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go to Mason-right around median there (want to transfer to GW or Gtown and am willing to drop out and just retake the lsat)
didn't do so well during 1L-can I drop out and retake the lsat to try to get into a better school? will the 1L grades haunt me?
i'm paying out of state tuition, though and Mason's OCI sucks balls compared to Georgetown's and GW's--is there nothing I can do to transfer up or am I stuck (i will drop out and retake the lsat if that is what it takes)?


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5. Schedule phony trips to New York.So you?ve submitted your work and you?ve garnered some interest. This is a crucial, pivotal moment. Usually you can sense the right agent or editor for you, but until you sit down for a face-to-face talk, you won?t really know for sure. Especially if your decision is split between two or three candidates, the best thing is to get on a plane and fly to New York so you can interview them all. (Of course, very good agents live all over the country, but I?m assuming your major candidates are in New York).But since they?re all in the fast lane and you?re at the bottom of the heap, remember, it would kill them if they had to be owing to you for coming to New York specifically to see them. Somehow the guilt they?d feel would turn around and make you the stalker.Once you?ve signed with a house, always say to the editor, ?I have a trip to New York scheduled in a few weeks. Perhaps I could meet with you then.? Their relief will be palatable on the phone. Make it clear you come to the city several times a year?and start saving mileage or cash for it now. In your early meetings, your editor will introduce you to the art director, sales manager, advertising and publicity people. Don?t let these meetings drain down the sewer. Establish personal relationships so that later when you have questions, or when some terrible decision is about to be made, your voice will be heard.
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Lampert Takes CEO Reins at Sears
Hedge fund billionaire Edward Lampert will become CEO at Sears as the department store fights off declining sales. Andrew Dowell reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Bloomberg.
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Baltimore Ravens Calls Brother A "Queen" Over Pink Socks, Instagram Followers Outraged
Torrey Smith, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver (and teammate of outspoken LGBT advocate Brendon Ayanbadejo), is in hot water this week thanks to wrath from plenty of his Instagram followers.
The current-reigning Super Bowl champ shared a picture of his brother wearing pink socks with a floral print. His caption reads, "Look at this queen."
The remark, common in gay circles, didn't sit well with lots of folks who commented on the post. A sampling includes:
"why does he have to be a Queen just because he have on #pinksocks that just to show how ignorant you are"
"So it's ok if I call my brother a fag, a queen, gay, retarded, etc... As long as it's my brother? Wow@torreysmithwr, I thought u were a better person than that. Be the role model we all thought u were. Kids look up to you, and you're telling them that bullying is ok!"
What do you think, Instincters? Is "queen" in this instance a slur?
3 words; Social Justice Overdose. Yes, Torrey Smith is a public figure. Yes, homophobia is wrong, etc etc. No, calling someone a queen is NOT an insult, unless there is malice behind it. It's REALLY obvious that there's no harsh intent behind his use of the word. So can y'all just shut the fuck up and if y'all don't like him or his jokes, simply ignore it because it's clear he's joking and there's no level of obvious wrongness goin' on.
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Between trying to digest all of the happenings in the world of wrestling every week, making sure my "real job" gets the attention it needs and wondering if everything is ready for the upcoming birth of my first child, there isn't too much unused time in my schedule or capacity in my poor brain. For years, though, I've managed to squeeze in some room for fantasy sports.
I've always had trouble saying no whenever a friend or co-worker asked me to join a fantasy league, no matter what sport might be involved. This time of year is especially difficult, with fantasy football in full swing, and it's not unusual for me to end up in two or three more leagues than I expected. Fortunately, help is always as close as my internet connection or the local newsstand, where right now, Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson is getting more face time than the McMahon family sees on an average episode of Raw.
One thing I haven't seen too much of out there -- come to think of it, I've never seen it -- is something to help everyone getting ready for their fantasy wrestling drafts. That could be due to the lack of fantasy wrestling leagues on the market, but given the popularity of fantasy anything, there's no reason aside from licensing concerns that wrestling should be left out of the fun. If fantasy golf can work, where, let's face it, Tiger Woods is a pretty good bet to win when he has his A-plus game going, then the fact that wrestling outcomes are predetermined shouldn't be too much of an obstacle.
Before anyone asks, yes, I realize that the WWE does have its own fantasy league through the company website. But for our hypothetical league, we don't want to play favorites, so we're including TNA and ECW wrestlers as well. Our scoring system subscribes to the KISS philosophy (Keep It Simple Stupid), awarding points for wins, subtracting a point for losses and awarding bonus points for hitting your finishing move, winning a title, showing up on a pay-per-view in any capacity and cutting a promo that lasts for more than five minutes.
With tongue firmly in cheek and without further ado, I proudly present the first ever Walkin' That Aisle Fantasy Wrestling Draft Guide. Enjoy!
Fantasy Studs
This sounds like a section from Playgirl magazine, but we're actually talking about the no-brainer picks for your fantasy wrestling roster, the men and women you just can't do without if you can help it. If you're lucky enough to have one of the first picks in your draft, you can secure the services of one of these wrestlers, then sit back and reap the rewards.
Even though he's been doing it for less than a year, Umaga is fantasy wrestling's version of Larry Johnson. He literally never loses, drops a ton of people with the Samoan Spike and is a safe bet to show up on every pay-per-view until his gimmick runs its course. Did I mention he never loses? The only weakness in his game is a lack of intelligible promos, unless your league counts mic time for manager Armando Alejandro Estrada.
Not far behind the Samoan Bulldozer is Samoa Joe, who might not be undefeated any more but still racks up wins and figures to capture more gold as a TNA mainstay. If you aren't drafting high enough to get one of the Samoans, Triple H and Jeff Jarrett make good building blocks for your team, simply because their connections keep them constant fixtures at the top of their respective cards.
It's worth mentioning that as long as you can rotate him out of your lineup except for WrestleMania and SummerSlam, the Immortal Hulk Hogan is still a fantasy stud even though he's 20 years past his prime. No one can remember the last time he lost a match, and when he hits the unstoppable Atomic Leg Drop finisher, it's over, brother.
Potential Busts
John Cena might be a constant in the WWE championship picture right now, but he is long overdue for the drop down the card that usually follows an extended push for any superstar not named Triple H. Let your opponents pick him based on his recent title runs and ongoing love-hate crowd reactions, then taunt them when he's facing off with the Great Khali on Smackdown in December. It's also probably wise to avoid Rob Van Dam, who might be an ECW fan favorite but is headed for your bench as soon as he commits his next, ahem, traffic violation.
And don't forget that being the most powerful man in wrestling doesn't make you a top performer in fantasy wrestling. That means staying away from Vince McMahon, who may rack up the promo and PPV points but usually ends up on the wrong end of his actual in-ring feuds. He also doesn't have a finishing move, unless we're taking the idea to its logical extreme and counting finishing careers with the words "You're fired!"
Rising Stars and Sleepers
He may have been relegated to a dark match Sunday at SummerSlam, but Carlito is set to be a breakout star. Title belts are almost certainly in his future, fans dig his gimmick and Trish Stratus just seems to dig him, period. And that is definitely cool.
Speaking of Trish Stratus, don't discriminate against female wrestlers when taking part in your fantasy draft. The Canadian bombshell is always in the mix for the WWE Women's title, helped in large part by the fact that the division usually only runs about three or four deep. Fellow countryman Petey Williams is also worth a mid-round pick, if for no other reason than the enjoyment you'll get from adding the points up every time he executes the ever popular Canadian Destroyer.
There's also a returning WWE superstar by the name of Jeff Hardy who's worth keeping an eye on. Don't be afraid to try to get your league to vote on adding scoring categories like "Times Jumped Off a Really Tall Ladder" or "Times Wrestler Got Tired of Wrestling" if you take a flyer on Hardy. You'll be glad you did.
Following the tips above won't assure you of winning your wrestling fantasy league, since injuries and writing teams can rear their ugly heads at any time. But they will give you a fighting chance to come out on top. Just don't forget who helped you get there if you do.
Nick Tylwalk has been a SLAM! Wrestling contributor since 1998, and his column, Walkin' That Aisle with Nick Tylwalk, appears most Mondays. Comments, compliments and complaints can be sent to email@example.com. If you'd like to see a response to your question or comment in a future column, please include your full name and hometown in your e-mail.


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Community-owned utility Austin Energy has added two new wind farms to its portfolio.
Together, the two projects total 293.9 MW of wind energy capacity: The Los Vientos II Windpower Project, built and owned by Duke Energy Renewables, adds an additional 201.6 MW of wind power to the utility's generation portfolio, and the Whitetail Wind Energy facility, built and owned by Exelon Wind, adds 92.3 MW of wind power.
Austin Energy will purchase all of the wind power produced at these facilities for the next 25 years. The addition of these two wind farms brings Austin Energy's total wind power portfolio to 851 MW and total renewable energy supply to 27%.
At 201.6 MW, the Los Vientos II project is Austin Energy's largest wind project under contract to date. The wind farm, located near Harlingen, Texas, consists of 84 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 2.4 MW turbines. The Whitetail project is located 30 miles southeast of Laredo, Texas, and has 57 1.62 MW turbines.


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Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge is feeling the crunch of the sequestration in a variety of ways; therefore management has to make tough decisions. Conservation of habitat and public lands is vitally important to the mission of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. As a result, a new boardwalk has been constructed on Atsena Otie in order to protect the ancient midden side of the island from even more erosion.
ST. PETERSBURG — The Coast Guard along with commercial salvage rescued four people approximately 13 miles west of Cedar Key Saturday.
The Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received an emergency position indicating radio beacon alert at 8:41 p.m., plotting an area with rough weather.
An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Clearwater arrived on scene and located a swamped boat, with four people clinging to the hull.
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Well hello, folks. This was an exciting week in the Key when the Elite Redfish Challenge came to town. Cedar Key was the tournament's last event location to help decide who would be crowned Team of the Year.
The Devil's Hammock Wildlife Management Area is closed due to hazardous flooding conditions and to ensure public safety.
The Suwannee River Water Management District (SWRMD) and Levy County have temporarily closed all roads to vehicle use. This closure will be effective until the SRWMD and Levy County reopen these area roads to public vehicle use.
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The Coast Guard reminds boaters the importance of carrying life-saving communication and emergency distress equipment aboard their vessels.
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Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge announces 2013-14 Hunt Brochure/Permits are available in an easy to read form online at www.fws.gov/lowersuwannee. Click on hunting, then click Virtual Hunting Brochure.
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Student-faculty collaboration abroad
By Dr. Jeanie Bukowski
July 31, 2013
Mikalynn Katlack, a junior majoring in International Studies and Spanish, now can add "research in Spain" to her long list of experiences as a Bradley University student. Mikalynn spent the first part of her summer break interviewing members of the Fundación Nueva Cultural del Agua (New Water Culture Foundation-FNCA) as part of a student-faculty collaborative research project, "Science Into Policy: A Reevaluation of Epistemic Communities in the Iberian Transboundary Management Regime."
For Katlack, the interviews were the culmination of a year-long collaboration with faculty mentor Dr. Jeanie Bukowski '86, associate professor in the Institute of International Studies. Supported by funding from Bradley's Office of Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development (OTEFD) Special Emphasis program and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Sherry Endowment, Dr. Bukowski made Katlack and Laura Doolin '13 an integral part of her research.
Their involvement ranged from preparing a literature review and constructing interview questions to presenting a paper at the Midwest Political Science Association conference in Chicago in May. Katlack and Doolin also presented the research at the 2013 Undergraduate Student Scholarship Expo, where their project received the highest honor, the President's Award. The ultimate goal of the study, which explores the interface between scientific research and public policy in the area of water management, is a peer-reviewed article in an academic journal co-authored by Dr. Bukowski and her student collaborators.
"Because of her courses in IS and Spanish and our specific work together on the project over two semesters, by the time we reached Spain Mikalynn was very well-prepared to collaborate in carrying out the interviews. She has been a valuable colleague in the research," Bukowski said. The student-faculty team started their journey on May 16 in the small village of Jimena de la Frontera for the annual meeting of the FNCA. In addition to observing the many meeting sessions and interviewing several members of the group, they joined in hiking excursions to the fortress above the village (constructed by Muslim rulers in the area around 750 A.D., most likely on top of Roman ruins) and through one of the most extensive cork-oak forests in the world to wade in the (very cold) Hozgarganta River. Over the subsequent two weeks, Katlack and Bukowski interviewed epistemic community members in Seville and Madrid.
"The research trip was a multifaceted blessing. I was able to work with Dr. Bukowski while in Spain and experience to some degree the life of a researcher in the field. I also previewed, in a way few people are able to, my study abroad semester in Spain which I anticipate taking this upcoming spring. Living in Spain for two weeks and being immersed in the language and the culture, having the opportunity to meet really amazing people (and converse with them in Spanish about their work), and being able to test drive my ultimate dream of working and living abroad were the highlights of my May experience," Katlack said.
Kim Willis '04 MA, OTEFD interim director, describes the goals of Bradley's Special Emphasis support. "The Special Emphasis Program focuses on faculty-student collaborations as a vehicle for learning, serving to provide opportunities for academic enrichment that extend well beyond the boundaries of the classroom. The goal is to link student learning to the discovery of knowledge and provide students with an experience that models professional activities performed within the discipline. Students can collaborate with faculty and/or professional staff mentors on research, creative production, or service projects and develop confidence in the abilities they will need in their professions. This contributes to an enriching and rewarding part of their experience here at Bradley."
For Mikalynn Katlack, this collaborative project quite literally made the world her classroom.


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Actor Chris Noth Talks to WSJ's Lee Hawkins
Actor and sex symbol Chris Noth talks to WSJ's Lee Hawkins about the successful career he's enjoyed since "Sex and The City" and "Law & Order", his philosophy on acting, his interracial marriage and child, and his future as an actor.
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Finally the weekend is here, time for some serious rest:) How was your week? We have visited my relatives this week, and we had a really nice time! They have a nice garden and I had to take advantage of it.. Yes! An outfit post was the first thing I thought of (although my outfit was pretty simple) :) BUT... with four dogs and two cats... it's IMPOSSIBLE!
We had so many family stuff this week, and I am glad that weekend has finally arrived! My boyfriend had a graphics project to do and therefore we were spending most of our days at home, but I am really proud of him, he had done an amazing job (and it was his first one!).. Congratulations:) You can see his project(s) here!
As I said in my previous post (here) neon colours are definitely in this season, and they are so easy to style in Summer! I love wearing playsuits in Summer as they are easy to style and really comfortable.x
I am wearing:
Playsuit - H&M
Bag - Primark
Shoes - Primark
Hope you all had an amazing week:)
Hope you like my outfit!
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Emmy-Winning Filmmaker Spurs Grass Roots Movementby Howard Hewitt • March 31, 2011 Share:
Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Joe Wilson noted the irony of being in Indiana this week, the same week the Indiana Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Wilson shared his film "Out in the Silence" and discussed changes in his hometown.
Wilson's documentary focused on Oil City, Pa., and the plight of a 16-year-old boy who dropped out of high school due to the constant harassment over his sexuality. But Wilson said before the showing the film that it has grown beyond a documentary.
"It's not just about showing a film but we want to use it as a tool for grass root organization," he said. The film has sprung a campaign for fairness and equality in rural and small town American.
"This film addresses how we work for change," Wilson said. "Everything depends on relationships. The struggle for change and justice doesn't work the same in rural settings as it does in urban environments. It's much harder to engage in political and social discussions.
"That's why we're using the film to create undergraduate activism. We want people who have opposing views to deal with one another in human terms, not discrimination. Just as there is an American Family Association in the film, which works to fight our efforts, there is the same type of organization here in Indiana. These groups are politically active and hold power. The challenge remains to make sure the community, states, country, and even global are places where everyone has the same rights and responsibilities."
Wilson's appearance was sponsored by sh'OUT and the Faculty Film Committee. Sh'OUT President Leon Back appreciated the film focuses on small-town American. "I only wish the film would have been viewed by a wider audience than those who came to the screening," he said.
Approximately 25 people watched the 65-minute film, equally split between faculty and students.
The film features religious activists who fought Wilson's efforts to assist the 16-year-old boy. A thread throughout the film is an Oil City minister and his wife who open up to Wilson and change some of their thinking. The movie was filmed from 2005-2009.
Wilson prefers not to debate the religious issues, saying people using scripture or religious texts often selectively choose their passages. Instead, he believes the challenges are human rights issues.
Afterwards, Wilson talked about the 16-year-old CJ's plight. The young man is still trying to finish his GED after taking high school courses online.
In the question and answer period, he noted the economic impact of bigotry leads to talented people leaving small towns.
"Coming from a small town American, I always have been of the mind that that small towns, hick town America is a place you have to leave," he said. "But you don't have to leave. How do we make small town American a place where we can all stay and live?
He said sexual orientation is as much a human right as racial issues or economic ones. Injustice requires people to speak up when they see and hear hateful actions or language.
"We know there are times when we could say something but we don't because it's scary or hard."
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As a magazine writer (publishing my own magazines where I could -and would- add pages and shrink type size to barely legible as needed), I've grown accustomed to the zealous and verbose. Hey, when we wrote freelance back then we got two dollars for every drawn-out word (ah, the good old dayz). Anyway, I like curling up for a long read, and yes, I've even curled up with my Mac"Book" on occasion. But I can also appreciate the blurbs… er… blogs. Short and sweet. My sort of "articles" that appear in CGW typically originally stem from random thoughts and brain farts – that I might have intended on keeping simple… no, really. My intentions are good. I'm not trying to hurt anyone. And I know fully well, that 95% stop reading after the first paragraph…or first picture. Unfortunately, in that way that keeps me consciously success-stunted, I only care about the 5%. I only yearn for the attention of the strange soul who would sit through one of my unedited, parenthesis laden, adjective abusing, quote stealing, grammar-hating prose. And then the 1% that can relate – I will marry them.
REFOLDING THE ORIGAMI OF MY MIND (which way did it go?)
So for those who want more than two supa-sized posts a month (hey, I do the surf report every day!), even though you won't donate a penny (oh you didn't notice that PayPal button – maybe it comes in fuzzy on your monitor), and despite varying degrees of suicidal inclinations, insecurities and inabilities to complete… I will do my best to write more often. Because, even if I make up a large portion of the 1%, I do not love myself enough to marry myself, and for some reason writing has a need and desire beyond sheer ego to be read (and keeping it all in my mind is making me a little weird and socially unacceptable). I'll let this piece flow artlessly, unabridged, like an unreserved schizo diary entry for the one-minute-or-less crowd and (because of my heart-wrenching devotion to you dear readers) my only restriction will simply be…to try for once to keep it under 5,000 words.
So, my blog post for today is as follows….
The turtles here are attacking. No, seriously. The sea turtles. It's like the birds. I mean The Birds, the movie. Actually, at this very moment, not very very moment, I'm writing this piece about sharks (Sharks, Swells and Stinky Smells – the original post intended to be a couple paragraphs long -actually it started off about ocean smells really- but, see what happens is, the topic starts opening itself up like origami and I can't stop it and it opens and opens and… I fall in). So I'm kinda thinking about shark attacks, even though the piece is more about no shark attacks, when coincidentally people out surfing in Hilo start getting attacked. No, not by sharks, but by the Honu!
purty turtle pict by Mila Zinkova check her link for more.
Okay, attacked is a strong word. Most people are just getting hit by them. But see, here in Hawai'i they're all over the place. Endangered list and no more turtle soup and (minus some questionable tumors [fibropapillona]) they're thriving. And usually we don't have a problem. One of a few reasons why we prefer Futures to FCS is 'cause the fin'll pop out instead of pulling out the whole plug with it when we hit the turtles with our skegs…we hit them and then we keep going, flying through the air, kinda Wile E. Coyote style – super funny. Luckily the turtle's shells are tough enough to get pounded on rocks and cliffs – so they don't mind so much. We grab the shell and go for rides (totally illegal people!) or pet the shell, which supposedly removes some protective algae coating and is bad for them but I don't understand how…. (and I don't dare look it up right now 'cause that's often how my personal origami torture begins. Curiosity and all that. We don't need to know everything….. Okay, maybe later… but I did notice this cool link… on instructions for an origami turtle and this freakish geekish YouTube vid that is short and to the point…besides being ridiculously impossible to follow… unless you're Dungeons and Dragons-kine fanatic about folding pieces of paper.)
Anyway, before today the only person I knew who got injured by a sea turtle was a body surfer at Pohoiki, who dove head first into a wave straight into a turtle and broke his nose. The whole top portion of his face was black and blue – those things are huge.
So today, after riding a wave, I'm paddling back out and my hand brushes a turtle, but instead of it casually shwooing away UFO-style as it typically would, it grabs me. I felt either like something chomped my hand that had no teeth, or my hand was stuck in some portion of its body, caught under the shell. I have no idea, but it hurt. More like a shock kinda hurt. You know how there are variables to pain, like when surfing and you eat it hard but jump right back on the board and shake it off. But then, when someone, or something, does it to you (causes a comparable amount of pain), somehow it "hurts" i.e. annoys you more. Is this still too train-of-thought…hmmm?
Thing is, after the odd turtle grabbing incident, and once I got over my hand kinda hurting, I had this weird vibe. Like that turtle told the other turtles something about me. Or like they were ganging up on me (I'm very sensitive). And I caught another nice left, into the shallow area (the longboarders were all going right but the lefts were sick and some barreling) – and another one charged at me, splashing the water next to me. I tried not to go left anymore but goofy-foot couldn't help herself and it happened again; suddenly I felt surrounded, there were turtles everywhere, and they all seemed agitated. I screamed to my friend, in kinda a joking way, but I really wanted her to watch me paddle back out 'cause I felt threatened. Hey, there are stranger horror movie concepts than this!
So problem here is… that I'm missing the love triangle of the story. Okay, one aspect is in the shark piece (that's almost completed by the way, did I mention) – and that is about sharks possibly being attracted to female smells. Yes, female humans. No, not in order to attack them…to…you know…sexually (okay, you'll have to read it). It's just a few juggled hypotheses. But, what are turtles attracted to or not attracted to… they're just so damn quiet, they don't let on. They never talk, never complain – they just cruise, nibble and piss.
Ahhh and make babies! See, I never witnessed it live. But when my girl dog was going to jump in at one of her favorite swimming spots the other day, she sniffed around, retreated, and took a wide turn to enter farther away. She smelt them, because she never actual caught the visual of them underwater, but there they were, two huge consenting alien sea creatures, embarking on a journey together. (Do they mate for life?; I wonder their age difference?; Is it pleasurable?… note again, more future research). So, back to embarking, it was more like an embargo. The male: sorta clumsy slow-mo extra large space ship (didn't catch visual size of the…package). The woman: Obviously thinking to herself "whatevers – if he can't get it goin' on I'm over it." This male turtle failed, but I'm concluding she can do better.
Anyway, point being, me thinks it's mating season. Is that why the turtles are all ornery? (Oh shit, now I know why she was being choosy – I just read once coupled, they can stay that way for 10 hours —- see what happens when you don't have cable for National Geographic or Discovery Channel…or even a TV). But one of the reasons I brought up female smells, is the fact that many of the surfer girls here… seem to be bleeding at the same time. Got a lot of full moon bleeders. It's like a gang. A hardcore surfer girl gang of full moon bleeders. So the past week – blood. Lots and lots of menstrual blood (which was the actual impetus of the shark piece – no, you'll have to read it! Yes, all of it!). And these turtle attacks have been happening over the past week. Are they not having any luck with their women? Are they hoping to get lucky with us? Or are we making the women mad stealing their men? Hey, maybe I'll leave those and my other fifty questions unanswered 'cause this piece could certainly get longer.
That's it. That's all I have to say about the matter. Now I'm sleepy. That felt good. Just to get the moment's ramble out of my head. A lot more easy! I guess the post is more text than most blogs – I'll work on it – but it's a start! Maybe I'll even sleep more than five hours tonight. Wow, this must be how real bloggers feel. Kinda raw grandiose purification – an ocean plunge of words. Yeah, perhaps I'll cap it off with a nice warm sea salt bath.
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Okay, I definitely need the bath. I was almost raped by a sea turtle. I kinda had to do a little more research before going to bed – couldn't help myself. But listen, did you know there was a Marine Turtle Newsletter? With an article entitled "Sexual Harassment By A Male Green Turtle", written by Brian W. Bowen of the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawai'i? Neither did I…
Male sea turtles (family Cheloniidae) are notoriously indiscriminate in mating behavior, facilitating hybridization among most of the species in this family (Karl et al. 1995)…. Male sea turtles occasionally attempt copulation with human swimmers, snorkelers, or scuba divers (W.N. Witzell, pers. comm.). The loggerhead (Caretta caretta) mating population in Southeast Florida lies adjacent to one of the most densely populated coastlines in the world, and every year a few people are approached or (more rarely) mounted by male loggerheads. NOAA diver Jack Javech of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Miami Laboratory reports two copulation attempts by male loggerheads while scuba diving in the Florida Keys (J. Javech, pers. comm.). During a separate incident in the same area, a turtle mounted a male scuba diver and made good its mating attack on this luckless individual (Epstein 1989). A commonality in these events is that the male turtle attempts to pin the victim to the bottom. These are large powerful animals, with potential to inflict injury or even drown an unsuspecting swimmer.
…The green turtle described here did not raise fore-flippers in an attempt to grasp the target, as they do with conventional mating. Probably by the time that occurs, the interaction is inevitable. The only advanced warning was the deliberate approach of a male turtle, and the only acute signal was the ongoing attempt to approach my backside. Both behaviors are unusual and should be regarded as harbingers of a copulation attempt.
This is shocking. Yet another thing no one warned me about! Helllooo, I had to touch live coral (accidentally) to understand that it's sharper than a razor; I had to see a lobster-sized hard-shelled centipede (clickity-clicking through the lava rocks of an outdoor shower) before I was ever informed such horrible things existed; and none of the guys I surfed with -when I was younger and so obviously desperate to learn– ever gave me a hint about the concept of turtle diving. Oh, cute, that led us right back to turtles.
Could only find a wiki-fact (it's own breed of facts):
In the tropics, green turtles are known to nest throughout the year, with some subpopulations preferring particular times of the year.
WARNING: The sea turtles in Hawai'i are mating! And they don't seem to care who they are mating with! The sweet docile omnivorous creatures have a dark side! Girls, watch yourselves. And guys, don't assume you are safe – those species-swingers have been bumpin' men too! Keep your legs closed at all times! Paddle lightly! Look before you pop-up (and let me have the lefts!) Beware of the Honu!
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These days, marketers are faced with a growing number of digital channels they can use to engage with customers at a much quicker pace than ever before.
Because of this, there are more moving parts to track over shorter periods of time when organizations are planning and measuring marketing campaigns. To keep pace in today's digital environment, marketers must use their internal resources wisely.
This is where marketing resource management (MRM) comes in. MRM acts as the "administrative backbone" for day-to-day marketing operations by helping companies track and use their marketing resources more efficiently.
This guide will help you learn more about MRM software systems so you can make the right purchase decision for your business.
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What Is Marketing Resource Management Software?
Common Marketing Resource Management Software Functionality
Benefits of Marketing Resource Management Software
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In a nutshell, MRM software helps users manage the back-end process of marketing. It allows companies to more efficiently plan, manage and execute on marketing programs and campaigns. It also helps companies make sure they maintain a consistent brand image across marketing and communication channels.
An MRM system typically includes capabilities for planning, budgeting and tracking marketing activities, as well as tools for managing digital brand assets, workflows and approval processes.
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MRM software typically offers functionality for strategic planning and financial management, asset and project management and, to some degree, reporting and analysis. The exact functionality offered may vary from vendor to vendor.
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Brand asset consistency. MRM systems often provide asset management to ensure that all marketing content is brand-compliant and meets usage specifications. It also helps marketing teams avoid inconsistencies in brand image and communication by allowing them to share materials and keep them out of silos.
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Businesses will see additional benefits by combining an MRM system with marketing automation software and other marketing tools, such as:
These tools reduce time spent on manually managing people, assets and content and help create a holistic, integrated view of marketing operations and campaign health.
Here are a few market trends you should consider before selecting a marketing resource management software platform:
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The lieutenant governor got a little testy this afternoon when Nolan Hicks, our whippersnapper intern from UT-Austin, pressed him a bit about how and when he will proceed with the controversial nomination of John Bradley to the Forensic Science Commission.
"Sir," David Dewhurst said, staring down at Hicks, who's slight and all of 23, "I'm a little busy on the budget, so as soon as I can get to it, I'll be talking to the members. . . . It could take me a couple of days, it could take me a couple of weeks."
The question came up because the name of the Williamson County district attorney was temporarily stricken this morning from a list of nominees to be submitted to the full Senate for confirmation. Bradley was nominated by Gov. Rick Perry to chair the commission, but his decisions regarding the Cameron Todd Willingham case have provoked controversy.
Bradley got into it on Monday with state Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, when he publicly questioned Ellis' service as chairman of the New York-based Innocence Project. The group has alleged that forensic evidence used to convict Willingham was flawed.
"I know John Bradley and know him to be a very effective DA," Dewhurst said. He said he would be talking to senators on both sides of the aisle and then "we'll see where we are on the votes."
Moving on to other issues, Dewhurst was asked about the effect of budget shortfalls on the prison system. "Again, I'm trying to say this and no one's listening," he said, "our revenues for 2013, by the comptroller, are larger than they are for this current biennium. We've saved what will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 9-and a-half to $10 billion.
"At the end of the day I believe the Senate will come together in a bipartisan way to make the funding that's necessary to provide excellent instruction for our public schools. We're not going to underfund the schools to the point where they're laying off one out of every three teachers. We're going to fund our Medicaid program and our services to the vulnerable. And we're going to fund public safety, including DPS and our prisons.
"We're going to agree first on scrubbing the budget — what don't we need to fund — and then when we're all in agreement on what our priorities are, then we'll come up with a number and we'll work together to come up with the funding for it."
Dave McNeely, the dean of Capitol bureau reporters, asked the lite guv about raising taxes. Everybody laughed.
"We're sitting with slightly more revenue for the next biennium than we have in the current one — we've got 9-and-a-half to $10 billion — and there are certain non-tax revenue elements that we can use," Dewhurst said. "I believe — after having looked at this for two years, after modeling it a couple of times a week — we can, in fact, provide the funding for our public schools.
"The superintendents tell me in private meetings, 'Boy, if you could do that, I'd come cut your grass every Sunday,' to which I reply, 'You don't have to do that; I live in a high-rise.
"I think we can find the funding necessary for Medicaid services and public safety, our prisons and DPS without having to raise taxes and still tightening the belt of state government," Dewhurst said. "I truly believe that."
A reporter asked how the multi-billion-dollar fiscal gap can ever be made up if those four general areas Dewhurst wants to adequately fund make up 90 percent of the budget.
"Only the press and liberal special interests believe that state government should increase 10 to 15 percent in spending every year," Dewhurst said. "I don't know of any real-world business or family that does that. I truly believe that we can provide the services we need, not at what the advocacy groups are talking about of $101 billion but a number substantially less than that, less than what we are currently spending of $89 billion in GR [general revenue]."
In response to a joking question about his own family budget, the lite guv said, "Yes, the Dewhurst family is not increasing our household spending 10 or 15 percent a year."
Our whippersnapper saw his opening: "Is the Dewhurst family expanding by as many people per day as the Texas family is?"
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Personal OrchestraThe goal of the Personal Orchestra series of projects is to adapt this centuries-old interaction metaphor to digital multimedia so that everyone may enjoy the wonderful experience of conducting world-famous orchestras.
Our primary research goals for this line of research are:
- innovative interfaces for musical expression
- gesture recognition (capturing the physical user movements)
- gesture modelling and interpretation
- real-time interactive audio and video time-stretching without pitch-shifting artifacts
- time design and frameworks for time design of multimedia
- A permanent demo installation of the Personal Orchestra exhibit is now set up in our lab (operating instructions) (Aug 14, 2014)
- Today, the HOUSE OF MUSIC VIENNA launched our redesigned Personal Orchestra exhibit. Using an infrared baton, visitors can conduct the Vienna Philharmonic by controlling speed, volume, and the emphasis of different instrument sections. The new system now features our PhaVoRIT continuous real-time high-quality audio stretching, six new recordings of the orchestra in full HD video, an electronic music stand displaying the score, and helpful hints by maestro Zubin Mehta. Our original exhibit was installed in 2000, and has been used by 1.5 million visitors since, making it the most successful station in the house, and a top tourist attraction - see the TV news report (Nov 27, 2009 --video cached on our server, 11.6 MB).
- Documentary about "Haus der Klänge" (House of sound) and a interview on personal orchestra (ZDFinfokanal, July 2007, video, 28 MB)
- Coverage of Personal Orchestra 1 in Vienna City Guides (English+German, 2006)
- Documentary about Personal Orchestra 1 from "Abenteuer Erde" on 19 April 2006 (high (41 MB) /low (18 MB) resolution)
Personal Orchestra 13: The Virtual Conductor '15 (2014-2015)Casa de la Musica de Vienna en Puebla, Mexico
The 2015 version of PO is almost identical to the 2014 version, thus sharing its version number of PO13. The main difference is the change of the VMWare version, which required some internal code changes.
Personal Orchestra 13: The Virtual Conductor '14 (2013-2014)HOUSE OF MUSIC VIENNA, Austria
The 2014 version of this system was developed primarily with the following goals in mind:
- exchanging the active infrared baton for a passive baton, which will be tracked using standard motion caption hardware, to reduce maintenance load on the active batons
- developing reliable tracking and conducting motion classification algorithms
- updating the software to be compatible with newer versions of the underlying operating system
- updating video and audio rendering to use modern APIs and provide smoother playback
- tighten the closed loop for the conducting speed tracking to allow better and more fine grained tempo control
- allow a wider spatial range of conducting gestures without losing dynamic range
These changes make the most successful exhibit in the Vienna House of Music even more enjoyable for visitors and much less maintenance prone for the museum staff.
Personal Orchestra 6: The Virtual Conductor Reloaded (2008-2009)HOUSE OF MUSIC VIENNA, Austria
This system was designed for the HOUSE OF MUSIC VIENNA. It was opened to the public on Nov 27, 2009. It replaced our original PO1 exhibit installed there in 2000, which had been used by 1.5 million visitors since, making it the most successful station in the house, and a top tourist attraction.
Using an infrared baton, visitors can conduct the Vienna Philharmonic by controlling speed, volume, and the emphasis of different instrument sections. The new system features
- the MICON electronic music stand that shows the score, highlighting the current position and emphasized instrument section, and turning pages in a 3D animation,
- six new recordings of the orchestra in full HD video,
- greatly improved conducting fidelity, giving visitors the tightest control over the orchestra of all our systems, including the ability to stop conducting for a fermata,
- our PhaVoRIT continuous real-time high-quality audio stretching,
- up to six different instrument sections that can be emphasized by conducting towards them,
- helpful hint video scenes by maestro Zubin Mehta explaining how best to conduct each piece.
One of the major new research and development challenges in this version was to create a video pipeline architecture that can display full HD video at rapidly varying speeds from 0 to 200% without any stuttering or other artifacts. The system is based on the advanced video rendering subsystem inside Mac OS X.
(Foto: (c) Anna Rauchenberger / fotodienst.at)
More images from the launch are available at fotodienst.at.
And from TU Darmstadt:
Personal Orchestra 3: Maestro! (2003-2006 )The Betty Brinn Children's Museum in Milwaukee, USA
This system was developed for a children's museum. The main new feature developed for this project was an adaptive gesture recognition to accommodate both regular conducting gestures by adults and irregular conducting movements by young children.
'Maestro!'' at the Betty Brinn Children's Museum in Milwaukee, USA
More information is available at the PO3 home page.
Personal Orchestra 2: You're the Conductor (2002-2003)The Children's Museum in Boston, USA
You're the Conductor was our second generation conducting system designed specifically for kids (but it works great for adults too!). It features "Stars and Stripes Forever" performed by the Boston Pops/Boston Symphony Orchestra.
You're the Conductor offers an improved technical framework over You're the Conductor, especially in the area of time-stretching audio. Audio is processed in real-time using an improved phase vocoder algorithm, resulting in increased responsiveness, audio quality and tempo range over the Virtual Conductor. Movies are stored as standard QuickTime movies with uncompressed PCM audio.
The key research contributions were:
- first conducting system specifically designed for children, featuring an audio and video recording for an orchestra.
- design and implementation of a technical framework for real-time interactive audio time stretching without pitch shifting artifacts.
More information is available at http://www.actibits.com.
- Jan Borchers
- Teresa Marrin Nakra
- Eric Lee
- Ron Yeh
Personal Orchestra 1: The Virtual Conductor (1998-2000)The House of Music in Vienna, Austria
The Virtual Conductor was the world's first system that allowed users to conduct an actual audio and video recording of an orchestra. It has become a highlight of the HOUSE OF MUSIC VIENNA where it has been a permanent exhibit and museum highlight ever since the museum's opening in June 2000. It features exclusive performances from the world-famous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Users conduct the Vienna Philharmonic using a Buchla Lightning II infrared baton that sends MIDI data to a host computer performing the gesture recognition. Gestures are interpreted as simple up-down motions and translated to speed, volume and instrument emphasis which are then sent to a second computer responsible for processing the audio and video for display. Movies are stored as a multi-track QuickTime movie including a series of pre-processed, pitch-shifted tracks. By switching between these different audio tracks and varying the playback speed, the audio is time-stretched without any pitch-shifting artifacts.
The key research contribution was:
- first system to let a human conduct an actual audio and video recording.
More information is available at http://www.actibits.com.
- Jan Borchers
- Wolfgang Samminger
- Prof. Dr. Max Mülhäuser
Related Publications:
|Anna Koster. WiiCon:Acceleration Based Real-Time Conducting Gesture Recognition for Personal Orchestra. Diploma thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, December 2008. .
|Eric Lee, Thorsten Karrer, and Jan Borchers. An Analysis of Startup and Dynamic Latency in Phase Vocoder-Based Time-Stretching Algorithms. In ICMC '07: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, volume 2, pages 73–80, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2007. .
|Thorsten Karrer, Eric Lee, and Jan Borchers. PhaVoRIT: A Phase Vocoder for Real-Time Interactive Time-Stretching. In ICMC '06: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, pages 708–715, New Orleans, USA, November 2006. .
|Eric Lee, Ingo Grüll, Henning Kiel, and Jan Borchers. conga: A Framework for Adaptive Conducting Gesture Analysis. In NIME 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 260–265, Paris, France, June 2006. .
|Jan Borchers, Aristotelis Hadjakos, and Max Mühlhäuser. MICON: A Music Stand for Interactive Conducting. In NIME 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 254–259, Paris, France, June 2006. .
|Eric Lee, Henning Kiel, Saskia Dedenbach, Ingo Gruell, Thorsten Karrer, Marius Wolf, and Jan Borchers. iSymphony: An Adaptive Interactive Orchestral Conducting System for Conducting Digital Audio and Video Streams. In CHI '06: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 259–262, Montréal, Canada, April 2006. ACM Press. .
|Eric Lee, Thorsten Karrer, and Jan Borchers. Toward a Framework for Interactive Systems to Conduct Digital Audio and Video Streams. Computer Music Journal, 30(1):21–36, March 2006. The video for this article appears in the Computer Music Journal Sound and Video Anthology 29(4), 2005, .
|Thorsten Karrer. PhaVoRIT: A Phase Vocoder for Real-Time Interactive Time-Stretching. Diploma thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, November 2005. .
|Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. The Role of Time in Engineering Computer Music Systems. In NIME 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 204–207, Vancouver, Canada, May 2005. NIME. .
|Eric Lee, Marius Wolf, and Jan Borchers. Improving orchestral conducting systems in public spaces: examining the temporal characteristics and conceptual models of conducting gestures. In Proceedings of the CHI 2005 conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 731–740, Portland, Oregon, April 2005. ACM, ACM Press. .
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Peak at the plate
By 1967 Bob Peak was well past being the hot young newcomer who had turned the commercial art world on its ear. He had already been named "Artist of the Year" by the Artists Guild of New York in 1961 and would be elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame just 10 years after this piece appeared in Boy's Life in April of 1967.
Walt Reed's Illustrator in America tells us that Peak had decided early on to stop looking at the work of other artists and focus on thoughtful experimentation from his own unique point of view. Pieces like the one above were the result and subsequently brought him unprecedented success - and countless imitators.
You can see this illustration at full size in my Bob Peak Flickr set.
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Interesting post, Leif. Peak was quite the comet, streaking across the firmament of American illustration in the '60s. I'm accustomed to seeing his sizzling hot advertisements and illustrations for women's magazines and movie posters, but I'm not sure I would have picked him to illustrate an Americana theme like baseball. Leave it to you to locate the most obscure illustrations and educate us all!ReplyDelete
When the Famous Artists School went looking for younger illustrators in 1965 to make their training materials more relevant, the rumor is that Austin Briggs and perhaps other senior illustrators were opposed to letting Peak join. They apparently felt that sometimes he was too much flash and not enough substance. If you strip away the special effects in the background of this illustration and focus on the drawing, you can see what they meant.
Thanks David - but I have to argue that perhaps Briggs ( and you ) rushed to judgement: after all, if we "strip away the special effects in the background of this illustration" we'd be left with half an illustration, wouldn't we? And it was exactly these new approaches that Peak was experimenting with that made his work relevant to the audience of the time while the Famous Artist School artists became increasingly irrelevant.ReplyDelete
Interestingly, the same old school snobberey was repeated in the 80's when a diverse group of new-wave illustrators including the likes of Lou Brooks and Sue Coe were denied entrance to the Society of Illustrators. The old boys felt these kids' styles lacked substance and were all flash...
The younger group's solution was to form their own "society", publish their own annual and in short order they became the darlings of art directors across the land.
Within a couple of years they had all been admitted to the Society of Illustrators and were winning top prizes.
Same as it ever was.
Fair point, Leif. It's a tough judgment to make. There are some artists, like (in my opinion) the comic artist Jim Steranko who make a name for themselves with visual pyrotechnics but who simply don't draw very well. They divert the attention of the audience with flashing lights and distracting noises (an old conjurer's trick) so the fans don't notice that the perspective and anatomy are off and the linework is hackneyed.ReplyDelete
I don't think Peak is in the same category as Steranko-- when Peak was good he was absolutely superb--especially his drawing. For me, he's a little more like the artist Jeff Jones. I think Jones' best work is great, yet if you look at some of the comics that he drew the art was painfully bad-- all style and no substance. It was hard to believe that the same artist did both.
This all relates so well to some of the bigger issues you've done such a great job analyzing on your blog, David - allow me to wade in!ReplyDelete
If you think of design and illustration as two creative camps and then imagine all illustrators as living somewhere along the line between the two, I think you'd find the Bob Peaks and Jim Sterankos houses are closer to the design end of the street.
When I was at Sheridan College's illustration program the Illustration course director, a man named Frank Neufeld told us something fascinating one day: he said that when he was working on an assignment he spent quite a long time thinking about it, sometimes days or even weeks.
By the time he finally scartched out his first rough he was so thoroughly finished with the image that he'd just as soon have someone else complete it.
I couldn't understand that at the time but I do today. Some artists are more interested in the concept and design of the visual than they are in the rendering. These people are really designers trapped in an illustrator's body. They may enjoy the process of crafting a finished piece to a greater or lesser extent, depending on their talent and willingness to hone it, but their true creative joy comes from the conceptualization - not the execution. I believe Peak was such an artist. I believe Steranko is as well. The most popular current example of such an artist in comics today would be Mike Mignola.
This may confound some of us if we are looking for great drawing or painting, anatomical accuracy or a lovely skilled flourish to the linework of a piece, but that doesn't mean the work lacks merit in its own right.
As I've said before, art is far too subjective to weigh and measure and quantify mathematically (but that's not to say we can't continue to debate and exchange points of view).
You started out by saying you're not sure you would have chosen Peak to illustrate an Americana theme like baseball - another TI subscriber emailed me privately just now with this comment:
"Yesterdays baseball illustration, it was the best I've ever seen as far as baseball goes!"
See what I mean? ;-)
- Emily8:20 PM
Thanks so much for this. I think I might have a Peak original hanging in my bathroom. The signature surely fits with his other works, and it seems like no one has seen (or really appreciated, my mother hates it) the one I have. I think it's original because it has a bit of a rough sketch on the back with a different color paint, and the brush strokes are really vivid. I love his work though, and will have to look more into him.ReplyDelete


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Strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups from 'Classic Snacks Made from Scratch'
I was rarely given Fruit Roll-Ups as a kid. Instead, my siblings and I were stuck with the healthier, thicker fruit leathers from the natural foods aisle. We often yearned for the pliable texture, bright color, and saccharine flavor of the decidedly fruit-less roll-ups in our friends lunch boxes. Now that I make my own food choices, I honestly prefer the more wholesome choice.
Luckily, Casey Barber's recipe for Strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups in Classic Snacks Made from Scratch bridges the divide. By starting with whole ripe strawberries, she guarantees that you'll end up with true berry flavor. But these roll-ups are not totally virtuous—there's plenty of sugar in these babies to keep them soft, chewy, and enviably sweet.
Why I picked this recipe: After missing out on these sticky sweets as a kid, I knew I needed to make my own.
What worked: All these needed were a few imprinted shapes to peel and stick all over the kitchen table, and they'd be a dead-ringer for the original.
What didn't: Pay close attention to the thickness of your jelly when spreading. If you can see through it, it's too thin and will turn to brittle in the oven. On that note, pay close attention to your oven temp as well. You won't want it to go any higher than 200°F or you'll risk over-cooking the fruit.
Suggested tweaks: If you've got a dehydrator (lucky you), these will be even easier to make. If not, I was able to hack my oven into going below 200°F by opening and closing the door. I found that a temperature wavering between 175 and 190 worked just fine here. Once you've got the technique down, it'd be easy to adapt the recipe to work with just about any jammy fruit. I'm thinking about a peach-blueberry combination come summertime.
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April 11, 2012
Cal South Soccer Foundation Awards $117,500 in Grants to Assist with
April 11, 2012 (Fullerton, CA) - The Cal South Soccer Foundation announced today it has awarded eight non-profit organizations grants totaling $117,500 to assist with soccer field development, program development and to provide equipment.
The eight organizations receiving the awards help to target soccer field, program and equipment needs throughout the Southern California area. The recipients were selected from applications gathered during the October 2011 grants cycle. The Foundation is excited to partner with such great organizations to help meet these needs.
2012 Award Recipients are as follows:
"On behalf of the Cal South Soccer Foundation Board of Directors, we are proud to have been able to provide funding that will help grow the game in southern California," said Foundation president David De Leon. "The Cal South Soccer Foundation will continue to seek programs and facilities that will help with our mission. And we would be remiss if we did not thank the Cal South [California State Soccer Association - South] for their continued support of the Foundation."
The Foundation would like to thank all of the grant applicants for contacting the organization and submitting their proposals. The next official grants cycle for the Cal South Soccer Foundation will open on October 1, 2012.
About the Cal South Soccer Foundation:
Through grant-making, we strive to be an organization that is able to see the recipients of such grants develop and maintain sustainable programs, improve their existing operations and potentially develop soccer facilities that help reach communities in a positive way. Learn more about the Cal South Soccer Foundation at www.calsouthfoundation.org.


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