "characters" ebb and flow, he's structured the film along a very straightforward timeline, 1987-1996, each new year announcing itself in an intertitle along with the number of AIDS deaths to date worldwide. This limits the film in a way, but it's also necessary; there are moments where the breadth of France's project, the million competing details of the plague years, threatens to rob it of its focus, for example a montage of marchers accompanying the memorial AIDS quilt to Washington that doesn't quite fit, coming off more as an obligatory acknowledgment than anything directly to do with ACT-UP (entire documentaries have already been devoted to those specific, memorializing and mourning aspects of AIDS history in the form of, respectively, Rob Epstein's Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt and Bill Weber's more recent We Were Here). The film's signposts, oversimplifying as they inevitably are, provide a welcome sort of rigor for us, and one imagines they did for France as well, as he must have had hundreds of hours of footage to hone into some kind of "story" with a discernible narrative shape.
On the other hand, though, the obvious need to fit the extremely complicated and multifaceted history of ACT-UP into such a determining, unavoidably reductive pattern inescapably conventionalizes a most unconventional movement (some of France's template choices of music and montage doesn't help matters, though things remain immediate enough generally to maintain impact). It's a good, respectful, engaged, and overall principled work, but it seems too pat nevertheless, as if there's something vaguely missing; it may be that there's an endemic weakness to the documentary approach when it comes to getting to the heart of the matter and making the history of the AIDS crisis come alive now that it's no longer such a crisis (thanks, in large part, to ACT-UP's victories). There's no denying how informative, dedicated, and even rousing France's film is, and it's a valuable document, most particularly as an enlightening introduction or reminder for those (the majority) who were out of the loop from '87 to '96, either because they weren't directly affected at the time or are too young to remember it for themselves. But this reviewer is just old enough to recall being aware of a cultural history that formed around the AIDS crisis, a wave of art that meant to do what no documentary can, somehow encapsulating and expressing the inexpressible horror of a pernicious, fatal, domino-effect medical disaster compounded many times over by social and political prejudice, indifference, and something ultimately rotten at the heart of a "traditional" culture that hesitated, hemmed, hawed, and did nothing much more than get squeamish, embarrassed, and reactionary as hundreds of thousands of gay men (and, obviously, not only gay men) died. We see footage in How to Avoid a Plague of ACT-UP arch-nemesis Jesse Helms -- a senator from North Carolina and notorious racist and homophobe who will live forever in ignominy -- disgustedly and petulantly demanding (from the Senate floor, no less) that gay men take their sexuality and what he perceives as "their" illness back into the closet to die without upsetting his delicate, homophobic sensibilities; and we see the activists' retaliation, their trespassing and unrolling of a larger-than-life condom, emblazoned with anti-Helms and pro-safe-sex messages, from the roof down to the foundation of the Helms residence back in Dixie. But I remember that what really got Helms's goat was the work of gay artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and, most relevantly, that of the great filmmaker Todd Haynes, whose 1991 debut feature, Poison, caused a furor by parlaying its tiny allowance of public funding (1/10 of its already-minuscule budget) into a graphic, inspiredly creative, purposely upsetting narrative film that vividly and indelibly tied together themes of homophobia, homoeroticism, ostracization, and AIDS into something deeply disconcerting and genuinely provocative; avoidance of visceral feeling and an understanding beyond polemics or day-and-date history was not an option in the face of such a film. Something like How to Survive a Plague gives you the facts and the testimony, and those are extremely important things; it's not a history whose facts should ever be forgotten, and getting them down into a document is vital. When it comes to deeper thought, further implication, and more insistent demands for recognition and empathy, though, it may be that documentary gives us the facts, but forms less beholden to "reality" give us more access to the Truth.
The anamorphic-widescreen transfer (preserving the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1) is easily able to reflect the film's look, which mostly means very washed-out, old-school VHS-type video along with some graphics and contemporary interviews in high-definition. Most flaws seem due to the sources, not the transfer; the only flaw I could detect was some intermittent edge enhancement/haloing in some scenes, which may have been the necessary result of making some of the camcorder-type footage watchable. In all, the transfer does an excellent job of bringing home a look that never meant to be anything like pristine in the first place, but rather to reflect a specific, accurate, and necessary blurry-video, late-'80s/early-'90s camcorder/TV news aesthetic.
The disc offers both Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround tracks. The latter is the go-to set-up choice, reflecting the full theatrical sound (though both tracks are as clear and vivid as the source materials will allow for), with good, clear sound throughout (even with the very limited sound capabilities of some of the recording devices used from the late '80s through the mid-'90s, only a few scenes are subtitled for clarity*) and an impressive aural immersion at times, for example in the chaos of some of the footage of heated ACT-UP meetings and mass public protests.
*Also included are English SDH and Spanish-language subtitle options.
--A feature-length audio commentary with director David France, who, rather than commenting too much directly on the film as it plays, interviews ACT-UP activists Ron Medley, Heidi Dorow, Joy Episalla, and Bob Lederer on their own memories, thoughts, and opinions relevant to each moment of ACT-UP history the film is delving into, which makes for an interesting deepening of what we've seen in the feature.
--Six deleted scenes running about four minutes each, which must have been removed because of time concerns and an unwillingness to digress from the film's narrative, as they may have added a bit more messy but vital depth and roundedness, with a focus in some scenes on the personal lives of the central figures in the film, and in others on real-time, rawer footage (unenhanced by soundtrack or editing) of the intensity and brutality of some of the ACT-UP protest actions.
--The film's theatrical trailer.
David France's How to Survive a Plague does something important -- compiling together and preserving the history of one of America's most effective protest movements, the AIDS-awareness/advocacy group ACT-UP -- and it does it well, organizing unshaped tons of archival footage into a "story" that provides a fascinating, well-organized, eminently watchable cross-section of the individuals who made the movement, ultimately coalescing into a worthy snapshot of the organization's many confrontations and accomplishments, a picture that ranges far and wide while neither evading nor too-gleefully exposing the complications, differences, and conflicts that are bound to exist behind the even the most united and purpose-driven front. Yet even though the film doesn't purport to tell the whole story (an impossibility), there still seems to be a dimension missing, some route of deeper access into the harrowing physical and emotional experiences (exacerbated profoundly by the unbearable ignorance dominating American politics and much of society at the time) that gave rise to the passion we see playing out in the form of ACT-UP's bold civil-disobedient actions. France's film is made with skill and care, it's capable of sweeping you up in its subject, and it has a real value to it on the informational, historical, and politicizing fronts. But it may be that the most eye-opening, galvanizing truths -- the torment, anger, and desperation of an era where AIDS was spreading like wildfire and had no treatment because of social prejudice and government neglect -- lie elsewhere, and that France simply reached the parameters of how close a documentary can effectively get us, demonstrating in the process both the not-inconsiderable properties available to this kind of film for letting us glimpse a bygone reality, and its limitations for conveying the murkier depths and meanings of how that reality was experienced, its less outwardly visible textures and its ineffable emotional endurance tests. Recommended.


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Since I did my research on the route of LaSalle's 1680 walk across the Lower Peninsula in the 90's many additional tools have become available to me. Some are technical like my kids' hand-me-down computers which have given me access to the magic of Internet mapping sites.
Others are newly published like the Natural Features Inventory pre-settlement vegetation maps for all Michigan counties.
Still others existed before but I had only limited access to them. I'm thinking of Hinsdale's 1931 "Archaeological Atlas of Michigan", for example. When I was doing my research in the Library of Michigan I could access that large atlas a couple hours at a time at most, and then only on those occasions that I was able to neglect other duties to spend time in the library. Now, thanks to the generosity of Karl Williams, I have my own photographic copy of Hinsdale for the counties I am working on.
Also thanks to Karl and Geneva Wiskemann I have color copies of the pre-settlement vegetation maps of those counties. And thanks to Jean King for her penetrating questions that send me back to the drawing board to justify some of my conclusions. Karl has also pushed my button by sending photographic copies maps showing old Michigan pioneer trails for me to study. These "old timers" (I can call them that, being older than they) are keeping me on my toes.
Enough of the cliches and thanks. Now to what I have set out to do, review and if necessary revise my conclusions from the 90's as to the route of LaSalle's cross-peninsula walk.
I remain satisfied as to the route I think that LaSalle and his men took in 1680 from his fort at today's city of St. Joseph on Lake Michigan nearly to the upper end of the Portage River in the northeast corner of Jackson County.
As I said in my May 25 message "LaSalle Relay-The "Corridor", if I could redo the map with the 1999 Michigan History article and the enlargement that hangs in the Michigan Historical Museum I would move the red line showing his route to take him north of the upper end of the Portage River (see my blog www.thetopologist.blogspot.com).
I am no longer happy with the route I showed the party using when walking to the Detroit River after they gave up trying to go down the Huron and abandoned thier elm-bark canoe. Here is my new take:
I still think they left the Huron at French Landing where the river takes its big bend to the south. I think they then followed an Indian trail that Hinsdale shows and calls the "Potawatomi Trail". This trail generally follows the trend of the Huron between its left bank and a couple of tributaries named Silver Creek and Smith Creek. It does not follow all of the Huron's meanders.
Hinsdale shows another Indian trail paralleling the Lake Erie shore and the right bank of the Detroit River. That trail is now traced by a highway called River Road on some maps and West Jefferson Avenue on others. It was the main Indian trail between the mouth of the Maumee River (Toledo) and present-day Detroit.
Between that trail and Lake Erie the pre-settlement vegetation map shows nothing but marsh to the south and for a long ways to the north. Hinsdale's Potawatomi Trail dead ends at that unnamed trail. I think LaSalle and his men would have turned left and followed the shore trail to the northeast for two reasons. First it would have been obvious from that location that to the south the marsh around the mouth of the Huron was very extensive. Second, they wanted to end up at the bank of the Detroit River, not the shore of Lake Erie.
Following the shore trail in a northerly direction they would have had marsh to their right between them and the river until they arrived at the peninsula now occupied by Gibralter. The pre-settlement vegetation map shows woods right up to the river bank there. They needed live and dead elm trees and materials to make a raft. LaSalle 's plan called for leaving two men to make an elm-bark canoe and go to Michilimackinac, while the remaining four would build a raft and cross the Detroit River to present-day Ontario.
I believe the raft would have been made from riverside downed trees and large branches lashed together with vines. Starting the river crossing at the Gibralter peninsula would have them launching in the shelter of the peninsula and Celeron Island and would give them room to diagonal towards the Ontario shore and land before they could be swept into Lake Erie by the river's current.
I think you who are interested can follow all this on your maps, but we really need to make one for the blog. I'll consult with my daughter the Blogmaster on that.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Revise LaSalle's Route? An Exercise in Topology
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Melissa came to talk to the Life in the Theatre class on Monday, November 12th. She told our theatre students about touring with the Missoula Children's Theatre and working as a teaching artist and director for the past five years since graduation from Saint Michael's College. She gave our students a lot of good advice about how to market themselves and use their theatre degree in business and marketing fields. "Theatre is customer service. It's about your relationships and networks." She loves teaching theatre to younger children because she sees how directly it impacts their self-confidence, their public speaking skills and their sense of team-work.
Chris O'Neil graduated from St. Mike's in 2002 with a BA in Theatre and minor concentrations in Sociology and Philosophy. As he puts it, "I didn't have a second major. I had no intention of a plan B."
I sent Chris a few questions and here is his update - and his advice!
I've been in LA for almost six years now. The majority of that time has been learning, about the industry as well as myself. My acting debut in LA was in the history channel documentary "Last Stand of the 300." The more historically accurate version of the story depicted in the movie "300." From there I participated in an infomercial for a Beach Body workout program called "10 Minute Trainer."
After those initial jobs, I sidetracked into massage therapy school. I was tired of working in restaurants and decided to pursue another passion of mine in order to support my acting career with something else I enjoy. I graduated in 2008 and build a massage practice with an associate, and now good friend of mine, Mr. Myke Zykoff. Over the last four years I have honed my technique and expanded my health and wellness knowledge, and have established myself as a practitioner of Mind Integrated Bodywork. A practice of integrating aspects of Hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programing) into my bodywork sessions with the goal of re-balancing the mind and body to help people live better.
Though I was enjoying my work in wellness, I never lost my passion for the industry. I had grown as a person and in my new awareness I found it wasn't acting in and of itself that I enjoyed, it was creating stories. In late 2011, I got my chance to create in a new way. A film idea I had been working on for a number of years caught the attention of a producer I met through a friend. I got to work on the screenplay and after four drafts and four months, I had a finished, optioned screenplay that is in the process of being looked at by some major people in Hollywood. Writing my first feature became the catalyst that thrust me back on the industry track. Since then, I have re-focused on my acting career and things are really moving. I now have three areas of the industry I'm working in: Voice over, commercials, and screenwriting. As a voice over actor I've worked on two cartoons and two films. Cartoons - "The Garfield Show" and "Kinky and Cosy." Films - "Arn: The Knight Templar" and "Juan of the Dead." As a commercial actor I've worked on three projects - Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Black & Decker and an internet project for Subway. I recently signed with a commercial agency and expect to be getting many more. As a screenwriter, I have finished my first feature and am currently working on a second. The first feature is part of a trilogy that I have a planned and will be working on over the next few years. This newest second project is a separate film idea that I've decided to finish first. I'll then go back and write the sequel and the prequel to my original feature. It's taken a lot of hard work and time but my career train is moving and I have no intention of letting it slow down.
The first thing you need to know is that there is no "right way" to pursue an acting career in LA. There's only YOUR way. This was advice I heard early on and it took me a while to really understand what that meant. You cannot compare your journey to ANYONE else's. The most important thing you can do is use your instinct. Don't get caught up in what everyone else tells you you should do. Listen and learn always, but don't blindly do something just because someone else is. Second is networking. The old saying "it's all who you know" is true, but not in the way most people think. It's not about how many "famous" people you know. It's about how good your network is. Example - you meet someone at an audition that you get along with. They invite you to an industry mixer. You meet someone who is taking a commercial acting class the next week. You get the class info and go yourself. The instructor for the class thinks you have a good look for what an agency she knows of is looking for. She refers you. They ask you to go in for a meeting and suddenly you have an agent. THAT'S how it works out here. It's a domino effect that branches off in so many directions, you never know what opportunities will come from who or where. Third. Say YES to EVERY opportunity. This goes back to networking. The job, meeting, mixer or otherwise could be crap. But you may meet someone or learn something that helps you grow and/or find another opportunity. THERE IS NO WASTED EXPERIENCE!!!!! Everything has benefit. You just have to keep your eyes open for the silver lining. (On a side note, do not say yes to something you're uncomfortable with. Always use your instincts but don't dismiss a "less than desirable" opportunity because you think it's beneath you.) Fourth. YOU ARE GOING TO GET DISCOURAGED AND DISAPPOINTED!!! It's GOING to happen, so just accept it. It's the only way you can grow, learn and do better next time. The best way to deal with it is to keep going. The longer you stay in disappointment, the more opportunities you lose out on. And some of my greatest disappointments have yielded my greatest successes. THAT is an important lesson to learn. DO NOT be afraid to fail. Be afraid if you don't. Because if you don't, then you're not growing, and you'll never move beyond where you are. And lastly, HAVE FUN and BE YOU! No matter how many people come to LA, there will always be one thing you have that they don't. YOU! You are unique. The second you try to be something you are not, you diminish your chances of success exponentially. Keep in mind, the people that are successful in this industry are that way because they distinguished themselves from the crowd. Own who you are and let that, and your instinct, guide you and I promise you'll be successful.
My time at St Mike's helped define me as a person. I really started to became "me" while I was there. My theatre training was the catalyst that solidified my passion as a creative talent. It was my first playwriting class that allowed me to realize my potential as a writer. A major help in completing the script for my first feature. (I've even pitched the short play I wrote during that class to my producer as a film idea) The mainstage productions at St. Mike's were the bread and butter that shaped my style and confidence as an actor. They were a way to hone what I learned during the semester. The same process exists in the professional world. As an actor you're always learning. Each job is a chance to improve by learning from your experience. What helped most was the passion of my theatre professors and the support of my fellow actors/classmates. St. Mike's theatre training was an ongoing process of all out fun combined with potent self work and learning that culminated in my senior theatre project "Dinner With Friends." Under Cathy Hurst's direction, myself and three other students went on an eight month journey of character back story. We created and lived our character's lives before the events of the actual production, allowing us to fully immerse ourselves in the world of the play. I will never forget the process of that experience and the depth to which we went as actors.
Getting an agent took time and opportunity. All I can say about the process is that it goes back to networking. Once again, there's no particular way to go about it. But here's how it happened for me... A good friend of mine introduced me to her acting coach - Karen Austin. I began working with her on organizing my career goals. Karen told me about a casting director who was offering a commercial auditioning intensive class she thought I'd enjoy. I contacted the casting director and took her class. At the end of the class, the casting director mentioned she had an agency that might be interested in someone like me. She referred me and I made contact with that agency. I went in for a meeting and auditioned for them. A few weeks later I got an email saying I was not what they were looking for at this time. Months passed. I continued to submit for more and more auditions and eventually got one in the same studio in which the casting director I took the class with months before was located. I noticed her name on a project announcement. She was casting a project in a room down the hall from my audition. On a whim, I decided to say hello. It took her a minute to remember my name but was glad to see me. We had a laugh about her forgetting my name and then she said, "send me an email. I have an agent for you." I sent her an email that night. The next day she forwarded the info of an agency that was hosting a meet and greet to acquire new talent. I contacted them, set up a meeting time, and went in. We talked about what they were looking for, what I was looking for, and I read a short audition on camera. Later that night I received an email stating they liked me a lot and would like to offer me representation. And that, my friends, is how I got an agent.
As a person I have learned that I don't have to try to be me. It is impossible to TRY to be something you ARE. I have learned to be honest with myself about who I am instead of trying to fit into someone's else's idea of who I should be. There is nothing more stifling to an artist than denying one's true nature. I have learned that the most important opinion about anything in my life is MINE. Counsel from friends and family is always welcome, but I am solely responsible for my own life. I have learned that transparency and honesty will always get you further than "protective" white lies. This is true in personal AND business matters. I have learned that I will never stop learning and no matter how good I get, there will always be someone better (and that's ok). I have learned that the greatest opportunities most often come from the most difficult experiences. I have learned that EVERY experience IS an opportunity. An opportunity to decide the type of person I want to be in any given moment. And I have learned that being yourself and doing what you love is the quickest way to happiness. As an artist I have learned that my craft is always evolving. It is impossible to get it "right" because it is always changing. I have learned that it's not about getting everything perfect. Perfect is boring. Life isn't perfect. That's what makes it interesting. Art should be the same if it is to express life. I have learned that having expectations is the worst thing you can do as an artist. Have dreams and goals instead. Expectations only lead to disappointments. I have learned to value my time. I do not work for free. I have learned to set boundaries. And I have learned to ask for what I want instead of hoping someone will offer it to me.
I would like to add that everything happens when you are ready for it. Life is only as complicated as we make it. Struggle is only as difficult as we allow it to be. And ultimate success is a myth. There is no endgame. You will always be striving for more. So do what you love. Allow things to be what they are. (A thing is what it is. It is our feeling about that thing that gives it meaning) Focus on your joy and always be grateful. In life and career, the only person stopping you is you. You can make all the excuses in the world but unless you're taking action toward what you want, you only have yourself to blame. So I will leave you with two of my favorite quotes: "Life begins on the edge of your comfort zone." And "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, either way, you're right." Thank you Cathy for allowing me this opportunity to share. Before graduating, I remember reading other graduate success stories and hoping I would one day be among them. I am happy to say things have come full circle. I am a successful, working actor in Hollywood. I am living my dream... and I am grateful.
After graduating from Saint Michael's in 2006, I moved to Boston and hit the ground running, submitting headshots and resumes to the local casting agencies, taking courses, and knocking on doors. About a month after moving, I received a call from one of many casting directors I had submitted to. Suddenly, I was performing as an attorney in the mayor's office on an ill-fated CBS Television drama, Waterfront, starring Billy Baldwin, Mary Stuart Masterson and Joe Pantoliano. After five episodes were filmed, the series was dropped before airing. After Waterfront, I worked on Focus Features' Evening, starring Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Claire Danes, and Natasha Richardson, Focus Features' 21, starring Kate Bosworth, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, and Lawrence Fishburn, ESPN's The Bronx Is Burning, starring Oliver Platt, John Turturro, and Daniel Sunjata, and Columbia Pictures' Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Jonah Hill. In addition to my work in film and television, I also landed a regional commercial for CITGO, a national commercial for VISA, and a national commercial for McDonald's.
In 2009, my ambition carried me to New York City. Since moving, I have started my own filmmaking company, Scabland Productions, LLC. Currently I am in pre-production on a short film that I wrote and developed entitled February. The cast includes Phyllis Somerville (Showtime's The Big C, The Sopranos, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and many others), Ethan Philips (Inside Llewyn Davis, Star Trek, The Island, and many others), Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (a great granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway), Dan Shaked (jOBS, ABC's Body of Proof, and Storm Up the Sky), Bill Tucker (an anchor and producer at CNN and FOX), Katherine Hiler (know for her part in the Pulitzer Prize winning Kentucky Cycle), and Darrell Larson (Law&Order, Rachel Getting Married, Stepmom, and many others). Filming is slated to begin in late May of 2013. Even though Scabland Productions and February are my main priority right now, I still find time to audition and submit for film, commercial, and print work in NYC. Most recently I shot a national print ad for New Balance.
Although I've known since I was three years old that I would be an actor, I arrived at Saint Michael's College with virtually no theatre experience. I was excited to study under Professor Cathy Hurst. Professor Hurst guided my growth, being challenging and supportive without coddling me. In areas where I needed development, I received enormous assistance. Beyond theatre classes, I especially benefited from dance and voice courses. In addition to acting classes, I acquired skills in design and stagecraft from Professor John Devlin, as well as knowledge of costumes and building a production wardrobe from Professor Peter Harrigan. While my major was Theatre, I also found myself enriched by courses in religion, philosophy and art. I feel blessed by my time at Saint Michael's College, for it has given me the career of my dreams.
My ultimate goal has always been to live a life in the theatre. Before graduating from Saint Michael's College, the department faculty imparted some words of wisdom that I have yet to forget; my career will not consist of one aspect of theatre, rather, any opportunity I have to collaborate and tell stories with sincerity and honesty. I would consider myself a "Jack of all Trades/Master of None" at the moment". I am an actor/dancer/director/choreographer/costume designer/teacher/writer. I say YES to any opportunity that comes my way and continue to see myself as a constant student; learning as much as I can about my craft and profession through people who have been in my position.
This mindset led my to London where I worked on the West End at Trafalgar Studios on the musical Betwixt while also training with members of the Royal Ballet. I then moved back to New York City where I choreographed for Horizons Dance Company and Assistant Directed/Choreographed the premier of Holding Out For a Hero.
I recently completed two semesters as a guest Director/Choreographer at Clark University where I had the pleasure of collaborating on Footloose and Spring Awakening. While in Massachusetts, I continued to perform while also teaching musical theater masterclasses and dance workshops ranging from organizations like the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival to Venerini Academy.
I am currently based again in New York City having just completed a staged reading of Cameron Mackintosh's musical Moby Dick with fellow St. Mike's alum and best friend Nathaniel Beliveau. Having met at Saint Michael's, Nathaniel and I are in the beginning stages of starting a musical theatre coaching business.
I recently finished filming as a dancer on NBC's Smash and will be working with Marc Tumminelli and the Broadway Workshop; who I had the opportunity to meet while working for two seasons at the Saint Michael's Playhouse.
At this moment, I am an auditioner by day and waiter by night while pursuing my dreams and paying rent.
Current dream right now: Being a dance captain for a national tour or Broadway production.
Fondest memory of Saint Michael's College: Sitting in Cathy Hurst's office (where I learned that anything is possible).
Ashleigh (Ward) Brown graduated from Saint Michael's College in 2004 majoring in English, with a Biology and Theatre minor.
When I was a junior, I was elected the Drama Club president, and got very involved in bettering the drama club through the student association. I was elected drama club president again as a senior, and was also elected the secretary of communications with the student association executive board my senior year. In the theater department, I had leading roles in some of the fall shows and was a two time Irene Ryan nominee by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for my acting work in Arcadia, and Prometheus Bound. I also enjoyed very much my first role in a musical working with Cathy Hurst (Director) and Tom Cleary (Composer and Musical Director) in their adaptation of Brecht's Chalk Circle. Some of my favorite classes at SMC included Peter Harrigan's costuming class, and Cathy Hurst's Singing for the Actor class.
My current position is the Fine and Performing Arts Department Chair at the high school I attended, Central Catholic in Lawrence Massachusetts. I teach Freshman Introduction to Theater Arts, and a Senior Theater class I designed, Advanced Acting and Performance. The Freshman Course is a survey of theater arts, including theater history, improvisation, on stage techniques, play and scene study, and monologue performance for auditions and competitions. My senior course is more focused on particular plays and playwrights, with scene and monologue competition, and whole cast play competition. I designed and directed two summer theater camps, one for high school students, and one for middle school students at Cenral Catholic in Lawrence. This year, students will work on, design and enter the play Kindertransport for the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Festival in the spring.In addition, I am the secretary for the executive board for the New England Theatre Conference for the upcoming school year.
I want to expose students to the benefits and experiences that theater arts can provide. I always tell my students that for you to enjoy something and truly understand and learn, you must be able to relate to it somehow. As an English teacher, and Theater Arts teaching, I am constantly looking for new and exciting ways to have students relate to plays we are working on, or scenes they are doing on stage. I also feel that to be a talented actor, you must be able to relate to your character to create a believable experience for your audience. The key to theater, in my opinion, is sympathy and empathy for the human experience. To quote one of my favorite authors, Ms. Harper Lee, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it". And aren't we trying to do just that as an actor? I have grown mostly because I have grown as a human.
After Saint Michael's College, I have been a teacher, wife, community theater actor, aunt, friend, and more recently, Mommy. I have read more, traveled more, and therefore, changed and added to my perspective, thus giving me more to play with on stage.
For St. Mike's students who might be considering the role of teaching theater, I cannot begin to describe how very much my students have taught me, and brought joy and fulfillment to my life. If you love to be a student, like I have my whole life, you will love to teach... you are, in essence, on stage all day, with an interactive audience who respects you as much as you respect them. It's a dream job for the actor, and I am definitely living the dream when I go to work. I currently reside in Dracut Massachusetts, and am attending grad school part time.
I have a wonderful husband, who also attended high school with me, and also works at Central Catholic with me, but in the math department! And together we have two daughters, a 3 yr old, Adalayde, and an 8 month old, Allyson. I owe my life, my family, and my career to Central Catholic, and the English and Theatre departments!


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Juilliard Kicks Off FOCUS! 2013: THE BRITISH RENAISSANCE Festival, Now thru 2/1
Juilliard's FOCUS! 2013: The British Renaissance festival has announced its lineup, running tonight, January 25 through February 1, 2013. It will feature the New Juilliard Ensemble and more. For details, see the listing below or click HERE.Opening Night, January 25, 2013
Alice Tully Hall
British Music Since World War II
New Juilliard Ensemble
Joel Sachs, founding director and conductor
Kyle Bielfield, tenor
John Brancy, baritone
Bryan Conger, clarinet
Meredith Treaster, viola
Jonathan Harvey (England) Sringara Chaconne (2008)*
ALEXANDER GOEHR (England) . . .a musical offering (J.S.B. 1985) (1985)
HELEN GRIME (Scotland) Clarinet Concerto (2009)**
John WooLRICH (England) Envoi (1997)*
COLIN MATTHEWS (England) with text by Christopher Reid No Man's Land for tenor, baritone, chamber orchestra, and recorded sound (2011)*
* First performance outside of Europe
** New York Premiere
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Friday, January 25, 2013, 8 p.m.
FOCUS! 2013: The British Renaissance Chamber Concert
January 28-31, 2013
Paul Hall
British Music Since World War II
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT (England) Kandinsky Variations for two pianos (1977)
Yang Liu and Jiayan Sun, pianos
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH (England) Cassandra's Dream Song for solo flute (1970)
Daniel James, flute
GEORGE BENJAMIN (England) Viola Viola for two violas (1997)
Fitzhugh Gary and Daniel Kim, violas
DEIRDRE GRIBBIN (Northern Ireland) What the Whaleship Saw for string quartet (2004)*
Caitlin Kelly and Emma Sutton, violins
Luke Fleming, viola
Andrew Briggs, cello
Judith Weir (Scotland/England) Piano Trio Two (2003-04)
Maria Semes, violin
Julian Schwarz, cello
Rozalyn Chok, piano
Peter Maxwell Davies (England) Sonata for cello and piano, "Sequentia serpentigena" (2007)
Sofia Nowik, cello
Ari Livne, piano
* First performance outside of Europe
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Monday, January 28, 2013, 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 8 p.m. Thursday, January 31, 2013, 8 p.m.
FOCUS! 2013: The British Renaissance Panel Discussion
January 29, 2013
Paul Hall
British Music Since World War II
Panel discussion with Michael Zev Gordon, Deirdre Gribbin, David Wordsworth, and Errollyn Wallen, moderated by Joel Sachs
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 7 p.m.
FOCUS! 2013: The British Renaissance Final Concert
February 1, 2013
Alice Tully Hall
British Music Since World War II
Mark Wigglesworth, conductor
Trevor Nuckols, French horn soloist
Juilliard Orchestra
Michael Tippett Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage (1947/1952)
OLIVER KNUSSEN Horn Concerto (1994)*
MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE Ceres (2005)*
Benjamin Britten Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 (1940)
* New York Premiere
British conductor and international artist Mark Wigglesworth directs the Juilliard Orchestra in the final concert of Juilliard's FOCUS! 2013 festival, paying homage this season to the creativity, substance, and renaissance of British music after World War II. The FOCUS! finale begins with Michael Tippett's lively Ritual Dances from his opera Midsummer Marriage, followed by Oliver Knussen's single-movement Horn Concerto--an expressive and demanding piece with traces of nocturnal melodies. Mark-Anthony Turnage's Ceres, named after one of the first asteroids ever discovered, explores the composer's attraction to "the doomsday aspect of asteroids," and Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem brings the festival to a stunning and dramatic close, musically exploring the emotional spectrum from savagery to solace
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Our Perspectives
A sole woman at the negotiating table for peace
14 Jul 2014 by Shadia Marhaban, Mediator and Peace Activist
Almost ten years ago, I was part of a peace process that produced an agreement to end a 30-year bloody conflict between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM).
Then and now, women are rarely seen in this peace negotiation arena. They are not perceived as adequately prepared for tackling "tough" issues like peace and security. Despite recent international obligations to include women in peace processes, reality has not kept pace with rhetoric.
My own presence, as a lone woman among "tough" men, who had been at the helm of the struggle for independence for decades, was unique.
As a woman, and a mother of two children, I did not push to go to Helsinki for the peace talks, since it meant leaving my two small children. But as fate would have it, the official negotiators were arrested on the way to the airport and exiled to prison. By default, I then became formally part of the negotiations, as I was a field expert.
I was treated with respect by the top leadership. I presented myself not as a woman on the team, but rather as a field expert whose expertise was important to the peace process. I debated with the men on critical issues of peace and security, and they were surprised that I had spent much time in the jungle with armed fighters. After establishing myself as someone with knowledge and experience, I did not face much resistance.
The challenge came from the Indonesian side. Very simply put, I was not taken seriously. Early into the negotiation, I was called out and informed that the Indonesian side objected to my presence, claiming that I had not been part of the team from the beginning. When the GAM leadership told the mediator that if I were expelled, the peace talks would end there, the Indonesian side withdrew their demand.
This experience strengthens my belief that women's absence from negotiations and peace processes translates into neglect of women's priorities in the talks.
In Aceh, women were very active in intelligence sharing, medical and logistic services, and a few were trained in real armed fighting units. But after the conflict had ended and peace was restored, these women were deprived of meaningful assistance in the reintegration programs. The peace negotiations had focused on political and security arrangements only, without considering the position of women. This exclusion is playing out today into denial of women's rights and radicalization of religious views. Meaningful participation of women requires a change in the mindset of the society itself. With this conviction I became an advocate not only for rights of women but also for the creation of mediator networks for women in the region.
Only when women become mediators in the fullest meaning of the word, the dynamics of the peace processes would translate into "justice and dignity for all," as proudly mentioned in the preamble of the Helsinki Memorandum for Peace in Aceh. We have a long way to go until women are respected for their knowledge, capacity and experience on par with men.
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I have been asked to brew some home brew for a cajon mudbug boil. It will be spicey and hot and "make your lips numb good". What kinds of beer go best with this type of food.
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We are a technology company developing interactive learning tools to make learning/teaching a fun, exciting experience and eliminates the need for textbooks and other outmoded learning tools.
The target audience is the faculty and students at colleges and universities offering fashion and merchandizing courses. Textiles is a required course for such programs. The goal is to get faculty to recognize the superiority of this CD/web-based interactive learning software over the textbook - which can not leverage the vast resouces on the net. Also, highlight the fact that textbooks cost a LOT more and are static in nature. The logo should also reflect the new learning style of the tech savvy college students of today.
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Call me old fashioned but I'm a dinner and movie kinda guy. Well this weekend marks the opening of a film based on the best-selling novel by author, philosopher and noted atheist Ayn Rand. The film (and novel) is called Atlas Shrugged. Rand was a polarizing figure of the twentieth century partly because of her unapologetic atheism, but more so because of the philosophy she introduce to the world called "Objectivism".
Objectivism extols the virtues of self-interest, individualism, unbridled free-market capitalism, limited government and the promotion of objective reality and reason. It opposes the notion of altruism, charity and government-regulated social equality. Some of Rand's most notable followers include former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, US Congressman (and 2008 presidential candidate) Ron Paul, and US Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas.
My questions are:
1. How many will be going to see this film?
2. Will you be taking someone from Atheist Singles?
3. What are your thoughts on Ayn Rand, her "Objectivism" philosophy and her politics?
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Atheist or no, she called homosexuality immoral and repulsive (though as a libertarian she opposed any legislation against it). And she was a "friendly witness" for the McCarthy panels.
Blind devotism to free market capitalism is the opposite of reason to me. So I never bought her arguments that way
Not really a fan of Rand. Id rather see Scream 4
Dean, I applaud your objectivity and open-mindedness. I wonder are you a person of science, or particularly interested in philosophy as such? I personally have resolved to wait for it to be released on video. Although I am very intrigued by the film, the reviews have just been so terrible that I can't bring myself to spend my 'date night' money to see it.
And for everyone else.. Are there any Randians out there? I'd like to hear from youz guyz!!
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Cinemax has unleashed a new "Strike Back"promo featuring a new song from music legend Bob Dylan.
Dylan's "Early Roman Kings" plays over scenes from the Emmy-nominated thriller's second season. The action drama focuses on members of a top-secret counterterrorism unit known as Section 20.
"Early Roman Kings" is one of two Dylan songs that will be featured in the new season. "Scarlet Town" will make its world premiere over the end credits following the back-to-back debuts of the first two episodes Aug. 17. The song will play after separate plays of both episodes, which will also be available from Max On Demand and Max GO.
Both previously unreleased songs appear on Dylan's upcoming album "Tempest," set to drop Sept. 11, marking his 50th anniversary as a recording artist and his 35th studio release.
The "Early Roman Kings" clip gives viewers a hint at all the sticky situations Sgt. Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) and Damian Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) will find themselves in the first four episodes, including a firefight in Mogadishu, a terrorist ambush and a parachute drop in the desert.
It's a bit spoilery concerning Season 2 guest star Rhona Mitra's character, Rachel Dalton, but it's kind of difficult not to spoil Rachel's role in the guys' new challenges. We also see cast members Rhashan Stone and Michelle Lukes, as well as guest stars Charles Dance, Vincent Regan, Shane Taylor, Tim Pigott-Smith and Anthony Oseyemi.
The song is perfect for the series, as is the show's theme song, "Short Change Hero" by The Heavy. That song plays over the show's opening title credits, which was recently nominated for an Emmy.
"Strike Back" returns at 9 p.m. Aug. 17 on Cinemax. Below are the lyrics to "Early Roman Kings," according to the Facebook page for The Bob Dylan Fan Club.
All the early Roman kings
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tibuzz needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Titanium Buzz offers a wide selectiion of rings, wedding rings, and other jewelry to those looking for something different. Our products cannot be found in mainstream jewelry stores and we want our logo to reflect that as well. We carry titanium, carbon fiber, damascus steel, black zirconium and other variuos alternative metals that are very different from the rest. we sell online only and we have expanded our product lines to offer various inlays and exotic materials.
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Jessie Danielle Boyer and Cody Lee Carver were united in marriage at 6 p.m. March 22, 2013, at the Bloomfield Harvest Church in Bloomfield, Ind.
The bride is the daughter of Teresa Lynn Ratcliffe, Bloomfield, Ind. and Brent Lee Boyer, Turners Station.
The groom is the son of Bobbi Ann and Joseph Robert Jones, Coal City, Ind.
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On March 1, 1813, George Scott was appointed guardian of Robert Tucker, Jacob Tucker and John Tucker, infant heirs of John Tucker (deceased) by the County Court. Mr. Scott was required by law to post a bond of $500 to assure the Court that he would faithfully maintain the obligations of guardianship. James Tucker and Thomas Tingle signed Mr. Scott's bond as his surety.
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John Jones, Clerk of the Henry County Court, was allowed $2.37 for apprehending John Montgomery on a charge of felony and summoning three witnesses in behalf of the Commonwealth.
At the February term of the County Court, Edmund Searcy was appointed to check the weights and scales at Sullinger's Warehouse.
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The groom to be is a graduate of Michigan State University and is employed by The Atlas Companies, Louisville.
Mike and Danielle McKee of Eminence announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Micah Kristin McKee of Eminence to Shawn Oesterritter of Eastwood, son of John and Madalyn Oesterritter, of Eastwood.
The bride-elect is a 2008 graduate of Henry CountyHigh School and currently attends Sullivan University. She is currently employed at First You Medical Center.
The groom-elect is a 2004 graduate of Trinity High School and a 2006 graduate of Jefferson Community College. He currently farms cattle, hay and grain.
There are many gifts that we give to our families throughout our lives – time, love, money, attention; the list goes on and on. One of the most valuable gifts we can give our families is to have a living will.
I remember when my grandparents had failing health, and my family was caring for them. They had living wills and had taken the time to let each of us know how they wanted to spend the final weeks and days of their lives.
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Former Major League Baseball player, Sam Ewing, once said that, "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." And for those of us who have been in the workforce for most of our lives, we know that his assessment is true.
Darrell and Linda Combs of Waddy announce the marriage of their daughter, Trini Hernandez to Jarrod Singleton of Smithfield, son of David and Karen Wilson and Marshall and Kim Singleton. The couple was united in marriage at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 11, 2012, at Graefenburg United Methodist Church in Frankfort. Andrew Haire, Minister officiated the ceremony.
The bride was given in marriage by her father, Darrell Combs. Matron of Honor was Luis Hernandez, brother of the bride. Flower girl was Sara Shearer, cousin of the groom.
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The Ottawa International Game Conference kicks off in a week's time. The conference, which lasts for three days, will take place on May 29th - 31st and features new innovations and trends in the gaming industry in Canada. Numerous speakers all across the board will be present to relay knowledge and expertise.
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- A Full pre-conference day of Workshops and learning sessions from the bests of the bests (Microsoft, BlackBerry and Game Design 101 with Dr. Ernest Adams)
- Exhibitors and recruiters will be attending and giving away tons of SWAG
- A Demo Zone, where your games will get amazing exposure (Submissions still accepted)
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Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Launches Investigation Against Synaptics Inc. (SYNA) For Potential Breaches Of Fiduciary Duties By Its Board Of Directors In The Manner It Seeks Executive Compensation Approval
Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities firm headquartered in New York City, is investigating the Board of Directors of Synaptics Inc. ("Synaptics" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SYNA) for potential breaches of fiduciary duties in connection with their conduct of seeking shareholders' approval of the compensation for the Company's named executive officers. The terms of the compensation to be awarded to the Company's executive officers are outlined in the Proxy Statement on Form Schedule 14A that the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 12, 2012.
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Indiana Writer Martone Reads Tonightby Karen Handley • September 24, 2008 Share:
As a part of the Wabash College Experience Indiana Speakers and Artists Series, Michael Martone, will give a talk at 8 p.m. Thursday, October 2. His talk will take place in Room 101 (Lovell Lecture Room) in Baxter Hall and is free and open to the public.
Martone, whose trademark is the blurring of the lines between fact and fiction will read from his essay, Postcards from Terra Incognita, which is a collage of thoughts on Indiana and "Place" as a subject from his book, Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins. Other readings will include selections from his books, The Blue Guide to Indiana and Double Wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone.
Martone is a professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama where he has been teaching since 1996. Before that, he taught at Syracuse University, Iowa State University, and Harvard University.
Martone was born and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He studied at Butler University and graduated from Indiana University with a degree in English. He is also a graduate of The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University.
Martone is the author of several books including, Seeing Eye, Pensees: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List, Safety Patrol, Alive and Dead in Indiana, The Flatness and Other Landscapes, and his autobiography, Michael Martone.
The next Experience Indiana Speakers Series will take place on October 9 with Susan Neville giving a talk on her 2008 Best Nonfiction Book of Indiana, "Sailing the Inland Sea" and then on October 13 with Norbert Krapf speaking on "Indiana Origins, A Memoir and Poetry Reading." Both talks will take place at 4:15 p.m. in Center Hall, room 216.