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CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – The King University men's swimming and diving team finished tenth at the Appalachian Swimming Conference Championship on Friday and Saturday, but the Tornado set six new school records and saw a number of swimmers achieve personal best times. King finished 10th of 12 teams with 128.5 points.
Nicholas Piumelli rewrote the King record books at the two-day event, setting three individual school records, two in breaststroke events, and swimming on a pair of relay teams that also set a school marks.
Piumelli's sixth-place time of 2:12.30 in the 200 yard breaststroke shattered Greg Taylor's school record time from 2011 by nearly eight seconds. He also broke a seven-year-old school record with an 11th-place finish in the 100 yard breaststroke. He finished the event in 59.89 seconds, which bested the former mark of 1:01.79 set in 2007 by Logan Patrick.
Piumelli also set a King record in the 200 yard individual medley, finishing in 13th place in 2:02.83. The old record of 2:04.13 was held by Stephen Howard and was also set during the 2007 season. He then combined with Reynold Thibideau, Christian Knobloch, and Taylor Horton to finish sixth and set a King record of 3:41.47 in the 400 yard medley relay, besting the 2010 time of 3:44.97 as tops in school history.
The 800 yard freestyle relay fell to Knobloch, Alek Nochowicz, Quenton Lyons, and Piumelli. The quartet swam to a 10th place finish in 7:32.10 that bested the previous school record set last season by nearly three seconds.
Knobloch also set a pair of personal records. He finished in 26th position in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:51.79, which bested his previous best time by 2.21 seconds. His 20th-place finish in 22.43 seconds in the 50 yard freestyle was 0.27 seconds quicker than his career record.
Taylor Horton and Brian Stroinski also set personal bests in the 50 free. Horton finished 15th in 22.21 seconds, breaking his previous mark by 0.72 seconds, while Stroinski's 30th-place finish in 23.30 seconds was 0.37 seconds ahead of his personal best time. Jacob Morales matched his personal best with a 44th-place time of 24.63 seconds.
Horton added a second personal record time in the 100 yard freestyle, finishing in 21st position with a time of 50.34 seconds. He bested his previous career mark by 1.07 seconds. Tyler McBee also set a personal best in the 500 yard freestyle, besting his previous record by 14 seconds with a 33rd-place time of 5:25.41.
A four-year-old school record fell in the 200 yard medley relay in 1:40.25, which topped the previous King record by 0.59 seconds.
The Tornado finished 10th of 12 teams at the event with a team score of 128.5. Wheeling Jesuit University won the conference championship with a score of 587.5, defeating second-place Mars Hill University by 113.5 points. Urbana University, Saint Andrews University, and Union (Ky.) College rounded out the top five.


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September 1, 2011
I am writing on behalf of myself and various family members and friends for whom I manage and advise on their investment portfolios.
I am shocked and angered that the SEC has decided to waste valuable manpower, time, and effort on an esoteric procedural investigation of the Mortgage REIT sector. These investment vehicles have been one of the few investments that have allowed small retail investors to invest with a semblance of stability and with some decent investment returns (mostly from dividends) over the last decade-plus. For some reason, some of your lawyers at the SEC decided that an 'investigation' and public comment on their structure was appropriate -- actions which have created fear, uncertainly, and unwarranted confusion among investors in the space.
Nobody who is an investor in Mortgage REITs could possibly believe they are in any way, shape, or structure akin to mutual funds. They trade like stocks and are purchased like stocks.
Nobody who is an investor in Mortgage REITs could possibly believe they are closed-end funds, open end funds, or ETFs.
They invest in MBS and leverage up their capital which is how the yields are produced. I have yet to meet a single investor who does not understand this basic Mortgage REIT business model.
The only 'confusion' in the sector surrounds individuals who do not do proper research and rely on a single article or a call-in to a popular investment program like Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" and use that as the basis for investing in a specific Mortgage REIT or a basket of the stocks, without knowing what it is they invested in.
Investors in these stocks understand that the underlying REITs are investing in pools of MBS, as well as financing these investments in the repo market, employing leverage, and also using derivatives (swaps, swaptions, etc) to hedge some of the interest rate and/or credit risk.
The transparency of the Mortgage REITs is light-years ahead of what the High Frequency Traders (HFT) are doing to cause 'Flash Crashes' or make stocks trading at $50 a share suddenly trade for a penny a share.
The people I invest for and speak to have invested in the markets for decades, and neither bear markets nor the October 1987 Crash nor the Tech/Internet Bubble Meltdown caused them to lose faith in the markets. Certainly, the disclosures of their investments in Mortgage REITs has not been a problem, either.
What has caused them to question the fairness of the markets is the whipsawing of the markets via HFT -- a result no doubt of the SEC's mandating and obsession with decimalization and trading in pennies -- and the number of investment manager frauds highlighted by Bernie Madoff. These are what 'scare' small retail investors, not whether or not a particular sector has an exemption dating back 71 years under the Investment Company Act of 1940, or whether the 1960's legislation creating REITs (designed to help small investors, not big institutions) needs updating.
Those are the items that your staff of lawyers and financial experts should be focusing on, not the alleged lack of transparency and disclosures from a sector that is covered by over a dozen analysts, files 10-K's and other SEC documents on time, and communicates with shareholders through conference calls and investment conferences.
I respectfully request that you rescind the investigation on the structure of these investment vehicles which are well-known and understood by the vast majority of their shareholders and concentrate your limited resources on more pressing matters affecting the financial markets and small retail investors.

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text: Nate Lowman: Thirty Million Dollar Smile November 8, 2011 Nate-Lowman-AAA_thirty_million_dollar_smile Triple A is a two-year public art project initiated by Francois Ghebaly, Emma Gray, Mandrake Bar and OHWOW gallery. Eight internationally recognized artists will be asked to create a single color image to be painted at large scale on the exterior wall of a former muffler shop that sits at the corner of Venice Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard, just south of the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles California. The wall, situated in the Culver City gallery district, also sits at one of the most heavily trafficked intersections in Los Angeles.This location offers high visibility to both arts professionals and the larger general public. The eight images painted on the wall over the course of the project will also be used to create a suite of eight individual silkscreen prints in an edition of ten. The inaugural project, a wall painting by New York based artist Nate Lowman, is now on view. Lowman's piece, Thirty Million Dollar Smile, is a halftone transfer of a photograph of Julia Roberts originally taken for a Loreal campaign, but later rejected by Roberts because she felt the image was over-photoshopped. The mural is located at 2600 South La Cienega Blvd.


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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
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"On my first Thanksgiving as Mayor, I am so grateful that we have so many people in this community who share their time and talents in service to others. In particular, I give thanks for the courage of those serving in our military from Lincoln, including the 12 City employees who have been called to active duty over the past two years. We can all take pride in the outstanding service to our country being given by so many from the Lincoln area. It is also important to remember the sacrifices the families of our military personnel make for our country, and we pray their loved ones will be back at home for Thanksgiving next year."


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This is the third installment in a series about designing and playing an RPG campaign with my 7-year-old son, from setting design to playing out battles. The first article in the series can be found here, while the second is here.
After three sessions of play using the free Dungeon Squad! rules, the lad's campaign is starting to take shape. His character was approached in his home town of Tiny Village by the village elder, a fellow named Sedgewick; the elder asked if the hero would deliver a message to the tower of the wizard Snevlin, which is located across the mountains. Sedgewick warned that it would be a dangerous trip, and that the hero should round up a few friends to help him fight off the dangers. After recruiting an adventuring party, with members named after the lad, his favorite stuffed animals and Mom the Deadly (playing herself in this drama), the group set off for the mountains.
At the outset of this project, one of my goals was to keep the lad involved in the creative process, and so I allowed him to select foes from my miniature collection. Using the figures as a guide, I crunched up combat statistics for the beasties using other Dungeon Squad! monsters as a template.
While we did play one battle on a printed poster map from a D&D module, I found that the lad had more fun when he had an active role in designing the battlefield. We used D&D Dungeon Tiles, particularly from the Wilderness Master Set and the Witchlight Fens supplement. Usually, my son had as much fun creating the battlefields as he did playing the game. The only exception was when the party was crossing the mountain's snow-capped peak, and we used the Caverns of Icewind Dale; he enjoyed the tiles even more than the battle on that occasion.
Time for an important note to self: the greater my son's role in creating the game, the more he seems to enjoy it. At this point, I don't know if that is true for most children, or if my son is a born gamemaster and inclines toward that side of the screen (chip of the old block and all that).
At this point, the lad seems more interested preparation for and playing battles, an interest I'll feed by asking his help in determining combat abilities for monsters, which have all been homebrewed thus far. I'll try adding more story elements before the next report.


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7. Find all question and answer fields and seperate them by ";"
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I love the blend of flavors and the colors of this Andalusian salad. It's a favorite of mine and because the picture says a thousand words I'll say no more. This is very easy to assemble and is table ready in minutes. I hope you'll enjoy it.
Andalusian Salad with Avocados, Oranges and Almonds
3 oranges, peeled and cut in 1/4-inch slices
2 ripe tomatoes, peeled, seeded and roughly chopped
2 just ripe avocados, stoned, peeled and cut into chunks
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Sugar to taste (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste
Small Spanish or red onion rings
1/4 cup blanched and toasted almond slices
10 kalamata or oil-packed black olives
1) Combine olive oil, lemon juice and parsley in a small bowl. Whisk to combine. Season with sugar (if using), salt and pepper.
2) Toss tomatoes and avocados in half the dressing. Set aside.
3) Arrange orange slices on a plate; scatter with onion rings. Drizzle with remaining dressing. Spoon tomatoes, avocados, almonds and olives on top of oranges. oranges. Serve right away. Yield: 4 servings.
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When will I learn that I CANNOT DRINK COFFEE? I love it. I love the coffee. But I am a delicate flower who trembles uncontrollably after half a cup. HALF A CUP. Then I start to write in ALL CAPS.
This morning I had two caffeinated beverages. TWO. And OH MY GOD MY HEART. It can't take it. I was out with my friend and our children were not there and we were so happy! So happy, and so drinky-drinky with the coffee! And now I am trying to find the right keys on this keyboard thing and it's hard because my hands are a blur!
Speaking of chemicals in the body…
One year ago, the above-mentioned friend and I and both our children were standing on the corner, being neighborly, when two cars collided. We screamed at the sound of the crunching metal and screeching and then we ran out of the way when it looked like one of the cars was coming right for us. Then we stood there, trying to comfort our crying children, as everyone around us screamed and ran for help and we realized that the people in the cars—who were right there, the shattered glass was at our feet—were in bad shape.
But we were okay. We were safe. We backed away; we showed our children that the firemen and the ambulances were coming to help. We retreated to our homes to regroup and try to make sense of what happened.
That night my heart began to race. The next day it was still going at breakneck speed. My heart wouldn't slow down; my hands wouldn't stop shaking. I jumped at every sound. I kept thinking about those cars. If I had been at the corner a second earlier, the car would have hit us. If my friend hadn't been there, I might have been crossing the street. If, if, if. I began to think about how my son wasn't safe here, living on this busy street. Who knows what would happen the next time we crossed it? Indeed—who knows what will happen, period? There was no way I could keep him safe! Ever! In life! Because life is unpredictable!
I began to think about death. As in, all the time. Death! It happens! No stopping it!
So I began to clean, all the time. Clean clean clean. The cleaning wasn't really working at drowning out the constant worrying and crying, so I strapped on my iPod while I cleaned and wept and I tried to think about something, anything else.
When I couldn't wear my iPod or clean, I read the dictionary. You think I'm kidding, don't you? But the dictionary was the only thing I could read that didn't depress me in some way, that didn't bring up some intimation of death. Or life—which just leads to death, as we all know.
My husband told me to go to the doctor, and I was furious. You don't get it, I shouted! We're all going to die!
I felt like I was surrounded by the pod people; like I was the only one fighting off sleep so that they wouldn't come and take my brain. I had to keep up my frantic pace of worrying and fretting and weeping and cleaning, or else.
Finally, when my parents had to come and take my child away for a couple of days so he could spend a few carefree moments not worrying why Mommy wouldn't stop crying, I thought, hmm. Maybe a doctor isn't such a bad idea.
The doctor took one look at me and said, ooh, hello, post-traumatic stress lady! You're nuts! (She may not have said "nuts." Maybe.) She prescribed two things: A breathing/meditation course, and an anti-anxiety drug. First I took the breathing/meditation course. Which, oh lord, was the silliest thing I have ever done, but the first night of that class? My heartrate went down for the first time, from around 150 (I had been obsessively checking it ever since it began racing) to 65.
Although the course worked wonders for me (I would be happy to share details about it with any of you, if you want to email me), she still wanted me on the medication. So I, the obedient patient, took it. I didn't notice any dramatic changes, but then, I was already cured, or considered myself to be.
So now, a year later, we've both agreed that I should go off the medication, which happens to be Effexor.
Here's the thing. Effexor has the worst withdrawal of any of these drugs. (Except we can't call it "withdrawal"! It's "discontinuation syndrome"!) I have taken it before, and I have gone off it before, and I know what can happen.
But because I'm on a minute dose (see above, re: "delicate flower") my doctor won't acknowledge that I will have any problems, or that I need to wean myself slowly. Even though going off this drug cold-turkey is a terrible idea, a surefire recipe for physical and emotional misery, she insists that this is what I should do. Even though all evidence points to her being a moron.
So! I am now going to wean myself. And in the interest of public service, I am going to document here my weaning process. (Not in painful detail, you understand. I will try not to bore you overly. )
I'm nervous, but ready. I know what to do. I have done the research, and I am cheaper than my doctor.
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So I was wondering this week what I should go into next here, while trying to both find a new place to live and fulfill all my other obligations. So after a frustrating, long week, I decided to talk about some of the crappier aspects of the biz.
One of the hardest things for a new -- or even veteran wrestler -- to deal with is a ridiculous travel schedule. The long hours on the road, be they driving or flying, take their toll, on both the body and the mind. There are always exceptions to every rule and guys who love the travel. But nobody loves the travel all the time.
If you already wrestle you know what I mean. If you don't, well, be ready to be uncomfortable a lot. If you are fortunate/unfortunate enough to be a really big guy (6'4", 260 pounds and up), I have to say, wow it sucks to be you. Finding comfort on a 3+ hour car or plane ride can be impossible, especially when you squeeze five or more guys in a car to save on gas.
When I lived in Calgary I would regularly drive with three to five other guys to Winnipeg and Thunder Bay to do NHB shows for Don Callis. Winnipeg is 13 hours from Calgary, and TBay another seven from there. And when we would do these shows we would drive out on Thursday to get a decent night's sleep, wrestle in Winnipeg on Friday, then jump in the van and drive the seven hours to TBay at four in the morning to be there in time for radio interviews or autograph signings on Saturday. Then we'd spend the night in relative relaxation in TBay and drive the straight 20 hours Sunday back to Calgary so that guys could be back to work on Monday. And that;s just a sampling. It can get worse with breakdowns, wrong turns or what have you.
Some great stories come from road trips though.
Once on the way back from TBay, myself, Johnny Handsome (driving), Highlander Rob Scott, and the 385-pound Juggernaut were doing about 140 km (approximately 85 mph) across the plains of Saskatchewan in an attempt to make good time. An RCMP car going the opposite direction clocked us and rushed to turn around and ticket us. At that exact moment about one mile up the road, a four-door sedan went into the ditch when the older driver fell asleep at the wheel. When he awoke and tried to recover back onto the road he caught his tires and rolled over onto the roof. As we passed them seconds after, I thought the man's wife was cut in half and hanging out the passenger window. We screeched to a stop and jumped from the van to help. As I got to the car I was relieved to see the woman was in fact in one piece and it was her red sweater that had fooled me into thinking she was near death. Another couple stopped and helped us do some first aid while the RCMP officer pulled up. When he got out of his car you could see by the look on his face that he was clearly not impressed that he had to deal with the overturned car, as he constantly shot us evil looks. Once we had established that everyone was going to be okay, we quietly -- and carefully -- slipped back into the van that Jugg had conveniently pulled closer and sped away. As we pulled away, we looked back and could see the officer watching us and deliberating on whether to follow us or not! Some times it IS better to be lucky than good.
It doesn't get any easier when you fly. There are always complications that pop up.
This is a "Showtime" Eric Young story of his travel from Orlando to Nashville. Bear with me, it's a long one.
He left the Sleep Inn in Orlando at 5:15 a.m. to catch a flight to Charlotte, NC. But the Charlotte flight got delayed two hours. So the lady at the US Air counter said that if he hurried he could make the flight going Philly; he was the last person to make the flight, but he made it.
From there, he was supposed to fly into Nashville, but when he got to Philly airspace, he was put in a holding pattern because the airport was really busy and the runways packed. He was in the holding pattern for a half an hour. His connection to leave Philly was supposed to leave at 9 a.m.; when he landed and checked the time on his phone, it was five minutes to nine. And his connection flight was on the other side of the airport! Not only did he have to make it across the airport but he had to catch a bus to another terminal all together. Now for those of you that know, the Philly airport is VAST! So now Show is running across the Philly airport trying to make it to another terminal. He makes it to the gate just in time to watch his flight being pushed back from the gate.
The next flight from Philly to Nashville was at 3:30 p.m., 6-1/2 hours later. So he was stuck in Philly airport for the next sixhours. Time was filled with two chocolate covered croissants and three magazines. Then 3:30 p.m. rolls around and an announcement is made that the flight is full but there are two people there with a family emergency and that anyone willing to give up their seat would get a free round-trip ticket anywhere US Air flys. So Show thought, what's another couple hours, and being the nice guy he is, gave up his seat.
The slight ray of sunshine in a crappy day is a free flight. But then the flight attendants discover that there is enough room on the flight and so no free flight for Showtime as he is put on the plane.
So now he's on his way to Nashville when the pilot comes across that they need to make an emergency landing and have been re-routed to Charlotte -- where he was supposed to be at 8:30 a.m.! He landed in Charlotte at 4:30, but they don't say why. He's there for two hours in the Charlotte terminal with no explanation of why they had to land. Finally, they tell them that they landed because they didn't have the FAA required amount of emergency fuel, and once on the ground they discovered something wrong with the guidance system.
After two hours on the ground, they reload the plane and are off to Nashville. He lands in Nashville at about 7:30 p.m. So what should have been a 1-hour, 50-minute flight turned into a 14-hour ordeal. And that I'm sure is one of the ordinary travel stories that wrestlers have to deal with on a regular basis.
For some great Canadian travel stories check out Edge's book, Adam Copeland on Edge, as he gives a great account of some of Tony Condello's northern death tours across the frozen tundra. Roddy Piper's and Ric Flair's books both have some great road stories as well. Believe me when I tell you that the ridiculousness never stops in wrestling. But if you can put up with it and deal with it you'll never be bothered by the little things again. Harder to deal with are the relationships that we cultivate as wrestlers with our spouses or significant others. But that is another column all together.
I am excited though for my next road trip which starts today. Showtime and I will be making our way to Memphis to wrestle at the historic Mid South Coliseum for Jimmy Hart and Jerry "The King" Lawler. I will cover what it's like to wrestle in Memphis in next week's column and hopefully, it will still be as Mid South tag team champions. We were also supposed to be in Albuquerque on Sunday, but unfortunately that show was cancelled. I was very disapointed to hear that, as I was really looking forward to meeting Nick Bockwinkel, one of my childhood favorites. Then Monday, it's off to Orlando for another TNA Impact taping. Happiness is being healthy and wrestling. God, I love what I do.
The promised mentions for other schools: Anyone looking for more info on the TNA training center, aka the Can Am wrestling school, they can be reached at email@example.com or call (519) 969-1245. As well in the Nashville area, Chase Stevens and Cassidy Riley have training classes two-three times a week, and can be contacted at email@example.com. And promoters looking to book myself or Showtime Eric Young we can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hope you all enjoyed this week's stories and learned something. If you want me to cover a certain subject, please email me at the above email addy, or send feedback or whatever. I promise I will get to workouts and eating for those of you that have asked. So take care all and stay hot.
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Hotshot" Johnny Devine's column will run on Saturdays on SLAM! Wrestling. Be sure to visit each week! For more on Devine's career, see his biography in our Canadian Hall of Fame.


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It's been five months since Hurricane Sandy devastated many South Shore communities, but it appears that some of the areas most impacted will finally receive the necessary funding to start the process of rebuilding damaged beaches and dunes.
It's important to understand that without proper reconstruction or adequate planting to sustain them, the dunes along our beaches will be in peril.
On March 20, it was announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had approached the leadership of both the City of Long Beach and the Town of Hempstead with a plan to build 16-foot-high dunes that will stretch along the Long Beach barrier island's shoreline. According to a Newsday article that day entitled, "Votes Advance Beach Project," the Army Corps is also seeking to raise Long Beach's shoreline by as much as five feet and to rehabilitate the city's protective jetties.
Hurricane Sandy caused an estimated $250 million in damage in Long Beach, which, according to the story, lost 3 million cubic feet of sand.
For months, residents have been hearing that the federal government was going to come forward with a major plan to help rebuild the beaches that are so vital to the economy of Long Beach and the neighboring communities of Point Lookout, Lido Beach, Island Park and East Atlantic Beach. The $150 million project would allow the engineers to dredge sand from a selected area a mile off Lido Beach and use it to rebuild the heavily eroded beach.
In 2006, a similar proposal was offered to the City of Long Beach, but was unanimously voted down.
U.S. Rep. Peter King secured $98.5 million in federal funding for a similarly designed dredging project that would have protected the shoreline from a storm such as Sandy. However a number of adversaries, many of whom don't even live in Long Beach, undertook a vigorous campaign in opposition to the plan, claiming that the dunes would detract from ocean views and adversely affect surfing and beach volleyball.
Even after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, Newsday reported that some speakers at a recent Long Beach City Council hearing said they feared that the dune project could occupy too much of the beach.


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The 2006 NEWMAC Women's Swimming Coach of the Year, Dawn Dill enters her eighth season as the head coach of MIT's men's and women's swimming and diving programs. Dill has guided the women's program to four top-20 NCAA finishes in the last five years, over 50 All-America performances, and seven runner-up NEWMAC team finishes.
Since Dill's arrival in 2003, the women's team has recorded a 51-18 dual meet record and broken 24 of 25 MIT team records. Each season, multiple swimmers and divers have earned NEWMAC Academic All-Conference and CSCAA Scholar-Athlete awards. She was also named the NEWMAC Men's Swimming Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2010. Dill has been awarded the Certificate of Excellence by the American Swimming Coaches Association for the past seven years and was also recently promoted to Associate Professor in MIT's Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation.
Before her arrival at MIT, Dill coached at Vassar College from 2001-03, one season as an assistant coach and one season as the interim head coach. Under her tutelage, the Brewers broke 23 school records during the 2002-03 campaign. Prior to Vassar, Dill served as a graduate assistant coach for the Smith College swimming and diving program from 1999 to 2001. She was also an assistant coach for the University of Massachusetts women's swimming and water polo teams in 1998-99.
Dill received a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1996 and also earned a Master's of Science in Exercise and Sport Studies from her alma mater in 2001. A seven-time All-American in the 100 and 200 breaststroke, she was named the New England Swimmer of the Year in 1996. Dill was a seven-time New England champion in the 50, 100, and 200 breaststroke and an eight-time Seven Sisters champion. She was also honored as both an Academic All-America and ECAC Scholar Athlete.


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As any new parent knows, a changing table is an essential piece of furniture in the nursery, and selecting the best modern changing table design for your nursery doesn't have to be a daunting task. While there's a wide range of changing table designs available, stay focused on a few fundamental features to arrive at an ideal changing table for your little one.
As with all modern baby furniture, safety is the primary feature to look for in a changing table. Changing tables are typically elevated, so the proper protective railing around the changing table is an imperative feature. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that a railing be at least 2 inches high, on all sides, so do make sure that the changing table you select adheres to those guidelines, at the very least.
Quality, of course counts a great deal when it comes to any baby decor in the modern nursery. A modern changing table that's cheaply made and unsteady in any way is a hazard. Make sure that, irrespective of your budget, you select a changing table that is sturdy and smartly designed to accommodate as effortless a changing routine as possible. This doesn't mean spending thousands of dollars, necessarily, but it does mean examining every changing table option carefully before settling on a final purchase.
Most changing tables feature two basic designs: changing tables which include open shelving or a storage area for diapers and other handy essentials; and those that are dresser/changing table combinations. Depending on the size of your modern nursery, the other baby furniture you've selected, or your personal décor preferences, one design might be more suited to your needs than the other. Either way, it's important that there's an element of versatility to your changing table because, after all, babies don't stay babies for very long. Modern changing table designs that transition from a dresser/changing table to a dresser for a toddler's or child's room, for instance, is one way to maximize your modern baby furniture budget.
No one can be faulted for wanting to create a beautiful modern nursery, so choosing any kind of baby décor based on esthetics is natural. Today's selection of baby furniture includes visually appealing, sustainable, and innovative designs, so go ahead and look for a changing table that's simply a gorgeous, beautifully constructed design piece. After all, changing diapers might be the least pleasant part of having a newborn, so if a smartly designed modern changing table enhances the experience in any way, seize the opportunity.
While the safety and integrity of any piece of modern baby furniture is paramount, safety and good looks are not mutually exclusive features. As with all baby decor, a modern changing table is an integral part of the overall ambience of a baby nursery, so choosing with safety, versatility, and beauty as guidelines is nothing but a winning proposition.


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Pinups magazine has been around for a few years, but these days any magazine that can make it past the tender first two years is worth noting. The format is decidedly simple, like a haiku or a good one-night stand. The latest issue, number 14, featuring Jos, is being celebrated with a launch party Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Peep Show Gallery in Los Angeles. Check out the site for more details.
So, first of all, thank you for making those of us wearing pants with a scoche more room feel sexy. Tell us about Pinups.
Pinups is an ongoing project that began in 2007. It takes the form of a magazine, but it's not like other magazines. Pinups features photography only — there is no textual content. Each issue consists of a single pictorial (usually only one model in one location). The binding can be taken apart, and the pages can be tiled to reveal a 32-by-70-inch image — it's basically a blown-up version of the centerfold concept. The subjects are nude men presented naturally.
Who were your inspirations growing up — both intellectually and, uh, more hormonally?
Growing up I was always very inspired by artists that worked in print, primarily Peter Saville, who is famous for the work he did for Factory Records — all the Joy Division and New Order album covers. I'm also very fond of the dirty queer publications that came before me — Tom of Finland's publication, Kake; the old Straight to Hell publications from New York City; Physique Pictorial; and not as dirty, but best of all, my favorite publication, After Dark. Hormonally, I go for Oliver Reed movies, regardless of how good or bad the films are. One of my most prized possessions is an issue of After Dark featuring Oliver Reed on the cover.
We loved your Seth issue. Who might you want to set your sights on in the future?
Thank you. The Seth book was a one-off side project that I did between Pinups issues. It shares a lot of ideas that circulate around the magazine, but it is too different to be part of the magazine, so I took a brief break from Pinups to produce the drawings and put out the 'zine-like book. It was an exercise in fan fiction with drawings that set out to capture the likeness of a certain famous Seth. Since I started Pinups I have done several one-off projects. There was another project called Copy Machine, which was a small book that featured a pictorial of a man sitting on a copy machine. The book unfolded to reveal an 11-by-17-inch image of the result of his performance. I'm not quite sure what the next project will be, but new ideas usually extend from previous projects, so we'll see what happens next.
Are you planning on taking over the media world? What are your next steps?
No way. In fact, I think I'm taking steps backward, away from the media world. When I think about the media world, I think about marketing communication, commerce, and the newest forms of technology: phone apps, eBooks, bar-code advertisements. Pinups is proudly holding on to the print form. The way I edit the magazine doesn't involve marketing strategies. All my decisions are aesthetic and take into account the physical limitations of the printed form. I'm really very indulgent in my own aesthetic regardless of how it interacts with trends. It goes against the grain in a lot of ways, and I think that's what makes it so exciting.


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Several months ago I was invited by French AAVSO member, Laurent Corp, to give a talk for CAPAS 2012, a pro-am astronomy conference on double stars and variable stars in Rodez, France. I was happy to oblige and agreed to give a talk on 'Pulsating Stars in the AAVSO Program'. Neither the organizers or I could afford to fly me to France, so we agreed to do the presentation via Skype.
I sent them an advance copy of my PowerPoint which they translated into French. They would display the slides on two screens, one in English, the other in French, and on a third screen would be the live webcam shot of my cheery face, blown up to giant talking head dimensions. The early afternoon time slot I was assigned translated to 8:30AM local time on Saturday, September 29, the same day I was leaving to drive to Boston, via Buffalo, New York.
I logged into Skype around 8AM and began my talk around 8:40, as the talks before me had begun to run long and late. I essentially covered the history of observations of pulsating stars in the AAVSO, the types of pulsating stars we observe today, and some of the current questions in astrophysics related to stellar pulsation. I was able to stay on for a while after my talk to monitor some of the other speakers as they gave their talks, but eventually it was time to load my suitcase and computer bag in the car and head east towards New York.
Buffalo is a 7 hour drive from my home in Michigan, which happens to be almost exactly half-way between home and Boston. Realizing that the Patriots were playing the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, September 30, I had decided rather last minute to see if I could get a ticket to the game. I could drive to Buffalo on Saturday, go to the game on Sunday and drive the rest of the way to AAVSO HQ Monday morning. As luck would have it, a very good single seat ticket was available in a season ticket holder section down near the 20 yard line. I snatched it up and set the plan in motion.
The drive to Buffalo was uneventful, and I was just able to score a decent hotel room west of Buffalo for the night. I drove to Ralph Wilson Stadium early Sunday morning so I could check out the tailgate partying, pick up a souvenier and shoot some pictures. Deciding not to wear my Patriots hoodie, I opted to go incognito, disguised as a Buffalo fan. I purchased a crazy, fuzzy Bills hat to complete my disguise. Peaking into a VIP tent set up in the parking lot, I got to meet a couple of the Bill's cheerleaders, who obliged me with a picture. The Patriots won the game, coming from behind in the second half so everything worked out great!
I drove into Boston, early Monday morning and arrived shortly after noon. The next four days were filled with meetings from 8:30AM to 5:30PM and working at my desk and tallking on the phone until 11PM. We had some very productive meetings, discussing AAVSOnet, CHOICE, fundraising, grant writing, the variable star plotter, a new binocular program, and various other topics. When I left for home on Friday morning my to do list from those meetings was two pages long!
My next trip to Boston will be for the fall meeting. I'm sharing the drive with Kevin Paxson and Dan Taylor. I hope to see you there. Until next time...


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Churchill Downs has adjusted its policy on supplemental nominations to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) to make supplemental entrants eligible to make the field for the race if they have qualified on the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" point system.
Previous track policy allowed supplemental nominations to be accepted for the Kentucky Derby at the time of entry on the Wednesday before the race with payment of a $200,000 fee, but preference was given to 3-year-old Thoroughbreds who were original Triple Crown nominees during its early and late nomination periods.
Under the adjusted policy, supplemental nominees will be allowed to be part of the maximum field of 20 horses in the 1 ¼-mile classic if their point totals through the Road to the Kentucky Derby series rank them in the Top 20 among 3-year-old Thoroughbreds entered for the race.
The $200,000 supplemental Triple Crown nomination fee paid prior to the Kentucky Derby goes directly into the Derby purse of $2 million guaranteed and makes the supplemental entrant eligible for all three Triple Crown races.
"When Churchill Downs set the previous policy on supplemental entrants to the Kentucky Derby we were hoping to encourage early nominations to the Triple Crown," said Ben Huffman, Churchill Downs Racing Secretary. "We think we did so, but ended up punishing horses that were ultimate late-blooming candidates for the Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown who would have otherwise qualified to compete in those races. The change in policy provides those horses with a chance to run in the Derby and benefits all owners with horses in the race because the $200,000 supplemental fee will be part of the race purse."
The only supplemental nominee to compete in the Kentucky Derby was Greeley's Galaxy, who finished 11th behind Giacomo in the 2005 Derby after owner B. Wayne Hughes paid the $200,000 supplemental fee. He made the race as the final entrant in the maximum of field of 20 horses entered that year.
Not as fortunate was James Tafel's Unshaded, who was not an original nominee to the 2000 Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown but acquired the needed graded stakes earnings to compete in the Derby when he won the Coolmore Lexington Stakes (GII) at Keeneland. But more than 20 original nominees were entered in that Kentucky Derby and Unshaded was on the outside looking in when favored Fusaichi Pegasus won that renewal of the "Run for the Roses."
The 140th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands is scheduled for Saturday, May 3 and will be televised by NBC Sports. The Longines Kentucky Oaks, which will also be run for the 140th time, is scheduled for Friday, May 2 and will be broadcast nationally on the NBC Sports Network.


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NEWARK, N.J. — Internet star Lil Terrio danced with cheerleaders, an Austrian man dressed as Mozart, another guy wore a Waldo costume and Nickelodeon's Pick Boy was in the house.
Welcome to Media Day, the annual Super Bowl circus.
It seems fitting this event was held at a hockey rink, of all places, because there's nothing ordinary about it. More than 6,000 journalists, pseudo-journalists and other credentialed "media" from all over the world gathered at the home of the NHL's New Jersey Devils on Tuesday to meet the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks.
Strange questions were the norm instead of football ones. A man asked Seahawks center Max Unger if he could touch his long, scruffy beard. He said yes. A woman asked Seahawks defensive lineman Brandon Mebane for a kiss. He said no.
Perhaps the only player who felt at home was Seattle tight end Luke Wilson. He grew up in Canada, played hockey through his sophomore year of high school and was genuinely psyched to be in an NHL arena.
[Videos:Seahawks and Broncos take on the media storm Tuesday]
"I thought it was kind of cool to be here," said Wilson, a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs. "I was a left winger, grinding forward-type of guy. I have two brothers and we would play on the street in front of the house, go to spring camps, played all the time. I played a lot of hockey."
Asked if any of his teammates could lace up the skates, Wilson was brutally honest: "No, definitely not. No way."
Unger, the 6-foot-5, 305-pound lineman, played roller hockey long before he packed on the pounds for a career in the NFL.
"This is an awesome venue, seems like a great place to play hockey," he said. "I watch a little bit of hockey. We have the Vancouver Canucks up the road."
Coincidentally, while football players spent their day at the rink, a couple of New York hockey teams prepared to play an outdoor game at Yankee Stadium. The Rangers and Islanders will continue the NHL's Stadium Series in the Bronx on Wednesday night.
Seahawks defensive end Benson Mayowa isn't a fan of the sport, but he appreciates the toughness of hockey players.
"Only thing I like to watch in hockey is fights," he said. "But they do get physical, they lose teeth, get stitched up and come back out there. It's the same as football."
But hockey has nothing like this on its calendar.


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He claimed it to be fake..
Making me realize how much I need him, again..
And leaving me in the sorrow of not having him in my life, again..
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NewsMax's Poe on O'Reilly Factor: George Soros is a "madman"; O'Reilly on Radio Factor: George Soros is "a real sleazoid"
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Host Bill O'Reilly invited Richard Poe -- contributing editor for the right-wing NewsMax Magazine, a monthly publication with a history of publishing baseless conspiracy theories about Democrats -- to the May 18 edition of FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor to discuss Poe's investigation of financier, philanthropist, and political activist George Soros (an investigation that Poe detailed in an article, titled "George Soros' Coup," in the May 2004 issue of NewsMax Magazine). During his O'Reilly Factor appearance, Poe called Soros "somewhat loony" and "a madman."
In discussing Soros with Poe, O'Reilly declared, "If Soros is what you say he is, and I have no reason to doubt it. I mean, what I know about the man pretty much matches up to what you found out, the Democratic Party is taking a lot of money from him." O'Reilly made his opinion of Soros known earlier in the day on his nationally syndicated radio program: On the May 18 broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly called Soros "a real sleazoid." When a caller challenged him for using such a term in what O'Reilly purports to be the "No Spin Zone," O'Reilly repeated the charge and cut off the caller, saying, "[Y]ou're a moron and you're exercising your constitutional right to be one but I'm not going to give you air time."
Soros is one of the largest donors to progressive 527 organizations, having made millions of dollars in contributions to America Coming Together, MoveOn.org, and Campaign for a Progressive Future, among other organizations. O'Reilly closed his May 18 interview with Poe with a commitment to "stay on Soros" and to follow up with Senator John Kerry on the story. O'Reilly stated, "Well, we're going to stay on Soros. And believe me, Mr. Poe, people will know about this guy before the election. And we're going to, you know; see what Senator Kerry thinks about him."
Although O'Reilly said to Poe, "If Soros is what you say he is, and I have no reason to doubt it," a Google.com search shows Poe to be a font of conservative misinformation, as is NewsMax Magazine and NewsMax.com. In addition to his regular contributions to NewsMax.com, Poe was editor of David Horowitz's online FrontPage Magazine, from June 2000 to February 2002. In a May 7, 2004, interview with FrontPage Magazine -- just eleven days before his O'Reilly Factor appearance -- Poe summarized the allegations made against Hillary Clinton in his most recent book, Hillary's Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists (released in April by the conservative WorldNetDaily.com press WND Books).
From Poe's May 7 interview with FrontPage Magazine:
FRONTPAGE: Hillary's Secret War tells us that Hillary personally led a secret police force from her office in the White House. Tell us about your proof and evidence.
POE: The operations of Hillary's secret police have been copiously documented, to the point where the topic can hardly be called controversial any longer.
During the Clinton years, journalists who probed too deeply into Clinton scandals ran terrible risks. Journalists were beaten, wiretapped, framed on criminal charges, fired and blacklisted. They experienced burglaries, IRS audits, smear campaigns and White-House-orchestrated lawsuits.
Some may have paid the ultimate price. In February, 1998, just as the Clinton impeachment was gathering steam, Sandy Hume, the 28-year-old son of Fox News anchorman Brit Hume, suddenly turned up dead of a gunshot to the head. He was covering the U.S. Congress for the magazine The Hill, and was known for his excellent sources among Republican insiders. Sandy Hume supposedly committed suicide, but friends and associates have questioned the official story.
For all the "copiously documented" charges that the Clinton White House used the powers executive branch systematically to harass and intimidate journalists, Poe offered only "friends and associates" who doubt that Sandy Hume committed suicide.
The May 7 interview with FrontPage Magazine continued:
FRONTPAGE: This is actually quite incredible. How did Hillary get away with all of this? Surely Ken Starr would have jumped on any excuse to indict Hillary, no?
POE: Well, as I explain in my book, there are two Ken Starrs. There's the imaginary Ken Starr conjured up by Big Media -- a ruthless, rightwing religious zealot, bent on toppling the Clintons. Then there's the real Ken Starr -- a timid bureaucrat, afraid of his own shadow, who shrank from investigating any of the truly serious Clinton scandals. On the contrary, Starr actively helped to suppress and whitewash evidence of Clinton wrongdoing.
Poe posited that Kenneth W. Starr, who spent four and a half years and more than $47 million as independent counsel investigating President Bill Clinton, was actually covering for Clinton. Poe went on to tout the Internet as the best source for Clinton "scandals," reciting a litany of unproven conspiracies:
POE: Take the Vincent Foster case. In September 1994, Starr appointed Miquel Rodriguez to lead the grand jury investigation into Foster's death. Rodriguez resigned in protest less than four months later, charging that the investigation was rigged. Rodriguez accused Starr's people of pressuring him to announce that Foster committed suicide, despite evidence to the contrary.
POE: Virtually every Clinton scandal of any note was either broken on the Internet, or kept alive on the Internet long after Big Media had suppressed it. The list is endless: there's the Clintons' involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal; the Vincent Foster cover-up; the suspicious death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown; the Clintons' ties to drug lords and global crime syndicates; the TWA 800 coverup; the Oklahoma City bombing coverup; Chinagate; Russiagate; the Clinton body count. You name it.
Poe apparently subscribes to the bizarre conspiracy theory that deputy Clinton White House counsel Vince Foster was murdered, even though nearly a decade's worth of official government investigations -- as well as the tireless efforts of right-wing journalists, led by Christopher Ruddy (NewsMax Media Inc.'s founder, president, and CEO, as well as editor of NewsMax.com) -- have failed to substantiate this charge. (Starr formally declared in 1997 that Foster's 1993 death was a suicide.) And Poe alleges more:
FRONTPAGE: Have you experienced any persecution or harassment personally? Any threats or warnings? Do you have concerns for your and your family's safety?
Poe: Well, I doubt that I'm important enough to merit Hillary's personal attention. The Shadow Team has bigger fish to fry. For instance, I imagine they've got their hands pretty full, right now, trying to frame Rush Limbaugh on drug charges.
So, according to Poe, in addition to having run a secret police force out of the White House and having covered up the circumstances of Foster's death, Senator Hillary Clinton is also secretly controlling the actions of the West Palm Beach state attorney pursuing Limbaugh on drug charges.
Wild allegations against the Clintons are familiar territory for NewsMax.com. In 1998, NewsMax.com published an article claiming that then-President Bill Clinton had a "secret son" with a Little Rock prostitute. Other NewsMax.com articles have included:
- "Arkansas' Murderous Ways," which alleged that a so-called "Dixie Mafia" had produced Bill Clinton
- "Clinton-Connected Bribes, Break-ins, Beatings, Death Threats"
- "Ron Brown's Death: 'Blunt Force' ... or Bullet?"
According to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), NewsMax Media Inc., which includes a website, magazine, and publishing house, is heavily funded by conservative financier Richard Mellon Scaife and by Ruddy.
Scaife, the third-largest shareholder in NewsMax Media Inc., has been called the "Funding Father of the Right" by a Washington Post article on May 2, 1999: "The Washington Post found that "Scaife and his family's charitable entities have given at least $340 million to conservative causes and institutions -- about $620 million in current dollars, adjusted for inflation ... by concentrating his giving on a specific ideological objective for nearly 40 years, and making most of his grants with no strings attached, Scaife's philanthropy has had a disproportionate impact on the rise of the right, perhaps the biggest story in American politics in the last quarter of the 20th century."
Prior to founding NewsMax Media in 1998, Ruddy was an investigative reporter for Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, but Ruddy said he was fired because the Post "refused to support further [Vince] Foster projects," as ABC News reporter Chris Bury reported on Nightline on July 18, 1995. According to The Washington Post on May 2, 1999, Richard Mellon Scaife "personally hired" Ruddy "to write about Foster's death for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the daily newspaper Scaife has owned since 1969. Ruddy's stories about Foster's death -- most of them challenging the suicide theory, without offering an alternative explanation -- began to appear in January 1995."
While Poe was editor, FrontPage Magazine published an article he authored on September 20, 2001 -- less than two weeks after the 9/11 attacks -- in which he wrote, "What happened last week in New York and Washington is but a logical escalation of the 'progressive crime wave' [FrontPage Magazine editor-in-chief David] Horowitz documents. ... With the World Trade Center reduced to a smoking graveyard, it remains to be seen whether Americans have finally had their fill of the 'progressive crime wave.'" Under Poe's leadership, FrontPage Magazine also published an article blaming "political correctness" for facilitating the September 11 terrorist attacks; another article, written by Poe, that compared the "New Yorkers [who unsuccessfully] voted to send Hillary [Clinton] packing" from the Senate to "those Germans who voted against Hitler in the 1932 election"; a December 20, 2001, column by Ann Coulter that urged, "We've got to attack France" and another column on January 31, 2002, in which Coulter argued that Geneva Convention rules should not apply to Guantánamo detainees, noting, "[T]his Geneva Convention thing isn't really working out for us."
For more on FrontPage Magazine editor-in-chief David Horowitz, see Media Matters for America's May 4 report on Horowitz.
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As a provider of sports programming for youth, your organization can play a critical role in protecting the lives of young athletes. You can help put an end to child sexual abuse by implementing a comprehensive child protection program and training your coaching staff and volunteers. Ask any organization that has experienced a case of sexual abuse and they will tell you that knowing what they know now, there is NO amount of time that would have been too great to spend on prevention and educating their staff and volunteers.
As a youth sports organization you have the opportunity to set a new standard within the sports community. Make the commitment for the long term well being of your organization and for the precious children in your care. You can be a leader to your local community as well as a leader among other sports organizations by setting a higher standard and showing that you will do whatever it takes to keep children safe when they are with you.
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Alongside the Cascade Mountains lies Bend, Oregon, a community dedicated to protecting its children against sexual abuse. Thousands of adults in Bend have taken Stewards of Children training, including those on the of child care at The Bend Parks and Recreation Center. A staple in the community, Bend Parks and Recreation provides countless youth enrichment services and proudly supports Kids, Inc., an after school program for elementary aged children.
Each year, the leadership team at Kids, Inc. works alongside expert Facilitators from The KIDS Center to ensure top of the line child safety measures are in place. As part of Kids, Inc.'s protection policy, Stewards of Children training is provided to new volunteers, staff and coaches. Staff members are able to apply Darkness to Light's "5 Steps" to their daily routine. They have learned ways to minimize isolated, one-on-one situations, possible signs and symptoms of sexual abuse and reporting procedures for cases of suspected abuse for children in their care. Kids, Inc.'s commitment to prevention is better protecting thousands of children in Bend and helping them grow up happy and whole.
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As promised, Dan Goodsell, who started it all last monday, gets the last word on Ads with 50's Storybook Styles. Take it away, Dan:
By 1960, General Mills had a nice mixed roster of
cereal that included the powerhouse Cheerios and
Wheaties along with sugar charged winners like Trix
and Cocoa Puffs. The Trix rabbit was just starting to
show his face and would soon be appearing on the
bright red boxes. Cocoa Puffs still had the Cocoa
Puffs kids who would soon be phased out for the much
more energetic Sonny the Cuckoo Bird. Johnny Jet now
graced the front of Jets replacing the less character
driven rocketship & sun that had fronted the box in
the late 1950's.
On Kix was the corn kicking kid and as you could
expect the kid was not long for the front of that box.
The Frosty O's bear would go through a few more
transformations until the cereal was discontinued in
the 1970's and not returning until just a few years
It would have been amazing to see all these boxes
lined up together on grocery store shelves. The ad
companies of the 1960's really knew how to put
together a line of cereals with a consistent visual feel
to them. This was the age where branding was born and
it has never been done better since this time.
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
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People in Missouri may prefer a free gun to free gas, but for the first time in six years AAA is reporting that less people are planning to drive this Memorial Day weekend with gas reaching an all-time high of $3.83. If you're Shaq you probably don't mind paying $23,000 a month for gas, but you're not probably not Shaq. So here's what we want to know: how much per gallon, total cost to fill up this morning, where did you fill up, what were you filling up and is it going to stop you from traveling this weekend?
Oh, and did you see any gas price-related crimes like someone robbing a gas station to get money for gas? Kvetch away in the comments below.
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Any Easterners out there doing all grain? I'm building a 3 tier system and looking to share some ideas maybe even some brews. I'd really like to see an all grain brew done before I fire mine up this spring.
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Greetings from the west, canman. I am a BC allgrainer. I don't have a sophisticated system, but I thought I would send greetings from a fellow Canadian. Stumpwater is another canuck who contributes to the forum. Let me know if you have a recipe for a Moosehead clone.
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Psychotherapist Mary Pipher and Bill McKibben agree that survival depends on expanding our moral imagination. Mary Pipher puts it this way:
Transcendence can come from ... an expanding moral imagination. I define the moral imagination as the ability to understand how the world looks and feels to another person. It involves motivation, heart, and imagination. My respect for the moral imagination leads to a simple value system--good is that which increases it and evil is that which decreases it.
I believe that the purpose of life is to expand our own moral imagination and to help others expand theirs, so that our circle of caring, which begins with our families, eventually includes all living beings.
Dealing with our global crisis is essentially an ethics problem. If we don't expand our moral imaginations, we'll destroy ourselves. Healing will involve reweaving the most primal of connections to this sacred web.
Interconnection can be seen as a spiritual belief, especially in Buddhism. As Thich Nhat Hanh says, "we inter-are." But it's also a scientific fact. ... At its core, interconnection is a survival strategy. Gregory Bateson said it best, "The unit of survival is the organism and his environment." [emphasis mine]
Wake Up! Our World Is Dying and We're All in Denial
I found her first hand account of how she faced climate change, conquered feelings of depression and hopelessness, and emerged whole inspiring. I recommend her article for anyone in despair over the climate crisis.
If we are going to avoid environmental catastrophe, we are going to need moral imagination as well as good science.
Indeed, science without moral imagination, science without guiding ethics and humanity, becomes the monstrous tool of our worst human traits. We have only to look at weapons of mass destruction and the massive destructive of the environment through technology to see that this is so.
In all our calculations about the cost of dealing with climate change, lets not forget to do the "moral math." If we don't, our moral bankruptcy will bring disaster to us and to countless beings living on our planet.
The future of the world depends on each one of us broadening and deepening our understanding of what is environmentally moral. The future depends on our moral imagination as a species. [emphasis mine]
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Yes, I think we are all in denial here about the problem.
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MIGA: Beyond "Project of the Year"
Today in Singapore, MIGA and IE Singapore co-hosted a seminar:"Managing Global Political Risks: Old Risks, New Moment."
After the welcome speech by IE's Assistant CEO Terence Seow, Michel Wormser, MIGA's Vice President and COO, delivered the keynote speech, which touched upon the current global economic turbulence, potential investment opportunities for Asian investors, the perception of risks, and what role the World Bank Group can play in facilitating private capital into productive projects. Michel noted that—while he understands that many Asian companies tend to invest in nearby countries—there are also plentiful of opportunities in Africa and Latin America.
MIGA's CFO, Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder then gave a punchy presentation about the main findings from MIGA's 2011 World Investment and Political Risk report, which generated much interest judging from the corridor conversations afterwards.
The two panels discussed a number of points that are relevant to the investor community in the region, including the economic prospects and risk perceptions for several countries including Vietnam, Mongolia, and Indonesia. Also emphasized was the desire from the investment community for the World Bank Group to play a bigger role to ensure that bankable infrastructure projects get prepared, financed, and built.
Panelists agreed that Singapore is strategically located, both geographically and geopolitically, for facilitating cross-border investment activities in the region, including among the geopolitical "big boys." However, in a coffee conversation between my colleague Niklas Eklund and a senior executive from a prominent Singaporean firm, the executive addressed his frustration with Singaporean firms (including his own) for generally being very hesitant to take on unfamiliar risks when thinking about international expansion. He believed that bringing the option of risk mitigation more strongly into the conversation with his management team would help this outlook. Indeed, there seemed to be a clear understanding that sustained growth is not possible if investors simply stay in their own backyards, the question remains how to seek out opportunities with more confidence.
MIGA's Asia hub has been meeting with local investors on an almost daily basis, and this risk aversion seems to characterize the majority of Singaporean investors and explain their limited FDI flows and exposure beyond the more familiar Southeast Asian region. Asian investors are often family businesses who don't use the risk management frameworks preferred by western asset managers. Events like the one today are seen as helpful to bring risk mitigation options into their radar screen.
In his keynote, Michel discussed the Middle East, including countries like Egypt that suddenly and unexpectedly turned volatile after decades of stability. Speakers on the global risk panel that I moderated also discussed country risk situations where expert analysis or relationships with a particular government did not really help to mitigate risk once there was a regime change. This prompted me to think that the strongest risk mitigation for cross-border investment projects comes down to fair and common-sense arrangements among all stakeholders, including the investors, banks, local government, local people, and other relevant parties. MIGA's real strength is our ability to facilitate such fair stake-holding arrangements, whether when an investment is made or when there is a dispute to be resolved. That's why we want to make sure that bidding is fairly done, that the environment is not harmed, that local jobs are created, that governments can afford what they commit themselves to, and that we can help broker a settlement when things go wrong. MIGA's multilateral nature further enhances our credibility and ability to create such stakeholding arrangements, as we also bring in the international community as a stakeholder to any project. To use Egypt as an example, only a real and fair stakeholding arrangement would have eliminated or reduced the risk associated with this kind of situation. Deep analysis will not do. A plain-vanilla insurance cover will not do. Buying off a few government officials will certainly not do.
The discussion surrounding the public-private partnerships panel—where MIGA colleague Hal Bosher was a panelist—turned lively when it turned out that three members on the panel(not including our dear Hal) were associated with the Enron Dabhol debacle in India. An Enron alumni reunion in Singapore was promptly proposed, to roaring laughter in the room. OPIC paid out a $110million claim for the Dabhol project, which incidentally was named as the "Project of the Year" by a well-known trade magazine before everything turned south.
This leads to my point. Most participants left the seminar with the conclusion that a "Project of the Year" is not good enough (though most of us have been privileged to work on deals with that distinction). We need "projects of the next 10 years."
MIGA colleagues in particular left the seminar with a few new project leads and a question on our minds: is MIGA's role as a multilateral that can almost always bring stakeholders together—even when situations evolve or governments change—our real value as we seek to fulfill our mission to promote beneficial foreign direct investment into developing countries? The job of all of us at MIGA is essentially to be the honest broker to deliver "Projects of the Next 10 Years."


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"Hillary Clinton doesn't care if you see her without makeup."
That's a real MSNBC headline. About a politician. It's further proof that the media/public fixation on prominent female figures who dare to show their actual, unadorned faces has gone totally bonkers.
Google "celebs without makeup" and find new features annually compiling facially naked celebs. Not, of course, in the interest of anything complimentary. A headline like "10 hottest celebrities without make-up" leads not to an appreciation of natural beauty but the statement "See how hot celebrities become ugly without makeup" and a story aiming to find the least-attractive photos of celebs like Penelope Cruz and Keira Knightley, widely regarded as beautiful in their made-up state. Perhaps so people can tell themselves that, with the right products, they could be that gorgeous too.
No one will deny America's overwhelming fascination with celebrity, or the ceaseless need to return huge stars to a plane in which they're, groan, just like us. "Rihanna exposed in nude photo leak!" "George Clooney shops at Target!" "Justin Bieber goes bowling!" It's not surprising that people want to narrow the distance between their own lives, which rarely land them cosmetic endorsements or magazine covers, and the rich, famous folks elevated onto pedestals by fortunate genes and big paychecks, and, ideally, talent. It brings us behind the curtain of stardom, as if we're the friends and family who get to see these fascinating, supposedly carefree creatures in their natural state and habitat.
Yet we simultaneously lose sight of the ridiculously obvious cliché that celebs are people too, and that women don't wear makeup just to turn us on, guys. Saying that appearing in public without makeup is "brave" speaks to a society that still perceives women as sex objects required to perform, but making a big deal out of it also plays right into the notion that such an action is significant at all. Yes, there are people who will be reported on simply for walking outside and getting the paper. Still, stories about who did or didn't wear makeup today further perpetuates the idea that the famous person who exists in the public eye is not--and shouldn't be--the same person as the human who spends time hanging out, unkempt, around the house in crumb-covered pajamas. Admit it, supermodels.
If this weren't enough, photographer Haydon Wood's "Living Dolls" series and a recent Internet debate over whether a Ukrainian woman who looks like a real-life Barbie is a real person or not reinforce the idea that people want to escape their humanity—read: flaws—in photographs. Touch-ups are as old as photos; even a talent as natural as Adele barely looks like herself on the cover of Vogue. So why must we constantly analyze how female stars look without makeup, as if they're some kind of fraud for accentuating themselves in the same way actors receive stylist assistance for hair, wardrobe and, yes, makeup?
Katy Perry and Julianne Hough can promote Proactiv and cop to being human women who experienced human skin problems. A secretary of state and former presidential candidate, however, can't walk around sans powder without a discussion of what she really looks like. We're visual beings; we'll always comment on the appearance of public figures. But the most newsworthy thing that could happen as part of this issue would be to not write a news story every time a famous woman goes outside without makeup, when in reality emerging from the cage of celebrity into the jungle of public opinion in any condition takes a certain amount of guts.


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Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) - Chapter 30


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Worn it releases depression, anger, fear, greed, frenzies and all disturbing emotions.
Placed in the home, it has a charm against fire and accidents.
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Zodiac Associations Jupiter Modern Birthstone for the Month of November in Yellow, and December in Blue. As well as an ancient birthstone for many cultures for the Month of November.
Stone of Sagittarius, to dream of topaz predicts protection and movement in your affairs.
Chakra Classification Gold topaz is effective on the 2nd, Sacral or Navel Chakra, while white topaz works on all the chakras, and blue on the t5th, Throat Chakra.
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Committed to transparency
Demonstrating our commitment to strengthening financial transparency, Mazars has published its Annual Report for the ninth consecutive year, voluntarily offering stakeholders the transparency which is required of all our publicly listed clients.
The report includes both the Group Financial Statements and the Group Transparency Report. The activity report gives a full overview of our fundamentals and of our long term vision, through five sections:
Paving new ways together: our ambition
Where we're headed and how we plan to achieve our ambitions. Five dialogues between Mazars partners.
'Over the last 30 years, we have invested heavily in building our brand throughout Europe and the rest of the world. Mazars is one partnership, and we will remain independent, international and integrated.'
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Laying the first stones: who we are
What makes Mazars different: service offerings, key performance indicators, our global locations and highlights from the past year.
Headcount by region, 2005-2014
Breaking ground: our strategy
Our perception of the market, development strategy and the key features of the model we've designed to meet client expectations and challenges.
Clearing the path: working with our clients
Our Group Executive Board members analyze the market challenges faced by our stakeholders and we focus on how Mazars can help clear the path, through case studies of some of our global clients.
Interview: Alice Ekman
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Grants Bros Department Store
In 1877 two brothers Richard
and William Grant opened
a drapery shop
at no. 17 High Street Croydon
called Grants' Bros.
There were several expansions
to the growing store,
and in 1890 when the
High Street was widened
Grants Bros. moved
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On display is ephemera
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store in both 1927 and 1937.
These include an invitation
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commemorative celebrations
held at the Greyhound hotel
on Tuesday 26 April 1927.
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Grants Bros
By the 1890s the store had
over 60 departments. These
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There was also several restaurants
and an outside catering section.
Grants was one of three
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The Grant family sold the store
in 1983, and it finally closed
in 1987.
You can still see the
Victorian facade
of Grants department store
in the High Street today,
although it is now home
to a cinema.
Victorian Handling Collection
The Museum of Croydon has
a handling collection of objects
related to Victorian Croydon.
The gentleman's top hat
and ladies choker as seen
in the photograph
were both purchased
from Grants and these
are part of the
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