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I'm coining a phase: the "near-antiquity."
It's that part of the ancient that's closest to contemporaneity. Or, more accurately, that part of modernity that may, at any second, fall into antiquity.
Slapstick is very much on this brink (or is it?) and it's the hope of this website it to reign in its relevancy, so's not to become – like latin – dead.
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This post revives an earlier debate about dramatic activity/passivity in slapstick.
Here're two titans of the silent screen telling jokes with movie-making itself, yet the two gags are achieved through opposing performances. The first is Chaplin in 1914 from Kid Auto Races:
This clip is an abridged version of what drives the whole short: a man can't help but flirt with the camera. Or is he courting with the audience he anticipates. Or is he in lovestruck with the cameraman? It's hilarious, and you can extrapolate Chaplin's entire cinema based on the few clownish emotions and dramatic ideas it presents.
However, here's the same set-up (public event, large crowd, film-within-a-film) but the comedy comes from a much deeper subversion of our expectations:
This bit from Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926), especially when looked at after Chaplin, is spinning with ideas about spectral identity and other Hegelian/psychological head-busters: Can activity (action) operate as passivity (inaction)? More mysteriously, can inaction ever NOT be a type of action (NOTE: the outgoing U.S. Congress, the 112th, earned the moniker "D0-Nothing Congress" but this is of course a misnomer; if the press were more analytical they would have more accurately named it the "Do-Everything-We-Can-Prevent-Action Congress"), as the only achievable passivity is in a thing's non-existence, which then can't be discussed in terms like "achievable" so why are we even talking about it?
This is why Langdon's gag is so phenomenal (NOTE: the joke may or may not have been written by Frank Capra). A movie star playing camera shy running from a camera is first hilarious, secondly thought-provoking, (both of these are apt to describe KAR) but third, it's twisted, inserting a bit of tragedy into the tomfoolery. There's an element of the nightmare, of terror, of the uncanny.
In general, what is uncanny can not be entertaining, which is why Chaplin always framed (and in some cases masked) disturbing or uncomfortable subjects like war or poverty or Fascism in moral righteousness and divine/poetic justice, aka: a happy ending (despite his Tramp's ambiguous future at the end of most of the features).
Langdon however is not a sentimentalist. If anything he's a surrealist, upending our ideas about story and narrative by withdrawing from reality and, through slapstick logic, guiding us somewhere strange.
It would be easy to over-intellectualize the following images, to perform a kind of existentialist, Hamlet-looking-at-the-skull kind of observation about the life of comedy, specifically the life of a comic. But I think that this is the danger. That is to say, this is the monkey, for that is what the monkey is: danger. See for yourself:
Here's a perfect slapstick linguist paradigm: sound as a physical gag. And here's a clip from W.C. Fields' Never Give A Sucker An Even Break to demonstrate the point:
The clip treks far beyond the mere exemplar of a new category of mass produced silliness. Yes, sound is being used as a gag, for what's stopping sound's elemental physicality from being adopted into the fold of slapstick? But moreover, the scene is a strong critical manifestation of class consciousness, that pesky Marxist tract that rings truer the longer you live. The whole funny business is mired in an entrenched pitting of working-class sound against the sound of the bourgeoisie (catch the younger kid's daze?), and ambiguously proceeds with no clear winners.
It's also an aesthetic drawing-a-line-in-the-sand as well. Mid-thirties Hollywood saw an influx of singing-and-dancing idiots into otherwise purist slapstick routines, including the very best of the Marx Brothers, Chaplin, and W. C. Fields. Thank God the whole mess got under the skin of at least Fields who laments its inclusion in the slapstick feature format on more than one occasion than the clip above.
More on this to come. Is that alright with you, Mr. Pangborn?
Currently in the middle of Lajos Egri's sole work, where the Hungarian tailor-turned-theater-director first describes the existence of three-dimensionality to fully realized dramatic characters, an observation the slapstick genre successfully subverts. More on this point later.
First, there's a crux in the book (the middle, right, where else?) where the author really digs it to Aristotle for claiming character is subordinate to action. Now, to be fair, Ergi's whole work is really the first substantial study to emphasize the role of psychology (the third dimension to basics, physicality and sociology) as well as the internal dialectics of character that work in the creative makings of a memorable play. And to be fair, too, Egri's point on Aristotle is instructive.
But it's also totally confused. Egri faults Aristotle based on this confusion: Aristotle wasn't a playwright, he was a philosopher. So when the ancient Greek writes in his Poetics about drama and catharsis and all that good stuff he does so as a witness to theatrical drama. Aristotle is discussing the appearance of drama unfolding before the crowds, an essential component of what dramatic theater is. So, if you remember this then it absolutely is true that, as Aristotle put it, action precedes character: it is through a character's motions that an observer derives their motives and begins to compile a picture of character.
This is full blown within the complexities of cinematic slapstick. Take the case of Harry Langdon's "The Odd Fellow" in his masterpiece Three's A Crowd. It's one of the most psychologically insightful comedies ever made, but also the film that best explores the passive nature of Langdon's comic persona, a concept Egri deplores and considers poor drama.
The riddle is how can passivity be three-dimensional? Three's A Crowd (1927) is radically dream-like and structurally experimental (second perhaps only to Field's Never Give a Sucker an Even Break of 1941) and especially so considering it's a piece by a silent clown of the twenties.
The logic of the story is full of odd jokes: washing dishes with a clothes washing board (but Odd Fellow never realizes his mistake); an absurdly long staircase separating characters to and from points of action (an architectural quirk never explained); and an inanimate rag-doll – Odd fellow's equally passive doppelganger – bumming around through the harsh seasons, city streets, and unconscious nightmares. The joke are half punch lines, half humdrum. They are abstractions – and featured in the background setting rather that in the decisions of our anti-hero – of all the small things in life that people put up with without thinking about at all.
[NOTE: Memorably, Langon rarely makes use of cops, which is extremely rare for the genre. The abstraction of official persecution is common, something people irrationally think about terribly often (in my own case, at least three times a week). It's this sort of exacting detail – the absence of cop scenarios – that raises questions as to what logic is propelling Langdon's story-lines and why he remains such an enigmatic figure in slapstick cinema.]
So, it's these features of the external world that reflect the inner workings of the passive character. Woody Allen has confirmed this idea in interviews, presumably grasped during his post-Annie Hall work with Gordon Willis, saying that for a filmmaker visuals in the outside should reflect the inside emotions (which is Jacque Lacan's idea of "ex-timacy" for those interested in psychoanalysis).
Odd Fellow is the prism for all sorts of miscommunications and hallucinations that move along in an exacting yet illogical way. Anonymous letters falling from the sky, neighbor's distrusting and ridiculing his every move, floors giving out, abandoned women being extracted from his home just as improbably as they had entered. Harry's "The Odd Fellow" – unlike a schlemeil, them that can literally do no right – is instead confronted with a host of unnecessary struggles, literally and figuratively, and in a way whose explication evokes comedy rather than Sisyphean tragedy. For that reason Three's A Crowd should be entered alongside the work of Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien and W.C. Fields.
This is that point that is a blow to Egri: the external world can, indeed needs to, reflect the character within the language of film. Egri's specialty was theatrical in nature so we can't fault him for ignoring the visible reflections of all that he has to offer: character, conflict and progression through dialectics. However, it is in film, and especially evident in slapstick, that passivity in character can be counterbalanced by authorial (later to be identified as Hitchcockian) attention to detail in the background, in the setting, in the universe of the story. So the facility of psychology in Langdon's work is relegated to the margins; his internality – especially in this film which was his first to write and direct – is reflected in the world outside.
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In these cases, where you have thousands of people impacted by a defective hip, there will generally be a global settlement. A possible settlement works where everybody who had a hip replaced will be offered a certain amount of money which may be adjusted upward or downward depending on individual circumstances. But at some point there will be a settlement. Individuals with these hips should ask themselves whether they want to take that settlement. It's important to know that whenever you have a case like this, with thousands of individual lawsuits, each individual must make their own decision on taking the settlement or not.
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For Retro Wednesday this week we have two more Figmas! This time it's Figma Kirino Kousaka and Kuroneko from the popular series Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai which translates to My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute. But to make things easier we'll refer to it how most fans call it, Oreimo. Now I'm sure i'm going to get the comments, "This isn't retro! Oreimo isn't old!" Well for Retro Wednesday it's not all about "old" figures and series but figures we've created over a year ago. My goal is to show you some figures you maybe didn't know existed! So let's get started! First up is Kirino! She's the main character in the series Oreimo. A [...] Read More »
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Jeff Gordon suffered a rare engine failure at the worst time.
Gordon's Hendrick Motorsports engine expired with just two laps to go in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway, relegating the driver to a 34th-place finish.
It was just his second engine failure since 2008, but it may have blown up his 2011 championship hopes. Thanks to the motor problem, Gordon is now 10th in the standings and 47 points behind Chase leader Carl Edwards.
"Our day was pretty much over anyway, and we were going to finish maybe 15th or something," Gordon said after climbing from his car. "Right there I started (smelling) what smelled like burning oil and I saw the oil temp start to come up. I felt like it was just a matter of time before it blew up."
Before the engine blew, Tony Stewart had put Gordon three-wide on a restart and drove him all the way down to the apron - which Gordon said "ruined our day right there."
"He did what he had to do," Gordon said. "It messed us up."
Of course, the motor problem made that a moot point.
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- NASCAR At Kansas Speedway: Jimmie Johnson Returns To Victory Lane
- Denny Hamlin: 'People Need To Be Open-Minded To Make Changes'
- Carl Edwards: Fifth-Place Finish At Kansas Feels Like A Win
- Brad Keselowski Well-Positioned In NASCAR Chase Standings After Another Good Run At Kansas
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. No Longer Concerned About Chase Standings, Just Wants To Win A Race
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Bridging the Foreigner-Bangladeshi Divides
We were returning to Gulshan past midnight when a police officer stopped the car at an impromptu checkpoint. He barely glanced at me, a white bideshi or foreigner, before barking at the other passenger: "Tumi Bangalee? Purse khole dao!" Finding nothing after she dutifully opened her handbag for inspection, he wordlessly waved us along. My friend shook her head, angry but resigned: "Yes, I'm Bengali. But what would he have done if I had shown him my Australian passport?"
Just some routine racial profiling. It's as unremarkable as being escorted to the front of the long boarding line on the flight to Dhaka from Dubai ahead of all the migrant labourers, as I was. It's as ordinary as the H&M garment sale "For Foreigners Only." It's as forgettable as the Halloween party at a private foreigners' club where someone won first prize for dressing up as a Rapid Action Battalion agent (accessorized with black do-rag and Oakleys, but without costume blood from all the extra-judicial killings allegedly committed by the RAB).
The power of these moments is their ability to normalise one of the biggest non-secrets in Dhaka: foreigner/white privilege.
Let's be clear: whiteness is an invented and contested category. "White" and "foreigner" are not interchangeable. Returned and expatriate Bangladeshis and other South Asians occupy complicated social spaces and are generally, but not always, excluded from the bideshi status. Diplomats, aid workers, businesspeople, academics, and tourists live and work in different ways. Notions of privilege, bias, or oppression are thus specific to personal histories and contexts. Arguments premised on the dichotomies of foreign/local and white/non-white risk perpetuating the dangerous fallacy that such neat dichotomies actually exist. People are always more complicated.
Let's also be honest: these dichotomies have social currency. The line separating the "real" from that experienced as real can be thin-to-nonexistent. One of Bangladesh's most influential public figures has lived abroad for half his life, with an extraordinary list of foreign degrees and fellowships to his name. This past summer, he remarked to me scornfully: "Bangladesh is the only country in the world where I feel like a second-class citizen. Here, you are discriminated against for being Bangladeshi. People pay you better and treat you better if you have white skin. To the extent that people treat me with respect, half the time it's because they mistake me for a foreigner."
Traditions of hospitality do elevate the guest to a privileged position. But interns and students are often treated as senior to Bangladeshi specialists. A foreigner managing a mangled "kaemon achen?" is applauded for being "fluent" in Bangla. Entire meetings get rendered into English for the benefit of the sole bideshi in the room. But what happens when audience members whose national "development" is at stake and who will stay in Bangladesh long after the contract bideshi leave, sare unable to participate?
You don't have to look too closely to glimpse the money and power at stake. A few years ago, I asked a US Agency for International Development official why he purchased a used but still gleaming BMW SUV for driving around Dhaka after a hard day's work 'developing the poor'. He didn't hesitate: "I got a good deal; I couldn't have afforded this at home!" Another development officer laughed sheepishly as she explained that while she wants to meet development goals, she doesn't want to work herself out of a job and lifestyle she loves. And no expat gathering would be complete without a round of complaining about Bangladeshi people followed by collective swooning over the fabulousness of having a cook, driver, maid, nanny, and gardener.
Global marketing machines leverage colonial legacies to turn the formula that 'white = beauty and worth' into wildly successful business. From Dhaka billboards to village teashops, ads for skin-lightening products present fair complexions as ideal for women and men. So as some lighteners give some Bangladeshis mercury poisoning or kidney damage, white foreigners of average attractiveness back home can suddenly find themselves scoring a modelling gig.
But foreignness also entails relentless staring and invasive questions from strangers. White women are beautiful but loose, or promiscuous and immoral, and problems finding housing and often-daily sexual harassment are exhausting (of course, Bangladeshi women endure this as well). When combined with the challenges of living in a poor country and unfamiliar culture, a refuge can become necessary. But emergent hierarchies of race and nationality another Bangladeshi friend referred not-so-jokingly to Dhaka as an "apartheid state"cannot be the answer.
This isn't about proscribing a "right" or "wrong" way for individuals to live. Foreigners eating dal-bhaat and sipping cha while sitting cross-legged on a madur aren't entitled to smugly call their lifestyles "authentic". And there exists a set of globalised leisure behaviours enjoyed by anyone with financial access to them. Indeed, the wealthiest Bangladeshis arguably exist in a sphere of power and influence all their own.
Let's instead start deconstructing expectations, assumptions, labels, and the role of power and money. Who is a foreigner? What makes someone white? Who is Bangladeshi? Who is Bengali? What identities are privileged and why? Is privilege more about class and a general deference toward the extremely wealthy which includes super-rich Bangladeshis zooming around Dhaka after midnight in fast cars (new, not used BMWs)? What produces a system where Bangladeshis can face social or professional discrimination or disrespect for no other reason than the fact of their Bangladeshi-ness?
These issues transcend the endlessly awkward issue of who deserves access to the tennis court or poolside bar at the members-only American, British, Canadian, Dutch, German, Gulshan, International and Nordic clubs. These questions affect who gets escorted to the front of every queue, who gets paid in local taka versus dollars or euros, who gets harassed by the police, and who ends up feeling like a second-class citizen.
Many Bangladeshis depend on foreign development money, and many probably can't afford to alienate foreign/white-funders and diplomats by criticising foreign/white privilege. As a Bangladeshi development consultant who read a draft of this article commented: "Very, very true. But we couldn't have said it." Let's all risk engaging in introspection, dialogue, and the forging of new partnerships in order to bring critical conversations about privilege, belonging, race, money, and power out into the open.
Bridget Kustin is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Drishtipat Writer's Collective (www.drishtipat.org/dpwriters). She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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We are grateful that as Christians, Evangelicals and Catholics together, we can speak with one voice on a matter of paramount urgency for our society and the world. We address this statement to all who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and to all people of goodwill who share our concern for a more just and humane social order.
We recognize that, short of Our Lord's return in glory, there will always be great evil in the world. Human history is the drama of conflict between truth and falsehood, light and darkness, life and death. The witness to the gospel of life echoes today the words of Moses to the children of Israel: "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you and your children may live" (Deuteronomy 30:19). With the apostle Paul, we contend, and call others to contend, against the "principalities and powers" of the present darkness (Ephesians 6:12).
Men beyond numbering are complicit in the culture of death. The legal abortion license has made it easier to exploit women sexually; to abandon them or refuse to support them in the bearing of the new life for which men are equally responsible; and even to coerce them into having the child killed. This is a wickedness of unspeakable proportions and is only compounded by men who self-servingly construe the abortion license as a form of liberation for the women they exploit.
We cannot and would not impose this vision of a culture of life upon others. We do propose to our fellow Christians and to all Americans that they join with us in a process of deliberation and decision that holds the promise of a more just and humane society committed, in life and law, to honoring the inestimable dignity of every human being created in the image and likeness of God. For our part, as Evangelicals and Catholics together, we refuse to despair of the power of public witness and persuasion in the service of every member of the human community, for whom Christ came "that they may have life and have it abundantly."
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Jonathan Cook reports from Potchefstroom
2nd Test – Inspirational Austin Guides SA to Victory
Superb South Africa men's hockey team captain Austin Smith netted a hat-trick of penalty corners for the lads in green and gold to win a gripping second Test 3-1 at University of North West Hockey Centre in Potchefstroom Saturday after the scores had been locked 1-1 at half-time.
Smith was the heart of his team's hard-fought win as he worked tirelessly from an unusually deep position to inspire his team to an unbeatable 2-0 lead in this four-Test series, this after South Africa had won the thrilling first Test 2-1 on Thursday evening.
The third Test takes place at 3 pm Sunday in Potchefstroom with the fourth Test at 7 pm in Randburg on Tuesday.
Smith's first goal came in the 34th minute – a minute before half-time – for SA to draw level 1-1 at the changeover, this after Malaysia's Faizal Saari had opened the scoring with a potent PC drag-flick in the 15th minute.
Smith's second and third PC strikes came in the 54th and 70th minutes, the latter on full-time.
The PCs were shared 5-5 in a match that could have gone either way, but SA made their chances count. Indeed, SA had six PCs in the first Test without success and turned that disappointing statistic around with a 60% strike rate in the second encounter – an outstanding return.
SA went into the match without number one goalkeeper Rassie Pieterse (rested); vice-captain Rhett Halkett and fellow defender Ashlin Freddy – both missing their second consecutive Test matches due to injury; Tim Drummond (injured); while one of the first Test's standout players, Clinton Panther (university exam) was replaced by his older brother, Brandon Panther, a new cap. Another Test debutant was striker Matt Botha while Taylor Dart won his second cap after coming into the first Test team just before the warm-up after medical advice had forced the last-minute withdrawal of Freddy.
The Malaysia line-up remained much the same.
For Malaysia, the likes of Nabil Fiqri, Faiz Helmi as well as the irrepressible Saari were thorns in the side of the SA defenders at various stages of the match and it must be said that the final scoreline was somewhat flattering. Smith admitted as much after the match while Malaysia head coach Paul Revington said the difference was that SA took their chances.
There was much "chat" between the teams and player after player was banished to the sin-bin after a slew of heavy tackles, body checks and sundry other misdemeanours, SA down to nine men at one stage.
All the SA players stood out in this match at one stage or another, and the victory was a triumph of true grit in the face of a highly motivated opponent.
3rd Test – Hykes Clinches equaliser 8 seconds from time
The South Africa men's hockey team came back from a 2-0 half-time deficit to draw 4-4 with Malaysia in the third Test at University of North West Hockey Centre in Potchefstroom Sunday and clinched the series 2-0 with one to play.
SA had won the first Test 2-1 and the second Test 3-1 at UNWHC, while Malaysia desperately needed a win to give themselves a chance of levelling the series in the fourth and final clash at 7 pm Tuesday at Randburg Hockey Stadium.
Julian Hykes made the all-important equaliser for 4-4 with just eight seconds left in the match.
South Africa's penalty corners were poor – just one of the six brought success – while a host of great combination plays were undone in field play when the final pass went astray just metres from goal.
In the first half Malaysia made the most of what came their way and went into the half-time break with a 2-0 lead. Against the run of play Fitri Saari worked some magic up the left-hand baseline with exquisite stickwork to set up Izwan Firdaus for the opening goal in the 27th minute, Malaysia having scored first in all three Test matches.
Two minutes later Malaysia stole away again and Faiz Helmi conjured up a fine piece of skill to open the way for Chua Boon Huat and it was 2-0 by the 29th minute.
In the first half, two of South Africa's three penalty corners were botched at the stage of trapping the injection pass, while the only one on target saw captain Austin Smith's effort glanced safely away by goalkeeper Rozlan Jamaluddin.
Three minutes after the break SA won a fourth PC but again it was fluffed and five minutes later Razie Abdul Rahim went on an unchallenged solo run to smash the ball from the top of the strike zone into the net for 3-0 after 43 minutes. Two minutes later, in the 45th, SA midfielder Taine Paton showed presence of mind to catch the Malaysian defenders unawares and finished with a cracking shot into the backboard for 3-1.
However, SA continued to miss gilt-edged chances in the goal zone, but they got it right in the 59th minute when Matt Botha's assist was buried by Pierre de Voux for 3-2. SA's fifth PC followed soon after and Ricky West's effort was blocked by keeper Jamaluddin. Then in the 63rd minute Smith sent a stunning drag-flick from SA's sixth PC high into the net for 3-3 with seven minutes left. Two minutes later (65th) captain Shahrun Nabil dived for a fine deflection goal and Malaysia were 4-3 up.
Three minutes from full-time Smith made a courageous run-in from the left channel and Hykes' reverse-stick snapshot cannoned into the near post and stayed out. Then with eight seconds left Taine Paton made a courageous incursion from the same channel and got off a shot, which Hykes deflected into the net for a 4-4 draw and a series win for SA with one to play.
SA went into the match with Jacques le Roux the starting keeper, number one goalkeeper Rassie Pieterse on the bench and Gowan Jones sitting this one out. Vice-captain Rhett Halkett and fellow defender Ashlin Freddy, who both missed the first two Test matches due to injury, returned; Tim Drummond was still injured; Clint Panther was back after writing university exams on Saturday and his older brother, Brandon Panther, a new cap on Saturday, was rested, as was Nick Gonsalves. The Malaysia line-up remained much the same.


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Colin Andrew Firth
Did you know...
1. He was born on September 10, 1960 in Grayshott, Hampshire, England.
2. He moved to Nigeria when he was 2 weeks old, where his father had taken a teaching position and lived there until the age of 4 when his family moved back to England.
3. He is fluent in Italian, a language he learned when he started dating his now wife, Livia Giuggioli, an Italian film producer/director.
4. He became one of 9 actors to ever win the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award all for the same performance, his role in the 2010 film The King's Speech as Prince Albert, Duke of York/King George VI.
5. He was named, along with his wife, to Vanity Fair's Best Dressed List in 2014 as one of the best dressed couples in the world.
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Though I love picking up some new fall fashion pieces (just bought this dress - such a classic!), there is nothing like a new fall lip color to make me feel like a new person. Ok, not a completely new person but at least a little different from yesterday. LOL. I typically associate fall with darker and bolder lips, so I thought I would put together a list of my favorite new and old fall lip colors.
Old Favorites
1. Kevyn Aucoin The Lipgloss in Bloodroses - It may look dark and moody, but this sheer gloss-like balm is for those that want to dabble in the fall lip trend, but not fully commit. It tints the lips ever so slightly with the most gorgeous shade of burgundy. Also wears well over top of your favorite matte lip to give it a bit of shine.
2. Kevyn Aucoin Lipstick in Eliarice - I love a fire engine red lip color, but when I need to tone it down a bit I always pull out Eliarice. It's a gorgeous brick red that has a hint of brown which is great for during the day and weekends.
3. Chanel Rouge Allure in Envoutante - In the bullet, this color looks incredibly dark and vampy. However, when on, it's a sheer purple-plum that has just a hint of shimmer. Nothing that will deter me from wearing it during the day, but just enough to give it some dimension. I love this with a contoured cheek and tons of mascara.
4. Bobbi Brown Creamy Matte in Razzberry - I have been wearing this shade for years and years and it is always one of the first ones I gravitate towards. It's a bold raspberry color with a matte formulation that is super creamy as only Bobbi can do. Though I love to wear this during the day, I find it looks best for special occasions when I want my lips to be the focal point and last all evening.
5. MAC Spice It Up - I may be going on at least 8 years with this color, which should tell you how much of a staple it is for my lip wardrobe. This was actually my first foray into dark lip colors, and it's sheer texture made it less scary to try and more wearable for every day. My lipstick collection will never be without this one.
New Favorites
6. Bobbi Brown Luxe Lip Color in Plum Brandy - This is one of those times where I had to put the color on my lip in order to fall in love with it. Even with a swatch on my hand, this looked bold and a tad too dark for my liking. I went ahead and applied it anyways and with one blot of a tissue, it turned into the most gorgeous plum burgundy that looks great for day or evening.
7. Lipstick Queen Belle Epoque Balm in Belle Wine - Ok, I know that it seems so easy to just throw on a dark lip and head out into the world. But I acknowledge that there are some people that even the slightest color can push them out of their comfort zone too much, so I found the perfect compromise. This Lipstick Queen gloss looks so dark in the tub, but applies like a tinted lip conditioner giving the lips the slightest hint of fall color. I like to use it as a base under my lipsticks, but for many this may be all the color they need.
8. Urban Decay Revolution Gloss in Apocalypse - Again, this is a case of get it on the lips before making a final decision. Swatching it was alarming since I figured it would look almost Halloween-like on my lips, but thankfully I put my assumptions aside because the end result is stunning. It is a bit high maintenance in the way that it can separate a bit so I prefer to mix this with another sheer lipstick, but the color is just too beautiful to pass up. And the texture is creamy without being tacky.
9. Pixi Beauty Mattelustre Lipstick in Classic Red - Just as the trees turn that vibrant shade of red-orange, this lip color mimics it completely. It's a bright red with a hint of coral that could probably work for both summer and winter, but for now this is working so well with my plaid scarves and warm neutral toned clothing.
10. Urban Decay Revolution Lipstick in Jilted - Typically I either go red or plum/burgundy for fall, so this fuchsia was a nice change. It has a slight duo chrome finish which makes it unique and can look different depending on the lighting. I love this with an all black outfit, or when wearing a lot of purple tones in my clothing. A touch of bronzer on the cheeks and a dark lash is all I need to complete a look with this lip.
11. Bobbi Brown Luxe Lip Color in Soft Berry - I know this shade falls closer to the neutral family, but it is much darker than my traditional nude lip. When it's on it really warms up my face so it has made a home in my fall lip line-up. Any warm creams, off-whites or browns that I wear automatically gets this lip as a complement. A rosy-brown cheek and a bronzy eye are my favorite pairings for a lip like this.
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What are some of your favorite fall lip colors? Leave me a comment below!


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The University of Chicago
Maureen Coleman grew up in Auburn, (upstate) New York and received a B.A. in Biology from Dartmouth College in 2002. In 2008, she earned a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT, working with Penny Chisholm on the abundant marine cyanobacterium, Prochlorococcus. She then did postdoctoral work with Dianne Newman at MIT and Caltech. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and a member of the Committee on Microbiology and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. Her lab investigates the causes and consequences of microbial population diversity, including phage-host interactions. She has also initiated a large-scale comparative microbial time series across the Laurentian Great Lakes.


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Hello again friends!
Sorry it's been a while. My handy-dandy, usually trusty laptop started having issues a little over a month ago. First, it would freeze in the middle of everything I was working on {usually graphics, it was a PAIN!}. Then, it started forcing me to shut down manually and would take an hour to load back up. Next, it started taking 14 hours {yes, HOURS!} to load. And then it refused to load completely.The hard drive went bad, apparently. So I had to take it back to Best Buy and they replaced the hard drive for me. So now I'm back in blogging business! It made me realize how dependent I am on a] my own computer with customized settings {I customize them like CRAZY! I hate the default programs and have to change almost everything. Plus all of my Firefox add ons, etc.}, b]the internet. I think I went slightly crazy without the internet there for me.
I've been playing with our new camera lately, and now that I have the computer back I can get around to editing and uploading the pics!
Here's a sneak peek from the Wedding Extravaganza we hosted at my day job a couple weekends ago:
There was so much cake and other scrumptious goodies. Yummmmm!!!
So much more soon, I promise! Just wanted to drop by and say hello and let you know that I'll be back in full swing VERY very soon!
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I was coaching a client recently around the results of his climate survey.
He asked me, "Do you think it's better to talk to my people all together or should I have one-on-ones?"
I told him that it didn't matter. If his people didn't feel a connection with him, they wouldn't open up in either forum.
And his climate clearly showed me that he was not connecting with his people!
What is it about connecting with others?
Everyone relies on relationships and our networks for basic survival and our ability to thrive.
The most successful people are the ones who can establish, build and maintain a large number of significant, intimate, relationships.
However, most people do not understand the rudiments of doing this and do not know how to master intimacy and connect with others quickly.
Connecting on a significant level
Matthew Kelly wrote a book "The Seven Levels of Intimacy" which is NOT about sex! It's about understanding people and truly connecting with them.
I am a "people person" and connect rather easily with others. However, it's not enough to know HOW to connect, we must understand WHY we connect and HOW connecting is done.
The Seven Levels of Intimacy
In sequential order, they are:
- Cliches
- Facts
- Opinions
- Hopes and Dreams
- Feelings
- Weaknesses and Fears
- Needs
These levels are very much a sequence in that you cannot jump to the next level without succeeding on the previous level.
I think that violation of this is what started to associate the word slimy with salespeople.
I once had a vitamin salesperson jump from "Hi! How are you?" (Cliche) to "so, tell me what medical problems you're currently experiencing?" (Weakness and Fears).
It felt, well… slimy and totally turned me off.
Just like in my post Earning the Right to Advance, we can't assume a connection and expect everything to go smooth.
I can hear you saying it now, "I'm too busy to go through this with my <insert client, customer, employee, assistant, brother…>."
Connecting Conversation Example
Here's an example that gets you through the seven levels in just a few minutes. Assume you are meeting a potential customer on the XYZ project.
- (Cliche) "Hi! How are you?" "Fine, thanks."
- (Facts) "Did you get caught in that cloudburst this morning?" "Sure did! Had to pull over because I couldn't see the road!"
- (Opinions) "What do you think about the construction on the lobby?" "I don't really know. I started parking so I come in the South Entrance now."
- (Hopes and Dreams) "Yeah, I can see how that might be a good idea until that mess is done. I was thinking about the XYZ project. As the project lead, what's the one mark you wish to make on XYZ?" "Gosh, I'd love to get it to market by 2019!"
- (Feelings) "Oh, yeah? How would you feel if it's done by 2019?" "That would be fantastic! I get excited just thinking about it!"
- (Fears/Weaknesses) "What do you think is going to stand in the way?" "Well, to get the weight down, we want to use unobtainium, and that's not very production-friendly yet…"
- (Needs) "Hmmm…what weight would you need to be at to meet requirements AND meet your schedule?" "Well…etc…"
See, that didn't take very long and you're already at solving the real problem and connecting on a human level. Think of all the time you'll save for the three-minute investment!
Last few tips on connecting with others
- Once you hit Level 5 Feelings, you've reached the first emotional level and connecting starts to happen
- If you're selling or negotiating, you will not "close" until you are on Level 7 Needs. You will get lies about Levels 6 & 7 until you have REALLY gone through Levels 1-5.
If you can memorize or learn a few key questions to "move through the levels", you will never be stuck in a conversations with nothing to say. You will be vibrant and master the art of connecting with others.
Leaving you with this from the lighter side: "My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me!" Garry Shandling


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Web Conferencing- Wimba
Tool: Wimba
Category: Web Conferencing
Description: Web conferencing tools are an Internet software that participants use to communicate with one another over Voice Over IP (VoIP) or dial-in services. Many Web conferencing services offer features such as a digital whiteboard, screen sharing, private chat and breakout rooms to make the conversation more than just a phone call. In addition, there are options to record the Web conferencing session, which is beneficial for those who miss a scheduled meeting or would like to review the content. Web conferencing services are beneficial in many different sectors, including corporate training and development departments, higher education, and education. The system can be used to conduct conference calls with remote employees, host virtual webinars at conferences, or conduct a synchronous class or training lesson.
Application/Example: I have trained Professors and students on how to effectively use Wimba as a meeting space for online classes. My work includes best practices such as muting microphones, engaging student participants with polls and questions, annotating PowerPoint slides to direct students' attention to the content, and breaking an hour long session into 15-20 minute segments.
In my Wimba training course, I used examples of each of the Web conferencing features so that professors would see exactly what the features look like in the context of the online environment. I conducted training of these tools in two different segments- the first in which the professor takes on the role as the Moderator so they can learn to effectively use the tools. The second segment allows the professor to enter the Web conferencing system as a participant, which has limited access to the admin tools. In this role, the professor experiences the Web conferencing tool from the viewpoint of the student and thus, is able to better design their own synchronous online lessons.
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38th Annual LatinoFest
Baltimore's Premiere Celebration of Hispanic Culture, Music and Art: Join EBLO at our 38th annual festival. This music filled weekend features live Latin music including salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, reggaeton, duranguense, mariachi, dancers in colorful costumes from their native lands, bomba and plena performances, salsa dancing and the hottest Latino DJs, Arts and Crafts displays, Latino cuisine from the Americas and the Caribbean, community support information booths and family fun activities such as rock climbing walls, clowns, face-painting, two stages, and much more.
The 38th LatinoFest the best place on the east coast to celebrate the tremendous sounds sights and tastes of Latino culture. LatinoFest is known as the Premier Latino Festival of Baltimore. Every year since 1980 LatinoFest has the delighted crowds who come to dance, eat great food and express the diversity of all the countries that have contributed to the fabric of Baltimore's Hispanic community. This year June 23 and 24 Patterson Park is THE place to be! The music is the soul of LatinoFest and the heart is the beautiful faces of all of those who come to enjoy and relax at this family friendly event. LatinoFest is produced by a like minded group of community organizers for the people we have been serving since 1980, we changed our name yet our acronym is the same, since 1980 we are still and will forever be EBLO.
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Wondering If You Can Get Rid of Hemorrhoids for Good?
Approximately 4% of the United States population has struggled with hemorrhoids. They are one of the more painful conditions, with symptoms that range from itching, severe rectal pain, anal bleeding, and bloody stools. Sitting, bowel movements, and other tasks can be especially painful, and so it is no surprise that people have worked very hard to develop ways to get rid of hemorrhoids.
If you need a treatment for hemorrhoids, you should speak to your doctor and consider one of the four following options.
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Soothing away itchiness and pain can be done with a warm bath. Using Epsom salts can also help in the healing process. You can draw a bath for this purpose in your bathtub, or purchase a sitz bath. In either case, the water reaches up to your hips and you need only s


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Are you tired of practicing to get better at the game? Trying your best to memorize complex spray patterns? Do you find yourself playing games like Hearthstone that rely on RNG?Then fear not! The Five Seven is for you! The Five Seven is a $500 laughing machine that is only available on the CT side because I'd quit this fucking game if you could buy it on both sides. The Five Seven changes your attitude from "Don't worry guys, they're on an eco" to "Holy shit that's fucking bullshit this game is broken why can it one shot through a helmet" So today we're going to be going over how to use the Fucking Five Seven.
Step one to using this gun is to equip it on CT side. Who needs the CZ-75? Only 24 rounds? How are you going to be able to spam with that? And who needs to put in the work to practice to get better with that gun? You have the 5-7. You don't need any effort. And just look at that kill reward! You're practically on minimum wage with the CZ-75. Barely having enough to scrape by at best for the next round. Getting kills with the 5-7 is like being Comcast's CEO and getting a severance package; you're practically printing you're own money at that point. Once you do have enough money, you're just going to buy an AWP, die while trying to peek mid like the $5000 decoy that you are, are repeat.
Step 2 is to learn how to spray the 5-7. You think the R8 is easy to use N0THING? That gun requires you to aim! With the 5-7, just click mouse 1 as fast as you can while holding down "W" and you'll be on your way to win easy eco rounds. Step 3 is to force buy the 5-7 every round. Yes, even the pistol round. The 5-7 will leave your enemies salty in chat spamming "who the fuck buys a 5-7 on pistol round?" While you just laugh and chew through their armor, because fuck going for headshots, you have 20 rounds and ammo for days.
Force Buying the 5-7 every round is the counter strike equivalent of wearing sweatpants everyday, and is a clear indication that you've given up on life and improving, and would rather rely on RNG. And that's all it takes to use the Fucking 5-7. Tune in next time as I teach you how to use the $5000 decoy. And remember, this game is clearly balanced and fuck the 5-7 that's bullshit.
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The one complaint I have about Palo Duro Canyon State Park is that there are no decent trail maps. The Park map has a few trails marked but there are few, if any, details and the scale is all wrong in places. (Maybe we will Camp Host here some day and make a decent trail map.) We couldn't tell how hard any of the mountain bike trails were going to be before heading out.
Last night we took an evening walk on the Juniper River Trail. It turned into a bit of a hike by the time we got back to camp. The Mosquitos were very bad so we diverted out to the road and took the long way back. We will probably go back and ride this trail before we leave. You just have to ride all the way around the Park or walk through the flooded river crossing (only #6 is flooded the rest of the crossings were fine) to get to the trail head.
Today, we thought we would bike the Rojo Grande trail. We found it to be pretty technical so we diverted through Chinaberry to the road and headed for the Lighthouse Trail (the one that we hiked on Tuesday.) We knew what to expect and it was a good ride.
We took the Capital Peak Trail back and that was tough – narrow track with tough climbs and a lot of creek bed crossings. Alan is posing in front of Capital Peak.
I took a head-over-heels tumble at one point. There was a hole at the bottom of a drop and I couldn't stop looking at it which meant my wheel went right into it and stopped. I'm going to have a nasty bruise where the handle bar went into my thigh. I still really enjoyed the ride and got a good workout.
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In this occasionally interesting but, as is customary, error-strewn doco, there's a strange moment after 18'00"."The American forces, which had begun arriving in France in summer 1917, soon replaced their French helmets with the British version," says the narrator (who appears to be Robert Powell, and who can't pronounce 'Cambrai'). There's a short clip of US troops marching and, indeed, wearing what look like Adrians. The men are white, so it's not a Colored Regiment. It might even be Gen. Pershing at the head of the column.Anyone got an explanation?
"Sometimes things that are not true are included in Wikipedia. While at first glance that may appear like a very great problem for Wikipedia, in reality is it not. In fact, it's a good thing." - Wikipedia.
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Hi James
Not been able to find anything official though, possibly issued to some servicemen not directly in the front line with the exception of the Colored US units fighting with the French.
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So here I am again, back from nowhere figuring that I probably need to start keeping up with this studio blog thing.
Ive got a small list of things that I need to get done today. Waiting for approvals on a couple of illos that keep going through various revisions and such.
Did you know that today is D-Day for Webcasters?
Im sitting here listening to KCRW's webstream and listening to this whole thing. Seems like there are big changes coming for webcasters who stream music at any point in their broadcasts. Huge royalties rule changes are coming that will most likely wipe out a lot of webcasters who stream music. I just cant imagine that kind of cloud hovering over an entire industry. Artists have had to deal with a number of rights and royalties issues over the years... its interesting listening to the struggle occuring on the side of the 'users' vs the 'creators'.
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Today's prompt for the 365 project was to create something out of paper. But not to use scissors, or glue, or draw on it. And it did possibly not have to be origami. Huh. I though a lot about what I was going to do. Fold something? Rip something apart? Make paper flowers? Make a pile of crunched up paper balls from my gazillion unfinished drafts and burn it?
In the end I went for a simple solution, even if the thing itself didn't feel easy. I took out a piece of paper and started writing about my grandfather. I have a photo of him and our family dog, looking out over the sea, breathing it in, like they often did. None of them are with us today and I miss them sorely.I've wanted to do some journaling about this photo for some time, to try and catch some memories, so this seemed like a good time for it.
I wrote the journaling in Swedish, but have tried to translate it here. Bear with me though; English is not my native language:
Throughout my childhood he was a part of my summer holidays, my grandfather. My whole family got in the boat and went out to the island, and there he stood waiting for us on the jetty. My grandfather. He raised his cap and waved and smiled; a big, sincere smile. It was a strong certainty I felt as a child that he was genuinely happy to see us. You stepped onto the shore and you knew you were loved.
He was a great animal lover, which became apparent for instance when all the birds on the island followed him around wherever he went. He always kept a piece of cheese in his pocket to give them as a treat, and called for them and talked to them constantly. They flew after him and sat on his shoulder when he was working in over at the shed or down by the water. If you were lucky you got to feed them too, and it could happen that they landed and ate directly from the palm of your hand. But only if grandfather was present. It was as id they were doing it as a favour to him.
There were other animals that followed him around, of course, they all did. Like the foxes. He kept feeding them our leftovers, and they would snoop about to see what he was up to. But only when things had calmed down and grandmother and grandfather were alone at the cabin.
Whenever you came to visit grandpa always had a story to tell. It was like an update about the neighbourhood, about the foxes and birds and badgers. In return, I got to tell him what was up with my own pets.
He was always very happy when we brought any of our pets out to the cabin. He spent an entire summer taking care of, and talking to, my pet bunny, one year when we were travelling a lot.
My grandfather and our family dog, Chief, was like two peas in a pod. It was like they had a constant conversation going on whenever they met. They both loved the island, the cabin, and the sea. They both enjoyed life to the fullest out there. And grandpa always had a piece of cheese, or maybe a meatball, to share.


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While grain farmers may face a storage crunch at harvesttime, the advent of more ethanol and biofuels plants will change how farmers store, transport and market their harvest.
In Iowa specifically, storage space shortages will continue. The need created by ethanol plants finds the state holding on to more corn, Iowa State University agricultural engineering professor Charles Hurburgh says.
In Indiana, grain storage capacity is growing, and storage space exceeds total crop production.
Hurburgh describes the local demand for corn like this: Each ethanol plant (50-million gal. capacity) consumes the corn of 1.5 Iowa counties, and that's without any of it being intended for other uses.
More Midwest corn acreage will be needed to supply ethanol plants. Some soybean acres could be planted to corn, and some conservation acreage may revert to corn, says Robert Wisner, ag economist at Iowa State University.
So…how best to supply those plants year round, and how best to store and market your grain to get the best quality and price? One major factor is that the processing plants only have a couple of weeks of on-site storage.
The economics of ongoing local demand equaling or exceeding local supply will prompt farmers to reevaluate storage options. The type and scale of grain storage, the drying system and rising steel prices are all factors, experts say.
Harden County, IA, farmer Jim Axtell has ⅔ of the storage space he needs, and that's after putting up a bin last year. He predicts elevator corn will become a thing of the past because of its expense.
On-farm storage can be costly, but Axtell says if he puts up another it will be a forced-air bin that does not use LP to dry. He has seen a few new bins go up in his area, but older farmers don't want to invest in a new bin because they won't see a return in their lifetime, he says.
The Farm Service Agency grain bin loan program has grown consistently in Iowa since it was reborn in 2000, giving 438 loans this year by mid-June. The seven-year payback program loans 85% of the cost of the bin and equipment, says Jim Book, agricultural program specialist for Iowa Farm Service Agency.
"All the agriculture advisors are saying that the only sure bet for marketing grain is having storage," says Charles Sukup, president of Sukup Manufacturing Co.
His company in Sheffield, IA, added bin manufacturing to the grain bin accessory equipment business in 2001, and sales have more than tripled, Sukup says.
The long-term issue of grain storage goes beyond picking a bin. Grain farmers' marketing skills must be sharpened as they tackle the storage issue, Wisner says.
"The quality management issue is bigger than the shortage issue," says Dirk Maier, ag engineer at Purdue University.
Farmers aren't used to carrying grain into the summer. If they plan to in the future, they must address the possibility of mold, spoilage and insect infestation, he says.
Farmers should not buy into the misperception that ethanol plants don't care about the quality of grain. "Ethanol plants are eager to have good quality grain coming in," Maier says.
"This is a change in the storage structure and how we've been operating," he says. "It's an exciting time. The technical solutions are there, but it's a matter of finances, of making these changes pay for you, and managing so you preserve the quality."
Now is the time for farmers to do something many have never done before: Develop a marketing plan that encompasses the physical handling and financial aspects of the crop.
"Know how you're going to get there," Hurburgh says. For example, buying a semi with no on-farm storage is foolish. Consider learning how an operating line of credit works. Get a handle on your cash flow.
"All of those things have to wrap up together when the market is changing so rapidly," Hurburgh says.
"For someone with a lot of grain to sell and not much storage now, shop around and find a marketing advisor, work out a marketing plan and use financial tools rather than scramble or try to build storage," Hurburgh says.
In a panic for short-term storage? He suggests piling grain inside a machine shed and covering it with a tarp, and avoid making smaller piles outdoors.
Most of the ethanol and biofuels plants don't have more than 2-3 weeks of on-site storage.
The Economics Of Planning For Storage
"Simply putting corn in a bin and waiting is no guarantee you'll earn a storage profit," says Robert Wisner, ag economist at Iowa State University.
It's important for farmers to understand basis behavior, price seasonality and carrying charges in futures because "those are the tools of the grain trade that allow farmers to read market signals and lock in storage returns," Wisner says.
With the increasing number of ethanol plants, farmers with on-site storage and semi trucks can be better market watchers and find a better basis and price for the grain, Wisner says.
If grain is in the elevator, however, the elevator could work out a deal to sell the grain to a processing plant that has a better bid, but it will charge for that service, Wisner adds.
But because some industry analysts and ethanol plants are concerned there won't be enough corn to supply the plants, the plants may get acres under contract to lock in the corn supply. Elevators won't be the middle-man, says Iowa State University agricultural engineering professor Charles Hurburgh.


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There is a question that sits quietly in the back seat of every conversation about education reform. Sometimes it gets asked, sometimes it waits. We all know the question, it's one of the regulars.
In the middle of "Education reform! We need change! There is a better way! Consider the alternatives!" it crosses its legs and waits to be noticed.
Posed articulately by Mr. Chris Mercogliano in this, one of his first blog posts (after several books in print, mind you): How do we do it? Do we Reform or Remodel?
Go read it here now and come back for my response.
I find myself wrestling with the same ever-present question. – do we try to fix the system or do we do what we can along side it? I suppose, as Chris concluded, it's cannot come down to either/or thinking. It will have to be both/and.
It's the same dichotomy that exists between Herbert Kohl's and John Taylor Gatto's fundamental philosophical approaches to (public) schooling and education reform. Kohl says work from the inside out; Gatto says blow the whole thing up because it's doing what it was created to do.
There are so many brave educators who persevere in the public school, struggling against the the well armed grain to give those children some semblance of authentic learning experiences. I hear their stories at the education conferences and I am amazed by their tenacity. I also hear the stories of all the rest of the attendees (the majority, by far) who have disengaged from the machine and are doing it their way. I am amazed by *their* tenacity, too! They, too, are pushing against the grain, but from a bolstered position.
Where I live "alternative education" is a foreign concept (no pun intended) and any attempts reform might look like an echo of what american schools are doing. Something along the lines of "more accountability" and "higher standards".
Where I live "alternative education" is a foreign concept (no pun intended) and any attempts reform might look like an echo of what american schools are doing. Something along the lines of "more accountability" and "higher standards".
The task of changing the system - or at the very least, diversifying the offerings - seems daunting, even with just a few tens of thousands of learners. Our public schools are in dire straights with almost no funding coming their way (some 95% of the budget goes directly to salaries); private schools are in the business of making money and catering to the existing "get ahead ASAP" paradigm. There seems to be no in between.
My point is: I think our conversation about education reform needs to open up to a both/and thought process. Inside the public school system because that is where the majority of learners are getting their education. Outside the public school system because it serves as a small but growing model for people to re-evaluate their ideas about schooling and education.
Both. And.


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Johnny Depp, star of the franchise "Pirates of the Caribbean" will have a record salary for his role in new film series. Pirate character Jack Sparrow will bring to actor one of the greatest salary in cinema history fees. For appearance in the fifth film Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp will earn 94.2 million dollars.
"Johnny is very careful with his roles and does not want to sign too many films. Do not want to ruin his career because of excessive exposure, as happened to John Travolta and Nic Cage. This huge fee he will receive the new film series "Pirates of the Caribbean" will allow to choose carefully the following roles based on scenarios of beauty, not salary package, "said a source quoted by tabloid The Sun.
The actor broke this year Vanessa Paradis, his partner for 14 years living with whom he has two children, a teenage daughter, Lily Rose - and a son, Christopher, nicknamed Jack. Although the acts were not married, Johnny and Vanessa have decided that the actor will pay a substantial alimony for raising two children.
Even so, the new salary he will get Depp will make his fortune so not too affected, he remains among the highest paid actors in the world. Producers of franchise "Pirates of the Caribbean" not become poor if they pay Depp so much, for the first four films in the series had a total revenue of 3.72 billion dollars in the world.
After the "Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides" grossed over one billion dollars and has entered into among the most profitable films in history, it is no wonder that Johnny Depp will play the lead role in the fifth franchise.
Orlando Bloom announced while promoting the latest film The Three Musketeers that he wants to return to his role as Will Turner with Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean 5.
The actor starred opposite Keira Knightley in the first 3 parts of the film franchise but he was missing on the fourth movie Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides who was the most profitable of the series - which exceed a billion dollars.
"I was very sad that I wasn't in the fourth part and that I didn't worked with the team. I'm glad that movie was successful and if producers want me, I would come in the fifth movie" the actor told to The Daily Star.
Scenario of the five parts of the franchise "Pirates of the Caribbean" was completed in June by Terry Rossio and the film could reach the big screen in 2013. For now, Pirates of The Caribbean 5 does not have a director. At the helm might even install Rob Marshall, the director of the Pirates of the Caribbean 4, filmmaker wanted, it seems, even by Disney.


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Saving Banksy
Internationally known graffiti artist, Banksy, left his mark on San Francisco in April 2010. Little did he know that this act of vandalism would spark a chain of events that includes one of his rats being removed from a wall, Museums ignorantly turning down a free Banksy street work, and a NY gallerist who has made it his business model to remove Banksy street works from all over the globe doing whatever it takes to get the rat in his possession.
Genres: Documentary, News
Actor: Ben Eine, Glen E. Friedman, Kelly 'Risk' Graval, Doze Green, Hera, Blek Le Rat, Anthony Lister, Niels 'Shoe' Meulman, Revok
Director: Colin Day, Colin M. Day
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The Langley Centennial Museum is delighted to bring the one and only Kellie Haines to the stage this Canada Day!
On stage at 1:10pm, this puppet musical has a lot going on including fast paced ventriloquism, singing (original music by Kellie), dancing, high kicks, physical comedy and lots of audience participation!
Kellie's hilarious shows blend musical numbers with fast paced ventriloquism comedy bits! Magrau the colourful bird and Kamilla the curious frog with red natural hair will keep you guessing who is pulling the strings.
Ventriloquist Kellie Haines started talking to her stuffed animals at an early age and when she was 8 years old they started talking back! A multi-talented entertainer with a background in theatre, clowning, singing and dance, Kellie and her puppet pals have amazed and delighted audiences of all ages throughout North America.


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Saturday, 4 May 2013
15mm,Land Raider/Leman Russ dilemma.
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The green one does make the better land raider and it looks better too. But in my opinion it's too small and I don't think you can get past that.ReplyDelete
Hi Anne, I am tending to agree with you, however, there maybe another option, the green kit is 1/76 scale, there is a 1/72 scale Char b1 available, which will be slightly bigger, I may buy one to see how it will work.ReplyDelete
I dunno. Perhaps the Mk 4 upside down as the Land Raider...but it does look good as a Leman Russ...ReplyDelete
Personally, I'd knock up the sides for the Land Raider in the correct size and shape from plasticard, and then use the tracks and detailing from the green Char B1 bis to add the details and hull.ReplyDelete
For the Leman Russ, I'd do the same using the Mk4.
It's less work than you might think as well!
(I used to scratch build both these tanks and others totally out of plasticard when I was young for Epic as I couldn't afford to buy the official models in the quantities that I needed)
Try getting the bigger kits. Its to small imo, Especially when you consider they where designed to carry terminator squads in the first place.ReplyDelete
Mk4 for Land Raider, Char Bis for Leman Russ for sure. If only it was so easy to convert these in 28mm.ReplyDelete
I agree, the green one is just too small. The grey one looks good for a Russ, but I also think (if you flipped the tracks) it would be spot on for a land raider.ReplyDelete
Thanks everyone, I am now leaning towards using the grey one as a Russ, and scratch building a land raider, I will then make moulds and can caste them up.ReplyDelete


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Hi there !
I want to display an array with a WorkEntries list with a colum
containing all associated dataItems for each provisioning request
definition for the connected user.
Regarding the webservice API and if I'm not wrong, the only solution is
to call the getWorkEntries to get the WorkEntries and then call the
getWork by using the ID returned by the firt call.
For 10 lines in my array, I have to do 11 Webservices call, 1 get
WorkEntries and 10 getWork.
An other example : To display the process name from a WorkEntries list I
have to call the getProcess for each WorkEntry.
So my question is : Is it possible to factorize those web services calls
to only have one or two web services calls (a workEntries list and a
list of works for exemple).
I'm affraid about performance issues regarding this kind of array, can
you please guide me with correct way to do this.
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Institutional Biosafety Committee and Laboratory Safety Committee (IBC)
Haverford has a single committee that has oversight for: (1) a federally regulated mandate for safety and use of recombinant DNA technology; (2) and laboratory safety.
Institutional Biosafety Committee and Laboratory Safety Committee Members
Chair: Robert Fairman
Faculty Representatives: RCasey Londergan; Suzanne Amador Kane/Walter Smith ; Hee-Sook Kim
Staff Representatives: Joanne Brown; Mark Sweeney
Penn/BMC Rep: Colleen E. Kovacsics
Community Representative: Jim McCans
Institutional Biosafety Committee
The Institutional Biosafety Committee is responsible for ensuring that all recombinant DNA research carried out or sponsored by the College is conducted in compliance with NIH guidelines. These guidelines include such responsibilities as: assessing containment levels for bio-hazardous agents, organisms, plants and animals; establishment of institutional procedures and practices; training personnel; and review and approval of all experiments involving the deliberate transfer of recombinant DNA, or DNA or RNA derived from recombinant DNA, into any human research participants. The governing document for this committee comes from the NIH and is entitled: "NIH GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCH INVOLVING RECOMBINANT OR SYNTHETIC NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES (NIH GUIDELINES))"
All faculty at Haverford working with DNA must complete a registration form even if they think their work might be exempt. This will help ensure that all faculty will be prepared to answer questions should they be asked about their compliance in the case of an NIH audit.
In order to be federally compliant, the College must file an annual report that includes the roster of current committee members and their CVs. The required composition of the IBC is outlined in the NIH guidelines. The IBC is expected to meet at least once per year and in addition as needed. Faculty preparing grant applications may need a review of their IBC registrations before submitting grants and the IBC should be able to meet in a timely fashion for such requests.
Copies of the minutes and records (including registrations) for all IBC meetings must be kept at the institution level. These records must be available for anyone from the public who wishes to see them, and for audit purposes.
Before the start of the Fall and Spring semesters reminders will be sent to faculty to register their rDNA and sDNA work (please use the Registration Document for Recombinant DNA Research Form) for both their research and their teaching labs. For work that is determined to be non-exempt, faculty must also renew their previous IBC registrations every 3 years. Most IBC registrations also require an updated list of personnel to be filed annually (please use the rDNA Registration Amendment Form). For registrations that are determined to be exempt, the Chair of IBC will ask for an annual review by the PI to determine if protocols have changed such that a new registration becomes necessary.
The IBC also supports laboratory safety training, ensuring that training on safe use of recombinant DNA takes place.
Haverford Recombinant DNA Training
- Registration Document For Recombinant Dna Research
- rdna Registration Amendment Form
- Instructions For Registration Of Recombinant Dna Research
Laboratory Safety Committee
The Laboratory Safety Committee is responsible for ensuring the safety and well-being of all members of the community engaged in laboratory work, covering both the research laboratories and the teaching laboratories. This committee is responsible for ensuring that all faculty, staff, and students are trained on an ongoing basis on the appropriate use and disposal of chemicals, on the hazards associated with electrical and electronic devices, on emergency procedures, and on general safe practices in carrying out experimental work. The Committee has responsibility for managing the training programs, offers a one hour formal course, for all students engaging in research work, and advises on the individual training plans for the various teaching laboratories, principally in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. The Committee encourages faculty to perform a self audit of their laboratories on a regular basis (see form below). In the case of an accident, or any other unusual laboratory event, the Committee requires that those involved in such an event report it using the form below.
This Committee also is an integral partner with the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and the Institutional Review Board in managing the facilities. The Committee is guided by the following College policies:


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I bought a K5-52D because I bought a new laptop (new for me, it is an used IBM T42 - very good little machine) and it required a mouse. I think this mouse is better for me than the 710F. It has better shape for my fingertip style mouse handling. It is light, it has programable double click button, buttons are very sensitive - they require very little force to press them. There is a rubber thing on the sides - but i removed them - they were too unstable. Unfortunately after one month the double click button is broken. It is stucked in. After a little trying to fix - it works if i press the bottom side of it. - I lost the guarantee paper
The sensor also not bad - especially on glass and shiny surfaces. It doesn't really like to work on clothes but it works well on mouse mat and flat surfaces.
The mouse gestures are not too good, but other mouses also doesn't have this function so at least we can try it.
Conclusion: It is a very good mouse I can recommend it anybody to use in office programs (maybe alsso in games)
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Great art technique that is different.
Using found paper as his palette, artist Peter Clark creates intricate three-dimensional collages. He shades with density of print and creates substance and movement with lines plucked from old maps or manuscripts he finds in antique shops. Clark's pieces are innovative as he utilizes the patterns and textures in a humorous way. Peter focuses much of his expertise on creating dog collage portraits, however his clothing and people portraits are equally incredible. To see more of Peter's incredible collage sculptures, check out his website where you can purchase his book and original art!


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